Li Qinzai does not agree with or oppose the matter of farmers providing longevity tablets.

Personality worship is actually the same nature as superstition, the difference is that the objects of worship are different, one is a mortal, and the other is a god and Buddha.

Lee is still an atheist at heart, and of course, an atheist mixed with water.

When you encounter a temple Taoist temple, you don't mind going in to worship it, and you don't mind giving a little when you see a monk, the premise is that the temple Taoist temple you worship must be effective, otherwise it will be a fraud, and the yamen will sue him.

Asking for peace and contraception or something, believe it or not, the attitude is very easy-going, but if someone says that they shake their legs and scatter wealth, and their right eye jumps into disaster, then they must believe it.

In terms of money, there is no room for the slightest joke, sincerity is spirituality, and it is better to believe in what it has than to believe in it.

"Within three or five years, sweet potatoes should be able to popularize the entire Tang Dynasty, and if there is another disaster year in the future, the people will at least not starve to death, which is better than gnawing white mud." Li Qinzai sighed.

"White mud" refers to the Guanyin soil, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the folk have found that the Guanyin soil can satisfy hunger, of course, the harm is also great.

The so-called Guanyin soil, in fact, refers to the kaolin clay for making ceramics, which looks very white and delicate, like flour, and can indeed carry hunger when eaten, but this thing is soil after all, not food.

Eat into the abdomen and then drink water, water and soil in the abdomen fused and expanded into a hard lump, can not be excreted, people who eat Guanyin soil, in fact, have lost more than half of their lives, many people will swell to death.

In the year of the catastrophe, human life was like a mustard, and the scene of thousands of miles of starvation was only experienced by oneself, and only then did one know that the picture was comparable to hell and miserable.

Therefore, Li Qinzai's discovery of the significance of sweet potato grain seeds is actually very great. The officials in the court were well-fed and had never experienced hardship, perhaps thinking that it was a new kind of food.

But among the people, ordinary people who have experienced famine know better than officials the weight of the sweet potato species.

It can be planted in drought and flood, and does not need to be carefully served, it grows in the wind when planted in the soil, and the yield is amazing.

A thousand years later, in the Braided Dynasty, the people were so miserably enslaved by the rulers, but the population of the Braided Dynasty still exceeded 100 million, reaching the peak of China's historical population.

It was not because of how great the rulers were, but because the sweet potato, a new grain that was introduced to China, and its existence still fed countless people under the heavy taxes of the time, and this suffering people were able to reproduce.

The people offered Li Qinzai's immortal tablet at home, in fact, it is not too much at all, and only in this way can the people's gratitude to Li Qinzai be expressed.

Weng and his son-in-law chatted casually about the promotion of sweet potatoes, but when Li Qinzai said this, King Teng's expression flashed a hint of gloom.

"What's wrong with my father-in-law? Didn't the son-in-law say it right just now? Li Qinzai asked curiously.

King Teng shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Since ancient times, man-made disasters are often more terrible than natural disasters. ”

Li Qinzai frowned: "What happened to the father-in-law?" ”

King Teng was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Sweet potatoes are good things, as long as the people in various states and counties plant them, when the harvest comes, no one will say that it is not good......"

"And then?"

King Teng's tone became cold: "But some states and counties are not even willing to try planting, and the grain that the old man brought from Chang'an was also detained by them in the official office, and they did not issue it to the people at all, but criticized the old man for tossing and harming the people's livelihood." ”

Li Qinzai's eyes widened: "Which state and county is so bold." ”

King Teng said coldly: "Jiangnan Province, Lingnan Province, and more than ten state and county officials all resist planting sweet potatoes. ”

Li Qinzai's expression became serious, and the promotion of grain varieties is a major matter, and there is no room for the slightest dereliction of duty.

The fact that local officials have dared to resist the cultivation of grain is clearly not simple.

"Jiangnan, Lingnan?" Li Qinzai frowned and muttered.

These two are areas with a pleasant climate and a vast area of cultivated land, and they are also the granaries of Datang.

"Do you know why local officials resist planting new grains?"

King Teng sneered: "The officials of more than ten prefectures and counties, their reasons are surprisingly unanimous, saying that Jiangnan Lingnan provides the imperial court with food and wealth every year, and the logistics grain and grass for the imperial army's conquest are also mostly from Jiangnan Lingnan, and the local officials have a heavy responsibility, and they dare not take the risk of trying to plant new grains, for fear that the harvest will be bad, and they will be held accountable by the imperial court." ”

Li Qinzai thought for a while and said: "The reason is barely reasonable, but the states and counties around them that have tried to grow sweet potatoes should have heard about the output in the past two years, are they still indifferent?" ”

King Teng snorted coldly: "They said, if they don't see the official decree of the imperial court, they will try to plant new grain, and they will be referred to by the imperial history." ”

"Didn't Shangshu Province issue an official decree?"

King Teng glanced at him and said, "It's the new grain you discovered, why don't you care about this matter at all?" ”

"Two years ago, Shangshu Province issued a document recommending various prefectures and counties to properly try to plant sweet potatoes, and this king was ordered to inspect all places, and local officials should cooperate."

Li Qinzai frowned and said, "Since Shangshu Province has issued a decree, why don't they obey it?" ”

King Teng sighed: "You didn't listen carefully, what Shangshu Province issued was not a formal decree, but a recommendation, suggesting that various places try to plant, since it is a suggestion, local officials can naturally listen to it or not." ”

Li Qinzai was dissatisfied: "Is Xu Jingzong so unscrupulous? ”

"You can't blame Prime Minister Xu, after all, the emergence of new grain varieties has only been a few years, and it is reasonable for the subjects to be concerned about this."

"Whenever the imperial court promotes government decrees, they are tried first, first suggested, the language of official documents is very gentle, there is no compulsion, after all, it is a tentative change, from the court to the locality, it is necessary to take risks."

Li Qinzai shook his head and said: "Even so, the attitude of the more than a dozen state and county officials is too strange, and it is normal for one place and two places to resist the trial planting, and more than a dozen state and county officials resist, and the reasons and rhetoric are the same as those discussed in advance......

Raising his eyes and staring at King Teng, Li Qinzai asked, "Behind this matter, I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?" ”

King Teng glared at him and said, "You ask the old man?" The old man still wants to ask you. ”

Li Qinzai was stunned: "What does it have to do with me?" ”

"A few months ago, you forgot about the incident you had with the Eight Great Clans in Chang'an City?"

Li Qinzai was stunned, and then his face showed anger: "Isn't everything over?" Their head of the house also came to my door to apologize. ”

King Teng sneered: "The face of the Wang clan gate valve for hundreds of years has been stepped on and stepped on by a yellow-mouthed child of yours, do you think things are okay?" ”

"Now that retribution is coming, sweet potatoes have been promoted to other people's territory, they don't say a word, but they can make this thing impossible, the Son of Heaven and the court can't ask them yet, just ask you if you're angry!"