Chapter 145

In fact, Cheng Shijie is not familiar with Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, and he has not even met each other.

But the problem is that Sun Yuanhua knows Zhu Wannian.

Since the last time Sun Yuanhua returned to Dengzhou from southern Liaoning, he began to pay attention to the land of Sanfu under the rule of the governor of Denglai.

Except for the newly cultivated farmland in southern Liaoning, where crops are growing well, the grass and trees in other places are scorched, the rivers are dry, the land is cracked, and there is hardly a trace of life in sight.

On the steaming avenue, countless ragged and scrawny peasants staggered along in droves as to where they were going.

You don't have to think about it with your head, you can know with your knees that they must be going to southern Liaoning, because it is in southern Liaoning that they can find a way to live. On the road to southern Liaoning, people kept falling, and once they fell, they couldn't stand up again, and no one looked at them more, so they walked numbly, and their bodies were thrown on the side of the road to rot.

Farmland is simply unsightly.

Either it is barren, or the crops inside are sparse, and there are not many living seedlings......

The corruption of the Ming Empire has infiltrated all aspects of this aging empire, eating away at the foundation of the empire, and the last bit of execution ability left in this empire has been used to loot the people's fat and ointment.

But the phoenix sometimes flies out of the chicken nest, and in this bureaucratic system that exudes a thick twilight and rancid stench from top to bottom, there are still some people who are willing to do something practical for the people and the country.

For example, the household department is still full of self-strictness, such as Xu Guangqi, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Sun Chengzong, and Sun Yuanhua and Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou.

Sun Yuanhua saw that the crops in Laizhou, Dengzhou, and Qingzhou were growing very poorly, and those gentry and powerful lands were growing slightly better because of the convenience of irrigation. But the problem is that the gentry and the powerful will not pay taxes, and whether the crops are good or bad has little to do with them.

The most important thing is the homesteaders.

Sun Yuanhua summoned the three prefects, six prefects and thirty county orders to Dengzhou Mansion, which was a scolding, if it was just scolding, Zhu Wannian would not hate Cheng Shijie.

As the saying goes, if there is no comparison, there is no harm, because Cheng Shijie did too well in southern Liaoning, and Sun Yuanhua also asked Cheng Shijie how to grow crops well.

Cheng Shijie's answer is "timely irrigation, timely pest control, fertilizer also keep up, do these things, generally can have a good harvest!" ”

"What a mu yield of more than a thousand sprinkled water!"

"Shandong is such a fertile land, the population is less than Henan, and the rain is far more than that of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and it is stupid to starve to death if you guard so much land in Shandong."

According to Sun Yuanhua's meaning, in Cheng Shijie's eyes, including himself, the governor of Denglai, and all the officials in the six prefectures and sixty-five counties of Shandong, are stupid.

He alone is a wise man.

Zhu Wannian is from a poor family, when he was nine years old, his father Zhu Ruiguo became ill from hard work, but there was no money for treatment, Zhu Wannian's eldest brother Zhu Wanli wanted to borrow usury to treat Zhu Ruiguo, and was scolded by Zhu Ruiguo to the blood, and finally his father Zhu Ruiguo died of pain.

In order to support Zhu Wannian to study, Zhu Wanli sold himself as a son-in-law, and two of his three sisters were sold to rich families as concubines.

Zhu Wannian knows very well the difficulties of being a common man, and he also wants to be a good official, he does not seek to be famous in history, nor does he seek to be promoted to make a fortune, it is enough to ask the people to scold a dog official less.

But the problem is that after he put his ideals into practice, he realized how big the resistance was: there was no way to implement his decree at all, and even Laizhou City couldn't get out, and there were always so many people who disobeyed the yin and deliberately dragged him back......

Zhu Wannian wants to see how Cheng Shijie, a martial artist, can take countless homeless people to settle more than 5 million mu of land, he has calculated an account, if these more than 5 million mu of land are planted with wheat, and each mu of land is calculated according to a bucket of grain, which will require more than 500,000 stone seed grain.

If soybeans are planted, more than 100,000 stone soybeans will be needed, and these more than 5 million mu of land will require 5 or 600,000 people.

Is Cheng Shijie an immortal?

How could he have more than half a million young people?

As for Cheng Shijie's twenty or thirty stone of grain per acre, he doesn't believe it, he is not a mediocre official who does not eat the fireworks of the world, nor is he a rotten Confucian who reads and reads stupidly.

Almost all officials in the three prefectures, six prefectures, and 30 counties understand the basic question of common sense.

These officials are very angry and hate Cheng Shijie very much, you are a martial artist, you have made Tuntian so good, and you still don't let people live?

Isn't this a dog stopping a mouse to meddle in his business?

When these officials came to southern Liaoning, they saw the fields in southern Liaoning, and most of the fields in southern Liaoning at this time could hardly see anything, especially the sweet potato fields.

The seedlings of sweet potatoes are all treasures, these seedlings can be fed to pigs, cattle, and horses after cutting, and they can not be wasted at all.

These wheat have a maximum of two or three stones, that is, four or five hundred catties of mu, and as for those soybean fields, they have also been calculated, and they are only about two stones at most, that is, more than three hundred catties. Although it is higher than the yield per mu in Shandong, the problem is that it is not much higher, and it is still within their understanding.

They want to see how Cheng Shijie can conjure up more than 1,000 catties of grain per mu, as much as ten or twenty stones.

Some staff members have recognized that Cheng Shijie has planted a large number of sweet potatoes, but the problem is that now the Ming people's sweet potato planting technology is mature, and the farmers of the Ming Dynasty are because of the habit of planting traditional rice, wheat beans and other crops, and they have also developed inertial thinking.

They still grow sweet potatoes according to the pattern of wheat planting, but in this way, sweet potato seedlings will grow wildly, but sweet potatoes do not grow very long, and the yield of sweet potatoes that were originally introduced to Daming is not high.

Now almost all Shandong officials are ready to see Cheng Shijie's jokes, of course, if Cheng Shijie is just the original chief officer of the Ning Navy, they still dare to laugh at it.

It's just that Jimo County made Liu Xuemin disrespectful to Cheng Shijie, and the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning didn't care about him, and when Liu Xuemin stayed at the inn, the guy accidentally knocked over Liu Xuemin's night pot while cleaning, and the urine was still spilled on Liu Xuemin's boots and trouser legs.

What could he do?

scolded the short-sighted fellow, kicked a few more times, and after the guy left, the shopkeeper rewarded the beaten fellow with five taels of silver.

This is just the beginning.

Liu Xuemin's bad luck continues, when he eats fish, he will eat fish hooks, when he eats mutton, he is so spicy with chili peppers that his head is full of cold sweat, he travels in a car, the axle is broken, and the dog eats mud.

After the septic tank, a deaf and dumb old farmer carrying a flat pole came to meet him, someone called this old farmer, and the old farmer turned around and beat Liu Xuemin into the septic tank.

After Liu Xuemin was fished out with a hook, he cleaned it, got a cold, and had a few hooks on his arm, and Lang Zhong, who was invited, said directly: "This requires amputation......"

Even fools know that Liu Xuemin was targeted.

There are also people who don't believe in evil and say that Cheng Shijie runs a women's school, but as a result, several mothers-in-law chased and beat the official, insisting that the official peeked at them to take a bath......

Looking at four or five strong women with tigers on their backs, who watched them take a bath?

Not afraid of spicy eyes?

This official has a hard time, even if he is scolded, when he travels, he was directly splashed with dung, the key is that he is talking like a river......

This picture is so exciting.

Cheng Shijie did not arrive at Maqiao Town in Zhenhai City, so everyone could only wait.

In the crowd, there were not only Huizhou businessmen, but also Fan Yongdou, an upstart in southern Liaoning.

When 2,000 iron hooves were sent to southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie and Fan Yongdou called him brother and brother, and bluntly said that from now on, there is no need to pass on the general military of the Navy in Ningning.

Of course, Fan Yongdou didn't take it seriously, it was not only Cheng Shijie's mansion, but also Ning Haijun's festival, if he took a wrong step, there was no place to cry out if he killed him.

Finally, the protagonist is late in a four-wheeled carriage.

"Meet the Lord Jinglue!"

Don't look at Cheng Shijie as a military attaché, and the pacification envoy is also an official position in charge of the military, but the problem is that this is a civilian official, and his rank is even higher than that of Sun Yuanhua, the governor.

Cheng Shijie looked at a large number of officials in Wuyang and Wuyang, coughed and said, "Why haven't you started harvesting sweet potatoes yet?" ”

"Isn't this waiting for Lord Jingluo?"

Sun Yuanhua was not embarrassed because of Cheng Shijie's high official position, being in the officialdom, this is actually a normal phenomenon, just like Lu Xiangsheng, Chongzhen raised his own military salary in the second year, and took tens of thousands of people to the north to King Qin.

Then, in the third year of Chongzhen, he directly took the rocket, and was first promoted to the right to participate in politics as the political envoy of Shandong Province, and reorganized the Daimyo Army, and governed the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping and Shunde, which is the second-in-command of Shandong Province.

It's just that he participated in politics with the right of Shandong, but what he did was the work of Beizhili.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Shandong was appointed as an inspector, which became one of the three divisions, that is, a high-ranking official, and within two years, he completed the triple jump.

This is a height that is difficult for ordinary officials to reach in a lifetime, and as for the speed of military attache promotion, it is also the speed of light.

Of course, whether it is Lu Xiangsheng or Mao Wenlong back then, there is no such dazzling record as Cheng Shijie, since the forty-seventh year of Wanli, since Nurhachi rebelled, who has beheaded more than 4,000 ranks?

Only Cheng Shijie is so unique, don't look at the Haizhou victory is a thousand miles of Jiannu to send people's heads, and Cheng Shijie has been given a big credit in vain, but the problem is that except for Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi, a few people know the truth, and no one knows.

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said, "Then let's start!" ”

More than 10,000 men, women, and children from 50 tuntian and 100 households in Zhenhai City, rushed to the fields that their 100 households were responsible for.

The ploughing ox pulls the curved plough in front of it, and carefully plows it, only plowing once to expose large and small sweet potatoes, which has the advantage of preventing the guy who digs sweet potatoes from digging with a hoe and digging up the sweet potatoes.

After ploughing the soil, the Tuntian military household, who was responsible for digging the sweet potatoes, picked up the hoe, dug down with extra care, and dug out the sweet potatoes with the roots.

In the beginning, almost every time I dug up a tree, I would cause a burst of exclamation: "Oh my God, it's so big, it's so much!" There was a basket without digging a few trees! ”

Slowly, no one screamed anymore, they were numb, the front picked up with a hoe, the back picked up, one by one the baskets were quickly filled, and then picked up on the avenue to load the car, someone shouted the trumpet and waved the whip, and the basket of sweet potatoes was transported back to the field, and the temporary weighing place was placed.

Fan Yongdou was holding a sweet potato, which weighed three or four catties: "Can this thing be eaten?" ”

"Of course you can eat it!"

Cheng Shijie knew that some of the people present did not know much about sweet potatoes, and he had already prepared.

As dozens of four-wheeled dining trucks drove over, a group of Ning Haijun's cooks came down and began to clean up sweet potatoes.

Some peel off the skin of the sweet potato, wash it, and cook it with the porridge.

Some sweet potatoes are not even washed, and are roasted directly on the fire.

Some sweet potatoes are cut into sweet potato fries and fried in oil to fry the french fries.

Some sweet potatoes are made into sweet potato snacks.

Some sweet potatoes are made into sweet potato cakes, sweet potato balls, sweet potato chips, sweet potato steamed buns, sweet potato crisps, sweet potato dough cakes, shredded sweet potatoes, crispy sweet potatoes, etc., more than 40 kinds of sweet potato products.

Seeing that Cheng Shijie had already prepared, the officials and businessmen also wanted to see what Cheng Shijie was going to do.

The soldiers of the Ning Navy soon set up a huge tent at the edge of the field, and put the tables and chairs unloaded from the car in the tent, this huge tent is not made of cowhide, but the subsidiary factory of the Lushun shipyard, the production of canvas, can be waterproof, strong, wear-resistant, and most importantly, the cost is far cheaper than the cowhide tent.

How could Cheng Shijie give up the Liaoning South Commodity Promotion Conference in front of him?

This huge canvas, supported by a dozen huge I-beams, soon formed a tent, covered with a woolen carpet, and then set up on the table.

When these things are done, the first thing to do is to fry sweet potato fries, sprinkle with a little iodized salt from southern Liaoning, or white sugar, and live together.

Cheng Shijie naturally only needs to accompany Sun Yuanhua, Chen Zilong, Zhu Wannian and other governors and prefect-level officials, as for the governors and county orders, find a place to sit by yourself.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the classic fries of junk food that were served on the table one after another and said: "Lord Sun, Lord Zhu, Mr. Chen, Mr. Song (Song Yingxing), come and try this!" ”

Sun Yuanhua picked up chopsticks and picked up a piece of French fries less than two inches long, before he started to eat, the unique sweet and greasy aroma of sweet potatoes came to his nose, he gently stuffed it into his mouth, and his eyes instantly lit up: "Very delicious!" ”

Zhu Wannian and the others also couldn't wait to pick up the sweet potato fries with chopsticks.

At this time, there are sweet potato cakes that have been made one after another, sweet potato chips, sweet potato syrup, sweet potato cakes, etc. have been served one after another, and there are actually many people who have eaten sweet potatoes in person, but what they never thought was that sweet potatoes would have so many practices.

The more everyone eats, the more surprised they are, especially those businessmen, there is no reason why such a delicious thing cannot be spread, if it is not particularly expensive, it will definitely be popular in Daming.

More than 40 sweet potato dishes or dim sum.

By the time everyone tried it, they were basically full.

Cheng Shijie got up and made a final concluding speech: "This is called sweet potato, also called sweet potato, native to the American continent, adaptable, like warm and light and not frost resistant, drought and alkali resistant, suitable for planting in fertile and well-drained sandy soil, is an easy to harvest crops, if widely planted, Daming will no longer have a food crisis!" ”

Sun Yuanhua was most concerned about the output and asked, "What is the yield of this thing?" ”

This is also a concern of all those present.

"Two or three thousand catties must be there!"

Cheng Shijie knows that although sweet potatoes have a high yield, the problem is that some of these seedlings are brought over from later generations, some are cultivated by themselves, some are fertile, and some are barren.

"Two or three thousand catties?"

Zhu Wannian still thinks that Cheng Shijie is bragging, if you want to increase the yield of crops, in fact, you can not only rely on seeds, but also rely on operations, the yield of ten acres of land is said to be the yield of one acre of land, so that the output will not go up?

If Cheng Shijie dares to play this trick, he will definitely lose face.

"So many?"

Cheng Shijie said with a little emptiness: "I don't know how much, everyone, it's about the same time now." We can go and see how many there are! ”

Not only does Cheng Shijie have no bottom in his heart, but many military households also have no confidence in their hearts, they don't seem to care much after this sweet potato is planted, they just keep harvesting seedlings, how can this harvest be so good?

"Then let's go, just in time to eliminate food!"

Sun Yuanhua is not greedy, he only eats one bite or two of each dish, but he has already eaten more than forty dishes.

Not only did he support himself, but also several officials such as Yan Guangshou, the commander of Le'an County, and Han Shuncheng of Boxing County, all of whom rolled their eyes.

When I went out of the temporary tent and saw the open space outside, I saw that the sweet potatoes on the ground had been piled up into hills.

Although Ning Haijun's tuntian plots are not horizontal and vertical, and each piece of land is the same size, because there is no private land, the plots are very large, the smallest piece of land is also 100 acres, and the large one is 200 acres and 300 acres.

The sweet potatoes harvested in each field are piled together, and the number of acres in each field is marked with white ash.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Meet Lord Sun, my lords!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Liu San and said, "How's it going?" How many acres have been harvested now? ”

Liu San said with a smile: "Back to the handsome, I have already collected eight pieces of land, more than 5,000 acres. ”

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly: "The speed is still a little slow." At this rate, more than 5 million acres will not be harvested even if it receives snow! ”

"The brothers did their best!"

"Literature!"

"The door is here!"

"Transfer the new 100 households in Tuntian to participate in the autumn harvest, each person will take care of three meals, and send another fifty catties of sweet potatoes!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the account room that had been waiting for a long time and said, "Let's start weighing!" ”

"Yes!"

With a basket of sweet potatoes began to be weighed.

"No. 1 field, 1,000 mu, with a total weight of 3.52 million catties and a yield of 3,552 catties per mu."

Although it is said that ancient stone can be used as two units of measurement, one is the unit of volume, the other is the unit of weight, obviously the unit used to measure the meter is the unit of volume rather than the unit of weight, so there is no direct conversion of the Ming Dynasty stone (volume) and the current unit of weight.

In the Ming Dynasty, Erhu was one stone, so the volume of one stone was 102366 milliliters. (In the "Chinese Weights and Measures Examination", it is mistakenly 98,724 ml, and in "Research on the Grain Yield per Mu of China's Past Dynasties" is 10,225 ml) The volume is 102366 ml. The same stone is 102.36 liters, or about 102.36 kilograms, if it is a stone of water.

According to the "Research on Grain Yield per Mu in China in Past Dynasties" also gives a measured figure, 1 liter of rice (polished rice) weighs 1.5 catties, and it is not difficult to calculate that a stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty weighed about 153.5 catties.

However, sweet potatoes are different from rice or wheat because the spacing between the grains of rice and wheat grains is small, and the error is not large. However, the shape of sweet potatoes is different, and the spacing is large, so it can only be weighed and not measured by a bucket.

As the total weight of the No. 1 field was reported, there was a sound of cold snorting around.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Zhu Wannian was taken aback, he looked at the staff around him and said, "Have you seen them do anything?" ”

"Absolutely not!"

Sun Yuanhua didn't say anything, until Xu Dacheng reported the data he got to Sun Yuanhua: "Lord Futai, the students have been staring at people, this pile of sweet potatoes is indeed the No. 1 field and more than a thousand acres!" ”

"How much?"

"Six!"

Sun Yuanhua was ecstatic: "The error of six points is within the allowable range!" ”

Zhu Wannian said in disbelief: "Why is the yield of this sweet potato so scary?" ”

Xu Dacheng also wiped the cold sweat of kowtowing: "One acre of sweet potatoes is equal to the yield of dozens of acres of wheat, which is amazing!" ”

The most shocking thing is those Tuntian military households, they just planted these sweet potatoes, and they were pulled to work by the study minister of the Agricultural College, and the care of these sweet potato fields is really not much, and it can be said that they basically have no thoughts.

"It turns out that it is not impossible to produce a thousand catties per mu!"

Chen Zilong looked at the agronomic experts around him and said: "Seeing is believing, if I told you in the past that there are crops with a yield of several thousand catties per mu, would you believe it?" ”

"Even now, it's like a dream!"

Zhu Wannian: "Has the output of the No. 2 field been weighed out?" ”

"Weigh it out, the yield of No. 2 mu is 3,973 catties, a total of 3,973,300 catties."

"No. 3 field, the yield per mu is 3,460 catties!"

"No. 5 field, 4,104 catties per mu!"

"No. 6 field, the yield per mu is 4,000 and 53 catties!"

"No. 7 field, the yield per mu is 3,789 catties!"

"No. 8 field, the yield per mu is 3,295 catties!"

At this time, everyone in the field was numb, and they had fallen into ecstasy.

Everyone present, including Fan Yongdou, was very happy.

But the problem is that my price seems to be too high.

Chen Zilong sighed and said, "It's a pity......"

"What is a pity?"

"It's a high yield, but it's not easy to store!"

Chen Zilong smiled bitterly: "This thing must be eaten within a month, otherwise it will be broken!" If you don't throw it away and continue to eat, you will have diarrhea......"

"That's because you're too stupid to store!"

Cheng Shijie said: "There are many ways to store sweet potatoes! ”

Chen Zilong asked happily: "If storage?" ”

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Discuss secrets, refuse to inquire!" ”

(End of chapter)