Lin Yanchao saw many ancient people in Xu Zhenming's eyes.

The world is in danger, and most people are still drunk and dreaming, but there are always a few people who see all this and they are trying hard to turn the situation around.

Among them, there are both discouraged and disheartened in reversing failure like Xu Zhenming, and there are also those who are disgraced behind Zhang Juzheng.

There are always people who do whatever they do regardless of personal gains and losses. They are not sure or even impossible to succeed in the future. But they are still doing it. In the end, it is nothing more than the eight words "devote all their efforts and die."

Reform and reform and rebuilding ZTE are also nice to say, but how many functions will the Central Dynasty last for two hundred years have to extend its life?

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were many problems, but the founding atmosphere was enough to cover everything.

But people will die when they grow old.

More than fifty years later, when Li Zicheng buried the Ming Dynasty, he would tell those people, bureaucrats, and emperors of the Ming Dynasty that what proletariat lost is just chains, but they would own the entire world.

This thought came to Lin Yanchao's mind and looked at Xu Zhenming again. He was the person who was struggling in it. Maybe he knew that he was powerless to turn things around, but he was working hard.

Xu Zhenming didn't think so much at this moment. He said, "I heard a little about sweet potatoes, but I heard that they are just used to make vegetables. How can rice and wheat be replaced as the staple food?"

Lin Yanchao was happy, Xu Zhenming had this insight, and it seemed that he had not made any mistakes in him.

Lin Yanchao said: "As Brother Xu said, sweet potatoes cannot replace rice and wheat, but they are not used for vegetables and vegetables. In the past two years, Fuzhou Prefecture was famine, and the people used sweet potatoes for preparation for famine. From this we can see that sweet potatoes can be used as miscellaneous grains."

At that moment, Lin Yanchao talked to Xu Zhenming about the benefits of sweet potatoes being cold-resistant and yielding dozens of stones per mu, and it also doesn’t have to be threshed like rice and wheat.

What Lin Yanchao said made Xu Zhenming a little moved, and he couldn't help but ask: "If the sweet potatoes are as good as Master Lin said, why is no one planted them in the North?"

Lin Yanchao sighed when he said this. Before traveling through time, he took it for granted that once the sweet potatoes in the late Ming Dynasty were moved to the north, it would be better to wait for the violent soldiers to farm.

But now I realize that sweet potatoes cannot be planted in the north.

After knowing this, Lin Yanchao kept searching for books he had read before traveling through time in his mind. Thanks to his ability to remember the books he had occasionally read and forgotten in his previous life, he recalled little by little.

How did the sweet potatoes be transplanted to the north in the late Ming Dynasty?

This is to mention one person, that is Xu Guangqi.

In order to revitalize water conservancy, Xu Zhenming wrote a book called Lu Shuike. After Xu Guangqi saw this book, it was regarded as a strange book, but Xu Guangqi found that Xu Zhenming's policy had a big disadvantage, that is, there were more dry fields and fewer paddy fields in the north, so once water conservancy was built, it was easy to violate the interests of the powerful.

So Xu Guangqi wondered if there were crops with high yields in dry fields?

So he saw sweet potatoes. But sweet potatoes can only be grown in the south, but not in the north.

So is there a way to move sweet potatoes to the north?

So Xu Guangqi studied it all his life, and went to the fields to cultivate himself, and finally found a method.

He wrote all these experiences into his entire book on Agricultural Affairs.

Later, Xu Guangqi summarized several methods of preserving seed potatoes and vines before winter.

Before the frost, choose the southeast of the house. There is no west wind and there is an east sun. Straw is stacked with straw. It is more than 100 meters wide and about two feet high. It is stacked around it, two feet high, and it is empty. It is about two feet wide and is empty. It is about two feet wide. Use rice to stabilize it, set it up and cover it. It is tied into a frame, cover it with a roof, and cover it with a branch. It is covered with straw. It is enough to prevent wind, rain and snow.

The rice stable substrate is more than one foot, add grass gray and fill it up, place it in it, and cover it with thick gray and dirty, and use straw to slant it to make it extremely thick."

For example, if the northern soil is high and cold, even if it is covered with thick straw, it may be frozen. If you want to avoid freezing, it is better to store a cellar. If you want to store a cellar in my hometown (referring to Shanghai), you will avoid water wetness. If you dig more than a meter of soil in the northern highlands, you will not see water wetness. If the potatoes enter the cellar, they will avoid freezing and will still occur (germination).

After this practice, Xu Guangqi gained confidence and immediately wrote about the Thirteen Wins of Sweet Potatoes, vigorously praised the benefits of Sweet Potatoes, and promoted them all among the people.

After Xu Guangqi's efforts, sweet potatoes began to be planted in Susong, but before they spread to the north, the Ming Dynasty was already dead.

Then the Qing Dynasty vigorously promoted it. From Kangxi to Qianlong, especially in the 51st year of Qianlong, the court issued a decree to allow Zhili, Shandong and Henan to promote the planting of sweet potatoes in the provinces.

So to sum up here, those who read history in later generations can only sigh with the words "time is also life".

So Lin Yanchao said to Xu Zhenming: "I have a fellow villager named Chen Zhenlong who has found one or two of them when I spend the winter in the north, and he said..."

Lin Yanchao briefly explained the methods such as sweet potatoes to spend the winter. Of course, we cannot teach the ability to climb trees in the end.

But Lin Yanchao's words made Xu Zhenming's eyes shine.

He couldn't help but slammed his high-high and said, "If this sweet potato is really useful for preparation and transplanting it to the north, it can save countless people from starvation. Then, this year, there will be no one rising up in the Wang'an, Henan and the Meitang of Huguang, and tens of thousands of poor people will respond."

"Master, your fellow villager's method of spending the winter of sweet potatoes is the real way to study things and learn knowledge. This is the only way to achieve success. Only with such talents around the bachelor, Xu is truly convinced by the bachelor's learning of the bachelor's work!"

Lin Yanchao couldn't help feeling ashamed when he heard this. He just copied Xu Guangqi.

According to Xu Zhenming's method, the development of water conservancy will definitely violate the interests of the powerful and the rich. It is necessary to cut the cake again, but Xu Guangqi bypassed this idea. Since the production relationship cannot be changed for the time being, we will work hard to develop productivity.

Finally, Xu Guangqi succeeded in his method and learned from practice.

But then again, who can say that the golden finger is not a good thing? This is the legendary "born to know".

Lin Yanchao said modestly: "This is just a small way, what's the point? But although there is a method for this matter, it is not that easy to do."

Xu Zhenming said sadly: "Yes, you must be successful and you must be able to win people. Although this strategy is good, it must be supported by the court. Otherwise, who will teach the people how to make sweet potatoes spend the winter in the north? Moreover, the cultivation of sweet potatoes must be recruited to Beijing to recruit experienced farmers from the south."

"So there is no reason in the court that people will not succeed? It would be great if the scholars were asked to replace Xu as the military farmland envoy. The scholars could not help but be more talented than Xu, and they bypassed the methods of offending the powerful. Unfortunately, the scholars were the prime minister of the current dynasty, so the mere censors of the military farmland would not take it seriously."

Lin Yanchao shook his head and said, "Brother Xu is wrong. Lin only knows how to take advantage of tricks. This is not enough. In Lin's eyes, like Brother Xu, he dares to stand up for the common people and offend the powerful. He is the truly admirable official and the backbone of our scholars."

"But I wonder if Brother Xu is willing to listen to Lin's words?"

Xu Zhenming bowed and said, "Please give me a message."

Lin Yanchao said: "I want Xu to submit a memorial to the emperor and take back the original plan of military farming in the capital to cultivate water resources and instead control dry land. In my opinion, the emperor will still trust Brother Xu and re-enter the military farming matters."

Xu Zhenming hesitated: "This..."

Lin Yanchao said: "Brother Xu, as long as he can show his ambitions, why not be afraid of rumors from outsiders? In the green pen of history, you will only remember Brother Xu's cultivation of sweet potatoes and saving countless things."

After Xu Zhenming was embarrassed, Lin Yanchao convinced him.

As for the method of farming, Lin Yanchao naturally asked Chen Zhenlong to help him. With Chen Zhenlong there, he was not afraid that Xu Zhenming would swallow his credit.

If sweet potatoes can be successfully promoted in Gyeonggi, it would be natural to have a step closer to their official position.

This is the only thing that we must say hello to Zhang Jing in advance.

Xu Zhenming was taken down by Zhang Jing, so of course Zhang Jing nodded before Xu Zhenming could go back.

But how did I speak to Zhang Jing?

A few days later, Lin Yanchao didn't look for Zhang Jing, but Zhang Jing sent someone to send him a post.

The person who sent the post was not someone else, but Zhang Jing’s godson Zhang Shen.

When Lin Yanchao was dismissed from office, the Zhen family came to the Lin Mansion to break off the engagement, but they borrowed this Zhang Shen and wanted to use Zhang Jing's power to make Lin Yanshou surrender. Of course, everyone knows the final result.

Seeing Zhang Shen now, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but smile.

Zhang Jing is currently the third person in the Ming Dynasty. Apart from the emperor, he is the chief minister.

Zhang Shen has borrowed Zhang Jing's power in recent years and is a dominant person outside. Even if he meets officials, he doesn't take it seriously.

But Zhang Shen was a person who had been taught a lesson by Lin Yanchao. When he saw Lin Yanchao, he knelt down and kowtowed and said, "The villain Zhang Shen bowed to the scholar."

Lin Yanchao didn't even look at Zhang Shen, and wrote his own official documents.

After waiting for a long time, Lin Yanchao finished writing the official document and said in surprise: "I'm too busy for a while, forget you. Get up quickly, don't be too polite."

Zhang Shen did not smile at all with anger, "I said before coming, my godfather said that I would be more respectful to the master of the bachelor than the godfather. Now that I can see the master of the bachelor, the villain will be willing to kneel here for three days and three nights."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "I dare not take it. By the way, what's the matter with you?"

Zhang Shen said: "My godfather will hold a banquet at Juxianlou tomorrow. He posted a post to invite Mr. Lin, saying that he would introduce a few friends to Mr. Lin to meet him."

Lin Yanchao narrowed his eyes when he heard this. Shen Shixing told him not to get involved with Zhang Jing, but at present, Zhang Jing would never let him get off the boat easily.

Seeing that Lin Yanchao didn't say anything, Zhang Shen said, "Before the villain came, my godfather said, you must invite the master's lord, otherwise you will immediately defeat the villain's two legs. The villain's lord will not remember the villain's mistakes, so please give me a gift."

Lin Yanchao sneered in his heart, "What a Zhang Jing, I'm really sure I'm going to be."

Lin Yanchao said immediately: "Then let your godfather spare your legs, go!"

Zhang Shen was overjoyed when he heard this and kowtowed a few more times before leaving.

Lin Yanchao looked at the post and thought to himself that Juxianlou was a famous fireworks and willow alley in the capital. What does it mean to hold a banquet here for me, the eunuch Zhang Jing?
Chapter completed!