When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 401 Popin
  When the taro field harvest started in June of summer, Xin Qu rushed to make a batch of taro vermicelli as military ration for the upcoming expedition.

However, after calculation, Xinqu still intercepted the population of the affected tribes gathered near Tianjin in the south, and brought them here first to collect crops.

Therefore, people also began to gather.

When there are too many people, it is easy for accidents of this kind to happen.

In the past, in order to reduce the impact, some tribes with a size of more than a hundred people would set up a separate barracks, or let them live naturally, and also to appease their emotions.

However, when they helped You Xin collect taro for a long time, they looked up in the semi-dry polder steaming under the scorching sun, with dry mouths and tongues, and saw only the extremely green taro leaves, and they couldn't help but feel... A bit greedy.

"It's noon. Let's have lunch after work."

The team leader is a naturalized person arranged by the Xin family, and three people are responsible for one thing.

During the meal, one of them went to get a wooden bucket, which was filled with slightly sticky toppings.

As for the toppings, you can see large pieces of pork bones, kelp knots, and some green onions, ginger, and water spinach.

There was only a few bites of meat, and most of the soup was watery.

I didn't feel hungry even after eating. If it weren't for the Xin family who could provide them with three meals a day, rest at noon, and have dinner at dusk, these people would have rebelled long ago.

"yours."

The class leader is responsible for the distribution, because these are all given on a per-capita basis, and you are not allowed to eat as much as you want.

The toppings were placed on the cooked taro vermicelli. The group of people took chopsticks, stirred it, and then put it into their stomachs.

"That's it?" A strong man finished a bowl in two or three mouthfuls, still not satisfied, and then glanced at the toppings in the bucket, looking at it eagerly.

"There are lotus seeds."

The squad leader rolled his eyes at him and picked up a basin from the basket on the side. The basin was full of lotus pods.

"Isn't this... bitter?" The strong man's face suddenly turned green.

"Fresh ones are not bitter." The class leader casually broke one open and threw it into his mouth. The taste was sweet, "You really don't know how to eat it."

"Hehe..." The strong man couldn't say anything. He could only wait for the class leader to finish the assignment, rush to clean up, and eat the last bit of the paste in the bucket.

Still feeling hungry, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and ate a few lotus seeds, but he still felt bitter and had no choice but to give up and go into the water to fish.

After a while, he actually caught one. He quickly washed it, brought it to the squad leader to borrow a dagger, cut it into minced meat on the spot, and ate it with a little leek minced rice left on the table. He felt very comfortable. Moan: "Fresh!"

There are many people like him, but there are also some hiding under the dark forest, pretending to rest, but actually gathering together: "How is the exploration going?"

"More than [-] acres! It's all taro fields. Xin's harvest plan has been decentralized. These taros will be intensively processed every seven days.

It can be harvested until April next year, but the Youxin family does not seem to intend to do this. They plan to harvest all the crops before November, then plow the land, open the culvert gates in the spring of next year, let in the water, and plant lotus roots. "

"Lotus root? How do you eat that thing?"

"Aren't they just eating? Today's lotus seeds were collected nearby. When I was harvesting today, two disciples of Elder Sinong were investigating the taro situation nearby and were also discussing the idea of ​​planting lotus roots.

After the heavy rain, their people had gone to the fields where the lotus flowers bloomed the most to explore the growth of the lotus roots. They concluded that they only needed to cut off the joints of the lotus roots and bury them in the soil.

In the beginning of spring, use some water to let them take root, and then add water to flood them every once in a while, and at the same time remove some leaves and flowers to let them sprout quickly.

Finally, in the summer, water is naturally released so that the water covers the entire field and turns into a swamp, and then growth can begin.

In mid-summer, after the lotus blooms, you can take the lotus seeds for food, and you can also pick some lotus leaves to make clothing. After autumn, drain the water and uproot them to harvest lotus roots.

Like taro, lotus root can be made into lotus root starch. The food tonight is the lotus root starch that they failed in their experiment. "

The group exchanged news.

Making lotus root starch is not easy, and it will taste unpalatable if you are not careful, so you need to experiment with the process of making lotus root starch.

Nowadays, there are lotus ponds in many places, and naturally there are lotus roots everywhere.

So Xin Qu asked the kitchen to test how to make lotus root starch. This thing is different from taro starch, and Xin Qu didn't know much about it, so he had to rely on the people below to do the work.

"Forget it, ignore them. Have you investigated the nearby waterways clearly? If it is clear, spread it out. There is a group of people in the southeast who are unwilling to surrender to the Xin family. They will migrate back soon.

We threw the waterway map to them and let them come here to loot.

When the time comes, they will take advantage of the chaos and set fire to burn all the taro powder that Xin has hoarded.

As long as the taro powder is burned, the Xin family will definitely spend their energy to wipe out the swamp people in the southeast.

In this way, we will have more time and energy to spend on consolidating our own Zhuoshui strength.

On the Zhuoshui side, they must be kneaded into a ball as soon as possible. There were other tribes left before, but now they can't!
  From now on, only the Ji family and Xu Bu can exist! "

The voices of this group of people were cold.

"But I heard that the Xin clan is preparing to conquer the west and the Rong clan..."

"He said that the Rong clan was involved in the Western Expedition, and you believed it? What if they turn around and attack us? How many treacherous things did the Xin clan do over the years? Why didn't you mention it at all?!"

A young man among these people had cold eyes: "The initiative must be in your own hands! Make good use of your identity as a refugee and recruit a group of people who are also hungry as soon as possible. Tell them that you are planning to steal some food and then run away."

At that time, as long as this place is completely chaotic, it will be more beneficial to us! "

"This... let's do it!"

Everyone looked at each other and seemed to have no other choice.

The Xin family has more than [-] acres of taro fields here, which is said to be only two-thirds of the Xin family's total cultivated land.

In addition, the Xin family also owns a large number of lakes, swamps and pastures. I heard that this year the Xin family was going to march westward, and they were forcibly recruited from all the grassland tribes under their name. Each household was given more than a hundred kilograms of taro powder, and they were taken away. A strong man and his own oxen, one horse and three horses can make up a transport team of [-] people.

It can be seen that Xin's resource coordination ability has evolved once.

Just for this reason, no one in this group of Ji's spies can feel relaxed when they see the Xin's vehicles and horses coming and going every day.

Therefore, the initiative cannot be given to others, it must be held in one's own hands!

If the Youxin family is given some obstacles, they can go with him in his western expedition. They can also give them a little more push in the southeast, so that the Youxin family has no intention to pay attention to the internal regime change of the Ji family in Zhuoshui.

In fact, this time the flood caused heavy losses to the Xu Department, so the Xu Department, which has the highest overall strength, has been targeted by the elders of other departments, and is preparing to dismantle the situation where the Xu Department dominates the sky. Their privileges will not be given up easily.

The game has always been like this, it is never settled overnight, it is always dynamic.

The group of people immediately became busy.

(End of this chapter)