Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 328 We will never forget

"What, he brought back that food?"

Zhu Yuanzhang leaned forward and asked with surprise on his face.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Wei nodded in affirmation.

"Great!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the armrest of the dragon chair and shouted.

The officials looked confused and looked back and forth between the two of them, wondering what riddle they were trying to solve.

Xiao Dezi is an internal official and is not under the control of ministers like them. Although the dispatch of the navy must not be hidden from everyone, no one has ever asked about such a royal matter. Therefore, only a few people such as Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Wei, and Zhu Biao were involved in this matter. Know.

"Where are those things now?" Zhu Yuanzhang only cared about these high-yielding grains at this time.

Li Wei cupped his hands and said: "It has been transported to Longjiang Port, and I have ordered people to guard it strictly!"

"Okay, take us to see it immediately!" Zhu Yuanzhang said and stood up.

"I dare not forget!"

All the ministers were surprised and confused when they saw this.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "As long as you have not forgotten it, we have passed on our decree. From now on, we will fast for three days in civil and military affairs. Let us remember how it feels to be hungry! There are still many people in the Ming Dynasty who live like this every day. !”

The official of the Department of Ceremonies quickly reminded: "Your Majesty, the court meeting is not over yet!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the ministers again. Regardless of whether they were hungry or not, all the civil and military officials shouted:

When the ministers heard this, they suddenly became silent, and they complained repeatedly in their hearts, secretly scolding Fei Ju for talking too much. This time, it made everyone starve for three days!

"Yes, I obey the order!" Everyone shouted in response.

"Your Majesty, it's just some food, why do we need to mobilize so many troops?" Fei Ju said with cupped hands.

"We, the emperor, dare not forget it. Why, you princes have forgotten it?"

"well said!"

"I have not forgotten."

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he frowned in displeasure.

"What do you think..."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "The court meeting has been postponed to the afternoon. We have to go and see the food first."

Although the ministers didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces meant the same thing.

Li Wei glanced at Fei Ju and shouted loudly: "What do you mean it's just some food? Food is the most important thing for the people! There are also many of you who rose to high positions from ordinary people. Why are you now becoming a marquis and worshiping the prime minister?" Have you forgotten the feeling of being hungry?"

Li Wei hesitated, wanting to ask himself if he was included. If so, that would be too fucked up!

Fei Ju was furious when he heard this. He was the founder of the country and ranked among the best among the princes. He could endure the scolding of Li Wei, a kid.

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he glared at Fei Ju, who quickly lowered his head in anger.

"I have not forgotten!" Fei Ju was surprised and quickly replied respectfully.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was in high spirits and was about to go see some food with Li Wei, the generals who were not willing to deal with Li Wei suddenly became unhappy.

Just when Fei Ju was about to scold back, Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted loudly and looked at the ministers with burning eyes: "Food is the first thing for the people! This is a great saying! We have also ascended to the position of emperor from commoners. , we will never forget what it was like to be hungry!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at everyone for a moment, then put away his stern expression and smiled at Li Wei: "Come on, come with us to see this high-yielding grain!"

"Yes!"

Everyone responded, and Zhu Yuanzhang stepped down from the throne and motioned to Li Wei to lead the way.

Li Wei resisted asking the question and followed Zhu Yuanzhang and the ministers out with a depressed mood.

The Longjiang port was still a bit far away. The Jin Yiwei who was in charge of the support brought the dragon chariot driver. When Zhu Yuanzhang boarded the dragon chariot and the Jin Yiwei was about to put away the seats, Zhu Yuanzhang turned back to Li Wei and said, "You come up with us too!"

The ministers were shocked when they heard this and looked at Li Wei.

Li Wei pointed to his nose with some uncertainty: "Me?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Of course it's you, come up!"

"Oh."

Li Wei didn't think much and followed him onto the dragon chariot.

Everyone looked at this scene in astonishment, feeling envious in their hearts.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the only people who have enjoyed the honor of riding with the emperor, apart from the royal family, is Xu Da, the first hero of the founding of the country. Even Li Shanchang, Tang He and others do not have such treatment.

At this time, seeing Li Wei boarding the dragon chariot in such a grand manner, Li Shanchang next to him suddenly became jealous, and his heart became even more angry and unbearable.

That's all for Xu Da. After all, he is a general who opened up new territories. He could bear to be the first to be overthrown by heroes from all over the world. Now Li Wei, a late-born junior, wants to overpower him. It's really unreasonable!

Tang He on the other side, although not as intense as Li Shanchang, still looked unhappy.

Including many other nobles, they all made great contributions to the founding of the Ming Dynasty by seizing cities, opening up territories, and expanding territories. However, now they are suppressed by a child. How can they not be angry!

That's it for generals like Fu Youde who later joined him. Anyway, they have long been accustomed to this difference of intimacy and distance. But the same cannot be said for old Huaixi people like Li Shanchang and Fei Ju who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world from the beginning. If they could still do it in the past, I don't take Li Wei seriously, now I really want to pull him down and chop him up on the spot! Except for these nobles, the reaction of other civil servants was not big. Anyway, they did not need to think about these treatments, and most of the civil servants had already joined Li Wei. Seeing that he was so favored, they even felt a sense of pride and honor. a feeling of.

After Li Wei and Zhu Yuanzhang boarded the dragon carriage, they casually lowered the curtain, as if they didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang's move caused him another wave of hatred.

After the dragon chariot was started, all the ministers put away their complicated emotions and followed him out of the palace. They fetched their horses, donkeys, etc. outside the Meridian Gate and followed behind.

At the Longjiang Port, Xiao Dezi, Wu Yong and others had already been waiting with people, and they immediately greeted the dragon chariot guard of honor when they saw it.

The dragon chariot stopped slowly, but what shocked them was that besides Zhu Yuanzhang, there was another familiar figure who got off the dragon chariot.

Xiao Dezi, Wu Yong, Jiang Quan and many other craftsmen were all surprised and delighted. They were stunned for a moment before they remembered to salute.

"See Your Majesty!"

"No gifts."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood and said casually.

Then he looked into the distance, where was the Longjiang Port where many ships were moored.

However, what first caught his attention was not Xiao Dezi's ships carrying high-yield grains, but the armored ship that stood out from the crowd!

The ironclad ship is more than thirty feet long, four to five feet wide, and more than three feet high above the water. The steel hull is still reflecting light in the sun, making it difficult not to attract attention.

Seeing this behemoth, Zhu Yuanzhang was also frightened: "Is that the huge ship you built with all the materials?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I met little...Wang Jinghong yesterday when I took this ship on a trial voyage."

Li Wei replied softly.

Xiao Dezi had already been named by Zhu Yuanzhang before setting off, and he was quite concerned about it. Li Wei hesitated and changed his name to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly and stared at the giant ship with difficulty.

Li Shanchang, Tang He and other generals also noticed this big guy and whispered to each other.

They had all followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the Battle of Poyang Lake, and they had all seen Chen Youliang's three-story giant ship. At that time, many of them were so frightened that they almost surrendered.

However, compared with the armored ship in front of him, Chen Youliang's huge ship is really a gadget worth mentioning.

"Your Majesty, would you like to see the food first?"

Seeing that he didn't move, Li Wei reminded him.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment before nodding.

Li Wei quickly gave Wang Jinghong a wink, and Wang Jinghong would lead the way.

After such a long time in the morning, part of the food on the ship had been moved down. Li Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang and others came under the ship and saw these novel foods.

"Your Majesty, this is the potato I mentioned. It can not only be used as food to satisfy hunger, but can also be eaten as a vegetable, stir-fried, boiled, fried, or fried. The yield is extremely high, and the yield per mu can easily reach more than ten stones."

Li Wei pointed at a basket of potatoes and said.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already heard about the output of these things, but he didn't have much reaction. However, this was the first time for Ru Taisu, Yu Xi and others to hear about it, and they were shocked when they heard that the output of ten stones per mu was.

"This thing can really produce ten stones per hour?"

Ru Taisu questioned.

He is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he has a relatively clear understanding of the output of various grains. Take rice as an example. Even the best farmland in the prosperous south of the Yangtze River can only produce four stones per mu at most. Li Wei opened his mouth and turned his head. More than double would be an exaggeration.

"Of course, and it's at least as little as possible. If you plant it well, you might even get twenty or thirty stones."

Li Wei said matter-of-factly. In fact, he was really not sure, but as far as he knew, it would be no problem to give birth to a thousand catties.

Seeing his careless appearance, Ru Taisu became more and more exaggerated as he spoke, and suddenly became more suspicious.

Li Wei ignored him and continued to talk to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, this is a sweet potato. The yield per mu can reach more than ten stones. And it doesn't matter the land. There are many ways to eat it. You can roast it or eat it raw."

Zhu Yuanzhang liked the color red the most. You can tell from his surname and the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty. When he saw this red-skinned sweet potato, he was overjoyed: "This is good, red is red, so it should be called Zhushu!"

"Well, your Majesty is right!"

Li Wei nodded on the surface but curled his lips inwardly.

After introducing these two high-yielding crops, Li Wei took him to a basket of corn: "This is corn. Although the yield per mu is not as good as those two, it is drought-resistant and can be planted with other crops without picking the land."

When it comes to corn, Li Wei recalls the bitterness of his childhood. He grew up eating corn noodles. The bitterness made him dream of eating white flour steamed buns.

I heard that there is a very big real estate developer who also has this dream. He may be worth hundreds of billions, but he is a hard worker. If he hadn't traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he would still be a hard worker now.

Although he now had this corn, he would not eat the cornmeal even to death. At most, he could break off a few boiled corn cobs and eat them while they were still tender.

When he heard that these crops were drought-resistant and high-yielding, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't close his mouth and laughed non-stop.

Although Ru Taisu and others were suspicious, they also held the hope of being safe and attached great importance to these grains.

(End of this chapter)