The Humble Family's Daughter Has A Spatial Pocket!-Chapter 1072 - 895, Harvest

News from Beijing, Daohua still often receives it, however, she focuses on current and major events, and matters such as the marital life of Yan Yile and others are not within her concern.

Entering August, the Gan State Guard gets busy with the autumn harvest.

This being the first year’s harvest, Daohua pays extra attention, personally supervising her subordinates to tally the yield per acre and the total harvest, busy beyond measure every day.

The five transformed terraced fields have now become the busiest spots in Gan State Guard, the crowd watching the bountiful harvest in the terraced fields, their eyes gleaming with hope.

Every year when Xiliang begins the autumn harvest, people from Xiliao start to come over and rob.

However, this year, the previously unstoppable people of Xiliao have been turned on their heads.

Xiao Yeyang divided five thousand cavalry into five squads, patrolling back and forth daily, any Xiliao people who crossed the border were executed on the spot, ensuring the safety of Gan State Guard and also training the cavalry’s combat skills.

Every day, the townspeople at the border can see the cavalry galloping back and forth.

Some townspeople were so moved that they shed tears, choking up: "Our military finally started to actively resist the Xiliao people." Instead of waiting for the Xiliao people to rob them entirely before showing up belatedly.

Ganwei Town, the second major military stronghold on the defense line of Gan State Guard, is now initially built, only the city walls are still being built taller.

Around noon, the soldiers building the military town surge into the town’s cafeteria in batches.

"Captain, it seems like it’s time for food, let’s hurry up too, if we’re late, there might not be any left."

On the city wall, Wang Wu cheekily approached the leader in charge.

Hearing Wang Wu’s words, the captain chuckled and glared at him annoyedly: "Kid, you must be new here?"

Wang Wu quickly nodded, pointing behind him to a few clan members: "We are all newly recruited soldiers, sent here today and started working on the wall right away."

The captain said with a smile: "Don’t worry, the military won’t short you of food, we always eat in batches like this."

Wang Wu looked worried: "Does that mean we only get to eat what others have left?"

The captain, ever amiable, continued to say with a smile: "Rest assured, you will definitely be full."

Seeing that the captain was easy to talk to, Wang Wu asked with a smile: "Captain, how did the higher-ups decide to build a military town here?"

The captain said as a matter of course: "Of course, it’s to defend against the Xiliao people."

Wang Wu wanted to ask more, but the captain slapped his own behind and stood up: "Let’s go, it’s our squad’s turn to eat."

Wang Wu, along with his clan members, followed the captain to the cafeteria.

The cafeteria, built next to the training ground, is quite large, fully equipped with tables and chairs, capable of accommodating a thousand people eating at the same time.

Upon entering the cafeteria, Wang Wu gazed curiously at everything inside.

Seeing this, the captain chuckled: "Master Xiao sympathizes with us soldiers for our hardships, specifically ordered the construction of this cafeteria and even provided tables and chairs, unlike before when after getting our food, we would just squat anywhere to start eating."

Wang Wu: "Master Xiao is really good."

The captain agreed: "Since Master Xiao came, our lives in the Border Army have improved, we used to starve often, now we can eat full every meal."

At this moment, they arrived at the food-serving window, and Wang Wu saw the captain pick up a large bowl from the bamboo basket, and followed suit with his clan members.

Seeing the captain approach an unoccupied window and hand over his bowl, Wang Wu quickly did the same.

Soon, a full bowl of food was handed out.

Three thick flatbreads and a generous serving of potato stew.

Seeing the potato stew, the captain was very pleased: "You guys are in luck, there’s meat today, let’s go sit over there and eat."

The captain led Wang Wu and the others to an empty table, sat down, then turned and fetched a bowl of vegetable soup from nearby.

Seeing this, Wang Wu hastened to do the same.

"How is it, the military food is not bad, right?" the captain asked smilingly, addressing Wang Wu and the others who were eating eagerly.

Wang Wu, with his mouth full of flatbread, said unclearly: "Not just good, it’s excellent. At home, I don’t get to eat meat even once a year."

The captain, sipping the vegetable soup with a smile on his face, said: "Our food here isn’t even considered the best yet."

Wang Wu glared: "Isn’t that good enough?"

Captain: "The cavalry camp has the best provisions, I heard they drink milk tea every day. Of course, they have it harder than us, having to patrol daily starting from August. If they encounter a few Xiliao people, they kill them on the spot; if there are many, they come back to report."

Wang Wu nodded: "That’s better indeed, to prevent the Xiliao people from reaching our homes before we even get the news, and failing to rescue in time."

Captain: "Exactly, in previous years, Ganzhou Guard was the main target for Xiliao’s looting, but this year, I haven’t seen a single Xiliao person yet."

"You guys, work well in the army, every seven days, we get to eat meat here, it’s not worse than making a living elsewhere."

Someone who knew the Captain pulled him aside to eat, leaving only Wang Wu and a few members of the Wang Clan at the table.

"Brother Wu, joining the army was really the right choice."

Seeing his clan members happy about the meat, Wang Wu felt somewhat worried.

Besides wanting to kill Xiliao people, they joined the army hoping to assess the capabilities of Mr. Xiao and thought they could send messages to their master after joining the army, not expecting such strict control here.

Wang Wu scratched his head, how to send messages to the master?

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Ganzhou Commandant Office.

With the five regiments successively transporting this year’s military provisions, the storerooms were completely filled with grains.

All officials were excited about this.

Fan, looking at Xia Jianren, exclaimed: "I’ve been in the Ganzhou Guard for over twenty years, and it’s the first time I’ve seen the storeroom filled."

Xia Jianren remained silent, shocked as well.

He hadn’t really taken high-yield crops to heart; in his view, regardless of how high the yield, considering the poor soil in Xiliang, how much could it possibly improve?

He genuinely didn’t expect these corn and potatoes to be so high-yielding, drought-resistant, and undemanding of the soil.

Xia Jianren looked at Fan and whispered, "Brother Fan, we should tell Mr. Wei about this."

However, Fan hesitated, "That won’t be good, right? These grain varieties were brought by Mr. Xiao, if anyone should say something, it should be him."

Xia Jianren frowned: "Brother Fan, Mr. Wei has treated you well, how can you be unwilling to do even this little thing?"

Fan looked displeased: "Old Xia, I don’t like hearing that, if I were in charge of Ganzhou Guard, of course, I’d report to Mr. Wei, but it’s not me in charge now, I won’t be the one to backstab."

Saying that, he turned and left.

Seeing this, Xia Jianren was infuriated, returned to his office, and wrote a letter to Wei Hong, reporting the bumper harvest in Ganzhou Guard this year.

That afternoon, Xia Jianren’s letter appeared on Xiao Yeyang’s desk.

Xiao Yeyang sneered at the letter: "An inside betrayer."

Defu, standing by, shook his head; that Mr. Xia was truly foolish to deliver the evidence to his superior voluntarily; with this letter, framing him for leaking secrets was possible in the future.

Actually, without Xia Jianren’s explicit letter, just by word of mouth amongst the people, it was impossible to hide the bumper harvest in Ganzhou Guard.

At Jinwei Guard, Zhu Jianzhong, after sending off the envoy from Jianzhou Guard who came to gather information, turned and went to the storeroom, looking at the stored high-yield grains, feeling extremely satisfied.

Next year, Jinwei Guard would also have a bumper harvest.

The Commander of Jianzhou Guard, having confirmed Ganzhou’s bumper harvest, immediately went to Liangdu to inform Wei Hong.

The next day, Wei Hong’s letter requesting the grain varieties appeared in front of Xiao Yeyang.

Xiao Yeyang said to Daohua with a smile: "If it weren’t for the Imperial Uncle’s support, I might really not be able to safeguard these high-yield grains." As he spoke, he started to pen a rejection to Wei Hong.

Daohua, looking on, reminded him, "Write it more tactfully, just say that the high-yield grains are limited, and we need to prioritize Ganzhou Guard first."

Xiao Yeyang nodded, "Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing, it’s not yet time to confront the Wei Family." He paused, then added, "Also, in the future, those who come to Four Seasons Grain Store to buy grains should ideally show their Ganzhou Guard registration."

Daohua: "Is that necessary? The grain store has its buying limits, even if people from other guard stations come, they can’t buy much. On the contrary, if they take the grains back to plant, it could help us promote it." freewёbnoνel.com

Xiao Yeyang pondered for a moment and nodded: "That’s also good."