In the evening.

Yang Gengai was even more excited and couldn't sleep, nagging repeatedly.

"Steamed sweet potato ......"

Yang Gengai picked up the bamboo pipe pen and wrote it on paper.

"Baked sweet potato ......"

Write it down on paper again.

"Boiled sweet potato ......"

Write it down on paper.

"Fried sweet potato ......"

Write it down on paper again.

"Sweet Potato Candy ......"

On paper, a whole bunch of them have been recorded.

"Sweet Potato Vermicelli ......"

"Feed the pigs ......"

The paper is already a dense stack. This is the use of all the sweet potatoes that Yang Reform can think of, thinking that sweet potatoes can have so many uses, he is very happy, the greater the use, the higher the value, the greater the demand, the larger the planting area, the more reserves, the stronger the ability to resist natural disasters, the Ming Dynasty, the less easy it is to capsize, the safer it is.

At night, I dreamed back to Baidu, and continued to search for sweet potatoes and what are the uses.

"Dried Sweet Potato ......"

……

"Sweet Potato Flour (Powder) ......"

……

"Sweet Potato Wine ......"

"Sweet potato starch ......"

……

As soon as Yang Gengai got up the next day, he instructed Wang Chengen.

"Big companion, go and invite the two masters, Sun and Xu, to come to Dongnuan Pavilion to see me, and I invite the two masters to breakfast." Yang Reform said this to Wang Chengen without a head or a brain.

Wang Chengen went on an errand inexplicably.

Yang Gengai sat at the table, and on the basis of yesterday, he made up the content he had worked hard to search for all night.

……

Soon, Wang Chengen came back to report: "Your Majesty, the slave maid has already sent someone to invite the two masters, it is estimated that it will be there in half an hour, may I ask Your Majesty, what are you going to eat for breakfast today?" ”

Yang Gengai put down the bamboo pen and said: "Companion, I heard that there is a kind of rice noodles in the south, which is very delicious, I want to invite two masters to eat rice noodles today, and my companion will ask the people in the imperial dining room to prepare it." ”

Emperor Chongzhen Yang Reform said such a sentence without a head or brain, Wang Chengen almost skimmed his feet and fell to the ground, where is this? Rice flour? What's that?

Wang Chengen was a little uneasy, he didn't know what happened to the emperor today, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this rice noodle ......?"

Seeing Wang Chengen's confused look, Yang Gengai thought for a while and explained: "Rice noodles? Don't understand? Maybe it's called rice noodles, right? ”

Speaking of rice noodles, Wang Chengen somewhat understands that there are indeed things that are ground with rice, made into silk, supplemented by self-made materials such as chicken and fish, and scalded in boiling water for instant eating, which is also called rice flour, not powder like wheat flour.

"The slave understands." Wang Chengen figured out that the emperor wanted to eat this thing, and immediately withdrew, ready to tell the people in the imperial dining room to do it.

"Big companion, remember, as long as there are three copies, one for me, one for each of the two masters, Sun and Xu, don't waste it, understand? …… Oh, by the way, I want four servings, send a bowl to the queen......" Yang Reform was halfway through his words, remembering that he had eaten Zhou Wan'er's bowl of tamales yesterday, so he remembered the huge economic value of sweet potatoes, and today, even if he invited the queen to have a meal.

"The slave and maid understand." Wang Chengen went out.

……

Qianqing Palace East Warm Pavilion.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were a little puzzled, so early, the emperor sent someone to find them, saying that they were invited to breakfast, I don't know what is going on here, the two of them are in the Dongnuan Pavilion, looking at each other, and they don't know what medicine the emperor sells.

"Morning, two masters!" Yang Gai was in a very good mood and took the lead in greeting the two of them.

The two hurriedly knelt down to say goodbye.

"The two masters, hurry up, don't do this, quickly move a chair for the two masters." Yang Gai was very enthusiastic about "entertaining" his right-hand man.

Sit down.

"Today, I invite the two masters to breakfast, and the eldest companion ......" Yang Reform finished speaking to Sun and Xu, and then said to Wang Chengen, meaning to let Wang Chengen hurry up and serve rice noodles.

The palace maids and eunuchs who slipped into the fish rushed in, setting up the case, setting the food, setting the food, setting the appetizers, and wiping the mouth. What was originally a simple bowl of rice noodles has now become a high-end dish with seven or eight cold dishes.

Sun and Xu didn't know what to do, and they glanced at each other, inexplicably.

"Two masters, please eat ......" After speaking, Yang Reform took the lead, adjusted the rice noodles with chopsticks, and then threw off his arms and ate it.

Sun and Xu were even more confused, seeing that the emperor had eaten, they also ate, snorting and shivering, and in the Dongnuan Pavilion, there was a sound of eating rice noodles, like a roadside breakfast stall.

After eating, Yang Reform smiled and said, "Two masters, how is it?" ”

The two glanced at each other and said together, "Delicious." ”

"Hehe, two masters, I didn't just let you eat this rice noodle, but I thought of where this sweet potato went." After Yang Reform finished speaking, he glanced at the empty rice noodle bowl.

When Sun and Xu saw the emperor signaling the rice noodles they had just eaten, they thought to themselves, could it be that there is something strange in this rice noodles?

"Where do sweet potatoes go? Emperor? Could it be? ...... Obviously, Xu Guangqi had a lot of thoughts about this sweet potato, and he immediately came back to his senses.

Sun Chengzong was not slow, and said: "Could it be that you just make this sweet potato into a vermicelli?" ”

Yang Reform "snapped" applause, said: "Yes, the two masters are really smart, this sweet potato can be made into sweet potato vermicelli, this market must not worry, I have thought about it, you can use sweet potatoes in full to offset taxes, I will collect the sweet potatoes, make sweet potato vermicelli, and then sell it back, between this in and out, it will make a lot of money, and the promotion of this sweet potato will be very rapid." ”

……

"It may be possible to make this sweet potato into vermicelli, but Your Majesty is so sure that this sweet potato vermicelli is easy to sell?" Xu Guangqi is very suspicious of the sales of this sweet potato vermicelli, if it can't be sold, wouldn't it be the emperor to be pants?

"Hehe, Master Xu doesn't need to worry, I am sure of this matter, and everyone in the world will love to eat this sweet potato vermicelli." Xu Guangqi obviously has not seen the scene of buying sweet potato fans for the New Year in later generations, and if he has seen it, he will not doubt its sales.

A family buys five catties for the New Year, the Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 100 million, even if it is a family of 10 million, this has a sales volume of tens of millions of catties, of course, the actual sales will definitely not reach this number. But this is only the consumption of the New Year, if you count the whole year, plus the consumption of other sweet potato products, the taxes of these northern provinces, in fact, can be fully offset with sweet potatoes.

"Your Majesty is cautious, in this matter, once the tax is fully deducted, the planting area of this sweet potato will definitely expand rapidly, and it is better for Your Majesty to be safe." Sun Chengzong hurriedly persuaded Emperor Chongzhen, don't be too aggressive, this is not a playhouse, once things get out of control, then there is no regret about taking the medicine.

"Hehe, Master Sun, I have a countermeasure to this matter, not just relying on sweet potato fans." After speaking, Yang Gengai handed the stack of paper with the many uses of sweet potatoes to Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi.

"Baked sweet potato ......"

"Steamed sweet potato ......"

"Fried sweet potato ......"

"Sweet Potato Candy ......"

"Sweet Potato Vermicelli ......"

"Dried Sweet Potato ......"

"Sweet Potato Flour (Powder) ......"

"Sweet Potato Wine ......"

At the end, there is also a "pig feeding ......"

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were dumbfounded when they saw so many uses for sweet potatoes. Look at the emperor again, I don't know how the emperor came up with so many things, born saint? The emperor was so powerful that he could list so many uses in one night.

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Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were taken aback for a while before they came back to their senses.

Xu Guangqi was really curious and asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, how did Your Majesty know so many uses?" "People who can write such multi-purpose are not ordinary people. Non-gods can't. Of course, you have to ask the emperor curiously how he got it. Could it be that the emperor has other high-ranking people to guide him?

"Hehehe......" Yang Gai smiled very proudly, of course, thanks to his experience in the 21st century, thanks to his dream of returning to Baidu to search, this, of course, it is impossible to tell them. casually talked about a reason, ready to prevaricate.

"This matter, in fact, is also very simple, I see that this sweet potato is also eaten, so, according to the cooking method, steaming, boiling, frying, roasting, frying, stuffy, scalding thought carefully, wrote down the cooking methods that I think are possible, and there are these, as for the wine behind, I see that this sweet potato is similar to fruit, and it can also be eaten raw, it is rumored that monkeys can use fruit to make monkey wine, so why can't this sweet potato make sweet potato wine? As for sweet potato sugar, I thought that since this sweet potato was sweet, it might be able to be made into sugar......"

Yang Reform's nonsense made Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi's eyes glow, as if they had seen a baby. If it is as the emperor said, then it is not necessarily impossible to fully offset the tax with this sweet potato, of course, provided that what the emperor said is true.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if sweet potatoes have so many effects as Your Majesty said, then the proportion of sweet potatoes to offset taxes can also be greatly increased, the key is how to prove that these are feasible?" Xu Guangqi voiced his worries.

"Hehe, Master Xu, this matter is not in a hurry, after Master Xu goes back, you can send someone to use sweet potatoes to explore gradually, and you must be able to find quite a lot of uses, after all, this is a grain that can fill your stomach, not a weed in the ground. Didn't Master Xu say that? Nanyang feeds on this thing, can you live a long life? Yang Reform pushed the boat down the river and handed over the trial production of a package of sweet potato products to Xu Guangqi.

"This, as ordered, Your Majesty." Xu Guangqi was speechless, so he had to agree.

Xu Guangqi said again: "In this way, Your Majesty intends to use the interest from these sweet potato products to make up taxes?" ”

According to Yang's understanding, some provinces in the north pay very limited taxes, even worse than a province or a state in the south, so it is expected that the amount of silver required is not very much.

"Indeed, I want to use the money I make from the finished products of this sweet potato to offset taxes, such as opening a processing factory for sweet potato vermicelli, as long as it can roughly offset the taxes, I don't expect this sweet potato to make much money, the purpose is that the sweet potato can be popularized on a large scale."

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that in this case, the proportion of sweet potatoes to offset taxes should be five or five open, or three or seven open, which is more appropriate."

"The minister also agrees with Xu Shaobao's opinion, Your Majesty can gradually, if the interest rate of sweet potatoes can make up for the tax paid, then gradually promote it, and if you can't make ends meet, you can reduce the proportion."

Yang Gengai thought about the words of these two masters, and felt that it made sense, the full tax deduction for the surname at one time was a bit large, and he thought about the situation too ideally, so it depends on the situation and increased the proportion of this offset step by step. The face of the two masters still has to be given.

"In this case, then according to what the two masters said, let's start with five or five, and if the situation is good, it will be opened three or seven, and even the full amount of tax will be deducted."

"Your Majesty." The two said in unison.

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"Oh, by the way, I have already selected a few places to try to grow sweet potatoes, and when Master Xu tries to grow sweet potatoes, you can include these places,...... One is the Yulin area of Shaanxi, especially Mizhi County, it is said that this place is extremely poor, so sweet potatoes should be promoted in these places as soon as possible, Shuntianfu, at least one is also included, and the other places, Master Xu will arrange it himself......"

The emperor designated two places to grow sweet potatoes? Xu Guangqi was puzzled, why not somewhere else? But since it's designated, let's plant it there. As for why, only Yang Reform knows that the famous Li Zicheng in history is in the Mizhi uprising! How not to guard against him?

The promotion of this sweet potato, the big strategy is baked. Even some details have been taken into account, Yang Reform, the Chongzhen Emperor who has crossed over, attaches great importance to the sweet potato planting that is regarded as a golden finger to fight against the drought in the north, and it can be regarded as an end, and then, it depends on Xu Guangqi's actual ability to work.

History will be different!

[My mind is a little confused, and in addition, I didn't carefully check the tax situation of the northern provinces at the end of the Ming Dynasty. 】

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