Chapter 52: I'm Not a Bad Person

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan finally decided to use Luo Wentian and pay attention to his wife at most.

After chatting for a while, Qin Chuan asked people to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Wang Jizong began to write letters, one was sent to a person named Li Tang in Shuntianfu, and in his name he bought one stone of good seed jade wheat, five stones of sweet potatoes and twenty stones of taro, and asked the Beijing Dart Bureau to transport them.

The reason why Qin Chuan wants so many potato seeds is because this thing consumes seeds, you have to take a whole potato to raise seedlings and sprout, and then cut pieces to sow seeds, in later generations, planting large potatoes per mu needs about 300 catties of seeds, today's potatoes are definitely not that big, but each mu is a little less than 100 catties, that is, about one stone.

This thing is obviously very high, but the people of the Ming Dynasty do not plant much is the reason, when the wind and rain are good, the small people can produce three or four stones of grain per acre, and now there is a drought year after year, it is good to produce two stones per acre, and the amount of seeds per mu can frighten them.

You must know that one stone of grain is enough for a farmer to fill his stomach for half a year.

Sweet potato is also a very seed-consuming crop, if you use potato tuber seedlings, you also need nearly one stone of seeds per mu, but this thing can be cut potato vines to plant, carefully cultivate an acre of sweet potato vines, can be planted dozens of acres, the planting cost is much lower than potato seedlings, so sweet potato seeds do not need too much.

Sweet potatoes are a good thing, not only can they be used as food, potato leaves can also be eaten as cooked vegetables, potato vines and even roots can also be used to feed livestock, which is simply a treasure.

This thing must be planted, but Qin Chuan does not plan to plant it as a staple food, just plant some improved food appropriately, and get some forage with different tastes for the horses.

Qinchuan planted potatoes on a large scale, the amount of potatoes planted and the yield of Lou Fu in later generations are very large, and now those uncultivated mountain beams are very suitable for planting potatoes, this thing has a high yield, even if it is because of problems such as varieties and fertilizers, it is far less exaggerated than the yield of thousands of catties per mu in later generations, but the potatoes planted by Wang Jizong have three or four stones a mu during the great drought, and when the rain is sufficient, it is as high as seven or eight stones, which is more than twice the yield of wheat millet and millet and the like.

The second is corn, the mountainous land is also suitable for growing corn, and every family in the Luliang mountain area in later generations will hang a few strings of golden corn cobs at the door of their caves.

Wheat, millet and millet these staple foods, of course, have to be planted, the former has a good taste, millet and millet are the most drought and cold resistant, and now the small people in Shanxi are planting more than the latter two.

In addition to these things, you also have to plant some beans, one is to improve the diet, the other can be to raise horses, and the third is to ...... And most importantly: fertile fields.

Soybeans, black beans, mung beans, peas, red beans, etc., these legume plants are excellent green manure, there is no chemical fertilizer in ancient times, and the yield of farm fertilizer is too limited, so to maintain the fertility of the land, green manure is indispensable.

Therefore, most of the two-year three-cropping system planted by farmers in the north of the Ming Dynasty would choose to plant one season of beans to fertilize the fields.

Qin Chuan wants to raise a large number of military horses, it is not enough to rely on the meadows on the high mountains alone, and there must be enough concentrate to feed the horses, and beans must not only be planted, but also varied.

Another letter from Wang Jizong was addressed to Luo Wentian.

In the name of the Meng family, he was invited to be the shopkeeper, and the monthly money was two taels of silver, which was more than when he was a bookkeeper in the Wu family before.

With Wang Jizong's handwritten letter, coupled with the temptation of silver, Luo Wentian should not refuse.

As for Wang Jizong's monthly money, Qin Chuan gave him a high price of five taels and gave him a year's salary in advance.

The Wang family has just been robbed, and it is a funeral and a new purchase of pots and pans, and money is needed everywhere, this Qin Chuan still understands.

Wang Jizong excused himself for a long time, and after seeing that Qin Chuan's mind had been decided, he no longer refused, carried the silver, rode home on a tall horse and deposited the silver before returning.

Qin Chuan's first job was to resettle those displaced people, register and make records, screen and screen, divide labor in groups, etc., and then count and register all the assets of Mengjiazhuang, including horses and weapons, etc., all of them are classified and registered, and indicate where they went.

Song Zhiting had done some of these jobs before, but he did it with a big head, and he poked his mouth with a brush all day long.

Qin Chuan simply asked Song Zhiting to take charge of the mine, anyway, there are more than a dozen big and small stewards and bookkeepers over there, he only needs to go to two ends in three days, calculate the account books, inspect the mining area, guide and guide the work, and make a few speeches to affirm everyone's work and commend it.

Song Zhiting was so happy that he threw all the previous account books to Wang Jizong on the spot, and then took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone he used for painting, led a few old bandits and a dozen Guan Emperor soldiers, and went to Montenegro leisurely.

Wang Jizong was the opposite of him, and after getting the account book, he was busy in and out of the village.

Qin Chuan took the role of the shopkeeper, went to see Huang Liuxi, and then stood on the roof of the building to watch the scenery.

In the afternoon, the brother who had been sent to ask for a doctor returned, and a pale and half-dead doctor was taken back from Jingle County.

According to the brothers, as soon as the doctor heard that they were annoying to the Meng family, he immediately closed the door and refused to let them enter the threshold.

Several brothers took out big ingots of silver outside the door, and begged grandma to tell grandpa, but the other party was stunned and didn't open the door, only a sentence came out from inside: Who doesn't know that Lou Fumeng's family has now become a den of thieves, even if he gives more silver, he will never step into the den of thieves.

The brothers were furious, and they slammed open the gate on the spot, and took the doctor out and threw him on horseback, and brought him captive.

No one dared to stop them on the way out of the county seat, and before the gatekeepers could react, they had already rushed out of the city gate.

galloped all the way for dozens of miles, turning the elderly doctor half dead, coupled with fright, when he returned to Mengjiazhuang, the doctor could not get up.

Qin Chuan didn't blame those brothers, if it were him, he would probably do the same, so he only asked someone to bring tea and poured a few sips of the doctor, and barely came back to his soul after half a ring.

"Doctor, are you okay?"

Seeing that the little old man's pupils seemed to be able to focus, Qin Chuan squatted down and asked in a harmonious voice.

The little old man trembled, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life......"

"Cough, doctor, I'm not a bad person, my name is Qin Chuan, but the new inspection envoy of the Lou Fu Inspection Department, and also the chief steward of Mengjiazhuang, please hurry up."

When he heard these three words, the little old man's eyes lit up, but after seeing the group of fierce thieves around him, his expression darkened again.

Qin Chuan was helpless, so he had to take his arm and lift him up, and asked in a harmonious voice, "Doctor's surname?" ”

"Don't give your surname Fang."

"It turned out to be Dr. Fang, disrespectful, disrespectful, that's the case, Doctor Fang, I have a friend who was injured and caused a fever, but there is no Dr. Langzhong in Lou Fu Town, so I had no choice but to invite Dr. Fang, my friends have not learned etiquette and have acted rudely, Doctor Fang, you have to bear more."

"Wait, wait......" The little old man didn't know what to say anymore.

"Doctor Fang is magnanimous and tolerant, Qin admires it, and asks Dr. Fang to go upstairs and treat Qin's friend."

"Good, good ......"

The little old man had no idea of resisting for a long time, so he had to obediently follow him upstairs.

When he came upstairs and saw Huang Liuxi lying in the room, the little old man had a solemn face and walked over quickly, first looking at the wound, then breaking his mouth to look at his tongue, and finally taking his pulse.

Not long after, the little old man put Huang Liuxi's wrist, got up, and said apologetically to Qin Chuan: "Qin Inspection, I'm really sorry, this friend of yours has entered the body, please forgive the little old man for not being able to do anything." ”