Xu Guangqi left.

Yang Gengai sat alone in a chair, silent.

The whole room, no one disturbed, the atmosphere was very depressing.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, who rely on themselves as their right-hand men, are too old, and they are almost seventy years old. In the past, Sun Chengzong helped himself train the new army all day long, and he seemed to be in good health, he didn't think that this was an old man who was almost seventy years old, but today, Xu Guangqi was actually drowsy in front of him, although there was a long-distance fatigue, but this also showed that his arms and age were already too big, where is the young pillar of the new generation? And who is it? If you are alone, no matter what, you can't carry the whole country!

Yang Gai suddenly felt a little scared.

I'm afraid that time is too fast, and people are too easy to get old.

I am afraid that with the passage of time, my historical foresight, as a weapon for crossing, will change too much because of my influence on history, and when the time comes, I will not have this weapon that can predict the future, and I have no arms to rely on, what should I do?

……

March 19.

In the eyes of Yang Reform, they are just a group of people who can irrigate and crook the building, and they will not be of much help to what they want to do.

Hurriedly ended the early dynasty.

"Companion, I will invite a few masters, ministers, and scholars from various ministries to the Wenhua Palace, I have something to discuss." Yang decided to narrow down the discussion.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

……

Mandarin Palace.

Soon gathered more than a dozen people, including Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, several cabinet ministers, and the scholars of various ministries. They are all the pillars of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Gengai was on the dragon chair, his expression was lonely and serious.

The promotion of sweet potatoes made Yang Reform hurt his brain so much, and now his brain is still a mess, and there are no good ideas. Yesterday, I dreamed back to Baidu, searched once, and found that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, sweet potatoes had indeed been promoted on a large scale, but unfortunately the effect was not very good.

The specific reason, Yang Reform himself summed up, is that the emperor's holy decree cannot withstand the laws of the economy. If you can't make money, why do others grow sweet potatoes?

I saw that everyone was here.

Emperor Chongzhen Yang Reform said: "Yesterday, I and Master Xu discussed the promotion of sweet potatoes, and all the ministers talked about it, talked about their views, and saw if they had any ideas to promote this sweet potato." ”

A minister came out and played: "Your Majesty, dare to ask what is a sweet potato?" What's the use? Why promote? ”

Yang Reform was depressed, and he was bent on promoting sweet potatoes, and now the ministers of the court, there are still people who don't know, and this information is too late to be transmitted.

"Master Xu, please explain to you what sweet potatoes are."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xu Guangqi agreed, and then turned around and explained to the ministers what sweet potatoes were.

……

Xu Guangqi quickly told the ministers what is called sweet potato and why it should be promoted.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that since this sweet potato can resist drought, and does not fight for land, and the yield is high, it is really the only magic weapon against natural disasters, and it should be promoted." After Xu Guangqi explained what sweet potatoes were, someone soon came out in favor.

"Your Majesty, the ministers also approve, this is a great blessing, and it is a blessing for my Ming!" Another minister agreed.

……

Seeing that someone started, several others also agreed, thinking, this is not a big deal! A small promotion of a crop is also worthy of the discussion of so many of our ministers here?

Chongzhen Yang Gengai sat on the dragon chair, his brows were still tightly locked, and said, "Master Xu, introduce the difficult things to the Qing family." ”

We all know that this promotion of sweet potatoes is a good thing, and it can fight against natural disasters, but no one thought that if you made a holy decree to promote, would anyone implement it? This grain is two taels of silver and one stone, how much is your sweet potato for one stone? The holy decree is not strong enough to withstand the laws of economy!

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"It is true that the promotion of sweet potatoes, the benefit of the country and the people everyone agrees, but unfortunately, this promotion is a problem, the price of grain is two taels of silver and one stone, the north, one acre of land, can also produce one or two stones, that is, three or four taels of silver, even if the yield of sweet potatoes is higher, the yield per mu is four or five stones, and it may not be able to sell for two taels of silver, so the gap is close to one or two taels of silver, how can the people change to sweet potatoes? Even if it is promoted, that is, the people plant some in the fields, far from large-scale planting, and cannot be planted on a large scale, how can they fight against natural disasters? ......" Xu Guangqi slowly explained the difficulty of promoting sweet potatoes.

"Your Majesty, what's so difficult about this? As long as His Majesty issued a holy decree, indicating that this kind of sweet potato has a high yield and can resist natural disasters, presumably the people of the world will be willing to switch to sweet potatoes. Because, in the event of a famine, only this sweet potato can fill the stomach, presumably the people of the world will understand this truth. The minister looked at the problem very simply, thinking that the holy decree was a panacea, and the holy decree was obeyed by everyone in the world, but he never thought about how effective this holy decree would be when it came out of the Forbidden City.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair with an expressionless face, and said, "Master Xu, you explain." Yang Reform was too lazy to speak, and directly pushed the problem to Xu Guangqi to explain.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Most of the land in the world is concentrated in the hands of the eunuchs and landlords, even if it is a natural disaster, it has little impact on them, and they are hungry and hungry ......, and the landlords are profit-seeking, how can they actively grow sweet potatoes that are not as valuable as food? Ordinary people's families have to pay taxes and land rent, and the price of this grain is high, so they must plant grain first, otherwise, the tax will not be paid, and the land rent will not be paid. Xu Guangqi explained very bluntly. Everyone is a landlord in the family, and the rent has always been a big income for the landlords. For what fights natural disasters and droughts? Natural disasters and droughts have always only had an effect on the common people, and landlords generally have a certain immunity to natural disasters. It's not their turn to be hungry, so there's no mood to plant anything with you to fight natural disasters and worthless sweet potatoes.

Xu Guangqi said something, and the ministers below stopped talking.

Everyone is a landlord, and everyone knows that little bit of greasy in this, and everyone knows it when others come out.

The eunuch's house, first of all, others don't pay taxes, farming is to earn silver, no silver to earn, you say heaven, you won't grow sweet potatoes. Drought, no harvest, they will not be hungry, as for the grain production will be reduced, it doesn't matter, there is a famine, the price of grain will rise slowly, in normal years, but two taels of silver and one stone, once the famine, it will rise to five or six taels. Therefore, even if there is a famine, a large area is lost, and it has little to do with them. They are still looking forward to three or five years, and there will be a year of famine, so that they can sell the grain they have been hoarding for many years at a high price.

The common people have to pay taxes and land rent, grain is valuable, of course, grow grain, the landlord's family only collects grain, not sweet potatoes, you plant so many sweet potatoes, others do not collect it, what do you take to pay land rent? Paying taxes? When the time comes, he will end up in exile, who is to blame? The emperor is in the Forbidden City, but he doesn't care if you're hungry or not.

Therefore, it is not ordinarily difficult to promote sweet potatoes on a large scale, and it is not ordinarily difficult to rely on sweet potatoes to survive the famine. At most, they are planted in the fields, barren mountains and rivers, and the scale is far from being large, and if there is no scale, there will be no reserves, and there will be no resistance to famine.

In the Wenhua Palace, there was silence again.

……

After a while, it is estimated that someone thought of a countermeasure, and came out and played: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that sweet potatoes can be listed as folded colors and taxed, so that someone will definitely change to planting sweet potatoes." ”

"Oh, tell me about it."

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that sweet potatoes can be folded into color as a kind of tax, for example, two stones of sweet potatoes for one stone, or two and a half stones of sweet potatoes for one stone, so that sweet potatoes can be used to pay taxes, and the people of the world will be planted on a large scale."

This is a bit interesting, Yang Reform is also a little interested, if this is the case, the number of people with that kind of sweet potato will definitely increase greatly and form a scale.

"This policy is not possible, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is simple to collect sweet potatoes and fold them, but how to store sweet potatoes? Is it not possible to give sweet potatoes to officials and soldiers? ”

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