"Not enough, far from enough!" Zhu Houwei said categorically: "Jiang Aiqing has not yet understood what the meaning is contained, what kind of long-term hidden effect does General Shen's trip have on the Ming Dynasty, I remember telling you that I want to let the land of the Ming Dynasty grow a staple grain that can reach four or five thousand catties per mu, and now General Shen has brought it back, not to mention other crops, this is the only one, Jiang Aiqing knows what it means?"

Jiang Mian was dumbfounded, what does it mean? It means that the earth is shattering, it means that the sky is falling! It means incredible!

When the emperor talked about his dream, all the ministers listened to it as a joke, even if they saw the hot air balloon in the sky with their own eyes, they could be regarded as understanding it afterwards, it was nothing more than another use of Kong Ming lanterns.

What is the concept of staple food that can yield four or five thousand catties per mu?

There is no concept at all......

Because this completely subverts everyone's cognition, there is no record of this crop in all the books of the past and present.

Thousands of years ago, if there was a long time ago, since there is none, it must not be not, not to mention the scholars, even the peasants who are in the ground all day with their backs to the loess will not believe it.

Therefore, Baiguan firmly believes that this crop definitely does not exist!

But the emperor sent Shen Gengzhong to travel thousands of miles to find it this time, and it seems that he is looking for this kind of high-yield crop, so the paradox is coming......

How did the emperor know about this crop?

If it was known before, then why didn't someone send someone to bring this crop back to Daming in the past?

Could it be that you are born to know?

This kind of statement is completely nonsense for the readers who 'don't say anything'.

"I know that you don't believe it, but I will use the facts to make you believe, General Shen."

"The end will be."

"Go get the potatoes."

"Yes." Shen Gengzhong turned around and left, and then took a large wooden box without a lid from the simple carriage, and it could be seen that it was well protected.

There is no way, this has touched Zhu Houwei's knowledge blind spot, he only knows when potatoes are planted, but how to plant them can only be said to be half-understood.

So he asked Shen Gengzhong to catch the Native Americans by himself and ask them clearly, and then transport them back after cultivating, so as not to sprout the potatoes, and whether they can be planted alive, he doesn't know.

Now that the potatoes in the wooden box have obviously survived, and it has reached the harvest season, Zhu Houwei is not polite, he directly goughed the loose soil with his hands, and then lifted out a bunch of potatoes that are not too big.

In a one-foot square wooden box, there is just such a potato, and the amount is three or four catties!

The ministers watched this scene, and those who were slightly better at mathematics immediately began to calculate silently in their hearts, which didn't matter, they were chilled all over!

At least two thousand pounds!

At least 2,000 catties per acre of land!

What a concept! If one acre of land can grow 2,000 catties of such grain, it is simply ...... There are countless living people!

The hearts of the ministers could not help but tremble, because they were thinking extremely long-term at the moment, why did the Gulai Dynasty die?

Land annexation, why did land annexation become the main reason for the demise of the dynasty?

Quite simply, because the people who lost their land lost their ability to survive, in order to survive, they could only take risks, and then kill officials and rebel.

But as long as you can fill your stomach and have a little way to live, who is willing to rebel at the risk of raiding your family and exterminating your family, even Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, when his parents starved to death in the family, and his brothers and sisters starved to death, wasn't it just begging and becoming a monk?

There is no way to live, so I have gone on the opposite path!

If this potato can yield 2,000 catties per mu, God! Countless people can eat enough, so why should they rebel.

If a generation of dynasties cannot escape the fate of three hundred years, then relying on this potato, at least five hundred years can enjoy the Ming Dynasty!

And Daming will usher in an explosive population growth!

There is no doubt about this, because it is certain, as long as there is food, the reproduction ability of the Chinese nation can be called terrifying!

Why didn't the strong Han and the Tang Dynasty expand their territory frantically during the extremely strong period, even if they occupied the Western Regions and other places, they only set up the capital protectorate?

It's very simple, no one.

Qin Shi Huang unified the world, the implementation of the same text, the same track, to the Han Dynasty Dong Zhongshu put forward the theory of great unification, the concept of the world can be regarded as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Confucians knew that in order to effectively rule the conquered territory, two things had to be done: cultural assimilation and population migration.

Culture is better to say, but immigrants?

Immigrants rely on a massive population, and there is no huge population base, so what kind of occupation can we talk about?

But now if the yield of this potato per mu can really be 2,000 catties, then the people will have one more way to live, and the reproduction of the population will be accelerated, and in 20 years, at most 50 years, the population of Daming will be able to double!

If the population is large, more land is needed to feed it, so even if the scholar does not like war, he can only push the war to plunder more land to feed the growing population, otherwise even the most productive crops are useless......

Zhu Houwei took the silk cloth handed over by Ren Xing, carefully wiped the potatoes clean, and said, "Next year, you will know whether what I said is true or false, but before that, I will be rewarded for meritorious deeds!"

The ministers were solemn, and they could hear from the emperor's tone that the emperor had made up his mind, and they had always been powerless against the emperor who had made up his mind.

"Five hundred and two martyrs are buried in the martyrs' cemetery, worthy of the martyrs' shrine, the pension is doubled, if all the martyrs have no queen, then the orphans are selected from the people to inherit their heirs, after the martyrs, the Ming Dynasty cultivates them to adulthood, all with my strength to bear!"

"The last general will thank His Majesty for his grace on behalf of his comrades-in-arms!"

The ministers did not react much, the emperor's disposition was not heavy, it was just a slight gift on the original treatment of the martyrs, which was not a big deal.

"The soldiers who came back alive are all heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and I have never been stingy with rewards." Zhu Houwei's gaze swept over the nearly 500 soldiers standing solemnly and said: "Each soldier will be given a thousand taels of silver, and the military rank will be promoted to the third level, and the military merit department will agree on this military merit and record it in the ......."

Wang Qiong was depressed, this was another authority deprived of by the Ministry of War, but he got used to it, it didn't matter......

"When a man makes contributions on the battlefield, he wants to be a marquis and a general, a wife and a son, and a knighthood...... I can't reward that much at once, but women ...... Otomo. ”

"Your Majesty." Ren Xingxiang took a step forward.

"Elect a woman of the right age in the palace and marry these four hundred and ninety-eight heroes!"

"Yes!" Ren Xing was stunned for a moment, and then responded, this is a trivial matter, there are not many others in the palace, that is, there are many palace maids and eunuchs, not to mention five hundred, even one thousand is not a thing, it is really missing, and then it will be called.

Most of the soldiers of the new army were unmarried, and ninety out of ten were children, and now when they heard that the emperor wanted to give them women...... gave the marriage, and suddenly blushed with excitement.

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