Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 827 Main Production Area

The night comes silently.

Imperial estate outside Beijing.

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The bonfire was burning. Zhu Youxiao endured the heat wave and turned the wooden stick in his hand from time to time. At one end of the stick was full-grain corn.

"Your Majesty, isn't this corn not fully grown yet?"

Bumbutai hugged her knees and looked at Zhu Youxiao curiously, "Even if it is really cooked, will it taste good?"

"Don't you smell the aroma?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said to Bumbutai, "This corn tastes one way when it's grown, and another way when it's not. Come, have a taste."

"it is good."

Bumbutai quickly reached out to take it.

"Bumbutai, don't be rude!" Seeing this, Hailanzhu frowned and said, "His Majesty hasn't eaten yet, how dare you eat!"

After staying in the deep palace for a long time, the older Hai Lanzhu is very clear about the palace rules, but Bumbutai seems to still retain some habits of the grassland.

But both girls are quite smart, and the Chinese they speak now is not as poor as before.

"Eat."

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled and waved his hands, saying, "I'll just eat roasted sweet potatoes."

As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao picked up a wooden stick and picked up a piece of sweet potato from the fire. He hadn't eaten these things for a long time and he really missed the taste.

"I will peel it for you, Your Majesty."

Upon seeing this, Hailanzhu hurried forward to take the sweet potatoes, but the sweet potatoes were roasted and Hailanzhu was scalded as soon as she touched them.

"Be careful not to get burned."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Hai Lanzhu helplessly.

"My slave is fine."

Hailanzhu covered it with her hand and whispered, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, why don't you just eat corn?"

Bumbutai, who was standing by, saw this and handed the cooled corn to Zhu Youxiao.

At this moment, Liu Ruoyu came over with his head down. When he came to Zhu Youxiao, he whispered, "Your Majesty, Xu Jijiu is here."

"Let's go see him."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao stood up on his knees and looked at the two girls. "Eat these things. Don't be greedy, otherwise..."

Having said that, Zhu Youxiao walked away with a smile.

"Sister, why did His Majesty leave?"

Seeing Zhu Youxiao leave without looking back, Bumbutai said disappointedly: "Your Majesty has been traveling around in recent days. It's not easy to return to the imperial manor outside the capital to rest. Why is he still dealing with government affairs?"

"Your Majesty is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty's time is very precious."

Hai Lanzhu looked at Zhu Youxiao's departing back and sighed softly, "Your Majesty loves the Ming Dynasty, so no matter what time it is, what Your Majesty thinks about most is the political affairs of the Ming Dynasty."

"Will His Majesty love my sister?"

Bumbutai looked at Hailanzhu and said.

"what are you saying."

Hailanzhu was startled, and looked around hurriedly, frowned and whispered to Bumbutai: "We are palace maids, aren't you afraid that others will hear us and bring about a disaster?"

"But in this Forbidden City, it's not uncommon for the emperor to favor palace maids." Bumbutai said, "Do you want to be a palace maid for the rest of your life?"

Bumbutai's words left Hailanzhu silent.

……

"After we return to the West Garden, we will transfer them to the Qianqing Palace to serve." Zhu Youxiao, who was walking towards a place, thought of the two girls' performance and said to Liu Ruoyu. "By the way, let Liu Chao keep a close eye on the people around the queen in the next few months. The queen is getting older, and I don't want any accidents to happen. If there are any accidents, let Liu Chao think about it himself."

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Liu Ruoyu hurriedly lowered his head and responded.

But deep down in Liu Ruoyu's heart, he was thinking about something else.

How should Bumbutai and Hailanzhu be resettled?

After staying in the palace for a long time, observing people's words and expressions is the most basic thing. Bumbutai and Hailanzhu are very smart, but they are still too young. In addition, life on the grassland is completely different from that in the Central Plains. Although they behave very naturally, some of their thoughts can still be seen by others.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Youxiao wanted any woman, it was just a matter of words. There was no woman in the world that he could not get.

But for Zhu Youxiao at the moment, he didn't want to have too many women. Even if he wanted to take more concubines, he had to wait until Queen Zhang Yan gave birth to a few royal heirs.

The eldest son must have one.

The second son must have one.

The third legitimate son must have one.

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With these legitimate sons, the harem will be stable, and if other children are born, there will be no chaos in the harem at least for a period of time.

As people get older, their thoughts will change. This is the same for men and women. It has to do with the environment and the contact they have.

"Your Majesty...Xu Guangqi, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

While Zhu Youxiao was expressing his emotion, Xu Guangqi saw the emperor coming and hurriedly bowed to him.

"No need to be polite."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "I summoned you here because I want to ask you about the division of the main production areas. Have you figured it out now?"

"Corn, wheat, and rice are definitely the staple crops of the Ming Dynasty. Although it will take a long time to promote corn planting, some things must be done first."

"Your Majesty, we are still sorting out this matter."

Xu Guangqi bowed and said, "The water diversion and rice planting in Liaodong has made considerable achievements, but the cultivation of cold-resistant rice may not be done well in a short period of time."

"Although small-scale trials of corn have begun in northern Zhili, Henan and Shandong, we still need to sort out how to plant and harvest corn, when to plant and when to harvest it."

"In addition, during the trial planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes, we found some problems, especially sweet potatoes. The yield is not low, but they cannot be planted continuously in one place."

Listening to what Xu Guangqi said, Zhu Youxiao frowned. He knew some of the habits of potatoes and other plants, but it was unrealistic to ask him to understand all of them.

"Have you found a solution?"

Zhu Youxiao frowned.

"Found some."

Xu Guangqi said truthfully: "The best way is to rotate crops, but how to coordinate planting still needs to be studied. After all, farming is not a trivial matter. For the people, the output of the land is what they look forward to after a year of hard work. The problem that agricultural science needs to solve is to find a planting method suitable for various places."

“That’s a correct idea.”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "We must open our minds and not be complacent. How to solve these problems is the meaning of agricultural science."

"Your Majesty, I want to send a group of people to Shanxi and Shaanxi and other places."

Xu Guangqi said: "The land there is generally barren, dry and rainless. The most important thing is to cultivate drought-resistant crops suitable for the local area."

"If this can be accomplished, it will be a hundred benefits for Shanxi and Shaanxi, and for the imperial court. In addition, I also want to see what the potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops grown there will look like."

"can."

Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "Whatever you need, submit it to the emperor immediately. You must pay attention to this matter. Agriculture is the foundation of our dynasty at all times!!"

"The minister obeys the order."

Xu Guangqi bowed and saluted.

For Xu Guangqi at the moment, he only cares about two things, one is the Imperial College and the other is agricultural science. As for the various affairs in the court, he no longer cares about them. With the suppression of the Jianlu rebellion, Xu Guangqi has long stopped worrying about the Liao affairs. However, the various problems brought about by the development of Liaodong, especially the group of agricultural science officials who went to Liao, would write a letter every once in a while, which made Xu Guangqi pay more and more attention to agricultural science.

(End of this chapter)