The greatest progress in agriculture is not intensive cultivation, not the cultivation of good seeds on the basis of what is already there, but the emergence of a completely new crop with excellent quality, which is the most important thing.

The discovery of crops native to the Americas has definitely left a strong mark in the history of human agriculture, and it is also the most important one.

These crops native to the Americas were OnePiece for the Ming Dynasty, and as long as they were found, it meant fame, fortune, and a thousand years of merit at the same time.

Want to find out? Let's go to sea.

Let's go to the West.

Xia Yuan boasted so much, and even pulled out Zheng He, who had never been to Europe, to endorse it, the purpose was to break the sea ban blockade of the Ming Dynasty and open an era of great exploration in the Ming Dynasty.

Now in the sixteenth century, the battle for the supremacy of human civilization is not on land, but at sea.

The great voyage of the West has been in full swing, but China, but the Ming Dynasty clearly started the journey of the sea of stars in the Yongle period, ahead of the West, but it was shelved for various reasons.

One step slower, one step at a time, now it is too late to catch up, or even overtake.

Go to sea, restart the Western Ocean, and even completely relax the sea ban, so that the people can also carry out maritime trade.

This is Xia Yuan's fundamental purpose, in this world, no one knows better than him what the ocean means, as long as he controls the ocean, it means that he controls the hegemony of the future world.

The reason why he sees sweet potatoes so important is not only the high yield of this crop, but more importantly, he wants to start the voyage, not just the upper and lower lips touch, he can say that the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers can be moved.

Only let this crop really appear in front of you, and let the monarchs of the Ming Dynasty see the high value of sweet potatoes. At this time, if they talk about it again, and then brag about those crops that are thousands of times stronger than sweet potatoes, they will be tempted and think about going to sea to find them.

And at this time, Xiao Jing first proposed to go to the West, Xia Yuan looked over and looked at how this old eunuch looked pleasing to the eye.

When the monarchs and ministers in the palace heard this, they all knew that the current situation was obvious, and if they wanted to get this crop, whether they were to find the overseas immortal island, or to find the Franc machine, they needed to go to the sea and sail.

Liu Jian said loudly: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that Gonggong Xiao is right, I should supervise the construction of big ships, follow the example of the Three Treasure Eunuchs of the year, take the sea chart and follow the map, first look for the traces of this Buddha Lang Ji country, and then go to find the whereabouts of this overseas land." ”

"Your Majesty, this matter is related to my Daming Society, and we should step up supervision."

Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "According to Xia Zhan's words, the people of the overseas land are being massacred by the Buddha Lang Ji Kingdom, such a vicious act, heaven is intolerable, my Ming Dynasty should hang the people and kill the crime, and relieve the people from hanging upside down!" ”

Hearing this, many people in the hall also sighed and echoed it, and some even had a look of compassion, as if they had seen their own family members being slaughtered.

However, this is indeed very much in line with the concept of the Chinese people.

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, regardless of whether this place belongs to China or not, whether it is the territory of China.

It doesn't even matter if you've been to this place or not, it doesn't matter if you know where it is, anyway, they are all the people of Emperor Huaxia.

How can the people not be rescued when they are suffering?

Of course, it is also appropriate to take the crops of the people by the way, and it is appropriate.

In short, this trip to the West has been fully approved by these ministers, and their achievements and their long history are all here.

Moreover, their trip to the West was different from Zheng He's seven trips to the West, Zheng He went to the West, although the imperial court got a little false name, all countries came to the court, so that the emperor's vanity was greatly satisfied.

But the substantive things were not caught at all, and it also brought a heavy financial burden to the Ming Dynasty.

Every time he went to sea, he brought a large number of rare treasures and rewarded them to the surrounding small countries along the way.

In a word, Zheng He went to the West to work the people and lose money, but they had a sacred and noble purpose.

It is for the sake of this kind of crop that is like an immortal seed, in order to reproduce the life of the three generations of the holy king Yao Shun, or even more than three generations of rule.

Emperor Hongzhi is also inexplicably excited, as if the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty is close at hand, this prosperous era will be created in his hands, and his Hongzhi era name will be comparable to Zhenguan, far beyond Zhenguan, and become a glorious existence.

The monarchs and ministers in the palace, only the Hubu Shangshu Hanwen was silent, and he didn't seem to be excited at all, at this time, he had to hold on.

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi's gaze looked over, "Han Qing's family, the summer tax was just collected a few days ago, how much silver is there in the treasury now?" ”

Here it comes.

Han Wen cheered up, bowed down to work, and said: "Your Majesty, although the summer tax has just been collected, the deficit of last year is too large, and all kinds of holes that need to be filled have been smashed, and it has already been used for seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, and these are all clear accounts.

Now there are about 600,000 silver left in the national treasury. ”

There is also a sentence that Korean did not say, I am afraid that more than half of the 600,000 silver deposits are the income from the sale of cement and stamps this year.

Otherwise, there will be very little left.

The amount of more than 600,000 silver deposits was like a basin of cold water poured on the bodies of these monarchs and ministers in the main hall, and everyone calmed down.

Restarting the voyage and searching for immortal seeds, although it is inevitable in the mouths of the full monarchs and ministers, when it is really done, the first obstacle faced is the consistent problem of the Ming Dynasty, poverty.

There are only 600,000 taels left in the treasury, and before the autumn tax is collected, these silver taels will be paid to the officials of the world for monthly salaries, which is not enough.

And where did he get the silver to build ships and sail?

At this time, everyone was thinking about this problem, the ministers in the palace were thinking, and Emperor Hongzhi was also thinking, and after a while, he seemed to notice something, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that all the ministers in the hall were looking up at him at this time, and that kind of gaze fell on him, and Zhu Youzhu felt a strong hint.

Inside.

Out of the inner money comes the money.

Although Emperor Hongzhi was reluctant, he knew that this silver still had to be released, and he couldn't start it without this Western thing.

"This matter is related to my Ming Dynasty and the livelihood of the people in the world, since the treasury is tight, then I will take out the silver from my internal funds, and supervise the construction of ships and train soldiers according to the law of the Three Treasure Eunuchs in the past."

Emperor Hongzhi was silent for a moment and said, "Let's allocate 800,000 taels." ”

In the face of such things, silver taels and money are trivial, as long as this crop is brought back, it will be a merit for eternity.

It's just that whether you should feel distressed or distressed, it has nothing to do with right and wrong, just instinct.

Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi took out the silver, the ministers in the palace were all overjoyed, and praised one after another: "My emperor is like the benevolence of heaven, and the ministers are respectfully edicted!" ”

However, at this moment, a slow voice said: "Your Majesty, if you want to go to the Western Ocean, 800,000 taels is probably far from enough."

(End of chapter)