Zhu Hongsan led people on the main road, and there were people working on both sides of the road. This land is a hillside land, which is not suitable for growing rice, but it is very suitable for growing potatoes.

I saw people harvesting potatoes in the fields on both sides. The potato growth cycle is four months, but this stuff from the Americas is not well adapted to China. The dormancy period is two months, and Franc says that the second season will be much better.

Now Guangdong has entered September, because of the influence of the Xiaoice River, the temperature is already very low. It's only about 15 degrees outside at noon, and it snows in November. This climate is no longer suitable for the growth of potatoes.

Zhu Hongsan, who used to be a township cadre, knew that the temperature at which potatoes grow was around 20 degrees, but this year, because of the long dormancy period, which delayed farming, perhaps the dormant period could be reduced to one month from the next season, so that he could produce two crops a year.

The distant hillside was planted with corn, which was not as productive as later generations. Zhu Hongsan has seen the bud rice sticks that have grown, which are less than a foot long, which is different from the nearly 20-centimeter-long sticks in later generations.

But in this way, the yield of corn is more than twice that of rice, and the yield of potatoes is eight times that of a terrifying amount. At present, one mu of rice can only produce 200 catties of rice, which is still a first-class grain field. However, the yield per mu of corn is 500 catties, potatoes have reached 1,800 catties, and some good land has reached 2,000 catties.

This output frightened Ma Mingyuan and Ma Jiyuan and other strategists at that time. Zhu Hongsan's group of strategists have all been magistrates, and they know what the concept of a grain yield of thousands of catties per mu is. Although this thing is not tasty, the upper class of people should be able to choose between survival and eating potatoes.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the farmer who was working hard to pick up potatoes and was in a good mood. There is still a year left before the Manchu braids go south, and next year there will be millions of stone grains, and if you save a little food, you can feed millions of people.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan saw an old farmer resting under a willow tree on the side of the road. Zhu Hongsan also got off the horse and wanted to ask about the situation.

When the old farmer saw Zhu Hongsan and his party, he knew at a glance that it was a big man in the city. Hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "Uncle, don't be nervous. I would like to ask what you are growing? How come I haven't seen it? ”

The old man said: "Tell this uncle, this is the sweet potato that the Zhu Daguan of Zhujiazhuang let him plant. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Uncle, sit down and talk." ”

The old man sat down tremblingly. Zhu Hongsan also found a place to sit down under the willow tree. Zhu Hongsan asked: "Is the sweet potato something grown by the Hongmao people?" ”

The old man said, "Yes, this thing is very prolific. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and suddenly on a whim, he wanted to ask himself how he was in the hearts of the people.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Uncle, you said this is Zhujiazhuang's land?" Are you their tenant? ”

The old man sighed and said, "It wasn't originally, but now it is." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked: "My husband seems to have something unspeakable." ”

The old man saw that Zhu Hong was not very old and was still approachable, so he let go of his courage and said: "Originally, this Zhuangzi was from Zhang Juren in the county, and we used to farm land for Zhang Juren. Zhang Juren is okay with us, the land rent is not too heavy, and we can still live.

But last year, Zhang Juren didn't know who he offended, and suddenly a gang of troops came and killed Zhang Juren's entire family, and I heard that Zhang Juren's youngest daughter was also taken as a concubine. ”

Zhu Hongyi on the side was about to get angry, but Zhu Hongsan gave him a look and asked him not to move.

Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Uncle, didn't I hear that Zhu Daguan reduced the land rent for you?" ”

The old man said, "At first, it was okay, and we were given a few layers of land rent, but after the year, we were allowed to plant these sweet potatoes." These things are not eaten by pigs. We planted this thing, and Zhu Daguan also bought it at the market price, you must know that sweet potatoes cost a lot of money, and the money we sell sweet potatoes is not enough to sell rice to eat. ”

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Then you can eat sweet potatoes, this thing is also very delicious." ”

The old man glanced at Zhu Hongsan and said, "This thing doesn't like to be eaten by pigs, I don't know if that Zhu Daguan likes to eat it." ”

Zhu Hongsan was already angry, and when he heard this old man scolding himself as a pig, he couldn't bear it, so he stood up and scolded: "You old immortal, you can plant whatever you want, what are you doing crookedly?" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he picked up the whip and whipped the old thing, and the old man rolled all over the ground.

This should be the old man's family on the side, and when they saw the old man being beaten, they rushed over one after another. But Zhu Hongsan took the guard company, and Zhu Hongyi rushed over to beat the old man's family.

The old man was beaten and rolled all over the ground, shouting: "The villain doesn't know that sentence is wrong, please forgive the big official." ”

After whipping three times, Zhu Hong's anger also disappeared, and he was afraid that he would beat the old man to death again. scolded: "In the future, I will beat you to death when I hear you scolding Zhu Daguan." After speaking, the old man, who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, got on his horse and led the guards away.

Zhu Hongsan was so angry on horseback, he was originally kind, and he wanted to ask how the old man's life was, but he didn't expect to be scolded by the old man.

Zhu Hongyi saw that Zhu Hongsan had a bad complexion on the side, and said on the side: "Lord Wang, why don't I take someone to kill the old man's whole family?" ”

Zhu Hongsan was even more angry and glared at Zhu Hongyi fiercely.

Zhu Hongyi didn't look two heads taller than Zhu Hongsan, but he was covered in a cold sweat by Zhu Hongsan's cold look. Zhu Hongyi has been more and more afraid of this cousin since Xinyang, and he is more and more unable to see through this cousin.

Zhu Hongyi thought that Zhu Hongsan in Xinyang let Kou into the city in order to escape for his life, killed her whole family for a woman in Yueyang, and killed her children in front of her. In Jingshi, millions of stone grains were set on fire, leaving hundreds of thousands of people starving to death. Zhu Hongyi found that his cousin was no longer playing with him when he was a child, he had become the same as Cao Cao in the commentary.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongyi hurriedly lowered his head and said, "My subordinates know that they are wrong, please punish the prince." ”

Zhu Hongsan snorted and did not speak.

Zhu Hongsan actually wants to kill the old man's family very much now, but he is not the same as before. Now that he is a force, he can't do the slaughter like a rogue. If there is no base, what is the difference between himself and Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng?

Zhu Hongsan sighed secretly, it seems that he still hasn't thought about it comprehensively, Ma Mingyuan and they may have been too busy to take care of things, and they forgot to let the tenants leave half of the field to plant rice.

Zhu Hongsan turned his head and said to Ma Shaoguang: "Boyu, you write it down." Next year, the tenants will be given grain fields for export, and all the rest will be planted with sweet potatoes and corn. When you go back, you have to inform Mr. Ma Er, don't forget to know? ”

Ma Shaoguang nodded again and again.

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing, and he didn't have the mood to browse and sightsee, so he rushed to Nanhaiwei with his people at full speed.

When he arrived at Nanhaiwei, Zhu Hongsan saw that the fields around Nanhaiwei were also harvesting potatoes, which was not enough for this place to be different from just now. Nanhaiwei's land was all for the soldiers, and Zhu Hongsan also ordered that all those who had no one in the family should give the land to the displaced people for planting.

So the people who worked in the fields were some ragged homeless people. Mainly the elderly and women. Adult men have gone to work in factories.

Zhu Hongsan looked outside and didn't find any unhappy mood on the part of the homeless people. This is normal, they don't have anything, Zhu Hongsan is grateful for what he can give them food, and he can still pick and choose there.

When they arrived at the gate of the Nanhai guard, the guards guarding the camp shouted: "Stop the horsemen, enter the camp gate a hundred meters and release their guns." ”

Zhu Hongsan stopped the horses and asked Zhu Hongyi to come forward and show his documents.

The guards guarding the camp saw that it was the guard company directly under the commander, and hurriedly saluted: "I don't know if the commander is back, open the door quickly." ”

After speaking, someone below slowly opened the gate of the Nanhai Guard, and a team of twenty guards came out, led by an eighteen or nineteen-year-old second lieutenant.

The second lieutenant immediately said: "Guo Changshun, the second lieutenant platoon commander of the first platoon of the ninth company of the third battalion of the first regiment of the lower officer, is an officer on duty today, welcome the commander back and salute." ”

Seeing his team, Zhu Hongsan was in a good mood, after all, this was trained by himself, and he would definitely be loyal to himself.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the officer on duty and said, "Very good, you are very loyal. Officer on duty, blow the emergency assembly call, I'll check it. ”

The emergency assembly number is a rule set by Zhu Hongsan, the length of the five emergency assembly numbers is about seven minutes, those who do not sound the trumpet four times are whipped ten times, and those who do not sound five times are beheaded.

Zhu Hongsan was standing on the big playground, and someone had already come out after the first trumpet sounded. After the fourth trumpet, everyone was organizing and standing in line, and after the fifth trumpet, the two regiments of 6,000 people were all fully equipped and stood on the playground waiting for Zhu Hongsan to review.