Chapter 554: The Joy of the Harvest

A round of turmoil was finally solved perfectly, Sun Chengzong became the first assistant of the cabinet, Liu Zongzhou entered the cabinet, Tang Shiji was also familiar, Su Tiancheng felt that his luck was really coming.

Time into July, the autumn harvest season is coming soon, the situation in all parts of Shaanxi is good, although there are also places that have suffered from drought, but the government has mobilized the strength of the people, digging wells to find water, basically solving this problem, the most important thing is that after Shaanxi abolished the guard army, there is a lot of spare labor, those who have entered the inspection department, can also participate in production, Shaanxi has experienced many years of war, lack of population, has been alleviated to a certain extent.

The popularization and planting of sweet potato and maize have also achieved great results.

Especially sweet potato, the yield is much higher than wheat and maize, has become the first choice of many farmers, farmers are not too unfamiliar with sweet potato, neighboring Shanxi, many farmers are planting this thing, can be full, but Shaanxi has not spread, probably because of the war for a long time, not many people consider agricultural production.

The huge role of sweet potatoes, Su Pingyang, Qu Qingze and others who followed Su Tiancheng, are very clear, that is, Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang, also know this thing, only some officials in Shaanxi do not know very well, among the prefects in various places, that is, Chen Yutai is not very familiar with sweet potatoes, but also in accordance with the requirements of the governor's yamen, vigorously promoted the cultivation of sweet potatoes locally.

Seeing that the harvest season has arrived, Su Tiancheng said that as long as Shaanxi's sweet potatoes can be harvested, the problem of eating for the common people can be completely solved, and there is still a lot of grain that can be traded, and the mutual market can obtain more profits.

Niu Er and others also invented a cultivation method, which is to plant maize in the field. It is equivalent to the heavy fork cultivation after hundreds of years, also known as intercropping cultivation, the role of tall crops and ground growth, mixed cultivation, so as to maximize the grain yield, this method. It has been successful in Henan Province, and judging from the current situation, it can also be successful in Shaanxi.

The earliest time when intercropping cultivation appeared should be at the beginning of the twentieth century, because of Su Tiancheng's crossing, during the Chongzhen period, there was intercropping cultivation. Once it can be pushed on a large scale, the grain output will be increased, and countless ordinary people can be saved in the poor Ming Dynasty, where the grain yield per mu is low.

In mid-July, the harvest season arrived.

Almost all the officials of the provincial, governmental, prefecture, and county yamen went deep into the fields to guide and urge the peasants to do a good job of harvesting on the one hand, and to improve the relationship between the government and the people on the other.

July is the season of flowing fire. The entire territory of Shaanxi is full of laughter. After a few months of hard work, everyone is happy to see that a harvest is about to come.

Many years have passed, and the farmers in Shaanxi have never imagined that such a scene will appear. Because of the famine for several years, there have been a lot of rogues in Shaanxi, and many people have starved to death. Hungry farmers have an almost worshipful psychology for the grain that grows in the fields.

The peasants are indeed simple, last year's winter wheat harvest, a lot of people, barely able to live, although said not to be full, but not to starve to death, not to go out to be homeless, this time, wheat, maize and sweet potato, have obtained a bumper harvest, it can be said that from this moment on, the vast majority of the peasants, are able to eat their stomachs.

All this has a great deal to do with the government, and if it were not for the government to stabilize the situation in Shaanxi, encourage the peasants to plant land, and take out seeds, there would never be the current situation.

In such a situation, there is no need for a lot of teachings, the village chiefs and the first heads, naturally have authority, the peasants have any matter, find them to comment, and also obey their arrangements, the chief and the first head, obey the arrangements of the government, so that the implementation of level by level, all parts of Shaanxi, gradually restored the scene of many years ago, the common people began to revere the government, rejecting the rogue.

Su Tiancheng personally went to the outskirts of Xianyang to participate in the autumn harvest.

Although the climate is hot, Su Tiancheng still went to the ground himself, moving the grain seems simple but it is actually very uncomfortable, in the hot weather, you have to wear thick clothes, if you want to be cool, go into battle shirtless, the corn leaves will make your body scarred.

Su Tiancheng, who was sweating profusely, didn't care.

In doing so, he has the nature of a show, but more importantly, he takes the lead, which is to send a signal to officials at all levels, as the parents of the people, we must experience the hardships of the people, and we must have deep feelings, so that we can really think of the people when we are acting for government affairs.

However, Su Tiancheng went to the ground, and the security measures caused by it were still too strict.

Although it is said that a few months have passed, and the rogues have fled to Sichuan, no one dares to guarantee that there are still any remnants of the rogues in Shaanxi, not to mention that the Jiangning battalion exterminated 100,000 rogues and captured the leader of the rogues alive, Gao Yingxiang's personal soldiers, will they hide in the crowd, which is not good for Su Tiancheng.

The Jiangning battalion sent a thousand soldiers to be responsible for Su Tiancheng's safety, and Qu Qingze also followed closely, as for Wang Dazhi, he almost became Su Tiancheng's shadow.

After working in the fields for an hour, Su Tiancheng finally stopped.

Maybe he was in a good mood, Su Tiancheng didn't feel tired, he proposed it, and he had to go to other villages and towns to see, this kind of harvest scene is indeed rare.

However, this kind of inspection ended quickly, without him, when Su Tiancheng went down to see the people harvesting, the formation was too big, and it was rare for the peasants to even see the county, let alone see the governor, and the places he passed, that is, the farmers who were busy in the fields, had to hurry to the road and bow down, Su Tianwei didn't want to disturb the people, he just wanted to see the harvest in the fields, but unfortunately such a goal could not be achieved.

In late July, the good news kept coming.

Xi'an Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion, Qingyang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion, the grain has been harvested, Lintao Mansion because of the geographical location, slightly worse, the grain output is slightly lower, but it is also good, the only thing that is not good is Gongchang Mansion.

The prefect of Gongchang Mansion is Chen Yutai, when Niu Er and his entourage went to Gongchang Mansion to implement sweet potato and maize planting techniques, Chen Yutai was not very acceptable, thinking that this place in Shaanxi has always been planted with wheat, and suddenly decided to plant sweet potatoes and maize, what if it can't succeed, so when implementing planting techniques, there was no strong support, Niu Er and others could certainly see that at that time, they were welcomed everywhere, and saw that Gongchang Mansion was like this, I didn't stay long.

Now that the results are out, the territory under the jurisdiction of Gongchang Mansion is vast, the grain can not be harvested, and the income obtained by the government is naturally much less, and the governor Yamen and Su Tiancheng will not implement the lump sum system, and the regional differences must exist, if it is because of the government, the income has decreased, which needs to be borne by themselves.

It is said that the grain harvest is not very good, Chen Yutai should take the initiative to go to the governor's yamen, at least to show his attitude, saying that his original decision was wrong, but unfortunately Su Tiancheng did not see it, Chen Yutai has never come to Xianyang, and the one who came to report the situation in Gongchang Mansion was the deputy of the prefect.

Su Tiancheng felt uncomfortable again.

As a traverser, he knows very well that it is impossible to think about the great harmony of the world, and there is a certain amount of opposition in Shaanxi, which can make him sober, and can also reassure the emperor and the court, so he will not ask for a monolith, but there is one aspect, which must be insisted on, that is, the governor yamen issued an order to go away, and Fuzhou and County must implement it, and there are policies and countermeasures, and there must be no occurrence.

Considering that Chen Yutai was the champion of the palace examination and was a classmate of himself, Su Tiancheng wrote a letter and brought it to Gongchang Mansion, this letter was written very simply, telling Chen Yutai that in the future, the decisions made by the governor yamen must be implemented in Fuzhou County, even if there are any objections, before getting the imperial decree of the imperial court and the emperor's will, he still has to do things according to the requirements.

This incident also made Su Tiancheng sober up, many scholars, scholars, gentry and wealthy families, their understanding is fixed, they have always been high, they are unlikely to put the interests of the people first, and this class has a set of fixed things, whether these rules are pedantic or old, people do things according to these rules.

If you want to slowly change the status quo of the Ming Dynasty and rely entirely on scholars, it may not work.

It is no wonder that those who have achieved great things throughout the ages have a group of loyal people around them, all of whom have followed them for many years, so as to ensure that orders and prohibitions are carried out, and that everyone is of the same mind.

The bumper harvest of grain brought Su Tiancheng not only joy, but also a lot of thinking, the status quo of the Ming Dynasty is like this, the possibility of completely overturning such a status quo is not great, if you want to make a fundamental change, you can only make a fuss from the top, and it is unlikely to focus on Zhu Youzhen, then you can only focus on the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong was born in the second year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen was born in February of the third year, when he was just one year old, he was canonized as the prince, and now he is only nine years old, and he is in the stage of receiving education.

But this is also some of Su Tiancheng's thoughts, he has no plans for ten thousand years, as long as he watches the Ming Dynasty prosper in his lifetime, it will be very good. (To be continued......)