My whole family traveled across time with an encyclopedia

Chapter 232 The Tenant
Ning Qingxi stepped forward to light it up a little, but he couldn't tell what kind of seeds it was, at most he could recognize pumpkin, pepper and rice.

"Grandma, can you take it out and grow it? No one will help, everyone is busy."

Wang Xiujuan led Ning Qingxi out of the warehouse, "You think I'm stupid, I'm an old lady who grows so many things, and I have to grow them until the year of the monkey? Isn't this just making yourself guilty?"

"Isn't our food production not enough? I plan to take this kind of seeds to Mrs. Fu, and ask her to arrange some people for me. I will take other people to plant it. The ancient food production is too low. If we promote this pumpkin, And set up a rice field to raise fish, which can be regarded as accumulating Yin virtue."

Wang Xiujuan thought of the scene outside the city that she went to see today. Outside the county was a bunch of half-clothed refugees, even worse than the group of people they saw before!
One by one, they drank the porridge with clear soup and little water, like a starved ghost reincarnated, and drank it all at once.

Fortunately, the weather is still cold, and the porridge has been cold, otherwise, she suspects that those people would drink the boiling hot porridge directly, and they are not afraid of scalding their stomachs.

"You didn't see how miserable the group of people outside the city is. There were old people, women and children among the group of refugees we met earlier, but there were not many old people and children outside, and there were only a few sporadic women with relatively large skeletons. "

"The most disgusting thing is that I still smell meat from the mountain outside today."

But Wang Xiujuan knew what it meant even if she didn't tell Ning Qingxi.

I was still hungry, but suddenly lost my appetite, and even felt a little nauseous.

"Grandma, stop talking."

……

Ning Changrong was called to a meeting.

The meeting was about what to do with the group outside the city.

"General, our food supply is almost bottomed out. If there are more refugees running over, we will have no food to give away." Bai Yunliang said.

Chang Yuan nodded to show that he understood, "The purpose of calling everyone here today is to find a way to solve this problem. Right now we are short of population. This group of refugees can raise a lot of strong men after a few months. When we win the Golden State, The entire Taizhou Prefecture will fall into our hands, and we can send these people out to farm at that time."

What Chang Yuan meant was that although there was not enough food, the population could not be extrapolated.

Not only can we not push people out, but we may have to attract more people to develop and farm in the future.

So today's topic is very simple - to solve the food problem.

Ning Changrong asked, in the past, all the food was cultivated by himself, or he just robbed the land and robbed other people's granaries.

But now there are no granaries in the north at all. The only ones who have food are the White Lotus Sect. But their territory is in the north, and they probably don't have much food right now, let alone sell it.

Bai Yunliang knew that Chang Yuan was right. Since Chang Yuan had already set the general direction, he thought for a while and said, "General, since the population is necessary and food needs to be solved, we can consider buying from the south."

Wang Hanting was surprised and said: "Can they sell it to us? This time the quantity to be bought is quite a lot." He had also cooperated with aristocratic families and businessmen in the north before, but most of them were small troubles to solve some urgent needs. Not as conspicuous as it is now.

Bai Yunliang looked at Chang Yuan and explained: "General, don't worry, as long as we can afford the price, those people will definitely sell it to us."

He was born as a scholar, and occasionally dealt with those clans. He knew that these people were mothers if they had milk, and they never cared about imperial power.

Even if there is ten years of drought and ten years of famine, those clans who stock up on dozens of warehouses will still live comfortably and comfortably.

Ning Changrong also acquired a lot of historical knowledge from his daughter, and he knew what Bai Yunliang said was right.

Chang Yuan nodded in agreement with Bai Yunliang's statement, "Our army lacks everything, the most important thing is these gold and silver. In this case, I will leave this matter to Mr. Bai. I will set off in three days and I will select a group of people to accompany Bai Yunliang. Mr. Bai is going to trade, I hope Mr. Bai will not let me down."

Bai Yunliang stood up and saluted, "General, don't worry, Bai will definitely bring back the food."

Ning Changrong didn't speak much throughout the meeting, he was like a spectator.

To be honest, he is still in the learning stage so far. In modern times, he is a businessman. He still has a lot to learn from a businessman to an official, so he generally does not try to stand out.

……

Ning Qingxi left the table without taking a few mouthfuls of dinner.

Ning Changrong asked Wang Xiujuan curiously what was going on.

He also knew that he was still in charge of the matter outside the city. After Bai Yunliang left, he had to be more responsible.

"It used to be for survival, and we didn't pursue it anymore, but eating food when there is already food is definitely not allowed. Those people have been fined to mine."

The usual punishment is road construction. Mining is the hardest, most tiring, and has the highest death rate. Generally, those who are fined to mine will not be able to survive in this life.

Wang Xiujuan asked curiously: "The refugees outside will definitely accumulate more and more. I guess we don't have enough food, right? What does General Chang say?"

Ning Changrong said: "Didn't I come back late today? It's for this matter. The food problem has been solved. General Chang sent Mr. Bai to the south to purchase. There is no shortage of food in the south. It happens that we have a lot of gold and silver here."

"Can they sell it to us? If you buy so much grain at one time, you can find out who is behind Mr. Bai after a little research."

Ning Qingxi explained: "Grandma, these people recognize money but not people. Who cares who you buy it for, as long as you give money. Besides, the world is full of wars, and it's hard to say that the emperor can do it for a few more years." , it is even more impossible for those people not to make money for the emperor."

Ning Changrong nodded, "Xixi is right. But I think those people may pay a premium, but it's okay, as long as the food is in hand, after the autumn harvest, we will have a strong army and sufficient granaries, so we don't need to rely on anyone."

……

Village head Ning is as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood every day, registering information everywhere.

"You were all tenants in the north before?" He looked at the family and asked while registering.

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Then where did you get the money to rent the house?" Village Chief Ning looked at them suspiciously.

"Isn't it because my two brothers are strong? On the way, they helped those rich and big families fight off the robbers, and they rewarded us with a few taels of silver, so that we have money to rent a house in the county."

Village head Ning asked a few more questions, and the man answered them perfectly.

Village head Ning took a casual look at the family, nodded and left.

He didn't leave immediately, and continued to look for the next one pretending to be nonchalant.

The family followed him and saw that he went to another family to register information, so they went back with confidence.

(End of this chapter)