"Sweet potato?"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and asked suspiciously, "What is it?" Why haven't we heard of it! ”

"Good stuff, you'll know later!"

Huang Xiongying didn't rush to explain, he couldn't tell anything about a few thousand catties per mu, and if he said it rashly, others would only think you were a fool.

He doesn't like any drama that slaps the ancients in the face, after all, he just has the advantage of the traverser.

Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, yam, red taro, sweet potato, sweet potato, red potato, etc.

This kind of thing is just a rare and ordinary thing in later generations, but for this era, it has a very unusual significance, especially for the Ming Dynasty, which has begun to enter the Xiaoice River period.

For the people of this period, the sweet potato can be called a miraculous crop, because it does not need fertile soil, and it does not require hard care, and people invest far less manpower and material resources for it than rice or wheat, but the yield is far beyond the former.

According to the original historical process, sweet potatoes were introduced to the Central Plains around the Wanli period, and were brought back from Luzon (present-day Philippines) by a merchant named Chen Zhenlong.

But at that time, it was not taken seriously by the imperial court.

It wasn't until the Braided Dynasty that sweet potatoes were taken seriously, especially in the Qianlong Dynasty.

After the development of the Kang Yongqian dynasty, China's population reached the 200 million mark, far more than at any time in its previous history, and the economy at that time did not keep up with the pace of population growth.

Whether it is Yongzheng's urging to reclaim the famine, or Qianlong's land to make the most of its benefits, can not solve this kind of contradiction that can not be reconciled between man and land, the last kings of all dynasties have tried to varying degrees, but none of them succeeded, take the end of the Ming Dynasty as an example, the massive increase in population is also one of the reasons for its demise.

According to historical fate, the early years of Qianlong should have been an era of exhausted blessings. At this time, the population growth is close to the limit of the original land carrying capacity, and more and more people should starve to death, and among those who almost starve to death, more and more people will take risks to make ends meet......

But the timely promotion of Sweet Potato and his companions continued the life of the Qing Dynasty, allowing him to continue to survive for more than 200 years, and its companions also included potatoes, corn, peppers, and tobacco......

It can be seen how much energy a small sweet potato has for the era of small-scale peasant economy.

This is also why Huang Xiongying was so excited that after Huang Xiongying first found out that the tribute ginseng of the Luzon State was a sweet potato, he was so excited that he lost his temper in front of Xu Huizu.

The grandfather and grandson were talking, and a shopkeeper greeted him.

"Second master, please inside, the inside is spacious, you can see the palace miles on it, do you want to go up and sit?"

"Oh?"

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped, glanced at the restaurant, and asked, "Is there a clean place here?" ”

Xiao Er nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there is a private room upstairs, it is very clean!" ”

"Eldest grandson, go in and sit?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Huang Xiongying with a smile, and the latter nodded.

"Let's go, go upstairs!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, and walked in stride......

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang and Huang Xiongying entering, Jiang Zhen behind them stopped the shopkeeper: "My master doesn't like to be noisy, you give us all the above, and no one is allowed to go up." ”

As he spoke, Jiang Zhen took out an ingot of silver from his arms.

The shopkeeper smiled and nodded: "Okay, master, I'll do it right away......"

Went upstairs.

The shopkeeper led a few people to the private room.

Huang Xiongying asked Xiao Er: "Xiao Er, what signature dishes do you have here!" ”

"Guest officer, our main dish is Yangzhou cuisine, there are Yangzhou salted duck, roast party, general crossing the bridge, duck wrapped shark fin, Yangzhou fried rice, ......"

Xiao Er reported some dish names.

Huang Xiongying nodded and said, "Then come a salted duck, a green vegetable, a Yangzhou fried rice, and, go and buy a copy of the baked cakes and duck blood soup on the opposite street." ”

"Good, good, this good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile, and did not forget to instruct: "Be faster, otherwise the cool taste will change!" ”

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

The little second master could see that these two masters were not ordinary people, so they hurriedly did what they were told......

Enter the private room.

I have to say that this private room is indeed very elegantly furnished, and when you come to the corridor outside, the field of vision becomes very wide, close, the lively Chang'an Street is in full view, and in the distance, the rows of palaces are faintly visible.

"Big grandson, look, this is our Daming!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the lively scene in front of him, and couldn't help but show a proud look on his face.

"yes!"

Huang Xiongying nodded: "Emperor Hongwu is really an amazing emperor, in just over 20 years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he has cleaned up the dilapidated rivers and mountains left by Meng Yuan, and returned the people of the world to a peaceful and prosperous world!" ”

Listening to Huang Xiongying's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was like drinking honey.

The praise from his eldest grandson, and the praise without knowing his identity, is much more comfortable and credible than the sycophants of those ministers.

"Grandpa."

Huang Xiongying looked in the direction of the palace and said, "Do you know what Sun Er admires most about Emperor Hongwu?" ”

"What?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Huang Xiongying seemingly a little carelessly, but he couldn't help but look forward to it.

I only listened to Huang Xiongying and said slowly: "What Sun Er admires most about Emperor Hongwu is that Emperor Hongwu really puts the people of the world in his heart, the Ming Dynasty, the people can report officials, and set up a drum of grievances outside the noon gate, so that ordinary people can also appeal for grievances, this alone is unique in all dynasties!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, but sighed lightly and said: "But we heard that many officials in the imperial court are complaining in private that Emperor Hongwu is too harsh, his salary is too low, and he is an official for thousands of miles, but his life is still tight!" ”

"Huh-"

Huang Xiongying chuckled: "When you are an official, do you have to get rich?" ”

Swish!

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened suddenly, and his big hand couldn't help but pat the railing and shouted: "Okay!" Is it necessary to be rich as an official? Our eldest grandson said it so well! ”

These words can be said to go directly to Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

He hated corrupt officials, and this hatred stemmed from both blood and reason.

As an emperor, his hatred came from his love for the Ming Dynasty he founded, and he was afraid that these rats would bite the Ming Dynasty that he had worked so hard to establish.

It is not only for the people of the world, but also for the stability of the rule of the Zhu family.

The two are not contradictory, but complement each other, because only when the people live and work in peace and contentment, the Ming Dynasty founded by Zhu Yuanzhang will be forever.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, both for the public and for private purposes.

"Eldest grandson, you have such an acquaintance, grandpa is really happy!"

Zhu Yuanzhang gently patted Huang Xiongying's shoulder and said with a smile: "When you told us that you wanted to engage in business, we were really worried that you would go crookedly, think about the grain merchants around the disaster area this time, for the sake of all this money, they don't want their heads!" ”

"We heard, this time, the emperor killed them all, and all the children in the family were exiled! Hehe, these merchants should be killed, otherwise they will be like wildfires, the wind blows, and blows out again! ”

Huang Xiongying nodded, in fact, he had long expected that the grain chamber in the disaster area would be such a result.

"It is true that businessmen who make a fortune should be killed, but there is nothing wrong with doing business!"

Saying that, Huang Xiongying pointed to the bustling Chang'an Avenue and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Look at these dance pavilions and singing platforms outside, Qianzhuang Restaurant, they are not all bad, they are also the embodiment of peace and prosperity!" ”

"You made sense last time, of course, our Ming Dynasty is based on agriculture, but if there are no merchants, how can there be the prosperous scene in front of us? It's like planting a tree needs fertilizer to flourish, and they are fertilizer! ”

"Hmmm......"

Zhu Yuanzhang showed a thoughtful look, and said with a smile after a while: "Our eldest grandson is right, they are fertilizer, but ah, ......"

"Let's leave the good fertilizer behind, and eradicate the bad fertilizer!"

At this time, the shopkeeper came to serve the food.

I have to say that this Yangzhou cuisine is still quite authentic, the salted duck is full of shape, rotten but not scattered, the color is buttery and bright, and Yangzhou fried rice is also grainy, harmonious in color, and full of luster.

There are also sesame yakiniku and duck blood vermicelli soup bought from the opposite street.

Just looking at it makes people feel appetizing.

"Grandson, eat!"

Zhu Yuanzhang greeted him, picked up his favorite baked cake, and nibbled on it beautifully.

"After eating all over Jingshi, the baked cakes made by our eldest grandson are delicious!"

Zhu Yuanzhang ate, but Huang Xiongying's eyes looked at Jiang Xuan, who was guarding outside the house, and greeted: "Brother Jiang, don't stand, eat together!" ”

Jiang Xuan was stunned for a moment, obviously didn't expect Huang Xiongying to call himself, and hurriedly said, "Huang Gongzi, I'm ...... I'm not hungry! ”

Huang Xiongying said with a smile: "I ordered too much, and my grandfather and I will never forget to eat, if you don't eat it, it will be wasted!" ”

"I ......"

Jiang Xuan didn't know how to respond for a while, so he had to look at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't raise his eyelids, and said while eating: "Don't you understand what our eldest grandson said?" Our eldest grandson tells you to eat, and you will eat! ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xuan hurriedly clenched his fists: "Xie Huang Gongzi!" ”

Since Hu Weiyong's case, Jiang Zhen has replaced Mao Xiang in the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and has been by the old emperor's side for many years, but how can He De eat at the same table with the old emperor?

So in the process of walking over, Jiang Xuan, who was used to seeing life and death, his legs were trembling slightly.

It's a lot harder than letting him kill!

Finally sat down, Jiang Zhen still couldn't help but secretly glanced at the old emperor, but fortunately he found that the old emperor only cared about eating and ignored himself at all, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Jiang, eat."

Huang Xiongying moved his chopsticks and greeted Jiang Xuan by the way.

Jiang Zhen nodded again and again, like a little lady who saw her in-laws for the first time, and hurriedly picked up the dishes and chopsticks, for fear that the emperor's grandson would coldly pick up vegetables for him, and then he would be tormented!

At the beginning, watching Zhou Ji being skinned, the tea in Jiang Zhen's hand became more and more flavorful the more he drank it, but now the exquisite Yangzhou fried rice is in his mouth, but it is tasteless.

Huang Xiongying and the old man ate very happily.

After eating almost, the old man wiped the oil stains on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, looked at Huang Xiongying who was eating, and said: "We are old, we can't eat much, you are different, you have to eat more!" ”

"Hmm."

Huang Xiongying nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "By the way, where did we just go?" Oh yes, fertilizer! ”

"Good fertilizer can make trees flourish, but bad fertilizer will only make the trees we plant grow worse and worse, just like the profiteers who raise the price of food in the disaster area, and they can't stay!"

Huang Xiongying nodded and replied: "The profiteers should be killed, but Sun Er feels that I am afraid it is not so simple, because under the rule of Emperor Hongwu, they are not so bold, and there must be a force behind them to support them." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face suddenly sank.

Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, his seventh son, was afraid that he would be brave and ruthless, so he stayed in Qingzhou for a long time, and no one disciplined him.

In order to let his son use this kind of brave and ruthless energy to deal with the enemy, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to follow his fourth brother Zhu Di to the north to conquer Mongolia.

But he didn't expect that over the years, this concubine who was sent by him to his hometown Fengyang to experience the pain of the farmer has become more and more arrogant.

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "The force behind them is the King of Qi. ”

"King Qi?"

Huang Xiongying's brows furrowed suddenly, obviously he didn't expect that this matter would involve the prince of the domain.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slowly,

The surprise in Huang Xiongying's eyes was fleeting, and he immediately lowered his voice and said, "It's a big matter, let's not talk about it." ”

This Qi King Zhu Yu, Huang Xiongying still knows a little.

Because his biological mother was Concubine Da, it was rumored that Dashi was Chen Youliang's concubine, who was included in the harem by Zhu Yuanzhang as a trophy, and gave birth to two sons for Zhu Yuanzhang, namely the seventh son Zhu Rong of Qi and the eighth son of Tan Wang Zhu Zi.

In later generations, there were even rumors that Zhu Zi, the king of Tan, was Chen Youliang's widow.

This is pure nonsense, the seventh son King Qi is not a posthumous son, but the younger eighth son Tan King is?

Obviously, these are all braided to smear Emperor Hongwu.

Now that disaster relief involves a single number of feudal kings with outstanding military achievements, it is no longer an easy problem to solve.

Unexpectedly, the old man smiled and said, "It's late, the old emperor has already asked for our opinion." ”

"What?"

Huang Xiongying looked at the old man with some surprise and said, "Then what do you say?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Huang Xiongying and said: "We don't dare to reply indiscriminately, King Qi just made a lot of contributions a few years ago, and it has only been two years, and he has made such a big mistake, and we don't know how to deal with it!" ”

"We want to hear what you think of King Qi, and give us some ideas!"

After hearing this, Huang Xiongying was already frowning.

On the other hand, Jiang Zhen was already frightened when he heard it, sitting like pins and needles, and he didn't dare to gasp.

How can you talk about dealing with the prince?

The old emperor wants to hear it, but I don't want to hear it!

It's okay, they say theirs, I'll just eat my meal.

Jiang Zhen constantly comforted himself in his heart.

But he found ......

Why doesn't this rice taste at all?

(End of chapter)