King De ......

What else can the king do?

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty trembled under the coercion of this traitorous minister, how could he, a small vassal king who couldn't even provoke the imperial history, resist?

Since you can't resist, just enjoy it!

Besides, Yang Xin didn't completely bully him, at least Yang Dudu promised that after the autumn harvest, all the sweet potatoes rented by his family could be sold to the Yang family, but they had to be dried into dried sweet potatoes, and he also had to buy a batch of pushers from the Yang family that were specially used for dried sweet potatoes.

In fact, it can be made.

But the cost must be very high, and it is easy to break, because Yang Xin can't provide it with something to stabilize the shaft, at least not cheap, the bearing will definitely not be made, and the steel ball is also difficult, the simple is the copper sleeve, but the copper is very expensive. And the whole is cast iron itself is not cheap, ordinary people at this time iron farm tools may not be a full set, not to mention a dozens of pounds of iron lump, so in addition to the knife is almost all wooden push, the most simple and easy to promote.

As for the final purchase price......

King De is already very ignorant if he doesn't give him gifts, do you still want to get a handful from Yang Dudu? Feel free to give it to him! He gave too much, and the king was still afraid!

That's it.

Immediately afterwards, the Yang family's sweet potato seeds were sent to Jinan.

It's a little later, but it's not too late, and some of the farmland that was supposed to be planted with winter wheat can use sweet potato seedlings that are transported directly from outside, and those who don't grow winter wheat don't care, as long as they are harvested before the winter frost arrives. In fact, the conditions in the south are good, and there are sweet potatoes that overwinter directly, for example, in Liangguang, you can plant another season after the double cropping rice, but it is impossible in the north, that is, plant one season after the wheat harvest.

I have to say this stuff is so good.

The real sweet potato prosperity of the Ming Dynasty kicked off.

Although there have been many kinds before, it is mainly the Yang family's own Shangtun, plus the sporadically coaxing those gentry to plant a small amount before, and some farmers who have seen the benefits of this thing also plant a small amount themselves. But the real sense of large-scale planting, that is, starting from the Dewang Mansion, the Dewang has at least 2 million acres of land in his hands, although the official number is only a few thousand hectares, but the acres of farmland in these palaces in Shandong are large acres, more than 500 steps instead of the official 240 steps.

In fact, many of the northern areas are large acres.

There are even six or seven acres that are combined into one acre, mainly because the yield of the field is low, and the output of a few buckets is better to settle the account.

As for the planting, it is also from the Yang family, as for the drought, it doesn't matter, even if it doesn't rain, it's not a big deal, as long as you pick up water and water it when planting seedlings, as long as this thing can take root with a little water, it basically won't die of drought. When it slows down and grows normally, it will be completely immortal, and if the weeds don't die, it won't die, and the vines will be like umbrellas to reduce water evaporation around it.

All that remains is the high and low yields.

solved the planting of King De, and then Yang Xin ran to threaten King Lu, and by the way, he also went to his good friend to let his good friend also contribute, saying that he couldn't forget his good friend if he had any good things, but this time he didn't let his good friend pay for disaster relief, mainly because Yanzhou Mansion was also eaten up by locusts, and his good friend also suffered heavy losses this year. As for King Lu, of course, he is also very face-giving, at this time, no vassal king dares not to give face, last time King Chu has already set a good example, he would rather accompany Yang Xin with a smiling face in front of him to meet his rude requirements, and he can't make Yang Dudu angry......

Chu Fan is dead.

not only died, but also sent out the daughter-in-law who was in hand.

In this way, the king of Chu has endured it, he can endure such humiliation, what else can the king of Lu, the king of De, including the king of Heng, not bear?

The latter readily agreed.

Although King Heng's land in Qingzhou was not all affected, he still very simply promised that all the land destroyed by locusts would be planted with sweet potatoes, and the sweet potato seeds would be transported from Laizhou and other places nearby, and his conditions there would be more convenient than others. The main thing is that sweet potatoes are planted a lot in Denglai and Denglai, that is, the local people also have a lot of seeds, after all, they are poor in Shandong, so King Heng can directly prune the vines from these fields and insert them, and transport them from Laizhou to him, even if he pushes a cart, it will not take nine days.

It's perfect.

Friends still give Yang Dudu face very much, as soon as Yang Dudu opened his mouth, everyone supported him without hesitation, and Yang Dudu's face was still very big.

As for the curse behind their backs, this one should not exist.

"This Da Ming, many disasters and difficulties!"

Yang Dudu, who had been providing disaster relief until June, looked at the official document in his hand and sighed.

This is nine thousand years old.

Another natural disaster befell the Ming Dynasty.

"June Flying Snow, what a grievance!"

He said to Gao Hongtu.

In this hot summer, it snowed heavily for three days in Yan'an Prefecture.

Drought in Hebei, drought in eastern Liaoning, locust plague in Shandong, and heavy snow in northern Shaanxi for three days in the middle of summer, needless to say, the crops are also frozen to death, and the main thing there is millet, which is in the middle of growth, and a heavy snow is basically dead. Before the natural disaster mode of the Ming Dynasty was fully opened, it had already begun to be paved in various ways as frequently as those disaster blockbusters, using various disasters to inform people that they were ready to face an impending catastrophe and prepare to bear the truly devastating natural disasters.

"It's better not to make it public, right? so as not to affect the morale of the military. ”

Gao Hongtu said cautiously.

This news was urgent from the imperial court, but it may take two months for the people to spread it, and they have already arrived in Jiangnan by then, so they don't have to worry about the instability of the army.

"Why?"

Yang Xin said.

"Go, call Luo Rucai."

He went on to say.

The guards outside hurried out to give orders.

Soon Luo Ru came in.

"Are you literate?"

Yang Xin said.

"Back to the governor, I have learned some in the officer training class, and I can probably recognize a thousand words."

Luo Rucai hurriedly said.

"Then let's see!"

Yang Xin handed him the official document.

Luo Rucai was dumbfounded, and then squatted on the ground with his head in his arms with a wail, of course he knew very well what it meant to have three days of heavy snow in this season, although he was single, but it was impossible for his hometown to have no relatives, and his parents were indeed gone, but there would always be a few brothers and sisters, and there were also close branches of the clan, which meant that all hope for these people was gone this year.

"You go down now to prepare, I will write to Madame, you go to Xincheng to find Madame, she will arrange for someone to follow you back to Yan'an, after you get there, let all the brothers' families first advance a year's military salary from Shoucheng Qianzhuang, and Shangtun in several other places in Shaanxi will send part of the hoarded grain to Yan'an, and you are responsible for giving these brothers two stones to their families, which I will give to your brothers."

Yang Xin said.

Luo Rucai hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed in thanks.

"Governor, this matter ......"

He said cautiously with the official document.

"Go out and tell them, and tell them my decision."

Yang Xin waved his hand and said.

This year is not serious, after all, because those donkey camel teams continue to travel back and forth between the capital and Yan'an, the people there have made some money over the years, and sweet potatoes have also been promoted to a certain extent, this thing is not bad in the ground, although it snows this season, it basically melts on the ground, even if there is snow because the ground is warm, it is difficult to freeze the sweet potatoes that have begun to grow underground. They are all spring potatoes there, one season a year, and they have already been planted at this time, and as long as the bottom does not die, they will soon regrow seedlings, so there is no pressure on Yan'an to bear this year.

He's just pure grace.

At the same time, this natural disaster is enough for the people of Yan'an to realize the importance of sweet potatoes.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Yang Xin said to Gao Hongtu.

"The lower officials are ignorant, I really can't guess the Hejian Hou, at least so far, the only thing the lower officials see in the Hejian Hou is the selflessness of the duke, who loves the people like a son, and even the lower officials can say that there is no second person in the Ming Dynasty who is as civil and military as the Hejian Hou, but ......"

Gao Hongtu wanted to speak and stopped.

"But I am corrupt and pervert the law, frame me, persecute the loyal and good, poison the gentry, it is simply heinous, and at this moment you feel that everything in me seems to be a contradiction? Since I'm a bad person, I should look like a bad person, right? ”

Yang Xin said.

"Well, Xia Guan has never thought of it that way."

Gao Hongtu said insincerely.

"I am very good at making money, but I don't care about the silver, the silver in the cellar is worthless to me, I never even touch those things, and I can spend it when I need to spend it. It is true that I often frame and persecute loyalty, and it seems that the evaluation criteria between us are different, they are just what you think is loyalty, but in my opinion they are just a group of moths that eat away at the country.

I'm just cleaning up these moths for Daming.

It doesn't matter what the means are, it's a medicine that is poisonous, and as long as it can cure the disease, it's a good medicine.

As for the poisonous gentry, it is true that I like to toss the gentry very much, and all the gentry in the world hate me to the core, but what does it matter?

Your Majesty's country is stronger than before.

It's just that the life of the common people is better than before.

Your Majesty's army will be able to win battles, and in the event of famine there will be relief with silver, and more people will be able to have enough food and clothing.

That's fine. ”

Yang Xin looked outside and said.

By this time the soldiers who had received the news had already appeared outside, kneeling down in front of the door and bowing to him, thanking their commanders for all that they had done for their loved ones.

"Let's go, let's continue south!"

Looking at this scene, Yang Xin sighed and said.

Unbeknownst to these people, the havoc in their homeland had only just begun.

However, it is indeed time for him to go south, the situation here has stabilized, not only the locusts have been purchased by him, but even the sweet potatoes in the three palaces have grown vigorously.

Of course, the Yang family took in a million taels.

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