Liu Zheng certainly wouldn't expect to make a fortune from a serving of hot and sour noodles.
But the harvest of sweet potatoes still made the land of Yinzhou jump for joy and rush to tell each other. Those who had doubted Liu Zheng before were all dumbfounded. Two seasons a year, six thousand catties per acre per season? And you can eat any kind of sweet potatoes.
It tastes sweet and feels full. It is indeed much stronger than that of rice.
then.
The entire Yinzhou, Yangzhou, and Kezhou have all started a craze to plant sweet potatoes.
Liang Erfu has been very busy these days. Fortunately, under Liu Zheng's instructions, he started preparing for the cultivation of sweet potato seedlings years ago. This way, there will not be insufficient seedlings for sale.
The planting of sweet potatoes began to spread on a large scale. A few days later, the slag cement in Yintan City was finally successfully manufactured. This also means that in the future, the quality of construction in Yinzhou, Yangzhou, and Kezhou will be
It will change from wooden to concrete, and the same will be true for city walls, construction fortifications, and defenses. From now on, Liu Zheng's Yinzhou will be built into a steel castle by him! At least in the face of today's cold weapons
A siege can be resisted for a long time.
And as time goes by, Liu Zheng has begun to consider truly entering the desert...
Concrete post houses and camel teams will greatly reduce losses in the desert.
Of course, the most critical thing is that it is still a matter of planting trees or water.
This gave Liu Zheng a headache.
After all, Yinzhou, or Liangzhou as a whole, is considered a place with little rainfall. At this time, there is no technological level to achieve the South-to-North Water Diversion. Such helpless objective conditions can only be solved slowly.
Liu Zheng is very busy.
The Silk Road was the biggest thing in his opinion, so he did everything by himself from purchasing saplings, designing the journey, planning planting and inns. On the way back and forth from Loulan, Liu Zheng had already drawn a map. According to his previous life
With my memory, I can probably evaluate where a detour is needed and where the road needs to be improved... After all, Lop Nur is a real devil's land. If you can go around it, go around it and try your best to stop the loss...
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Liangzhou Prefecture.
Chen Ping sat in his study, looking at the small bag of salt in front of him with a dark face.
"What's going on?"
"Who can tell me where this refined salt comes from?"
Then he started roaring.
A group of counselors and staff from Liangzhou Prefecture looked at each other in silence.
"Sir, this refined salt seems to have appeared suddenly..."
"Yes, we have been investigating for a long time, but we still can't find out where this refined salt comes from?"
Chen Ping said angrily: "Trash, are they all just a bunch of losers?"
“Check who is selling and where the goods are purchased from!”
"Check where the source is!"
Bang.
He slapped the desk hard and warned: "Salt transportation is a matter of national importance. Now this kind of refined salt suddenly appears in Liangzhou, and you actually tell me that I don't know what I feed you!"
A counselor said with a grimace: "Sir, source, source..."
"What's the source?"
Several people took a deep breath: "Sir, the source of this refined salt seems to be in Pingzhou, we dare not check it!"
"King Lu?"
Chen Ping was stunned for a moment, a sinister look flashed in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth: "White Cliff Army!"
A group of people bowed their heads and remained silent.
As long as you are from Liangzhou, who doesn’t know the relationship between the Baiya Army and King Lu? The biggest reason why such a strange bandit group like the Baiya Army appeared in Liangzhou is the support of King Lu of Pingzhou!
King Lu seems to be pretending to be crazy and acting stupid, but in fact the city is very deep, and the key sage also has a certain tolerance for him. What's more important is... Although King Lu has been pretending to be crazy and acting stupid these years, he never expresses himself
Attitude towards the princes.
But everyone knows that the current queen Zheng Fu is relatively close to King Lu.
In this case, King Lu naturally did not want the prince to successfully succeed to the throne. Therefore, he, the queen, and the Baiya Army were all on the same side. In addition, King Lu was a serious vassal king, so for him
Naturally, Liangzhou Chen Ping looked down upon him.