When they heard that Shi Jiang was willing to provide money to buy sacrificial fields for the clan, the eyes of several Yang family elders suddenly became misty.
He hurriedly called for help and drove Yang's mother and the three Yang brothers and sisters away.
Regardless of whether Shi Jiang would buy a sacrificial field for the clan, they couldn't let Shi Jiang go like this.
One, the noble son who is a relative of the emperor, obviously took a fancy to something in Shi Jiang's hand, so he came to this remote place.
Second, so many people in the village raised more pigs because they listened to Shi Jiang’s words!
If Shi Jiang leaves at this time and no one collects the pigs raised in the village, then they will suffer a big loss.
It will be because of them that the trouble will happen again. If Shi Jiang has to leave his hometown, I am afraid that the pig-raising families in the village will not let them go without the help of the noble prince who is a relative of the emperor.
Not only did they take the person away, but they also put an end to the rumors.
Although Shi Jiang repeatedly made it clear to the Yang brothers and sisters that the money she earned had nothing to do with them, she couldn't stop people's imagination and thought that Shi Jiang was just being tough!
After all, they are Shi Jiang’s closest relatives!
If Shi Jiang had previously thought about educating the three children on behalf of the original owner, now he no longer had the slightest idea.
Plunge into the fields and concentrate on cultivating high-yielding grains.
After Xie Liancheng built the house next door, he lived next to Shi Jiang's house for almost three months.
I looked at the sweet potato vines in the field, growing from a few inches long to covering the ground.
Later, when people dug out all the sweet potatoes in that ridge of land, there were at least five or six sweet potatoes growing under one sweet potato vine, which were larger than an adult man's fist.
Digging out this ridge of land yields hundreds of kilograms of sweet potatoes, enough to feed a family for a month.
If there are more varieties, why worry about food for the whole family for a year?
Moreover, it only took three months.
The most important point is that planting this thing does not occupy fertile land, but just wasteland.
Nowadays, what people lack most is wasteland.
Moreover, the northwest where his brother went this time has a harsh environment and barren land, so sweet potatoes are the most suitable.
However, Xie Liancheng did not leave immediately.
I just wrote down the method of growing sweet potatoes, then took a cart of sweet potatoes and sent my servants straight to the northwest military camp.
Because Shi Jiang planted corn again and interplanted beans in the corn field, he really couldn't live without it.
The results can be imagined, and the harvest is simply surprising.
This time, Xie Liancheng once again wrote down the planting methods, took a cart of corn seeds, and this time went to the northwest military camp in person.
No matter how dull Shi Jiang was, he still noticed the fishiness in it.
After Xie Liancheng left, Shi Jiang taught everyone how to plant sweet potato stems and told everyone that the sweet potato vines could be used to feed pigs, and the sweet potatoes under the soil could satisfy their hunger.
This news surprised the whole village.
After all, droughts were frequent in other places during this period, and many places had already lost their harvests.
Countless people died of starvation.
If this sweet potato is really what Shi Jiang said, it will really save a lot of people.
After the whole village planted sweet potatoes, Shi Jiang took the sweet potatoes to shopkeeper Li, who then went to the county magistrate.
Let the county magistrate promulgate the method of planting sweet potato seeds, and let every village try their best to plant them on wasteland.
This county magistrate is also a good official. There is so much chaos outside, and although the people under his jurisdiction have not yet starved to death, they have drained their wealth.
Not to mention, if people fleeing famine come here without enough food, they may cause riots.
When Xie Lianwu received the sweet potato seeds and letter sent by Xie Liancheng, he was still dubious, but the imperial court had not issued food and salary for a long time.
If this continues, even if the foreigners don't come, the soldiers guarding the city will be demoralized!
He could only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, ask people to take down the sweet potato seeds and raise seedlings, and then clear a piece of wasteland to plant them.
When Xie Liancheng arrived at the border with the corn seeds in the dust, Xie Lianwu had just led his soldiers to repel the foreigners who came to attack the grass valley, and the troops returned to the city exhausted.
"Brother, look what good things I have brought you."
When Xie Liancheng saw Xie Lianwu arrive at the Governor's Mansion, he rushed over, took his elder brother's hand, pointed to the cart of corn seeds and said.
Xie Lianwu Yingwu raised his eyebrows slightly and looked intently at the golden corns.
"What is this?"
"Corn, my wife called it corn at that time. The yield is not lower than that of sweet potatoes, and it can be interplanted with beans."
Xie Liancheng said very excitedly.
"By the way, brother, you should be able to dig sweet potatoes in the next few days, right?"
Xie Lianwu nodded and replied: "As soon as you ask someone to deliver it, I will ask someone to do it as you say. However, the sweet potato seeds that can be used to grow seedlings in that cart are not very many. Fortunately, you said what kind of inserting rod you want to use.
After the seedlings are raised, the seedlings grown from one sweet potato seed can be planted on at least half an acre of land."
What he didn't say was that the whole city's hopes now rested on this sweet potato.
As long as these sweet potatoes can really produce high yields, they can be planted in large quantities in military camps. Even if the court does not pay them, they can still be used to feed the military camps.
Because the imperial court has only distributed food and wages once, and most of them are mixed with sand and stones. Most of them are not rice, but rice bran.
It really chills everyone to let the soldiers eat such things.
Xie Lianwu spent his money and sent people around to buy food. He hasn't come back yet, and he doesn't know if he can buy food.
After Xie Liancheng got over his excitement, when he saw his elder brother's frown, he didn't understand why, so he couldn't help but cursed.
"These dogs, let's work hard here to protect the border. When they get there, they will be jealous and deprive the soldiers of their food and pay."
Xie Lianwu opened his mouth to say something, but when he thought of the bloody battle at the border, the prince was not only suspicious of him, but also deliberately deducted military pay. It really chilled him, and at the same time, like Xie Liancheng, he also felt resentment in his heart.
He has been taught to be loyal to the king and patriotic since childhood, but if he is loyal to such a king, how can he obey him?
After Shi Jiang asked the whole village to open up wasteland and plant the sweet potato vines, three months passed in the blink of an eye, and the sweet potatoes dug out made the whole village cheer.
The sweet potatoes dug out by each household are enough to feed the family for a year.
Not to mention, those sweet potato vines can also be used as pigweed for pigs to eat.
On the day when the heavy snow fell, the whole village gathered to weigh the pigs at home, waiting for Shi Jiang to take away all the pork in exchange for money.
Shi Jiang didn't delay everyone, called his servants, and went from house to house to buy all the pigs weighing more than 120 kilograms. He first put them in his own pig pen and waited for shopkeeper Li to come and collect them.