"Some things can't be too rushed, you must first understand that the current prosperity of the Ming Dynasty is still very fragile.

We do have a good seed.

What is the planting area of the improved seeds?

The first batch of sweet potatoes was produced here the year before last, and the first batch of corn was produced last year, and you saw a good harvest of them, but you didn't see that they only account for a very small part of our current total grain production. They can indeed change our future, but that's a few years, a decade or even a few decades from now, at least in the short term, they won't change anything, and it will take a long time for them to be replicated to change our dependence on rice and wheat. This time may even be counted in a hundred years, and our generation may not really see them on the same acreage as rice and wheat.

Land reform can indeed solve everything.

But we also have to face the chaos brought about by land reform.

You have seen the land reform in Guangxi, and it is indeed very happy, but you must first understand that the land reform in Guangxi is only a corner of the land, and the chaos caused there was quickly resolved by us at the same time, and it is very small, and our power is enough to suppress it. You only saw the people of Nanning cheering after the land reform, but you didn't see that there were tens of thousands of troops behind them to protect them, and at the same time, there was the financial support of the imperial court. Even so, the landlords there revolted fiercely, and there were occasional cases of hired bandits killing of agrarian reformers, of the peasants who had been given land, and of our entire infantry corps, where there were almost daily battles of varying scales, even more than the real front. It is also common for them to deliberately wreak havoc in the economy, where food production has not increased but declined, at least for the time being, as a result of the land reform, but the grain we buy from Vietnam has solved this problem.

The people there don't feel it, and it's hard for you to see it.

Because you don't need to see it.

That's what I need to solve, not what you need to solve."

Yang Qing said earnestly.

Of course, the land reform in Guangxi could not go smoothly, and it was not uncommon for the gentry to hire bandits or even bandits in Vietnam to attack the land reform team and attack the villages, and it was difficult to say whether there were even wolf soldiers hired by Tusi.

The newly formed 18th Army had to launch a large-scale crackdown on bandits in order to ensure land reform.

Last year alone, more than 300 people were killed.

This even surpassed the buffer zone on the north bank of the Yellow River, where the Ming and Qing armies mainly hunted each other, and last year only killed more than 200 people, and they hunted nearly 1,000 Mongol cavalry. That is to say, in the process of land reform in Guangxi, the intensity of the fighting against bandits exceeded that of this actual main theater of war, although this was related to the special situation of Guangxi, but it was enough to prove the intensity of resistance of those gentry.

It's not just open resistance.

There was also the economic destruction of the gentry.

The exports of the second port of Qinlian shrank sharply, and the gentry of Guangxi would rather go to Guangzhou via the Xijiang River than go to these two ports, and even colluded with Vietnamese pirates to attack ships sailing to the two ports, and the Nanyang naval division had to patrol and escort the Beibu Gulf. Because bandits attacked and even burned villages and crops, the two prefectures of Nanning and Lianzhou not only did not increase grain production due to land reform last year, but actually reduced their output to a certain extent, especially the workers in the cities who lost their jobs because of the shrinking exports, and had to buy grain from Vietnam to provide relief. But these problems were covered up by the cheers of land reform, even the local people ignored these in the happiness of land reform, and the poor people on the south side of the Yangtze River only saw the benefits of land reform, and they could not see these problems that Yang Qing quickly solved with his strong strength.

However, Yang Qing was able to solve the chaos caused by the land reform in Nanning and Lianzhou, but he was unable to solve the chaos caused by the land reform in the entire south of the Yangtze River.

So he had to suppress the enthusiasm of the younger generation.

Enthusiasm is good, but enthusiasm or too much enthusiasm at the right time is not good, and this kind of thing must be done slowly, not just by enthusiasm. If the previous fight with the gentry can still be maintained without breaking, this is the real all-round ignition of the war, Yang Qing does not have the strength of Taizu, he must first weaken the land gentry by various means, and try to lead those sober-minded people to industry and commerce. Increasing the number of imperial estates trapped, trapping the stubborn landed gentry, while at the same time constantly cultivating their own cadre ranks until they are ready, and then solve the problem at the least cost.

However, he was satisfied with the student's performance.

This is the real new youth.

"Your inspection is over, and I am the first student to really graduate, first go back to Beijing to be an administrator in the library, if you are willing to take the imperial examination, you can sign up, if you don't want to, just wait for me to go back and see if there is a suitable job for you!"

He went on to say.

"Thank you for your teachings!"

The student didn't talk nonsense, bowed to him and left, packed his bags and went back to Nanjing to report to the college's library.

As for Yang Qing......

He accompanied Princess Kunxing to Huangshan.

At this time, a boatload of silver coins still traveled north along the canal and the Yellow River to Luoyang, and under the joint reception of Zhu Yujian and Gu Junen, boxes were carried to the wharf, and then loaded onto four-wheeled carriages and transported along the ancient road to Shaanzhou, and then reloaded and transported to Chang'an, where they were checked and loaded into Li Zicheng's silver treasury.

They won't stay in the vault for long.

Although the gentry in Jiangnan took out this silver very painfully, in fact, they all knew very well that it would not take long for the silver to return to their hands, which said that they were blackmailed by Li Zicheng, but in fact, it was not really a loss for Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Money has to be circulated, and if it doesn't, it's meaningless.

If it weren't for the fifteen million blood supplements, Li Zicheng's purchasing power would definitely continue to decline in the future, after all, the vast majority of the silver he had stolen from his house had been spent by now. If he is short of money and cannot continue to purchase on a large scale, then the grain sold by the gentry in Jiangnan will have to be reduced in price, and it may even be overstocked and cannot be sold, such as cotton cloth and the like. Li Zicheng's population of more than 5 million is still the largest market for cotton cloth in Jiangnan, and if Li Zicheng's purchasing power declines, those textile factories will be very uncomfortable, but with this 15 million blood supplement, his demand there will not decline for at least three years.

As for the decline after three years, it doesn't matter.

Because three years later, with the significant increase in the number of seagoing vessels, it was already possible to transport more cotton cloth to Nanyang and the Wa Kingdom, and Li Zicheng was not the largest market at that time.

The gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang know it in their hearts.

The loss of this huge sum of money is only superficial, but in reality it will not only bring losses, but will bring benefits to the new industrial and commercial capitalists. The land controllers did not lose much, because Li Zicheng still had to buy grain for them, and they only lost part of the grain, but without Li Zicheng's grain purchase, it would not be possible for the grain price in Jiangnan to maintain a high price of one yuan and one stone......

This is still the result of Yang Qing's coercive suppression.

If it weren't for his suppression, the price of grain in Jiangnan would have risen to at least two or three yuan at this time.

But what if Li Zicheng bought grain?

At this time, there can be a hexagonal stone, and the gentry who control the grain will burn high incense, and they have indeed suffered some losses, but don't forget that this is a national debt that can still be recovered, otherwise they would have bought so many national debts? They are not stupid, on the contrary, they are very good at calculating when it comes to silver, and if they scatter the fifteen million, they will not only get it all back in the end, but also bring a certain profit. The economy is like this, whether to make money or not is not the most important, the important thing is to let the money flow, this wave of tossing is actually to put a lot of dead money into the market, so that these originally not circulated money flow.

For example, the cellar silver of the rich land.

For example, those masters hoarded silver that could be nearly a hundred years old.

These are all put on the market.

Just like Yang Ma's habitual release of water, it would be strange if these originally immovable silvers were put on the market on such a scale, so it would be strange not to bring an economic boom. Of course, inflation is also inevitable, but fortunately, these are for Li Zicheng alone, he will not really throw it all at once, he has to throw it away little by little diligently and thriftily, so that the impact will be very small.

But......

The masters are really crying!

The gentry can still take it back, they can't take it back, because they are donations!

Of course, no one cares about this.

However, the masters are emotionally stable, after all, they are all tested for a long time, this little thing is not worth mentioning compared to the three martial arts and one sect, as long as you insist that Qingshan does not relax, and insists on a forbearance skill, in the end everything is a floating cloud......

Anyway, they can only endure it.

Including the resettlement of their new life can only be endured, the masters around Nanjing have already begun to cultivate themselves, after all, if they don't cultivate, there will be no food to eat. There may be good men and women in other places to provide them with some help, but there are fewer and fewer such things around Nanjing, but there are more and more ancestral halls dedicated to Yang Qing's tablet, just like in the past when nine thousand years old were enshrined. Moreover, those temples that have people to give alms actually have to farm their own fields, because the taxes drawn by the temples are so harsh that there is basically not much left after passing through their hands.

In short, 15 million yuan was transported to Li Zicheng in this way.

At the end of June, the last ship arrived in Luoyang.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yujian and Mu Tianbo led their brigade, along with the last batch of silver coins, from Luoyang to Chang'an.

On the same day, Jianguo returned to Nanjing.

After all, Princess Kunxing must not continue to live in the Qianqing Palace, although everyone knows that she is going to marry Yang Qing, but she still has to live in the palace before she gets married, and her position as a supervisor cannot be relieved before her brother returns to the palace. And at this time, the son of Longxing Tianzi also began to officially choose the marriage date of the two of them, and announced to the world with a holy decree, and at the same time added a very long title to her. In addition, Yang Qing was also resealed, and a small prince like Xinguo Gong became a top-level Duke of Chu, and he increased the fief of Duke Chu to 100,000 mu unusually, in fact, just like Yang Qing fooled those vassal kings, he also allocated 100,000 mu of wasteland to him in Hubei.

According to the new feudal system, only the fief of the vassal king can reach 100,000 mu, and the duke actually only has 10,000 mu.

This gave him the treatment of a vassal king.

Duke Chu was in a stable mood about his new title.

After returning to Nanjing, he actually didn't take care of much business, and his main job was to rebuild their new home for him and the princess, and Chu Gong, who was also the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, had been building a high-rise building in his home since last year, when the project was nearing completion. The eight-storey building, which could only be built to 10 feet due to certain limitations, relied on the supply of iron ore from Hainan, and made extensive use of reinforced concrete and teak from the South Seas, and an exaggerated circular room with extensive glass on the top floor.

This is his bedroom.

As for how Princess Kunxing will climb up without an elevator in the future......

Can't you hug it?

It is said that this is a place where the Duke of Chu and the princess will play with the mood in the future, and it doesn't mean that they really have to live on it every day.

In addition to this circular room and ancillary rooms such as heating rooms, toilets, and maids' rooms, there is also an open-air viewing platform on the top floor, which can overlook the entire city of Nanjing. Anyway, in addition to the spire of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples and the city tower of Chengtianmen, the simple buildings in the city are the tallest, as for the buildings that were originally on the mountain such as Yuejiang Tower, they are not counted, and another simple building that surpasses it is the glazed tower outside the city.

Of course, there are many more uses for this observation deck.

Like what......

"Beauty, are you ready?"

Yang Qing bowed his head and said to Princess Kunxing.

He hugged his fiancée like Jack hugged Ruth, who closed his eyes, spread his arms, and nodded with irrepressible excitement as their bodies began to rise......

Princess Kunxing screamed excitedly.

Then they got taller and taller, and soon left the bedroom behind them......

Well, actually, they were in a hot air balloon.

This hot air balloon continued to rise under the nervous gaze of the maids below, and the Yuan Yuan, who was also standing in the middle of the maids, looked envious, jealous and hateful, but because the balloon was too small, it could only accommodate two people at most, and they couldn't be together. If you want to go up in the future, you have to coax Chu Guogong, it depends on Chu Guogong's mood, and they still can't compare with Princess Kunxing after all.

But the balloon did not rise all the way, and when it rose to about 20 zhang, it was pulled by the rope below.

This is a tethered balloon.

Princess Kunxing, who was more than 100 meters high, opened her arms and looked at the unobstructed view of Nanjing City at her feet, screaming as much as she could. Anyway, with this height and the area of the Duke of Chu's Mansion, the pedestrians on the streets below can't see this gaffe of Jian Guo, so this is the best way for her to release her pressure. After all, a young woman in her twenties must put on a solemn posture every day and maintain the image of an actual monarch of a country, she is still very prone to depression, and she must have a way to release her mood.

"Beauty, are you really ready?"

Yang Qing stroked her slender waist and said.

Princess Kunxing turned her head like a kitten that had been picked, and bit him on the arm......