The poor harvest of natural and man-made disasters in the north for many years has also made Jingshi's dependence on the Grand Canal to the extreme, although Nanyang is a small town by the canal, it is much more prosperous than many county seats.

The legend of the water monster began to spread before Zhang Zhen entered Nanyang Town, and when Zhang Zhen arrived in the town, there was already a lot of discussion on the streets and alleys, not to mention those docks.

Listening to the legend of the water monster along the way, the four of them looked at each other, and seeing that the outsiders on the left and right were far away, Zhang Huanghe muttered in a low voice: "Lord, this is clearly us!" ”

Zhang Zhen smiled: "People are instinctively afraid of the unknown, weren't you still soft-footed when you first sailed?" ”

Hearing this, Xia Zhongyong's faces turned red, and Xia Zhongyong couldn't help but ask: "Lord, just take advantage of this legend, let's put up a flag?" See if you can recruit more people? ”

The most effective means, of course, is to build momentum now, and it is best to have a relationship with Long Pan, and the rapid expansion of strength is inevitable.

What Xia Zhongyong said was also a very ideal situation, and Zhang Zhen only thought about it for a while and gave up.

Borrowing legends and myths, in addition to the jade seal of the country that was ordered by the sky, the most famous is "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng", which is just a piece of silk in the belly of the fish, if Zhang Zhen is crowned with the name of the dragon god, I am afraid that it is more domineering than the incident of Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others.

The initial start is very important, such as Li Shimin's Xuanwumen Change, Zhao Kuangyin's cup of wine to release military power, and Zhu Yuanzhang's burning of Qinggong Tower, all of which have left a profound impact on their descendants, and there are definitely many imitators.

This is the most critical era, if you continue to use the strategy of fooling the people, maybe it will be much easier to get to the top, but in the future, if you want to change the concept of the people, it will be even more difficult, and in the end, it will be the Western powers that you have to face, do you want to let history repeat itself?

From the historical records of later generations, especially World War I and World War II, the casualties are astronomical, and there is also a phenomenon that is easy to be overlooked.

Putting aside the rapid development of the intelligent era in the 21st century, the war period is the era of the explosion of industrial technology, for the sake of victory, for the sake of interests, for survival, people will do everything to arm themselves, all accidental inventions will be quickly applied, improved, popularized, and then combined with other technologies, quickly sublimated, strengthened, and then armed themselves, and even imitated and surpassed by the enemy.

Even if it is a natural and man-made disaster, this Ming national strength is the first in the world, and the production of materials is the gross domestic product, accounting for more than 50 percent of the world, before the industrial revolution, it accounted for more than half of the world, even when the United States was the strongest, it was only more than 30 percent.

Compared with World War II, World War II, and even any war in history, this Ming Dynasty is the most bizarre in history, it is a worse era, who is worse and who loses!

However, on the other hand, this China at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not a world war-level battlefield that would determine the fate of the earth in the next few hundred years.

After Huaxia was ruled by the Eight Banners, even the so-called Kangqian prosperous era was just a large population, more silver, more food, but there was no advance in science and technology, and even the sophisticated firearms that had been armed on a large scale in the Ming Dynasty were also abandoned, and they used cold weapons to close the country like cutting off their hands.

Is that really a prosperous age? In Zhang Zhen's opinion, it is more like saving up the family business and waiting for the robbers to take it! It's the pigs who eat their own thieves, carefree and waiting for others to slaughter!

Compared with borrowing the legend of the foolish people, Zhang Zhen is more inclined to apply industry from the beginning, perhaps much more difficult than the former, but this is also the most suitable time to transform a pig into a wolf, or even a tiger, and with the help of war, sharpen the claws, sharpen the teeth!

Zhang Zhen thought about it in his heart, and said with a wicked smile: "I don't know how to deal with King Chuang and Chongzhen, if they don't use this legend to build momentum, if they dare to use it, they will definitely be able to spread it quickly if they deliberately publicize it, and then we will come out and expose it, hum!" Are you afraid that you won't be able to recruit people? ”

When the three of them heard it, although they had mixed reputations, they could be regarded as agreeing with Zhang Zhen's idea, who made Zhang Zhen the lord.

Zhang Zhen decided to wait and see what happened before Chongzhen and Li Zicheng reacted, of course, he was not idle, he still wanted to take the opportunity to earn money, and quickly found a shop by the canal.

The westernmost section of Dongxi Street, the best location, is only a dozen steps away from the dock.

Nearly 1,000 taels of silver, so much silver, resting in a remote alley, I'm afraid I can buy a street.

Money can make ghosts grind, Zhang Zhen did not bargain, and the seller was afraid that Zhang Zhen would regret it, so he completed the transfer procedures on the same day, and disposed of the bottom of the goods and cleaned them up.

This shop occupies two rooms, it is a two-story small wooden building, with windows facing the street, like the home of Wu Dalang in the TV series, of course, there must be no Pan Jinlian Ximenqing.

There is a small courtyard behind, the small courtyard is planted with flowers and plants, there are a few green bamboos, and there is an alley outside the courtyard gate, which is not bad as the back door.

On the small building, around the table of eight immortals, Zhang Zhen sat on the top, Zhang Huanghe and Xia Zhongyong sat sideways on the left and right, and Liu stood beside Zhang Zhen to serve tea.

Instructed Liu to sit opposite, Zhang Zhen smiled and said: "Before the incident, this was our temporary family business, and today the matter of Jiaxiang has also come, and it is really rumored that the dragon is in the world, I am afraid that it will be reported by local officials as auspicious, and I don't know if the emperor will come to Feng Zen to worship, no matter what, we will start an incident next year's wheat harvest." ”

"Wheat harvest?" Xia Zhongyong asked strangely: "Lord, is it the coming year or a catastrophe?" ”

Zhang Zhen nodded, shook his head and said: "This disaster year is certain, but we don't rely on this, it's still a trivial matter to make money, I want to take advantage of the fact that it is not yet winter, hurry up and buy a piece of land and plant food!" We must give people a kind of confidence, followed by the confidence that we can live, and tell the world that our grain can be highly productive. ”

"High yield?!" The three of them spoke almost at the same time, and Liu was the most eager, asking, "How high is the output?" Can one mu of wheat produce three stones of grain? Can it be compared to potatoes and corn? ”

Even if it is a good year, the average output of an acre of land is only one or two stone of grain, and it is common for there to be no harvest in a famine year, only wheat can overwinter, and Liu can guess three stones, which is already very confident in the owner.

It turned out that this corn and potato had already been brought in, and the common people knew about it.

Zhang Zhen thought of the golden wheat and the sturdy spring corn in the corner of the industrial park, and his heart was a little hot, and he didn't know if there were potatoes.

The potatoes, corn and wheat planted in ancient times must not have the concept of variety hybridization, at most, it is who harvests more seeds, I am afraid that it is similar to the wild ones, and the yield can go up to hell, the key is that this year after year of famine, I am afraid that the seeds will be eaten up soon.

Thinking of these, Zhang Zhen smiled and said: "If you manage it properly, how can you have a harvest of six or seven stones, if you are lucky, you can go up to ten stones, don't be surprised, we also have good corn seeds, and that thing is a good harvest of ten stones!" ”

Not to mention the rice of later generations, there is no rice in the industrial park.

This wheat and corn must be good varieties, that is an ordinary plot of thousands of catties, there is no yield of 2,000 catties per mu, and even the provincial mu yield champion competition can not enter, even if there is some degradation without hybridization, the first planting always has a thousand catties of harvest, right?

Wait for the next year to cross with the current corn, in case there are some rare and extinct varieties in it, it will definitely reach a new high.

"Wheat and corn on the cob can go up ten stones? Yulian, I'm not dreaming, am I? Pinch me! Xia Zhongyong said in disbelief.

has been worrying about supporting his family, and the burden on his shoulders has made him almost suffocated, and he can't sleep all night, and he doesn't know how many times he has died.

He is just dreaming, but he is just thinking that the famine year has passed, the family has land, the grain has been harvested, even if there is a bumper harvest, it is just a dream that there is a harvest of two stones, and Zhang Zhen opened his mouth that both can go up to ten stones, and one acre of land in two seasons this year can collect twenty stones? How is this possible?

"Ah!!h A miserable scream made Xia Zhongyong come back to his senses, he was not dreaming.

Looking at Liu's eyes, he was also full of horror, why didn't he find out that his daughter-in-law still had this means before?

Listening to Xia Zhongyong's screams, Zhang Zhen couldn't help but sigh, this TM is chasing souls and killing people! I hope that Xia Yingying doesn't have her true biography, and after thinking about it, she can't help but laugh at herself, according to Xia Yingying's temperament, she won't make a move on herself.