Chapter 70: Vegetable Planting Experiment

"How is the income of the needlework workshop recently?" Yang Zhengshan continued to ask after returning to the study in the government office.

"The income has decreased, especially after the news of the defeat came from outside the pass, the gates of the pass were closed, and the cloth shoes we sewed have not been sold yet!" Lao Li said while taking out the account book and the silver box and handed them to Yang Zhengshan.

Before leaving the pass, Yang Zhengshan helped the needlework workshop to take several orders for sewing clothes. Although the profit was not very high, it was also a good income.

As for cloth shoes, the army went to war, and almost all the soldiers in the pass followed the army to the war. The business of cloth shoes was greatly affected.

Yang Zhengshan casually flipped through the account book and put it down.

"Don't stop the needlework workshop. It doesn't matter if the shoes can't be sold. Store them first and sell them later!"

"How about this, change the model in the future, no longer wait until the shoes are sold to settle the silver for everyone, settle and pay the silver for everyone regularly every month!"

Yang Zhengshan thought about it and said.

Now the needlework workshop still has some silver money, of course, these silver money can be said to be his, or it can be said to belong to the entire needlework workshop.

However, Yang Zhengshan did not take this silver money to heart, so he did not put it in his own pocket, and he has been using it to subsidize military households.

After a few simple explanations, Yang Zhengshan went back to his room to rest.

When they were outside the customs, they lived in fear every day and did not sleep well at night. Now that they are finally back, Yang Zhengshan's mind is finally relaxed and he can sleep well.

Go to bed early and get up early.

At dawn the next day, before it was light, Yang Zhengshan woke up.

Lying on the kang covered with straw mats, he turned his head to look at the dim sky outside the window, his mind moved slightly, and he immersed himself in the spiritual spring space.

Since leaving the customs, except for taking spring water, he rarely paid attention to the changes in the spiritual spring space. Counting the days, he has not entered the spiritual spring space for more than a month.

In more than a month, the Lingquan space has expanded a lot. The dark brown soil that was only one finger wide is now more than one meter wide.

The dark brown soil surrounds the stone pond, about a dozen square meters.

Yang Zhengshan squatted down, pinched the dark soil, and thought about it.

Can this land be used to grow things?

He had such a guess before, but he had been outside the pass recently and had no time to do it.

Now that he is finally free, he must experiment.

Since it is an experiment, there must be a reference and comparison.

Thinking in his mind, Yang Zhengshan immediately took action.

After getting up and putting on clothes and washing up simply, Yang Zhengshan took some vegetable seeds from the utility room of the government office.

In order to let the military households grow vegetables, the government office specially purchased a batch of vegetable seeds from the pass, including cabbage, radish, leek, beans, gourds, etc.

Yang Zhengshan took some of each and planted them in the Lingquan space.

For comparison and reference, he divided the land in the Lingquan space into two parts, one part was irrigated with the river water outside, and the other part was irrigated with the spring water in the stone pond.

Lingquan water has a nourishing effect on both humans and animals, but he has never used it on plants.

In the past, there was not much Lingquan water, so he could only use it sparingly. Now that there is more and more Lingquan water, he can splurge a little.

After a busy morning, Yang Zhengshan planted all the vegetable seeds.

Just at this time, everyone came back from morning exercise, and several women had already prepared breakfast.

Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengche and others had no family in Linguanbao, so Yang Zhengshan did not arrange a separate yard for them, but let them live in a collective dormitory.

The collective dormitory was just behind the government office, a large yard, and each person had a house. Although it was simple, it was also considered to have their own private space.

Everyone ate and trained together, and in order not to let them waste time on trivial matters in life, Yang Zhengshan also hired several women to take care of their meals.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan's meals were also shared with them.

The breakfast was simple, with a bowl of millet porridge, an egg, a few dishes of pickled vegetables and pickled meat, and plenty of multi-grain steamed buns for each person.

They were all young men, not picky eaters at all. In just a few moments, the table of food was swept clean by them.

After breakfast, everyone fell into a busy state.

They had just come back, and there were still many things waiting for them to deal with.

When he walked out of the government office, Yang Zhengshan smelled an unpleasant sour smell.

It was really unpleasant, and he almost vomited the breakfast he had just eaten.

Yesterday they brought back more than 300 cows and mules, and the stables and cattle pens in the garrison could not accommodate them at all, so they could only be temporarily tied up in the training ground.

After a night, these animals were really rude, and they peed and shit, as you can imagine.

Looking at the neatly parked grain carts in the training ground, and the group of cows and mules that were grunting, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but feel a little headache.

When he pulled it back yesterday, he was still full of joy.

So many cows and mules, so much food and grass, this is definitely a lot of money.

But looking at it again today, this is a real trouble.

The things are here, he can use them at will, but the problem is that these things are not his.

The food and grass are from the left camp of the town, and they can eat them themselves, but they can't sell them.

The cows and mules and grain carts are all from the Dusi Yamen, and they can keep them for the time being, but sooner or later they will have to give an explanation to the Dusi Yamen.

At that time, they can make a false report, but they must not leave all of them in the garrison.

"Lao Li, Lao Li!"

Yang Zhengshan stood in front of the government office and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"grown ups!"

Soon, Lao Li quickly walked out of the government office.

"Are the granaries full?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Sir, they're all full!" Lao Li looked at the grain trucks, grinning so happily that he almost reached his ears.

Their granaries couldn't hold so much food.

It's not just that it can't be filled, it's even only a very small part.

"Go and give each household three loads of grain as a reward for their battle!"

"Find someone to build more stables and cattle pens!"

Yang Zhengshan ordered without hesitation.

With so much grain and so many cattle and mules, he naturally had to leave some behind.

He had already decided that when the time came, he would give half of the food and grass to Zhou Lan and he would keep half. As for the cattle and mules, he will keep twenty of them and give the rest to Zhou Lan.

These cattle and mules cannot be killed or sold. Keeping them is a burden, so it is better to leave them to Zhou Lan.

In fact, the Linguan Fort is quite large. The residence of one hundred military households is very spacious. Not only can there be a large training ground, but there is also a lot of free space.

If more stables and cattle pens were built, it would not be impossible to accommodate so many cattle and mules.

But with so many cattle and mules, people need to take care of them every day, and a lot of fodder is consumed.

Linguan Fort is really unaffordable.

"Okay, little old man, let's do it now!"

Old Li replied happily.

Even though he didn't have any position in Linguan Fort, Yang Zhengshan always treated him as the butler. Even Yang Minghao always runs errands with him.

Lao Li's ability is actually very good and he is very experienced in managing chores, but his legs and feet are not good and he walks with a limp.