Chapter 106 History Is Really Good at Joking(2/2)
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the ruins around him and said calmly:
"Okay! Let's wait for him and see if he, a living god, can really conjure food."
Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting, when the sun was three o'clock in the morning, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in the dragon chariot waiting almost impatiently. Finally, a familiar mist emerged, and Wang Ming appeared, holding a small bag in each hand.
Bag stuff.
Seeing that Wang Ming was back, Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily:
"Wang Ming! It's just you. You asked us to wait, so we waited. Hum, if it had been someone else, we would have... Hey, what are these two things you are holding in your hand? How come we haven't seen them before."
"These are edible grains. This one is called sweet potato, and this one is called corn."
"Don't tell me, this is what you asked us to wait for? Is there anything special about these two things?"
"This sweet potato can produce 5,000 jins per mu, and this corn can produce 1,000 jins per mu."
There was dead silence again.
"...Mu, the yield per mu is one thousand catties? Five thousand catties? Is this true?"
Liu Bowen even asked excitedly:
"Master Wang, please don't make such a joke. If it is false, you are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor!"
"It's up to you to believe it or not, but you can let your student Yang Xian test one kind in Yangzhou this year and you'll know. Isn't he the prefect here?"
"Well, I was joking..."
"These two things can at least help Ming Dynasty increase its national destiny for two hundred years..."
What is very paradoxical is that these two good things with a yield of thousands of pounds per mu were introduced to the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty in the 16th century.
Sweet potatoes were introduced in the 16th century in 1593, and corn in 1531.
But none of that attracted the attention of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Instead, Manqing made the wedding dress.
The famous so-called prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qian Dynasties was actually largely due to their role.
It can be said that history played a joke on the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty did not die because the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, but actually died due to natural disasters and various civil uprisings after the natural disasters, which had no money for food relief. In the end, King Chuang ended the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty. However, King Chuang had no destiny and died due to internal fighting.
In the end, the result was that the Qing Dynasty reaped the benefits.
If the Ming Dynasty collapsed a little later, not much, as long as twenty years, the Ming Dynasty court could discover the value of these two things in time, and it would not be a problem to continue the national destiny for at least a hundred years.
But it was not discovered, and instead the Manqing got the wedding dress. Otherwise, the Manqing should have had the same fate of the Yuan Dynasty for a hundred years. The Manqing regarded the Han people as exploitative slaves of pigs and dogs. A hundred years later, as long as there is a year of natural disasters, the Manqing will definitely be like the Yuan Dynasty.
In the end, civil uprisings continued, and finally a hero similar to Zhu Yuanzhang reestablished the Han Dynasty.
But it is because of these two things that even in years of natural disasters, when food production is reduced, people can still survive by eating dried sweet potatoes and corn paste, and endure all kinds of hardships until the end of the disaster year.
It can be said that the Qing Dynasty relied on this thing to continue the country's fortunes for more than a hundred years.
If you think about it carefully, wouldn't it just add another two hundred years to the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty?
It can be said that history is really good at making jokes.
Opened it three times in a row!
The first time was in the late Song Dynasty!
The second time is at the end of Ming Dynasty!
The last time was in the late Qing Dynasty!
The subjugation of a country is terrible, but the most terrible thing is the subjugation of the world.
What’s even more frightening is that the world has been destroyed. China has actually been destroyed three times! It’s not dead yet!!
In the end, they were able to rise from the ashes and give birth to a new China!!!
Chapter completed!