The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 387 Foresight
Gan Minglan's prediction about the war was indeed accurate.

When the Northwest King sent people to buy brocade weavers from Jiangnan, who used jacquard looms to weave seven-colored natural silk into magnificent brocade, the civil war had only just begun to heat up.

The number of warlord forces that ultimately emerged from the conflict was no less than ten.

When the early-ripening melons in the melon field were seven-tenths sweet and the grapes on the vines began to turn purple, the first border army was about to arrive at the foot of the capital.

Emperor Zhongxing Yuan seemed very confident in the security of the imperial city. Even with the army at the gates, the palace was still filled with singing and dancing.

But the people around the imperial city who couldn't escape suffered.

In contrast, the Kansai Nine Guards were bustling with activity.

Aside from the frenzied infrastructure construction, the military families practically treat the wheat in the fields like royalty.

It's incredibly meticulous.

As the wheat ears grew fuller and ripened, the men with over ten years of experience in land management grinned from ear to ear every day.

Their daily conversations are as follows.

"How many grains of wheat did each ear of wheat produce in your ten mu of designated land?"

"You'll be shocked when I tell you, Ang picked the most ordinary-looking ears of wheat from every mu and counted them. You won't believe it until you count them, but every ear had no less than sixty grains! This year, we might be able to harvest five shi of grain per mu!"

"No one's mission is any worse than anyone else's!"

"I must say, the wheat seeds we bought from the Western Regions are much better than what we used before! The best cultivated land in the border town only yields three bushels! I never imagined that the wasteland in Ganlu River would be better than the cultivated land in the border town!"

"I think it's not just the seeds that are good! This year, all these wastelands have been given plenty of base fertilizer! With the fertilizer piled up well, the two good things combined have led to the good situation we have now."

"It might also be related to the soil in Ganluchuan. Look at the melons, cotton, and vegetable fields, none of them grow badly! Also, have you ever seen grapes bear fruit in their first year? Although only one bunch of fruit is left on each vine, it's still quite a lot after harvesting from thousands of acres."

"How can it be a small amount? We need to keep the sweetest ones for the children to eat as fresh fruit, and some to make raisins. Most importantly, the winery is waiting for these grapes to make wine. We can also clear land and plant some more next year."

"Tsk tsk, just thinking about soon being able to drink wine made in my own winery makes me feel wicked!"

Gan Minglan: You don't know that I've also worried myself sick over the more than 30,000 mu of wheat fields, 3,000 mu of melon fields, 3,000 mu of cotton fields, 1,000 mu of rice fields, 1,000 mu of grape fields, and hundreds of mu of vegetable fields in Ganluchuan.

Let's not interfere.

The fear is that the yield from the land cleared in the first year won't be high.

Then you'll have to pay money to buy it!

Although the fruits and vegetables in Hamiwei are really cheap, you don't have to spend a single penny to grow them yourself.

Military families are used to being frugal.

Using supernatural powers to intervene might be risky, as it could overdo it and scare the experienced farmers half to death by inflating the yield per acre.

During the growth of crops in the field, Gan Minglan mainly promotes root growth.

The effect is quite significant!

These fruits and vegetables, once ripe, can replace half of the grain.

In addition, the doggrass grows densely on the pastures in summer, and the livestock are all fat and strong.

Even during this busy farming season, infrastructure construction in Ganluchuan never stopped for a single day.

It took a full three months for the 12-meter-high, 18-meter-wide at the base, and 15-meter-wide at the top, 20-li-long blue brick city wall of Ganluchuan New City to be completed.

Building a wall is much faster than ramming mud walls!

(End of this chapter)