Crossing the wasteland: Farming and peasant girls can't be provoked

Chapter 323 Discovering Sweet Potatoes
It is the early spring of the year again, and Yuanling County is full of busy scenes.

Since Lu Tingjie took office for more than half a year, he has taken good care of the victims and resettled them in a timely and proper manner, allowing these people who were almost in desperate situation to find a place to settle down, and gained a high reputation among the people.

The news that Yuanling County was able to take in and resettle the victims also spread, which also made a large number of victims come to Yuanling County.

In the past six months, the population within the jurisdiction of Yuanling County has increased by an unknown amount.The small border county that used to be sparsely populated has now become a large county with a large population.

In the past six months, I don't know how many houses have been built, and I don't know how many villages around the county town.

With more people, it will be easier for Lin Zhuocheng to recruit troops.Because Lin Zhuocheng is full of food, and will also be paid by the army.In many families with many sons, one or two will sign up to serve in the army, which also reduces the burden on the family.

This year, Jing Yi provided potato seeds to the people in Yuanling County, and personally led people to teach them how to plant potatoes.

Because of Lu Tingjie and Jing Yi's propaganda, everyone knows that this potato has a high yield and does not require much land.And potatoes can be used as a staple food or as a vegetable, which is a good food crop.

This year, Jing Yi also guided people to plant crops such as cotton, sesame, and soybeans.I also took out a lot of grain and vegetable seeds that I collected and optimized in the past few years for everyone to plant.

Jing Yi believes that after a few years, these things will spread, and the food eaten by the common people will increase a lot.

During the period of spring plowing, Jing Yi often went to the farmland with Lu Tingjie to guide the people in farming, and would also tell the people some agricultural knowledge.

Because of Lu Tingjie, everyone gradually got to know Jing Yi.Jing Yi gradually gained prestige among the common people.

Yuanling County is located in the border area, and the people who come to Yuanling County to do business are not only people from Yi Kingdom, but also people from other surrounding countries and tribes.Therefore, the trade market in Yuanling County is still very prosperous.

This also gave Jingyi a chance to make money in business.

It is impossible for Jing Yi to sell salt in the open, and it is usually a private transaction.

Moreover, Jing Yi usually would not allow his own people to sell salt in Yuanling County, so as not to cause trouble for Lu Tingjie.

After all, the amount of salt sold by Lu Tingjie is limited.

In addition to the salt business, Jingyi also built a soy sauce workshop, a sugar workshop, a workshop for making various sauces, an oil press workshop, a pastry shop, and a restaurant in Yuanling County.

The stewards of these workshops and shops are all chosen by Jing Yi who she trusts.

In half a year, many shops have sprung up in Yuanling County like mushrooms after rain. In addition to the shops opened by Jing Yi, there are also some shops opened by local or foreign businessmen.

Because the products produced by Jing Yijian's workshops gradually attracted many merchants from other places to Yuanling County to purchase goods, which undoubtedly promoted the prosperity of Yuanling County's commerce and trade.

Foreign merchants will not only buy things from Yuanling County, but also bring things from other places, which also increases the commercial exchanges between Yuanling County and other places.

Because there are many businesses in Yuanling County, for convenience, Jing Yi bought a small courtyard in the county seat of Yuanling County, not too far from the county government office, and the location of the small courtyard is very quiet.

If Jing Yi came to Yuanling County and couldn't go back for a day, she would bring her child and Qiao Yan along.When she went out, Qiao Yan watched the child.

She will also calculate the time to go back to the small courtyard to breastfeed the child.Now the child is more than half a year old, and the long jade snow is cute and very strong.In addition to breastfeeding her child, Jing Yi also began to add complementary food to her child, such as apple puree, rice cereal, carrot puree, etc.The little guy likes things with taste.

Jing Yi usually likes to visit the big market in Yuanling County by herself, whether it is local businessmen or businessmen from other places, they all sell things and conduct transactions in the big market.

Jing Yi especially likes to look for novelty things from merchants from other places.As long as it is useful, she will buy it.

This day, Jingyi went to the big market again.Today is a big city, and the market is very lively. There are local merchants doing business, some farmers selling vegetables grown at home, and some people selling handmade products such as baskets, bamboo hats, and straw sandals made by themselves.There are also foreign merchants who sell their own goods.

Jingyi's favorite place to shop is the stalls of foreign merchants.

Today Jing Yi bought a few things that she liked, and the attendants behind her helped Jing Yi carry the things, and Jing Yi easily searched for useful things in every stall with empty hands.

Jing Yi came to a stall, and she saw that the owner of the stall was not from Yiguo, but from a country in the south.His stall sells a variety of things, including gems of various colors, large pieces of emeralds, pearls, gold and silver jewelry, as well as some herbs and exotic flowers.

Jing Yi was not very interested in those jewels, but piles of herbs aroused her interest.

Some herbs are processed, some are just dried, most of which she needs.

When Jing Yi checked the herbs, he suddenly found a dry branch in a pile of herbs, and there was a dried leaf on the dry branch.

This dried branch was mixed with dried herbs. It is estimated that the person who dried the herbs didn't notice it, and mixed it with the herbs and dried it together.

Jing Yi touched this dry branch and used the supernatural power, and soon the composition of this dry branch appeared in his mind. After confirming what this dry branch was, Jing Yi almost jumped up excitedly, but in order not to let others find out Strange, she tried her best to endure it, and then directly bought all the herbs in this stall.

Anyway, she needs all these herbs, and more importantly, there are sweet potatoes she has been looking for in these herbs.Although it was just a dried sweet potato vine, with her wood ability, even a dried sweet potato vine was enough.

Jing Yi returned to the small courtyard in the county seat with a cart of herbs, and asked her attendants to unload the cart. She didn't care about anything else but just brought the sweet potato vine into the room.

Jing Yi first fed her son, and then asked Qiao Yan to take the child to play in the yard. She held a piece of dried sweet potato vine in the room to use her ability, and soon the dry sweet potato vine slowly turned into a Green and sprouting new shoots.

With the crazy growth of the sweet potato vines, the roots of the sweet potato vines soon grew fruits, and the fruits grew slowly into sweet potatoes of various sizes under Jing Yi's supernatural power.

Jing Yi was so happy seeing her results, she directly used her abilities to give birth to some sweet potatoes, and the sweet potato vines gave birth to a lot, and even let the sweet potato vines grow roots, and then they can be planted directly up.

With these sweet potato vines, a test field of sweet potatoes can be planted this year.In a few years, sweet potatoes can be popularized.The common people have another high-yield grain.

With sweet potatoes and potatoes, many by-products such as vermicelli and starch can also be produced.There is more food.

(End of this chapter)