On the first day of June, all water conservancy and road projects were stopped, and the summer wheat harvest began.

Today, Jingle and Lanxian have a total population of 38,000, including 5,000 workers in the Guan Imperial Army, 7,000 workers in several mines and brick factories in Montenegro and Hongli Mountain, nearly 2,000 workers in the gun factory, gun factory, gunpowder factory, saltpeter factory, armor workshop, knife and gun farming tool forging workshop, and 500 female workers in the weaving workshop.

Together with the officials of the various divisions and the managers of the various factories and workshops, this part of the population accounts for about 15,000 people.

The population of homesteaders, middle-aged households, and merchants who own land in the two places combined is only about 3,000.

The remaining 20,000 people are the hungry people taken in by Qinchuan, the tenants left behind by the major households, and the long-term workers.

These people were placed in various villages of Loufu, Jingyou and Jingle Lancheng, including the elderly and children who could get off the field and counted half of the laborers, with a total of about 15,000 laborers, who were the main force of farming in Qinchuan.

There are as many as 50,000 acres of winter wheat in Jingle Lan County, and it takes four or five to harvest this 15,000 laborers, because they are in a hurry, Qinchuan asked several workshops such as mines, brick factories, and weaving workshops to temporarily suspend work, and transferred 7,000 workers to help and strive to harvest the wheat in three ways.

Emperor Guan's army had to block all the main roads and garrison various towns, and there were not many troops that could be deployed, and Qin Chuan only transferred 1,500 troops to maintain order.

In addition, he also asked Luo Daniu to quietly move the 700 Xiandeng camp to the east and ambush it on a mountain ridge twenty miles east of Jiaoqu Farm.

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King Ning's Mansion has 8,000 acres of fertile land in the Loufu Valley, and all of them are planted with winter wheat.

The last time the Tao steward of Ninghua Mansion came, Qin Chuan proposed that he would manage the 8,000 acres of farmland in the palace and would send rent to Ninghua Mansion every year.

The Tao steward was still playing with him at that time, and on the way back, he was killed by Luo Daniu leading the camp.

After Steward Tao escaped back, the matter of the Grange was naturally gone, and only Zhu Minji, the king of Ninghua, played Qin Chuan to attack and kill his guards, intending to rebel, and it didn't take long for the imperial army to come.

Obviously, Zhu Minji, the king of Ninghua, is unwilling, or he can disdain to let Qin Chuan manage these farms.

Others may be afraid of Qin Chuan, but the Ming clan is unlikely to be afraid.

Zhu Minji's palace guards were obviously beaten by Qin Chuan, and they hurt a lot, but they dared to send palace guards to rob his wife.

From this, it can be seen that Zhu Minji is a real pig.

As a result of the robbery, Steward Tao was slashed to death, and more than half of the 300 guards of Ninghua Mansion and Jin Wangfu were killed and wounded, and the losses were heavy.

When Zhu Minji received the news, he was first shocked and angry, scolded angrily and wrote a note, and then ran to the Jin Palace, to cry with his nephew, Zhu Xianxuan, the son of the King of Jin.

But Zhu Xianxuan couldn't do anything except write and scold Qin Chuan angrily.

Because there are no soldiers under the command of the Jin Palace.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Jin Wangfu originally had nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses in the Taiyuan Three Guards, but they were later abolished, and only 500 guards of the Honor Guard Division were left in the Jin Palace.

In fact, most of these honor guards are honor guards, and they can't fight at all, and later the palace secretly trained a group of guards to fill the honor guard division, so there were 500 guards.

But when Zhu Minji sent Steward Tao to Lou Fu, he borrowed a hundred guards, and was attacked and killed on the way back, and the hundred guards were almost dead.

Not long ago, when Zhu Minji sent Steward Tao to Fenyang to rob his relatives, he borrowed 200 guards, but he was attacked and killed again, with more than 150 dead and wounded.

Now, there are only two hundred and sixty guards left in the Jin Palace, and this little soldier and horse can't do anything.

Zhu Xianxuan also couldn't move the soldiers and horses of Taiyuan and Yangqu, and the only thing he could do was to go up.

The only thing Zhu Minji can do is wait.

Waiting and waiting, Zong Yi, who was in charge of the grange in the house, suddenly came to tell him that the grain in the Loufu Valley was ready to be harvested, but the villagers of Jiaoqu Farm had already run out, and no one was harvesting wheat there, and if they didn't find a way to harvest it, the wheat would have to fall into the ground.

Zhu Minji was in a hurry, his Ninghua Mansion was not like other princes, who could not move hundreds of thousands or even millions of acres of cultivated land at every turn, and he only had less than 50,000 mu.

Among them, the fields in the Loufu Valley are adjacent to the water source, which is the best fertile land, and 8,000 acres of land can harvest 8,000 stone wheat.

In a hurry, Zhu Minji hurriedly asked the government to take out grain to recruit short-term workers and hungry people, and recruited 3,000 hungry people in just a few days, and then he went to the Jin Palace, cried to his nephew, and asked for a hundred guards.

But there were less than a hundred guards left in his Ninghua Mansion, which was not enough to monitor the hungry people, so he recruited a group of scoundrels from the city, gathered enough five hundred rao guards, and led two thousand hungry people to the Loufu Valley in mule and horse carts, ready to harvest the eight thousand acres of wheat.

After two days of travel, the team finally arrived at Jiaoqu Farm.

The farmers on the farm had long since run out, and they were to stay here for a while until the wheat harvest was complete and transported back to Taiyuan.

Second, the temporarily recruited hungry began to go down to the fields to harvest, while the royal guards patrolled the surroundings.

The fields of the palace are connected with the fields of Qinchuan, and the people of Qinchuan are also cutting wheat there, and the people on both sides are safe and sound.

But because Qin Chuan repeatedly banned it, the people did not dare to get too close to those hungry people, for fear of being infected with the plague.

The guards of the palace naturally did not dare to provoke Emperor Guan's army, and Emperor Guan's army did not embarrass them, but only patrolled outside Lou Fu Town, not allowing them to get close to Lou Fu.

The two sides just cut the wheat in peace.

After three years, all the 50,000 acres of winter wheat in Jinglelan County were cut.

Qin Chuan immediately asked Wang Jizong to divide the people into two batches, one group of people milled ears of wheat to produce wheat, dried wheat straw, and kept it to ferment and feed livestock.

Qin Chuan knew about this wheat straw fermentation, and he was very curious about why he fed livestock after fermenting wheat straw and corn oranges in his rural hometown before he crossed over, and he also did a lot of this work with his family, and he remembered the whole process deeply.

Another group of people immediately began to sow seeds, striving to sow all the 50,000 acres of land by the 10th day of June.

When the year is good, after the winter wheat of the two-year-old three-cropping system is harvested, soybeans will be planted, which can not only fertilize the fields, but also be used as food, oil extraction, and horse feeding.

But soybeans take five or six months to mature, and now it is an ice age, the autumn will be cold very quickly, it is estimated that Lou Fu will start to be cold in October, and the suitable time for crop growth is only less than four months, at that time the soybeans must not be ripe, and the harvest will definitely be greatly reduced as soon as the gas cools down.

Therefore, these 50,000 acres of land are planted with crops with short growth cycles, such as black beans, soybeans, red beans, millet, sorghum, and corn, which are sown in mid-June and can mature from September to early October, and can be harvested before the cold.

In addition, it is necessary to plant vegetables such as carrots, white radish, and Chinese cabbage that have a shorter growth cycle.

The 8,000 acres of land in the Ninghua Mansion were fully harvested.

When the people began to sow seeds, the hungry people were still harvesting wheat.

Most of the wheat has been pulled back to Jiaoqu Farm, where it is threshing and drying, and then transported back to Taiyuan.

When the harvest of 8,000 acres of land was completed, Lao Huang, a self-cooked man, ran to brag and fart with the palace guards, this area has not been peaceful recently, I don't know where to fight and a group of thieves came to hide, hiding in the mountains of Jingle and Xinzhou, their family has sent troops to suppress it several times, and has not found anyone.

These words frightened the guards into turning pale and overwhelmed.

When the wheat had been harvested, it was dried in batches and then pulled back in batches by mule carts.

But as soon as they heard that there were thieves nearby, those guards couldn't wait, and a few stewards decided to pull a batch back first, and then return to the palace to dry, anyway, there are places in the house to dry.

On the second day, 200 mule and horse-drawn carts loaded with wheat left Jiaoqu Farm and headed for Taiyuan.

He was accompanied by only three hundred guards.

When they were about to spend the night at the mouth of the furnace, a group of cavalry, about seven or eight hundred people, suddenly appeared on the northeast ridge, roaring towards them.

The palace guards and the accompanying coachmen were suddenly terrified.