On the way down the mountain, Shen Yuyu did not forget to tell Bai Yixue: "At that time, we must send more people to the snowy mountains of the Western Regions to find out if there is such a crop that can grow in such a cold place, and the entire Western Regions can be cultivated."
"Yes." Bai Yixue also nodded affirmatively, "It takes two or three years to raise cattle and sheep before they are ready for slaughter. If the Western Region can have such a high-cold-tolerant crop that can be grown, then the entire Western Region will be saved.'
"Yes, His Highness the Night King can definitely use this crop to obtain the greatest support and benefits from the King of the Western Regions." Shen Yuyu said as he secretly sighed. Fortunately, in this imaginary world, there is no such crop as highland barley in the Western Regions.
This crop is of great significance to alpine regions such as the Western Regions. Once it spreads, it will definitely become one of the staple foods of the entire Western Regions.
The two of them went down the mountain while chatting. Seeing that it was still early, they were about to pack their felt bags and leave.
At this time, more than a dozen men came down from the mountain. The leader was the village chief Hakun, followed by the village chiefs of the other four villages.
Seeing Shen Yuhu and others preparing to collect their felt bags, the men ran over without saying a word: "Let's do it~~ Let's do it."
Village Chief Hakun said, "Dong Shen's family, they know you haven't left yet, so they insist on coming over to express their gratitude to you."
As he spoke, several village chiefs took out cloth bags one after another, with a few Cordyceps sinensis lying inside, insisting that Shen Yuyu accept them.
Shen Yuyu didn't have the nerve to accept it, and waved his hands repeatedly: "Four village chiefs, listen to me, I really didn't help you. It was the village chief Hakun who helped you and distributed the food to you. Just remember his kindness. good.
"Without the big boss raising so much grain, Hakun Village Chief would be equally powerless. Thank you daddy and the villagers of Shenjia Village." Shen Yuyu refused to accept it, but everyone refused, so Shen Yuyu had no choice but to accept it.
The men over there had already packed their felt bags, and the group went down the mountain.
Shen Yuyu looked at Ha Kun and others: "Village chiefs, I'm afraid this locust plague will not last in a day or two. Just waiting for the grass on the grassland to grow and raise cattle and sheep. This process is too long. You can't survive without food." After such a long time, won’t you consider planting valuable potatoes?”
Village Chief Hakun shook his head: "We have tried to grow potatoes before. The seedlings are as small as a fist, and the potatoes grown are smaller than a finger. It is useless."
Shen Yuyu was depressed for a moment. It is estimated that this kind of genetically modified potato has geographical restrictions and cannot tolerate high cold.
"It's almost the end of autumn, locusts won't come again, right?" Shen Yuyu asked, looking at the grassland without a trace of green.
"I don't know." Village Chief Hakun shook his head helplessly, "There was a round here more than ten days ago. The grass had just sprouted some tender tips and was eaten by them again. Alas.'
Several other village chiefs analyzed, "The sun has been shining brightly during the day and the weather has been hot these days, but at night it has been suddenly cold and the temperature difference is huge. I may have frozen to death within a few days, and I probably won't come back again."
"As long as there are no locusts, we can grow anything, and we won't go hungry after all." Everyone was full of hope.
The head of Jishui Village responded: "Just grow radishes and Chinese cabbages. If you can sell them, sell them. If you can't, you can use them to fill your stomach." It is true that they can be used to fill their stomachs, but the nutrients of radishes and Chinese cabbages cannot be used for cooking. As for staple food, eating it for a long time will also cause eating problems.
Shen Yuyu thought for a while, "After your radish and cabbage are produced, we will purchase all the radish and Chinese cabbage needed by all the restaurants in our Tianxia Trading Company from you. Not to mention that we can purchase all of them, but half of them should be no problem."
Shen Yugu is not the Virgin's Heart, but the radish and Chinese cabbage grown in alpine areas are particularly sweet and crispy, and taste much better than those in the Central Plains.
Of course, the most important thing is that few people in the Central Plains grow radishes and Chinese cabbage.
No restaurants in Lingzhou City have spicy cabbage. The Chinese cabbage required by Fengming Restaurant is grown by a vegetable farmer next to the county town on Shenyong Road, and the price is relatively expensive.
So buying the radishes and cabbages they grow is a win-win situation.
Shen Yuyu has long wanted to make an appetizer of sweet and sour spicy spicy radish. As long as the radish raw material is available, this appetizer before meals will definitely be loved by diners.
After hearing this, several village chiefs were extremely moved.
"In this case, we can sell radishes and cabbages for food, and we won't be afraid of not being able to survive this winter." Village Chief Hakun raised his dark face, full of hope.
After returning to the village chief's house in Hakun, Shen Yuyu signed deeds with several villages to purchase the radishes and cabbages they had grown at half the price of the Central Plains, and they refused to pay a penny more.
Naturally, Shen Yuyu would not be a profiteer like this and do things that were mutually beneficial. Naturally, he had to purchase at a fair market price.
After all the talk, the deed was signed at a price lower than the market price, and a deposit of one hundred taels of silver was given to each village.
After everything was done, under everyone's welcome, the village chief Hakun took a boat to send Shen Yuyu and the others back to Dazhou.
After getting off the boat in Dahe Town and saying goodbye to the village chief Hakun, Shen Yuyu was ready to send away the three secret guards and tell them to go back to Lingzhou City.
First, Zhang Neng will be here soon, and second, the guards are secretly protecting her, which is extremely hard and unnecessary.
With her and Bai Yixue's skills, there is absolutely no problem in protecting themselves.
In the end, the secret guard named Shadow made a few moves with Shen Yuyu, and the two ended in a draw. Now the secret guards had nothing to say and honestly took the boat back to Lingzhou.
Shen Yuyu and Bai Yixue walked out of the dock of Dahe Town. Along the way, they saw many refugees disembarking from the boat. They didn't know where they came from. They were all emaciated and emaciated, dragging their families with them to the town.
Shen Yuyu was filled with emotion when he saw it, and decided to write a letter to Li Ran as soon as possible, telling him about the discovery of highland barley and seeing how he would negotiate with the king of the Western Regions.
Apart from anything else, the influx of so many refugees into Dazhou will also cause chaos.
On the way to Baohe Hall, both sides of the street were crowded with refugees from the Western Regions who had sold their children and daughters. The children stared at the hungry eyes and looked at the passers-by with longing eyes. It was sad to see them.
"Hurry, go to the west of the city, the county magistrate is giving porridge there."
Suddenly there was a commotion among the refugees and they rushed to the west of the city.
"Dadong Shen~~Finally found you." Before he reached the door of Baohe Hall, he met Master Li coming quickly.
"What's the matter, Mr. Li?" Shen Yuyu stopped and looked over.
"The county magistrate is looking for ways to resettle the victims in the Western Region, and would like to ask Dadong Shen's family to come over and give some advice."
Shen Yuyu lamented that Magistrate Sun was an upright official and had great love to tolerate the world. He responded and followed Master Li to the west of the city.
Four large pots were cooking porridge in the west of the city, and three to four hundred refugees from the Western Regions gathered around them. Each one held a broken bowl in his hand and lined up to receive the porridge.
If it weren't for the fact that potatoes were planted everywhere in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which locusts cannot eat, the people who are now looking for a way to survive are the people of the Great Zhou Kingdom. Comparing the feelings of others, one cannot help but be touched.
