was teased by Lu Shiyi, everyone laughed, but Zheng Hongda didn't know why, so he could only laugh twice awkwardly.

"In fact, the cost of this thing, including the salary, is only less than one or two taels, plus the cost of transportation, it is less than three taels, and you add one tael, isn't it just four taels? That is, the price of four stone grain. "A little bit of the people can still bear it, so the sales are guaranteed. And those middle-class landlords and big landlords will definitely be able to rush to this thing that saves long and short labor. Buying is more enthusiastic. ”

"Brother says this thing is really so cheap? Then we don't just make a profit of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan a year. Zheng Hongda was overjoyed and said: "No, let's open five or five." I'm not that greedy, brother. ”

Lu Shi smiled, and if he and Zheng Hongda continued to talk, then they would argue again for the sake of price reduction, which would be a delay.

"It's fine." Lu Shi nodded with a smile: "The brothers' base area does need to be supported by money, so I won't be hypocritical, then it will be a black fortune." Lu Shi was not hypocritical: "However, this matter, there are many ways to make money and compete, I ask my brother to appoint a few capable and reliable brothers to come to me, I will take them to learn the management methods of our base, things can be imitated by outsiders, but management is something that outsiders can not learn, in fact, profits are often between management." ”

Zheng Hongda was even more grateful when he heard it, whether a business makes money or not is indeed the most important thing, this is indeed a family business and a unique method, it is all a secret stunt, where is it as easy as Lu Shi to hand it over to himself? It can be seen that Lu Shi really regards himself as his own brother.

"My brother is not busy and excited, after the second year, our sales will decrease with the increase of imitations, but I will take some new small agricultural machinery every year, and continue to innovate to increase our income."

"Got something new to do?"

"Of course, there is no innovation, just following behind others, everyone is the same, where is there a lot of money to be made? This is also the stamina I reserve for our base, but my brother can't be anxious, I know that my brother wants to do something good for the people, but now even if we push out all the good things in one go, it is difficult for the people to buy them, so it's not that my brother is stingy, this is also the rule of adapting to the market. “

Zheng Hongda, who was full of excitement, smiled selfishly and said, "But it's my brother, I'm anxious." ”

After being said by Lu Shi, he was already stunned by the fact that a brother like Tianxing was dumbfounded, is this worth it? With this simple method, he can bring a full amount of more than 100,000 or 200,000 silver income to the base area a year without a penny, isn't this the God of Wealth descending? But looking at the calmness of Zheng Hongda and King Chuang, this is indeed not a dream, with this fixed income, why not prosper in the base area in the future?

"This time, I am grateful to my brother for bringing corn and potato seeds, with these seeds, it is enough for our old camp and possibly (until now Lu Shi does not know Wu Tao's achievements) to sow spring grain in nearly three counties." Turning around and introducing to the confused brothers: "This corn and potatoes are cold and drought-tolerant good things, in this Shaanxi drought weather, with the irrigation of windmills, our terraced mountains can also produce corn at least three stones per acre, which is not counting the result of fine work." ”

In fact, this is still Lu Shi knows that the current corn is not a hybrid variety, the yield is very low, and the fortress is in the original world, just this year, an acre of corn is a thousand catties, which is the yield of drizzle. Say it for fear of scaring them.

All the people cheered for this production, if this grain could be beaten for two stones in the mountains, then after the people of the old camp were easily handed over for a year, the amount of grain stored would be astronomical, and the people would no longer have the worry of hunger. And according to the land according to the agreement on the grain, I don't know how much, with food, then-

"Potatoes are even better things, not only drought tolerant but also have a short growth period, one mu should be in the shape of thousands of catties, and potatoes can also be planted with buckwheat. It can also be beaten up to 100 catties. ”

Everyone's minds were already blank, but looking at Zheng Hongda's nodding in affirmation, they were convinced of it.

Everyone began to suspect that Lu Shi was blowing the atmosphere, but when it was promoted, due to the people's superstition about Lu Shi, they firmly believed in the potato yield that Lu Shi said, and planted almost all the land with potatoes, which resulted in a disaster for potatoes, and at that time, it was a headache for everyone.

Zheng Hongda also helped: "In fact, in the past few years, the sowing of corn and potatoes has also been implemented in Shanxi and other places, but Wei Zhongxian, the big man in the court, trusts his godson, etc., and the implementation of a good policy has changed the taste, so the good policy has become a bad government that harms the people, and the people will no longer sow seeds, which is really a pity." ”

(He didn't know that corn and yam (potatoes) were not really widely sown among the people until the late Qing Dynasty, and sweet potatoes were promoted by the production team when I was young, so it was resisted, so reform is good, but the use of talent is the key.) ）

"I think that Brother Zheng's 10,000 taels of silver and the future profits of 100,000 or 200,000 yuan are not as expensive as the seeds of a thousand stones, this is the foundation for the prosperity of our cottage, and this is the gospel of our people in Shaanxi, so I will treat the people of Shanxi Thank you Brother Zheng." As soon as he arched to the ground, Zheng Hongda also accepted it calmly.

Lu Shi stood up, his face was already impatient, this was a rare expression of Lu Shi, and everyone stared at him, waiting for his arrangement.

"It's the end of March now, although it's still cold, but the weather is warm, spring plowing is about to begin, and we have reclaimed a large area of land in our base area, so it is urgent to arrange spring ploughing, especially the sowing of potatoes."

Pointing at Zhao Xing, he commanded: "Brother Zhao, you will immediately send a sergeant at dawn tomorrow to gather Chen Ce, the third uncle, the fourth elder, and the village chiefs and patriarchs from all over the country to teach them the benefits of sowing potatoes, and then mobilize them, with the militia, and the people of Lao Mizhi to start a potato sowing battle. ”

After thinking about it, he said: "Great Commander, this time we have hit the officers and soldiers hard in the anti-encirclement and suppression, and it is impossible for the officers and soldiers to harass us for a while, we will have a long time to arrange spring ploughing, but there will be a shortage of manpower, do you think this will work, in addition to saving the cavalry to deal with emergencies, the rest of the spearmen, and government officials are all on vacation to help the people farm?" ”

This is a bold but helpless decision, Guo Tianxing thought about it, and resolutely supported Lu Shidao: "Everything is decided by King Chuang's words." "But this time it's definitely not irresponsible.

Seeing that Lu Shi had no other instructions, Zhao Xing stood up and said while packing up the pen and paper at hand: "You don't have to be dawn, I will arrange for my brothers to go everywhere overnight to inform relevant people, etc., about the difficulties of promotion, the king is more careful, as long as you say it, the people will definitely support it with both hands." After speaking, he didn't say goodbye to everyone, and hurried out with a pen and paper.

Zheng Hongda is very pleased and envious, this is a group of vigorous and promising groups, vigorous and resolute, orders and prohibitions, which is absolutely incomparable to the dull Daming.

Guo Tianxing stretched his neck and swallowed his saliva violently, imagining the mountain of potatoes when the summer grain was harvested in May, and people no longer worried about eating a full meal every day, so he couldn't help muttering: "In that case, what can I do if I can't eat it." ”

When he said this, he was definitely not prescient, but definitely a vision of happiness. Lu Shi also did not expect that in order to solve the potato disaster, he had to convene a general meeting of all government officials in the base area, and many methods of reform were born in the conference, and now Lu Shi is confident that he can let the people eat enough during the summer harvest.

looked at the appearance of Tianxing, and said angrily: "I can't finish eating, feed the pigs." ”

Luxury, absolutely extravagant, at that time, Guo Tianxing also released cruel words: "If you dare to feed the pigs with precious things, and see that the third uncle does not break your legs, I will never spare you." ”

But everyone looked at the eyes of the stars, they only had to wait to see the good show, you will never be spared, everyone wants to see, just a third aunt and three uncles who protect the calf, and the tigress-like Chunlan is here, and I don't know what you can do.

Guo Tianxing looked at everyone's expressions, and was embarrassed: "Hehe, hehe, haha." And there was no more to it.

talked with everyone and Zheng Hongda and others until late at night, Lu Shicai broke up with him and settled Zheng Hongda to rest, and everyone was tired from the battle, so they all said goodbye and rested.

But others rest, but Lu Shi can rest, leaving the core of the base These days, Zhao Xing has already piled up a lot of things waiting to be done by himself.

Let the Wang family add a few pieces of charcoal to the two small handfuls, and then wash their faces with a basin of cold water to lift their spirits, let them also sleep peacefully, put on a piece of clothing, rubbed their hands, took Zhao Xing's report, and began to browse carefully.

This report was sorted out by Zhao Xing with Chen Che, this time Chen Che went to Luochuan with Wu Tao, but he was also conscientious, the report was also written in detail, and he also learned Zhao Xing's writing, each paragraph without the slightest literati habit and the slightest bit of exaggerated decoration of the information, which is very suitable for Lu Shi's judgment of the whole incident, in fact, as far as Chen Che's half-baked words were stolen, it was impossible to make him embellish like a rotten Confucian. This would be more appropriate for such a report. And at the end of each chapter, Zhao Xing attaches his own opinions on this matter, which can show Zhao Xing's rigor and talent.

On the whole, the results of Wu Tao's expedition with his brothers are still very satisfying, first of all, the battle of Luochuan really did what was expected in the original battle, completely uprooted Luochuan's combat power, so that Luochuan's officials and generals have truly become bare-bones commanders, and the decrees and footsteps cannot and dare not take half a step out of Luochuan. The entire Luochuan, which is mainly based on the plains, smoothly implemented the policy of reducing rents and interest and dividing fields and land, making the entire Luochuan the most resolute base for the army.

Especially for the process of laying down the Cao family's compound, and the subsequent disposal is very thoughtful and reasonable. Not only did they get a surprising harvest of money, solved the problem of funds urgently needed for the expansion of the base area, but also seized a large amount of grain, and helped hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding areas, and what is even more valuable is that the Cao family has annexed a large amount of land for more than ten generations, which has completely become the industry of the actual base area, and according to the policy of dividing the land in the base area, it has been distributed to the landless people, and it has also obtained an unexpected effect of winning the hearts of the people, and has also laid a strong foundation for the stable grain income of the base area in the coming year, which is more important than anything else.