"That's good, but you can't be so conservative in the future."

Zhu Zhanyan looked at the data compiled by his father, and looked at Li Chengliang, Zhang Yucheng and Song Shiyi below, with a flat tone.

But even if it was bland, Li Chengliang and the three of them could hear the meaning of urging from Zhu Zhanyan's tone.

"I see that you are mainly taking the Shu Body Poison Road now, and you will reduce your investment here in the future, and in the future, your eyes will mainly be on the area of Mengyang and Ava, and stabilize the road over there."

"This ......" Li Chengliang and the three glanced at each other, and all three of them saw the hesitation in each other's eyes.

Being able to climb the big tree of the King of Han, especially the prince of the Han Dynasty, is something they dream of, but this is also a scoring situation.

If climbing this big tree requires them to lose their entire net worth, then they still have to think about it.

Money or anything doesn't matter, as long as you can hold on to this big tree, then even if all the family wealth is put into it, it will be earned back quickly, after all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this Yunnan will be in the line of the Han King in the future.

But for Li Chengliang and others, the most important problem is that they can't be sure whether they can hold on to this big tree after they have all their net worth.

What if, when people run out of use, they will be thrown aside?

"His Royal Highness, if you go from Mengyang and Wara, you will have to go through Siam and Nanzhang......" Li Chengliang was pushed out and said with some stumbling.

"In the past, this Siam was not very friendly to our merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but now there is catching up with the ......"

Li Chengliang's words came to an abrupt end in the middle of his words, because the next words had already touched on the field that he could not touch as a businessman.

"Look, isn't that a bit ...... Adventurous? ”

"Just do it." Zhu Zhanyan put the paper in his hand aside and said indifferently.

"Since I let you go, then it proves that I have a way, you just do it, and it won't take half a year, you should be able to see the effect."

"Moreover, I asked you to change the route not simply to make money in business, but to do something else."

"Take this, I'll remember it when I go back."

As he spoke, Zhu Zhanyan picked up another piece of paper and put it in front of Li Chengliang and the others.

Li Chengliang hurriedly took it and threw an inquiring look at Zhu Zhanyan, and only looked down after getting Zhu Zhanyan's consent.

There were not many things on the paper, Li Chengliang quickly finished reading it, and handed it to Zhang Yucheng and Song Shiyi next to him, as for him, he looked at Zhu Zhanyan with a smile on his face.

"Since His Royal Highness the Prince of the World wants it, then we will follow His Royal Highness's orders."

"Okay, I've heard this kind of thing, if not a thousand, but eight hundred, if you really have that heart, you can do things well, don't work your tongue."

Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand, picked up a few letters from the desk and threw them to Li Chengliang.

"This is a letter I wrote to a few people in Yingtian, there are some things that you need to send over, don't send them to the side."

"Yes." Li Chengliang hurriedly took the letters and put them away preciously.

"If Your Highness has no other instructions, then I will retire first?"

"You guys go back first, Song Shiyi stays." Zhu Zhanyan waved his hand.

Li Chengliang froze when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Song Shiyi with Zhang Yucheng, the expression on his face was very complicated, and people couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was for a while.

"His Royal Highness the Prince ......" Song Shiyi watched Li Chengliang and the others leave, and he didn't dare to sit down, and stood up tremblingly.

He thought that he had committed something, which made Zhu Zhanyan dissatisfied.

But then again, he has a lot of things on him, because businessmen and officials are like birds, and there are basically few clean ones.

"Don't be nervous." Zhu Zhanyan stood up, patted Song Shiyi's shoulder, and used a little strength to make him sit down.

"There are some things to be left to you to do, but you have to pay attention, this matter, if there is a third person besides you and me who knows the inside story, then ......"

……

After sending the last Song Shiyi away, Zhu Zhanyan walked out of his courtyard and looked in the direction of Dianchi Lake.

When building the mansion, Zhu Gaoxu left the best position for his son, instead of building a mansion for his son when he built the Han palace for himself.

Looking at Dianchi Lake in the northwest direction, Zhu Zhanyan's eyes narrowed.

Li Chengliang, the three businessmen, is his most important chess piece for a long time in the future, because the current Ming Dynasty has entered the stage of recuperation, and it is unlikely that it will be used to move troops in a short period of time.

If you want to move, then you can only do a war like Zhu Zhan's burning of Annan, without spending a single soldier.

For the current Daming, with high-yield new grain, food will no longer be a problem in the future, maybe it will have to wait for a year, two or two years, but Daming can afford to wait.

In the future wars, the Ming Dynasty did not need to think too much about food and grass, so there was only one problem left that could not be solved.

Strength, that is, population.

This is the main reason why Zhu Zhanyan chose to use businessmen, instead of solving problems through simple and crude wars as before.

However, although the reason why Zhu Zhanyan chose to use businessmen is this, it is not just this.

……

In the city of Kunming, in a house that is not affordable for ordinary people at first glance, Li Chengliang and the three gathered here.

Businessmen, in addition to having money, also have money.

"What do you think?" Li Chengliang knocked on the table with a serious expression.

"I don't think there's a problem." Zhang Yucheng continued Li Chengliang's words.

"The news that the prince of Han asked us to spread was nothing more than to attract ordinary people from Siam, Nanzhang, Ava and Muangyang to enter Annam and increase the population of Annam."

"So, in my opinion, this is the population problem of the prince of Han in order to replenish the losses after the war, and because of this, I don't think he treats us as pawns to be lost when they run out."

As he spoke, Zhang Yucheng looked at Li Chengliang and Song Shiyi, and said in a very serious tone.

"To sum up, I don't think the prince of Han has any intention of abandoning us in the next three to five years."

"You think too much...... Song Shiyi sighed lightly, which made Li Chengliang and Zhang Yucheng's hearts suddenly tighten.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not talking what you think."

Song Shiyi waved his hand, calming the hearts of the two, and then his expression became serious.

"Take a look at this." Song Shiyi took out a piece of paper from his sleeve pocket, opened it, and put it in front of Li Chengliang and the others.

There is not a word on the paper, but there is a bright red pattern, which is the large seal of Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty.

"Just now, His Royal Highness left me behind and explained something to me, I can't tell you about it, but you should be able to guess it in the future, but ......"

Speaking of this, Song Shiyi's tone was lowered, making people feel that their hearts were pinched suddenly.

"Guess it out, guess it, but everyone is not a child anymore, and everyone knows what can and can't say anything."

"All I can say is that you don't need to worry about this problem anymore."

"Now, we're going to talk about our ......"

……

Kunming City, Qianning Palace.

Mu Ang also came back with Zhu Zhanyan, after all, the current Mu Sheng is mainly stationed in Thang Long City, and most of the affairs in Yunnan are handled by him.

It can be handed over to Mu Xin for custody in a short time, but it will not work for a long time.

Speaking of which, there is another very interesting place, that is, there was actually no problem before, they were all Mu family, regardless of each other, they were always big and small, and so on.

In the past, Mu Sheng conscripted Chen Jikuo, and Mu Ang acted as an agent for Yunnan's affairs.

But not anymore.

Zhu Di's right to give the Han King is too big, so big that the Mu family has to think about it.

In the past, Mu Xin was on top, it's not that he hasn't done this, but now he can't.

Mu Xin's wife is Princess Changning and Zhu Di's daughter, if Mu Xin is asked to deal with Yunnan affairs, it is very likely to put pressure on the Han Palace.

But!

With today, after the Qianning Palace's palace received an edict from Yingtian and a volume of holy decrees, everything is about to change.

"What should I do?" Mu Ang looked at his younger brother with a blank expression.

In the past, if Mu Sheng was not at home, then Mu Ang was in charge of everything, and even if Mu Ang couldn't be the master, he would immediately write a letter to inform Mu Sheng.

All in all, no matter what happens, Mu Ang will not show a dull expression like today.

"The edict has come, and the holy decree has been issued, what else can I do......" Mu Xin also sighed.

"Do it......"

The Mu brothers fell silent at the same time, and looked in the direction of the door in unison.

What they looked at was not the gate of their own house, nor the Dianchi Lake outside the city, but the ...... opposite the Dianchi Lake Han Wangfu.

……

"It's all set?" In the Han Palace, the father and son of the Han King sat together and drank tea without knowing anything.

"Do you really believe these merchants?"

"Don't tell me you don't know who they are, I told you when you asked me to choose that none of these three people are good people."

"I know." Zhu Zhanyan didn't care very much, and threw a mysterious smile at his father.

"It's not good people who are good, I want evil people."

"Leave that alone, are the potato seeds ready?"

"It's been ready for a long time." Speaking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at his son again.

"This is a seed with a yield of at least four or five hundred catties per mu, and you know better than me how much money and Yong paid in order to get these seeds."

"Just give it away? Or to the enemy country. ”

"When do you think I've done something that harms myself and others?" Zhu Zhanyan rolled his eyes angrily.

"You've been dealing with this new grain breeding thing all along, and you haven't noticed any difference in this potato?"

"What's the difference?" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, his face full of confusion.

Looking at the expression on his father's face, Zhu Zhanyan felt very familiar and helpless.

After coming to Yunnan, his father has improved a lot, but his expression at this moment made Zhu Zhanyan feel like a dream.

returned to the Han King Zhu Gaoxu, who didn't understand anything before.

"It's normal that you don't feel it now, but you'll know later." Zhu Zhanyan's thoughts were disturbed by his father, and he showed a smile.

Zhu Gaoxu doesn't know the disadvantages of potatoes, or it should be said that only Zhu Zhanyan himself knows about it in the whole world, and maybe the natives of the Americas also know it, but it doesn't matter, they can't get involved in this big situation.

It is precisely because I don't know that when Zhu Zhanqi went east to conquer the Japanese kingdom and Zhu Gaoxu presided over the breeding work, he chose the fastest and most convenient way.

Heavy cropping.

The so-called heavy cropping is to plant the next wave immediately after one wave of harvest, using the same land and the same seeds.

Even in later generations, farmers rarely used heavy cropping.

In the north, for example, wheat is harvested in May and June in summer, and corn or soybeans are planted after the wheat is harvested, and when the corn and soybeans are harvested, wheat is replanted, or the land is left empty for a winter, and peanuts or millet are planted the following year.

This is the normal planting order, which contains the experience of the Han people for thousands of years.

Leguminous plants fix nitrogen and fertilize the land, so a field will be planted with at least one or two waves of soybeans or peanuts, and it is usually rotated in the first year of wheat and corn and the second year of wheat and soybeans.

This planting sequence ensures a relatively slow decline in fertility and prevents certain diseases.

Planting the same crop in a row will cause a rapid decline in soil fertility, and at the same time, the bacteria in the soil will slowly accumulate and affect the next crop.

Potatoes are extremely labor-intensive crops, and Zhu Zhanyan still remembers an old saying in his hometown, which says, "Eggs are raised for three years in a year."

The ground egg is the regional name of the potato, which means that the potatoes that are planted for one year must be raised for three years.

In addition to soil fertility, potatoes are inherently highly susceptible to diseases and can be passed on to the next generation through seeds.

Heavy cropping already leads to increased disease, which, combined with the characteristics of potatoes......

In his father's body, Zhu Zhanyan saw what the future of Central Asia and even European countries would look like.

"If you don't want to say it, don't say it."

Zhu Gaoxu is no longer as demanding of his son as he was when Yongle was seven or eight years old, and he must explain everything to himself.

Now he is very aware of his shortcomings and knows his son's strengths, so no matter what it is, he will be very relieved to hand it over to his son.

He knew that without this son, he would only work hard for a lifetime towards an illusory goal, and in the end he would achieve nothing.

"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that no one believes it, including you." Zhu Zhanyan smiled, he really didn't expect his father to understand his plan.

This is caused by the difference in cognition, and it cannot be analyzed through analysis.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World!"

Just when the father and son were laughing, Zhu Heng suddenly walked in.

"Qianning Palace, the right commander of the governor and Mu Juma ask to meet."

(End of chapter)