At this moment, all the officials above the fourth grade in the capital have gathered outside the Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing, and they chatted without bounds, and when the royal car came closer, they sorted out their clothes and lined up to greet them.

"The ministers will meet Your Majesty, the Queen, His Royal Highness the Dingwang, and the eldest princess......"

"No need to be polite, just flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The ministers are straight, but one by one they look at their noses, their noses and their hearts, and they never look at them randomly, you must know that this time Empress Xue is with the emperor, as a courtier, he should not be rude, otherwise it is also disrespectful!

The speech officials were depressed and crazy in the Jiajing Dynasty, and now they can't find an excuse for those crazy people to spray their own incompleteness, even if the emperor ignores the speech officials, but it will damage their official reputation and reputation after all.

The ministers followed Zhu Houwei into the Huangzhuang, and there were busy farmers as far as they could see, as well as a few young people wearing Tongzhou industrial standard uniforms walking around the fields, their originally young and immature faces had already been tanned and shiny by the sun.

The people of this era have a deep-rooted reverence for the imperial power, even if the emperor has not been to the Huangzhuang once in the past few months, and has said that they should do what they should do without being polite, but the farmers will still immediately kneel down when they see the emperor, and several agricultural students are also standing aside, respectful, and over time, Zhu Houwei is too lazy to continue to interfere.

After walking for a while, Zhu Houwei stopped in front of a long lush green imperial field, this is the area where potatoes are planted, and now it is the harvest season, Zhu Houwei naturally wants to bring his ministers to see with his own eyes what is a high-yield crop!

"Princes Aiqing, I once sent people to look for seeds from thousands of miles, and I once said that there are many high-yield crops among these seeds, such as the potato field that Zhongqing saw at this moment.

I know that many Aiqing have doubts about my words, and they don't even believe that there are crops in this world with a production capacity of two or three thousand catties per mu, and they just wait for what they see with their own eyes today, and then come out to refute me, but I am the same, I don't like nonsense, and my favorite things to do are also reasoned with facts. ”

The ministers were silent, indeed, if the emperor could not prove what he had said, then even if he was the emperor, he could refer to the deer as a horse, and he could say that the white was black, it was meaningless.

But did the emperor say anything unrealistic?

It seems like too much......

But so what, the people of the capital have seen the hot air balloon floating in the air more than once, and even some officials have personally boarded the hot air balloon to experience, with personal experience, who can question that the emperor once said that he can make people fly into the sky is nonsense, as for the train...... Needless to say.

Now thousands of shipwrights in Tianjin Wei Shipyard are working day and night to build steel giants, it is said that the first giant ship will be officially launched next year for sea trials, up to three years, Ming can appear an invincible overlord on the ocean.

Shen Gengzhong, who had been appointed Admiral of the Navy, had now selected thousands of good swimmers from the new army to conduct simple adaptation training on the sea of Tianjinwei.

But whether it's a steel battleship or an invincible sailor, the civil officials really don't care so much, they used to care because the civilian officials can supervise the division and lead the troops to obtain military merits, but now the emperor no longer allows the civilian officials to supervise the division, so the civil administration can't get military merit, no military merit, as a scholar, who wants to deal with the fighting man.

"Xiangyun."

The eunuch of Huangzhuang, the general commander of Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing, hurriedly responded: "The slave maid is here."

"Arrange for someone to dig up the potatoes!"

"Yes." Xiang Yun Lingzhi, knowing that His Majesty was coming today, he had done enough work, and half of the three hundred farmers in Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing were present at the moment, and when they heard the order, they immediately didn't say a word, and went down to the field with shovels, hoes and other farm tools in their hands.

The sun is very poisonous, Ren Xing ordered people to hold up the canopy to block the sun for the emperor and others, as for the ministers, they were already sweating, but they could only be exposed to the sun.

However, after all, Zhu Houwei was careful and ordered someone to take hundreds of umbrellas and distribute them to the ministers to block the sun, which saved the weak officials from the fate of being exposed to heat stroke.

After a quarter of an hour, a basket of potatoes mixed with a little dirt was brought to the edge of the ridge, and then the official in charge of weighing the basket recorded the weight of the basket of overweight potatoes.

"Five hundred pounds...... Eight hundred pounds...... Fifteen hundred pounds...... 3,000 pounds...... 4,000 catties...... Four thousand two hundred and thirty-seven pounds! ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the total weight of the potatoes dug up in this acre is 4,237 catties!" The weighing officer's voice trembled slightly when he reported the weight, and his eyes seemed to be a ghost in the daytime.

"Not bad." Zhu Houwei smiled, the yield of potatoes is not constant, subject to various conditions, when the yield of potatoes per mu is low, it can even be seven or eight thousand catties.

The potatoes grown in this Huangzhuang must have been carefully cared for, and the yield of more than 4,000 catties is normal.

"Dig two more acres." Zhu Houwei ordered again that the yield of one mu of land is not convincing enough, and it is naturally better to dig two more acres to take the average value.

The farmer continued to dig, and at this moment the ministers were already stupid, and the body of Yang Yiqing, the first assistant, trembled slightly inadvertently.

Shock! Absolutely shocking!

Yang Yiqing swore that no matter how absurd and ridiculous the emperor said in the future, he would never question it again, because questioning would only show that he was ignorant!

The yield per mu is more than 4,000 catties, which is incredible and unbelievable!

What is this concept? What would it mean to have such a high yield per acre?

Soon, two acres of potatoes were dug up, with a yield of 3,974 catties per mu and 4,531 catties per mu!

Three acres are so high-yielding, it is enough to smash all doubts!

As the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing, the first person in the court, pinched himself hard, and finally confirmed that he was not dreaming, in fact, the ministers who did this with him were definitely not one or two......

"Your Majesty, you ...... You say this dirt...... Potatoes can ...... Can it be used as a staple food? Yang Yiqing, who has always been calm and calm, began to speak at this time.

Zhu Houwei smiled: "Yang Aiqing's mind is in a mess."

Yang Yiqing took a deep breath and said: "It's about the life of the society and the people, it's about the eternal stability of the Ming Dynasty, and the minister's heart can't help but be chaotic."

"If rice and wheat are the staple food, then there are a few seeds brought back by the grain that can be used as secondary staple food, and this potato is one of them, the reason why it is said to be a secondary staple food is because this potato cannot be eaten every day like rice grain, but in a disaster year, when the grain production is reduced, these secondary staple grains are enough to fill the stomachs of the affected people, and then live countless lives."

"That's enough!" Yang Yiqing's eyes were filled with tears and said: "With this grain, it is better than when the catastrophe occurs, the people gnaw tree bark, eat Guanyin soil and even Yizi and eat, with this grain, even if the grain production is reduced, there will be no overwhelming homeless people in the world, and the people will not rebel in order to survive!"

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