This group of Chen clansmen looked like they were all dusty.

There are many of them, who used to be fine-skinned and tender-skinned brothers, but now they have gone through mining, worked in the workshop, and now they have been sent to this desert, at this time, the delicate skin has long been gone, and the complexion on the face is like the bark of an old elm tree, and by the way, the squeamishness on the body can not be found at all!

Life here can be described as extremely boring, and it is cold and cold, bitter and tired, but fortunately, because of the days when digging coal, it can barely hold on.

It's just that here, day after day, it seems that there is no end in sight.

Especially before that, many crops died halfway through, and after experiencing failure again and again, I didn't count in my heart.

Everyone's morale is decreasing day by day, but I am afraid that many people will inevitably complain in their hearts, how to be so decent, to come here!

As we all know, the Chen family is now in Guanzhong, and it is clear that they are becoming more and more prosperous, but what is the benefit to everyone if they suddenly come to this desert?

There was no answer in everyone's mind.

And today, someone finally cleared the loess, and then saw the fist-sized fruits showing a corner, and all of a sudden, everyone was boiling.

This situation is like being in the dark all the time, and finally finding a little light!

Some people even have tears faintly flashing in the corners of their eyes, and there is a ray of hope in the tears!

This may seem very incomprehensible to outsiders.

But only those who are here know how difficult it is to get all this, but in exchange for hardship!

Repeated attempts, arduous environment, here, there is almost no reason to survive, and now at least there is a little more color in life.

Chen Zhengde had already come barefoot, his feet were already blue from the cold, panting like a cow, and then he was panting heavily, his eyes staring at the environment here.

Chen Zhengde already understands the habits of potatoes very clearly.

In the south, it can achieve two seasons a year, and the yield per mu is amazing.

In Guanzhong, it can barely be planted in two seasons.

At this time, the climate is still humid, the rain is abundant, the Qinghai and Gansu regions of later generations, are not in the barren, the environment in the grassland, is also quite pleasant, not like the Ming Dynasty, because of the change of climate, thousands of miles of yellow sand.

This season's potatoes were planted in autumn and winter, and now they are ...... It seems that the harvest time has come.

Chen Zhengde personally squatted down, dug out a few potatoes, and took a closer look, and he probably knew what to expect.

The potatoes are of different sizes, and most of them are smaller than the potatoes in Guanzhong.

On the one hand, it is because it is not fully mature, and on the other hand, it is also the soil quality here, which is far less fertile than that of Guanzhong.

However, although the habits of potatoes are not cold-tolerant, when planting, in order to prevent frost on the ground, the Chen family has carried out some treatment on the land in this experimental field.

Therefore, Chen Zhengde's rough estimate is that in this Shuofang, the existing fruits are here, if they can be planted in late spring or early summer, they can be picked in autumn, and they can be planted once a year.

If you continue to calculate, this acre of land can also harvest about 12,300 catties.

This kind of output is nothing at all in Guanzhong, but in the desert, the meaning is completely different.

On the surface, it seems that the production here is less, but you must know that in the whole Shuofang, there is an endless amount of land. Don't say that Shuofang City will be built in the future, and it can support tens of thousands of people, even if it moves 100,200,000, or even more, it will be enough to support itself.

This means that in the future, Shuofang will not only not need to transport grain from Guanzhong, but even in the future, it will be able to hoard a large amount of grain on its own.

In addition, there are cattle and sheep raised here as a supplement to food, which will never lead to starvation.

Chen Zhengde was lying on the ground, concentrating on fiddling with the potatoes in the field, but someone had already noticed that he was barefoot, so they hurriedly found a pair of shoes for him.

Only then did Chen Zhengde come back to his senses and realize the chill under his feet!

His feet were almost frozen to the point of being unconscious, and when he wrapped his feet in a footcloth and put on his boots, he felt that his blood was smoother!

So he got up, ordered a few clansmen, and when he got closer, he said with a solemn face: "What my brother is most concerned about on weekdays is the matter of growing grain on this grassland, and now there is roughly a bottom, potatoes can be planted here, and the yield per mu is not low. ”

At this point, he paused for a moment, then continued: "Of course, the selection of seeds is the most important, and in order to make potatoes suitable for the climate here, it is necessary to choose more cold-tolerant varieties. There is no rush to these things, we will arrange them one by one later. Now that there is a harvest, let someone send a horse to report the good news! The land of this Shuofang is boundless, as long as you can grow potatoes and feed yourself, it is a great joy. ”

And this potato also has the great advantage of not requiring intensive cultivation. It is not as delicate as wheat and rice, so it is important to grow more food with less manpower.

Chen Zhengde is a real person, after saying this to everyone, he didn't stop for half a minute, so he asked people to fetch the horse, turned over directly, and said, "Let's go to other fields to have a look." ”

"Whoa."

Shuofang is too vast, precisely because the land boundary is so wide, and even the soil quality and climate of each region are different.

Chen Zhengde's experimental fields are distributed in a radius of hundreds of miles, cultivated according to different climates and soil qualities, and sometimes in order to inspect different experimental fields, he even has to take people and ride horses back and forth for several days.

In the distance, there is a gathering point in Shuofang.

Here, countless laborers came to build the city, and naturally, countless merchants came.

The construction of Shuofang City can be said to be one of the most important things for the Chen family today, and the Chen family has money, and they spare no effort to build the city, so the money will be spent like flowing water.

Naturally, it attracted a lot of merchants to come here, and even here, the merchants themselves set up their own tents, so that a simple market gradually formed.

In this market, it is said to be simple, but there is everything, but there is one feature, that is, the price of the things here is often several times that of Guanzhong!

On the one hand, the Chen family is willing to give money to the laborers, and on the other hand, it is not easy to transport a lot of commodities at this time, and it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources!

Besides, these businessmen feel that they are taking huge risks when they go out of the pass and go deep into this grassland for thousands of miles, and if they don't have high profits, they are afraid that they will not come.

And at this moment, a piece of news spread quickly, Shuofang planted grain, and the yield per mu could reach 1,000 catties!

As soon as the news came out, the people in the bazaar suddenly went crazy and were busy inquiring.

Merchants are the most sensitive to information, because they know better than anyone that news means money.

Once this news can be confirmed, then the entire Shuofang will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes.

For example, in this city...... Do you want to get a piece of land early in the future...... If you can support yourself here, then Shuofang's future is promising.

In addition, in the future, it will be more difficult to buy and sell grain here, at least it will become more difficult to stock up.

Originally, the intention of the merchants was to do some short-term business here, after all...... No one knows how long this Shuo Fang can last, maybe it's just a whim of the Chen family, anyway, what their family has is money, and it will be ruined, after all, there is no way to live in peace for a long time here!

But now it's different, grain is grown in the field, and the yield per mu is enough to feed the people here, the meaning is completely different.

This has made many businessmen have more considerations.

As a result, one by one the businessmen secretly began to repair the book, and it seemed that they began to plan something, most of them repaired the book and returned to Guanzhong, or the shopkeeper here reported to the big proprietor in Guanzhong, or the small businessman Jia repaired the book to his relatives.

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The construction of Shuofang City is a big deal for the entire Chen family, so much so that every time, the third uncle can't help but want to give himself a few slaps when he looks at the accounts.

This money spent like flowing water, a large amount of money is withdrawn, and it is obviously a huge deficit for the Chen family, who is making money every day.

The funds for the construction of the castle were increased again and again, and I originally thought that it was only rammed earth to build the city wall, but later it was found that the rammed earth could not last long, so it was decided to quarry stones and burn bricks.

Originally, the scale of the city was one or two miles in radius, but Chen Zhengtai waved his pen, it was too small, add a little more.

The third uncle even felt that the Chen family was simply sending money to all the tribes in the desert, and the Chen family had spent so much money, once they couldn't stick to Shuofang in the end, the money would be thrown into the water, and there would be no sound.

However, Chen Zhengtai is happy to add the budget.

The same money, if it is placed in Guanzhong to do business, the return is extremely amazing, but what about now......

For the decision of the head of the family, the third uncle has always followed it, this is still distressing, he didn't make a sound, but he was determined to take a look.

And Chen Zhengtai's mind at this time was in the university hall, in the university hall, after more than a dozen mock exams, it is reported that the questions have been difficult to the sky!

This makes Chen Zhengtai very pleased, this guy Li Yifu is really a talent.

However, in this court, criticism of the Chen family began to rise.

It's no wonder that they, but manpower is fundamental to the entire Guanzhong.

Now there has been some tension in the manpower of Guanzhong.

On the one hand, in order to build the city, the Chen family mobilized more than 20,000 laborers and craftsmen to the desert.

On the other hand, in order to supply these laborers, a large number of merchants recruited manpower and transported merchant's goods into the desert in an endless stream.

These are all human beings, and they are all young and strong laborers.

At the time of spring plowing this year, Fang Xuanling and others had received the notices of the state capitals, and the manpower for cultivation was reduced on a large scale, and the manpower was not available, but I was afraid that when the autumn harvest came, there would be a certain reduction in grain production, which was a little unacceptable to Fang Xuanling.

Originally, the workshop in Guanzhong attracted a lot of labor, and now because of the construction of the city, it has caused worries about the harvest, isn't this the situation when Emperor Yang of Sui built the canal?

A large amount of manpower was requisitioned, the fields were uncultivated, the grain production was reduced, the imperial court could not afford the huge cost of the canal, and the requisitioned labor could not be fed, so that the situation continued to deteriorate, until finally, countless problems erupted together.

Fang Xuanling's sad face was still on a note.

He is not easy to criticize things, after all, his identity is here, and now, even the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty has raised this worry, and for a while, people began to panic.

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Recommend a book, Tang on the smoke and rain.

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