At the end of the 22nd year of Wanli, a Ming warship sailing from the Philippines arrived at the port of Yangon, unloaded several boxes of goods at the port, and then was escorted to Yangon City by soldiers.

In Yangon, one of the only three cities that the Ming Dynasty has completely controlled and developed, this small army was fully rested, and then escorted by more troops, all the way to Bago City, the center of Ming rule in Burma, or more precisely, the Zhennan Hou Mansion in Bago City.

Burma Town, twice the size of the land of Korea, the ruler of the 12 Han people and 5,000 troops, lived in that town of Nanhoufu.

When Xiao Ruxun heard the news of the return of the ship, he was overjoyed and went out of the city to greet him in person, and when he saw the soldiers escorting several carts back from afar, he rode directly over, and when he saw the yellow corn cobs and the earthy potatoes with his own eyes, he was overjoyed.

Corn and potatoes are the third and fourth places in the world food rankings, in the history of several times, corn and potatoes have saved China in the Xiaoice River period, and pulled China back from the brink of extinction, that was in the late Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen era, the Chinese mouth decreased sharply, from more than 200 million people to tens of millions of people, excluding the bloody massacres of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the epidemic caused by the war, the reduction in grain production caused by the sudden drop in temperature is one of the main killers.

Unfortunately, no one in the Ming Dynasty proposed the cultivation of potatoes and corn as food on a large scale.

During the Zhengde period, corn was introduced to Guangxi, China, and a little later, potatoes were also introduced to China, but at this moment, no one realized that China had obtained two food crops that could save the country's fortunes, and in a hundred years, no one found the amazing yield of corn and potatoes, and no one tried to cultivate them as food crops, they were regarded as rare products, not to mention the high price, the yield was extremely low, and only the wealthy could use and eat them.

However, at this moment, the wealthy families never imagined that decades later, in the era of bloody wind and rain in the Central Plains when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south, and in the era when the severe cold spread all over China, the rare products they regarded as treasures would become the fruit of life that saved the lives of tens of millions of Han people who survived in China.

The so-called Kangqian prosperous era, is just a joke, a group of barbarians did not have decades of civilization to dare to say that they can create a prosperous era, they can establish a regime to rule tens of millions of people, but the Ming is really too lucky, and the Manchu Qing luck is too good, in that cold era, rice and wheat and other traditional crops have been harvested, people are desperate, but find that the potatoes that have never been valued in the harsh cold environment, bloomed the light of life.

"Potatoes can be grown in cold weather."

In the era after the war was eliminated and the Manchus were established, the Manchurians, who were helpless because of the severe cold, finally learned the news, and they were overjoyed to announce the news because they were afraid of being driven back to their hometown by the Han people who had no food to eat, and they announced the news ecstatically, believing that the potatoes were a treasure given to them by God, which just showed the rationality of the Manchu rule in China, which was irrefutable.

How to argue this? The Ming Dynasty has owned potatoes for a hundred years, but has never understood that potatoes are the key to saving it, at least they can grow on the land that can no longer grow wheat and rice, can grow, can eat, can curb the displaced people, can give people hope, not so that everyone will follow Li Zicheng 'break', the Ming can free up his hands to deal with the Manchu Qing, not to fight on two fronts, in that erosive situation, potatoes are the only hope.

But Da Ming didn't grasp it, and let the Manchu Qing pick it up.

When also? Fate?

As for corn, that is the icing on the cake, for the Ming Dynasty of that era, potatoes are the only hope to break the situation, the key to the continuation of the Ming Dynasty's national fortunes, potatoes can be grown in the northern land that is gradually not suitable for growing wheat and other crops, with higher yields and higher energy to maintain the military power of the agricultural empire in the north, as long as there are potatoes, as long as they can grow, maintain a certain yield, they can let the army continue to be stationed, they can retain the peasants, keep the land, and the power of the Han people will not move south.

Of course, for Xiao Ruxun at the moment, corn is the most important, and rice, corn is like a hot and humid environment, the more humid and hot, the better it grows, which just fits the hot and humid climate of Myanmar, the temperature rarely drops below 20 degrees throughout the year, and the northernmost mountainous area does not need to wear thick clothes, the stretching mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau will be blocked by the cold air flow from the north of the Ming Dynasty to the south, leaving Myanmar with a warm temperature.

The hot land given by God, as long as you work hard, you will never starve to death.

Under the explanation of the fleeing old farmers from Guanzhong, Xiao Ruxun knew how jealous they were in their hearts that this land was not their hometown, if this was the case, they would not have to leave their hometown to come here, however, this is already the case, don't force it too much, it is not a happy thing to be able to settle and reproduce here, except that the sultry climate makes them not very adaptable, everything is fine.

Slowly, they will adapt to the climate, and future generations will get used to life here, and they will take root here, live, reproduce, and live here forever, just as they lived in the land of Guanzhong for hundreds of years before.

Potatoes aside, at present, the only place that can grow potatoes in Myanmar is in the northern mountainous areas, and until the winter of Myanmar, when the temperature is a little lower, a batch can probably grow in one winter, as for other times, rice and corn are really enough, more than 100,000 people can't eat these high-yield crops at all, and there will be a surplus at that time, Xiao Ruxun can even secretly arrange merchants to sell excess grain.

In the second half of the 22nd year of Wanli, the town of Myanmar developed rapidly in such a hot atmosphere, and the Han people used their inherent diligence and willingness to work hard to gradually build this wild land into the ideal home of their dreams.

Yuan Huang became the chief steward of government affairs that Xiao Ruxun relied on, because in addition to Xiao Ruxun himself, only Yuan Huang had the experience and ability to deal with government affairs among his subordinates, Xiao Ruxun also had to supervise the army, go out everywhere, manage daily affairs, and did not have much time to make overall arrangements, so these things could only fall on Mr. Yuan Lifan, a sixty-year-old man who started to do things every day from the moment he woke up in the morning, and did not fall asleep until he was a child.

Xiao Ruxun repeatedly persuaded Yuan Huang to make himself a little easier, he could help deal with more things, but Yuan Huang always said - you go outside to watch them, share weal and woe with them, establish prestige, don't be a few years, the people and land here will be yours, those big masters don't want it, you can't do it, this is the foundation of your life, in the future, you will rely on here to realize the ideals of our generation!

Xiao Ruxun was kicked out of the government office by Yuan Huang, but he was very worried about Yuan Huang's health, so he selected ten literate and literate people from the army and the fleeing people, and asked them to be responsible for helping Yuan Huang.

Yuan Huang wrote more than 20 letters and sent them back to his hometown, hoping to invite those friends and partners he knew to go south to Myanmar to help him and help Xiao Ruxun, but a month passed, except for a student Chen Longzheng who sent a letter saying that he would arrive in Myanmar soon to help Yuan Huang, only Yuan Huang's wife and son Yuan Yan replied to the letter saying that they would come, and no one else replied.

Yuan Huang also felt very sorry for Xiao Ruxun for this, saying that he had been famous for many years and had made countless friends, but in the end, he didn't even have a friend who was willing to share weal and woe.

Xiao Ruxun held Yuan Huang's hand and said - in today's season, the ethics of scholars are low, the greed of desire, and the shamelessness of behavior, he has read all over the history books, only the end of the Northern Song Dynasty can correspond to it, but even at this time, there are still scholars like Fan Gong, as long as there is, it means that there is still hope, if there is no at all, then the class of scholars will be completely abolished, hopeless.

In today's season, the town of Myanmar is poor and white, 5,000 soldiers, 100,000 Han people, and nothing else, there are many people who are willing to put icing on the cake, and there are few people who are willing to send charcoal in the snow, Yuan Huang can have disciples who are willing to send charcoal in the snow, and he can have wives and sons who come to meet regardless of the danger, so what more requirements are there?

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also felt that it was not good to let Yuan Huang's son Yuan Yan come here.

Yuan Yan is also a scholar, and he also needs to go to school, and there is no place for scholars in Myanmar Town, and even the people here have not been incorporated into the households, that is three years later, if the Yuan family migrates, it will be difficult for Yuan Yan to go back to study and take exams, in the Hou Mansion in Zhennan, Xiao Ruxun can arrange the officials of the Hou Mansion, but for the scholars, this is an official position that is completely ignored.

The scholars who can come here are all people whose ideals are greater than reality, and people who are willing to practice their ideals more than reality, Yuan Huang is in his sixties, and he has long passed the time when he is keen on fame, but Yuan Yan is still young, and he has not yet reached the realm of Yuan Huang, so it doesn't seem to be good for Yuan Yan.

Yuan Huang shook his head.

"As the son of the old man, he should have such an awareness, his boy's ability to read is not as good as his father and me, he has not won the township test twice, this academic ability, even if he is admitted to the Jinshi, he can only be a top three fellow Jinshi, without the care of Lao Tzu and his colleagues, he can only be a county order in this life, Zhang Xuan has only one, what kind of skill is that kid, no one knows better than him Lao Tzu, Ji Xin, don't worry, this kid himself knows very well."

After that, Yuan Huang smiled.

"Officialdom is a big dye vat, if you want to be ice clear and jade, then you can only be like the old man, be a petty official for the rest of your life, never want to enter the political center, that kid has no other skills, stubborn temper is a good hand, such a character enters the officialdom, it is fortunate not to be killed, and you want to be promoted? Zhang Xuan is an anomaly, and he bumped into the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the Great Rites Discussion and the once-in-a-lifetime emperor of Jiajingye, so he entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister as a top three, and only then did Jiajing Zhongxing, put it now, is it possible?

Instead of facing the situation of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, it is better to let the old man live than to die, or let that kid never want to enter the officialdom, come here, bury his head in solid hard work, practice his skills, and follow you Xiao Jixin's command, it may not be another way out, Ji Xin, I, Yuan Huangke, will hand over the life and future of the family to you, we will be prosperous and lose in the future, and you must remember my old life when you do things! Hahahaha! ”

Yuan Huang spoke freely and laughed freely, but Xiao Ruxun's heart couldn't be free at all.

He knew that Yuan Huang couldn't get rid of it.

Myanmar is a paradise, people from outside will not come in, and there is no interest in coming in, which of course gives Myanmar town the opportunity to develop, but it is destined to be unable to enter the WTO, if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you must join the WTO, his power is too small, too small to shake the existence of any interest group, whether Myanmar town can support his ambitions, this is also an unknown.

But he knew that he had already started to start, and the Zhennan Hou Mansion, a Hou Ye, and three staff members were dealing with the poverty and whiteness of the land and the disfavor of people.

How many people are willing to give charcoal in the snow? It is certainly a virtue to send charcoal in the snow, but if it is a military town and a force, it means that it is a kind of investment that gambles everything.

If people flock to it, it is called abnormal, not to mention scholars, even ordinary people, if it is not for the loss of land, if it is not for the suppressed people who cannot live in the country, if it is not for the same heart, they will not think of coming to Myanmar to this wild land that is poor and white and does not know anything about it.

Those who come here are either desperate people or people with a spirit of exploration, and these two kinds of people are exactly the people Xiao Ruxun needs. The second type of person has a tenacious temperament, is curious, does not like to stick to conventions, has a very small number of people, and is non-mainstream, and only this non-mainstream is the talent that Xiao Ruxun urgently needs.

Those who like new things and like the outliers of the wild land are also what Xiao Ruxun needs.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know if these people would come, but he knew that these people must exist.

At the end of the 22nd year of Wanli, the poor and white Burmese town entered a period of rapid development, and people from the north came here to sigh that there was no strange cold climate, but they were also grateful for the gift of God, so that they could cultivate food crops in winter, and cultivate enough food for them to live, and these foods will become the main pillars supporting the vigorous development of this land in the next year.