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- Chi Zhengjie's words of introduction must have been specially practiced. He was talking so much that Zhang Ling and the people next to him were all dizzy. After a while, they finally remembered what was wrong:
"I said, don't you grow food in these manors? What will the farmers do to eat?"
"You can purchase it from outside. Of course, if you are worried, you can also plant part of it yourself. However, according to our experience, most manor owners will definitely plant all cash crops in the end, and no one will have trouble with small money."
Having said this, Zhao Lide also came over and patted Zhang Ling on the shoulder:
"Lao Zhang, this is mainly a conceptual issue. Due to the long-term food shortage in the Ming Dynasty, farmers always felt that the land should not be used for other purposes except growing food. But in fact, this is not the case. Don't think of this plantation as farmland. We regard it as the same as those factories and workshops in the city, a place where products are made in exchange for money, but the products here are all grown from the land."
As he spoke, he pointed to the staff around him:
"Don't think of them as ordinary farmers. These people are work teams trained by our agricultural department, and they are really 'eating the emperor's grain'. Farming is a technical job for them, not a technical job." It's a simple thing that you can do with just a handful of effort. In fact, what they want to teach you is not just farming, but a whole set of management methodsor in our words, it's called ecological agriculture."
He pointed around again:
"For example, if you look at the surrounding fish ponds, pig pens, cow sheds, chicken and duck sheds, and fruit and vegetable gardens, they are not randomly set up. Instead, they echo each other and are interlocking: we raise chickens and ducks in the orchard and vegetable garden; They can be allowed to eat pests and ensure harvests. After processing, part of the feces produced by large livestock such as pigs and cattle will be used as feed and put into fish ponds to raise fish. The other part is configured into humus soil for raising earthworms. , earthworms can also be used as feed.”
"In the end, the waste soil and residue that are really useless can be re-applied to the orchards and vegetable fields together with the mud fished out of the fish ponds for fertilization including aquatic plants in the fish ponds, rotten fruits and vegetable leaves, etc. They can also be used to feed livestock, and the whole cycle is a cycle."
"And we, as the owners, can harvest enough chickens, ducks, eggs, aquatic products, meats, fruits and vegetables, etcBasically, with such a village, it can satisfy most of a family's daily life. There is a demand for non-staple food. If the business is good, there will even be a lot of surplus, which can be sold to make money or given away."
Zhang Ling was dumbfounded by what Zhao Lide said. After a while, he didn't quite believe it and said:
"So good? But we also have Zhuangzi in our hometown. Why haven't we heard of it having so many benefits before?"
"So this is a very professional skill. It's not just something you can do with a lot of strength. It includes how to deal with excrement, rotten fruits and rotten vegetable leaves, so as not to make pond fish and livestock eat them and get sick. Plants should be planted in the garden What and what to raise can be matched with each other. And when and where to use some drugs appropriately to prevent pests and diseases Ecological agriculture is a very complex subject."
"Thisare you willing to teach me?"
Zhang Ling said doubtfully, while Chi Zhengjie laughed:
"Of course, otherwise why would our manor be sold at a high price of five thousand taels? You must know that the best paddy fields in the Jiangnan area are only more than ten taels of silver per acre. We have 500 acres of land here, of which 450 are wasteland. We have to do it ourselves Reclamation. It is because of these attached facilities and the promise of comprehensive technical teaching that customers are willing to make money. Operating the garden is just incidental. The technology of growing sugar cane and cash crops is what makes people make big money. "
"Is this difficult to learn?"
"It's okay, anyway, it lasts three full years. In the first year, you work as a work team, and you people learn by the side. In the second year, you learn while doing it, and in the third year, you are the main one. If you still learn No, you can also apply for an extension. Although the knowledge behind farm work is complicated, it really comes down to the boring work. No matter how stupid a person is, he can always master it after repeating it for two or three years. And then if there are new technologies , the work team will come to teach.”
Everyone was talking to each other, and Zhang Ling's heart was beating wildly. The lady next to him had her eyes shining brightly, staring at the fruit trees and vegetable gardens Then Zhang Ling felt his wife pinching her hard. Squeezing his hand was a tacit understanding they had formed since childhood. At that time, we went to the market together. If there was something she wanted, she would just squeeze it and Zhang Ling would buy it for her.
"In this case how many people do we need to send here?"
After understanding his wife’s intentions, Zhang Ruheng folded his arms and began to think about arranging manpower.
"You don’t need a lot in the early stage. You only need five or six people to take care of the manor itself with the fifty acres of land. The next step depends on how many people you can find, but you don't need to open up 500 acres of land at once. If you work slowly, you can run the village well with thirty or fifty people. And it can be done by both men and women. "
Having said this, Chi Zhengjie also waved his arms around:
"This manor is said to be 500 acres, but in fact there is a large area of ??wasteland around it. If you have cleared all the land and still feel it is not enough, you can apply to buy more land to open up wasteland. The price is only half the original price: five taels of silver per acre."
"That's not cheap either. Ordinary farmland is only this price."
Next to me, Zhang Xiaomei, who ran back from her madness at some point, suddenly interrupted, which made everyone look at her with admiration. When did this little girl learn to care about current affairs?
Seeing that everyone’s eyes were on her, Zhang Xiaomei shrank her shoulders in embarrassment and whispered:
"I heard two businessmen talking on the boat, saying that the land price here in Hainan Island is ridiculously high. An acre of mature land in the Ming Dynasty costs only five or six taels of silver, but it is only equivalent to the wasteland here. Just remember it."
Zhao Lide laughed:
"Because the land we have here has other attributes besides the land itself. The road you came from was paved by the government. There are aqueducts around these tracts of land, which were also built by our engineering team In addition to these, our land in Hainan also has one of the most important attributes, that is, we are safe. In addition to avoiding natural disasters, we no longer have to worry about encountering dangers. Those big businessmen are willing to spend money to buy houses here. The main reason is this."
And Chi Zhengjie also continued to introduce:
"Of course, if you want to open up wasteland again, you have to act quickly. The surrounding manors all have the right to purchase, first come, first served. If someone buys up the surrounding wasteland first, you won't have a chance. Let me remind you: Lao Zhang, your next door The neighbor is none other than our Cheng Ye Gaocheng Mansion. He has now recruited all the clan members and is fully prepared to take root here."
"On the other side, there are Yan Wenchang, Wang Xinzhi and several others who jointly pooled their money to buy a Zhuangzi. In the future, the income will be distributed according to the number of shares. These people are all local gangsters. The family power is not big, but the advantage is more people. It’s easy to recruit people, and we’ve already started working on it in full swing.”
"Eh? Then we can't lag behind. Brother, you must not be short of people. Just send some of your soldiers over, wouldn't it?"
But Zhang Lu also came back and casually gave his elder brother a "clever plan". When Zhang Ling heard this, his expression suddenly changed:
"You don't understand the rules here, so don't talk nonsense!"
With an extremely stern tone, he stopped the confused Zhang Lu. Zhang Ling thought for a while and said to his wife next to him:
"It seems that Uncle Liu and the others who are coming with you this time haven't been arranged yet, right? Why don't you come and stay for a few days first?"
His wife nodded happily, and Zhang Ling immediately turned to his brother:
"Sixth, you should stay here for a while, just in time to calm down, so as not to get rough again."
He had learned from the previous lesson. When Zhang Xiaomei came, he placed her in a hotel near the pier. It was too close to the bustling city. As a result, Zhang Xiaomei, who had no one to control her, wandered around and caused trouble all day long. Instead, she lost her temper. .
So now I don’t dare to let my brothers go as they please, so it’s better to stay in the farm and feel at ease.
When Zhang Lu heard this, he became anxious:
"No, brother, didn't you ask me to join the Qiong Navy? If I want to run here or farm, why should I leave my hometown?"
Before Zhang Ling could answer, Bei Wei, who had been silent beside him, spoke:
"Xiao Luzi, do you want to join our Qiong Navy?"
"Yes, Brother Bei, I have read all the letters my eldest brother sent back. I admire heroes like you the most. I also want to fight those Western barbarians!"
Beiwei smiled softly:
"Then you know, there are two basic conditions for joining our Qiong Navy."
"ah?"
"First, you have lived here for more than a year. Second, there is a family here that needs you to protect our Qiong Navy. We don't want refugees, nor do we want those single men who can feed one person and the whole family is not hungry. Because they have no worries, and A person who has no cares and does not know why he is fighting will not become a good soldier."
Zhang Lu was stunned:
"There is still this rule? Doesn't it mean that the less burdensome a person is, the less afraid of death he is?"
Beiwei sneered:
“It’s a fallacy, the more this kind of person is, the moreAfraid of death because there will be nothing left if he dies. On the contrary, only those who have clear goals and know why they are fighting have the courage not to be afraid of sacrifice. "
As he spoke, he suddenly poked Zhang Lu’s chest:
"Why do you want to join the Qiong Navy?"
"I……"
Zhang Lu opened his mouth, but was stunned for a moment because he felt it was not easy to answer. But Beiwei directly said it for him:
"Because we are strong, we have advanced weapons and tactics, and we can always win. You want to stand with the winner You envy the strong and want to join their team. This is human nature, and it's nothing. embarrassing."
Zhang Lu was about to nod when he heard Bei Wei say something else:
“But what if we fail?”.
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