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Wu Sangui and Shang Zhixin are also vassal kings, but they are just sitting in Kunming and Guangzhou, and they are in charge of the overall situation and strategizing. Geng Jingzhong had just succeeded as the vassal king, and he began to run around, such a thing would be known to Wu Sangui and others, and it was estimated that Geng Jingzhong would be laughed at. Seeing that the battleships of the new shipyard on Pingtan Island were about to be launched, the attack on Luzon Island was just around the corner. At this time, he should have stayed in Mawei to preside over the overall situation, but Geng Jingzhong was not so worried.

On Luzon Island, Li Guangdi had already drawn up a battle plan, and the main way was a surprise attack, which could also be said to be a sneak attack. The scheduled time is the first day of July, on which the Mawei naval fleet will arrive off the coast of Manila and take on an offensive posture. At the same time, the 1,000 marines hiding in the Haijia manor, together with the Haijia and several other family guards who participated in the attack, a total of 5,000 people, will take advantage of the chaos in the city to take Manila City. Attacking inside and outside, the Spaniards will be chaotic!

Although the combat power of the guards of the Hai family and several other families may not be strong, not as good as the Spanish soldiers; But the 1,000 soldiers of the Marine Army were all elite and heavily armed, and five cannons were secretly hidden in them for the siege. With the elite of the Marine Army as the spearhead of the attack, it was not a big problem to take less than 3,000 Spanish soldiers. When the time came, when the Spaniards saw a large number of warships coming outside the port of Manila, it was not known whether the Spaniards would be able to raise the fighting spirit to the death.

In the past ten days since he came to Yuegang, Geng Jingzhong has been idle. Take a look around and relax your mind. He transferred Geng San to Yuegang to be responsible for the preparation of the Yuegang Weaving Bureau. It is in charge of private free trade. Standardized management of the weaving industry. Geng San also didn't have much experience in this area. But according to Geng Jingzhong's intentions, Fujian weaving statistics. In a few days, only two places were counted, Yuegang and Houyu Port. These two places are under the direct jurisdiction of the Jingnan Palace, and the statistics are simple, but the other prefectures and counties are huge in number and scattered in scale, which cannot be completed in three or two days.

Geng Jingzhong gave Geng San a transformation education, and taught Geng San everything he saw and heard in later generations, as well as his own construction and so on. Geng San is also quite clever. I understand a general idea, but there are still a lot of advanced ideas that I can't understand. These concepts are basically a bit shocking to people in this era, Geng San just picks up the notes that he thinks are useful, and slowly understands them later. After Geng Jingzhong gave him a lesson, Geng San began to work again.

Geng Jingzhong is bored, there is really nothing he needs to manage here in Yuegang, and there is a complete administrative organization here. With nothing to do, Geng Jingzhong planned to go home again, anyway, in another month. The action is about to begin, if he goes back to the town. It can also add a little confidence to the fighters.

There is a saying that the three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. Every time we go on an expedition, we must first prepare sufficient food for the three armies, otherwise once there is a shortage of food, the army will definitely be unstable, let alone attack at that time, it will be good if it does not collapse, but Li Guangdi has already considered this matter. Following a typhoon in October last year, Fujian's grain has been in a tight state, and it is indeed difficult to raise a large amount of grain in a short period of time. The Kunpeng caravan made three trips to Luzon in the past few months, and bought all the rice in the Luzon market.

The reason why it is said that the rice on the market was bought out because the Spaniards also needed grain, and they controlled the grain market and no longer sold grain to the Kunpeng caravans. It's not that the Spaniards found out that they were going to attack Luzon, but that the Spaniards didn't want the Kunpeng caravan to come here and disrupt their grain market. The Spaniards also needed a lot of food to feed the soldiers in the various strongholds and their diaspora. Luzon was an important supplier of rice, so when they found that there was less rice on the market, they began to regulate it.

On this return trip, Geng Jingzhong abandoned the sea boat, but took a carriage like at the end of last year, and walked slowly and leisurely to Fuzhou. From Yuegang to Fuzhou, it can almost be said to be a straight line, along the main road all the way to the north, to the end, it is also to Fuzhou. This road is all coastal prefectures near the sea, and the terrain here is low, and there are many flat lands, so the roads are the first to be repaired. The four-wheeled carriage ran on the wide road, and the bumpy feeling was not strong. Geng Jingzhong either sat in the carriage reading books and newspapers, or lay down to sleep. Only when the sun goes down will you find an inn in the nearest town to rest.

Not to mention, on the third day of their departure, they had already walked a third of the way. In the evening, I entered the county seat of Jinjiang County, and almost didn't find a place to stay. Originally, there were less than twenty inns here, but the number of merchants gradually increased over the year, and although the number of inns increased by ten, they were still often full. It may sound like an exaggeration, but if you think about the inns of this era, one is a big car shop, which is dedicated to welcoming passing merchants. Of course, it is impossible to live in a house, only the shopkeeper or the person in charge can. In this way, there are not many people, and all the inns are full.

Geng Jingzhong had no choice but to ask one by one. You can't reveal his identity as a prince and forcibly drive the other guests away. Although as long as he revealed his identity, someone would definitely take the initiative to give up the room, but Geng Jingzhong didn't want to do that. The group looked around on the road, but the inn was not confirmed, but Geng Jingzhong saw a special place. This is a house on the corner of the long street, it looks like a small house, and the front façade is more than half larger than the other shops. It's just that the entire façade of this shop is painted green, and there are four big characters written on the door plate: "Fujian Post Office"

As soon as he saw the word post office, Geng Jingzhong was happy. It seems that Geng Da's work efficiency is still quite high, it has only been a little more than two months, and the business of the post offices in the south has been all laid, which is very good. Although he had also seen it in Yuegang, he just thought that Geng Da was still trying to do this, and he would talk about it after he received Geng Da's report. But now, with this post office in front of me, I don't have to look for inns everywhere. Anyway, there aren't many people with me, so it's just one night at this inn.

With this discovery. aroused Geng Jingzhong's interest. He was even less anxious to rush forward. Instead, stop and walk around the counties of Quanzhou. Quanzhou City is Li Guangdi's hometown. I've never been here yet. Coming out of Jinjiang, walking for less than half a day, you can enter Quanzhou City, and the two places are very close to each other. This time, it can be said that he has no purpose, just to enjoy the scenery. So since it's a tour, it's time to take a good look at the beautiful scenery around. Not to mention, I really found a lot of things outside of me.

Outside the city of Fuzhou. It is a part of the Fuzhou Plain, and Quanzhou is also a part of the Quanzhou Plain. However, this plain can only be called a small plain, and it is the smallest of the four plains in Fujian. The Fuzhou Plain, crossed by the Min River, is basically all paddy fields, and there is very little dry land. But here it is different, the water source is not as abundant as the Minjiang River, and the dry land and paddy fields account for half of the total. Some dryland crops that are difficult to see near Fuzhou can be seen here.

Paddy fields here in Fujian. As in Guangdong, double cropping rice is generally cultivated. Now this technology has begun to slowly develop to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The forms of double cropping rice in Fujian and Guangdong are very diverse, including continuous cropping, intercropping, mixed cropping, etc., among which continuous cropping is the majority. Due to the hot climate, abundant rainfall and long growing season, double cropping rice has been planted in Fujian as early as the Han Dynasty, but it has not been promoted for a long time, and it has not become a common farming system until the last few years. However, in this way, there are still many places in Fujian that have not implemented such a double-cropping rice system.

It's early June, and the rice in the fields is growing tall and ready for harvest by mid-July. This is the first rice crop of the year, and the seedlings were planted from late April. When the current rice harvest is complete, the second rice seedlings must be planted in early August. In this way, the land utilization rate has been greatly improved, and the cultivated area has been relatively expanded. In this year, the land utilization rate in the areas under the double cropping system has increased by 100 percent, which is of great significance for alleviating the shortage of cultivated land. Geng Jingzhong thought so much while walking slowly on the road, it seems that after going back, he still has to notify the local government in writing and vigorously promote such a showy method.

Walking further, Geng Jingzhong saw a dry land. Looking at the crops planted in the dry land in front of him, Geng Jingzhong was stunned for a while. Isn't this a sunflower? In the past few years since I came to this era, it's the first time I've seen this thing. I remember a long time ago, I don't know when, I used to talk about this thing. In my spare time, grab a handful of melon seeds and smack them, which feels quite good. It's just that I've been busy with things and haven't paid attention to these trivial matters. In his opinion, this thing is just a pastime to eat and play, but he didn't send anyone to find it. In fact, this sunflower was introduced to China fifty or sixty years ago, but there were too few people who planted it, and some of them were only grown and eaten by people as snacks for their children, and very few were sold on the market.

That is, in the past two years, Fujian has opened up trade, and some people want to try all kinds of strange things. This sunflower is also planted by some people here, after harvesting, fried fragrant, put on the market, there are really a lot of merchants to buy, because of the good taste, the price of this thing is not low. On the whole, it is no worse than growing other crops. As a result, more and more people are growing sunflowers here, and of course, the majority of them are still planting conventional crops.

Sunflowers are native to North America, also known as sunflowers, sunflowers, etc., a few decades ago, a person named Wang Xiangjin wrote a book called "Qunfang Spectrum", which recorded sunflowers in it, but the name is not called sunflowers, but sunflowers. Geng Jingzhong knows that this thing is an important oil crop and an excellent snack food. Well, this thing can be promoted and planted, but it doesn't seem to be very suitable for the current Fujian, it seems that it will be said after the future when its territory is bigger.

When he saw the sunflower, he also thought of several other crops, such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and so on, these things are native to the Americas, and they are indeed very high-yield crops, which are quite suitable for China's current national conditions. There is little land and many people, especially a hard wound in Fujian. However, the cultivation of these crops has not yet formed a scale, which makes it impossible for Geng Jingzhong not to think about it. These crops are drought tolerant, barren tolerant, and high yield, so the promotion of these crops is the fundamental solution.

Let's talk about sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes were originally introduced to China from Fujian and Guangdong provinces, roughly at the same time that Fujian introduced sweet potatoes from Luzon. Guangdong also introduced this crop from Vietnam. Chen Yi, a native of Dongguan, brought potato seeds back to Dongguan from Vietnam in the tenth year of Wanli. After the introduction of sweet potatoes. It was first popularized in some areas of Fujian and Guangdong, but it was only planted on idle land in the fields. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to promote sweet potatoes, Xu Guangqi also specially compiled "Sweet Potato Shu", but it did not get the attention of those in power, and it has to be said that it is a big pity. If sweet potatoes could be cultivated on a large scale, maybe the Xiaoice River period would not be so difficult, and the peasant uprising broke out!

Compared with sweet potatoes, corn may have been introduced earlier. In the 39th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, there is a record of "Panmai" in the "Pingliang Fuzhi" of Gansu, and according to the description of the botanical form of Panwheat, it can be known that Panwheat is corn, which proves that by the middle of the 16th century at the latest, corn has been introduced to China. Judging from the earliest record of corn cultivation in Pingliang, Gansu Province, corn may have been introduced to China from Central Asia along the ancient Silk Road.

In the seventies of the sixteenth century, Tian Yixing, a native of Hangzhou, also believed in the "Liuqing Journal": "Yumai comes from the West, the old name is Fanmai, and it is called Yumai because it once entered the palace." Meantime. He also recorded: "This kind of preaching is passed on in my country, and there are many kinds of people." It shows that corn cultivation was already in Hangzhou at that time. But corn cultivation was not widespread at that time. It is mainly found in mountainous areas. Therefore, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Maize grows out of the western soil, and the planters are rare." It is also a pity that corn has not been promoted nationwide, and those in power only know how to compete for power and profit, but they do not care about people's livelihood issues. In fact, it was not until the 19th century, with the continuous increase of population, that corn cultivation expanded out of the mountains and to the plains, and there was a scene of "all the mountains and valleys are covered with grain".

It is not difficult to see from the introduction and slow spread of new crops such as sweet potato and corn that new crops play an important role in the use of mountains and tidal flats. The use of mountains and tidal flats can reduce the pressure on the original land of the population, and even if the population increases in the future, there will be no famine. It seems that it is necessary to vigorously promote these treasures in the future, and it cannot be left to the people to explore on their own. I should take the lead and set up an agricultural society. Although he has ordered that information on agricultural cultivation be regularly published in newspapers, there are still too few people who follow it without proper guidance.

After going back, you should find a few agricultural books to come over and take a look, it seems that Xu Guangqi's "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" has not been read yet, it seems that I want to continue reading, damn, I didn't pay attention to the article "Sweet Potato Shu". Xu Guangqi was born in the forty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, and when he was twenty years old in the ninth year of Wanli, he was admitted to Jinshan Wei Xiucai, and began his teaching career until he was twenty-five Chinese New Year's Eve six years old in Wanli. After passing the exam, he continued to teach for a living, and it was not until around the age of 40 that his life changed significantly. He first met the Jesuit Matteo Ricci before the exam and began to come into contact with missionaries. Then, under the guidance of the missionary Luo Ruwang, he joined the Catholic Church and was named "Paul". In the following year, Xu Guangqi was appointed as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and later served as the review of the Hanlin Academy, the teaching of the inner study, the compilation and repair of the Hanlin Academy, the praise of Zuo Chunfang, the Shao Zhan Shi, and the supervision of the imperial history of Henan Province.

After Xu Guangqi came into contact with Matteo Ricci and others, he began to study and discuss Western scientific knowledge. He translated "The Original of Geometry" and "The Law of Measurement", but Xu Guangqi's most diligent and far-reaching research in his life was the study of agriculture and water conservancy. His main works in this area include several works, such as "Miscellaneous Agricultural Relics", "Tun Salt Sparse", "Cotton Planting Law", "Sweet Potato Sparse", "Bamboo Planting Diagram", "Northern Ploughing Record", "Reclamation Order", "Agricultural Collection", "Agricultural Administration", etc., among which the main representative is "Agricultural Administration".

The 60-volume "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" is divided into 12 items and more than 500,000 characters. The 12 items are agriculture, field system, farming, water conservancy, agricultural tools, arboriculture, sericulture, sericulture, sericulture, planting, animal husbandry, manufacturing, and waste administration. "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" is another large-scale comprehensive agricultural book after Wang Zhen's "Agricultural Book" in the Yuan Dynasty. Although there are many places where the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" is based on Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture", many characteristics of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" can be seen from the comparison of the system. Among them, the biggest feature is the addition of agricultural capital, reclamation, water conservancy, and waste administration, which belong to the policy content.

Sweet potato is a newly introduced crop, Xu Guangqi keenly recognized the superiority of sweet potato, summed up the advantages of sweet potato in 13 aspects, that is, the so-called "sweet potato thirteen wins", and actively promoted it. To this end, he conducted research on the cultivation techniques of sweet potatoes. The key problem of sweet potato introduced from Fujian to the Yangtze River basin is to keep the seeds for wintering. It can be said that Xu Guangqi inherited the positive propositions of the agronomists of the Yuan Dynasty, used a large number of historical facts to prove that it is possible to introduce seeds to each other in different places, and also used the historical facts of the successful introduction of Champong rice in the Song Dynasty to further criticize the theory that the terroir is not suitable. Xu Guangqi further analyzed the reasons for the failure or reluctance to introduce seeds, and pointed out that laziness and conservatism are the root causes of "the inability of beautiful varieties to communicate with each other".

Since coming to this era, Geng Jingzhong did not mean to despise the ancients, on the contrary, he admired the wisdom of the ancients. The "Heavenly Creations" that he had been reading before, and the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in his hand, plus the military book "Wubei Zhi", etc., can explain the problem very well. He always pays attention to the development of commerce and trade and the building of military strength, but he ignores the most fundamental issues. Food, food is more important than money, and sometimes, you can't buy food with money. (To be continued......)

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