Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 596
Li Jingjing's newly combed hair was messed up, and when she heard the low laughter from the slaves outside, she was so ashamed that she slapped He Jingyan on the shoulder, and said, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?"

He Jingyan said in his heart, didn't he treat you like a child all the time?He kissed his beloved wife on the cheek several times, and said excitedly: "Lady, I can't wait to plant potatoes, I will arrange it for my husband." With eager eyes, he instructed: "You have to prepare potatoes for my husband."

Li Jingjing nodded and said, "Don't worry about that."

"A load of rice nourishes an enemy, and a bowl of rice nourishes a benefactor. I am thinking that we can't give the peasants free every time, and we have to collect some money." He Jingyan rushed out of the yard excitedly, and summoned all the officials to announce that Longbei will be in the sandy land for four seasons. Plant potatoes.

This time, the government's potatoes require silver money, two copper coins for ten catties.If the villagers don't buy them and use their own potatoes as seeds, they will have to bear the consequences if they fail to harvest next spring.

"Ten catties of potatoes and two copper coins, it's like giving them for nothing."

"We sell potatoes to the government in autumn for five copper coins a catty."

"My family listens to the government and spends money to buy potatoes from the government."

The vast majority of the villagers are willing to spend copper money to buy potatoes from the government as seeds, only a very few villagers are too stupid to spend the money and not buy them.

The sandy soil in Longbei was planted with potatoes for the second time, and this time the farmers planted all of them without sparing an inch of sandy soil.

Immediately afterwards, the Longbei government issued the second agricultural notice in winter, stating that the government has high-quality wheat seeds, which cost one copper coin per two catties, and farmers can go to the county government office to buy them with the land deed.

In the past, when farmers planted winter wheat, the seeds they used were selected from the best wheat harvested in their own fields, and the seeds were full.

This year, the Longbei government has sold high-quality wheat. Farmers don't know how high-quality this wheat is, how much the yield per mu is, and whether they have any wheat seeds left by themselves.

Open-minded farmers who trusted the Longbei government very much bought high-quality wheat with money, conservative farmers only bought two catties to try, and the rest of the farmers were reluctant to spend money and did not buy.

Potatoes and winter wheat were sown at the same time, and farmers in Longbei were busy for several days before the heavy snowfall.

According to the regulations of the Ding Dynasty, the registered fields must be planted with a certain amount of wheat and rice.

Although the potato production in Longbei was very high, He Jingyan and Li Jingjing could not violate the court regulations by planting potatoes instead of wheat on decent fields.

The Longbei government forbade farmers from growing potatoes on proper fields.

Therefore, Lin Bi'an, a former secretary from Chang'an, recommended himself as an inspector, and took people to inspect the villages in the seven cities of the fief, not only inspecting potatoes, but also the planting of winter wheat.

November is approaching, and Longbei, which has had three moderate snowfalls, has ushered in the expected heavy snowstorm.

The rampant northwest wind blows the snow as big as goose feathers flying all over the sky, and the sky is covered by snow in a dark gray.

Thousands of miles of flying snow, the sky and the earth are vast and white, and the people in the Longbei City Mansion are all huddled in their houses with the cold, not daring to come out.

"The Longbei government asked us to plant potatoes in the sandy soil. The potatoes just sprouted, and now it's snowing heavily, and they will freeze to death."

"What can we do? The rations for spring next year will depend on potatoes."

Villagers in Longbei village gathered together to worry about the potatoes they planted half a month ago.

In less than half a day, the county government sent a servant to the village to pass an order to the villagers not to take the snow to sweep the potatoes and freeze them to death.

"This year, there is a heavy snowstorm, and I am afraid that it will cause a snow disaster. In previous years, the snow disaster would freeze to death and starve to death. This year, if there is food, people will not die of starvation, but they are afraid of freezing to death. The government said that better days are ahead, and the villagers are living well. Live a better life in the future." Lizheng of each village specially summoned the villagers again, exhorting them not to go to the fields in the snow, let alone go hunting in the mountains.

Let's say that the Huiyi tribe failed to grab food from the villages in Yumen and Dunhuang in Dingchao this summer and autumn.

In winter, in order to survive, more than 2000 old, weak, sick and disabled Huiyi people were driven to the border of the Ding Dynasty, and then they went to grab the food of the Tubo Kingdom and the Xiongnu Dynasty.

The nobles of the Tubo Kingdom ate highland barley, beef and mutton, and crisp tea in winter, but the common people and slaves were not so good. They all ate mushy highland barley and dried vegetables.

The Tubo army used to pretend to be horse bandits to rob Dingchao's food. This year, they heard that the Tiger Ben army was guarding the border, so they dared not go to rob, so they went back to the Yi tribe.

The materials of the Xiongnu Dynasty were not as good as those of the Tubo Kingdom. In winter, not only did they have no food, but also no clothes to keep out the cold. If they did not go abroad to rob, they would not be able to survive.

So the Huiyi Tribe, the Xiongnu Dynasty, and the Tubo Kingdom started fighting for food and supplies from the beginning of winter, and they fought very happily.

After the heavy snowstorm, food became a luxury item. The three-party war reached a level of one battle a day, and it was so tragic that the victor's food was taken away before it even reached his mouth.

The strength of the Huiyi tribe is the worst. Seven or eight out of ten times they are defeated, and some small tribes are completely wiped out.

In order to survive, the medium-sized Huiyi tribe had to merge into a large tribe.After such an integration, only elite soldiers and some young women were left behind, and the rest were all abandoned.

In order to survive, the abandoned Huiyi had no choice but to brave the blizzard and starve to the east border of Dingchao.

Before some Huiyi old men died, they asked the Huiyi women to treat their meat as food for the Huiyi children to eat. No matter what, Huiyi’s children should live to the Ding Dynasty. Even if they become slaves, they are better than dead .

The abandoned people of the Huiyi tribe fled to the gates of Yumen and Dunhuang in the Ding Dynasty with great difficulty after eating the flesh and blood of their fellow tribesmen.

Yumen and Dunhuang Changshi, who had long been ordered by the Longbei government, ordered to take in the abandoned people of Huiyi tribe.

"Princess Huguo has ordered that all Huiyi people who have fled to this dynasty, as long as they enter the household registration of this dynasty, they will become members of this dynasty."

Naked and starved, the dying Huiyi abandoned people seemed to hear the holy voice, and there was hope in pairs of desperate eyes.

However, this incident caused strong resistance from the people of Yumen and Dunhuang. They said that the Huiyi people were the sworn enemies of the Han people, and when they took root here, they would join forces with the Huiyi tribe to occupy it.

More than a dozen officials and celebrities who had retired and returned to their hometowns jointly wrote a memorial and reported to the imperial court, suing He Jingyan and Li Jingjing.

He Dong directly suppressed the matter, and forwarded the memorial to He Jingyan and Li Jingjing.

Originally, He Jingyan wanted to place Huiyi people in Yumen and Dunhuang city mansions, but it seemed that this method was not feasible, so he had to find another way.

Candles were lit in the council hall of Prince Yan's Mansion all night, and He Jingyan and a dozen senior officials from Longbei finally made a plan to take Yiqimin back.

He Jingyan sent the Huben Army to take Huiyi abandoned people to Jincheng to resettle them. This not only prevented Huiyi abandoned people from colluding with Huiyi tribes outside the country, but also made it easier to educate them.

(End of this chapter)