Chapter 110: Xing, the common people are transplanting bitter sweet potatoes

He plans to experiment with two planting methods of sweet potatoes, one is horizontal planting and the other is diagonal planting.

  He began to experiment with horizontal planting in the first plot of land. He was very careful with every move he made. After working for two quarters of an hour (half an hour), he sat down on the ridge to rest and drink tea.

  Fortunately, it was cloudy today, and it was also a cloudy day, so he chose to plant sweet potato seedlings today.

  Looking at the 20 farmers working hard next to him, he was full of hope for the future of the people of Dai Viet.

  Two hours later, ten acres of land were planted with green sweet potato seedlings.

  Cheng Er wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although his body was tired, his heart was full of strength.

  In about June, we will be able to harvest these precious grains.

  ... In the past month in

  the General's Mansion

  , the Shen family has not been idle, and neither has Ruan Ruan.

  In order to prevent people from starving to death in the spring, Ruan Ruan used merit money to buy millions of kilograms of grain from the mall system and shipped it to every small town in Dai Viet to open grain and oil stores. The price of grain per kilogram was three cents lower than traditional grain and oil stores.

  As a result, Shen Zhiqing could only attend the academy ten days a month, and spent the rest of the time away from home.

  Also taken away by him were many capable servants from the General's Mansion, and twenty servants were appointed as shopkeepers.

  One of the servants was Adang. He volunteered and studied Chinese characters and calculations with Shen Zhiqing for seven days at the General's Mansion. He had a very strong learning ability.

  Shen Zhiqing took a fancy to his ability and directly promoted him to shopkeeper.

  Shen Hong's family couldn't finish the cake in the grain and oil store, so they gave one-third of the market to Cheng Shan, the third son of the Cheng family, and the remaining one-third to the three Shen clan members.

  At least Shen Zhiqing doesn't have to worry about the grain and oil market in his hometown. Four or five grain and oil markets can be opened there, covering more than a dozen surrounding towns, and there is still the ability to open up to fifteen.

  Millions of kilograms of grain flowed into the grain and oil market in Dai Viet, causing grain prices to drop by three pennies, which attracted many grain merchants to target and resist.

  But seeing that the backers behind them were the General's Mansion and Cheng Dishi, the most enthusiastic grain merchants all shut up and quietly looked for evidence and waited for the opportunity to bring down Shen Hong and Cheng Dishi.

  Shen Zhiqing was not afraid at all, but he also asked all his subordinates to be cautious in their words and actions and only open the grain and oil store for one year. Starting from next year, no more people will starve to death in Dai Viet Kingdom, and the people will be able to eat every meal.

  Ruan Ruan is idle every day with nothing to do, but as soon as the weather is nice, she will let Wang Daniu and Wang Dayu take her out shopping.

  Of course, the play time was only half an hour, and a wet nurse and a few servants had to be sent to protect her.

  Otherwise, Cheng Yurong would not be at ease if she disagreed, even though she knew her daughter had a treasure that could protect her safety.

  Seeing that some people are still living a difficult life, and there are still many people in front of the medical center who look down on medical treatment, when she waits to die, she will think of herself.

  In the final analysis, Dai Viet is still poor, has a small-scale peasant economy, has low productivity, and is easy to bully, which is why it is attacked by foreign races outside the border all the year round.

  She racked her brains to think of ways to change people's lives.

  So on a late spring day, Ruan Ruan was nestled in bed, not wanting to get up or go to the ground.

  Her house was heated with silver charcoal, but the common people couldn't even wear clothes to keep warm.

  The spring is cold and cold, and the weather is warm and cold at first.

  "Brother Daniu, how do people keep warm when it's so cold?"

  "Huh?" Wang Daniu and Wang Dayu sat on the Arhat bed and studied the Three-Character Sutra. There was not much work to do in such a cold day.     The lady allowed them to study for an hour every day.

  "In previous years, apart from being so cold in winter, it's also the late spring cold. The old people always say that the late spring cold in March can freeze cattle to death. Every year in the village, several old people can't bear it and die, and there are even children and adults."

  Wang Daniu put his mind to the book and looked at the floating wind outside the window . The peach blossom snow is only at the end of February, and there is still more than half a month left before warm spring.

  "Is it because I didn't wear enough warm clothes?" Ruan Ruan thought of her previous life. She didn't have enough clothes to keep warm almost every winter and spring.

  "My little princess, you still don't understand. Who wouldn't want to wear warm clothes for the winter? But there are many people who need the whole family to put together a set of clothes. Whoever goes out to work can wear them.

  If you don't have money, wear hemp cloth. Some people will The clothes are stuffed with reed fluffs, chicken, duck, goose and bird feathers, and some even wear dog and cat skins."

  Wang Daniu stood up and walked to the charcoal stove. He poured half of the goat's milk boiled at high temperature into a silver cup and blew it to cool before handing it over. Little princess.

  Ruan Ruan drank four or five sips of goat milk from the silver cup, then handed the silver cup to Wang Daniu and asked him to pour another cup.

  The people are prosperous and suffer.

  If they die, the people will suffer.

  When will the common people be freed from suffering?

  If we can't even guarantee food and clothing, when can we increase economic production?

  Let alone create inventions.

  When the poor struggle for three meals a day, where do they have the time and energy?

  The rich only care about eating, drinking, playing and enjoying everything. In order to enjoy more benefits, the rich will only try their best to squeeze the interests of the poor, even if only a drop of blood is left.

  Ruan Ruan's stomach was bloated after drinking the goat's milk, so she lay down on the soft bed to rest.

  Opening the panel of the mall system, rummaging through the seeds, he saw cotton seeds, peanut seeds, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, onions, cauliflower, peppers...

  Ruan Ruan thought that if cotton was promoted nationwide, the common people would have cotton-padded clothes to wear. Covered.

  Peanuts can be pressed into oil, which is delicious and high-yield. In the future, people will no longer have to eat smelly soybean oil, rapeseed oil and sesame oil.

  Because the oil extraction process is not exquisite, the raw materials are fried and then physically pressed, resulting in a smelly oil.

  Almost all people in General Mansion eat lard, and the fried vegetables are particularly fragrant.

  A pound of cotton seeds costs ten merit gold, a pound of peanut seeds costs ten merit gold, and tomato seeds cost seven merit gold.

  The price is quite reasonable. Ruan Ruan bought one hundred kilograms of cotton seeds, one hundred kilograms of peanut seeds, fifty kilograms of tomato seeds, fifty kilograms of cucumber seeds, fifty kilograms of pepper seeds... He

  bought ten kinds of vegetable seeds in total. Five hundred pounds in total.

  There are several kinds of fruit seeds, such as five varieties of watermelon seeds each weighing 100 kilograms, three varieties of cherry tomato seeds each weighing 100 kilograms, croissant seeds of 100 kilograms, and cantaloupe seeds of 100 kilograms.

  There are also several fruit tree saplings suitable for planting in the north, including 30,000 raspberry saplings, 10,000 strawberry saplings of three varieties, 10,000 lemon saplings, and 30,000 blueberry saplings.

  There are 30,000 cherry saplings of five varieties each, 30,000 peach fruit trees of three varieties, apples, peaches, pomegranates, persimmons, grapes...

  There are also fruit trees suitable for planting in the south, all of which are new varieties cultivated by the mall system. Peaches, pineapples, bananas, oranges, lychees.

  Loquat, grape, orange, longan, plum, grapefruit, persimmon, pear, sugar cane, etc.

  Especially the new variety of sugarcane has a very high yield. Once its cultivation is promoted in all towns and villages in the south, and sugar factories are built, it will definitely bring high income to the people.

  These vegetables and fruit trees are not only grown for the Shen family, but some are also distributed to the Cheng family, the Shen family, Mrs. Tan, the Li family, etc.

  The remaining vegetable seeds and fruit trees will be given to the lowest level people for free for planting.