A month later, these recruits had to move... Yes, that's the beginning of the once-a-year summer harvest!
And this is also very important, even Yang Shanlu listed it as the top priority at this stage!
Because Yang Shanlu knows very well that in the next ten consecutive years of famine, the lifeline of food must be firmly in his own hands! Not to mention that with the current scale of Zhenkou Baotuntian, as long as this season's grain is harvested, the rations of the four thousand men, women and children in the fort will have peace of mind! So be careful!
And this summer harvest is still very gratifying... This is also very obvious. Since the development of fertilizer powder, the 70,000 mu of farmland under Zhenkoubao has been sown, and the effect is extremely significant.
Even many old farmers who have been serving the fields for a lifetime have never seen such a scene... That ear of corn millet (millet) has been heavily bent over! Therefore, so much food must be taken back!
"Mr. Han, are you sure you can get sickle in two days? It is rainy now. If it is still raining in two days, it will be bad!" Yang Shanlu and Han Lin walked on the field, sniffing the millet. Yang Shanlu's face is very serious.
"Haha, don’t worry, sir! I saw that today, the spiders hang their webs! So you can definitely get sick!" This is Han Lin’s experience. The so-called spider hanging webs means that if the spiders open their webs. , And then it will be sunny.
Because spiders are very sensitive to changes in air humidity, there are many small spinners at the tail of the spider. When rainy weather comes, due to the high humidity in the air and a lot of water vapor, the water vapor tends to condense into small water droplets on the spider spinner. In this way, the spider feels difficult to spin the silk, so it stops putting the silk and retracts the web. On the contrary, when the humidity in the air decreases and the weather improves, the spiders spin silk smoothly, and they will catch insects and open their nets.
And Han Lin is worthy of being an expert in agriculture. After he explained it again, Yang Shanlu made a final decision: "Okay, then two days later, we are ready to get sick!"
In this case, the entire Zhenkou Fortress began to prepare, and two days later, Han Lin really expected the score to be not bad, and the heavens really cleared up, revealing the rare sun! In this case, the summer harvest will officially begin.
With Yang Shanlu's order, all the men, women, and children in the entire Zhenkoubao went down to the fields to harvest! Even Yang Shanlu himself is no exception!
These 4,000 people were scattered in more than 10,000 acres of farmland, and they began to harvest desperately! Of course, the same scene is happening in the four military forts under Yang Shanlu's jurisdiction.
Soon after the sickle was opened, Han Lin had already rushed to announce the good news, and even because of the excitement, his whole face was flushed: "My lord, great rejoice! I just harvested 50 acres, and the average yield per acre is as high as one stone and two buckets. !"
"What? One stone and two buckets? (about 220 kg)" Although in theory, Yang Shanlu knew that after applying fertilizer powder, the output could increase a lot, but when the facts were in front of him, he still couldn't bear it. Lived overjoyed.
"That's right, my lord, it's a real fight with one stone!" Honestly, if Han Lin hadn't personally measured it, he wouldn't believe it... He had studied agricultural mulberry for more than ten years, and he had never seen such a high yield! You must know that in Datong Town, there is only half-stone production (94 jin) at most. Even in the land of fish and rice like Huguang, there is only half-stone production, but now...
After Yang Shanlu heard it, his face showed a joyful smile! With the ability to harvest so much food, the lives of the people in the fort have turned around in one fell swoop! With so much food harvested, he will have more confidence in the war next year.
When it was time to rest at noon, Yang Shanlu asked people to notify the good news. When the working soldiers and civilians learned of it, the cheers could smash people's eardrums!
Although when they were harvesting, they found that the growth of millet was not so good, but who could have guessed that there would be such a high yield! It just feels like a dream...
"Guys and elders, what do you do! When we have harvested all the food, we will celebrate!" Taking advantage of this joyous occasion, Yang Shanlu cheered.
"Yeah—" Since Yang Shanlu spoke, what else is there to say, the soldiers and civilians in the fort are all happy and desperately harvesting, along with trucks of golden millet being collected into the granary, the atmosphere is cheerful. It's getting higher and higher.
Five days later, the entire summer harvest was completed, including the four major military fortresses under Zhenkoupu, and more than a dozen tunpus, all of which were harvested. Then the final statistics came out, all 70,000 acres of farmland were harvested. The average yield per mu has reached one stone and two buckets! Created an unprecedented miracle!
After learning of this result, Yang Shanlu was even more happy, and he was determined that he had so much food, plus the Annan rice he had exchanged with Hundred Flower Dew, enough for everyone in the fort to eat for a few years!
Of course, he has already eaten those Annam rice, and the taste is not very good, but think about the famine years in the future, even the bark and grass roots can be gnawed away, who cares about this
So on the same day, Yang Shanlu held a grand celebration and invited an outside theater troupe to sing a day's play. It was really a good harvest with gongs and drums...
But this time, the bumper harvest in Zhenkoubao was really a sensation, and it also attracted a group of people... Yes, that's the grain merchant! And there are more grain merchants here than when Xiao Qiangbao had a good harvest last time!
This is also very obvious, because this year, the outside world is still a disaster year! The harvests of health centers in Datong are very poor, and only here is Yangshanlu. Because of the use of high-efficiency fertilizers and fertilizers, they are willing to spend money on various farmland constructions, like waterwheels, deep wells, and all kinds of large-scale projects. It was such a bumper harvest with investment!
And who are those food merchants, it can be said that all of them are black spirits! The more this kind of disaster year, the more hoarding and earning black-hearted money! So after knowing that Zhenkoubao had a good grain harvest, one by one, like flies that smelled a fishy smell, came swarms of them.
However, what these grain merchants did not expect was that they were treated worse than in the Xiaoqiangbao period, and even the gates of Zhenkoubao were not able to enter...
And Yang Shanlu's reason is also very high-sounding. In order to prevent Tarzi's spies from mixing in, all grain merchants are not allowed to enter.
Of course, although it is already the end of the world at this time, many merchants in Datong Town have also used the work of the Houjin Army to inform them and provide information, but not all of them, but Yang Shanlu can't manage so much, he It just needs an excuse... There is no way to buy our living food!
Moreover, Yang Shanlu now has enough confidence to do this, and now he has been promoted to a defensive officer, not to mention that he still has a top 1,000 army! Even the high-ranking commander of the prison guards, there may not be so many soldiers and horses, can't they make some tough voices
However, Yang Shanlu still underestimated what is called Liling Zhifa...
"My lord, according to the report by my sergeant of the Supervision Department, after the grain merchants did not receive the grain, there were quite a few complaints, and the most presumptuous of them was a grain merchant surnamed Wang, who kept saying that he would let Mr. Yu to clean up you!"
Just when the grain merchants were blocked outside the fort and cursed, in the Qianhu official hall in the fort, Yang Shanlu sat in the chair of the imperial teacher and listened to Hai Jilian’s report. Since the two had a close conversation, the Supervision Department has gone well. Established, and this is the intelligence obtained by the sergeant of the Supervision Department.
After Yang Shanlu heard this, he just said noncommittal: "Hehe, it's really collusion between officials and businessmen, but is this Mr. Wang Yuanzuo that he is talking about?"
"Yes, it's him."
Yang Shanlu nodded, if that is the case, he can be called an acquaintance, because this person is the brother of Wang Papi last time, and Wang Yuanzuo, as the guard commander of the town captive, is responsible for camp operations. , Tuntian and other things, can manage Yangshan Lutou, have real power!
It's just... You think I have to listen to your greetings, that's a big mistake!
And the food merchant surnamed Wang was really anxious after carrying out this great god, and three days later, a letter was delivered to Zhenkoubao.
It clearly stated that the bumper grain harvest in Zhenkoubao was a great thing, so the grain merchant surnamed Wang came into the city to collect grain. And the signature of this letter is that of Wang Yuanzuo and Wang Yishi.
To say that this letter was written very straightforwardly, of course I think about it, this person is just a martial artist, how good is his literary talent? Maybe this letter was ghostwritten by someone else.
The meaning is even more naked/naked, that is, directly oppressing Yang Shanlu with power and agreeing to let people receive food! if not…
Unexpectedly, after Yang Shanlu saw this letter, he only replied one sentence: Forgive me!
Well, this Wang Yuanzuo was still waiting for a reply calmly, but when he heard the reply, he dropped a cup in anger! This is naked/naked, don't put him in the eyes of this Shangguan!
Although he is not Yang Shanlu's directly in charge of the superior, but as the commander of the guard, he is responsible for the entire guard station's camp operations, farming and other matters, and has real power. If it is really easy to clean up Yang Shanlu, it is very easy.
And in this way, he also remembered the past... His younger brother Wang Papi died there inexplicably, and the land was also annexed by Yang Shanlu! Although he has no direct control over this matter, he has always been skeptical, but it can't happen without any control.
But now... even this small request has been rejected, it is really tolerable or unbearable!
However, Wang Yuanzuo also has someone who understands him. When he saw him about to make a move, one of his staff reminded him: "Sir, I heard that this person has a very close relationship with the Donglu Tongzhi, we still have to be careful..."
"Huh! I can't see it—" This Wang Yuanzuo just snorted from his nose: "As far as I know, the two of them haven't seen each other for more than a year since the Donglu Tongzhi visited him last time. Now, and I don’t see this guy coming to visit during the holidays, it means that the relationship between the two is just a very accidental kind of relationship!
Otherwise, if you were replaced by you, with such a great opportunity, wouldn't you hurry up and hug this big thick leg? "
"My lord, wise!" This staff member thinks about it and thinks that it makes sense, but Yanghe Road's Donglu Tongzhi... If he replaced him, he would have desperately moved forward...
Based on this analysis, the next moment this Master Yu Shi sneered: "Actually, I am already very patient, but since you don't know how to promote, then don't blame me for being impolite!"
"Tomorrow I'm going to Zhenkoubao, if I don't knock out half of his food, I won't be surnamed Wang!" (End of this chapter)