Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

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"Let the households grow some sweet potatoes on the newly reclaimed dry land." Qin Hao, who was sitting on the wooden table reading documents, reminded Zhuge Xuan who was writing furiously next to him.

Qin Hao simply loves sweet potatoes. When the grain was counted, sweet potato chunks were found. Only then did Qin Hao realize that many people had begun to grow this crop.

Sweet potatoes are an artifact of food. No matter how poor the soil is, the yield per acre is much more than growing food.

For ordinary land, even if no fertilizer is applied or intensive cultivation is done, the yield per mu in one season is around 2,000 kilograms. One acre of land can feed a family of three or four people.

If this kind of crop were planted, even Xiaoglacier would not be able to cause the Ming Dynasty to produce so many refugees and bandits. Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not reap this dividend.

You must know that this thing was brought to the Ming Dynasty by missionaries during the Wanli Period. Unfortunately, no one cared about it. They had to wait for the Qing Dynasty to be widely cultivated, creating a prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong where people grew up eating sweet potatoes.

"Got it!" Zhuge Xuan kept writing and only responded lightly.

It's not that he didn't know the importance of this matter. As early as when the land was divided, Zhuge Xuan used an order document to force all households to plant sweet potato seedlings on the other half of the reclaimed land, which was the land used as Qin Hao's land. .

And he also asked all households to dig cellars now to store sweet potatoes after they are harvested.

You must know that although sweet potatoes have a large yield and are delicious, one disadvantage is that they are difficult to preserve. Especially in the summer in Taiwan, they will sprout in less than a month, and they can no longer be eaten by then. But as long as they are dried, , and then stored in the cellar at low temperature, it can stay fresh for up to 5 months.

Now he is very busy with these things. He not only has to calculate the number of acres in each village and allocate quotas, but also reminds households what things should be done and what cannot be done. Later, he will have to go to Zhulin Village to deal with a Han and Gaoshan matter. dispute.

Qin Hao knew that he was working hard, so he didn't care and let him go.

Qin Hao has not been idle these days. He is either patrolling various village communities or staying at the station in Pingyuan Village to learn from Zhuge Xuan about handling government affairs.

Rewarding good and punishing evil, various military positions, official positions, and financial regulations are all things that you need to know to avoid making jokes when dealing with problems in the future.

After a few days, Qin Hao learned a lot, and he also knew the difficulties and problems of these government officials.

At present, there are two major problems.

First, there are too few people.

Only Zhuge Xuan and Li Guo can handle it. There are basically no talents in this field in the village. There are not even a few scholars. They are all rough guys. All the affairs fall on them. If Qin Hao hadn't come to help these days, , I guess it’s enough.

Second, there are too many things and they are too complicated.

Don't think that Zhuge Xuan is just like an official in the late Ming Dynasty, sitting in the high hall every day, reading documents, listening to complaints, letting the government officials do the work, and then he can handle the matter, and then return to the government office to drink tea and chat with others. The concubine plays games.

Zhuge Xuan has not slept for an hour in the past half a decade. He has been dragging Li Guoma around to inspect and divide the land in each village, and arranged for some households to start moving.

At the same time, if there is any conflict between households, they will mediate it.

Because of this, Zhuge Xuan often complained to Qin Hao, saying that there were too few talents and life was too difficult.

But Qin Hao had no choice. The territory was so small now that there were no talents, so he had no choice but to comfort him and give him verbal rewards in the future.

Fortunately, Qin Hao has arranged for several maids to take care of his daily life these days, so he does not let him worry about food, clothing and daily life, and concentrates on government affairs.

The maids who arranged these arrangements were the women who had been rescued from the mountains. They were originally intended to weave, but later they found that there were no ready-made tools and no one knew how to do it, so they just let it go as they could afford it anyway.

Later, Li Guo mentioned that there was no one around to take care of His Highness, so Qin Hao started to think about it. After thinking for a while, they all gathered around Zhuge Xuan to take care of him. He himself did not leave any one behind, and he still took care of the cavalry and slashers.

"When you become more powerful, go to Jiangnan and buy hundreds of beautiful ones, and replace them with one every day." This is Qin Hao's true thoughts. He thinks these women are not attractive enough.

"Your Highness, Mr. Chen Hu is back." Just when Qin Haomeng returned to Ming Chunmeng, a guard reported outside the door.

"Um"

Qin Hao put down the paper and responded. He looked back at Zhuge Xuan and showed no intention of disturbing him. He stood up and ran to the door to greet him.

Standing not far from the village head, you can see the powerful figures of Chen Hu and the cavalry and cutting soldiers.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty." After the ceremony of attending, Chen Hu stood in front of Qin Hao with his hands lowered.

As expected of a son of a famous family, after being preached, he became energetic. When he returned from victory this time, his etiquette was just right, without any overstep.

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Qin Hao looked at the many prisoners and supplies escorted behind the cavalry soldiers with satisfaction, and felt very satisfied in his heart.

“Congratulations, congratulations”

Walking to the lobby, Zhuge Xuan finally put down the brush in his hand, stood up and said hello, smiling and complaining, "There are too many things going on recently, so I can't go into details."

After finishing the carefully packed copy, he put the brush between his ears, begged for mercy again, slowly exited the lobby, and walked quickly outside.

"It seems that Master Zhuge has been working hard these days." Looking at Zhuge Xuan's retreating back, Chen Hu said solemnly.

"Let's not talk about him for now. Let's talk about how your days are." Qin Hao knew that Chen Hu was not easy, so he led his troops up the mountain to suppress the bandits alone.

Although Qin Hao gave him a lot of elite cavalry and cutting soldiers, this time was different from when Qin Hao first came, who went up the mountain to suppress bandits. At the beginning, he took advantage of the moonlight to sneak attack on the largest group, laying the foundation in one fell swoop.

But this time Chen Hu wiped out, although the number of people was small, they were all small fish and shrimps, but they were scattered in every corner of the mountain range. Many of them were dangerous places that were not easy to attack.

"According to the order of His Highness, the bandits were wiped out. Since the previous leaders of the bandits had been killed, the trip went smoothly. 12 mountain strongholds were captured, 54 bandits were eliminated, and 302 were captured.

In addition, there are various supplies, including 12 cattle, donkeys and horses, 220 kilograms of silver and copper, more than 50,000 kilograms of stored grain, and 23 pieces of silk and cotton. "Chen Hu wrote lightly.

Qin Hao saw the new scars on his face and knew that it was not as easy as he said, and he had experienced bloody battles.

"Thank you." Qin Hao knew that these days were not easy for him. At the same time, the soldiers sent to report in advance also told Qin Hao that these supplies were real data. Chen Hu was not greedy and there was no problem with his character.

At first, Qin Hao wanted to take the opportunity to have a good lecture with Chen Hu, but he didn't have the opportunity. Chen Hu didn't have the decadent ideas of military officers in this era, and success was valuable.

"Are there any losses to the troops?"

"Except for one person who was slightly injured, there were no casualties." Chen Hu reported truthfully, and he was also delighted with the result.

When Qin Hao handed over the soldiers to him, he was also a little worried, fearing that these soldiers would be rebellious and disobey the general's orders.

Unexpectedly, this did not happen along the way. When attacking the mountain stronghold, they were even more brave and invincible. Killing with swords and hitting with guns, they surrendered with almost no effort.

Chen Hu admired the soldiers entrusted to him by His Highness. He secretly compared the Qi Jiajun in his father's hands and found that they were far inferior. Perhaps only the Qi Jiajun under the leadership of his great-uncle Qi Jiguang could have such strength.

"It's fine if you don't have one." Qin Hao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Chen Hu and said, "This time I will remember your great contribution. When the reward system is established in the future, I will personally award it to you."

When Chen Hu heard about the reward, he didn't dare to boast about it. He immediately knelt down and said, "Don't dare to be greedy for merit. Could it be that all the soldiers worked so hard this time, how could they be so relaxed?"

"Hahaha, I know your intentions will be rewarded, so don't worry."

At this moment, Li Guo rode a green-brown horse and rushed directly to the door, stumbled and climbed in, shouting: "Your Highness, it's bad, something big has happened in Zhulin Village!"

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