Guo Zhiyuan also knew that Chen Zhenlong was actually refusing to work for himself in disguise, thinking that this time he was reported and was imprisoned, which was also a big blow, and he no longer had the ambition to risk death to bring sweet potatoes to China from under the noses of the Spaniards, so he looked so old.

Since Chen Zhenlong was unwilling to work for himself, although Guo Zhiyuan was a little disappointed, he was not reluctant, and said with a smile: "It's the official who is abrupt......"

At this time, Chen Jinglun, who had not spoken, suddenly stood up and said to Guo Zhiyuan: "I am willing to find these two things for adults!" It was he who took the initiative to offer sweet potatoes to Jin Xuezeng, Jin Xuezeng only knew the existence of sweet potatoes, in order to be able to climb the big tree of Jin Xuezeng, but later Jin Xuezeng went to work, and he had no backer, and now he saw Guo Zhiyuan attaching so much importance to sweet potato planting, he realized that the opportunity had come again, Guo Zhiyuan was so young that he could become a county magistrate, and the future must be promising, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to find corn and potatoes for Guo Zhiyuan.

Guo Zhiyuan was naturally overjoyed, this Chen Jinglun also went to sea with Chen Zhenlong to do business in Luzon, and the way is naturally familiar, and he is in the prime of life, and he is afraid that he will only help him more than Chen Zhenlong, so he hurriedly gave Chen Jinglun a thumbs up and said: "Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog!" If Brother Chen can find these two things, it will also be a great contribution to my Daming Sheji, and this official will ask for credit for Brother Chen! ……”

Chen Jinglun was even more excited when he heard this, and Guo Zhiyuan called him Brother Chen, which also made him feel that Guo Zhiyuan was indeed a corporal Lixian, full of sincerity, and suddenly there was an urge in his heart to die for his confidant, and he clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "I will definitely live up to the trust of adults!" ”

Chen Zhenlong glared at Chen Jinglun, his son's thoughts were naturally clear to him, but he was very disappointed in the government now, in fact, he didn't want Chen Jinglun to have too much to do with the people in the government, but his son's words had already been spoken, and it was too late for him to oppose it, and Guo Zhiyuan spent so much effort to save him from prison, he didn't have anything in return and really couldn't say it, so he forced a smile and said: "It's also his blessing that the dog can serve the adult, and the grass people are also willing to stay and promote the meager effect of sweet potato planting for the adult......"

Guo Zhiyuan was even more happy, with the help of Chen Zhenlong, the "father of sweet potatoes", Xu Guangqi could be liberated, and hurriedly asked Wang Xi to call Xu Guangqi, Xu Guangqi during this period of time, in addition to going to the school to teach, some other official duties were all handed over to Baidu, and he devoted himself to sweet potato planting, because he knew too well how important sweet potato planting was to this era, when Wang Xi went to call him, he was observing the development of sweet potato seedlings, and heard that Guo Zhiyuan was in a hurry to find him, so he came back in a hurry, The clothes were also covered with mud.

When Xu Guangqi came, Guo Zhiyuan introduced Chen Zhenlong to each other, and heard that Chen Zhenlong was the first person to introduce sweet potatoes to China, and he was also excited, although he was a strong advocate of sweet potato planting in the time and space that Guo Zhiyuan did not cross, and summarized a large number of experience in promoting sweet potato planting recorded in his "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", but these experiences did not fall from the sky, but slowly groped and summarized, in this time and space he also needs to explore, with Chen Zhenlong's help he can take many detours, grabbed Chen Zhenlong tightly and said, "Great! There are a lot of puzzles to ask in Xiazheng, why don't you ask Chen Lao to go to the field with you to see the sweet potato seedlings that have just grown?! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was also very moved to see Xu Guangqi forgetting to sleep and eat so much, and said with a smile: "These days are really hard sir, sir, don't be in a hurry, Mr. Chen and Brother Chen came from afar, the boat and car are tiring, the official should set up a banquet and entertain, so please ask Mr. to accompany him, and the matter of planting sweet potatoes will be mentioned later, okay?" ……”

Xu Guangqi also realized that he was a little too abrupt, patted the dirt on his clothes, and laughed: "If Childe didn't say it, I almost forgot that I hadn't eaten today!" ……”

During the meal, Xu Guangqi forgot Guo Zhiyuan's reminder again, and kept pulling Chen Zhenlong to ask for experience in planting sweet potatoes, and Guo Zhiyuan could only smile bitterly and shake his head. After eating, Guo Zhiyuan went with them to the mountainous land reclaimed by the New Army to see the experimental field for planting sweet potatoes, at this time the sweet potatoes have grown seedlings, the green is very good-looking, Guo Zhiyuan's mood is also excited, with these sweet potato seedlings, he will soon be able to promote sweet potato planting on a large scale in Gutian, and the problem of lack of grain in Gutian can be solved soon!

Chen Zhenlong, as the "father of sweet potatoes", has rich experience, looked at the sweet potato seedlings in the field and nodded: "The sweet potato seedlings in this field are growing well, and they will soon be able to be planted separately!" ......", and then he pointed to some places in the ground where the sweet potato seedlings grew sparsely and began to introduce what caused this situation, Xu Guangqi also quickly took out a pen and paper and began to record, these are valuable experiences, with these valuable experiences, Gutian's sweet potato planting can avoid many detours, and the yield will increase greatly.

With Chen Zhenlong's help, the sweet potato seedlings in the experimental field can soon be divided into seedlings, Guo Zhiyuan also officially issued a notice to the county, to promote sweet potato planting in the county, sweet potato seedlings provided by the county government, the people only need to go to the chief or directly to the county government according to the household registration can be received, but every time you receive a sweet potato seedling, when the harvest is to hand over a sweet potato seed to the county government, it is not that Guo Zhiyuan does not want to provide sweet potato seedlings to the people for free, but only in this way can he be able to spread out sweet potato planting in a large area of the county in the shortest possible time, otherwise the people will not keep the seeds, what will be planted in the next season? And people have a kind of psychology, for the free things will not be too cherished, only a little pressure on the people, the people will be interested in sweet potato planting, sweet potato planting and promotion can be truly successful!

As soon as the notice was posted, it immediately set off an uproar in Gutian County, Chen Zhenlong introduced sweet potatoes into Fujian for some years, and Jin Xuezeng, the former governor of Fuzhou, also promoted sweet potato planting, and there were also ordinary people in other places who planted, so Gutian County naturally has people who know the existence of sweet potatoes, but most of these people who have heard of the existence of sweet potatoes are wealthy families who often go out, and most of the ordinary people have not even come out of Gutian County, so they naturally don't know what sweet potatoes are, so they can only inquire about these rich people who have heard of sweet potatoes.

But these wealthy families themselves are not worried about food and clothing, and sweet potatoes have the disadvantage of being easy to fart when they eat them, so they naturally don't look down on them, and naturally they don't have any good evaluation of sweet potatoes, and even sneer at Guo Zhiyuan's decree to promote sweet potato planting, can that thing be eaten? Won't eating and farting every day smoke people to death? Only fools plant!

(PS: The difficulty of sweet potato planting and promotion may be difficult for modern readers to understand, I remember that when I was a child, I especially liked to eat sweet potatoes, especially roasted sweet potatoes, my mother told me that they could only eat sweet potatoes every day when there was a catastrophe, at that time they were not sensible, I also said that it was not good to eat sweet potatoes every day, now I understand, sweet potatoes as a staple food and we eat as snacks now is fundamentally different, I said at the time that the emperor asked the people why they don't eat minced meat as ignorance, I don't believe that everyone can try, only eat sweet potatoes every day, Eat for a month, I guarantee that you even want to die, so sweet potatoes were introduced to China in 1593, but the real realization of widespread planting in the country will not be until the Kangxi Qianlong period, it can be said that the so-called Kangqian prosperous era, sweet potatoes are indispensable! ）