Dengzhou City, full of lights, lively.

The marriage between Li Jing, the marshal of the Zhenguo Army, and the Xiao family of Lanling can be described as the most lively happy event in Dengzhou today. The wedding date is approaching, and countless guests are coming. Although Xiao Yuniang married Li Jing and was only Li Jing's eighth wife, with the influence of the Lanling Xiao family, and the groom was the marshal of the Zhenguo Army, this marriage was extremely grand.

Guests from all over the world, guests from all over the world gathered.

Li Jing has already married a wife and six concubines, and he is familiar with getting married. He didn't want to be so grand, but the marriage with the Xiao family was originally out of political interests, and the top family of the Tang Dynasty like the Xiao family in Lanling wanted to give the old patriarch and his daughter a dignified wedding to show that their relationship with Li Jing was further. For this reason, Li Jing had no reason to object, and after getting Li Jing's approval, the Lanling Xiao family began to prepare for the wedding with all their might, in the words of Mrs. Han, it was not so difficult to show their Lanling Xiao family's wealthy heritage.

There are still three days left for the personal welcome ceremony, but Li Jing has not been busy with the wedding these days, these things have been handed over to the Xiao family, and he is still busy preparing for the army.

The time has come to June, and the summer harvest has begun one after another, and the unity soldiers, village soldiers, and even the scouts have taken a holiday to help with the summer harvest. After this busy summer harvest, the Zhenguo army will also begin to send troops north.

The roads in southern Liaoning have been repaired, and the Fuzhou River and Biliu River in the east and west have also been dredged, and the land and water will advance at that time.

This year, the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Zhenguo Army have planted a large number of potatoes and taro, and the cultivation of lotus root is also going smoothly. A large number of pigs, chickens, ducks and geese were raised, and sheep and cattle farms were opened. Even on hills where cultivation is not possible, various fruit trees are planted. as well as tea trees, mulberry trees.

The scale of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is also getting bigger and bigger. Received strong support from Li Jing. After the abundant funds were drawn, a large number of experienced old farmers were also recruited to participate. Fully guide the cultivation of various crops, especially the early Zhancheng that is planted in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning this summer, which is about to be harvested, makes Li Jing full of expectations.

The Champa rice seeds obtained from the Champa country south of Annam are more productive than all rice varieties today, and can even be harvested three times a year in Annam, twice a year in the Jianghuai area, and at least once a year in the north. Results of last year's breeding trial. The production capacity of rice per mu in Zazhancheng reached three stones, which is more than double the average yield of about one stone of rice. If it is a large-scale trial, those experts say that it can reach at least two stones.

Although it is necessary to plant Champa rice in excellent paddy fields, and it is not possible to plant all Champa rice, this yield is still exciting. By fertilizing the land with fertilizer, plant ash, and manure and rotten leaves, these paddy fields can be planted with soybeans for another season after the harvest is over. You can also get soybeans with a yield of about one stone per mu, and two crops a year, you can get three stones of rice and one stone of beans.

Li Jing also specially allocated a large amount of special funds to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to study the improvement of various agricultural tools.

Leiyun, Xuanbo, Cheji, Lili, Zhu, Fen, Fen, Pestle, Douhu, Kerpon, Cangyu. The improvement of the top ten agricultural tools has worked very well. In particular, the application of the Koto plow. Jiangdong plough is the first new type of Quyuan plough used in the Jianghuai area, and it has been used in many places in the late Tang Dynasty. This type of plough must be pulled by oxen, but it works well with ploughing.

According to the calculation of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a medium-sized ox can plough ten acres of land a day with a Jiangdong plow, while with a traditional plow, if you use people, you can plow one acre a day and rate ten people as an ox. Moreover, the Jiangdong plough can plough deeper and the effect is better.

Compared with the previous plow, Jiangdong plough has great advantages: the appearance of curved wheel and plow plate, eliminate the plow balance, shorten the plow wheel, reduce the weight of the plow frame, overcome the shortcomings of the straight plough "rotation interference", operate more flexibly and freely, especially convenient for turning, which is the most applicable for the "southern paddy field" of "the height of the field, the width and narrowness of the field". Secondly, the appearance of the plough evaluation and the plough tip makes the depth of the soil and the width of the soil more arbitrary. The previous plough did not have such a structure, and the plough tip and the bottom of the plough were connected. In addition, the Jiangdong plough not only appeared to control the depth of the cultivated land, but also had the division of labor between the plow tip and the plough bottom. The bottom of the plough is slender, so that it is easy to maintain stability when plowing, and the depth is consistent. The plough tip is operated by human hands up and down, left and right, to control the depth of the cultivated land and the width of the plough.

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences added a pair of hooks and loops between the plough plate and the plough wheel, so that it "rotated the plough head when ploughing, and the yoke was the end and the end, not with the plow", thus increasing its flexibility and forming a new form of "ox and plow linkage".

For this new plow, Li Jing is vigorously promoting, allowing the farm tool workshop to build new plows day and night, and lease and sell them to the cultivated people.

Li Jing implemented secrecy measures for these new agricultural tools and high-yield domestic crops, especially for all Tibetan states, and it was strictly forbidden to carry seeds and drawings of new farm tools out of the country.

However, Li Jing also knew that once these techniques and new seeds were applied and cultivated on a large scale, it would be difficult to keep them completely secret. However, Li Jing does not care much about this, and the spread of new agricultural techniques can increase grain production, which can be regarded as a good progress.

In order to cultivate more Champa rice, more water conservancy facilities were built in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning. After the rivers and ditches were dredged, they began to recruit more people to build dams and reservoirs and dig ponds. The construction of reservoirs, reservoirs and dams can not only prevent drought, but also prevent flooding and flood control in the suburbs. Even after the dam was built, the water storage capacity of the river did not rise, and all kinds of large water wheels newly researched and perfected by the Zhenguo Army began to be built along the river.

A water mill that uses water to grind rice flour. A large waterwheel that carries water to the highlands to irrigate the fields.

There is even a newly developed hydraulic forging hammer, which uses hydraulic energy to lift a forging hammer weighing thousands of pounds to forge larger iron blanks, greatly increasing the efficiency of iron smelting and steelmaking, and even built a hydraulic forging press to directly forge many components.

In addition, a water-powered spinning machine was even developed to drive spinning with water power. Although the spun yarn is coarse, it is tough and strong, which saves manpower.

This year, dozens of new mining sites have been added, including iron and coal in southern Liaoning and gold in Dengzhou, all of which have huge reserves. Especially Dengzhou gold, several of which are a steady stream of gold. There are more iron ores in eastern Liaoning, and Li Jing remembers that the iron ore in Liaoning alone occupies one of the reserves of the four squares in the country. Such an abundance of iron ore is enough for the huge consumption of Li Jing's workshop.

However, at this time, Gongsun Lan brought the news that Huang Chao attacked Ziqing Town, killed Xue Chong, and had already broken through Shouguang in Qingzhou, and then attacked Linzi and Qiancheng two counties controlled by the Zhenguo Army.

"Huang Chao has eaten the gall of the bear-hearted leopard, and he dares to bare his teeth with us?" Li Jing was very surprised to hear the news.

In the backyard bedroom of the Shuai Mansion, Li Jing hugged Gongsun Lan in his arms, gasping for breath and saying strangely.

Gongsun Lan lay in Li Jing's arms, like a green jade finger lightly drawing circles on Li Jing's chest, and said softly: "Huangchao is just a first-class Kou, wandering around." It is not uncommon to dare to fight our idea, even the Son of Heaven dares to make it, what else does not dare. He fled back to Henan, but was successively defeated by Kang Shuai of the Tianping Army and Cui Shuai of the Taining Army, and fled to Ziqing Town, although he defeated Wang Jingwu, an old friend, but Wang Jingwu's territory is now unable to raise rats. It's strange that Huang Chao didn't come to rob us. ”

"What about the towns of the imperial court to suppress thieves and soldiers? Where are Deputy Envoy Du and Deputy Envoy Cui now? ”

Du Xian and Cui Anqian's abilities are still good, why have the grass thieves been rising again for more than half a year, but they have never heard the news of their battle?

"Du Xian and Cui Anqian are still in Ying, Hao Erzhou in the south of Xuanwu. Previously, the Tianping Army and the Zhongwu Army had broken out in military rebellion, and it was not easy for the two towns to quell the civil strife, and now the Zhongwu Army is also seriously injured. Moreover, since Yang Fuguang took office as the military envoy of the capital supervisor and concurrently served as the military envoy, Tian Lingzi has been stuck with their grain and grass supply. Without food and grass, how could a war be fought. ”

Gongsun Lan smiled, "I received news that Du Shuai and Cui Shuai are ready to borrow grain from you, and the other is Kang Shuai of the Tianping Army and Cui Shuai of the Taining Army, who are also short of food this year, and they are also ready to borrow food from you." It is estimated that in the next day or two, it will appear at your wedding banquet. ”

Li Jing frowned: "The summer harvest has just begun, and the towns are going to come to borrow grain?" ”

"That's not because everyone has heard of the bumper grain harvest of the Zhenguo Army this year, and now they all know that Li Dashuai is very wealthy, and most of the grain transported from the southeast to the north was bought by you. If you don't borrow it now, you will be worried that someone else will borrow it. ”

"There is another news, Mr. Zhang in Beijing sent back the news, Tian Lingzi said to the Son of Heaven, saying that Chang'an is short of grain, and the rice has already exceeded five hundred yuan, and the price of rice in Dengzhou is only fifty-five yuan, so Dengzhou must have enough food, and he asked you to send grain to Chang'an, and it will cost at least five million stones!"

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately laughed.

He Li Jing has always fought local tyrants, but now he Li Jing has become a local tyrant who everyone wants to rob. At present, the entire 27 counties under the jurisdiction of the Zhenguo Army have about 5 million mu of cultivated land, and this year 1 million mu has been planted with potato medicine and taro, another 1 million mu has been planted with Champong rice, and the rest is wheat and millet. Potatoes and taro will have to wait until the autumn harvest. Counting up, the entire harvest of the summer harvest is only about 6 million stone grain, and there are 3 million soldiers and civilians in the 27 counties of the Zhenguo Army, and it is not enough to keep all these grains for their own food, and they have to wait for the season of the autumn harvest, plus planting vegetables, fishing, and breeding, and they can barely be self-sufficient. The Zhenguo army now reserves grain, and they all have to rely on high prices to buy grain from outside.

In those years, the landlord's family had no surplus grain.

However, all parties have come to borrow food, and they are all not small. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Du Xian, Cui Yunqing, and even Kang Chengzhi and Cui Yunqing, none of these people can be easily rejected by Li Jing.

Thinking of this, Li Jing couldn't help but have a headache! (To be continued......)