Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Shenjia Village is located on the border between the Great Zhou Kingdom and the Western Regions, and although Lishui Village belongs to the Western Regions, it is adjacent to Shenjia Village.

In the eighth year of Qiheng, there was a plague of locusts, and the villagers of Shenjia Village were desperate. They crossed mountains and ridges to Lishui Village to borrow sheep.

Everyone did not forget this kindness, and immediately donated food one after another.

"Yes, this kindness must be repaid. I will donate one stone of refined grains and two stones of potatoes."

"And my family, also one stone of refined grains and two stones of potatoes."

Everyone responded.

"Don't worry, I'll write it down." The village chief smiled happily, spread out a pen and paper and began to record.

There are a total of 50 households in Shenjia Village, and each household has one shi of refined grain and two shi of potatoes, which means that there are [-] shi of refined grain and [-] shi of potatoes.

After the registration, the village head called for another round, and many who had surplus added another stone of potatoes, increasing the total to fifty stones of refined grain and 150 stones of potatoes.

After the calculation, it is still not enough. There are nearly [-] people in Lishui Village, and there is no food left in the granary. This time, I will borrow food to go back to spend the winter. starve.

But almost every household in Shenjia Village donated one shi of refined grains and three shi of potatoes, and each household had little leftover grain, and they also needed food for the winter.

Shen Yuan buried his head in the calculations, and it took at least six or seven months for a family of three hundred to spend the winter to next summer, and at least five or six hundred shi of grain was calculated casually, and such a large amount of grain was not so easy to gather.

Every family in Shenjia Village did their best to collect only two hundred shi.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that their cattle and sheep are starved to death, and cattle and sheep cannot grow up in a year or a half. After two or three years, how can they be slaughtered?
Coupled with the unique geographical environment of the Western Regions, ordinary crops cannot grow in that plateau area, and nothing can be grown if you want to grow it.

This makes the locust plague in the Western Regions much more difficult than in the Central Plains. They will face no production and income for two or three years, and the whole country will be in a huge predicament! Unless~~~
Thinking of this, Shen Yuan couldn't help curling his lips. This is the only thing that can save the entire Western Regions. It must be handed over to Ah Xun, and let him use it to negotiate with the King of the Western Regions to obtain the greatest benefits and support.

If the king of the Western Regions is willing to submit to His Royal Highness the King of the Night, the courts of the Great Zhou Kingdom will undergo considerable changes.

"Village head." Shen Yu'an raised his hand to signal, "On behalf of the owner of Tianxia Commercial Bank, I will donate [-] shi of refined grains and [-] shi of potatoes to the villagers of Lishui Village to survive the disaster year."

As soon as Shen Yu'an finished speaking, all eyes turned to this side.

The head of Lishui Village pushed aside the crowd excitedly and followed the voice.

"Thank you girl, thank you girl, the 'Changshengtian' on our grassland will definitely bless you for a long life!"

Xie Wan took out a white khata and solemnly hung it around Shen Yu'an's neck, and bowed deeply respectfully.

The village chief hurriedly explained, "Tianxia Commercial Bank is the royal property of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and Shen Dadong's family represents the royal family!!"

The head of Lishui Village knelt down when he heard the rush, "Thank you to the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, thank you to the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, long live long live Emperor Qi Heng."

After being thankful, the village chiefs of the two villages and the patriarch Shen Yu'an and others agreed that all the rice and grain would be collected in three days and transported to Lishui Village by waterway detour.

Only at this time did the villagers in Shenjia Village know that Shen Yu'an had become the boss of Tianxia Commercial Bank, and they all admired Shen Yu'an.

Of course, except for the few families who had objections to Shen Yu'an, Yufen Sulan Daohua, the three of them stood around with folded arms and laughed sarcastically.

"Heh~~ It's really bold, it's shameless to gain fame with royal things."

"Isn't it? I don't know what method I used to become this big boss."

"Don't you know? Who in the whole Lingzhou doesn't know that she has seen His Highness the Crown Prince's illness once, and she used some tricks to climb up to His Highness the Crown Prince and become this big boss."

"Pfft~~ So what if you become such a big boss? Everyone in Tianxia Commercial Bank knows that they will not be able to do so, and they will close down sooner or later.'
Amidst the discussions, Shen Yuan left Saiguping and returned to his courtyard at the foot of the North Mountain.

Bai Yixue and A Feng were still practicing kung fu, while Shen Yuan went back to the main room, locked the door, and entered the portable space.

After entering, I was still healed by the beautiful scenery of the countryside in the space, and then went straight to the town. I asked at the seed shop in the town, and sure enough, there were highland barley seeds for sale.

By noon the next day, Shen Yu'an's space farm was planted with green barley.In the alpine regions of the Western Regions, the only way to help them survive this locust plague is to grow highland barley.

At that time, Ah Xun will be asked to negotiate with the king of the Western Regions for the greatest benefit.

In the afternoon, Shen Yuan went to the winery, and as soon as he showed up, Uncle Shen greeted him with a smile.

"Miss Shen, our winery has released a new wine, and I want you to taste it."

Shen Yuyan giggled and said, "Stuffed with potatoes?"

"Miss Shen is really smart, she can guess right." Uncle Shen boasted with a smile, and quickly poured out the young couple's wine, "You have to drink less, otherwise~~ ha ha." This girl drank too much and her mouth was broken. very.

Shen Yuan took a sip, smacked his lips, and gave a thumbs up to praise the good wine.

"We'll make potato bars from now on, and we'll talk about grain wine later."

"Well, food is getting less and less and the cost is getting higher and higher, so it's not cost-effective to brew." Uncle Shen chuckled, "Besides, many people don't even have to eat refined grains, so it's a bit inhumane for us to use them to make wine."
"Isn't it? Uncle talked about it in Yoyo's heart, leave me four jars of stuffed potatoes tomorrow, and I'll go to the county."

This day was the day when Ah Feng returned to the academy, and the three of them packed up early in the morning and prepared to go back to the county.

"Go to the winery to get some jars of wine first." Shen Yuan instructed Bai Yixue who was driving the car.

After leaving Wantian County for so long, I haven't seen Dean Yao and County Magistrate Sun for a long time, so I must bring them two jars of good wine.

"Okay." Bai Yixue responded, not forgetting to explain to Shen Yuan, "I also brought them wine every time these days, Dean Yao and Sun Juling always miss you."

When I came to the winery to fill up the wine, I went to the county.

After entering the city, he went straight to Qinglin Academy. As soon as the carriage arrived at the entrance of the academy, Dean Yao came out stroking his beard.

"Shen girl? Shen girl?" Before the car came to a complete stop, Dean Yao leaned over with his hands behind his back to lift the curtain of the car.

"Does Dean Yao know how to sniff? Or how do you know I'm back?" Shen Yuan jumped out of the car with a smile, and tugged at Dean Yao's gray beard happily.

"This girl~~ is just like Ah Feng, she likes to pull the beard of an old man like me." After speaking, she explained, "Yesterday I ran into Yong Lu on the street, and he said that you came back two days ago~ ~~"

"On the street? Which street? Wanhua Street?" Shen Yuan smiled happily.

"This kid is not serious." Dean Yao said while looking into the carriage, "Yo? What kind of wine is this? Hiss~~ It seems that the taste is different from before.'