Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 366 The Magical Use of Potatoes

From a long distance, I could smell the fragrance. The huge iron pot was covered with a wooden lid. Mr. Qin picked up the lid to take a look. It turned out to be a large pot full of stewed potatoes with pork bones.

Master Qin turned over with a big shovel, and the pig's head was only a few pieces in a pot, but it was full of potatoes.There are more than a dozen pots like this, and the refugees are holding bowls and preparing to eat.

"False, who are you fooling?" Master Qin didn't believe it.

"Then let's continue down, it's not this village." Chai Lin accompanied Master Qin to continue walking.

The next village is just three miles away, and the food here is actually stewed pork bones with potatoes.

"This, this, where did you get so many potatoes?" Master Qin asked curiously.

"You don't need to worry about it, just come and take a look." Chailin opened up the potatoes piled up in the village, the pile of potatoes was at least tens of thousands of catties.

"One meal of sorghum porridge in the morning and stewed potatoes in the evening. This food is not good, but you will never die of starvation. Master Qin, come and have a taste."

Chai Lin asked someone to serve two bowls, one for himself, and one for Master Qin.

There is really no meat, and the pork bones are just to borrow the taste, but the potatoes are so rotten that they melt in the mouth, with oil and salt, very delicious.

Master Qin was stunned, and said: "There are ten cents and five catties of potatoes in the market, and you are willing to use them to help the victims."

Chailin opened a bag of potatoes and said, "I'm not that generous. These potatoes were injured when digging, or were bitten by insects. There are more or less minor problems. The market price is only one penny per catty, and the wholesale price It’s even lower than one penny and two catties.”

In fact, the main problem is transportation. Except for water transportation, any other transportation is not suitable for potatoes, which are of low value.Moreover, these are potatoes produced in Yangma Island, and only high-quality potatoes are sold for export, and the rest are kept for oneself to eat. There are 8 to [-] soldiers in Yangma Island, and the daily consumption is astronomical. Of course, Qin Master doesn't know this.

Master Qin didn't go back that night, so he rested all night in the refugee's temporary village.I looked again the next day and was relieved to see that the management was in order.

Master Qin said: "Master Chai, I understand. You have cheated the grain merchants again. You have arranged to use potatoes to help the refugees, and those grain merchants are planning to sell high prices to make money. I have to sell it to you at a low price."

Chai Lin said: "Look at what you said, it can also be sold to the government office. The summer grain will come down soon. I don't believe how long they can carry it."

Master Qin shook his head: "The government doesn't want it, this year's summer harvest is bumper, not to mention, the big waterwheel built in your village is too powerful, it has benefited thousands of people."

"Now is the critical moment for spring silkworm breeding. Mr. Qin needs to supervise more and do a good job in silkworm breeding," Chai Lin said.

Master Qin said with black lines on his face, "You are the leader and I am the leader?"

"You are, you are, I'm just offering advice."

Master Qin left, and Chai Lin stayed here to settle the refugees.

The refugees did eat potatoes. The [-] mu of potatoes in Yangma Island had a bumper harvest, and they were dug up one after another. Selling them was a big problem. As I thought before, they had to rely on themselves to eat.

The six warships of the Navy continued to transfer, and the high-quality potatoes were transported to Dengzhou Port and Cangzhou Port.Distribution is carried out through dozens of large and small ships in the caravan.Sand boats were transported south to Suzhou and Hangzhou for sale, while centipede boats were sold directly to Dongping, Jeju, and Tokyo via the Yellow River.Of course, you can also go straight to Jinan Prefecture for sales through Xiaoqinghe.

The commercial development of the Northern Song Dynasty was due to the large population of its own country, and the market for a population of about [-] million was still considerable.Cangzhou Shisanhang has a well-established sales network, and there is no problem with this year's output.But disabled potatoes are no good. They are easy to rot during transportation, so they can only be eaten by themselves. Fortunately, there are many people, and they consume a lot every day. This has led to the situation where refugees eat potatoes.

Chailin has never done business that loses money. Those who are young and strong and willing to go out will go to work in Yangma Island and Dead Leaf Island by big boat. The money for working in these places is [-] copper coins per month at the beginning, and [-] coins in the follow-up. There are still left and right.Those who are strong and unwilling to go out can build roads. The roads from Dinghai Port to the steel factory, cement factory, and Chaijiazhuang are at least hundreds of miles, and they all need roads to be widened. The road has never been overhauled, only two carriages can run side by side, and there are many potholes.Now it is required to have three carriages in parallel, and the road surface is required to be mixed with gravel and loess, so that it is not muddy when it rains.

The amount of work is huge.Of the [-] refugees, [-] were transferred to the sea, and the remaining [-] built roads and bridges.

The remaining [-] are basically women, and women don't want to be idle, anyone who can work has to work.

But what I do is easy work, farming.

Liu Dahua is a typical rural woman. Originally, her family was decent, with ten acres of land around Taiyuan City.

If you are not rich in your childhood, it is not bad.But suddenly one day, Tian Hu raised his troops and violently attacked Taiyuan City.

People in the village were either killed or captured as bandit soldiers.

Poor Liu Dahua's husband was in his thirties and was in his prime. He was captured and attacked the city and died under the city of Taiyuan.

But she dared not tell anyone about this issue. She could only say that her husband was killed by bandits.

Liu Dahua fled instinctively with the two teenage children. The faces of the three of them were covered with ashes from the pot, and they were as embarrassed as they were dressed.

It was still early for Liu Dahua to escape, so she was lucky to get on a mule cart from Luquan Town to Chaijiazhuang.

According to legend, Chaijiazhuang is a fairyland on earth, where there is endless food and meat.There are also workshops that hire female workers, who can stutter.

In this way, Liu Dahua came to Chaijiazhuang, and the situation was not bad. After eating half a month's old grain, he ate potatoes that he had never eaten before.

I got up early today and had dinner, when suddenly two female soldiers came and said, "Liu Dahua."

"here I am."

The female soldier spoke kindly, and asked, "Liu Dahua, the registration card says you have planted land?"

"I've planted it, I've planted it. My family has more than ten acres of land, and I farm it all year round at home." Liu Dahua said quickly.

The female soldier looked at Liu Dahua's two sons, who were thirteen or fourteen years old, and not too young.

"In this way, take the burden and salute, bring the two children, and go to the farm to plant the land together. The owner is kind, and I will find a way for you to live and do some work so that you can resettle in the future." The female soldier said.

In this way, Liu Dahua took two children and followed a group of people to a strange land. Farming here is really strange. Small paper cups are filled with soil, and then the seeds are planted in. She and her two sons work for about four hours a day. .

The foreman said that this is called cotton, and it is planted in paper cups for the convenience of transplanting.

It used to be two meals a day, but it also changed to three meals a day, and all three members of the family put on brand new single clothes.

Liu Dahua has seen it, the land farming method in Chaijiazhuang is quite different from other places.When the cotton seedlings grow to a height in the nursery, the wheat is harvested at this time.

The strong and big mules plowed the land, plowed the land, and turned the land very soft.Cotton seedlings were transplanted in paper cups, and the paper cups had already started to rot due to water and fertilizer, so don't worry about it.

Although the foreman didn't say anything, Liu Dahua understood that in this way of planting, there was no need to slow down the seedlings, and they grew directly.

After the cotton is planted, there is basically no difficult work, the main thing is weeding, and then picking after flowering.

At this time, the foreman asked Liu Dahua, "From now on, it will take about five or six months. I will be responsible for weeding, picking cotton, and occasional watering. I will pay you two hundred cash per acre of land. How many acres of land are you willing to take over?"

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