Mu Yunchao really made a deal with Zhou Shichu, which was to let her research the secret recipe of a low-end version of starch sausage. This was not difficult for Zhou Shichu. She developed the secret recipe that Mu Yunchao needed in just a few days. , sold directly to him.
A few months later, almost all the victims in Cuicheng participated in the construction of "relief for work" infrastructure projects. Not only were they able to support themselves, they also saved some money. By the time these projects were completed, the floods in Licheng had long receded. But these victims had no intention of going back, and most of them stayed in Cuicheng.
Mu Yunchao gained a large population, and the newly cultivated fields were enough for the victims to cultivate, so Cuicheng became more and more prosperous.
While Zhou Shichu was slowly expanding her food shop, Mu Yunchao was also slowly expanding his own territory. He was both a general and a king, and he also knew how to use people well. He had many capable people under his command. A go-getter, so when fighting for territory, he always loses less and wins more, and the territory he occupies becomes larger and larger.
Li Wei's official position has also been promoted. He is no longer a junior captain now. He has become General Xuanwei. He has made great achievements in battle. He is willing to fight without his life, so he will naturally be promoted quickly.
However, despite his official success, Li Wei's family affairs are still in a mess. His son is becoming more and more naughty. He wants to find a virtuous woman, but his stepwife disciplines his son, but she is either busy fighting or has not found a suitable one. In short, he is still a bachelor.
As Mu Yunchao's territory became larger and larger, Zhou Shichu also opened more and more food shops. Almost every time Mu Yunchao occupied a city, she would go to that city to open a store, and she made money by opening chain stores. Got a lot of money.
And after repeated trials and improvements of her potatoes and sweet potatoes, she finally succeeded in growing types suitable for farming in this time and space. Zhou Shichu has slowly let farmers in Zhuangzi plant these new grains.
From being skeptical at the beginning, those farmers saw the harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes with their own eyes and ate them themselves. After they were sure that this was really a new grain with higher yield and more satiety than rice and wheat, they no longer needed Zhou Shichu. Forced, they themselves couldn't wait to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes.
The money Zhou Shichu earned in the past few years has been spent on buying farms. After the success of local cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes, she planted all the land in her farm with these two crops, because she remembered that she wished the world , it seems that next year, there will be a severe drought in the entire northwest and northeastern regions of the world. Food cannot be grown, and famine will follow. Many people will starve to death and die of thirst. It is true that they will starve thousands of miles away and litter the fields with corpses.
Mu Yunchao's territory was also in an area severely affected by drought. Mu Yunchao was severely damaged by this. After the drought and famine, it took him five years to recover.
It can be said that this drought and famine had a great impact, delaying Mu Yunchao's unification of the world for several years.
Of course, how long it takes Mu Yunchao to fight for the world has little to do with Zhou Shichu. What she cares about is that her new grain seeds can save many people and earn enough merit.
It is for this reason that she spent a lot of effort to localize the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes one year before drought and famine, so that more people could be prepared and save more rations.
Now that the new grain variety has been successfully cultivated, Zhou Shichu did not make any pretense, but directly approached Mu Yunchao and told him that he had a new grain variety with high yield and good taste, and hoped that Mu Yunchao could promote it.
Mu Yunchao would definitely not believe her easily. After all, this was about the food rations of the people all over the world. He would never dare to joke about it. If something went wrong, half of the country he had finally conquered would be lost again. No, all previous efforts have been wasted.
But he was also a bold and careful person, but he also had a lot of holes in his chest. After hearing Zhou Shichu's report, he personally took people to her farm to see with his own eyes whether there were really new grain seeds.
If it is false, Zhou Shichu will naturally not get good results; but what if it is true? New grain, this is a good thing that can make him famous forever, then his success rate in competing in the world will be a few percent higher.
That's why Mu Yunchao paid so much attention to Zhou Shichu's words.
Zhou Shichu led a group of people to his farm. They arrived just in time. It was the time to harvest potatoes. Groups of farmers working enthusiastically were digging potatoes in the fields. Each of those potatoes was as big as an adult's fist and round. Pulling up a seedling brought up a nest of seven or eight potatoes. The harvest was extremely gratifying. The farmers were all beaming with joy and spared no effort in gathering the potatoes because the feeling of a bumper harvest was enough to make them forget their physical fatigue.
"These are new grain seeds? The yield is very good!" Mu Yunchao squatted down and imitated the farmer next to him in pulling up potato seedlings. He didn't need to use too much force to pull up a nest of potatoes. Mu Yunchao was surprised. I couldn't hide my excitement.
"Yes, these are called potatoes. The way to eat them is very simple. After boiling, you can peel them and dip them in salt and eat them, or cut them into slices or strips and fry them." Zhou Shichu introduced.
When the other staff saw this scene of a great harvest, they were also stunned, as if they couldn't believe their eyes, and stared at the farmers harvesting potatoes, which made the farmers so cautious that they didn't even bother to work. So neat.
"What is the yield of this acre of land? Has it been weighed?" Mu Yunchao asked Zhou Shichu expectantly. In fact, just by looking at the harvest, he knew that the yield could not be lower than the yield of rice and wheat. , but he wanted to know how high the output could be.
Zhou Shichu showed a meaningful smile and said: "The yield per mu is three thousand to four thousand kilograms."
"What? Three thousand kilograms to four thousand kilograms? You didn't lie to me?" Mu Yunchao almost held his breath when he heard this number. He had learned before he came that the yield of rice in ordinary fields was five hundred kilograms per mu. , the best fertile fields only yield 600 jins, but these potatoes yield 3,000 to 4,000 jins per mu! The yield is six, seven, or eight times that of rice!
When Mu Yunchao heard this, could he not be excited? This means that the land that used to be able to support a family of three can now support eighteen to twenty-four people if new grain species are planted!
Because of the wars over the years, their food rations were already in short supply. The soldiers had to tighten their belts even when they went to the battlefield. But now Zhou Shichu brought him these new grains, which could just solve the problem of food shortage. It was like providing help in the snow. Mu Yun Chao almost burst into tears of gratitude to Zhou Shichu.
"I'm not lying to you. In fact, if we take care of it more carefully and the land is more fertile, the yield can be higher. It's just that the soil in my Zhuangzi is only of average soil quality, so the yield is only this." Zhou Shichu said frankly.
"If you don't believe it, you can just ask your people to harvest potatoes from an acre of land and weigh them yourself. Then you will know that I have not exaggerated the yield." Zhou Shichu was afraid that he would not believe it, so he asked him to find someone to harvest it.
