The Sorrow of Jiangnan

Ganqing Palace.

"The harvest of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn is very good in various places. It seems that the idea of ​​promoting foreign high-yield crops is the right one," he said.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, looked through his memorials, nodded and praised: "The Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which is also in charge of your family, has played a great role in the past. Otherwise, the memorials submitted by the Disaster Relief Administrations in various places would not state that there is such a place in various places. Like a gratifying output.

Without food, people's hearts are unstable.

Especially in the famine, people can eat enough to fill their stomachs, let alone sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn that they have never seen before. Even if the hungry and red-eyed victims eat Guanyin soil, there are many people.

Not to mention some places, there are cases of vegetation between children.

What the Academy of Agricultural Sciences will do in the future is to continuously increase the planting scale of the above crops in Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liaodong and other places, and at the same time, cultivate higher yields according to local conditions. A good breed.

This is not an easy thing to do.

However, for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat more, no matter how many difficulties they encounter, they must do this well. This is a major task to save the people."

As he said that, Emperor Chongzhen's expression became serious.

During the Little Ice Age, frequent natural disasters still deeply plagued the Ming Dynasty and would not fade away for a long time in the future.

In view of such complex national conditions, Emperor Chongzhen must prepare for the future and try to increase the Ming Dynasty's grain production to ensure that when disaster occurs, the court can provide disaster relief grain to solve the problem.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the more cheap and high-yield potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other things were obviously one of the most suitable strategic disaster relief grains.

In the context of a disaster that is in danger, if you can eat a bite, you can save a life. If the disaster strikes severe places, people cannot be called human.

"Your Majesty's idea is good, and it is enough to allocate money to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. However, if you want to continue to increase the scale of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, you face various problems."

Xu Guangqi looked serious and bowed to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "The most realistic problem is that their yield is of course very high, but few people are willing to plant it, especially in places where there are no disasters, which are most prominent.

If you plant these crops, you cannot pay land taxes and population taxes. Local people do not recognize them. Even if the court makes more efforts, it will be futile.

Moreover, it is very troublesome to store potatoes and sweet potatoes. If you are not careful, the potatoes and sweet potatoes stored in the entire cellar will sprout or rot.”

Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly.

Although potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other substances were introduced through marine trade in the late Ming Dynasty, their promotion and planting cycle in China has gone through a relatively long period.

On the one hand, it is caused by inconvenient transportation.

On the one hand, it is caused by the tax service system.

There are also some other reasons.

The reason why potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other things were gradually promoted during the Qing Dynasty was that there were too many disasters, which led to people from all over the world gradually accepting these foreign crops after they knew about them.

“It’s indeed a long journey.”

Emperor Chongzhen sighed lightly, narrowed his eyes and said, "Since that is the case, then in the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a sum of silver will be allocated to the local disaster relief administrations every year to target the purchase of dried sweet potatoes and corn. As for the potatoes, A crop can be processed.

The batch of grain purchased every year must be registered and registered in various local disaster relief agencies to find suitable areas to build granaries, conduct regular inspections to use the strategic disaster relief grain required for disaster situations.

I will ask the Office of the Internal Affairs to formulate the corresponding charter and properly resolve the matter. I believe that if it is clarified in this way, it will reduce the corresponding troubles."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Xu Guangqi was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly bowed and said.

If the Ministry of Internal Affairs intervenes in this matter, then in the future, if you want to gradually increase the planting scale of such crops under the rule of northern provinces, it will inevitably alleviate a lot of problems.

If you want to try to promote something in the vast Ming Dynasty, you will inevitably face many problems. If you cannot solve these practical problems, it is simply unrealistic to promote the promotion of this matter.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen knew a lot.

The choice to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs intervene in purchasing these crops. In addition to being a strategic disaster relief grain, it can also be used to brew wine, process vermicelli, process whole flour, etc. As long as a batch of industries can be formed and the products produced are sold, it can be

Revitalize and promote the planting of this big chess game.

Especially when brewing wine with sweet potatoes or corn, it may not taste very good, but through the border area, it is also a good choice to dump the Mongolian tribes in the border area. The price is lower and you can earn less.

In exchange for war horses, cattle and sheep, etc., this pair of bitter and cold frontier areas will inevitably gradually expand the frontier market.

The rice should be eaten bite by bite.

First, do these basic things solidly and follow up the process, rely on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to solve them one by one. There are always more solutions than difficulties.

"The emperor, the chief minister of the cabinet, and the ministers of the cabinet are looking for a visit outside the hall."

Wang Chengen walked in from outside the hall, bowed respectfully and said, "The horrific assassination occurred in the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, which led to the assassination of Qian Qianyi and other people... "

"What?!"

When Xu Guangqi suddenly heard this, he blurted out in surprise and looked at Wang Chengen in shock. Xu Guangqi never expected that such a thing would happen in the Ming Dynasty.

Qian Qianyi was actually assassinated?!

This is not a trivial matter.

How could this happen?

Emperor Chongzhen sat firmly on the dragon throne, looked at Xu Guangqi who had lost his manners in front of him, and a light flashed through his eyes, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After waiting for so long, the assassination that Jiangnan planned finally came to an end, which means that he could effectively use this matter to intervene in the provinces in Jiangnan.

Emperor Chongzhen also knew in his heart that he used the so-called assassination method to solve a group of groups that were not very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. This was a bit too petty.

As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, even if he wanted to kill someone, he would still kill him upright, which made people frightened. However, the current national conditions of the Ming Dynasty are different from the Ming Dynasty on the original timeline.

Killing openly.

Kill secretly.

In fact, they all came according to the needs of Emperor Chongzhen. The key is how Qian Qianyi and the others died.

What active advantage can their death bring to Emperor Chongzhen? This is the key.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use this assassination incident that he knew the truth but pretended to be unaware of it to stir up the situation in the provinces in Jiangnan and then achieve the strategic deployment he wanted!
Chapter completed!