Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 353 Unraveling, turning into a wolf (1)
Zhang Xiaocao glared at him. This guy, the previous sentence was pleasant, but the last sentence was not questioning her. Forget it, I don't care about them. Planting potatoes will naturally make them speechless!

Immediately, she asked Lin Zhaoyuan to carry the potatoes to the backyard, sharpened the knife and began to cut the potatoes. There were many sprouts growing on a potato. You just need to cut off the sprouts carefully. Don't cut them too thin. If you hurt the buds, they will really rot in the ground!
She cuts very carefully, trying to cut off as much as possible from one potato. Who would let the seeds be so small? On the second day after she came back, she went to the county town to find the shopkeeper of the seed shop, but his friend's The son didn't see it again, so he was not lucky enough to bring back the potatoes!
Feng Yi and the others watched her cut off piece by piece, and their hearts trembled. This is their hope, but they must be reliable, otherwise they will not grow out in the end, and they are afraid that they will not be able to control themselves. , Pinch the neck of this little girl!
After all the more than 60 catties of potatoes were cut, Zhang Xiaocao carefully applied a layer of plant ash on their incisions. Originally, coal ash was better, but in this era, coal has not been excavated, so naturally there will be no coal ash!
The potato field was picked up two days ago. It is in the place where the vegetables were grown in the yard before. This place faces the sun, and the soil is not too rich or barren.

Now that the temperature is getting higher day by day, it is suitable for planting potatoes, and it will be harvested in three or four months!

The pit for burying potatoes should not be too deep, otherwise it will not germinate easily, and it will rot, and it should not be too shallow, as the newly emerged potato sprouts are very fragile and easily evaporated by the sun to death, so let it feel the heat of the sun , and can't let it die in the sun!

As for watering, it is simple, you only need to moisten the soil every time, if you water too much, it will easily rot!
All the potato pieces were planted, Zhang Xiaocao breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't have any special feeling, anyway, she knew that potatoes would definitely grow, but the windbreaker and three agricultural officials couldn't do it, and she would watch it several times a day , I wish I could grow in the ground too, just watch over it all the time!

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of February, and the potato seedlings hadn't grown yet. Mu Hua returned to the academy, and together with his classmates, went to the ceremony room to take the county exam!

Zhang Xiaocao was unhappy, because when Mu Hua came back from the exam, he was going to join the army. The list of joining the army had already come down, and he was indeed on it. The only thing that made her feel relieved was that Peng Feng would also go, and both of them were assigned to the North Camp , There can also be a care for each other!
But when she thinks of her depressed grandma, she has a very headache. Although grandma has accepted the reality that Mu Hua is about to leave home, she still feels very uncomfortable. For a while, she had no energy to think about the engagement that Lin Zhaoyuan told her a few days ago, and it's not appropriate to tell her now!
Lin Zhaoyuan also knew that she was busy, so he only mentioned it that day, and didn't immediately ask her to respond. Now seeing that she was so busy that she lost weight, his heart ached. He would come over every day to help her deal with the affairs in the medicine field. Although Feng Yi wanted to Help, but he is not familiar with the things in the field, and it is easy to be a disservice, so he has to step aside!
Now the folks in Zhangjia Village have started to plow and fertilize the land again, planning to grow cotton, but Zhang Xiaocao is very entangled. A few days ago, the emperor issued a secret decree, which is about cotton. He does not intend to announce the cotton production increase technology now, but Several cotton planting bases were set up in different places in Yuanqing. Among them, the planting base in the central area is in Linjiang County, to be precise, in the area of ​​Zhangjia Village!
"Father, what does the emperor think?"

Zhang Xiaocao found the windbreaker in the potato field, and hurriedly pulled him aside and asked.

The imperial decree was received by Feng Yi, asking him not only to pay attention to the potato, but also to manage the cotton base well!
The windbreaker was spread out, and he was very helpless: "I don't know where the Lieyan Kingdom got the news. We know that we have grown high-yield cotton in Yuanqing. Lieyan is located in the cold northern region, and the demand for cotton is more urgent. The emperor naturally has his purpose in doing this. !"

Although Feng Yi didn't say it clearly, Zhang Xiaocao still understood the meaning, but she didn't agree with the emperor's approach!

"The emperor can directly use the method of increasing cotton production to trade with the monarch of the Raging Flame Kingdom to achieve his goal. Let's not talk about whether we can keep the secret from the Raging Flame Kingdom. The large cotton base cannot supply the cotton demand for the entire Yuanqing, and if the cotton price cannot drop, it will be difficult for ordinary people to benefit from it!"

Several cotton bases are all controlled by the government, even in Zhangjia Village. The land belonging to the folks in Zhangjia Village will be returned to the government in the form of lease. The government gives high compensation to the villagers every year. But for farmers who regard the land as their life, it is still difficult for them to accept. Besides, is it better for them to grow cotton themselves than to rent land?The only ones who are happy are the people from other nearby villages. They can't grow cotton, but they can get high compensation, which is much better than growing food by themselves!

At this time, Feng Yi was not sure what the emperor was planning. After thinking hard for a long time, finally, a horrifying thought flooded into his mind, which made him break out in a cold sweat. Could it be that he had this idea?
Feng Yi was in doubt. If it was what he thought, such an approach would be too risky. It is very common for the three countries to communicate with each other. It is necessary, the medicinal materials and food of Duoze country are also very important to the other two countries, and Yuanqing is famous for its salt and cloth!
If the emperor wants to use cotton to improve Yuanqing's status among the three kingdoms, it's not a bad idea, and now there are potatoes. If potatoes are successfully planted, the food dependence on Dozed Kingdom will not be so deep, and Yuanqing will not be restrained by other countries. Naturally, it is a good thing, but in this way, it will break the long-term balance of the Three Kingdoms, and I am afraid it will cause another turmoil. For Yuan Qing, it may not be a good thing!

Zhang Xiaocao saw her adoptive father's face changing, and couldn't help asking, "Father foster, did you guess something?"

Feng Yi was startled, and waved his hands again and again: "Don't ask too much, foster father doesn't know anything!"

When Zhang Xiaocao heard this, she frowned even tighter. Could it be that the emperor is really planning something?
"No matter what, the folks are definitely not willing to just hand over the land like this. Father, can you think of a way to stop expropriating the land in Zhangjia Village and let them plant it. For the tens of thousands of acres of land expropriated by the cotton base To me, these hundreds of acres of land are nothing at all!"

Moreover, she has hundreds of acres of medicine fields and [-] acres of cotton fields in Ganglou Village. If these are expropriated, her plan to open a seasoning workshop will be completely stopped. She has devoted so much effort, manpower and material resources to it. Just stop like this, she won't be reconciled to saying anything!

(End of this chapter)