Following the instructions of Zhang Shan, the Minister of Revenue, to distribute free sweet potato and potato seeds to the people of the land.
The people of the world were overjoyed, as they had been waiting for this for a long time.
Ever since Zhu Yunwen had Ma Sanbao bring back sweet potato and potato seeds from overseas, the people have come to know about these two things and understand that they hold a very important position in the reform of food issues.
During this period, people also learned that potatoes and sweet potatoes have a very large yield and are resistant to cold and drought.
It is suitable for planting and growing under various extreme conditions, and most importantly, it tastes delicious, much better than rice and noodles.
It can be used as a staple food, is produced in large quantities, and tastes good.
With all these conditions combined, isn't this the perfect food for ordinary people to grow and rely on for survival?
Therefore, the common people weren't very interested in this stuff. Everyone was eager to start planting it as soon as possible.
Now that the imperial court has finally begun distributing seeds, the people are naturally extremely excited. As these seeds are distributed to various places and reach the hands of the people, they are all treated as precious treasures.
They took it home and planted it carefully, and even watched over it day and night.
There's no other way; this can be considered the lifeline of ordinary people these days.
They usually grow rice and wheat, but the yield is much smaller, and the harvest is also dependent on the weather, leaving the people hungry most of the time.
Although Zhu Yunwen allowed the people to own their own land, and all the grain they grew belonged to them.
But sometimes the harvest is bad, and there's really no way to feed the family.
Now things are great. The yield of these sweet potato and potato seeds is so amazing. If they are planted properly, it will be easy to solve the problem of feeding a family.
However, there is one thing they also need to be careful about: guarding against bad people.
When sweet potato and potato seeds were being cultivated by the Ministry of Revenue, there were rumors that many bad people had ulterior motives and were trying to tamper with these grain seeds.
One official from the Ministry of Revenue even lost his head because of this.
That incident almost destroyed all the seeds.
This demonstrates how much of a threat the emergence of sweet potato and potato seeds poses to the interests of certain individuals.
Once their interests are threatened, they may come up with countless ways to prevent the planting of sweet potato and potato seeds.
The people can't help but worry about this issue.
Therefore, they must take strict precautions to prevent malicious individuals from sabotaging the planting process.
Also, because it was their first time planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, they were being cautious. Although they didn't use all their land to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes.
But we still need to be careful!
As a result, the people were very careful in planting sweet potatoes and potatoes. Local government offices, in accordance with the imperial court's orders, regularly sent officials to inspect the areas and guide the people on issues such as the care of sweet potatoes and potatoes during the planting process.
Everything was progressing normally, and nothing went wrong.
However, things took a turn for the worse. In some remote areas of the south, many people had their sweet potatoes and potatoes stolen the very next day for no apparent reason.
This caused great anxiety among the people. These sweet potatoes and potatoes were seeds provided to them by the imperial court to improve their future food supply, but they had only been planted and were already gone.
How can I stand this?
Unfortunately, this kind of thing didn't just happen once or twice; it happened on a large scale, and its nature was extremely serious, making the situation very bad.
In one county called Hekou, most of the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted by the locals mysteriously disappeared.
Therefore, it can be concluded that this is not a random, low-probability event, but rather a problem created on a large scale by a group whose interests have been affected.
Upon learning of the matter, Zhu Yunwen immediately ordered the provincial, prefectural, and county-level government offices in the relevant region to establish investigative bodies to thoroughly investigate the matter, find the mastermind behind it, and punish them severely.
And they provided replacement sweet potato and potato seeds for those who had lost them.
At this point, Zhu Yunwen thought the matter would be resolved quickly, but a week later, the memorials from the local government showed no progress.
They also stated that the matter was impossible to investigate, and the key issue was that not only was it impossible to investigate, but also that people's seeds were mysteriously disappearing from time to time.
It's absurd and egregious that these seeds, already planted in the soil, could still be dug up.
However, even if these sweet potato and potato seeds are planted in the ground, they won't sprout very quickly. It's not impossible to dig them up, take them home, and eat them.
This matter caused a great headache for the local government, because their investigation could not find any clues, and searches of some people's homes could not find any sweet potato or potato seeds at all.
It might have already been eaten by those who dug it up.
Regardless of who dug up and took away these planted sweet potato and potato seeds, or whether those seeds had already been eaten.
In short, this matter is extremely serious and cannot be tolerated by Zhu Yunwen.
Even when the news reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, he was furious.
The two of them analyzed that someone must be up to something, so they discussed what to do.
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