"Lord, we people can't go to the battlefield. At most, we can help the injured soldiers heal their wounds, plant some things, and the army will provide logistics!" Nong Yi looked very excited when he saw Li Xiang. Li Xiang was the hardest to see in the Xiliang headquarters.
The people who look good are the farmers who run around in the fields and mountains every day.
Li Xiang shook his head: "No, your role is great. Without your farmers' hard work, could I recruit so many warriors? Without you, can we feed so many people?"
The reason I came here this time is to see what you have been cultivating recently, that Xilingcao, I feel it is very good!"
Xiling grass is a grass that is now being planted on a large scale in Qingxi grassland in Xiliang. It grows quickly and can absorb some spiritual energy, so it is the best choice for fodder.
Nong Yi smiled stupidly when he heard Li Xiang's praise and asked the people next to him to take out the things they had cultivated. Soon a lot of things came over in a car.
Nong Yi held a huge one-meter-long cucumber and said: "My lord, this is a cucumber we cultivated using cucumbers and a spiritual plant. Not only is it huge in size, it also contains a lot of spiritual energy and can be used as a spiritual medicine."
It is very easy to use and plant. If you plant a cucumber tree, you can collect cucumbers six times a year. You can receive more than 500 such cucumbers at one time. If you don't collect them, they can stay on the tree and accumulate continuously.
Aura.”
"Cucumber tree?" Li Xiang blinked. He was not from a family who didn't know anything. He knew very well how to grow cucumbers.
Nong Yi saw Li Xiang's confusion and smiled and said: "Master, we feel that planting cucumbers once a year is a bit troublesome, so we combined a spiritual plant that also produces fruits almost the same as cucumbers with cucumbers. It took a year
After much effort and countless experiments, this tree was finally planted.
These eggplants, winter melons, and other plants are all grown from the same trees we use. We have a vegetable tree garden here covering an area of 5,000 acres."
"Vegetable tree garden, take me to see it!" Li Xiang's curiosity was immediately attracted by this place. Nong Yi led the way. The Lord can come and see their garden, which is a kind of respect for them.
Li Xiang followed him to a huge garden. There were hundreds of meters of giant trees everywhere. These trees did not bear fruits, but various vegetables, cucumbers, winter melons, pumpkins...
"Can this kind of tree be promoted?" Li Xiang couldn't help but ask.
Nong Yi shook his head: "No, these trees need us to regularly input Qi to help them grow!"
"Forget it!" Li Xiang didn't think about distributing these things. He was not such a generous person, but these things contain a lot of spiritual energy, and they are all good things. The army must be the first to enjoy them.
"Can this garden be expanded?"
Nong Yiyi: "I don't know how big my lord you want to expand it!"
"I want all Xiliang soldiers to eat these things!" Xiliang soldiers fight the most difficult battle, so they must wear the best armor, use the sharpest weapons, and eat the best food!
These things are all edible and can be provided to Xiliang soldiers, regardless of whether they are at home or in other legions.
Nongyi thought for a long time and said: "In this case, each vegetable must have about 20,000 acres of production area. My lord, why not arrange a farmer next to the army station of every thousand people and let him take care of these trees?"
One person can take care of about six vegetable trees at the same time, so that the soldiers can pick them themselves. The fruit produced by each tree at one time is enough to feed a thousand people for about a month or two!"
"This is okay!" Li Xiang said, reaching out and a huge cucumber fell down. He took out a knife and cut off a small piece. He took a bite and felt extremely refreshing. If this kind of fruit fell on the land of Daqian Central Plains, it would definitely be It will suddenly become the object of countless people's pursuit.
This is a business opportunity!
"How long can these things be kept after being picked?"
"Cucumbers are relatively delicate. If they are placed randomly, they can be stored for one month. If they are frozen, they can be stored for two months. If they are stored in a box made of Yuan Stone, they will be fine for half a year!"
These were recorded during the research process. They cultivated these things to improve the food of Xiliang soldiers. Since they are defined for military use, the first thing they want is to preserve them.
"Not bad!" Li Xiang felt that these vegetables might be Zhang Qingyun's second place to make a fortune, but as things grown by farmers in his hometown, Zhang Qingyun had to pay some money if he wanted to take them away.
Xiliang Headquarters doesn’t need any expenses, but Prime Minister Li does!
Moreover, over the years, a large number of soldiers in the headquarters get married and have children every year. For those soldiers who get married, he needs to give some money to these soldiers every month.
How about letting the wives of these soldiers, like them, use their love to power Prime Minister Li?
Therefore, the money still has to be collected. How to collect the money will have to wait for Zhang Qingyun to discuss with Li Yi. He really doesn't understand the current prices.
"In a few days, I will ask Li Yi to assign a group of people to you to expand these areas. I want to see a 10,000-acre agricultural base so that you can cultivate more things!"
"Thank you, lord!" Nong Yi showed his habitual silly smile.
"Let's go, continue taking me around!"
Li Xiang followed Nong Yi around the agricultural base for two full days. There were many things cultivated by farmers in Xiliang. The most shocking thing to Li Xiang was the medicine garden. The farmers built a medicine garden based on Li Yi's words. Garden, where a large number of elixirs are grown.
The skills practiced by farmers in Xiliang can use true energy to catalyze these medicinal materials, so that the medicinal efficacy of these medicinal materials can be equal to the medicinal efficacy of about a year.
There are also some precious medicinal materials that were dug out from the mountains and cultivated here. Generally speaking, medicinal materials transplanted from the wild cannot survive if they are moved to another place. However, under the true energy of the farmers in Xiliang, they can survive longer than in the wild. Be good.
These medicinal materials are combined with the alchemy skills of Taoist Master Qingsong in Shangqingyuan. The two parties can work together to create a large number of life-saving elixirs.
There are Qingyuan elixirs for internal injuries, bandages from the dark world for external injuries, and vegetables and rice from Xiliang farmers for food.
As the quality of life of Xiliang soldiers improves, their combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly improved.
As for whether some people will become lazy because of this, there is no need to worry. The soldiers of the Xiliang Headquarters are keeping an eye on those people. If anyone dares to cheat, the soldiers of the Headquarters will let them know what it means to walk around without food, and then Kicked out of the army.
It is extremely difficult to join the Xiliang Army. Even the Eighth Army, which has the lowest requirements, can be regarded as a front-line army in Daqian.
Once he is driven out of the Xiliang Army, he will have no place in the northwest and will be despised wherever he goes.
On the third day, Li Xiang had to leave the agricultural base, because the preparations in Jiuyuan City were almost complete, and he needed to go back to prepare, and then head towards the city he had not seen for seven years.
Jiuyuan Prince's Mansion, this is a palace that was remodeled on the basis of Jiuyuan Prince's Mansion. When those who followed the princess to Jiuyuan City saw this palace, many people almost shouted that it was against the rules.
It's a pity that this is in the northwest land, not in the Central Plains. This is Prime Minister Li's territory. They can only call this place the Governor's Mansion.
When Li Xiang returned to the mansion, he saw the eighth princess and Wu Yating chatting together. It seemed that they had a good relationship.
Li Xiang just looked at him a few more times without passing by. You can never understand what women are thinking about. He just wants his subordinates to pay attention. The food and various utensils in the mansion are controlled by people from Xiliang headquarters. But
He was worried.
A war between women is no more dangerous than a battlefield. Female soldiers can only be careful and must not let a war between two people hurt anyone.
When he was at Li's house, he saw countless fights. The two of them were smiling, but he didn't know what it was like secretly.
Li Xiang grabbed something and rushed to the Yamen, where Zhang Qingyun was waiting for him.
Seeing Li Xiang coming, Zhang Qingyun quickly stepped forward: "My lord, everything is ready. Here is the list. Take a look!"
Li Xiang took the animal skin. Most of it was filled with various heavenly materials and earthly treasures used for cultivation, as well as a large number of yuan stones. He thought of the huge vegetables he saw at the agricultural base.
"Add another batch of vegetables, five hundred cucumbers, five hundred pumpkins, and five hundred winter melons!"
Zhang Qingyun listened with a confused look on his face: "Master, is there anything special about this vegetable?"
Li Xiang said mysteriously: "You will know these vegetables when you see them. Send someone to the agricultural base to tell them, by the way, and ask them to prepare more. I also need to eat some along the way!"
Zhang Qingyun turned around and gave instructions to his personal guards, and then said to Li Xiang: "This time the escort force is ten thousand naval troops. They will send us to the edge of Luoyang. After entering Luoyang, our navy cannot go there again.
At that time, there will be a guard of about 2,000 soldiers disguised as a caravan, following you. Including the people in your team, there will be about 4,000 guards.
On the Imperial Capital side, there are more than 3,000 spies developed as caravans and a hidden team on the Imperial Capital side. My lord, you can mobilize them when necessary.
Because warships cannot enter Zhili, the arrangement of the ships is one blessing ship, five large transport ships, five camouflaged psychic cannon warships, and 12 camouflaged arrow ships.
These ships carry a large amount of supplies. I have already discussed with the people in the imperial capital that these are all gifts for the emperor!
Lord, take a look, is there anything else that needs to be added?"
Li Xiang shook his head: "No, you are very well prepared. How is your work handover going? This is the key point."
Zhang Qingyun said with a smile: "All the work has been completed for next year, and I also asked Manager Li Yi to help take care of it. If anyone dares to make mistakes, then I will kill them all.
When we go out this time, there should be a lot of clowns coming out."
When Li Xiangzhen or Zhang Qingyun were in charge of the northwest, nothing would happen in the northwest. Sometimes both of them would go out, but one was not too far from the northwest. Few people knew about Li Yi's existence until now.
The departure of the two people this time is an opportunity for those who are still peaceful in the northwest land. Of course, they will not go too far, because the Xiliang headquarters army is still there. As long as the Xiliang headquarters army is there, they
These people can't jump high enough to get anywhere.
Those who control the military power are unlikely to follow them. There are Xiliang headquarters troops around them. If they move, the Xiliang headquarters troops may run in front of them.
The soldiers from Xiliang Headquarters beat them as easily as a father beats his son.
Therefore, those clowns can only make small moves at the local level, just for a while, because the soldiers who have returned from Xiliang are waiting for them, and these veterans have not yet reached the point where they cannot fight.
Zhang Qingyun also laughed: "Lord, isn't this a good opportunity? Let's first eliminate some hidden dangers in the northwest, so that we can better approach the Central Plains!"
Li Xiang patted Qingyun on the shoulder: "We are all going to the Central Plains. Now you have established a career and it's time to start a family. I have sent people to the west and asked Li Jun to bring her family over. They will wait for us then.
When you come back from the imperial capital, you and Xia Li will get married. People have been waiting for you for so many years, so it’s time to give them a status!"
Zhang Qingyun was stunned for a moment, with a little bitterness on his face, but it quickly disappeared and nodded: "I'm sorry to trouble you, my lord!"
"What's the trouble?" Li Xiang put his arm around Zhang Qingyun's shoulders: "You are my right-hand man and handle all the government affairs in the northwest for me. This time I will hold a wedding and make it a prosperous one.
I want the world to know how much I, Prime Minister Li, love talents."
"Over in the West, I told Li Jin that Xia Li and her parents can bring as many people as they want. Even if they are 10,000 people, I will accommodate them all to show those Westerners that we in the East
People are rich!"
Li Xiang did have other thoughts when holding the wedding for Zhang Qingyun. Zhang Qingyun did not have any other strange feelings, but was grateful.
Li Xiang's wedding was as simple as possible. Hearing Li Xiang's plan for the wedding, he felt that the cost of this wedding would not be too low.
"This time, the headquarters will pay for it!" Li Xiang saw Zhang Qingyun's thoughts and said with a smile: "This time when we go to the imperial capital, we must seize the opportunity to make a good profit from him. Those vegetables in the agricultural base will be your northwest in the future.
The mainstay of making money in the yamen!"
"Are those vegetables really so amazing?" Zhang Qingyun asked curiously.
"You'll know the day after tomorrow, let's go and see what your arrangements are!"
On the other side, after receiving the order, the people in the agricultural base began to pick fruits from the tall trees. The height was not a problem for them!
A large amount of supplies were sent from Jiuyuan City to Tongtianhe City, and Li Shui was also conducting final ship inspections. This was a long trip, and there was no room for carelessness!
