Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Zhao Sheng adopted this method to purchase a large amount of land that was not suitable for growing crops such as rice and millet. This not only solved the food and shelter problems of some refugees, but also prevented others from running wild on his territory.

The most important thing is that the county magistrate of Zhao County likes this very much. Selling land can make a profit for the county and it is convenient for management. It is indeed a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Over the years, people in Shigang Village have come and gone, treating it only as a temporary shelter.

Now Zhao Youfu is Zhao Sheng's representative in Shigang Village and also the village chief. He records the workload of the workers in a small notebook. After deducting the daily food expenses, many people can receive a small amount of wages every month.

Mr. Zhao also purchased some ox carts and donkey carts for the village. If the villagers need to go to the county town for something, as long as there is a need, in principle, everything can be discussed.

This can be considered as a wave of benefits for the villagers.

In the blink of an eye, it had been half a year since Zhao Heng came to Chuzhou. He Hairen found that the King of Chu had no intention of leaving, but fortunately he did not interfere with what he was going to do.

However, the power of the Salt Gang has declined greatly. He Hairen has sent people to support it several times, but in the end he found that this force is like a child without a mother, and no amount of persuasion can help it regain its strength.

Fu Gang had his arm broken last time. After recuperating for half a year, he finally found that it was completely useless. Fortunately, he still had one arm. As the leader of the Binhai Hall, he was very dissatisfied with being beaten like this.

But now he has no one under his command, so even if he wants to take revenge, he can only sigh to the sky.

No one expected that the situation, which was originally starting out prosperous, would end up being messed up by him.

Zhou Li has always had a good relationship with the Cao Gang. This time the Cao Gang won a great victory, so he naturally took gifts and went to Chuzhou to find the newly appointed deputy leader of the Cao Gang, Liu Yihui.

As early as when Zhou Li was doing crystal business, he met Liu Yihui in Shangjing, and the two had quite a good relationship.

"Boss Liu, you deserve great credit for this great victory."

When Zhou Li saw Liu Yihui, he immediately flattered him, making Liu Yihui feel a little dizzy.

"Brother Zhou, I'm just lucky and have someone to help me."

After that, he whispered the whole story into Zhou Li's ear.

After Zhou Li finished listening, a bee seemed to be trapped between his brows. He sighed and said, "Brother, misfortune often leads to blessing, and blessing often leads to misfortune. It's hard to say."

"What do you mean? Could it be...?" Liu Yihui didn't understand Zhou Li's words and asked in confusion.

"I have a cousin named Zhou Li. Do you know him?"

Liu Yihui nodded and said, "Supervisor of the salt field, a small role."

"He's really a small character. I can find him when I need to pull salt, but I don't reach out to him. Do you know why?"

"Appreciate further details!"

"Ah..., it's a long story. This Chuzhou may seem like the territory of the King of Chu, but in fact, the King of Chu's brother has already run this place like an iron barrel. Unless the King of Chu doesn't want this piece of fat meat, otherwise..."

Liu Yihui only then realized that his Cao Gang had to take sides! But was it appropriate to stand on the side of the King of Chu?

He looked at Zhou Li again, hoping to get an answer.

"Don't look at me. Logically speaking, the struggle for imperial power shouldn't be this way. The King of Chu and the Second Prince are brothers from the same mother. Now, you are just a knife in the King of Chu's hands. However, there have been changes in the court, and no one knows what will happen next."

"What? Aren't we..." Liu Yihui felt heartbroken when he heard this. He was being used by others. How could he be willing to accept this? But what could he do?

He wanted to report the matter to the gang leader and the elders and let them make the decision.

However, Zhou Li smiled and said, "As long as the King of Chu doesn't rebel, you can be considered to be on a big ship, and I think his ship is quite stable."

Liu Yihui looked at Zhou Li in surprise, thinking that his words were mysterious and incomprehensible, and he had no idea what they meant.

The snacks made by Zhao Sheng made the noble families very satisfied, especially the Zheng family. On the basis of the original ones, they also expanded several new products, such as asparagus, grass heads and other side dishes. They also tried meat, but the shelf life was not long and it was easy to spoil.

In fact, Mr. Zhao is not optimistic about these things, because they are just some appetizers for people's livelihood, which can serve as a link between the past and the future during a short period of lack of food.

The most important problem for the people is food. Currently, many people in Zhao County grow millet, also known as sorghum. Anyone who has eaten it knows that it tastes terrible, but the soil here can only grow this.

Fortunately, Zhao County has abundant groundwater resources and good soil that can produce more than 300 kilograms of millet. The situation in Shigang Village is special, and being able to produce 100 kilograms of millet is already quite good.

Now Mr. Zhao uses soybeans to improve the soil, and concentrates the useful soil to optimize and improve the soil in some areas with good moisture and geological layers.

Alternating planting has greatly increased the yield of millet. The key is that Shigang Village uses Zhao Sheng's technology to make some fertilizer, which is to ferment the millet straw and then send it to the yard for pressing.

Anyway, everything that happens in Shigang Village is handled centrally, so everyone just does it without asking any questions.

After the radish was ripe, some was kept for seeds and Mr. Zhao bought all the rest. After sorting them, Mr. Zhao squeezed the main rhizome part.

This kind of calamus is not the kind with large rhizomes like those in later generations. The sugar that Zhao Sheng can extract is very little. A thousand kilograms of calamus can not make a hundred kilograms of white sugar.

Of course, the residue after pressing is a good thing for making wine, which is much better than making wine with straw and bean dregs. With the addition of radish residue, the biomass and sugar content increase, and the production capacity of alcohol is significantly improved.

The sudden mass production of white sugar in Luancheng quickly attracted the attention of the royal family, the Wei family and several major families, especially the Wei family.

In the Zhou Dynasty, the appearance of white frost sugar was extremely rare. The tribute to the imperial palace was only one pound a year, and most of the sugar used was red sugar.

This matter was also Li Shuya's fault for being careless. After all, she didn't know much about the business rules. When the white sugar was first produced, Zhao Sheng brought ten kilograms of white sugar back to Luancheng and casually placed it on the cabinet at home.

On this day, Li Shuya had a guest, who was her best friend in the palace and the emperor's eldest daughter, Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying's son-in-law was Fan Xitong, the second son of the right prime minister Fan Wenyuan. This time, the two of them were going to Yanzhou, passing through Dingzhou County, and stopped by to see Li Shuya.

But what Zhao Ying didn't know was that subtle changes had already begun to appear in the palace at this time.

Zhao Hui used the excuse that the Princess of Yan had given birth to stay in Shangjing and persuaded the right prime minister to become a royalist.

Yanzhou is Zhao Hui's base camp. Asking the princess and her husband to go to Yanzhou at this time is, to put it bluntly, a disguised form of hostage.

But they never expected that when they came to Dingzhou, Li Shuyan led people to the living room and found a cloth bag on the table with white crystal clear particles in it. She originally thought it was salt, but she also found something wrong.

Finally, everyone tasted it and found out that it was white sugar.

Li Shuya treated them as her friends, so she would share good things with them, and gave them a bag of about one or two kilograms of sugar.

At this time, Zhao Ying thought that her elder brother Zhao Kang was still imprisoned, and she had no way to do anything.

So he wanted to give all the beautiful things in the world to his father, hoping that he would show leniency to his elder brother and not be too harsh on him.

He ordered his servants to bring the sugar back to the palace and let his mother give it to the emperor to show his gratitude.