People take food as the sky, food is the most important at any time, only sufficient food can make the people eat enough, the country can be long-term peace and stability, our country population is the first in the world, the demand for grain is naturally very large, in history our country has had many famines, but now China's grain self-sufficiency, there will never be a tragedy again, this is because of a person, he is the father of hybrid rice Yuan Longping.
Many people say that if Yuan Longping was born in ancient times, his contribution to the country and the people is to be enshrined as a god and worthy of the Taimiao Temple, which is enough to prove the greatness of Yuan Longping, in fact, in ancient times, there was also a person, he brought back a vine from overseas, saved 100 million people from famine, he is Chen Zhenlong of the Ming Dynasty, but also the importer of sweet potatoes in our country, without him, we do not know when we can eat sweet and delicious sweet potatoes.
Chen Zhenlong originally focused on reading only the sages, hoping to be able to pass the high school glory lintel, but after many times fell off the list, he chose to abandon the literature to engage in business, the Ming Dynasty shipping developed, so Chen Zhenlong began to go overseas to do business, after going abroad Chen Zhenlong came to the Spanish colony of Luzon, where Spanish sweet potatoes are planted, because of the sweet taste, Chen Zhenlong wanted to secretly bring sweet potatoes back to his hometown to promote planting.
Because sweet potato cultivation is simple, and the yield is high, so Chen Zhenlong learned the planting technology of sweet potatoes, he brought back a sweet potato vine, began to plant in Daming, there was a famine in the late Ming Dynasty, it was Chen Zhenlong who taught the people to plant sweet potatoes to save 100 million people to survive, because of the promotion of sweet potatoes, the population increased sharply in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which can be said to be the credit of Chen Zhenlong.