Daming heir

Chapter 294
No one can stop the Central Plains people's yearning for food.

Even a toddler wearing a bellyband knows how to follow the adults and pick up the fallen rice during the busy farming season.

Food is what this nation has pursued for thousands of years.

Nobody can change that.

Xia Yuanji silently looked at His Highness the Emperor Taisun, hoping to draw some conclusions from the other party's expression.

At this time, there is a team of Jin Yiwei guarding Taisun's safety on Fortune.

If this Fan Chong lion opened his mouth, or asked for a reward that Da Ming could not give.

Xia Yuanji was ready to overstep his authority and force Jin Yiwei to kill all the barbarians.

Zhu Yunxi smiled silently and watched the changes in the few people around him.

Fan Chong, a barbarian who came from afar and wanted to bring back countless goods from Daming to exchange for monstrous wealth after returning home.

Whether it is right or not, it must be given to Xia Yuanji who snatched it first.

Zhu Yunxi said softly: "Yes or no, it has not been verified, and I don't know."

Fan Chong is a very shrewd Spanish businessman, and he is a kinship person who is so poor that he needs to go to sea because the Spanish royal family is not ranked high.

The blood relationship of the royal family allowed him to buy the most powerful warship in Spain today, and sail all the way with goods and money, and all the wealth he brought out continued to expand.

The East, on the continent of Europe, is a land covered with gold.

Fortunately, the deal in Daming this time should allow him to re-enter the center of power in Spain.

And the young grandson of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in front of him seemed to be able to give him more benefits.

After all, this is a crown prince who is deeply loved by His Majesty the Ming Emperor and has just returned in triumph.

Just a moment of thought.

Fan Chong imitated the etiquette of the Ming people, bowed his body and joined his hands together, with an extremely pious gesture: "His Royal Highness, Emperor Grandson, if you can dedicate this item to Your Highness, it will be the greatest honor of Fortune."

"Your conduct is so noble, and Daming will always remember it." Zhu Yunxi said calmly, "The Fortune will be an important bridge between Daming and Spain. It is possible to send officials from the Ministry of Rites to Spain to discuss with the Spanish ruler about the relationship between the two countries."

Daming, the most powerful ancient country in the Far East, whose land is far larger than the whole of Europe, actually wants to send officials to Spain!
This is unprecedented!
This is far more beneficial than owning a lower tax rate in Daming and having an official position in Daming!
Because, he was the first official to bring back to the Far Eastern power to go to Europe and arrive in Spain.

If I really become the bridge connecting the Far East and the West...

Fan Chong lowered his head: "I would like to spread the will of His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun to the land of Europe. From Spain to Eastern Europe, from the Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire, France, and Byzantium, the honorable Emperor Taisun of Ming Dynasty will all be spread. Your Highness's name."

Zhu Yunxi recalled the life of Genghis Khan, and then smiled.

"Da Ming will present a batch of silk, porcelain, and furniture to Ou Jianshi, and there will be some gifts, which I hope will be delivered by Ou Jianshi to the Spanish king."

"Your noble and benevolent Royal Highness, your generosity has penetrated into the whole of Spain."

A transaction between the East and the West has finally come to an end.

Xia Yuanji, who was ready to move the knife, took the four most burly guards in Jinyi and carried the sweet potatoes at the stern of the Fortune ship to the pier with the whole oak barrel.

"I respectfully send off His Royal Highness, the Emperor Taisun, and may His Highness be braver than the sun, and the kingdom of the East will always be strong."

From a distant relative of the downcast Spanish royal family to an official of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Chong, who is about to take the Ming people back to China, is full of expectations for a rich and noble life in the future, and sends Zhu Yunxi away from the Longwan Wharf on the Fortune ship all the way until It was not until Zhu Yunxi stopped the Wai Jinchuan Gate.

After entering the city, Xia Yuanji never took his eyes off the sweet potato vines that were placed on the carriage.

Zhu Yunxi glanced at the other party lightly.

Then cough lightly.

Xia Yuanji hurriedly returned to his senses, bowed to plead guilty, and said: "I have overstepped today, please Your Highness condescend to come out of the palace to meet barbarian merchants from other countries, it is the kingdom of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yunxi nodded calmly.

According to the normal procedures and rules, today Xia Yuanji should first invite the East Palace to ask when he is free so that he can meet Fan Chong, a Spanish businessman.

Then, he will give a time, and Xia Yuanji will bring someone into the palace.

In terms of Fan Chong's identity and status, he naturally couldn't enter the East Palace. The classroom in front of the Wenhua Palace on the east side of Fengtian Palace is suitable.

Unlike today, when Xia Yuanji, as a courtier, invited the emperor's grandson out of the palace, Zhu Yunxi went directly out of the palace to meet a foreign barbarian businessman.

This is not in line with the status of the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

But Xia Yuanji did so, so naturally he had his reasons.

Xia Yuanji looked around and said in a low voice: "The minister heard that there seemed to be sweet potatoes on the fortune, but he was not sure, and he knew that Fan Chong had a plan, so he dared to ask His Highness to leave the palace. It is today to shock the barbarians in one fell swoop."

"It's sweet potatoes." Zhu Yunxi looked back silently at a whole bucket of sweet potato vines whose branches and leaves could be cut.

If he can get the sweet potato, he is willing to make another trip to Jiaozhi Road.

Xia Yuanji gritted his teeth, made a palm with one hand and clenched a fist with the other, his fist hit the palm of his hand heavily, his face flushed red: "It's really a sweet potato! Can it really produce more than ten stones per mu?"

Zhu Yunxi skipped over this topic.

After seeing that he was going to the Shanglin Garden Supervisor, he said: "Let people keep an eye on all the barbarians in Daming, prohibit them from buying all books except the articles of the sages and sages in the Four Books and Five Classics, and strictly investigate the exchanges between the people of Ming Dynasty, craftsmen and barbarians. .”

Xia Yuanji was a little puzzled, with doubts on his face.

"Just ban all books except Confucian classics?"

Zhu Yunxi hummed, but did not give any explanation to Xia Yuanji.

Because people at this time don't understand what this is for.

From the long Middle Ages to suddenly enter the scientific age for hundreds of years?

They just used the wisdom of the Central Plains, without the constraints of thought, to take the last step first!

After thinking for a while, Zhu Yunxi explained softly: "I don't hope that one day, the barbarians will drive warships bigger than treasure ships and dock at Longwan Wharf, while my descendants, like us, can only bow our heads and obey orders, like today's barbarians People are generally devout and respectful."

A ship bigger than a treasure ship.

The artillery equipped with it must be even bigger than the artillery at the top of Yingtian City.

With such skills, the opponent's army must be far superior to Da Ming's.

Such a barbarian...

Xia Yuanji immediately shook his head.

Such barbarians must not be allowed to appear!
Xia Yuanji immediately waved his sleeves and cupped his hands: "The ministers will discuss with the various ministries and yamen, respect your highness's order, and never let me spread the word Zhongyuan to the land of Europa."

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, "Brother Wei Zhe, this world is huge. If Fan Chong and other barbarian merchants can come across the sea from thousands of miles away, it is not something we can underestimate."

The vast land and abundant resources and the wealth of the world are the confidence of the Central Plains, but it will also become the arrogance of the Central Plains.

Xia Yuanji nodded: "I have had a lot of contact with barbarian merchants recently, and I lament the fighting spirit of the barbarian people. Although they don't understand etiquette, the individual barbarian people are far from being comparable to the people of our dynasty. If such a country is more civilized and more powerful , the ambition hidden under it will inevitably endanger our Central Plains."

"So, we want to make the common people of Daming full of food."

"When the people can eat enough, we have to let the people eat better."

"Let the children grow more tendons and become invincible through horizontal training."

Zhu Yunxi tilted his head to look at Xia Yuanji with a smile on his face.

Eat well, eat well, grow well.

Xia Yuanji's eyes kept flickering. If Daming can really do these three things, he will probably be alone in the future.

This will probably become my lifelong dream of becoming an official.

Xia Yuanji secretly thought, and then looked at Zhu Yunxi: "Your Highness, this barbarian businessman is bound to do so, and I really want to send the treasure fleet and officials of the Ministry of Rites to Buddha...Spain?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled: "Know yourself and know your enemy. The Ming Dynasty's ships are bigger, and its soldiers are more powerful. It shouldn't be barbarians who can come, but I can't go there. The Ministry of Rites will naturally send officials, but the Jinyiwei will also have people to accompany them."

Hearing this, Xia Yuanji frowned.

The treasure fleet took the officials of the Ministry of Rites to Spain, which was the intended meaning of the exchanges between the two countries.The Ministry of Rites did the same thing, but this time they went to a farther place.

But sending Jinyiwei to go with them, the matter is not as simple as establishing contacts with Spain on the surface.

Taisun has always been wary of barbarians, and has a deep grudge against barbarians.

Strictly prevent barbarians from obtaining writing and knowledge from the Central Plains.

Now that Jin Yiwei is sent to Spain, it is naturally impossible for these killers to negotiate and establish contacts with the king of Spain, and it is impossible to kill people in Spain.

So what can these people do when they go to Spain.

Spy on terrain, power, national conditions...

Xia Yuanji thought of many things in an instant.

Then, he looked ambiguously at the emperor's grandson who was walking in front.

The emperor's grandson's plan is very big!

It's only thousands of miles away, does Daming really have a chance to reach the land of Europa like a conquest of Cochin?
With the emergence of this idea, Xia Yuanji has been involuntarily associating and deducing countless possibilities.

A Ming Dynasty with a vast territory far beyond the peak period of Yuan Dynasty?

Xia Yuanji felt that his internal organs were trembling.

It's just that when such a great Ming appears, how will the people from all over the world be connected?
There are a series of questions after that.

Before he knew it, Xia Yuanji only felt that his whole head was boiling, which was hard to suppress.

The back of his head twitched intermittently, making Xia Yuanji frowned.

At this time, Zhu Yunxi, who had been walking in front, suddenly stopped, and turned to look at Xia Yuanji, who was twitching his head.

What's wrong with this guy?

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile: "Brother Wei Zhe, can you do farm work?"

"Huh? Ah?" Xia Yuanji was still full of thoughts about Daming's conquest of Europa at this time, he was at a loss when he heard the words, and after a while he blushed and said: "I was studying when I was young, and I used to do farm work in the fields."

Zhu Yunxi smiled and clapped his hands: "In that case, we can rest assured."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi turned around and stepped into a mansion gate.

Xia Yuanji looked up.

Supervisor of Shanglin Court.

He has already arrived at the foot of Shenlie Mountain in the east of the city from the pier by the river in the west of the city.

Xia Yuanji resisted the deduction and doubts in his heart, and brought the oak barrel with sweet potato vines carried by Jin Yiwei into the Shanglinyuan Supervisory Office.

"Your Majesty is welcome."

Yuan Sutai no longer wears official robes at the front lakeside in the Shanglin Court Prison, and even the officials of the Shanglin Court Prison wear farmers' clothes all day long to go to the Yamen.

Xia Yuanji was right behind Zhu Yunxi, looking at the group of officials in front of him who were now the supervisors of the Shanglin Court of the same five temples, with puzzled and curious eyes.

It is very different from other officials in the court.

This is Xia Yuanji's first impression.

And Zhu Yunxie smiled and said: "Today I got a few new seeds from the barbarian merchants, and I need Yuan Jianzheng and Shanglin Yuanjian to hurry up and cultivate them this year."

Yuan Sutai respectfully nodded like an old farmer: "The ministers will definitely do their best to cultivate new species."

All raised his head sharply: "But the new species that His Highness offered a reward a few days ago?"

Zhu Yunxi nodded and beckoned: "This is pepper, and the seeds are all raw. Although it is a little late to plant seedlings at this time, it is not too late. I have seen it alone, and there are probably three kinds, and the Shanglin Garden Supervisor has to plant them separately. .”

Then, Zhu Yunxi pointed to the oak barrel being carried over.

"This thing is the sweet potato, which can satisfy the stomachs of the people of Ming Dynasty. It is not suitable to be planted in places with stagnant water, nor in clay soil. It should be planted in soft sandy soil with little water. The leaf seedlings are planted with cuttings and the fertilizer is diluted. nourish."

Listening to Zhu Yunxie's introduction, Yuan Sutai's eyes shined brightly.

He repeatedly greeted the officials from the same government behind him: "Take seeds from the peppers and plant them in the newly reclaimed vegetable field by the front lake. They will send special staff to take care of them. They must prevent insects and record their growth every day. This season's breeding is the most important thing. Season to re-cultivate to distinguish planting differences."

Several officials immediately took the bag of peppers away with the old farmer of Shanglin Yuanjian.

Zhu Yunxi didn't pretend to stop him either.

Since the 25th year of Hongwu, Shanglin Yuanjian has made a long-term development in cultivating crops. Now they have begun to try hybrid Shanglin Yuanjian. It is not difficult to simply cultivate peppers.

In the end, Yuan Sutai put all his energy and attention on the oak barrel in front of him.

satiety.

Cutting planting.

The soil is soft.

Every word Taisun said was engraved in his mind.

In a flash, Yuan Sutai clasped his hands and said, "There is a piece of land between Qianhu Lake and Lake Piwa. The soil is quite soft and dry. It is sandy soil. The surrounding mountains and forests have just been felled this year, and the sunlight is also sufficient. Presumably it is enough for cuttings to plant sweet potatoes."

As soon as Zhu Yunxi heard that there was such a place in Shanglinyuan Prison, he was still willing to wait.

Who knows how long this bucket of sweet potato vines can last. According to Fan Chong, there were several other buckets of vines with withered branches and rotten sweet potatoes.

He didn't dare to delay any longer.

Immediately, a group of people went to the sandy land with little water between Qianhu Lake and Piwa Lake.

"First, we need to rid the land and make drainage ditches, and then we can start cuttings."

Looking at the plowed land, Zhu Yunxi gave orders directly.

Sweet potatoes are so easy to grow.

Even as long as there is a piece of dry land, after a little preparation, the branches and leaves are inserted into the soil, and the diluted agricultural fertilizer is irrigated, and there is almost no need to take care of it afterwards.

Yuan Sutai nodded, and waved his big hand covered with mud, and immediately a group of officials from Shanglin Garden in farm clothes led a group of old farmers into the field and began to ridge.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yuan Sutai went to the oak barrel again, stretched out his hand and pinched off a branch, and looked at Zhu Yunxi: "Your Highness, you only need to insert the cutting into the ground like this? Is this thing really enough to satisfy the people of Ming Dynasty?"

Xia Yuanji, who was at the side, felt something, and took two steps forward a little, wanting to take a closer look at the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, who had already reached the third rank.

Zhu Yunxi also walked to the oak barrel and beckoned Yuan Sutai and Xia Yuanji to come over and share the sweet potato vines.

Several officials of the Shanglin Court Supervisor immediately stepped forward courteously, holding a bamboo basket and standing aside, so that the sweet potato vines could be put into the bamboo basket when Taisun and the supervisor were dividing up the sweet potato vines.

Zhu Yunxi said while dividing, "Sweet potatoes are the easiest crop to grow, and they don't require soil fertility. And not all the land in Ming Dynasty is good paddy fields, there are countless dry lands. In the past, rice was grown. , Wheat is insufficient, now there are sweet potatoes, which can make up for the poor output of the dry land, and the yield is far higher than that of rice!"

"Your Highness, may I ask how many sweet potatoes can be produced per mu?"

Yuan Sutai stopped what he was doing, and looked sincerely at the grandson in front of him.

Zhu Yunxi was stunned for a moment.

Quickly calculating the Ming system weight in his head.

Once about 120 pounds or so.

What is the yield per mu of sweet potatoes?

Two thousand to three thousand kilograms.

That is the yield per mu of forty or fifty shi.

only……

"It is estimated that the yield per mu is no less than twenty shi!"

Zhu Yunxi finally gave an extremely satisfactory figure per mu.

After all, the sweet potatoes at this time obviously cannot be compared with those of later generations. The high-yield sweet potatoes of later generations have been cultivated and improved.

however.

The familiarity of twenty stones is said.

The whole situation was in an uproar, and then fell into a deep silence.

Xia Yuanji opened his mouth wide. He clearly remembered that when he was in the palace, His Royal Highness Taisun said that the yield per mu was ten stones.

Now His Royal Highness Taisun actually said that this sweet potato can reach [-] shi per mu!

Twenty stones!

Clang.

Yuan Sutai, the supervisor of Shanglinyuan who had been classified as the third grade, was completely lost, and fell to the ground with a crash.

On the side, the officials surrounding the three were also shocked, as if they had heard a heavenly scripture.

"Twenty stones!"

"Twenty stones per mu..."

"The most productive field in my Ming Dynasty today is only three or four stones per mu..."

"woo woo woo woo……"

"If... woo woo woo... If you can produce twenty shimu..."

"I'm so bright that I will never add a gift!"

After a short while, Yuan Sutai, the dignified supervisor of Shanglin Garden from the third grade, was already crying loudly.

While choking up and crying, he kept sobbing and said: "Twenty stones... twenty stones... even if there are only ten stones, I, Da Ming, will never add any gifts! Then I will be orthodox in the Central Plains forever!"

With Yuan Sutai howling.

The entire sweet potato field, from the officials of the Shanglin Court Supervisor to the farmers employed by the Shanglin Court Supervisor, also burst into tears.

For a while, there were continuous cries at the foot of Shenlie Mountain.

(End of this chapter)