Li Zhitong stayed in Beijing for three days, during which he basically nested in the palace to instruct Zhu Jian how to grow potatoes, in fact, when he bought these potatoes, he only asked the seller how to plant them, and the specific matters were not clear, and the practical experience was 0.

Although Zhu Jian is through the public, but the potato is not very well understood, just roughly browsed on the Internet, knowing that this Dongdong drought tolerance and high yield, this is still experts advocate the replacement of rice with potatoes, and I am curious to take a look on the Internet, and the specific planting method is really not understood, as if it is cut into blocks according to the bud eye, and the temperature required is slightly lower, which is suitable for planting in the north.

There are manpower in the palace, and as soon as Zhu Jian gave the order, the eunuchs got busy, and when he came back, the eunuchs had set up a large wooden shed in the back garden of Tian Guifei's Yonghe Palace, and several pieces of soft and fertile land were just waiting for Zhu Jian to inspect and accept.

Zhu Jian and Li Zhitong put a small part of the potatoes on the watered straw, a small part half buried in the soft fertilizer field, half of it first, in case the planting failed, potatoes are a magic weapon to relieve the pressure on food, he did not dare to gamble, the treasure is all bet.

After getting it done, he ordered a few eunuchs and palace maids to take turns on duty, keep a good watch, don't get too much water, just make sure that the straw is a little wet, and in order to prevent rats from destroying it, he also stocked a few domestic cats in the wooden shed.

Three days later, Li Zhitong, who was awarded the rank of lieutenant, and a little eunuch with a secret letter from the Son of Heaven, escorted by a team of brocade-clothed wrestlers, hurried to Fujian.

When Song Xiance received a secret letter from the Son of Heaven, he discussed with Zheng Zhilong for a while, and finally, Zheng Zhilong transferred twenty large and medium-sized warships and ten large merchant ships from his own fleet, and a number of soldiers and sailors were used by Li Zhitong.

During the preparation for going to sea, Zheng Zhilong also sent a team of soldiers to escort Li Zhitong home to visit his family, and jumped from a civilian to an official.

Later, Li Zhitong came back, stopped some blonde and blue-eyed foreigners at the dock, and invited them into the sailor's camp to discuss business.

Fujian is one of the Haikou of trade, there are some translators who understand various Chinese, and Zheng Zhilong's sailors also have some translators, even if the meaning is not precise enough, but there are potatoes as samples, and those foreign businessmen generally understand what Li Zhitong means, that is, to do potato business.

Song Xiance is personally responsible for the negotiations, Li Zhitong is the deputy, you bring a large number of potatoes, if the price is reasonable, I will accept all the orders, as long as it is not moldy, even if it sprouts, I will accept it, of course, the price has to be lowered, the most important thing is that the two sides have formed a friendly and cooperative relationship, and all tariffs, escorts and other related expenses are free of charge.

Such preferential conditions made those foreign businessmen all smile and crooked their mouths, thinking in their hearts that a few potato cargo ships would carry another Dongdong, and they would make a steady profit without losing money, and such a good business would be rejected by a fool.

After negotiating the terms of commercial cooperation, Li Zhitong led his small fleet to sail to sea, Zheng Zhilong is the number one pirate off the coast of Fujian, and even the powerful Dutch fleet was pressed into the sea by him and beaten violently, who would dare to provoke the merchant ships with the Zheng character flag on the ship? What's more, Li Zhitong's fleet has twenty large and medium-sized warships to escort the escort, even if a certain group of small pirates has the courage to rob the merchant ships of Zheng Ziqi, they have to carefully weigh the strength of both sides, can they bite it?

After Li Zhitong went to sea, the little eunuch who came with him returned to Beijing with Song Xiance's handwritten letter, showing the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Jian read the letter, and breathed a big sigh of relief in his heart, with those foreign businessmen intervening, a large number of potatoes will continue to pour into the empire, and then in the areas of lack of water and drought to promote planting, as long as there is a harvest, it will greatly alleviate the food pressure of the empire, and the common people have a belly fill, so they naturally cultivate with peace of mind, how can they have the leisure to play with Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and them?

Zhu Jian's mind is now all on the potatoes, and he runs into the shed as soon as he comes, Tian Guifei also stares at him all day long in order to please him, but she just sits outside the shed, staring at the potatoes and looking at the eunuchs and palace maids in her palace, even Empress Yi'an and Empress Zhou were also alarmed, and came over to watch the excitement together, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that this fresh Dongdong could replace rice and noodles and other grains, relieving the pressure of the empire's serious shortage of food.

In the era of men's respect, women took their husbands and children as their virtues, and basically did not participate in political affairs, but under the influence of Zhu Jian intentionally or unintentionally, Empress Yi'an, Tian Guifei and others learned more or less about some domestic events, at least knowing that the Ming Empire was at a critical moment of survival, although they couldn't help much, but they also learned from Queen Zhou's frugality, no longer extravagant and wasteful, and tried to save a little money for the Son of Heaven to save the crumbling Ming Empire.

It's a pity that due to the regulations of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the queen can only be selected from the innocent petty bourgeoisie, and the two queens do not have a solid family background, so they can't help financially.

Empress Yi'an was really good to Chongzhen, the little uncle emperor, not to mention helping him to climb the dragon chair, but also taking out the jewelry and famous paintings that Emperor Tianqi had rewarded and bequeathed to her, and asked Wang Chengen to take out the palace to sell them for cash, as the cost of saving the country, which made Zhu Jian moved and respected Empress Yi'an more and more.

In fact, Empress Yi'an is only in her twenties, mature and charming, it is the most attractive period in a woman's life, according to modern people's ideas, after two or three years, find a good husband to marry, and live a happy life, but this is in the Ming Dynasty, Empress Yi'an has a special identity, can only stay in the deep palace, a lonely person to death, Zhu Jian even if he is the emperor, he is powerless to change this matter, the only thing he can do is to be kind to this sister-in-law and queen, care more about her, and be worthy of her previous care.

While waiting for the potatoes to sprout, Zhu Jian's life was still the same as before, presiding over the government in the morning, reviewing the recitals after the dispersal of the dynasty, writing something by the way, and then taking the time to go to the arsenal to walk around, chatting with the craftsmen for a while, being close to the people and urging work by the way, or going to the wolf camp, the Shenji camp, and the Phoenix Legion to watch the soldiers' drills, YY The three major battalions swept away the domestic chaos for him, and then moved to Liaodong, beating the Jin army to cry dad and mother, or go to ......

Anyway, he was so busy that he could hardly stop for a moment, but no matter how busy he was, Zhu Jian still insisted on taking a little time to exercise, and he also needed a better body to be a faint king, otherwise he would look at the three thousand beauties in the harem, but he couldn't hold a spear and jump on a horse, and go into battle to tear and kill, so it was called bitterness, but he still remembered Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun in his heart.

Zhu Jian loves to sleep lazy, every time it is Queen Zhou, Lu Hongniang, Tian Guifei or the palace maid dragged out of bed, so, his fitness time is generally selected after dinner, the palace is wide, and there are more places for running and fitness, he did not do strenuous fitness exercises, just jogging, although the fitness effect is not obvious, but as long as he insists, it still has an effect, and the only belief that supports him is to be a faint monarch and include the famous goddesses of Chongzhen into the harem.

Even though the palace was heavily guarded, when Zhu Jian was jogging and exercising, there were still a large number of warriors around him, two dragon and tiger guards followed by his personal guards, and Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, was waiting on the side.

Everyone thinks it's strange, the emperor tosses himself so much, is it too much energy? Empress Zhou and Empress Yi'an's thoughts are more direct, with this energy, it is better to take a few more concubines and toss a few more dragon sons and dragon girls out of the serious business.

"I'm fitness, how many times have I said it, if you don't understand, forget it."

Zhu Jian explained N times, but no one could understand it, he said too much, and he didn't bother to explain it anymore, everyone in the world is drunk, only my brother wakes up alone, Mu has a bosom friend, sometimes it's really lonely, and it's cold in high places.

Seeing the two dragon and tiger guards striding to follow him, running out of breath by themselves, and they didn't even take a breath, Zhu Jian's heart moved.