Ning Qingxi stepped forward and glanced at it slightly, but he couldn't tell what seeds it was, at most he recognized pumpkin, pepper and rice.

"Milk, can you plant it now? There's no one to help with this, everyone is busy. ”

Wang Xiujuan walked out of the warehouse with Ning Qingxi, "You are stupid to me, so many things let me plant an old lady, I have to plant until the Year of the Monkey?" Isn't that a source of guilt? ”

"Isn't our food production insufficient? I plan to take this kind of seed to Mrs. Fu, let her arrange some manpower for me, and I will take others to plant, this ancient grain production is too low, if we promote this pumpkin, and make a rice field to raise fish, it can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue. ”

Wang Xiujuan thought of the scene outside the city that she went to see today, outside the county was a bunch of unclothed homeless people, even worse than the group of people they saw before!

One by one, they drank the white porridge with clear soup and little water, like the reincarnation of a starving ghost, and poured it down at once.

Fortunately, the weather was still a little cold, and the porridge was cold, otherwise she suspected that those people would drink the hot porridge directly, and they would not be afraid of burning through the stomach.

"You don't see how miserable the group of people outside the city is, there are still old people, women and children in the group of displaced people we met before, but there are not many old people and children outside, and there are only a few women with large skeletons."

"The most disgusting thing is that I still smell the smell of meat coming from the mountains outside today."

But Wang Xiujuan didn't say it, and Ning Qingxi also knew what it meant.

I was still hungry, but I suddenly lost my appetite, and even felt a little nauseated.

"Milk, don't say it."

……

Ning Changrong was called to a meeting.

The meeting was about what to do with the people outside the city.

"General, our food is almost at the bottom, and if there are any more homeless people running over, we won't have any food to give porridge." Bai Yunliang spoke.

Chang Yuan nodded and said that he understood, "I called everyone here today to find a way to solve this problem, at the moment, we lack population, this group of homeless people can raise a lot of strong men for a few months, and when we take Jinzhou, the entire Taizhou Mansion will fall into our hands, and then we can also scatter these people to farm." ”

Chang Yuan means that although there is not enough food, the population cannot be pushed out.

Not only should we not push people outward, but we may also have to attract more people to develop and cultivate in the future.

So today's topic is simple – to solve the food problem.

Ning Changrong asked, in the past, the grain was cultivated by himself, or he grabbed the land and other people's granaries.

But now there is no granary in the north at all, and the only estimate of grain is that of the White Lotus Sect, but their territory is in the north, and it is estimated that there is not much grain at the moment, let alone selling.

Bai Yunliang knew that Chang Yuan was right, and since Chang Yuan had already set the general direction, he thought for a while and said, "General, since the population is necessary and the food needs to be solved, then we can consider buying from the south." ”

Wang Hanting was surprised: "Can they sell it to us?" This time, I have to buy a lot of them. "In the past, I also cooperated with the families and merchants in the north, but most of them were small fights to solve some urgent needs, and at that time they were not as conspicuous as they are now.

Bai Yunliang looked at Chang Yuan and explained, "General, don't worry, as long as we can afford the price, those people will definitely sell us." ”

He was born in a talented family, and he occasionally dealt with those clans, and he understood best that these people had milk and mothers, and never cared about any imperial power.

Even if there is a drought for ten years and a famine for ten years, those clans who have hoarded dozens of warehouses of grain will still live comfortably.

Ning Changrong also made up a lot of historical knowledge from his daughter, and he knew that what Bai Yunliang said was right.

Chang Yuan nodded in agreement with Bai Yunliang's statement, "Our army lacks everything, and the last thing we lack is these gold and silver. In this case, this matter will be handed over to Mr. Bai to be responsible, and I will leave in three days, I will select a group of people to trade with Mr. Bai, and I hope Mr. Bai will not let me down. ”

Bai Yunliang stood up and saluted, "General, please rest assured, Bai will definitely be able to bring back food." ”

Ning Changrong didn't speak much during the entire meeting, he was like a spectator.

To be honest, so far he is still in the learning stage, in modern times he is a businessman, and he still has a lot to learn from a businessman to an official, so he generally does not come out strong.

……

For dinner, Ning Qingxi didn't eat a few bites before getting off the table.

Ning Changrong curiously asked Wang Xiujuan to know what was going on.

He also knew that he was still in charge of this matter outside the city, and after Bai Yunliang left, he had to be responsible for more.

"In the past, in order to survive, we didn't pursue it, but when there was already food, people would definitely not allow it, and that group of people had been punished for mining."

The ordinary punishment is to build roads, mining is the hardest, most exhausting and the highest mortality rate, and it is impossible for people who are generally punished to mine to come out alive in this life.

Wang Xiujuan asked curiously: "Then the homeless people outside will definitely accumulate more and more, I guess we don't have enough food, right?" What did General Chang say? ”

Ning Changrong said: "Didn't I come back late today?" It was for this reason that the food problem was solved, and General Chang sent Mr. Bai to the south to purchase, and there was no shortage of food in the south, and it happened that we had a lot of gold and silver here. ”

"Can they sell it to us? Buying so much food at once, you can find out who is behind Mr. Bai after a little checking. ”

Ning Qingxi explained: "Milk, these people don't recognize money, whoever buys it for you, as long as you give silver." Besides, the world is full of smoke, and it is difficult to say how many more years the emperor can do, and it is even more impossible for those people not to earn this silver for the emperor. ”

Ning Changrong nodded, "Xixi is right. But I guess those people may be at a premium, but it's okay, as long as the grain is in hand, and when the autumn harvest is over, we will be strong and strong, and the granary will be sufficient, so we won't need to rely on anyone. ”

……

Village Chief Ning was like being beaten with chicken blood every day, he was in high spirits and registered information everywhere.

"You were all tenants of the North?" He looked at the family and asked as he registered.

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Then where did you get the money to rent a house?" Village Chief Ning looked at them suspiciously.

"Isn't this the strength of my two brothers? On the way, we helped those rich families run away and robbed, and they rewarded us with a few taels of silver, so that we had the money to rent a house in the county. ”

Village Chief Ning asked a few more questions, and this person answered them all perfectly.

Village Chief Ning glanced at the family casually, nodded and left.

He didn't leave immediately, but pretended to be casual and continued to look for the next one.

The family followed him and watched him go to another one to register his information, and then they were relieved to go back.

(End of chapter)