The new potatoes presented by Li Cong had ruddy skins, pointed ends, and the big ones were two palms long. Because they were transplanted from Luzon, the locals called them sweet potatoes. This kind of sweet potato can grow in the barren sandy land and fields of Fujian. It does not need to pick soil, fertilizer, or intensive cultivation. It can be grown by planting at will, but its yield is higher than that of all grains and yam, which can satisfy hunger.
In addition to several carts of neatly packed potato roots, he also presented several plates of whole bunches of sweet potatoes with stems and leaves that had only been cleaned from the soil. There were actually five huge potato roots dragging under the bunch of stems, and they weighed seven or eight pounds.
Emperor Hongzhi couldn't put it down so much that he immediately asked him how to plant it and spread it everywhere.
Li Cong answered very smoothly.
When he saw this thing, he was like a treasure. Not only did he reward the sea merchants who donated potatoes, the governor of Fuzhou, and local officials, but he also personally planted it in the courtyard for a season, so he talked about the method of planting well. Even if someone asks him when to fertilize and when to seedlings, he can count them all, but in front of the emperor, he can only pick up the important things and say that the method of cultivation and consumption will be handed over by the people below.
The Emperor nodded and said with a smile: "It's worth mentioning here. You can wait and wait when you go back. Before the inspection of the Ministry of Personnel, the Imperial Servant said that Cui Xueshi will go over and write about the cultivation method. You explain it to him in detail, and the Ministry of Personnel will also account for this skill."
The method of planting sweet potatoes has to be written by Hanlin? Could it be that it should be recorded in the internal file, and it should also be recorded in the future history revision
Li Cong and the magistrates and magistrates who came with them were a little excited, bowing their heads and thanking them. Emperor Hongzhi ordered these officials to have a banquet in the palace, and also asked the eunuch Silijian to go to the inn in person, and gave platinum, silk, royal wine, treasured banknotes and a whole table of royal dishes to the merchants who offered sweet potatoes.
There was also an imperial edict that gave those merchants the hereditary Jinyiwei to bring thousands of households.
Although they were not officially allowed to hold real positions, they have had officials and wealth from generation to generation, and these families have changed their bodies, from the lowest merchants among the four peoples to officials, and completely elevated the ancestral lintel.
With these examples of offering sweet potatoes, why don't those smugglers who travel overseas don't want to take the opportunity to become an official and go back to their hometown to be an innocent and respected eunuch
After this day, the news that one could obtain an official by searching for overseas elites spread like a wind to the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. The merchants who were still holding a wait-and-see attitude in the past have gone to sea one after another. The maritime merchants or pirates living in Annan, Champaign, Japan, Ryukyu and other countries, and even the aristocratic families who have long been rooted in the local area, have some thoughts of returning to their hometowns and starting their own businesses.
On the eve of New Year's Day in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, the overseas storm had not yet been raised, but the officials who presented sweet potatoes saw a well-known Hanlin lecturer in the center.
so famous.
It may be worse in other places. In Fujian, a place that specializes in pirated books, even the illiterate people have heard the name of Cui Xie. The Masha version has been pirated and printed all over the world, and many bookstores live by reprinting the imperial examination notes, the experience of the pilot test, and the daily agricultural economics series compiled by him.
This year, the Jianyang fire burned countless books and editions. The bookshop owners hurriedly built their houses with bamboo reinforced cement boards and straw. The first thing they did was to re-engraved his "Daily Agricultural Classic" and the series of picture books "Jinyiwei" and "Junior Jinyiwei", which were also in Ju'anzhai, and then He also engraved his "Notes", "Exam Questions", and "Experience"... The four books and five classics of the seriousness are still reluctantly reprinted and reprinted under the pressure of the officials.
The governor Li Cong, the county magistrate of Jianyang, and others still had a lot of affection for Cui Xie, and they warmly welcomed him into the room and sat down. Li Cong also poured him a cup of tea himself.
Cui Xie was just a servant of the fifth rank, and asked the administrator of the third rank to personally entertain him. Naturally, he was flattered, got up and thanked him, and said that he had been ordered to record the method of planting sweet potatoes for His Majesty.
Li Cong ordered someone to fetch sweet potatoes, cut them with a knife, and taught Cui Xie how to select potato seeds, soak them to promote germination, cut the seedlings to promote roots after the potato seedlings grew a few inches, and then plant the potato seedlings when the roots have grown. In the field...
Sweet potatoes like light and heat, the soil should be soft and deep, preferably sandy soil, and you don’t need to pour too much water—a lot of water will flood the roots, and it is easy to produce bad firewood.
When they go to Beijing, they bring neat sweet potato pieces, but sweet potato vines can also grow seedlings. When sweet potatoes grow up in Beijing next year, they can also cut sweet potato vines to raise seedlings when they are breeding again.
Cui Xie took out a pencil and a thread-bound notebook to record, and wrote quickly. Except for sometimes asking a few details, Li Cong hardly needed to stop and wait for him.
Li Cong had almost finished speaking. He stopped to take a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Master Cui also uses this graphite pen? When I was an inspector in Shanxi a few years ago, I saw people using this kind of pen from Beijing. It was only used by the common people. Later, when I became an official in Fujian, I saw that everyone in the official hall used it. I don’t know who made this thing. I usually write some things on the wall and inscribe a poem, saving the time of grinding ink and dipping. The trouble of the pen, but also easy to clean.”
Cui Xie got up again and said "ashamed", which is also what he asked people to do. Later, their husband and his colleague Lu Boshan tried his best to promote this thing, but he didn't want it to be promoted to the southernmost part of Daming.
Li Cong was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then straightened up and looked at Cui Xie carefully, and bowed his hands to him: "Fujian people are more blessed by Cui Jun."
How many bookstores turned over the books he edited when engraving, and used the pens he made when drawing editions, and the money they made supported half of the people in Jianyang.
The county magistrate of Jianyang also stood up and saluted, and told him that Jianyang had become popular in reprinting his books. Cui Xie then understood the reason, and smiled back.
At the beginning, he was serious about cracking down on piracy, but later he went to serve as the first assistant, open the sea ban, and pacify Japanese pirates, so that Daming could ride the wind of the industrial revolution and struggle, and comic strips became an important means of propaganda. .
There is no limit to teaching assistants - Ju'anzhai is not a modern printing factory after all, and the books printed can only be supplied to the prefecture where the bookstore is located, but cannot be supplied to the whole country. Although the quality of these pirated books is poor, the printing volume is large, and they can be sold to places where Ju'anzhai can't sell them, so that readers from all over the world can see the same teaching supplementary books, which also ensures the fairness of educational resources.
Didn't the court know that the Masha editions were all pirated? But after the Jianyang fire, the imperial court also sent genuine copies of the Four Books and Five Classics to those booksellers to fine-tune and print.
He is no longer Bai Ding, who is struggling to survive with a small bookstore, or a young scholar who wants to support a family of grandparents and younger brother, but a leader of the central government, and his vision and mind are naturally different from before.
Leader Cui chatted and laughed with the second-rank officers, and studied how to eat sweet potatoes deliciously.
It has only been more than a year since Fujian was introduced. At first, the merchants smuggled the sweet potato vines back in the boat cables. Until now, they have not planted a few acres. Many of the varieties that have been planted have to be transported to Beijing. The local officials did not dare to eat them, so they only thought of simple ways to eat them, such as steaming, roasting and boiling porridge.
If you eat too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable, but if you can push it forward, it will be better than drinking wild vegetable soup.
Li Buzheng also gave him a box of sweet potatoes and told him to take it home and try it with his family. Back home, the emperor's food was also brought. It was a small basket of sweet potatoes, about ten kilograms. The skin was smooth and clean, and the red color was bright, which reminded people of roasted sweet potatoes.
He hadn't eaten roasted sweet potatoes for more than ten years, and it was sad to think about it.
No matter how rude, Cui Xie immediately called someone to bring a brazier, carefully selected two smaller ones and buried them in the ashes, and shared them with Xie Ying after they were cooked at night. There were also a few small ones, which he asked the cook to steam, peeled and topped with snow-white noodles, and fried them into desserts, which he gave to the three younger siblings in Beijing to share.
Sweet potatoes are too precious. It is best to keep the biggest ones for seeding. Let’s eat some adulterated ones.
This sweet potato is not only in his family. There are thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes sent to Beijing from Fujian, and the nobles and senior officials in Beijing can be divided into several kilograms and dozens of kilograms. The officials of the Hanlin Academy can each share a share, and the elders have more. Li Dongyang wanted to hold a poetry party during the New Year's Day holiday.
Sweet Potato Poetry.
When the young poets under the Chaling School heard about this, they all participated enthusiastically. Only his own disciple, Cui Xie, raised a pair of frowning eyebrows and did not want to join in the fun.
He does have business affairs, and he has to write a graphic version of the sweet potato cultivation and consumption guide for the emperor.
Li Zhaoxian comforted him for his father: "After the food was given to him the day before yesterday, my brother wrote a poem of gratitude, so what if I participated in a poetry festival again? Brother, you just don't write it at that time, just sit on the first one and comment on these poems with your father. "
Cui Xie sighed deeply: "Forget it, when someone asks me to write a poem, Junior Brother Li still wants to help me."
Since the teacher wants to hold the Sweet Potato Poetry Festival, the disciples have to do their best to help. He couldn't help writing poems, but he contributed a lot of ways to adulterate sweet potatoes, which seemed to have more dishes: such as making crystal sweet potato balls with lotus root starch; glutinous rice dumplings with sweet potato as filling and glutinous rice flour as skin; sweet potato Glutinous rice cakes that are as finely ground as clear sand; fried potato cakes made at home; sweet potato, yam, and taro are steamed to make mud, and sweet potato flower cakes with jujube puree and clear sand filling...
Although sweet potato jelly and sweet potato vermicelli are also delicious, they are too numerous to be used in this banquet. Let’s wait until this year’s harvest.
While instructing people to make it, he drew the whole and beautiful desserts, and by the way, he wrote his sweet potato consumption guide.
Mr. Li, Mr. Xie Ge, and Mr. Chen Taichangqing's baskets of sweet potatoes told him to mix several times of rice noodles, flour, potato, and taro noodles, and then add some honey to taste, saving materials and serving the yard decently. genius.
The crowd ate the new products of famine relief bestowed by the royal family, and discussed the great victory at the border this year, as well as the conservatory built for the refugees outside the city this winter.
Now the state has a prosperous atmosphere, and several new poems also have the majestic and heroic spirit of chasing the prosperous Tang. Li Dongyang chewed some flavors from it, was deeply pleasantly surprised, and commented with satisfaction: "In the past, when people learned the poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and Li Du, they tried to imitate them, not only the literal syntax, but also the title. This book. Although these songs have a taste of imitating the prosperous Tang Dynasty, they can be tasted with deep emotions, but they stand out among the volumes!"
He himself has studied Tang poetry very deeply, and has won the samadhi. When he was reading books in the Central Secret Library in his early years, he had never seen a collection of poems, and after reading two of them, he could guess that it was the work of Bai Letian. As for Song poems, Yuan poems, and Ming poems, it is easy to learn from them. He commented that these poems have the charm of Tang poetry, that is, they really have the image of Tang poetry.
Several people commented on the good sentences above, and also called the poets to ask.
Under the candlelight, Cui Xie watched a few high-spirited young talents emerge from the crowd, answering the questions of the seniors with quick and fluent words. And among these talents, there is one person at the head, and that person's understanding of poetry is indeed higher than others, and he replied: "The words are forever, the sound is forever, the sound is the rhythm, the law is harmonious, and the sound is eternal. Words are indifferent to one's will, and they are published in chapters, and then poetry is born."
Li Dongyang praised him with a smile: "As expected of a disciple of Sui'an, he has put a lot of effort into poetry and poetry, and if he studies it for a few years, he can be called everyone."
Li Mengyang was also his junior brother Yang Yiqing from Shaanxi. The talented person who came out is also his own student. Li Dongyang is also very glorious on his face if he can write such poems and speak such poems.
Chen Yin, the minister of Taichang Temple beside him, savoured the remarks, patted Li Dongyang's hand, and said happily: "This is different from what you said before about 'poetic style and literary style... With its vocal rhythm and satirical chant, it can make The meaning of people's repeated sarcasm, in order to express their feelings and express their will, is somewhat similar."
Several bigwigs felt that Li Mengyang would be a figure following the mantle of Dongyang's poetry circle, and they discussed the tone and rhythm of poetry with him with great interest.
But there was only one person in this game who didn't like to write poetry and couldn't taste the style of poetry. He looked at Li Mengyang deeply, and found that what he said was buried in the concept of poetry that seemed similar to Li Dongyang. widen differences.
The poems of the Chaling School are fresh and elegant, mainly in the late Tang Dynasty in France. The first seven sons raised the banner of the ancient prose movement, advocating that "literature must be in Qin and Han, poetry must be in Tang", and the important people only learn the poems from Wei, Jin to the prosperous Tang, and precisely attack Li Dongyang's Chaling School.
But that was written in the history books. Now that he has added so much work to Li Mengyang and his friends, they don't have much time to engage in the Seven Sons faction, right
In addition to their main duties, these people also serve as deputy positions that benefit the country and the people. Seeing that Ming Dynasty is also strong, and they are also famous, they don't seem to have ambitions that are difficult to reach, and they must express themselves in poetry and fight through poetry.
Maybe the poetry concept of the former seven sons is still the same as in history, but as long as they don't go against Mr. Li.
Cui Xie turned his gaze to the talented people behind Li Mengyang, and kept their faces and names in his heart - in the future, he must pay attention to these people, and give them more meetings for young people to let them understand the importance of blooming literary and artistic works. sex.
The author has something to say:
If the two ends of Li Dongyang and Li Mengyang look very knowledgeable, they are in their own works.