On the first day of June, water conservancy, roads and other projects were all stopped, and summer wheat harvest began.

Today, Jingle and Lan County have a population of 38,000, including 5,000 Guandi Army, several mining and brick factories in Heishan and Hongqi Mountain, a total of 7,000 workers. The total number of workers in the gun factory, artillery factory, gunpowder factory, saltpeter farm, armor workshop, and knife and gun farm tool forging workshop is nearly 2,000, and there are 500 female workers in the weaving workshop.

In addition to the officials of each department and the managers of various factory workshops, this part of the population accounts for about 15,000 people.

The combined population of self-cultivated farmers, middle-aged households, merchants and others in the two places is only about 3,000.

The remaining 20,000 people were hungry people taken in by Qinchuan, tenants left by major households, long-term workers, etc.

These people were placed in various villages in Loufan, Jingyou and Jinglelan City, including the elderly and children who could go to the fields, including half of the labor force, had about 15,000 labor force, and were the main force in Qinchuan's farming.

There are as many as 50,000 mu of winter wheat in Jinglelan County, and it takes four or five to complete the labor force. Because it is in a hurry, Qinchuan asked several workshops such as mines, brick factories, weaving workshops to temporarily suspend work, and transferred 7,000 workers to help, striving to harvest the wheat in three years.

The Guandi Army had to blockade all major roads and stationed in various towns. There were not many troops that could be drawn, and Qin Chuan only transferred 1,500 troops to maintain order.

In addition, he asked Luo Daniu to climb the camp and quietly move eastward, and ambushed on the mountain twenty miles east of Jiaoqu Farm.

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The Ningwang Palace has 8,000 acres of fertile land in the Loufan Valley, and all the plants are winter wheat.

Last time when the Tao manager of Ninghua Prefecture came, Qin Chuan proposed that he would manage the 8,000-acre farmland in the royal palace and would give rent to Ninghua Prefecture every year.

Manager Tao was still making a fuss with him at the time, but on the way back, Luo Daniu led the camp and was killed in a mess.

After Manager Tao escaped by chance, the only thing that happened to Tianzhuang was Ninghua King Zhu Minji reported to Qin Chuan to attack his guards with the intention of rebellion. Not long after, the imperial army came.

Obviously, the Ninghua King Zhu Minji was unwilling to do so, and he might be disdainful to take care of these farmlands for Qin Chuan.

Others may be afraid of Qinchuan, but the vassals of the Ming Dynasty could not be afraid of it.

Zhu Minji's escorts in the royal palace were obviously beaten by Qin Chuan, and they were beaten very painful, but they still dared to send the escorts in the royal palace to steal his wife.

From this we can see that Zhu Minji is a real pig.

The result of the robbery was that Manager Tao was killed by a knife, and more than half of the 300 guards from Ninghua Prefecture and Jin Prince's Mansion were killed and injured, causing heavy losses.

When Zhu Minji received the news, he was shocked and angry, cursing and writing a memorial. Then he ran to the King of Jin's mansion to cry to his nephew, Zhu Shenxuan, the prince of King of Jin.

But Zhu Shenxuan could not do anything except write memorials and scold Qin Chuan in anger.

Because there are no soldiers under the command of the King of Jin's mansion.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Jin Palace originally had nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses from the three Taiyuan guards, but later it was dismissed, leaving only the five hundred Yi Guards of the Yiweisi Department.

Most of these guards were guards of honor and could not fight at all. Later, the royal palace secretly trained a group of guards to be charged into the guard department, which led to five hundred guards.

But when Zhu Minji sent Manager Tao to Loufan, he borrowed a hundred guards and was attacked and killed on the way back. Those hundred guards were almost dead.

Not long ago, when Zhu Minji sent Manager Tao to Fenyang to steal the bride, he borrowed another 200 guards, but was attacked and killed, with more than 150 casualties.

Now, there are only 260 guards left in the King of Jin's mansion, and these little soldiers can do nothing.

Zhu Shenxuan could not mobilize the soldiers and horses of Taiyuan and Yangqu, and the only thing he could do was submit memorials.

The only thing Zhu Minji can do is wait.

Waiting and waiting, Zong Yi, who was in charge of the farm in the mansion, suddenly came to tell him that the grain in the Loufan Valley can be harvested, but the villagers of Jiaoqu Farm had already run away and no one was harvesting wheat there. If they didn't find a way to harvest, the wheat would have to fall into the ground.

Zhu Minji was anxious. His Ninghua Palace was not like other princes, who could often use hundreds of thousands or even millions of acres of arable land, but he only had less than 50,000 acres.

Among them, the fields in the Loufan Valley are adjacent to the water source, which are the best fertile land. Eight thousand acres of land can harvest eight thousand stones of wheat.

In desperation, Zhu Minji hurriedly asked the mansion to use grain to recruit short-term workers and hungry people. In just a few days, he recruited three thousand hungry people. Then he went to the Jin Palace to cry to his nephew and grandson, and asked for another hundred guards.

But there were less than one hundred guards left in his Ninghua Prefecture, and this little man was not enough to monitor the hungry people, so he recruited a group of rogues from the city, gathered up five hundred guards, and led two thousand hungry people to drive mules and carriages to the Loufan Valley, preparing to harvest the eight thousand acres of wheat.

After two days of travel, the team finally arrived at Jiaoqu Farm.

The farmers in the farm have already run away. They have to live here for a while until the wheat harvest is completed and transport it back to Taiyuan.

Second, the temporarily attracted hungry people began to go to the ground to harvest, and the escorts of the royal palace patroled around.

The farmland of the royal palace is connected to the Qinchuan fields, and the people of Qinchuan are also harvesting wheat. The people from both sides are at peace. The people of Loufan, who are close to the fields, chat with the hungry people invited by the royal palace, chatting about how many places there are in Loufan, and everyone has food, clothes and clothes, which makes the hungry people jealous.

However, because Qin Chuan repeatedly banned the people of Loufan, the people of Loufan did not dare to get too close to the hungry people, for fear of being infected with the plague.

The escorts of the royal palace naturally did not dare to provoke the Guandi army, and the Guandi army did not make things difficult for them. They only inspected outside Loufan Town and did not allow them to get close to Loufan.

The two sides were just cutting wheat in peace.

After three years, all the 50,000 acres of winter wheat in Jinglelan County were cut.

Qin Chuan immediately asked Wang Jizong to divide the people into two batches, and one group of people crushed wheat ears to produce wheat, dried wheat straw, and kept it for fermentation and feeding livestock.

Qin Chuan knew that the wheat straw was fermented. Before traveling through time, he was very curious about why he had to feed the wheat straw, corn and oranges before fermenting them before feeding livestock. He also did a lot of this work with his family and remembered the whole process deeply.

Another group of people immediately began to sow seeds, striving to sow the 50,000 acres of land before the tenth day of June.

When the year is good, after harvesting the winter wheat made from three-ripe for two years, soybeans will be planted, which can not only fatten the fields, but also be eaten as grain, press oil, feed horses, etc.

But soybeans will take five or six months to ripen. Now it is the ice age again, and autumn will be cold very quickly. It is estimated that Loufan will start to be cold in October. It is less than four months suitable for crop growth. Soybeans will definitely not mature yet at that time. Once the gas cools down, the harvest will definitely be greatly reduced.

Therefore, these 50,000 acres of land are crops with short growth cycles, such as black beans, soybeans, red beans, millet, sorghum, and corn. These crops are sown in mid-June and can mature from September to early October, and can be harvested before the cold.

In addition, you should also plant some vegetables such as carrots, white radish, and Chinese cabbage with a shorter growth cycle.

The 8,000 acres of land in Ninghua Palace have been collected in total.

When the people of Loufan started sowing, the hungry people were still harvesting wheat.

Most of the harvested wheat has been pulled back to Jiaoqu Farm, and is being threshed and dried, and then transported back to Taiyuan after drying.

When the eight thousand acres of land was harvested, Lao Huang, who was already mature, went to brag and spank with the guards of the royal palace. The area has not been peaceful recently. I don’t know where to fight, and a group of thieves came from, hiding in the mountains of Jingle and Xinzhou. Their family sent troops to suppress the enemy several times, but they had never found anyone.

These words scared the guards to the point of being pale and at a loss.

The wheat has been cut, so wait for it to dry in batches, and then pull it back in batches by mule and horse carriage.

But as soon as they heard that there were thieves nearby, the guards couldn't wait. After a few managers decided to take a group of them back first, and then dry them in the palace. Anyway, there were some places in the palace to dry.

On the second day, two hundred mule and horse carriages filled with wheat drove away from Jiaoqu Farm and headed towards Taiyuan.

There were only three hundred guards accompanying him.

After most of the trip and preparing to spend the night at Luyukou, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared on the mountains in the northeast, about seven or eight hundred people, roaring towards them.
Chapter completed!