Sorghum is a crop that is generally grown on the barren land of the newly developed areas.

The administration of the Kingdom is also encouraging towns and villages with surplus labour to develop land for cultivation in mountainous areas, and has provided seeds for cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops.

Now, the kingdom's more labor-intensive towns will grow crops such as sorghum and corn to increase their income.

These two crops can not only be used to eat in disaster years and food shortages, but also to feed livestock and poultry when food is abundant, so as to increase local meat production.

Moreover, sorghum and corn are two crops that also have good results in winemaking, and are two very good raw materials for winemaking. The common two-pot head in later generations is actually a kind of sorghum wine.

Because Chen Xin does not drink, in the government department, there are also a group of staff who do not smoke or drink, and even, except for the 20 old brothers, basically no one dares to drink in front of Chen Xin.

Therefore, the government department loosened a gap in the prohibition and started brewing, of course, it could not be specially produced to satisfy cravings.

In fact, spirits of high count, in the cold regions of the north, were a very sought-after trade commodity in all eras. Not to mention the legends and jokes about spirits in history, even in places that are slightly lower than the latitude where Maozi lives, the demand for spirits is not bad.

Especially now that the weather is getting colder and colder during this Xiaoice period, people will freeze to death if they are not careful in winter, and in cold areas, there is even less such a drink as spirits to ward off the cold.

In the Mongolian tribes further north of the kingdom, many herdsmen are willing to exchange a few catties of wine for a sheep if they are addicted to alcohol. And this kind of exchange ratio is not uncommon.

The kingdom did not dare to open this button for large-scale wine made from grain, but the Ministry of Commerce had reported it a few years earlier, saying that it hoped to have some high-level wine as a stepping stone and hard currency for them to deal with the Mongol tribes in the north.

In addition, a certain degree of food control has been relaxed, and the use of grains to make sake can also increase the production of alcohol to a certain extent. The increase in the production of high concentrations of alcohol is also a great good thing for the increasing number of wounded in the army as the scale of the war gradually expands, and it is a great thing that can reduce the infection rate of the wounded on a large scale.

However, the process of brewing and distilling alcohol is not as simple as it can be said, which involves dozens of meticulous steps and a large number of tools to develop. Improvement.

Now there is a special part of the university hall in the kingdom who is engaged in this matter, and the production of alcohol in a short period of time is not too high, so for the wounded, honey is still needed for the time being to prevent wound infection.

In this battle of Fuzhou, the disinfection effect of honey was effectively tested in actual combat, and the military immediately submitted a report, hoping that the government could come forward and purchase honey at a high price.

Since then, people who have had experience in beekeeping have become very popular in the kingdom for a while, and many new immigrants want to use beekeeping as an additional income for their families.

Because we all know that bee breeding is much more convenient than chicken, duck, cattle and sheep breeding, and it does not require too much space, and it can be raised at home.

Generally, if it is an independent courtyard, feel free to find a shelter under the eaves, make a few beehives, and wait until someone else has a new Fengwang bucket, just go over and collect it.

As long as you can take good precautions, even during the most dangerous bucket splitting, you don't have to worry about being pricked and your whole body will swell.

In the back, it's even simpler, and you don't even have to feed it every day, which is very simple and labor-saving.

Not only will it not occupy too much space at home, but there is even almost no cost at all, and it will not be like chickens, ducks, cows and sheep to make manure all over the ground, which is very suitable for the people in towns and villages around the country as an additional source of income, of course, but we must take protective measures, and we must pay attention not to annoy these little ancestors in life.

This year, the kingdom has expanded its army and factories again, and with the continuous influx of the Ming displaced population, the price of goods in the kingdom has also risen.

Some basic consumer goods are in great demand, and there will be some shortages from time to time, because this is related to the stability of the kingdom, so in order to stabilize prices, some of the most basic items related to people's livelihood, such as grain, salt, cloth, etc., are directly supplied by the supply and marketing cooperatives opened by the government, and subsidized by the government to a certain extent.

With the passage of time and the continuous increase of the population, the other industries of the kingdom have gradually become prosperous, and with the implementation of the policy of dividing the land into households in the second year, each group of displaced people who enter the kingdom will have their own income in the second year, which will make the scale of consumption in the kingdom rapidly expand a large part.

In addition, because of years of warfare, especially the tactics of capturing slaves and fighting the vanguards implemented by the Later Jin, almost half of the aborigines of the land occupied by the kingdom were consumed, making a lot of land idle.

After the displaced people were relocated, the area of land that could be divided into their hands was really large, almost reaching the maximum cultivated area of adult strong men in this era.

This makes life very difficult for small and medium-sized landowners who want to rent out their land or hire tenants.

Because the tenants and domestic slaves wanted their own land, they simply ran away, leaving their remaining land uncultivated.

The new immigrants were the basic plate of the royal government, cheap labor, and the landlords were absolutely not allowed to make up their minds, so they could only find ways to smuggle some homeless people to farm.

However, the displaced people deceived by this method may allow the other party to cultivate the fields for a period of time, but there are policy interpreters in each township, and sooner or later they will know the news of the land division and then flee immediately.

This made the landlords only recruit tenants who farmed by means of rent reduction and interest reduction, but under the policy of the kingdom, who would leave their own land and not plant, but give it to others to farm.

As a result, the landlords were forced to invest their money in industry and commerce. All the landlords whose brains can't turn around can only be eliminated by the times.

Now Chen is very relaxed, this year's basic investment in the new townships and towns has been completed, and by next year, taxes can be collected to make up for the next batch of new immigrants.

The more populous the population, the more prosperous the kingdom became, and the closer the day of defeating the Houjin became.