I'm married to the God of War

Chapter 44 Hiring the Zhang Family Brothers

In a blink of an eye, it's the Chinese New Year, Shen Kuo and Su Muqian are both wearing red jackets, General Su has passed the most uncomfortable period of pregnancy, now his face is pale and red, and he is wearing a red jacket, not good looking.

General Su led the Soviet army division, and several lieutenants spent a year at home lively.

Shen Kuo drank and threw pots with them, he was always likable, Shen Kuo had a lot of knowledge, when he told them about the affairs of the capital, a group of generals were mesmerized by it.

They are in the frontier city, and there are no channels to know what happened in the capital on weekdays, fortunately Shen Kuo told them.

If General Su hadn't stopped them, these reckless generals would have wished to drag Shen Kuo into sworn marriage on the spot.

The Chinese New Year is full of excitement, and Shen Kuo also drank too much.

The next day it was rare to sleep until the sun was shining.

In a few days, two brothers from the Zhang family came to look for Su Muqian. They were talents related to farming.There are very few people in the capital who manage agriculture and economics. They are all kinds of outstanding people, but they are scolded for not doing their jobs properly.

Now Shen Kuo traveled thousands of miles to give them Flying Pigeons to wear books and asked them to come over.They haven't been at home for many years, and hurried here by water.

When Shen Kuo heard that the Zhang family brothers were coming, he immediately went to meet them and took them to the fields.

When the Zhang family brothers came, they pinched the frozen soil on the ground, Shen Kuo said: "I heard that you have a secret method of fertilizing, the fields here are not rich, use your method to raise them, the fields in Mobei are not growing well , I want you to grow something high-yielding."

"This..." The Zhang family brothers looked at each other.

Big brother Zhang said: "Fertilizing is very simple. The fields here are too lacking in fertility. As long as we fertilize and raise intensively for two years, we will definitely be stronger than we are now. But it is a bit difficult to get high grain yields!"

Brother Zhang didn't say anything, but he and his brother were of the same mind.

Shen Kuo said: "My treasure ship got a potato plant in Nanyang, and each one is about a catty. We told people to plant it here, and there are eight taels of it in the greenhouse!"

The Zhang brothers' eyes lit up when they heard the news.

Shen Kuo said: "It's a pity that the journey is far away, coupled with the freezing weather, there are only more than 20 surviving plants now."

Before Big Brother Zhang could speak, Little Brother Zhang said, "We have also grown local potatoes in the capital. Although they are not that big, they are very experienced! More than 20 plants are enough to grow."

Shen Kuo said: "All these are entrusted to you. The seeds, fields, and fertilizers are all prepared for you. All the things in the field are entrusted to you. Work harder now, and I will ask Mr. Qing to recruit some manpower for you in a few days. As long as you plant things out!"

The Zhang family brothers happily accepted the order.Said: "Yes, we must fulfill our mission." As soon as the New Year's Day is over, they will start to prepare the fertilizer and mix it into the soil first. It's all over again.

There are quite a lot of things that need to be done now, so do it early, so as not to delay the spring planting.

Su Muqian then opened a shop in Feiyun City. This shop is very interesting. It trades seeds for grain, and one catty of ordinary grains is exchanged for five catties of coarse grains.Those precious seeds have been identified, and one can be exchanged for several catties of grain.

In Feiyun City itself, the grain output is limited, and ordinary people can only go to the grain merchants outside to buy it.In a small market, food is a hard currency, and it is better than giving money in this small frontier.

The most interesting thing is the caravans, they can get a lot of good things from all over the world. Seeing that this shop is interested in grain, and the more rare it is, the higher the price.They all wrote down and searched for it when they planned to go out for a walk.

Mr. Qing is sitting in the town, he is well-informed, and he presides over all matters here.

Shen Kuo had nothing to do, so he went to have a look and saw that Mr. Qing was talking with the merchants, and said: "The seeds of fruit trees are also acceptable. Half a catty of seeds can be exchanged for a catty of grain." Mr. Qing paused: "There are also some heat-clearing ones Change some herbal seeds too!"

The people in the caravan took notes again and again, and then said: "I am visiting the Xiongnu this time, if I really have what you said, I will bring it back to you." Seeds are different in different places, and they don't take much trouble.If it can be exchanged for food, this is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

Mr. Qing sent the two of them to the door.Then he put on a smile and said to Shen Kuo: "Master, this is a really good move. In just three days, we got more than four catties of wheat seeds, more than 30 kinds of fruit and vegetable seeds, and rice seeds." Seeds. There are also two ginseng seeds, which I heard are local American ginseng, which are very nourishing."

After exchanging these good things, and they only spent a few dozen catties of grain, this transaction would be unimaginable in the capital.

Shen Kuo said: "Well, how much food do we have in the warehouse?"

Mr. Qing said: "There are two thousand catties of coarse grains and five hundred catties of fine grains. As long as the Zhang brothers plant cold-region rice and cold-region wheat, we will have more food!" These things are available locally, so we plant them Needs to be more refined.

The Zhang brothers are fans of farming.Just set up a house by the side of the field, there all year round, with such fine people serving them, after this year's grain harvest will definitely be a bumper harvest!

Shen Kuo said: "By the way, there are only two people on the farming side. I plan to recruit ten more people who can farm. There are a lot of jobs on the field side, and a few local people should be around to give pointers."

Mr. Qing said: "This matter is on me. In my opinion, it is better to give food than money. One person has [-] catties of food a month. What do you think?" This is Mr. Qing's benevolence.

The price of grain is high and low, and it is difficult for ordinary people to eat food, and it is not easy to buy food.The rations that can keep them alive are really better than copper coins.

Shen Kuo said: "Okay, it's just that we need to recruit people in the future, what do we do if we don't have enough food. I remember we still have a shop in Lin County. Let them take advantage of the reasonable price to store some food, and send it here when it's full of five thousand catties."

Mr. Qing said: "I'm thinking of going with Shizi."

The two were talking, when they saw an ordinary-looking middle-aged man outside holding a token and saw Shen Kuo saying: "Master." After speaking, he stuffed the letter into his hand.

Shen Kuo opened it and saw that it was written by his friend in Beijing. After reading it at a glance, he said: "Your Majesty has already decreed to deal with Uncle Guo, confiscated his house, and set up a scientific examination in March. It seems that he is going to seize power with the aristocratic family." .” Planning to recruit disciples of the emperor.Don't get involved with the previous court.

Mr. Qing said: "It's... It's a good thing we left the capital." Uncle Guo's strength has been comparable to the prime minister's chief assistant these years, and he has always won the Sacred Heart.

In fact, Shen Kuo knew very early on that since His Majesty "invited" the Eldest Princess and the Queen Mother to Mount Wutai to pray for blessings, it was enough to see that the Emperor had made up his mind on the Shen family.It's just that they walked fast and escaped the disaster for the time being.

The aristocratic family has great power, which has been accumulated over the past dynasties.

It's not something that can be defeated overnight.It's good to stay away from the right and wrong place of the capital.

Shen Kuo said: "I don't know when the turmoil in the capital will end, it seems that we will stay here for a while!" He didn't care, he was very happy to see Su Muqian every day.

Now this Feiyun City, there is nothing you want.Since you want to be here, you still need to make the surroundings more comfortable.

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