Chapter 34: A Bumper Harvest of Sweet Potatoes

With serious injuries, Qin Yiming found Xu Zhen'er hiding in the grass with difficulty.

Xu Zhen'er was holding the stones she touched on the ground at the moment, vigilant around, and after finding out that it was Qin Yiming, she couldn't hold back anymore, and the tears as big as beans burst out of her beautiful eyes, which made people feel distressed, but seeing Qin Yiming's arm bleeding, knowing that he was injured, she couldn't hold back her crying, and wanted to struggle to get up and help Qin Yiming stop the wound, but her feet hurt, and the whole number of people went to the center of gravity, and as a result, she pulled Qin Yiming and fell down together.

happened to pull Qin Yiming down on his body, men and women, looking at each other, breathing each other's breath together.

Xu Zhen'er blinked her eyes desperately, the blood flow accelerated, her heart beat wildly, and her face was crimson.

Qin Yiming looked at the beauty in front of him so closely, the smoking eyebrows seemed to be frowning, the eyes were full of spring water, the clear waves were longing, the corners of the eyes were slightly raised, although the gray face, but it could not hide the snow-white skin that could be broken by the blow, the two small vermilion lips were tightly closed, the soft body was forcibly tightened, and there was a faint body fragrance.

"What's the matter, Miss Zhen'er wants to be lighthearted?" Qin Yiming said with a wicked smile.

Xu Zhen'er was already nervous and scared to death, her cheeks were crimson and hot, but she was even more angry when she was so mocked by Qin Yiming, who was this who was light? A big man is still being thinned by a woman?

Xu Zhen'er unceremoniously threw a shy little iron fist on Qin Yiming's chest, causing the dust on Qin Yiming's body to fly all over the sky, lice fell all over the ground, pinched and twisted, and said coquettishly: "You...... You....... Scoundrels, scoundrels, scoundrels! The mouth was unforgiving and scolding, but it was very sweet in her heart, she realized for the first time that happiness was so simple, and she felt happiness when she was so close to Qin Yiming.

"Young Master Qin, where are you!" The rough voice of the big cow resounded throughout the mountains and forests, pulling the two back into the real world.

"Miss, where are you?" Yue'er's crisp voice also sounded.

The two of them immediately escaped from the small world of two people, one arm and hand, and the other leg and foot were inconvenient, and they helped each other out, Xu Zhen'er was busy tidying up her clothes, for fear that others would misunderstand that they were cheating here, but when they came out, there were at least hundreds of people coming up from this mountain, on one side were the Xu family's family members, two or three hundred people, on the other hand, there were soldiers from the guard, and there were more than a hundred people, everyone's eyes were on them, all kinds of looks, which made Xu Zhen'er and Qin Yiming quite embarrassed, Xu Zhen'er was trying to explain something, but she was afraid that there were no three hundred taels of silver here.

"Young Master, are you injured?" Da Niu saw Qin Yiming's arm and immediately ran over to help, but the force was too strong, and Qin Yiming's sweat beads were about to come out.

Xu Zhen'er hurriedly reprimanded and said, "You are lighter, Brother Qin's hand is injured." ”

"Huh? Young master, is it serious? ”

The big cow was in a hurry, but the others saw what the big cow couldn't see. For example, the careful Yue'er can see the abnormal behavior of her young lady and look at her anxiousness.

"It's a small thing, it's not a big deal!" Qin Yiming moved his arm, and Da Niu was relieved.

"Young Master, what are you and Miss Xu doing here?" The little monkey of the chicken thief saw the problem at a glance, and Xu Zhen'er listened with her ears pricked up next to her.

Yue'er had long seen that her young lady had a problem with her legs and feet, and she also asked long and short questions, but she was more concerned about why the two of them ...... She clearly saw her young lady and this Qin Qianhu coming out of the grass, no wonder the young lady cared so much about Qin Qianhu, it seemed that they had worked together for something.

"How did you find here? What about Lord Sun, is he safe? Qin Yiming immediately changed the topic.

"This morning, Master Sun sent someone to inform us, saying that he should quickly bring someone here to pick up the young master and Miss Xu, I think the people of the Xu family should have also received a notice from Master Sun!"

Yue'er nodded and said, "Miss, I'm worried about death, Lord Sun told me that you are here, so I brought all the family members of our family, and let me meet those gangsters, I must beat them hard!" Xiao Yue'er was furious, grabbing her little iron fist and hating.

"I've all killed those people, let's stop standing here stupidly, let's go back quickly." Qin Yiming was afraid that these people would ask him and Xu Zhen'er about it again, and Xu Zhen'er also agreed, the two of them were very embarrassed here.

Pingli Fort is not the same as it used to be.

Since Qin Yiming set up the incentive policy, these incentive policies can be said to have successfully induced everyone's atmosphere, in any corner of Pingli Fort, you may see someone lifting stone locks, someone practicing bows and arrows, and Pingli Fort's armament has also been slowly established, at the beginning Qin Yiming spent money to buy some weapons and equipment, and now he has built a blacksmith shop of a certain scale, in which there are more than a dozen blacksmith masters, beating day and night, forging swords, and the training of soldiers has also begun to take effect, Now Qin Yiming has fifty people in the shield battalion, two hundred in the bow and arrow battalion, and two hundred in the spear battalion.

Just such a few people, but the equipment is still not enough, in the final analysis, there is still a lack of money, and his own family has been spent, and now he has made another 60,000 taels by the living Buddha, but this 60,000 taels he is ready to establish a supply and marketing cooperative in Pinglibao, this supply and marketing cooperative specializes in buying and selling all the living needs of the people in Pinglibao, and there is also a loan function, etc., as long as he does a good job of this supply and marketing cooperative, the military households will not be exploited by the outside profiteers and loan sharks in the future, and he wants to build Pinglibao into a small society.

When the sweet potatoes are ripe, the people of the entire Pingli Fort are looking forward to the day when the ground is broken, because Qin Yiming told them that the yield of sweet potatoes is very amazing, and they don't need to starve in the future, they believe Qin Yiming, as long as it is what Qin Yiming says, they all believe it, because Qin Yiming has never disappointed them.

In fact, Qin Yiming has no bottom in his heart, if he wants to say that this sweet potato planting, he knows, in later generations, he often goes to his grandparents' house to live, and he personally planted sweet potatoes when he was a child, he clearly remembers that when it rains in the spring, his grandfather will take the hat to the hillside to cut those sweet potatoes vine man back, and then grandpa and grandma will cut those long rattans into knots again, and then take advantage of the rain to plant them in the soil, but Daming does not have this technology at this time.

Throughout history, in fact, the Ming Dynasty was much richer than the later Qing Dynasty, three-quarters of the world's silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty, the degree of wealth can be imagined, but in terms of population, the population at the peak of the Ming Dynasty was about 100 million, but the peak population of the Qing Dynasty was 400 million, which is enough to show that during the Qing Dynasty, agriculture has progressed, perhaps this kind of sweet potato planting skills, was invented and spread by farmers in the Qing Dynasty.

The harvest day has finally arrived.

Qin Yiming led everyone and followed the military households to the sweet potato field, which was a dry land on the hillside, and they all watched the farmers dig the soil with hoes, and after loosening the soil, the farmers climbed the soil with their hands and broke out five or six sweet potatoes, some more under the rattan.

"What a good harvest, so many sweet potatoes, and they are so big!" The wrinkled, dark-skinned old farmer was trembling with a sweet potato with soil in his hand, and what he was holding in his hand was not only a sweet potato, but also the lifeblood of the family and the hope of the family.

After an acre of land was dug up, the sweet potatoes were piled up like a hill, and finally weighed, this acre of land was full of ten stones, which increased more than five times compared with the yield of rice. However, it is a pity that because of the limited number of sweet potato seeds this year, coupled with the timidity of many farmers, the total amount planted is not very high, but this does not affect Qin Yiming's excitement in his heart at all, these sweet potatoes alone are enough for the people in their health center to eat for a year.

"So much, so much! It's incredible! Yang Jiuyi looked at the mountain-like sweet potatoes and was shocked, he knew very well what the reason why the Great Ming Guard was corrupted to this point today!

"Yang Baihu, am I amazing? With so much food, no one in our guard will starve to death in the future! Qin Yiming was proud, to say that his goal is definitely not to lead his brothers to the level of food and clothing, that is too imbecile, anyway, he is also a person from the next generation, but everything has to come step by step, one bite can't make a big fat man, according to what the great man said, dig deep holes and collect grain!

Yang Baihu already had a cold face, and he couldn't see any expression, but the shock in his heart was still expressed in his pupils.

According to the Ming Dynasty's system of guards, the acres of land belonging to the guards do not need to pay grain taxes to the imperial court, and the military households keep twelve stone rations, and the rest are used by the guards for their own use.

Qin Yiming did not change this ratio at will, the more food was at his disposal, and he had more means to rule the military households in the guard.

After collecting the grain, he first announced a rule: Any military household that can raise a horse at home will be rewarded with one stone for two months!

Many of the military families are starting to think about it.

Because of the bumper harvest, Qin Yiming did not hesitate to hold a large-scale celebration party, allowing those farmers to sing and dance to express their happy mood, and more importantly, to improve their collective consciousness.