In the early morning of the next day, Liu An woke up and checked the system first.

The envoys sent to persuade the Xianbei tribes in the west to surrender, except for the envoys from the Kesh tribe and the three Toucheng tribes, have returned, and none of the others have returned so far.

He had been waiting for it before, but now he remembered that he could use the system to see if his person was still alive.

Liu An still remembers the names and approximate numbers of those people, and he only needs to open the directory to see it.

Pulling the number directly to the location of Qikeshi, Liu An started to look up from here, but saw the names of the four surviving messengers.

The other 30 or so people don't seem to have appeared in the system.

"Alas!" Liu An sighed, it seemed that they were all dead.

It may have been killed directly by the leader of Xianbei, or it may have been in danger on the way back, in short, more than thirty dead cards are gone.

However, more than 30 dead cards, in the end, in exchange for Liu An's huge harvest of going to the grassland, did not lose at all.

Putting this matter aside, Liu An got up to wash, and after breakfast, he called Zhang Fei and asked him to pull some carriages to the manor outside the city to find him.

There were not many people in the manor, only a few old men who guarded the manor and old women who cooked and washed clothes.

Liu An came to the manor with his personal guards, found a few vacant rooms, entered alone, took out the thirteen spices, soap, sugar and other luxury goods in the system, and after keeping some of them for his own use, he let Zhang Fei put them all into the carriage.

Seeing that Zhang Fei arranged for someone to carry the materials, Liu An said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, this time you will lead the cavalry under your command to send things to Luoyang, take a carrier pigeon when you leave, and release the carrier pigeon when you are about to arrive in Luoyang, and let Luoyang's guide go to Luoyang to pick you up." ”

Last time, Gao Shun went to Luoyang to deliver something, and only later did Liu An know that even if Gao Shun knew the address of the house, he was looking for it in the huge Luoyang before he found the location of the Luoyang house.

This time with the carrier pigeon, it is much more convenient, and there is no need to wait outside the gate of Luoyang City many days in advance, just release the carrier pigeon when it is almost there, and the time will be very similar to receive Zhang Fei.

"If you need money and food on the road, just go to Xuande."

"I haven't been to Luoyang yet, just to see what the imperial capital is! Ha ha! Zhang Fei's happy beard flew up when he heard this.

"Remember, don't drink and make mistakes!" Liu An warned: "If you delay your business because of drinking, Yide will marry a mother-in-law and go home to have a child!" ”

What Liu An meant by this was that if Zhang Fei made a mistake because of drinking, he would send him home and not want him.

Of course, it is only a very serious warning, and Liu An will not really do this.

However, Zhang Fei believed Liu An's words, the smile on his face instantly froze, and he nodded curtly: "Ming Gong and relieved, my old Zhang still has a clear priority, and he will never drink and make mistakes!" ”

"Well, I know that Yide is a person of trust, and since Yide has made a promise, he will never lose his word, so I am relieved." Liu An smiled and nodded, and praised Zhang Fei by the way.

A typical stick and then a sweet date, Zhang Fei's personality is like this, it is useless to just fight, it is useless to only praise, the best way is actually to find a comparison object, arouse the other party's competitive heart, and then be strict with yourself.

An hour later, all the things were carried to the carriage, and after lunch, Zhang Fei was ordered to set off.

During this period, Liu An arranged for Lu Bu to lead his cavalry to patrol the northern part of Wuyuan every day to monitor the movements of Xianbei.

The gold mines in the northern mountains were also mined again, and Fu Zhao took people to the iron mining area, and Liu An could only find another experienced old blacksmith to take charge of it.

Liu An selected a capable person from among his own soldiers and asked him to lead five hundred soldiers to take full responsibility.

In the afternoon, Liu An used the room vacated in the morning to extract 2,000 pieces of cotton cloth and 6,000 pieces of coarse cloth from the system.

Among them, Liu An recruited hundreds of women to make cotton clothes for the soldiers in the army.

Two thousand cotton cloth is naturally not enough, Liu An took out half of the coarse cloth and asked them to make cotton clothes together.

The remaining 3,000 coarse cloths were temporarily placed in the manor by Liu An.

At the same time, the villagers were recruited to prepare to build a cloth shop outside the manor, and when the cloth shop was completed, the remaining coarse cloth was sold to the people of Wuyuan at a fair price.

is still the same sentence, winter is approaching, and Liu An doesn't want the scene of freezing to death under his rule.

In addition, selling coarse cloth can also complete the side tasks that Liu An has put on hold for a long time.

In addition to the cloth shop, Liu An also asked Xiang Yong to build a grocery store next to it.

This grocery store is going to be used by Liu An to sell milk, eggs and other items at low prices.

There are still 500 cows and chickens in the stock, and there are many cows and chickens that have been extracted and raised in the Chengze Farm, and if these animal products can be sold, they can not only bring Liu An an extra income, but also slightly improve the lives of the people.

Since Liu An took control of Wuyuan, he has almost never stopped spending money to hire villagers to work, and after a few months of accumulation, many villagers have saved a small amount of money in their hands.

Moreover, after Liu An ordered Haoqiang to return the overcharged tenant rent, he basically solved the problem of food and clothing for the villagers.

Therefore, the lives of most people in Wuyuan have undergone earth-shaking changes compared with last year.

The money to buy some coarse cloth to make clothes for the winter is basically affordable.

As for milk eggs and the like, it depends on personal savings.

However, Liu An's 3,000 coarse cloth is definitely not enough, he sells it at a low price, and most of the people will choose to buy it here.

After a piece of cloth makes a dress, there is hardly much fabric left.

Three thousand pieces of cloth, at best, enough for four thousand sets of clothes, where is enough?

Therefore, after arranging for people to build houses, Liu An sent his subordinates to various places to buy low-cost cloth.

As soon as the matter was arranged, Liu An's personal soldiers came to inform Liu An, and Meng Lan asked to see him.

After Liu An led his troops into the grassland, Meng Lan returned to the ploughing field he was responsible for, preparing to harvest potatoes and carrots that were about to ripen, and plant overwintering spinach.

A few days ago, I heard that Liu An led the army back, so I hurriedly arranged the things at hand, and asked people to load the harvested potatoes and carrots into trucks, and brought them all back today to report to Liu An.

Liu An heard Meng Lan's request to see him, and said in his heart: Just if I wanted to doze off, someone sent a pillow.

It just so happened that Meng Lan came, and by the way, he asked him to bring back all the seeds he had just drawn and plant them in the spring of next year.

A year and a half later, the Yellow Turban Uprising spread to the eight prefectures, namely Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan and Henan.

Bingzhou is not among them, and Wuyuan County, located on the border of Bingzhou, is a poor place that the Yellow Turban Army looks down on.

The same idea as the Yellow Turban is Emperor Liu Hong and the Imperial Court Gonggong Zhugong, when Wuyuan was harassed by Xianbei at its worst, the Imperial Court even said that it would give up this place, so naturally it would not notice the changes here.

And this place is far away from the imperial capital, and the imperial court whip is beyond the reach, even if it intends to intervene, I am afraid that it will not be able to reach it.

Now that the entire county of Wuyuan is in the hands of Liu An, even if the news leaks, it is very limited.

In this way, Liu An can rest assured that he can develop agriculture here and accumulate strength, and the five plains are vast and sparsely populated, and even if the countryside is not surrounded by walls, it may not be destroyed.

After all, in such a big place, Liu An asked Meng Lan to find a place with abundant water and soil to open up the wasteland, and Xianbei would not go anywhere when he came to invade, but plundered the inhabited places with a clear goal.

Then the probability of being able to touch the pastoral field that Meng Lan is in charge of is extremely small.

What's more, now that the western Xianbei has been abolished, the central Xianbei whip is beyond the reach, unless they move the tribe to the west, otherwise there is no need to worry about the threat of Xianbei for the time being.

Liu An took Meng Lan into the inner hall and kindly pulled him to sit on the seat.

When subduing Cheng Ze, Meng Lan was willing to sacrifice herself to help Liu An recruit Cheng Ze, which greatly touched him.

Since then, Liu An has been unusually close to Meng Lan, thinking about how to compensate Meng Lan and reuse him.

Meng Lan and Liu An are of the same age, and they are also dignified and upright.

Liu An looked at Meng Lan and saw that his complexion was the same, so he said with confidence: "Yuan Pu is full of energy, I want to come to the field to harvest a lot, and I have worked hard for Yuan Pu!" ”

"Tuo Ming Gong Hongfu, Lan doesn't dare to take credit." Meng Lan sat on the seat, bowed slightly, and said to Liu An: "Lan has never seen such a huge crop, the thing called potatoes, planted thirty-five acres, actually produced more than two thousand three thousand stones, and the yield per mu can reach as much as sixty-five stones!" It can be called a fetish! ”

Meng Lan's eyebrows fluttered, and she continued: "That carrot is even more so, the yield per mu is as high as seventy-five acres!" With these two kinds of crops falling from the sky, no one will starve to death in my five plains! ”

Liu An shook his head with a smile, and said helplessly: "Yuan Puke has eaten potatoes and carrots?" ”

"No, I didn't." Meng Lan was puzzled, "Aren't these two things poisonous?" ”

"Definitely." Liu An replied, "Carrots have a lot of water, and they are not full when they are eaten, and they will be hungry after a while, but they are very good as fruits and vegetables." Although potatoes are better than carrots, they are still hungry after eating. However, Yuan Pu is right, although these two things are easy to starve, but if they are planted in large quantities, they can ensure that no one will starve to death again. ”

"I see." Meng Lan thought for a moment and then continued, "That's why Duke Ming ordered me to pay attention to collecting seeds so that they can be planted in large quantities. So...... The potato can be used as both a seed and a fruit, and won't Lan have to transport it back again? ”

Liu An smiled and said nothing, who let you transport all the potatoes without saying anything, and you can only transport them back.

"Alas!" Meng Lan patted her head and said regretfully: "It's really a loss of shallow knowledge here, if you had asked Ming Gong for instructions earlier, there would have been no need to work so hard, this Lan is also wrong!" ”

"You! Hahaha! Liu An smiled and pointed at Meng Lan, but he didn't mean to accuse at all.

"At the beginning of next spring, we will plant all the potatoes we have harvested, as I told you. In addition, I have a variety of magical crops here, and I will write down the planting time and planting methods later, and you can arrange for someone to plant them at that time. ”

"No!" Meng Lan also put away her playful mentality and responded solemnly.

"By the way, how much cultivated land has been cultivated?"

Meng Lan recalled for a moment and said: "Before I came, I had already reclaimed 1,300 acres of wasteland, and I am still continuing to reclaim it. ”

"Where are the apple trees?" When Liu An was looking for a place to plant apple saplings, he didn't find a suitable place, but he found gold mines in the northern mountains.

After that, he was busy improving his blacksmith skills, and the matter of choosing a place to plant the saplings was handed over to Meng Lan.

"It was planted under the mountains around Wuyuan County, and the water and soil there met the conditions mentioned by Ming Gong. Lan also went to see it a few times after that, and the saplings are growing very well, so there is no need to worry. ”

"Well, that's fine." Liu An nodded, and continued: "The speed of reclamation of barren land is a little slow, and if this continues, when spring begins next year, it will inevitably be insufficient to cultivate the land." In this way, Yuan Pu, you can hire another 2,000 people to cultivate the land, and at the same time build a breeding farm in the field, and after the construction is completed, I will send 500 ploughing cattle over, and the reclamation speed will be much faster. ”

Liu An pumped almost 10,000 acres of crops yesterday, although not all of them had to be planted in the early spring, but according to the rate at which Meng Lan had only reclaimed 1,000 mu of fields in the past two or three months, it was certainly not enough.

Of course, Liu An didn't mean to slack off Meng Lan, after all, in addition to cultivating the fields, he was also responsible for planting, taking care of crops, harvesting and other work, and he would let the people go to the fields in his free time, so he indicated that he would send more manpower.

However, the fertilizer obtained from this lottery is indeed obviously not enough to plant all the seeds.

And Liu An can't rely on the system all the time, after all, the number of seeds collected every time the crop matures is also very large, and according to the probability of the system pumping fertilizer, sooner or later it will not be able to keep up with the time when the crop is planted.

So Liu An instructed Meng Lan again: "In addition, Yuan Pu should also pay attention to collecting animal manure to fertilize crops, the high-grade fertilizer I gave you is extremely scarce, and it will definitely not be enough in the future, so you can only use manure to fertilize the cultivated fields at that time." ”

Although the fertility of manure is inevitably inferior to that of the system's high-grade fertilizer, and it is a sure thing that the yield of fertilizer will be reduced, the crop of the system can be planted in a large area at least more than the crops grown by the people today.

Even if the yield is reduced by fertilizing with manure, it will certainly produce more food than growing today's crops.

"No! Lan will do it! Meng Lan left and went to do all the things Liu An explained.

Liu An asked people to divide 100,000 catties of carrots sent by Meng Lan to the military camp for the soldiers in the army to eat.

For the rest, Liu An divided it into multiple parts according to the number of Wuyuan counties, sent them to each county, and handed them over to the local Haoqiang who died for Liu An to sell at a low price.

The so-called low price must be lower than the price of other vegetables on the market.

Wuyuan County is Liu An's base, and improving people's lives is the first step, and getting rid of people's night blindness is naturally among them.

Carrots can only be eaten as vegetables, and in a few years, people from other states and counties are likely to become Liu An's enemies, and he doesn't want to improve his enemy's night blindness, and let the enemy army attack him at night when the time comes.

Back in the study, I picked up a pen and wrote the details of various crops on the cloth.

This time, in addition to converting the month to the month of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu An copied it completely according to the introduction of the system, and the writing was extremely detailed, and the information of more than a dozen crops was written, and the time was late at night.

During this period, people came to persuade Liu An to have dinner, but Liu An didn't go.

Finally finished writing, Liu An, who had 60 points of force value, actually felt the sourness coming from his wrist.

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