There is a potato pavilion in Fuzhou, which was built by Fujian to commemorate Chen Zhenlong, an overseas Chinese who introduced and promoted sweet potatoes, and Jin Xuezeng, the former governor of Fujian.

In the 22nd year of Wanli, there was a drought in Fujian, and the people had no food to eat, and Chen Zhenlong, a Han man who had emigrated to Luzon, returned with sweet potato vine seeds. Chan calls this sweet potato a high-yielding crop that can be grown anywhere. At that time, Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, was ordered to try the seeds in the Nantai Shamao Pond in Fuzhou, and the successful results were as Chen Zhenlong said, with high yields and stomachs. Jin Xuezeng ordered the cultivation of sweet potatoes to be vigorously promoted in various parts of Fujian to survive the famine.

This move saved hundreds of thousands of hungry people, and the people who survived the disaster built this first potato pavilion for Governor Jin and Chen Zhenlong, hoping that God would bless the two of them with a long life. Unfortunately, Jin and Chen did not live long, Jin Xuezeng died of illness in the 35th year of Wanli, and Chen Zhenlong also died of old age in the 41st year of Wanli.

But although the two died, the grace of the people of Fujian will always be remembered by the world, and the people who come to the Xianshu Pavilion to worship every year are endless. On this day, Huang Chengxuan, the new governor of Fujian who had not been in office for a month, went to Xianshu Pavilion to pay respects with relevant officials of Fujian Province.

After the incense, Huang Chengxuan felt the kindness of his predecessor and sat under the pavilion with the entourage officials for a while. There is a small road under the Taoist Potato Pavilion, and the two stones stand on both sides of the road, which seems to be like the gate of heaven. It is also said that a stone in the gate of heaven is very similar to a whale, called "whale stone". There is a "giraffe banyan" planted at the beginning of the country on the side of the stone, now it is born on the rock, the roots are thick and the leaves are luxuriant, just like the giraffe looking forward to the south sky, it is really a great scene in Fuzhou.

"The pavilion is beautiful because of the scenery, and the scenery is named because of the pavilion."

Huang Chengxuan said with emotion, he is a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and in the fourteenth year of Wanli, he was 19 years later than Jin Xuezeng, who was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing, and it can be said that he was separated by a generation. But thinking of Jin Xuezeng's efforts to govern Fujian, he was impressed.

"During the reign of Lord Jin in Fujian, the military achievements were impressive, and the battles of Panasonic, Wuqiu, Yuyu, Tongshan, Penghu, Nanao, and Ganshan all made the Japanese and Xiyi frightened, so that the Japanese people in Fujian were completely wiped out for a hundred years. Later, he ordered sweet potatoes, so that the people of Fujian no longer had the disaster of famine, it can really be described as a living Bodhisattva, this potato pavilion is called the pavilion, but in the eyes of the lower officials, it is a shrine! Fujian Buzheng Dong Daxun said sincerely.

When Jin Xuezeng was appointed governor of Fujian, the Zhejiang and Fujian regions were deeply troubled by the Japanese invaders, and Jin Xuezeng summarized the law of the Japanese invaders through investigation and analysis, and built a gate to curb their offensive. As soon as the Japanese arrived, they immediately ordered to block the attack, so that they could not gather and join forces, and because of the proper command, they successively won several great victories against the Japanese, and finally calmed the Fujian Haijiang.

Later Jin proposed to the imperial court to garrison Penghu and re-establish the Penghu Inspection Division, which won the naval battle against the Dutch gunboats and curbed the Dutch East India Company's ambitions to invade China. At that time, the leader of the troops against the Dutch ships was Shi Dezheng, who was the admiral of the Fujian Navy Division at the time and is now the chief military officer of Zhejiang.

It can be said that Fujian can have the current peace thanks to Jin Xuezeng's "martial arts", but what makes Dong Daxun's memory more profound is the promotion of sweet potatoes.

Fujian's topography is special, there are eight mountains, one water and one field, ninety percent of the land is mountainous and hilly, and the grain output is extremely limited. Therefore, the people of Fujian are very poor, and when a natural disaster occurs, it is a famine year, and if the government does not provide timely relief, it is common for people to starve to death. However, since the popularization of sweet potatoes, even if the whole province of Fujian encounters natural disasters again, the people can also rely on sweet potatoes to eat their stomachs, so that no one will starve to death, let alone have hungry people to make trouble, which is a great good thing for Fujian officials.

There is no accident under the rule, the official assessment is from the middle to the top, and the promotion is easy, carefully speaking, the current officials in Fujian Province are really stained with the light of Jin Xuezeng.

"Zhongcheng can know that the people of Fujian are more meritorious than Shennong." Fujian's right-hand political participation Wan Ji'an also said on the side.

Huang Chengxuan nodded, the breakfast used before coming to this first potato pavilion today is the two sweet potatoes to eat, which are very good, and they can indeed fill their stomachs at a critical time.

But he pondered for a moment, but he got up and looked at the "Heavenly Gate" with his hands down, shook his head and said: "Although sweet potatoes are good, they are easy to turn yellow after eating for a long time, like vegetables, people are weak and spiritless, how can they be called people?" ”

This remark made a number of officials look at each other.

Huang Chengxuan looked at everyone's expressions, but he didn't care, and continued: "Lord Jin introduced and promoted sweet potatoes that day, but it was an expedient measure, so that the high-yield things would temporarily fill the stomachs of the people and prevent people from dying. But we can't take it as a common practice and encourage people to use it as a staple food! Let's ask, how can sweet potatoes be the staple food? The first food was full, but the stomach was empty after a few days. Farm work is powerless, and there is no power to go out, like a person waiting to die. If something happens to the country, how can a powerless person defend the country? ”

"This..."

Dong Daxun was speechless, and felt in his heart that this Lord Huang was really nerdy. The people, but if they can eat their stomachs and not make trouble, they don't care if their face is yellow or not, and whether they have the strength or not. In addition, even if there are no natural disasters in places like Fujian, there is not enough arable land to grow rice, and sweet potatoes are not promoted, and in the end, the affected people will not starve.

"I waited for the food to be an official, but I wanted to make the people have fish and meat, and rice for dinner, and it was good to be strong and spiritual, but I couldn't really make the people eat the sweet potatoes, so I thought it was a merit." Huang Chengxuan said to himself.

"What Zhongcheng said is very true."

The officials said this, but none of them took the words of the new governor to heart. Huang Chengxuan also felt it, and also knew that the promotion of sweet potatoes in Fujian had been reported to the imperial court as a great achievement, and it was not in line with the reality to stop it himself, after all, the situation in Fujian was special. But he really didn't want to see that everyone in the people was yellow and hungry, but the government regarded not starving to death as a success.

After returning to the Yamen, the governor from the Zhejiang Party, submitted a book to the imperial court. In the middle of the sparseness, Huang Chengxuan wrote that most of the Penghu guerrillas were cut off, and the remaining soldiers were too weak to defend, so they had to choose elite soldiers and more than 1,000 miscellaneous people to fill them...... Those who guard the land are often afraid of the way, and go after the flood, return from the flood first, and even use the tide as an excuse to steal others. There is a name for keeping, and there is no truth for keeping. ”

Huang Chengxuan held that it is necessary to strengthen the Penghu Inspection Office, and when necessary, it is necessary to set up a staff general there to take charge of it, send more strong soldiers, increase the number of water battalions, and train officers and men in rotation, so that they will not be stationed for a long time, so that no long-term officers and men will be stationed there because they have no return across the sea and secretly abandon the camp and escape.

Huang also proposed that in view of the fact that Fujian was really poor and the people did not have many ways out, it was necessary to send troops to the chicken coop (Taiwan) to drive out the pirates and Xiyi pirates, on the one hand, to migrate the Han people from Fujian to reclaim the chicken coops, and on the other hand, to educate the local aborigines, so that the chicken coops could become a way out of life for the Fujian people. The climate of the chicken coop is suitable, as long as the imperial court adheres to this policy, it will not take decades, only about 20 years, and the chicken coop will definitely be fertile for thousands of miles.

After this sparseness, Huang Chengxuan summoned Hou An, the commander of the Fujian Navy, to come to Fu Ya, and after meeting, he asked Hou Anzhi: "Can the Fujian soldiers still fight?" ”

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