My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 275 Wild Rice
Cui Shangshu calmed down and said: "Quinzi got some information. It is said that they tamed some bison. The bison was huge and ferocious..."

There are various inspections at the Lingnan border to prevent anyone from secretly spreading Lingnan's high-yielding seeds and some important news about Lingnan.But these aristocratic families also have their own means, and they can always find ways to send some news out.

However, the information they could find out was limited, and what was spread was mostly things that everyone in Lingnan knew.

As for the information Cui Shangshu just said, Xiao Ye's own people also know it.

However, the people he sent out have not yet figured out how many people there are in the Lingnan army and what their strength is.

Xiao Ye recruited these people today not to inquire about information from them.It is to make these people work for him.

His purpose was the same as last time, he still wanted to capture Jiang Tangtang.But this time it was not just to capture Jiang Tangtang to threaten Lu Shiyan, but for something more important - the magical medicine.

In addition to the first group of Ouchi experts sent to capture Jiang Tangtang, he also sent several other groups of people there.These people didn't bring him any military secrets, but they did bring back an important piece of news.

Cao Lesheng, whose hand had been disabled for most of his life, suddenly miraculously healed.

Xiao Ye asked people to check the major events that happened in the Cao family before the Cao family moved to Lingnan, and then discovered a major situation.

That is, the eldest grandson of the Cao family, whose illness was deemed incurable by doctors at major medical clinics in the capital, suddenly recovered.

In addition, Cao Lesheng's hand, which had been disabled for decades, suddenly healed. After comprehensive information from all aspects, Xiao Ye concluded that the reason why the Cao family moved to Lingnan was to repay his kindness.

After Xiao Ye deduced the reason, he sent people to try to bribe several daughters-in-law of the Cao family.Later, Meng, the third daughter-in-law of the Cao family, sent word that her father-in-law was taking a strange pill every day.

For a man who had been through hell and had supreme imperial power, how could he not covet such a magical pill.

Xiao Ye's current idea is to catch Jiang Tangtang and get the pills no matter what.

After the failure of the experts sent out last time, he decided to change his strategy and lure Jiang Tangtang out of Lingnan.

Xiao Ye and the courtiers talked in the Yangxin Hall all afternoon. It was not until dark that Cui Shangshu and others came out of the Yangxin Hall tremblingly.

It wasn't until he got on the carriage that Cui Shangshu dared to show any emotion.

At that time, the capital was in danger. He thought about letting his son take people to Lingnan secretly to find another way for the Cui family, but he did not expect that this would also become a constraint for the Cui family.

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War and drought have caused more and more refugees to flock to Lingnan.

"Madam, there are more than 3000 refugees gathered outside the city gate outside Cangwu. What should we do? Will we accept so many refugees?" Yuan San walked in from the outside with sweat on his face.

It's obviously autumn, but the weather is getting hotter and hotter.Due to continued high temperatures and drought, Cangwu has experienced its third wildfire.

Jiang Tangtang rubbed his temples and asked, "How's the situation going when we were sent out to look for wild rice?"

When they came this time, in addition to selecting people to go to the shipyard, another important thing was to look for sea rice.

She doesn't know how long the drought will last, but she must be fully prepared.A few days ago, when she was at the bay fishing ground, she saw the salt-alkali land on the seaside and suddenly remembered the sea rice she had heard of in her previous life.

It is said that before sea rice was cultivated, someone first discovered wild rice growing in muddy fields by the sea.

This kind of rice has characteristics such as drought resistance, waterlogging resistance, disease and pest resistance, lodging resistance, and salt-alkali resistance.

If this wild rice can be found, it may be able to solve the food ration problem caused by drought.

Yuan San shook his head and said: "We haven't found it yet."

Jiang Tangtang knew that it was not easy to find wild rice, so he turned around and asked about the harvests in Cangwu.

Yuan San thought about what he had seen in the fields in the past few days and sighed, "The banana lotus roots that Madam found are very drought-tolerant, and the people can barely get a harvest without completely losing their harvest."

"Refugees can still be brought into the city, but the people at the refugee office must carefully screen them and be careful about people other than refugees entering the city. In addition, they should also slow down the speed of refugees entering the city." Jiang Tangtang said. "Then we want to continue giving out porridge and providing disaster relief?"

"Continue to give porridge to the victims. Use banana lotus roots and cassava to cook porridge for the victims. But it cannot be given for free. Let them twist ropes in exchange."

Jiang Tangtang comforted herself. She only paid a little root, but she could get a steady stream of labor and make a lot of money.

Yuan Sandao: "Are you buying banana lotus roots and cassava from the common people? I'm afraid they are unwilling to sell them at this time."

Jiang Tangtang said: "Five pounds of banana lotus root or cassava, exchange for one pound of fish meal."

Fishmeal is made from fish caught in the sea, dried and ground into powder. The taste is not very good, but the people in Lingnan know that fishmeal feeds people and supports hunger more than anything else.

If there were sick people at home, or women who had just given birth, and those who couldn't eat meat, they would try their best to give some to them to replenish their bodies.

Although it takes five kilograms of banana lotus root or cassava to replace it, if the family really needs it, they will still bear the pain and exchange it for one kilogram.

In addition to food shortages, droughts also result in water shortages.

Jiang Tangtang had already arranged for people to dig underground wells to find water sources and solve people's drinking water problem.

However, sometimes we can successfully find underground water, and sometimes we work for 20 days in vain.However, no matter how hard and tiring the work of digging wells is, ordinary people rush to do it.

Because the workers who dug the wells were provided with three meals a day, and all three meals they ate were fish meal.Fishmeal is particularly good for filling your stomach. The more you work, the better your health will be.

People think that fish meal is nutritious, but they don’t know that the main reason is that it is in the water.

In order to allow the workers to work full of energy, Jiang Tangtang added spiritual spring to the water given to the workers.

Not only workers who dig wells, but also workers who go fishing and fisheries. Jiang Tangtang will add spiritual spring to the water of these people as long as he seizes the opportunity.

The common people thought it was better to work for the government, so they all rushed to work.

Jiang Tangtang came here and easily selected more than 2000 workers to go back.After these more than 2000 workers were brought back to Lingnan, most of them were sent to shipyards to build ships, while a small number were assigned to work in fisheries and other places.

Because of the drought, neither planting nor animal husbandry can develop, and now all the focus is on the sea.

There is also an increasing demand for boats.

It was still not enough to put all the old ships into use, so the people in the shipyard worked day and night to build new ships.

The people Jiang Tangtang picked this time were mainly to do rough work such as logging.

Although drought has countless disadvantages, it has only one advantage, and that is that the felled trees dry out faster than usual and can be put to use faster.

Since Jiang Tangtang transformed the aromatherapy ball into a "gimbal" two months ago, and Lu Shili has led the crew to systematically learn navigation knowledge, today's large ships can drive farther and bring back more fish.

In addition to fishmeal becoming an important supplement for Lingnan people, kelp from kelp farms also brings unlimited hope to everyone.

Nowadays, Lingnan's kelp farming technology is very mature, and the ten kelp farms have achieved considerable harvests.

It's a pity that there are disasters everywhere, riots are frequent outside, and the families who have food in their hands are beginning to get nervous. Even if the price is raised several times, they will no longer sell food easily, and trade matters can only be postponed.

These seafood products, which were originally in high demand, can only be consumed internally for the time being.But after all, kelp is not as good as food. It can be a temporary solution, but it is not a long-term solution.

Fortunately, in mid-September, the people Jiang Tangtang sent out to search for wild rice finally received good news.

Someone discovered wild rice that looked like rice in the mud at the seaside, but the rice grains inside were red.

(End of this chapter)