Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 884

During the visit, Sun Kedi found that due to the unique natural conditions, the fields in Shuangliu County are very fertile, but after years of cultivation, many fields cannot be rested, and the soil fertility has declined significantly. After chatting with many old farmers Only then did the decree of field rotation and rest come into being.

The outline issued by the government stipulates that starting from this year, half of the existing fields in Shuangliu County will be replanted with economic crops such as soybeans and rapeseed, the other half will be deep plowed and fertilized for recuperation, and the other [-]% will be planted with grain. Rotate again.

As long as this measure is fully implemented, it is expected that after three years, the soil fertility of all fields will be greatly improved, and if grain is planted again, the output will be greatly increased compared to before.

This seemingly absurd regulation is the conclusion drawn by Sun Kedi, Zheng Yuandao and others after a lot of research and discussions with many farmers. Next, forcefully push it away in the whole county,

Because there is a regulation that the government buys grain at the price of three renminbi and one stone, the rotation of crops means that their own interests have been damaged, so some gentry did not strictly abide by this new regulation in private, but, as before, under their own name Grain is cultivated in the fields as usual, but cash crops such as soybeans and rapeseed are rarely planted.

Regarding this phenomenon, Sun Kedi did not force the big gentry households with more fields to follow the rules.

The majority of farmers in Shuangliu County have basically started to rotate crops in accordance with the government's requirements.

Firstly, farmers dare not defy the authority and will of the government, and secondly, there is no shortage of food in every family, and many people understand the benefits of crop rotation, so the resistance to this new regulation among the people is not very great.

In addition to the statute of planting rotation, the relevant regulations proposed by the county government to use gentle slope wasteland to plant tung tree, camellia oleifera, and Chinese medicinal materials on a large scale also made people in Shuangliu County feel novelty.

Because tung trees and camellia trees are common things on the mountain slopes, but these trees are wild, and artificial seedlings are planted locally, but I have never heard of them. Tung oil and tea oil are also harvested, but because these two The number of trees is too scarce, so the yield is too low. Farmers can hardly collect some tung oil, which is also used to paint furniture, and there is no sale at all.

Sun Kedi already had a solution to the farmers' questions.

Not long after, through the relationship of Sihai Trading Company, two experts in tung tree breeding and seedlings hired by Xiangyang Prefecture, Hubei Province, came to Shuangliu County. Immediately afterwards, Sun Kedi arranged for Zheng Yuandao to personally accompany the two experts to the countryside to investigate The site where tung trees were planted, and migrant workers were recruited to start building nursery sites in several places.

In the process of assisting the resettlement of the immigrants, because the immigrants needed a large amount of food and materials to rebuild their homes, the Sihai Commercial Bank, which was instructed, made great contributions to this huge project by using its strong strength.

Because Sun Kedi was on the front line, he often dealt with all kinds of people in the Four Seas Commercial Firm, and became good friends with several big shopkeepers. Over time, under the influence of his ears and eyes, Sun Kedi's understanding of the economy has also become more profound. These insights and knowledge have broadened his horizons and made his thinking about the party in power in the future more clear.

The idea of ​​the government investing in large-scale planting of tung tree and camellia oleifera this time is related to Sun Kedi's increased knowledge and knowledge when dealing with the Four Seas Trading Company.

Sun Kedi heard more than once from several big shopkeepers about the economic benefits of these two plants, especially the tung tree, which is a plant with extremely high economic value.

Tung oil is anti-corrosion and water-proof. It is the best material necessary for the production of paint. The price of tung oil per catty is stable at about one penny all the year round. You can plant more than a dozen tung oil per mu. After three years, the yield of tung oil per mu can reach five More than a hundred catties, calculated according to the market price of one penny, that is, the value of more than five taels of silver per mu. If the messy expenses are excluded, one mu of land can also earn a few taels of silver. This is unmatched by any other crops. .

The planting of tung tree does not need to occupy farmland, as long as it is transplanted on a gentle slope in the form of terraces, it can grow. It does not need to be carefully looked after by people, and only needs regular weeding and fertilization.

The planting of camellia oleifera tree is similar to that of tung tree, but its economic value is lower than that of tung tree. Camellia oil is mainly used for food. Tea tree, when the fruit is in full bloom, the Caixia fruit is squeezed into oil, which can be sold or used for personal use. It is also a good thing to supplement the family.

As for planting various Chinese medicinal materials in the middle of the tung oil tea forest, it is also a method that has never been done before.

With the orderly spread of hospitals in various parts of Ming Dynasty, the demand for medicinal materials in the market has shown explosive growth. Merchants in the medicinal material business travel between prefectures and counties in the north and south of the river to search for various medicinal materials.

It's just that the current medicinal materials are basically wild things that the villagers go to the deep mountains and wild forests, and the cultivation of medicinal materials is only a small-scale and small-scale matter. There is no precedent for large-scale cultivation. The birth of this new thing requires Take a long time to explore slowly.

But everything has to be done by someone, right?
Sun Kedi saw the huge prospect of the medicinal material market, so he included this new thing in the plan. Even if he didn't benefit much from it when he was in Shuangliu County, it at least laid a good start for the latecomers. No matter where I go to work in the future, I can take the lessons learned and use them in my post.

Serving as an official will benefit one party, and more importantly, it will be easier to leave a name in history by setting a precedent in history.

Sun Kedi believes that the various measures he has formulated will benefit the local people endlessly, and these achievements will also bring him an indescribable reputation.

The first fire of the new official's appointment was thus carried out vigorously in the whole county. Before the rapeseed was about to mature that year, the first government-run oil extraction workshop was also completed in the county, and the technical support for it was naturally the Universal Commercial Bank.

This giant with unlimited markets and connections has an incomparable absolute advantage in the economy of the Ming Dynasty, but all talents related to production can be found in the firm.

Sun Kedi's status as the son of the chief assistant has brought him many potential invisible benefits. Many things that others cannot do can be easily done with him. He proposed that it can be obtained in a very short time.

(End of this chapter)