It is said that the Yellow Turban Uprising occurred because many people were starving to death.

It is said that many people starved to death during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

It is said that the Yellow Turban Rebellion killed many people because they did not have enough food.

If he wanted to cause trouble, it would be fine to die in battle, but to starve to death, especially after being defeated and surrendered, and to be killed because of food problems, Liu Cang felt a little uncomfortable.

Well, although these are all based on what he said in his previous life, Liu Cang once thought about doing something about food. If possible, try to make the concept of "starving to death" less likely to appear in the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Well, forget about meat, Liu Cang himself is not dead yet.

Then, Liu Cang thought of sweet potatoes.

Mud, it's too far away and we can't get there.

Corn is too far away to get here.

Potatoes and pumpkins, ah~~~! It’s still too far away and I still can’t get it.

It’s useless to get any beans, sorghum, or Champa rice. Not to mention the difficulty of planting, Brother Jiaojiao will be growing in two years, and the so-called ‘starving people’ are coming. These things are ridiculous.

Use it.

Liu Cang hoped that fewer people would starve to death during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. His original efforts turned into doing his best and obeying fate after being hit by reality.

In the end, the only thing Liu Cang could think of and find that grew wild, could satisfy his hunger, and had some yield was taro.

The gap is too big and the interest is lacking.

Taro was already cultivated in Jiaozhou, Yizhou during the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, taro was neither a vegetable nor a rice dish. If you wanted to stabilize the output, you would spend more time growing food than growing food. Even those in Yizhou and Jiaozhou usually let them grow wild in some swampy areas.

They are long and no one would dig them unless there was a famine year.

Because its leaves and stems are toxic, it cannot be fed to livestock. Some people in the south regard it as an ornamental, but little is known about it in the north, and basically no one will grow it.

"There are records of this taro in ancient times, but as Lu Cheng said, it is of no use. What do you plan to do? Let the village clear the land for planting?" Cai Yong asked with a frown, stopping Liu Cang who wanted to dig out badger seeds.

"No, how can we let the village clear the land? Although it's a little late, we can just pick a place next to the ditch on the mountainside and dig holes to plant the seeds these days." Liu Cang shook his head.

"So good?" Cai Yong asked unexpectedly.

"It depends on fate whether the seeds are good or not. If they don't grow well, there is no need to sow them in the Central Plains of Jizhou." Liu Cang shook his head again, feeling helpless.

Taro is no better than sweet potatoes and pumpkins. It is basically impossible to promote large-scale planting. Not to mention that the people in the north have no confidence in it, even Liu Cang himself has no confidence in it.

"That's it, you should do your best to do good." Cai Yong smiled bitterly and was noncommittal.

"This is not a good thing. Cattle and sheep may get sick if they eat the stems and leaves of this thing. I just want to deal with it. It is the album that Xuande bought from the traveling merchant of Li family earlier. What is said in it

Big millet is good, but it's a pity that it can't be grown in a short time." Liu Cang said boringly.

The so-called big millet is actually sorghum, which is what later generations call millet. Liu Bei obtained an album recording rare objects from a traveling Roman merchant.

Including an introduction to the short spears, bucklers, chariots and other things that the Romans were good at using. Liu Bei was very interested in these and talked a lot about them when chatting with Liu Cang earlier.

Liu Cang's idea about taro is quite simple. If the wild survival rate is not too low, he plans to go to Jizhou and Yanzhou to bury some in the mountains and rivers. In two years, the film will be released, and some refugees and exiles can also

Find more edible things in the wild.

It was just a temporary deal, because Liu Cang had determined that even if a large-scale famine occurred in the Central Plains, it would not last long.

It's complicated, so I don't want to say more at this point. Anyway, when Liu Hong dies, the civil disaster years will probably be over.

"If you want to do it, do it, but be sure not to tell others about the Taiping Dao rebellion, and don't go looking for those local aristocratic families to do anything to save the people and provide disaster relief."

Cai Yong didn't care about Liu Cang's desire to toss the taro, but he did not forget to remind him of his seriousness again.

"Yeah, I got it." Liu Cang nodded, grabbed the little wolverine cub, and asked Cai Yong to take care of the other cubs. He left home and went to the village, planning to ask a few agile young people to help pick out Dongshan's badger cubs.

Hole.

Regarding what Cai Yong said, Liu Cang already understood that the chessboard of Heaven and Earth has just been propped up, and all parties are still thinking about their moves. You want to overturn the table now?

Well, you are asking for death...

Now Liu Cang's house is located in a relatively remote location in the village. After turning two rows of houses, there is the main road leading to the village's farm. The spacious place where grain was dried has vaguely begun to take shape as a market. Even on both sides of the road, there are

Occasionally, you can see street stalls with scattered items.

There are some out-of-town traders who stop here in Lousang Village. They also buy some items that come from surrounding villages to sell, from grain to wild fruits, from hoes and sledges to straw grasshoppers. There is no fixed rules for buying and selling items.

At the same time, some more reputable merchants will also sell small amounts of daily necessities such as salt and iron, which are usually retail and the quantities are not large.

Live livestock are also purchased and sold, and dried meat, poultry and eggs are also purchased, but fresh meat from dead animals is usually not purchased.

If they are merchants who collect goods in the village, they will generally not sell the goods in the village. On the contrary, if they are selling goods, they will not buy them. These merchants travel around and have their own rules.

These same people will also bring some business taxes to the village, which will be collected by the clan elders and eventually transferred to the counties. However, the collection has more room for private discussion than in the counties and cities. There is not much reduction or exemption, but it can still give some money to the merchants.

Make some savings.

Earth is dead, Shang is alive.

To put it bluntly, if you farm until you die, you should pay as much as you want. As long as a businessman works diligently, he can make more money than farming.

Money is a good thing, no one dislikes it.

The Eastern Han Dynasty did not have the anti-business policy of the early Han Dynasty. The emphasis on commerce did not mean the suppression of commerce and the prohibition of commerce. At least as far as the Eastern Han Dynasty was concerned, the so-called emphasis on agriculture and light on commerce never restricted commercial exchanges.

Nowadays, young people in the village can do their own farm work much more efficiently than in the early years. It used to take a whole day to go to the fields, and there is nothing to do if you don't use the fields.

Now I have taken care of my own land early, and I can gain a lot of knowledge by wandering around the village and chatting. In addition to repairing the village, there are also many mat sellers and shoe weavers who compete with Liu Bei for business...

Well, most of the villagers are amateurs, and they sell a pair or two of seats to the purchaser. Liu Bei is now more and more professional, and he walks right when going out, and directly gives it to the merchant in exchange for money.

But this guy would wander around as soon as he had a lot of money in his pocket, and he would wear the best clothes on his body. He loved to chat with businessmen, and it was difficult to save the money. In private, he was often reprimanded by the clan elders.

Liu Cang was looking for idlers in the village, and just in time to catch up with a chicken seller who came down from the east mountain, he found the Lu family's caravan and found Lu Cheng, who was leading the group. He thanked him for the badger cubs he had found and treated him with courtesy.

Lu Cheng has nothing to do with Lu Zhi. He is a member of the Lu Zhi tribe. Lu Zhi does not care about the internal management of the tribe. Nowadays, the Lu family seems to be walking around under the banner of Lu Zhi. Perhaps it is also because of Lu Zhi’s explanation. Lu Cheng

He treated Liu Cang and Cai Yong with great courtesy and respect.

Golden pheasants are more expensive than domestic chickens. Liu Cang sold more than 400 golden pheasants from Dongshan to Lu at the price of domestic chickens, which was a kind of reciprocation, thanking him for the taro he had worked so hard to deliver.

Lu Cheng said that he just said hello to the caravan and took it from hand to hand, and it was not regarded as money. In the end, the two of them argued for a long time, and Liu Cang refused 10,000 yuan and accepted 8,000 yuan as payment for selling chickens.

Watching the transactions here, several big-nosed Romans were making various noises. Their hair colors ranged from brown to black to blond. They were not too tall. They had a lot of body hair and strong bodies.
Chapter completed!