Pi Island.

"You are quite prosperous here!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

This small island is indeed very prosperous. After all, it is already the center of smuggling in this area. Even the wild boar skin actually has a lot of trade with Mao Wenlong. Pi Island's own naval commander is actually a smuggling fleet and also a part-time businessman. Shen Shikui is responsible for this fleet.

They purchased goods from Dengzhou, and North Korean merchants came to trade.

Or ship directly to Japan.

Under the banner, they were sold to the areas controlled by Liaodong or Li Nei, and some were even in the name of Pidao military supplies. However, this was approved by Yang Xin. For those who were alone behind the enemy, if they wanted to have the motivation to work, they had to have enough benefits to make them gain.

Besides, Mao Wenlong actually shared his money.

Even if Mao Wenlong sells weapons to wild boar skin, he turns a blind eye. At most, he cannot sell guns and cannons. After all, Mao Wenlong does not sell them, and the Japanese can also sell them. In short, except for food, they can sell them casually. Only food and other things are strictly prohibited. This can be said to be an iron rule. Not only Mao Wenlong's fleet, but also other businessmen who do business on Pi Island must abide by it. Whoever dares to sell a grain of rice or a pound of other food to wild boar skin will kill them mercilessly.

But no one dared.

After all, even Mao Wenlong himself didn't know how many Yang Xin's spies he had under him.

"It's all up to the governor to cultivate."

Mao Wenlong hurriedly said with a smile.

"It's all my brothers, so there's no need to say about these nonsense, but you just do business in the past few years and seem to have forgotten your business, right?"

Yang Xin said.

This time, they were obviously perfunctory in the feint attack on Zhenjiang.

Mao Wenlong got a total of 5,000 people, landed in Langtou and fought a small field battle with Jiannu who was left behind in Zhenjiang. He also destroyed a small fort with front-line alert, brought back two hundred heads, and reported the news of annihilation of one thousand enemies, and then went home.

They are playing with Kou.

Not only them, but these guys in Liaodong are playing with bandits.

Zu Dashou is also playing with Kou.

You can understand this by looking at whether he lost his servants. Zu Dashou lost 1,000 yuan, but the Zu family and Wu family members did not lose any of them. In fact, they did not enter the battlefield at all. Even 5,000 strikers were defeated by ambush, and then his main force also withdrew. As for beheading 200 yuan, it was actually a slaughter of Jiannu Zhuangzi who had not had time to run. It was even possible that it was the Eight Banners Korean cannon fodder, who deliberately threw it outside to lure him into the bait, but the person who designed to give him a cloth pocket probably did not expect him to run so quickly, and he only ambushed his forward.

Zhao Rujiao and Obadaiqing are also playing with Kou.

They took 12,000 cavalrymen and bombarded the mortars outside a mountain city of Jiannu for some days, but the two did not attack and did not bypass the core area of ​​Jiannu behind them.

They can do it.

But they just use this obviously perfunctory attack.

Only Sun Chuanting is not a playboy.

So he attacked at all costs, but these people were playing with bandits, and this was inevitable. It cannot be said that they were not loyal to the emperor, and even Zu Dashou was still a little loyal, let alone Zhao Lujiao. But they were also very clear that all their glory and wealth were actually based on the existence of wild boar skin. Without wild boar skin, there would be no good days for them. Once the wild boar skin was solved, the civil servants of the court would let them go home to retire without hesitation.

Zhao Rujiao still wants to continue to guard the silver mine and transport silver to your home every year?

Mao Wenlong still wants to smuggle and make a fortune?

Zu Dashou still wants to continue to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Go dreaming!

It would be nice not to find an excuse to settle the score later.

Don’t those officials of the Ministry of Revenue know who killed the civil servant who was said to have died in Jiannu’s roar? It’s just that it’s not convenient for them to settle accounts with them now.

They are all very smart.

"The governor clearly understands that he will indeed be lazy."

Mao Wenlong said quickly.

"Okay, I'll just say it."

Yang Xin didn't say much.

Not everyone in the Ming Dynasty was like Qi Jiguang who really served the country and the people. What was the ending of Qi Jiguang who served the country and the people? These generals also saw very clearly that Li Chengliang, who played bandits for his whole life, played the nobles for generations, and Qi Jiguang who served the country and the people did not make any gains. It can be said that without changing the Ming Dynasty's principles of treating military generals, it would be impossible to avoid them playing bandits. He could not solve this problem at present. Since this is the case, let's fool it first.

All he could do now was a papermaker from the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Erji left Pidao.

When he arrived in Gegu, the autumn harvest was almost approaching.

"There are at least four stones. In the past, the yield of three stones per mu was at least four stones. In the past, the yield of four stones per mu was even six stones. This thing is a miracle. The yield per mu increased by at least 30%.

Mrs. Yang said excitedly.

She was talking about bird droppings.

Although it has not been harvested yet, the yield of this rice field that is about to be harvested can be estimated at a glance. The heavy rice ears are so eye-catching. Not to mention Mrs. Yang, even Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong have come to see the Yang family. The highest-yield fields have already estimated the yield of seven stones per mu.

This output is simply a dizzying number for the north.

You should know that there is no stone in the north.

In the north, there is no stone when calculating the yield per mu, because it is not worth using stones at all. They use buckets at most. It is because there are few stones, and some stones are just large acres. Calculated by standard acres, the north has a single season of millet. Normally, there are water-watered fields, and the yield per mu is only two stones. Without water, those pure dry fields can yield per mu at least as low as two or three buckets. There are indeed four or five stones to grow rice, but that must be a rare kind of paddy field. For example, Yang Xin’s pure paddy field, which has a high yield per mu can reach more than four stones, but seven stones is also top in the south!

What's more, Yang Xin has two seasons.

Soon he had to plant wheat. He didn't even need to plow the harvested rice fields. He sprinkled wheat seeds and shoveled them out of the drainage ditches with a shovel, and then covered the shoveled soil on the wheat seeds. The wheat harvest on this land will still be at least two stones next summer.

"Mr. Xu!"

Yang Xin said to Xu Guangqi.

"You actually did what I wanted to do the most."

Xu Guangqi said.

"Governor Yang, you can't enjoy this good thing alone!"

Sun Chengzong said.

"Yang never thought of enjoying it alone, but I was not prepared to give others my own benefits. There is more than an island with bird droppings on the sea. Whoever thinks that it can produce a thousand kilograms per mu on average, so just dig it yourself."

Yang Xin said proudly.

He would not be cheaper than the gentry in the north. Huangwei Island is just a little bigger, and its annual output can meet several of his reclamation areas. At most, the militia areas in Changzhou are impossible to provide for others. Anyone who wants to dig it himself, but those gentry may not have this awareness. After all, the initial investment in this thing is a bit large, not only must there be a fleet but also a cheap coolie.

Sun Chengzong was just saying this, and everyone knew that such good things would not be cheaper to others.

"But there is something that the governor should share with others?"

He said.

While speaking, he looked at Mrs. Yang.

Yang Xin looked at his wife...

"It's corn. We breed our own. We plant drylands in the mountainous areas, with a yield of more than 60 kilograms per mu, and it is planted in turn with wheat. The latter also harvested about four or five dou. The two combined make the drylands in the mountainous areas mature, and the yield per mu is close to one stone.

But we breed ourselves, and there are only a few pieces of farming, and we don’t have enough seeds to cure.

Besides, planting in mountainous areas is just an experiment.

The corn we planted in the dry fields around us can still reach 120 kilograms, plus if it is wheat or more than two stones in a season, it is not enough to apply this kind of fertilizer, and after applying fertilizer, it may be more than 200 kilograms. Since this is the case, we will plant our own first. Even if we give other people's seeds, they will take them back and plant them in those thin fields. It is a waste to harvest them a little in a year. It is better to plant them here and sell them to the capital. What's more, Chen Yujie wants to plant them, and he is still waiting for us to supply seeds to him."

Mrs. Yang said.

This is not unreasonable, but it is mainly because Mrs. Yang is unwilling to be cheaper for her own things.

Corn is also a good thing.

In fact, the Yang family's land-based reclaimed land are directly supplied to the capital, whether it is rice, corn, or even wheat and sweet potatoes. Even the palace eats the food here, including corn, which is also supplied to the palace.

Polenta is also very popular.

What's more, Chen Yujie and Cao Wenzhao have proposed to plant this in them.

Although this yield is not as good as sorghum.

But no one likes to eat sorghum, which means fooling the Mongolian herdsmen. But now Mongolian herdsmen don’t like to eat it, so corn is different, which is in line with normal taste.

"Then we won't give them seeds. Our Yang family will send people to various places to set up seed treatment stations. We will start with local garrisons. Each station will have a seed treatment station. Our Yang family will be given priority to supply seeds to these military households."

Yang Xin said.

That's all.

In this way, the two-ripening system can be promoted in the north. At this time, the water-watered land can be achieved by two ripening, and there are also three ripening in two years. However, with corn, of course, sweet potatoes will be promoted together. With these two, it will be possible to achieve stable two ripening. At this time, the extensive planting yield of corn in ordinary dry fields is indeed very low. Sixty kilograms is a very standard number. In fact, it will definitely be even lower if it is truly popularized on a large scale.

This is no exaggeration. In the late Qing Dynasty, corn yielded 30 kilograms per mu.

Thirty kilograms are fine.

Thirty kilograms are also the annual output of many people going to the fields in the north.

Two or three buckets of fields are not rare.

It is true that agriculture in the north is tragic. The north and the south are like two worlds. Even if the fields are lowered in the south, they usually have to be produced by the upper fields in the north. The middle fields in the south are the upper fields in the south. However, corn and sweet potatoes can make the yield of the lower fields in the north a little more than the level of the middle fields, which allows farmers in the dry fields to truly grow grain and not starve to death.
Chapter completed!