The country refers to the country.

But from the literal meaning, so refers to the earth god and Ji refers to the grain god.

Therefore, the country actually means rice in the land.

It is enough to see that in ancient China, the country was established by agriculture.

The wise saints attach great importance to agriculture.

Some emperors even set out a piece of land in their own office and plant crops. In order to experience the suffering of farmers, the emperor would plant this piece of land himself.

However, there was no place where Zhao Huan worked.

Some ministers also proposed to him, but Zhao Huan felt that his office was already very narrow, not enough.

Some ministers privately believed that the emperor looked down on farming. Although he kept saying that agriculture was the foundation of the country, he had never seen him go to the land and even cared about grains.

He likes to fight, show off, and explore things when he is fine. He is very interested in the Mohist things.

But today, it is rare that the emperor has planted the ground in his imperial garden.

The emperor's character was also understood by the ministers.

I have a wild idea. I want to do this today, and I want to play that tomorrow, and I will hit anyone who is unhappy the day after tomorrow.

But unexpectedly, he suddenly became interested in farming.

This is a good thing!

But I always feel that farming is not as simple as thinking about farming.

What's more, the emperor has been getting close to Shen Lang these days, and the two of them are hiding together. I don't know what medicine Shen Lang has given the emperor.

After leaving the sea, the emperor had a hobby of farming, and there was no field at this sea!

The ministers were all thinking about it, not knowing what would happen next.

Even the emperor did not seem to have any concerns about the drought that Xu Churen went to report on.

But I am busy farming, fertilizing, and watering every day, like a carefree child.

"Your Majesty, the food transported from the southwest has entered Jinghu Road one after another, which can ensure that the victims have a meal to eat every day."

Dazai on the side was talking about the drought in the south, but the emperor lowered his head and raised his waist, carefully observing the newly dug soil.

"His Majesty?"

"Where is the official grain? The official grain is transported to Jiangling Mansion. I don't know if it's time to make sure that the victims will be given two meals a day."

"Your Majesty, the official grain has also entered Jinghu Road. However, the disaster this year is particularly serious and the drought is still spreading. Last year, many people in the north moved south, causing food shortages now."

"Where else can I transfer grain? Chengdu Prefecture?"

"It is very difficult for Chengdu Prefecture to transport food, at least three months."

"Where is Guangnan East Road, Guangzhou Prefecture."

"Your Majesty, Guangzhou Prefecture has few people and few fields, and you have enough food to eat, but if you want to adjust the grain, it may affect the people's livelihood of Guangnan East Road."

Xu Churen added: "I arranged a meal a day, because I was worried that the drought might continue. I think stability is the long-term solution."

Zhao Huan was silent for a moment, and what Xu Churen said was not without reason.

It seems that the grain output in ancient times was lower than I thought.

No wonder Chinese people always ask “Have you eaten” when they say hello to each other.

This has been passed down for thousands of years on the brink of food and clothing, especially in ancient times, for ordinary people, it was actually very difficult to eat a bite of food.

No wonder some literati sighed like this: Prosperity leads to suffering the people; destruction leads to suffering the people.

The suffering of the people is that they not only have to carry the burden, but also have to endure hunger.

Zhao Huan seemed to hear the sound of many children squatting on the roadside crying and begging.

In fact, the situation is much worse than what Xu Churen reported.

According to the news from the Imperial City Department privately, someone has starved to death.

In ancient times, the resistance to natural disasters was very low. Even if the government transported a large amount of grain to provide disaster relief, it was impossible to take care of everyone.

"Xu Aiqing, I have some seeds here. You can use them to plant them in the official fields. After three months, I will see them bear fruit."

The little eunuch on one side brought a wooden plate with black cloth on it and some seeds on it.

Sweet potatoes are not necessary to plant seeds, and it is more convenient to use vines as seeds. However, there are only seeds now and there are no vines yet.

Xu Churen was slightly stunned. Seeing that the emperor had said nothing to his report, he knew that the emperor had agreed to the status quo.

Although he didn't know what these seeds were, the emperor personally ordered them, so he had to do so.

"Your Majesty, what is this?"

Zhao Huan thought for a while and said, "You can call it sweet potato."

"Sweet potato?" Xu Churen was a little confused. Even a person like him who read a lot of books had never heard of it.

Can this thing be eaten after planting it?

Could it be that the emperor is trying to make trouble here these days, just planting this thing?

It seems that's it!

Who is this thing that actually makes the emperor so excited?

After Xu Churen left, Zhao Huan continued to farm.

He is not only studying sweet potatoes, but also potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes...

Shen Lang brought back a lot of good things from there. After promoting these things, Zhao Huan felt that he could finally feel like he had in his previous life.

For example, chili peppers, the red peppers he dreams of eating.

However, he was always worried that Zhao Huan planted himself in the palace.

After planting the ground, it was already evening.

The burning clouds in the sky illuminate the glazed on the eaves of the palace red.

After a simple and simple meal, Zhao Huan received a secret report about some people in the south.

In recent years, the imperial court has continuously transported grain from the southwest to the north, and must pass through Jiangling Prefecture, so many transport teams formed by the people have been bred.

In order to make it easier to manage, three years ago, the court stipulated that the hauling team must exist in the form of a formal trading company and that taxes must be paid in accordance with formal procedures.

In order to make up for the insufficient transportation capacity of local governments, the court has also introduced various policies to intend to support the private transportation team.

Wang Quan is one of the wealthy businessmen in Jiangling Prefecture who took the opportunity to make their fortune.

Wang Quan is a typical example under the Jingkang New Deal. If a historian wants to open up the various aspects of the Jingkang New Deal and write a magnificent epic, the flesh and blood of the poem is inseparable from the typical examples of the era like Wang Quan.

He was originally a master of the Renyi Society in Jinan Town, Jiangling Prefecture.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many communities among the people.

Many names for later generations were drawn from the Song Dynasty, such as So-and-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-So-

And this Renyi Society is just a typical example of a small place.

In the third year of Jingkang, because Han Shizhong and Qin Hui suppressed bandits on Hebei Road, alarmed bandits all over the world, and the court took advantage of the situation to launch a campaign to suppress bandits in various places.

That year, many clubs such as Renyi Society changed their courses and began to cooperate with local governments.

Because it is located in an important place in Jiangbei and the old capital of Chu, Jinan Town has a large population and cheap labor.

Wang Quan's hauling team was quickly formed, and he made a lot of money with the new court policy. His business became bigger and bigger, and he soon took down the business he had spent, and he became a well-known figure in Jiangling Mansion.

Because he was willing to work hard, Wang Quan was also seen once by He Yuanshan, a transferee of Jiangling Prefecture.

After that, even if Zhu Qing’s grain had to pass through Jiangling Prefecture, it had to be transported by Wang Quan’s tow team.

All the things that Wang Quan has done in the past few years have been written down, and at this time it is placed in front of the emperor's imperial case.

Another piece of paper also wrote another person's.

This person is named Zhou Qi, but he is just an ordinary person in Zhoujia Village. He has carried goods at the ferry for two years and saved some money. After this year, he just got married, but he was hacked to death and went to the village.

I heard that people were cut out beyond recognition, and there were only a few parts of their bodies that were intact.

I also heard that it was cut off when I went home at night. It was the gambling house people who came to ask for money, but they had no money to pay it back.

Of course, these are all folk rumors.

However, Zhao Huan still had another statement here: Wang Quan killed someone to silence him.

It is a bit difficult to manage when the local area is large. The flood in the north has passed and the drought in the south has started again.

No matter how many people are killed, some people still take the opportunity to make money from the national crisis.

But people still have to continue killing.

Zhao Huan has turned a blind eye to some things that have little impact in the past few years. Otherwise, this person would have gone out of his head every day, and the new policy would have been really impossible to implement.

For example, the court’s default on the black-to-white ones like Wang Quan, and even on weekdays, it wouldn’t be possible to make some gray income from it.
To be continued...