Lu Xiangsheng's answer to Zhao Yan is also undeniable, thinking that Zhao Yan is so young, and he has not led the army for a long time, he must lack experience in marching and fighting, and he can't find any reason to refute it.

He didn't know that although Zhao Yan had little experience in marching and fighting, he had a broad vision, and he was well versed in the importance of marching and fighting, and he was constantly summing up.

"The lower official has asked people to prepare wine and food, and the governor might as well go into the city to rest." Zhao Yan said to Lu Xiangsheng.

"It's fine." Lu Xiangsheng nodded.

Zhao Yan got on the horse, followed Lu Xiangsheng's side, and walked towards Handan. Lu Xiangsheng kept looking at the guards around Zhao Yan on the road, these guards were all wearing steel plate armor, polished to a translucent finish, and they all pulled down their masks, looking majestic. And the action is consistent, and it can be seen that it has been rigorously trained.

"Hold strong, you are so powerful!" Lu Xiangsheng exclaimed, Zhao Yan smiled, he didn't have any special system for family members, if you really want to talk about family members, all soldiers are his family members.

"This is the elite selected from the army." Zhao Yan replied. Lu Xiangsheng nodded and didn't say anything more. Jiading is a very common phenomenon among military generals. In his opinion, although these families are powerful and powerful, the cost must be expensive, so he lost interest.

As soon as he walked for a while, he saw some people measuring the acres with a measuring pole, some were measuring, some were remembering, Lu Xiangsheng asked in surprise: "What are they doing?" ”

"Measure the acres of land, so that the people can be settled, and the grain will be planted in the coming year, and the people will not be thieves." Zhao Yan said that those who measured the acres of land were transferred from Shandong, and before the resettlement of the displaced people, it was necessary to make a clear measurement of the acres of land before they could be distributed.

Zhao Yan's answer surprised Lu Xiangsheng, and he agreed: "The people are mostly thieves because of hunger and cold, and the officials and soldiers are mostly thieves because of lack of salary. ”

"My lord." Zhao Yan said sincerely. Lu Xiangsheng shook his head with a wry smile, "There are people like me who are seeing the earth everywhere, and you have also seen the problems in it, but seeing it does not mean that it can be solved." When Yang He was governor of Shaanxi, he also saw it and did it sincerely, but God did not fulfill people's wishes. ”

Lu Xiangsheng is also good at cleaning up the mess, but in the face of broken and depressed production, he can only feel powerless.

Zhao Yan shook his head slightly, if he wanted to change this state, he had to invest a lot of silver, but the imperial court's financial constraints obviously couldn't take out so much silver.

Walking to the city gate, suddenly a fragrance wafted over, it was the fragrance of sweet potato porridge, Zhao Yan couldn't help frowning when he smelled this fragrance.

In later generations, I also ate sweet potato porridge when I was a child, and I liked it very much at first, but after eating it a few more times, it got greasy. Later, the standard of living improved, and the family stopped eating sweet potato porridge, which was mainly used to feed the family's dogs.

Every time he smelled the smell of sweet potatoes, Zhao Yan felt a little sick to his stomach. His situation is not bad, and those old people in the countryside in later generations have eaten sweet potatoes for decades, and even their stomachs have been injured, and they are even more disgusted when they see this thing.

When Lu Xiangsheng smelled this fragrance, he couldn't help but look for the source, and immediately saw hundreds of hot sweet potato porridge boiling in a large pot, as well as some corn on the cob.

Those people were lining up in the back, each with a bowl of sweet potato porridge and a corn cob, and received food, and most of the people squatted in the open space next to them and ate it very sweetly.

"What is this?" Lu Xiangsheng stopped his horse, looked at the sweet potato porridge and corn in the pot and asked in surprise, he had never seen these two things.

"Tell my lord, that is sweet potatoes and corn, if sweet potatoes are intensively cultivated, the yield per mu can reach thousands of catties, and you can also leave it alone after planting, and the yield per mu is also two or three stones. After planting wheat and sweet potatoes in the field, you can also plant corn again, and the yield per mu can also reach about two stones. Zhao Yan said.

Corn is a cheap grain, planted in a wide range of later generations, is the world's third most produced food crop, but most of them are used as feed, accounting for about 98%, some poor countries in Africa, and mainly eat this cheap food.

"Sweet potatoes? But the white potatoes that once stirred up the popular uprising in Shaanxi? Lu Xiangsheng asked.

"It's this kind of thing, produced in the Americas thousands of miles away, and it didn't take long to introduce it to my Ming Dynasty, and the people didn't know what it was, and forcibly promoting it would inevitably provoke a popular uprising." Zhao Yan said.

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly dismounted and walked to the place where food was distributed, and Zhao Yan had no choice but to dismount.

"Lunch is right here!" Lu Xiangsheng said suddenly.

"My lord, the lower official has already prepared the food and drinks." Zhao Yan was stunned and said, Lu Xiangsheng raised his hand and said, "Let's withdraw the wine and food!" ”

"Okay!" Zhao Yan instructed others to remove the wine and food, and then accompanied Lu Xiangsheng to the cauldron and brought some dishes and chopsticks.

Lu Xiangsheng and Zhao Yan, as well as their personal guards, each scooped a bowl, received a pair of corn cobs, and then made it to the pergola on the side. Lu Xiangsheng gobbled up the sweet potato porridge and corn, burped and smiled: "It tastes good, bring me another bowl." ”

Zhao Yan hurriedly asked people to scoop another bowl, Lu Xiangsheng looked at the people who were eating sweet potato porridge and corn, and asked with concern: "Where do these sweet potatoes and corn come from?" Is it enough for the people? ”

"Xiaguan collected nearly two million stone sweet potatoes in Shandong, which was enough for these people to eat, but the distance was a little far, and it took some effort to transport them. However, the lower officials planned to organize the people to plant sweet potatoes and corn in Yingzhou and Handan, so that there would be a large amount of grain output next year. Zhao Yan said.

"After all, the people don't know the benefits of sweet potatoes and corn, so how can they be promoted?" Lu Xiangsheng asked eagerly as if he had found a treasure.

"Just take out the real thing and give it to the people to taste, and then tell them the benefits, and at the same time send some people to teach them how to grow them. If it is forcibly promoted, it will naturally cause popular unrest. ”

"Hmmm! That's just as well. Lu Xiangsheng nodded, thought for a while, and said to Zhao Yan: "Can Zhijian give this official some seeds?" After the official returned to Huguang, he would also let the people plant this thing. ”

"There are a lot of seeds here, so if you want it, just take it. However, seeds alone are not enough, and Xiaguan who has transferred some personnel who are good at planting sweet potatoes and corn from Shandong this time can go to Huguang with the adults. Zhao Yan said that he is still very concerned about the promotion of sweet potatoes.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, production was deserted, natural disasters continued, and the imperial court was financially constrained, and the north was depressed everywhere. The situation in the south is not very good, the most important thing in the south is water conservancy, but the imperial court tax is too low, there are many tax evaders, there are many privileged classes, and there is no money to repair water conservancy, and there are big floods in the south every year.

As long as there is enough food, people will naturally not die so much. Lu Xiangsheng wants to promote sweet potatoes, which is naturally more influential than Zhao Yan, the general soldier, and Zhao Yan naturally supports it.

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and nodded, his expression was very happy, if there was food, it would be much easier to deal with the thieves.

Then Lu Xiangsheng talked to Zhao Yan about Anmin, Zhao Yan had extremely rich experience in Anmin, and Lu Xiangsheng nodded again and again.

Originally, Lu Xiangsheng's impression of Zhao Yan was not very good, after all, Fengyang was not saved, and Handan was not saved. But now the impression has changed a lot.

It can cure thieves and reassure the people. can also help the people, and transport grain from Shandong all the way, naturally it is not comparable to those warriors who fish and flesh the people.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but think of Zu Kuan's Liaodong soldiers, Zu Kuan was Zu Dashou's servant, and the official was promoted to the rank of general soldier, but he was said to burn the houses, annihilate, and the silver women were happy, but there was a very sharp contrast with this Zhao Yan.

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