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Chapter 34 Xu Guangqi's Gift

After Emperor Chongzhen explained his thoughts in detail, Wang Qia and Wang Zaijin understood that this is a combination of military camps and civil camps.

However, what the emperor said was the concept of a general's army, which was applied to the resettlement of Liao people and refugees, but the proportion of the military farm grain paid and the actual self-sufficiency grain left is more relaxed.

In addition, Jingdong's military farming affairs, such as Jizhou Town, all the garrisons, including local governments, do not have corresponding jurisdiction. Only the Jiliao Governor's Office has corresponding jurisdiction, which also eliminates bad situations and avoids shirking the blame for each other.

"Your Majesty thinks this idea is feasible."

Wang Qia nodded and said, "The reason why the previous Jingdong farming incident was not very obvious was that it was caused by mutual veto. However, if you clearly go to the Ji Liao Governor's Office, you can effectively solve this problem.

And referring to the garrison offices, the civil offices set up are just to better organize Liao people and refugees to engage in production, but they are not given corresponding officials. This is called the state dynasty not spending more corresponding expenses.

When the wastelands are truly cleared out, the Liao people and refugees can be gradually transferred to local governments, so that this problem can be truly solved."

Compared with the clear jurisdictions in later generations, the situation under the Meiji Dynasty became different.

Prefectures, counties, garrisons, military towns, towns, etc. were all set up together. In the early Ming Dynasty, the powerful Five Army Governor's Office was actually responsible for part of it, so there was no corresponding chaos.

However, after the Governor's Office of the Five Army was undermined, various problems were exposed, and the most serious point was that it destroyed the Ming Dynasty's military system.

Originally, the Ming army was drawn from local garrisons, which were military households passed down from generation to generation. However, as time went by, some systems were also destroyed, which led to the transfer of garrisons, which gradually became unreliable and could only move closer to the recruiting system.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty, which is currently in a mess, is like a mess. If you want to solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty, you must sort out the mess and rebuild a new system.

But why is this easy?

A major event involving national economy and people's livelihood will involve all aspects. Here is a problem and there is a problem. If you continue to force it, it will make the Ming Dynasty more and more chaotic.

So this is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen chose the basic board.

It's a fixed-point trial.

Cluster a region, and summarize experience while experimenting. After maturity, you can expand the scope and continue this process until it is promoted to the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Since you have no objection, then the Military Affairs Office will issue an edict to the Ji Liao Governor's Office after the Military Affairs Office is perfected. "Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "I hope this system can be called Jingdong's military farms to produce more grain, even beans for providing war horses."

"Your Majesty, if you provide the needs for war horses, I know that something may produce more." Wang Zaijin frowned slightly when he heard this and said to Emperor Chongzhen.

"oh?"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said, "Wang Qing tell me, what exactly is it?"

"So, this thing was advocated by Mr. Xu earlier, and he also made a memorial." Wang Zaijin said, "This thing is called sweet potato, which tastes sweet, but it is toxic..."

“…”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned when he heard what Wang Zaijin said. Wait, Xu Guangqi did this?

yes!

The "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" compiled by Xu Guangqi involves sweet potatoes.

How to forget this!

"Han Zanzhou, go and pass on my oral orders and order Xu Qing to see me immediately!" Emperor Chongzhen, who suppressed the excited, reached out to Han Zanzhou and said.

"Here!"

As a traditional farming nation, they have a deep interest in flower planters living in the land of China and edible crops.

During the Qing Dynasty, imported sweet potatoes, which were widely planted, actually began to be piloted in some small areas near the sea as early as the late Ming Dynasty.

However, it takes a long time to cultivate habits suitable for Chinese planting and study imported objects under personal insistence.

This also made the good seeds cultivated so hard that they eventually became the wedding dress of the Qing Dynasty to consolidate the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

Emperor Chongzhen's reaction was called Wang Zaijin. Wang Qia was a little suspicious. They didn't understand why the emperor attached so much importance to sweet potatoes?

"The sweet potatoes that Xu Qing discovered before can actually be eaten directly from the two Qing families."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and looked at Wang Zaijin and others, saying, "I have read an ancient book before, which records that when the eunuchs of Sanbao went to the West and passed by an island country, they had seen them eat this product. The yield was amazing, with dozens of stones per mu, but it was called sweet potatoes in the local area.

I was thinking that what small Western countries could eat, but they would definitely be able to eat until the Ming Dynasty, but the situation in the two places was different.

If you want to plant it in the Ming Dynasty, you need to cultivate good varieties suitable for the Ming Dynasty. The previous situation of poisoning people must have not been cultivated, which is the most suitable for the Ming Dynasty to grow.

Or they don’t know how to eat sweet potatoes. When they see someone who accidentally eats them and kills them, they will spread the word by word, which makes people who know sweet potatoes stay away from them."

In order to be called the high-yield crop of sweet potatoes, appropriate varieties were cultivated in advance in the Ming Dynasty and given corresponding affirmation of sweet potatoes, preparing for subsequent large-scale promotion and cultivation, Emperor Chongzhen could only lead the matter to Zheng He.

"In the sweet potato sprouts written by Xu Ge Lao, he also mentioned sweet potatoes, which yielded amazing per mu and tasted sweet." Wang Zaijin frowned slightly when he heard this and said, "If the sweet potatoes mentioned by Your Majesty are the same as those mentioned by Xu Ge Lao, then it seems that they are the sweet potato seeds grown before, and are not completely suitable for the Ming Dynasty's cultivation."

"Your Majesty, if this matter is true, can you plant it in a small area on the Jingdong military farm first?" Wang Qia opened his eyes slightly and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Now, I am under the rule of all parts of the Ming Dynasty, and disasters occur frequently. If there are more crops with extremely high yields, it will definitely be a good thing for the state."

It's more than good news.

Adding a crop, which can be eaten in the year of famine, even Guanyin soil. Eating sweet potatoes that you haven't seen before is nothing to the victims.

Moreover, the planting cycle of sweet potatoes is relatively short, and the stems and leaves are also edible.

Listening to what Wang Zaijin and Wang Qia said, Emperor Chongzhen's face was still smiling, but he had various thoughts in his mind. If he could cultivate suitable sweet potatoes, he could first promote and plant them on a large scale in the imperial village.

As long as there are too many people on the market, there is no need for the court to issue orders, and the people near the area will gradually accept this thing.

However, Yan Yingyuan, who was sent to the southeast, ran away in vain this trip.

Forget it, just run away in vain. You can find a sweet potato early. Yan Yingyuan's trip was not considered a waste of time. It would be fine to gather the three anti-Qing masters together.
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