Guo Liqing was once a farmer in Lantian County.

Last year, the imperial court encouraged the people of Guannei Road to immigrate to Zhenbei Road and as always gave many generous conditions.

Thinking of continuing to stay in Lantian County, I guess he will be a farmer struggling with food and clothing throughout his life. Guo Liqing, who is over 30 years old, chose to immigrate to Zhenbei Road with his wife and children.

Although he is only 34 years old this year, their Dalang is already seventeen years old.

The second child in the family is already fifteen years old.

In other words, the third lady is only thirteen years old this year.

It is precisely because of the three strong laborers at home that Guo Liqing dared to immigrate to Zhenbei Road at a certain risk.

Fortunately, Datang is already very experienced in immigration.

In addition, the output of various iron tools is relatively high now, so these immigrants can get enough agricultural tools after they go to Zhenbei Road.

As for the houses they live in, due to time issues, local officials directly coordinated a batch of tents to let everyone experience the life of the nomadic people.

After the beginning of spring, Guo Liqing immediately started to get busy with his family.

Even Guo Sanniang, who is only thirteen years old, is assigned a lot of work every day.

She was left to everyone’s food issues to be taken care of.

Guo Liqing is relatively lucky.

The place he assigned to is under the jurisdiction of Dingxiang City.

It belongs to the earliest batch of potatoes, and there are also students from Guanshishan Academy who specifically help and guide everyone how to grow potatoes.

Guo Liqing was originally a real farmer and had an instinctive talent for growing crops.

There is nothing special about potato cultivation itself.

But everyone has never been in contact with it before, and now someone teaches you, so they will get started immediately.

So the Guo family quickly planted potatoes one after another.

Of course, since I came to the grassland, I must find a way to raise some cattle and sheep.

The prices of cattle, sheep and horses in Zhenbeidao are cheaper than those in Chang'an City.

For these immigrant people, since each person can allocate 100 acres of land, without the help of slaves, there is definitely no way to plant all the food.

At this time, there are a few cattle and sheep to raise, which is naturally the best.

Local officials obviously considered this issue a long time ago, so they assigned a cow, a horse, and several sheep to each family.

Of course, except for the free sheep each person has to pay for money.

This price is significantly lower than the market price, and you can also borrow from the Datang Royal Money House to waive interest within one year.

With such preferential conditions, no one would want these cattle and sheep.

After all, those who have the courage to become immigrants obviously have made all kinds of psychological preparations.

With these things, Guo Liqing's life quickly changed a lot.

Although the money in his hand has been spent almost all, Guo Liqing is not panicked.

Seeing the potatoes growing day by day, Guo Liqing was full of hope for the future.

Normally, it is no problem to plant potatoes for two seasons a year, and it can even be planted in some places for three seasons.

However, the geographical environment here in Zhenbei Road was obviously only planted for one season.

Fortunately, in order to develop Zhenbei Road, Li Kuan designated this place as a demonstration area for potato cultivation, and there were no competitors in a short period of time.

So when it comes to digging potatoes, it is time for Guo Liqing to start enjoying the beauty.

Potatoes have not been fully deployed in the Tang Dynasty, but they have been planted on a large scale in Zhenbeidao.

According to the current planting scale, potatoes will definitely not consume so much in Zhenbei Road.

In this way, the potatoes will definitely be transported to other places for sale after they are dug out.

At this time, it is time to test everyone.

Should we sell potatoes to the buyer, or should we ship them to other places to sell them?

If the same pound of potatoes is in Zhenbei Road, it will not be very good. The price per penny per pound is too high.

But Guo Liqing knew that at the end of last year, in Chang'an City, you could not buy a pound of potatoes even if you spent ten cents.

This year is definitely not that exaggerated, but he thinks there is no problem selling a pound of potatoes for two or three cents in Chang'an City.

In winter in Zhenbei Road, you can't do anything.

After thinking seriously for several days, Guo Liqing took Guo Dalang and pulled the potatoes from two carriages towards Chang'an City.

The horses are their own horses, but the carriages are rented.

Including the cost of renting and the cost of round trip, if potatoes cannot be sold at Chang'an City, Guo Liqing will probably lose money.

Fortunately, Tudou is good, it was reported crazy in the "Datang Daily" last year.

So there is no need to worry that you can't sell it when you go to Chang'an City.

It's nothing more than a question of how much the price is.

Along the way, Guo Liqing met many people who were like them who took Tudou to Chang'an City.

This made Guo Liqing feel a little more worried.

As more people go there, the competition will naturally become fierce.

Although the people of Chang'an City have seen the high yield of potatoes and are willing to spend a high price to buy potato seeds.

But this high price is also relatively high.

Once there are more people selling potatoes, the price will not be much higher.

After all, in addition to growing potatoes, farmers can also choose to grow a series of new crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts.

Combining the yield and value of the crop, and considering which thing has cheap seeds and high cost performance, everyone will choose which one.

So when Guo Liqing and Guo Dalang came to Chang'an City, they found that their potatoes were very popular. Many people came to see them, but after seeing the high price, the people who were willing to buy them were good.

"Aye, why don't we sell it at a lower price?

I think some people have started to lower prices.

At the current price, we can still make a lot of money, which is several more cents of more than selling it directly to merchants in the north of Zhendao."

Seeing that it was getting colder day by day, Guo Dalang was very worried.

If it snows heavily and the road is closed, how could it be like the North Road?

Even if you don’t go back, it’s not a problem to spend a winter in your hometown in Lantian County.

But after all, the family is separated from each other, and this is not the scene he hopes to see.

"Once the price reduction starts, it will be difficult to stop.

If we only buy our potatoes as food, ordinary people will definitely not buy them.

Because the price of a pound of potatoes is as high as several rice stores, who would be stupid to buy it?

But if the wealthy businessmen are rich, many of them grow potatoes themselves in Zhenbei Road.

They don't need to buy it from the outside at all.

In this case, unless a merchant purchases potatoes in large quantities, once the price is reduced, the price will never be returned.

We can't start this."

Guo Liqing has not reached the point of desperate situation, so he is naturally unwilling to sell it at a lower price.

"But it's not a solution to keep waiting like this."

Guo Dalang said nothing wrong with this.

So Guo Liqing had no way to refute it.

"Let me think about it again. I will go to the fried dough stick stall next to buy two fried dough sticks to satisfy my hunger."

Guo Liqing, who didn't know what to do for a moment, found an excuse and walked away, leaving Guo Dalang to see things there.

After the fried dough sticks were spread from the Chu Palace, they soon became popular in Chang'an City.

There are basically fried dough stick shops in every market.

Some shops selling breakfast have added special items to sell fried dough sticks.

In the past two years, the increase in the production of various edible oils has made the fried dough sticks more popular and the price is more affordable.

"Man, let's have two fried dough sticks!"

Guo Liqing took out a Kaiyuan Tongbao from his arms.

Although Tang Yuan had been in circulation in the Tang Dynasty for many years, Guo Liqing still prefers to use Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Only when the heavy copper coins are in his arms can he feel at ease.
To be continued...