At dawn, Jiang Wan opened her eyes and lay on the bed for several minutes before slowly sitting up.
No one woke him up from night to day, indicating that whether it was the search for spies in the city or the bandits from Qingyang Mansion that Li Zicheng faced outside the city, progress was pretty good. At least, there was no situation that required him to deal with.
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This is already very good news.
He called out to the outside. Mei Xiaofei had already prepared some green salt for cleansing his face. He missed Su Qianqian's group of girls far away in the capital. When it comes to serving people, girls always
She is more careful than men. No matter how smart Mei Xiaofei is, she is still not as good as a girl in some things.
Thinking of Su Qianqian, he thought of Li Fuyao and Jiu'er. Nowadays, in Nanhaizi, except for more than a hundred people who stayed behind, everyone else has been transferred here. The recruitment of new people in Tingyulou has also
They were all weighing on Li Fuyao, and he didn't know how they were doing recently, and he didn't receive the letter he sent back.
Well, the last time he wrote a letter, in addition to Li Fuyao, everyone wrote a special letter to Catherine. He was not treating one favorably. He felt that he was far less looking forward to Li Fuyao's reply than he was looking forward to Catherine's reply.
It would be better if Catherine's reply could bring him what he wanted in his letter.
From the first day he entered Shaanxi until now, everything he did was inseparable from the word "grain". He Jiang Wan knew very well that if it was just a prefecture in Yan'an, perhaps grain would be transported from Shanxi
The problem can be solved by coming here, but the grain shipped from Shanxi is only a symptom, not a root cause. These grains cannot solve the disaster in Shaanxi as a whole, let alone the disaster in the three sides, or even the entire Ming Dynasty.
He remembered clearly that the disaster in Shaanxi was just the beginning. The Chongzhen Dynasty, which was in the Little Ice Age, would be in great trouble.
And as long as there is enough food, the disaster can be alleviated, and there will be no refugees everywhere, let alone homeless thieves causing trouble everywhere.
As long as the Ming Dynasty is not in internal chaos, even if the Hou Jin Dynasty constantly harasses the border, the Ming Dynasty will have enough military and financial resources to resist the invasion of the Hou Jin Dynasty. When it comes to good ministers, fierce generals and brave soldiers, the Ming Dynasty has never lacked.
All Jiang Wan could think of were the crops he remembered that could be promoted on a large scale, whose planting conditions were not too harsh, and which were also high-yielding.
Sweet potatoes, potatoes!
These two crops have a common feature, that is, they are both produced in South America, and both were brought to Asia by the Spanish. However, the Spanish generally knew the benefits of these two crops, even in Asia.
, these two species are also strictly prohibited from leaving the country in their colonies.
In fact, Jiang Wan knew that although the Spanish ban was a ban, in some places in Guangdong and Fujian during the Ming Dynasty, people should have risked their lives to quietly bring back these two crops by this time, and they had already planted them in a small area.
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If he can't get the seeds he wants from Catherine, then, in the next step, he plans to directly borrow the power of the government to search for them in Guangdong, Fujian and other places. Although sweet potatoes and potatoes are useful in places like southern Guangdong and Fujian,
, however, it is obviously not the same as their role in the northwest, where people are dying of hunger.
Once Nanhaiwei has established a firm foothold on this matter, he will immediately do it. Yan'an Mansion is naturally the first perfect pilot. Of course, before that, anything that dares to disrupt his plan will not be allowed.
of.
Just like the thieves here in Qingyang Mansion, these thieves must be eradicated as long as they become an obstacle to the development of Nanhaiwei.
"Is there any news from Li Zicheng?"
After breakfast, Jiang Wan asked Mei Xiaofei casually, but Mei Xiaofei shook his head: "No one is here to see sir!"
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Send someone to order Gao Jin and send some people to check. There is no news about these hundreds or thousands of people!"
Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. As he was talking, Gao Jin's voice asking for permission had already sounded outside. There are now three thousand households in the city, training, guarding the city, and patrolling. The three perform their respective duties. At the moment, Gao Jin
Qian Hu is responsible for patrolling inside and outside the city.
"grown ups!"
"Tell me about it!" Jiang Wan had enough time: "News from the city or outside the city!"
"There are government officials in the city who are screening for arrests. My subordinates have also sent a hundred households to assist. There is nothing to say. Mr. Song is still very skillful in handling these matters!"
"That's the news about Li Zicheng!" Jiang Wan nodded.
"The news came back from my scouts. After dark last night, the bandits in Pangdian Town were encircled and suppressed by Li Zicheng's troops. Almost all of them were wiped out, and hundreds of corpses were left in the town!"
A smile appeared on Jiang Wan's face: "Won?"
"We won!" Gao Jin frowned slightly: "But Li Zicheng and his army did not return. It is said that the wounded soldiers they left behind said that after Li Zicheng rested in the town for half the night, before dawn, he headed west
He left, saying that he wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it!"
"Sir, aren't they just going to attack Qingyang Mansion with just a few people? Aren't they going to die?"
Gao Jin said with some dissatisfaction, this is no longer a question of whether Li Zicheng is courageous or not, but he is a little worried that Li Zicheng has gone to join the bandits. Who in the right mind would take such a small number of people and meet someone who is said to be a high-ranking person?
Qingyang Mansion is surrounded by tens of thousands of troops!
"How much rations did they bring with them when they set out!" Jiang Wan nodded, seemingly not surprised.
"According to your instructions, I gave him three days' rations!" Gao Jin said.
"Then just wait for the news!" Jiang Wan nodded nonchalantly: "In three days, we will know what the result will be. In the past few days, our people outside the city have patrolled more frequently. Also, Li Zicheng
There should be people left behind in that hundred households. If they want to support you in dealing with things outside, you should be more careful!"
"Sir, do you really believe in Li Zicheng that much?" Gao Jin couldn't help but say: "He is not one of our own, and the people he brought out were all recruited later. Didn't his subordinates say that he had surrendered to the enemy?
Heart, if these hundreds of thousands of people are really dispersed, the money we spent on food and military equipment will be lost in the water!"
"Don't trust the people you employ!" Jiang Wan said calmly: "He is not one of our own now, but if he doesn't send him out to fight and experience something with us, how do we know he won't become one of ours!"
"Yes!" Gao Jin nodded, as if he had figured it out, but only he knew what he really thought.
"Is there anything else?" Jiang Wan asked.
"By the way, there is one more thing I want to report to you. Zhou Jue, the manager of the salt field, wants to see you. This person is a member of the Juren family. The salt field sent out manpower that day, so his subordinates placed him there. It seems that he did it.
not bad!"
"Ju Ren's background!" Jiang Wan thought for a while and felt that she had some impression: "Let him come in. After all, I can get in front of you. I will give you this face no matter what!"
"Haha!" Gao Jin laughed, "I'll call him in right away!"