Wei Zhongxian loudly announced the benefits of the three crops to everyone: "All three crops are high-yielding grains that can replace staple foods such as rice, brown rice, and flour. The yield per mu of potatoes can reach thousands of catties, the yield of sweet potatoes per mu can reach 800 catties, and the yield of corn per mu can also reach more than 700 catties. These three crops are also cold and drought tolerant, if they are popularized and planted throughout the country, we can fill our stomachs and no longer starve! ”

Hearing these three numbers, everyone gasped, and even an official from a poor family stood up and blurted out, "Gonggong Wei, what you said is true?" ”

"Yes, Da Wei Qing, what you said is true. Do these three crops really have that high yields? Zhu Youxiao also asked out loud. Although His Majesty the Emperor does not distinguish between grains and grains, he still knows such common sense as crop yields.

Wei Zhongxian knelt down and said, "The old slave doesn't dare to deceive the emperor, it's all true." The old slave had three Zhuangzi outside the city, and each planted three kinds of crops, and the old slave only let people harvest six acres, and the rest were not harvested. The emperor can go to Zhuangzi with the old slave to witness the harvest of the three crops with his own eyes, and witness whether the yield of the three crops is the same as the old slave said. If the output does not reach the figure mentioned by the old slave, the old slave is willing to bear the crime of bullying the king and let the emperor dispose of it. ”

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly stepped forward to help Wei Zhongxian: "Aiqing, please get up, I believe in you, I will go to your Zhuangzi with you tomorrow." ”

Lord Cabinet Chief Auxiliary hurriedly said, "The minister will go with the emperor." ”

The rest of the cabinet ministers also said they wanted to go with them, and more ministers also said they wanted to go.

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: Tomorrow everyone will go to witness the yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu.

The next day, a large crowd marched to Wei Zhongxian's Zhuangzi outside the city. Many of these people came with a skeptical attitude, they didn't believe that there was such a high-yield food crop, Wei Zhongxian must have done something in it, they must keep their eyes open and expose Wei Zhongxian's scam.

However, it was difficult to understand the crops, and they could only watch as the farmers dug up one potato after another from the field and piled up two hills at the edge of the field. Just looking at the size of the hill, you can know that the yield of potatoes is really not low, definitely not less than 1,000 catties. Sure enough, at the urging of Zhu Youxiao, the guards hurriedly got started, and sure enough, the output of this acre of land was more than 1,400 catties.

Hearing this number, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed, and immediately wanted to reward Wei Zhongxian, but was stopped by Lord Shoufu: "Your Majesty, I just looked at one acre of land, and I can't do it accurately, and then look at the output of other places and talk about rewarding Wei's father-in-law." ”

Wei Zhongxian also said with a smile on the side: "Yes, Your Majesty, this acre of land is originally fertile land, and the output is so much, let's take a look at the output of thin fields." ”

He has long been instructed by his younger brother, and the three crops have brought him a huge reputation, so he doesn't care about those small profits, and he must establish a tall image for himself dedicated to the country and the people. Wei Zhongxian also attaches great importance to reputation, and he didn't pay attention to it before because as a eunuch, his reputation was not good. Now that he has an opportunity, he values it very much.

Although Lord Shoufu was surprised by Wei Zhongxian's performance, his eyes were full of potatoes now, and he didn't have the extra heart to speculate on Wei Zhongxian's thoughts, and accompanied Zhu Youxiao to a thin field. said that it was a thin field, but in fact, it was a new field that Wei Zhongxian asked Zhuang Min to open, no way, how could there be a thin field in the Zhuangzi of such a noble person? Medium fields are none.

Zhu Youxiao chose a field, and Lord Shoufu also pointed to a field casually, and Zhuang Min and the guards worked together to quickly dig up the potatoes in both fields. The output of a piece of land is 900 catties, and the output of a piece of land is more than 800 catties.

At this moment, even Shousuke couldn't help it, and his beard was straight up with excitement. With so much grain grown on the thin fields, the people would not have to go hungry in the future.

"Your Majesty, please immediately issue an order for the household department to promote the cultivation of potatoes." Lord Shoufu said to Zhu Youxiao.

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Lord Yang, don't worry, there are still sweet potatoes and corn that you haven't seen." After reading that, let's discuss the promotion of the three crops. ”

Lord Shoufu glanced at Wei Zhongxian and nodded. He understood that after these three crops were promoted, Wei Zhongxian would not be able to move them anyway. But forget it, anyway, although Wei Zhongxian is a eunuch and loves power, he still does things in a measured way, much better than Liu Jin's eunuchs who brought disaster to the country and the people, and he was able to find three high-yield crops to prove that he loves the country and the people, and in the future, they will turn a blind eye and don't catch Wei Zhongxian's pigtails.

Wei Zhongxian saw the change in Lord Shoufu's face, and the mind of Lord Shoufu, who was like a human spirit, he immediately understood, and his face couldn't help but smile. Haha, is this a change in the impression of him?

The group went to Wei Zhongxian's other two Zhuangzi, and the yield of corn and sweet potatoes made these people even more excited, and the people from the household department directly relied on the three Zhuangzi and did not leave, asking Wei Zhongxian to give them all the potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes harvested, and they wanted to distribute the seeds as soon as possible and then spread them to the whole country.

Wei Zhongxian generously agreed, leaving only the number of seeds made by his Zhuangzi, and giving the rest to the household department, and also made a booklet of the planting methods of the three crops and presented it to the household department. The people of the household department were overjoyed to see that potatoes could be planted in chunks and sweet potatoes could be planted.

Under the vigorous promotion of the Ministry of Households, three crop species have spread all over the country. There is no need to waste fertile land to plant, the people have newly cultivated land to plant three crops, so that the harvest of one year is enough for the people to eat their stomachs, no longer starving, and there is a surplus, even in the year of famine, these three crops are not like other crops without a harvest, there will always be a harvest, so that the people will no longer starve to death.

The people's wishes are very simple, and being able to eat enough is their greatest wish. Now that this wish has been fulfilled, what reason do the people have to rebel? The peasant uprisings that had been on the verge of being extinguished were all extinguished.

Now the people are well fed, and there are various convenient tools invented by His Majesty the Emperor, which makes the people's lives better and better, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger. On the border, the soldiers were well fed and clothed, and there were powerful weapons - the weapon drawings taken out by Wei An, and Wei Zhongxian was responsible for supervising the manufacture - the Tartars outside the gate were beaten by them, and they no longer dared to covet the Ming Dynasty. However, this was not enough, the bloody Ming soldiers took the initiative to attack, smashed the Yellow Dragon, and finally destroyed the foreign court outside the Guan, eliminating the threat outside the Ming border.