After Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't control Chang Yu's ability, and he could really solve anything when he came here. Now that the military rations have been solved, let's free up our hands and take a good job of disaster relief, it's just that Gyeonggi Shufu is thousands of miles away, how can such a big hole be plugged!

By the way, Zheng Zhilong sent the grain from the boat above.

"Where are you going to plant those ground beans and sweet potatoes, and can you really solve this famine with these......" Emperor Chongzhen had great doubts about Chang Yu's large-scale cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Chang Yu has full confidence in this, he still knows a little about these two crops, and is even more professional than the agricultural technician sent by Zheng Zhilong, after all, at this time, there has not been large-scale cultivation in the north, but these two crops have already been sown in all corners of the world in later generations.

The sowing period of potatoes in the northeast and northwest is generally spring, only one season a year, in Hebei, Henan and Shandong, it is two seasons a year, sowing in February and March, harvesting in June and July, sowing in August and harvesting from October to November, and the growth cycle only needs to be in a row!

Sweet potatoes can also be planted at this time, but the growth cycle takes three months.

As for where it is planted?

The first choice is Huangzhuang.

Huangzhuang is unique to the Ming Dynasty, as the name suggests is the emperor's manor, mainly concentrated in the area of Beizhili, with Shuntianfu, Baoding, Hejian Mansion the most, the area of Huangzhuang during the Zhengde period is about 37,500 hectares, one hectare is one hundred acres of land, count it yourself.

Of course, so much land is not planted by the emperor's family, nine times out of ten are encroaching on the land of the local people, and then rented to the people to plant, only part of the land in the imperial village near the capital is hired to cultivate, and the income is all to the internal money.

As far as Chang Yu knows, there are at least 1,000 acres of land in Huangzhuang around the capital, and although some of them have been planted with crops, there are still hundreds of acres that can be used to grow these crops.

But obviously hundreds of acres are not enough.

Never mind! There are still too many abandoned manors outside the city, the Qing army besieged the capital in the surrounding area, looted the manors of those nobles, and the crops were also harvested cleanly, so that there is still a lot of idle land that has not been cultivated, not to mention thousands of acres.

"You're going to rent their land?" Emperor Chongzhen was stunned: "Even if those lands are idle, they won't agree if you want to plant white." Chang Yu shook his head: "Of course they don't plant in vain, but they won't give them rent, the minister plans to use seeds to offset the rent, and the minister can guarantee that these two crops will become the most important grain reserves in the Ming Dynasty within two years, and at that time, not only the common people will plant, but these nobles will also plant, so I plant them for a season to exchange seeds."

"Won't they go south and buy seeds themselves!" Chongzhen frowned, and Chang Yu chuckled: "The transportation cost is too high, and they can buy it if they go!" ”

"You said that the transportation cost is high, I can still understand, what do you mean when you go and can't buy it?" Emperor Chongzhen was stunned.

Chang Yu sighed: "At the beginning of the year, when the minister heard that there was a drought and locust plague in various provinces, he expected to have a famine, and he accidentally thought of these two crops, so he asked people to go to Fujian to find Zheng Zhilong for help, which was considered a rainy day, but he didn't expect that the severity of this famine was far beyond what the minister expected......"

"So a few days ago, when I heard that Zheng Zhilong's fleet was heading north on the Jiujiang side, I urgently ordered Jinyi Wei to go to Fujian as soon as possible, so that he could buy and hoard goods and transport them to the capital by sea, so as to drive the economy of Fujian...... Oh, it's to give the potatoes and sweet potatoes over there a market, and the people will have a better life, and at the same time alleviate the famine in the north."

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and shook his head when he heard this: "The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are like a waste in front of you!" They were helpless in the face of famine, but you took precautions early, amazing, Chang Yu is very good at you! How fortunate I am, how fortunate I am! ”

"If the emperor continues to boast like this, the minister's heart is very weak" Chang Yu smiled faintly, Emperor Chongzhen sighed and stared at Chang Yu motionlessly, looking at him all over his body.

"What the hell are you sacred!" Emperor Chongzhen's sudden sentence made Chang Yu goosebumps: "Minister, it is a eunuch who serves the emperor in the palace, it is not sacred"

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head with a wry smile: "For me, you are much more powerful than those immortals in the temple, it is better to ask them to be useful." As he spoke, he immediately saw the topic pulled back: "Since the potatoes and sweet potatoes can really survive the famine, they should be greatly promoted, not only in the capital, but also in Huangzhuang, and the people must also be promoted."

"The minister has sent people to contact King De of Jinan and King Heng of Qingzhou Mansion, which will be planted on a large scale in the two places, but it is not recommended to promote it to the people for the time being."

"Why?" Chongzhen was puzzled, Chang Yu explained to him, first of all, the planting technology, in fact, the planting of the two crops has no technical content, the potatoes are cut into pieces and stirred with firewood ash and buried directly in the ground, the sweet potatoes are a little more troublesome to Mr. seedlings, that is, the sweet potatoes are concentrated in one place and buried with soil, and the seedlings will be born in ten days and a half months, and the seedlings will grow twenty or thirty centimeters and then take the seedlings to dig a pit and bury the soil, and even during its growth, the seedlings can be multiplied by cutting a section of buried soil......

Such a simple technique but any religion that has been planted will be, so this is not an important reason, but at this time, the seeds are expensive of course to concentrate on a wide range of planting is more appropriate, easy to manage and easy to take care of, after all, this is a year of starvation, no one is guarded, you can steal it at any time, this is also an important reason why Chang Yu is not at ease to send seeds to the people to promote, I am afraid that they will receive the seeds and eat them directly, or they will be picked up and eaten by others in the blink of an eye.

And scattered cultivation is not effective in coping with famine.

However, in addition to being easy to centralize and supervise, large-scale planting can also solve the problem of many unemployed laborers to go to work! You must know that the refugees in the capital are crowded with people right now.

"Since you are the leader of this matter, I will leave it to you to handle it with full authority" Emperor Chongzhen walked up to Chang Yu and patted him on the shoulder: "There is no war at the moment, you will do your best to help me deal with this famine, I hope your sweet potatoes and potatoes can really work wonders, otherwise after winter, I don't know how many people will die!" ”

"Minister, do your best" Chang Yu arched his hand: "I don't know where Zheng Zhilong's ship docked at this time, Tongzhou or Tonghui River outside the city?" ”

"All the grain has been delivered to the city, and it is a drop in the bucket...... Those potatoes and sweet potatoes are still in Tongzhou, and I didn't know your plans at the time, so I didn't move, and sent a Jinwu guard to guard them from being stolen...... You should start this as soon as possible."

Chang Yu snorted, and suddenly said to Emperor Chongzhen: "By the way, the emperor, the minister wants to ask for merit for one person, and I hope the emperor will approve it."

Emperor Chongzhen turned his head to look at him, and chuckled: "You have not even been able to ask for merit for others, it seems that this person is not small or you are not small, let's say, is it Gao Jie or Huang Degong, I heard that you have been very close to Gao Jie recently, I heard that you have worshiped the handle?" ”。

"How can you borrow food if you don't go close and don't worship the handle, hey, it's not all about the world" Emperor Chongzhen, who heard Chang Yu's words, couldn't help laughing: "That's really difficult for you, okay, let's say, what kind of credit do you ask for your righteous brother?" ”

"It's not for Gao Jie, it's for Wang Tizhong, and the minister allowed him to be knighted......" Chang Yu immediately said his promise to Wang Tizhong, Wang Tizhong surrendered at that time and directly reversed the situation, so that Bai Wang became passive everywhere, Chang Yu was able to march forward, and Wang Tizhong also captured Bai Wang, more importantly, the meaning of buying bones, and he could use this to hang Wang Tizhong to help him monitor and guard against Zuo Liangyu!

After listening to his analysis, Emperor Chongzhen nodded: "This title can be given, but I'm afraid that those people in the cabinet will have to shout again" Chang Yu smiled faintly: "It shouldn't be, everyone can figure out the meaning behind this title, and the shouting is nothing more than what he wants to give to the ministers, so that the ministers can accept their favors."

"You know everything" Emperor Chongzhen hesitated: "Fortunately, it is a meritorious general in the knighted army, and they can't find any reason to oppose it, but if you nominate an official to be promoted, they will immediately seize and attack you......"

"The emperor said this and reminded the minister, the minister really wants to promote the individual" Chang Yu immediately said Feng Houdun, planning to transfer him to the disaster area as a county commander to experience experience.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally hadn't heard of Feng Houdun's name, and learned from Chang Yu that he was an unpopular instructor in Jiangyin County, and he was very puzzled why he was promoted.

Chang Yu naturally can't say that he is one of the three princes of Jiangyin, only that he is very loyal, noble, and most suitable for reassuring the people in the disaster area, comparable to Jackie Chan.

Emperor Chongzhen trusts the people recommended by Chang Yu, ability is secondary, and the most important thing is loyalty! Then he nodded, just open his mouth for this little thing, in fact, even if Chang Yu didn't tell him that he could operate it, but when he said it, it seemed that he didn't hide anything and didn't abuse his power.