Facing the remaining 1,200 people, Zhao Yingluo sneered, "Corn can't be retained, and the yield will definitely be reduced or the harvest will be lost in the second year, I explained these words to the farmers last year, so last year they took advantage of the exceptionally good corn market and sold almost all the corn in their hands." ”

As soon as Zhao Yingluo's words fell, her farmers immediately stood up to defend their lord.

"The county lord did explain to us that last year's 100 acres of corn were all sold except for the one left enough to eat. But last year, the price of corn was so high that we didn't even keep what we ate and sold it all. ”

"That's it, our family is so old and young that we haven't even been willing to drink a bowl of polenta."

"This year, we are still planting seeds provided by the county lord."

……

Zhao Yingluo walked up to the farmers who defected to Liang Da, and after being swept by her sharp eyes, those farmers were ashamed one by one, and they all lowered their heads.

"Oh, I remember, you farmers were not the first farmers to plant corn last year because they doubted the yield of corn, and you also missed the training on corn planting in the later stage, so you don't know why corn can't be planted."

Liang Da heard Zhao Yingluo say this, and then he understood why he lost to her, co-authored these dozen technical experts who were dug at a high price have no experience in corn planting at all. They pay a high price for corn as seeds, and they don't know that the corn can't be planted at all.

"Good! In vain, I spent a few hundred taels of silver asking you to guide the corn planting, and it turns out that you are all waste! Come, and bind them to Master Ben, and take back all the money that was given to them. ”

Take back the money? The silver Liang Da gave them was a huge amount of money that they had never seen in their lives, and as soon as the silver arrived, a few farmers did buy the land, and most of the farmers invested the silver in the gold cave, and all the eating, drinking, and entertainment were lost.

Zhao Yingluo didn't care about Liang Da's side, she returned her attention to the troublesome farmers, "So, it's not 'the hands and feet that moved the seeds' at all, but you yourself are too stupid!" If you still don't believe it, if you take one stone of corn seed that has just been harvested, you will not be required to plant ten or eight stones, but if you can plant more than four stones! How about I pay you three years of yield, 30 stone per mu? ”

After hearing this, the farmers were a little nervous, these corn kernels were peeled from the cob with their own eyes, and they did not expect to have a chance to do anything. If you can grow four stones of grain, then there will be thirty stones of grain to pay.

As for what she said about corn that could not be planted, they believed that it was the seeds that she had manipulated to cause the yield to be reduced.

After thinking about it, most of them decided to take a gamble.

"But the ugly words are ahead, if your yield per mu does not reach four stones, the whole family will be enslaved, and I will call it."

The farmers who had originally planned to receive the seeds were all stunned, and if they won and lost three years of grain, and if they lost, their whole family was not enslaved, and the stakes seemed to be a bit big, and some people immediately raised objections.

"It's not fair! The amount of slavery for our family is as much as thirty stone of grain? ”

Zhao Yingluo glanced at them disappreciatively, "If thirty stones of grain is not enough, how about three thousand stones?" As long as you win, you will get 3,000 stone of grain for nothing. Liang Yuanwai, do you want to think about it? As long as you win, in addition to paying you 3,000 stone of grain per mu, the county lord will also return one million mu of land to you as it is. ”

Zong Ze saw that his daughter was playing big again, and he couldn't sit still, and was just about to stand up to support her, but was dragged back by Lu Haowen and Li Gang.

"The old general is a little calm, since the county lord dares to do this, he must be completely sure, has she ever lost?"

Zong Ze was asked by him like this, and quickly calmed down, yes! It seems that her righteous daughter has never lost so far.

Although Liang Da is stupid, he is not hopelessly stupid, if he really wants to continue to gamble with her, I am afraid that his whole family will become her servants today next year.

"I am willing to lose the bet, and the million acres of land will be yours from now on! As for the new gambling contract, the old man did not dare to risk the whole family being confiscated. ”

He admitted defeat so cleanly, which surprised Zhao Yingluo and the three old men, why did this old stubborn who eats people and does not spit out bones suddenly be so generous?

Liang Da didn't dare to gamble with Zhao Yingluo anymore, and other farmers naturally didn't dare to make this bet with Zhao Yingluo, and there was no other way than to admit it.

What made them even more devastated was that almost all the land in the 100 miles around Kaifeng City was now owned by Zhao Yingluo.

They wanted to rent land to support their family, so they had to move farther outside Kaifeng.

They have resentment, remorse, and unwillingness in their hearts, but what can they do? Once you make the wrong choice, there is no room for regret.

The tens of thousands of farmers who decisively chose Zhao Yingluo felt lucky, glad that after they followed Zhao Yingluo, food and clothing would no longer be the main problem that bothered them.

For the first time, they felt that the future seemed hopeful and bright.

At this point, the gambling fight between Zhao Yingluo and Liang Da came to an end for the time being, but she didn't know that in the near future, Liang Da almost put her to death.

After Zhao Yingluo annexed Liang Da's one million mu of land, plus the one million mu of land of the royal family and the 400,000 mu of land purchased by herself at the earliest, the field she could control reached 2.4 million mu!

In addition, the total number of farming households under her control exceeds 700,000! Among these 700,000 people, excluding the old, young, sick and disabled, she can recruit more than 100,000 strong men to become soldiers.

Her big chess game is getting better.

Of the 2.4 million mu of land, in addition to most of the wheat planting, she took out another 100,000 mu of land to grow rapeseed.

As an important oil crop, rapeseed has not been popularized on a large scale in this era, and she wants to make rapeseed oil the main edible oil on the table in this era.

After arranging the planting of winter wheat and rapeseed, the time has come to the Double Ninth Festival, and Zhao Yingluo began to think about going to Zhongshan Mansion.

In addition to fulfilling Yan Zongyi's agreement to exchange his horses with the crops in her hands, he also planned to set up an office in Xingzhou, south of Zhongshan Mansion, as a turnover place for goods to be traded in the field.

In addition, she also planned to order Wang Zaixing to lead 1,000 people and be stationed in Xingzhou for a long time in the name of a cargo security team. In this way, the security of the trade route can be safeguarded. Far away can always monitor the movements of the Jin people, providing a buffer time for dealing with sudden wars.

Although Wang Zaixing surrendered to Zhao Yingluo for a short time, Zhao Yingluo did a series of things that completely convinced him and his subordinates who surrendered together.

Zhao Yingluo arranged a mansion for him in the newly built town in the north of the city to settle his family, and in addition, arranged for his son to enter a school to teach knowledge.

Not only him, but also his 30,000 subordinates have also been properly settled.