Chapter 197: Cannon Fodder Without Salt 15
"Even if people agree to your request at the beginning, what if it changes later?" Liao Heng said again.
"Oh, then, maybe there is a lack of a father-in-law in the palace. Hearing this, Yingman hooked the corners of his mouth, but this smile made Liao Heng feel cold below, and thought of Yingman's force value, and suddenly there was nothing to say, and then he left, and now Yingman doesn't know what the other party is doing.
When Zhong asked, she didn't mention this, but just said that the other party was here to ask herself some questions about martial arts, Liao Heng didn't know what he was thinking, and Yingman didn't think that the other party had taken a fancy to him, after all, the difference between the two parties was 6 years old, and when she could get married, the other party would probably have both children and daughters, and this time she said it so clearly, the other party shouldn't have any thoughts about making herself small.
After the New Year, the Liao family army began to recruit soldiers, I heard that the inland has been in chaos, although the barbarians were blocked outside the Tanzhou Mansion two cities away from Shangjing, but they have not retreated, occupying three cities, in addition to the beginning of the slaughter of many people, now the rest of those people are also in dire straits.
The barbarians, who are hungry and can eat human flesh, treat the people of foreign races as two-legged sheep, and the women are even worse, but after the emperor in Beijing knew that the barbarians were blocked, he actually began to have fun again.
This time, General Liao, who originally refused to agree to his son's rebellion, couldn't look at it, agreed to his son's proposal, and directly reversed, preparing to clean up the barbarians first, and then overthrow this already decaying dynasty.
Their village was also recruited, but this time it was not compulsory military service, but it was voluntary, and there were more than a dozen teenagers in Bailin Village who had enlisted in the army before, and they were not forced, but now the men in the village have learned martial arts, and they also have a passion in their hearts, and the vast majority of men under the age of thirty and over 13 have signed up.
Yingman didn't know what to say about this, and the women originally disagreed, but they didn't dare to contradict their men, so some of them blamed Yingman and were very unkind to her.
Yingman is not good-tempered, you show me a face, I won't give you a good face, but the girls who can't go are very frustrated that the boys under the age are very discouraged, and the girls actually want to go together, but it's a pity that the world doesn't give them a chance, and the children are pure depression.
After that, there was only a group of old and weak women and children left in Bailin Village, including Yingman's family, the uncle was left behind because he was too old, Xu Erlang and Xu Sanlang went, and there were no four strong laborers, spring plowing was still needed, not to mention that this time it was still planting new seeds brought back by Yingman.
So, the family went to work in the area, these plants are full and I don't know how to plant, but after it sprouts, it can be sure that there is no difference with the ones she is familiar with, so the vine melon is cultivated according to the sweet potato, but the sweet potato grows underground, and the vine melon is actually two different things, and I don't know if the cuttings are not suitable.
Potatoes can wait for it to germinate after the germination part is cut off and then planted, you can save a lot of seeds, after all, her seeds are not much, although the yellow fruit particles are larger than corn, but the planting method should be similar, generally to the method of point planting.
Fortunately, after all the growth came, Yingman made cuttings for the vine before it bloomed, and then it also survived, which made Xu Dalang, who originally didn't agree very much, very surprised, but also happy.
After taking care of it, Yingman because he didn't know their growth, he could only check the growth every day, fertilize and water them according to their situation, and then record them one by one.
Two or three months later, the three crops were harvested one after another, and the yield per mu was amazing, so that other villagers who had not planted before, but were also watching, were shocked, such a high yield per mu was rare at this time, but it also made them excited, although they did not plant now, but they could start planting next year.
Liao Heng also received the news of the bumper harvest here, he has been busy planting in the past few months, and he has not been idle, his father is finally ready to rebel, after recruiting troops and horses, they naturally need to train, and the recruits will first practice the war dance for a few months to improve their physical fitness and strength, so that even if their strength is not much, it is a fierce army.
At the same time, he has always been very concerned about Yingman's actions, and she is also clear about the purchase of imported seeds, before he thought that Yingman would not sit on that useless work, but he also didn't think that the yield per mu of these imported plants was so high.
So, after a few months, Liao Heng came to Bailin Village again, and there happened to be a few foreign plants left that had not been harvested, and he asked people to help collect it, the yield per mu of rattan melon is about 8 stones, and one stone here is equivalent to 97kg, that is, the yield per mu is more than 1,500 catties.
The yield of potatoes is two or three hundred catties more than that of rattan melon, but it is yellow fruit, because it needs to be dried, so the yield per mu at this time is also three thousand catties, which is not dried by weight, and it will shrink five times after drying, after all, yellow fruit (corn) has a large moisture.
Knowing the yield and tasting the taste, he was ready to buy all the output except for the reserved seeds, and prepared to plant them next year, but the people of Bailin Village disagreed, they still had to buy it themselves, and finally left the seeds of Bailin Village, and the others were bought by Liao Heng.
The price is not high, after all, when Yingman bought it before, it was a strange thing, but Yingman really couldn't sell it so high, and she didn't plan to sell it at a high price, so she gave a suitable price according to today's seed prices.
However, Liao Heng was still very kind to subsidize the silver they bought at a high price, and then copied a copy of the planting record recorded by Yingman and took it away.
In the second year, when these seeds radiated in the villages of the northwest mountain city, the Liao family army had already clashed with the barbarians several times, and also recaptured a city of Chenzhou, but did not march on the next occupied city again, because Chenzhou really needed to be taken care of, too many people were killed, and they were oppressed for more than a year, and the people in the city were too miserable.
When the barbarians were repulsed, there were many women who committed suicide directly, these were insulted, and some women endured it for the sake of their children, but their hearts were already dead.
After taking over Chenzhou, Liao Heng walked around the city, looking at those numb living people, his heart was also full of anger, he wanted to wipe out all the barbarians now, but the logistics couldn't keep up, the food he bought before had been almost consumed, and the new grain had not kept up.
No matter how strong the army was, it was useless to have no food and grass, so they had to stop and recuperate, and let people go to the south to sell grain and put the city in order.