Yang Jing's next goal was to quickly conquer the three closest places to Wuyuan County, Su Ning, Qi Men, and Hou Men, and develop violent soldiers in these three places.
Taking down these three counties was not a big deal, but it was a big deal to alarm the Xin 'an Guards.
At this time, only Xi County and Jixi were left in the Hui Prefecture.
After the humiliated Xin 'an Guard Yamen of the Hui Prefecture knew about this, they would definitely gather 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress them. At the same time, they might also contact the surrounding prefectures for support.
The worst outcome would be hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers, and Yang Jing would inevitably fall into a tug-of-war.
Although he wanted to end the battle quickly, the battlefield was ever-changing. No one could predict the outcome of the battle or how long it would last until the end of the battle.
If they were really unfortunate enough to fall into a tug-of-war, then the rations and supplies of the entire army would become the biggest problem.
Yang Jing now had 110,000 soldiers, and he would send out hundreds of thousands more in the future.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and fodder move first.
Before the army set off, Yang Jing had to prepare the military supplies!
However, with these hundreds of thousands of soldiers added up, the amount of rations required was a rather terrifying number.
The commoners had no food in their hands, and he couldn't raise taxes like the imperial court and forcefully collect food to raise troops.
It was true that the landowners had grain in their hands, but those hundreds of thousands of catties of grain were not enough to feed the entire army for a few days.
He could plunder and store food while fighting, but that was not the solution to the problem.
The food in the hands of the landowners and gentry would run out one day.
If he wanted enough food, the most direct way was to plant them in large quantities!
However, the rice in the south had two harvests a year and could only be harvested after half a year. The growth cycle was too long.
The war was imminent, and the peasant soldiers under Yang Jing had to eat every day. They could not wait that long.
Moreover, the rice production was too low. One mu of land could only produce 300 catties of grain, and 100 mu of land could only produce 30,000 catties of grain.
30,000 catties of food was not enough to feed his peasant soldiers for half a day.
Moreover, other than the peasant soldiers, there were also commoners who could not eat their fill for a long time.
Since the people of Wuyuan County had already followed Yang Jing, he naturally could not let them starve.
In the future, as the territory gradually expanded, more and more people would depend on Yang Jing.
He would establish his own dynasty sooner or later.
As a ruler, the first thing he had to do was to ensure that his people had enough to eat.
Therefore, the food problem was an urgent problem that needed to be solved!
He had to find a way to get enough food in a short period of time!
Yang Jing thought for a moment and opened the system shop.
When a transmigrator had something to do, he had to look for the system!
Yang Jing was convinced.
Sure enough, he casually glanced around the system shop and saw what he wanted.
"System Notification: Grain Growth Acceleration Card.”
"Just a thousand taels of gold and you can have it!”
Yang Jing was speechless when he saw the price.
One thousand taels! And it was gold!
This was too expensive…
So be it, it was worth it!
He clicked on the Grain Growth Acceleration Card to check the instructions. After reading it twice, he decisively bought it.
It could accelerate the growth of grains and shorten the growth cycle of grains, so that the grains could be harvested one week after planting.
One accelerator card could be used on a hundred acres of land.
It was indeed worth it!
Judging from this function, Yang Jing was very satisfied with this accelerator card.
However, even with the method of accelerating the growth of food, the production of food was still a big problem.
He was used to seeing the yield of one to two thousand catties of modern hybrid rice. Now, the yield of 300 catties per mu of land really made him look down on it.
Yang Jing couldn't help but sigh. Grandpa Yuan was really a great man who had benefited all mankind.
If he could master such technology, wouldn't he be able to easily solve the problem of food production?
Thinking of this, Yang Jing thought of the system again.
"System, if I want to buy hybrid rice technology and hybrid rice seedlings, how much would it cost?”
The system did not expect Yang Jing to ask such a question. After a moment of silence, it said,""A hundred thousand taels…"
Yang Jing's heart tightened, and his eyes were filled with anticipation.
A hundred thousand taels of silver?
That was too worth it!
Buy! He had to buy it immediately!
At this moment, the mechanical system voice sounded again.
"Gold."
"F * ck!"
Yang Jing couldn't help but curse.
Are you sure this is the Explosive Soldier System?
This was clearly a paywall system!
One hundred thousand gold taels, he might as well rob them!
Moreover, Yang Jing did not have that much on hand now. He only had 77,000 taels.
Now that he had killed all the wealthy gentry in the city, all the money was in his hands. Even if he robbed them, he wouldn't be able to get 30,000 taels of gold.
What should he do?
The hybrid rice technology was too important. If he could master this technology and produce tens of thousands of tons of grain, he would not care if it belonged to the Great Ming Dynasty or Li Zicheng or Dorgon.
Even if Yang Jingguang fought a tug-of-war with them, he would be able to exhaust them to death!
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had to get this hybrid rice technology.
After considering for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and counted all his belongings, preparing to use silver to make up for the lack of 22,000 taels of gold.
He was left with jewelry, calligraphy, and paintings worth 200,000 taels of silver, as well as 400,000 taels of silver.
At present, the exchange ratio of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was one to ten, which meant that one tael of gold could be exchanged for ten taels of silver.
And 23,000 gold taels would require 230,000 silver taels.
He paid the system 67,000 gold taels in one go, and then gave the system all the silver jewelry, calligraphy, and paintings worth 200,000 gold taels.
After all, these things were not easy to cash in. In this day and age, having some cash on hand was better than nothing.
After that, Yang Jing allocated another 130,000 taels of silver to cover the cost of purchasing the hybrid rice technology.
Yang Jing felt the warm current of knowledge about hybrid rice that had been poured into his mind. He then looked at the inexhaustible hybrid rice seedlings in his system backpack and heaved a sigh of relief.
Success!
After spending 100,000 taels, Yang Jing was left with 10,000 taels of gold and 270,000 taels of silver. He would have more in the future.
He left behind 10,000 taels of gold as a reserve fund for the bank to issue currency in the future.
If the reserve funds were not set aside, it was very likely that the currency issued would be worthless. The Ming Treasure Notes issued by Zhu Yuanzhang was a typical example. In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Treasure Notes in the late Ming Dynasty were no different from waste paper.
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