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Counting the time, spring is coming soon, and there will be many more businessmen in Seoul.

Thinking about it this way, Lu Chensheng breathed a sigh of relief again, and the matter of making money still has to wait until the beginning of spring.

Chapter 365 The Experimental Field

There are more buildings in the valley, but they are all just workshops.

Outside the workshop, there are high walls erected, guarded by soldiers, and outsiders have no idea what is inside.

Only from time to time, the sound of iron forging can be heard from some workshops.

The small lake in the valley was not very deep before, but now it is getting deeper and deeper.

The impact of the water flow, the bottom and the sediment on the side are gradually being taken away, making this small lake deeper and deeper.

They are all underground rivers, and now the water looks extremely clear.

Now it's the beginning of spring, and there are still some green grasses stubbornly coming out of the cracks in the stones.

"My lord, the terms have been negotiated!"

Chu Wu hurried over from the side, with joy on her pretty face.

"What conditions?"

Lu Chensheng was surprised, and turned to look at Chu Wu.

"The trade with foreigners, we exchanged items like salt and ironware for horses with them!"

When they first arrived last year, they were already talking about this business with each other.

It's just that the other party is unwilling in every possible way, and there is no iron or something, as a condition of exchange.

In this way, the other party is even more unwilling.

But now that they have the ironware that nomads lack the most, they are excited.

In their view, it was only two thousand good horses, but in fact it was not too much, just two thousand.

If the opponent runs too much, the horse will be useless in a short time.

But ironware is too scarce for them!

So after thinking about it, the deal was agreed.

Lu Chensheng's face flashed with joy when he heard the words, "Where's the horse?"

"They sent people back to drive the horses. It will probably take some time."

Hearing the words on the fifth day of the lunar new year, he immediately responded.

Lu Chensheng's face relaxed slightly when he heard that, it's nothing to wait for a while, it would be the best thing if he could switch to a horse.

"Well, keep an eye on it and make sure you get this business done."

Lu Chensheng gave Chu Wu an order.

Chu Wu nodded repeatedly, then turned and left.

Lu Chensheng looked at Chu Wu's back and shook his head secretly.

It's a pity, if it wasn't for lack of strength, there would be no need to trade, just grab it directly.

This deal also took up a lot of his forging time.

Thinking of this, Lu Chensheng became more and more dissatisfied, and when he became stronger in the future, he insisted on grabbing some good horses, cattle and sheep back.

Although at that time, such a good horse may not be so important, but since it was snatched, there is no need to dislike it too much.

"Is the horse done?"

Bai Yi came over at this time, she also heard voices from here just now.

"Yeah, these horses should arrive in a few days. You can go and have a look at them when the time comes. It's fine if there are some inferior products mixed in."

Lu Chensheng nodded, and then talked to Bai Yi.

Lu Chensheng didn't understand how to distinguish a horse, but this Bai Yi had some ideas.

Bai Yi nodded upon hearing this, "I will supervise this matter."

As she said that, there was a tinge of joy on her pretty face, if they also had a horse, it would be great.

She is very familiar with the cavalry's combat capabilities.

"By the way, it looks like the city wall is about to be built, but the number of our soldiers is too small. Such a long line of defense is not enough for such a few soldiers."

Bai Yi talked about the business.

The city wall hadn't been built before, so she didn't mention it.

But now that the city wall has been built, she has to talk to Lu Chensheng about it.

This place is simply too big, and the defense line of the wall is too long.

Lu Chensheng planned to plant some places inside to plant rice fields, but it was actually no problem at all.

Not to mention a little bit, even getting a [-]-mu field is trivial.

The reason why Lu Chensheng is planning to get some land to grow food is that on the one hand, there are too few people here, and the place where he lives does not need much space at all; Take precautions.

"There are a lot of people coming out of the city right now, let's paste a notice, explaining that soldiers will be recruited, and explain the salary and so on."

Lu Chensheng thought for a while, and then spoke.

If soldiers are to be recruited, the defense line will not work without the defense of soldiers.

Bai Yi's face relaxed when she heard this, it would be good if Lu Chensheng agreed to recruit soldiers, but she was worried that Lu Chensheng would not be willing.

"If Xianggong wants to plant rice seedlings, he needs to get someone to cultivate the land as soon as possible. Spring planting doesn't take long."

In Bai Yi's opinion, it would be a good idea to use one piece of land for farming in such a huge area.

Food has been relying on buying, and it is indeed not a matter.

It's just that Lu Chensheng was thinking a lot more than Bai Yi, "Well, my husband knows about this."

As Lu Chensheng said, he walked towards the workshop on the side. Lu Chensheng had dozens of cows that he bought a few years ago, but now they can be used.

"Uncle Lin, has the Quyuanli I wanted been made yet?"

In order to prepare for spring plowing, Lu Chensheng gave the blueprints to Uncle Lin and asked him to help make them.

Uncle Lin raised his head, seeing Lu Chensheng immediately smiled cheerfully, "It's done, it's over there, can you see if it's okay? If not, I'm modifying it."

As he spoke, he pointed to Qu Yuanli beside him.

Lu Chensheng leaned forward to take a look, and nodded quickly, "This is what I want, Uncle Lin, please make more sets."

When Uncle Lin heard this, he immediately nodded repeatedly.

"Don't worry, this object is very easy to make, and I will make more than a dozen sets for you in a few days!"

Lu Chensheng nodded with a smile, looked at several sets of Quyuanli, and asked someone to take it out and lead a cow.

By the way, several old farmers were also called to the front by Lu Chensheng, "Old man, I have to bother you about the plowing of the land."

Lu Chensheng specially spent money and invited very experienced old farmers to cultivate the land.

The old man didn't mind, although he still looked a little old, but he was still full of strength.

After being polite, he put the ox on the Quyuan plow, and started plowing at the place designated by Lu Chensheng.

This was just the beginning, and the old farmers immediately felt the difference. Compared with their expectations, the curved plow was much less labor-intensive. An ox plowed the ground with ease.

Under such circumstances, the old farmers suddenly felt full of strength and worked harder.

Water was directed to this side, and in a blink of an eye a rice field was plowed out.

Lu Chensheng called Erhu and others, "Assignment for you, here are the records of various fertilizers, each of you go to ask for a few tens of mu of land, use this tens of mu of land as the experimental site, and have a look. Whoever uses the fertilizer can make the crops harvest more."

Lu Chensheng said to Erhu and the others.

When the grain has not been harvested, they need to record various data, and then figure out what kind of fertilization can make the crops harvest the most.

This is Lu Chensheng's most important purpose.

Even when the harvest is excellent, an acre of land here is only about one hundred and thirty-four catties. How can it be that in later generations, an acre of land can reach hundreds of catties.

It's not worth it to work hard for a year for more than 100 catties of grain per mu of land.

Lu Chensheng thought that the yield per mu could be improved.

It's just how to fertilize, this is a bit troubled to Lu Chensheng, some fertilizers used in later generations are not available here, and the specific amount of fertilizer is even dark.

Now that I thought about it, I left this matter to my students.

Chapter 366 Manganese Steel Armor

In the valley, a place has been planned for arable land to grow rice.

With the groundwater gushing out continuously, it is more than enough to grow rice, and there is no need to worry about whether there will be a shortage of water.

Each of Lu Chensheng's students was assigned dozens of acres of paddy fields, which were cultivated by veteran farmers who were responsible for recording various fertilization data.

And the students brought by these students themselves also recorded together and were responsible for these fields.

Uncle Lin's construction of Quyuanli is still very fast. With Quyuanli, the cattle in the valley are also used.

So in the valley, people can see buffaloes that often make themselves covered in mud.

The [-] mu of land was quickly plowed out, and Erhu and the others were familiar with things like transplanting rice seedlings, and they would go to the fields to help.

On this day, the nomads hurriedly brought the good horse to Xinghan City because they were thinking about ironware, various salt and other things.

They cannot enter the valley, and the place of trading is in the old city.

Originally, Lu Chensheng was a little worried about whether the other party would go back on his word and cancel the transaction or something.

If this is the case, the two thousand good horses will be gone.

But in fact, Lu Chensheng was overthinking it.

The rest of the opponents were even more worried than Lu Chensheng and the others.

When the war horse came to Xinghan City, Lu Chensheng asked Bai Yi to go and identify it.

After careful identification, it was determined that there was nothing wrong with these horses, and the transaction was successfully carried out.

Lu Chensheng took these good horses and happily took them to the valley. The place inside is big enough for these horses to run.

The nomadic people got all kinds of iron tools and left happily.

"Recruit your soldiers and assemble, give you something good!"

Seeing that all the good horses had been obtained, Lu Chensheng hurriedly spoke to Bai Yi.

Bai Yi was slightly taken aback when she heard this, and she didn't know what this good thing Lu Chensheng was talking about, but she still nodded and asked the soldiers to gather.

The soldiers at this moment have all been well trained, and the assembly speed is extremely fast.

When they converged towards their destination, their faces were full of solemn expressions, and their footsteps were uniform.

The farmers who were still working at the side couldn't help but look sideways when they saw this scene.

Around them, they have never seen such elites.

No matter from which angle you look at this group of soldiers, they give them an extremely elite feeling.

"What good stuff?"

Bai Yi led the soldiers, and soon came to the assembly point, and then looked at Lu Chensheng in front of him, looking forward to it.

"Do you still remember the gift I told you to give you when I was in the imperial capital of the Great Cang Kingdom? This is it."

After finishing speaking, Lu Chensheng lifted the cloth on the box beside him, revealing all the contents inside.

Inside the box lay all kinds of armor that looked extremely heavy, and there was a gleam of coldness in the darkness.

Bai Yi was slightly taken aback when she saw it, and then quickly stepped forward to stroke it carefully. She could feel the extremely heavy feeling that this armor gave her.

"Let the soldiers try it on."

Lu Chensheng waved his hand, and immediately a soldier stepped forward and put the armor on his body.