Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 374
Chai Lin said: "If you dare to ask, is it Daoist Gongsun?"

The priest said: "It's me. No wonder people say that the Chai Daguan in Cangzhou knows half of the world's affairs."

"The Taoist priest is too much, why don't we talk in the backyard." Chai Lin said.

"So good."

Gongsun Sheng was not polite at all, and followed Chai Lin to the backyard.

This big car shop is a stronghold of Chailin, and the backyard is very private.

Although Gongsun Sheng is a Taoist priest, he doesn't mind eating. Chai Lin arranges for roast chicken and marinated meat, and a jar of good wine.

The two had a drink, and Gongsun Sheng said: "Pindao planned to rob Liang Zhongshu's birthday card to Cai Jing last year, but the officials ruined this good thing."

"Oh, there is such a thing? Why didn't I know." Chailin was still puzzled.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Originally, Liang Zhongshu planned to arrange Yang Zhi to escort the birthday outline. Yang Zhi is a man of great ambition and talent, and the road is easy to make mistakes, and it is easy to gather people to do it. But your Four Seas car dealership has opened, from Daming Mansion to Tokyo City. Originally, it took only two and a half days to get there. Yang Zhi took the people into the big carriage, and the carriage was extremely fast along the way, so he just missed it. The car dealership of the high official only charged less than ten guans for transportation. Fei, what a pity."

Chai Lin said: "This Liang Zhongshu is really cunning, he treats gold, silver and jewelry as ordinary goods. But a little property, how precious is 10,000+ pennies?"

Gongsun Sheng is surprised, 10,000+ wealth is not precious?

"Then what is precious in the eyes of high officials?"

"Gold, silver and jewels are nothing but a pile of scrap copper and iron when you are hungry and cold. The real precious things should be the food that the people in the world can eat and the cotton that is warm to wear. This is precious Things." Chailin said.

Gongsun Sheng was in awe. He is a Taoist priest who recites scriptures as an amateur.

"There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that Chai Daguan traveled thousands of miles to find divine food overseas. I guess it's true?" Gongsun Sheng said.

Dian Zhengnan, who was standing by the door, had his nose crooked, and said, "This is a fact, not some rumor."

Chai Lin said, "Master Dao, I'll arrange the kitchen later."

"Okay." Gongsun Sheng was curious and waited patiently for a while.

After a while, three things came up. The first item was shredded pepper and potato, red and white, which was really beautiful.The other two are boiled sweet potatoes and boiled corn.

"Taste the taste, the Taoist priest. This is potato shreds, which are made of potatoes. The red ones are called sweet potatoes, and the yellow ones are called corn." Chai Lin introduced.

Gongsun Sheng ate some of them one by one, full of praise, and exclaimed: "Delicious, delicious, all delicious."

"The yield of potatoes is about [-] catties per mu, the yield of sweet potatoes is higher, and the net grain yield of corn is more than [-] catties per mu. Are these three treasures?"

Gongsun Sheng got up and bowed to Chai Lin three times, and Chai Lin quickly said, "Why is this, Daoist Gongsun, get up quickly."

Gongsun Sheng said: "It's not the poor Taoist who worships the high official, but the poor Taoist worships you for countless people who are struggling with hunger in the world. Can the high official take the poor Taoist to the field to see?"

"There are 10,000+ mu planted near my village, so why not. Come on, let's eat up all the vegetables and don't waste them," said Chai Lin.

In the early morning of the next day, Chai Lin, Dian Zhengnan, Gongsun Sheng and a group of people took a large carriage and rushed to Chaijiazhuang, speeding all the way.

When they arrived at West Village, Chai Lin and the others got off the car.

On the side of the road is a green corn field, the corn stalks are still green, and the farmers are breaking the corn in the field.

Chai Lin took a corn cob and said: "This is corn cobs. The fresh product per mu is more than 3000 catties, and the sun-dried product is also about [-] catties."

Gongsun Sheng took it and pinched it with his fingernails, and said: "Master, this is not ripe yet. Why not wait until it is fully ripe and save the seeds so that they can be promoted to more farmers? It is too much to sell at this time." Pity."

"A corn cob sells for half a penny, and the merchants sell it for a penny when they transport it to the city. Farmers have a net profit of [-] yuan per acre of planting, and the benefits are considerable." Chailin said.

"It's quite impressive, but Pindao feels that it's best to save the seeds and let the people in the world grow them." Gongsun Sheng said.

"I understand Daoist Gongsun's feelings, but it is not advisable to act too hastily. Everything has its own development process. Although potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn are high-yield, [-]% of the villagers don't believe it. You force him to plant, force him It can only be counterproductive. There is a saying that a doctor does not knock on the door and does not spread lightly. When a doctor meets someone on the street and says, you are sick, I am afraid you will be beaten." Chailin said.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Isn't it a pity that such a good thing cannot be spread in a short time."

"Isn't this spreading? Corn has entered the city, and hawkers sell roasted and boiled corn. Don't many people know that the taste is good after eating it?" Chailin said.

Chai Lin took Gongsun Sheng to the sweet potato field to look at the sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes in late summer were so vigorous that they couldn't get their feet into the ground.

"There is not a single bit of sweet potato that can be wasted. At this time, a small amount of fresh leaves can be picked and used as vegetables to eat, and can also be fed to pigs. After harvesting, there are dozens of ways to eat sweet potatoes. Even the leftovers after harvesting Straw is also a good treasure, the best fodder,” said Chai Lin.

Gongsun Sheng said: "A few months ago, when Tian Hu raised his troops, countless refugees flooded into Cangzhou, and grain merchants from all over the country swarmed here. Food can save lives."

Chai Lin smiled and said, "The Taoist priest has a clever plan, that's exactly what happened. Millions of catties of potatoes were transported, and [-] to [-] refugees were rescued. None of them starved to death. I have to say that these potatoes are of great merit."

"It's not Tudou's meritorious deeds, it's Chai Daguan who has immeasurable merits, but doing great good is easy to suffer great disasters. The court can't tolerate people with such high prestige among the people. Disasters are imminent for senior officials." Gongsun Sheng began to play tricks again.

Chai Lin smiled and said without answering, "Zhengnan, prepare the horses, let's go to the new barracks by the sea."

Chai Lin took Gongsun Sheng to ride a horse all the way, and then changed to a centipede boat at the beach.As soon as he got on the centipede boat, Gongsun Sheng made a fool of himself. The boat was moving without raising the sails or sculls.

"Master, this boat is weird, why can it walk by itself?" Gongsun Sheng asked.

A small island in the north of Hailong Island, with an area of ​​only [-] mu, is currently stationed at the Chailin Qin Barracks.

Six thousand soldiers are trained here, the backbone of which is from Chaijiazhuang and its surrounding villages.These people are all leading the cows, horses, and donkeys, and they are nicknamed Qianniuwei.

These soldiers were not using traditional broadswords and spears, but weapons that Gongsun Sheng had never seen before, with long wooden handles and short knives.

"The Taoist priest comes with me." Chai Lin dragged Gongsun Sheng up to the high platform.

Chai Lin yelled, assemble.

Six thousand soldiers assembled quickly, and based on a hundred people, they stood up straight.

"Stand at attention, look to the right." Following the slogan, the whole team was surprisingly neat.

How long will it take to practice the movements of soldiers loading and unloading their guns, 6000 of them are like one person, and their movements are uniform.

Chai Qiang shouted at the top of his voice: "The assembly is complete, please give instructions."

"Start landing drills from now on, and be ready to go ashore at any time," Chai Lin said.

"Yes."

The soldiers went to training, and Chai Lin said, "Did Gongsun Daochang think that this is a short spear, which has no lethality?" "This is a short spear that looks very strange." Gongsun Sheng added .

Chai Lin shook his head and said, "This is not a spear, it's a firecracker."

As Chai Lin spoke, he aimed at a human-shaped target [-] meters away, and there was a loud bang, and the human-shaped target fell down with a bang.

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