The next night, the black-clothed guard brought 30,000 taels of silver tickets.

Jiang Long accepted it and told him where the black-clothed guards were located, and with the skills of the black-clothed guards, it would naturally not be a problem to drive away all the thousand wild horses.

Then Jiang Long sent the written reply letter and the mythical love story to the black-clothed guard back to the capital.

From Jingfu, it was transferred to Mrs. Diexiang.

Today, he wrote two more letters to his family, and asked the black-clothed guard to send them back.

"After a while, I may be able to catch another herd of wild horses, about two thousand."

Hearing this, the black-clothed guard immediately said: "The imperial court is short of horses, especially the local army outside the northern Xinjiang, almost every year, it will hand over the folds, hoping that the imperial court can allocate some horses, so no matter how many horses the little master can catch, the small ones can be bought here." ”

"That's good." Jiang Long nodded.

He was also afraid that there would be too many wild horses to catch, and the black-clothed guard would not be able to buy them all, and he would have to spend manpower and material resources to raise them himself.

As soon as the quantity is large, it is not good for him to sell it himself.

And it is sold in northern Xinjiang, and the price is lower.

Outside Lingtong County, the project of digging the river is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the number of people who have rushed to the wind is increasing.

Xiao Fan has statistics every day, and there are more than 7,000 people digging the river.

It is not a small expense to take care of the food and wages of more than 7,000 people.

Fortunately, Jiang Long still has some silver on hand.

In the past two days, a long procession of grain transportation entered Lingtong County, which was the grain that Jiang Long entrusted the black-clothed guard to buy for 50,000 taels of silver.

Seeing this grain transportation team, the people who worked were more energetic.

I finally found a good errand to be able to eat and get paid.

They are afraid that the project will be completed halfway, and the county government will run out of money, what should they do if the work is suddenly stopped?

Seeing that so much grain was delivered to the county seat, they felt a lot more relieved.

Jiang Long sent Xiao Fan over, checked the number of grains, sent them to the granary, and asked Wang Gui, the chief bookkeeper, to help with him.

Wang Gui is also very busy every day now, but he doesn't complain.

It's better to have something to do than to be idle.

If he is idle, it means that Jiang Long doesn't want to use him, and maybe one day Jiang Long will let him go.

In addition to Jiang Long, Sect Advisor Pan Wenchang has also taken the initiative to help these days.

After all, there are not many rich families in Lingtong County, and they can't make any good friends and classmates when they send their children to county school, and Pan Wenchang is not a famous teacher.

Asking Pan Wenchang to be a gentleman is not much good for the child.

Invite a famous teacher to be a gentleman, the famous teacher has a high reputation and connections.

But what does Pan Wenchang have?

Rich families do not send their children to county school, and poor families cannot afford to send their children to school.

Naturally, the county school has been empty.

If it weren't for the fact that Pan Wenchang came with the previous county order, and the Yang county order also attached importance to teaching, then the county school would not even have a courtyard at all.

Last time, Jiang Long went to Wangsha City to see Pang Chengan, and Pang Chengan took the county school to talk about things.

and asked Jiang Long to match Pan Wenchang with two training assistants.

But after Jiang Long came back, he forgot about it directly.

For this, Pan Wenchang didn't dare to complain, he took the initiative to rush over to help, and also saw that Jiang Long had made a lot of trouble in the county, digging rivers, rebuilding the county seat, plastering cement on the city wall, etc., maybe he could really succeed, so as to earn a meritorious political achievement.

Of course, in addition to this idea, Jiang Long will also give some allowances and subsidies to some officials in the county government who came to help.

Pan Wenchang is also very poor, although he is high on weekdays, but when he sees money to be earned, he will not refuse stupidly.

There are not many literate people in Lingtong County, and many places need to be registered and counted, so Pan Wenchang can be regarded as a little help.

Jiang Long was naturally very happy to see the grain team entering the city.

In the boundary of Lingtong County, digging a river to rebuild the county seat, you can owe some wages, but you must not ignore food.

With food, Jianglong has confidence.

For the people who still came from other places, Jiang Long waved his hand and accepted it with pride.

Wangsha City has always paid attention to the movements in Lingtong County, and has been watching coldly.

Now the project has just begun.

That river alone is estimated to have to be dug for half a year.

Pang Chengan and others didn't know that Jiang Long didn't just want to dig a river.

Of course, the river that is now being dug is the largest.

It will be connected with the upper and lower reaches of the Hunhe River, so as to encircle Lingtong County in it.

Jiang Long has his own plan, first dig this river channel with all his might, and then he can dig the river while cultivating the fields.

Aim to see the benefits within three years.

As long as there is a profit, then the project is considered a success.

On this day, Jiang Long came back from outside the city to inspect the reconstruction of the city, and a team walked by.

The team is made up of captured prisoners who spend their days cleaning up the foul spots in the city.

The moat was still dug by the bandits, and it was still too early to be completed.

The moat was dug well, but there was no suitable water source, so the moat was also a decoration.

It was not until the river was dug and then the water of the Hunhe River was brought in that the moat could play its role.

After all, there are so many people in the city that it is inevitable that there will be a foul place, and these prisoners have to clean the city several times a day.

This is also Jiang Long's strict order.

Otherwise, the officials would not be so exquisite.

In which city will there be no foul spots?

Comparatively speaking, the east and south cities, which have built a lot of latrines, are relatively cleaner.

Of course, the work of cleaning the latrines also belongs to these prisoners.

Most of these prisoners were imprisoned because they were greedy for food, so they deliberately caused trouble and got into fights.

At this time, they all regret it.

There are so many errands in the county now, and it's better to do any one than now.

There are many people, fast work, and high efficiency.

A few days have passed, and the first newly built houses are already habitable.

Jiang Long took Tudu and others to visit door to door to see if the officials were distributing according to their orders.

If anyone dares to seek personal gain in this matter and occupy the houses that should belong to the people, Jiang Long will definitely not be polite.

When necessary, kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys!

But fortunately, no one dared to make up their minds on this matter.

In the new houses that Jiang Long visited, they were all people with old houses in this area.

And no officer dared to collect money privately.

The people who moved into their new homes were all happy, and their faces were full of happy smiles.

After visiting the farmhouse, Jiang Long came to the most prosperous street in the county, and as he expected, the most shrewd person in the world was the merchant.

The number of people in Lingtong County has suddenly skyrocketed, and the people have a fixed salary every day, and many businesses immediately see the business opportunities.

A lot of people are running to do business.

The more shrewd ones are to start spending money on buying shops.

The price offered is naturally much higher than the market price, and some shop owners who have little knowledge have sold them one after another.

After all, the merchants here in Lingtong County have never seen the world, and when they see that the price of the visitor is high, nearly double the market price, of course they are willing to sell.

Jiang Long walked on the street, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but shake his head.

Only doubled the price, and then sold?

When the river is dug up, the land reclamation is completed, and the houses in the county town are successfully rebuilt, which can accommodate more people to settle here, the price of the shops with better geographical locations on the street will increase more than ten times, dozens of times, which is inevitable.

At that time, these shopkeepers who sold their shops will have to regret it.

But it doesn't matter, they can use the money in their hands to buy some fields to plant.

Of course, it is not as profitable as opening a shop.

The merchants who came to buy the shops from the outside were not afraid that Jianglong would rebuild the shops on both sides of the street, and those rebuilt houses were not placed in front of them?

Demolished the old house and compensated for the new house.

If they demolish their old shops, won't they be compensated for the new ones?

Jiang Long has this plan, but he also has to take advantage of it.

Almost all the shops on the street are just ordinary houses, and if he renovates, he will definitely have to add a few floors, and then compensate the merchants for a layer, and the extra floors will be his own.

At most, let the shopkeeper choose, whether to choose the first floor or which layer on top.

Of course, the size of the shop will also give the shopkeeper some advantage.

In the afternoon, Cheng Ze sent someone to look for him, and Jiang Long returned to the county office.

Seeing Jiang Long walking in, Cheng Ze didn't talk nonsense, and directly lifted a cloth bag from his feet and took out two things from it.

When Jiang Long saw it, his eyes lit up.

Isn't this a potato and a sweet potato?

In the past, he went to work in the Fuzhong Farm, and knew that the Great Qi realm did not grow these two crops.

"Little Master knows?" Cheng Ze saw Jiang Long's reaction and asked curiously.

Jiang Long hurriedly shook his head, took a few steps forward, picked up the potatoes with one hand and the sweet potatoes with the other, "Although I don't know them, I can see at a glance that they are edible." ”

"The little young master once ordered, let me, Xiao Fan, why don't you go and inquire, there are suitable food crops for planting here, and I didn't get them from a few friends until today, it is said that the people in the Western Regions use this as the staple food."

Cheng Ze explained, "And the yield is very high, so I thought it would be better to plant it and give it a try." ”

"Good!"

A few days after Jiang Long arrived in Lingtong County, he instructed Cheng Ze and the three to find suitable food crops.

The yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is naturally known to Jiang Long, which is much higher than that of wheat, rice, and other coarse grains.

And importantly, potatoes and sweet potatoes don't pick the ground.

Most of the newly cultivated fields are sandy soil, and the soil of the sandy land is relatively soft, while potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown just under the ground, and the soft soil does not limit the expansion of the fruit.

On the other hand, potatoes and sweet potatoes are also relatively drought tolerant.

It is completely possible to promote planting in the north of the whole person.

It can be said that with potatoes and sweet potatoes, as long as they are widely promoted, it will only take two or three years for the people of Daqi to be full.

On the table, there is also a small cloth bag.

Jiang Long stepped forward to open it himself, and when he saw the items inside, his eyes lit up again.

It's actually chili!

Jiang Long was spicy and unhappy when he ate in his previous life, but after coming here, there were no chili peppers on the table.

Although the chefs in Jingfu are good, delicate enough, and the taste is not bad, I always feel that something is missing.

Eating is not enough to the fullest.

Only when you drink can you taste a little spicy.

The reason why it tastes a little spicy is because the alcohol content of this era is not high.