I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

Jiang Qinyu explained, "It's a high-yield grain crop I bought from a Hu merchant, but the quantity is small. Our village only has five acres of land planted. We have one acre, my parents have one acre, and the remaining three acres belong to the village chief, Brother Meng, and Aunt Qin."

When she was planting sweet potato seeds for her own field, Old Man Lu and Village Chief Meng Tianze asked her for some. They had a lot of land, so it was no problem to allocate an acre to plant sweet potatoes. Even if there was no harvest, it would not affect anything.

"Hu merchant?" Lu Yanzheng frowned. "The Hu merchant you met in Yukang Mansion?"

Jiang Qinyu paused, feeling a little uneasy. "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Could it be that he noticed something?

Lu Yanzheng looked in Jiang Qinyu's direction for a moment in the dark night, then shook his head and said, "Nothing."

Dai Viet called all foreign ethnic groups "Hu", including Dayuan and Xiqiang. Given the current situation of several countries, it was impossible for merchants from these two countries to enter Dai Viet to do business.

But maybe Jiang Qinyu met merchants from other small tribes or small countries?

Jiang Qinyu's heart was pounding, and she quickly changed the subject, "If you have something to do tomorrow, you don't have to go. I can ask the elder brothers from the village chief's uncle's family to help collect it."

"No need. I don't have anything to do tomorrow. Let Qin Shen go. I'll go to the fields with you." Lu Yanzheng agreed immediately.

In the past few days, he has made all the arrangements on how to purchase food. There will be no war in the border town for the time being, so he can stay in Dingshui Village for a while.

Last time, he led his men to force the Dayuan army to retreat thirty miles, and they did not dare to attack in the short term.

As for the Western Qiang, he led his men to rob their granary, and the remaining food was moved to the foot of Yunshan Mountain near the Western Qiang. Without food, the Western Qiang people did not dare to provoke a war.

This was also due to the fact that the alliance between Dayuan and Xiqiang was not solid, otherwise he would not have been able to temporarily disintegrate their alliance so easily.

"As long as it doesn't affect your business." Jiang Qinyu didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

The land at home is the common property of her and Lu Yanzheng, so it is just right to have him there during the harvest time.

Lu Yanzheng said in a serious tone: "The harvest of crops is also a big deal. I just want to take a look at the harvest situation in the village."

It is said that they planted winter wheat, but it is not yet harvest time, and I don’t know what kind of crop the sweet potatoes they will harvest tomorrow are?

"You are a great general, and you still care about farming?" Jiang Qinyu smiled, and the image of the general she had seen in movies and TV dramas before emerged in her mind.

If she remembered correctly, those people didn't care about the harvest.

Lu Yanzheng spoke after a while, "There are so many mouths to feed in the army. If the superiors don't know where the grain production is high, when the court doesn't provide food and wages, the brothers in the army will have to go hungry."

These were all taught to him by Marshal Qin.

The imperial court has become increasingly harsh on border troops in recent years, and Marshal Qin has to secretly buy food from various places at his own expense.

A general stationed on the border cannot leave his base at will. Marshal Qin can only send people to various places to collect local harvest information and keep records so that he can quickly send people to purchase food when necessary.

This is how the border troops have survived in recent years.

"Uh..." Jiang Qinyu didn't know what to say. "So you raided Zhu Youcai's house and used all the money you got to buy food?"

A few days ago, she heard Qin Shen say that Prime Minister Su and Zhu Youcai colluded and swallowed up all the 60,000 shi of grain that the court gave to the border troops last year.

The 10,000 dan of grain they found was secretly withheld by Zhu Youcai, otherwise the border troops would have to tighten their belts for another month.

Ten thousand dan of grain may seem like a lot to ordinary people, but it is not enough for the border troops who are said to have a force of 100,000 men.

"Well, we bought food, some farming tools, and some seeds." Lu Yanzheng did not hide anything and briefly described the current situation of the border troops.

"When there's no fighting, all the border troops farm, but they don't know how to farm, so the yields are low. Furthermore, there's been a severe drought in recent years, and the people have trouble getting enough water, making farming even more difficult."

They reclaimed a lot of wasteland in the border town and planted a lot of crops, but the harvest was only half of the normal amount, sometimes even less than half.

In addition to water and soil factors, it should also be related to the seeds.

If the high-yield grain seeds that Jiang Qinyu bought from the Hu merchants really can produce high yields, he will definitely try his best to plant such high-yield grains in the border town.

Jiang Qinyu felt very uncomfortable when she heard what he said.

In the original body's memory, the people in Dingshui Village lived a very hard life, but I didn't expect that the people in the border town lived even harder.

And from what Lu Yanzheng said, everyone in the border town is a soldier. In addition to farming, they also have to train, and the key is that they are always hungry.

But it was this group of people who guarded the border of Dai Viet and stopped the invasion of ethnic minorities outside the border. Otherwise, how could she sleep here peacefully?

"Brother Zheng." Jiang Qinyu suddenly spoke.

Lu Yanzheng turned his head to look at her, "What's wrong?"

"If the harvest from our fields is really good tomorrow, you can take the seeds to the border town!" Jiang Qinyu felt relieved after saying this.

Based on what Lu Yanzheng and the others said about the current situation outside, if Dingshui Village is the only one with water and food for a long time, their village will definitely face more robberies.

Instead of worrying about being robbed all day long, it is better to promote things that can be promoted. Once everyone has food, naturally no one will come to rob them.

Lu Yanzheng smiled softly, "Well, if it really is a high-yield grain, the people in the border town will definitely be very happy, but..."

At this point he sighed, "Seeds alone are useless without water."

When Jiang Qinyu heard this, she almost blurted out "I have", but fortunately she held back and didn't say anything.

She could say she bought the seeds from a foreign merchant, but what about the water? In Dingshui Village, she could blame it on the underground river, but in Border Town, she had nowhere to turn.

Speaking of water, Jiang Qinyu suddenly discovered another benefit of the system.

That is, there is no restriction on the water in her water pipe. Even if it is always open, water will always flow out.

So if she had the chance to go to the border town, she might be able to find a way to throw a section of water pipe into the water source over there. But she didn't know if she could still get the tap water out since she was more than two hundred miles away.

This topic was a bit heavy, and neither of them spoke again. Gradually, Jiang Qinyu fell into a dream.

The next morning, Lu Yanzheng got up earlier than Jiang Qinyu as usual. When she came out, Lu Yanzheng had already finished a set of boxing.

At this time, Qin Shen also came out of the house. He yawned and rubbed his eyes. When he saw Lu Yanzheng and Jiang Qinyu, he greeted them first.

"Good morning, General, good morning, Madam!"

Jiang Qinyu also smiled back at him.

Lu Yanzheng looked at Qin Shen and said, "You go and take over with Langya today. I will stay in the village."

"Ah?" Qin Shen was stunned. "General, you're not going to Qiongzhou with us?"