"What, did he bring back the grain?"

Zhu Yuanzhang leaned forward and asked with surprise on his face.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Wei nodded in affirmation.

"Great!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and shouted.

The ministers looked at the two of them back and forth, not knowing what kind of dumb riddle they were playing.

Xiao Dezi is an internal official, not under the control of their courtiers, although the dispatch of sailors will definitely not be able to hide from everyone, but no one has ever asked about this kind of royal matter, so only Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Wei, Zhu Biao and a few other people know about this matter.

"Where are those things now?" Zhu Yuanzhang only cared about these high-yield grains at this time.

Li Wei arched his hand and said: "It has been transported to Longjiang Port, and the minister has ordered people to guard it strictly!" ”

"Okay, take us to see it immediately!" Zhu Yuanzhang said and was about to get up.

The ministers were all shocked when they saw this.

The official of the ceremonial department hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, the court meeting is not over yet!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "The court meeting has been postponed to the afternoon, let's go and see the grain first." ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was about to go with Li Wei to see what kind of food he was going to see, the people in the military generals who didn't deal with Li Wei were suddenly unhappy.

"Your Majesty, it's just some food, why do you need to mobilize the people so much?" Fei Ju arched his hand.

Although the ministers didn't speak, they also meant the same thing when they looked at their faces.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned a little displeased when he saw this.

Li Wei glanced at Fei Ju and shouted, "What do you mean but some food?" The people live on food! Many of you have ascended to high positions from the body of cloth, why are you now the marquis and the prime minister, and forget the feeling of starvation? ”

Fei Ju was furious when he heard this, he was the founder of the country, and he was also among the best among the princes, and he could endure the reprimand of Li Wei, a child.

"You're ......"

"Well said!"

Just as Fei Ju was about to scold back, Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted loudly, looking at the ministers with burning eyes: "The people take food as the sky!" That's a great saying! We also ascended to the position of the Son of Heaven from Buyi, and we will never forget the taste of starvation! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Fei Ju as he spoke, and Fei Ju hurriedly lowered his head in anger.

"We emperors don't dare to forget, why, you princes have forgotten?"

"The minister didn't forget!" Fei Ju was taken aback and hurriedly replied.

Zhu Yuanzhang swept his gaze to the ministers again, and all the civil and military officers shouted one after another, whether they were hungry or not:

"I haven't forgotten."

"I don't dare to forget!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "It's good that you haven't forgotten, pass on our will, from now on, you will fast for three days in the Chinese martial arts, and you will give us a good memory of the taste of starvation!" There are still many people in the Ming Dynasty who live like this every day! ”

When the ministers heard this, they suddenly fell silent, and they complained again and again in their hearts, and secretly scolded Fei Ju for talking too much, now it's okay, everyone will starve together for three days!

"Yes, the ministers obey!" The crowd shouted yes.

Li Wei wanted to speak and stopped, wanting to ask himself if he was also included, if so, it would be too fucked up!

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at everyone for a moment before putting away his stern expression, and smiled at Li Wei: "Let's go, let's go and see this high-yield grain!" ”

"Yes!"

Everyone should be, Zhu Yuanzhang stepped down from the throne and motioned to Li Wei to lead the way.

Li Wei couldn't help but ask the question, and walked out with Zhu Yuanzhang and the ministers in a depressed mood.

The Longjiang port is still a little far away, and the Jinyi Wei who is responsible for relying on it brought the Longren car, and when Zhu Yuanzhang boarded the Longlin Jinyiwei and was about to put away the car stool, Zhu Yuanzhang turned back to Li Wei and said: "You also come up with us!" ”

The ministers were shocked when they heard this, and they looked at Li Wei.

Li Wei pointed to his nose with some uncertainty: "Me? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed: "Of course it's you, come up!" ”

"Oh."

Li Wei didn't think much about it, so he followed and boarded the dragon chariot.

Everyone looked at this scene with shocked faces, and there was a burst of envy in their hearts.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, those who can enjoy this kind of glory of the Son of Heaven riding together, in addition to the royal people, are only the first heroes of the founding of the country, Xu Da, and even Li Shanchang Tang and such people do not have such treatment.

At this time, seeing Li Wei boarding the dragon chariot in such a grand manner, Li Shanchang next to him suddenly had jealousy in his eyes, and he was even more angry in his heart.

Xu Da is just that, after all, he is a general who opens up the territory and expands the territory, and he will endure it when the heroes of the countries first press him, and now Li Wei, a late junior, has to press him, which is really unreasonable!

Tang He on the other side, although not as intense as Li Shanchang, also looked unhappy.

Including many other nobles, they all have great achievements in seizing cities and expanding their territories, but now they are suppressed everywhere, how can they not be angry!

It's just a general like Fu Youde who was attached later, anyway, he has long been used to this kind of intimacy and alienation, but Li Shanchang and Fei Ju, the old Huaixi people who have followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world from the beginning, can't do it, if they didn't take Li Wei seriously in the past, now they really want to pull him down and chop him on the spot!

In addition to these nobles, the reaction of other ministers was not big, anyway, they didn't have to think about these treatments, and most of the ministers had already attached themselves to Li Wei, seeing him so favored, he even had a faint feeling of honor.

After Li Wei and Zhu Yuanzhang boarded the dragon chariot, they casually lowered the car curtain, as if they didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang's move had brought him hatred again.

After the dragon chariot started, the ministers also put away their complicated feelings and followed out of the palace, fetched their horses and donkeys outside the noon gate, and followed behind.

At the Longjiang port, Xiao Dezi and Wu Yong had already led people to wait, and when they saw the Longren honor guard, they immediately greeted them.

Long Yuan slowly stopped, but to their shock, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, there was another figure they were familiar with.

Xiao Dezi, Wu Yong, and Jiang Quan and many other craftsmen were surprised and delighted, and they were stunned for a moment before they remembered to salute.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Excuse me."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood and said casually.

Then he looked into the distance, where there was the port of Longjiang where many ships were moored.

However, the first thing that caught his attention was not Xiao Dezi's sea ships carrying high-yield grains, but ironclad ships that stood out from the crowd!

The ironclad ship is more than 30 zhang long, four or five zhang wide, and more than three zhang high on the water, and the steel hull is still reflecting the light in the sun, so it is difficult not to attract attention.

Seeing this behemoth, Zhu Yuanzhang was also shocked: "That is the big ship you built?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I met Xiao ...... yesterday when I was on a trial voyage on this ship. Wang Jinghong's. ”

Li Wei replied softly.

Xiao Dezi had already been given the name by Zhu Yuanzhang before he set off, and he himself was quite concerned, Li Wei hesitated and changed his name to this big name.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded lightly, his eyes fixed on the giant ship and it was difficult to move away.

Li Shanchang, Tang He and other generals also noticed this big guy and whispered one after another.

They had all followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the Battle of Poyang Lake, and they had all seen Chen Youliang's kind of three-story giant ship, and many of them were so frightened that they almost surrendered.

However, compared to the ironclad ship in front of him, Chen Youliang's giant ship was really a worthless gadget.

"Your Majesty, will you go to see the grain first?"

Seeing that he didn't move, Li Wei opened his mouth to remind.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment before nodding.

Li Wei hurriedly gave Wang Jinghong a look, and Wang Jinghong would lead the way ahead.

After such a long time in the morning, part of the grain on the ship had been moved, and Li Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang and others came to the ship and saw these novel grains.

"Your Majesty, this is the potato I said, it can not only be used as food to satisfy hunger, but also can be used as a vegetable to be fried, boiled, fried, and eaten, and the yield is extremely high, and the yield per mu can easily reach more than ten stones."

Li Wei pointed to a basket of potatoes and said.

Regarding the yield of these things, Zhu Yuanzhang had heard him say it a long time ago, but he didn't have much reaction, but Ru Taisu, Yu Xi and others heard about it for the first time, and they were shocked when they heard that the yield per mu was ten stones.

"Can this thing really produce ten stones per mu?"

Ru Taisu questioned.

He is a scholar of the household department, and he is still relatively clear about the output of all kinds of grain, taking rice as an example, even if it is the best fertile land in the rich land south of the Yangtze River, the yield per mu is only four stones at most, and Li Wei has more than doubled when he opens his mouth, which is too exaggerated.

"Of course, and this is still a little less, if it is planted well, maybe there will be twenty or thirty stones."

Li Wei said of course, in fact, he was really unsure, but as far as he knew, there was definitely no problem in producing a thousand catties.

Ru Taisu looked at his appearance, and the more he talked, the more exaggerated he became, and he suddenly became more suspicious.

Li Wei ignored him and continued to say something else to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, this is a sweet potato, and the yield per mu can reach more than ten stones, and it doesn't pick the ground, and there are many ways to eat it, you can roast it casually or eat it raw." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang likes red the most, looking at his surname and Daming's official uniform, he knew that he was overjoyed when he saw this red-skinned sweet potato: "This is good, red is Zhu, it should be called Zhu Potato!" ”

"Well, Your Majesty is right!"

Li Wei nodded on the surface and pouted in his heart.

After introducing these two high-yield crops, Li Wei took him to a basket of corn: "This is corn, although the yield per mu is not as good as those two, but it is drought tolerant, does not pick the ground, and can be planted in rotation with other crops." ”

When it comes to corn, Li Wei recalls the bitterness of his childhood, he grew up eating stick noodles, that bitterness, he dreams of eating white flour steamed buns.

I heard that there is a very large real estate developer who also has this dream, but he can be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and he is bitter and sweet, and he is hard to force one, if he hadn't traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he would still be a bitter social animal.

Although he has this corn now, he will not eat the cornmeal if he is killed, at most he will break a few boiled corn cobs while it is tender.

Hearing that these are drought-tolerant and high-yield crops, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't close the corners of his mouth, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Although Ru Taisu and others were suspicious, they also held on to the hope of what happened and attached great importance to these grains.

(End of chapter)