It was already May, in the four counties of the base area, there was a busy harvest scene everywhere, this year, the place is stable, densely populated, the most important thing is to have their own fields, the enthusiasm of the big guys is extraordinarily high, and then there is the popularization of potatoes recommended by King Chuang, and the high yield is amazing, now at a glance, the mountains and valleys are full of people carrying donkeys and mules and horses, and people are transporting potatoes.

Everyone is laughing happily, greeting happily, and firmly believing that happiness has come.

Lu Shi was happily embarrassed, because in the bustling bazaar, his own white dragon horse ate a handful of green rape, and reluctantly ate a few potatoes, and he took it left and left, and he was penniless, especially among the people who watched the excitement in a circle, it was even more embarrassing, and when he turned around to find Zhang Xiao and Wang Jian, the two little bastards didn't know where to play.

"If you don't care, if you don't care, King Chuang won't have any money." The vegetable farmer in front of him rubbed his hands and couldn't stop relieving Lu Shi, "Otherwise, this potato will be lost." ”

But the people around him repeatedly coaxed: "King Chuang, why don't you give money?" The white dragon horse is yours, of course, you are in charge, take the money out, it is not easy for the uncle, it is just a matter of one or two pennies, pay for it. "A group of young boys are constantly squeezing Lu Shi, their king.

An old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he stepped forward and picked up a flat pole and beat it: "Little rabbit cub, who is there no one yet, is it worth it to just throw a bunch of broken rape and potatoes into the river?" Get out, what to do, what to do. The boys dispersed under the blow of the angry old man, but as soon as the old man returned, he immediately gathered around him again.

"King Chuang, why don't I call Sister Chunlan to settle accounts for you?" One of the militiamen proposed.

"Yes, yes, call Chunlan sister to settle accounts." Coaxing together, absolutely no big or small, everyone in this bustling crowd, when they were not military, they saw that Lu Shi was not the king, but just a generous brother of his, a docile little brother, a well-behaved nephew, and the principal of the children.

"That, that." Lu Shi is really embarrassed, now, according to the statement at the time, Lu Shi has hundreds of thousands of people in four counties, nearly 10,000 strong soldiers in his hands, and tens of thousands of militiamen, but in fact, on his body, there is only one cave, a quilt, two changes of clothes made by Chunlan, and nothing else.

In fact, at his absolute insistence, after rummaging through the cabinets and looking for countless classics, Lu Shi finally found the evidence that the emperor had Yulu in a classic, and the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty had it, so he finally had Yulu silver.

But these Yulu actually can't use it themselves, eating and drinking are all cottages, and those Yulu silver are subsidized for the students' food, and there are rewards for those excellent children, and there is the cost of using them for Erlang's experiments, and the rest is to accumulate a decent dowry for Chunlan, saying that the two sleeves are breezy, it is all to praise him Lu Shi. This is the first day of the fifth month, and his marriage with Chunlan is the sixth day of the first month, that is, there are five days left, which is when he gets married, and now, the matchmakers on both sides of the country have been connected into a string, and there are many things that make people headaches, as big as the rules of receiving relatives and marrying, as small as a size of auspicious clothes, but mainly in the dowry, how can I not care? However, as a person in his previous life, he really didn't understand the current etiquette, so he generously handed over the salary book to his godmother, what should she do with the old man, how good is it, and she will wait for the ready-made.

So, now when it comes to money, in fact, Lu Shi is still penniless, and he still remembers the last time he swept the goods in Mizhi, if Chunlan hadn't lent him money at that time, he didn't know how to step down at that time, and now, Nabi is still hanging on the account of the third uncle, which has also become the third uncle's extravagant words from time to time.

This year is the first year that his new policy has been verified, in the second year of Chongzhen, when the people in Shanxi were full of drought, he used the knowledge of his previous life to build a windmill, with the help of Brother Zheng's connections, and introduced potato seeds, so that the people of the four counties in the sphere of influence of the Chuang army got an unexpected bumper harvest, which is not a small harvest, it is indeed a big harvest, because every acre of land along the river has harvested 5,000 catties of potatoes, even if it is a hillside land, under the hard work of the people, there is also a harvest of 1,000 catties. Even those tenants, after paying half of the rent to the landlord, still have tens of thousands of catties of potatoes left.

When the landlord's family just started, in the face of the tenants who appeared for the first time for generations and enthusiastically handed over their production without urging, it was really smiling, but looking at the potatoes that were piled up in the warehouse, even the yard was full of potatoes, and then the family could only sit on the mountain of potatoes and cry.

Know the results of these harvests? That is, there are no more starvation deaths in the entire base area, not only that, but the large influx of people in northern Shaanxi and Shaanxi, because of the natural kindness of the people, willing to give alms, no one starved to death, after all, there are too many potatoes to eat, and it is rotten if they are put away, and it is also a life to give alms to poor brothers? What's more, you can also use potatoes to recruit some helpers to contribute to the cultivation of summer wheat. Therefore, the four counties of Weinan have become a paradise for the entire Shaanxi and even Henan and other displaced people.

After the Qing army entered Shaanxi, the census registered only 30,000 people, (of course, excluding the landlord Haoqiang and the vassal servants written in his name) and now, the population of the four counties in a base area has almost reached 600,000, and this time it can be regarded as changing the course of history.

Now, Chen Ce, the administrative officer of the base area, is chasing Lu Shi and crying all day long, not because of the shortage of food, but because there is a phenomenon of too much grain hurting the peasants.

When this report was put on Lu Shi's desk, Lu Shi was almost crazy with anger.

Are you still unreasonable? When I first came to Weinan to create a base area, everyone was worried about food, and you Chen Ce said that if there is no food, you will lose the foundation, so you will take people and horses, and lay down a few fortresses at the cost of the lives of your brothers, collect grain, and wait for the food to arrive.

Now that the potato yield in the base area has been harvested, and you have another grain cheapness to hurt the peasants, I don't understand, why does the grain still hurt the peasants?

So, in front of Lu Shi's thunderous jump, in front of the head of the family, everyone only had a loud quarrel with a red face and a thick neck, Chen Ce almost overturned the table in front of Lu Shi, making Lu Shi start to miss Zheng Hao's proposal, and finally, Chen Ce flicked his sleeves, "I'm not going to do it." "He went away with a group of government officials, and when he left, he almost broke his door.

So, Lu Shi decided not to go around the cave case and the school and military academy, and he wanted to see with his own eyes how too much grain could hurt the peasants, this kind of unreasonable reason.

It is rare for Lu Shi to put down the official document, and the first thing he is happy about is the thing that passes through the sky, and finally he can not be dragged by Lu Shi all day long to say what government affairs, what kind of government affairs am I in charge of the military? What's wrong with the Grand Commander, the Grand Commander wants to rest, and if he has an excuse, he can give himself a day off and go up the mountain to hunt, at that time, Lu Shi smiled and arranged while packing up the pen and inkstone: "It's okay to hunt, but you must bring a newly replenished prison sergeant brother, and there are also regulations, what you shoot with an arrow doesn't count, and what you capture by other means is the result, otherwise, you can only complete the task of inspecting all the military camps tomorrow." ”

At that time, Guo Tianxing leaned against the door frame all of a sudden, and he was silent for a long time, didn't this cost people's lives? Where is the truth? Where am I going out hunting for recreation and vacation, is it simply shouldering the work that Zhao Xingnasi should do, how can this make others live.

"What, do you regret not being the boss in the first place?" Lu Shi smiled and asked Tianxing, "It's good to be the boss, you can take a vacation if you want, do whatever you want, if you regret it, switch it immediately-" Before Lu Shi finished speaking, there was only a burst of dust left in front of Lu Shi's cave to cover the sky.

The bazaar is not far from Lu Shi's cave, in fact, in detail, this bazaar is under the two rows of caves in the middle of the mountain of Lu Shi.

Speaking of which, there is an allusion to the formation of this bazaar, when the people were simple, after everyone got the field windmill, life became slowly better, and then after a war against encirclement and suppression, the base area was more stable, and there were people who spontaneously picked up what they could have, and they all wanted to express their thoughts to King Chuang.

Of course, Lu Shi can't accept these, these are all the blood and sweat of the people, besides, he has been eating and drinking all the time in the army, and he doesn't need to pay for everything by himself, or prepare it himself, and it is useless to ask for things from the people, so he has been politely refusing these things.

But some of the people were picked up from hundreds of miles, and it would be inhumane for you to let people pick them back, so Lu Shi had no choice but to beg Chunlan, who broke into the logistics of the army, to simply buy these things, first, to add food to the brothers or make up for the reserves, and secondly, to alleviate the suffering of the people to go back and forth.

Unexpectedly, this back and forth, under the cave where people send things to gather every day, it has become a market, and as time goes by, this market has become more and more prosperous, and people from near and far have their own mountain goods and medicinal materials, as well as furs and other things are sold here, or bartered.

At this time, Lu Shi also deliberately followed the methods of later generations, to attract investment, and introduced merchants from all over the world here, the effect was surprisingly good, which hooked up the inside and outside of the base, the circulation of goods was more abundant and smooth, and the bulk procurement of the army increased the prosperity of the market. At that time, along the river valley below this cave, there were many shops, and every market day, the merchants and people rubbed shoulders for more than ten miles.

At that time, Lu Shi slapped his thigh, why didn't he think of this profession of real estate developer in the first place? Otherwise, the ditch will be full of trenches now. Of course, after saying this to the third uncle, the third uncle praised it greatly, and then he took the bench to beat someone,—— you are poor and crazy, you are crazy, this is a sign of greed.

For a time, this bazaar has become the first market town in the four counties, Chen Ce did not miss any opportunity to collect taxes, and set up a tax station here, even in strict accordance with the rules of four out of a hundred, the local government also got a steady stream of money, that is, he seriously despised Lu Shi to develop real estate, and said that his poor and crazy third uncle was also happy to see his teeth and eyes.

But in this euphoria, a crisis is slowly brewing.