Datang Nongwang

Chapter 805 Planting on a Large Area

The breeding base is only ten miles away from Ningyuan County, Zhenzhou.

And Li Chongyuan's breeding base is located in the southeast of Ningyuan River.

but.

At this time, this plain-like land has never been opened up and belongs to the wilderness.

Only Li Chongyuan's land is in the stage of reclamation, but at the same time, a large piece of land has already been reclamation.

Why is Li Chongyuan so sure that this is his breeding base when he arrives in Qiongdao?
Of course it was because someone answered.

And the people who respond are naturally Wang Ting's people.

Moreover, this person is still an old acquaintance, it is Wang Sheng, a small steward of Wang Ting who once helped Li Chongyuan build the dock and shipyard.

Wang Sheng originally helped Li Chongyuan continue to build the island on Xisha Island.

But today's Xisha Island has long been in the process of being perfected, and after Li Chongyuan came back, he was already planning to build a breeding base in Zhenzhou, Qiongdao.

Although he didn't send anyone to Qiongdao at that time, after returning to Beijing, he met Wang Ting, and Wang Ting wrote a letter asking Wang Sheng to rush to Zhenzhou, Qiongdao to find a place.

and.

The place I was looking for was still an area designated by Li Chongyuan.

That is the land in the south of Ningyuan County.

Zhenzhou is the Yazhou District of Sanya where Li Chongyuan lived in his previous life.

There are five counties in Zhenzhou, and the government is located in Ningyuan County.

Yande in the west of Ningyuan County, Luotun in the north, Jiyang in the east, and Linchuan in the southeast.

Although Zhenzhou has five counties, its population is very sparse.

Zhenzhou is a lower state, so the population is naturally less.

In addition to being a lower state, Zhenzhou is also a place of exile.

after all.

This place is far away from the mainland, and also far away from Chang'an, the center of the Tang Dynasty. It is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and it is on an island. It is a good place to exile sinners.

At present, the sinners of the Tang Dynasty are either exiled to the Western Regions or to the Lingnan area, and Qiongdao is included among them.

Qiongdao, in the previous life, was a holy place for vacation.

The Zhenzhou area is even more a holy place for vacation.

Li Chongyuan knew about Zhenzhou when he was in Chang'an.

He also knew that most of the officials in Zhenzhou were exiled here because they were guilty, even if they were state officials.

A nobleman like Li Chongyuan would never come to such a barren land, let alone come to such a place to eat ashes.

after all.

It is far away from the political center of Tang Dynasty.

Which official does not want to climb up?Which official does not want to be a Beijing official.

But Li Chongyuan chose such a place to breed. If some people who don't know the place know about it, they will probably have to make irresponsible remarks and scold them.

But this is also no way.

In his previous life, although Li Chongyuan only studied aquatic products, he also knew that his school once had a breeding base in Yazhou District, Sanya.

and.

Li Chongyuan also knows that on the border of Sanya, no matter it is the company, or the agricultural and animal husbandry colleges, or the agricultural science academies of various provinces and cities, and agricultural science institutes, etc., all have breeding bases here.

Warm, year-round as usual, this is the best place for breeding.

And now.

Li Chongyuan also chose the Ningyuan County of Zhenzhou as his breeding base for his high-yield grain seeds, just like those in his previous life.

The pier is under construction.

The wharf is on the side of Ningyuan Water, and it is also within Li Chongyuan's breeding base.

Although the pier is small, it is large enough to accommodate two Type A paddle steamers.

And when Li Chongyuan's A-type and super-A paddle steamers came to this area, there had never been such a large ship, the people who were hired to open up the wasteland all stopped their work and looked at them. In the direction of the pier, their eyes were wide open, and they didn't know whether to describe their expressions with shock or fear.

Fortunately, these people who built the pier were brought by Wang Sheng from Xisha Island.

Otherwise, if the local people were hired here, they might throw away the tools in their hands and run away to hide elsewhere.

When the boat arrived near the pier, the planks were moved out and boarded the pier.

Wang Sheng, who was supervising the work on the pier, was already waiting below.

Li Chongyuan got off the boat first, and Wang Sheng bowed immediately, "Wan Fu, the king of Li Jun, and the little Wang Sheng, I greet Li Jun Wang."

"We're old acquaintances, so there's no need to make these empty rituals. How is it? How is the land reclamation going? When can the land be leveled and planted?" Li Chongyuan asked with a smile as he stretched out his hand to lift Wang Sheng's.

Wang Sheng was very pleased when Li Chongyuan stretched out his hand and said: "Back to King Li, appointed by my lord, Sheng has already come here to recruit people to open up wasteland last year. So far, the wasteland has been opened up. There are only about [-] mu, and more than [-] mu are still being reclaimed.”

Li Chongyuan nodded and looked at the large piece of land opened up in front of him. He saw that it was enough for Li Chongyuan to plant some of the crops he brought.

Three thousand mu of land is Li Chongyuan's breeding base.

But at present, only [-] mu of land has been reclaimed, and there are still more than [-] mu of land that have not been reclaimed.

Li Chongyuan can also understand.

Land reclamation is a difficult task, and it is also a particularly tiring task.

If there is no handy tool or mechanical equipment, then the matter of opening up wasteland can only be said to be a more painful thing than hard labor.

It's not as easy here as it is in the north.

In the north, a lot of land was reclaimed before, but after the war, a lot of land was left uncultivated, and finally became wasteland again.

In the south, and it is still the land of Zhenzhou, it can be said that no one has ever opened up wasteland, and it has never been planted.

and so.

This land is densely covered with thorns, and there are even more snakes, insects, rats and ants.

If you are not careful, you will be bitten by some kind of poison, and you will die. Therefore, it is more painful to open up wasteland here than to do hard labor.

"I see that there are not many people working on land reclamation. According to the current progress, I'm afraid it won't be completed in half a year. Could you recruit more people to reclaim land?" Li Chongyuan felt that [-] mu of land was still a bit small.

After Wang Sheng heard the words, he was a little helpless and said: "Back to King Li, I was so young that I wanted to recruit more local people to open up wasteland, but the population here is sparse, and I spent a lot of money to find Ningyuan and Luo. There are only so many people in the two counties of Tun."

"Hey!!! If this is the case, then we can only open up wasteland slowly."

Li Chongyuan actually knew that the population here was really sparse.

Regardless of the fact that Zhenzhou is a state, it governs as many as five counties.

But the combined population of the five counties in Zhenzhou is less than 2.

Among the 2 people, once the old and the young are eliminated, only one-third of those who can work are left.

One third, that is, only 6000 people.

Five to six thousand people are divided into five counties. Even if Ningyuan County is the seat of Zhenzhou, there will be a little more people. In the end, there are only a thousand people in each county.

There are thousands of people, and some officials and businessmen have to be eliminated, so the number is less than a thousand.

And now.

On Li Chongyuan's breeding base, there are more than [-] people who are working on land reclamation. It can be seen that this can be said to have recruited people who are a little spare from the two counties.

A state is not as good as a county, which makes Li Chongyuan really helpless.

Recruiting people, recruiting people is called recruiting people.

If no one recruits, you can only take your time.

Or, go to other places to recruit people, such as the Lingnan area, or go to other places.

present.

The population in the north is large and the population in the south is small.

If Li Chongyuan wants to recruit people, the best place to go is the north.

But time was running out, and Li Chongyuan was only recruiting people to open up wasteland. It was absolutely impossible to go to the north to recruit people, so he had to slowly open up wasteland.

Wang Sheng led Li Chongyuan to the place where he lived.

Fortunately, when Wang Sheng and the others arrived, they first built a residence and had a place to live.

After arriving at the residence, Wang Sheng took out the land deed and handed it over to Li Chongyuan.

After Li Chongyuan took it for a look, he handed it to Xing Badao: "The land here is so cheap, you can buy some more. Xing Ba, you can go to the Ningyuan County Government in two days and find the officials of their county government." Ask to see if the land here can be sold to me."

Of course, Wang Ting paid for the land in advance.

However, Li Chongyuan did not mention the land money to Wang Sheng at all. Li Chongyuan and Wang Ting had discussed this matter long ago, and Li Chongyuan would return the land money to Wang Ting.

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Shortly after.

All the crop seeds on the ship were lifted off the ship and stored in a newly built warehouse.

While transporting them, Li Chongyuan found that the potatoes and sweet potatoes he brought back from the Eastern Continent, because they were transported by sea, had a lot of buds after being damp.

of course.

There are also rotten ones, and many damaged ones.

Li Chongyuan was very distressed.

But no matter how distressed it is, there is no way to do it.

This is already the case, Li Chongyuan thought that he must hurry up and plant quickly, otherwise, if it continues like this, it will be even worse.

Unable to recruit people, Li Chongyuan could only let everyone do it themselves.

This is not.

After two days of rest, even Li Chongyuan himself cut potato pieces along the buds with his own hands, and then wrapped them in some plant ash, which was regarded as disinfection.

This method of planting potatoes is also a planting method used by Li Chongyuan as a native of Gan Province in his previous life.

In order to maximize the cultivation of potatoes, Li Chongyuan had no choice but to do so.

The more than [-] catties of potatoes brought back from the Eastern Continent, except for the rotten and damaged ones, were finally counted, and there were only about [-] catties.

Calculated by cutting the stems and planting, the amount of one mu is about two to three hundred catties, and the twelve thousand catties of potatoes can be planted to fifty or sixty mu.

Li Chongyuan, the sweet potato, straightened up a piece of land, buried the whole area to grow seedlings, and then replanted it. In this way, it can be planted to the maximum extent.

For this reason, Li Chongyuan directly reserved [-] mu of land for these sweet potatoes.

As for peanuts, Li Chongyuan plans to plant [-] mu.

As for the chili pepper that Li Chongyuan was thinking of, Li Chongyuan directly planted it in large quantities. The planting area, Li Chongyuan thought that he must plant two to three hundred acres.

Li Chongyuan had never grown corn in his previous life, so he could only breed it first and then transplant it according to his own knowledge of crops, and set aside a thousand acres of land.

Pumpkins are also bred first, and then planted. The planting area has also reserved two to three hundred acres of land.

Various crops, Li Chongyuan planned clearly.

In the end, Li Chongyuan found that the [-] mu of land he bought earlier was not enough.

Moreover, this is only crops, not counting fruit trees.

"It seems that I asked Xingba to buy land, which is the most correct decision. If this goes on, I am afraid that [-] mu of land will not be enough. This rubber tree is the most important thing, and the amount of planting must be large. , it seems that we need to buy more here." Li Chongyuan was thinking while cutting potato stalks.

After careful calculation, Li Chongyuan decided to buy at least [-] mu of land in Zhenzhou.

Fortunately, there is a lot of wasteland in Zhenzhou, which has never been cultivated. It is not an exaggeration for Li Chongyuan to buy him a land of [-] mu.

and.

The price of wasteland in Zhenzhou is really unimaginably low.

Compared with the wasteland near Chang'an, the price of one mu of land is frighteningly low.

Just like Li Chongyuan's breeding base, the price per mu is only five hundred yuan.

If Li Chongyuan bought him [-] mu, he would only need to pay [-] guan at most.

Such a low price, [-] mu of Li Chongyuan is completely acceptable.

Back in the day, when Li Chongyuan bought wasteland in Lizhuang, it cost three pennies per mu of wasteland.

But here, the price of this wasteland is so low that it is a bit scary.

"Buying land is easy, but no one is a headache. It seems that I have to build more houses here and get some people from other places. Otherwise, the future broadcasting, and Planting, plus management, if no one is afraid, it will be impossible. But this matter can be postponed for a while, and we can talk about it next year." Li Chongyuan realized that the scarcity of population was really a big problem when he thought of buying [-] mu of land. something happened.

Li Chongyuan, who was busy cutting potato stalks, had been busy for two consecutive days. When Xingba went to Ningyuan Yamen and returned, he brought a lot of officials.

When this group of officials followed Xingba to Li Chongyuan's breeding base, they saw Li Chongyuan, who looked a bit honorable, sitting on the ground covered in dirt, with an iron knife in his hand, cutting something they didn't know , I was speechless in shock.

Xing Ba approached Li Chongyuan, and replied in a low voice: "Little Lang, I will go to the county government according to your instructions, and after revealing my identity, these people have to come with me to give you a gift, Xiao Lang. I can't even stop it."

After hearing this, Li Chongyuan got up, patted the dirt on his body, rubbed his hands again, and looked at the large number of officials.

After all the local officials saw it, they quickly bowed to Li Chongyuan and saluted, "I have seen Li Jun Wang Li Siqing."

"Excuse me, everyone. The king of this county has just arrived in Guibao, and he didn't go to visit you. It's because he is too busy with private affairs, so please forgive me." Li Chongyuan bowed back.

After the greetings, Li Chongyuan also got to know these officials.

Zhou Biejia is here, the recorder is here to join the army, Captain Zhechong is here, Captain Guoyi is here, don't come and so on.

As for the county magistrate of Ningyuan County, it doesn't matter if it's the master book, or even the county magistrate and county lieutenant have come.

Even the subordinate officials came a lot.

Zhenzhou is like many states, the governor belongs to the remote leader, don't drive the big one.

But there are not enough officials and none are missing.

In distribution places like Zhenzhou, the grades of officials are half a level lower than those in other states.

Just like not taking a job, if you go to the state in the inland, you will go up from the fifth rank, but in Zhenzhou, you will go down from the fifth rank.

(End of this chapter)