If we switch to Champa rice varieties, three harvests a year would definitely be a dream come true.
The most wonderful thing is that Champa rice can be promoted throughout the country, and can even be grown in the arid northwest.
Xie Yuan produced the secret recipe for making sugar and sold it to various prefectures and counties in Lingnan.
She bet that next spring, a sugarcane-planting craze would sweep across Lingnan.
Sugarcane is indeed very good, but it is not a staple food.
If too much sugarcane is planted, it will encroach on farmland, and then Lingnan will definitely face a food crisis.
...In a sense, this situation was caused by Xie Yuan.
Xie Yuan must take some action.
In addition, the powerful and wealthy would constantly expand their territory in order to expand their sugarcane plantations.
The interests of the Liao and Li people, who live in the mountains and forests and in their tribes, will inevitably be violated.
Huang Zhida of Huangzhou had always harbored rebellious intentions, and in recent years he had been constantly provoking conflicts between the Li and Liao people and the government.
Due to a combination of factors, Lingnan is bound to experience a major upheaval.
Turbulent times create heroes.
Helian Jue, wanting to control the entire Lingnan region, will take advantage of this chaos.
Xie Yuan couldn't manage the war for the time being, but she could provide Helian Jue with the greatest support in terms of food and money.
...
"Rice seeds?"
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the powerful and wealthy in Yuezhou held a lantern festival. Meanwhile, Helian Jue, who had already infiltrated Huang Zhida's lair, received a letter from Xuanjia delivered through a secret passage.
After quickly reading the letter, Helian Jue couldn't help but wonder, "What kind of surprise will the Xie family give me this time?"
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