To change this, productivity levels need to increase. To completely change the extensive development model of increasing grain production, we mainly rely on the cultivation of farmland around lakes.

Improving productivity is not just talking, nor is it achieved overnight, but requires overall planning and continuous improvement.

Huguang can no longer expand grain fields by enclosing the lake to create fields.

Wang Hongyu inspected and found that there were two areas that could be significantly improved.

One is to produce a wide variety of varieties, and the other is to optimize breeding.

At present, there are many rice fields in Huguang, and the yield advantage of rice has realized that "the lake is ripe, and the world is full", but rice needs plains, water sources and intensive labor.

After all, there is a limit to the well-watered plains.

The labor force cannot all be tied to the rice fields, otherwise how can Huguang realize the achievements of the Zhang Zhidong period more than 200 years earlier? How to let the brave and good Jingchu warriors go to the whole country?

There are many hills in the southern and eastern part of Huguangxi, and these places are obvious for growing sweet potatoes.

Although sweet potatoes provide a low proportion of energy, the mountainous hills are suitable for it. Sweet potatoes can form a perfect misalignment with rice, the place suitable for rice is too humid for sweet potato, and the hills suitable for sweet potato cannot grow rice.

Since the trial planting of sweet potatoes has been completed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Yunyang, Wang Hongyu has thoroughly promoted it, and first promoted it in the nearby hilly areas of Huguang.

Others, such as tomatoes and peanuts, can be supplemented according to local conditions.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still enough grain to eat in the whole country in the early years of the apocalypse, sweet potatoes will stabilize the basic plate, and the production of tea, cotton and other cash crops should also be encouraged as soon as possible.

Especially for cotton, before Britain won the large-scale cotton planting in India, if the quality and quantity of cotton in China increased, the global market would be stable.

Cash crops should be exported in exchange for large quantities of cheap rice in Southeast Asia.

In the early and middle Ming Dynasty, fish farming developed well, and then in the late Ming Dynasty, it was strongly impacted by the reclamation of land around the lake. Wang Hongyu also encouraged fish salting and processing, and promoted the packaging and canning industry to be easy to sell.

So the south has a lot of food.

Promote the Americas crops, cotton, fish, which are rich in variety.

And breeding.

The ancients had a lot of preliminary experience in this point, but due to the lack of scientific understanding and overall promotion, there is still a lot of room for excavation.

Rice should choose varieties that are low and wind-resistant, and have more scions; Peanuts should be cultivated from one peanut to one peanut to two or three grains; In later generations, corn cobs were less than the length of a palm, and at this time they were only as long as a middle finger, which was also a breeding choice.

The same goes for vegetables, fish, pigs and sheep.

The construction of the military tun takes the lead in isolating and optimizing breeding, and there are material, spiritual, status and other rewards for those who have good results and can be promoted.

The bookstore, the academy, and the government publicized the achievements of the construction of the military tun through various channels, and the people of Huguang were very studious, and after hearing about it, they were not willing to lag behind and studied one after another.

In the past, after Zhang Juzheng was suppressed, some people in the Chu Party gradually gave up their hard work and engaged in party struggle. At this time, the atmosphere changed, and many pragmatic Chu people once again promoted Zhang Juzheng.

Wang Hongyu is also happy to see Zhang Juzheng restore his reputation, and he has communicated with Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian about this matter before, and it is time at this time.

Half a month later, Apocalypse officially rehabilitated Zhang Juzheng.

The people of Chu were very happy, and the remnants of the Chu Party in the past gradually supported Tianqi and Wang Hongyu.

Wang Hongyu also visited Zhang Yunxiu, the fifth son of Zhang Juzheng, in Jiangling, to discuss Zhang Juzheng's whip method and examination method, which made the officialdom better, and the imperial court could strictly restrain the style of officials.

Zhang Yunxiu suffered too many years of political suppression and didn't dare to say anything, but he introduced Zhang Tongchang, the grandson of Zhang Juzheng's eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu, to Wang Hongyu.

Zhang Tongchang is 20 years old, the same age as Wang Hongyu, he is fruitful, ambitious, and has excellent poetry.

After hearing his name, I remembered that Zhang Tongchang was an anti-Qing martyr, and during the Southern Ming Dynasty, all parties rushed to gather soldiers and horses to fight against the Manchu Qing, and was finally captured by Kong Youde, and was killed for his unyielding loyalty.

Wang Hongyu came to Daming with a clear goal.

That is, the famous traitors in history must have a tragic end, and these heroic martyrs can be used whenever they can, regardless of civil and military factions.

Of course, Zhang Tongchang is available, he is also the great-grandson of Zhang Juzheng, and it will definitely be of great help to strengthen the imperial court and rectify the officialdom in the future.

Seeing this signal, the Chu Party, which had previously lost the competition with the Donglin Party, saw the development opportunity and wisely turned to Wang Hongyu and Tianqi.

The Chu Party is not small in Huguang, and they came into contact with Wang Hongyu's new ideas and new ideas for the first time. They were originally Huguang villagers huddled together for warmth, and only after Zhang Juzheng was liquidated as an imperial party did they participate in the party struggle for power in the late Ming Dynasty, where there were many parties.

At this time, it is a justifiable thing to return to the "imperial party".

In addition, Xiong Tingbi himself is also a member of the Chu Party.

Xiong Tingbi had a long talk with Wang Hongyu last year, and now the two are often in contact through the flying pigeon.

There was a high degree of unity of opinion on how to deal with Jiannu: in the first two years of the defense of western Liaoning, southern Liaoning increased the accumulation of troops and steadily advanced northward using the method of "encroachment", and Mao Wenlong and Zhang Shenwu fought guerrilla attacks from the rear of Jiannu to jointly restrict the westward advance of the main force of Jiannu.

Wang Hongyu is not disgusted with Xiong Tingbi, whether it is Xiong Tingbi or the Chu Party, it can be said that he has not done anything harmful to the country and society.

The united front is exactly what Wang Hongyu advocated, and even Zou Yuanbiao, the elder of the Donglin Party, can become the object of cooperation, and it is of course a good thing to unite Chu Di Shilin.

Everything is going well in Chudi.

If Chu is good, the good development of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan will be able to smoothly affect the Central Plains, and the two Guangxi will also be strongly supported.

Wang Hongyu's trip to Beijing this time has achieved its purpose.

As a stranger, he realized the counterattack of a foreign land.

However, he is not complacent at all, and if the enemies of the Ming Dynasty go together, I am afraid that this situation is still very dangerous.

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The Southern Netherlands are greedy.

They are coming for money, and they can't wait.

At this time, the Dutch people had the city of Batavia as their base in Asia, and the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company was built, which was the basis for ruling the colonies of Java and the entire East Indies.

In order to occupy and defeat their old enemies Portugal and Esbanya, and occupy the Ming market, their primary goal was to blockade Malacca, attack Macao, and directly seize the Portuguese trading station.

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As for the Ming Kingdom, they are very confident that they will take it.

After all, they boasted of hundreds of thousands of people to defeat the strongest Ace Duck in Europe, with a population of tens of millions, across the world.

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The people of the East are humble on the surface, but in fact they have been sharpening their swords.

An island is an island after all, and the geography is narrow, and of course it wants to seize the vast land.

Even though more than 20 years ago, most of the elite pushed North Korea and were defeated by the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, it could not eliminate their ambitions.

The Tokugawa shogunate considered encroaching on Treasure Island.

The Shimazu family, who raided the Ryukyus, is also considering encroaching on Treasure Island.

The strong Maori family met every year to consider overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate. The strong Yin Dajia was ambitious, and privately sent people to Europe to ask for foreign aid to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

Now they all noticed the situation in the Ming Dynasty.

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Jiannu in the north, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are about to act.

East Asia is set to see a larger-scale war.