Winter goes to spring.

In the Zhang family's fields, people are busy everywhere.

They were barefoot, holding shovels distributed by the Zhang family in their hands, and were working hard to ridge the sweet potato fields.

On the other side, Zhang Shiling and a group of teenagers are explaining the key points of planting to the old farmers:

"You can see clearly, most of these roots need to be cut off, and the old roots will also be gone, and then the seedlings will be dipped in thin mud one by one, and put them in the basket for later use.

When planting, dig pits and plant them on the ridges of the ground at intervals of half a foot.

If there is not enough moisture in the ground, you need to water it a little, but you don't need too much, half a scoop is enough.

Also, because we have wide ridges, we need to plant at left and right intervals. ”

Even though the old farmers have never planted sweet potatoes, they will naturally hear about it after they have worked in the fields all their lives.

Sweet potatoes, a new thing that the people have never grown, if they let them, who do not have much land, specially free up the field to plant...... No one will do it!

Even if you plant them for free, they will pull out the seedlings for you.

The old farmer said: If you can't plant crops well for one season, you won't marry a man for a lifetime.

Don't look at the crops that are spoiled, and it is only a matter of one season's harvest, but what is lost is their life-saving food!

"Little owner, I said you can rest assured, we, we are all people who have buried the roots of their necks in the loess, and have been tending to crops all their lives, even if we have never seen how to grow this sweet potato, but as soon as you say it, we will understand!"

An old farmer walked to the tea bucket, picked up a water scoop and poured a belly of herbal tea, and joked with a smile.

"That's it, little owner, look at the old man, he brought all the labor force in the family, he is not for anything else, just to be worthy of the twenty catties of food you give, he also has to work hard!"

In the crowd, I don't know which old man shouted.

"Go, go!"

The old man, who was called the old man, dropped the scoop in his hand and went after the old man who opened his mouth.

"Day by day, I want to earn these twenty catties of grain, but I patted my chest and said, the seedlings I planted can live, and you will grow fart crops!"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing the two of them firing their mouths, everyone burst out laughing.

The promotion of sweet potatoes will not be accepted by the people until they see the effect.

The countermeasure discussed by Zhu Cijiong and Zhang Siyuan was to use the Zhang family's own fields, and then invite the surrounding people to come over for planting, management, and harvesting.

After the process is done, the people will know the planting method.

When they saw the yield of sweet potatoes this autumn, they were afraid that they would cry and beg to plant them......

Zhu Cijiong let people introduce, not only sweet potatoes, corn, but also peanuts as oil crops.

It's a pity that in this era, there was no large-scale winter rape planted in China in later generations, but he did let people sprinkle a lot of wild spicy vegetable seeds all over the mountains.

Wild spicy vegetables are snow red, and in addition to pickled sauerkraut, the seeds of this thing can be squeezed for oil.

Even, the oil yield is higher than that of rapeseed, but the yield is somewhat low.

This thing has the advantage that it is like a weed, it can grow if it is sprinkled on the grass at will, even if it is not cultivated.

Sweet potatoes can solve the problem of food shortage, and stir-fried vegetables with oil can relieve the stomach acid caused by sweet potatoes.

These two are the ruling foundation that Zhu Cijiong laid for himself.

……

"Your Highness, I have taken out every piece of mountain land in my family to plant sweet potatoes, and I think this year's grain should be able to harvest a bumper harvest!"

Zhang Siyuan rode on the horse, looking at the busy people all over the mountains, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He has already discussed with Zhu Cijiong, building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king.

What they need to do now is to gradually infiltrate and control the entire Nanyang countryside.

Zhu Cijiong nodded: "Over there in Laohugou, there are already more than a thousand soldiers training, and by the summer of this year, they will be able to form an army, and by then, the expansion of the army will be much faster." ”

"The only deficiency is iron ore, if you buy iron ore from Anyang, this way hundreds of miles to transport in, I am afraid that it will alarm the Nanyang government......"

They sent many prospectors to the Qinling Mountains to search, but they did not find iron ore veins.

Instead, a small silver mine was discovered......

While the two were talking, a horse suddenly galloped towards them.

looked closely, and saw that the person who came turned out to be Zhang Shichuan, the eldest son of Zhang Sicheng, the third elder of the Zhang family.

"Jiuru, why are you in such a hurry?"

Jiuru is the word of Zhang Shichuan, taken from the poetry "Tianbao".

"Fourth uncle, Your Highness, hurry up and go to Gaozhuang, the news that the eldest brother just came here, someone found an iron ore in Gaozhuang, and he dragged the county master in the official mansion, so that our side can find a way to occupy it."

Zhang Shichuan hadn't dismounted yet, so he yelled eagerly.

As the core member of the Zhang family, he knew Zhu Cijiong's overall plan, and naturally knew that what they needed most was iron ore.

After getting the news, he rode around looking for the two of them.

"Gao Zhuang?"

Zhu Cijiong's eyes widened.

The ocean of memories was suddenly ignited by the lead......

He remembered that in his previous life, he forgot where he had seen it, in the inner countryside Gaozhuang-Houwan generation, there was indeed a hematite vein, and I heard that the proven reserves were 100 million tons.

"Uncle, let's go! Jiuru, you go and shout more people! ”

Zhu Cijiong patted the horse and left.

It's really dark!

They searched for iron ore all over the mountains, but they didn't expect that the hematite that was most suitable for mining in this era was actually at the foot of the big cottage!

Zhang Siyuan's face was also very embarrassed:

"Your Highness, when necessary, I'm afraid we have to start something in advance!"

Gaozhuang is at the foot of Shamao Mountain in Taoxi Town, not far from Laojun Mountain, where the big cottage is located.

……

Neixiang County Ya, Zhang Shili sat under the order of Chen County, holding the tea cup in his hand, but did not put it down:

"Chen County, this official has something unclear."

"I'll explain it to you when I get back." Chen Meiqi's teeth itched, but she had to be patient:

"Xiya, the dynasty does not have a county, the lord is thin, all kinds of affairs are pressed on the Xiya, the Xiya has a heavy burden and is busy with tasks, so let's go back and serve the country!"

Xiya is the elegant name of the classic history.

Because the site of the canonical history office is on the west side of the second hall of the county government, it is called such.

Facing Zhang Shili, Chen Mei really had no choice.

Compared with qualifications, a young man under the age of thirty is already a dignified person.

And he is just a lucky little showman.

Compared with the background, he is the eldest grandson of the Baishui Zhang family and the nephew of the history of the government office.

And he only got the position of this county order by relying on flattery, before and after the saddle.

Compared with his family background, when he was in his hometown, he couldn't even talk about his wife when he was poor.

And people ...... Is Whitewater Zhang still short of money?