Chapter 430: The person who grows potatoes
Ling Ran lowered his eyelids, his tone was somewhat helpless: "Now Beidu and Jinling have fought several battles, the situation is critical, if food is not so important, even these fifty people and fifty war horses can't be allocated to me by my grandfather."
Everyone present understood this.
The people and horses outside are the limit of what they can give.
In troubled times, human lives are worthless, but horses are very important! Especially war horses.
One war horse can be a cavalryman, one cavalryman can be ten infantrymen, and hundreds of cavalrymen can attack the military camp at night. It is not easy for Ling Ran to bring fifty cavalrymen back, which also represents Beidu's emphasis on food.
After all, potatoes are crops that Ling Ran's grandfather and Beidu's generals know nothing about. From taste, planting, to the most critical yield, they are not clear. Under this circumstance, they can still allocate fifty cavalrymen to Ling Ran, which is really a trust.
Shui Qing thought that she had to help Ling Ran do this first task well!
Fan Jiang, who had been pouring tea and heard something, stood up and said to Ling Ran, "Brother Ling, take me with you! I can grow potatoes, and I'm very good at it.
The people in the village have only grown one season, and I've grown two seasons, and the potatoes I grow have the best yield. I know what kind of land and weather potatoes like, and I know when they lack water and fertilizer.
Take me with you, and I'll plant a lot of potatoes for you, and you'll have potatoes to eat by the end of the year!"
Ling Ran looked at Fan Jiang in shock, his thin lips slightly parted, and finally smiled lightly, "Brother Ling knows your good intentions, but Beidu is remote, and you may not be used to the different diet and climate. It's also very dangerous there."
It's more than just dangerous. The new emperor wanted to get rid of his uncles. He had already gotten rid of several of them the year before last. King Yan was the strongest among them, but he dared to resist. How could the new emperor not be furious? Once the city is broken, there will be no corpse left!
If they lose, their grandfather and uncles will not have a good ending, and neither will he. But since he has chosen this path, he is not afraid of life or death, but Dajiang is different.
Dajiang has parents and brothers and sisters, and life in the village is easy. He does not need to fight hard and will have a smooth life. There is no need to follow him to take risks.
Uncle Jin and aunt are good to him, and he cannot put Dajiang in danger.
Fan Jiang is not willing to give up easily, and strongly persuades: "Brother Ling, you are only a few years older than me, and you are also a native of the south. If you can do it there, so can I!
Just take me with you, I just like farming, whether it is the south or the north, I can grow food. If you win, tell me if I can get a military merit by farming well?"
No matter what, he must go. Dahe can go to Jiangnan to have a look because his parents said that he will do business in the future. It is better to travel around and gain more experience than to study hard.
He is not suitable for studying. He prefers crops in the fields to studying. But he cannot go out to farm. If he does not go out, he has to study and learn to read every day. Seeing that people in the village who are older than him and have started elementary school later than him write better than him, he is really embarrassed!
Brother Ling is simply his savior!
He must hold on tightly.
"How can military merit be so easy to get? If possible, I will also go to farm to get one." Li Huyu laughed loudly.
Bai Manshan and Bai Ziqian on the side fell into deep thought, and the two were silent.
Fan Jin just listened quietly on the side, without saying much, letting the next generation make their own decisions.
Shuiqing thought more in his mind.
There are pros and cons to Dajiang going north. The cons are obvious, climate, diet, homesickness... From another perspective, if children go to college or work in other places, people's adaptability is still very strong, especially with Ling Ran and Zhujia to take care of them, they don't have to worry about living and eating, which is better than going out to work.
Farming is Dajiang's strong point - he also farms at home. A boy of his age, not to mention boys, even girls, have to work in the fields!
Rural children can walk between the ridges of the fields. The soil of the fields is an inseparable part of their lives. They are familiar with and proficient in the field. In the past, Dajiang was more like a technical instructor, teaching others how to plant. Otherwise, how many acres could he plant by himself?
Dajiang is indeed the most suitable person to teach, because no one in the north can be as familiar with potato planting as she is, but she can't go to the north. Shanshui Village can't do without her. She has to stay here to earn money to buy a family property!
She talked to Dajiang first, and then asked Fan Jin to copy out all the precautions, maintenance, problems, etc. on the potato planting encyclopedia, and let Dajiang take it with him... He is a farmer in the rear, not going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, so the danger should not be that great, right?
There are so many disadvantages at present, and the advantages are also obvious.
Three years later, the King of Yan won. Zhu Neng was the emperor's right-hand man, and Ling Ran was not to be mentioned. Dajiang would definitely have a share when it came to rewarding meritorious service!
At least he could make himself familiar to Zhu Neng. With this familiar face, Dajiang's second half of life would be stable.
Fan Jiang couldn't wait any longer. He looked at his father, and finally his eyes fell on his mother, begging: "Mother, just let me and Brother Ling go. Brother Ling can go back and forth alone, and I am with so many people. Isn't it much safer than Brother Ling at the beginning?"
If something happens, I can only blame my bad luck!
Shui Qing pondered, and when Fan Jiang was worried, he raised his eyes and asked: "The climate in the north is different from ours. What if you go there and feel that you can't adapt and want to come back?
Shanshui Village is far from Beidu, and the most important thing is that if you flee, what about these potatoes? We can't select the right person to deliver them in time. Delaying the potato planting is equivalent to delaying military operations, which is a serious crime punishable by beheading. Do you understand? "
You still have to be punished.
Fan Jiang nodded like pounding garlic, and smiled innocently: "Don't worry, mother! I'm not going there for fun. Besides, I can't lose the potatoes even if I lose myself. ”
Farming is much more comfortable for him than reading!
He looked tired looking at the words in the books. He probably knew them better than he knew them.
And the light pen was more tiring to use than the hoe and rake. He could use the hoe and rake very well, but the pen didn't listen to him at all and always had its own ideas.
Sitting there and reading was a pleasure for the elder sister and younger brother, but it was like torture for him! Not only did he have backache, but he was always thinking about the crops in the fields.
It was so good to plant crops. You could see how much you planted in the morning, and you would have a harvest in due time. When he read, he would almost forget everything in due time.
Ling Ran looked at the two in surprise, with disbelief in his eyes.
Aunt and Da Jiang had decided in such a short time?