Zhang Jing looked at the person in front of him and said in surprise: "Scholars also do business?"

Chen Jinglun didn't feel any embarrassed at all, and said generously: "Studying is reading, doing business is doing business, and this is generally the case in our Fujian and Guangdong areas. People who do business must make their children prosper and become more successful in their studies and gain fame. However, people with fame and fortune cannot grow much food by relying on the mountain. If they don't do business, they will find it difficult to make a fortune by relying on the fame of scholars."

"Oh." Zhang Jingyi knew that the situation in Fujian in this era was indeed very bad. There were too many mountains there and the people could not support them. Some secretly went abroad and moved abroad. Some people could not support themselves by farming, so they had to do business.

Zhang Jingyi said: "Since that's the case, I don't know what to do."

"Students want to buy a shop." Chen Jinglun said without hesitation: "But I heard that the new shop has not been sold for the time being, so I want to ask. The students know that there is still a lot of land in the hundred households. Can I sell it to students with some price?"

Zhang Jingyi was both angry and funny. Now she does have a shop for the next four phases, but it doesn’t mean that she will sell it at this time. But obviously many people are anxious, and they are obviously optimistic about the future of Qingpingfang.

Zhang Jingyi said, "What business are you doing?"

"Changle Chen family, farming merchants study and pass on family members..."

"I have only heard of the family tradition of farming and reading, but I have never heard of the business people after farming and reading." Zhang Jingyi wanted to laugh, but the atmosphere in the Fujian and Guangdong area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was indeed much better than that of the capital, and he was more tolerant of merchants.

Zhang Jing paused and looked at Chen Jinglun: "You are from Changle, Fujian. I saw you today, but I want to ask you about someone. I wonder if there is a person named Chen Zhenlong in Changle."

"Ah..." Chen Jinglun was stunned: "Zhang Baihu also knows about his father?"

When Zhang Jing heard the word "My Father" one by one, he knew that Chen Zhenlong was dead, but he never expected that Chen Jinglun was Chen Zhenlong's son. He became excited again: "I heard that your father had cultivated sweet potatoes in the Fujian Provincial Administration and Commissioner of the State Council. This sweet potato came from the Western Folang Jiren. Is there any such thing?"

Chen Jinglun: “…”

"Isn't it?"

Chen Jinglun hurriedly said, "Yes, there are, but that is not called sweet potato, it should be called golden potato. This is the name given by my father. This thing... The Chen family has been cultivating it. For more than 20 years, it has not dared to interrupt it. The yield of golden potatoes is very large. It's a pity that when it was cultivated, it was commended by the local government, but later there was no news."

Sweet potatoes...

Zhang Jingyi was so excited that he wanted to laugh out loud. This thing is food in this era!

Moreover, it is a grain with a huge yield. It was even recorded in the Ming Dynasty that the yield per mu could be ten times or twenty times that of rice in this era.

At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters were frequent, and the arrival of the Little Ice Age led to sudden changes in the weather and continuous disasters in various places, which is also the reason why there are a large number of refugees.

The refugees could not grow food from the ground, wandered around, searching for food, swept the world, and eventually... became what the imperial court called "bandits".

It can almost be said that this "bandit"... was one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, it means that arable land is limited, and because the world is peaceful, the land carries more and more people. With the population soaring, grain output not only does not increase, but instead plummets. It would be strange that the Ming Dynasty is endless.

But with sweet potatoes, it's different.

You should know that decades later, from the Kangxi to the Qianlong period, the mainland of China finally began to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes, so that the population in the Qing Dynasty was several times that in the late Ming Dynasty, and there was no major chaos.

When people have food to eat, they will be at peace.

But if you don’t give him food, will you be hungry?

The most tragic thing in the late Ming Dynasty was that it did not pay attention to the promotion of sweet potatoes. Although the Chen family in Fujian has been cultivating them and some people are growing them nearby, during the Little Ice Age, the area north of the Yangtze River was the area north of the Yangtze River!

Countless droughts and locust plagues have continued, a large amount of farmland is deserted, and grain production has plummeted.

What if the sweet potatoes are promoted to the vast northern part of this time?

Zhang Jingyi was in a state of great excitement for a moment and couldn't help but say, "How many such golden potatoes do you have in your Chen family that can be planted near the capital?"

"This..." Chen Jinglun was stunned for a moment: "I haven't tried it, and the students don't know it. However, our Chen family has always known the habits of gold, no, and how to take care of sweet potatoes. As for whether this sweet potato can withstand the dry land in the north and whether it can withstand the coldness in the north, I don't know."

Zhang Jing cut off the railway decisively: "How many shops do you want?"

"Ah..." Chen Jinglun was stunned, looked at Zhang Jingyi, and was dumbfounded and speechless.

Zhang Jingyi said: "Don't you want a shop? How about I leave you a hundred abbots?"

Chen Jinglun: “…”

This abbot is more than 100 taels of silver, or one hundred taels of silver? This is at least ten thousand taels of silver.

"Not only that, I can recommend you. In short, as long as your Chen family is in the capital, I can guarantee that no one dares to bully you."

Chen Jinglun: “…”

Now, he was panicked. He was so enthusiastic and would not let our Chen family have such great benefits...

Zhang Jingyi immediately said, "You only need to do now. I will immediately compile a book to your tribe members, and ask them to immediately escort a large number of sweet potatoes to the north, and they will also draw some people who are good at planting sweet potatoes. I will leave this matter to you. If you can do it, some are rich and noble. If it cannot be done, the capital will not be able to gain a foothold."

Chen Jinglun's heart gradually calmed down, and he couldn't help but say, "Zhang Baihu... this... planted a large amount immediately? The soil and climate of the north are still uncertain. Who knows whether he can survive? Is this too risky?"

This is the truth.

Obviously, the Chen family still underestimated the value of sweet potatoes from afar.

And more than ten or twenty years ago, the local official who once reported the good news also underestimated the value of sweet potatoes.

After the sweet potato seeds were released, the local local officials hurriedly submitted a report during the Wanli period.

But soon, no one took it seriously.

After Zhang Jingyi read this in his previous life, he also felt very strange. How could the court ignore such a high-yield crop? This is a magical tool that changes the fate of the dynasty.

However, after coming to this era and beginning to read the classics and history, Zhang Jingyi could probably understand.

Because the local officials in Fujian reported this incident in the 21st year of Wanli, and the 21st of Wanli was exactly the most important year, because at this time, the "Guisi plan" happened.

The "Gui Si Dao" was the most important conflict between the cabinet and the Donglin Party. The officials from the Donglin Academy, who had gradually begun to play a role in the court, had great controversy with the cabinet at that time. In the end, the entire court had a fierce conflict over an assessment of officials.

At that time, the ministers in the court attacked each other and reached a point where they were not my fellow party members.

As for a "good news" about Fujian, I am afraid that in the eyes of court officials who had already had red eyes at that time, this must be a so-called "auspicious" that local officials wanted to get promotion in political achievements, so they made a so-called "auspicious" come up with.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. There have been auspicious periods throughout the dynasties. For example, a cow gave birth to twenty cowboys in one nest, and a chicken grew as big as a pig. Local officials took the opportunity to report good news to avoid the officials in the court from forgetting him.

But in the eyes of the Qingliu people at that time, reporting auspiciousness was a very bad thing, and it was a manifestation of reporting good news but not bad news. Naturally, this report quickly sank into the sea and no one paid attention to it.

It was precisely because the court ignored it that the local officials saw that the court had no follow-up, so they naturally did not dare to submit the memorial again, so as not to cause trouble.

The Chen family did not receive support from the government, so they had to cultivate their own sweet potatoes. In history, this cultivation had cultivated a total of five generations of people. It was not until Jiannu entered the pass and the Kangxi period that sweet potatoes were gradually promoted.

Zhang Jing took a deep breath. Now the world has become like this. There are refugees everywhere and disasters every year. Can this matter be relieved?

Seeing Chen Jinglun with a embarrassed look, he obviously couldn't do anything to be sincere with him. So he suddenly pulled down his face and said sternly: "Mr. Chen didn't ask about who I, Zhang Jingyi, before coming to visit me?"
Chapter completed!