Yang He took Xu Guangqi's personal soldiers to send sweet potatoes to Dong Laohan, gave Xu Guangqi's personal soldiers a few taels of silver to each of them, sent several personal soldiers back to Tongzhou, and introduced several old farmers arranged by Xu Guangqi to Dong Laohan, and then returned to Xiangshan.

Back in Xiangshan, Yang He ordered Sun Defu to temporarily stop his actions and wait for his next arrangement. Then Yang He called the craftsmen again and ordered them to speed up the progress of building the house.

After arranging everything, Yang He went straight to the new barracks.

After several days of training, the recruits' queue has been trained to look good.

Seeing that the queue training was a little successful, Yang He immediately ordered two sentry officers to lead the team to Wangjiazhuang with him.

The military system of the new army is a military system formulated by Yang He in combination with the practice of the guard army and the border army and later generations, roughly speaking, the new establishment is similar to the military system of the guard, but there is an additional level of army, and the rest of the chief is equivalent to the small flag of the guard army, the captain is equivalent to the general flag, and the sentry officer is equivalent to the hundred households.

In fact, Yang He also planned to equip each post with a logistics soldier to be responsible for logistics matters. However, because the recruits had just been recruited, Yang He planned to wait for everyone to conduct an assessment after a period of training, and cut off the recruits who were not suitable for combat to serve as logistics troops.

That is to say, after the troops were really formed, one sentry was divided into two teams of eleven sentry, and a total of 124 people, including the sentry officers. Under normal circumstances, the person in charge of logistics is directly under the command of the sentry officer, and the logistics officer can also divide the logistics into two teams and hand them over to the captain to lead according to the need.

It may seem that there is little significance in arranging logistics troops, but in fact it liberates the combat soldiers, so that the soldiers in charge of the operation do not have to think about food and can concentrate all their energy on fighting the war.

In fact, this deployment of troops is a reference to the practice of later generations. A sentinel is equivalent to a company. In later generations, the military companies generally had a cooking class. Responsible for cooking, regardless of the battle, of course, if the war is urgently needed, the cooking squad can also take up arms to participate in the battle, so the logistics soldiers also need to do some military training.

(Note: Regarding the preparation, I will not explain it in the future.) ）

The two sentinels were more than 200 people, although they were all recruits. But after all, there are many people, and Wang Yuanwai saw that Yang He brought so many people into Wangjiazhuang, and he was very grateful to Yang He.

Yang He didn't say anything to Wang Yuanwai, just said a few polite words, and then returned to Funing County.

In fact, if it weren't for Wang Yuanwai's promise to pay food, Yang He would definitely pull all the recruits to Wangjiazhuang, after all, the recruits were stationed in Wangjiazhuang, and Wang Yuanwai would definitely have to take care of the food, such a big household as Wang Yuanwai. Don't eat for nothing, don't eat. However, now more than 200 people are arranged to come to Wangjiazhuang to eat white food, and they can save a lot of food a day.

Back from Wangjiazhuang. Yang He came to Dong Laohan's house again.

After all, it is a trial planting of new crops, and it is impossible for Yang He not to care.

When Yang He came to Dong Laohan's house, Dong Laohan and a few villagers were hauling adobe with a few old farmers sent by Xu Guangqi.

Yang He didn't know what these people were doing with the adobe, and when he asked, he realized that it was originally used to build a cellar and raise seedlings.

The audience said that it would take several days for the adobe to dry, and Yang He saw that staying here would not be of much help, so he returned to the boot camp to train the recruits.

Two days later, Yang He estimated that the adobe had been made, so he came to Dong Laohan's house again.

When Yang He arrived, everyone had already built a cellar on the kang and was filling the cellar with sand.

Yang He wondered in his heart, what kind of crop seedling is so troublesome, and he actually wants to build a cellar on the kang?

These days, those sweet potatoes are packed in bamboo baskets with quilts covered tightly, the old farmer said that the weather is still cold now, afraid that the sweet potatoes will freeze bad, so Yang He has not seen what the sweet potatoes look like, now to raise seedlings, naturally no longer have to scruple, Yang He casually opened the bamboo basket sealed tightly with the quilt and looked at it, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Isn't this sweet potato a sweet potato?

Yang He still knows some about the yield of sweet potatoes, and the yield of this thing is extremely high, and it is said that the yield per mu is as high as five or six thousand catties.

Even if the varieties at this time are not as good as those improved by later generations, and the yield does not reach the level of later generations, there should be no problem with one-tenth or two-tenths of the yield.

Yang He calculated, there are more than 100,000 mu of land under his name that can be used for cultivation, if all the sweet potatoes are planted, Yang He will not have more, and the yield per mu will be six or seven hundred catties. Even if the yield per mu is 600 catties, the annual harvest is more than 60 million catties, and there are so many sweet potatoes that can at least solve the problem of tens of thousands of people eating.

First of all, those refugees will not believe that sweet potatoes will have such a high yield, and secondly, even if everyone believes it, they will not be able to take so many sweet potatoes as seeds, and they will have to wait for Dong Laohan to harvest this year.

After thinking for a while, Yang He suddenly smiled bitterly, even if Dong Laohan has a bumper harvest this year, and all the harvested sweet potatoes are used as seeds, I am afraid that it will not be able to meet the needs of 100,000 mu of land, at least another year, so that more people can plant sweet potatoes before the seed problem can be solved.

In other words, the first two years can only be the promotion period, and it will be at least the third year before you can see results.

Normally, it takes three years to promote a crop in a province or a place, but it takes three years to popularize a crop in a large township, which is obviously a bit too long.

After pondering for a while, Yang He called an old farmer and said, "Uncle, do you know that there are other crops with higher yields?" ”

The old farmer said with a smile: "In the past, Lord Xu also tried to grow crops such as taro (potato) and maize (corn), and the yield was quite high, and it was relatively drought tolerant, but the yield was not as good as this sweet potato." ”

Yang He said: "I don't know where to get the seeds of these two crops?" ”

The old farmer said: "I heard Lord Xu say that these crops are all from the Yiren, and they are planted in some places in the south, but there are very few in the north, and I am afraid that you will not be able to buy seeds in the north." ”

After thinking about it, Yang He said: "Now when I go to the south to buy seeds, can I sow them in time?" ”

The old farmer smiled: "If we can rush back in mid-April, we should have time to sow seeds, and I am afraid that the sowing season will be past if it is too late." ”

Yang He nodded, there is still more than a month until mid-April, and the time should be almost enough to ride a fast horse to the south and return.

It's just that who to send there is a problem, these soldiers under Yang He are all northerners, and they have never been to the south, if they take the wrong road, they will be delayed.

After pondering for a while, Yang He decided that this matter had to fall on Zhang Fengqi.

Without further ado, Yang He said goodbye to Dong Laohan and others, and hurried back to the county seat.

Seeing Yang He coming to the county office, Zhang Fengqi smiled and said, "It's just in time, I'm looking for you." ”

"What's the matter?" Yang He wondered.

Zhang Fengqi pointed to a soldier beside him and said, "Xu Guangqi, Lord Xu sent someone to find you." ”

"I just came back from Tongzhou, and my husband came to look for me, but what happened?" Yang He asked.

The soldier hurriedly said: "Lord Xu asked you to go to the capital, Lord Yuan wants to see you." ”

"Lord Yuan? Is it Lord Yuan Keli? Yang Heqi said.

"Yes!" The soldier said.

"Did the gentleman say what Lord Yuan saw me?" Yang He asked.

"The villain doesn't know, the villain is just ordered to come to deliver the letter." The soldier said.

Yang He nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "In this way, you go back and tell Mr., just say that I will go to Beijing to meet Master Yuan after the hospital examination." ”

"This ...... Looking at Lord Xu's appearance, he seemed to be in a hurry. The soldier said busily.

Yang He waved his hand: "I know what Lord Yuan saw about me, so you can reply to Mr. according to my words, and say that I will enter Beijing after the college examination." ”

The soldier nodded: "Then the villain will go back." ”

Yang He hugged his fists: "It's hard work, big brother." ”

The soldier clenched his fists and turned to leave.

Seeing that Yang He was talking to the soldier as if he was playing a dumb riddle, Zhang Fengqi smiled bitterly: "Brother Yingshi, what is mysterious and secret." ”

Yang He smiled: "Mr. Xu recommended me to Lord Yuan, and Lord Yuan wants to meet me." ”

"Then why don't you enter Beijing right away?" Zhang Fengqi said urgently.

Yang He shook his head: "Now is not the time to enter Beijing, Lord Yuan is one of the examiners of the Academy of Sciences, I don't know how many eyes are staring at him, I enter Beijing to see Lord Yuan at this time, it will inevitably have a bad impact on Lord Yuan's reputation." ”

"How can you enter Beijing to see Lord Yuan's reputation?" Zhang Fengqi wondered.

Yang He said with a smile: "It's a matter of donating prison for me, how can I go to see Lord Yuan at this time?" ”

Zhang Fengqi shook his head and smiled when he heard this: "It turned out to be this matter, but I have already done it for you, and I also helped you buy a fictitious position as a middle school scholar." ”

Yang He was overjoyed when he heard this: "So fast? ”

Zhang Fengqi smiled: "Isn't that fast? It's not a big deal, just find the right person and send the money up. ”

As he spoke, he took out an edict from his bosom and handed it to Yang He: "This is your official body." ”

Yang He took it and opened it and looked at it, only to see that it was written: Yang He, the supervisor of Funing County, Yongping Prefecture, is the person who is the scholar in the examination, and he is from the seventh grade. The back is covered with a seal, because the seal is a seal, Yang He does not know which department's seal.

After looking at it for a while, Yang He said: "By the way, what exactly does this Zhongshu Sheren do, and what does this test word mean?" ”

Zhang Fengqi said with a smile: "There are many scholars in the court, all the cabinets, and there are also in the palace. Because you, the Chinese scholar, are fictitious, and have no real position, so add a test word in front, although the test word is added, but the grade is the same as a serious Chinese scholar, to put it bluntly, it is to spend money to buy an official who has no authority. ”

Yang He nodded lightly when he heard this, and handed the letter of appointment to Zhang Fengqi.

Zhang Fengqi took it with a smile and put it away.

Zhang Fengqi knew why Yang He didn't want this letter of appointment, because this letter of appointment was useless to Yang He, and all Yang He wanted was the identity of the civil official. With the status of a civil official, Yang He will have more room to operate in the future.

Immediately, Yang He told Zhang Fengqi the purpose of his visit.

Zhang Fengqi didn't talk nonsense, and immediately called the housekeeper and ordered him to arrange for the two of them to go to the south to buy seeds. (To be continued......)