Wang Dayu and Tian Shenglan waited in Zhangjiakou for more than a month, but they did not wait for the Qutang caravan to come back. They vaguely felt something was wrong, so they sent someone to visit Naturalization. After meeting the Tumote people, they realized that Qutang's caravan had already been to Naturalization and sold all the goods to Mongolians. The caravan took horses and silver a month ago on the road back to Zhangjiakou.

"Is it because Qu Tang took away our property?" Wang Dayu couldn't understand.

"Impossible!" Tian Shenglan denied Wang Dayu's statement, "Qu Tang's family is all in Senei. If he dares to take away our property, wouldn't he be afraid that we will destroy his entire family? I'm afraid it will happen if it happens."

No one was alive, no one died, no corpse was seen. Qu Tang and his caravan were like evaporated on earth, and never appeared again. More than a thousand people disappeared, and even a single living mouth did not appear. Later, Wang Dayu and Tian Shenglan went to Jizhou, where they met Fan Yong.

Since the Jiexiu Fan family was targeted by the Jinyiwei, Fan Yongdou has never been openly active in the pass, but has been hiding in Liaodong for refuge. This time, Qu Tang went to naturalization to do business. He was instructing behind the scenes and invested all the remaining silver, but ended up losing all his money.

"I'm sure it was the Li Lao Er who was against us! I suspect it was his man who disguised himself as a horse thief and robbed the Qu family's business!" Fan Yongdou said viciously.

"Can we get rid of this thief through the officials in the court? If this thief is not killed, it will be difficult to relieve our great hatred!" Tian Shenglan asked.

"It's a big deal!" Fan Yongdou cursed, "Now I'm penniless now, and the officials in the court want to die early, so as not to be caught by the Jinyiwei and confess them!"

Wang Dayu lamented: "I didn't expect that our eight great masters of Shanxi merchants were so depressed that they are today!"

Tian Shenglan said with a gloomy face: "At the New Year, I asked the Censor of the Court to write a book of the thief, but I didn't expect that the stones would sink into the sea and didn't even have an echo. I wasted more than 10,000 taels of silver for me in vain!"

Fan Yongdou said: "This thief has become a climate, and it is difficult to knock him down now. How to deal with this thief, we still need to discuss with Tian Conghan."

In March of the lunar calendar, the earth warmed up, the permafrost melted, and the fields around Shabeigou City had begun to plow spring. Li Guodong taught farmers to raise seedlings. All the sweet potatoes were taken out of the cellar and placed in a warm and ventilated place. A stove was placed next to it. About seven days later, the sweet potatoes grew tender buds.

Li Guodong put the sprouted sweet potatoes into the soft-cultivated seedling field, covering it with an inch of soil. Then he fed water from the Rabbit Maochuan River and watered it into the seedling field. More than ten days later, the soil covered with sweet potatoes cracked and the sweet potato seedlings grew from the field. More than ten days later, the sweet potato seedlings were growing lushly. At this time, Li Guodong led people to dig out the sweet potato seedlings and spread them to plant them into the cultivated farmland outside.

People in the city have never seen this strange plant, but after hearing Li Guodong said that the yield per mu of this plant was particularly high, they did not dare to neglect it. They carefully took care of the farmland and pulled it out as long as they saw weeds growing around them.

Li Guodong had already asked someone to build a water truck, which automatically drew water from the river and flowed into the canal, which could irrigate the farmland.

Another part of the land is used to sow corn. In April, the sweet potato seedlings were successfully cultivated. After the sowing of the sweet potato seedlings was completed, the corn began to be planted. Handfuls of corn seeds were sown, and seven days later, the small buds of corn seeds sown in the ground broke out of the ground.

The corn grows significantly faster than sweet potatoes, but in just one month, the corn pole has grown to one person taller.

Because there are not many corn seeds, Li Guodong did not leave any corn in Wang Quan's Touthu Village. All of them were brought to Shabeigou Village. Whether it can be successful depends on this year.

More than a month and a half passed, and the corn poles bloomed. Soon after, the female flowers bear young fruits. The fruits are wrapped in green skins, and the fruits that can be seen every day are growing.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of June, and the heavy corn cobs pressed down the corn poles. Some of the corn cobs that were blown off by the wind were picked up by the people in the city and sent to the warehouse. Li Guodong asked me to cook corn.

The steaming water was boiled in the pot and the corn cobs were put into the pot. After it was cooked, it emitted an attractive fragrance. Li Guodong asked someone to taste the corn cobs, and the people who tasted it were praised.

"Husband, this thing is really sweet." He Xiuying held a corn cob and took a bite. It was glutinous and soft. It tasted in her mouth, leaving a fragrance on her mouth, and there was a faint sweetness.

Others in the village also tasted the cooked corn. The taste of the corn made them taste sweet and they were basically full after two. This was the first time they saw such a good thing.

"In a few days, the corn cob will be harvested." Li Guodong said.

For this period of time, Li Guodong has not gone anywhere, and only stayed in the city to grow corn and sweet potatoes. At the same time, he often went to the blacksmith shop to see the production of weapons.

Seven days later, Li Guodong summoned the refugees in the city to harvest the corn cobs. A total of 100 acres of corn fields were calculated. After calculation, Li Guodong calculated based on how many corn cobs could be harvested by acre of land, peeled a corn cob, weighed the particles, and finally piled them up to obtain the yield per mu.

"The yield per mu is more than three stones, and more than three hundred stones of grain has been planted." Li Guodong said to everyone with the calculation results.

The refugees cheered, the yield was too high, right? Before they could calm down, Li Guodong told them again: It is only June, and corn can be planted for another season! It can be harvested before winter comes.

The harvested corn is not peeled and preserved according to Li Guodong's requirements. When eating, peel it and cook it. Because the corn on the cob will become old and hard, it will not taste delicious.

At the same time as the corn harvest was harvested, the winter wheat planted last fall was also harvested. In the case of the disaster year, the winter wheat harvest was very poor, with a yield of less than four buckets per mu! The normal yield of winter wheat per mu was about two stones. However, the poor harvest of wheat did not affect the mood of farmers, because the corn was harvested well, and corn could be planted for another season, so that one acre of land could produce six to seven stones of corn a year.

The farmland where winter wheat was harvested was also planted in accordance with Li Guodong's requirements. There were 300 acres of wheat fields. Before being able to plant winter wheat, you could obtain 900 stones of grain by planting one season of corn.

After collecting the corn cob, the corn poles were cut off. The corn poles can be used as fuel or fed cattle and sheep.
Chapter completed!