On this day, most of the time in the court was to discuss the disaster in southern Fujian.

Zhu Linmiao also ordered the prefectures and counties in the northwest of Jiangxi to transport all the grain and rice stocks to Fujing. Although there will be grain coming from overseas, it is always a good idea to be prepared.

In addition, in order to prevent possible riots, he also dispatched two battalions of the Dragon Guard to rush to southern Fujian.

With the return of four or five thousand people from Jiang Zhengxi's original command to Tianxing Mansion, the garrison pressure of the Dragon Guard Army has been reduced a lot.

However, most of Kang Chung-hee's soldiers were newly recruited, and their training and discipline were insufficient. In addition, Zhu Linmi's arrangement is to use them as a pilot to start the old-style army policing, these people have been busy transforming the system recently, and Tianxing Mansion cannot completely leave the Dragon Guard Army for the time being.

As soon as the early dynasty was dispersed, before Zhu Linmian entered the Wenyuan Pavilion, two officials led by the chamberlain came towards him quickly, and he saw that the servant was a magistrate from a distance.

When the two of them arrived, they attached themselves to give a salute, "Xiaguan Zhang Canghai (Wang Keqian) meets His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King." ”

It was originally Zhang Canghai, the political envoy of Jiangxi, and Wang Keqian, the magistrate of Longnan.

Zhu Linmiao beckoned the two of them into Wenyuan Pavilion, seeing that they all had smiles on their faces that couldn't be hidden, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhang and Lord Wang, do you have any good news to tell me?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, there is good news!" Zhang Canghai immediately said, "Previously, according to His Royal Highness's orders, Xia Guan tried to plant more than 400 acres of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Longnan," he looked back at Wang Keqian again, "Later, Wang Zhixian raised his own money and expanded the planting of another 500 acres."

"Now these crops are ripe and there is a good harvest! A total of less than 1,000 acres of thin fields, but more than 1 million catties of potatoes and more than 400,000 catties of sweet potatoes were harvested! ”

1.4 million catties is nearly 7,000 stones, which is only the output of more than 900 acres of land. Although Zhu Linmiao knew that these two crops had high yields, he was still very pleased with this figure. It should be known that the same 900 acres of land, even if it is good land, will yield more than 2,000 stones at most.

He asked, "How well did the people receive the potatoes and sweet potatoes?" ”

Zhang Canghai hurriedly said: "Since last year, the mission has begun to preach that the yield of these two things is extremely high, the entrance is soft and sweet, and the long-term food moistens the intestines and cleans the blood. ”

Wang Keqian added: "Since the day of harvest, Xiaguan and Master Zhang have had a meal every day only to eat potatoes and sweet potatoes, and it has been nearly half a month, which is no different from eating rice.

"This thing can be used as a staple food, it does not pick the ground, and the yield is extremely high, which is really a blessing for the people!"

Zhu Linmiao nodded with satisfaction, these two people were quite serious and responsible, and they actually tried it themselves before confirming that they could be handed over to the people for planting.

Zhang Canghai continued: "Your Highness, now a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes have begun to be planted in various parts of Ganzhou, and most of them are newly opened slopes and sandy land, and it is estimated that about 10,000 acres can be planted that year.

"The lower official also brought 400,000 catties of these two things into Fujian to make seeds, so that His Royal Highness can promote them in Fujing."

"Well done!" Zhu Linmiao praised that there are already people growing potatoes and sweet potatoes in small quantities along the coast of Fujing, and with the help of the Propaganda Office, the people should be able to accept it quickly.

If these two crops can be spread out in large quantities, I believe that such a famine in southern Fujian will not occur again. He immediately thought that although the 400,000 catties of potatoes and sweet potatoes were prepared to be used as seeds, they could be used as rations in an emergency, so he instructed Zhang Canghai to say: "You and Wang Zhixian have made a lot of contributions, but they can't rest for the time being. You immediately escorted this batch of grain to Nanjing and handed it over to the household department for allocation. ”

"The subordinate obeys." Before the two of them could sit on the hot buttocks, they turned around and left.

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Southern Fujian.

Zhangzhou Prefecture is located in Nanjing City.

A concave young man in a green shirt ran into the Lu Ji silk shop in high spirits, hurriedly ordered his subordinates to bolt the door, and then rushed to the back house and shouted: "Dad! Brown rice has risen to 10 taels and 11 stones! ”

A middle-aged man in the room who looked very similar to the young man flashed with joy on his face, but he snorted heavily, "Yu Chao, how many times have I said it, be steady!" ”

The young man hurriedly bowed his head and replied, "Yes...... Father.

"According to your orders, the rice store is no more than five stones, and the price is afraid that it will rise again."

"Well," the middle-aged man nodded, "You go and tell the Zhao family and the Liu family that you can ship a small amount of goods." ”

"Yes, my son will go."

After the young man left, the middle-aged man hurriedly pulled out the abacus from the drawer, and after a crackle, he showed an expression like drinking honey, "Okay! Well risen!

"Several generations of the Lu family have been trading for decades, and they don't earn as much as I do, haha!"

This person's name is Lu Yuanhou, and he is the shopkeeper of Lu Ji Silk Shop. The happiest thing for him during this period was to listen to his son report the price of rice, and then calculate his net worth.

He looked at the numbers on the abacus, and couldn't help but laugh proudly again, one hundred and eighty thousand taels, his Lu someone's net worth has risen so much.

And looking at this situation, the momentum of rising rice prices is still continuing, and the 180,000 stone of grain and rice in his treasury may be able to produce more than 3 million taels!

Lu Yuanhou simply admired himself a little. At the beginning, when he was just sending silk to a household official, he inadvertently heard that the imperial court wanted to allocate silver for disaster relief, and immediately smelled a "business opportunity" from it.

So he returned to his home in Tingzhou as quickly as possible, mortgaged all the four shops handed down by his ancestors to Qianzhuang at a low price, exchanged 500,000 taels of silver, and bought out all the grain in the market in western Fujian.

Originally, he just wanted to raise the price of three or five percent and make a fortune, but he didn't expect a Jiangbei businessman surnamed Zhai to find him, saying that he had teamed up with four extremely powerful businessmen to buy out the grain and rice in Fujing, eastern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong!

After that, everyone raised the price unanimously, and whenever there was a slightly lower price of grain on the market, they would take it all, so that the price of this grain and rice would be set by them.

At that time, it is not impossible to say that you will earn one or two times, even if you make eight times out of ten.

He was still a little worried at the time, after all, it was impossible for the imperial court to stand idly by and watch such things, but the Zhai family taught him how to disperse acquisitions and conceal shipments. Eventually, lured by huge profits, he agreed to join forces with him.

Now it seems that what a wise decision was made in the first place! He was thinking in his heart that when the catastrophe passed, he would use the money he earned to donate a knighthood - it is said that someone from Tianxing Mansion donated to the marquis a while ago!

After that, his Lu family is not a humble businessman, but a nobleman!

He was dreaming of becoming a master, when he suddenly saw his son Lu Yuchao pushing the door in a panic, and he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, could it be that the price of rice has risen sharply again?

Lu Yuchao wiped the sweat on his head vigorously, and said hurriedly: "Dad, it's not good, it's not good!" ”

"What's the panic? Stabilize the focus. Lu Yuanhou glanced at him, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"The imperial court and the imperial court opened a shop in the north of the city to sell grain, and only sold nine taels and one stone, and those who came did not refuse ......"