He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The snow has fallen a little less in the past two days, but Lu Yan has never forgotten why she came here. Lu Yan asked the shopkeeper: "Are we farming in Liaoyang County?"

Usually, a state has a state city, and below it are counties, and each county has a county seat. Below the county seat are towns, and below the towns are villages. Farming is done in villages, and residents in prefectures, counties, and towns do not farm if they have no land.

But the situation in Liaozhou is very different.

First of all, Liaozhou does not have a state city. Secondly, there is only one county in Liaozhou, which is Liaoyang County. Finally, Liaoyang County is more like a transit station than a county seat, so there are no towns or villages in Liaoyang County.

To put it bluntly, it’s because there are few people. Even a Liaoyang county seat is not enough, and there is no need for others.

The shopkeeper nodded: "Many people are farming. If you go to the outskirts of the city, there is no other good thing about this place. There is just a lot of land. No one will care about how much you want to plant."

Lu Yan's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she pulled Lu Sheng and He Wenjing to take a look.

Lu Yan wanted to put the little fox in the inn and let it rest on its own, but it was unwilling and insisted on going with Lu Yan, insisting on squatting on Lu Yan's shoulders. Lu Yan could only take it with her.

A few people and a fox drove the carriage to the outskirts of the city quickly. As expected, there was a large area of ​​wasteland, with only a part of cultivated land interspersed among it, as insignificant as the stars in the vast night sky.

Lu Yan finally understood what it means to "plant as much as you want, no one cares." Doesn't such a large wasteland belong to whoever cultivates it?

Lu Yan wanted to farm. She heard from the prince that their Northern Xinjiang Army farmed in Liaozhou, but because Liaozhou was too cold and the warm-up period was too short, the harvest was not good.

Lu Yan thinks this is a problem with the seeds. In later generations, whatever was grown on the black soil grew, and it was said that rice should grow in the warm south. However, the Northeast not only cultivated rice successfully, but also produced the most delicious rice. Why can Northeastern rice survive in such a cold place? It’s because Northeastern rice already has low-temperature tolerance.

The seeds used by these soldiers are not good, and they do not know how to select varieties. They just plant blindly every year. It is strange that the harvest can be good.

Lu Yan brought a few sacks of seeds this time, just to find a piece of land to plant them, to screen out excellent cold-resistant varieties from generation to generation, and then promote the seeds in Liaozhou.

Her time was very tight and she didn't have much free time to open a new land, so she might as well just buy a piece of land that had been opened by someone else. Presumably no one will refuse. After all, there is a lot of land here. If you open it, sell it and then open it again, and you don’t need any money.

Lu Yan asked for a long time before she found out where the people in Kaidi lived. Usually they lived near the fields.

When several people came to the door, the owner of the field was already confused. The man who reclaimed the land that Lu Yan was interested in was named Chen Ping. He was a middle-aged man in his late forties who had no children, no daughter, no father, no mother, and no wife. He had previously served in the Northern Xinjiang Army, but his leg was injured and he was lame. After he stopped fighting, he took a sum of money and left, which is commonly known as severance pay. Chen Ping took the money and settled in Liaozhou.

I heard from these young people that they want to buy good land. Chen Pingle blossomed. When he opened the land himself, he didn't need to pay for it. After he opened it, there are now people who are willing to pay to buy it.

The two quickly reached a consensus and signed the contract neatly. Lu Yan bought ten acres of open land for twenty taels of silver. She felt it was a great deal. Zheng Le turned around and found that Chen Ping was even more happy. Both of them felt that they had made a profit.

Lu Yan looked at the honest and honest Chen Ping and stopped him: "Are you willing to work for me? I'll pay you."

Chen Ping nodded and agreed: "Tell me what kind of job it is. I can do it if it's not too difficult."

Lu Yan took out another deed: "It's not difficult. I may not be back when I leave this time, but I can't delay planting the land. I'll give you the seeds. Please help me with this every year when you plant your land." After planting, when harvesting grain, separate out the ones that can survive the low temperature and use them as seeds for the next year. I will give you ten taels of silver a year."

When Chen Ping heard this, he immediately agreed and started doing this, earning ten taels of silver a year, just like a dream. It's winter now, and the food in the fields has been received in the warehouse in the autumn. It's not spring yet, so the seeds haven't been planted yet. There was nothing on the ground, so it was time to sow the seeds in the spring.

Once again both of them felt they had earned something.

Lu Yan brought a lot of seeds this time, but she felt that feeding people was the most important thing. So Lu Yan gave him five kinds of seeds, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, cotton, and rice. Rice asked him to find a water source and plant it nearby to see if the rice seeds brought by Lu Yan could survive the low temperature blast in Liaozhou.

It is worth mentioning that the sorghum seeds brought this time are sweet sorghum. Although the harvest of sweet stalks is not as good as that of ordinary sorghum, sweet stalks are known as "little sugar cane". If some can be grown well, you can use the sweet stalks to squeeze sugar after harvesting the sorghum. Judging from the current high value of sugar, being able to squeeze sugar provides another profit channel for the people.

Chen Ping patted his chest and promised to take good care of her. Lu Yan solved another big problem and finally had nothing to do. She went back to the inn to wait for news about the prince.