Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

All the people in the world are my subjects, if you two act like this, where will I be placed?If you are not punished today, you will not know the majesty of the Great Ming Law! "

After some righteous reprimands, Chongzhen directly pronounced the verdict: "These two cut up the children and violated the life clause of the Daming Law. Compensation will be given to the families of the children."

After hearing this, the people in front of Dongyue Temple applauded loudly. Among them, some lost their own children. They were not only worried about their own children, but also pleased with the harsh punishment of the emperor on the traffickers. Presumably, such things will be much less in the future, right?

Chongzhen, who wanted to run after pretending to be cowardly, was about to go back to the palace, but he couldn't move his eyes away because he didn't want to see the things sold by a small stall on the side of the road.

Chapter 62 Sweet Potatoes

Roasted sweet potatoes, also known as roasted sweet potatoes.The skin is charred and tender, the taste is sweet and delicious, and a big sweet potato can even stand up to a meal.

Since Chongzhen traveled across time, he basically ate delicacies made by the Imperial Dining Room, so why would anyone get him sweet potatoes to eat?Therefore, Chongzhen didn't remember that there were already sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty, and he was thinking about when he would send people to America to find them.

Immediately ordering Yujia to stop, Chongzhen quickly walked towards the stall regardless of his own image, completely ignoring the crowd who knelt all the way as he walked, only the charred sweet potatoes were left in his eyes.

In the eyes of Chongzhen, this thing is not just sweet potatoes, but also the cornerstone of his country's stability.With this stuff, what about corn?Where are the potatoes?Do these things exist, but they are not promoted?It seems that there is another great man named Xu Guangqi, right?

Chongzhen asked the stall owner who was kneeling on the ground to get up, and at the same time took away a sweet potato that was placed on the edge of the stove.Although it was hot, he was reluctant to throw it away, and gently opened it, and it turned out to be the kind of roasted sweet potato that he had eaten in his previous life.

Chongzhen didn't think it was dirty, he just blew lightly and stuffed the burnt sweet potato heart into his mouth.It really made Wang Chengen's heart rise in his throat.

The soft and glutinous sweet potato heart melts in the mouth, and a burst of sweetness goes directly down the throat and into the stomach.

Chongzhen didn't think it was too hot, so he ate two more bites before putting down the sweet potato in his hand, and then asked the stall owner: "Old man, I came to ask you, where did this thing come from?" Then he praised: "Old man's craftsmanship is good. , the roast is sweet, soft and glutinous, and delicious. I can't eat this on weekdays."

The stall owner was about 50 years old, and he, who had been in a state of trepidation at first, heard what Chongzhen said, and immediately grinned with a few missing teeth: "Returning to your majesty, this thing is called sweet potato.

The little old man has an old relationship with Mr. Xu Guangqi at home, and he taught the little old man to bake this food.This trip to Beijing is thanks to Mr. Xu's sponsorship. He bought a lot of sweet potatoes from home and planned to try selling them in the capital. Unexpectedly, the business is quite good. "

Chongzhen secretly remembered Xu Guangqi's name. It seems that this person really exists, so it's easy to handle. Let Jin Yiwei look for it, and just treat him like a cow and a horse in the future.Then he said to the stall owner: "How many sweet potatoes do you have? I want them all. Someone will take them with you and send them to the palace in a while."

After finishing speaking, he realized that he had no money on him, so he simply asked Wei Liangqing to earn money to settle the bill. The frightened stall owner refused to accept it until Chongzhen pretended to be angry and said: "I ordered you to accept it, and you accept it. The people's livelihood is difficult." , and have been paying taxes for the country, how can I covet your things?"

Seeing that the stall owner finally accepted the money, Chongzhen ordered Wei Liangqing to take someone back with the stall owner to collect the remaining sweet potatoes, and then drove back to the palace.

Chongzhen pretended to be forced to run away, but what was left in the Dongyue Temple area was the legend of the holy emperor benevolent government and loving the people. No one mentioned the original name of the archway in front of Dongyue Temple.Because the emperor came here, the common people would shout long live, so it was called Hujialou, and later it became Hujialou, which still exists in the capital.

Chongzhen, who returned to the palace, immediately sent someone to send a message to the cabinet ministers to come to see him.

When the ministers came to the imperial study, Chongzhen was gnawing a piece of sweet potato willfully. Seeing the cabinet ministers arrived, Chongzhen quickly swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth, not caring about his own image, and pointed at the sweet potato. Talk to the ministers of the cabinet: "My dear ministers, please try it too. It's my right to treat you to dinner."

Regardless of how the ministers slandered Chongzhen for being stingy, after thanking them all, they began to eat in small bites.

Chongzhen was not in a hurry, until all the ministers had finished eating, Chongzhen said: "My dear friends, how is this thing?"

Since Wen Tiren was the chief assistant of the cabinet, he opened the mouth first and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I have seen this thing in the book before. I only know that it can be eaten steamed or boiled. It is also a vegetable and a food. I don't want to bake it. , is also so delicious.”

Other cabinet ministers also agreed, and agreed that sweet potatoes can be used as food or vegetables, and they are simply a good seed given to Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen sneered in his heart, it's not like he didn't check it after returning to the palace, this thing had entered Daming as early as the Wanli period.It's just a matter of profit, so no one promotes it vigorously.

Seeing the reaction of the ministers, Chongzhen said, "Since this is the case, I want to order Xu Guangqi to come to Beijing to preside over the promotion of this new grain, especially in the land of Shanshan, which is the most important thing.

The harvest of CDs in Shanshan and Shaanxi has not been very good in recent years, and the soil must have been almost exhausted. Why not try to plant these new crops.

In addition, the court must be prepared, in case the promotion of new grain is not effective or the harvest is also in short supply, preparations must be made for relief at that time, and the refugees in the mountains and Shaanxis should not be seen everywhere.Otherwise, I have no choice but to learn from Cao Mengde's help and use the head of a certain important minister to appease the people. "

Under some blatant threats, Chongzhen felt that these cabinet ministers

In fact, things like sweet potatoes, which are both vegetables and grains, are rare in the Ming Dynasty now. At this time, corn and potatoes have entered the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the output of these things is high, and the output is high, where else can I exploit those mud legs?Furthermore, people who are used to eating rice can't eat potatoes and sweet potatoes as food, right?

As for the corn, it is good for porridge, but when it is ground out, it is not good for making noodles or steamed buns. Steamed buns are sweet and sweet at first taste, but they are rough and hard to swallow.

Chongzhen didn't think that eating too much of these things would make it unpalatable.In the current Daming, no one knows better than him what conduct will be in the next few years.

Shanxi and Shaanxi have experienced years of drought. It is an exaggeration to say that the grain harvest was in short supply. At that time, there was basically no grain harvest.

As for the court, the honest and gentlemen who are in the court are full of pockets, so who cares whether the treasury has money or not?Chongzhen asked about the method of enriching the treasury, which led to the abolition of the post station later, which caused the courier Li Xiaoge to rebel in anger after losing his job.

For the people who have eaten all the bark and grass roots, and even exchanged their children for food when they are so hungry, is it unpalatable?If it doesn't exist, if you have a bite to eat, you will save your life. Who cares whether it is delicious or not?

Anyway, it is a pity that these high-yield crops have not been popularized in Daming.Otherwise, as long as the common people can eat, what about the Little Ice Age?

For the common people, as long as the emperor can feed them and clothe them warmly, they don't care how the emperor prodigal or wasteful.According to legend, didn't the emperor just use a golden hoe to hoe the ground?Look, what a prodigal!

Chapter 63 Loyalists

After Chongzhen discussed with several auxiliary ministers, or after Chongzhen unilaterally decided to order Xu Guangqi to enter Beijing, Chongzhen remembered it again.

When Jiannu besieged the capital last time, Chongzhen once said in public on the top of the city that he would make a book of traitors, and Fan Wencheng must be on the list.It's just that it hasn't been really implemented until now, so Chongzhen remembered it again.

If you want to compare traitors, you have to use people who died loyally and died in national disasters to disgust traitors. After thinking about it, Chongzhen remembered that an official named Ni Yuanlu went to national disasters. In the remaining limited memory, try to make some things that are too cold.

Chongzhen thought for a while, and asked, "How about Ni Yuanlu?"

Wen Tiren, as the chief assistant of the current dynasty, among other things, can remember all the information of the officials clearly in his mind, and immediately played: "Return to your majesty, Ni Yuanlu was originally a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, and he was changed to a good scholar. Awarded Hanlin Editing. I just presided over the Jiangxi Provincial Examination, and now I am in the capital."

After a slight pause, Wen Tiren said again: "It's just that this person has a stubborn temper. During the late emperor's reign, he repeatedly contradicted Eunuch Wei, and Eunuch Wei always disliked him."

When Chongzhen heard the words, he hummed and ordered all the cabinet ministers to step down.Later, Wei Zhongxian was recruited and asked, "What's the matter with Ni Yuanlu? Tell me."

Wei Zhongxian couldn't figure out what Chongzhen was thinking, and he didn't dare to slander Ni Yuanlu with embellishments. He just played it truthfully: "If you go back to the emperor, the servants and Ni Yuanlu are at odds. This person is just a rock. He is not a big official and has a temper. It's a little bit.

It's just that this person's heart is quite towards Donglin's evil party.It's just that this person is loyal to the king's affairs on weekdays, and he has no bad deeds. "

Chongzhen sneered and said, "No bad deeds? Who gave you the guts? If there were any bad deeds, would your Eunuch Wei have already thought of a way to kill him?"

What he said frightened Wei Zhongxian to kneel on the ground in a hurry, kowtowed and said: "Your Highness has taught me, this servant deserves to die! This servant is loyal to His Highness, begging His Highness for mercy?"

But Chongzhen said: "Get up. What are you thinking, old man, do you really think I don't know? I don't need to deal with these things in the future. Since Ni Yuanlu is fine, send someone to pass the word that I want to see him. "

When the bewildered Ni Yuanlu entered the palace, she saw Chongzhen reviewing memorials in the imperial study.In addition to Wang Chengen and Fang Zhenghua, who have remained unchanged for thousands of years, Wei Zhongxian was also present.

After kowtowing to Chongzhen, Ni Yuanlu saw that Wei Zhongxian smiled towards her, and immediately turned her head away, ignoring him, which made Wei Zhongxian very embarrassing.

Chongzhen secretly laughed in his heart, that's all it needs to be, if you want his mother to be in harmony inside and outside, then I should be unhappy.

Chongzhen ignored these nonsense matters, and said directly to Ni Yuanlu: "I ordered Aiqing to enter the palace this time, but there is something I need Aiqing to do."

Ni Yuanlu didn't hesitate, and said cheerfully: "Please give orders, Your Majesty, I will do my best."

Chongzhen said: "Well, this matter is easy to say. When the city was built and besieged by slaves, Aiqing was still in Jiangxi, but after returning, she must have heard of it?"

Ni Yuanlu said: "Returning to Your Majesty, I heard from my family members about the situation during that time, and the people all praised Your Majesty for being like an ancestor. I also yearn for it, but regret not being able to drive with the king and see His Majesty's heroic appearance."

Chongzhen laughed and said, "Just now Wei Banban said that Ni Yuanlu's temper is stinky and hard-tempered. If I saw you, it might not be true."