Chapter 207: Spare my life
, my lord Hei Hu could not answer Jin Sui’s question because he also went to the northern border and did not participate in the reclamation of the border town.
But Jin Sui guessed the reason as soon as he got off the car. Cheng Yu was really brave! He took advantage of Li Heng, a fence-sitter, to open up wasteland in Yanzhou.
On the surface, the army was hoarding land to open up wasteland, but in fact, this was an excellent military location where they stored troops and repaired the Ming Road to facilitate a surprise attack on Yanzhou.
Cheng Yu was preparing for this. If the Yan nobles dared to attack the border town, he would use this opportunity to penetrate directly into the heart of Yan and turn the country upside down!
That's right! This is my style in Border Town! We are all on the card table. If you want to team up to mess with me, then I dare to turn the table over! Jinsui praised repeatedly: "This land is great!"
Yan Shiyi didn't even notice it, and continued to praise: "It's close to Yanzhou, so it's convenient to grow vegetables and sell them in Yanzhou."
Jin Sui was glad that he didn't bring Yan Jiu with him, as he would definitely be able to see through Cheng Yu's intentions.
When the few of them entered the vegetable field, a group of soldiers from the farming camp and their families came over to greet them.
Not to Yan Shiyi, but to Boss Ji.
Hei Hu and Han Xing have spread the new title of 'Boss Ji' throughout the army, and everyone will remember it with just one sentence.
"If you want Boss Ji to stay and lead us to continue living a good life, you have to respect her!"
Do I need to remind you of this? Who in the whole army doesn't respect Boss Ji? Others call her the fake King of Li, but in the hearts of the people of Border Town, it is because of her that Border Town exists today!
Who would have dared to imagine last year that this winter no one would starve to death or freeze to death, the children would be well fed and warmly clothed, live in a new house, and have meat every now and then.
More importantly, there used to be Tartars and horse bandits, but now these enemies don’t even dare to get close to the border town!
The people of Yanzhou, who used to be arrogant towards us, now have to be polite to us when they see us.
The backbone of the people in Border Town was reshaped by Boss Ji! Seeing many children helping in the vegetable fields, Jin Sui took out some candy from his purse and gave it to them, but he was thinking that the college had to be built quickly.
Boss Ji is narrow-minded and can't stand seeing children chasing chickens and dogs and running wildly. Go to school! "These vegetables are not in season, so the harvest should not be good, right?" Jin Sui asked with a smile.
The captain laughed and said, "Compared to the autumn harvest, the yield is indeed lower, but compared to other crops, this yield is still high!"
"One acre of pepper can yield 500 kilograms!"
Yan Shiyi was unmoved, but the Yan family guards he brought with him all gasped. One acre of land produced 500 kilograms of vegetables, and these were winter vegetables. Even the big restaurants in the city were scrambling to buy them at ten cents a kilogram.
"The tomato yield is even higher! One acre can yield 2,000 kilograms!"
Even Yan Shiyi was surprised: "Two thousand pounds! Are you sure?"
Jin Sui rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's winter now, and the greenhouse's yield is already quite good."
Yan Shiyi was stunned for a moment before jumping up and down and said, "Are you saying that planting in season will yield more than the harvest?"
Jin Sui frowned, "You've been eating tomatoes for so long, but you never asked about their yield? If you grow tomatoes in season and get less than 4,000 kilograms per acre, it's considered a low yield!"
Yan Shiyi felt that there was something wrong with his ears. No matter how frivolous he was, he still knew the grain harvest. This was too exaggerated! What magic did Border Town have? It produced several high-yield crops in a row, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, with an output per mu in the thousands.
In the past, we couldn't get so much grass from one acre of grass! Jin Sui laughed: "No wonder I've been planting in the border town for so long, but no one has come to buy a large amount of seeds. It turns out that no one believes it! Even you go to the border town every day and don't ask carefully, let alone others."
This is thanks to her improved fertilizers, formulated pesticides, and of course, most importantly, the seeds she took out from space.
These are the highest-yield varieties that have been improved by generations of our descendants. If the yield is still low under such unique conditions, we should reflect on ourselves.
Yan Shiyi still didn't believe it, so he ran to the greenhouse where the fruits had not yet been harvested and said, "I watched you harvest them, can you really get 2,000 kilograms?"
Jin Sui nudged him with his elbow and rolled up his sleeves: "I told you to come and just watch! Roll up your sleeves and go collect them together!"
She gave Yan Shiyi a bamboo basket and a pair of small scissors and taught him how to cut and how to put the basket together.
Of course, the Yan family guards did not just stand by and watch their master do it. For a moment, except for Heihu, everyone was harvesting tomatoes.
The reason why Heihu was not allowed to do it was that his hands were too strong and he could not control them. He would either pull the seedling racks or step on the seedlings, so they just asked him to carry and weigh them.
Yan Shiyi was soon convinced because he only cut a few tomato vines and filled a basket.
With this calculation, it is definitely not a problem to produce 2,000 kilograms per mu! He looked at Jin Sui with resentment. With such a high yield, why do you sell it to me so expensively? In the past, you sold me tomatoes by the piece, not by the kilogram! Do you have a conscience?
Jin Sui noticed his gaze and asked with a smile: "Do you have the confidence to open a thousand hot pot restaurants now? You can have as much tomato soup base as you want!"
Yan Shiyi took a deep breath, swallowed his resentment, and asked curiously: "Tomatoes have thin skins, so they will be easily crushed during transportation, right?"
Jinsui nodded: "So most of it is made into ketchup, and later it will be canned and sold to people in northern Xinjiang."
One shed is half an acre, and the harvest is completed in less than half an hour. The baskets are piled outside, and Heihu can carry them to the scale. One person stands by and counts, while another keeps accounts.
Jinsui did mental calculations while chewing a tomato and quickly finished weighing it. The harvest from half an acre was 1,582 kilograms. After deducting the weight of the basket, the total weight was just over 1,000 kilograms.
It seems that this captain is very honest and reports less than the actual amount.
The Yan family was so excited. No wonder the border town could develop so well! With such high-yield crops, it would be hard not to be rich! Jin Sui asked the captain, "Should we deliver it to the ketchup workshop right away?"
The captain smiled and shook his head: "This batch has been reserved long ago. The nobles in various states in Yandi have sent servants to wait. Once our vegetables are collected, they will transport them back home themselves."
Jin Sui laughed. It also saved shipping costs. Not bad! He asked casually, "How much is a pound of tomatoes?"
"Fifteen cents."
Jinsui thought about the price of tomatoes in future generations. This price was a bit high, but it was only available in our border town. It was a winter vegetable and could be eaten as a fruit, so this price was not considered expensive.
Yan Shiyi gritted his teeth and said, "Next year our Yan family will also plant it."
Jin Sui smiled and said, "Plant it. Send someone to learn. Since you are a salt substitute, I will give you a discount on the price of seeds."
Today, Jinsui mainly came to see not tomatoes and peppers, but cabbage.
From the time she first proposed the concept of hybrid vegetables to now, she has finally grown the first batch of cabbages.
There is only half an acre, and we don’t harvest it, but keep it all for seeds.
Just ask Boss Ji to take a look. Is this the cabbage she mentioned? There are Black Feather Battalion guards at the entrance of the greenhouse. This is the only greenhouse in the entire camp that is heavily guarded.
Except for Yan Shiyi, the Yan family guards did not let anyone in.
"Hiss, is this a dish?"
Yan Shiyi squatted down to look at them. Each of them was plump and weighed at least ten pounds. Was it a vegetable? Jin Sui took a look and saw that they were indeed vegetables grown in the army. The half-acre field of cabbages was lined up neatly like soldiers standing at attention.
It is indeed Chinese cabbage, with emerald-colored leaves, jade-colored stems, two layers of loose leaves on the outside, and a tightly wrapped core in the middle. It is growing very well.
After checking, she said, "You can take down the roof. Cabbages can withstand frost and are sweeter after frost."
It really grew!
By hybridizing cilantro, rapeseed and cabbage, after several generations of hybridization, we were able to grow Chinese cabbage!
Jinsui was very satisfied and proposed to reward the experimental team. He also asked them to write a tutorial so that they could hybridize more varieties of vegetables and fruits in the future.
Yan Shiyi asked hurriedly: "How much can this cabbage produce per mu?"
Jin Sui estimated: "At least three thousand kilograms. You can see that this one weighs more than ten kilograms."
Yan Shiyi slapped his thigh and said, "My Yan family will order seeds from you first!"
He said tentatively: "If I present this high-yield seed to the imperial court, I can be conferred a title!"
Jin Sui sneered: "The people in my border town haven't even had enough to eat! How can we have more to offer to the court!"
Yan Shiyi smiled: "That's right! The people of Yan have never tasted anything new! Who cares about the title?"
Jinsui is getting more and more anxious to open a college. We have a lot to do in the agricultural science department! Without a college and a professional research team, progress is too slow.
In the following time, she walked all over the camp under the leadership of the captain, and when she came to a muddy pond, she almost stepped into it.
Hei Hu grabbed him and said, "The ice in the mud pond is thin. You will freeze if you fall in."
The captain said with regret: "The mud from the Qinghe River is piled here. Over the years, it has become a mud pond. It's a pity to waste such a large area of land."
Jin Sui said hurriedly: "How can it be a pity? It would be great if we could plan to plant lotus roots, pears, and taro!"
There is no water to grow crops in the north. Even rice is not grown in the north these days. The three northeastern provinces, which are the source of fish and rice, are still barren.
The captain had never eaten these things before and looked at Jinsui in surprise. Even Yan Shiyi had only eaten lotus root.
Jin Sui smiled and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you. Wait until I send someone to the south to find seeds, and then I can plan this piece of muddy land!"
It was a big surprise that Jin Sui ran into Cheng Yu on the way back to Yanzhou! He came to Gu Changxiao in a hurry.
"The refugees have been brought back. As Boss Ji expected, many nobles along the way came to buy them. These are civilians from the border town, not slaves. How can we sell them to them? If they can't buy them, they will start to tempt and instigate the refugees to escape on their own. The troops I brought are too few, and I need the prince to send troops for support."
Jinsui immediately abandoned the carriage and rode on horseback, leaving Yan Shiyi behind and accompanying Cheng Yu back to the city to find Gu Changxiao.
Gu Changxiao gave half of the commercial tax that had been negotiated to Jinsui, and personally led the troops to meet the refugees.
Jin Sui directly handed him a dozen boxes of fish oil firearms:
"You don't have to use this on your own people, but it can intimidate the nobles. This is too much! They really treat us civilians as slaves!"
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Yan Jiu wanted to go with Gu Changxiao: "I will persuade those nobles."
Gu Changxiao didn't want him to go, because once he went, he wouldn't be able to fight. Taking this opportunity to severely punish the nobles was the opportunity Gu Changxiao had been waiting for.
Yan Jiu seemed to have seen through Gu Changxiao's intentions and said softly, "Trade with Northern Xinjiang has not yet begun. People in Chang'an are waiting to see how Your Majesty will settle these refugees. If there is a big conflict with the nobles, it will be disadvantageous to Your Majesty."
Jin Sui agreed with Yan Jiu's words and whispered to Gu Chang Xiao: "Just scare them. The most important thing is to take the refugees back to the border town. We can settle the score with them later!"
Only then did Gu Changxiao agree to let Yan Jiu go with him. Suddenly, the news that King Li and the Yan family were leaving Yanzhou at the same time disappeared.
Li Heng was the happiest. The King of Li was gone! He could finally relax! When he heard that the King of Li had handed over the drafting of the border commercial tax to Boss Ji, Li Heng was disdainful. If Cheng Yu came, he would still perfunctorily deal with it.
What Boss Ji? I am a dignified official of the imperial court, so how can I be afraid of a gangster boss like him?
The person who came to the door was not some underworld boss, but a beautiful girl. Yan Shiyi and Shier Niang came with Jin Sui because they were afraid that Li Heng would bully Sui Sui.
Li Heng put on an official air. Even if you are the woman of the King of Li, so what? You are not the princess. At most you are a concubine or a confidante. I am a governor of a state. How can I be afraid of a woman like you? Jin Sui saluted Li Heng with courtesy and asked with a smile: "Sir, can you show me the business law? Since the prince has entrusted me with this important task, I can only take responsibility."
Li Heng still had great authority in front of others. He stroked his beard and snorted coldly: "Shang law is a major issue at the border! The court takes the law seriously. Can you see through it?"
Yan Shiyi was about to step forward to defend Jin Sui, but Jin Sui raised her hand and said, "Master Yan, can you take Miss Yan out? Let me talk to Lord Li alone."
She has a little girl on her left and a little girl on her right. Yan Shiyi's heart trembled when he heard it. The word "little girl" and you are like the word "black blind man" and "cute", which have nothing to do with each other!
Yan Shiyi began to sympathize with Li Heng. I thought I was blind before that I didn’t recognize that Miss Ji was the fake King Li.
Now it seems that Li Heng is even more blind than himself! He felt much better instantly.
He took Twelve Niang out and considerately closed the door.
Li Heng still looked arrogant. What do you want to do? Kneel down and beg me? Or cry and make a scene? Of course, he didn't think of seducing her. This was the woman of the King of Li. He didn't dare to think like that! As a result, the little beauty still smiled and said, "My Lord, are you really unwilling to show me?"
Li Heng said sternly: "No matter who you are to the prince, I will not show you such an important thing!"
Then he looked up and saw Jinsui walking towards him with big strides, throwing the things on his desk away and jumping onto his desk.
The contrast is too great. How could the beautiful girl who was gentle and quiet just now suddenly turn into a naughty monkey?
"You, what are you going to do? If you beat up an official appointed by the imperial court, even the prince can't save you!" Li Heng's voice trembled a little.
I thought to myself, if she really dared to do it, I would have no choice but to beat the woman.
Then he realized that he was wrong. The little girl grabbed his collar and still smiled:
"I told you, if you dare to be a fence-sitter again, I will shave all your grass!"
When she said this, Jin Sui's voice changed to Gu Changxiao. She was not wearing any makeup in the first place and was looking at him so closely.
Even if Li Heng was blind, he could still recognize her. His eyes widened instantly, sweat poured down his face, and his hands and feet began to tremble: "You, you are..."
Jin Sui turned his wrist and a small knife appeared in his hand. He picked it up and shaved Li Heng's beard in two strokes.
He knocked his hat off with a palm and cut his hair with a knife.
Li Heng was completely paralyzed with fear: "Your Majesty, spare my life!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
