Chapter 306

"What is this?"

In the governor's house, next to the waterside pavilion, Su Ping and Li Kun stared at the things in Su Yun's hand.

"Click"

Su Yun gently took a bite. In the crisp sound, Su Yun ate the small piece clean.

"Is this a specialty of Jiangzhou?"

Li Kun looked up and down.

Su Yun shook them: "it's not a specialty. It's called sweet potato.

Today, I went to play in the city. Mingyue bought it at an old man's stall. The old man said that his two sons died in the war. There were only a few acres of thin fields at home. In order to feed his grandchildren, the old man turned white and sold things. "

"Mingyue, go wash and get some. Our governor Li and Governor Su were scolded and wanted to vent their anger by eating."

The moon covered her mouth and walked away with a smile.

Before long, Mingyue came with two maids and placed several trays on the stone table in the waterside pavilion.

In the tray, there are not only washed sweet potatoes, but also some seasonal fruits, apples and pears.

The bright moon's cheeks were full of smiles: "the house is not rich. The two governors will make do with some."

Su Ping picked up a sweet potato and took a bite directly.

"Well, it's good. It tastes OK. It's sweet."

Li Kun also picked up one and bit off a big piece in three bites: "it's a little sweet, very crisp, and the taste is OK."

"Click, click"

After a while, they ate most of the sweet potatoes on the plate.

While eating, Li Kun put it in his arms: "I'll take it back and try it for Xiaomi. Her mother and I haven't eaten anything so delicious. Well, I'll take some pears and apples, too. Xiaomi must be happy."

Su Yunbai glanced at Li Kun: "you are the governor of the first army. The pay is enough for his wife to eat and drink well. Why don't you even want to buy an apple."

Su Ping was also carrying an apple in his arms: "Er Yun, you are not in charge of the family. How do you know our difficulties? There are so many generals under your command. It is inevitable to eat and drink on weekdays. If you come and go, how can the salary be enough to supplement your family."

"Do I want to add some more pay to you?"

Su Lu's voice sounded behind him.

They both jumped up with fear.

"I have to go back and cook for her mother. I'll go first."

"Today, some brothers have been promoted and invited to dinner. I can't go late."

One by one, they ran away quickly.

Soft collapsed in the waterside pavilion. Su Lu glanced at the two people who had left and asked Su Yun:

"Li Kun is married. Su Ping is so big now. It's time to start a family. Xiao Yun, when you walk around with the families of Xun GUI officials on weekdays, you should ask more to see if there is a suitable girl for Su Ping."

Su Yun took a pear, took a crisp bite and said slowly.

"Of course there are suitable ones. Old Su San doesn't want to. The wife of Anyuan Hou and the old lady of Ningguo government all came to me. Old Su San has high eyes and doesn't like the girls in others' house."

Su Lu's eyes suddenly froze, looked at the sweet potato on the stone table, ordered and said, "bright moon, take that over and let me have a look."

Sweet potato is a good thing. It has a large output. It is eaten raw, boiled, cut into pieces, dried, ground into noodles and steamed bread.

Mingyue picked up a sweet potato and handed it to Su Lu: "Lord, I went out with the eldest lady today. When I saw an old man selling sweet potatoes on the roadside, I bought them all. Both the old man's two sons died in the army array. It's very poor."

Su Lu took a bite. It was really sweet potato. Although the taste was worse, not sweet enough and not enough water, it was indeed sweet potato.

"Oh, does the old man only sell sweet potatoes? Is there anything else to sell?"

Su Yun casually took out a round potato from his pocket and said, "there's this, but I can't eat it. The old man said it can't be eaten. It's bitter, but it grows by itself every year, and sometimes it gets mixed into sweet potatoes."

Su Lu took the potato and his face was full of ecstasy.

Sweet potato and potato are two extremely high-yield crops, which are resistant to storage and convenient for transportation. They are good things for the Han country, which is short of production land.

Su Lu ordered the mound and said, "tomorrow, follow the young lady and the moon to buy all the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the old man's hand. In addition, write down the names of the old man's two sons, check all over the army, and find out the two boys, live and let the boss go home."

Qingfeng asked in the back, "if only one is alive?"

"Then go home."

Su Lu said without hesitation that his brothers were all in the army. They were worried that they would die and no one would take care of their home. If they refused to die in the war, their combat effectiveness would not be strong.

Su Yun looked at the potatoes in his hand: "brother, the sweet potato is OK. Why did you buy the potatoes?"

Su Lu took the potato in Su Yun's hand, which was not much bigger than his thumb, and raised it with pride on his face.

"This is a good thing. It can be eaten not only as vegetables, but also as steamed bread. It is convenient to store and transport. It is natural military grain."

……

Fifteen days later, Su Lu arrived at Shangshan county.

Before the driver entered the county government, Su Ping and Li Kun met up with a group of school captains and generals.

Su Lu was taken out of the carriage and sat on the soft collapse. He saw Zhou Yuan mixed among a group of generals and captains.

This Zhou Yuan was very fast. He asked him to transport the military grain to Shangshan within 30 days. Unexpectedly, he finished it in half a month. As expected, he was a capable official.

After entering the county yamen, Su Lu ordered to collapse the soft in the middle hall, and a group of generals and school captains came in.

Su Lu asked Zhou Yuan, the last one to come in: "old Zhou, how much military food have you delivered so quickly?"

Zhou Yuan blushed and saluted Su Lu with a fist: "so that adults can know that Zhou Yuan failed to live up to adults' expectations this time and failed to deliver military food."

Su Lu was stunned when he heard the speech: he failed to deliver military food.

Su Ping yelled: "Lord Zhou said, do you want military food? It's terrible. Let me Su Ping look at his head and value several bags of military food. Cut it and exchange it for military food."

Su Lu frowned, asked Zhou Yuan and said, "why, didn't Anton collect the tax burden this year?"

Zhou Yuan's face was bitter: "Lord, Anton's harvest this year is too bad, the mountains are in chaos, most of the crops are ruined, and the people are wrapped. They haven't planted well in summer and autumn, and they can't harvest well. Everyone is poor. How can we collect the tax burden?"

"To take a step back, even in the ordinary years of previous years, there was no mountain disturbance, and everyone's harvest was not much better. Anton had many mountains and slopes and depended entirely on the weather. There was little rain in the past two years, so everyone had a bad harvest in Chengdu."

Su Lu nodded. The biggest disadvantage of ancient agriculture was that it depended on heaven, and the role of manpower was limited.

But disobedience can't be left alone.

"Zhou Yuan, you are disobeying orders. Why, I don't think I dare to cut off your head."

"Plop"

Zhou Yuan knelt down and looked at Su Lu: "Lord, it's not me, Zhou Yuan, who wants to obey orders. It's the suffering of Anton's people. Lord, if you can solve Anton's food shortage, it's the Buddha of all families."

Su Lu looked at Luo Xuan next to him and said, "is there any military food in Xiting? If there is no food in Xiting, we don't even have to fight this war."