Life on the island is more comfortable than imagined.
The people of the Liang Jiajun performed their duties, practiced when they should, and farmed when they should. The island was self-sufficient and could hardly rely on external resources, except for coal and iron.
Su Wei has long introduced pepper Champa rice and sweet potato seedlings to Penghu Island. Now the food output on the island is very high.
In a thousand years, there will be hundreds of thousands of permanent residents on this island, and there will be no need to rely on imports, and it will be completely self-sufficient! Moreover, there are less than 10,000 people on the island now, and the materials needed are not many, but they are still able to support the island's survival!
The yield of sweet potatoes is very gratifying, and the leaves of sweet potatoes are also edible and are no different from vegetables. This satisfies the demand for green vegetables on the island.
It’s not that other crops cannot be grown on the island. Of course, ordinary vegetables can also grow. However, the yield of these vegetables is not high, and they require a lot of energy to cultivate. The taste is not much better than sweet potato leaves, so most of them are decisively discarded. Grow unnecessary vegetables and free up a lot of space for growing food!
In the past, the main crops of Tianxiong Army in Guanzhong were wheat. They had never seen rice. Only part of the fertile land in Xingqing Prefecture on the Saishang Plain was planted with rice.
They were surprised to find that the yield of rice was so high and the taste of rice was better than that of wheat. Wheat in the north can only be harvested once a year, and the land will be left idle waiting for the next year. Whether it is winter wheat or autumn wheat, the yield is not as good as that of rice in the south.
The yield of rice in the south is higher than that of wheat in the north in one season, not to mention the new Champa rice variety!
This miraculous crop from South Vietnam directly triggered a revolution in land production in the south of the Song Dynasty. Rice seeds were discovered by the imperial court, introduced and promoted, allowing farmers to harvest twice a year instead of twice, improving their quality of life. The original place has been directly increased by two times!
After Liangchuan introduced this crop to Fengshan, although the yield was considerable, most of the land on the north bank was not paddy fields, so the yield was still not high. In addition, the yield of sugarcane was higher than that of rice, so most of the land on the north bank was still planted with rice. of sugar cane.
In fact, the three crops that Liang Chuan values most are chili tobacco and sweet potatoes!
Needless to say, sweet potato is an important weapon of the country. The Song Dynasty did not see its power, but Liang Chuan treated it like a treasure. He immediately introduced it to Penghu!
It is difficult to promote chili peppers.
Yang Xiu followed her to the island. Her hometown was in the distant middle of Shu, a place Liang Chuan had not even had the chance to visit.
After arriving on the island, it may be difficult to eat kimchi. Those ingredients cannot be found on the island, so you can only go to the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty to purchase them!
In order to have a bite to eat, Liang Chuan had to risk his life and make a few more trips to the Central Plains!
The economic value of chili peppers is not very high in this era, because spiciness is still a relatively novel taste, and not many people can accept it!
At that time, the price of spices such as Zanthoxylum bungeanum remained high in the Central Plains. Even in the Song Dynasty, the price of spices was also very high. By the Yuan Dynasty, many nobles even used spices to show their financial strength!
Chili pepper is a bit like Sichuan peppercorns, but after all, it cannot keep food fresh and has a different function than spices, so the price is definitely not as good as spices such as Sichuan peppercorns.
What's more important is that there may not be many people in the world who know how to cook Sichuan cuisine. Because they don't understand this spicy flavor, they can't invent this spicy dish!
The most famous time for spiciness may have been in the Forbidden City in Bianjing, where Liang Chuan introduced hot pot to the world, and people saw this way of eating for the first time. Hot pot in the Forbidden City was once hard to find, and later Liang Chuan's Liangjiazhuang was destroyed , the pepper seedlings inside were destroyed, Liang Chuan stopped the hot pot in the Forbidden City.
Many dignitaries still want to try this famous dish. Unfortunately, the most important pepper is gone, and there are only other flavors. Sichuan-style hot pot has become unpopular.
The one with the highest economic value is tobacco.
Liang Chuan also set up a smoking room in the Forbidden City for the dignitaries to experience tobacco, and also provided a large amount of tobacco for officials of similar levels. Within a few years of the Forbidden City's opening, the capital had cultivated countless smokers, all of whom were of the same kind. Follow the trend and get addicted to smoking!
Smoke in the Forbidden City today
The room is still there, and the tobacco was transported from Xinghua. It is not grown elsewhere. The operator is Sun Houpu.
And cut tobacco has spread from Bianjing to all over the country. Many people know that there is such a grass in the world, which can make people's souls so stable. .
It is undeniable that cigarettes can cause many chronic diseases, especially the lungs. However, cigarettes are also the spiritual sustenance of many people. During major events, lighting one can calm people down. , Cigarettes are the best means of communication. No matter whether two people know each other or not, as long as they light one, the distance between them can be immediately shortened, and they can stand together and smoke for a long time. .
Liang Chuan has completely withdrawn from Qingyuan.
The glorious and great Qingyuan Port once had thousands of sails crossing it, but now there is not a single ship on the sea. The merchants also know that this time the sea is really going to be closed. Liangchuan has run away, who can still afford to run this port!
In order to prevent the Japanese from causing trouble again, the Song Dynasty issued a death order, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city had to patrol the sea to prevent the Japanese from landing.
Except for the Wanda Chamber of Commerce in Qingyuan, all other businesses are really shut down.
According to the current situation, not to mention Wanda Chamber of Commerce, even farming will become a problem.
Now Liang Chuan is thinking about which business is more profitable and must find a way to break the situation.
After tossing and turning in bed a lot, Liang Chuan couldn't think of a good way to alleviate the current drought in time.
The land in Qingyuan is not much better than that in Xinghua. At most, it is divided into seven mountains, one water and two fields. The fields are all concentrated on the plains downstream of Sunjiang River. Such a large population depends on such a small amount of land, and they cannot go to the sea to do business. The people can only do it if they don't make trouble. There's a ghost!
Seeing the Song Dynasty playing like this, Liang Chuan felt very sad, but he had no choice. How can he, a common man, interfere in government affairs?
In the past, I held a Qingyuan Port in my hand, and money kept coming in like it was made at home. Now that Qingyuan Port is gone, what can we do to support our large army? This is a very serious problem.
You can eat sweet potatoes, but filling your stomach is not enough. You must also pay your military pay on time!
Liang Chuan is already thinking about how to establish an industrial chain. This matter is very urgent. Liang Jiajun may be able to persist in a year and a half, but as time goes by, no one can survive on feelings alone!
Unless this force is disbanded!
But the Song Dynasty court is now looking for Liang Chuan everywhere, and it is no longer possible to go back. The Japanese at sea also have a blood feud with him. Disbanding the Liang family army is tantamount to getting tired of life and asking for death!
Liang Chuan couldn't even think about disbanding!
Several women followed Liang Chuan to the island, and then they really had a new understanding of Liang Chuan.
Lin Yiniang knew that Liang Chuan was out conquering the world, but she never expected that he could conquer an island!
Shen Yuzhen and Zheng Ruoying watched Liang Chuan busy every day, but they didn't expect that there was such a large island overseas and they didn't know any news about it.
Liu Jinyan was even more surprised. When she arrived on the island, she just realized why her mother Liu E had no confidence in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty and left her alone to the unknown Liang Chuan. She naively thought that her mother had figured it out and wanted to make things perfect for herself and Liang Chuan, but she didn't know that her mother knew Liang Chuan best, and only Liang Chuan had the power to protect her!
Anon was equally surprised.
How many unknown secrets are there behind Liang Chuan? Along the way from Guangnan, everything I saw was extraordinary. How could an ordinary person accomplish so many incredible things?
Alas, if her silly son had half the ability of Liang Chuan, Guangyuan would not have encountered such a disaster, and it would be easy to achieve a great career.
Liang Chuan had something hidden in his heart. He went to each lady's house these days and was not in the mood to communicate with them in depth. After hastily handing over a few errands, his interest waned.
The women know that there are not just a few lambs on this island. It takes a lot of energy to take care of so many people.
Human power is limited, and we can only focus on so many things!
They also began to realize that the gap with Liang Chuan was getting wider and wider.
Even if Shen Yuzhen was in Jinlou back then,
The top card also looked down on Liang Chuan, who was born in Xinghua Valley. As the daughter of Fengshan's richest man, Zheng Ruoying couldn't even look at Liang Chuan. There is also the chieftain's wife Anong, the Queen Mother's biological daughter Jinyan. Looking back, these people who were out of reach at the time can only look up to Liang Chuan now. .
They know better that there will be more women in Liangchuan in the future. . The rooms in this small house will become increasingly insufficient. .
Before dawn, Liang Chuan got out of bed and started walking around the island. It had been half a month since he came back, and Liang Chuan had no intention of thinking about anything else. He just wanted to relieve Fengshan's depressed mood at that time.
He Baozheng and Xiao Tianshi were seriously injured. He Baozheng was okay. That was because his foundation was too weak. Most of his body injuries were external injuries. He needed time.
The injury on Little Heavenly Master's body is particularly troublesome. Strictly speaking, it's not an injury. It's more like a loss of vitality and a loss of life.
Even An Yisheng and Secretary Huang are at a loss. They have obtained a lot of tonics from Qingyuan, but so far there is no effective cure. They can only take the medicines as they are available, and eat only some tonics that are beneficial to the body. medicine.
Not to mention, good medicine can bring even a dead person back from the Lord of Hell!
These medicines are either the best wild ginseng in Liaodong, which is more than a hundred years old, as well as deer antler, Ganoderma lucidum, bird's nest rehmannia root, and fleece-flower root that is as thick as Zhang Guolao's back then. These are hard to find in the world. Such a good baby, I boiled it into soup for the little Celestial Master to nourish himself for free.
It turned out that after taking these good medicines to replenish qi and blood, the little Celestial Master's complexion began to improve visibly. Although he was still unconscious from time to time, his time was shortened a lot.
Liang Chuan asked An Yisheng and Secretary Huang to take good care of the little Heavenly Master. They also shouldered the responsibility. In terms of seniority, they had to call the Little Heavenly Master uncle.
The two of them studied medical skills, but Longhushan was best at Taoism. The two were neither different, but also similar.
Although they don’t know why Little Heavenly Master is like this, they both know that Little Heavenly Master’s situation is very serious!
Liang Chuan still can't forget the performance of the little Celestial Master in Xinghua City. In the past, it was said that he was just a charlatan, and it was nothing to worry about. Now Liang Chuan has to re-examine this master of the Celestial Master's righteous way!
When Liang Chuan came out of Little Heavenly Master's ward, he was covered in the smell of medicine. The medicine was really powerful. Just taking a few more breaths of the smell on his body made Liang Chuan feel much better and refreshed!
Liang Chuan has always been curious about the affairs of Little Heavenly Master and his two brothers, but the two of them didn't talk about it at all. Youdao meant that secrets should not be leaked, and Liang Chuan didn't ask too many questions.
Unknowingly, Liang Chuan had already reached the beach.
There is actually someone fishing!
Fishing is a hard work.
The waves crashed against the rocks, making a thunderous sound, and the surrounding sounds could not be heard at all. Liang Chuan approached slowly, still afraid of disturbing the fishermen.
Ha, it's none other than Zhaodi!
Liang Chuan walked to Zhaodi and patted his shoulder gently!
Brother Zhao was shocked. It was still dark at this time, and the island was quiet. There was no other sound except the sound of waves.
'Third brother, why are you here?
Liang Chuan glanced at the sea and said, "I couldn't sleep. I saw someone fishing, so I came here. I didn't expect it was you!"
Liang Chuan took a look at the fishing rod that Zhaodi was fishing with. It was made of bamboo, but it had a spindle on it so that the fishing line could be doubled in length.
Because of the fishing line, sea fishing is much more difficult than river fishing!
The fishing line made of fine linen cannot be stretched as fast as the silk line of later generations. Usually it is a very big ball when it is twenty or thirty meters long. Fortunately, the fish in this sea are very violent. No matter how hard you hook, the fish will bite you. This fishing is interesting!
Zhaodi, like myself, has grown from young to middle-aged. Hearing that something happened in Fengshan, Zhaodi couldn't eat well or sleep for several days.
'My father. . Are you ok?
Zhaodi said worriedly, although he
He married Fang Tianding's daughter Fang Wan, but has always lived in the Fang family. The Fang family's property was also given to Zhaodi, which is similar to being a son for others. Zhaodi has rarely returned to Fengshan in recent years.
Among this group of people in Xinghua, those who recruit younger brothers are the lowest, but the end point of recruiting younger brothers can definitely be regarded as one of the highest!
After Fang Tianding passed on his skills to his wife and children, he carried it forward and made the Fang family's iron shop bigger and stronger. In just a few years, the thin and helpless young man turned into the powerful man he is now. Men, both career and family have a good harvest. Many people in Xinghua can't even be found. Only some people from the Chengguan Brigade are still alive. Others either disappeared or died during the Xinghua Rebellion. What a tragic end.
Precisely because Liang Chuan had a good relationship with Zhaodi and treated him as his own brother, he was even more unwilling to take Zhaodi into danger. When he met such a good family in Qingyuan, Liang Chuan decisively called him Zhaodi. After settling down the family and learning a craft that is enough to make a living, no matter how big the difficulties are in the future, it will be enough to be safe without Liang Chuan around.
