Just when a few people were looking at each other, a few old farmers came over with sad faces and said, "General, the big men this man brought have eaten half a basket of cucumbers."
"Oh! Wang San, the people you brought are quite edible, but what do you mean by running away after eating?" Han Xi crossed his arms and looked at Wang San with a harmless smile on his face.
Wang San immediately shuddered. The last time Han Xi showed such a smile, he beat someone to death. This incident was still fresh in his memory.
"Here, if you give me the money, it shouldn't be in vain, right?" Wang San took out a piece of broken silver from his arms that was about the size of a thumb and had some black spots and teeth marks.
Seeing this, Han Xi asked the guard to accept it with some disgust, and then asked:
"Tell me! What are you bringing people here for this time?"
"Come on, what are you doing here?" Wang San was a little crazy at this time. The people who told the story had all run away. How did he know what he was doing here?
"Hehehe~ Hey, don't I want to ask about the general joining the rebel army?" Wang San mentioned the old story again.
"Okay! Go back and tell Gao Yingxiang that I am not interested in his rebel army for the time being, and you don't have to come here to look for him in the future." Han Xi was not as vague as usual this time, but refused directly.
Mainly because this battle with Yichuan County allowed Han Xi to see clearly the reality of the county. He is now the overlord in the Yichuan area.
Moreover, Han Xi has a system and does not need to run around for food, men, weapons, and war horses like Gao Yingxiang.
Wang San looked stunned. He didn't expect Han Xi to refuse to accept it so directly this time.
"General, do you really want to stop thinking about it?" Wang San asked this question as usual. Later, he could borrow the donkey and leave Chenjiagou.
At this time, A Niu, who had come with him, stepped forward and pushed Wang San and said, "The general said he won't join. How did you come up with all the nonsense?"
During this period, A Niu ate and drank well, and his hands became stronger than before.
Wang San, who had just stood up not long ago, was pushed and staggered, and fell to the ground again, causing a splash of mud.
"Okay, okay, I'll go back and talk to King Chuang right now!" Wang San swallowed a breath of bad breath, turned around and left very gracefully.
If his walking posture wasn't a bit funny, he would actually look like a hero.
Han Xi was confused.
"Now that we're down, go to the fields and collect all the melons." Han Xi waved his hand and said.
The water is frozen during these days, and there is no water to irrigate the melons, so they probably won’t grow much.
When everyone heard this, they all rolled up their trousers and entered the melon field.
Han Xi went to the potato field. He used a wooden stick to carefully pry open the soil, and soon potatoes the size of goose eggs were dug out.
I dug up about six of each plant, weighing about a pound.
Han Xi looked happy. If other potatoes were like this, then this acre of land would weigh at least two to three thousand kilograms.
This output would be considered average in future generations.
In the Ming Dynasty, if one stone was one hundred and five kilograms, that would be almost twenty stone.
However, potatoes should not be eaten often, otherwise the stomach will be easily bloated. Although the bloating is not as severe as sweet potatoes, it is still uncomfortable.
And 20 shi of potatoes are only about 4 shi if they are dried in the sun.
Therefore, potatoes and sweet potatoes can only be used as cereals or feed for livestock.
Therefore, it will not be planted on a large scale.
Wheat, corn, and rice are the main foods grown by Han Xi.
Han Xi dug some more and was going to take them back to make potato stew with beef.
Just when Han Xi dug out a dozen potatoes, snowflakes began to fall from the sky again, but this time the snow seemed heavier than before.
Han Xi raised his head and took a look. It was snowing so heavily that it was probably going to close the mountain.
This is really a troublesome thing. There is not much firewood for heating in Chenjiagou, and I don’t know if the livestock can bear it.
Thinking about it, Han Xi decided to purchase a batch of wood from the system.
The logs coming out of the system are all two feet long and as thick as an adult's arms. It shouldn't be a problem to get a few thousand logs out to survive this cold winter.
Just when Han Xi was thinking about how to survive the winter.
The officers and soldiers of Yichuan County had already set off towards Chenjiagou.
Because the food issue got so big, the rich people only knew about the evil operations of the county magistrate and bookkeeper, and the relationship between the two parties was very unhappy.
Finally, the Wu family came forward, and the county government provided one hundred dan, the wealthy family provided another 100 dan, and the Wu family subsidized another one hundred dan. A total of three hundred shi of grain was handed over to Lu Guerrilla.
Lu Youyi was confused by the sudden happiness.
"I would like to thank Mr. Wu for taking action this time." Lu Youyi said to the head of the Wu family next to him.
"Hahaha! This is a matter of duty, Lu Youyi doesn't need to be polite." The head of the Wu family had a sincere smile on his face.
Lu Youyi felt that he had met a noble person. The head of the Wu family was really easy to talk to. This was the first time that he had met a powerful local man who understood the righteousness so well.
However, what Lu Youyi didn't know was that the reason why the head of the Wu family was so talkative was because he heard the pie painted by Wu Ge, which could also be said to be the pie painted by Han Xi.
The Wu family doesn't care much about gold mines, because there are indeed many gold mines in Yichuan County, and the Wu family owns two gold mines.
What Wu Jiazheng really cares about is Han Xi's alchemy skills.
You know, with the two gold mines in the Wu family, one person can only collect eight taels of gold plus food per day.
Two hundred people can only mine more than 36,000 kilograms of gold a year, and refine it into pure gold, which is only more than a thousand taels.
The group of horse bandits in Chenjiagou actually said that they could produce 90,000 taels of gold a year of the same quality that Wu Pavilion brought back, which was more than ninety times that of the Wu family.
There are tens of thousands of horse bandits digging gold mines?
It is obviously impossible. With so many people mining, it has been discovered long ago.
The Wu family estimates that this group of horse bandits can have up to a thousand people mining.
It is not obvious that thousands of people can dig out 90,000 taels of gold a year. This group of horse bandits must have mastered some incredible gold refining technology.
No matter what method is used, the Wu family must obtain this technology.
Thinking of this, the head of the Wu family flashed a fierce light in his eyes.
Lu Youyi suddenly saw a fierce light flashing in the eyes of the head of the Wu family, and his body couldn't help but shudder.
At this moment, a cavalry sentry moved closer. When he got close to Lu Guerrilla, he heard his report: "Guerrilla, the road into the mountain is blocked by snow. The cannon may not be transported in."
"If it cannot be transported in, a hundred households will be left to watch, and the rest will continue to move forward." Lu Youqi ordered.
It's just to fight some gangsters. There is no need for cannons at all. As long as the servants around you charge, they will kill all the horse bandits without leaving a trace.
On the slope in the distance, there were five or six people looking at the army from a distance. They were lying on the snow in white cloaks.
One of the short young men said in a low voice, "General Xu, he is an officer and soldier. The direction we look at is to go to Chenjiagou."
"I saw it, you don't need to tell me." Xu San said angrily. I was interrupted, and I couldn’t remember where I had just counted.
"General Xu, these thousands of people are going to Chenjiagou, why don't we go back and report them?" the short young man asked again.
