At the beginning, Emperor Wanli still had some apologies for Liu Haojia, because he felt that he owed Liu Haojia a grand ceremony. But when he heard that Liu Haojia had a ceremony in Tianjin, he was unhappy in his heart! For in his opinion, grace comes from above! Only what he gives is yours, you can't take it yourself!

However, when he heard that the person who reported said that Liu Haojia only gave them a small amount of silver reward, and did not cross himself, and only gave those meritorious personnel a medal called something, he didn't care!

He even said to Zhang Jia: "When did this Wu Ninghou become so stingy, and actually coaxed people with a bronze medal?"

Seeing that Emperor Wanli didn't care, Zhang Jia breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and said, "This is also the meaning of Wu Ninghou's refusal to trespass! After all, the Long Live Lord has been rewarded, and it is not good for him to cross the Long Live Lord! So I made some kind of medal to fool those Qiu Ba! Anyway, those Qiu Ba are so foolish!"

The two of them discussed the medal for a long time, and the conclusion was that Wu Ninghou was fooling people! But the two of them didn't know that the Wu'an Army was very different from the other armies of the Ming Dynasty! Other Ming soldiers probably regarded being a soldier as a job, and they also had the intention of protecting their families and defending the country, but they may not have such a clear concept.

And the Wu'an army is completely different! Liu Haojia emphasized the sense of honor and responsibility of the soldiers at the beginning of the founding of the army, so that the Wu'an army regarded themselves as the hope of the future of the Ming Empire! So they have a very big recognition of honor!

Take those officers for example, if they were asked to choose the same number of medals and bounties, they would definitely choose the medals first, and this is the biggest difference between the two armies!

When the news completely spread in the Beijing Division, Liu Haojia received a lot of ridicule! In the eyes of Shilin and the officials, those Qiu Ba only need to give silver, so why bother to hold a ceremony with such fanfare!

However, they were very interested in Liu Haojia's issuance of medals, not because they thought that this method was easy to use, but because they felt that if they could adopt it, they might be able to save a lot of money for the imperial court! There are even many civilian officials who are wondering whether to follow the example of Marquis Wu Ning to give more medals to other soldiers, so that maybe they can deduct some more silver!

But they don't want to think about it, the most basic thing for a unit with a sense of honor is that the soldiers can be fed and clothed, and their families can be fed and clothed with warmth, and on this basis, there will be room for pursuing honor! It would be a joke to give medals to soldiers who had a hard time even living, as they thought, and expect them to suddenly become brave and good at fighting!

After the award, Liu Haojia started to get busy again, because he had too many things to do! First of all, the Wu'an Army has found a lot of areas that urgently need to be improved during its two wars, and he wants to make a relatively large-scale adjustment to the Wu'an Army.

The first thing to be added was the sword and shield soldiers, and the number of pikemen should be reduced as appropriate, and the length of the spears should also be shortened by a certain amount. The artillery carriage needs to be increased, especially the one loaded with the Franc cannon is really useful! In short, the bits and pieces were enough for him to be busy for two or three months!

At the same time, he also assigned a group of people to Zhang Zhi and others to inspect the coastal sites and draw drawings. Finally, a drawing of the salt pan was made.

In Liu Hao's plan, the salt farm will be run in three phases. He wants to build a super-large salt factory, and the salt produced is enough for half of the Ming Dynasty! But in order not to alarm too many people, the first phase of the salt works was not large, more experimental.

At the same time, there is also news feedback from all over the nine sides. Some of Zhang Shunping and others rushed to Jiubian in person, and some sent henchmen. With the cooperation of military attachés from all over the country, they got a lot of land! In particular, there are many abandoned lands that have been cultivated in the past!

Unlike the mainland, Jiubian is located on the frontier and there are frequent wars, so the autonomy of military attachés there is much higher. In particular, these military attaches are all local families, and even civil officials have to give some face. What's more, these civil officials still rely on the military attachés to communicate with the caravans outside the Seychelles to get money, so they turn a blind eye to many things, which allows them to get a large amount of land quite smoothly.

And after getting the land, they immediately organized the displaced people and hired laborers to rest, preparing to dispose of the land before the winter and start spring

The first grains will be planted.

At the same time, what made Liu Haojia most excited was that a maritime merchant actually finished sending sweet potato vines! When it comes to sweet potato vines, we have to mention the person known as the father of Chinese sweet potatoes: Chen Zhenlong!

Since sweet potatoes were brought to the East by white colonists, they were first cultivated in Southeast Asia. After the sweet potatoes gradually adapted to the local climate, they gradually regained their high-yielding nature. But the local whites did not allow exports, and the smugglers were put to death!

In 1593, when there was a great famine in the Ming Dynasty, Chinese businessman Chen Zhenlong risked his life to steal a sweet potato vine from the Philippines and saved tens of millions of people in our country.

Chen Zhenlong was a merchant from Fuzhou, Fujian Province, who often went to the Philippines (then called Luzon) to do trade and export business.

As soon as he arrived in the Philippines, he was attracted to this novel food! Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw or steamed and roasted. Soft and glutinous, sweet and delicious, with a strong sense of satiety, you can eat one to top a meal! Locally, sweet potatoes are called "sweet potatoes".

The vines of sweet potatoes are very long, the fruits grow in the soil, not only are they large, but they also bear many fruits, one can produce a large bunch, and more importantly, it is easy to feed. So when Chen Zhenlong saw these sweet potatoes, it was as if he saw the life-saving food of people in China.

There was a famine in the country that year. There was a great drought in central Fujian, and there was no harvest of grains, so people had to feed their hunger with tree bark, grass roots, and Guanyin soil, especially in Chen Zhenlong's hometown, where many people were starved to death.

At that time, even if there was no disaster, the yield of rice and wheat per mu in China was only 200-300 catties, while the yield per mu of sweet potatoes in the Philippines was as high as more than 2,000 catties.

Chen Zhenlong also learned that the sweet potatoes in the Philippines were introduced by the Spaniards, and he was very excited and wanted to introduce the sweet potatoes to China. However, food is the key to a country's survival, and sweet potatoes, a staple food in the Philippines, have been banned from export.

Chen Zhenlong thought of the hungry people and their families in China, and he made an amazing move, planning to risk death to smuggle sweet potatoes back to China!

He found a local farmer and began to study the cultivation method carefully, and after a period of study, he became familiar with the growth law of sweet potato and mastered the basic planting method. What's more, he learns that sweet potatoes only need one vine to survive.