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Zhu Siqing wants to be quickly promoted to the commander of the capital, the biggest difficulty is that his qualifications are not enough, last year he was still a guard commander who had served as a battalion commander next to Yang Wu, and he was promoted to a commander in just one year, which is fast enough.

However, seniority takes time to boil, Yang Wu can't wait that long now, he plans to complete the reorganization of the army before this year, and if he wants to get enough benefits for his trusted generals in the process of army reorganization, then he must try to promote their ranks before the reorganization. And since it's too late to boil the qualifications, it can only be made up by merit.

After chatting with Yang Xingmi for a while, Yang Wu said goodbye and left.

As soon as he got out of the study, he saw Fan Yu coming over with a happy face and said, "His Royal Highness, there is good news!" ”

Fan Yu has stayed by Yang Xingmi's side since he became the commander of the long sword capital in charge of the entire Huainan intelligence, but in his eyes, Yang Wu is still closer.

"Oh, I wonder what good news it is?" Yang Wu slowly walked back to his yard, and said to Fan Yu as he walked.

"Didn't His Highness ask his subordinates to send people to Fujian to find Champa rice at the beginning of the year? Now the man who sent it has returned! ”

"What? Already back? Have you ever found the Champa rice I mentioned? Yang Wu was overjoyed and hurriedly asked.

"Yes, it's been found, and a lot of seeds have been brought back this time."

China has been a big agricultural country since ancient times, and the words of "agriculture is the foundation, business is the end" have also been regarded as the most reasonable by the rulers of successive dynasties, even if the Song Dynasty claimed how the business was developed, but the development of agriculture was still put in the first place.

The reason why the land south of the Yangtze River became the most prosperous area in the world after the Song Dynasty is inseparable from the rapid development of agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, the promotion of Champa rice has played an important role in the development of Jiangnan.

Champa rice is a high-yielding, early-maturing, drought-tolerant rice variety produced in the Indochina Peninsula, named after its place of origin, located in the south-central part of present-day Vietnam, also known as Zao He or Champa He, which belongs to early indica rice.

Champa rice has many characteristics, one is "drought tolerance". The second is strong adaptability, "born regardless of location". Third, the growth period is short, only more than 50 days from planting to harvesting.

A hundred years after the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, in 1011, Song Zhenzong sent an envoy to Fujian to take Zhancheng rice due to drought and lack of water in the Jianghuai and Zhejiang regions, as many as 30,000 Hu, which were popularized in the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and the two Zhejiang regions, which greatly improved the crop yield.

Since then, rice has truly become the main food crop in China.

The yield of this crop is very high, and the seeds sown by farmers can usually harvest about twenty times as much rice. This is obviously very impressive compared to the yield of wheat that is four times that of seeds. Coupled with the warm and humid climate in the south of the Yangtze River basin, two or even three crops can be planted a year, which means that the same area of land can be planted with several times more rice than wheat.

If this kind of Zhancheng rice can be promoted in Huainan first, so that Huainan's grain output can be greatly improved, maybe it will not encounter the situation that Yang Xingmi said before that the Guangling granary is almost empty.

So at the beginning of the year, Yang Wu asked Fan Yu to send someone to Fujian to look for rice seeds, and told him that if he couldn't find it in Fujian, he must find it even if he found Zhancheng. I didn't expect to really find it in Fujian.

"How many seeds did you bring back?" Yang Wu hurriedly asked.

"That's right, although the people sent by his subordinates found Champa rice in Fujian, there are not many people who plant it locally, and the seeds that can be provided are less than 100 catties, and now they have been shipped back. However, there were too few seeds, so our people decided to go to Zhancheng to buy rice seeds through a merchant we knew in Quanzhou who often visited Champa City. ”

"Oh!" Yang Wu was a little disappointed, but this result is normal, in history, Song Zhenzong was able to obtain 30,000 rice seeds in Fujian at one time, that is because Zhancheng rice has been transmitted to Fujian for more than 100 years, and the planting area is much larger than today.

However, the large-scale promotion of Champong rice is not a trivial matter, farmers have long been accustomed to planting the original native rice varieties, and suddenly change to other rice varieties. Even if Yang Wu is the queen of Huainan Jiedu and the son of King Wu, there will definitely be great controversy in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion to forcibly promote such an important matter.

Now that 100 catties of rice seeds have arrived, they can be planted first, and the main officials of Huainan can be persuaded with facts to get them to agree to their plan.

Of course, to try to plant and even promote Champa rice, Yang Wu naturally did not have the time to do it himself, so he had to find a person who was interested in this and had a certain prestige in Huainan to do it. And this person Yang Wu also thought of it, that is the secretary Gao Mian.

Gao Mian has always attached great importance to the development of agriculture, and when Yang Xingmi had just pacified Huainan, he repeatedly suggested that Yang Xingmi persuade him to teach agriculture. Moreover, he has served as the secretary for many years, as Yang Xingmi's confidant and strategist, he has a deep prestige in Huainan, and is an excellent candidate for promoting Zhancheng rice.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu regained his spirits and hurriedly pulled Fan Yu and said, "Go, follow me to Secretary Gao!" ”

Gao Mian was working in a room not far from the study, just entered, only to see that there were more than ten small officials in the room busy before and after, Gao Mian himself was also very busy, from time to time to those small officials commanded.

Seeing Yang Wu coming in, Gao Mian hurriedly got up and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is here, the old man has missed the distance, forgive the sins!" ”

"What's the matter, but I disturbed Secretary Gao's office. Is Secretary Gao busy now? I have an important matter to discuss with my husband right now. Yang Wu nodded and smiled.

Gao Mian hesitated slightly, and said: "There is still an important official business that needs to be dealt with in time, and it cannot be delayed, if His Royal Highness is not in a hurry, how about asking His Highness to wait for a while?" ”

Yang Wu was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that Fan Yu next to him seemed to be angry, he hurriedly gave him a look to stop him, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then Secretary Gao is busy first, and my affairs are not in a hurry, so I will wait for Secretary Gao next door first." ”

Back in the next room, Fan Yu said with some dissatisfaction: "Your Highness, this senior secretary is too unkind, right?" Relying on himself to be the king's confidant, and his seniority is old, even His Royal Highness dares to be so lazy. ”

Yang Wu shook his head and smiled: "It's not slack, things have priorities, Secretary Gao is in charge of various specific affairs of the Jiedu Embassy, presumably there is really something urgent that can't be delayed." ”

He could see that Gao Mian really didn't mean to snub him, and he was humble and polite, in the past, when Yang Wu was just a child, Gao Mian never neglected him, and it is impossible to say that now Yang Wu has been canonized as the queen of the festival and has neglected him.