Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 207 Protect the stars?

Nearly [-] million locusts stayed in Qingjiang County for a few days, and lost at least [-] to [-]%.

The remaining three or four percent huddled together and fled to Xichang County.

Jiang Erya thought of Zhao Wenchang, who had just been promoted to the prefect of Xichang, and decided to help this unlucky boy.

She ordered people to cage [-] chickens and ducks and send them to Xichang County for grazing. By the way, she taught Zhao Wenchang more than a dozen ways to eat locusts.

After finishing this task, next, she will organize people to dig sweet potatoes.

The people in Xinglin Village had already brought their farm tools and waited. As soon as Jiang Erya spoke, they rushed to Jiang Erya's sweet potato field holding the farm tools and screaming.

Erya said that people in the village helped her dig sweet potatoes. She didn't pay her wages, but she would distribute sweet potatoes, five hundred catties per person!
With these five hundred catties of sweet potatoes, they can eat freely this year.

In addition to giving out sweet potatoes, Erya will also give out sweet potato vines.

The locusts here are treated quickly and well, so the sweet potato vines in Erya's house were not eaten up by the locusts, and there were still a lot left.

The sweet potato stalks on the vines can be eaten, as can the young leaves, and the older ones can still be eaten as long as they can be swallowed.

If people can't swallow it, they can also feed it to livestock.

No matter how bad it is, it can be used for cooking after drying.

No one wants something that is given for nothing.

Jiang Erya has a total of five or six hundred acres of land.

The first purchased fields were distributed in various villages, and the sweet potatoes planted in those fields were dug by nearby villagers.

The more than 200 mu of land bought after the eradication of Heifengzhai was dug by her tenants.

Although Chen Yuanwai was far away in the capital, his eldest wife personally dispatched to supervise the people below and dug up all the sweet potatoes planted in his field.

The same is true of other rich gentry households.

In just three days, all [-] mu of sweet potatoes were dug up.

Jiang Erya took Xiao Xinghe and Jiang Guangyi to the county government office with the statistics collected from various places.

After Zhao Wenchang was promoted, the former Qingjiang County Prime Minister Ma Danian was promoted to the new county magistrate.

Ma Danian and Jiang Erya are also old acquaintances.

He is like a bright mirror in his heart. His predecessor Zhao Wenchang, Mr. Zhao, could not be promoted in a short period of time without the support of his little aunt, Jiang Erya.

It will be of great benefit to curry favor with this little aunt.

Among other things, the locust plague a few days ago was solved by this little aunt.

Ma Danian also knew that Jiang Erya had tried to plant [-] mu of sweet potatoes. He was not a fool, so he could naturally see the value of the sweet potatoes.

He has been paying attention to the progress of trying to grow sweet potatoes.

He thought, maybe, he can rely on the popularity of this sweet potato in the future to rise another liter.

Hearing that Jiang Erya brought the old Marquis of Yong'an Hou Mansion to the county government office, Ma Danian immediately put down what he was doing and greeted him.

After Ma Danian saluted Jiang Guangyi, Jiang Erya informed Ma Danian of his intention.

Ma Danian was taken aback: "What? You want to give away sweet potatoes for free?"

Jiang Erya nodded, "Not all, only a part."

With her intervention, Qingjiang County was not greatly affected by the locust plague.

Most people listened to the persuasion and sealed up their surplus food in advance.

That being the case, she doesn't need to distribute all the sweet potatoes. It is enough to distribute three hundred catties to each person to prevent the people from starving to death.

Most of the remaining sweet potatoes can be stored and taken out to grow seedlings next spring...

Jiang Erya asked Ma Danian: "What is the current population of Qingjiang County?"

Ma Danian replied: "The statistics from the Hucao Institute before the Chinese New Year last year show that the county has a total of 870 people.

However, ten months have passed, and during these ten months, there must have been increases or decreases in personnel. "

Jiang Erya nodded. It is normal for people to increase or decrease. For example, the family of three in Lao Jiang's family has already left Qingjiang County.

"I just need a rough idea, not a specific number," she said.

In this way, I will transport the sweet potatoes to the warehouse of the Hucao Office in the afternoon, and you organize the staff of the Hucao Office to distribute the sweet potatoes, according to the household registration book and the small bamboo card of the identity, and each person will be given [-] catties.

The people at Hucao sent out relief grain for disaster relief, and also distributed grain for replanting.

It should be no problem to hand out the sweet potatoes to them.

Later, you will send the issued certificate to my house..."

Ma Danian was too busy to respond.

Jiang Erya is willing to donate this new crop of sweet potatoes, and the common people must be happy.

It's the same sentence, it's free, who is not happy about it?
When the common people are happy, why not praise Jiang Erya for being such a good person?

When they praised Jiang Erya, they must also praise him as a good county magistrate, right?

Only a fool would refuse to follow the matter of being in the light.

Ma Danian hurriedly ran to work.

Sitting in the living room, Jiang Guangyi looked at Jiang Erya and asked, "Why don't you let me report the per mu yield of sweet potatoes to the current emperor?

Do you know how much credit this is?
This is enough to make you a country king!
With luck, it is also possible to become a county monarch.

But you gave these sweet potatoes that could be left for planting to the people as rations for nothing.

How stupid! "

Jiang Erya smiled at Jiang Guangyi, and said, "How do you know that I haven't reported to the current emperor?
I don't need to go through you, there are other channels.

Report through your people, the one in your family is going to make trouble.

You can't control the one in your family.

Even your confidants have already been bribed by her.

You pass the message back, and she must be the first to get the message.

After she finds out, she will definitely try her best to transfer all the credit to your second son and second grandson.

At that time, my father and I will really be busy for nothing. "

Jiang Guangyi stared, and said: "She dares! If she does such a thing, I will divorce her immediately after I return to the capital to vent your anger."

Jiang Erya leaned back on the chair and said, "If she has done the job well, it won't help if you divorce her again. It's better not to give her the chance to know from the beginning. If she doesn't know, she won't take advantage of it." play tricks."

Jiang Guangyi was silent for a while, then said sourly: "Did you pass the news to Duke Ding? You don't believe my great-grandfather, but you believe your great-grandfather."

This is how embarrassing he is as a great grandfather!
Jiang Erya didn't deny it, nor did she admit it.

She looked at Xiao Xinghe at the side, this is her channel.

……

With the successful distribution of sweet potatoes, Jiang Erya's mission was finally completed.

Just when she was about to give Xiao Xinghe a high-five to celebrate, the dog system "ding" again and issued her a mission to protect Xiao Xinghe.

Jiang Erya opened the task list and looked at it. This task only had five simple words, "Protect Xiao Xinghe", and there was no task description at all.

This is so abnormal.After the usual tasks, there will be a task description.

Jiang Erya asked the dog system, "Where is the mission statement? Was it eaten by you?"

(End of this chapter)