After more than three months of succession, Liu Mingqi participated in three major court meetings.

One of them was because of this year's autumn harvest, and the ministers came to discuss various matters.

Don't be surprised.

Harvesting food is definitely the best thing in the world.

It's not surprising in modern times.

Not to mention us as a developing country, we are a beautiful country. Look at what will happen to him if we cut off his wheat and rice?

The next day, a fleet of twelve aircraft carriers rushed to your doorstep.

So are our country.

In the Indochina Peninsula, although the grain is sold everywhere on weekdays, when something really happens, they can only sell it to us.

Why?

Let’s know about the Mekong River, the daughter of Lancang River?

As long as we build a dam and block the Lancang River... Haha! Everyone will die!!

The food problem in ancient times was the highest level, surpassing all matters.

As long as the people have food at home, no matter how stupid, luxurious, extravagant, and wasteful the emperor, there is no large-scale rebellion, don’t doubt it. Hongli, what he is talking about!

This year's climate, rain, and sunshine are very suitable. No matter which grain crop it is, it grows very well and can be regarded as the third consecutive year of bumper harvest.

Specifically, this year's grain tax can be deposited in more than 250 million stones.

Although it has become fewer in dozens of granaries in the world, it has become a very small number, but this is also the best year in the past decade.

At least half of most granaries can be filled.

This is not to say that the previous ten years were all natural disasters, which led to insufficient food, and in fact there were man-made disasters. More than 50 million stones of grain were resold in various ways, and a large group of hamsters were rich, but it made the people suffer.

If Emperor Jinghe and his ministers had not been supported by hard work, I'm afraid there would have been huge problems when the six countries invaded the past year.

After all, wouldn’t such external and internal troubles add up to become a tragic ending for my Ming Dynasty?

In addition to normal food, there are also sweet potatoes ranked third.

It’s almost September now, and sweet potatoes will be harvested in thirty days.

Last year, the total planting area of ​​sweet potatoes was already 240,000 mu, and 720 million kilograms of grain were harvested.

This year, sweet potatoes have spread from the Imperial Palace to the entire Jingji area, with a total area of ​​14.4 million mu.

It seems that there are many, but in fact it is only 9,600 square kilometers, accounting for only one-twentieth of the total area of ​​the Gyeonggi area.

Although it occupied some of the planting area of ​​wheat and rice, the people were willing to do so due to the high compensation provided by the court.

If calculated based on the 3,000 jin per mu yield last year, the harvest this year will be at least 400 billion jin, or at least 3.4 billion jin.

The yield of this amount of sweet potatoes is really earth-shaking.

With such a large batch of sweet potatoes scattered all over the country, if there is another 3,000 kilograms per mu next year... No, even if there is only 2,000 kilograms of output, people all over the world will definitely not be hungry if they eat sweet potatoes all year round.

Don’t think that if you have such a high output, you will have a surplus.

Take the baby's words, any thing multiplied by 150 million is a big deal.

Anything divided by 150 million is a small number.

When you are poor, you can survive by eating one pound or even half a pound of food a day.

But when we are rich, an adult who eats twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes a day may not be able to eat sweet potatoes and rice. The gap between wheat is still very large. Otherwise, how could our staple food be rice and wheat for thousands of years?

Therefore, it is very difficult to achieve such a goal.

It is impossible for all the people to work hard according to the current dedicated people, and then there are various natural disasters, various human factors every year...

This requires officials in the world to promote and supervise this with the most pious attitude.

First, let the people grow sweet potatoes with all their heart and soul. As long as they see the amazing yield of sweet potatoes in the first year, no matter what difficulties and difficulties they encounter in the future, they will unswervingly plant sweet potatoes.

The second is to let officials supervise the gentry, landlords, and the stingers, and not allow them to interfere in the people's cultivation of sweet potatoes.

After the sweet potato harvest, no one is allowed to use this to have more showdowns.

Labor and taxes have always been two great mountains for ordinary people.

Even if such a mountain is indispensable, the court still hopes to reduce the burden on the people as much as possible.

To put it bluntly, at least they must survive.

If they can eat enough, it would be a blessing.

But don’t look at the high yield of sweet potatoes and it is easy to fill the granary of ordinary people, but it is not omnipotent.

Otherwise, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes. Why did the people still have a hard life and starve to death one after another?

It is still caused by various natural disasters and man-made disasters.

We cannot control natural disasters, but during the Taiping period, man-made disasters can be controlled as much as possible.

For this reason, not only did the embroidered ward work well, but the "inspection team" model proposed by Liu Mingqi was quickly approved by the Prime Minister, the Secretary of the Six Ministry and others.

With such a group of passionate young people coming to supervise, the effect is of course much greater and the effect is much more positive than those old people.

With this idea, these supervision teams composed of Hanlin Academicians have already taken various means of transportation to various provinces for inspection at the beginning of this month.

...

It was almost evening after the Great Court meeting.

At noon, everyone just ate some cakes, snacks, milk and other simple foods. After going to the bathroom, they continued to talk.

Liu Mingqi prepared chairs for everyone.

This is also a change for him.

There is no need to be a big age, and to stand in the court for several hours. This is purely torture.

Although some Taoist scholars said a few words about this, most people still support this.

Many people also think that this young emperor is indeed different from others and dares to break something.

It is precisely because the emperor is young that many people dare to speak during the discussion. Although this has brought about a lot of disputes, it can also expand everyone's thoughts.

But there is also one disadvantage, that is, it is very noisy.

So much so that Liu Mingyou returned to the imperial study room, his head was buzzing.

But this is not the time for him to finish his work.

Because several prime ministers had already followed him in.

There is one thing that everyone has not discussed.

That is the horses, cattle and sheep that I exchanged with Qiyan this year. What should I do specifically?

Qiyan definitely spent a lot of money on this 15 million stone of grain.

They caught wild horses, bisons, and wild sheep for seven months on the Qiyan Plateau, and then flocked to several important checkpoints such as Datong and Zhangjiakou in exchange for food.

To be honest, Dakang's grain is not expensive. Even if the second batch of grain prices rose to 15 cents per catty, the price was only the local price in Shanxi, which was only a little more expensive than grain-producing provinces like Hebei.

But they needed too much food, so selling cattle, horses and sheep to Dakang is also an astronomical figure.

"There are currently 900,000 horses, including 200,000 of which are the top 300,000, and the bottom 400,000.

There are a total of 1.3 million cattle, 500,000 cattle, and 800,000 cattle in the best.

There are a total of 2.7 million sheep, 600,000 top sheep, 900,000 medium sheep, and 1.2 million lower sheep."

Zhong Chang, who supervised the Ministry of Revenue, mentioned the number of cattle, horses and sheep that are now piled up on the border, and his face was filled with joy.

Liu Mingqi was also happy, but was also worried: "Will so many cattle, horses and sheep accumulate in one area affect the ecological environment? If the surrounding water and soil are destroyed, that won't work."

The ancients also understood the environmental damage caused by cattle, horses and sheep gathering in a place.

People like wrangling never stay in one place.

The same is true for the Central Plains dynasty. It must be raised in scattered ways and must also be transferred.

"It's not in Zhangjiakou and Datong. It has basically been transported to places like Jincheng, Yuncheng, Handan and Cangzhou." Liu Renhuai said: "If you follow the Grand Canal, you can quickly transport it to many places. The key now is where to transport it."

It can be seen that these ministers are still very concerned about it.

The places they mentioned are indeed very convenient places for shipping, and even by official roads, it is easy to reach surrounding provinces and towns.

Liu Mingqi nodded, "What do you think? Where should we do?"

"Is this more necessary?" Ma Haoqiu said immediately: "All the cattle are transported to Jingji and Hunan and Hubei, so that the agriculture in these places can develop and become our more stable rear."

"Is it not necessary for Jiangnan?" Ge Songdao frowned.

"Jiangnan is so rich, and the land that should be developed there has been developed, and it is useless to transport more cattle to go there. Maybe most of them will become beef cattle." Ma Haoqiu responded: "Besides, if you sail in the future, Jiangnan may face more military disasters, and it is not appropriate to take so many cattle to go there."

"no."

Cao Yi looked up and said lightly: "Give one-fifth of it to Jiangnan! Jiangnan has the heaviest taxes and the most burden. If they don't give them, they will complain in their hearts. Why are there no me who enjoys happiness and suffers me?"
To be continued...