Yan Siyin and Zhang Yingchang finally left in disgrace and went straight back to Fenyang to garrison.

Emperor Guan, who went to Jiexiu, bought back more than 100 earthen jars and incense candles, and Qin Chuan also had dozens of coffins nailed, and all the remains were collected into clay jars or coffins, and buried them halfway up the mountain.

When he set out on the expedition, Qin Chuan deliberately brought the head of the Tongtian Pillar that had been sealed with lime for more than half a year.

Qin Chuan personally stuck a human head in front of the grave with a spear, slaughtered three sheep to worship, and then waved his army south.

It's time to find trouble with Zhang Bingzhong and Li Hongji.

It's time to get Li Biaofeng's head.

On the second day of the first day of Jiuji Mountain, the clear sky suddenly surged, and black and oppressive dark clouds soon gathered over Taiyue Mountain.

Seeing this situation, Qin Chuan hurriedly asked Emperor Guan's army to set up camp on a mountain beam.

He carried ample tents with him, a small amount of which was sewn from cowhide, and most of them from thick coarse cloth coated with tung oil, to protect him from rain and wind.

As soon as enough tents were erected, raindrops the size of beans fell from the sky, followed by a torrential downpour.

Qin Chuan stood at the door of the tent and stretched out his hand to let the raindrops the size of beans fall on his palms.

From March to now, it has been dry for half a year, and finally it has rained again.

……

This wet monsoon swept from the southeast and swept through the northwest, moistening the arid land again.

Lou Fu Mengjiazhuang, Wang Jizong and a group of officials from the Agricultural Department of the Household Administration Department wore Confucian robes and ran out of the village excitedly, looking at the people dancing in the rain in Lou Fu Town, with smiles on their faces.

Not long ago, Jingle and Lanxian sowed a total of 60,000 acres of crops, those crops are in the jointing period, which is the most scarce time, and there are 40,000 acres of spring-sown crops are heading, which also need a lot of water.

In previous years, there was a lot of rain at this time of July, and it seems that God didn't make too much trouble, and it finally rained in time.

The summer rain is always short-lived, and this rain is no different, it only rains for a quarter of an hour before stopping.

However, the summer rain was also intensive, and it rained six more times in the next half month.

Wang Jizong and the officials of the agricultural department began to lead the people to drain the ridges of the fields to prevent the crops from drowning.

The water levels of several reservoirs dug last year, such as Xitougou, had already bottomed out, but after a few rains, they were filled with water again, and more than 20 new reservoirs dug in Jingle and Lan counties this year were also filled with water.

In the second half of the year, there is likely to be no rain, and the summer crops will not be harvested until October, with a dry period of more than two months in between, during which the farmland near the river will be fine, the land will not be too dry, and water can be drawn from the river by water wheel, or directly irrigated.

The rest of the farmland far from the water source will be irrigated by the more than 20 ponds and reservoirs.

Since it only takes more than two months to cope, the more than 20 reservoirs can irrigate nearly 20,000 mu of farmland, which should barely meet the needs of those dry lands.

In other words, the water conservancy farming in Jingle Lan County is on the right track.

The existing 100,000 acres of arable land can feed about 40,000 people, and with the continuous influx of hungry people and captives from Mianshan, there are now more than 42,000 people in Jinglelan County, and there is still a steady stream of hungry people pouring in.

This amount of cultivated land is certainly not enough, but there are a large number of abandoned fields in Jinglelan County, and there are also a large number of wasteland suitable for reclamation, these abandoned farmland and wasteland are being reclaimed every day, Qinchuan's plan is to have 150,000 acres of cultivated land by the end of the year, plus the grain brought by the iron trade, the meat produced by animal husbandry, not only can feed about 70,000 people, but also can save a certain amount of surplus grain.

Along with the reclamation of farmland, water conservancy projects must not be left behind, large and small reservoirs and reservoirs will continue to be built, and the surrounding mountains will continue to be planted with pastures and low shrubs that can not only maintain water and soil, but also raise cattle and sheep.

If the surrounding mountains are green, the springs on the mountains will not dry up, and with the springs, small streams will be formed, and many small streams will converge into rivers, and the original seasonal rivers will become flowing all year round.

……

Shandong Dezhou, Yang's firm name.

Yang Xingye sat on the Taishi chair, picked up the teacup and poured a cup of tea, and a maid next to him came over with a fan very cleverly and played a fan on the side.

Yang Yexing wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, this ghost weather is going to be hot.

"Good news, good news."

The shopkeeper of the business held a pile of letters in his hand, and ran in sweating profusely, and he didn't have time to wipe the sweat, so he ran to Yang Yexing and said excitedly: "The owner, after we scattered the Lou Fu iron material and iron pot, there were several business posts just now, saying that they were going to visit the door and discuss the matter of Lou Fu Iron with the owner. ”

"Oh?"

Yang Yexing stood up excitedly: "Quick, bring the worship post quickly." ”

"Huh."

The shopkeeper hurriedly handed over a stack of prayer notes in his hand.

Yang Yexing took it, unfolded it one by one, and smiled from ear to ear after a while.

"Quick, let the back kitchen prepare the wine and food, and the owners of those shops will arrive in the late afternoon."

"Huh."

The shopkeeper went with joy.

Yang Yexing took the greeting post and smiled from ear to ear on the chair.

Not long ago, after his grain and silver were transported to Lou Fu, he found that Lou Fu had one more thing: an iron pot.

The quality is no less than that of the Guang pot, and it is even more uniform than the Guang pot, and it is also more resistant to falling.

At that time, Lord Qin had already set out on the expedition, and Luo Wentian didn't know where to go, and he was received by Yan Sanqi and a scribe named Wencheng whom he had met.

At that time, the price offered by Wencheng was one tael of silver for a three-foot cauldron, five dollars for a one-foot-eight-inch medium pot, two coins for a one-foot-two-inch small pot, and one silver for the smallest eight-inch small pot.

Yang Yexing felt that the price was expensive when he heard it, but when he got the Lou Fu iron pot, his eyes immediately lit up, he knocked and touched, and set it on the stove to cook rice to try the heat and heat retention.

After some tossing, Yang Yexing slapped his thigh, and according to the price Wen Cheng said, he was annoyed by the iron pot.

But Wencheng said that he couldn't afford it, because after a while, the output of Lou Fu iron pot will be very large, with an output of more than 20,000 mouths a month.

Hearing these words, Yang Yexing opened his mouth wide at that time, and he was speechless.

Several pot factories in Foshan, Guangdong Province have a total of more than 3,000 craftsmen, and the monthly output is only more than 10,000 yuan.

This poor and remote town of Lou Fu is really unpredictable.

Yang Yexing was not hypocritical, even if he contracted more than 500 iron pots that had just been produced.

Just two days ago, it had just been transported back to Texas, and it took nearly 20 days to travel 800 miles by land.

In fact, the cost of Yang Yexing's large-scale purchase of grain is much lower than that of the market, and when he transports grain to settle the payment, he has already earned enough round-trip freight, which is equivalent to saving the freight of iron materials and iron pots.

When he returned to Texas, he immediately asked people to take raw wrought iron and iron pots to various large trading houses, in addition to a few commercial houses that cooperated with him to go to Shandong or the north, there were also a few commercial houses that sold foreign goods.

He planned to sell a large amount of pig iron for two taels of silver per 100 catties, wrought iron for 100 catties for four taels, a three-foot large iron pot for one tael and five cents, a one-foot-eight-inch medium iron pot for eight cents, a small pot for three cents, and an eight-inch small pot for one and a half cents.

Small transactions should be added to 10%, and bulk sales in stores should be added 30%.

If he can sell at this price, he will be able to earn more than 2,000 taels of silver every time he runs Lou Fu, which is more than 20,000 taels a year.

It's not a small deal.

Lou annoyed iron material and iron pot did not disappoint him, just two days after it was scattered, the owners of those few businesses came running on poles.

After all, Lou Fu's raw and cooked iron is better than Guangtie and Fujian Iron, and the iron pot is not inferior to the Guangguo, and the price he prescribes is a little cheaper than the Guangguo.

Just after noon, the proprietors of those businesses arrived, and Yang Xingye welcomed everyone into the door with a smile on his face, and ordered people to serve wine and food.

After they were full of wine and food, those people put the business on the table to talk, but Yang Yexing insisted on the previous price and had a lot of money.

The two sides have been talking about the beginning of the lanterns, and the owners of those businesses have compromised.

In the next few days, Yang Yexing talked with each business separately one by one, and within a few days, the 400,000 catties of raw wrought iron and 500 iron pots he brought back from Lou Fu were all divided.

Some were sold to Jinan, Qingzhou and Denglai, some to Beijing, some to Nanzhili, and some to the sea from Shandong to North Korea and Japan.

In just this transaction, Yang Yexing earned 2,800 taels of silver.

After the goods were sold, he began to prepare to go to Loufu again and transport another batch of goods.

This time, he had to buy not only grain to pay for the goods, but also bronze, brass, lead and tin, raw silk, silk, paint, saddles, paper, spices, and so on.

He negotiated with Wen Cheng that he could use these goods to transport them to pay for the goods, but the price must be reasonable, once he found out that he was a few cheaters, he wouldn't want to bother him in the future.

Of course, he was happy to do so, which meant that he could earn a little from the goods, and although he didn't earn much, the mosquito legs were also meat.

Bronze brass, lead and tin are not difficult things for him, Texas is the center of transportation, there are countless kinds of goods to and fro, and he himself has a source of goods, and a firm he cooperates with is specially smuggling brass from Japan, and he uses pig iron to exchange brass with that firm, and the cost is much lower than the market price.

In this way, he can earn more.