After Li Yan came out, he said to Wu Niang: "Come with me, I'll take you to Qi County." ”

"Huh?" Wu Niang was a little at a loss, shook her head and said, "I want to go to Jiangnan, I heard that it is very good there." ”

Master Niu persuaded: "What Jiangnan to go to?" Are you getting enough of that? Before I got out of Henan, I ran out. Let's go to Qixian with Li Gongzi, it's close, and you can still rent a house to live there. When you've made enough money, it's never too late to go. ”

Wu Niang frowned and said, "Didn't you say it before?" It's fast to take the waterway, and it doesn't cost a lot of money. ”

"That was before, and now there is nothing to eat, who still has the strength to sail a boat?" Master Niu continued to flicker.

As soon as Wu Niang heard that there was nothing to eat, she immediately remembered the child's bones fished out of the pot. His face turned pale all of a sudden, he nodded, and said tremblingly: "Well, well, you're right, let's go to Qixian, let's go to Qixian." ”

"What's wrong with her?" Master Niu frowned and asked Li Yan.

Li Yan said with some guilt: "I took her outside the city to have a look." ”

"You're crazy!" Master Niu roared in a low voice: "That kind of tragedy, you actually let her see it?!" ”

Li Yan said helplessly: "Didn't I want her to dispel the idea of going out and running around?" ”

"Bullshit!" Master Niu ordered: "You are scared of the problem, if you still have a conscience, you will be cured!" ”

"How can this be said to be cured?" Li Yan thought to himself. But he said, "I'll do my best." ”

Master Niu comforted Wu Niang and said, "Don't be afraid, after a while, I will also go to Qi County." If this kid still dares to bully you, you tell me, I'll call the shots for you! ”

Wu Niang didn't know if she heard it, she just nodded and didn't say anything.

Li Yan had no choice but to pat Wu Niang's shoulder twice and said, "Wake up!" Wake up! ”

Wu Niang suddenly certain, and then looked up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's alright, it's time for us to go." Li Yan said.

Wu Niang nodded, said goodbye to Master Niu, and left with Li Yan.

Master Niu looked at the back of Wu Niang leaving, a little sad. Wu Niang, who is like his daughter, is also gone, he feels reluctant, but he is also happy for Wu Niang. It's better to go than to stay alone in the palace.

After Li Yan returned to the inn, he first wrote down what Master Niu said, and then gathered the team, took care of two carriages at a high price, took Master Ma and the translator, and Wu Niang, and left Kaifeng to return to Qi County.

They encountered two attacks by the homeless people along the way, but they were both killed by Li Yan's personal soldiers and horses. This made Master Ma from Fujian very scared.

After arriving in Qi County, Li Yan arranged Wuniang in Liqili Village. Because there are a lot of women there, it is also convenient for these people to interact with Wu Niang, and if they communicate with people more, his psychological damage may be healed. Li Yan asked Qiu Niang and Sister-in-law Zhang to take care of Wu Niang more, so that she could recover as soon as possible, which can be regarded as an explanation to Master Niu.

Master Ma immediately started planting potatoes, and he didn't care if it was suitable for planting now. When the potatoes he brought sprouted, he began to teach the more than 30 farmers he had selected to cut them into pieces. Then he asked to set aside ten acres of land without mid-winter wheat, burned some plant ash, loosened the soil and turned the ground, and began planting. What line spacing was taught to the farmers selected by Li Yan.

What he wants to do most now is to let the potatoes sprout quickly, so that he has basically fulfilled his promise, and he can take the money back to his hometown in Fujian. As for how much he can collect, he doesn't care.

After planting ten acres of land, there were still some potatoes left, and Master Ma gave them to Li Yan and let them eat.

Li Yan changed the pattern of eating, steaming, boiling, roasting, frying, and stewing, and let a few respected old people taste it, so as to warm up for the promotion and planting of potatoes in the future. Although he can enforce it, it is far from being as effective as mobilizing the enthusiasm of the peasants themselves.

After eating it, everyone felt that the taste was not bad, and it was relatively hungry. So they all thought it was a good thing, and everyone asked Master Ma how much he produced per mu. Master Ma didn't dare to say more, and gave a five-stone statement. In fact, in their place, their general yield per mu is ten stones.

When everyone heard this, they were shocked. These potatoes can be used as food for almost everything, and they don't need to be threshed or peeled. The land in the south is intensively cultivated, and one acre is only a harvest of two or three stones, while here in Henan, the best water for irrigation is only a little more than one stone. This potato costs five stones, which is amazing.

However, eating habits cannot be changed overnight, so some people are worried that there will be less other food after planting potatoes, and they are afraid that they will not get used to it. Li Yan immediately said that he would set up a market that would be managed by merchants and growers, and everyone would trade freely. At the same time, he also promised. As long as the farmers wanted, he could buy all the potatoes they harvested, which reassured the farmers' concerns.

In addition to eating potatoes and planting potatoes, Li Yan is preparing to cast cannons. But the problem comes again, according to Master Niu's data, the power of this gun is not to be said, but the weight is very objective. How can he say that he weighs four or five thousand pounds, so much copper, where does he get it?

Helpless, Li Yan had no choice but to give up casting cannons first, and instead use the four Frankie cannons for training. Now the gunpowder is available, and the projectile Zhou blacksmith has also been cast. This projectile is not the inferior products in the original inventory, and the newly cast projectile this time is very close to the inner diameter of the sub-cannon of the Frankie gun, and the clearance is very small.

At this time, Master Huang of the carpentry workshop was making the fourth gun mount, and the first few gun mounts may not be strong enough, or the structure is unreasonable, and the cracking will appear after the first test shot. They had no choice but to keep improving.

Li Yan asked people to carry the cannon out of the city and to the test firing range. Here there is a wooden gun carriage fixed to the ground, which is completely copied from the wooden platform gun carriage on the city wall.

Li Yan hid in the distance, and the gunners also ran away after lighting the long fuse. This time, the projectile was made very close to the inner diameter, and everyone was afraid of a bore.

With a "boom", two puffs of white smoke rose up, one was at the interface between the sub cannon and the mother cannon, and the other was at the muzzle, and a large amount of white smoke filled the surroundings of the Frankie cannon. Li Yan and the others went over to look and found that the cannon was intact, indicating that there was no problem with the shell.

Li Yan thought for a moment and said to Blacksmith Zhou: "Wouldn't it be better to add some deerskin or cowhide to the interface?" This air leak is too serious. ”

"Okay, I'll go back and try."

After a while, Wang Renjie ran back, holding the muddy projectile, and reported in a loud voice: "Fall three hundred steps away." ”

Li Yan thought for a moment, this time it was a flat shot, and he landed in three hundred steps, so the distance of hitting the centaurs should not be less than one hundred and fifty steps. For solid shells, the maximum range is almost useless, and the lethal effect is still in the process of the projectile flight, especially when the group is launched.

He commanded: "Prepare to set up the planks, and let's see the power of the group." ”