In the following period, Shuobei entered the stage of development and construction.
After the wine-making business was suspended, the refined salt business became the most profitable business in Shuobei.
By selling official positions, they made a small profit, which helped to alleviate Shuobei's poor financial situation.
Those who bought official positions also came to report one after another.
After an assessment, most of them were sent to Sanbian City to assist in managing the people who migrated from Beihuan and the prisoners of war.
Those people over there can do whatever they want.
When the time comes, those who should be killed will be killed, and those who should be exiled will be exiled.
After all, others have spent real money to buy official positions, so you should let them satisfy their desire to be an official first, right?
Among those who bought official positions, in addition to those who were just filling in the numbers, there were also a few people with some talent and learning.
However, Yun Zheng was not sure whether they were sent by the third brother or other forces. Although he entrusted them with important tasks, he secretly sent people to monitor them.
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If we can rely on these people to uncover the mastermind behind this, it would be a huge surprise.
With Yun Zheng's vigorous promotion, honeycomb coal has gradually entered the homes of ordinary people in Shuobei.
By the time winter comes, honeycomb briquettes will gradually become popular.
However, honeycomb coal basically has to be produced and sold by the people themselves, and the possibility of transporting it to the interior for sale is very small.
This is not a valuable thing in the first place, and just transporting it to the interior will increase the cost unnecessarily.
Therefore, Yun Zheng specifically instructed that the price of honeycomb briquettes should not be too high.
We can’t say that all the people in Shuobei can afford it, but at least slightly wealthier families can afford it.
During this period, the navy's warships also arrived at the temporary port in Shuobei.
Before going to sea, the warship needs to be inspected.
In addition, Yun Zheng also transferred 1,500 people from Dingbei to conduct some simple training.
At least these soldiers who are about to go to sea must be allowed to adapt to life on the warship first.
Otherwise, these people would probably have fainted from seasickness before they even reached their destination.
Beimoduo also sent people to Dingbei to ask for help.
Qiuchi and Dayue Kingdom were causing trouble right next to Beimoduo. The leaders of Beimoduo were frightened all the time, fearing that the two countries would suddenly attack Beimoduo.
Yun Zheng symbolically sent several thousand people to settle at the border between Beimoduo and their territory, and at the same time ordered Yanhuishan Camp and Weibian to build granaries as soon as possible.
Once they go to war with the enemy, these two places will be important places for storing military supplies.
When Yun Zheng had nothing to do, he would either go to the firearms workshop and work with the craftsmen to improve the craftsmanship of firearms, or stay with his woman in the palace and seduce Qi Yan, intending to train Qi Yan into a young man of the Dagan Dynasty.
Qi Yan is still young and has no awareness of being a hostage. He follows Shen Nianci around all day long.
On this day, Yun Zheng was dragging Shen Luoyan, who was visibly pregnant, to watch two little kids playing in the yard. Tong Gang hurried in and whispered, "Your Highness, Princess Jiayao has brought falcon trainers to the Yanhuishan camp and is heading to the edge of the hill. General Yu Shizhong sent someone to report that Princess Jiayao wants to meet Your Highness at the edge of the hill..."
Jiayao?
Yun Zheng was slightly surprised.
Hasn’t Jiayao just returned to Beihuan not long ago?
Why are you here again?
Jia Yao wanted to see him, but he always felt that something bad was going to happen.
Before he saw Jia Yao, he seemed to hear Jia Yao's voice in his ears.
We need food, weapons, and armor...
Yun Zheng didn't want to see Jia Yao.
However, the autumn harvest will be here in a while, and then we will have to face a major war with the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms.
It would be a good idea to meet with Jiayao in advance to discuss some things.
If Jiayao wants weapons, food or something like that, forget it.
Unless Jia Yao buys it with real gold and silver, or exchanges it for a good war horse.
Yun Zheng thought so and immediately ordered Tong Gang, "Tell the person who came to report the news to go back and tell Princess Jiayao that I will meet her at the edge of the hill!"
"yes!"
Tong Gang immediately took the order and left.
Watching Tong Gang go away, Shen Luoyan couldn't help but pout slightly, and looked down at her belly, "It would be great if the Three Kingdoms coalition attacked again next year..."
Because of her pregnancy, she had missed the opportunity to attack the Beihuan King's court.
She will be absent from the next battle.
Whenever she thought of the fierce fighting ahead, her heart felt like it was being scratched by a cat.
"I hope they attack again next year."
Yun Zheng shrugged and pulled Shen Luoyan to stand up, "Let's go, call Zi'er and Miaoyin, let's go prepare a gift for Jiayao!"
"Gift?"
Shen Luoyan looked at Yun Zheng in surprise, "What gift?"
"What do you think?"
Yun Zheng showed a wicked smile on his face.
After leaving the palace, they soon arrived at the place where potatoes were planted.
Autumn is approaching, and it is almost time to harvest these sweet potatoes.
Yun Zheng pulled Shen Luoyan into the potato field.
When the leaves of the sweet potatoes were pulled apart, cracks of varying sizes appeared on the ground underneath.
Yun Zheng found a larger crack and dug up the soil above it, and sweet potatoes gradually came into their sight.
However, these potatoes vary in size.
The big ones are bigger than an adult's fist, while the small ones are probably not much bigger than a thumb.
"so much?"
Even so, Chen Luoyan and the others still looked surprised.
Although Yun Zheng had told them long ago that the yield of these potatoes was very high, they were still somewhat skeptical because Yun Zheng's words were too exaggerated.
But now, they can actually see the yield of the potatoes.
Thinking about the exaggerated yield of sweet potatoes, they couldn't help but feel happy.
If we can plant sweet potatoes on a large scale, Shuobei will definitely be self-sufficient in food!
“This is considered bad looking.”
Yun Zheng raised his head with a happy smile on his face.
Although their potatoes cannot compare with the improved sweet potatoes in the previous life, under their careful care, the growth of these potatoes is also very gratifying.
The combined weight of the potatoes under this seedling is definitely more than one kilogram.
Although it was their first time planting potatoes and they did not get the plant spacing right, there were at least 2,000 potatoes on this acre of land.
Even if not all the potatoes grow like this, there shouldn't be much of a problem with a yield of around 1,500 kilograms per mu.
In the Dagan Dynasty, this is definitely an unprecedented high productivity.
Ye Zi followed Yun Zheng and squatted down. She raised her delicate hands to touch the half-exposed potatoes and said with a happy face, "Let's just take out the big ones, and leave the small ones alone, so they can continue to grow..."
Ye Zi didn't want to waste even those small sweet potatoes.
She hopes that after the soil is piled back up, the small potatoes will be able to grow to the size of a fist.
This is truly the best of treasures!
No wonder Jiayao has always been obsessed with these sweet potatoes.
"I don't think it can grow much longer."
Yun Zheng smiled, "We can start digging the cellar later. It's not enough for these potatoes to just grow. We have to keep them intact to be a real victory! By the way, we must let the two people sent by the third brother know about the high yield of potatoes!"
As Yun Zheng spoke, he dug out all the potatoes under the potato seedling.
There are seven sweet potatoes, big and small.
However, only four were qualified, and the remaining three were just there to make up the numbers.
Yun Zheng took it in his hand and weighed it.
The largest sweet potato should weigh half a pound.
Everyone’s efforts have finally paid off.
One year!
In another year, they will basically be victorious!
"You...you're not going to trick him again, are you?"
The girls were at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"I'm giving him credit for this!" Yun Zheng laughed, "I have to take good care of these potatoes. After the harvest, I have to clean up all the vines in the potato field!"
Chen Luoyan was suspicious, "You want to sell potatoes to Yun Li?"
"Um."
Yun Zheng nodded, "Then let the news out. Bei Huan will exchange a warhorse for a potato. Let's see how much silver the third brother has!"
“…”
Ye Zi was speechless, "Does Yun Li still have that much silver?"
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "He doesn't have it, but the aristocratic families and clans do!"
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