"Retreat from the court, Yan Chengjin, you stay, I have something to ask you."

At the signal of Emperor Hongzhi, the hundred officials slowly withdrew from the main hall, and Xiao Jing followed him to the front of the palace door and closed the door.

Yan Chengjin had no taste in his heart, but he impeached Shi Qin once, and he made such a big move.

It seems that in the future, impeachment will have to be more and more careful.

"I want to leave the palace and go to Huimin Pharmacy to have a look, and you come with me."

Dare to set five taels of silver, if you are in the fish and meat country, I will never be able to get around you.

Emperor Hongzhi went to the side hall angrily and changed into the Confucian clothes that he often wore out of the palace.

Xiao Jing also prepared a set of clothes himself.

"For Yan Qing's family, find a Confucian dress of mine."

Seeing that Yan Chengjin was wearing an official uniform, it was inconvenient to leave the palace, and Huimin Pharmacy was far away from Yan's mansion, so it was too late to change.

Yan Chengjin was a little disgusted: "On the minister's sedan chair, there are clothes. ”

His Majesty is now out of the palace with a frequency that is about to catch up with Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao has been in the past two days, I don't know what playthings I have, and I haven't been out of the palace for a long time.

Your Majesty's visit to Huimin Pharmacy must not be as simple as a micro-visit.

"There are more than 5,000 displaced people in Liangxiang, and I have stopped early, and I have worked hard to seek treatment, but I don't understand." Emperor Hongzhi said suddenly.

Yan Chengjin persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't think too much, your hair will fall out." ”

Don't say that you can't understand it, and the historians of later generations can't understand it.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters cannot be resisted by manpower.

Even if Li Shimin is allowed to travel to the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult to prosper under the Xiaoice River period and intensive disasters.

Emperor Hongzhi ignored him.

Huimin Pharmacy still represents the imperial court, and if you can feel the favor, the people will support the imperial court.

And now it is in the hands of Yan Chengjin, and it has risen to five taels of silver.

That's why he can't be reassured.

"Your Majesty, Wang Ji is upstairs to see a doctor."

Emperor Hongzhi was dumbfounded, and the Huimin Pharmacy was deserted compared to the day before yesterday, just like a different scene.

The people queuing up, like a moving ant line from the door, were densely packed, and there were more than 300 people at the entrance of the market.

"How, how can there be so many people?"

Five taels of silver, these people are still earning to queue up, are they crazy?

"Back to Master Zhu, these people are all willing to come for Huimin Pharmacy, Your Majesty should be able to rest assured." Yan Chengjin Road.

Huimin Pharmacy is a matter of the face of the imperial court.

It was precisely because he was afraid of losing the hearts of the people and turning good governance into bad government that Emperor Hongzhi personally went out of the palace to see.

The capital has a population of more than 300,000 people, and a few hundred people is not much.

Yan Chengjin wrote a secret letter to Cheng Minzheng and asked him to purchase medicinal materials from North Korea.

Daming has Liaodong, Anhui and many other places for the procurement of medicinal materials.

But it is better to import it from North Korea, the price is low, and it can be transported by large ships.

……

Households,

After Chen Qing received the holy decree, he returned to the duty room to rummage through the yellow book.

A large, old, yellowed book that has been moved to the bookcase.

The most recent measurement was in the fourth year of Hongzhi, and the number of households was more than 9,113,400......

"This yellow book cannot be presented to His Majesty, it needs to be re-measured, but it can be re-measured in terms of manpower and financial resources, how easy is it to say?"

"I'm afraid, Your Majesty is not satisfied with the results."

Chen Qing sighed abruptly, this matter fell on his head, like carrying a stone weighing more than a thousand catties.

All officials understand that it is not a matter of financial resources, nor is it a matter of time.

In order to avoid taxes, the gentry concealed the land.

If you check it directly, you will offend many gentry.

If it is handed over perfunctorily, His Majesty Long Yan will be furious and will also cut off his head.

Chen Qing came to Hanwen's duty room: "Brother Guandao, Your Majesty ordered Brother Yu to thoroughly investigate the population and cultivated land, if there is no increase......

The previous dynasty checked the fish scale atlas, all of which were perfunctory and very child's play.

The specific method is to use the data that has been thoroughly examined before, slightly modify, and present it to His Majesty.

Han Wen didn't dare to do this, and now the Metropolitan Procuratorate can find out everything.

"You check first, see the results, and then make a decision."

After receiving the decree of the ministry, Chen Qing made a decree to the thirteen roads, and ordered the household to thoroughly investigate the population and acres.

Liangxiang,

Zhang Xian received a letter from the household department to investigate the cultivated land in Liang Township.

"My lord, when we first apportioned the acres into the mu, we measured how much it was on the books, it was how much." The household clerk said.

"No, if Lord Yan wants to investigate, he must investigate thoroughly, and he must not be sloppy, do you want to go to the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

The cultivated land in Liangxiang is constantly increasing, and the shipbuilding has cut down big trees, and the wasted land is just used for arable land.

The merchant ships from Hainan have returned to Liangxiang.

Yan Chengjin stood at the dock with some excitement, and the officials moved baskets of grain down.

Xu Jinzhong actually planted so many peanuts?

Liu Jin left the peanut seeds in Liangxiang, there should not be more than half a boat.

When Yan Chengjin came, he was unprepared.

So much so that when I saw Peanuts, I was so surprised that I couldn't speak.

The oil eaten by the Ming Dynasty is mostly animal fat, and when the people sell pork, they want to choose more fat.

You can also fry some lard when you get home.

What's more, they eat hunting wolf oil, deer oil, and fish oil for cooking.

It was only during the Song Dynasty that vegetable oils such as sesame oil, soybean oil, and vegetable oil appeared.

However, these vegetable oils have a fatal drawback, and the amount of oil produced is extremely low.

Therefore, many people in the Ming Dynasty could not eat oil once for ten days and half a month. Especially when winter comes, there is no oily stomach, and it always feels like an empty stomach.

"Song Jing, tell him to make an oil extraction appliance for the official."

Zhang Xian hurriedly sent someone to Liangxiang Institute of Science.

Not long after, the official came to report: "Back to Lord Yan, Lord Song will come to Liangxiang, but Master Xiao Li is in Liangxiang." ”

Li Zhaofan stood not far away and looked at it, not daring to come over.

was very prosperous in Liangxiang, and Yan Chengjin beckoned to him.

"What does Master Yan want students to do?" Li Zhaofan walked over and asked.

Yan Chengjin pointed to more than a dozen boxes of peanuts and said, "Help this official make an oil press, and I want to fry five stones of peanut oil." ”

Li Zhaofan was stunned, and Zhang Xian was also stunned.

A hundred-pound pig can't scrape a few taels of lard.

One hundred catties of rapeseed can fry about three buckets of rapeseed oil.

Lord Yan actually asked it to squeeze out five stones of vegetable oil?

"Learn ...... Students try. ”

Li Zhaofan returned to the house with the drawings, and he wanted to go back to the capital to observe the stone mills and oil trenches of the oil mills in the capital.

Lying in the oil mill for a few days, from the workers to the frying, to the stone grinding, the cake and other processes, all recorded.

"Peanuts should be the same thing."

He drew paper on the sketch and made the trench an inch larger so that he could put more peanuts and squeeze out a lot of oil at a time.

The painting was fascinating, but he didn't realize that Li Dongyang was already standing next to him.

"What is this?! As a father, I thought you were reading the books of the sages, but you were not doing your job! ”

"Father, Child......"

Li Zhaofan felt that he was different from Li Zhaoxian, he was not born by his own child, and he always had awe in his heart.

Li Dongyang's sharp gaze penetrated his thoughts, and he said angrily: "Yan Chengjin, that guy asked you to paint?" ”

Li Zhaofan didn't dare to lie, and hesitated: "Yes, but Lord Yan is dedicated to the people of the world." ”

"If the child makes it, he can squeeze out five oils."

Five oil?

"What can squeeze five oils out of one go?"

"Peanuts."

Where did the peanuts come from? Li Dongyang has never heard of it.

He didn't bother to argue: "Zhaofan, since your father passed away, my father has always regarded you as his own. ”

"The child knows, but the child is still ......"

Li Dongyang walked out of the study with a disappointed face.