LIGHTNOVELONLINE v2 Chapter 88
When the weather started to warm up, the Beian Wang family made a trip to Rongguang Villa.
Because Cao Mi had suggested before that he wanted the soldiers at the border to grow sweet potatoes and peppers, Qi You agreed. This time, he took people and decided to see the appearance of sweet potato seedlings with his own eyes.
During this period of time, in the palace, he had already learned various ways to eat sweet potatoes. Maybe for modern people who often eat fine grains, sweet potatoes are the same thing, but in this era of scarce sugar products, sweet potatoes with their own sweetness are definitely a rare delicacy.
In addition, of course there is another important thing –
The flames have been staying at Rongguang Villa for several months!
At first, it took the lead in coming to the villa to report to Cao Mi. After that, it was too late to see its children who were still unsteady, so they went back to the palace with Cao Mi.
When Qi You’s injury stabilized, he no longer had any worries, tossing and unwilling to stay in the palace where he couldn’t run away.
Cao Mi pondered for a while, and directly arranged for someone to throw it back to the villa.
These days, the spring is warm and snow is melting, and Qi You is already preparing for the matter of returning to Changling, but there is still no one in the flames.
After sending several groups of people in a row, they couldn’t call it back, so Qi You could only go into battle by himself.
On the way, the family of five stayed in the carriage as usual.
Qi You’s body has almost recovered, so riding a horse is no problem at this time.
But the three children knew that he was going to leave again, and they stuck to him tightly on weekdays.
There was a rare opportunity for the five people to gather together, so Qi You gave up riding and got into the carriage with Cao Mi’s mother and son.
King Bei’an’s motorcade was extraordinary, and it went out of Cannes smoothly all the way.
When Qi An was rolling on the soft mattress of the carriage with Qi Ran in his arms, Qi You stopped to ask Qi Rui’s studies.
He opened the car window, looked at the road, and said, “Has this road in the suburbs been repaired?”
Cao Mi had just separated the twins. Hearing that, he nodded and said, “Yeah. Because I often need to go back and forth between Fuzhong and the villa, I felt that the road was bumpy last year, so I asked someone to repair it.”
“Is it cement?” Qi You asked again.
Cao Mi nodded and replied, “Yes, I found it at the cement workshop.”
Qi You glanced at her admiringly: “In this way, not only is it much smoother to travel here, but your travel time between the two places is also shortened.”
“Yes!” Cao Mi agreed.
Qi You thought for a while and said, “How much does this kind of road cost to build?”
When Cao Mi heard what he said, he thought he was thinking about the cement road.
So she thought about it and replied, “It’s not too expensive, in short, it’s much cheaper than those paved roads on Qingshi Road.
“As for the cost… it depends on how wide and long the road you need to build.”
Qi You nodded thoughtfully.
He said directly: “I want to build the road from Cangcheng to Changling and Fengping.
“After a while, I need to arrange for someone to send food and other things to the border.”
Hearing this, Cao Mi frowned slightly.
She knew that Qi You was talking about the transportation of materials needed at the border when the war with the Rong tribe was going on in the future.
“Cannes to Changling…hey, this is not a small project.” she muttered.
“You don’t have to worry about this.” Qi You smiled and said, “Repairing the road is not just a matter for the palace. When the time comes, I will order the prefects of each city to lead a repair.”
Hearing this, Cao Mi’s eyes lit up: “That’s good!
“Building a road is a matter of benefiting all people. With the prince taking the lead, and the prefects of various places responding, the matter should not be difficult.”
After Qi You came to Liaozhou, although he devoted most of his energy to the Rong tribe, he did not slack off in the supervision of Liaozhou’s internal affairs.
Nowadays, the prefects who can survive under his nose are all people who keep their own feet, and they are the only ones who can speak to the orders of the Bei’an Palace.
“Well.” King Bei’an, who was praised by the princess, looked away from the window, “I will trouble you over the cement.”
Cao Miping received a huge order for no reason.
She patted her chest and said, “Well, don’t worry, my lord, with the friendship between the two of us, I will definitely give priority to the workshop to meet your needs.”
“Huh?” Qi You pursed his lips and looked over, snorted coldly and said, “What kind of friendship do I have with you?”
“Cough cough!” Cao Mi was choking on his own saliva when he realized that he had slipped.
Qi An and Qi Ran, who had been sitting quietly beside them, listened to their parents’ conversation, hurriedly stood up and helped Cao Mi pat their backs.
And Qi Rui, who was still separated from Cao Mi by his father, couldn’t do anything. Seeing this, he replied coolly: “A relationship with a biological son?”
Cao Mi simply shrunk himself into a quail, wishing he could just roll down and bury himself in the mattress with the twins.
Fortunately, the embarrassing atmosphere quickly dissipated, and Qi You and Qi Rui’s father and son quickly got together again to talk about their studies and the situation in Liaozhou.
Cao Mi took care of the two unstoppable bear children with peace of mind.
Light carriages and horses, the road was smooth and smooth, and soon, the Beian Wangfu and his party arrived at Rongguang Villa.
Beisi had already brought someone to greet him. After Qi You easily jumped to the ground, he turned around and Cao Mi, mother and son, got off the carriage.
As soon as Cao Mi stood firm, he saw a fiery red foal standing on a distant hill watching them. Beside the foal, there were three foals that were only as high as his legs.
Cao Mi recognized the flames, waved at it quickly, and shouted, “Riyan, come here.”
Originally, I was particularly greedy for the small snacks she smuggled out of the space. As soon as I heard the call, I immediately ran over to the flames. This time I hesitated for a while. A child, turned around and left.
Looking at the way it holds its head up, it seems to be a little proud and arrogant!
Cao Mi immediately froze in place.
For a while, she couldn’t even accept such a big contrast in the flames, and she didn’t react until Qi You came over and took her shoulders.
“It’s all right.” King Bei’an looked at the direction where the flames left, and hooked the corner of his mouth, “Wait for me to ‘talk’ to it in person.”
Cao Mi raised his head and glanced at him, and nodded after a while.
Everyone started walking towards the villa.
Although some residual snowflakes can be seen on the road, the permafrost in the ground has almost melted.
Cao Mi could see that there were farmers working in the fields, preparing for the upcoming spring ploughing.
Beisi followed her and Qi You, and introduced to them as they walked: “The places on both sides of the river are still reserved for rice and wheat, the staple food. The two years have been planted one after another. Barren, but more fertile. As long as there are no accidents next year, the grain harvest in the village can double again!
“The western part, farther from the river, will be specially opened to plant sweet potatoes and the cotton that was sent before.”
Cao Mi nodded when he heard the words.
Qi An held a dead branch in her hand that she didn’t know where to pick it up. Hearing this, she raised her head curiously and asked, “Mother, what is cotton?”
“Cotton…” Cao Mi explained excitedly when referring to this thing he was very fond of now: “Well… you can understand it as wool that grows from the ground?”
“Wool?” Qi Ran leaned over, “Can wool grow from the ground?”
Cao Mi smiled and nodded, “Yes.
“Cotton is grown, and it’s a bit similar to wool. After it’s grown, it can be spun into cotton thread, and then made into cotton clothes similar to wool sweaters.”
Qi You walked and said, “Is there such a thing?”
Cao Mi said bluntly: “Well… Danba brought it to me.”
“That’s right!” She suddenly remembered something, turned her head and said to Qi You, “My lord, I exchanged cotton with Danba by spinning wool, so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
“How to weave wool?” Qi You raised his eyebrows, “Danba has a good intention.
“Give it if you give it. Clothes are not things that are prohibited from trade in Changling Market.”
“Yeah.” Cao Mi breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, a family of five came to settle down in the courtyard prepared for them by the North Temple.
Seeing that it was still early, Qi You wanted to go directly to find Lie Yan, but Cao Mi stopped him.
“What’s wrong?” Qi You stopped.
Cao Mi said directly: “My lord, I have a plan, and I hope to get your help.”
Qi You said: “Huh? Tell me.”
Cao Mi nodded and said, “Liaozhou is located in the north, the winter is long, and the time for farming is very short. The harvest of Rongguang Mountain Villa in the past two years is actually not bad, but because only one plant can be planted a year, the food produced is not much. Not much.
“I want to store grain, so I hope to find some warm and humid places in the south and set up a manor to grow grain.
“When you go to places where you can have two or three crops a year, the annual harvest will be immeasurable!”
“Three crops a year?” Qi You frowned slightly, “You mean Lizhou?”
Lizhou is completely different from Liaozhou. It is located in the southernmost part of the Sheng Dynasty and faces the sea on both sides.
However, unlike the modern coastal areas, which are generally more developed, at this time, because the maritime trade was not well developed, and there were many miasmas and indigenous people in the south, Lizhou was not more suitable for living than Liaozhou.
But when it comes to three crops a year, only Lizhou can satisfy the whole Sheng Dynasty.
“Yes! Lizhou!” Cao Mi did not hide it, and said directly: “Although Lizhou has many problems now, the land is also cheap.
“I want to send a group of people from Beisi to plant rice and sweet potatoes in spring, summer and autumn. In winter, it happens to be replaced with cold-resistant wheat.
“In this way, the fields will not be idle all year round.”
Rongguang Villa now has a lot of experience in raising land. Cao Mi believes that with the experience accumulated by the North Temple during this period, he will definitely be more handy in the south.
Qi You thought about it and said, “Although our fief in Bei’an has been taken back, I still have two or three villagers in Bei’an.
“Bei’an is located in the middle of the country, and you can make two crops a year. If you want to expand your planting of sweet potatoes and cotton, you might as well send someone to Bei’an to deliver some. It’s not difficult for me to let you free dozens of acres of land for you.
“You don’t have to go to Lizhou.”
Cao Mi thought for a while and shook his head.
“Of course some can be planted in Bei’an. The yield of sweet potatoes is very high, not to mention the significance of cotton. These need to be planted more.” She said: “But Lizhou… I still don’t want to give up.”
Qi You understood what she meant: “You also know that Lizhou is dangerous, and you want me to send a team of my own troops to follow?”
“Hey, you don’t need to go to the army.” Cao Mi discussed it and said, “Well… you can find some more powerful bodyguards or something, just lend them to me.”
“So… why do you have to go to Lizhou?” Qi You raised his eyebrows and asked directly.
Cao Mi took a deep breath and said, “I want to find someone to study shipbuilding.”
The author has something to say: there is one more chapter in the evening.
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