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Ruo Poli said: "We have donated treasures this time. According to the general officer, the emperor will give gifts in return. We don't want other gifts, but we need hoes, iron plows and seeds. Please ask the emperor to send someone to teach our people. Farm the land, and teach us to dig ditches to carry water."

Ruolanhei said excitedly: "In that case, we can grow more food, and the clansmen won't be hungry anymore."

There are not many special products in Nanpan Kingdom, such as yellow wax, deer antler, ivory and so on.They would use these things to exchange iron pots, hoes, salt, etc. with the Ruan family, but the prices were always lowered by Yue merchants, so iron pots and iron hoes were considered luxury goods.

Now it belongs to China, and it will definitely benefit.

There are a lot of huge trees in the mountains there, especially the century-old teak, which is an excellent material for making warships, and its strength far exceeds that of oak warships.

Although Nanpan Kingdom is extremely poor, but only those century-old teak trees are worthy of China's occupation and rule!

The next day, the two kings of water and fire faced each other.

When the two met the emperor, they were cautious and followed the etiquette trained by Honglu Temple.

"A seat." Zhao Han smiled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The two old men bowed down and smiled.

Zhao Han chatted with them, and even called the Hawaiian over: "This is your distant relative, you can try to communicate."

When four native Hawaiians came to Nanjing, there were scholars from the Imperial Academy and Honglu Temple who wanted to learn to speak Hawaiian dialect.The two kings of water and fire in Nanpan Kingdom also had scholars to understand their language.

Then it was discovered that there are a lot of similarities in the language of the two places where eight poles cannot be reached.

Especially everyday expressions, such as hello and goodbye, have very similar pronunciations.

Two Vietnamese Jialai people and two Hawaiians communicated in front of Zhao Han.After not saying a few words, each of them was happy, but they couldn't communicate anymore.

The more primitive vocabulary is more similar, the more refined vocabulary is more different.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Whether you are from Jialai or Tanzhou, you are all Chinese Miao descendants and have the same ancestors as Han people. Han people are like elder brothers, and you are younger brothers. Now we are one family again. Although the two I am older, but in terms of ethnicity, I am the older brother and you are the younger brothers."

The two old men were very smart, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Brother Emperor!"

"Very good," Zhao Han instructed, "after you return to Nanpan, you should also tell the other Jialai people to explain this truth clearly. From now on, Han people are elder brothers, and Jialai people are younger brothers. Younger brothers should respect older brothers, and older brothers should also respect elder brothers." You should take good care of your younger brother. If there are Han people who bully you, go to the prefect of Nanpan to file a complaint, and the prefect will make the decision for you. If the prefect of Nanpan doesn’t care, go to Guangnan Province to file a complaint.”

"Thank you, Brother Emperor, for making the decision!" The two old men became more and more happy.

Zhao Han asked someone to bring two pairs of special pipes, made of gold and sandalwood: "This is your future magic weapon, you can use it when praying for rain and blessings."

The two old men thanked again, and they couldn't put it down for the imperial gift pipe.

The reason why Zhao Han attached so much importance to them and was willing to meet them personally was because they were the leaders of witchcraft in Southeast Asia.Although Buddhism is prevalent in Cambodia and Laos, the whole people also believe in witchcraft. These two old men surrendered to China, which means that China can gain a certain right to speak through them.

From now on, the kings of water and fire must also be canonized by the court, otherwise they are all fake kings.

Ruo Poli knelt down and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, I heard that you want to give us property. We don't want gold, silver or treasure. Please give us hoes, oxen, iron plows and seeds, and then send someone to teach us how to farm like the Han people." .”

Zhao Han was quite surprised by this request, and then he was very happy: "Very well, you are all people who care about the common people. I will give each of you three thousand iron hoes, two hundred oxen, and two hundred plows. The agricultural officials have taught you how to farm!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, brother of the emperor!" The two old men were sincerely convinced, and kowtowed to the emperor from the bottom of their hearts.

Both parties get what they need, what Zhao Han wants is to develop Nanpan Mansion as soon as possible, and the old men also get what they expect.If they go back with hoes, oxen and iron plows, they can be distributed to the tribes according to their wishes, and the chiefs and tribesmen of the tribes will be more convinced of them.

The two old men left happily, still laughing when they left the palace gate.

Sitting in the carriage, Ruolanhei took out the imperial pipe, and also found a bag of premium tobacco and a pair of fire knives.

Back at Zhongshan Temple, they couldn't wait to light a fire, filled it with shredded tobacco, and began to puff.

Ruolanhei said intoxicated: "The shredded tobacco given by the emperor's brother is comfortable to smoke, and it will definitely be more effective in the future."

Ruo Poli said, "I should ask for more shredded tobacco just now, and I won't be able to get it when I get home."

"The official said that the Han government needs teak wood," Ruolanhei said, "In the future, cut down more trees and sell them to the Han government, so that the government can exchange this shredded tobacco."

Ruo Poli said: "This is a good idea!"

These two old smokers sold all the century-old teak in the territory for the best cut tobacco.

They have enmity with Yue people and have been oppressed for a long time.As for the Han people, I don't have much impression, because I don't have much contact with them.This time I met the Han emperor, and I was treated politely along the way, so I feel very good about the Han people, and I am willing to have friendly exchanges with the Han people in the future.

Zhao Han received two mages, and it was getting late, so he went back to the harem to rest.

"Your Majesty is coming!" Li Xiangjun greeted him with a smile.

Zhao Han hurriedly supported him: "Be careful not to move the fetal gas."

At the age of 30, Li Xiangjun was also registered as a concubine, and at the same time gave up her position as a female official, and now she is pregnant with Liujia.

No one said anything about it, but the ministers were very worried.

There are many such examples, and it is very likely that the harem will interfere in politics.But they did not dare to oppose the emperor, so they buried their worries in their hearts, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, they urged the new emperor to gradually restore the eunuch system.

In the past, civil servants hated eunuchs, but now they are eager for eunuchs to come back. At least eunuchs are more reliable than harems in politics!

It's like the husband thinks that the original spouse is hateful, and after divorce and remarriage, he wants to remarry for the benefit of the original spouse.

Chapter 932 [Cassava and Population]

Today's doctor who persuades farmers is called Yang Banggui.

He was ordered to arrange agricultural technicians to go to Nanpan Prefecture to teach the natives how to farm.After the matter was settled properly, Yang Banggui led another person to the Yingmin Hall to meet the emperor.

Advising the Nongsi to have an excellent tradition, every time he meets the emperor, he must bring some local products.

This time I brought a pile of cassava, and it was cassava sent from Hainan Island.

Yang Banggui said happily: "Your Majesty, Honglu Temple has brought back many crops from overseas, and the Secretary of Advising Farmers has already cultivated and tested all of them for several years. This cassava is a good thing!"

Of course Zhao Han knew it was a good thing, he smiled and said, "Tell me about your cultivation results."

Yang Banggui explained in detail: "Cassava is grown in several provinces in the north and south, but the growth in the north is not good, and it will even be frozen to death in winter. Cassava grows well in the southern provinces. It is drought-resistant, wind-resistant, and does not pick soil, but it is not easy to grow sweet potatoes. Cassava can be harvested in the mountainous area of ​​China. It usually takes two years to harvest cassava, but the experimental field in Qiongzhou matured in less than a year, and the yield of fresh potato is more than 8000 catties per mu!"

"How much?" Zhao Han thought he heard it wrong.

"The yield per mu is more than 8000 catties," Yang Banggui repeated, and continued, "Moreover, cassava is resistant to wind. This summer encountered a typhoon, and other crops in the experimental field were destroyed. Only this cassava survived the typhoon's devastation!"

Zhao Han repeatedly praised: "Good, good stuff!"

Before crossing, Zhao Han only knew that the yield of cassava per mu was very high, but he really didn't know that it was so high, and he didn't know that cassava could shorten the growth cycle in Hainan Island.

Is it related to the tropical climate?

Zhao Han instructed: "Then take this cassava to grow in Luzon and the southwest border. Especially in Cheli County (Xishuangbanna) and Pingnan Military and Civil Mansion, you can try to plant it. If it is successful, it will be vigorously promoted. go out!"

Yang Banggui said: "Your Majesty, this cassava is poisonous. I heard that many people were poisoned to death in Africa. It must be soaked in clean water for six or seven days, and then cooked before eating."

Zhao Han nodded and said, "This is the same as the kidney beans that were promoted a few years ago. You have to cook them before eating, and you have to warn the people repeatedly when promoting the seeds."

Kidney beans, that is, kidney beans and green beans, were introduced to the coast of China decades ago.Today, under the official promotion of the Datong court, it has gradually spread to all provinces across the country.

There are also peas, which are green beans and vegetable peas, which are slightly different from traditional Chinese peas.After the Datong Army recaptured Tainan, Dutch beans were also brought back to the mainland and have been popularized in the southern provinces.

And the name is very nonsense. The Chinese call it "Dutch Bean", and the Dutch call it "Chinese Bean". Its origin is actually in Thailand and Myanmar.

"How about trial planting dates?" Zhao Han asked.

Yang Banggui replied: "Date palms cannot survive the winter in the north. Even if they are not frozen to death, they will be too frozen to produce dates. Even in the Yangtze River Basin, the planting conditions of date palms are not good. They can only be planted in Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guangdong. , Guangnan planting. There are also islands in Taiwan, Luzon, Yecheng, Malacca and other places."

Zhao Han sighed: "I also plan to plant in the desert of Hetao, it seems that it is too cold to do."

……

Winter Solstice Festival, Great Court Meeting.

Civil and military officials wished the emperor a happy holiday, and the wives also entered the palace to congratulate the concubines.

After the court meeting ended, Zhao Han held a banquet in the palace and invited the civil and military ministers to try cassava noodles dumplings.

The ministers didn't care too much. The emperor would have given the ministers flat food (dumplings) during the winter solstice and New Year's Day. This is a rule handed down from the Ming Dynasty.

After sitting at twenty or thirty tables, Zhao Han raised his chopsticks and said, "Let's start, everyone, and taste the difference in this year's flat food."

Fei Ruhe dipped in vinegar and took a bite, but didn't feel any difference.But he knows the emperor, knows today's dumplings, it must be different.

Chen Xisong, who has been promoted to the left servant, of course knows what this is, and persuades the officials of the agricultural department to be his old subordinates.But it can't be said for the time being, the emperor needs to announce it, and it can't steal the emperor's limelight.

When the dumplings were half eaten, the guard brought in two baskets of cassava.

All the ministers looked at it one after another, guessing what kind of crop it was, anyway, it must be edible.

Zhao Han finally smiled and said: "This thing is called cassava, which is produced in America. It was introduced to Africa by the Portuguese, and now it is planted in our dynasty. The noodles we eat today are mixed with cassava flour. Two catties of wheat flour mixed with A pound of cassava flour can be used to make dumplings."

Zhu Shunshui cupped his hands and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, you have got a new crop, and all the people in the world can have enough food and clothing."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "This plant can be planted in the southern provinces. It is cold-resistant, wind-resistant, and does not pick the land. It can also be planted in barren mountains. Barren mountainous areas can also produce thousands of catties per mu. The soil is slightly fertile, and the yield per mu can be easily increased. Ten thousand catties. All the southern provinces are ripening once every two years, but in Qiongzhou, it can be harvested once a year, and the experimental field in Qiongzhou even produces [-] catties per mu!"

Eighteen thousand catties per mu?

The ministers were in an uproar when they heard this, and it seemed outrageous to produce several thousand catties of sweet potatoes per mu.

Hundreds of years later, with the cultivation of cassava and the use of chemical fertilizers, it is normal to produce [-] to [-] jin per mu, but [-] jin is really nothing.

"Auspicious!" Everyone exclaimed.

Zhao Han laughed: "Let's eat Xiangrui, chopsticks, chopsticks!"

Chen Xisong finally spoke: "Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guangnan provinces are all mountainous, and corn and sweet potatoes are often grown in mountainous areas. From now on, there will be cassava, and the people in the mountains will not be hungry. !"

"Hahahaha!" Zhao Han laughed.

The officials also laughed, and the banquet was full of joy.

Like sweet potatoes, cassava causes abdominal distension after eating too much.If the cassava skin is not properly treated, it will taste bitter. In the final analysis, it is still food for the poor.

But it is undeniable that these high-yielding crops from the Americas will cause the Chinese population to roll upwards.

Qian Qianyi said: "The population of the whole country may have exceeded [-] million."

"It's more than 2000 million, I'm afraid it's [-] million or [-] million!" Zuo Xiaoliang laughed.

Ouyang Zheng said: "I'll find out in two months!"

The census is held every five years, and the villages will urge the villagers to register for household registration if they have not yet registered at the age of 12, and report to the county if they have died in the past two years.The Datong New Dynasty did not pay labor money, and there were no birth restrictions, and the common people did not object to this.It is often the village head who conducts the statistics, submits the data to the town, and the town head takes it to the county office for reporting.

There must be omissions, but the approximate data is fine.

Before and after the Winter Solstice, the provinces near Nanjing had already sent their population statistics, along with the taxes payable to the central government.As for the provinces further away, it must be done before the end of February next year.

From winter to spring, New Year's Day and Lantern Festival are very lively.

Officials from many provinces escorted the account books and tax money to Beijing during the ten-day Lantern Festival holiday, and they were able to enjoy the lanterns in Nanjing by the way.

At the beginning of February, all kinds of statistics will end.

In the 17th year of the Republic of China, the national annual income was 6820 million taels of silver (including overseas territories).Much of such a terrifying financial increase came from customs clearance last year, a large number of foreign trade companies paid huge fines and paid back taxes (not yet over).

而全国人口，也较五年前猛增，达到1亿2千3百6十4万。

This data does not include children under the age of 12, overseas territories, or the newly occupied Nguyen territory.However, Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Qinghai-Tibet, and northern Myanmar are included in the statistics. The statistics of these places are not accurate, but the data must be moderate.

Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Sichuan all have populations of over ten million.

In addition, Henan's population is growing rapidly, with an annual population growth rate close to 3%.

The northern provinces are growing rapidly, but provinces such as Hebei and Liaoning have been receiving immigrants, and the population there is not a natural increase.The whole province of Hebei has a population of nearly 250 million (excluding Beiping Prefecture), and many farmers from Jiangsu have moved north on their own initiative.

The land in the south has already begun to become tense, but it is still within the tolerance range.

The rewarded land obtained by the Xungui family no longer needs to buy slaves to cultivate it.Farmers with many families and little land are willing to rent honorable land.

There are also too many sons born to farmers, who leave the countryside after graduating from primary school and go to cities or towns to work as apprentices to provide sufficient labor for factory owners.In coastal areas, especially the four provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Guangxi, more and more young people are going to sea to make a living.

There are three modes of sailing:

First, being a sailor and running a ship is very risky and the wages are relatively high.

Second, big businessmen or overseas landlords are recruiting people to open up wasteland overseas, and Luzon and Yecheng are frantically reclaiming.Of the ten acres of cultivated land obtained from the land reclamation, the organizers will get four acres, and the remaining six acres will be distributed to the land reclamation people.At the same time, the common people will also tenant the organizer's four acres of land.

Land reclamation is very troublesome. The organizers provide funds and armed protection, while the common people cut down trees, flatten the land, and plant in groups.In the first one or two years, it was all collective farming, which could improve the efficiency of land reclamation, and divide the fields after plowing the land.

They also summed up the law of land reclamation, planting sugar cane in the first two or three years, and then switching to grain, which is the most profitable.This led to a large increase in sugar cane production in Luzon and Yecheng, and the rapid development of the sugar extraction industry.

Overseas big landowners did not follow the path of European colonists after all.

Firstly, slaves are not easy to buy, and secondly, slaves are not easy to use.The output of slave plantations is far inferior to that of Han tenants.

The big landlords also raised money to build ponds and irrigation canals, and ordinary farmers and tenants had to pay water rent to the big landlords for irrigation every year.

Third, based on their native place or clan as a unit, farmers raise funds to go overseas. This method is very common in Taiwan, and there are many in Luzon and Yecheng.Often a village is all from the same county.Or a village, although they are of different origins, are all Hakka people.

Probably the Qing Dynasty's model of developing Taiwan.

Historically, although the Manchu Qing regained Taiwan, they only opened one port, and they were not allowed to bring family members there.