The Spring Festival of the ancients began on New Year's Day, and the ancients only used a yellow calendar, and there was no lunisolar calendar.

The most lively on this day is the Confucian Temple on the bank of the Qinhuai River, Nanjing's Tribute Courtyard is also here, Gao Yiming had breakfast in the palace, and he is also ready to rest for a day.

"Did the queen and Yuan Guifei go there to say hello?" Gao Yiming asked Han Zanzhou, who was standing on the side.

"Back to the emperor, the slave has already gone according to your instructions, and the queen and the concubine have asked you about today's arrangements."

"Well, you tell the two mothers, for the New Year, they can go to string relatives, if it's too ostentatious, you can also bring your relatives to the palace, I won't mind, the huge palace, it's not a matter of being deserted all year round."

"Yes! The slave and the maid will go. ”

Gao Yiming was served by Gong E and got dressed, and then went out of the palace from the back door with more than twenty plainclothes guards who had been waiting outside, he was ready to experience the Spring Festival of the ancients, and Han Zanzhou quickly followed.

"Childe, where are you going today? Do you still go to the Temple of Literature? ”

"Where is the most lively place during the Spring Festival?"

"Yes, there will be a temple fair there every year, and it is the first choice for many literati and scholars, dignitaries and nobles, but there will also be many people in the Purple Mountain."

"Let's not go there first, let's go outside the city first, and we heard from the household department that a batch of disaster relief materials purchased from the south will pass by, and we will go and see."

"Yes!"

Although Nanjing is close to the Yangtze River, but when Zhu Taizu set the capital of Nanjing, for safety, he ordered the commercial transportation wharf to be built outside the city, because of the huge amount of materials purchased by Gao Yiming, the materials were transported by sea, the Grand Canal, and the Yangtze River.

When I came to the wharf outside the city, there was a busy scene on the wharf, with all kinds of vehicles coming and going on the shore, and boats of all sizes in the river shuttling non-stop. Among these ships, the most striking is the large ship of the imperial court.

Gao Yiming asked Han Zanzhou to show his identity, and got on the ship smoothly, and the officials in charge also quickly ran over and paid homage to Gao Yiming, Gao Yiming looked at the goods piled up in the cabin and asked, "What's in here?" ”

"Back to the emperor, this batch of supplies includes potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and some dried fish, dried fruits, etc."

Hearing that there were potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, Gao Yiming's heart moved, yes, many life-saving foods in later generations were introduced in the Ming Dynasty.

"Are potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes grown in the north?"

"Not yet, there is only a small area of cultivation in a few provinces along the southern coast, because these things do not belong to the same category as traditional grains, so they are not promoted on a large scale."

"How are these three crops produced in the South?"

"The yield is extremely high, just this potato, the yield per mu is as much as 30 denier."

"Good!" Gao Yiming was overjoyed: "Han Zan Zhou! ”

"Your Majesty!"

"You immediately send an order, just say what I said, and order the household department to promote these three crops in the north and south of the river, starting with the official fields of the whole country, and all official fields in the next spring can only grow these three crops."

"Yes!"

Gao Yiming checked all the boats, and the quality of dried fruits and other items was okay, but most of them were potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, and it seemed that the output of this thing was really good.

After the inspection, Gao Yiming was about to leave, but he didn't think about it, and he inadvertently looked up and saw a village in the distance, so he had the idea of going to take a look.

When a group of people came to the entrance of the village, Gao Yiming asked the guards to disperse, leaving only Han Zanzhou to accompany him into the village.

The village is not big, there are more than 30 households, occasionally there are a few dogs barking, and you can see chickens and ducks occasionally running out of the corner on the road, but there are few people.

"This village is only a dozen miles away from Nanjing, why are there so few people?"

"Childe, my Ming Dynasty had the largest population in the Wanli Dynasty, reaching more than 150 million, but then the climate became colder, the population decreased some, and there were more than 120 million, and there were many famines in the past few years, this village thinks it is because of the famine."

Gao Yiming nodded noncommittally, and after some distance, he came to a courtyard where the old man was sitting at the door of a house, and the yard was somewhat dilapidated.

"Dare to ask where the guests are coming from and where they are going?" Gao Yiming didn't expect the old man to ask first.

Gao Yiming walked over and saluted: "Dare to ask the old gentleman, it is almost noon at this time, why don't you see the cooking smoke, and there is no one in the village." ”

"Hehe, my Gongzi must be a rich and noble person, I don't dare to ask about such a trivial matter, since I asked, Xiao Lao'er can explain it to you."

"Please also ask the old gentleman to give me advice."

"Don't dare to be, presumably the son is from the city."

Gao Yiming nodded.

"Then it's no wonder, people in our village only eat three meals a day except during the busy farming season, and usually have two meals a day."

"Oh-oh-" After the old man said, Gao Yiming remembered the work and rest time of the ancients, because the material was not abundant, so they tried to save food as much as possible.

"Old man, don't you have potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes now, how can life be so urgent?"

"What you said is something I have heard, in the early years there were people who went out in the village and brought some back, and the yield was good, but the taste was far inferior to the grains, and then there was not good storage, potatoes and sweet potatoes were poisonous as soon as they sprouted, I didn't know before, someone fed the pigs with sprouted potatoes, and the result was poisoned, and people were poisoned, and no one dared to plant it since then."

"Oh, I see."

"What? Does the little brother also grow it at home? But don't tell your family that you don't dare to eat that thing once it sprouts, not for humans and animals. ”

"Haha, don't worry, old man, our family makes vermicelli and flour into noodles and flour every year when potatoes and sweet potatoes come down, and they won't spoil for many years."

"That's true."

"How dare you speak in vain."

At this time, the other people in the village also heard that the living people were coming, and a few bold people gathered over, and they all heard the words of Gao Yiming and the old man.

Among them, there are many brains: "Please also tell us the method, to be honest, although the taste of that thing is not good, but it is very high-yielding, although the landlord's family does not allow it to be planted in the field, and some are stolen in front of the house and behind the house, enough to eat for a long time, since the poisoning of domestic animals, no one dares to plant." ”

"Yes, yes, Fang Zi must stay, otherwise you don't want to leave."

When Han Zanzhou heard this, he immediately stood in front of Gao Yiming and said sharply: "Presumptuous! ”

The young man who said cruel things before was also slapped by the elders around him, and reprimanded: "Sanwa, when did such an unkind and unjust thing happen to you in our village, the guests told us that it was love, and it was natural not to tell us, why did we do anything unjust, and we apologized to the guests quickly!" ”

Sanwa was reprimanded by the old man, and immediately bowed down to apologize to Gao Yiming: "The kid is ignorant, and he also invites a foreigner, Haihan, but the recipe you said is too important to us, and there is basically nothing left after paying the rent for the rice grown in the village, if there is your way, we can not worry about starvation." ”