Don’t think that riding a horse will not be tired, but in fact, the cavalry is also very tired.

And it’s not just about being tired, but also about being highly vigilant and fighting at any time. Fortunately, there were no dangers along the way. There were only a dozen contacts with sentry detectives, and there were no large-scale battles.

This journey scared Cao Cao very much, thinking that wherever Lu Bu passed, he would not be able to pass the army.

Who knew that where Lu Bu's army passed, except for occasionally stepping on some crop fields, no one else moved.

There is no harassment of the people, no robbery of the city.

Cao Cao sighed repeatedly: "Lu Bu is no longer that ordinary man, he has great ambitions."

Even Guo Jia had to re-examine Lu Bu. You should know that the soldiers of the princes in the past are basically robbing wherever they go, killing people and setting fires more, and collecting grain on the spot at the civilized point, so that the large households can give more and small households can give less.

Like the Xuzhou Iron Cavalry, if you don’t rob or collect grain, it only means that Xuzhou has too much money and food.

Dajun rested in Chenliu for two days, then underwent restorative training, and walked for another three days before returning to Xuzhou.

Xu Shu rode his legs on horseback, and he barely recovered. He said that he could ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair, so where could he get to sleep?

Xu Shu did not enter the city: "Wen Hou, I plan to go around and see the real situation of the people in Xuzhou."

"Okay, go. Wait a minute and prepare something for you."

Lu Bu asked Zhao Zhubo to prepare a package with several stagnant of copper coins in it. Most shops only charge copper coins, and the big shops only charge cash. A raincoat and a token, which is the token of the inspector of the governor's office.

"Yuanzhi, go and go around. See what are the shortcomings of Xuzhou and tell me about it when you come back. This token can be used to go to the county magistrate's yamen, county yamen, and official breeding farms."

"Thank you, Wenhou."

Xu Shu was really not polite, so he carried the small bag on his back and rode his horse away.

Departing northeast along Xuzhou, this is the road to Donghai County. There is an official road, so there is no need to see around Xuzhou. Xu Shu is going to see the mountainous areas.

After two days of travel, I arrived at a place called Shantingji Zhendian, where the mountains are connected to the mountains and the ridges are connected to the ridges.

There are checkpoints for inspection at major traffic intersections, but no one interrogated Xu Shu for no reason. He rode Xuzhou military horses, bridles and saddles in separate styles. Ordinary people do not have such saddles at home.

There is a restaurant in front of it, with three big words written: "Shanting Post."

When the waiter saw the guest coming, he hurried out to greet him.

"A guest stays in a hotel or is a top-notch one?"

"Stay in a hotel, eat, and feed horses."

"Come with me, we have stables in our backyard."

There is a lot of processed forage accumulation, and Xu Shu has never seen such grass before.

"What kind of grass is this?"

"This is called sweet potato seedlings. Although they don't look very good, they are excellent forages that can be fattened when used for feeding pigs. This kind of grass only requires a small amount of essence and the horse will eat them strongly."

The guy took a small amount of essence and added some corn kernels and soybean meal.

The guy opened a room for Xu Shu, which was spacious and bright, with a bathtub and a bathtub.

But the guy said, he had to do it himself.

There is a well in the yard, which is so strange. Add some water to it first, shake the handle hard, and the water comes up in a short while.

Xu Shu washed away the dust and came to the front hall for dinner.

It was just in time for lunch, and there were many business travelers and porters coming to have dinner.

Xu Shu didn't pay much attention to it. This is an official station, but he ate quite a lot. A prawn of big prawns costs two cents per. A bowl of potatoes stewed with big goose is also two cents, and a big steamed bun costs two cents per cent.

However, at this level, some people still think it is expensive, especially the porter in the aisle. They eat a set meal for one cent, two steamed buns, a few pickles, and a bowl of corn porridge.

Everyone dispersed, and Xu Shu asked the clerk: "You can't pay for a meal for a penny?"

"It's enough to just count the cost. Sweet potato flour noodles cost 70 cents and 10 kilograms and some corn flour, the steamed steamed buns are still very hungry. Pickles and corn flour porridge are like this every day. The vendors and porters come and go. But the amount is limited, and they are gone after eating."

Xu Shu thought that this guy really didn't understand, and the cost of things still had to be considered manual and houses.

The station is probably only costly throughout the year.

But the waiter, the shopkeeper is more Buddhist and the service is average. He has to do most of the things he does. He wants to add more food and does it by himself. He wants to take a shower and fetch water to cook.

The next morning, Xu Shu paid thirty yuan in the study and the money for fodder, and rode a horse into the mountain.

Now is the busy farming time in spring. The first impression this mountain gives people is that the road is good, and it is all rammed earth roads that can open to horse and carriages.

The second impression is that there are many carriages and many livestock.

Many farmers used livestock to pull carts and came to the sandy land on the hillside to start planting crops.

I think this is the so-called sweet potato.

Horse carriages, ox carriages, donkey carriages and mule carriages are very common, and only a small number of farmers use human-powered wheelbarrows.

Xu Shu wrapped his long sword and hung it on the horse. He went to the field to help farmers.

A middle-aged man in his forties is growing sweet potatoes with his son.

"My fellow villager, our land is so barren, how many kilograms can this sweet potato produce per acre?"

"I heard that your accent doesn't look like a local."

The fellow villager was quite alert, and Xu Shu took out the bronze medal: "I am not a bad person, but I was from the yamen who came to understand the people's sentiments."

"Oh, so that's it."

"My family only has fifteen acres of mountain land and planted sweet potatoes for two years. Last winter, I married my wife and built a house for my child. If you want to say that in our mountainous areas, the best crop is sweet potatoes. You can harvest some in droughts and floods. Such land is about 8,000 kilograms per acre, which is far worse than the plains."

"What else can I plant besides growing sweet potatoes?"

The old farmer pointed to a piece of green land below: "Did you see that? I planted half an acre of potatoes, enough for my family to eat for several months."

Xu Shu was very curious. He had just started planting sweet potatoes, but the potatoes had already grown to a height.

"The government's arrangements are very reasonable. May every year is the peak season for locust plagues. Everyone observes at any time and finds locusts, and immediately fire to put out the locusts at night. If they cannot be eliminated, the locusts will eat up all the crops, and the wheat particles are not harvested, and other food will be in a bad state."

"I heard that there are many locusts in Xuzhou, but it turns out to be true."

"But potatoes are fine. The growth period of potatoes is short. They basically grow in May. They dig them out and will produce normal yields. They can eat them for several months. They will replant summer grains in the fields, which will be affected by some, but they will not be in trouble."

There are many ways to eat potatoes, and they are very hungry. There is nothing to say about getting through the famine.

Xu Shu sincerely praised: "Mr. Lu's new crops have benefited the people of the world, and they are really amazing."

"That's right. There is basically no village with Liugu Temple. Our farmers go to worship every year in spring and autumn. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins make people eat full, peanuts make people eat well, oil and grass to raise livestock. Cotton allows everyone to wear warmth and not freeze to death. Chili allows everyone to eat vegetables."

Xu Shu ran over to see that the small temple was not big, and they were worshipped with potatoes, corn, peanuts, pumpkin, cotton, and peppers.

There is also an inscription next to the temple, which says that Lu Bu saw the difficulties of the people in the world and introduced these six crops from the fairy mountains overseas after going through a lot of hardships. I hope that everyone in the world can eat and wear warmth.

Keep moving forward, there is a flat place in the mountains, a slightly larger village, and passing the market.

There are not so many stalls, some sell clothes, farm tools, and some sell vegetables.

Radishes and cabbage stored in winter and bacon dried at home.

What’s particularly eye-catching is that there are three pork stalls and two large pots of mutton soup next to it.

After asking, pork costs only 4 cents per kilogram (Hanjin), and there are many people buying meat, coming and going.

However, the mutton next to it is much more expensive, with raw mutton being 15 cents per pound and 30 cents per pound being ripe.

Xu Shu was not short of money, and he ordered a pound of mutton soup next to him, a large bowl full of mutton soup, and two large pancakes costing a penny.

Xu Shu wondered why pork costs ten cents per pound near Xudu, so why is it so cheap here?

While eating mutton, Xu Shu talked to the people next to him.

"Why are our pork so cheap? It's only four cents per pound?"

"I heard that you are a foreigner. Our mountains are poor. Three years ago, the government issued piglets and promoted the method of raising pigs, corn and pumpkins. Now there are several large pig farmers in each village who breed piglets. Ordinary families, who don't raise four or five pigs, are embarrassed to say that they are farming. During the Chinese New Year, they will be kept separately and can be eaten for several months. Some people who are unwilling to kill them will come to the market to buy them. Because pigs are only 2 cents per pound, and it is already very expensive for this butcher to buy four cents per pound."

"Why is sheep so expensive?"

"Because sheep breeding is too slow and grows slowly, it is expensive."

After a meal, Xu Shu learned a lot.

Most pigs are promoted by the government, and are accompanied by sweet potatoes, corn and pumpkin. The yield of these three crops is extremely high, and few vendors come to collect them in remote mountainous areas. If the yield is high, they will be kept for feeding pigs.

You should know that pigs can produce seven or eight, or even dozens of pigs in one child, so it is easy to promote them.

The fertilizer for raising pigs returns to the farmland, forming a virtuous cycle of pigs and grain.

In mountain villages like this, ordinary farmers still have requirements for storing grain at home, and each person stores at least 300 kilograms of grain. Therefore, each household has stored grain in its large jar, either wheat, soybeans, or dried sweet potatoes.

Xu Shu was dissatisfied and walked for two days and arrived in Taishan County.

The situation here is worse than that in the mountainous areas of Donghai County, with mountains and steep mountains everywhere. Suddenly, a group of horses in front of me ran past the grass in the mountains and arrived at the official horse farm.

Sure enough, I was stopped by several officers and soldiers before I walked far.

"Stop, the horse farm ahead, the road is blocked, and the business travelers are circling."

Xu Shu took out his waist card: "Can you get in this time?"

When the officer saw that this was amazing, the governor's office sent someone to inspect it, and it was not notified that anyone dared to stop it.

"You can enter, you can enter, please."

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