Hearing this, the officials were stunned.

Immediately, I understood what Zhu Di meant.

However, for such a great contribution made by Guo An, the Duke of Dingguo, His Majesty will definitely reward him!

Moreover, there is no way around it.

So, some officials also followed Zhu Di's words and nodded slightly.

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, Dingguo Gong let those merchants find these Furui grains for me from overseas barbarians, and they have contributed a lot!"

"Your Majesty is ...... wise"

A group of officials followed Zhu Di to praise and praise, but they were all very pertinent.

Even, there are some officials, although they are full of praise for Guo An's credit, but when they talk about it, Guo An's credit is directly divided by those businessmen, as well as Guo Bingyong and others in the experimental field.

The eyes of all the vassal kings and magnates couldn't help but be full of indignation.

Zhu Di's expression remained unchanged, but he nodded slightly, and said, "Grain is the foundation of the people and the country! Ladies and gentlemen, I still don't know what the effect of sweet potatoes and corn is on the people of the Ming Dynasty, how to farm?"

"Huh?"

As soon as Zhu Di's words came out, all the vassal kings and officials were stunned, and then their faces were full of curiosity.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, I don't know how sweet potatoes are grown, and they can be eaten with rice and wheat as staple food?"

"Guo Qing knows this matter best!"

Zhu Di smiled slightly, and then looked at Guo An on the side.

"I don't know if Guo Qing can be the king, and I will tell you how to eat sweet potatoes and corn and how to cultivate them?"

"Wechen obeys!"

Guo An did not refuse, and said directly: "Sweet potato, the way to eat is very simple, roasted, steamed, boiled, you can eat, as long as it is cooked, you can eat it, the taste is soft, glutinous, sweet and wonderful.

As for cultivation, sweet potatoes are drought tolerant, and if you reclaim a field and plant sweet potato seedlings in it, you can ignore it, as long as it is not flooded......

The disadvantage of sweet potatoes is that they cannot be eaten as a staple food like wheat and rice, and they are not so full and not easy to store.

However, if something happens, sweet potatoes can still be eaten, but they are much more delicious than tree bark and grass roots!

In addition, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes is extremely high, which means that sweet potatoes are very land-intensive, and if they are planted for one or two years, they have to let the field rest for a year and a half.

The people, at most, plant one or two acres on their own ridges, and it is enough......

"The main way to eat corn is to peel it like wheat, grind it into flour, and eat corn buns.

Corn is easy to peel, and the yield is several times higher than that of wheat, so it is most suitable for the people of Daming to eat corn.

In addition, corn is drought tolerant, as long as the corn seedlings are still young, do not be flooded, and it is easy to survive.

Of course, the reason why corn is the greatest blessing for the people of the north is that corn can be rotated with wheat.

In the north, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, etc., wheat is generally planted in October or November, and wheat is harvested in June of the following year.

After the wheat is harvested, the corn can be planted, and by October, the corn will be ripe and harvested!

Then you can sow wheat again......

"Dingguo Gong, is this really the case?"

Hearing this, the first thing I couldn't help but was the kings of the northern domains.

One by one, they all stared at Guo An expectantly.

"How can I talk nonsense in front of His Majesty?"

Guo An smiled faintly.

Then, he arched his hand towards Zhu Di and sat down.

In fact.

Guo An didn't say a word, although the lives of the people in Hong Dingnian were much better than those in Hong Wunian.

However, the people in the north still can't eat white flour buns.

In other words, the people in the north only husked the wheat but did not peel it.

In this way, although it is possible to add some grain, but that tastes

Road......

Since it is not as delicious as the nest head steamed under the cornmeal!

"Your Majesty, in this way, if you give the good corn seeds to the people of the north, won't you be able to grow grain twice a year and harvest it twice!"

Hubu Shangshu Yuxin said excitedly.

"Yes!"

Zhu Di nodded.

"This ......"

In the entire hall, all the vassal kings and officials were shocked, and they immediately talked about it.

With a yield of more than 700 catties of corn per mu and two or three hundred catties of wheat per mu, wouldn't it be possible to produce more than 900 catties per mu, or even 1,000 catties?

In this way, even those common people will hand over all the wheat they have planted to the imperial court.

The remaining corn is enough for those people to eat for a year, and even have to sell some to the outside world!

"Corn, it's really my Daming Fury!"

"Your Majesty, this is the work of my Daming Society!"

"What Yu Aiqing said is extremely true!"

Zhu Di nodded in agreement, "This corn alone will lay a foundation for my Daming Society!"

Dingguo Gong Guo An, a great credit!"

"Your Majesty's words are true!"

A group of officials nodded their heads in agreement.

Although they were reluctant in their hearts, they didn't want to offend Guo An too much when it came to this meeting.

After all, according to past experience, the matter of cultivating good corn seeds still has to be handed over to Dingguo Gong.

And in the end, the distribution of corn varieties will eventually have Guo An's right to speak, and they all want to fight for their respective hometowns.

"In this way, Ministry of Rites, let's talk about it, how should I reward Dingguo Gong for such a great social achievement?"

Zhu Di looked at Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, with interest.

As soon as these words came out, all the officials in the entire hall were stunned again, feeling that something was wrong.

Although, the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the Rites and Religions, and among the six departments, it is the most noble.

However, the great achievement of Sheji, and it also involves the reward of the prince of the dynasty, must be said by the emperor, and only the subordinates can be invited.

And now, without saying anything, just ask directly?

Zheng Yi got up, bowed slightly to Zhu Di, and said with a decent face: "Your Majesty, corn and sweet potatoes, for my Ming Dynasty, can live thousands of people, but Yanze my Ming Dynasty Thousand Autumn Sheji, the credit is very great.

In addition, the Duke of Dingguo is already the Principality of my Ming Dynasty, and he is hereditary, so how to reward the Duke of Dingguo still needs to be discussed carefully with his colleagues!"

"Guo Qing, I am already the prince of my Ming Dynasty!"

Above, Zhu Di nodded slightly, and there was still some confusion in his eyes.

Seeing this, all the vassal kings and officials couldn't help but roll their eyes in their hearts.

What's it packed in?

"The principality, it has reached the top of my great Ming noble, and there is no way to seal it!"

Zhu Di muttered to himself again.

Hearing this, Guo An couldn't help but raise his head slightly and looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Laosi is wrong!

Sure enough, after Zhu Di spoke intermittently for a long time, his face turned grim.

"Dingguo Gong has made such a great contribution to my Ming Dynasty, if I don't seal it, wouldn't it have chilled Guo Qing's heart, and also chilled thousands of heroes who were loyal to my Ming Dynasty?"

"Your Majesty is wise, and it is the blessing of my people!"

A royal history, directly opened his mouth to flatter.

Zhu Di smiled faintly, "In this way, how about giving the prince the title of king?"

"King?"

Including Guo An, in the entire hall, all the vassal kings, civil and military officials, were dumbfounded, and felt their heads buzzing.

Surname Fengwang?

Or a duke who has just been crowned a duke for a year?

"Your Majesty, by all means!"

At this time, the hundred officials couldn't hold back any longer, and got up one after another to dissuade them.

"Your Majesty, this is against the ancestral system!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the credit for Dingguo is great, but Emperor Taizu Gao has already decreed that different surnames cannot be divided into kings!"

"Your Majesty, I have no country to seal......

「……」

"How can there be no country to seal?"

Zhu Di was not surprised by the reaction of the ministers, but smiled faintly, "Overseas, such a large area of Fanguo can be sealed!"

Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the hundreds of officials eased slightly.

In the final analysis, whether to seal the king or not, whether to violate the ancestral system or not, is an internal matter of the Zhu family, as long as the land of the Ming Dynasty is not sealed and the people of the Ming Dynasty are not abused, it has nothing to do with them.

Even, if you can take the opportunity of being crowned the king to drive Guo An, the prince of Dingguo, to the domain, it will be a great thing for the hundred officials!

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, I don't know how the king of Dingguo Gong is sealed?"

Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, bowed to Zhu Di and asked slowly.

As the patriarch of the Zhu family, he represents the meaning of all the princes and clans of the Zhu family in the main hall.

"Feng the king of the county, the fief will be Guo Qing's Guo Zhou, plus 10,000 food households, and the king of the clan will share the Lulu, give two guards, one guard to guard Guo Zhou, and one guard will be dispatched by the Duke of Dingguo to build a royal palace in Beijing, and the county where the ancestral land of the Guo family is located will be given to Guo Qing......

Zhu Di said slowly.

Below, the more the vassal kings and hundreds of officials listened, the more relaxed their faces became.

His Majesty was crowned king like this, and he only gave the name of a county king, and then gave two guards, and gave it back to a county.

Moreover, of these two guards, one of them still has to go to Guozhou to guard!

In this way, he can afford to recover the corn and sweet potatoes for Daming!

At this time, Guo An finally had a chance to speak.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen is sincerely afraid, just to find corn and sweet potatoes, how can he dare to bear such a great love from His Majesty?"

"Guo Qing doesn't need to say much!"

Zhu Di smiled faintly, "Guo Qing has made great contributions to our Ming Dynasty, and this alone is enough to be crowned king!"

As he spoke, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Hu, as well as Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui and other Ming vassal kings.

"Princes, kings, what do you think?"

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly said: "Father Emperor Shengming, sons and daughters obey the will of their father!"

Zhu Hu also nodded slowly, "Your Majesty Shengming, my brother respectfully obeys Your Majesty's will!"

"Brother agrees......"

The vassal kings also nodded again and again.

It's just a county king, but it's just a county, and in the final analysis, it's still the treatment of a national prince.

Moreover, at this critical time, they don't want to offend Zhu Di.

"Since you have all agreed, the Ministry of Rites will draw up a detailed statute as soon as possible!"

"Wechen obeys!"

Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, replied slowly.

Behind him, a group of civil and military officials, except for envy and jealousy in their eyes, did not say anything to stop them.

Guo An also hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

Zhu Di smiled with satisfaction, and continued: "In addition, the merchant Shen Zhuang, who recovered the corn and sweet potatoes for the Ming Dynasty, and a group of crew members, have also made great contributions and should be rewarded!"

"Your Majesty's words are true!"

With the matter of rewarding the king of the county, now it is just a reward for a businessman, and there are some crew members, in the hearts of hundreds of officials, it is just a trivial matter.

"Without Shen Zhuang's careful search, the care of those crew members all the way, corn and sweet potatoes, I would not have come to Daming.

In order to encourage and motivate all the merchants and crew members of our Ming Dynasty, and to find higher yields of grain per mu for my Ming Dynasty, I thought that all the crew members could be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, 20 horses of cotton cloth, 5 stones of rice, 5 acres of fertile land, and 1 cattle, and they would be exempted from taxes for three years!"

"Your Majesty!"

A group of officials praised again, such a small reward, it is really not much.

Zhu Di again

Said: "As for its first meritorious, Shangjia Shenzhuang, seal his county!"

"What?"

"Prefectural?"

Hearing this, all the vassal kings and officials were all dumbfounded.

Immediately, there was an uproar.

To know.

Although the Ming Dynasty had fifth-class titles, from the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all the dukes, marquises, and earls have been rewarded, but there have never been viscounts and barons.

Even if there are viscounts and barons, they are all posthumous gifts!

Now, suddenly a viscount appears, or is it still for a merchant?

The officials suddenly couldn't accept it.

"Your Majesty, that Shen Zhuang is just a cheap businessman, how can he enjoy the blessings of my Viscount of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Your Majesty, don't ......."

This time, all the officials sincerely dissuaded them.

"Although Shen Zhuang is a businessman, everything he does is a good deed. This year, there was a great drought in the north, and Shen Zhuang took the Maritime Trade Chamber of Commerce to transport back hundreds of thousands of stones of grain from Jiaozhi one after another, and handed them over to the imperial court for disaster relief.

In addition, if I don't reward his viscount, how should I reward him if I don't reward him with corn and sweet potatoes?

Could it be that I want to give him an official title?"

"This ......"

Baiguan was stunned again.

Seal a viscount who has no real power, or, to seal an official position?

"Your Majesty, it's just a lowly businessman, even if Your Majesty rewards him with some money, he will be grateful!"

Zhu Di's face sank, "Do you want to dissuade me, and if you have merit and less reward, or will you not be rewarded for merit?"

"Your Majesty Mingjian, Weichen and the others have no such intention!"

A group of officials hurriedly said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Weichen and the others just think that they are just a cheap businessman, if they ......."

"Alright!"

Zhu Di waved his hand impatiently and said, "I have made such a great contribution to my Ming Dynasty, and if I can't reward him for his official position, then I will make him knighted!"

If not, I will not be rewarded for my merits, and I will not be a faint king?"

"In addition, Guo Bingyong, Guo Zhi, Guo Changchen, and Guo Shanyuan, who cultivated corn and sweet potatoes, have been cultivating good seeds for my Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, so that my Ming Dynasty's grain production has been increasing.

I can't be rewarded for such a social achievement, so I am the same as that Shen Zhuang, I am a viscount!"

"The four Di Gonglang of the Guo family have all named him a viscount?"

Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, asked with some uncertainty.

"Yes!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "How to reward it, wait for two days, and give me a charter!"

"Wechen obeys!"

Zheng Yi sighed helplessly, and then replied slowly.

"Your Majesty!"

For the four members of the Guo family, they were all viscounts, and the civil officials did not have any objections.

Even, there is some excitement in their hearts.

Because.

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that civil officials did not deserve to be knighted.

In the Ming Dynasty, civil officials who can have knighthoods must have military exploits.

Right now.

Five knights appeared at once, one businessman, and four civil officials!

In this way, doesn't it mean that these civil officials may also be knighted in the future?

After eating the feast, he was rewarded for his deeds.

Basically, that's the end of today's business.

Under the greeting of Yishiha, a group of officials and vassal kings stood up and saluted Zhu Di and sent them off!

After that, the ministers also walked out of the hall with a hula.

As soon as he left the main hall, a group of martial artists surrounded Guo An with happy faces and congratulated him again and again.

As for the civil officials, I would also like to congratulate them.

After all, although Guo An is a nobleman, strictly speaking, Guo An was born in the Guo family of Shunde Mansion and married to the Liu family, so he should be a civil official!

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