Transmigrating To The Ming Dynastys Imperial Examination - Chapter 281

The new potatoes presented by Li Cong are ruddy in color, with pointed ends and two palms on the big feet. They were transplanted from Luzon and are often called sweet potatoes by locals. This sweet potato can grow in the barren sandy land and fields of Fujian. It can grow without picking land, fertilizer, and intensive farming. It can grow when it is planted at will, but its yield is higher than that of all grains and sweet potatoes that can satisfy hunger.

In addition to a few carts of neatly packed potato roots, he also presented a bunch of whole bunches of sweet potatoes with the stems and leaves and only the soil was cleaned. There were five huge potato roots dragged under the bunch of stems, weighing them, they weighed seven or eight catties.

The emperor Hongzhi couldn’t put it down so much, he immediately asked him how to plant it and promote it to various places.

Li Cong answered very smoothly.

When he saw this thing, he was also a treasure. He not only praised the sea merchants who offered the potatoes, the Fuzhou Zhizhou and the local officials, but he also planted it in the courtyard for a season. Therefore, he talked about the method of planting as a treasure. Even if someone asks him when to fertilize and when to seedlings, he can count it, but the emperor can only pick up the important things in front of him, and then meticulously cultivate and eat.

The emperor nodded and smiled and said: “It’s not enough to talk about it here. You wait for peace of mind. Before the official inspection, the Hanlin servant told Cui Xueshi will go to write the planting method. You explain it carefully for him, and the official also accounts for this work.”

Did Hanlin write the way to plant sweet potatoes? Does it have to be recorded in the internal file, and a penny should be recorded in the future revision of history?

Li Cong and the prefects and counties who came with him were a little excited, bowed their heads and thanked them. The emperor Hongzhi ordered the officials to have a banquet in the palace, and asked the eunuchs to go to the inn in person, and gave platinum, silk, imperial wine, treasures, and the entire table of imperial meals to the merchants who offered sweet potatoes.

There is also an edict to grant those merchants hereditary Jinyiwei to pay thousands of households.

Although they did not formally allow them to have actual positions, there were officials and salaries for generations, and these families changed their lives from the lowest merchant among the four people to officials, which completely elevated the ancestral lintel.

With these few examples of sweet potato offerings, why don’t those smugglers who travel overseas want to take the opportunity to fight for officialdom and return to their hometown to be an innocent and respected eunuch?

After this day, the news that you can get an official by searching for overseas varieties spread to Fujian and Guangdong provinces like a wind. Merchants who were still holding a wait-and-see attitude went out to sea one after another. The maritime merchants or pirates living in Annan, Champa, Japan, Ryukyu and other countries, and even the aristocratic families who had already rooted in the local area, were all thinking of returning to their hometowns.

On the eve of New Year’s Day in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, the overseas turmoil had not yet risen, but the officials who offered sweet potatoes first saw a famous Hanlin lecturer in the center.

Too famous.

It may be worse if placed in other places. In Fujian, a place where pirated books are published, even the illiterate people have heard of Cui Xie’s name. The Masha edition has pirated books all over the world, and many bookstores survived by reprinting the imperial examination notes, the middle-examination experience, and the daily agricultural economic series compiled by him.

The Jianyang fire this year burned countless book editions. The bookshop owners hurriedly built the house with bamboo-reinforced cement boards and straw. The first thing was to re-engrave his “Daily Agricultural Classics” and the series of picture books “Jin Yi Wei” and “Young Jin Yi Wei”, both of which belonged to Ju An Zhai. He also engraved his “Notes”, “Examination Questions”, and “Experience”… The serious four books and five classics were reprinted reluctantly under the pressure of officials.

The chief ambassador Li Cong, the prefect of Jianyang County, and others still have a lot of affection for Cui Xie, and they warmly entertained him in the room and sit down. Li Cong also poured a cup of tea for him.

Cui Xie just talked from the fifth-rank waiter and asked the Zhengsan-rank chief ambassador to personally entertain him. Naturally, he was flattered, and he hurriedly got up to thank 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 the sweet potatoes, pick up the knife and cut them into pieces, and teach Cui Xie how to select potato seeds, soak them to accelerate the germination, and cut the seedlings to promote the roots after the potato seedlings grow to a few inches. 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-waterlogged roots, and it is easy to produce unpalatable firewood roots.

They brought neat sweet potato pieces when they entered Beijing, but the sweet potato vines can also grow seedlings. When the sweet potatoes grow in Beijing next year, they can also cut off the sweet potato vines to raise seedlings.

Cui Xie took out a pencil and thread-bound notebook to record, and he wrote quickly, except for sometimes asking for a few details, there was almost no need for Li Cong to stop and wait for him.

Li Cong was almost done, stopped to take a sip of tea, and said with a smile: “Master Cui also uses this graphite pen? When I was a Shanxi police officer a few years ago, I saw people using this pen from Beijing. It was only used by the people. Later, when I became an official in Fujian, I saw that the people in the official hall used it. I dont know who made this thing. I usually write things on the wall and write a poem on the wall. The pen is troublesome and easy to clean.”

Cui Xie got up again and said “ashamed”, which was what he asked someone to make. Later, his husband and his husband Lu Boshan tried his best to promote this thing, but he didn’t want to promote it to the southernmost point of Ming Dynasty.

Li Cong was stunned when he heard the words. He straightened up and looked at Cui Xie carefully, then arched his hands at him: “The people of Fujian have been favored by Cui Jun.”

How many bookstores turned over the books he compiled when engraving the edition, and used the pen he made when tracing the edition. The money he earned supported a small portion of the people in Jianyang. As the chief envoy, he thanked the people on behalf of the people.

The prefect of Jianyang also got up to salute and told him about Jianyang’s copying of his books. Cui Xie understood the reason and smiled back.

At the beginning he was very serious about cracking down on piracy, but later he ran into the first assistant, banned the seas, and punished the Japanese pirates, so that Ming had a ride in the industrial revolution. Comic strips became an important means of propaganda. .

Teaching assistants cannot be limited either-Ju’anzhai is not a modern printing factory after all, and the printed books can only be supplied to the prefecture where the bookstore is located, but not the whole country. Although the quality of these pirated books is poor, the print volume is large, and they can be sold in places where Ju’anzhai can’t sell them, so that readers from all over the world can see the same supplementary books, which also guarantees the fairness of educational resources.

Didnt the court know that the Masha version was pirated? But after the Jianyang fire, the imperial court would still send the original Four Books and Five Classics to the booksellers for fine-tuning and printing.

He is no longer a Bai Ding who is struggling to survive with a small bookstore, nor is he a young talent who wants to raise a family of grandparents and younger brothers, but a central leader, and his vision and mind are naturally different from before.

Leader Cui talked with the second-level member about the laughter and studied how sweet potatoes are delicious.

It has only been more than a year since Fujian introduced the plant. At first, the sweet potato vines were smuggled back by the merchants who twisted the sweet potato vines in the boat. Until now, they have not planted a few acres. Many of the fine varieties that were grown had to be transported to Beijing, and the local officials did not dare to eat them too much. They only came up with simple ways to eat them, such as steaming, roasting, and porridge.

The stomach is upset after eating too much, but if it can be promoted, it is better to use it as food when it is not picked up than to drink wild vegetable soup.

Li Bozheng also gave him a box of sweet potatoes and asked him to take home and try something new with his family. When I returned home, the gift of the emperor was also sent. It was a small basket of delicate sweet potatoes, about ten kilograms, with a smooth and clean skin, and red, which reminded people of roasted sweet potatoes.

He hasn’t eaten roasted sweet potatoes in more than ten years, and he feels sad to think of it.

Cui Xie was not welcome anymore, and immediately called someone to get a brazier, carefully selected two smaller ones, buried them in the ashes, and simmered them well at night to share with Xie Ying. He asked the chef to steam them, peeled them and topped them with fine white noodles and deep-fried them into dim sum, and gave them to the three younger siblings in Jingli.

Sweet potatoes are too precious. The best and biggest ones are to be kept for seeding. Let’s eat some adulterated ones.

This sweet potato is not only owned by his family. The sweet potatoes sent to Beijing from Fujian amounted to thousands of catties, and the nobles and high-ranking officials in Beijing could be divided into several catties and dozens of catties. The officials of the Imperial Academy can share a share, and the old patrons share more. Li Dongyang wants to hold a poem party during the New Year’s Day holiday.

Sweet Potato Poetry Club.

The young poets under the Chaling School had to participate enthusiastically when they heard about this. Only his pro-disciple, Cui Xie, frowned and did not want to join in the fun.

He does have business, and he has to write a graphic version of the sweet potato cultivation and eating guide for the emperor.

Li Zhaoxian comforted his father: “The brother wrote and wrote poems of gratitude the day before yesterday, so what if you participate in a poem meeting? Brother, you just won’t write it, just sit on top and comment on these poems with your father. “

Cui Xie sighed deeply, “Fine, no one wants me to write poetry at that time, so Junior Brother Li will still help me.”

Since the teacher wants to hold a sweet potato poetry club, disciples must also do their best to help. He can’t help writing poems, but he has contributed a lot of ways to adulterate sweet potatoes, which seems to have more dishes: for example, crystal sweet potato **** made with lotus root flour; glutinous rice dumplings with sweet potatoes as filling and glutinous rice flour as skins; sweet potatoes The glutinous rice cake that is ground as fine as sand; the fried potato cakes made at home; the three kinds of sweet potato, yam, and taro are steamed into puree, and the sweet potato flower cake with jujube puree and orange sand filling…

Sweet potato jelly and sweet potato vermicelli are also delicious, but they are too few to count. They are not suitable for this banquet. Let’s wait for this year’s harvest.

While instructing people to do it, he drew the reshaped and beautiful desserts and wrote his sweet potato eating guide by the way.

Teacher Li, Xie Gelao, and Chen Taichangqings baskets of sweet potatoes asked him to mix several times of rice noodles, flour, potatoes, and taro noodles, and add some honey to taste, saving materials and respectfully entertaining the courtyard. Gifted.

Everyone was eating new products from the famine that was bestowed by God, talking about the victory of the border this year, and the greenhouse built for the refugees outside the city this winter. The more they talked, the more passionate they were, and they were full of pride and generosity.

Nowadays, the country has a prosperous atmosphere, and several new poems also have the heroic spirit of chasing the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Dongyang chewed some flavors from it, feeling pleasantly surprised, and commenting with satisfaction: “I saw people learning the poems of Tang and Li Du in the old days. They all tried their best to imitate not only the literal syntax, but also the title. Ben. Although these songs have a taste of learning from the prosperous Tang Dynasty, they can be tasted with heartfelt feelings, but they stand out among the volumes!”

He himself has studied Tang poetry very deeply, and he is deeply acquainted with the samdhi. In the early years when he was reading in the Central Secret Library, he had never seen a collection of poems, and after reading two poems, he could guess that it was Bai Letian. The poems of Song, Yuan, and Ming are also casually learned. He commented that these poems have Tang poetry rhyme, that is, they really have the image of Tang poetry.

Several people who commented on the above and called poetry came forward and asked.

Cui Xie watched several high-spirited young talents walk out of the crowd under the candlelight, answering the questions of the predecessors in a quick and fluent manner. And among these talents, one person is the head faintly, and that person really has a higher understanding of poetry than others, and he bluntly replied: “The words are forever, the sound of the sound, the rhythm of the sound, the rhythm is in harmony, and the sound is forever. Speaking of ambitions, issuing chapters, and then poems.”

Li Dongyang smiled and praised him: “As expected of Xi’an’s disciple, he has worked hard with poetry and poems, and he will study hard for a few years, and he can be called everybody.”

Li Mengyang is also his younger brother Yang Yiqing from Shanxi. The talented person who came out was also his own disciple. He was able to write such poems and tell such poems, and Li Dongyang was also very glorious.

Taichang Temple Qing Chen Yin next to him tasted this statement, patted Li Dongyang’s hand, and said happily: “This is the same as what you said before,’the difference between poetry and style… It is a bit similar to make people chant repeatedly, express emotions and express will.”

Several bigwigs felt that Li Mengyang would be a man following Dongyang’s poetry world, and they were enthusiastic about discussing with him about the tone and rhythm of poetry.

But there is only one person who does not like to write poems and cannot taste the style of poetry. He looked at Li Mengyang deeply, and discovered that his words were buried in the poetry concept that seemed similar to Li Dongyang. It will gradually be Widen the differences.

The Chaling School’s poems are fresh and magnificent, mainly in the late Tang Dynasty. The former seven sons raised the banner of the ancient literary movement, advocating that “wen must be in Qin and Han, and poetry must be in prosperous Tang”, urging people to only learn poems from the Wei and Jin to the prosperous Tang, and accurately attack Li Dongyang’s Chaling school.

But that was written in 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 School, right?

In addition to their principal duties, these people are also doing deputy duties that benefit the country and the people. Seeing that Daming has become stronger and they are also famous, it is not like they have to express their ambitions in poems and fight through poems.

Maybe the first seven poets are still the same in history, but as long as they don’t confront Teacher Li.

Cui Xie turned his gaze to the talented scholars behind Li Mengyang, and remembered their faces and names in his heart-in the future, these people must be watched more closely, and if there is nothing to do, they will have more meetings for young people to let them understand that there are many literary works. importance.

The author has something to say:

Li Dongyang and Li Mengyang look very knowledgeable at both ends, it is in their own works