"Resurgence?"

In the Wenhua Palace, when he heard that Yang Hao could be replaced and survived, Ye Xianggao's eyes lit up.

Liu Yixian also believes that if Yang Ho is released to North Korea, it may have a different effect.

After all, on the day Yang Ho left North Korea during the Battle of Korea, the Korean people "covered the road and cried" to see Yang Ho off, and the Korean king was so sad that he couldn't help himself, "sobbing and choking, tears flowing".

After Yang Ho left, the Korean monarchs and ministers praised Yang Ho's merits and erected a monument to Yang Ho.

Whenever there are envoys or generals of the Ming Dynasty to the court, the Korean monarchs and ministers will ask about Yang Hao's recent situation, the North Korean built the Xuanwu Temple, and the Korean king proposed that Yang Hao should be shared with Yang Hao, which shows how high Yang Hao's status in the minds of the Korean monarchs and ministers.

Such a person was transferred to North Korea, and perhaps only the late Korean king Li Hao could barely confront him.

As for Li Hui? Compared with the hearts of the people and the hearts of scholars, he is far inferior to Yang Hao.

Once he wants to make any small moves, as long as Yang Hao fans casually, Li Hui will be abolished lightly.

Thinking of this, Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiao said one after another: "The minister thinks that the words of the King of Qi are feasible." ”

Zhu Youxiao saw that the two of them agreed, so he glanced at Zhu Youzhen, and then said:

"Since this is the case, Yang Hao, Li Rusong, and Li Ruzhen will be reinstated, and Yang Hao will be reinstated as the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and after the beginning of spring, he will inspect North Korea, live in Seoul, and then send a hundred Xiao cavalry guards to escort him to North Korea and serve as his escort."

Zhu Youxiao left a nail beside Yang Hao, and he was one of the sixteen guards, a hundred households of the Xiao Cavalry Guard, and this approach, although Ye Xianggao and the others frowned, they still responded deeply.

However, after responding, Ye Xianggao took out another copy of the note:

"Long live, the military department overturned the governor of the Beijing camp Chen Liangbi said that the original three battalions of horses were 21,250, and 1,793 horses died in the 48th year of Wanli, you see ......"

"Transfer to the Imperial Horse Supervisor!" Zhu Youxiao heard that the three battalions could even raise horses to death, and sure enough, as Ye Xianggao thought, he asked all the military horses to be transferred to the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Zhu Youzhen was also very happy when he heard this arrangement.

At present, the Imperial Horse Supervisor has exchanged markets many times, and the number of military horses of the Bayo Department has increased a lot, but the number of military horses is still less than 40,000, and it is impossible to equip two cavalry guards.

Now that the horses of the Beijing camp are transferred, the military horses at hand will be much richer, and it is estimated that after the three towns of Shanxi are abolished, the four cavalry guards will be able to achieve the configuration of one person and four horses.

"Obey the Order......"

Seeing Zhu Youxiao say this, Ye Xianggao replied, and then together with Liu Yixiao, he and Zhu Youxiao talked about some other political affairs, and finally the two left after seeing that the matter was discussed, but Zhu Youxiao said to Zhu Youzhen after the two left:

"My brother asked Yang Ho to go to North Korea, so I'm afraid that the North Korean monarchs and ministers will be cautious."

"However, if North Korea really has trade with Jiannu and cuts off trade under Yang Hao's supervision, I am afraid that Old Slave will lead troops to attack North Korea."

Zhu Youxiao's words made Zhu Youzhen respond with a smile: "If the old slave dares to send troops on a large scale, it will be time for my Liaodong soldiers to take back Fushun, Tieling, and Kaiyuan!" ”

After that, Zhu Youzhen talked about the construction of docks and armed merchant ships.

Although Zhu Youxiao didn't understand why he wanted to build so many big ships, when he thought that it was his younger brother's decision, he still bowed his head slightly and agreed.

As a result, for most of the next half a month, the silver spent by the Imperial Horse Supervisor was like flowing water, and the coastal area of Tianjin was also filled in to build shipyards, and huge docks rose from the ground.

Time is running out, and little by little it is coming to the end of September.

At this moment, the autumn harvest has ended, and at the same time, the experimental fields in the southern part of Yongpyeong Province are also in full swing.

Zhu Youzhen, who learned the news, rushed towards Yongping Mansion under the guard of hundreds of people such as Xiaoqi and Jinyiwei.

On the afternoon of September 25, he came to the experimental field, which was already bare, and Wang Chengen, who was in charge of this place, received Zhu Youzhen at the gate of Wubao, not far from the experimental field.

Cao Huachun helped Zhu Youzhen to get off the horse, and Wang Chengen also came up and said:

"Your Highness, these crops have been harvested in Wubao in various places, and the millions of acres of experimental fields that have been circled in Yongping Mansion have been harvested."

"What is the yield per acre of various grains?" Zhu Youzhen patted the ash sprinkled on the troll, and asked happily.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen immediately took out a document from his bosom and said:

"122 kg of wheat, 175 kg of millet (sorghum), 126 kg of beans, 224 kg of grain, 184 kg of jade wheat, 1245 kg of sweet potato, and 458 kg of potato (potato)."

"How much wheat and potatoes?" Zhu Youzhen thought he had heard it wrong.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen turned to the page that recorded the Three Treasures, pointed and said:

"Yumai Shangtian can collect about 210 catties, Zhongtian 18, and Shimoda 15."

"Sweet potatoes can be harvested more than 1,400 catties in the field, more than 1,200 catties in the middle field, and 800 catties in the lower field."

"Potatoes can be harvested in the upper field, four hundred and five in the middle field, and three hundred and two in the lower field."

Wang Chengen's point made Zhu Youzhen lose his mind for a while.

He originally thought that corn would be the main force among them, but now it seems that corn is not at all comparable to sweet potatoes and potatoes.

This is what Zhu Youjian did not understand, in the era when there were no improved varieties, the yield of corn was not as good as millet, and it was about the same as sorghum.

In addition, the unimproved corn is a temperature-loving crop, which is destined to be unable to undertake the heavy task of developing the Northeast.

"Of these three crops, who is cold tolerant and who is drought resistant?"

Zhu Youzhen asked with a blushing face, and when Wang Chengen saw this, he immediately flipped through the booklet, and after finding the growth habits recorded by Yanshan's teaching, he said:

"Sweet potatoes are drought resistant and cold-tolerant compared to most crops in my Daming, potatoes are the least cold-tolerant, but very drought-resistant, corn is cold-resistant than potatoes, but drought-resistant is not as good as sweet potatoes and potatoes."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen said with a smile:

"Your Highness, you don't know, the people are happy when they know the yield of sweet potatoes, according to the "Ten Uses of Sweet Potatoes" taught by Your Highness, some people have begun to eat roasted sweet potatoes."

"Alas......" Zhu Youzhen sighed in his heart, very helpless in his heart.

He originally thought that corn and potatoes would be the main force, but he didn't want that in this era, the economic benefits of corn were far inferior to those of sweet potatoes and potatoes.

But fortunately, with sweet potatoes and potatoes, Daming's resistance to drought has increased a lot.

"How much grain does a million acres of arable land produce?" Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen flipped through the book and said:

"300,000 mu of sweet potatoes, with an output of 2.4 million stones, 400,000 mu of jade wheat, with an output of 470,000 stones, and 300,000 mu of potatoes, with an output of 880,000 stones."

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

"One million acres of land, a total of 3.75 million stones." Wang Chengen looked at the yield per mu on this book, his heart blossomed, and said:

"If sweet potatoes and potatoes are promoted, I'm afraid Daming will usher in a prosperous era!"

"Do all the tenants who came to cultivate the experimental fields know?" Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief and talked about his original arrangement.

At the beginning, he was tens of thousands of tenants from among the many tenants in the north and south of Zhili, and asked them to come to Yongping Mansion to farm.

At present, they have witnessed the growth of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and these 3.75 million stone crops are enough to plant millions of acres of fields in the Imperial Horse Prison.

Forget about corn, it is not suitable for large-scale promotion, but sweet potatoes and potatoes are bound to be promoted, especially sweet potatoes.

The terrible thing about sweet potatoes is that they have a high yield per mu and can be stored in the cellar at a constant temperature for half a year.

At present, as long as tens of thousands of tenants are put back, and the people of the Imperial Horse Prison are advertised to plant, then the breeding officials of the Imperial Horse Prison and the people can use sweet potatoes to raise livestock while planting staple food.

Once this kind of breeding is formed, the scale is very terrifying.

Millions of tenants, even if one person only raises four or five poultry and one or two pigs, the scale is extremely large.

When they become large, the cost of the Imperial Horse Warden will decrease, and once the news of their cultivation spreads, it will spread to all directions.

It is difficult for the people to accept forcing them to plant new crops.

But if it is the spread caused by the folk atmosphere, the people are more enthusiastic than anyone else.

"Let the soldiers and horses of the Gongwei battalion from all over the country come to pick up the people and go home, and escort potatoes, sweet potatoes, and jade wheat to the people by the way, as long as they are willing to farm, they can take their own grain."

"The students and teachers of the Yanshan Institute will go to various places to teach them planting after the beginning of spring."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen's face also showed happiness, and said to Wang Chengen:

"Sweet potatoes leave a little for Mangui, Daning Sanwei's cultivated land is limited, just used to plant sweet potatoes, the staple grain can wait for the end of grain sales, go to Huguang, Sichuan to buy, and transport grain to next year."

"Slave and maid command!" Wang Chengen's heart was also happy, and Wang Chengen, as well as Xiao Qiwei, Jinyiwei and others were also surprised.

Most of them are children of peasant families, so they naturally know what kind of situation will become in the world once the sweet potatoes with a yield of eight stones per mu and potatoes with a yield of nearly three stones per mu spread.

With the current land scale and population of the Ming Dynasty, as long as it spreads, there will basically be no people who will starve to death due to smooth weather and rain.

Even because these new grains enter the market, the price of rice and wheat and other grains will be reduced, so that more people can afford to eat.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen inspected the Wubao granary next, everyone stretched out their heads to look at the granary, eager to see the mud on the sweet potatoes and potatoes clearly with their eyes.

After finally visiting the entire Wu Fort, Zhu Youzhen thought about the impact of sweet potatoes again, so he said to Cao Huachun:

"Sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops must not fall into the hands of Houjin."

"The slave will tell Commander Lu." Cao Huachun returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly.

For Houjin, who is short of grain, if the 3 million acres of cultivated land under his command are planted with sweet potatoes, then it is completely possible for the people to eat sweet potatoes and the soldiers to eat rice and noodles.

At that time, the food crisis will no longer be a crisis for the other side, and the offensive will be more brazen.

Therefore, it is inevitable to promote sweet potatoes, but it is also inevitable to ban sweet potatoes from customs.

At this point, it is necessary for Jinyiwei to make efforts.

More than 10,000 brocade guards in Beizhili, Shanxi and other places, as long as they slack off, they will give the old slave an opportunity.

When his voice fell, Wang Chengen also stood up appropriately and said:

"Your Highness, you can go and see the salt works."

"Well......" Hearing this, Zhu You checked his head, and then led people to the salt field by the sea.

After several months of expansion, the scale of the salt farm has become larger and larger, from a few thousand acres at the beginning, to 20,000 acres, stretching for 200 miles of coastline.

Stepping into the salt field, perhaps because of the abnormal climate and lack of rain this year, the salt drying period of the salt field is longer than expected.

Zhu Youzhen could see the people who shoveled salt into the cart and then pushed the coarse salt to the boiling area.

He pointed to the people and said, "How much do these people pay?" ”

"Back to Your Highness...... Wang Chengen replied:

"Thirty-five wen a day, there are 1,200 people in the entire salt farm, counting some raw materials for boiling, the monthly salt farm expenditure is more than 3,700 taels, and the harvest of salt is more than 30 million catties, and the salt field is transported, and the cost of the imperial store is about 140,000 taels."

"There should be more than half a month of salt drying time at the moment, and it should snow after that."

I have to say that the sale of illicit salt is indeed profitable, especially the scale of salt sales like Zhu Youzhen, which is unprecedented.

The annual sunshine hours in Beizhili are 50 to 60 days, and the weather is uncertain, mainly in summer and autumn.

If the sunshine is good, it is not difficult for one acre of salt field to produce 1,000 catties of salt a day. With the current scale of 20,000 acres of salt pans, the output of salt pans next year will be about 300 million or 400 million catties.

So much illicit salt is enough to destroy the smugglers in the entire five northern provinces.

As long as he firmly occupies the private salt market in the north, Zhu Youzhen can also start to raise prices slightly, and then seek to defeat the private salt market in the south.

Even if it is not defeated, the market in the north, even if it maintains the price of private salt of five wen and one catty, can still earn more than 1.4 million taels, and every time the price of salt is raised, it can earn hundreds of thousands of taels more.

Raising the price of salt will make the people suffer, Zhu Youzhen knows, but as long as he has silver in his hand, he can issue silver to build roads, post stations, canals and other civil infrastructure, and then send the silver to the people to circulate the economy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen turned around and prepared to leave the salt field, and Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun also escorted them with Xiao Cavalry Guards and Jinyi Guards.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen took the document book of grain yield per mu, and then got on the horse with the help of Cao Huachun, and finally explained a sentence to Wang Chengen:

"Cheng'en, leave 100,000 acres of experimental fields, and the rest of the fields will be distributed to the local people and accepted as tenants of the imperial horse supervisor."

"Sweet potatoes are planted in the experimental field, and a small amount of potatoes and corn, rice, wheat, and millet are all right."

"In the future, after the expansion of the students of the Yanshan Institute, this experimental field will be used."

"The slave takes the command." Wang Chengen returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly and embarked on the journey back to the capital.

Along the way, he was thinking about how to increase the yield of grain per acre.

There is no technology and conditions to engage in hybrid rice, but it is still possible to screen and cultivate improved varieties.

Even if you can only increase the grain production by a dozen catties or a few catties, it is a matter of immeasurable merit, not to mention that you can also engage in hybrid poultry and livestock.

With the imperial court paying financial resources to take the lead, Zhu Youzhen didn't believe it, and he couldn't make some fine varieties.

Thinking so, he hurried and hurried, and finally returned to the capital two days later on September 28, and went to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and handed over the document of the experimental field to the good imperial brother.

"Eight stones per mu? Three stones per mu? ”

In the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, when Zhu Youxiao saw the various records in the book, his first reaction was "exaggeration".

But when he looked up at his younger brother, and then saw the other party's serious appearance, he realized that this was not a joke.

He closed the document and said to Wei Zhongxian: "Go to Xuanye Pavilion Elder to come." ”

"Slave maid takes the order," Wei Zhongxian returned the ......salute, and then asked people to summon Ye Xianggao, who was working in the Wenhua Palace.

When Ye Xianggao hurriedly came, Zhu Youxiao asked someone to hand the document to the other party.

Ye Xianggao looked at the book in confusion, and almost held his breath when he saw the records of sweet potatoes with a yield of eight stones per mu and potatoes with a yield of three stones per mu.

As a Fujianese, Ye Xianggao can be said to have seen sweet potatoes and potatoes for a long time, so he said decisively:

"Hooray, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Lao Chen grew up in Fujian, and after returning to his hometown last time he resigned, he went home and saw someone cultivating these second-class crops, but sweet potatoes only yield two or three stones per mu, and potatoes only yield half a stone per mu."

"That's because it's not grown in the right way." Zhu Youzhen preemptively explained to Ye Xianggao:

"Elder Ye Ge can take a closer look at the cultivation methods in this book, but it is different from the people of Fujian?"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Ye Xianggao flipped through the booklet, and sure enough, he found a different planting method after that.

In the booklet, the diseases that may be encountered by the two crops, as well as the planting methods and the methods to prevent the diseases, are all stated.

The rigor of the logic and the integrity of the process are naturally more reasonable than the Fujian people who use the ordinary way of growing vegetables.

After reading it, most of the stone in Ye Xianggao's heart fell, but then he reacted and said:

"If this crop is promoted by the imperial court, I am afraid that the people will not be convinced......"

Farmers are stubborn, they stubbornly only grow crops they understand, which is not stupid, but their risk resistance is too low.

Most of the peasants were not qualified to work in the cities, and they did not have so much work for them, so they had to guard the fields.

If they fail to plant a new crop, the price they have to pay is unacceptable.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youxiao smiled happily and said to Ye Xianggao:

"What the elder said is the same as what the younger brother said, so the younger brother has already made preparations."

After that, he told what Zhu Youzhen had done, and after Ye Xianggao heard it, the last stone also fell to the ground, and he said:

"King Qi Gaojian, if this is the case, it is estimated that during the autumn harvest next year, the people of Beizhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places may not resist this crop."

"The only thing we need to care about is whether there are so many people who can teach tens of millions of people to cultivate new crops."

"Ye Ge doesn't have to worry about this." Zhu Youzhen said:

"After the harvest in the next year, the orphan will let the Jinyi Wei give out the money, take some skilled old farmers to the other three provinces, teach them to farm, pay the bill with a salary of 20 yuan a day, and send them home."

Zhu Youzhen did not say anything about Yanshan, so Yanshansu was a knife for him to bring down the civil bureaucracy.

Although the current civil officials know about the Yanshan Institute, they only think that it is the place where Zhu Youzhen trains new soldiers, and they do not know that they are receiving education inside.

It's useless to wait for them to react, now they are about to pass the first year, as long as the first year is over, and the children and students in Yanshan Institute are literate, then the second year of education will be much simpler.

These civil servants were unable to stop the children of millions of tenants from going to school in Yanshan, and they could not stop the rise of peasant children.

"That's right, brother." Zhu Youzhen looked sideways at his imperial brother and said:

"The younger brother thinks that this thing cannot be spread to Beiyu, Xifan, Jianyu and other places, once they get sweet potatoes, the population and strength will increase dramatically."

"Hmm!" Zhu Youxiao also nodded solemnly, understanding the connection.

Ye Xianggao also said at this time: "The most important thing to do at the moment is that His Royal Highness King Qi is vigilant against the leakage of the tenants under his command, as long as it lasts until the next year, it will be okay for the news to leak at that time." ”

"Besides, it is useless for old slaves to get only a small number of crop seeds, and it will take years to cultivate enough seeds for millions of acres of arable land."

"When the people of Nanyang passed the sweet potatoes back, it took the people several years to cultivate more than 1,000 acres of vines, until now, more than 20 years have passed, and the thing has only spread in Fujian Province."

"I don't want Your Highness to get so many seeds, plant hundreds of thousands of acres at once, and cultivate them profitably."

"If it is passed on in this way, with the autonomy of the people, and the imperial court fueling the troubles, I am afraid that it will not take five or six years to let the people of the Ming Dynasty know the benefits of sweet potatoes!"

Speaking of this, Ye Xianggao couldn't help but smile happily: "When the time comes, I'm afraid that there will be few hungry people in my Ming Dynasty." ”

"It's not that exaggerated...... Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly, but he knew what kind of situation Daming would face next.

No matter how powerful the sweet potato is, it is impossible to grow without water under the drought, and there will be no less famine, the key is to see whether the scheduling ability of the Ming Dynasty is improved......

"Haha! My brother has made a great achievement, and he should be rewarded! ”

Seeing Ye Xianggao praising his younger brother like this, Zhu Youxiao laughed, and then said to Wei Zhongxian:

"Give the ten heavenly horses that Hami paid tribute to my brother!"

"Pegasus? Male and female?! When Zhu Youzhen heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

If it is ten stallions, it can be used as a stallion to improve the quality of the horse breed.

"It seems to be four males and six females...... Wei Zhongxian smiled embarrassedly, and Ye Xianggao also coughed:

"Ahem, since the matter has been said, then I hope that His Royal Highness the King of Qi will be attentive to the matter of sweet potatoes, long live, the old minister will retire first."

"Go, go, go......" Zhu Youxiao was all about his brother's problem, and waved his hand casually.

After Ye Xianggao stepped down, Zhu Youzhen began to tell Zhu Youxiao about cultivating military horses and improving the quality of horse breeds.

This kind of thing, let Wei Zhongxian listen, there is always a kind of sadness......

But this sorrow did not last long, and was broken with the sound of hurried footsteps.

"Eight hundred miles expedited!"

The shouting suddenly appeared, and then Lu Wenzhao, who was sweating all over, took Li Ruolian and Cui Yingyuan directly into the Qianqing Palace, knelt down facing the Heart Nourishing Palace, and said loudly:

"Hooray, Your Highness! Eight hundred miles of urgency, Shuixi Xuanfu Division and Zhi'an Bangyan, Yongning Xuanfu made extravagant Chongming, Shuidong Xuanfu made Song Wanhua agree to start a rebellion of 70,000 soldiers on October 5, hundreds of Tusi in the southwest of Guizhou have responded, and the war in the southwest will start! ”