However, before destroying Luzon, Zhu Youzhen had another thing to do.

That is to honestly explain to Xu Guangqi, first find a way to start promoting the planting of corn and potatoes in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is too late this year, it must be planted next year.

Another thing is to contact those overseas businessmen, try their best to get more seeds to Da Ming, as long as the price is not beyond the sky, Da Ming can give this silver.

What's more, it wasn't just corn that was discovered this time.

There is another high-yielding crop that is as famous as sweet potatoes – potatoes.

Along with corn, they also appeared in merchant ships, but the potatoes were pitifully small compared to the amount of corn, and according to Xu Guangqi's understanding, the less than a bag of potatoes seemed to have been found in a river valley in the Americas.

I think this bulbous plant may be the same as tulips...

The tubers were terrible ugly, but the flowers were extremely beautiful, so I dug up a bag and prepared to take them back to Europe to try to cultivate.

Unexpectedly, it all fell into the hands of Da Ming in the end.

But this is a great thing for Da Ming, Zhu Youzhen directly greeted Xu Guangqi for this and said: "If you want to find a way to get more corn seeds, this potato is estimated to be a little difficult, and the American valley is that they can't find it once when they return the same way, so they have to find a way to cultivate it, and they must protect these seeds." ”

However, Zhu Youzhen knew.

There are many different types of potatoes in the Americas, and they have been recorded in later statistics.

More than 300 different varieties of potatoes have been found throughout the Americas, ranging from large to small, to a variety of strange varieties with blue skin and purple with a brown skin.

Xu Guangqi did not bring potatoes this time.

But Zhu Youzhen had already guessed it, because in the unified description of potatoes in the books produced by the system, the description was almost the same as the potatoes of later generations.

If the potatoes of later generations are used as a model, then it is estimated that the potatoes found this time will not be a strange variety such as blue potatoes.

The other side.

After deliberations, Zhu Youzhen and Xu Guangqi decided to set the plan to start immigration to Luzon at the beginning of the spring of next year, and there is still more than half a year before this point in time.

But before that, the Ming first needed to make Luzon habitable for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

That is, ecologically livable.

As for how to achieve it.. And whether the aborigines living here are willing or not these things have been automatically filtered out, after all, the Ming Dynasty is full of martial virtues, and these problems will naturally not be a big problem.

More critically.

If he occupies Luzon, Zhu Youzhen's eyes are firmly fixed on another fertile land, that is, Australia, which has just been discovered.

To be precise, someone has just been here.

It is still more than a hundred years before a group of brazen British people drove armed merchant ships to this land and planted a flag and began to introduce a piece of land to the world, which has been their land since ancient times.

It's just that now that Zhu Youzhen is here, don't even think about this kind of thing, after all, for "since ancient times".

Who can have more say than Daming.

Therefore, Luzon is undoubtedly the best springboard for Australia, as long as Luzon can be won, Australia is almost equivalent to an inseparable part of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, Australia has been an inseparable part of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times.

As for when exactly?

Zhu Youzhen can only explain to the countries of the world in a friendly way.

Steam-powered ironclads were often able to overturn a traditional sail fleet when faced with wooden sailing ships, until that time.

Zhu Youzhen believed.

Everyone will be very considerate of the Ming Dynasty, and willing to accept the fact that Australia is part of the Ming Dynasty, after all, compared to the way to plant a flag wherever you go with the British and dare to say that it is your own territory.

The way of the Ming Dynasty is simply a model of world civilization.

Internally and externally.

Zhu Youzhen has already made detailed arrangements, and the direction has already been completed, and the rest of the issues to be considered for implementation, while on the other side, the speed of the new imperial examination is constantly accelerating.

Canton House.

"The second test of the new imperial examination of the Da Ming Enke examination!"

"It's time for the exam!"

Boring boring boring! Three gongs sounded.

The second examination of the new imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty officially began, and a few days after today's examination, the list will begin to be released, and all the students who have passed the examination will be marked at the provincial level and the quota will be uniformly demarcated.

You will be able to depart for Kyoshi.

Zhu Youzhen is ready to speed up the new imperial examination as much as possible this time, because he knows it.

Huo Weihua was almost ready, and the people had already begun to walk towards the south, and the Pingnan Army and the Tianhu Army, a total of 100,000 people, had already advanced towards Guangdong and Fujian.

At the same time.

Zhu Youzhen also dispatched a large number of troops of the Tianhu Army to be stationed in various provincial capitals across the country in batches, with two divisions to Nanjing, one division to Huguang, and three divisions to Jiangxi.

Today, the scale of the Heavenly Tiger Army has reached a very large number.

You must know that the number of troops expanded by the entire Tianhu Army at the last time was quite large, and the expansion of the army reached 20 infantry divisions, 5 artillery divisions, and 20 logistics support brigades at one time.

Such quantities ..

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to imagine that if he let his army all appear in any corner of the world.

It is estimated that they can lay a large territory.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen, who had an overall army of nearly 500,000 people, began to dispatch troops to various provincial capitals, especially to ask the Tianhu Army to take over the border defense posts.

All the original guards will be compensated in accordance with the plan for the restructuring of the guards specially formulated for the Ministry of War, including but not limited to the restoration of civil registration, the permission to participate in the new imperial examinations, the permission to allow their children to participate in the new imperial examinations, and most importantly, a series of economic subsidies.

After all, compared to silver, everything else is a bit empty.

....

Kaiping Guard.

As a Ming military guard station that is extremely close to the Beijing Division, it stands to reason that the living conditions should be quite good, but the military household is the military household, and the military registration is the military registration.

Step out of the city for no reason?

Those are all to be punished by the imperial court.

In addition, the officers of the guard post exchanged by the imperial court again and again are like wolf cubs on an empty stomach, and they don't do anything else when they get to the place, they are a series of ... Farming, collecting rent, and the price of collecting rent will rise.

But under this cycle, there is almost no difference between military households and beggars.

Life has been extremely difficult, but since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne.

Kaipingwei's living conditions can be said to have risen in a straight line, although the problem of household registration has not been solved for a while.

But the problem of eating was alleviated in the first place.