Last year, in 1654 AD, many major events occurred, among which the fall of Yiqing was the most shocking to the world.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Jin became the only opponent of the Ming Dynasty and the next country that the Ming Dynasty would inevitably conquer in the future.

Since Emperor Qin swept Liuhe and unified the world, the entire Chinese nation has planted the gene of great unification, so everyone in the Jin Kingdom knows that the final battle will come sooner or later.

At this age, the Ming Dynasty attacked Mongolia in the north and conquered the West in the south, solving the two hidden dangers that restrained the hands and feet, and the Jin State became even more nervous.

In order to find out when the Ming Dynasty started and the situation of war preparations, the Jin State spent a large amount of money, as well as manpower and material resources, to spy on the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty.

Sichuan, as an important direction for the Ming army to go north to Hanzhong and attack the Jin State, is also the top priority of the Jin State's spying.

At the end of last year, the Jinniu Road plank road, which had been burned by Wu Sangui, was repaired by the Sichuan government with great efforts, and the connection between Sichuan and Hanzhong was unimpeded again, and then it brought about business and travel between the two countries.

Although the Ming Dynasty forbade the delivery of strategic materials such as grain and fine iron to the Jin Kingdom, other items were not prohibited, and the two sides still had commercial contacts.

In particular, most of the population of Hanzhong migrated from northern Sichuan, and they are inextricably linked with Sichuan.

The spies of the Jin State often disguised themselves as business travelers to Sichuan and other places to spy on intelligence, and the Ming Dynasty also sent a large number of personnel to infiltrate the Jin State.

In the territory of Baoning Prefecture in the north of Sichuan, most of the population here was moved away by Wu Sangui, and then the Sichuan political envoy moved some from southern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan, and the government persuaded some Tusi to go down the mountain to cultivate, so the population of Guangyuan has been restored to a certain extent.

At this time, in the territory of Guangyuan, in the fields, the officials of the government were instructing the people to harvest sweet potatoes and sow corn and potatoes.

A few years ago, after Wang Yan found that Fujian planted a large number of sweet potatoes, which reduced Fujian's dependence on grain from other provinces, he vigorously promoted the cultivation of sweet potatoes in the mountainous areas of southwest China, providing a lot of coarse grains for the Ming Dynasty, making the grain problem no longer a particularly serious problem for the Ming Dynasty.

Grain has always been the foundation of the stability of the dynasty, after the successful promotion of sweet potatoes, Wang Yan issued a decree, posthumously named Chen Zhenlong, a merchant in Changle County, who brought sweet potatoes into Fujian, as an earl, and Jin Xuezeng, the governor who once advocated the promotion, was also posthumously awarded the title of earl, giving the two families great glory.

Sweet potatoes have been introduced to China for a long time, and many officials have even eaten sweet potatoes, but these corpse vegetarian people just didn't think to go to the fields to take a look, take a look, and wait for the imperial court to seal the knighthood, one by one regretted it, and I couldn't wait to smoke a few mouths.

Soon after the imperial court issued an edict to posthumously seal the seal, some officials in Fujian, in the name of offering auspicious rui, discovered dryland crops such as buds and potatoes.

Xiangrui is a superstition engaged in by the people below, but as a ruler, he enjoys it very much, which represents the recognition of the ruler by heaven, represents the peace of the country and the people, and the prosperity of the dynasty.

Wang Yan enjoyed the feeling very much, rewarded the people who offered them again, and then ordered people to try to plant, and the results were okay, and then let the government promote it among the people.

The emergence of these crops has made it possible to produce food in many drylands that could not otherwise be cultivated.

In the Ming Dynasty, the warehouse reserves have increased significantly over the years, and even if there is a large-scale famine in a certain place, it is enough to provide relief.

As early as the promotion of sweet potatoes, the Ming Dynasty ordered that no one should be allowed to bring sweet potatoes into the north, and then the buds and potatoes were also included in the list of prohibited transportation.

Once it is found that someone is carrying someone to Jinguo without permission, the officers and soldiers will immediately lock it up, and after interrogation, they can be beheaded.

This punishment can be described as extremely heavy and has a strong deterrent effect, but people die for money and birds for food, and there are still not a few people who have died because of it in the past two years.

In fact, at the beginning of the promotion of sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty, the secret agents of the Qing court got the news, but Dolgon was more concerned about the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, so he did not pay attention to this matter.

Jin did not get any news about this before, but after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, a large number of secret agents of the Qing court turned to work for Dajin, and many things that were not valued by the Qing court were turned out by the Jin State.

Of course, Jin Guo can pay attention to this piece of information, mainly because Jin Guo's grain production has reached a bottleneck.

Although the Jin State vigorously cultivated the fields, the Jin State could not cultivate much land after all, and the yield of wheat per mu was also very limited.

The grain output of the upper and lower levels of the Jin country is only barely self-sufficient, which chokes the lifeline of the development of the Jin country.

Now the Jin State has adopted the same means as Wei Wu to settle the fields, and there are more than 600,000 military tuns, which seems to be very large, and the number of troops is large, but this kind of combination of soldiers and peasants, more farming land than fighting peasants, and the combat strength is really worrying.

This kind of peasant soldier, in front of the elite professional army, is a rabble.

If the Jin State wants to train more elite soldiers, it must let the peasants and soldiers out of production, but due to the limitation of grain production, especially land, it is impossible for the Jin State to have too much grain to train the elite soldiers who are out of production, and it is impossible for too many people to open mines and engage in commerce.

The problem of food limited the development of the Jin State, and when the Jin State knew that the Ming Dynasty had these high-yield crops that could be grown on dry land, how could it not be tempted?

At this time, in the territory of Guangyuan, you can see many people with hats, reclaiming dry land and harvesting fruits.

Fu Youchun and Fu Younian, dressed as little wounders, led two mules carrying goods, walked slowly on the road, and looked at the people working on both sides of the road from time to time.

The two of them saw that they followed the vines of sweet potatoes, dug out red and fat sweet potatoes from the ground from time to time, and then transported them to the side of the road in a frame, and piled up a large pile in a moment, and couldn't help but exchange glances.

At this time, the two of them led the mule and walked along the road to an old man who was sitting on the side of the road, fanning the wind with his hat and resting.

Fu Youchun gave Fu Younian a look, and Fu Younian handed over the rope of the mule and horse to Fu Youchun, and then sat down next to the old man, and said with a smile: "Old man, this year's harvest is good!" ”

"It's not bad, just this season, the second half of the year is enough to eat." The old man fanned the air duct.

"This is that sweet potato, the yield is so high, it must be very troublesome to grow!" Fu Younian took out a handful of dates from his arms as he spoke, handed them to the old man and said, "The old man tastes it, it's sweet." ”

The old man glanced up at him and couldn't help asking, "Listening to your accent, it seems that we are from the area of Boryeong Mansion, don't you know this sweet potato?" ”

In order to come to Sichuan to spy on intelligence, Fu Younian and Fu Chun stayed in Hanzhong for three months and learned the dialect of the Baoning area.

Fu Younian sighed, "I am indeed from Baoning, but I was forcibly relocated to Hanzhong by the Jin army, and I haven't returned to Baoning for several days. ”

When the old man heard him say this, he took the dates, he didn't eat them, he put them all in his arms, and then suddenly stood up, took out two sweet potatoes from the pile of sweet potatoes in front of him, wiped the mud with his hands, handed them to Fu Younian and said: "There are regulations in the imperial court, this thing is not allowed to be transported to the north, it is estimated that you have not eaten it, come, you can taste it too, it is sweet." ”

Fu Younian took it, threw the other one to Fu Youchun, then wiped it twice on his clothes, and took a bite of it, which was very sweet, and he couldn't help but praise again and again: "It's delicious, it's so sweet!" ”

The old man smiled when he saw him, "It's sweet, the old man also felt so sweet when he ate it for the first time, in fact, it was better for him to eat it boiled and roasted, and it was a little easy to burp when eaten raw." Haha..."

"This is really a good thing, but it's a pity that it can't be brought to Jinguo." Fu Younian sighed.

The old man smiled and said: "This thing is easy to grow, as long as it is cut into pieces and placed in the soil, it can sprout by itself, and the rattan that grows can also be used as seedlings, as long as they are not blistered, they can live, and the yield per mu is also high, which is really an excellent thing." It was obtained by the imperial court with great effort, so naturally it could not be given to the Jin State, otherwise the traitors of Wu would have eaten enough and would have to harm us again! ”

Fu Younian smiled and said: "This thing is simply a treasure, it can be planted on dry land, how much grain is there in this time!" ”

The old man said that he was up, and then said: "You don't know yet, last year Fujian came to Xiangrui again, and God sent two crops to our Ming Dynasty, one is called potatoes, the planting method is similar to sweet potatoes, and the other is called bud valley, it is said that a grain of rice is as big as a bean, and it is golden and golden..."

Fu Younian had run a business in Nanjing, and the people who did business could talk, and he talked with the old man for a while, and after a while, he inquired about how to plant this sweet potato, what to pay attention to, and the matter of the potatoes and buds.

Sweet potatoes, buds and potatoes can be bought in the market, and the Ming Dynasty did not prohibit them from circulating in the market, and the people could still sell them for money, but they were not allowed to bring them to the north.

In fact, this kind of prohibition can only be delayed for a while, but for the Ming Dynasty, if it is delayed for a while, the gap between the Jin Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty will change by one point, so it is absolutely absolutely prohibited.

It was not difficult for the spies of the Jin Kingdom to obtain these crops in the Ming Dynasty, the difficulty was how to transport them out, and how to plant these crops, they needed to know the planting methods and matters to pay attention to, in order to ensure that the crops brought back could germinate and be promoted.

Fu Younian talked with the old man for a while, until he couldn't find any useful information, then he got up to say goodbye and went north with Fu Youchun.

In the next few days, the two wandered in the countryside, looking for opportunities to talk with the farmers, and after learning more about the technology, the two arrived outside the Jianmen Pass and prepared to leave the customs.

In order to get out of the customs, Fu Younian weaved the rattan of the sweet potato into the loading box, Fu Youchun was a little nauseous, he wrapped a few grains of corn from Chengdu in silk, and then gritted his teeth and stuffed it into his buttocks, and began to prepare to leave the customs.

The two were afraid of making a mistake, so they didn't go together, so as not to wipe out the whole army, they separated and lined up to get out, but Fu Younian was unlucky and was really found out······

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