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Chapter 106 Xu Guangqi ([-])
At night.

Yang Reform was so excited that he couldn't sleep and kept nagging.

"Steamed sweet potatoes..."

Yang Reform picked up the bamboo tube pen and wrote on the paper.

"Roasted sweet potato……"

Write it on paper again.

"Boiled sweet potatoes..."

Keep it on paper.

"Fried sweet potatoes..."

Write it down on paper.

"Sweet potato candy..."

On paper, a lot has been recorded.

"Sweet potato vermicelli..."

"Feed the pig..."

The paper is already densely packed.This is all the uses of sweet potatoes that Yang Reform can think of. He is very happy to think that sweet potatoes can have so many uses. The greater the use, the higher the value, the greater the demand, and the larger the planting area. The bigger it is, the more reserves it has, the stronger its ability to resist natural disasters, the less likely it is to capsize in this Ming Dynasty, and the safer it is.

At night, I dreamed back to Baidu, and continued to search for sweet potatoes and their uses.

"Dried sweet potatoes..."

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"Sweet potato flour (powder)..."

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"Sweet potato wine..."

"Sweet Potato Flour..."

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When Yang Reform woke up the next day, he told Wang Chengen.

"Big companion, go and invite two masters, Sun and Xu, to Dongnuange to meet me. I invite the two masters to have breakfast." Yang Reform said to Wang Chengen without thinking.

Wang Chengen went on an errand out of nowhere.

Yang Reform sat in front of the table, and on the basis of yesterday, made up the content he searched hard all night.

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Soon, Wang Chengen came back to report: "Your Majesty, I have already sent someone to invite the two masters. It is estimated that they will arrive in less than half an hour. May I ask Your Majesty, what do you want for breakfast today?"

Yang Reform put down the bamboo tube pen and said: "My companion, I heard that there is a kind of rice noodles in the south, which is very delicious. Today I want to invite two masters to eat rice noodles. My companion asks the people from the imperial dining room to prepare it."

Chongzhen Yang Reform said this again without thinking, Wang Chengen almost slipped his foot and fell to the ground, where did this come from?rice flour?What it is?
Wang Chengen was a little anxious, not knowing what happened to the emperor today, so he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this rice noodles..."

Seeing Wang Chengen's puzzled look, Yang Reform thought for a while and explained, "Rice noodles? Don't understand? Maybe it should be called rice noodles?"

When it comes to rice noodles, Wang Chengen understands to a certain extent that there are folks who use rice to grind pulp and make silk, supplemented with homemade ingredients such as chicken and fish meat, and boiled in boiling water for ready-to-eat food. This is also called rice noodles, not powder like wheat flour. .

"Your servant understands." Wang Chengen figured out that the emperor wanted to eat this stuff, and immediately withdrew, ready to order the people in the imperial dining room to do it.

"Big companion, remember, there are only three copies, one for me, one for Master Sun and one for Xu, don't waste it, understand?...Oh, yes, I want four, and I will send a bowl to the queen..." In the middle of speaking, Yang Reform remembered that he ate a bowl of steamed pork with rice flour from Zhou Waner yesterday, so he remembered the huge economic value of sweet potatoes. Today, he could treat the queen as a treat for dinner.

"Your servant understands." Wang Chengen went out.

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Dongnuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.

Both Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were a bit puzzled. His Majesty sent someone to find them so early, saying that he was inviting them to breakfast. He didn't know what was going on here. The two of them were in Dongnuan Pavilion, looking at each other. , I don't know what kind of medicine the emperor is showing off.

"Morning, masters!" Yang Reform was in a great mood, and he was the first to greet the two of them.

The two quickly knelt down to pay their respects.

"Both masters, get up quickly, you don't have to, quickly move a chair for the two masters." Yang Reform enthusiastically "entertained" his right-hand man.

Sit down.

"Today, I invite the two masters to have breakfast, my companions..." Yang Huaihe said to Sun and Xu, and then said to Wang Chengen, meaning to ask Wang Chengen to serve rice noodles quickly.

A line of court ladies and eunuchs filed in, those who set up cases set up cases, those who set up food set up food, some set up appetizers, and some set up food for wiping their mouths.What used to be a simple bowl of rice noodles has now become a high-end stuff with seven or eight cold dishes.

Sun and Xu went in without knowing it, and looked at each other, bewildered.

"Two masters, please eat..." After finishing speaking, Yang Reform took the lead, mixed rice noodles with chopsticks, and then threw away his arms and began to eat.

Sun and Xu couldn't figure it out even more. Seeing the emperor eating, they followed suit, sucking and sucking. In Dongnuan Pavilion, there was a sound of eating rice noodles, as if there was an early morning stall on the roadside.

After eating, Yang Reform smiled and said, "How are you two masters?"

The two looked at each other and said together, "Delicious."

"Hehe, two masters, I'm not just letting you guys eat this rice noodles, but I've thought about the whereabouts of this sweet potato." After Yang Reform finished speaking, he cast his gaze away from the empty bowl of rice noodles.

When Sun and Xu saw the emperor pointing to the rice noodles they had just eaten, they wondered if there was something weird in the rice noodles?
"Where does the sweet potato go? Your Majesty? Could it be?..." Obviously, Xu Guangqi had a lot of thoughts about this sweet potato, and he immediately came to his senses.

Sun Chengzong was not slow, and said: "Could it be that this sweet potato is made into vermicelli?" If there is no reference to such a rare thing as the emperor inviting them to dinner, who would believe it?

Yang Reform applauded, "That's right, the two masters are really smart. These sweet potatoes can be made into sweet potato vermicelli. You don't have to worry about the sales. I've thought about it. You can use the sweet potatoes to offset the tax in full. Turn the harvested sweet potatoes into sweet potato vermicelli and sell them back, and you can make a lot of money between the in and out."

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"It's okay to make these sweet potatoes into vermicelli, but your majesty is so sure, this sweet potato vermicelli will be easy to sell?" Xu Guangqi doubts the sale of this sweet potato vermicelli. If it can't be sold, wouldn't it be the emperor's trousers?

"Hehe, Master Xu, don't worry. I'm sure about this matter. Everyone in the world will love to eat this sweet potato vermicelli." Obviously, Xu Guangqi has never seen the scene of later generations buying sweet potato vermicelli for Chinese New Year. No doubt about its sales.

A family bought five catties for Chinese New Year. With a population of over 1000 million in the Ming Dynasty, even a family of [-] million would have sales of tens of millions of catties. Of course, the actual sales volume would definitely not reach this number.This is just the consumption during the Chinese New Year. If you include the whole year and the consumption of other sweet potato products, the taxes in the northern provinces can be fully offset by sweet potatoes.

"Your Majesty, be careful. Once the tax is paid in full on this matter, the planting area of ​​sweet potatoes will expand rapidly. Your Majesty, it is better to be on the safe side." Sun Chengzong also urged Yang to reform and not to be too aggressive. , once things get out of hand, I don't regret taking medicine.

"Hehe, Master Sun, I have a countermeasure for this matter, not just relying on sweet potato fans." After speaking, Yang Reform handed the stack of papers that wrote about the many uses of sweet potatoes to Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi.

"Roasted sweet potato……"

"Steamed sweet potatoes..."

"Fried sweet potatoes..."

"Sweet potato candy..."

"Sweet potato vermicelli..."

"Dried sweet potatoes..."

"Sweet potato flour (powder)..."

"Sweet potato wine..."

Finally, there is a "feed the pig..."

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were dumbfounded when they saw so many uses of sweet potatoes.Look at the emperor again, I don’t know how the emperor came up with so many things, born a saint?The emperor is so powerful that he listed so many uses in one night.

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Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were surprised for a while before they came back to their senses.

Xu Guangqi was really curious and asked, "May I ask your majesty, how did your majesty know so many uses?" It is not ordinary people who can write such a multi-purpose.Non-gods can't.Of course, you must be curious to ask how the emperor made it.

"Hehehe..." Yang Reform smiled proudly. Of course, this is due to his experience in the 21st century and his dream of returning to Baidu search. Of course, it is impossible to tell them this.He casually brought up a reason, ready to prevaricate.

"This matter is actually very simple. I saw that sweet potatoes are also eaten. Therefore, according to the cooking methods, steaming, boiling, frying, roasting, deep-frying, stuffing, and blanching, I thought about it carefully and wrote down the cooking methods that I think are possible. As for the wine in the back, I see that sweet potatoes are similar to fruits and can be eaten raw. It is rumored that monkeys can use fruits to make monkey wine, so why can’t these sweet potatoes make sweet potato wine? As for sweet potato candy, I I think that since this sweet potato tastes sweet, maybe it can be made into sugar..."

Yang Reform made such nonsense that Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi's eyes lit up, as if they saw jewels.If everything is as the emperor said, then the tax credit ratio of sweet potatoes can indeed be greatly increased. Of course, the premise is that what the emperor said is true.

"My Majesty, I feel that if sweet potatoes have so many effects as His Majesty said, then the tax-deductible ratio of sweet potatoes can be greatly increased. The key is how to prove that these are feasible?" Xu Guangqi said own worries.

"Hehe, Master Xu, this matter is not in a hurry. After Master Xu returns, he can send people to use sweet potatoes to explore step by step. They must be able to find out quite a lot of uses. After all, this is a food that can fill the stomach, not a weed in the field. Grass. Didn’t Master Xu say that people in Southeast Asia eat this stuff, so they can live longer?” Yang Reform followed suit and handed over the trial production of a package of sweet potato products to Xu Guangqi.

"Here... I obey, Your Majesty." Xu Guangqi had no choice but to agree.

Xu Guangqi said again: "In this way, Your Majesty intends to use the profits from these sweet potato products to pay taxes?"

Yang Reform's original idea was to use the money earned from sweet potato products to offset the taxes that should be paid. According to Yang Reform's understanding, the taxes paid by some provinces in the north are extremely limited, not even as good as a southern province or a state. , So, as expected, the money required for this is not a lot.

"Indeed, I want to use the money earned from the finished sweet potato to offset taxes. For example, to open a sweet potato vermicelli processing factory, as long as it can roughly offset the tax, I don't expect how much money the sweet potato can make. The purpose It’s just that sweet potatoes can be promoted on a large scale.”

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I think that, since this is the case, the ratio of sweet potatoes to the tax should be [-]-[-], or [-]-[-], which is more appropriate."

"I also agree with Xu Shaobao's opinion. This matter is gradual. If the income from sweet potatoes can make up for the tax that should be paid, it will be gradually promoted. If it is not enough to make ends meet, the proportion can be reduced."

Yang Reform thought about the words of these two masters, and felt that it made sense. The one-time full tax credit is a bit large. I think the situation is too ideal, so I will increase the offset ratio step by step depending on the situation. Bar.

"Since this is the case, then follow what the two masters said, start from [-]% to [-]%. If the situation is good, [-]% to [-]%, or even a full tax credit."

"Your Majesty is holy." The two said in unison.

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"Oh, by the way, I have selected a few places to try to grow sweet potatoes. Master Xu can include these places when he tries to grow sweet potatoes... one is the Yulin area in Shaanxi, especially Mizhi County, it is said that this place is extremely poor, so sweet potatoes should be promoted in these places as soon as possible, and Shuntian Prefecture should be included in at least one, and Master Xu can arrange for other places..."

The emperor designated two places to grow sweet potatoes?Xu Guangqi was puzzled, why not other places?But since it's specified, let's plant it there.As for why, only Yang Reform knows that Li Zicheng, who is famous in history, revolted in Mizhi!How not to guard against him?

The big strategy for the promotion of sweet potatoes is out.Even some details have been taken into consideration. Yang Reform, the Chongzhen Emperor who traveled through time, attached great importance to it. He regarded it as a golden finger to fight against the drought in the north. It can be regarded as a paragraph. Next, let’s look at Xu Guangqi’s actual operation capable.

History will be different!
[My mind is a little confused. In addition, I didn't carefully check the taxation situation of the northern provinces in the late Ming Dynasty. 】

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