Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 434 How to eat this thing

During this period of time, the military households in Datong Mansion were almost in a state of excitement every day.

Because the military households in Datong have to divide their land according to the population!

Although it is said that the land is leased to military households and the land is owned by the imperial court, military households can grow crops, and the tax is exempted for the first year, and a policy of one tax per thirty is adopted in the future.

If there is a war and there is a man who participated in the war in the family, he can be exempted from the tax for one person!
In addition to rewards, those who have made outstanding military exploits can also be exempted from the family field tax for one year.

The General Military Mansion also posted a notice saying that in order to protect the safety of the people's fields and property, it is now necessary to build a five-army fort to resist the attacks of those Mongolians.

For the soldiers and civilians in Datong Prefecture, those Mongolians are barbarians, they are like crazy all day long, they don’t farm well, and when they run out of things in winter, they ride horses to grab them, proper barbarians.

However, no compulsory measures will be taken in the construction of the five forts this time. Those who can actively participate in the construction of the five forts will have a limited right to select fertile fields when dividing the land, and they will be exempted from land tax for two years.

This kind of thing is nothing in Qin Shao's previous life. After all, in that world, farming is the least profitable thing.

Many people do not want to farm when they go to the city to work, because the income from a year of hard work on the land is not as much as that earned from a few months of work. Many farmers abandon their land and go to the city to work.

But it’s different here. Land is the only guarantee for military households and farmers to eat. In this era, unless you are a high-ranking official with a salary or something, if you don’t have land, you will starve to death.

Even senior officials, because Daming's salary was limited, many of them made money by buying a lot of land or buying some real estate and shops. After all, there were not many ways to make money in this era.

"Have you heard? Then Guo Jian and Liu Zhong have signed up to build the military fort! I heard that they were the first to get the news, and they were the first to sign up!"

Among the group of people, someone said in a low voice on purpose.

Although he looked mysterious and deliberately lowered his voice when speaking, everyone around him could hear what he said.

"How did they know the news? We just saw the announcement, and everyone is still hesitant!"

Questions were raised.

"Needless to say, the two of them have been team leaders after all, so they naturally have connections. There must be benefits in this. By the way, didn't they say that they can pick the fertile fields first? Of course they signed up first!"

"That's needless to say? You don't know! This time to build the military fort, the court allocated another 10,000+ taels of silver, and the silver obtained from the arrest of such corrupt officials before. Now Datong Mansion is not short of money at all. A lot of wood will be brought in from other places, and it will not be difficult to build a military fort at that time. I heard that there will be rewards for doing a good job. Good guy, it's not like the previous one, I heard that there will be a lot of Frangie cannons..."

"Hey! Why are you all gone?"

"You're stupid! They're rushing to sign up! You're still waiting here stupidly. If you arrive late, you won't have a place!"

"Hey! Wait for me! Wait for me!"

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The construction of the military fort in Datong Mansion used to be unwilling to participate in it, and it was considered a fatal errand, but now it has become a sweet errand.

In addition, there is another strange event that also aroused great interest from the people of Datong.

That is, their new governor Han received a horse convoy from Shangjing. Many people thought it was a caravan going to the city to do business.

Thinking about it later, if it was a caravan doing business, it wouldn't be wrong for their governor to personally receive it!

No matter how powerful a businessman is, he will not let the governor condescend.

On the second day, the governor actually took those people to the various military guards in person, and summoned the leaders of the military guards to distribute a lot of things like green seedlings with leaves to each household.

They haven't seen those things before, let's hear them say they are called sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes!Anyway, they couldn't tell what kind of potato it was.

There are special personnel to teach them how to plant those seedlings in the field, and give them specific maintenance methods.

I heard that those seedlings are very precious, so everyone took those seedlings carefully, explained the officials' methods, leveled the land, and after fertilizing, raised a high field border, then dug holes, planted the seedlings in it, and then each Water the pit.

The water resources here in Datong are precious, unlike the south where there is much water, this method of planting really saves a lot of trouble.

……

In November, rebellion broke out in Gansu Province.

The imperial court sent Li Xian, the general of Liaodong, to lead a group to Gansu to quell the chaos.

When passing through Datong, the team was exhausted. Li Xian took people into the city to camp and replenish things. Seeing the busy and peaceful scene of the Datong faction, he was very moved!
They have already heard about the situation in Datong in Liaodong, and they are very envious when they know that the imperial court has provided a lot of supplies here.

Lin Tong had heard of Li Xian, and knew that this man was very good at martial arts, and he was also quite brave on the battlefield. He admired him very much, and received him directly.

"Lin Zongbing, what is this thing? I haven't eaten it yet. It's sweet and filling. It's really good!"

The sweet potato harvest in Datong is bumper!

Yes, the soldiers and civilians in Datong now call this thing a sweet potato, because the fruit skins produced by those seedlings are red, so they naturally call this thing a sweet potato.

Because the sweet potatoes were planted late in the past, until now the November frost has passed, and the sweet potatoes in Datong began to be harvested.

Because it is the first year of planting, the planting area is relatively small, and because there are too few seedlings, each family is divided into a small part.

The fact that the imperial court attaches so much importance to it, and that it is supervised, is also related to whether the land allocated to them can be planted for a long time. Military households naturally plant and maintain it carefully.

When they were harvesting, they were amazed to see the red-skinned round and long sweet potatoes dug out from the ground.

Needless to say, this thing turned out to be quite a lot!

"Is this food edible?"

Someone asked.

"Why can't you eat it? This food is delicious! Let me tell you, the soldiers and civilians here in Datong really burn the incense! Thanks to the blessing of the emperor, sweet potatoes can be grown here in Datong. You don't know that there is not a large area in the capital yet. Those who plant and eat sweet potatoes are wealthy families, and ordinary people are not lucky enough to eat them!"

The technical officer in charge of supervising the planting of sweet potatoes just came here on patrol and said loudly.

"Officer Liang, this thing is so precious! How can I eat it?"

asked boldly.

"Well, there are many ways to eat!"

Supervisor Liang stroked his beard proudly, putting on airs.

It's not that he's arrogant. As an agricultural official in the north, he is not an ordinary person who can be in charge of planting sweet potatoes.

He had read all kinds of agricultural books a long time ago and was selected because he possessed rich planting techniques.

Transportation is inconvenient these days. As a northerner, Supervisor Liang has heard that there is a place to grow this kind of thing in the south. Earlier, someone sent it to the palace for the nobles in the palace to eat, but it is still rare for ordinary people!

The sweet potato waited to the north, in the final analysis, it is the credit of the new emperor.

I heard that Anlu Prefecture, where Xinhuang is located, grows a large number of this kind of food. Xinhuang and Queen like to eat it very much, so they introduced it to the north.

Of course, this is just a rumor, whether the emperor likes to eat or not, Supervisor Liang is not sure.

However, with the arrival of the new emperor, sweet potatoes began to be planted in the suburbs of Beijing, and now they have been introduced to Datong. These are undeniable facts.

Inspector Liang first learned sweet potato seed technology from the court agricultural officials, and came into contact with the booklet on the key points of sweet potato planting. He heard that those things were written by the new emperor.

Supervisor Liang has always been obsessed with agronomy. Knowing that these techniques are all summed up by Xinhuang, his admiration for Xinhuang is even higher, and he has completely become Xinhuang's little fan!
"Officer Liang, tell me how to eat it! It's not poisonous, is it?"

An impatient person couldn't help urging.

(End of this chapter)