Actually, Marquis Jiangyin knew that this marriage was set in stone and that it was unlikely that anything would go wrong.
How could the marriage between the founding minister and the Tian family be a child's play?!
However, he was extremely satisfied with Zhu Rong. Even if there was a slight chance of error, he would not allow it to happen.
The old man's only wish now was to quickly build the Qi Residence and allow King Qi and his youngest daughter to get married smoothly. Only then would he be able to feel at ease.
Not to mention Marquis Jiangyin, if it was any other father in the world, who would be able to withstand this army of potatoes?
In the Darming Dynasty, many commoners still couldn't eat, and the number of people who starved to death every year was uncountable, and this was under the condition that there weren't any particularly large natural disasters!
King Qi had only been in Qi Land for a few short months, yet he had reaped such a gratifying harvest. It was an unprecedented harvest, with a yield of 20 dans per mu. Who could withstand this?
Of course, a bumper harvest required taxes. The Darming Dynasty's taxes on the commoners were relatively lax, especially during the early Hongwu period. The national policy was to recuperate.
Because of the years of war, their homes were in ruins, and there were many things to be done. Be it industries or population, they had all withered in the war.
Now was the time to recover, so the taxes could not be too high.
The more a founding emperor was, the more he valued the recuperation of the country.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born as a farmer, so he had a natural inclination toward farmers. Other than the Jiangnan area, which produced more grain, the taxes of farmers in other places of the Ming Dynasty were basically around 5% to 10%.
This included the taxes of the vassal kings in their fiefs, known as the king's taxes.
This year, the vassal king of Qi, Zhu He, had already become a vassal, so the king's tax did not need to be paid to the imperial court.
However, most of the taxes still belonged to the imperial court.
The foundation of the Darming Dynasty's land tax was the two-tax system. In other words, the summer tax was levied in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. In the second month after the autumn harvest, the autumn grain tax would be levied.
It was not yet time to collect the summer tax, but the potatoes had a bumper harvest ahead of schedule.
Naturally, potatoes were classified as food and had to be paid taxes to the imperial court.
The Qingzhou Prefecture Magistrate and the other prefectures and counties, including the governor of Jinan Prefecture, Tie Xuan, now understood that potatoes had to be stored in the cellar for a longer period of time.
If it was cooked and dried, or even stored with salt or other methods, its shelf life would be extended again.
It could be said that it was a rare treasure.
However, if it was transported on the road and exposed to the air, his storage time was limited.
As for potatoes, once they germinated, they could not be eaten because they had already produced toxins.
This year was Qi Di's first harvest of potatoes. Everyone did not have much experience. If they were to postpone the harvest until the summer tax collection before transporting the potatoes to Ying Tian Prefecture, everyone was worried that they would go bad on the way.
Because the temperature would be higher at that time, would it make it easier for this thing to germinate?
Therefore, after the yamen of the various prefectures and counties received the potato tax paid by the farmers, they immediately arranged for the army to escort them to Yingtian Prefecture.
It was a journey of a few hundred miles.
In the Darming Dynasty's era, it really wasn't considered recent.
Tie Xuan of the Jinan Prefecture also wanted to claim credit. Although the potatoes were brought out by King Qi and he was the one who promoted them, the credit for Qi's bumper harvest should be credited to him as the governor.
King Qi didn't have any political achievements. After all, he was already the king of the entire Qi Lu Continent.
Moreover, Tie Xuan was a local governor, so he could go one step further and even enter the imperial court.
Although he didn't think much of the Seventh Prince and felt that he wasn't valued by the Emperor and was also one of the many princes who wasn't very capable, he had to admit that the Seventh Prince was really lucky this time.
His good luck had allowed the entire Qi Land to have a bumper harvest.
Tie Xuan could not help but clap his hands and exclaim!
Of course, the credit should be his, and he definitely could not leave it behind.
The memorials had to be written. The potatoes had to be shipped to the capital, so they had to hurry.
Tie Xuan could already imagine the scene in the imperial court. It was not yet time for the summer tax collection, and Qi Di had already sent the tax over. It would definitely scare many people.
Tie Xuan was very happy, waiting for him to return to the court. He even began to imagine himself becoming the Prime Minister.
It was too slow and troublesome to travel by water, so all the provinces and counties had to travel by land.
Thus, the troops set off one after another. Under the escort of the officers and soldiers, they headed towards the Ying Tian Prefecture.
Although the carriage was pulling the potatoes, most people walked to the Ying Tian Prefecture.
This was a far cry from the time when Zhu Xiong had rushed to Qingzhou at full speed. This speed was very slow, and Zhu Xiong's asphalt road project had only just begun. He had just completed all the roads in Qingzhou City and extended them a little out of the city.
This ordinary official road was filled with potholes, so it was difficult to speed up. When it encountered rain, it was even more difficult to move through the mud.
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