Huang Han asked again: "Do you understand how to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes today?" ”

Gu Mancang said: "I understand, in fact, it is not difficult to learn to grow these two things, the small ones are used to serving the crops in the village, if this sweet potato and potato can really harvest five or six stones, wouldn't it be that no one in our village will be hungry from now on." ”

Xu Guangqi interjected: "As long as you learn to plant and learn to manage the field, the old man will be able to guarantee a yield of five or six stones, and if you are lucky, there may be more than that." ”

"That's great, to be honest, these two new crops are not delicate and easy to serve, if every family grows an acre or two, they will not have to worry about running out of food."

Huang Han beckoned to the left, Wang Zhicheng, who was in charge of security, hurriedly ran over, he took a general flag "Red Flag Army" today to be responsible for Xu Guangqi's safety, because scientists want to see the real scene, so the "Red Flag Army" with helmets and armor is not allowed to follow.

Wang Zhicheng could only arrange for his subordinates to be scattered within thirty steps around the two adults, paying close attention to whether there was any movement, and when he saw the head of the family beckoning, he hurriedly trotted over.

"My lord, what do you command?" Wang Zhicheng is already the actual chief flag officer with the rank of sixth, and he is tall and dressed in iron armor, which is very good-looking.

Huang Han said: "Arrange an errand for this man called Gu Mancang, and arrange a place for him to bring his wife and children, and now pay him according to the treatment of craftsmen, and hand over the thirty acres of potatoes and twenty acres of sweet potato fields for seedling cultivation to him to take the lead in management." ”

Gu Mancang saw a mighty officer who was submissive in front of this young scholar, and knew that he should have met a noble person today, so he quickly knelt down and said: "The little one has eyes and no beads to offend the adult, and I hope the adult will not remember the villain." ”

Huang Han said: "Get up and speak, this official has entrusted you with the management of fifty acres of sweet potato and potato seedling fields, so that you can serve these acres of fields into model fields and teaching fields in the future."

Not only do you have to master the cultivation method, but you also have to pass on the experience to the farmers who come to visit and study, and if you can do all this, the official will give you a reward of one or two or a half pieces of silver a month plus five buckets of wheat.

If you can manage more acres of land and teach more farmers the correct planting techniques, you will be paid twice as much, and even give you an official position, so that you can glorify your ancestors. ”

The happy event came too suddenly, and the barn was a little confused, and his mouth was so open that the boss was speechless. Wang Zhicheng smiled: "Don't thank you for your grace?" ”

Gu Mancang reacted and knelt down and kowtowed: "The little one is thank you, the little one will definitely serve the field with all your heart, and more people will learn to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes." ”

Xu Guangqi was very satisfied with Huang Han's arrangement, and said: "The practice of building a model field is very good, and the old man thinks that it is not enough to use a grain mancang, and a model field should be built in all four towns and eight soils." ”

Huang Han said: "This is not a hand-to-hand capture, the master can let the officials and family members you bring to find candidates, presumably a tenant farmer can get three meals and six dollars of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grains, no one is unwilling to do such a job." ”

Xu Guangqi thought that Huang Han's words were reasonable, and said: "Rao is like this, the old man will immediately give orders." ”

Seeing Huang Han and Xu Guangqi walking away, Gu Mancang dared to ask a young student next to him: "Little brother, I want to ask, who were those two people just now?" ”

The young man was An Xiaole, who was promoted to become a junior flag officer of the academy, and he laughed and teased Gu Mancang and said: "I scared you to death when I said it, the older one is the old man Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and the younger one is the chief general of my family's 'Red Banner Army', the famous General Huang Han." ”

"Mom, am I dreaming today!" Gu Mancang really felt a little dizzy, and his body was shaking involuntarily.

"Brother, don't have six gods and no master, just now Lord Wang explained, I am responsible for arranging your work, my name is An Xiaole, I will take you to see the house that arranges accommodation for your family."

It is inevitable that grain prices will skyrocket after the war disaster, and the Huang family's practice of prepaying two taels of silver to sweet potato and potato growers will push up grain prices even more.

Between the fact that Huang Han has 70,000 or 80,000 stone wheat in his hands, and the Huang family currently needs less than 10,000 people to take care of the food, there are 20,000 stone wheat enough to cover the expenses before winter comes.

This means that Huang Han has 60,000 stone wheat in his hand to be flexibly disposed of, and now there is a shortage of grain everywhere in the territory of Yongping Mansion, and the small people of Shengdou who are waiting to be fed do not know how many, but giving food in vain is obviously not conducive to sustainable development.

After thinking about it, Huang Han had an idea, and he gave an order to continue to help the peasants.

Farmers who have their names checked, their specific home addresses recorded, and who have pledged to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes are given priority.

They were a family unit, and each household could borrow nine buckets of wheat from the Huang family, and after the autumn harvest, and set a deadline of December 15, the peasants who had borrowed nine buckets of wheat only needed to return one stone of wheat to the Huang family.

Huang Han's order not only posted notices, but also arranged for the soldiers to publicize in more than a dozen large market towns, and soon Shengdou Xiaomin learned that there was such a good thing, and many families hurriedly took grain bags and rushed to Kaiping Town to borrow grain, for fear that it would not be their turn to go to such a good thing as it was too late.

Why does the 11% interest charged in half a year still cause the people to think that they are taking advantage of it, and everyone is rushing to it?

There is another important reason, grain prices have been fluctuating, and the price of grain is the most expensive time of the year when the weather is not good, and the price of grain is the cheapest after the autumn harvest.

This year is not compared with previous years, there has been a military disaster, the price of grain is ridiculously high, the price of a stone of wheat has exceeded two taels of silver, and the wheat in ordinary years is basically not higher than eight coins of silver a stone, and the current grain price has long doubled.

When the grain is the most expensive, you can borrow wheat, and when the grain is the cheapest, you have to repay the principal and interest, even if the peasants are not good at arithmetic, as long as they are not too stupid, they can understand this small account.

This is the genius of Huang Han, a modern man, who does not give food to the people for free, but lends it to everyone when they are most thirsty for food.

Releasing 60,000 stone wheat can curb food prices and allow many small people facing hunger to survive.

Although Huang Han is not a businessman, he must also stock grain, not because of the high and cheap grain to make the grain insufficient, the grain is not to hoard but to stabilize prices, in order to pull the people in the most difficult days.

The population base is the driving force behind the great development, and Huang Han does his best to lead the people through the food shortage.

Because if history is as it is, Chongzhen will build slaves in the ninth year before he will enter Gyeonggi again.