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"Lord Wang, oh Staff Officer Li is also here. You're back! There's a lot of stuff to take care of here, so you can't just run out on your own next time without saying hello! Yao Qisheng's words were exactly the same as when Li Guangdi first arrived, as if he had come to Xingshi to ask for guilt.

"Hahaha!" Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi glanced at each other, and then laughed almost at the same time. "Mr. Yao, this king is wrong, next time I go out, I will notify you in advance, and take you up! Hahaha! Geng Jingzhong laughed again as he spoke.

Yao Qisheng is also relatively speechless, this prince is temper is almost touched, and caring about him is equivalent to playing the piano to the cow, but as a subordinate, he can't help but say it, otherwise it won't show that he is a loyal minister. "Lord Wang, Staff Officer Li, the food and grass needed by the army is a difficult problem. In a short period of time, you need 20,000 stone of grain, plus a large number of pulp and vegetables, it is difficult! If Fujian had not been affected by the disaster last year, it would have been better, but now that the new grain has not yet come out, the old grain has long been exhausted, and if it were not for the large amount of grain sent from other provinces to Luzon Island before, Fujian would have been in chaos at this moment. Now there is no grain to transport in Luzon, and Fujian is just enough to be self-sufficient. ”

"I know this, Staff Officer Yao. If it's simple, you don't need to do it yourself. Li Guangdi said. The offshore formation also sent some food from the south side of the Yangtze River, and I just received this news, and I haven't had time to inform you yet, so I guess I can solve your trouble this time! ”

"We don't produce much grain in Fujian, and we need to buy a batch from other provinces every year to be enough. Although there is a reason for the lack of land in Fujian, the low land yield is also an important reason. This time I was out on patrol. That's where I found this important problem. We have a lot of exotic crop varieties in Fujian. These crops are highly yielding. The scale of the cultivation is not large. There are two main reasons, one is that most of the land is concentrated in the hands of landlords, who demand that tenant farmers grow rice, wheat, soybeans and other crops to the exclusion of foreign crops. Second, because the price of these exotic crops is extremely low, it also leads the people to plant very little. Although the yield is not small, it is only planted in idle wasteland or fields. When Geng Jingzhong said these things, his mood was obviously heavy. The people are not guided correctly. This will inevitably slow down the spread of these crops.

"Shizi is talking about sweet potatoes and other crops?" Yao Qisheng asked immediately after listening.

Geng Jingzhong nodded and responded: "Yes, not only sweet potatoes, but also corn, potatoes, etc., these crops were imported by Westerners, and they are actually high-yield crops from the Americas. When you were an official in Guangzhou, you should have seen these things, but I don't know if there is large-scale cultivation in Guangdong? ”

"The subordinates also used to inspect the countryside from time to time, and these crops were basically the same as what the prince said, whether it was dry land or paddy fields. The people don't use it to grow that. However, the hillside, the headland. and in front of and behind the house, the people planted a lot. It is said that this thing was produced in great quantities and was an ordinary ration for the poor people. But the rich families disdained it, believing that these things were coarse food, miscellaneous grains, and disdained to eat them. The price of these things can't go up. Rice on the market costs one stone or two taels of silver, while the price of miscellaneous grains is only four cents, sometimes less. These things are only fed by the poor people, does the prince want to promote planting on a large scale? After Yao Qisheng analyzed it, he immediately knew Geng Jingzhong's intentions.

"Yes, that's the biggest takeaway from my trip. You may not have counted the specific yield of this sweet potato in detail, so now you can guess how much the yield per mu of sweet potato can reach? Mr. Yao is more familiar, so let Brother Li guess first! Geng Jingzhong turned his gaze to Li Guangdi!

"Five stones?" Li Guangdi said with some certainty. Usually good paddy fields, one acre of land produces three stones of rice is already considered a high yield, this is still late rice, one season a year. Ordinary double-cropping rice is only two stones in one season. The number of five stones has doubled, and Li Guangdi thinks it is already a lot!

Geng Jingzhong turned his gaze to Yao Qisheng again, Yao Qisheng had gone to the field to watch, but he didn't know if he cared about this aspect. "Eight stones!" Yao Qisheng gave his own number, which he estimated based on a little bit of information he roughly understood, and he couldn't get it for sure.

"Hehe, it seems that the two of you are scholars after all, Mr. Yao was a county magistrate before, you are incompetent! Tell you, if this sweet potato is planted on a large scale and cultivated properly, the yield per mu can reach four to five thousand catties, which is close to about forty stones! Geng Jingzhong still has reservations about this number, in his previous life, he also had a field at home, when he was a child, his family would plant sweet potatoes every year, and in later generations, there was fertilizer top dressing, and half of the yield per mu could reach more than 7,000 catties. Considering that there is no chemical fertilizer in this era, and the fertility of the land is insufficient, the output has been cut by as much as three or four layers, but this number still shocked the two people in front of them!

"Forty Stone ?!!" Yao Qisheng and Li Guangdi said loudly at the same time, both of them grew their mouths in surprise, and there was no problem in swallowing an egg. This number really shocked them, forty stones, which is twenty times the yield of rice and wheat, and their expressions were very clear to tell Geng Jingzhong, you are too good at fooling!

"What, don't you believe it? Oh, when did I lie to you? There is absolutely no falsehood in this yield, even if it is not cultivated on fertile land, but only cultivated on the slopes, the yield per mu is by no means less than fifteen stones, which is already the minimum number. Geng Jingzhong said with great certainty.

Yao Qisheng swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "Lord Wang, this matter is not a joke. Although the subordinates know that the yield of this sweet potato is very high, it is already extremely amazing to be able to exceed three or four times the yield of rice, and you have reached twenty times at once, don't say that your subordinates don't believe it, even if you pull a random person from the street, you won't believe it! ”

"Yes, I don't know where the number jù came from. If we rashly let the people plant sweet potatoes on a large scale, and the final yield is not so high, it will not end well. Here, the yield of sweet potatoes has increased, even if its price is low, but the sales are not good, and the quantity is too large to probably not sell, so it is the common people who are damaged! Li Guangdi also spoke.

"Hehe, you don't have to worry. I'm not that reckless yet. If you want the people to accept this new crop, you must let them see the benefits. The temperature in our Fujian is just right, and I will go over to guide and promote it when I go back. I'm ripe for sweet potatoes! Geng Jingzhong said with a smile. In later generations, sweet potatoes were generally called sweet potatoes. In the late Qing Dynasty in history, the line "If you are an official and don't make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes" appeared in Henan Opera, but it was widely circulated in the period of information explosion.

When Geng Jingzhong was a child, the sweet potatoes grown at home were not just roasted and boiled and eaten, sweet potatoes could not be used as a staple food, but in this era, it was best to use them as a staple food temporarily, after all, the war was coming soon. Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, and after harvesting, they can be processed to make starch. Sweet potato starch can also be processed into vermicelli, which has a good taste and is a very common delicacy in later generations. Geng Jingzhong knows these things very well, after all, he processed this thing at home when he was a child. From the cultivation, growth, harvesting to subsequent processing of sweet potatoes, he remembers all the links. You can write it down and take the time to point someone to be in charge of the promotion.

"Forty stones, the subordinates are really unbelievable. According to the king, it was a great mistake for the people not to plant it in the fertile land! Yao Qisheng is more Qing Dynasty for these, from sweet potatoes to China, it has been a jiazi now, but the scope of circulation is still not wide. There are a lot of fields planted in Fujian and Guangdong, and the Yangtze River basin is afraid that the current situation is just like this. If this thing had been cultivated on a large scale since 30 years ago, there would not have been so many hungry people, let alone so many hungry people who would have become mobs!

Geng Jingzhong is very satisfied with the expression of the two, and when they hear such an output, the two will definitely support him to promote it. "Okay, let's do this thing, let's go back and find a town to do the real thing, so as not to have any doubts, and at the same time, let the people see the real yield per mu of this thing. With this thing, if the world changes in the future, we will no longer be short of food. Later, I will teach them how to process sweet potatoes, and then it will be a big source of money. ”

"Okay, lord. Now that the food problem has been solved, all the situation is already obvious, we just need to wait for Mr. Miao's good news and be ready to attack at any time. The admirals of the navy have already been prepared, and they are waiting for your order to take Luzon Island in one go. Li Guangdi clenched his fists and said.

"Okay, then let the navy work hard for a while longer, and when this battle is over, I'll give them a big vacation. By the way, the two new fleets were launched, right? Geng Jingzhong suddenly asked.

Li Guangdi quickly responded: "Yes, Lord Wang! I just got into the water five days ago, and the tests have been very good for the past few days, and there are no mistakes. That is, most of the new battleships are naval recruits, and according to the plan, they are all left behind. ”

"Of course, they've only been training for a long time, and they've never been in a war. Continue training while staying at home. They are not required to go to sea to fight, but it is no problem to hold the coastal waters. Let's go on this expedition, those dragon ships can't be taken with us, but it is just right to cooperate with the new fleet to guard the house, besides, those fire dragon ships were originally used to guard the house! Geng Jingzhong said confidently, he is indeed not worried about anyone daring to invade his Fujian coast. Batteries were set up in several important places along the coast, and there were a large number of fireships, and no matter which enemy approached, they would be hit by both batteries and fireships. Coupled with the newly established fleet coastal strategy, his hometown can be said to be impregnable.

"Report to the prince, the mission sent to Europe has returned! With a few Westerners, I'm out asking to see you! The three of them were still talking, and the palace guards quickly came to report.

"It's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here! Looks like we can attack as scheduled! Hahahaha! Geng Jingzhong laughed heartily, God is helping him!

Yao Qisheng and Li Guangdi on the side also looked at each other and smiled. From now on, Luzon is already in their pocket! (To be continued......)