Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 381 Large-scale farming

But the bad thing is that Luoshan Village leans against Xiaoluoshan on one side.

There is a mountain spring on Xiaoluo Mountain. In the past three years of severe drought in Yuzhou, the mountain spring on Xiaoluo Mountain has almost saved the people of the entire Luoshan Village.

Xu is success, Xiao He is failure, Xiao He, the villagers of Luoshan Village have never thought that this precious mountain spring, which is almost life-saving for them, has become a reminder for half of the villagers of Luoshan Village in this encounter.

When the mountain torrent hit that night, none of the villagers in the village went out because of the heavy rain, but locked the doors and windows tightly.

Until the last moment, there was a loud noise in the village.

Immediately afterwards, many villagers felt that their bed boards began to shake, and with the louder and louder shaking sounds, more and more villagers felt that their houses began to shake.

Some villagers who woke up were terrified and yelled "Dragon Dilong" and ran out of the house in a hurry regardless of the heavy rain outside.

When I went out to have a look, I found out that there was a ground dragon, and it was Xiao Luoshan who had a flash flood!

The flood rushed down together with the rocks and mud. The huge impact force and the earth-shattering rumbling sound instantly destroyed several houses at the foot of the mountain in front of the villagers of Luoshan Village.

For a while, screams and cries resounded throughout Luoshan Village.
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In this flash flood, more than 20 people died in Luoshan Village and nearly [-] people were injured.It directly crushed six houses and damaged more than ten houses. The loss is not insignificant.

If it's just these, the remaining villagers of Luojia Village may not be able to carry it through.

What really made Luojia Village suffer was that nearly half of the fields that had been planted with seedlings before the heavy rain had no hope of survival due to the long-term soaking in the rain.

Although the rice that has been raised and transplanted is not afraid of rain, there are only three or four households in the entire Luojia Village who have obtained a small number of rice seeds. Most of the villagers in Luoshan Village grow sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are drought-resistant and light-loving. They were originally an excellent food. In the past two years, many villagers in Luoshan Village, whose family conditions were not bad, secretly went up the mountain to pick up a small amount of mountain spring water every day. To support several sweet potato fields in my yard, I rely on these sweet potatoes as rations, and I have survived until now.

When the rains first came to Yuzhou, the villagers in Luoshan Village were all happy.

With rainwater, there is no need to keep some life-saving draft between the teeth like in the past just to feed the little sweet potatoes.

With rainwater, not only can we grow sweet potatoes to fill our stomachs, but we can also grow corn, rice, and side dishes. After this year comes to autumn, when all the hardships are gone, we will be blessed in the future.

But who would have thought that the rain in Yuzhou would not come for two or three years when it did not come, and when it came, it would be so aggressive that it would flood the whole of Yuzhong.

To say that the advantages of sweet potatoes are drought resistance and light-loving, the disadvantage is that they are afraid of waterlogging and shade.

Just half a month before the rainstorm, many villagers in Luoshan Village had prepared potato chips for sprouting and raising vines before transplanting cuttings. In addition, the weather was beautiful at that time, and after transplanting cuttings, it rained several times in succession. , that is, there is no need to water the sweet potato fields.

However, these sweet potato fields are not afraid of light rain or heavy rain, but they are afraid of continuous heavy rain, and even more afraid of waterlogging that cannot be drained after the accumulation of rainwater.

No, most of the sweet potato vines were soaked and rotten due to waterlogging, and the situation of the remaining ones that were still alive was not too good.

As a result, the farm, which was a little eye-catching outside the village, is now even more eye-catching in the eyes of the people of Luoshan Village.
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Everyone knows that the farm outside the village has hired many farm laborers to plow the land after changing owners, and it is also known that the farm is full of large and small mesh-shaped canals.

This time the flood was fierce, and there was a river passing through that farm, but there was no loss at all!
The farm is surrounded by a fence, but it is not impossible to see the situation inside. Besides, there are many villagers in Luoshan Village who work as farm laborers in the farm, and they can go home after finishing their work every day. Whether it is good or not is naturally clear.
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When the farm outside Luojia Village was collected, there were [-] mu of fertile land. These days, Gu Qi asked Jiang Ping to collect more scattered fields near the farm, and there were a total of [-] mu of land.

The fields in the farm are fertile land, not waste land; they can be used simply by plowing and plowing.

Gu Qi used the [-] mu of land near both sides of the river to grow rice, and on the left side, he drew [-] mu of corn, [-] mu of sweet potato, and [-] mu of millet.

The [-] mu on the right is divided into [-] mu of corn, and [-] mu of spring wheat are also planted.

Counting the months, the planting time of spring wheat is a bit late now, but since there are seeds on hand and the land is abundant, let's try it first.

The current climate and environment in Yuzhou Prefecture is very unstable. Sometimes it is dry and sometimes flooded, and sometimes it is cold and hot again. All kinds of crops have their own habits, and many of them are to the left. The reason why the farmland is divided into blocks Just don't put all your eggs in one basket.

For the uncertainty of the climate, we can only try in multiple directions.As for the final harvest, half depends on human affairs and half depends on God's will.
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No one can tell how long the current situation in Yuzhou will last. Although Gu Qi has mobilized all available bodyguards to go back and forth between Yuzhou and Yunzhou Zhoufu, but compared to Lushan County's huge The resident population, and the rice grains that have not been sent back are just a drop in the bucket.

If possible, cultivating edible staple food in Yuzhou as soon as possible is the only way to solve the plight of Lushan County and Yuzhong.

Of course, this is also a way to avoid risks.

No matter what, now that the drought in Yuzhou is over, after the floods are over, large-scale cultivation will inevitably arise in various places, and the price of grain sent from Yunzhou will only continue to be lowered.

Compared with the high cost and high risk of transportation between Yunzhou Prefecture and Yuzhou Prefecture, once the price of food drops to the normal range, this transaction will undoubtedly lose money.

But Sihai invested too much in Yuzhong this time.

Leaving aside Zhou Li's share, let's just say that Gu Qi's own hard-earned money, including manpower, was all invested in Lushan County.

After putting so much effort into it, and trying his best to establish relationships with officials in Lushan County, Gu Qi naturally wouldn't run away just to earn a few months of high prices and resell the difference.

What we seek is a relatively stable sustainable long-term development.
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The relatively complete water inlet and outlet system in the farm ensures that the crops will not rot in the continuous rainstorm. However, in order to ensure the growth of the seedlings, Gu Qi also asked people to build them on several fields where the drainage position is not optimal. The suggested shed was built, and when the rain was too heavy, people covered it with tarpaulins.

(End of this chapter)