"What kind of good things are worth saying that?"

Before he could say a word, there was a sound of clogs outside, and then Zhu Cihong pushed the door in, looked at the mess of cups and plates on the table, and then looked at Hou Fangyu and the others in a daze, but Zhu Cihong just smiled, looked left and right, and asked with a smile: "What, what do you save from Dongzang and don't give it to me?" ”

"The minister has seen His Royal Highness the Prince."

At this meeting, everyone came to their senses, fortunately, they were all the prince's personal servants who saw the prince every day, so although everyone was a little flustered, the pace of etiquette was not chaotic at all, and they first got up one by one, and then bowed to Ruyi.

"Get up, meet every day, why be polite."

Having said that, everyone knelt down and swallowed their heads, and then they got up one after another.

At this time, I saw that there were two people behind Zhu Cihong, but they were Chen Mingxia and Chen Zilong, one was jade-faced and red-lipped, very handsome, and his expression was also very conceited, and the other was Chen Zilong, who was like an old farmer, with wrinkles on his black face, but whether it was Chen Mingxia or Chen Zilong, they were smiling at everyone at this time.

"This is Gu Zifang, the descendant of Donglin Gu Tinglin."

Seeing Zhu Cihong staring at Gu Gao, Chen Mingxia, who came in behind Zhu Cihong, hurriedly introduced, and Gu Gao, who had been in a daze, woke up at this time, and saw Zhu Cihong staring at him, his heart was like playing a drum, fortunately, he was a child of the family, so he hurriedly knelt down again, and reported his name and resume in his mouth.

"Hmm, son of the family."

The words in Zhu Cihong's mouth were also ambiguous, but he quickly sat down, and his attendant handed over the chopsticks, and after he took the [***] meat and sent it to his mouth, the people present were secretly relieved.

The crown prince is actually very lenient, although he must be punished, but he usually accompanies him, and he never asks about any small sins of disgrace or carelessness.

But the more this is the case, the more respectful everyone becomes, this crown prince who has not been weakened at the age of the crown, and has been in power for less than a year, is no different from the emperor in terms of prestige.

"It's delicious."

praised in his mouth, but the chopsticks were dropped.

Everyone knew the opportunity, and hurriedly withdrew the banquet, and stood by one by one, but everyone didn't quite understand in their hearts, what did the crown prince come here for?

"Gong Xiaosheng, are you a smoker?"

The desk was removed and cleaned, and the servants returned to their seats, and the servants served tea, and the aroma of wine in the room was swept away, but there was a refreshing fragrance of tea in the air.

Zhu Cihong took a sip of tea and asked questions idly, but the topic was unimaginable to everyone.

"The minister eats cigarettes." Gong Dingyu also felt quite embarrassed, this was a bad habit he learned when he was in Beijing, and few scholars and doctors in the Jiangnan area were willing. Of course, he has always been unrestrained, if he is a son of a family like Chen Mingxia or Hou Fangyu, and the son of Pian Pian Jia holds a smoking pot, it is too unorthodox.

Since going south, my conscious hobbies are a bit difficult to see people, so I have invisibly restrained a lot, but when the crown prince asked, of course he couldn't hide it.

"Wozi, take the things to him and try them."

When everyone heard this, Chen Zilong didn't say anything, just took out a box from his arms.

"That's a good thing." Even if the crown prince drove in front, Hou Fangyu couldn't help but exclaim. Chen Zilong took out a piece of jadeite that was as clear as spring water, and there was a ruby inlaid in the middle of the box.

"Take one." Chen Zilong saw Gong Dingxiao in a daze, so he smiled and took out one and handed it to Gong Dingxiao.

At this time, if you don't understand, Gong Dingyu is also a stupid uncle, take a look at it first, and see that it is indeed a thin tobacco wrapped in paper, smell it slightly, and feel that the taste is very positive, but at this time, he hesitated.

"Here, use this."

This time it was Chen Mingxia who handed over a thing, and it was also very exquisitely built, using high-quality wood, but the edge was very rough, under Chen Mingxia's signal, Gong Dingyu pushed the small wooden box open, and at a glance, the things in it were still not recognized.

"This is a match, which is used for fire."

With the help of Chen Mingxia, Gong Dingyu lit the match, and after a small flame, he then burned the cigarette on his mouth, and then the house was filled with green smoke.

In the previous life, it was a smoking gun, and in this life, of course, it is a little eager to try. However, Zhu Cihong glanced at Gong Dingyu who was swallowing clouds and spitting fog with greedy eyes, but he could only sigh at the idea of coming to himself.

The crown prince took a cigarette in his mouth, and this scene was also modern.

"The taste is very good, and the workmanship is also very exquisite." After taking a few puffs, Gong Dingyu hesitated a little, looked at Zhu Cihong, and said, "Your Highness, this set of things is too labor-intensive and costly. ”

"It's okay, but if you use it, you have to make it up elsewhere." Zhu Cihong's expression was very relaxed. Huai'an's geographical conditions are also enough to produce high-quality tobacco, supplemented by jade boxes, gold boxes, and silver boxes, and this kind of tobacco is sold as a luxury product.

Of course, the big consumers now are Dongyu, including Dolgon, and there are few princes and ministers in Dongyu who don't smoke. Of course, this kind of atmosphere will also cause bullets, and in the Kangxi period, the emperor even issued an order to ban smoking. Of course, this is just a wasted effort.

This kind of luxury goes north in large quantities, and what comes back is considerable income. Moreover, not only in the north, but also from Nanjing and Quanzhou, and now there are not a few people in Nanyang and Europeans who smoke, and it is believed that there will be great benefits in opening up overseas markets.

"Your Highness is really ......" Gong Dingyu sighed lightly and praised: "It's really hard-hearted." ”

"It's just a trail." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "I went to see the field with Chen Baishi and Chen Wozi, and then went to see the chicken farm and the pig farm, and went to the tobacco farm to have a look, and there happened to be this finished product, so I brought it to you to see." ”

Speaking of this, all the ministers present were in high spirits, and from Chen Mingxia onwards, they all bowed down and said: "The ministers congratulate His Highness." ”

Only Gu Gao didn't know what he was thinking, but he also learned the same way and bowed down deeply.

Zhu Cihong smiled extraordinarily brightly, the harvest of sweet potato fields is already an inevitable trend, in fact, once the cultivation method and seed selection method are improved, it is inevitable to increase the yield. This time, I have been surveyed everywhere, and the average yield per mu is of course not about hundreds of catties or thousands of catties predicted by Tang Twelve and other people, but the average yield per mu is about two or three thousand catties!

Such a number, when it comes out, will make everyone turn over a few times in shock.

There are also soybeans, corn and other crops, which are also in the selection and intensive cultivation of trial planting, and at the turn of spring and summer next year, it is believed that the grain harvest in Huaishang will be a shocking number.

In fact, there is no shortage of grain in the south of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are countless grains in the Qingjiang treasury, and the grain that 100,000 troops have eaten for 20 years is beckoning.

The Huaiyang area is a bumper yield, and the Jiangnan area, after Zhang Guowei's ten years of hard work, built water conservancy, dug ponds through canals, although there are still more cash crops, but there is no problem in supplying the food for the imperial court and the army.

Moreover, there is a wide lake, even if Fujian and Zhejiang, there is no problem with food self-sufficiency.

The only problem is Yunnan and Guizhou, but in the future, Yunnan can use the advantages of salt, iron and copper to offset the disadvantages, and it is only Guizhou that is really difficult to solve the dilemma.

In fact, the good seeds that are being planted on a trial basis are also prepared for Guizhou, and even if they are not rich in the future, they will have to solve the problem of food and clothing for most of the population.

If there is food and clothing, there will not be too many people willing to rebel.

In the past few decades, the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou have rebelled, and Tusi has rebelled year after year, which will be a big trouble in the future.

Of course, this kind of measurement is still a long time later, in front of the Huaiyang area to improve, one is to benefit the people, although there is food and clothing in the Huaiyang area, but in the end people will not be too much food, can be more productive, the people's son is better.

The second is that there was still a period of time during the Xiaoice River period, which seemed to have reached its peak in the early years of Shunzhi and officially ended in the early years of Kangxi. For such a long time, Zhu Cihong does not plan to make the people in the north suffer, now a small half of Henan and half of Shandong are in hand, and when he recovers Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu in the future, he will start now, but it is only for a few years later.

He didn't think that Jiannu could go south to herd horses, let alone that the new army he founded could not fight to the north!

This kind of confidence has been deeply valued in my heart since the establishment of the Pingyu Army.

These civilian officials around him may not quite understand, but Zhu Cihong himself knows that with the enlistment of local peasants in the army, the protection of the shop is in the front, the good encounter is in the back, and the strict training is added to the body, this army is no longer equal to the previous army, this is more like a mixture of modern and modern army.

Coming down, it is just to enrich the treasury, build armor soldiers, strengthen soldiers and heavy armor, and sweep [***].

Zhu Cihong smiled and said nothing, but Chen Zilong's expression was very proud. His agricultural skills were originally mostly in books, but he is of course very proud of his achievements in the past few months.

Within a few years, he was confident that all kinds of good varieties that the prince asked for would be tried and promoted, and in a few decades, I am afraid that the whole Ming Dynasty would be planted everywhere with the good seeds he had selected.

Meritorious service, virtue and words, the first two, he will be worthy of this life.

"Woko, the chicken farm is already running?"

"Yes, it has been stocked, and there are tens of thousands of chicks."

"Good guys, that's a lot of money."

"This is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant, I'm just Zanxiang to assist."

At that time, people valued beef and mutton and light pigs, chickens and ducks, but Zhu Cihong thought that raising chickens and ducks was much more convenient than raising large livestock. Cattle and sheep need a large number of people to take care of, and they lose weight in spring, fat in summer and lose fat in winter, and the cycle is very troublesome. Raising chickens not only does not have these problems, but also lays eggs while solving the problem of meat for soldiers, which is of course much more cost-effective than raising cattle and sheep.

Now the army has to eat a lot of meat every day, although physical training is not as important as a while ago, but it still accounts for a considerable proportion every day, and the young men in the prime of life are in the army, and the amount of food is scary, and if there is no meat, just eat vegetarian food, no matter how much you eat, there is no physical fitness.

To engage in this kind of large-scale chicken farm, as long as the epidemic prevention and disease prevention are done well, it will be a great profit.

The situation on the spot was very satisfying, so in the midst of everyone's discussions, they all looked like they were all flying light, but Gu Gao felt very separated in the audience, and at the same time, he also felt that his friends in the club were very unfamiliar.

was a member of the club back then, but now his mouth is full of sweet potatoes and chicken seedlings, and Gu Gao's heart is also bitter...... It's just that now he doesn't dare to say anything.

(To be continued)