The gifts brought by the envoy of the Mu clan were not too many or valuable, but his identity was more important, and he was actually the cousin of the head of the Mu family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

What makes Qingyang feel that he can win over is that there is also a deep contradiction between the Mu family and the Ji family, and they have always been close to the Qing family.

The contradiction between the Mu clan and the Ji clan is very simple, between the two sealed land, there is a large area of uninhabited saline-alkali wilderness for nearly 100 miles.

Similar to most of the lords of Xing, these wildernesses were mostly saline-alkali soils, which could not be irrigated and planted, but they could graze a large number of saline-tolerant cattle, sheep and livestock.

Animal husbandry economy is an important income in the northern part of Xingguo and even in the entire Northern Wilderness countries.

However, the northern wilderness is salty and white, and it is not an empty word, and more than seventy percent of the land is saline-alkali land with white flowers.

Not to mention that crops can't grow, even the grass that grows out of the herds doesn't like to eat it, except for bison, rhinoceros and other beasts that will eat it.

In this way, only a few freshwater lakes along the shores of some rivers and streams pass through the pastures in the Northern Wilderness are suitable for large-scale grazing.

In order to compete for these excellent pastures that have no definite ownership, the lords under the command of the local lords often have conflicts over pastures, and if it were not for the strict prohibition of private fighting by Xing State, I am afraid that the lord's private army would have to go to war.

The Mu family and the Ji family are next to each other, and there are naturally bumps and bumps between the two lords, and the Mu family, who is also a corporal and has no strong backstage support, will inevitably suffer losses in the face of the Ji family with the support of Dr. Fei.

While the Ji clan was planning to seal the Qing clan's land, he also used Fei Dafu's prestige to oppress the Mu clan, trying to occupy more grassland for himself, and the Mu clan was naturally unwilling.

When he learned the news that the Ji family's plan against the Qing clan failed, the head of the Mu family gritted his teeth and sent his cousin as a representative to contact the Qing clan.

After learning about the relatively detailed situation inside and out, Qingyang first accepted the ten stone miscellaneous grains each sent by the Lin family and the Ai family, returned the ten small sickles made by his own family, and sent away the two retainers who were happy and happy, and then solemnly entertained the Mu family.

If it weren't for Qiu Niang's acquaintance with this short, middle-aged man, Qingyang really couldn't believe that Mu Qing was the cousin of the head of the Mu family.

He is short and has dark skin, and his hands are calloused and scarred, and he looks like a hard-working old farmer.

"The head of the Mu family is public, and his character is worthy of admiration!" Qingyang actually just learned about the situation of the Mu clan from Qiu Niang, so he came to the envoy of the Mu clan to sigh with emotion.

He said with a touched face: "Just by virtue of Yan Gong's military merits and qualifications that have served in the Zuo Division Army for more than ten years, he should at least be awarded the title of sergeant, but it is a pity that he is too kind and only loses the title of corporal."

The family is barren and has little harvest, and most of the people are the people who died in the war in Northern Xinjiang, and they have strong families, and they don't work much and eat a lot.

Over the years, I heard that Yan Gong has adopted and raised a lot of orphans and children in Beilin City, and such a righteous person Ji Shan also has to use his power to persecute and oppress vigorously, which is really unkind and unjust! ”

"My brother asks for kindness, I don't know how happy I am to have such a comment from your family master!"

Mu Qing, a middle-aged man, said with a happy smile, "My brother heard about the fire in Qing's grain field, and learned that most of your family's autumn harvest grain was burned this year, so he ordered me to bring twenty stone miscellaneous beans to show my heart!" ”

"Miscellaneous beans?" Qingyang and Qiu Niang were surprised at the same time.

Qiu Niang was surprised, because miscellaneous beans are almost the most lowly type of food, except for poor people, slaves and wild people, even ordinary people will not eat this kind of food that is easy to flatulence, and even the war horses of the lords will not feed these beans.

The reason why Qingyang was surprised was because it was the first time in this world that he had heard of such a food as beans.

He has always wanted to find soybeans as a crop, after all, in the current shortage of meat, soybeans are an excellent nutritional supplement.

But it has not been found around the sealed soil, and now it is the Mu family who took the initiative to send it to the door.

Seeing that Qiu Niang's face was not good, Mu Qing smiled a little bitterly and said: "Your family is not strange, it is difficult for my Mu family to grow corn in the past two years, and it is difficult to grow corn in the well fields that are saline-alkaline, and almost most of the well fields are planted with these salt-alkali tolerant miscellaneous beans, although they are lowly things, they can also feed many people!" ”

"I'll see!"

Under Mu Qing's surprised gaze, Qingyang ordered someone to open Mou's gift, and immediately smiled, sure enough, there are many kinds of beans, not only the soybeans he is looking for, but also red beans, mung beans, black beans and other beans, and now even the seeds are complete.

"Good, good, all good seeds! I'll put it away for me, and I'll find a place to plant it next year! Qingyang said happily, "There will be tofu to eat next year!" ”

"Lord, Lord, what are you?" Qiu Niang looked at her lord with some concern, how could this kind of thing that could only be eaten by slaves and savages make the lord so happy? Don't you get angry with Mou's gift?

The short, thin and swarthy Mu Qing is even more worried, what if he comes to give a gift but is angry with the young master of the Qing clan and has a deep hatred? But these mixed beans are really their main food!

Qingyang finally calmed down and said to Mu Qing: "I'm very satisfied, since you and I are world friends, why should Mr. be so polite?"

I will put away the twenty stone miscellaneous beans you brought, and give back ten stones of corn to your family, and in addition, I admire the virtue and righteousness of your family master, and give ten stones of corn! I hope you don't dislike it."

"How dare that?" The short, thin middle-aged man was a little incredulous, "It's too much!" ”

"How much? Not much more! Qingyang laughed, "Since it is a world friend, now my family is no longer in danger of food shortage, since I have the spare strength, why not help?" ”

Seeing Mu Qingmei smile and leave, Lian Po finally came over and said a little unhappily: "Lord, even if you have the four hundred stone grain supported by the Ye family and the Cheng family at home, you can't be so generous?" Although everyone sighed at the high righteousness of the Mu family, it was enough to give back ten stones of corn! ”

"You don't understand!"

Qingyang's joy has not passed, "Although corn is important, but these miscellaneous beans cannot be taken lightly, it used to be eaten and it would be because of improper methods, our family will also reclaim more wasteland next year to sow seeds, I will teach you how to eat!" ”

Qiu Niang saw that the lord attached so much importance to beans, and hurriedly explained to him, and Qingyang knew with a wry smile that it turned out that soybeans were also a food that Xing Guo had long had.

However, the Qing clan had a shortage of labor before that, and even the 4,000 acres of well fields that the sergeant title should have been cultivated have not been completed, and they have no energy at all, and they are not willing to spend more energy on planting, which is regarded as worthless beans that are regarded as cheap food.

These people simply don't understand that just eating corn lacks meat, oil and water, and must consume a lot of food, and if there is a large amount of legumes to supplement fat and protein, it will greatly improve the level of diet.

What's more, these beans are far more drought-tolerant and salin-tolerant than corn grains, once the beans can be popularized on a large scale, it means that the grain planting area of Xingguo can be greatly increased, so why should Xingguo worry about not having enough food to eat?

What makes Qingyang even more important is that the beans are very easy to manage, only need to be cultivated and harvested, and there is almost no need to worry too much in the middle, which is very suitable for Qing's cultivation where labor is scarce.

"Hehe, the most lacking thing in the countries of the Northern Wilderness is food, if I solve this problem next year, the monarch is afraid that he will have to give me some big rewards!"

Qingyang was smug in his heart, the only pity was that he had no military merits, so he couldn't add a knighthood.