Da Ming started to ascend the throne

The woman looked at Zhu Youjian and the three of them and said coldly:

"The house is very dilapidated. You can sit wherever you want if you don't think it's dirty. You should leave as soon as you warm up. There are many gossips in front of the widow's door."

It turned out to be a widow. Although she was very indifferent to the three of them, she was also a woman with a heart, otherwise she would definitely not let them into the house.

Zhu Youjian took out a large handful of candy from his sleeve and handed it to the little boy as if conjuring, but the little boy didn't reach out and take it as he imagined.

Although his saliva was about to flow out, he still shook his head, and then looked at his mother. It was obvious that his mother didn't speak, and he didn't want it at all.

Zhu Youjian smiled and said:

"Why, you don't like candy?"

The little boy shook his head: the update is the fastest../ ../

"I like it, of course I like it. I almost have nothing to eat. How can I not like sweets? My mother said that you can't just ask for other people's things."

"Oh, the tutor is good!"

Zhu Youjian, Qinglong, and Cao Zhengchun all looked at each other. They were all surprised by the tutor of such a poor family.

"Sister-in-law, let the children eat. We are grain merchants from the capital, and we want to see if there is any surplus grain for sale in the village."

As Zhu Youjian said, he put the candies on the broken table, and then sat on the dirty wooden bench by the fire, without any dislike.

This move of his surprised the woman. The woman did not refuse the candies. Even if she only ate two meals of porridge, she would soon be out of food.

"There is no food to sell. It is estimated that people will starve to death in a while. You have gone to the wrong place. I thank you for these candies on behalf of the children."

The woman bowed deeply to Zhu Youjian as she said that, as a thank you.

"Sister-in-law, is the whole village so short of food? I heard that high-yield and drought-resistant crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes were promoted. Why didn't you plant them?"

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the woman suddenly raised her voice:

"What high-yielding crops? It's all a trick to deceive people. If a sweet potato is planted, it will still be a sweet potato when dug up two months later. Take ten catties."

"Fuck..."

A word from the woman immediately made Zhu Youjian feel that there were thousands of horses galloping past, and there was a serious mistake in the planting method of sweet potatoes.

In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, sweet potatoes and potatoes already existed in the south, but the yield was very low, so they were not popularized.

As a modern time traveler, Zhu Youjian is very familiar with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and he blamed him for thinking too highly of farmers and household officials in the late Ming Dynasty.

It never occurred to him that he, the emperor, would be responsible for teaching them how to grow sweet potatoes with his own hands.

After the common people have a serious psychological shadow, it will be difficult for them to plant sweet potatoes in the coming year. We must find a way to prove the production of sweet potatoes to them, otherwise they will not plant at all.

There is also the problem of wheat. How can there be only a dozen catties per mu?If you don't care about it when you sprinkle it in the field, it shouldn't be like this.

"Sister-in-law, it's not that the yield of sweet potatoes is low, it's that there is a serious problem with your planting method. What's the matter with wheat? How can it be possible to produce more than ten catties per mu?"

The woman sighed, and gave Zhu Youjian a hard look:

"There is not a single drop of water, all of them are dried up, and the few wheat seedlings that can be left are only God's eyes. There is a small river on the other side of the farm, but it is too far away from us. At that time, even if there was a little water, I kept it for myself to drink, who cares about the crops..."

……

I visited more than a dozen of them in a row, and the situation was almost exactly the same. Many families even dared not exercise in order to save food. They were afraid that activities would consume energy and make them hungrier.

The only thing that comforted Zhu Youjian was that no one died of freezing or starvation for the time being.

Because Changping is backed by the mountains, they have some wood to warm the fire in their homes. If they stay at home and do not go out, no one will freeze to death at all. In the past, it was refugees who froze to death.

At this time, Zhu Youjian was in a heavy mood, and the treasury had tens of millions of taels of silver empty, because the canal was frozen and could not transport grain from the south, but it was useless at this time.

"嘡啷嘡啷..."

"Everyone in the village gathered at the entrance of the village, and the county magistrate wants to give a lecture..."

At this moment, there was a commotion at the entrance of the village. It seemed that a lot of people had come, and some people could be heard yelling at the county magistrate.

Zhu Youjian turned around and asked an old man beside him:

"Master, what is this for? No one will come to distribute food to you 1"

The uncle shook his head and said with a smile:

"Compared with the past, the officials are much better now. We don't have to pay a penny in taxes. Although we are hungry, the main thing is that God doesn't open his eyes. The people don't blame the court, but are very grateful for the tax-free distribution of land by the court. Maybe the county magistrate The adults are here to help us, take a look."

Hearing the sound of the gong, people in the village flocked to the street. Sure enough, they saw more than 100 officials and servants standing at the entrance of the village. Behind them were dozens of war horses, all dragging cloth bags on their backs.

An official wearing a red official uniform is yelling loudly:

"Folks, we are all short of food this year, and even the emperor sometimes drinks porridge. As long as we get through this cold winter, the food from the south will be transported over next year.

Now we have turned three meals a day into two, and the saved food will be given to you for a while to satisfy your hunger. Each person has a bowl of rice. You have to save a little to eat, and you must not starve to death..."

Zhu Youjian looked at the county magistrate who was spitting, and he was secretly funny. When did the emperor eat porridge, he was completely deceiving the people.

However, Zhu Youjian knew that he had good intentions. Since he can save food and help the people, it means that the county magistrate is not bad.

When Zhu Youjian saw a few people behind the county magistrate, he immediately understood what was going on. It turned out that all officials from the household department had come, including Ni Yuanlu.

Zhu Youjian immediately squeezed through the crowd, quietly came to Ni Yuanlu's side, and asked in a low voice:

"Where did so much food come from?"

Hearing a familiar voice suddenly, Ni Yuanlu looked back, only to realize that the emperor was actually in the village, and was about to pay respects at that time.

Zhu Youjian grabbed his shoulders:

"Don't scare the people!"

"Oh"

Ni Yuanlu immediately understood that the emperor was visiting privately, and he immediately whispered back in Zhu Youjian's ear:

"Your Majesty, these grains are all brought from nearby farms, and the farms still have some grains in stock. If we eat porridge twice a day, we can probably manage the people of Changping for a month."

"farm?"

It seems that the establishment of the farm at the beginning has finally worked, but it is not enough to feed for a month, and the winter in the Little Ice Age took almost six months. "

Chapter 330

Yes, the winter is really long now, the problem of this month has been solved, but where will the food come from later!