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Chapter 159 Zhu Ji’s Agricultural Development
Chapter 159 Zhu Ji’s Agricultural Development
After being frightened by Emperor Hongwu, Mu Chu felt almost exhausted when he returned. He felt that even facing Silun's hundreds of thousands of troops would be easier than this.
Mu Chu was really scared, so he hurriedly went to pay tribute early the next morning, and returned as soon as possible after preparing to pay tribute.
It’s better to be at home and relax.
Unexpectedly, Mu Chu was not only consecrated as the local magistrate of Lijiang by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, but he was also conferred the title of Zhongshun doctor, which is equivalent to the fourth rank.
After coming down from the court, Mu Chu hurried back to the post house to pack his things, hoping to leave this dragon's den with his entourage as soon as possible.
At the same time, Muchun also started to take action, and the two groups could just join together.
When Muchun was about to leave the capital, Zhu Yunwen sent someone to see him off.
It's a pity that Zhu Yunwen, as the emperor's grandson, is busy with affairs and can't get away from him and can't see him off in person.
Muchun didn't dare to have any opinions.
So Muchun and Mu Chu visited Yingtian, the capital, and finally embarked on their journey back to Yunnan.
It was already the end of October in the 25th year of Hongwu.
Let’s look at Yunnan again.
Starting from October, Yunnan has entered the busy autumn harvest season.
Zhu Chu has also been very busy recently, not just for having a baby with Mu Qiu, but for entertainment in the evening.
During the day, Zhu Zhen was still very serious.
Like now.
Although Zhu Zhen couldn't leave the city, the main reason was that he didn't want to arouse Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion anymore, so he simply didn't even leave Dali City, and sometimes stayed in the palace for half a month.
Anyway, he just happened to be able to practice Qi Jue, so he wasn't too depressed.
Today, in the side hall of the palace, Zhu Zhen is receiving Currie House.
"Your Highness, this is this year's harvest," Curie said with excitement on his face, pointing to the pile of grain piled around him.
Those are the seeds that Zhu Ming entrusted to the Curie House clan.
After two consecutive seasons and a full year, Zhu Chu finally confirmed this agricultural development experiment.
After all, these seeds were purchased directly from the system store and were cultivated through countless experiments in later generations. Zhu Zhen was also worried about whether he could adapt to this era.
Fortunately, both hybrid rice and corn and other crops have successfully survived the first quarter, and using the first quarter's harvest as the seeds for the second season, they have also successfully completed the second season's harvest.
This means that Zhu Xi's experimental field plan was successful.
Not only could these seeds be planted during the Ming Dynasty, but they could also be cultivated, which eliminated the need for Zhu Zhen to constantly buy seeds from the system.
To put it simply, these seeds can be officially used for the entire Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Zhen was also a little excited. Today's grain harvest is both single and small, which has led to many people in the Ming Dynasty being impoverished and many not having enough to eat.
Once these high-yield and abundant crops are popularized, hybrid rice can be grown in paddy fields, corn can be grown in dry fields, and sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes can even be grown on barren land.
I believe that the people of Ming Dynasty will soon have a good harvest.
When the people of Ming Dynasty became rich, the imperial court would also grow rapidly.
Thinking of this, Zhu Zhen shouted outside: "Wang Fu, go and call Magistrate Li here and tell him that there is something important."
Wang Fu's voice immediately came from outside the door: "Yes."
The dignified commander now behaves like a great steward of the palace.
There is no way, in the past year, Yunnan has been very peaceful, and Zhu Chu has become more honest. Even Zhu Chu has nothing to do, let alone him.
Not long after, Li Shuran, the prefect of Dali, was invited to the palace.
"Your Highness, this year is going to be a bumper harvest," Li Shuran announced the good news with great joy as soon as he came in.
The autumn harvest around Dali City has ended. After some calculations, it can be said that this year has been a bumper harvest.
Zhu Zhen smiled and nodded, without saying anything more. He just asked Li Shuran to take a look at the crops piled up in the side hall.
Li Shuran was stunned. His Highness didn't seem too happy?
Then Li Shuran opened the bags and looked confused.
"What is this?" Li Shuran picked up a piece of dirt.
"That's a potato," Zhu said.
Potato?Is it really a bump?
"What about this? Red potatoes?" Li Shuran picked up another similar piece of earth.
"That's called sweet potato, also called sweet potato," Zhu Chu introduced.
Sure enough, it's still a piece of cake?
"What's the use of this?" Li Shuran asked.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are all imported products, and some were even introduced in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, no one knew them at this time.
And the corn surprised Li Shuran even more.
"What kind of rice is this? It looks like gold. Could it be pearl rice?" Li Shuran held up a handful of corn in amazement.
Zhu Ming shook his head in a funny way and said to Li Shuran: "Look at that bag of rice again."
As a result, Li Shuran was no longer interested in hybrid rice.
Zhu Ming sighed: "Master Li, Master Li, actually hybrid rice is the most important thing. Today's rice can produce up to two to three stones per mu, which is already considered a good harvest. Am I right?"
Li Shuran nodded in astonishment. For example, this year's bumper harvest, with many fields yielding three stones per mu in both seasons, made him extremely happy.
But why does His Highness look so plain?
He then heard Zhu Zhen pointing to the rice and saying, "And there are ten stones here, but it is the output of one acre of land."
"hiss."
Li Shuran took a breath of cold air. Ten stones per mu?Your Highness, this is no joke.
A yield of three stones per mu is already a good harvest, and a yield of four stones per mu is enough to be a miracle.
But you said that the yield per mu is ten stones?
"Your Highness, please tell me honestly, are you going to rebel?" Li Shuran suddenly looked at Zhu Xi with an indifferent expression, and actually saw that Zhu Xi had already rebelled?
Zhu Ming was also shocked. Your loyal and honest Mr. Li actually knows how to observe the sky at night?Could it be that he saw it?
Then I heard Li Shuran say: "With ten stones per mu, is it possible that one grain and nine ears of grain cannot be harvested? Your Highness, are you Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?"
One grain and nine ears of corn. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had this vision when he was born.
Li Shuran obviously misunderstood and thought Zhu Min was going to cause trouble.
Think about it, ten shi per mu is already many times more than three shi per mu.A yield of three stones per mu is a good harvest, but you have to have one grain and nine ears.
Your Highness, you are going to rebel.
The imperial court has announced that the crown prince is the grandson of the crown prince. No matter how unwilling you are, you have to admit it.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhu Zhen felt funny. Zhu Yuanzhang is not dead yet. He is not in a hurry to rebel. Don't be anxious. He will wait until Lao Zhu is dead first.
Zhu Chu stood up and came to Li Shuran, then reached out and picked up a handful of rice and said, "First of all, look at the difference between this rice and ordinary rice."
Li Shuran frowned and suddenly discovered that these rice grains were much larger than ordinary rice.
Zhu Ming continued: "Actually, this is grown from the new rice seeds discovered by Curie House. Because their family used to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, people outside didn't know about it."
"Also, corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are all high-yield crops. Once they are fully promoted, this will be a real bumper harvest."
Zhu Zhen put all the credit on Curiewu. He obviously had planned to use the excuse that the Curiewu family once lived in the deep mountains and old forests to explain why no one had discovered these rice seeds before.
Anyway, others don't know what's going on, so he can only talk nonsense.
Juliwu lowered his head and snickered secretly, Your Highness, Your Highness, if we had the land to grow food and it was such a high-yield food, why would we take such a risk and attack Yunlong County at night, and almost be exterminated by you?
Thinking of this, Curie House sighed again, knowing that once His Highness really wants to promote these crops to the whole of Yunnan, everyone will be able to have enough to eat.
The yield per mu is ten shi. Even if you pay three shi to pay taxes, each family will still have seven shi of rations.
This seven-stone ration alone is enough to feed the family for a season.
And Curie House has tasted potatoes and sweet potatoes, especially sweet potatoes, which are sweet and soft, just like the legendary dessert pastry.
And the corn, according to His Highness, can be roasted, boiled, and even made into popcorn.
What is that?
"Your Highness, are you telling the truth?" Li Shuran looked at Zhu Xi in shock, trying to find any clues on his expression, and wanted to know if Zhu Xi was joking.
Zhu Chu smiled, patted Li Shuran's arm, and said: "I called you here because I want you to implement these crops around Dali next year. We will use Dali as a test field first, and wait for the results of the first quarter's harvest. Then it will be comprehensively promoted to all parts of Yunnan, and even presented to the imperial court and promoted to the whole country."
"The people are suffering. When I inspected the territory before, I saw that the native people were squeezed by the previous chieftains so much that they couldn't even eat enough. They were all as skinny as firewood. Are they going to starve to death?" “You can get a full picture by looking at a leopard. If you think about it, the people in the whole country are almost the same, and there are still only a few people who can have enough to eat.”
Zhu Ming sighed, looking worried about the world.
Li Shuran murmured: "Don't you know the whole leopard by looking at one spot? And you can only see the leopard within the tube. You can see the leopard within the tube."
"I asked you to correct my wording?" Zhu Zhen rolled his eyes angrily.
Li Shuran sneered, but hesitated.
"Your Highness, I think it's better to slow down this matter first," Li Shuran thought about it and persuaded: "Food is the foundation of the people and should not be trivial."
After all, Li Shuran still didn't believe in the ten-stone-per-acre thing and thought it was just a joke.
Zhu Ruxin said that the yield of ten shi per mu was harvested. In fact, this was the lowest harvest, and the highest yield was twelve shi per mu.
Especially the potatoes and sweet potatoes, all of which have a yield of more than [-] shi per mu, and the maximum yield of potatoes can reach [-] shi per mu.
And potatoes can indeed be used as a staple food. For example, Tsarist Russia ate potatoes as a staple food.
If there is a famine, wouldn't potatoes taste better than Guanyin soil?Isn’t it more delicious than a book cover?
But in ancient times, it was a small-scale peasant society. To put it bluntly, farming is greater than the sky. After all, food is the most important thing for the people.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even during spring plowing and autumn harvest, even if the two countries went to war, they had to wait until the busy farming season was over before fighting.
After all, everyone has to eat.
Therefore, Li Shuran definitely did not dare to try it easily.
"Then let Yunlong County be used as a test field," Zhu Zhen didn't insist, but he didn't give in either.
Zhu Zhen also decided after careful consideration that progress in agriculture must be promoted across the country.
After all, his ambition is for the whole country, and even the world.
By promoting these high-yield crops as early as possible, more people can be fed and people can be prevented from starving to death.
And again, when the people are rich, the country will be strong, and he will have more confidence to launch more wars.
"Yunlong County is not big anyway. Even if there is a loss, I can still afford the compensation using my salary to make up for it," Zhu said.
He has already said this, what else can Li Shuran say.
Then Zhu Zhen explained some precautions about new crops.
Li Shuran became more frightened the more he listened.
Not to mention that there is no difference between the so-called hybrid rice and normal rice. The management of corn is also very simple. The key is that the potatoes and sweet potatoes can be buried in the soil and left alone?No need to water either?Just wait until the season is right to harvest?
It's too easy, isn't it?
So when Li Shuran left with a lot of seeds, he was still full of surprise. He even thought that he had listened to a storyteller. His Highness, it couldn't be a fantasy, right?
"Master Li doesn't trust us," Zhu Zhen sighed helplessly as he looked at Li Shuran's leaving figure.
Curie House explained: "Because the matter is so important, Mr. Li has to be cautious."
Zhu Zhu nodded, of course he could understand. Think about it, when Juliwu heard these words, didn't he look at him like an idiot for a long time?
But when the first harvest comes, who will cry in pain?Who is so shocked?
Now he is calm, right?
"Curie House," Zhu Zhen suddenly said again: "Now you have done a good job regarding potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, but you have almost got the results. Next, I will give you some crops."
With that said, Zhu Zhen took out many seeds prepared in advance from his backpack.
There is cotton, peanuts, and watermelon here.
Zhu Chu had thought before that Yunnan is also very cold in winter, but today's heating system is almost non-existent.
The other thing is that if a war breaks out in winter, the clothes of soldiers are not very cold-resistant.
Think about the several campaigns against Goguryeo in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Wasn't it because they couldn't stand the severe cold weather that they lost countless troops?
Sooner or later, Zhu Chu planned to conquer Goryeo again, and it was also very cold in Siberia.
So you have to prepare early.
So cotton was the next major development.
There are also peanuts. Peanuts can be squeezed for oil, and the oil yield rate is very high. At the same time, peanuts can also be eaten (nonsense), so Zhu Chu also wants to get it out as soon as possible.
As for the watermelon.
Watermelon is a very good fruit, sweet and delicious. This is an attempt to improve the living conditions in Yunnan.
In fact, there are records of growing watermelons in the Ming Dynasty, but this is Yunnan, at least Zhu Chu has not seen it yet.
What's more, the seeds Zhu Chu took out were obtained after countless studies and cultivation in later generations.
There is no way Zhu Chu can cultivate it bit by bit under the current conditions.
As long as these seeds can adapt to today's environment and can continue to collect seeds, proving the continuity of these technologies, it is enough.
But Zhu Chu also had to consider climate factors, so the seeds he took out were all suitable for planting in Yunnan.
Juliwu took a lot of seeds and said goodbye to Zhu Chu respectfully without asking how Zhu Chu was able to conjure it out of thin air.
"This is just agricultural development, and because we can buy seeds directly, we can develop easily. But the most important thing is the development of science and technology," Zhu Zhen sighed silently.
Due to Zhu Yuanzhang's previous suspicion and beating, Zhu Zhen now dared not act recklessly.
It has also put many of his previous plans on hold, leaving him now to develop something commercially and sell it for money.
But Zhu Zhen wants to vigorously develop steel-making technology. Many of the bronzes confiscated before can only be piled up. If he can independently develop the technology to make bullets, he can buy another blueprint, even if it is just the most primitive [-] cover, or Revolvers also greatly improve military strength.
As a result, Zhu Ming dared not do anything now, and what he could do was done secretly, and he had to let others do it on his behalf.
Speaking of which, after ten months of accumulation after the new year, Zhu Chu's resources now exceed tens of millions.
Based on the monthly accumulation of 320 million, even if he purchases a large number of seeds and consumes some money during the period, he now has 400 million resources.
And now that October is coming to an end, there will be new harvests in November.
However, although Zhu Zhen had such a huge resource tax, he did not waste it casually.
Although the utility store covers everything, as long as there are sufficient resources, you can even buy aircraft and tanks.
But since Zhu Zhen already knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was beginning to doubt him, how could he waste it so easily?
This is his biggest trump card. Zhu Ming's biggest confidence is that if one day comes, he can still buy a tank to fight against Lao Zhu's thousands of troops.
If he has an army that is loyal to him, he might as well equip each of them with a big pineapple or even a siege cannon to give Lao Zhu a big surprise.
Therefore, Zhu Xi's current hibernation and low profile is just silently accumulating his own strength.
For this reason, he was reluctant to even buy a contraceptive balloon, and instead used sheep intestines to prevent pregnancy.
Compared with great causes, contraceptive balloons are nothing.
If he hadn't cared about Mu Qiu's health and was afraid that she would be harmed by getting pregnant at a young age, Zhu Chu wouldn't even bother to use contraception. Isn't it natural for his wife to give birth to a child for him?
12 years old?Who cares about being 12 years old?
"I just don't know how many years Lao Zhu can live. Even the eldest brother of the prince was tortured to death by him. He won't torture us sons to death, right?" Zhu Ming couldn't help but secretly cursed.
Just thinking about Zhu Chu makes me want to complain.
In Chinese history, the longest-serving prince was probably Kangxi’s son Yinreng, right?He has been a prince for more than 30 years.
As for Zhu Biao, the prince, he had been the prince for 25 years.
In the end, Zhu Biao still didn't survive Lao Zhu, but he was tortured to death by Lao Zhu.
Isn't the position of the prince poisonous?
In fact, Zhu Gaochi had been the prince for 20 years. When Zhu Di finally died, he died of illness after only ten months in office.
But these ten months were enough to be called the rule of Renzong and laid the foundation for the rule of Renxuan, which shows Zhu Gaochi's ability.
Zhu Ming was still secretly complaining about Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang in Yingtian was also thinking about him.
When they learned that Muchun and Mu Chu had left Yingtian, they were preparing to return to Yunnan.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and finally decided.
"We are preparing to draft an edict to ask Dian King Zhu Zhen to return to Beijing to report on his duties at the end of the year."
Is Zhu Yuanzhang planning to recall Zhu Zhen to the capital?
It seems that he is still suspicious after all, and wants to question Zhu Zhen face to face, or test it in person?
(End of this chapter)
After being frightened by Emperor Hongwu, Mu Chu felt almost exhausted when he returned. He felt that even facing Silun's hundreds of thousands of troops would be easier than this.
Mu Chu was really scared, so he hurriedly went to pay tribute early the next morning, and returned as soon as possible after preparing to pay tribute.
It’s better to be at home and relax.
Unexpectedly, Mu Chu was not only consecrated as the local magistrate of Lijiang by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, but he was also conferred the title of Zhongshun doctor, which is equivalent to the fourth rank.
After coming down from the court, Mu Chu hurried back to the post house to pack his things, hoping to leave this dragon's den with his entourage as soon as possible.
At the same time, Muchun also started to take action, and the two groups could just join together.
When Muchun was about to leave the capital, Zhu Yunwen sent someone to see him off.
It's a pity that Zhu Yunwen, as the emperor's grandson, is busy with affairs and can't get away from him and can't see him off in person.
Muchun didn't dare to have any opinions.
So Muchun and Mu Chu visited Yingtian, the capital, and finally embarked on their journey back to Yunnan.
It was already the end of October in the 25th year of Hongwu.
Let’s look at Yunnan again.
Starting from October, Yunnan has entered the busy autumn harvest season.
Zhu Chu has also been very busy recently, not just for having a baby with Mu Qiu, but for entertainment in the evening.
During the day, Zhu Zhen was still very serious.
Like now.
Although Zhu Zhen couldn't leave the city, the main reason was that he didn't want to arouse Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion anymore, so he simply didn't even leave Dali City, and sometimes stayed in the palace for half a month.
Anyway, he just happened to be able to practice Qi Jue, so he wasn't too depressed.
Today, in the side hall of the palace, Zhu Zhen is receiving Currie House.
"Your Highness, this is this year's harvest," Curie said with excitement on his face, pointing to the pile of grain piled around him.
Those are the seeds that Zhu Ming entrusted to the Curie House clan.
After two consecutive seasons and a full year, Zhu Chu finally confirmed this agricultural development experiment.
After all, these seeds were purchased directly from the system store and were cultivated through countless experiments in later generations. Zhu Zhen was also worried about whether he could adapt to this era.
Fortunately, both hybrid rice and corn and other crops have successfully survived the first quarter, and using the first quarter's harvest as the seeds for the second season, they have also successfully completed the second season's harvest.
This means that Zhu Xi's experimental field plan was successful.
Not only could these seeds be planted during the Ming Dynasty, but they could also be cultivated, which eliminated the need for Zhu Zhen to constantly buy seeds from the system.
To put it simply, these seeds can be officially used for the entire Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Zhen was also a little excited. Today's grain harvest is both single and small, which has led to many people in the Ming Dynasty being impoverished and many not having enough to eat.
Once these high-yield and abundant crops are popularized, hybrid rice can be grown in paddy fields, corn can be grown in dry fields, and sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes can even be grown on barren land.
I believe that the people of Ming Dynasty will soon have a good harvest.
When the people of Ming Dynasty became rich, the imperial court would also grow rapidly.
Thinking of this, Zhu Zhen shouted outside: "Wang Fu, go and call Magistrate Li here and tell him that there is something important."
Wang Fu's voice immediately came from outside the door: "Yes."
The dignified commander now behaves like a great steward of the palace.
There is no way, in the past year, Yunnan has been very peaceful, and Zhu Chu has become more honest. Even Zhu Chu has nothing to do, let alone him.
Not long after, Li Shuran, the prefect of Dali, was invited to the palace.
"Your Highness, this year is going to be a bumper harvest," Li Shuran announced the good news with great joy as soon as he came in.
The autumn harvest around Dali City has ended. After some calculations, it can be said that this year has been a bumper harvest.
Zhu Zhen smiled and nodded, without saying anything more. He just asked Li Shuran to take a look at the crops piled up in the side hall.
Li Shuran was stunned. His Highness didn't seem too happy?
Then Li Shuran opened the bags and looked confused.
"What is this?" Li Shuran picked up a piece of dirt.
"That's a potato," Zhu said.
Potato?Is it really a bump?
"What about this? Red potatoes?" Li Shuran picked up another similar piece of earth.
"That's called sweet potato, also called sweet potato," Zhu Chu introduced.
Sure enough, it's still a piece of cake?
"What's the use of this?" Li Shuran asked.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are all imported products, and some were even introduced in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, no one knew them at this time.
And the corn surprised Li Shuran even more.
"What kind of rice is this? It looks like gold. Could it be pearl rice?" Li Shuran held up a handful of corn in amazement.
Zhu Ming shook his head in a funny way and said to Li Shuran: "Look at that bag of rice again."
As a result, Li Shuran was no longer interested in hybrid rice.
Zhu Ming sighed: "Master Li, Master Li, actually hybrid rice is the most important thing. Today's rice can produce up to two to three stones per mu, which is already considered a good harvest. Am I right?"
Li Shuran nodded in astonishment. For example, this year's bumper harvest, with many fields yielding three stones per mu in both seasons, made him extremely happy.
But why does His Highness look so plain?
He then heard Zhu Zhen pointing to the rice and saying, "And there are ten stones here, but it is the output of one acre of land."
"hiss."
Li Shuran took a breath of cold air. Ten stones per mu?Your Highness, this is no joke.
A yield of three stones per mu is already a good harvest, and a yield of four stones per mu is enough to be a miracle.
But you said that the yield per mu is ten stones?
"Your Highness, please tell me honestly, are you going to rebel?" Li Shuran suddenly looked at Zhu Xi with an indifferent expression, and actually saw that Zhu Xi had already rebelled?
Zhu Ming was also shocked. Your loyal and honest Mr. Li actually knows how to observe the sky at night?Could it be that he saw it?
Then I heard Li Shuran say: "With ten stones per mu, is it possible that one grain and nine ears of grain cannot be harvested? Your Highness, are you Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?"
One grain and nine ears of corn. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had this vision when he was born.
Li Shuran obviously misunderstood and thought Zhu Min was going to cause trouble.
Think about it, ten shi per mu is already many times more than three shi per mu.A yield of three stones per mu is a good harvest, but you have to have one grain and nine ears.
Your Highness, you are going to rebel.
The imperial court has announced that the crown prince is the grandson of the crown prince. No matter how unwilling you are, you have to admit it.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhu Zhen felt funny. Zhu Yuanzhang is not dead yet. He is not in a hurry to rebel. Don't be anxious. He will wait until Lao Zhu is dead first.
Zhu Chu stood up and came to Li Shuran, then reached out and picked up a handful of rice and said, "First of all, look at the difference between this rice and ordinary rice."
Li Shuran frowned and suddenly discovered that these rice grains were much larger than ordinary rice.
Zhu Ming continued: "Actually, this is grown from the new rice seeds discovered by Curie House. Because their family used to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, people outside didn't know about it."
"Also, corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are all high-yield crops. Once they are fully promoted, this will be a real bumper harvest."
Zhu Zhen put all the credit on Curiewu. He obviously had planned to use the excuse that the Curiewu family once lived in the deep mountains and old forests to explain why no one had discovered these rice seeds before.
Anyway, others don't know what's going on, so he can only talk nonsense.
Juliwu lowered his head and snickered secretly, Your Highness, Your Highness, if we had the land to grow food and it was such a high-yield food, why would we take such a risk and attack Yunlong County at night, and almost be exterminated by you?
Thinking of this, Curie House sighed again, knowing that once His Highness really wants to promote these crops to the whole of Yunnan, everyone will be able to have enough to eat.
The yield per mu is ten shi. Even if you pay three shi to pay taxes, each family will still have seven shi of rations.
This seven-stone ration alone is enough to feed the family for a season.
And Curie House has tasted potatoes and sweet potatoes, especially sweet potatoes, which are sweet and soft, just like the legendary dessert pastry.
And the corn, according to His Highness, can be roasted, boiled, and even made into popcorn.
What is that?
"Your Highness, are you telling the truth?" Li Shuran looked at Zhu Xi in shock, trying to find any clues on his expression, and wanted to know if Zhu Xi was joking.
Zhu Chu smiled, patted Li Shuran's arm, and said: "I called you here because I want you to implement these crops around Dali next year. We will use Dali as a test field first, and wait for the results of the first quarter's harvest. Then it will be comprehensively promoted to all parts of Yunnan, and even presented to the imperial court and promoted to the whole country."
"The people are suffering. When I inspected the territory before, I saw that the native people were squeezed by the previous chieftains so much that they couldn't even eat enough. They were all as skinny as firewood. Are they going to starve to death?" “You can get a full picture by looking at a leopard. If you think about it, the people in the whole country are almost the same, and there are still only a few people who can have enough to eat.”
Zhu Ming sighed, looking worried about the world.
Li Shuran murmured: "Don't you know the whole leopard by looking at one spot? And you can only see the leopard within the tube. You can see the leopard within the tube."
"I asked you to correct my wording?" Zhu Zhen rolled his eyes angrily.
Li Shuran sneered, but hesitated.
"Your Highness, I think it's better to slow down this matter first," Li Shuran thought about it and persuaded: "Food is the foundation of the people and should not be trivial."
After all, Li Shuran still didn't believe in the ten-stone-per-acre thing and thought it was just a joke.
Zhu Ruxin said that the yield of ten shi per mu was harvested. In fact, this was the lowest harvest, and the highest yield was twelve shi per mu.
Especially the potatoes and sweet potatoes, all of which have a yield of more than [-] shi per mu, and the maximum yield of potatoes can reach [-] shi per mu.
And potatoes can indeed be used as a staple food. For example, Tsarist Russia ate potatoes as a staple food.
If there is a famine, wouldn't potatoes taste better than Guanyin soil?Isn’t it more delicious than a book cover?
But in ancient times, it was a small-scale peasant society. To put it bluntly, farming is greater than the sky. After all, food is the most important thing for the people.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even during spring plowing and autumn harvest, even if the two countries went to war, they had to wait until the busy farming season was over before fighting.
After all, everyone has to eat.
Therefore, Li Shuran definitely did not dare to try it easily.
"Then let Yunlong County be used as a test field," Zhu Zhen didn't insist, but he didn't give in either.
Zhu Zhen also decided after careful consideration that progress in agriculture must be promoted across the country.
After all, his ambition is for the whole country, and even the world.
By promoting these high-yield crops as early as possible, more people can be fed and people can be prevented from starving to death.
And again, when the people are rich, the country will be strong, and he will have more confidence to launch more wars.
"Yunlong County is not big anyway. Even if there is a loss, I can still afford the compensation using my salary to make up for it," Zhu said.
He has already said this, what else can Li Shuran say.
Then Zhu Zhen explained some precautions about new crops.
Li Shuran became more frightened the more he listened.
Not to mention that there is no difference between the so-called hybrid rice and normal rice. The management of corn is also very simple. The key is that the potatoes and sweet potatoes can be buried in the soil and left alone?No need to water either?Just wait until the season is right to harvest?
It's too easy, isn't it?
So when Li Shuran left with a lot of seeds, he was still full of surprise. He even thought that he had listened to a storyteller. His Highness, it couldn't be a fantasy, right?
"Master Li doesn't trust us," Zhu Zhen sighed helplessly as he looked at Li Shuran's leaving figure.
Curie House explained: "Because the matter is so important, Mr. Li has to be cautious."
Zhu Zhu nodded, of course he could understand. Think about it, when Juliwu heard these words, didn't he look at him like an idiot for a long time?
But when the first harvest comes, who will cry in pain?Who is so shocked?
Now he is calm, right?
"Curie House," Zhu Zhen suddenly said again: "Now you have done a good job regarding potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, but you have almost got the results. Next, I will give you some crops."
With that said, Zhu Zhen took out many seeds prepared in advance from his backpack.
There is cotton, peanuts, and watermelon here.
Zhu Chu had thought before that Yunnan is also very cold in winter, but today's heating system is almost non-existent.
The other thing is that if a war breaks out in winter, the clothes of soldiers are not very cold-resistant.
Think about the several campaigns against Goguryeo in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Wasn't it because they couldn't stand the severe cold weather that they lost countless troops?
Sooner or later, Zhu Chu planned to conquer Goryeo again, and it was also very cold in Siberia.
So you have to prepare early.
So cotton was the next major development.
There are also peanuts. Peanuts can be squeezed for oil, and the oil yield rate is very high. At the same time, peanuts can also be eaten (nonsense), so Zhu Chu also wants to get it out as soon as possible.
As for the watermelon.
Watermelon is a very good fruit, sweet and delicious. This is an attempt to improve the living conditions in Yunnan.
In fact, there are records of growing watermelons in the Ming Dynasty, but this is Yunnan, at least Zhu Chu has not seen it yet.
What's more, the seeds Zhu Chu took out were obtained after countless studies and cultivation in later generations.
There is no way Zhu Chu can cultivate it bit by bit under the current conditions.
As long as these seeds can adapt to today's environment and can continue to collect seeds, proving the continuity of these technologies, it is enough.
But Zhu Chu also had to consider climate factors, so the seeds he took out were all suitable for planting in Yunnan.
Juliwu took a lot of seeds and said goodbye to Zhu Chu respectfully without asking how Zhu Chu was able to conjure it out of thin air.
"This is just agricultural development, and because we can buy seeds directly, we can develop easily. But the most important thing is the development of science and technology," Zhu Zhen sighed silently.
Due to Zhu Yuanzhang's previous suspicion and beating, Zhu Zhen now dared not act recklessly.
It has also put many of his previous plans on hold, leaving him now to develop something commercially and sell it for money.
But Zhu Zhen wants to vigorously develop steel-making technology. Many of the bronzes confiscated before can only be piled up. If he can independently develop the technology to make bullets, he can buy another blueprint, even if it is just the most primitive [-] cover, or Revolvers also greatly improve military strength.
As a result, Zhu Ming dared not do anything now, and what he could do was done secretly, and he had to let others do it on his behalf.
Speaking of which, after ten months of accumulation after the new year, Zhu Chu's resources now exceed tens of millions.
Based on the monthly accumulation of 320 million, even if he purchases a large number of seeds and consumes some money during the period, he now has 400 million resources.
And now that October is coming to an end, there will be new harvests in November.
However, although Zhu Zhen had such a huge resource tax, he did not waste it casually.
Although the utility store covers everything, as long as there are sufficient resources, you can even buy aircraft and tanks.
But since Zhu Zhen already knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was beginning to doubt him, how could he waste it so easily?
This is his biggest trump card. Zhu Ming's biggest confidence is that if one day comes, he can still buy a tank to fight against Lao Zhu's thousands of troops.
If he has an army that is loyal to him, he might as well equip each of them with a big pineapple or even a siege cannon to give Lao Zhu a big surprise.
Therefore, Zhu Xi's current hibernation and low profile is just silently accumulating his own strength.
For this reason, he was reluctant to even buy a contraceptive balloon, and instead used sheep intestines to prevent pregnancy.
Compared with great causes, contraceptive balloons are nothing.
If he hadn't cared about Mu Qiu's health and was afraid that she would be harmed by getting pregnant at a young age, Zhu Chu wouldn't even bother to use contraception. Isn't it natural for his wife to give birth to a child for him?
12 years old?Who cares about being 12 years old?
"I just don't know how many years Lao Zhu can live. Even the eldest brother of the prince was tortured to death by him. He won't torture us sons to death, right?" Zhu Ming couldn't help but secretly cursed.
Just thinking about Zhu Chu makes me want to complain.
In Chinese history, the longest-serving prince was probably Kangxi’s son Yinreng, right?He has been a prince for more than 30 years.
As for Zhu Biao, the prince, he had been the prince for 25 years.
In the end, Zhu Biao still didn't survive Lao Zhu, but he was tortured to death by Lao Zhu.
Isn't the position of the prince poisonous?
In fact, Zhu Gaochi had been the prince for 20 years. When Zhu Di finally died, he died of illness after only ten months in office.
But these ten months were enough to be called the rule of Renzong and laid the foundation for the rule of Renxuan, which shows Zhu Gaochi's ability.
Zhu Ming was still secretly complaining about Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang in Yingtian was also thinking about him.
When they learned that Muchun and Mu Chu had left Yingtian, they were preparing to return to Yunnan.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and finally decided.
"We are preparing to draft an edict to ask Dian King Zhu Zhen to return to Beijing to report on his duties at the end of the year."
Is Zhu Yuanzhang planning to recall Zhu Zhen to the capital?
It seems that he is still suspicious after all, and wants to question Zhu Zhen face to face, or test it in person?
(End of this chapter)
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