Yang Dudu's next stop was Wujiang.

The situation here is similar to that in the Jiangyin area, which can basically be said to be an ocean.

It should be said that it is more serious here.

After all, this is different from Jiangyin, which is easy to drain water by the Yangtze River, and it is deep inland, no matter which way it is difficult to drain water, on the contrary, Taihu Lake, which receives the surrounding floods, will also pour here, but fortunately, when Yang Xin arrived in Wujiang, the rainy day that lasted for more than a month finally ended. But the sun comes out means that the submerged land will soon be rotten, and then countless flies will spread the terrible plague everywhere in the hot summer.

Therefore, the situation of epidemic prevention is very serious.

"Let's plant sweet potatoes!"

Yang Xin said to the gentry who had been summoned.

If the Jiangyin area can barely grab rice, it will be too late in this area, and it will take longer for the water to recede in this area, but for the gentry, of course, they still have to plant rice, and it is useless for them to grow sweet potatoes......

"You don't have to put on this appearance, I'll collect your sweet potatoes when the time comes."

He went on to say.

"Is the governor serious?"

An old countryman said cautiously.

"Deed."

Yang Xin said very simply.

He directly signed a contract with these gentry who controlled the vast majority of the land in Wujiang, and how many sweet potatoes he would buy from here after the autumn harvest this year, just like the grain merchants and farmers in later generations, so that these guys could grow sweet potatoes, and now he had to let these guys who were used to living a good life get used to sweet potatoes. The main thing is to plant sweet potatoes and then plant winter wheat, if the harvest of late rice is frosted, it is impossible to plant wheat at that time, but sweet potatoes don't matter, even if they are harvested in advance for planting wheat, and sweet potatoes are shorter than late rice growth periods.

It has to be a month shorter.

But they're not actually growing late rice.

Are they species yellow? Rice.

Of course, it's not just yellow? rice, as well as red indica, black millet and a whole bunch of others.

These things that are almost unknown to modern people have a characteristic, can be live, and the growth period is extremely short, known as sixty days, can be guaranteed to be planted after the water recedes, and the polders that are currently waterlogged by artificial vehicles can be sown, although sixty days is exaggerated, but the absolute harvest within three months, does not delay the autumn sowing, but the yield is lower than that of ordinary varieties.

This is especially red indica, that is, red indica rice, which was tested by the last flood.

As for the yellow? Rice......

This kind of thing belongs to the legends of ancient China.

Really, the value of this kind of thing in the Song Dynasty far exceeded that of Zhancheng rice, and the introduction of Zhancheng rice was not the number one hero of the Southern Song Dynasty to feed a population of more than 100 million people in such a little place, and the number one hero was actually this name submerged in history.

Champa rice was only used for mountain terraces, which solved the problem of rice detachment from the plains.

This kind of rice seed, which was specially used in the polders and replanted after the flood receded, is all over the records of the literati of the Song Dynasty, but the name Champa rice is extremely rare, especially in this core land of the Southern Song Dynasty, until Xu Guangqi still admired this rice in his articles. This fast-growing rice seed is also the main guarantee for the maintenance of two crops a year in this area, although in fact it is a substitute, and the real two crops a year are winter wheat, rapeseed, and then ordinary rice.

Especially canola.

Only in the polders, after the floods, do you plant yellow? Rice.

Of course, modern people don't know about Huang anymore? What does rice look like?

But at this time, it is still replanted by it, it is like a reed, it is not afraid of water at all.

As for the red indica, it was only introduced from Jiangxi during the Wanli period, and this modern degraded to an extremely niche rice variety was also specially developed for polders and post-flood replanting.

Therefore, the people have the means to deal with disasters, and they have fought against floods for thousands of years, and they have more experience than Yang Xin.

However, Yang Xin still wants to encourage the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

Because in the years that followed, the most terrible thing in this land was not the flood, but the widespread drought. Rice or red indica have stepped aside, and nothing is better suited to the future climate than sweet potatoes. Not only do they sign contracts here, but they also have to sign contracts in other places, and they have to plant sweet potatoes locally at a loss, and they will keep this crop as long as they experience a drought, whether there is a drought or not, they are always prepared.

Besides, can red indica eat rice seedlings? Can red indica provide food throughout the growth cycle?

Sweet potatoes can.

In short, Yang Xin quickly signed their own sweet potato supply contracts with these gentry, and the price was slightly higher at most according to the current purchase price in Fujian, and they couldn't buy it from Fujian to pit themselves, as for the seeds, he gave them away for free, anyway, it didn't take much to do this, and the sweet potatoes he shipped were just divided.

Can you grow yellow in this way? Rice, red indica and other replanting crops are planted with this, those who can grow sweet potatoes are planted with sweet potatoes, and even turnip seeds are also obtained.

Receding water does not mean receding quickly.

It's better to have a little more supply in the winter than nothing.

"I'm heartbroken for you."

Yang Dudu said with emotion.

"The governor can actually take a rest, I heard that the governor has no heirs so far, and it is time to go back and accompany his wife more."

An old countryman said sincerely.

They are really sincere, this bastard forced them to donate 200,000 stone of rice after a trip, and sold more than 1 million stone at a flat price, this scourge is unlucky wherever it goes, and they really hope that he can stop the pace of causing trouble in the world. However, it is true that Yang Dudu has no heirs, and a group of wives have not moved so far, although Yang Dudu is very confident, but rumors about his inhumanity are still quite popular among the gentry.

"Time is running out! How many things are never urgent, the world is turning, time is pressing, 10,000 years is too long, just seize the day! ”

Yang Dudu said very boldly.

Then the townsmen left with contempt, and then he also walked out and continued to deliver canned food with his men......

Produced in Jiangyin.

Many of his boats that deliver grain can do this, and these boats are equipped with fishing nets to catch fish as food when needed, so after arriving in Jiangyin, he directly gave the nets to the local fishermen according to his orders, leaving the local militia who can make canned food to guide the local militia to make this. The clay pots were purchased from Nanjing, the fuel was directly bought with coal, and the first batch of cans were directly grabbed and protected animals as he said, and they were immediately sent to him to make contributions.

As for the previous ones, they had already been divided when they were in Suzhou.

Three days later, Sheng Ze.

This famous town in the south of the Yangtze River was also surrounded by floods.

"What is this for?"

Yang Xin looked at a group of children with grass on their heads on the side of the road.

A well-dressed woman was looking at a little girl, who was crying pitifully, and behind her, who should have been her parents, was also wiping her tears there.

"Selling children, when it comes to disaster years, this kind of thing is everywhere, these are bought are some private prostitutes, buy them back and raise them, and when the children are older, the adoptive mother is also old and decrepit and no one comes to the door, just use this child to make money, if you can be accepted by the rich and noble, basically the second half of your life will be guaranteed."

Li Zhong said.

The little girl looked at him curiously and weeping.

This one looks like he's only six or seven years old, and he's pretty cute even though he's in tattered clothes.

"Bought it, give me a daughter!"

Yang Dudu said.

It's better to buy it back and make the ladies happy.

It's like having a cat.

After all, a bunch of wives have no children so far, which is also very depressing, although he is confident that he has no problem, but the family still needs a child after all.

"And her parents?"

Li Zhong said.

Yang Dudu's adopted daughter is not an ordinary person, and if he is his adopted daughter, the little girl's parents will easily follow him.

"Does this have anything to do with her parents?"

Yang Xin said.

Li Zhong immediately understood.

At this time, the woman had already negotiated the price, and someone next to her was holding the official deed, and was about to let the girl's parents make the deed, Li Zhong went over like a wolf and pushed him away, grabbed the written official deed and tore it up. The man looked at him in amazement, including the parents and the woman with the same shocked expressions, but the red scarf around Li Zhong's neck instantly made them take a step back.

"How much silver?"

Li Zhong shouted.

"Ten, ten taels."

The woman said tremblingly.

Li Zhong directly took out two ingots of ten taels of silver and threw them to the pair of parents, and then pulled the little girl away, and the parents behind looked at the two ingots of silver and immediately looked at the woman with an embarrassed face......

"Xu Xingshou, look at ......"

The man stopped talking.

The woman snorted and walked away.

Of course, Yang Dudu was not interested in looking at this, he was just looking at the scene in front of him almost half a street, where those who had been stricken and could not afford to feed their children were putting their children on the side of the street, and the same prostitutes, human teeth, gentry and housekeepers, and the like were like buying vegetables, where they were picking and choosing what was pleasing to the eye. This little girl is considered ten taels high, most of them are actually only a few taels of silver, and even some of them are already thirteen or fourteen, and they have also been pushed out by their parents.

"A family of five taels of silver, as many as they can that they don't sell!"

He said to Li Zhong.

He can't handle this kind of thing.

And then this will happen everywhere.

At this time, a fast horse chased after him, and the brocade guard on the horse ran to him in the midst of a crowd of chickens and dogs, and dismounted and saluted......

"Governor, Xuzhou urgently, the Yellow River in Xuzhou burst its embankment, flooding Pisu Sui and other downstream for one hundred and fifty miles, Xu Shangshu wants to ask the governor to go to Xuzhou immediately to prevent the people from changing and guide the Cao Yun."

The latter said.

"So serious?"

Yang Xin said unexpectedly.

He only remembered the breach of the Yellow River in Xuzhou, but he didn't know that it was so serious, in fact, there was often a burst of embankment, and it was also decided once last year, of course, Xu Honggang, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, was not anxious about the people of Xuzhou, he was anxious about the Cao Yun, this situation The canal must be finished, even if it can barely maintain navigation, and then it will have to face the hungry and crazy victims.

Other than that......

The other is to get him away quickly.

Anyway, he is in Nanjing, and everyone is under a lot of pressure.

"Back to the capital, the entire city of Xuzhou was razed."

The brocade guard said.

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