Water Margin farming to become powerful

The protection army could not bring much food and supplies when they came here, but they did have a lot of cash.

Bank notes from the Bank of the Supervisory Committee can also be used here. Although the exchange rate is a bit tricky, it is not difficult to spend a lot of money to build these houses.

The main force of the house repairs is the local people. Most of these people are uneducated, and they are extremely short of craftsmen. It is okay for them to build a boat. As for the work of house repairs, they are completely unaware of it.

Fortunately, many of this batch of soldiers have relevant skills in building rammed earth houses.

So everyone worked together to find ways to purchase materials and tools, and it took a short time to repair the houses. After these houses were built to attract the people to go ashore, the subsequent large-scale reclamation was realized.

Fang Liang introduced to the children of the landlords: "Now we have more than 300 households in the seven villages under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Committee, half of which have lived in the six reclamation areas, and the rest of the houses and farmland It is also actively under construction, and it is only with a house that it is convenient to cultivate the land, isn't it?"

Fang Liang pointed to these houses and the fertile fields in the distance and introduced them in detail. Huang Tang and the others were completely dumbfounded.

This was really different from the scene they had imagined before they came. They had thought that what they saw would be this group of bandits showing off to them how many people they had controlled and how much fertile land they had reclaimed, and then extorting money from them.

It was really unexpected that the first thing that shocked them was that these bandits were so considerate of the common people.

Build houses for the poor, lead the poor to reclaim land... Where are these bandits?It's almost like a government office.

No... If what Fang Liang said is true, then these bandits are much more benevolent than the government!
A group of people continued to walk forward. Before everyone reached the field, they saw a huge windmill near the water from a distance.

Except for Shandong, which is full of machinery—Shandong under the rule of Sun Xin has already begun to study the use of steam engines, but in this era, out of Shandong, any large tool in the countryside is extremely eye-catching.

Seeing the tall windmill suddenly appearing among the reeds, everyone's eyes were fixed on it and they couldn't leave it.

"This waterwheel is really big..." Someone sighed softly.

Someone also asked curiously: "General Fang, do our guards have so much food that needs to be ground?"

Fang Liang smiled and shook his head when he heard the words, and pointed to the large windmill in the distance to explain to everyone: "Our corn has not been harvested yet, and the main function of the waterwheel is to squeeze oil."

"Oil extraction?"

The people who came today are generally very familiar with the affairs of the farm, so they were quite surprised to hear this conclusion.

Oil crops are very difficult to serve, and after harvesting, complex processing is required to obtain vegetable oil.

Therefore, the first choice of ordinary poor people for some land is naturally to grow food. Subconsciously, they think of the few fishing villages in the river pond with poor conditions.

Anyway, the most important task of today's introduction is to let these landlords and old money take a look at the governance capabilities of the supervisory committee. Fang Liang saw that they were so interested in the waterwheel, so he didn't go to the field for now, and temporarily changed the route and brought a few people there first. In front of the oil press workshop.

Before coming to the workshop, everyone realized that the scale of this workshop is even bigger than that of several large oil workshops in Dutou Town.

At this time, the workshop is in full swing, and a group of people are busy with frying peanuts, frying peanuts, and unloading embryos.

"Is this groundnut?"

They are all from landlord families, and everyone knows something about the crops that have become popular recently.Peanuts, a high-yield oil crop, gradually spread in Sizhou after being introduced from Shandong. However, this kind of thing is quite novel, and everyone is not very good at planting it. For the time being, they only dare to plant a small area. .

But the peanut production of the Sizhou Supervisory Committee in front of him is really amazing.

I only saw boat after boat of peanuts coming in endlessly on the water, crowded and parked in the port behind the oil mill, and on the other side there was a water barrier separated by a wooden fence. There are many ships, and one wooden barrel after another is placed on the ship. The outside of the wooden barrels is wrapped with cattail grass to prevent collisions. It is obviously packaged peanut oil.

"Such a large output?" When Huang Tang saw the boatloads of peanut oil being shipped out non-stop, Huang Tang was not only a little surprised even though his family was the largest landlord in Dutou Town.

The main oil crop that their family grows is rapeseed. Even in the season when the rapeseed is mature, the family's manor has never seen such a large output of oil.

The hundreds of households under the supervision committee actually grow more oil crops than the thousands of farmers in their family?

"General Fang, how many peanuts have our Protectorate planted this year?"

This question is a bit sensitive, but Fang Liang thought for a while and felt that a more cryptic answer would not be too problematic, so he said: "It's hard to say the exact number, but this year the oil mill will squeeze at least [-] shi of peanut beans."

"How much?" Not only Huang Tang, but also everyone around him who heard Fang Liang's answer dropped their jaws in shock.

Although the figure of [-] shi of peanut beans is a bit too exaggerated in their opinion.But in fact, for Fang Liang, this is really a matter of course.

The land of the reed marshes has not been cultivated for many years, and it is also silted land. The soil is black and sticky, which is very suitable for the growth of peanuts.Of course, after this season, a lot of fertility will be consumed, but the harvest of the first season's crops is guaranteed.

Fang Liang, who was born in an agricultural college, feels that it is normal to grow an acre and three stones in this place. This year, there are more than 500 troops stationed around the Sizhou Supervisory Committee. They must all grow peanuts, plus local fishermen. , enough to be more than a thousand young and strong, and can easily pick up tens of thousands of acres of land.

It's just that the reclamation work has not been completed yet, so the output is limited to about [-] shi.

But the meaning of this number to other people is far more than that. After hearing Fang Liang's answer, everyone was stunned for a while, but Huang Tang couldn't believe it, and couldn't help asking: "May I ask what is the peanut yield per mu here?"

"This year's harvest is two stones per mu."

When Fang Liang heard the news, everyone must have been shocked from ear to ear.

Although Fang Liang felt that the yield of two stones per mu was shameful, he had also learned about the yield of peanuts grown by the locals, and knew that for these local landlords, this figure was really astonishing.

They grow peanuts by themselves because their technical level is not good, and they are not willing to use fertilizers. The yield per mu is half a stone and a half, and they are already overjoyed.

Sure enough, after Fang Liang finished speaking, everyone looked back at the village, which was already quite large, with expressions of horror on their faces.

Some people thought to themselves, no wonder the guards were able to build such a village in such a short period of time, with two stones per mu, it's no wonder they didn't get rich!

(End of this chapter)