Chapter 723: Sweet Potato Rice
After calling out a few teachers who were free, and after everyone had a good chat, Li Yang took Wang Bao to hang around the city again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Before he reached the market, Li Yang saw several farmers selling something on the side of the road.
The guards noticed that Li Yang was paying attention to the farmers, so they stepped forward and whispered: "My lord, it's not that these farmers don't want to go to the market, but the market is too crowded now, and their small businesses that they sell with their own produce are just hanging out on the side of the road. ”
Li Yang waved his hand and said, "Just take a look, go, go over." "Li Yang is not a pervert, he wants to rectify the appearance of the city now, as long as he does not violate the big rules, there is no need for these small stalls and vendors to get a city manager to come out and deepen the class contradictions.
Approaching, Li Yang's eyes lit up, this ...... Isn't it a sweet potato that I am very familiar with, and some places are also called sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, and I remember that I did print such a batch of sweet potatoes before I did do it. When the farmer saw that someone was hugning him, he immediately smiled with a flattering face. Li Yang didn't say anything, and directly picked up a sweet potato and looked at it carefully.
I saw that this sweet potato is not particularly full, and it should not be at the best ripe time.
"Why did you pick this sweet potato before it grows?" Li Yang asked.
The farmer looked left and right at a few of his companions, scratched his head, and said, "Don't hide it from this lord, this sweet potato is good, we also tried it, and it tastes very good, but now the rice grows better, and the price of rice is higher. ”
One of his companions next to him also stepped forward and said, "This adult looks familiar, don't blame us for rarely entering the city and not knowing the real name of the adult." Now we know that this sweet potato is easy to grow, and there is no need to plant it on good ground, and it will be planted for him on the side of the field and the roadside. ”
Li Yang got the information he wanted, and thought that he hadn't been to the village outside the city for a long time, so he was ready to go out for a walk in the afternoon, and he couldn't detach himself from the most basic reality.
At noon, everyone ate a few bowls of sweet potato rice, feeling the sweet and fragrant sweet potatoes, America is really a good place, Li Yang sighed, whether it is sweet potatoes or potatoes, or tobacco, cinchona trees, these magical plants are produced in the Americas, thinking that Europe will not discover the American continent until almost a hundred years later, Li Yang couldn't help but smile proudly, America will still be my America!
After a short rest, Li Yang led dozens of horsemen and horses to run out of the city.
Sometimes life is too busy to neglect the beautiful scenery around you, looking at the golden splendor in the field, the farmer is finally checking the ears of rice, preparing tools, open space, it seems that in a few days the summer grain will be harvested one after another.
This East China Sea is also a good place, three crops a year, as long as the government is done properly, there is no food crisis, Li Yang has brought them high-yield seeds, the combination of coarse and fine grains, the number of troops that Li Yang's territory can afford can be expanded.
There was nothing to say all the way, and Li Yang was very satisfied with the results of the inspection, and this year's bumper summer grain harvest was a foregone conclusion, but the follow-up production had to continue to be fastened.
In the following days, there were merchants who got the news of the grain harvest to Miyako Island, although there is no shortage of grain in various places, but if there is a bumper harvest of grain, the price is bound to fall, and there is still a profit to be made by going back and forth to planing the freight, and the businessman does not care that you are just a small profit, and he will come, and he will always not let himself be idle.
However, they may be disappointed this time, Li Yang has sent messengers to the villages since he returned to the city on the day of his inspection, and this year's surplus grain is purchased by the Miyako Chamber of Commerce.
Just kidding, once the war machine is activated, the amount of money and grain invested in it is not a small amount, and the more food you have, the better.
In the days that followed, I saw that the granary specially set up outside the fishing village port was busy, and the convoys went in and out to transport grain in, and all the materials from the front line would be sent from here in the future. Not only is it load-heavy, but it is also flexible, and some field paths that ox carts can't walk can also shuttle freely.
The five granaries were quickly filled, which can hold more than 200 stone granaries, which means that according to the amount of four catties per person per day, each granary can also supply 1,000 people for ten days.
Li Yang is not short of money now, because of the bumper grain harvest, all the large purchases not only did not cause grain prices to rise, but Li Yang needed to adopt the method of purchasing at a low price so as not to hurt the peasants.
One tael of silver and two stones of grain, the total cost of these purchases is less than a thousand taels of silver for Li Yang, which makes Li Yang feel that it is good to have a rich life, and according to this situation, he can also buy some meat and vegetables for the soldiers.
Until Li Yang set off by boat, thirteen such large granaries had been erected outside the entire fishing village and port, and in addition to the continuous purchase of grain from the surrounding areas and the grain stored in the original treasury, it was completely sufficient to support a campaign.
Li Yang and Wang Hu rode the wind and waves all the way, marching towards the territory of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, along with the ship there was the first batch of materials and grain of 100,000 catties, and the load of more than 50 tons was nothing for the fleet with five lucky ships, and a batch of swords, guns, bows and arrows were also shipped with the ship.
At this time, in Miyako Island, Wang Bao watched the daily material and financial briefings as if he was walking on thin ice, and this time a heavy burden suddenly pressed on him, he was really a little scared, he was not a great talent, and even the culture was a strong learning this year, and now all he can rely on is to be conscientious.
Before Li Yang left, he left a general mobilization order for him, once the fight started, Li Yang would definitely not be stupid enough to make enemies everywhere, and the Ryukyu Nanshan Country was his first target.
The countries on the island of Ryukyu have always been at odds, and at the beginning, other countries would only clap their hands and watch the play, and Li Yang wanted to take advantage of the time when they were clapping to watch the play, and he wanted to accelerate the expansion of his own power.
The lion fights the rabbit, and he also uses all his strength, not to mention Li Yang's little Miyakojima devouring such a huge Ryukyu. Therefore, Li Yang's general mobilization order is that all affairs in the territory should enter the most urgent state, some industries unrelated to production will be temporarily closed, and personnel will be diverted to other industries, just like the brewing industry is naturally among the layoffs.
Moreover, all the peasants need to gather in the village for military training during the slack time, and the workers will practice for half an hour every day after work, so that they can quickly replenish the army when the war is fierce. It is better for these men with a little military training than to give a farmer a spear and drive him to his death.
Before Li Yang left, he meant that he would issue a general mobilization order seven days later, and at that time Li Yang should have been ready to officially declare war on the Ryukyu Nanshan Kingdom.