The promotion of this new crop is not a matter of one sentence or two. There is also a state apparatus, but it is not Cao Hao's turn to bow down to everything.

A few years ago, corn and sweet potatoes were planted in Henan Province, and Xuan'er was popularized. This time, in order to popularize corn and sweet potatoes in Shanxi and Shaanxi, the seeds needed for this will have to be raised from Henan Prefecture.

Yongzheng gave an order and ordered the local officials to exchange the grain in the official warehouse for the corn and sweet potatoes. Fearing that local officials would disturb the people for their political achievements, they set a ratio of exchange, one pound of millet for one pound of corn or three pounds of sweet potatoes.

At the same time, the capital did not pull down, Yongzheng set aside an official village in Tongzhou for the breeding of corn and sweet potatoes, and ordered Cao Hao to supervise the matter.

Although corn and sweet potatoes are not well known to the wealthy, they are occasionally planted by farmers in the suburbs of Beijing. In particular, the planting near Caojiazhuang in Changping is more concentrated, naturally because of the influence of Cao Hao.

Although the Cao family has wells, this field is mostly hilly and sloped, and the north is nine droughts in ten years, so the original crop yield is not high.

Later, in the two years of Cao Haoding's worries, he often paid attention to farming, especially on corn and sweet potatoes, and opened up several experimental fields around Zhuangzi, and the results were quite abundant.

When the farmers in Zhuangzi saw this, they also changed crops such as corn and sweet potatoes one after another. Even if the year is not good, he will no longer spend time with the owner on credit.

Nowadays, the household department collects seeds, and Cao Hao has nothing to hide, so he directly asks people to go to Changping to harvest them.

Millet is millet that has not shed its skin, and it can be regarded as a fine grain among coarse grains. exchanging a pound of corn for a pound of millet, the farmers were only happy, and they wished that they would not even keep the seeds, but exchanged them all.

Therefore, in less than ten days, more than 70,000 catties of corn and 36,000 catties of sweet potatoes were raised in the capital.

Cao Hao consulted several agricultural officials for many years, and selected 50,000 catties of corn seeds and 30,000 catties of sweet potato seeds from these corn and sweet potatoes.

The rest of the corn and potatoes went directly to the inner warehouse.

Spring ploughing is imminent, and it cannot be delayed. As the official in charge of this matter, Cao Hao had to take a few officials and went to Tongzhou Guanzhuang.

Corn needs five catties of seeds per mu, and sweet potatoes need two hundred catties of seeds per mu.

The seeds raised by Cao Hao in Changping can sow 10,000 mu of corn and 2,500 mu of sweet potatoes. By the time the seeds were distributed to the farmers and the seeds were planted, it was the end of February.

Cao Hao is in Tongzhou, but he pays attention to the news in Beijing.

Yongzheng dismissed a large number of officials on the grounds of recovering the deficit. At this time, compared with those feudal officials and prominent people, the Li family in Suzhou is not eye-catching.

Cao Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

In addition to the thunderous means of dismissing officials and copying homes, Yongzheng also conferred the titles of several Mongolian princes who led troops to respond to the imperial court's westward expedition; Internally, he was in the side branch of Prince Zhuang's mansion.

Although he did not restore the title of King Huijun, among the descendants of King Huijun, he chose an honest grandson of Changfang, Qiu Lin, to be named Dorobelle, and gave the original subordinates of King Huijun to him.

In this way, they can be regarded as justifiably attacking the glory of the ancestral branch, and then talking about Prince Zhuang's mansion, it is not right and unsatisfactory.

When Cao Hao returned to Beijing, Sun Wencheng had already arrived in Beijing with his family.

He was lucky, but he was dismissed from office with a "bad errand", and the deficit found in the weaving yamen was only more than 8,000 taels. When he went north from Hangzhou, he had already filled the gap.

These officials have been dismissed for shortages of money and food, and the interests of the major magnates in the capital are involved.

At first, there were still people who waited and watched, not daring to touch the edge of the new emperor. Later, the number of officials involved was huge, and some people had the idea of "not holding the people accountable to the law," thinking of making up for the shortfall and continuing to seek reinstatement from their original posts, so they walked around.

Within a few days, it reached Yongzheng's ears and issued an order to the officials, in order to avoid burdening the people, the dismissed officials were not allowed to stay in office to urge the pursuit, but ordered to recover the family property. If the deficit is cleared, there are really good officials and outstanding political achievements, and there will be a governor and so on.

Because the Sun family first arrived in the capital, Cao Hao, who could speak well, was not in the capital, so Sun Wencheng did not come out, and in comparison, he seemed much more honest than others.

In order to solve the problem of empty treasury, although Yongzheng used thunderous means, he was also worried, afraid that he would affect his whole body.

After all, the rule of officials is a big problem, and in the period of the first emperor, even if he knew that there were many drawbacks, he did not dare to rectify it drastically because he was involved too much.

Sun Wencheng's honesty is in line with Yongzheng's thoughts. It's just that now is the time to check the deficit, and it's not good to go back on his word and let Sun Wencheng recover.

These thoughts of him, others don't know, everyone thinks that they are "a son of heaven and a courtier", and the Sun family has become a yellow flower yesterday. Relatives and friends are old and avoid them.

Sun Wencheng has been cautious all his life, and he ended up being dismissed from office, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart. This rush to the north is also exhausting.

The partial-growth son has made a name for himself and is hopeless in his career, and the other sons are not talented. Although there is an eldest grandson, but the son was unbearable before, and the grandson lived separately with his daughter-in-law, although they are now in one place, I don't know if their mother and son will complain about the Sun family.

Although it can't be said that he was white-headed overnight, but in just a month and a half, Sun Wencheng is more than ten years old, and his body is rickety.

An's is worried and worried about his family's livelihood.

Although Sun Wencheng has been weaving in Hangzhou for nearly 20 years, he does not have much savings because of his careful actions. Brothers and clansmen, there are many people who go to other places, and the cost is very large.

Even if you have bought a few shops and two small villages in Hangzhou, they are not worth a few dollars. Temporarily sold, and lost some money, but the silver in hand was only more than 10,000 taels of silver.

To make up for the deficit of the weaving mansion a few years ago, the dozens of people in the Sun family only had these thousands of taels of silver left.

The twenty-hectare small village on the outskirts of the capital, as early as the 58th year of Kangxi, when Sun Jue and Cao Ying lived separately, they were under the name of Sun Li, the grandson of the family; This house, because Sun Jue sold his wife's dowry, was under Cao Ying's name.

Although Cao Ying still did her best to treat her in-laws as deferentially as ever, An was uncomfortable.

Due to the limited size of the house here, Sun Wenqian did not squeeze in one place with his brother and sister-in-law anymore, and had already rented another courtyard to accommodate his wife and children.

Despite this, there is a large family on the side of the Sun Mansion, and it is not spacious to live in a three-entry house, in addition to Sun Jue's room, there are Sun Wencheng's second son and Sun Jin's family, and three sons and one daughter who are not married.

Sun Wencheng has a total of seven sons and three daughters, the eldest daughter, the eldest son, the third son, and the fifth son are the descendants of the An family, and the other four sons and two daughters are concubines. Among them, the eldest daughter is Li Nai's wife, the third son, the fourth son and the second daughter died early, and only six of them have grown up, and now they are all by Sun Wencheng's side.

Although An feels sorry for his eldest grandson, he also dotes on his youngest grandson.

She generously agreed to put Xiaozhuang in the capital under the name of the eldest grandson, thinking that she only had two sisters-in-law left, and the property in the capital belonged to Changfang, and the industry in Hangzhou belonged to Sun Ban, which was also cheap.

Unexpectedly, now that the Hangzhou industry has been sold and added to the Yamen, the Sun family is in the capital, and the only interest is the small village of 20 hectares.

"Master, there is no separation of families, and there is no reason to attribute the public property to one child...... The fifth child wants to say that he is close, and the sixth and seventh children also have to study, and there are places to spend money everywhere...... And this house, obviously belongs to the Sun family, what is the matter of belonging to the daughter-in-law's name? An was unwilling, so she chattered in front of her husband.

If Sun Wencheng's biggest hope now is the examination of his eldest grandson, Sun Li.

Although he was sad in his heart, he still concealed his anxiety and asked his eldest grandson not to worry about trivial matters at home and prepare for the exam with peace of mind.

After decades of husband and wife, after listening to his wife's words, where can Sun Wencheng not know what she thinks in her heart.

"What do you bring up about the past? If you complain, go to Sun Jue to settle accounts? If he hadn't spent all his daughter-in-law's dowry, he wouldn't have to make up for it with the house; On the Zhuangzi side, what about being under Sun Li's name? The daughter-in-law has already handed over last year's income to you, so you can settle down! Sun Wencheng frowned.

An Shiyou was not convinced, and muttered: "What about the class?" What to marry a daughter-in-law? ”

Seeing that she was obsessed, Sun Wencheng felt that his temples jumped "suddenly", and stroked his forehead and said, "Shut up!" Sun Jue's lack of virtue has already hurt his daughter-in-law's heart, and now her daughter-in-law still knows that filial piety to you and me is already a blessing for the Sun family. ”

An was yelled at for his grievances, but he didn't dare to say more, and only slandered in his heart.

The husband and wife were with cold faces, and they saw the little maid come in to say that there was a visitor in the front yard, and the uncle of the Cao family came.

Ann's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Several uncles of the Cao family are officials, and Cao Hao is a Heshuo forehead, and An knows that whether his husband can recover depends on whether the Cao family is willing to help.

Sun Wencheng listened, his face also showed a little expectation, and he hurried to the front yard to meet the guests.

Front yard, living room.

Cao Hao sat on a chair and looked at the celadon bowl in his hand. He returned to Beijing yesterday, and after the household department explained his errand, he looked for Cao Song and asked about the Sun family.

Knowing that Sun Wencheng did not visit relatives and friends, but just closed his door, Cao Hao was very impressed.

It is not unreasonable for the Sun family to be able to retreat from the Hangzhou weaving office.

Just thinking about it, he heard the movement and saw Sun Wencheng striding in. Cao Hao hurriedly stood up and said, "Nephew, please cousin!" ”

He was busy on the farm, and he was black and thin.

Sun Wencheng has seen him a few times, and he is all the appearance of a beautiful son. Now seeing him like this, he was stunned, and he helped him to sit down.

A few days ago, although Cao Hao was not in Beijing, when the Sun family moved in, Cao Song brought his subordinates to help here, so Sun Wencheng would not misunderstand the Cao family's snobbery.

Compared with the Li family, whose family property was seized and his son's descendants were imprisoned, the Sun family was already much luckier.

"I heard that you were tired of running around for the Li and Sun families a few years ago, and you have worked hard." Sun Wencheng sighed and said.

Seeing him thank him sincerely, Cao Hao was a little embarrassed.

The so-called rush is just to go to the thirteenth elder brother's mansion to eat tea twice, and Xun Yuzi and the sixteenth elder brother have spoken twice.

"It's all my nephew's doing." Cao Hao said humbly.

"Just do your best, wait for the emperor's will for the rest, don't implicate the Cao family, you must always protect the family in order to support the watch." Sun Wen became enlightened.

"Yes, my nephew listens to my cousin." Cao Hao borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and answered the ......*

(To be continued)