Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 39: Cleverly Diverting the Crisis

Facing the remaining 200 people, Zhao Yingluo sneered, "You can't save corn seeds. If you save corn seeds, the yield will definitely be reduced or the harvest will be lost in the second year. I told the farmers last year, so they took advantage of the particularly good corn market last year." , almost sold all the corn on hand."

As soon as Zhao Yingluo finished speaking, her farmers immediately stood up to defend their master.

"The county owner did tell us that all the remaining [-] acres of corn last year would be sold except for enough to eat. But the price of corn last year was really too high. We didn't even keep anything for ourselves and sold it all."

"That's right, our whole family is not even willing to drink a bowl of polenta."

“This year we are still planting seeds provided by the county owner.”

……

Zhao Yingluo walked up to the farmers who had defected to Liang Da. After being glanced at by her sharp eyes, the farmers were all ashamed and lowered their heads.

"Oh, I remembered. You, a dozen farmers, were not the first farmers to plant corn last year because you doubted the corn yield. And you also missed the relevant training on corn planting in the later period, so you don't know why corn cannot be planted. .”

When Liang Da heard what Zhao Yingluo said, he realized why he lost to her. The dozen or so technical experts who had been recruited at a high price had no experience in corn cultivation.They paid a high price to buy corn as seeds, but they didn't know that the corn could not be planted again.

"Okay! It's in vain that I spent hundreds of taels of silver to ask you to guide corn cultivation. It turns out that you are all useless! Come here, tie them up for me and take back all the money you gave them."

Get your money back?The money Liang Da gave them was a huge sum of money that they had never seen in their lives. Once they got the money, several farmers did buy land. Most of the farmers put their money into the gold selling cave, and all their food, drink and entertainment were ruined. It's over.

Zhao Yingluo ignored Liang Da and turned her attention back to the farmers who were causing trouble. "So, it's not 'tampering with the seeds' at all, but you are too stupid! If you still don't believe it, what's going on? Each of you takes one stone of the harvested corn seeds to plant. You are not required to grow a yield of ten or eight stones. If you can grow a yield of more than four stones! I will compensate you for three years of production. How about thirty stones per mu? ?”

After hearing this, the farmers were a little eager to do anything. They watched these corn kernels being peeled off the corn cobs with their own eyes, and they expected that there would be no chance of manipulation.If you can grow four shi of food, you can still have [-] shi of food to compensate.

As for what she said about not being able to save corn seeds, they believed that she had tampered with the seeds, leading to a reduction in yields.

After thinking it over, most of them decided to take a gamble.

"But the ugly thing is ahead. If your yield per mu does not reach four stones, the whole family will be a slave and will be under my control."

The farmers who originally planned to receive the seeds were all stunned. If she won, she would lose three years of food, but if she lost, their whole family would not be a slave. This bet seemed a bit big, and some people immediately raised objections.

"It's not fair! The amount of slavery for our family is the same as thirty shi of grain?"

Zhao Yingluo glanced at them indifferently, "If thirty shi of grain is not enough, how about three thousand shi? As long as you win, you will get three thousand shi of grain for free. Member Liang, do you want to consider it? As long as you win , in addition to paying you three thousand shi of grain per mu, this princess will also return 100 million acres of land to you intact."

Seeing that his daughter was playing too big again, Zongze couldn't sit still. He was about to stand up to support her, but was pulled back by Lu Haowen and Li Gang together.

"Old general, please be patient. Since the princess dares to do this, she must be fully confident. Has she ever lost?"

Zongze calmed down quickly after being asked this question, right!It seems like my adopted daughter has never lost so far.

Although Liang Da is stupid, he is not hopelessly stupid. If he really continues to bet with her, I am afraid that his whole family will become her servants next year. "I'm willing to admit defeat. That 100 million acres of land will be yours from now on! As for the new bet, I don't dare to take the risk of my whole family being deported as a slave."

Zhao Yingluo and the three old men were a little surprised that he admitted defeat so neatly. How could this stubborn old man who eats people without spitting out their bones be so generous all of a sudden?

Liang Da didn't dare to continue betting with Zhao Yingluo, and other farmers naturally didn't dare to make this bet with Zhao Yingluo. They had no other choice but to admit defeat.

What makes them even more devastated is that now almost all the land within a hundred miles around Kaifeng City belongs to Zhao Yingluo.

They wanted to rent land to support their families, so they had to move further outside Kaifeng.

They have resentment, regret, and unwillingness in their hearts, but what can they do?Once you make the wrong choice, there is no room for regret.

The tens of thousands of farmers who decisively chose Zhao Yingluo feel lucky. Fortunately, after they follow Zhao Yingluo, food and clothing will no longer be the main problem that troubles them.

For the first time, they felt that the future seemed full of hope and brightness.

At this point, the gambling fight between Zhao Yingluo and Liang Da came to an end for the time being, but she didn't know that Liang Da would almost kill her in the near future.

After Zhao Yingluo annexed Liang Da's 100 million acres of land, plus the royal family's 100 million acres of land and the first 40 acres of self-purchased land, the fields she could control reached 240 million acres!

In addition, the total number of farmers under her control exceeds 70!Among these 70 people, excluding the old, young, sick and disabled, she could recruit more than [-] strong men as soldiers.

Her game has been getting better and better.

In addition to most of the 240 million acres of land planted with wheat, she also dedicated [-] acres of land to grow rapeseed.

Rapeseed, as an important oil crop, has not been widely popularized in this era. She wants rapeseed oil to become the main edible oil on the table in this era.

After arranging the planting of winter wheat and rapeseed, it was already the Double Ninth Festival, and Zhao Yingluo began to make plans to go to Zhongshan Mansion.

On this trip to Zhongshan Prefecture, in addition to complying with Wanyan Zongyi's agreement to trade the crops in her hands for his horses, he and she also planned to set up an office in Xingzhou, south of Zhongshan Prefecture, as a turnover place for goods traded in the market. .

In addition, she also planned to order Wang Zaixing to lead 1000 people to station in Xingzhou for a long time in the name of the cargo security team.In this way, the safety of trade channels can be protected.It can monitor the movements of Jin people from afar and provide buffer time to deal with unexpected wars.

Although Wang Zaixing surrendered to Zhao Yingluo not long ago, a series of things that Zhao Yingluo did completely convinced him and his subordinates who surrendered together.

Zhao Yingluo arranged a mansion for him in a newly built town in the north of the city to settle his family. In addition, he arranged for his son to attend school to teach knowledge.

Not only him, but also his [-] subordinates have been properly arranged.

(End of this chapter)