Xu Guangqi showed a look of relief on his face. He pointed to the book in front of him and said, "My sweet potato chapter is indeed going to be revised. Kong Zhizhi has a lot of experience to add. The main thing is to select seeds, lighting, and vines, so that the yield will not be low if it is done well!"

"Kong Zhizhi is good now." Sun Yuanhua said enviously: "In the past, he focused on agriculture, and even if he passed the Jinshi, he would definitely be willing to continue to work hard on agriculture. It was really thankless. In the past, he and Hutchison started a business on the grassland, and I was very worried about him. Hutchison might be strong for a while, but it was jealous of the Ming court at the Ming Dynasty and was enemy of the northern barbarians outside. There may be no good results in the future. Now the Chahar tribe was destroyed by Hutchison, and Hutchison had no rivals on the entire grassland. No matter what, Kong Zhizhi could do what he wanted and be safe and sound, which made the students happy."

Xu Guangqi nodded and said, "You brothers are in love, and I am very relieved. Kong Zhizhi is indeed as you said, and Hutchison's status in the north has also been established. If Nong'an can be taken down in the area of ​​Old Nuergan City, except for Liaodong, Liaoxi and Datong, the territory of the capital, is already comparable to the territory of the Old Liao. The Liao people did not completely control the grassland. It is not wrong to say that Hutchison is now a country in the north. Even if Hutchison has no ambitions for the Ming Dynasty, it is enough to establish a country on its own. Kong Zhizhi became a founding hero without realizing it. Life experience is really wonderful."

Xu Guangqi glanced at Sun Yuanhua and said, "Chuyang, when I advised Zhizhi to come back, I strongly advised you not to go to Huji. You can help, don't fall too deeply. You won't have any resentment towards me, right?"

Sun Yuanhua smiled and said, "How could this happen? The disciple is not the kind of personality that he would rather be a chicken head than a queen. In the Ming Dynasty, the disciples were already doctors in the Ministry of War. As a disciple, he was a disciple and the Juren, and what else could he complain about? Although Hutchison is now glorious, he is already hostile to the Ming Dynasty, and the future is still hard to say. It is possible that if the war is connected, there will be a situation. The disciple does not want to become a traitor and rebellious in future history books... The disciple is not talking about Kong Zhizhi, he is based on agriculture, and even if he fights, he will not have much to do with him. He has a military background and will definitely be valued in wars. He is really related to his reputation."

"I'm very happy that you can think so." Xu Guangqi showed a gratified smile on his face, then frowned and said, "The current situation is indeed quite difficult. Hutchison destroyed the Provincial Department, and the people in the capital were panicked, fearing that Hutchison would come to the south after a few months. Now many people are also hostile to Hutchison and Zhang Han, thinking that he is a first-class figure of Cao Cao. Hutchison's image is not very good now. Kong Zhizhi people have not criticized him much, and they all think he is a fool who studies agriculture. If you are also on the grassland, our situation will not be very good."

Of course, Xu Guangqi is not alone. He is from Hanlin and has a very old experience. He has his own set of agriculture, mathematics, military science and technology. He has many disciples, and the best and outstanding ones are Sun Yuanhua, Kong Minxing and others. Xu Guangqi himself is also very likely to enter the cabinet and will form his own political power in the future. If his disciples all serve Heji in the north, then Xu Guangqi will undoubtedly be much more embarrassed.

"In addition to the sweet potatoes, I'm still reorganizing the waste rolls." Xu Guangqi pointed to the mountain of files in front of him and said, "The waste rolls are a big project, and I'm afraid I have to put all my energy into it."

Sun Yuanhua said ignorantly: "What the teacher meant is asking students to help? Students are not as good as Kong Zhizhi and others in agriculture, and they are far from that. However, the wasteland book is indeed important. Recently, there have been several local officials who came from northern Shaanxi. I heard that the teacher's wasteland book collected more than 400 edible wild vegetables, fruits and trees. They were very interested and wanted to ask the students to ask the teacher for it. The students turned them off. It was ridiculous. The local officials didn't want to keep the local safety, but they wanted to eat wild vegetables for the people."

"You are confused." Xu Guangqi was originally a little disappointed with the slow student in front of him, but then he became even more dissatisfied. He said with a stern face: "Why did I write the wasteland book? The eighteen volumes of wasteland are meant to not starve to death in the wasteland year, and at least find food to eat, and do not be starved or poisoned to death. Local officials can think of preparing wasteland for the people. In my opinion, I am already considered a good official. If you turn around, write down where they are in charge, and I ask someone to copy the wasteland book and send it to me."

"Yes, the students were not thinking well for a moment." Sun Yuanhua was quite respectful in front of his mentor. His bad temper and the hard-working character of the technician did not show any of them in front of the teacher. He clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, the students will get this done at all."

"Very good." Xu Guangqi nodded, with a look of relief and fatigue on his face.

The wasteland is indeed a last resort. It records more than 400 kinds of wild food that can be eaten in the wasteland year, and there are some emergency and not fatal solutions.

It is hard for people who lived in an era of extremely abundant material after hundreds of years. At this time of the late Ming Dynasty, people sometimes even had to scrape off the paste and cook it and eat it. Many common things in later generations were difficult to obtain in this era, especially high-calorie foods that can sustain life are extremely rare.

In normal times, salt and oil intake are seriously insufficient. Once people who fill their stomachs with mixed grains face famine, they will soon lose weight into a skeleton-like creature. In this era, an adult man needs to eat at least three kilograms of staple food a day to maintain physical fitness, and use insufficient intake of calories to maintain work and earn income to support his family. Once in a famine, many ordinary families have no reserves, and many people will quickly dry up once they start to starve, and will die of malnutrition in a short period of time.

In fact, even in the 20th and 21st century, famine is still a major problem that plagues mankind. People in wealthy places can waste food at will, but people in poor places die of hunger. This is a cruel joke, a joke that people can't laugh at.

Just like now, the most ordinary people in Jiangnan can also obtain a lot of meat and fish to obtain protein, and the grain is mainly eaten with refined grains. However, in the northwest, it is good for people to use millet or sorghum to fill their stomachs. Many places are coarse and poorer grains. In later generations, things that don’t even need to feed pigs were the staple food for people in this era.

A natural disaster may make people unable to even eat mixed grains. Xu Guangqi is an insightful person. His wasteland is to help these poor people in the north who may fall into a catastrophe at any time.

But like his farm books, although they are very famous, there are very few people who are willing to work on such things. If a few people are interested in this, Xu Guangqi will only feel relieved and will do his best to help the other party.

Of course, Xu Guangqi also fully understood that his help was equal to a drop in the bucket. He could only watch the residents of the northern Ming Dynasty running towards the bottomless abyss, while the chariots driving the Ming Dynasty were still feeling good, and they never felt that the real crisis had arrived.

Xu Guangqi finally couldn't help but say, "I'm afraid that Ji's worries are within the Xiao Wall."

"What does the teacher mean?" Sun Yuanhua pondered: "What the teacher meant is that today's worries are not in the Donglu, nor in the Hutchison, but in the Ming Dynasty itself?"

"Yes." Xu Guangqi was quite satisfied with his disciple's performance this time. He nodded and said, "In the past few months, your brothers and the missionaries of Nantang have investigated in the northwest and Henan. In the past ten years, at least 100 prefectures and counties have been affected, and the situation in various places has been quite bad. The missionaries of Nantang believe that large-scale refugee riots or rebellion are imminent!"

"It won't be so bad, right?" Sun Yuanhua said with a pale face: "Didn't the court exempt the taxes and relief for the disaster areas?"

"A drop in the bucket, so I can barely make the local governments and gentry follow the court's footsteps to do some superficial skills to calm people's hearts." Xu Guangqi said: "But you have to think about the court's extensive expenses, and now it is just perfunctory. Once something big happens, it will definitely be difficult. If there is a new tax in addition to Liao tuition, how can the people bear it? Now there is a pile of firewood, waiting for someone to ignite the fire. Once the fire starts, it will inevitably start a prairie fire and no one can put out the fire again. The overturn of the dynasty is nothing more than the four words of official, forced, and people. The Ming Dynasty's financial resources are insufficient, the imbalance of the balance, the problems are deep into the muscles, and there is no cure. Even if you want to treat it, you don't know where to start, let alone no one wants to take action to treat it."

Liao guarantor was launched during the reign of Emperor Shenzong. Except for a few places such as Guizhou, all the land acres in the country were charged with 9 cents of silver, and a total of 5.2 million and 62 taels were charged. This was an emergency measure that after the Liao incident, including Emperor Shenzong, who found that there was no money to be used, and Liao Town was decayed. Whether it was armor, wars or soldiers and horses, they were in short supply, they had to treat the headaches.

Logically speaking, it was suspended in the 48th year, but during the Tianqi period, Liao levies were not suspended, but Donglin and the eunuch party also imposed miscellaneous commercial taxes such as tariffs and salt. The commercial taxes during the Tianqi period also increased significantly, and the pressure from the people was quite heavy. In the early years of Chongzhen, some miscellaneous silver were suspended, but they were quickly re-exhausted. Not only that, during the Chongzhen period, they also increased the suppression and training wages. If there was no additional tax, there would be no silver available. The additional taxes pushed a large number of small landlords and self-cultivated farmers to the side of rebel farmers, making the north more hollowed out, and a large number of dissatisfaction arise in the south.

When the dynasty was destroyed, except for a few nobles and eunuchs, all classes stood opposite to the dynasty they once supported. This was the main reason why both Dashun's march or the Qing Dynasty's southward advance were quite smooth.

You should know that the Qing army was not strong, with the Ajige tribe in the Western Expedition of 30,000 people and the Duodou tribe in only 20,000 people.

"Besides..." Xu Guangqi lowered his voice and said: "In recent years, Hutchison has collected a large number of refugees in Shanxi and other places. Many refugees have been recruited by them to farm on the grassland or join the army. According to the people in Nantang, there are at least 100,000 or 200,000 people."
Chapter completed!