Zhu Gaochi did come with a purpose, and the emperor didn't believe it after listening to Tang Ming's analysis last time, so he asked Zhu Gaochi to personally go to the market to investigate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info This check is indeed as Tang Ming said, vegetables are scarce and in short supply.

Nanjing City is now prosperous in commerce, and the people are farming less and less to grow vegetables, either to work as porters at the wharf or to resell some small businesses in the city. The people tasted the sweetness in the case of developed commerce, and they didn't care about the identity of businessmen and farmers, but swarmed into the trend of commerce.

Grain and rice can still be brought in from outside, but fresh vegetables cannot be brought in from outside, relying on current means of transportation. For example, the vegetables from Nanjing have to be transported from Suzhou, and it is better to take the waterway, but it will take at least a day.

In this way, the vegetables are not so fresh, and due to transportation problems, sometimes there will be delays or accidents, transportation fees and middlemen will also raise the price of vegetables, so that the price of vegetables in Nanjing is getting more and more expensive.

Sometimes a storm has blocked the ships transporting vegetables, and the vegetables in Nanjing have reached the stage of coming and going. Those who can see business opportunities will definitely make money, and Tang Ming, the initiator of all this, has already thought of this, so he made the fiefdom to such a remote place to grow vegetables.

Zhu Gaochi also secretly felt frightened after understanding it, the surroundings around his life were unconsciously undergoing earth-shaking changes, but he, the prince, was still aware of it. What made him feel unconvinced the most was Tang Ming, who usually saw him much smarter than himself, but he could always find the problem before himself.

This time, it was still too late for the vegetable greenhouse to follow closely behind, so Zhu Gao came over with a burning butt, for the sake of naturally Tang Ming's strange vegetables.

Tang Ming accepted the gift from Zhu Gaochi, took a sip of the tea cup in his hand, and said, "If you want me to help with something, why should your brother be so polite!" ”

Zhu Gaochi secretly scolded the bastard in his heart, but said with a smile on his lips: "Didn't I hear that there are many strange vegetables planted in the greenhouse of Weihaihou, and my father specially ordered me to ask you for some vegetable seedlings and seeds, and plant some in the palace for your own use." ”

Tang Ming sneered in his heart, Zhu Gaochi didn't understand yet, get some to plant in the palace, if it was just like this, he, the prince, still needed to whisper to himself. The monarch wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, and under the system of imperial supremacy, it is still so troublesome for the emperor to ask his courtiers for things.

After all, it's not about the prospect of growing vegetables, either. It's better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and there are many ways to make money, so there is no need to throw away a big watermelon for sesame.

Tang Ming's eyes kept looking at Zhu Gaochi, until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he suddenly said: "I understand what you mean, don't you just want vegetable seedlings, this is very easy to do, you can go to my planting base at any time to get it, but you have to pay, and only vegetable seedlings have no seeds." ”

Zhu Gaochi wanted to intervene to grow vegetables, but Tang Ming also pushed the boat down the river and simply agreed to it. In fact, he never thought about how much money he could make by selling vegetables from the beginning, Tang Ming was by no means a person who would make a big deal for this little money.

Zhu Gaochi didn't expect to achieve his goal so easily, and he also said happily: "Money is not a problem, as long as you give me the vegetable seedlings, haha, my brother is really righteous enough." ”

"Don't get too excited, I mean you'll have to buy all the seedlings you want to grow in the future. My planting base is only responsible for cultivating vegetable seedlings, will not grow vegetables to sell, in the future the entire territory of Nanjing, including the Ming Dynasty, is your market, but also my market, this is called win-win cooperation. ”

Zhu Gaochi was a little dizzy by Tang Ming's head-turning, and it took a while to sort it out, and he said uncertainly: "You mean, in the future, your people will be responsible for raising vegetable seedlings, and my people will be responsible for planting and selling vegetables!" ”

Tang Ming nodded and praised: "That's right, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really smart, and he can understand it at a glance." ”

"Then you won't ask for a price when the seedlings arrive, right?" Zhu Gaochi, based on his past experience, didn't quite believe that Tang Ming only needed these.

Shaking his head, Tang Ming chuckled: "The price of vegetable seedlings is only one-fifth of the price when you sell vegetables." You also know that my investment is not small, and there are a large number of farmers to feed, and if I can't guarantee that they will earn as much money as those who go into business, do you think they will be willing to work for you? ”

Now in the Ming Dynasty, land annexation is becoming more and more serious, farmers have less and less land for themselves, and the government taxes are getting heavier and heavier, which has overwhelmed them. After a year of hard work, under the premise of good weather, it is only enough for a few families to live, and it is almost a luxury to want to survive.

In the past, farmers had no choice but to go one way to the dark, but now the development of commerce has brought them other choices, and there is a better way to go, who is willing to guard those two pieces of land, so that the whole family will die.

Zhu Gaochi has been walking around the fields a lot recently, and he can be regarded as learning about the current situation of the people. For example, in the fiefdoms of those princes and generals in Nanjing, there is a serious shortage of servants who farm the land, and the young and strong all go to the city or the dock to make a living, and only those old people can stay for those princes and generals to farm the land.

There are many precursors of abandonment of large tracts of fertile land, which is absolutely undesirable in Zhu Gaochi's view, and the current grain in Daming is far from being saturated, and even some remote areas or border cities are still in urgent need of food. In the long run, the Ming Dynasty will fall into the possibility of famine again.

Zhu Gaochi understood Tang Ming's approach very well at the moment, so he no longer raised any questions, and directly told Tang Ming about the vegetable seedlings. He now has no intention of taking advantage of Tang Ming in this matter, a large area of land in Daming is not planted, this is a very unstable factor, he must report this matter to the emperor as soon as possible, and he has to come up with a way to solve it.

Tang Ming looked at Zhu Gaochi who left in a hurry, he knew very well that it would not be long before he would be urgently summoned to the palace. It is himself who has made commerce unprecedentedly prosperous, and it is also himself who has made the fiefdoms of those princes and generals less and less planted.

He Tang Ming is the initiator of all this, once the emperor finds a problem, he will not look for him! Grain is the foundation of the country in any dynasty, and anything can be wasted.

Since ancient times, there has been a custom handed down from generation to generation, every year of spring ploughing, the emperor has to lead the whole dynasty civil and military officials to plough the fields, although this is just a ceremony, but you can also see the importance of the ancients to food. (To be continued.) )