After robbing Zheng Zhilong's family property, Li Zhi led the fleet back to Hsinchu and rested in Hsinchu City for two days. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it is the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is already the height of summer, and the day in Taiwan is very hot. Li Zhi hid in the "Jinguo Mansion" built by Zheng Hui during the day to rest, and casually flipped through a few ancient books. In the evening, Li Zhi took his guards out for a walk.

The sea breeze in Hsinchu is strong at night, blowing away the heat on land.

Zheng Hui knew that Li Zhi was going out, so he hurriedly rushed over from the general's mansion to accompany Li Zhi to inspect.

Li Zhi inspected the pig and sheep factories in Hsinchu, and proposed to visit the countryside.

Zheng Hui is a skilled manager, and the water conservancy facilities in Hsinchu are very well built. In addition to the irrigation of dragon tail carts, dams are also built in the countryside. After the dam raised the water level, Zheng Hui built a canal from the reservoir formed behind the dam to irrigate the land away from the riverbank.

Li Zhi rode a horse in the countryside, and as far as the eye could see, there were patches of rice fields everywhere, green in the moonlight.

At this time, the weather is hot, and the farmers hide from the scorching sun during the day and do not come out to work. At night, many farmers are hoeing in the fields, and there is a busy scene everywhere.

Li Zhixin took the reins and walked all the way east with his guards, and walked in front of a large crop with low stems and leaves. The plant sprouted leaves from the ridges, each half the size of a palm. That area, a radius of several miles, was planted with this kind of crop.

Li Zhi looked at it carefully and asked curiously, "Zheng Hui, is this a sweet potato?" ”

Zheng Hui replied: "Grandpa Guo is right, this is a sweet potato. The people of Hsinchu are relatively wealthy and want to eat meat. Pig farms consume a lot of pig food every day, and we encourage farmers to grow sweet potatoes in places that are not suitable for growing rice, and we have also planted hundreds of thousands of acres of sweet potatoes. ”

Li Zhi nodded.

Sweet potatoes are a crop that came from the New World. Unlike corn and potatoes, sweet potatoes were introduced to China and immediately adapted to China's soil and obtained a higher yield per mu. In Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, where there are many people, sweet potatoes even became the main food crop in the late Ming Dynasty, feeding many local people.

Taiwan's soil is similar to Fujian's, mostly red soil, which is also suitable for sweet potato production.

But when it came to the rich Jiangnan area, sweet potatoes were given a cold reception. After using a large amount of sweet potatoes, it will cause a series of discomforts such as bloating, which is not suitable as a staple food, and the price of sweet potatoes is very low. The people in Jiangnan planted rice and harvested well, but they were reluctant to plant sweet potatoes.

Further north, sweet potato production declined, and it was not as popular as it was in Fujian. Hong Chengchou once promoted high-yielding sweet potatoes in Shaanxi, but the result almost provoked a popular uprising.

However, sweet potatoes are inferior compared to rice and flour, and if they are in a famine, sweet potatoes can save lives.

Li Zhi introduced sweet potatoes in Tianjin a few years ago as a rotational plant for planting after the winter wheat harvest. Most of the harvested sweet potatoes are purchased by pig farms, which also increases farmers' incomes to a certain extent. Therefore, Li Zhi is very familiar with this crop.

Li Zhi looked at those sweet potatoes, thoughtfully, and asked, "Zheng Hui, how many catties of sweet potatoes are produced in Taiwan a year?" ”

Zheng Hui replied: "Grandpa Guo, Taiwan has plenty of sunshine and abundant rain, if it is properly managed, this mu of spring potatoes can produce 2,500 catties, and summer potatoes can produce 1,500 catties, a total of more than 4,000 catties a year per mu." ”

"If sweet potatoes are used as a staple food, this acre of sweet potato field can feed four adults, which is very impressive. It's just that eating too many sweet potatoes will make your stomach uncomfortable, and as long as there is rice to eat these years, no one wants to eat potatoes. ”

"Good stuff! Let the kitchen make sweet potato porridge for me to drink tomorrow morning! ”

Li Zhi sighed, said no more, turned the horse's head and rode elsewhere.

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In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it was already typhoon season, and fifty-three steamers were in a hurry to return to Tianjin to sell goods to Japan and return to Tianjin. Li Zhi was loaded with the silver he had stolen from the Zheng family and followed the fleet back to Tianjin.

When he returned to the port of Dagu in Tianjin, the first thing Li Zhi did was to give bonuses to the sailors, gunners and soldiers who participated in the battle. The fleet consisted of more than 2,000 sailors, nearly 6,000 gunners and 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division, each of whom was given a reward of fifteen taels of silver. Li Zhi rewarded nearly 300,000 taels of silver at once, which made the participants who returned triumphantly happy.

The casualties in this battle were minimal, with only a few dozen soldiers wounded. For the nearly 20,000 combatants, such a casualty ratio is very small and can be said to be risk-free. The artillerymen, soldiers and sailors took the silver and poured into the cities of Tianjin and Fanjiazhuang to spend, filling the restaurants and brothels of Tianjin.

After this war, Li Zhi became the hegemon of the East Asian seas. The soldiers have made great achievements and are worthy of the reward of fifteen taels of silver.

After returning to the General Soldier's Mansion, Li Zhi rested for a day and went to visit the soldiers who were wounded in this battle.

Huan Lide, one of the most casualties in the battle, was incapacitated by a shell from Zheng Jiafu's boat, which broke both of his right legs. Although Huan Lide's life was saved after the amputation by the medical team, Huan Lide was unable to work.

According to Li Zhi's rules, a wounded person like Huan Lide can get a disability allowance of 25 yuan per month, and he can also get a second-class warrior medal, and he has been treated preferentially everywhere in Tianjin since then. It can be said that although Huan Lide has been disabled since then, his good life will not be lost because of his disability, and he can still live a decent life with subsidies and medals.

Li Zhi took Zheng Kaicheng and his guards to Sanheng Street in Fanjiazhuang and walked to Huan Lide's house.

Seeing that Jin Guogong came to visit the wounded, the people of Sanheng Street were very excited, and they all crowded to the road to see Li Zhi. A few years ago, when Li Zhi lived in Fanjiazhuang, the citizens could often see the "big owner" Li Zhi. However, after Li Zhi entered the Tianjin Acropolis in recent years, the people couldn't see Li Zhi anymore. At this time, there was an opportunity, and the citizens gathered around to watch the excitement.

Seeing that the citizens missed him, Li Zhi nodded to the citizens on the horse. Unexpectedly, this point ignited the atmosphere of a street, and the happy people applauded loudly!

Li Zhi smiled, jumped off the horse and walked into Huan Lide's villa.

Huan Lide rents an entire villa. The daughter-in-law of the Huan family dragged a little daughter to wait at the door, and when she saw Li Zhi, she knelt down and kowtowed, and was quickly helped up by Li Zhi. Li Zhi walked into the room, walked to Huan Lide's bed, and said with a smile: "Huan Lide, is the wound still painful?" ”

Huan Lide nodded and said, "Returning to China, it still hurts, but it's fortunate that my life is saved." ”

Li Zhi nodded, took a silver second-class warrior medal from the guard behind him, put it on Huan Lide's chest, and said with a smile: "Okay, Huan Lide, although you will lose your legs in the future, you will also be my hero in Tianjin." Whether it's a court lawsuit or a daily matter, the whole Tianjin will take care of you. ”

Huan Lide nodded excitedly and said loudly, "Thank you, Grandpa Guo." ”

Li Zhi nodded and looked at the furnishings of the Huan family, wanting to see what the Huan family still lacked.

He suddenly smelled a strong odor and couldn't help asking, "Why is the room so stinky?" ”

Huan Lide's daughter-in-law blushed and said, "The door of the toilet may have been blown open by the wind, I'll close it!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly said that he had designed this toilet in a small villa, which also had advantages and disadvantages. Convenience is convenient, but the smell is also difficult to control. Li Zhi's original latrine was directly connected to the septic tank underground, and the smell was inevitable.

The originally serious scene of the award was disturbed by the smell of the latrine, which made people a little embarrassed.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "The living standards of the people of Fanjiazhuang can't be defeated by the smell of this toilet!" ”

Li Zhi patted Huan Lide's shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "Huan Lide, my father-in-law will go back to make a flush toilet, and make the first equipment for your home, so as to ensure that your home will never smell in the future." ”