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

Chapter 332 Saline Alkaline Land

Xiao Ye's mood at the moment was extremely complicated.

He finally developed an appetite for a certain food, but the person who grew such food was a traitor, someone he wanted to kill with a thousand knives.

In addition to such complicated feelings, he also felt a sense of doubt in his heart.

Is it possible that the Jiang family is really a disciple of an immortal?
Otherwise, how could Lingnan grow rice in such a drought?
Amid his suspicion, a eunuch had already tasted the rice in the bowl. After confirming that it was not poisonous, Xiao Ye picked up the chopsticks and reached for the small bowl of rice first.

Once he ate, he didn't stop.

He felt that he had never eaten such delicious rice in so many years.After finishing a bowl, he was still a little unsatisfied.

I think he can eat a few more bowls.

The eunuchs waiting on the side were dumbfounded.

This was the first time they had seen the emperor enjoy the same food so much.

The key is that this food is not some delicacy, just a simple bowl of rice.

How is this not surprising.

Every move of the emperor is watched by countless people.

Soon, all the concubines in the harem knew that the emperor especially liked to eat sea rice.

Then the news was spread to their natal families by the concubines in the harem, and many ministers of the previous dynasty also knew the news.

After knowing it, many ministers found it incredible.

How delicious is this sea rice that the emperor forgot to hide his preference and just had a bowl of rice?
Many people have begun to use their connections to get some sea rice to try and see how delicious sea rice is.

While the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were thinking of ways to get sea rice, the refugees outside Cangwu began to migrate in an orderly manner.

They took the tools distributed by Jiang Tangtang and caught the locusts while on their way.

The large number of locusts swarming towards Lingnan became a feast for the refugees.Many refugees worked tirelessly to catch locusts.

These locusts finally gave them a full meal and gave them their first fortune after becoming refugees.

There is also the clever and courageous refugee who sees business opportunities in it.

I tried my best to prepare some tools for catching locusts. I gathered a team of people among the refugees and broke away from the team to go hunting for locusts.

They dry the caught locusts and sell them into locust powder.

Not only would Jiang Tangtang not stop such behavior, he would also support it.Although sea rice has been planted in Lingnan, the food gap is still huge.

Whether these locust powder is used for human consumption or bought by major breeding farms to feed livestock, it is a good thing.

And because of the drought, Lingnan's business has basically come to a standstill.This can also be regarded as a good signal for the resumption of business.

Jiang Tangtang did not pay too much attention to such trivial matters. She focused her main energy on controlling the plague and developing saline-alkali land.

Because she had been growing medicinal materials in space, she could treat the common people regardless of the cost of the medicinal materials. In the end, the plague in Cangwu was controlled.

There were a small number of people in Lingnan who were infected with the plague. Because they were discovered in time, isolated in time, and took medicine, the plague did not spread in Lingnan.And because Lu Shiyan made a timely decision, the people were allowed to harvest sea rice in advance.When locusts from Dazhou and other places poured into Lingnan, they did not cause much damage to Lingnan.

After harvesting the sea rice, the people picked up tools to catch locusts. After the locusts were caught, the people started planting for the new season.

After all the harvested rice was harvested, Jiang Tangtang took the initiative and, in addition to wages, gave each worker an additional ten kilograms of sea rice as a reward.

This made the workers very happy.

Because it was harvested a few days early, the rice grains were more broken after the sea rice was hulled, but this did not affect the taste of the sea rice.

Like the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, many people were amazed by the taste of sea rice.

The reputation of sea rice that tastes better than ordinary rice spread instantly in Lingnan.

Some workers who were reluctant to eat took the rewarded sea rice and sold it at an unprecedented high price.

There was a bumper harvest of sea rice, and those who regretted it the most were the major families who moved to Lingnan.

Pei Yang was filled with regret when he thought about the taste and yield of sea rice. Why didn't he buy the land then?
If he buys the land, he can make back his money in less than a year.

Compared with the Pei family, those families that did not get the land regretted it more.If they had hesitated less, they would have had a good harvest now.

When the aristocratic family was regretting it, Jiang Tangtang let people know that the government was going to sell a batch of saline-alkali land.

Like the tidal flats on the seaside, sea rice can be grown here.The only difference is that these lands are further away from the sea. If you want to use seawater for planting, you have to find a way to send water to the fields.

Many aristocratic families were worried that if they hesitated again, they would miss the good opportunity like last time, so many aristocratic families paid to buy the land before they had figured out how to get water.

This time Jiangtangtang Shou is sold at the same place as last time, and there are two ways to choose from.

But because they knew the value of sea rice, the family basically decided without hesitation to choose the first option and pay the money in one lump sum.

Seeing Jiang Tangtang sell a batch of land that could not be cultivated at a very high price, the people in the staff office once again admired Jiang Tangtang.

Although Jiang Tangtang made a fortune from various aristocratic families, she did not want to cheat them. After all, she still wanted to restore the economy.

So I asked people to reveal some methods of diverting water to the wealthy families who bought the land.Of course, these are just some of the methods Jiang Tangtang summed up based on the experience of later generations.Whether they can succeed or not depends on them to explore.

However, these aristocratic families can remain standing for hundreds of years, and their strength cannot be underestimated.Many aristocratic families support various talents.

As a result, aristocratic families soon built keel waterwheels and pools to transport seawater to the saline-alkali land through multiple water transports.

Multiple keel water trucks are needed to transport water to the saline-alkali land multiple times, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

But the family has already invested a large amount of money to buy land. If they don't continue to invest at this time, it will be equivalent to the previous money being wasted.

Naturally, the aristocratic family is not willing to lose money in vain.

Moreover, no one knows when the drought will end, and wealthy families do not dare to rest on their laurels.

Although the investment is huge now, we can still grow rice.And given the high price that sea rice is sold outside, major families feel that these investments will definitely not make a loss in the end.

As a result, Jiang Tangtang transferred all the costs of developing saline-alkali land to the family.

(End of this chapter)