Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 205 The scholar-bureaucrats were influenced by Zhang Cheng and increased their efforts to help the people!
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he saw many potatoes being taken out of a large water tank filled with soil on the ship.

"How much soil can be contained in a jar?"

"But, is this really edible?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also asked Zhang Cheng about this.

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Of course! I will ask the cook to make this for us at noon today."

Zhang Cheng knew that in order to change this society, it was important to increase food production.

Therefore, he had consciously brought many grain seeds from the modern world, and then conducted trial planting and cultivation based on the sowing methods he had read to determine whether various so-called high-yielding crops could be produced without or without chemical fertilizers. How much yield was produced in the soil environment of the late Yuan Dynasty.

But since Zhang Cheng came to this world, he has become busier and busier, so he hasn't done much experimentation yet.

It was now the time to harvest autumn potatoes, so Zhang Cheng only asked Li Shanchang to bring the potatoes that he had asked him to cultivate and take care of for him.

When Zhang Cheng saw that the yield of the potatoes he cultivated was still good, and a large number of them were taken out of the jars filled with soil, he was sure that a new killer weapon would undoubtedly appear on his side in the future.

Because he really wants to increase the world's food production.

"Not to mention coercion, we don't have coercion now. Some social officials are doing this, forcing the people to send their children to school. But once the people give them bribes, they don't force the children to go to school, and they help the people deceive the officials. They say this The children of the common people went to school.”

At the same time, Zhang Cheng also began to establish schools and promote education.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but frown and asked Zhu Yuanzhang.

He was naturally willing to believe what Li Shanchang said.

Every day, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished his military and political affairs, he would pick up a hoe and go to the backyard to clean up the red potato field.

Now after Zhang Cheng said this, Zhu Yuanzhang actually saw the high yield of potatoes and tasted the potatoes. He knew that these things could indeed ward off hunger, so he nodded with deep understanding: "Mr. Zhang is right, meat eaters should have this." Awareness is what matters, we carnivores in the Chinese Army cannot be like Hu Yuan’s carnivores and do not have this awareness.”

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just come out of the field, put his rolled-up trouser legs down and asked, "Why doesn't it fit?"

then.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was not very happy about this, and said to Zhang Cheng seriously: "If such high-yielding grains had appeared earlier, our parents might not have starved to death."

Zhang Cheng was still very willing to see Zhu Yuanzhang become a crop breeder himself.

At noon, Zhu Yuanzhang tasted the potatoes that Zhang Cheng had people cook.

Next, he actually turned a peony garden that Yuan Wenzong had opened here into a piece of land at his residence, and then cultivated red potatoes according to Zhang Cheng's method.

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he pursed his lips and his eyes filled with anger.

Zhang Cheng had already told Zhu Yuanzhang that he got the potatoes from merchants who came to Chuzhou for business, but because he didn't fully believe that these crops were really high-yielding, he tried to cultivate them first.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a vigorous and resolute man.

Only by increasing the world's food production can more people engage in off-the-job study or other research and development work, which will lead to faster development of people's intelligence, faster industrialization, and the safer and freer they will be in this world.

"But are you too busy to come over here?"

Because as Zhu Yuanzhang himself said, this can make Zhu Yuanzhang more convinced that there are indeed higher-yielding crops in the world worth promoting.

"Our parents starve to death, and it's still related to the fact that the meat eaters do nothing but only greedily ask for it. It's not that they are not hardworking!"

When Li Shanchang was discussing how to establish schools and promote education, he raised his opinions in front of Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang.

"I don't know what the superiors know. Once forced, officials will force children from ordinary families to go to school. If they don't want to go to school, they have to pay money. However, those who go to school are not really arranged to go to school. Instead, they are arranged to serve in the army. They were even forced to sell their buttocks in some places.”

"For this reason, my subordinates dealt with many such people."

Therefore, Zhang Cheng did not dislike Zhu Yuanzhang because he was often so busy that he came to see them in coarse short clothes.

Zhang Cheng then mentioned other grains.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not use his hands on others, for he was deeply afraid that mistakes would occur if he used his hands on others.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang became even busier because of this. Many times, he was too busy to change his clothes. He wore short clothes that were convenient for farming, so he summoned Zhang Cheng and others to discuss matters.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "No need to ask this! Work quickly to cultivate more high-yielding new crops so that people in the world will no longer starve to death as soon as possible. It doesn't matter how busy you are."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very serious about cleaning up, following the cultivation requirements provided by Zhang Cheng almost meticulously. Even when he poured farmyard manure, he poured it in small pinches, even more carefully than when managing a child.

Zhu Yuanzhang enjoyed the soft potatoes.

Zhang Cheng comforted Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "This is mainly because meat eaters generally lack the awareness of how to increase the yield of food crops and develop new high-yielding crops. There are all kinds of wonders in the world. There is no need to worry about the lack of more high-yielding crops. We just need meat eaters not to be lazy. We must actively send people to search, discover and cultivate.”

"Okay! It's time for a kind of grain called red potato to be bred. Then I will tell you how to breed it, and then you can choose a piece of land for breeding."

Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly: "Besides, if we leave it to other old farmers, they probably won't cultivate it seriously because they don't grow crops for themselves. What's more, this kind of cultivation of new crops can only be cultivated by us ourselves." I will really believe it to avoid any false reports.”

After hearing what Zhang Cheng said, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng and said, "This old farmer is right in front of you, Mr. Zhang. You don't need to find another old farmer."

"Speaking of which, I haven't got some other so-called high-yielding grain varieties from maritime merchants. In the future, I can find a few old farmers to try it. Maybe we can enrich the high-yielding grain varieties in our land of China, and then increase the grain output, so that even summer grain Even if the harvest is poor, there will still be a good harvest in autumn.”

"The current social education system is not suitable for forcing children to attend school."

He was very willing to see Zhu Yuanzhang working so hard for the cause of agricultural scientific research in the world.

Zhang Cheng saw this and was happy in his heart.

He deliberately mentioned these grains in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Li Shanchang said this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened.

Zhang Cheng has now begun to work with Li Shanchang and other cabinet officials to organize the dredging project of the tributaries of the Qinhuai River and the Rouge River. Many refugees were organized and began to dig river mud and transport earth and rocks.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well what kind of behavior local people would have once they took control of power.

"How come this person behaves like this once he has power, even the people from Datong Society?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng said: "Human nature cannot stand the test, and the rulers still need to use better systems to prevent it."

"Shan Chang is right. It is not appropriate to force children to study in social schools, especially in rural areas. It is best not to build social schools in the first place, lest some officials really use the guise of establishing social schools to make money from the people."

Zhang Cheng continued. After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help frowning: "Then how can we educate and enlighten the people?"

Zhang Cheng said at this time: "First, the central government trains academic officials who specialize in teaching, and then directly sends academic officials to the countryside to recruit schoolchildren to read and read during the slack time. This has been done in the Han Dynasty, and the effect is very good; secondly, , set up middle schools in thoroughfares, so that social studies and students taught by academic officials in the countryside can voluntarily come to the middle schools for admission; finally, middle school graduates will be selected to enter various university halls. "

"I'm afraid it will require a lot of academic officers."

Zhu Yuanzhang replied.

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Yes, if you want to strengthen education, you need to train teachers first, but it is better for the central court to directly spend money to support academic officials than to let local officials make money in the name of setting up social studies. There is no need for money, but the money either comes from the court or from the people, but it is better to come from the court than from the people. This will at least let the court know the importance of developing financial resources. "

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and agreed with Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng then organized relevant officials to determine the basic academic officer system.

Zhu Yuanzhang also quickly approved a group of students who were activist students to join the Datong Society.

Most of these people were directly appointed as academic officers and were arranged to go on local teaching tours to carry out extensive educational activities on literacy, popularization of mathematics, and history.

Hou Yuanjing, a scholar who was originally from Jiangning, now became an academic officer because he enrolled in the Chuzhou Prefecture School run by Zhang Cheng when he was in Chuzhou, and now he took the initiative to apply to join the Datong Society.

Hou Yuanjing was very happy about this, because he felt that he finally had a chance to do things for the people and became an official with a bright future.

For this reason, before Hou Yuanjing left Jiqing and went to the capital city where the newly established Academic Affairs Department arranged for him, he came to Liu Yourou, a famous piano player whom he had always admired, and specially came to say goodbye to Liu Yourou, saying that he was going to visit the countryside. .

"Training?"

Liu Yourou originally decided to meet Hou Yuanjing because she had met Hou Yuanjing before she became famous.

But she didn't expect that Hou Yuanjing, a scholar who wanted to visit Chuzhou because he was dissatisfied with the current situation of the Yuan Dynasty, had already become an officer of the Chinese army and had to patrol the countryside.

What surprised Liu Yourou even more was that after the Chinese army captured Jiqing, they actually thought about paying attention to education and opening up the people's wisdom, and they did not hesitate to spend money to send academic officers to the countryside.

This made Liu Yourou, who had always been smart, keenly feel that the new Chinese army entering the city was indeed, as stated in the "China News", determined to seek wealth and honor for the people of the world and establish a harmonious society.

Liu Yourou also came from a lower class, but was later sold to a romantic place.

But because she showed amazing talent when learning the piano, she was trained to become a famous prostitute and was taught a lot of knowledge.

Although Liu Yourou is now a famous prostitute, because she comes from a lower class, she is very concerned about the attitude of the rulers towards the people.

Therefore, she also became interested in "going to the countryside to teach" mentioned by Hou Yuanjing.

"Yes, the reason is that the people of the world can wake up and stop being ignorant and being deceived by others."

After Hou Yuanjing returned with a smile, he cupped his hands to Liu Yourou and said, "Now that I have come to say goodbye to Miss Liu, Miss Liu can go out and see more when she has the opportunity. Then she will see that the celebration party governed by my Datong Society will be different."

"Please don't worry, Mr. Hou!"

Liu Yourou smiled and saluted, and after bidding farewell to Hou Yuanjing, she actually left her courtyard in a carriage, put aside her grudge against the Chinese army, and observed the market.

Suddenly, Liu Yourou noticed a girl being pulled from her head by her father by the shack outside Yishuimen.

"Daddy won't sell me?"

the girl asked.

Liu Yourou also heard what the girl asked her father.

The girl's father smiled and said, "There's no need to sell it! They gave dad a job digging river mud, and he got five buckets of rice every month, and food was included."

"really?"

"That would be great!"

Liu Yourou looked at the little girl jumping barefoot in front of her father. She couldn't help but think of her father kneeling in front of Yazi when she was so old, begging to sell her to Yazi, and forcing herself to kneel down and kowtow to beg to buy. own scene.

This made Liu Yourou couldn't help crying for this girl, and at the same time she felt envious of this girl.

Although she is now lucky enough to live a prosperous life because of being sold that time, she still hopes that she will not be forced to sell her to someone else that day.

Because the pain caused by being forced to give up your dignity by your parents is simply unforgettable.

"Why are they more willing to help the people than the original bureaucrats of Hu Yuan?"

"Do they really want to benefit the people?"

"Is what China News wrote true?"

Liu Yourou thought about it in her heart.

So Liu Yourou asked someone to buy a copy of "China News" again.

When she saw the "China News" article written by the celebrity Song Lian about Datong Society's desire to establish a country where monarchy is delegated by the people, and when she saw Zhang Cheng, the so-called chief minister of the cabinet, clearly stating in the newspaper that he would divide the private lands of Hu Yuan's powerful bureaucrats among the people, Moreover, after being exempted from the one-year field tax in Jiqing and tax-free for vendors with goods worth less than 10 taels, she couldn't help but feel more favorable to the Chinese army that ruled Jiqing City in front of her.

Therefore, after Liu Yourou learned through the "China News" that the new Jiqingfu Nursing Home was raising donations in the newspaper, she specially asked people to send all her savings over the years.

Liu Lian, who was appointed by Liu Bowen, also learned about the current situation of Jiqing through the "China News" when he came to Wujin, so he said to his servant:

"Now go and buy some rice, set up a porridge shed outside to serve porridge, and tell the gangsters who come to receive the porridge, let them finish the porridge and then go to the festival. There is a great benefactor who saved their lives there, so let's buy it." We don’t have much rice, they can only eat ten days. If you don’t want to starve to death, go to Jiqing. The new Chinese army coming to Jiqing is determined to make the people of the world rich, including gangsters like them!”

The servant said yes.

Liu Lian smiled faintly, put his hands behind his back, and sighed to his friend Ruan Jinrong in Wujin:

"I didn't expect that Mr. Zhang really wanted to help the people of the world! In order to prevent more gangsters from starving to death, we should contribute our efforts and money to guide these gangsters to celebrate!"

"I think Mr. Laizhang will also be very happy about this. After seeing more gangsters coming to surrender, he will be able to survive."

"Yes, Mr. Zhang will definitely be delighted."

"I also sent people back immediately to let my family distribute food and porridge, and even sent a boat to send local gangsters to celebrate the festival and receive relief!"

Ruan Jinrong said and bowed in the direction of Jiqing: "Mr. Yichengzhang is a great man!"

After saying that, Ruan Jinrong and Liu Lian looked at each other and smiled.

(End of this chapter)