Chapter 752: The Spread of New Crops

As a number of drawn border troops entered Beijing, and were arranged by Zhao Yan to the garrisons of various forbidden armies in the capital, these drawn troops soon encountered the same trouble as Zhi Kexing, that is, it was inevitable to have friction and conflict with the forbidden army in the capital.

At the beginning, some border army generals were more forbearing, even if they were actively provoked by the forbidden army in the capital, they decided to endure it and it would pass, and even sometimes there were conflicts, they did not dare to use all their strength, and as a result, they suffered several losses, after all, their number was several times less than that of the forbidden army in the capital, and they would naturally be bullied if they did not show their real skills.

However, as time went by, they gradually felt that something was wrong, because some hot-tempered border army generals directly fought with the forbidden army in the capital, and also won the battle, but not only were they not punished, but they were rewarded by His Royal Highness King Yue, but those forbearant generals were bullied, and Zhao Yan instead sent people to scold them as bloody. Almost no one who can become a general is stupid, and many people immediately understood what Zhao Yan meant.

So in the following time, those border troops who had just arrived in the capital finally had no scruples, and they also fought back hard in the face of the provocation of the forbidden army in the capital, and there were several large-scale barracket brawls, but this time it was all the border army that won, after all, most of them climbed out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield, both physical strength and willpower far exceeded the old soldiers of the forbidden army in the capital, of course, one pick ten must be a bit exaggerated, but one pick three or five is absolutely no problem.

There has never been any reason to talk about on the battlefield, and it is almost the same in the barracks, within the scope of military law, whoever has the biggest fist is the truth, and those forbidden troops in the capital were taught a lesson by the newly transferred border army, and finally all of them were honest. Zhao Yan took this opportunity to place some outstanding generals in the border army into the forbidden army in the capital, responsible for their drills, and also eliminated a group of old and weak, and supplemented a group of new soldiers, so that in just a few months. The forbidden army in the capital has undergone tremendous changes, although it is unlikely to be directly pulled into the battlefield, but as long as it is practiced for a period of time, it can be regarded as a qualified recruit, and compared with the real veterans, it is only the actual combat experience on the battlefield.

Until this time, Zhao Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, the first part of the rectification plan of the Beijing Forbidden Army had finally been completed, and then it was necessary to adhere to the strict training of the Beijing Forbidden Army to keep them in a good state. Then just wait for the rotation to go to the frontier to garrison, and wait until all the forbidden troops in the capital are rotated, and the forbidden army in the capital at that time will definitely no longer be a good thing, but a strong army that can fight on the battlefield.

After forgetting about the rectification of the forbidden army in the capital, Zhao Yan finally had nothing at hand that could be worthy of his too much attention, so he also deliberately gave himself a vacation and rested at home with his wife and children for a day, but he just returned to the political hall the next day. Chen Shengzhi immediately reported a very bad news to him.

"What! When did this happen? I saw Zhao Yan stand up with an angry face and said, although he had been worried before. But I didn't expect it to happen.

"Qiqi Regent, this is the news I received three days ago, someone found someone planting sweet potatoes north of the Yellow River, although the old minister has notified the local government to eradicate the sweet potato field, but since there is a sweet potato field north of the Yellow River, it is inevitable that there will be a second and third place. I'm afraid it won't be long before sweet potato fields will be everywhere north of the Yellow River! Chen Shengzhi also said with a serious face at this time.

I saw that Zhao Yan couldn't help but walk back and forth in the room a few times impatiently when he heard this, and his face was full of worry. When he came back from Yanyun, he once found someone planting sweet potatoes on the south bank of the Yellow River crossing, but fortunately, sweet potatoes had not yet reached the north of the Yellow River at that time. At that time, Zhao Yan was very worried, because if Liao Guo got sweet potatoes, I was afraid that the grain output would increase greatly in a few years, and it would be even more difficult to deal with in the future.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that after Zhao Yan served as regent, he immediately learned about the spread of corn and sweet potatoes in detail. Of course, this can not completely eliminate the outflow of seeds, especially in the state capitals around Tuntian, from time to time it will be found that some people plant corn and sweet potatoes privately, and the imperial court has been cracking down on this, and will immediately eradicate the crops after finding that someone is planting privately, and those who grow privately will also be fined heavily.

Under this severe crackdown, the spread of corn and sweet potatoes has been under the control of the imperial court, but later when the reform began, all parts of the country were affected by the change, and the southern Tuntian was no exception, and the officials of Tuntian were almost replaced, and the new officials all focused on the change, and the monitoring of corn and sweet potatoes was naturally relaxed.

Although Wang Anshi's change ended in failure, it was in this short period of time that sweet potatoes and corn grew almost explosively in the south, human nature is like this, the more you hide the things you don't want to see people, the more others want to know, corn and sweet potatoes have been banned by the imperial court from private planting, but after the monitoring was relaxed, it attracted countless people to plant, this speed is simply faster than the speed of the imperial court's vigorous promotion, and finally when the change almost stopped, Corn and sweet potatoes have long been spread throughout the south and have begun to spread to the north.

As the so-called law does not blame the public, when the number of corn and sweet potato growers reaches such an astonishing scale, the decree of the imperial court does not play a big role, not to mention that corn and sweet potato are still high-yield crops, the yield of one acre of land is several times higher than that of rice or wheat, especially sweet potatoes do not choose the land, even many crops can not grow in saline-alkali land can also be planted, of course, the yield is definitely much lower, but it is better than no planting at all.

In this case, the spread of corn and sweet potatoes to the north is also extremely fast, especially sweet potatoes are more popular with some poor people, as a result, Zhao Yan saw the situation at the ferry, originally the imperial court also wanted to use the Yellow River to block the spread of sweet potatoes, but unfortunately now it seems to have failed, the north bank of the Yellow River has appeared sweet potato planting, it is estimated that at the latest in a year, sweet potatoes will be transmitted to Liao, as for corn will certainly not be too far.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan couldn't help but sigh helplessly, and asked Chen Shengzhi at the moment: "Chen Xiang, do you have any opinions on the spread of sweet potatoes to the north?" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan ask about his opinion, Chen Shengzhi shook his head with a wry smile, this is no longer something that can be stopped by manpower, even if the imperial court uses the army, I am afraid it can only delay the spread of sweet potatoes.

Just when Zhao Yan had a headache, he saw Sima Guang suddenly jump out and attack the court of the law changers again: "Regent, the old minister wants to participate in Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing and other law-changing factions, it is precisely because they do things in the name of changing the law, which leads to the spread of corn and sweet potato, the two high-yield crops, if they reach the Liao State in the future, it will greatly increase the national strength of the Liao State, so the crimes committed by Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing and others are simply no different from the capital enemy, and please take the political revenge for their crimes!" ”

"Sima Xianggong's words are wrong, although there were some omissions in the reform of the law back then, but after the reform of the regent during this time, it finally achieved the effect we expected, so it can be seen that our change is also working hard to change the Great Song Dynasty, how can we say that the government is chaotic?" At this time, Lu Huiqing hurriedly defended himself and said that Wang Anshi could not care, but he didn't want Sima Guang to burn the flames of war on him.

"Hmph, is it a chaotic government, people in the world have commented on it, you go outside to find someone to ask, and see how others scold you!" Sima Guang said angrily again, after he went from supporting to opposing the change, the whole person seemed to have gone to an extreme, and he was extremely hostile to anyone and everything related to the change.

Seeing that Sima Guang and Lu Huiqing quarreled again because of the change of law, Zhao Yan also felt a little irritable, and just wanted to stop them, but at this time, he suddenly saw a palace attendant trotting in, and then whispered a few words in Zhao Yan's ear, but Zhao Yan's face also changed greatly, and immediately threw down a sentence "This matter will be discussed later", and then hurriedly entered the palace. (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is five hundred words less than usual.,There's really no time code.,Lao Yu's daughter has a high fever of forty degrees.,The effect of taking medicine is limited.,You may have to go to the hospital in the afternoon.,It's estimated that you'll have to be hospitalized again.,The update of the old fish in the next few days may be a little unstable.,I hope you can understand.。