After sending off his disciples and Guan Yinping, Zhang Xi finally got a matter of heart.

But there are many other important things that need to be done by Zhang Xi, the governor of the capital.

In this place in Nanzhong, the distribution of minerals is still rich, but that is something that the family needs to consider, and minerals cannot be eaten.

What normal people need to think about is daily life, eating, drinking, and lazing.

Among them, eating is the most important.

To put it bluntly, there needs to be enough food for the people to survive.

And at this point, the area of Nanzhong actually does not meet the conditions.

This place included most of Yunnan in later generations, western Guizhou, mountainous areas in southwestern Sichuan, and a small part of Guangxi.

In these places, except for Jianning County, that is, the plain area of Kunming in later generations, there is basically not much arable land.

There are not only topographical factors in Nanzhong, but also immature development factors. Many of the cultivable plains are still in a state of barren or swampy fields due to the limitations of development and manpower.

And the plants in this place in Nanzhong, even in later generations, are only three kinds.

The largest yield is wheat, followed by corn and finally rice.

In this era, although wheat is planted, wheat rice is not delicious, no one can breed it, corn is still lying in South America, only rice with a low yield is the mainstream of the people in South China in this era.

According to Zhang Xi's memory, the agricultural distribution in Nanzhong seems to be like this.

So, Zhang Xi pondered and pondered, and felt as if he still had to get out the steamed buns and noodles.

At the beginning, the one in Xinye Lane was at most a taste, but now, in order to allow the people of Nanzhong to live a life without shortage of food, it is not only necessary to encourage the people of Nanzhong to plant wheat on a large scale, but also to put out a complete set of flour grinding tools and food.

Therefore, Zhang Xi plans to pirate Zhuge Liang's steamed buns, as well as noodles.

Actually, it's really not that difficult.

At the beginning, it was very difficult for Zhang Xi to make a stone mill in Xinye, but now, this is a matter of idea and a word. The status and rights are different, and the things that can be done are also different.

Moreover, there is absolutely no shortage of stones or stonemasons in this place in Nanzhong, especially in Qiqi County.

With the stone mill, Zhang Xi even began to wonder if it was possible to make out the traditional food of Yunnan in later generations, and the rice noodles across the bridge.

But just think about it, as long as he thinks of the ingredients and methods of rice noodles, Zhang Xi dispelled this idea.

Without cornmeal, you can't make rice noodles at all.

Again, how can there be so much oil for you to make bridge rice noodles these years?!

Speaking of oil, there is oil in the south, but it is tung oil.

Although it has a great military effect, it cannot be used to eat.

And the edible oil arable land is not enough, who has nothing to do to grow soybeans, and soybean oil is naturally very little.

So, Zhang Xi is very curious, when was the famous Yunnan rice noodles born in later generations, not to mention anything else, where did so much oil come from? !

Is it purely dependent on the animal fat of cattle and horses?!

Zhang Xi was very puzzled, until he was in late April, outside the city of Wei County, he saw the yellow, orange and orange rape flowers all over the mountains.

Really, Zhang Xi was dumbfounded, it turned out that what grew on these hillsides was not shrubs and weeds, but rape flowers all over the mountains?!

Well, Zhang Xi finally knew where the oil for Yunnan rice noodles came from.

I really don't blame Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi was not a rural person in his last life, when the rape flowers don't bloom, he can't recognize Zhang Xi when he kills him, this thing is rape.

And Zhang Xi really doesn't understand, these rape flowers are growing like this, and no one is going to manage them. Are you Nanzhong people really not short of cooking oil?!

Zhang Xi hurriedly found the county order of Wei County to inquire, and learned that these wild flowers that grow on the mountains and no one cares about them, in this place in Nanzhong, are called brassica, and there is a very beautiful legend.

Legend has it that there is a young man named Aru, who is very industrious and kind, and will pass by a river every day when he goes up the mountain to chop wood, and there is always a beautiful Huansha girl by the river.

Aru, this young man, is very innocent, every time he passes by, he only dares to sneak a look twice, and he doesn't dare to come forward to talk to other girls.

But one day, when Aru was passing by the river, he happened to find that the Huansha girl accidentally fell into the river.

Aru didn't say a word, jumped down to save people, and rescued the girl.

The girl was very grateful to Aru and wanted to marry him, but Aru refused because his family was poor and he was afraid that the girl would suffer with him.

The Raccoon Girl was very moved, and told Aru that she was a fairy in the sky, and secretly came down to earth, because Aru was hardworking and kind, so she fell in love with Aru and hoped to become husband and wife with Aru.

But Aru felt that since he was a fairy in the sky, he was even less worthy of being a poor boy, so he persuaded the fairy to return to heaven.

The fairy returned to heaven and gave Aru a gift of the heavenly artifact Brassica, which Aru planted in the ground, and when it grew up the next year, it bloomed yellow flowers.

This is the legend of the rape flower, and this legend proves it. Dong Yong, a shameless thief of clothes, came out and was beaten!!

Well, in short, it's such a legend, and in this legend, Aru finally got rid of poverty and lived a good life by relying on this brassica, and the specific method was to feed the cattle.

Yes, at this time, the brassica, that is, rape flowers, although there are people who plant, but they will not do too perfect management, how many count, are used to feed cattle, it is said that the cows eat the grass mixed with brassica, and they will grow very strong.

Although Zhang Xi didn't know what the principle was, Zhang Xi felt that the oil squeezed from the seeds of this thing could still make people grow very strong.

Zhang Xi asked for all the rape flowers on this mountain, and sent people to protect them as soon as possible.

No matter who planted it, as long as the conditions are opened, all of them will be accepted by the Governor's Mansion.

In fact, no one cares about the rape flowers on the hillside.

The cattle are fed every year, and the people will not ask the government for money for such a trivial matter, and the people of the Hao clan will not offend the governor's mansion for such a small amount of money.

Therefore, in fact, Zhang Xi has received it all, and no one will come to claim it.

In May, these rape flowers finally matured and set seeds, Zhang Xi quickly sent someone to collect them, and then began to experiment, squeezing vegetable oil in the way of soybean oil.

And it just so happened that at this time, Zhuge Liang arrived in Wei County.

Zhang Xi saw the ultra-high oil yield of rapeseed for the first time, and Zhuge Liang also watched the result.

Therefore, the first thing Zhuge Liang did when he arrived in Nanzhong was not to ask Zhang Xi about the intricate relationship between the local family, nor to discuss the local security in Nanzhong with Zhang Xi, but to discuss this rape flower, its growing conditions, climatic factors, land requirements, and so on.

Obviously, Zhuge Liang has taken a fancy to rape flowers.

Nonsense, there are so many oil crops in these years, even if it is soybean oil made by Zhang Xi in Xinye, Zhuge Liang has also done it in Chengdu, but due to the lack of food, the planting area of soybeans is not wide, and there has been no way to expand the scale of production.

Even so, Zhuge Liang still made a death rule that a part of every 100 acres of land in each county must be used to grow soybeans, whether it is used to extract oil or feed livestock, soybeans are useful.

Now that I have seen rape flowers, I have seen that rape flowers have a higher oil yield than soybeans, if I don't want to promote it, I am really sorry for Zhuge Liang's IQ.

Rape flowers, but not very picky, Zhang Xi remembers, this thing grows from south to north, on the hills, in the ditch, can be planted.

But this thing is planted for a long time, usually after the autumn harvest and harvested in May and June of the following year, and the fertilizer requirements are quite high.

And this thing is not very suitable for interplanting with other crops, in terms of maturity time and cycle, it is suitable for planting with rice, but it conflicts with the planting cycle of corn, so it is better to choose another planting place.

As soon as Zhuge Liang heard that it could be planted on the hill and in the low-lying ditch, it was enough.

This means that this rape flower does not occupy fertile land.

But what Zhang Xi said about the requirements for fertilizer is relatively high, and this Zhuge Liang has to think again.

After all, the current corn and rice fertilizer requirements are not low, if rape flowers also account for fertilizer, it means that it can not be planted all year round, otherwise it will damage the fertility of the land.

This is a thing that has both advantages and disadvantages, but considering its oil output, Zhuge Liang directly asked Zhang Xi for a large number of seeds, and planned to go back and try it, maybe a large number of such things can be planted in Chengdu.

No way, oil is so useful in this day and age.

Whether it is eaten by people or used to make military supplies.

Speaking of this military material, Zhang Xi gave Zhuge Liang another surprise.

There is tung oil in the south, which cannot be eaten and is poisonous, but it can be used to burn. If Zhuge Liang has a good managerial talent at hand, then Zhang Xi can try to plant tung trees in Nanzhong, and the tung oil produced is specially used as military supplies, and rapeseed oil and soybean oil are better kept for people to eat.

As soon as Zhuge Liang heard this, he immediately began to look for people from the entrainment, and soon found two candidates.

One is Gong Lu, a Brazilian, not far from Nanzhong, and he is also familiar with the living environment and climatic conditions of Nanzhong.

The other is called Wang Shi, a native of Jianning County, who is now a gongcao in Chengdu.

These two people have good abilities, and they are locals, so it should be no problem for them to come to Jianning County to help, and hand them over to Zhang Xi to command, who are specifically responsible for the management of agriculture and mountains and forests.

After chatting about these, Zhuge Liang officially told Zhang Xi about the minerals in Nanzhong and the affairs of the major families in Nanzhong.

Although Zhuge Liang came to sit in the town and assign, he is not familiar with the place after all, and he must first figure out the relationship between them before he can really start.

Not only did he have to ask Zhang Xi, Zhuge Liang would also see Li Hui next, Meng Shu, and even Wang Yan and Lu Kai, who were far away in Yongchang County, Zhuge Liang also planned to summon them.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang also brought Liu Bei's edict of reward.

Still as in history, at the suggestion of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei divided the four counties of Nanzhong into six counties.

The counties of Muqi and Yongchang were not moved, and the counties of Yueshan and Jianning were divided into two.

Yueshan County is divided into Yueshan County and Yunnan County, and Jianning County is divided into Jianning County and Xinggu County.

The purpose of this is to divide Nanzhong, so as to prevent another large-scale rebellion in Nanzhong.

Immediately after, there was a burst of official rewards.

Wang Yan and Lu Kai, who held on to Yongchang County, were promoted to the rank of Taishou of Yongchang County, and Wang Yan was promoted from Yongchang County to Yongchang County Taishou, while Lü Kai was transferred to the newly established Yunnan County Taishou.

Li Hui was named the Taishou of Jianning County, and at the same time, in order to express Li Hui's achievements in quelling the rebellion, Liu Bei also worshiped Li Hui as the general of Anhan.

At the same time, Ma Zhong, who was played by Zhang Xi, also crossed the county order and became the Taishou of Qiqi, Ma Tan was ordered to be the Taishou of Yue, and the other Xinggu Taishou was served by Meng Shulai.

Zhang Xi is naturally the governor of the capital of Yu, the Sima of the Hanzhong Palace, and at the same time, Liu Bei also specially gave Zhang Xi a general rank - General Xinghan.

(End of chapter)