It was still early, and the little fat man couldn't stay at home, so the two of them walked around the street, and before they knew it, they walked to the grain market again, looking at the various vendors and individuals who sold grain at a glance, Mao Yulong thought of corn again, the raw material he urgently needed. So I wanted to try my luck again to see if there was such a thing, but I still disappointed him, and everyone said that they had never heard of this thing since the older generation.

Disappointed, I didn't have the heart to go shopping anymore, so I pulled the little fat man and walked back, but just turned a corner, but saw a northwest man, squatting on the edge of an open sack, shouting loudly: "Yumai, who wants Yumai." ”

Listening to the novel name of Yumai, Mao Yulong couldn't help but squint his eyes at the sack next to the man, but this glance almost made him cry, because in the open sack mouth of the man, under the dim oil light, a golden light immediately attracted his eyeballs - corn.

This is really a thousand times in the crowd, and the emotional corn is in the sack.

Mao Yulong rushed over with an arrow step, and directly reached out and grabbed a handful in the sack, it was indeed corn, and it was still very ripe corn.

Mao Yulong asked excitedly: "This brother, do you call this thing Yumai?" Isn't it called corn? ”

Seeing that there was finally a seeming seller of his things, the man immediately said honestly: "We all call him Yumai there, and if the guest officer is willing to call him corn." Then he asked with a look of hope, "Guest officer, how much do you buy?" ”

"How many do you have? I'll buy as much as you want. ”

This honest man smiled: "Guest officer, there are a lot of these things in our hometown, but I can explain first, the food made by this thing, people like you can't eat more, they can only make it fresh, if it is fed to livestock, it is okay." ”

The ancients were honest and honest, and when they saw Mao Yulong's fine skin and tender meat, they also specially reminded them kindly.

Mao Yulong asked impatiently: "You just say how much it is, how much do you have." ”

This man carefully quoted: "Three hundred wen and one stone." Seeing that Mao Yulong didn't react, just kept staring at the corn, he said weakly: "If you wrap it round, two hundred and fifty Wen will be completed, and if it is less, I won't sell it." But seeing that Mao Yulong didn't mean to bargain, this honest man said again: "Two hundred Wen, no matter how little, I will really lose money." ”

Mao Yulong asked again: "How many do you have?" ”

The man saw that the deal could still be successful, so he said cautiously: "I will share a hundred stones with my brothers on a donkey this time, of course, if you don't want so much, we will sell the rest to others." ”

Mao Yulong smiled: "I said this brother, I want all your hundred stones, two hundred and fifty wen, just this amount." ”

This is not that Mao Yulong is poor and generous, because the amount he needs is very large, if he is just greedy for small profits, these trafficking are unprofitable, then his own supply of goods will be cut off. In order to plan for a long time, it is better to benefit each other, anyway, once the production and quality of penicillin made by yourself goes up, a small bottle can buy this hundred stones, and the rest will be earned.

Hearing that this customer bought all his corn, this man was overjoyed at that time, and directly found his scattered partners everywhere, pulled a long donkey, and sent it to the house with Mao Yulong.

After the goods were unloaded, Mao Yulong entertained him with tea, and several men said that they would not sit in the Ming Hall, but squatted on the steps of the Ming Hall, holding a large bowl of water.

While preparing silver money for them, Mao Yulong asked, "This brother, when did your family start planting this jade wheat, and how much is there?" ”

The man stood up and bowed down and replied: "This thing was planted when I hit Jiajingye, but this thing is not good for us in the northwest, but Jiuqiansui began to promote it in the northwest last year, and we began to cultivate a large area." When he said this, he was so miserable that he didn't dare to say any more.

Mao Yulong said with a smile: "Corn is drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant and high-yielding, and it is a good thing for Father-in-law Wei to let everyone sow widely." ”

As a result, the man sighed, looked left and right, and then said cautiously: "That is what I said, but this thing is very labor-intensive, and the grain produced is coarse and cannot be eaten by people, and can only be fed to livestock, and people cannot eat it, so what is the use?" For the sake of those cattle they had to take the ground and sow it, this, this—" and nothing more.

Now that the drought in the northwest has not yet appeared, the people in the northwest can still eat half full, and people have been accustomed to eating wheat since ancient times, and there is no urgent demand for other foods. It is actually quite difficult to change a person's dietary structure and habits, not to mention that in this era of semi-ignorance, even if the Chinese people have entered the stage of civilization in later generations, it is also very difficult for the government to promote any new technology.

Wei Zhongxian was born as a farmer, he is still very concerned about the suffering of the people, he promoted two very good crops to his hometown in the northwest in this era, one is this corn, and the other is a sweet potato, as a result, these two things actually failed, not only did not bring happiness to the people, did not bring prestige to Wei Zhongxian, but became a thing that harmed the peasants, and the people of the northwest also had bad comments on Wei Zhongxian.

One of the reasons for this is the difficulty of changing the inherent farming structure and mode, and the most important thing is that it is a good scripture, which is insisted on making those crooked-mouthed monks misread.

Wei Zhongxian bought enough corn and sweet potato seeds in the south, and he did not force all people to cultivate them, but once they reached the hands of local officials at all levels, it became a means to flatter Wei Zhongxian. At the same time, in order to show his political achievements, he forced the people to destroy all the winter wheat, and turned these unpopular corn and sweet potatoes into the people, which made the people angry and resentful for a while, and became a bad government of Wei Zhongxian.

At this time, the man seemed to find that Wang Yulong was quite interested in this domain name, and asked again and again: "I don't know how much Gongzi still needs, no one in our village asks about these things at all, everyone is ready to feed the livestock in their hands, if Gongzi can buy more, it will not let the people of our village lose their money." ”

Mao Yulong said with a smile: "In fact, corn is a good thing, even if it is not used as a staple food, the need for other places is also very large, for example, wine, the wine made from corn is much better than the current sorghum burning, and the cost is relatively low, and it is to feed the livestock, if you add some other feed appropriately, it will make the growth rate of the livestock increase by leaps and bounds, so it is actually very profitable and cost-effective." ”

"What Childe said is that Childe has a university question, and these things are in Childe's hands, which are treasures, and in the hands of us small people, it is simply a waste." For the economic knowledge of Mao Yulong and other later generations, these honest Northwest men don't understand it at all, and they are now concerned about who can buy the corn in their hands, and then let them try to recover some of their blood capital. "I don't know how much Childe can want, but the little ones will go back and ship it to you immediately."

Mao Yulong also felt that he was playing the piano to the cow, so he didn't say anything anymore, took the money his mother took, and handed it over with both hands: "This is the payment for this batch of goods, please count it with this brother, and then I will trouble you to go back, not too much for the time being, and strive to bring me another 500 stones within half a month." ”

The man nodded and agreed: "There is absolutely no problem with the amount that Childe needs, even if we don't sleep non-stop, we must use it for Childe." ”