At the end of the 22nd year of Wanli, a Ming army warship sailed from the Philippines arrived at the Yangon port, unloaded several boxes of goods at the port, and then escorted it to Yangon City by soldiers.

In Yangon City, one of the only three cities that the Ming Dynasty has completely controlled and developed, this small army has been fully rested and then escorted by more troops, heading all the way to Bogu City, the ruling center of the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar Town. To be more precise, it is Zhennan Hou Mansion in Bogu City.

Myanmar town, twice as much as North Korea's land, the lords of the twelve Han people and the 5,000 troops lived in the Nanhou Mansion of the Zhennanhou.

After Xiao Ruxun learned of the news that the ship was back, he was overjoyed and went out of the city to greet him. When he saw the soldiers escorting several big trucks back from afar, he rode over and saw the yellow corn cobs and yellow potatoes with his own eyes. He was very happy.

Corn and potatoes are the third and fourth place on the world's food rankings. In several history, corn and potatoes have saved China during the Little Ice Age and pulled China back from the brink of destruction. It was in the late Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen period that China's population dropped sharply, from more than 200 million to tens of millions. Eliminating the epidemic caused by the bloody massacres and wars of the Qing Dynasty, the food production cut caused by the sudden drop in temperature was one of the main killers.

Unfortunately, in the Ming Dynasty, no one proposed to cultivate potatoes and corn as food on a large scale.

During the Zhengde period, corn was introduced to Guangxi, China, and later, potatoes were also introduced to China. However, at this moment, no one realized that China had obtained two grain crops that could save national fortunes. In the past century, no one discovered the amazing output of corn and potatoes, nor did anyone try to cultivate them as grain crops. They were regarded as rare products, not only expensive, but the yield was extremely low. Only wealthy families could use it and eat it.

However, the wealthy families at this moment never expected that decades later, in the era when the Qing Dynasty went south to the Central Plains, in the era when the cold spread across China, the rare products they regarded as treasures became the fruit of saving the lives of tens of millions of Han people who survived by China.

The so-called Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous era is just a joke. A group of barbarians dared to say that they could create a prosperous era and establish a regime to rule tens of millions of people in less than a few decades of civilization. However, the Ming Dynasty was really lucky, and the Qing Dynasty was too lucky. In that cold era, traditional crops such as rice and wheat were harvested one after another. In despair, people found that potatoes that had never paid attention to were shining with the light of life under the harsh cold environment.

『Potatoes can grow in cold weather』

Such news swept the devastated land of China and became the only hope. In the era after the war was eliminated, the Manchus, who were helpless due to the severe cold, finally learned the news. They were panicked all day long because of the severe cold, afraid that they would be driven back to their hometown by the Han people who had no food to eat, announced the news with ecstasy, and regarded potatoes as treasures given to them by God, which just showed the rationality of the Qing Dynasty's rule over China and was irrefutable.

How to argue? The Ming Dynasty has had potatoes for a hundred years, but has never learned that potatoes are the key to saving it. At least it can grow on land where wheat and rice can no longer grow. If it can grow and eat, it can curb refugees and give people hope. It will not allow everyone to "break" with Li Zicheng. The Ming Dynasty will be able to free up hands to deal with the Qing Dynasty and not fight on both sides. In that erosion, potatoes are the only hope.

But the Ming Dynasty was not sure, and the Qing Dynasty made the vacancy.

Time? Destiny?

As for corn, it was the icing on the cake. For the Ming Dynasty in that era, potatoes were the only hope to break the deadlock. The key to the reign of the Ming Dynasty was to continue the country's destiny. Potatoes could grow on northern lands that were gradually not suitable for growing crops such as wheat, and maintain the military power of the agricultural empire in the north with higher yields and higher energy. As long as there are potatoes, as long as they can grow and maintain a certain yield, the army can continue to garrison, retain farmers and the land, and the Han people's forces will not migrate south.

Of course, for Xiao Ruxun, corn is the most important thing now. Like rice, corn likes humid and hot environments. The wet and hotter it is, the better it grows. This just fits the humid and hot climate of Myanmar. The temperature rarely drops below twenty degrees throughout the year. The northernmost mountainous areas do not need to wear thick clothes. The stretched mountains on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau will block the cold air flow from the north to the north of the Ming Dynasty, and what is left to Myanmar is still warm.

The place where you can go to the hot land given by God, as long as you work hard and work hard, you will never starve to death.

Under the explanation of the old farmers who fled from Guanzhong, Xiao Ruxun knew how they were jealous of the land not their hometown. If so, they would not have to leave their hometown to come here. However, as the fact is, don’t force too much. Being able to settle here and reproduce is a joyful thing. Except for the sultry climate that makes them uncomfortable, everything is fine.

Gradually, they will adapt to the climate here, and their descendants will get used to the life here. They will take root, live, reproduce, and live here forever, just like in the past hundreds of years, they lived on the land in Guanzhong.

Not to mention potatoes, there are only northern mountainous areas where potatoes can be grown in Myanmar. In the winter of Myanmar, when the temperature is slightly lower, a batch can probably grow in one winter. As for other times, rice and corn are really enough. More than 100,000 people cannot eat these high-yield crops at all. There will be surplus at that time, Xiao Ruxun can even secretly arrange merchants to sell excess grain.

While planting, reclaiming wasteland, building cities and houses. In the second half of the 22nd year of Wanli, Myanmar Town developed rapidly in such a bustling atmosphere. The Han people used their inherent hard work and willingness to work to gradually build this wild land into their dream ideal home.

Yuan Huang became the government affairs manager that Xiao Ruxun relied on. Because except for Xiao Ruxun himself, only Yuan Huang had the experience and ability to handle government affairs. Xiao Ruxun also had to supervise the army, go out everywhere, and manage daily affairs. He did not have much time to coordinate and arrange them. Therefore, these things could only fall on Mr. Yuan Liaofan. The sixty-year-old man started to do things every day from the morning when he opened his eyes and did not fall asleep until midnight.

Xiao Ruxun repeatedly advised Yuan Huang to make himself feel a little relaxed, and he could help deal with more things, but Yuan Huang always said - go outside and watch them, share the joys and sorrows with them, and establish prestige. For a few years, the people and land here will be yours. Those masters don’t want it, you can’t want it. This is the foundation of your life. In the future, you will rely on here to realize our ideals!

Xiao Ruxun was driven out of the government office by Yuan Huang, but was very worried about Yuan Huang's health, so he chose ten people who could read and write from the fleeing people in the army, and asked them to be responsible for helping Yuan Huang. When Yuan Huang was tired, he would dictate and let them record and reduce the burden a little.

Yuan Huang wrote more than 20 letters and sent them back to his hometown, hoping to invite friends and partners whom he knew in his hometown to go south to Myanmar to help him and Xiao Ruxun. But a month later, except for a student Chen Longzheng who sent a letter to say that he would arrive in Myanmar to help Yuan Huang soon, only Yuan Huang's wife and son Yuan Yan replied to the letter saying that he would come. Apart from that, no one replied.

Yuan Huang felt very sorry for this. Xiao Ruxun said that he had been famous for many years and had made countless friends. In the end, he didn't even have a friend who was willing to share hardships. It was really a matter of time to meet him and condolences!

Xiao Ruxun held Yuan Huang's hand and said that in this season, the low ethics of the scholars and officials, the greed of desires, and the shameless behavior, he read all the historical books, and only the late Northern Song Dynasty could correspond to it. However, even at this time, there are still scholars like Fan Gong. As long as there is, it means there is still hope. If there is no, then the scholars and officials will be completely abolished and hopeless.

At this time, Myanmar town is poor and deserted, with 5,000 soldiers and 100,000 Han people. There is nothing else. There are many people who are willing to add icing on the cake, and few people who are willing to provide timely assistance. If Yuan Huang has disciples who are willing to provide timely assistance, and if there are any more requirements for the wife and son who come to meet regardless of danger, then?

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also felt that it was not good to let Yuan Huang's son Yuan Yan come here.

Yuan Yan is also a scholar and needs to go to school. However, there is no quota for scholars in Myanmar Town, and the people here have not even been assigned to the private households. That will happen three years later. If the Yuan family moved here, it will be difficult for Yuan Yanke to go back to study and take the exam. In Zhennan Hou Mansion, Xiao Ruxun could arrange officials of the Hou Mansion, but for the scholars, this is an official position that they do not take seriously at all.

The scholars who can come here are all people whose ideals are greater than reality and who are willing to practice their ideals are greater than reality. Yuan Huang is in his sixties and has long passed the time of being passionate about fame and fortune, but Yuan Yan is still young and does not have the realm of Yuan Huang. This seems not good for Yuan Yan.

Yuan Huang shook his head.

"As my son, he should have such awareness. His kid's ability to study is not as good as his father and I. He has not yet passed the provincial examination twice. Even if he passes the Jinshi, he can only be a junior high school student. Without my colleagues' care, he can only be a county magistrate in his life. Zhang Cong has only one. What kind of skills is that kid? No one knows better than him. Ji Xin, don't worry, this kid knows very well in his heart."

After saying that, Yuan Huang smiled.

"The officialdom is a big dye vat. If you want to be a clean and clean, you can only be like me, as a small official in your life, and never think of entering the political center. That boy has no other skills and is a good guy with a stubborn temper. If you enter the officialdom with such a temperament, it would be a blessing to not be killed. You still want to be promoted? Zhang Cong is an exception. He encountered a great ceremony and discussed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with Jiajing, a once-in-a-lifetime emperor. He entered the cabinet as a minister and had the Jiajing Zhongxing. Is it possible to leave it now?

Instead of facing the situation where a white-haired man gives birth to a black-haired man, it is better to die than to live, but it is better to make that boy lose his idea of ​​entering the officialdom. Come here, work hard and practice your skills. Following you, Xiao Jixin, may not be another way out. Jixin, I, Yuan Huangke, will hand over the life and future of the family to you. We will prosper and lose all the losses in the future. We will always be thinking about my life when doing things! Hahahaha!"

Yuan Huang spoke freely and smiled freely, but Xiao Ruxun couldn't feel free at all.

He knew that Yuan Huang could not be free and easy either.

Myanmar is a paradise. People outside will not come in and have no interest in coming in. Of course, this gives Myanmar town the opportunity to develop, but being away from the world is destined to be unable to enter the world. If you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you must enter the world. Its power is too small to shake the existence of any interest groups. It is also an unknown whether Myanmar town can support his ambitions.

But he knew that he had already started, the desolation of Zhennan Marquis Mansion, a marquis and three staff members, was dealing with the poverty and people's dissatisfaction with the current land.

How many people are willing to provide timely assistance? Although it is a virtue to provide timely assistance, if it is a military town or a force, it means its own investment and is a bet on everything. How many people in the world have the courage, courage and determination to deliver everything to this poor and careless place?

If people flock to it, that would be abnormal. Not to mention scholars, even ordinary people, if they were not lost, if they were suppressed, they would not be able to live in China. If they had not made up their minds, they would not have thought about coming to Myanmar to this wild land that they had no understanding of.

Those who come here are either people who are at the end of the road or those who are full of exploration spirit. These two types of people are exactly the people who Xiao Ruxun needs. The first type of people is completely lost and can only take root and survive in Myanmar and will not leave. They are the mainstream; the second type of people are tough, curious, and do not like to stick to the routine. There are very few people, and they are right and wrong. Only this non-mainstream is the talent that Xiao Ruxun urgently needs.

Those who like new things and like the abnormalities of the wilderness are also what Xiao Ruxun needs.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know if these people would come, but he knew that these people must exist.
Chapter completed!