Seeing Zhang Canghai's frowns, Zhu Linmiao roughly guessed what he was worried about, and said with a smile: "As for promoting it among the people, I can ask the Mission Office to help." In fact, the people are still very welcome to good things, as long as someone patiently explains them to them.

"In addition, the existing fertile land is still planted with staple foods. The first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes are all planted on hillsides and wasteland, and you supplement them with tax incentives, such as no tax for the first year of planting. As long as the people harvest a season, after they have tasted the sweetness, even if you don't let them plant it, you can't stop it. ”

Zhang Canghai nodded, as long as there is no competition for good land, the pressure of promotion can be reduced by ninety.

He asked, "Your Highness, where can you buy these two crops?" ”

Zhu Linmiao remembered that he had read the records that potatoes and sweet potatoes had been introduced to the Ming Dynasty during the Apocalypse, and they were planted in a small area in Fujian, Hainan and other places.

"It can be found in Fujian, Qiongzhou and other places, and the price there is by no means as expensive as in Guangxi."

He continues: "Both potatoes and sweet potatoes can be grown in cubes. Mr. Zhang can buy 10,000 catties first and try planting in Guantian. It can be demonstrated to the people, and after the harvest, it can also be sold as seeds, which is also a purchase.

"Sweet potatoes can also be planted with poles, which is cheaper. It's just that the method of inserting the pole needs to be fed by skilled farmers, and you may be able to find some potato farmers from Fujian and Qiong. ”

Zhang Canghai couldn't help nodding, and discussed with Zhu Linmiao for a while about the plan to promote planting, and hurriedly retreated to the side and took notes.

Only then did Zhu Linmiao have time to pick up the battle report sent before boarding the ship to check.

A small part of them are the imperial court's official newspapers, and more than seventy percent are sent by the camp in northern Jiangxi.

Since he left Jiujiang and went south to Nanchang, Zhen Zhen, the "great general", has sent a battle report almost every day, and the content is really varied.

The first battle report, the words "urgent" at the beginning. The following is the "Broken Camp Tang Newspaper" and "March 19 of the Second Year of Longwu", the specific content is "The army marched to Xiqianshui Village, Nankang Prefecture, and practiced for two hours, Brother Deng's people were lazy, and I punished them for carrying weapons in the afternoon." Tomorrow we are preparing to march to the Jiujiang Realm, and I am very happy to hear that the people of Pengze are coming to welcome us into the city. ”

Zhu Linmiao shook her head with a smile and picked up the second one. The beginning is still the same, and the time is March 20. "Today Sun Mazi, oh, he wants me to call him Mr. Sun Qian now. He is going to the Li family today to propose, and he is that Rou sister. Since Sun Qian became an official, Master Li finally allowed this family ......"

On March 21, "As soon as we arrived in Jiujiang, we heard that it was rumored here that you had beaten Zhang An, who had connived at his subordinates to harm the people. Everyone is praising His Royal Highness's high righteousness, saying that you are very majestic, kicking over more than a dozen soldiers and bandits with one kick, and picking up Zhang An and whipping more than 100 times. Now the streets and alleys are saying that as long as His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou is there, the people will not be bullied......"

There is also a note attached to the back, but it was written by Gu Yanwu: His Royal Highness Gu Yanwuqi, the army is about to cross the Ganjiang River tomorrow, and there is no big war, and it is expected that the troops will be able to reach Ruichang at the beginning of next month. In addition, the Jiangning line reported that most of the Jianyu had been stationed in Jiangning, with more than 10,000 people and unknown movements.

This is basically the case in other battle reports, Zhen Zhen is responsible for reporting lace gossip, and Gu Yanwu occasionally attaches a note to report the matter.

At this time, no matter how dull Zhu Linwei is, it is impossible not to see Zhen Zhen's thoughts.

It's just that although this little girl is really lively and looks very cute, but now that the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil, he has exhausted his efforts to have a little opportunity to rewrite history, and he has no heart to deal with these children's feelings for the time being.

In addition, they didn't have much contact, and Zhu Linmiao didn't have any special feelings for her, just laughing at the little girl and looking very serious.

Or when the Ming Dynasty is more stable, it is not bad to find an ancient confidant. Zhu Linmiao smiled to herself, she has been in Daming for so long, but she really hasn't considered her personal problems.

Two days later, the sentinel ship arrived in Longnan.

Zhu Linmiao looked at this actual "hometown" from the bow of the boat, and a sense of kindness swelled in her chest, although she had only been away for two months, she had a feeling of being different from each other.

On the dock, hundreds of Dragon Guard soldiers who had just been transferred to the new barracks stood in two neat rows, their flint hairs standing on their chests, and their momentum was very powerful.

Hong Si, Song Yingxing, Qiao Qian, Macedo, Pastorey and others stood respectfully in the middle of the pier.

Chen Yi was also in the crowd, and after he handed over the defense task of Soakou, he took a few cronies back to Longnan to receive military training, after all, if he wanted to be an officer in the Longwei Army, his previous set of things was not very applicable.

In addition, Wang Keqian, the county governor of Longnan, and Luo Peng of the county also gathered aside.

When Zhu Linmiao got off the boat, everyone bowed at the same time and shouted in unison: "Meet King Chen Chitose, Chitose." ”

Zhu Linmiao smiled and asked everyone to get up, "It's all my own family, so I don't have to make it so grand." ”

And Zhang Canghai still followed behind King Chen without embarrassment, because he had never seen potatoes, and for fear that he would make a mistake, he followed him all the way to Longnan.

Not long after the group walked away, he began to babble about potatoes.

Song Yingxing next to him heard the repeated word "potato", and couldn't help but ask Zhang Canghai: "What Zhang Fantai said is the kind mentioned in Xu Gelao's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", 'creeping leaves like beans, round roots like chicken eggs, white skin and yellow inside, cooking and steaming'?" ”

Zhu Linmiao's eyes lit up, he finally had someone who understood, and he was busy asking Song Yingxing to be responsible for explaining to Zhang Canghai carefully.

Mr. Song only instructed his entourage to fetch the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", and asked him to transcribe the part introducing potatoes to Zhang Fantai, and explained that the book has its own methods of identification, selection, and planting. Zhang Canghai was overjoyed.

Zhu Linmiao didn't expect that Xu Guangqi had such a detailed understanding of potatoes in the era, if Chongzhen could pay attention to this thing at that time, there would be no Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to rebel, and there would be nothing to do with Houjin.

But history has no assumptions, and what Chongzhen ignores can only be done by himself.

He also called Wang Keqian and asked him to recommend himself to Zhang Canghai and try to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in Longnan Selection.

This Wang Zhixian has also given him a lot of help since Zhu Linmiao came to Longnan, and the promotion of new crops will definitely become an outstanding political achievement in the future, which can be regarded as a thank you to Wang Keqian.

Although Wang Zhixian didn't know what to do, he was very clear about King Chen's ability, and he was right to listen to him, so he hurriedly went to Zhang Fantai.

Zhu Linmiao went back to the Dragon Guard camp first. I saw that the construction of the Daming Royal Military Academy on the west side of the camp has been basically completed, covering an area of more than ten acres, and hundreds of school buildings have been built. It's just that for the time being, only more than 100 people selected from the original Zhang Jiayu Department and the recruit camp of the Longwei Army are studying here, and most of the school buildings are still idle.