Two days later, the Governor's Office.

Although I don’t know why Ma Dashuai wanted to eat sweet potatoes, the chef still found a few kilograms of sweet potatoes carefully cooked them and made them into several delicious dishes. Ma Cheng was speechless when he saw a few plates of sweet potatoes sprinkled with spices. There are sweet potatoes in Taiwan.

Not only Taiwan has sweet potatoes, but also Fujian and Shandong have people grow sweet potatoes. The unofficial history is really unbelievable. Ma Cheng sighed, "You can still find sweet potatoes in North America." It was spread to the Ming Dynasty as early as the Wanli period, and Lu Song before Wanli.

There have been sweet potatoes long ago.

So, did it take sweet potatoes to save the country in the late Ming Dynasty? It would not work and it would be a dead end.

When I reached the height of Macheng, I had a deep understanding of the agricultural production situation in the Ming Dynasty.

There was a severe drought in the north at the end of the Ming Dynasty and a shortage of grain. The southern grain-producing areas were unable to supply the demand of the entire north, and it could not be solved by large-scale sweet potatoes. This is because the Ming Dynasty was highly developed and the cultivation of various economic crops was popular.

For example, cotton has been widely planted nationwide, and there are also cotton in Kaiyuan. How popular cotton planting has been to the point that traditional rice and grain production areas have been replaced by economic crops such as cotton.

The traditional rice and grain production areas were occupied by cotton, and the main rice and grain production areas were concentrated in the Huguang area.

The so-called "Huguang is ripe and the world is full" is not a good saying. This is a very terrible thing. It means that the structure of agriculture in the late Ming Dynasty was seriously unbalanced and could not be solved by a few sweet potatoes, because cotton and mulberry trees.

Large-scale cultivation of cash crops has led to Huguang's need to bear the national grain supply. In addition to supplying the north, Huguang's rice has to be transported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangxi regions for a long distance. This is a very important thing for an agricultural society like the Ming Dynasty.

A terrifying thing is that once the Huguang grain production area suffers from war, a large-scale food shortage will inevitably occur.

To put it bluntly, sweet potatoes cannot save the Ming Dynasty because the people in the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to plant them, and the people in major grain-producing areas were unwilling to plant them. This is a dead knot. Can the income of growing sweet potatoes be compared with growing cotton? Sweet potatoes can be compared with growing silkworms.

Do you know how much raw silk trade volume is in the Ming Dynasty? Where did the raw silk trade come from with such a large-scale raw silk transaction? Naturally, they were planted, raised and drawn by the people of the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the agricultural economy of the Ming Dynasty had been seriously unbalanced, which is a difficult problem that will be difficult for future generations.

Wealth is moving. In the grain-producing areas across the country, there are fewer and fewer grain-growing food, more and more people grow cotton and silkworms. This is inevitable due to the development of the Ming Dynasty. In the peaceful and prosperous times, we can naturally become ripe in Huguang.

The world is full, and suddenly the chaos in the world becomes a fatal hidden danger. Bandits are everywhere, the world is in chaos, the roads are cut off, the food in Huguang cannot be transported out, cotton and raw silk cannot be eaten, and the huge Ming Dynasty naturally collapsed.

People will only see immediate benefits. They make a lot of money by growing cotton and raising silkworms. Who can still plant wheat and rice? They cannot put the blame on the people.

Taking Shandong as an example, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Linqu County, Qingzhou Prefecture, "the people were busy working hard and planted cotton as cloth." During the Wanli period, Wenshang County, Yanzhou Prefecture, "There are many places to be used for cotton, west of Caohe River."

Bu: Hexi villagers mostly weave them." Cotton is a commodity in Shandong as a commodity or is in the canal basin. For example, the west of the canal and north of the Yellow River, Caozhou Prefecture, Puzhou, in the Wanli period, "other fatty fertile. One acre of kapok can

If you pick up two hundred jin, you will find a house worth ten thousand acres, and you will be luxurious. You will see each other's buildings." There are "two or three kapok families, each with a huge 10,000."

In the late Wanli period, the cotton in Juye County had developed from the previous "white color" to "four kinds of purple flowers, Hunan flowers, cocoon flowers, and tofu". Heze County had "many kapok land, and cotton was used as cloth. Kapok was transformed into

The profits of selling in all directions are quite high." Yuncheng County "has its land is vast and fertile, and its soil is suitable for kapok. The merchants transferred it to Jiangnan and lived in a market. The profits of the grains are less than half." Dingtao County "made cotton cloth

When doing business, all other crystals are transferred to sell them." Dongchang Prefecture "Gaotang, Xiajin, Enxian Yikao Kapok, and Jianghuai merchants, who were born in the Yangtze River and Huai Dynasty, brought them to their harvest, and the people who lived in this way got rich."

It was difficult to govern the country and it was a lot of things. Macheng also considered solving the food shortage in the late Ming Dynasty. It was absolutely impossible to grow sweet potatoes. Now there is only one way out, colonize overseas and introduce overseas food to feed the Ming people.

Today's proposal, the Taiwan Governor's Office is considering a government order to promote sweet potato planting on the barren mountains in Taiwan. Taiwan's development is still a piece of white paper, and it is randomly applied. There is no resistance from the people to promote sweet potato planting. Of course, it is not just about growing sweet potatoes.

Pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and those that can be planted on barren mountains can be planted. It is necessary to be self-sufficient within three years and build a grain-producing area within three years.

Of course, after Taiwan's self-sufficiency, it is inevitable that it will return to the old path of cash crops occupying food crops.

This is inevitable. As long as you grow cotton, the income from growing cash crops is higher than that of growing food, the people will rush to it. How can the people in the civilians care about the food crisis? The big problem of cash crops occupying food crops for even four hundred years

The post-modern society is also a huge social problem, so the food protection price policy has been established.

The food protection price is proposed by Macheng to solve the fundamental problem and is a big killer weapon.

Ma Cheng thinks he is a genius, and forcibly promoting sweet potato planting is absurd and unrealistic. It is a matter of anger and resentment from heaven. The price of food protection is the killer to solve the problem. At present, the Ming Dynasty cannot replicate the prosperous sweet potato era in the Qing Dynasty, and the large-scale economic crops

Planting, the Ming Dynasty with highly developed commerce, is impossible.

Why did the Qing Dynasty have a prosperous period of sweet potatoes? The Ming Dynasty was not good? Because after a long war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the countryside suffered great damage. The population dropped sharply, the land was deserted, and there was a situation where there were too many fields and few people. Therefore, the prosperous period of sweet potatoes appeared.

Because sweet potatoes are easy to grow, since they cannot replicate the prosperous times of sweet potatoes, the government provides subsidies and sets food protection prices is the solution, and this is what later generations do.

The food protection price in later generations was to solve the problem of low grain harm to farmers and to solve the difficulty of selling grain. The food protection price proposed by Macheng was to solve the crux of the large amount of cash crops occupied by food crops. Different paths were the same, and they were all extremely clever policies.

.As soon as this idea was raised, Nan Juyi's eyes lit up. The officials from the Governor's Office were slightly surprised and cheered all over the house. This is good governance!

An old minister like Nanjuyi and capable ministers saw the huge value of this food protection price policy at a glance. This not only suppresses the problem of flooding economic crops, but also protects the production of basic food crops, but also has never been there since ancient times.

The good government of the past can bring the world back to its heart, praise the world, and always make Taiwan the land of the Ming Dynasty. The first officials of the subordinates whispered, Nan Juyi stared at Macheng, and was only in the court to question you

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