Sweet potatoes and corn are not the traditional staple foods of the Chinese, and even people now do not like them, but these two things will definitely save many people's lives in the famine year, the most important thing is that including potatoes, these three new crops can be planted in very bad wasteland and corner land, which directly led to a significant increase in the area of land reclamation, although these three crops have never become a staple food, but it has effectively made the Chinese population continue to increase, even under the Qing Dynasty's sparse rule. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the emphasis on agriculture in Hutchison's ruling area, the yield of wheat and millet, sorghum, beans and other crops is not low, and even rice is still being planted in Kuandian, the climate and hydrological environment are very suitable, and the yield of various crops is not low.

Although a large amount of grain is sold to Donglu and some Mongolian tribes every year, everyone knows that Hutchison still has a large amount of grain reserves, but everyone also knows that Zhang Han will never use the grain reserves, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the area under Hutchison's direct control, and there are more than 200,000 people who directly receive money and silver, plus at least 600,000 people in their families are directly dependent on Hutchison for food, and they can originally use silver to buy grain, but the grain source in the territory is already controlled by Hutchison, and the original grain merchants either change careers or are directly incorporated by HutchisonGrain reserves are not only responsible for the buying and selling of Hutchison, but also for the tens of millions of people under their control.

In addition, it will take at least two years for the Mongols in Monan to recover, and during this period, they must also give them grain, at least sell grain to the herders at a low price, and appropriate input is indispensable if large herds are to reappear on the steppe.

Staple grains and miscellaneous grains can not be moved, and miscellaneous grains can be eaten as staple food, feeding horses, chickens, and pigs, which are all essential.

So Zhang Ziming has this question, under such strict conditions of grain control, how can Zhang Han have the saying of winemaking, as soon as he hears the word sweet potato, he understands everything.

The yield of sweet potatoes is very high, and it is easy to fertilize the fields, most of the newly cultivated fields are planted with sweet potatoes during the change of season, and the sweet potatoes that have received a large amount of income in the past two years are piled up like mountains, and this thing is not as easy to preserve as wheat and beans, and the military department has also taken great pains to store and sell them, if they are sold at a low price in northern Shaanxi and the disaster-stricken areas where there is a shortage of grain, I am afraid that they will be sold out long ago, but this is in conflict with Hutchison's grand strategy in the past two years...... In short, everyone knows that Hutchison has a large amount of sweet potato storage, and as soon as Zhang Han said sweet potatoes, Zhang Ziming reacted.

"But sweet potatoes can make wine?"

Zhang Han said with a smile: "Not only can it make wine, but the soju it produces tastes very good." The process is similar to grain winemaking, you can explore it, the stronger the better. ”

"Okay, my subordinates will go back and discuss with their partners," Zhang Ziming stood up and said with a smile: "This time I visited my lord, and it was really not in vain." ”

"You're probably going to have to give me a big bonus at the end of the year." Zhang Han joked: "It's not easy to come up with ideas." ”

"I know adults won't want it." Zhang Ziming said: "If I hadn't proposed to pay dividends to the adults, but if I said that, the adults would have looked down on me." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Han nodded and said: "You do it well, in the future, you will earn more, pay more taxes, and feed more people, which can be regarded as giving me a bonus." ”

"It's all grown-up." Zhang Ziming finally slapped a sycophant and said with a smile: "Of course, adults are dedicated to the public." ”

Zhang Han shook his head with a smile and said, "This is everyone's, everyone's common cause." ”

Zhang Ziming was moved for a while, thinking about the changes he had made since Hutchison set foot on the grassland, and said unconsciously: "My lord, is it certain that you can win the war against the Khan Department in the west?" ”

Zhang Han smiled: "Is your son also in the team?" ”

Zhang Ziming said with some uneasiness: "The subordinates are definitely not worried about the dogs......

"I know." Zhang Han interrupted him and said, "Do you think we'll win?" ”

"Definitely." Zhang Ziming said: "The subordinates have 10,000 points of confidence, and the merchant army of Hutchison will definitely be able to win a hundred battles under the leadership of adults." ”

"Why?"

"Adults are like relatives to their subordinates, and they regard soldiers as children, Hutchison is already the home of all of us, fighting for this family, naturally everyone is fighting bravely, and no one will be like the Ming Wangshi, who is weak and strong, and is weak at all. The merchant army fights a war, which is definitely different from an ordinary army, which has long been seen by subordinates. ”

"You see it very well, and it sums it up very well." Zhang Han got up to send this middle-aged businessman, the other party has joined the Hutchison camp for several years, and has a good demonstration effect on appeasing the Han people and businessmen from Banshengdi, from a small businessman who is barely fed to a wealthy businessman, Zhang Han believes in the loyalty of this middle-aged businessman, if it is not for absolute loyalty, Zhang Ziming cannot help but ignore his son's whereabouts.

This is a father, and a good father with quite normal feelings, and he doesn't ask just because of loyalty, for no other reason.

Zhang Han sent the other party to the door, and finally said: "Ling Lang I like it very much, he is a good seedling who dares to rush and fight, and he showed quite high courage when he faced the people of Karaqin Baihong Dataiji last time. But this time they are logistical escorts, and they are believed to be in a very safe position. ”

Zhang Ziming took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Since you can't think about being safe all the time in the army, Hao'er Lang has to withstand this...... Of his three sons, in addition to keeping one for the elderly, the second one was older and asked him to join the army. If everyone is afraid of what will happen to their children in the family, then who will protect our lives and everything in front of us? ”

"That's very good......" Zhang Han said with a smile: "I'll explain what you say in a while, you can refine it, it's a good propaganda slogan." ”

Zhang Ziming said with some uneasiness: "This is just the words of his subordinates......"

"I know that if you speak sincerely, you can't say it so well if you don't think it in your heart." Zhang Han held the other party's hand, Zhang Ziming was still not used to this kind of etiquette, but people knew that Zhang Han's quirky etiquette was only used for people who appreciated and were close to him, so Zhang Ziming also shook Zhang Han's hand, and then turned around to say goodbye.

There are still a lot of people outside the courtyard, it is almost noon, it has been so busy in the morning, when Changning entered the inner courtyard just now, Zhang Han had no way to go over to speak, he could only look through the window a few times, waved his hand, the women's smiles were very kind, of course, they also suppressed enthusiasm and impulse, Zhang Han estimated that there were not so many people, at least Yu Niang would run over...... He smiled slightly, and remembered that a few years ago, the little girl who was very good at archery and archery and had a very outgoing personality came.

The sky is very blue, the white clouds are passing by leisurely, if in this courtyard, it seems to be no different from Datong, the same horse-head wall, the same bluestone paved courtyard ground, the same water storage tank, the same flowers and trees, plum, begonia, moon season flowers and trees, three rooms in the middle, the left and right wings are connected by verandahs, Zhang Han saw that there were weeds under the bluestone slabs struggling tenaciously to expose the tips of the small grass...... It was originally a mansion built on a meadow, and a year ago, it was indistinguishable from any other part of the grassland.

There are still a lot of people, the officials of the military department and the generals of the army, there is a big battle ahead, although the upper and lower levels of the merchant army have absolute confidence in the victory, but the relevant military departments and military high-level officials are urgently mobilized, militarily by Ren Jing full command, and the military order, military and political staff, and the quartermaster divisions are fully cooperating, in addition, Liang Xing, as the deputy political officer of the military, notified Yang Sixun to transfer troops before the war started, and now there are several dragoon battalions in the north, even if there are twists and turns in the battle ahead, These battalions were enough to shock the Mongols.

The regiment commander Duo'er wanted to ask for war, but unfortunately this time it was not his turn, Duo'er did not give up, and sent his own adjutant who could speak good ways to the side of the trading city, Zhang Han did not see this adjutant, Sun Jingting was not there at all, and a deputy director of the Military Orders Department was urgently transferred to coordinate the operation of the Military Orders Division during the entire war.

In the crowd Zhang Han also saw Lao Li, Li Xiangfu is the old Guan Zhuang of Li Zhuang, the first Zhuangzi bought by Zhang Han's family is this old man in charge, for so many years, the old man who has passed the age of the sixtieth year is already an old man, but the body bones are quite hard, this time the lady group went north, considering that there are many materials in Qingcheng that are transferred, the price is too high, and then after the beginning of the spring, the various vegetables planted by themselves matured, and the cost of living dropped a lot, although this time although the vegetables may not be able to live mature, they will return to the south, But Zhang Han must come to live for a period of time every year, and there are a lot of garrison personnel, Chang Ning decided to bring some people who know about agriculture to come over and open up some barren land to grow vegetables.

The old shopkeeper Zhou is also there, plus the second cabinet Li Yuchun, two of the three major shopkeepers of the year are in the trading city, but they came not for business matters, one of the two people is old, the energy is not good, and the other has no interest in doing business, and has collected food for several years, and now he is only willing to solve the problem and remember the food of hundreds of thousands of people.

They came here this time, just to see the Selen River and the Tula River, as well as the Kusugul River and other large areas of water, the population here may skyrocket in the future, just buying sheep not only costs money in the short term will cause the tension of the herd on the grassland, the relationship between supply and demand is not so simple, the herd does not want to expand and expand, the herdsmen on the grassland have maintained a relatively reasonable herd for hundreds of years, can feed themselves and sell a part, if the population skyrockets, in the short term may cause a serious shortage of supply and demand, prices skyrocket, It will cause a series of upheavals.