Chapter 63. Three-legged
During the Chinese New Year this year, everyone didn't have time to get together to be lively, and Pei Jing and Su Yan had never even seen each other. It wasn't until after the third day of the Lunar New Year that Pei Jing collected all the territory of the two prefectures and three prefectures, and he took Su Yan and Zhang's mother and son to Weibei City.
The two hadn't seen each other for several months, and Su Yan was five months pregnant at this time.
Not long after Su Yan settled down in Weibei City, the vassal kings and Dingbei kings outside fought again, and a large number of refugees fled to the boundary of Qingyang City. Pei Jing hurriedly took people to Qingyang to resettle the refugees.
The Zhang family accompanied Su Yan to have a baby, and the land in Panlong Mountain over there was also on the right track, so Su Yan didn't need to worry about it at all. All she has to do now is give birth to the baby in peace.
Qingyang City has been scraped by the rebel army several times in the past two years, and the city has long been empty of ten rooms and nine empty. This increase in the number of refugees has undoubtedly added a lot of popularity to the city, and the land that has been deserted for two years has also been cultivated.
Pei Jing discussed with Su Yan to promote sweet potato corn in these two prefectures and three states. He pulled a group of good farmers from Panlong Village to Qingyang City to lead the refugees to plant sweet potatoes.
When Su Yan's melons were ripe, the fields of these two prefectures and three states were already green sweet potato vines. and corn stalks more than one person high.
Su Yan was in pain for a day and a night and gave birth to a son. named Pei Musu, because the two met in Qixia Mountain, the nickname is Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi was born white and fat, with a full eight catties, Su Yan suffered a lot of losses in order to give birth to him, but fortunately, she had eaten gourd water for a long time, and her body was properly recuperated, and there was no danger during childbirth.
Two months later, there was a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes. The yield per mu is comparable to that of Panlong Mountain at the beginning.
The land of Panlong Mountain naturally cannot be compared with the land of these places, but Panlong Mountain has an advantage, the sweet potato seeds were cultivated by Su Yan with gourd water before, and when planting, Su Yan also added some gourd water. The advantages of gourd water offset the lack of barrenness.
This year, there were no more sweet potatoes planted in the land under Panlong Mountain, only other beans of various colors were planted.
Sweet potato corn is mainly cultivated in the boundaries of the two provinces and three states. Fifty percent of the peasants were given to the grain they harvested, and the rest was collected in the warehouse to be used as military rations and seeds for the coming year.
On the other side, Lu Rong opened a grain shop in the two prefectures and three prefectures in advance, and at this time, under the slogan of preparing military rations to defend the city, the surplus grain in the hands of the people was collected at the market price.
Pei Jiajun gave these fleeing people a way to live, and they naturally believed in Pei Jiajun. He left his own food and some of his surplus grain, and sold the remaining part of his surplus grain to the grain store.
Although Pei Jing tried his best to block the news of the bumper harvest, the news was still spread.
Several forces were shocked when they heard this. The first reaction was naturally not to believe it, but it was still not at ease, so he sent someone to inquire about the news. In the end, although the accurate information was obtained, only a small part of the seeds were obtained.
These people are hungry and afraid, and it is too late to hide some food, and those who really want to exchange money only take out a pound and a half of them by deducting and searching the ground. After all, there are wars going on everywhere now, and everyone doesn't know how many days this area will be peaceful.
After the harvest, the two prefectures and three prefectures, the entire territory was revitalized, and the stalls on the streets of the city also increased, and there was an endless stream of passers-by, completely no longer the original cold and desolate.
The people in the rear settled down, and Pei Jing and the others focused on strengthening their forces again. Lu Rong was in charge of the food supply in the rear. Ge Zhuang took a few village owners who had a way to get weapons, went to the family a few times, and exchanged the glass glass mirror they needed most for a lot of weapons.
Gu Chengfeng took the sixth and seventh elders to recruit troops at the border of the two governments and three states. In less than a month, Qingyang City, as the closest to the north, had strong soldiers and horses, and plenty of grain and grass.
The bandits who were originally farming in Panlong Mountain all followed Chen Li and Hu Sanlu to prepare for a big fight.
Except for a few young and competitive and self-motivated young people, the rest of the people of the Wang clan stayed behind to farm.
The battle is raging in the north, and in this remote corner of the mountain, the people of Panlong Mountain are working hard to strengthen their existing territory.
The glass workshop at the foot of Panlong Mountain has already moved to Weibei City. A large number of recruitment, the production of glass products sold all over the country.
Su Cuiguan's sweet potato workshops have also settled in various cities, and many sweet potato products are produced in the workshops. There are dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato flour, sweet potato vermicelli. These were sold all over the country by Ge Zhuang's men.
Because there is no war on this side of the border, many people who fled heard the wind and settled here, plus several major workshops with the characteristics of the city, the two prefectures and three states were extremely prosperous for a time.
In the fifteenth year of Chenghe, the king of Dingbei was beheaded by the son of the king of Zhennan. The Dingbei army was defeated and slaughtered by the vassal kings of all walks of life.
Pei Jing took advantage of the fact that the forces were not paying attention, and led everyone to take down Cen Zhou, which was closest to Qingyang. At this time, even if everyone found out about Pei Jing's power, they would be helpless against Pei Jiajun.
As soon as the king of Dingbei fell off the horse, the king of Zhennan became a figure in the limelight for a while, because he was the most powerful and the closest to the imperial city, everyone finally pulled the king of Dingbei off the horse, but it was not for the king of Zhennan to pick peaches. For a time, the forces of the kings were aimed at the king of Zhennan. Liu Yi, the rebel army, led his brothers to chase after the king of Zhennan with his life.
In the sixteenth year of Chenghe, the king of Zhennan was surrounded and suppressed by the righteous army, and a family of 380 people were all killed by the righteous army.
At this moment, Liu Yi provoked the anger of the public. Anyway, the misfortune is not enough for your wife and children, and they are already defeated, and you still slaughter all the people, isn't this a hurry to kill them?
The king of Huainan, the king of Yingchuan, and the king of Yan seemed to have made an appointment for a while, and chased the rebels together.
In the seventeenth year of Chenghe, Xiao Qi was three years old at this time. The rebel army Liu Yi and others have long disappeared into the wheels of war.
At this time, the three kings were in a three-legged position, and no one could move anyone for a while. Since you can't move, let's develop well and recuperate! Look at Pei Jiajun, the city of three melons and two dates is really doing well! Every year, I have to buy a lot of glass pieces and glass mirrors with them, which are all exchanged for real money.
Pei Jing and his brothers have won seven cities in a low-key manner in the past few years.
The three kings finally put the Pei Jiajun, who started from this group of bandits, into their eyes. The tripartite forces also began to win over Pei's army.
No, in the spring of the eighteenth year of Chenghe, an unexpected person appeared in front of Zhang's mother and son. This man was tall, dressed in a black satin robe with a silver hibiscus flower with a hollow trim and a white jade belt around his waist. Armed with a sharp sword. When he saw Zhang's mother and daughter, the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a "click". There was disbelief in his eyes.
Beside this man stood a thin boy, dressed in fine ice-blue silk, with elegant bamboo leaf patterns embroidered on the cuffs and corners of his clothes, and snow-white piping and the mutton fat jade hairpin on his head. He looked at Su Yan at this time, his eyes were full of smiles.
Zhang rubbed his eyes vigorously, and after seeing the person clearly, suddenly, tears slipped down like pearls.