Chapter Ninety-Six: The Summer of the Sixth Year of the Yongli Calendar (Part II)
Like mulberry fish ponds, rice and fish farming was nothing new in ancient China. Pests, weeds and shed rice grains in the field can be used as fish food, fish manure is used to fertilize the rice paddies directly, and fish swimming can promote the decomposition of fertilizer. Compared with the simple cultivation of rice, the yield of the rice field where the fish is raised is at least 10% higher, and the fish raised will also have a special rice aroma.
If the mulberry fish pond is a mutual benefit of the three types of agricultural production, then rice and fish farming is the optimization of rice cultivation and fish farming. And what people have to do is nothing more than the same as fish farming, but the rice fields also play the role of fish ponds.
"That's a great idea!"
Hearing this, Chen Kai couldn't help but praise the wisdom of his ancestors, and immediately turned to Wang Jiang and asked, "Is there anything to pay attention to?" ”
"There are indeed some things that need to be paid attention to, and the lower officials think that if it is popularized, it can be piloted first, and then promoted, so as not to cause public resentment."
This is a good thing, but a good thing also has to be done in a way and in a good way. Of course, Chen Kai understood this truth, and immediately learned from Wang Jiang in detail about some precautions for fish farming in rice fields, and said that Wang Jiang would write a letter of content.
On the way back from Hangzhou, Chen Kai and Wang Jiang did not communicate much in this regard, mainly because he was originally an official of Lu Jianguo, and he hastily rescued him from Hangzhou City, and uneasiness was inevitable, so there was no need to rush for a while. Today, it seems that this person is not an agricultural expert, but he has a more detailed understanding and understanding of many things in agriculture. As for other talents, they have yet to be discovered, but they are still secretly praised in their hearts after earning a sentence.
After talking for a long time, when it was time to eat, Chen Kai simply pulled Wang Jiang to eat together. While eating, Chen Kai suddenly remembered something, and simply asked Wang Jiang directly: "Uncle, what do you think if this thing is encouraged to be planted?" ”
Chen Kai was referring to a piece of sweet potato. Wang Jiang looked at the sweet potato, and without thinking much, he replied to Chen Kai: "This thing, the yield per mu is not inferior to rice." I think that Duke Xu Wending also went to the imperial court back then, and asked him to promote it throughout the country in the form of a government decree to alleviate the food shortage in the north, but he couldn't make it......"
Duke Xu Wending is Wang Jiang's honorific title for Xu Guangqi, which originates from Xu Guangqi's nickname Wending. Because Zeng Ying had compared him with Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi before his death, Chen Kai was no stranger to this nickname, but Xu Guangqi had done such a "traverser" thing, but he was still startled.
There is a lot of relationship, Wang Jiang is just a student, and he doesn't know much about it. Chen Kai didn't ask much, thinking about finding some people who had been officials in the court of the Chongzhen Dynasty in the future, so he put aside the question of why it was not realized back then, and instead consulted Wang Jiang about the pros and cons of promoting the cultivation of sweet potatoes.
"This matter, the lower officials still need time to investigate clearly before they can give Chen Daotai an answer."
In Zhejiang, there are not many sweet potato plantings, and the reason is that Zhejiang is not a province that was introduced in advance like Fujian and Guangdong, nor is it like Shanghai, where Xu Guangqi took the lead in promoting. Wang Jiang is not an agricultural expert, so it will take time, and Chen Kai agrees.
"In official business, you call me Chen Daotai, and I also call my eldest uncle by official titles. In private, there is no need to be like this, if you call me Jingcheng or Jinnan, I will call you eldest uncle, it's fine. ”
Wang Jiang was wooed by correcting the title, and Wang Jiang didn't twist much, so he responded. The meal was eaten quickly, and Chen Kai was very happy. After eating, Wang Jiang followed Chen Kai's train of thought to study sweet potatoes, and while Chen Kai was approving the documents, an unexpected but reasonable person soon came to ask for a meeting.
"Nope!"
It was Cai Cheng, the head of the military uniform manufacturing workshop under the former Ordnance Bureau, who had been investigated clearly in more than two months since the case began. This guy didn't have a big deal, so he dared to take advantage of it, the amount of rat whiskers embezzled was indeed not large, and in this era, it was probably an ordinary corrupt official's pocket money, but this sign must be suppressed, Zheng Chenggong fined the rat whiskers a sum of silver, pulled it down and whipped it, then dismissed from his post and rushed back to Nanao Island.
After a few months of closed-door thinking, seeing that Chen Kai's position in Chaozhou was constantly consolidated, he had a desire to put himself into action.
For this rat's beard, Chen Kai knows very well, he has no courage to be a corrupt official, that is, he is greedy for some small gains to improve some living conditions, and he has been in charge of such a department for a few years, but the amount of corruption has not even been pulled out by Zheng Chenggong's temperament, which can be seen.
However, the problem of corruption is a problem of nature, Chen Kai reminded him earlier, but he still can't curb the problem of being greedy and cheap. When Chen Kai returned to the Zhongzuo Institute, Zheng Chenggong mentioned this matter, and he was also very dissatisfied at that time. Even if it has been a long time, according to Chen Song's understanding, this matter may not be as simple as it seems, but he is still the same.
"Tell him to go back to Nanao Island and continue to think about the past behind closed doors!"
waved the subordinate away, and the subordinate directly returned the original words to the mouse whiskers. For eating closed-door soup, the rat whiskers have long been mentally prepared. In the final analysis, Chen Kai made it clear that he had expressed his attitude, and he also expressed his corrections. Now that it's time for this, I can't complain about others. But after hearing this, he didn't think about it at first, but when he got out of Chaozhou City and got on the boat, the mouse whiskers recalled this sentence again, but he seemed to see a glimmer of light.
The rat beard went back and thought about it behind closed doors, but Chen Kai's official business couldn't be handled. In this corruption case, the problem lies with Cai Cheng, but there is the impact of his temporary departure, especially in terms of people's hearts.
There is a saying that the tiger is not in the mountain, and the monkey is the king. For the division of his "political legacy", with the endorsement of Zheng Chenggong, Feng Chengshi was close to the water and controlled the most important Ordnance Bureau. And according to Chen Kai's understanding of all this after he came back, Feng Chengshi was also deliberately dissipating his influence on that composite military industrial enterprise.
This is understandable, if he takes over the Arms Bureau presided over by Feng Chengshi, he will also establish personal influence. Feng Chengshi did not look ugly in many things, such as recommending Lin Dexiao to enter Rongqi Town, such as revising the regulations, such as removing Lin Zhengzhong, the head craftsman of the Guarding and Armor Academy, and even secretly taking down Cai Cheng, which is nothing unusual. This person is one of the most important staff members of Zheng Chenggong's curtain in history, and it is normal for him to refuse to follow the rules like the Great Governor Chen Qi.
But the problem is that Feng Chengshi has already made a move, even if he did it when he was away, now that he is back, he still has to take care of the senses of those old departments. And now that Feng Chengshi has already stood up, it is indeed a question whether he will become the next challenger from within like Shi Lang, especially when Feng Chengshi's son is the Feng Xifan who is nicknamed Bloodless.
"Feng Chengshi, this person, you have to guard against it!"