For sweet potatoes, Zhu Changluo has always attached great importance to them!

It is no exaggeration to say that the biggest reason why he attacked the three families of Liu Sun and Wu so quickly was that these three scum scum strongly rejected Li Wenhua's proposal and insisted on continuing to grow winter wheat on their own fields. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But he knows better that after eliminating these people, it does not mean that sweet potatoes can be successfully promoted among the people!

He can use this method to deal with these businessmen and gentry, but in the face of thousands of people, Zhu Changluo is numb, he can't monitor what the people have planted piece by piece!

The so-called people take food as the sky, in China, the common people have the deepest attachment to the land, countless people have been digging in the soil for generations, and now Zhu Changluo let them try to plant a new crop, which is no different from asking for their lives......

So even if Zhu Changluo promised to buy all the sweet potatoes produced, even if Li Wenhua tried hard to persuade them personally, these villagers were stubbornly unwilling to replant, and they simply and stubbornly believed that only when they grow grain in their own fields will they feel at ease if they have rice at home!

This situation is very common, and in the end, Yang Lian gave Zhu Changluo an idea, since the people like rice, it is better to change the current tenant method and advance the rice to them first, so that they will not have other thoughts.

This method gave Zhu Changluo inspiration, today's rice yield per mu is about 500 catties, and the tenants have worked hard for a year, even if it is a good year, after paying the rent, they can only drop about 100 catties of grain, or even less.

And Zhu Changluo supplemented them according to the amount of one hundred and twenty catties, on the condition that their fields must be replanted with sweet potatoes, and all the harvested sweet potatoes belong to the palace!

The effect is naturally immediate, the people are actually the most shrewd people in some aspects, as soon as Zhu Changluo's policy was launched, countless people responded, and even some landlords and gentry were also a little tempted, you know, if they grow their own, they may be able to get more grain, but the problem is that they have to pay taxes, and Zhu Changluo is to deliver grain immediately, drought and flood to ensure harvest, but it is much more reliable than watching the sky and eating.

However, the effect is good, and grain can also be transported from Yangzhou, Suzhou and other places, but silver is a big problem.

In fact, Li Wenhua is playing with the idea of this money, why not Zhu Changluo?

Although the forty percent of the silver taels were allocated to the county government, at least two percent of them should be used as special funds for sweet potato subsidies to prepare for the catastrophe in the coming year!

"Obey His Highness's orders!"

Li Wenhua didn't have any opinions, so he agreed.

He knew very well that this highness seemed to be very easy to speak, but in fact he was extremely principled, and it was best not to have other voices when he made up his mind.

What's more, he didn't plan to be greedy for this money, taking it for the people is the right way, and for some reason, since Li Wenhua talked to Zhu Changluo last time, he always had a faint sense of uneasiness in his heart, as if something bad would happen.

As soon as Li Wenhua was sent away, Zhao Shizhen ran in happily.

"Your Highness, great joy, great joy!"

Zhu Changluo's heart moved slightly, but he couldn't help his heart beat faster, speaking of which, Zhao Shizhen, the head of the palace, has not taken much care of things these days, the reason is that Zhu Changluo gave him another task, and now he is so excited, is it difficult to ......

"Your Highness, it's done! It's done! ”

Zhao Shizhen was holding a small piece of metallic thing, and almost ran in front of Zhu Changluo with his hands dancing.

The moment Zhu Changluo saw this thing, he immediately stood up, his heart almost jumped out, he was very familiar with this thing, it may be a rotten thing in the future life, but now, it is something that he spent many months to figure out.

Stainless steel!

In fact, China has had incomparably advanced iron-smelting technology since the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately, since the Han Dynasty, there has been a bottleneck in iron-smelting technology, and the steel we are talking about is actually carbon steel alloy.

The so-called steel, in fact, depends on the ratio of carbon and iron, and skilled craftsmen can make just the right amount of steel by controlling the heat, which was once invincible in the era of cold weapons.

But what Zhu Changluo knows is that the future world is not a world dominated by cold weapons, and once it begins to move forward like a hot weapon, the biggest constraint is steelmaking.

At this time, the steel is not only a carbon steel alloy, it needs to add more alloying elements, because the thermal weapon needs to withstand high speed, high temperature, high pressure, quenching and heat, etc., so it needs extremely high toughness, Zhu Changluo had seen this material in his previous life, but unfortunately he did not study it seriously.

So he began to recruit blacksmiths from the time he came to Ping'an Mansion, and set aside a separate piece in the palace for steelmaking, and after Zhao Shizhen arrived, he was put in charge of this matter!

Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, looking at the stainless steel with a silver-white luster in front of him, even with Zhu Changluo's calm personality, he couldn't help the excitement in his heart.

"Good, good, great! Zhao Changshi has really made a great contribution this time! ”

"Everything is done by His Highness, and the minister is just doing his meager duty!"

Zhao Shizhen is also very excited, it can be said that no one knows better than him the meaning of this small piece of steel.

In fact, compared to Zhao Shizhen's other abilities, he is most famous for firearms research!

The famous "Artifact Spectrum" is from his hand, in addition, Zhao Shizhen himself is simply obsessed with firearms, and he has researched and invented a series of firearms such as thunderbolts and rockets.

But only he knew best, and his manuscripts contained numerous depictions of the future of firearms, but they had to be abandoned, the biggest limitation being that the steel technology was not up to standard.

No matter how he modified the design, the high temperature that the gunpowder had to withstand when it was discharged would directly blow up the muzzle, and it was precisely because of this that Zhao Shizhen had to turn to the more complex Thunderbolt.

But now, with this small piece of things, his idea may be able to turn everything into reality, how can Zhao Shizhen not be excited?

"Zhao Changshi is too modest, but this method of steel smelting is not easy to come by, when it is properly preserved, after Zhao Changshi goes back, let the craftsmen rest for three days, and then immediately start to test the improved fire gun that Zhao Changshi mentioned to this king!"

Temporarily suppressing his excitement, Zhu Changluo opened his mouth and commanded.

Now he doesn't have much time, and if he remembers correctly, there shouldn't be much time left for the second Korean battle between the Ming and the Wa Kingdom...... (To be continued.) )