Chapter 105 Xu Guangqi (III)

Xu Guangqi left.

Yang Jie sat alone in a chair, silent.

There was no one disturbing the whole room, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, who are still right-handed, are all too old, almost seventy years old. In the past, Sun Chengzong helped him train the new army all day long, and it seemed that he was in good health. He didn't think he was an old man almost seventy years old. Today, Xu Guangqi was actually drowsy in front of him. Although he was tired from a long distance, this also shows that his arms and age are too old. Where is the young pillar of the new generation? Who is it? He alone, he can't bear the entire country no matter what!

Yang Jie suddenly felt a little scared.

I am afraid that time will be too fast and people will grow old too easily.

I am afraid that as time goes by, my historical foresight as a powerful tool for traveling through time will change too much because I have too great influence on history. At that time, I will have no such weapon to predict the future and no arms to rely on. What should I do?

March 19th.

In the morning court, Yang Jingwei was about to talk about promoting the drought-resistant crop sweet potatoes. Seeing a group of bureaucrats chatting about a small matter, they really couldn't raise interest in discussions. In Yang Jingwei's view, they were just a group of novices who could get drunk and misplaced buildings, and they did not help much in what they were going to do. If he proposed to promote sweet potatoes, he still didn't know where they would be.

The morning court was over hastily ended.

"Great companion, please invite several masters, ministers, and ministers of various departments to Wenhua Hall. I have something to discuss." Yang Jing decided to narrow the scope of discussion.

"Yes, the emperor."

Wenhua Palace.

A dozen people gathered soon, including Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, several cabinet ministers, and the ministers of each department. They were all pillars of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Jingwei was on the dragon throne, his expression was quiet and serious.

The promotion of sweet potatoes has hurt Yang Jing's mind. His mind is still messy and he has no good idea. Yesterday I dreamed about Baidu and searched once, and found that in the late Ming Dynasty, I did promote sweet potatoes on a large scale, but unfortunately the effect is not very good.

For the specific reason, what Yang Jing himself summarized was that the emperor's imperial edict could not match the laws of the economy. If you can't make money, why should others grow sweet potatoes?

Everyone was here to meet.

Emperor Chongzhen Yang Jiechao said: "Yesterday, I discussed the promotion of sweet potatoes with Master Xu. You all talked about it, tell me what I think, and see if I have any ideas to promote the sweet potatoes."

A minister came out and reported: "Your Majesty, how dare you ask what sweet potatoes are? What is their use? Why should I promote it?"

Yang Jing was depressed and was determined to promote sweet potatoes. Now there are still some ministers in the court who don’t know about it. It’s too late to pass on this information.

"Master Xu, please explain to you what sweet potatoes are to you."

"As for your order, your majesty." Xu Guangqi agreed, then turned around and explained to the ministers what sweet potatoes were.

Xu Guangqi quickly promoted what sweet potatoes mean and why they said to the ministers.

"Your Majesty, I think that since this sweet potato can resist drought, does not compete for land, and has a high yield, it is the only magic weapon to fight against natural disasters, so it should be promoted." After Xu Guangqi explained what sweet potato is, someone soon came out to agree.

"I also agree with Your Majesty. This is a great blessing and a blessing for my great ming!" Another minister also agreed.

Seeing someone at the beginning, the others agreed and thought, this matter is not a big deal! The small promotion of a crop is worth discussing here by so many ministers?

Chongzhen Yang Jie sat on the dragon throne, his brows still frowned, and said, "Master Xu, introduce the difficult promotion to your family."

Everyone knows that this promotion of sweet potatoes is a good thing, and it can fight against natural disasters, but no one expected that if you issued an imperial edict to promote it, will anyone implement it? This grain is two taels of silver per stone, how much does this sweet potato cost per stone? The imperial edict cannot match the economic laws!

"As for your order, your Majesty."

"Authentic, promoting sweet potatoes is beneficial to the country and the people, but unfortunately, this promotion is a difficult problem. The price of grain is two taels of silver per stone. In the north, one acre of land can produce one tael of silver, which is three or four taels of silver. Even if the yield of sweet potatoes is high, the yield per mu may not be sold for two taels of silver. Therefore, the gap between them is close to one or two taels of silver. How can the people change to plant sweet potatoes? Even if they promote it, it means that the people plant some in the fields. It is far from being large-scale planting and cannot plant them on a large scale. How can they fight against natural disasters?" Xu Guangqi slowly explained the problem of difficulty in promoting sweet potatoes.

"Report to Your Majesty, what's the difficulty? As long as your Majesty gives an imperial edict, it means that the yield of this sweet potato is high and can fight against natural disasters, people in the world will be willing to change to plant sweet potatoes. Because, once a famine is famine, only these sweet potatoes can fill their stomachs, and people in the world will understand this principle." The minister took the issue very simply, thinking that the imperial edict is a magic pill, and the imperial edict is followed by the imperial edict, but he never thought that the imperial edict will have a lot of effect after leaving the Forbidden City.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the dragon throne with a expressionless face and said, "Master Xu, please explain." Yang Jingwei was too lazy to speak and directly pushed the problem to Xu Guangqi to explain.

"As for your order, your Majesty."

"The land in the world is mostly concentrated in the hands of officials and landlords. Even if it is a natural disaster, it will have little impact on them. Even if it is a natural disaster, it will not have a hunger. How could they actively grow sweet potatoes that are not as valuable as food? Ordinary people have to pay taxes and pay land rent. The price of the grain is high. They will definitely grow food first. Otherwise, the tax will not be paid, and the land rent will not be paid. When the family is broken and exiled, how can they grow sweet potatoes?" Xu Guangqi explained it very bluntly. Everyone has landlords in their families, and landlords have always been a large income for landlords. If they do not make money, who will farm? In order to fight against natural disasters and droughts? Natural disasters and droughts have never only played a role for the common people. Landlords generally have a certain immune effect on natural disasters. It is not their turn to hunger, so they are not in the mood to plant sweet potatoes with you.

After Xu Guangqi said something, the ministers below stopped talking.

Everyone is a landlord, and everyone knows the tricks about it when others come out.

For officials, first of all, others do not pay taxes. Farming is to make money. If there is no money, you will not grow sweet potatoes. If you go to heaven, they will not grow sweet potatoes. If there is a drought, they will not go hungry. As for grain production, it doesn’t matter. If there is a famine, the price of grain will rise slowly. In the ordinary year, it will only cost two taels of silver and one stone. Once the famine is famine, it will rise to five or six taels. Therefore, even if there is a famine and a large-scale harvest, it has little to do with them. They are still looking forward to a famine year for a famine that will sell the grain that has been hoarded for many years at a high price.

Ordinary people have to pay taxes and land rent. The food is valuable. Of course, the landlords only collect grain, not sweet potatoes. If you grow so many sweet potatoes, others don’t collect them. What kind of land rent do you pay? Pay taxes? At that time, the family will be broken and exiled. Who will blame? The emperor is in the Forbidden City, but he can’t control whether you are hungry or not.

Therefore, it is not very difficult to promote sweet potatoes on a large scale. It is not very difficult to survive the famine by relying on sweet potatoes. At most, it is planted in fields, barren mountains and rivers. The scale is far from large. Without scale, there is no reserve or resistance to famine.

There was silence in Wenhua Palace again.

After a while, I guess someone came up with a countermeasure and came out to report: "Your Majesty, I think that sweet potatoes can be listed as color and tax collection. In this way, someone will definitely change to plant sweet potatoes."

"Oh, let's talk about it carefully."

"I believe that the sweet potatoes can be classified as a tax, such as a syrup of two-stone sweet potatoes, or a syrup of two and a half-stone sweet potatoes. In this way, the tax can be paid with sweet potatoes, and the people of the world will definitely plant them on a large scale."

This is interesting, and Yang Jing also became a little interested. In this way, the number of people with sweet potatoes will definitely increase greatly and form a scale.

"This strategy is not possible. Your Majesty, I think it is easy to collect sweet potatoes, but how to store them? Can't I give salaries to officials and soldiers to get sweet potatoes?"
Chapter completed!