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Chapter 1533 New Changes in Liangshui Town ([-])
I haven't eaten white rice for several years. Qi Ke has planted rice in this year's main grain field. After the summer grain is harvested, the land will be raised to grow winter wheat, and the rice and wheat crop field will be used. Vegetable land is not counted. Potatoes and sweet potatoes This kind of high-yielding crop will be planted in a small area first, and then slowly introduced to change the taste of the dining table in the cafeteria. However, the yield of these two crops will be kept strictly confidential.

In fact, with locally produced pig roots, the yield and taste are the same as potatoes and sweet potatoes. There is no need to take out potatoes and sweet potatoes, but Qi Ke wants to change the taste and enrich the table, and the second is that potatoes are factory-produced alcohol. The raw material, the white sweet potato in the sweet potato, is the raw material of sweet potato starch. In the future, she will grow corn. Corn starch is not only edible but also a raw material for pharmaceuticals.

The sources of these new crops, of course, are all dumping the ocean fleet, one of the uses of this big vest is this.

I have also tried to see if there is any use for pig root planing, but after trying it out, I found that it has the same properties as sweet potato starch, and it is better for food.

The matter of the farmland had just been sorted out, before Qi Ke started to write a letter to summon his friends, news came from the pier that the Ocean No. There are gunboats with from a dozen to thirty guns.

The pirates of the Five Elements League have always regarded the ocean fleet as the biggest fat sheep, they harassed constantly, but they couldn’t beat them. Use it yourself.

It was the three gunboats that attracted the crowd.

As for the flag they hung up for the first time, everyone didn't care about it after a few more glances. The guns on the ship were more attractive.

Ma Zhiwen and Ma Baihu went out in person, and after negotiating with the fleet, the three gunboats left the pier after replenishing fresh water and food, and then went out along the estuary, anchored at sea, and daily supplies were delivered by small boats past.

For the sake of their own safety, it is understandable that foreign armed gunboats should not get too close to densely populated places.

During the negotiation, Ma Baihu also learned the news that the merchant fleet, which had never carried gunboats, finally had its own force, which indicated that pirates had become rampant day by day to the point where there was nowhere to hide.

It stands to reason that the ocean ship fleet has reduced the number of pirates by tens of thousands, but the pirate team seems to have been so large that it has not shrunk. Obviously, this shows that the pirates have always been supplemented by new people.

The old nest of the Five Elements League is on an island in the sea. Where did they get new population?
Only from the mainland.

Since the drought and flood in the past few days, the imperial court seems to have completely given up on the life and death of its own people. It has not issued an order for the local governments to gather refugees and send them back to their hometowns. A large number of refugees have no food and clothing, and gathering together is a hidden danger to public security. Many people who were barely making ends meet were ruined by the riots of the refugees and became new members of the army of refugees.

There are more and more people who can't survive. The people in the inland don't know how to survive. The people on the coast can only run to the sea for the last way of life. Most of the people who survived by luck have become pirates. Replenish population and cannon fodder.

Relying on the continuous cannon fodder from the mainland, Qi Ke suspects that if the number of pirates’ ships is not sufficient, they may really become the masters of the sea, and all ships on the sea will have to pay taxes to them when they come here .

(End of this chapter)