I have a cornucopia

Chapter 94 Copycat version of Houji

Governor Qiu then set off back to Jinan with the first batch of cans.

As for Her Royal Highness the Princess...

Everyone actually understands what's going on.

So there is no need to worry about other things. After all, caring too much will inevitably make Your Majesty look bad. Just ignore it. Covering your ears and stealing the bell is the best choice. Besides, Your Majesty is putting the overall situation first, and the princess is sharing her father's worries. That sense of filial piety Heaven and earth moved.

In ancient times, there were princesses who made peace with foreigners, but now there are princesses who comfort rebellious ministers...

This is still progress!

They weren't sent to the foreigners' tents, were they?

Of course, the public statement is that the task of protecting Her Royal Highness the Princess has been handed over to Deputy Envoy Si Yang, who is responsible for rectifying the coastal military equipment. After all, the Qingzhou Prefecture and the Yizhou Guard Station are now under his control. Her Royal Highness will have to From Andongwei, we went north to convey His Majesty's condolences to Juzhou, Yishui, and all the way to Zhucheng. These are all under the jurisdiction of Deputy Ambassador Yang. The Qingzhou Bingbei Road has two guards and thirteen counties, twelve inspection departments, and two guards. The troops and horses of Yu Qianhu Office and the eastern half of Yanzhou Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Yizhou Bingbei Road were all under his control.

There are a total of six prefectures in Shandong, but seven military preparation roads, so Yanzhou Prefecture actually has three military preparation roads, Jining, Cao Pu, and Yizhou, which are actually to protect water transportation. Previously, Jining and Yizhou even had two military preparation roads. In Jining, the Yizhou Military Preparation Road was later transferred to Yizhou.

Therefore, ice storage is understood by northern fishermen.

Of course, everyone can just pretend to be confused about this kind of thing. If he really goes to Dengzhou to exercise his power, what will Dengzhou soldiers dare to resist?

For example, in the Dagukou area of ​​Tianjin, sea ice is reserved for drinking.

In addition, Yang Feng's rectification of coastal military equipment actually overlapped with Dengzhou military equipment, because the latter also patrolled the coastal areas part-time.

“It’s troublesome to be a good person!”

The purpose of this thing is to change the yield in the fields, and no one grows this in any good land.

At this time, the commander-in-chief was Deputy Yang, his uncle. Although Commander-in-Chief Yang was stationed in Linqing, even if Dengzhou soldiers wanted to resist, they could only recruit guardsmen.

But there is only one Denglai.

Many places along the coast that lack fresh water in winter store sea ice as fresh water to drink until the next winter.

Rice can also be grown here.

Counterfeit version!

The same goes for corn.

After all, most of the people in the north are actually middle and lower fields.

There are also new rice seeds.

There is also new wheat. It is no longer possible to wait until after autumn to plant winter wheat. In order to avoid being unusable for a long time, it can only be sown as spring wheat.

However, if there is an island near the fishing ground, a processing point can be set up on the island.

Not only these food crops, but also various vegetables, especially pumpkins, which are key development targets. This is even more difficult, as they are much more delicate than sweet potatoes.

In short, Her Royal Highness was handed over to Deputy Envoy Yang, who held one-third of Shandong's military power, for protection.

There are still newly born grasshoppers flying in swarms in the sky.

Although Chongzhen hopes so.

Deputy Ambassador Yang...

And he needs to worry about more than just farming. After all, he also has to build a new type of fishing boat. This is actually not difficult, that is, a large oar centipede boat. Fishing must go to the open sea. There is no future only in the offshore sea. But the boat is not difficult. The trawl retracting and retracting device and the rough processing workshop on the ship are more troublesome, although this rough processing is just to remove the guts and rub the fish heads with salt. According to his design, he will first use the nets he obtained to fish offshore, and at the same time build a slightly smaller trawl net and a special fishing boat. In the second half of the year, he will start to enter the sea area that can travel back and forth for a day, so as to ensure that the fish arrives as fresh as possible. . At the same time, build larger nets and boats to travel to farther seas next year, and it is best to store enough ice in winter so that you can carry ice to keep it fresh in order to maintain fishing for three or four days at sea. This is almost The limit of his ability.

But the problem is that it is a bit late in the season, so we need to raise seedlings quickly, and we can only leave it to fate.

Deputy Ambassador Yang seemed to be transformed into Hou Ji...

He has a lot to do now. Just sowing a bunch of new crops is a big project, especially for someone like him who only knows a little bit. Of course he knows about corn. All he needs to do is dig a hole, bury it, and apply manure. , potatoes need to be germinated first. Fortunately, there are experienced farmers here. Although they have never planted them, they can still make analogies based on experience. Sweet potato seedling cultivation also requires technology. In fact, it is a bit late at this time, because sweet potatoes are transplanted after the wheat harvest, and the seedling cultivation must begin in the spring. Before there was mulch film in Shandong, there were all seedbeds, that is, a kang-like one with a fire underneath for heating. The subsequent steps are quite simple. Just make a ridge, dig a hole and water it. As long as you pour some water on this thing, it will basically survive. But since it is planted in the field now, it will be fine in that season. It is not a big deal if it is delayed.

Of course, this requires a population stationed on the island and sufficient fuel. Coal can be transported there.

In the green spring, Deputy Ambassador Yang and a group of adopted daughters were pulling wildly growing weeds among the frail corn seedlings.

The fishing boats that go out to sea are sent to the nearest place for processing.

Deputy Ambassador Yang had no interest in coaxing Chongzhen's children.

Although the common people unconditionally believe that he is a god.

The significance can be said to be huge.

The value of corn is not to get a good harvest from good land. Under ancient conditions, a good harvest would only weigh more than a hundred kilograms, which is about the same as wheat, but wheat is definitely more popular than it. The real value of corn is to increase the yield of the lower fields to the lower fields, and to increase the output of the lower fields. Yield increased to midfield.

By the way, I picked insects from the leaves.

That would be a joke.

Ice is not hard to come by.

Good land must be planted with serious crops such as millet.

It's fine for modern people to eat once in a while, but it's hard to tolerate it as a staple food.

But this thing can turn those fields that used to yield tens of kilograms per mu into yields of hundreds of kilograms per mu.

Because there is only one general in Shandong, and Denglai is also under the jurisdiction of the general in Shandong.

But Dengzhou's military equipment couldn't resist.

It's not tasty.

There were still some unknown insects crawling in the soil under his feet, and some of them were still gnawing on his corn seedlings.

Deputy Ambassador Yang is living like this now. After all, he has neither pesticide nor herbicide. It’s not that he didn’t take it out of the cornucopia, but that there is no guarantee for this thing, even in the imaginable future. It is also impossible to gain production capacity, so these modern seeds, which are also well protected, must start to adapt to this completely unprotected era from their genes.

Of course, the main reason is that he doesn't understand it very well.

After all, the use of pesticides really requires experience and technology. The instructions do not just work. Don’t spray a tube of pesticides and everything will die.

"Deputy Envoy Yang, Governor Qiu's five hundred miles is urgent."

shouted a subordinate at the edge of the field.

Deputy Ambassador Yang is now a member of the Yamen. His Bingbei Road Yamen is located in Andongwei. Originally, Qingzhou Bingbei Road and Yizhou Bingbei Road were both located in the two cities, but after the merger, they were stationed in Andongwei.

Of course, there are also supporting assistants and subordinate officials.

As for the personnel, they were all from the original two yamen, but there were not many of them. The main ones were those from the Yizhou Bingbeidao yamen who were either killed by the Qing army or ran away. Of course, there was no reason for such people to abandon their posts and run away. In short, Deputy Ambassador Yang now has a complete yamen and subordinates, and his main responsibilities have been left to these people. Anyway, officials all over Shandong are becoming more and more weak now. Without the nod of the local gentry association, officials dare not do many things. . There is also an Dongwei, commanded by Commander Hu himself, and the leaders of the major families form the Zhongyi Society. Since they are all military households, and their ancestors fought for the Ming Dynasty to conquer the world, it is of course very reasonable to call it the Zhongyi Society. Although the main purpose of their association is to break through the laws of the court, the current main purpose is to sell illicit salt and sell the salt from the Taoluo Salt Farm to the inland through the knights system. The main collaborators are the Taoluo Ding family, who has a The former censor took the lead.

All transportation is escorted by the Knights.

Although the three thousand retinue belonged to Yang Feng, not all of them were paid for by him.

He takes the lion's share.

Gentleman Anton Wei also paid part of it.

Therefore, in line with the principle of not using for free, the escort of the smuggled salt was handed over to them.

But now they have a new mission.

"Okay, that's enough. Hurry up and arrange manpower to continue transporting cans to Jinan."

Yang Feng looked at Governor Qiu's letter and said with satisfaction.

The results of Qiu Zude's test, of course, will not have any surprises. From Antonwei to Jinan, even the normal freight speed is only more than ten days. No matter how simple the earthenware cans are, they will not be able to last more than ten days. The production of this thing was not a magical invention in ancient times. It was just high-temperature sterilization and sealing. There have been similar ones for a long time. The key is actually the seal, or the sealing material. Crock pots are definitely not as good as glass bottles, and glass bottles are definitely not as good as tinplate, but what he wants is not to seal it for decades, or even to the extent of canning the British ancestral beef, but to solve the inland radiation range of marine fish.

Crock pots are enough.

Of course, glass bottles also need to be installed, but this is a matter for the future.

In fact, he has already tested it here, and the canned food he made half a month ago is still being consumed.

Especially for those hungry people who followed, they added various wild vegetables from canned food, mixed with a small amount of rice, and cooked it into a pot of porridge. It was considered a combination of meat and vegetables. For the hungry people who had eaten all the roots and bark of trees in the past, it was totally fine. Happy life. Then the young men cleared the wasteland and prepared to plant sweet potatoes. Yang Feng's sweet potatoes weighed several thousand kilograms, and one of these seedlings could produce a bunch of seedlings. A few dozen kilograms of sweet potato seedlings would be enough to cover an acre of land. The good lands in this area are all aboriginal people. These can only go to those original fields or reclaimed land. It cannot be said to be truly wasteland. It is Haizhou, Ganyu, and all the way to Juzhou. The Yizhou area was abandoned after being massacred by the Qing army. soil of. In short, they mainly focus on sweet potatoes and are organized in a militarized manner. After all, Deputy Yang is from the Bingbei Road, and the Bingbei Road has the power to resettle refugees to reclaim wasteland and reorganize households for management.

And then of course militiaization.

The subordinate hurriedly left, preparing to organize a pack team to continue transporting cans to Jinan.

These days, the fishing and canning industries are in full production. Although Jinan is a test, it is not needed in places like Juzhou, Rizhao and even Haizhou. There are hundreds of thousands of hungry people in Yangfeng who need to be fed. The demand for this kind of canned food can be said to be huge.

It can even be said that demand exceeds supply.

After all, he has the reputation of a living god...

The main reason is that Yang Feng deliberately added fuel to the flames and touted this canned food as a fairy prescription.

Not only can it satisfy your hunger, but it can also prolong your life!

It is said that if a person who was about to starve to death does not die after eating it, then that is not just prolonging his life.

As soon as the subordinate clerk left, Su Dunsheng came in a hurry.

Su Dunsheng is now mainly responsible for the daily management of the Knights branch. The headquarters of the Confucius and Mencius Knights is of course the Dacheng Hall of the Confucius Temple in Qufu. However, except for Yan Shenggong who is the grand leader in Qufu, and the knights from various places take turns to defend, there is actually no other . The basic unit of each place is the county, and the next level up is the branch hall. There are currently twelve branch halls. After all, it is not appropriate to simply use the prefecture as a prefecture. These prefectures are large and small, poor and rich, and the number of knights' retinues There was no waiting, so in order to be more standardized, the system was changed to separate halls. That is to choose a large county, and then set up a branch hall with it as the core, and the knights in several nearby counties obey the dispatch of the branch hall. For example, Laiyang must have branch halls, and Juzhou, Rizhao, Andongwei, Ganyu, Hai There is a separate branch church in Anzhou, Donghai and other places, of course located in Andongwei. As for the following issues that do not belong to Shandong, just ignore them. The Knights of Confucius and Mencius have never said that they are limited to Shandong. It is the duty of all Confucian scholars in the world to protect the tomb of Confucius.

On a voluntary basis, any Confucian scholar can join.

Kong Sheng is world-famous.

We need all the Confucian scholars in the world to protect us.

What Su Dunsheng brought was not good news.

His father, Su Jing, sent someone to go through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, and finally sent him a letter.

"So everything is irreversible after all?"

Yang Feng looked at the secret letter.

The content of the secret letter is very simple. Unless Sun Chuanting chooses to ignore the imperial edict and directly separate one side, he can only leave Tongguan. Chongzhen can be said to be very urgent about this after Yang Feng caused trouble in the capital.

Want money.

Give.

Using the internal treasury to supplement Sun Chuanting's military salary actually forced those nobles to pay for it. Now Chongzhen has also learned this bad lesson.

Want soldiers.

Give.

Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, Xue Minzhong, and Zhang Dengke who had previously pursued Jianlu were all transferred to his command. Together with Gao Jie, they were all considered by Chongzhen to be elite soldiers and good generals.

In short, he must leave Tongguan.

But, I need food...

No.

This really doesn't exist.

Even if water transport has begun to arrive in Beijing, it is impossible to deliver it to Sun Chuanting.

"It's useless if you don't have food. He just gives you 10 million taels of silver. If you don't have food, you don't have food. Are you going to let the soldiers eat green persimmons again?"

Yang Feng said immediately.

Sun Chuanting was short of food. No matter how much troops and money were given to him, he would still be unable to fight without enough food.

But this is indeed not what Chongzhen can do.

"Not only His Majesty, the Shaanxi gentry is also trying to drive him out of Shaanxi. In order to solve the problem of military supplies, he is sorting out the land of the guards in Shaanxi and asking the gentry who have invaded the lands of the guards to hand over these lands. This move has aroused public outrage. After all, it was too late back then. When the ancestors' army pacified Shaanxi, the entire population of Shaanxi was very small. They were all military households who later migrated. The good lands were all in the military register and the Qin Prince's Mansion. Now the good lands are in the hands of these gentry, and asking them to hand them over is like taking their lives. Naturally He tried every means to squeeze out Sun Chuanting, and even bribed his father-in-law to try to force him to force Sun Chuanting with Shang Fang's sword."

Su Dunsheng said.

Of course, everyone does this kind of thing.

After all, most of Anton Wei's good lands are in the hands of a few powerful people, including the Yang family.

"This is life!"

Yang Feng sighed somewhat sadly.

(End of this chapter)