Dengzhou City is full of lights and colorful decorations, and it is lively.

The marriage between Li Jing and the Xiao family of Lanling is the most lively wedding in Dengzhou. The wedding date is approaching, and countless guests are coming. Although Xiao Yuniang married Li Jing and was only Li Jing's eighth wife, with the influence of Xiao family of Lanling and the groom being the Yangshou Marshal, the marriage is extremely grand.

Guests from all directions gathered from all directions.

Li Jing has married a wife and six concubines, and is familiar with getting married. He is not willing to do it so grandly, but the marriage with Xiao was originally for political interests. A top family in the Tang Dynasty like Lanling Xiao wanted to give the old clan's eldest daughter a grand and decent wedding to show their relationship with Li Jing further. For this reason, Li Jing had no reason to object. After getting Li Jing's approval, the Lanling Xiao family began to prepare for the wedding with all their strength. In the words of Mrs. Han, it would be difficult to demonstrate the wealthy family of Lanling Xiao family.

There are three days left for the wedding, but Li Jing has not been busy with the wedding these days. All these things have been left to Xiao. He is still busy with the preparations for sending troops.

It is already June, and the summer harvest has begun one after another. Unite troops, village soldiers, and even scouts are all on holiday to help with the summer harvest. After this busy summer harvest, the town will also start sending troops north.

The roads in southern Liaoning have been repaired, and the Fuzhou River and Biliu River, both east and west, are also well-drawn, and water and land will advance together.

This year, the county under the jurisdiction of the town has planted a large number of potato medicinal herbs and taro, and the breeding of lotus roots has also been smooth. A large number of pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and cattle farms are opened. Even in hills and other places where it cannot be cultivated, various fruit trees, as well as tea trees and mulberry trees are planted.

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences is now getting bigger and bigger. After receiving strong support from Li Jing, it has recruited a large number of experienced old farmers to participate in it. It has made every effort to guide the cultivation of various crops, especially the large-scale planting of early Chameng in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning this summer, which is about to harvest, which makes Li Jing full of expectations.

Chamcheng rice seeds obtained from Chamcheng Kingdom south of Annan, for example, all rice varieties today are highly yielded, and they can even ripen three times a year in Annan and other places, ripen two times a year in the Jianghuai area, and ripen at least once a year in the north. As a result of last year's cultivation trial planting, the yield per mu of Chamcheng rice reached three stones, which was even more than doubled compared with the average yield of about one stone in the common rice. If the trial planting is large-scale, those experts said that it can reach at least two stones.

Although the rice that can plant Chameng rice must be excellent paddy fields and cannot be planted all of them, this yield is still exciting. By fertilizing the land through agricultural fertilizers, wood ash, manure and leaves, etc., the rice fields can be planted for another season after harvesting Chameng. You can also obtain soybeans with a yield of about one stone per mu, and crops of two seasons a year, and you can get three stones of rice and one stone of beans.

Li Jing also specially added a large amount of special funds to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to specialize in the improvement of various agricultural tools.

The improvement of the top ten agricultural tools is very good. Especially the application of Jiangdong plows, Jiangdong plows, carriages, straw hats, straws, mortars, buckets, pots, steamers, and cages. The Jiangdong plow is the first new curved plow to be used in the Jianghuai area. It was used in many places in the late Tang Dynasty. This plow must be pulled by a cattle, but the plowing effect is very good.

According to the calculations of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a medium-sized ox can plow ten acres of fields per day with Jiangdong plows. However, if you use traditional plows, people will plow one acre a day with ten people as a cattle. Moreover, the Jiangdong plow can plow deeper and have better results.

Compared with the previous plows, Jiangdong plows have great advantages: the emergence of curved shafts and plow plates eliminated the plow balance, shortened the plow shaft, reduced the weight of the plow frame, overcome the disadvantage of "turning and hindering" of straight plows. They are more flexible and easy to make, especially easy to turn. This is the most suitable for "southern paddy fields" where "the fields are of varying height and width and narrowness" are the most suitable. Secondly, the appearance of plow reviews and the appearance of plow tips makes the depth and width of the soil more appropriate. The previous plow did not have this structure, and the plow tips and plow bottoms are connected. In addition, Jiangdong plows not only have plow reviews specially used to control the depth of cultivated land, but also have the division of labor between plow tips and plow bottoms. The plow bottom is long, which is convenient for maintaining stability during tillage and the consistency of the depth and shallowness. The plow tips control the depth of cultivated land and the width and narrowness of the farmland through the up, down, left and right of man-made hands to control the depth of cultivated land and the width and narrowness of the farmland.

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences finally added a hook and loop between the plow plate and the plow shaft, so that it "rotates the plow head when plowing, and is the root and end with the yoke, and is not integrated with the plow", thus increasing its flexibility and forming a new form of "cow plow connected".

Li Jing vigorously promoted this new plow, allowing the farm tool shop to build new plows day and night, rented and sold to the people of arable land.

Li Jing implemented confidentiality measures for these new agricultural tools and high-yield domestic crops, especially for foreign countries, and it is strictly prohibited to carry seeds and new agricultural tools and drawings from the country.

However, Li Jing also knows that once these technologies and new seeds are applied and cultivated on a large scale, it is difficult to keep them completely confidential. However, Li Jing doesn't care much about these. The spread of new agricultural technologies can increase grain output, which is also a good progress.

In order to cultivate more Chameng rice, more water conservancy facilities were built in Dengzhou and Liaonan. After the rivers and ditches were cleared, more people were recruited to build dams and reservoirs and dig ponds. Building reservoir ponds and dams can not only prevent drought, but also have water resistance and flood control in the suburbs. Even after the dam was established, the river water storage volume did not increase, and various large water trucks that had been newly researched and improved in the town began to be built along the river.

Water mills use hydraulic power to grind rice flour and large water wheels to lift water to the highlands and irrigate the fields.

There are even newly developed hydraulic forging hammers, which use hydraulic power to lift a forging hammer weighing thousands of pounds to forge larger iron blocks, greatly increasing the efficiency of iron smelting and steelmaking. A hydraulic forging press was even built to directly forge and press many parts.

In addition, a hydraulic spinning machine has been developed to drive the spinning with hydraulic power. Although the spinning yarn is relatively thick, it is tough and sturdy, and saves more manpower.

This year, dozens of new mining sites were added, including iron, coal and gold in southern Liaozhou. These minerals have extremely large reserves. Especially Dengzhou gold, several of which are continuously producing gold. There are more iron ore in Liaodong. Li Jing remembers that the iron ore in Liaoning alone occupies one of the four parts of the country. Such sufficient iron ore is enough for Li Jing's workshop to consume huge consumption.

However, at this moment, Gongsun Lan brought Huang Chao to attack Ziqing Town, killed Xue Chong, and had already captured Shouguang in Qingzhou, and then attacked Linzi and Qiancheng County, which were controlled by Xiangzhen Town.

"Huang Chao was so brave that he actually dared to bare his teeth with us?" Li Jing was very surprised when he heard the news.

In the backyard bedroom of the Supervisor's Mansion, Li Jing hugged Gongsun Lan in his arms, gasping while saying strangely.

Gongsun Lan lay in Li Jing's arms, gently slashing the circle on Li Jing's chest like a jade finger, and said softly: "Huang Chao is just a first-class bandit, wandering around. It is not uncommon to dare to attack us. Even the emperor dares to do anything. He wandered back to Henan, but he was defeated by Tianping Army Kang Shuai and Taining Army Cui Shuai, and wandered to Ziqing Town. Although he defeated Wang Jingwu, an old friend, Wang Jingwu's territory is now unsustainable. It would be strange if Huang Chao didn't come to steal us."

"Where are the bandits in the imperial court's towns to suppress the bandits? Where are the Deputy Envoy Du and Deputy Envoy Cui now?"

Du Cheng and Cui Anqian have good abilities. Why have the thieves been on the rise for more than half a year but they can't hear the news of their battle?

"Du Qing and Cui Anqian are still in Ying and Haozhou in the southern part of Xuanwu. Previously, the Tianping Army and the Zhongwu Army had riots one after another. Both towns finally quelled the civil strife. Now the Zhongwu Army is also seriously injured. Moreover, since Yang Fuguang took office as the military commander and served as the military commander, Tian Lingzi has been stuck in their supply of food and grass. Without food, how could he fight a war?"

Gongsun Lan smiled, "I have received the news that Du Shuai and Cui Shuai are going to borrow food from you. In addition, there are Kang Shuai, Tianping Army and Cui Shuai, Taining Army. This year, there is also insufficient food, and they are all preparing to borrow food from you. I guess they will appear at your wedding banquet in the next two days."

Li Jing frowned: "The summer harvest has just begun, and the towns are coming to borrow food?"

"That's because everyone has heard that the town has a bumper harvest this year. And now everyone knows that Li Dashuai is rich and has a wealthy place. Most of the food transported from the southeast to the north have been bought by you. If you don't borrow it now, you are worried that you will be borrowed by others."

"There is another news. Mr. Zhang from Beijing sent back the news. Tian Lingzi told the emperor that Chang'an had shortage of food and rice was already more than 500 yuan, while Dengzhou's rice price was only 55 cents. Therefore, Dengzhou must have sufficient food. He asked you to deliver food to Chang'an, and at least 5 million stones!"

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately laughed.

He has always been a local tyrant, but now he, Li Jing, has become a local tyrant who everyone wants to rob. At present, the entire 27 counties under the jurisdiction of the town is only about 5 million mu of arable land. This year, one million mu of potato medicinal and taro have been planted, and one million mu of Chameng rice has been planted, and the remaining wheat and millet are left. Potato medicinal and taro have to be harvested in the autumn. In short, the harvest of summer harvest is only about 6 million stones of grain. There are three million soldiers and civilians in the twenty-seven counties of the town. All these grains are kept for themselves and they cannot eat enough. They have to wait for the season of autumn harvest. In addition, the growth of vegetables, fishing and breeding can only be self-sufficient. The town now has to buy grain from outside at a high price.

These days, the landlords have no surplus food.

However, all parties came to borrow food, and they all came from a big source. The Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, Du Qing, Cui Yunqing, and even Kang Chenghui and Cui Yunqing, all of these people were something that Li Jing could not easily refuse.
Chapter completed!