"I fixed it," the village head felt aggrieved, "We built the road that your lord came to the village to look for."
Bai Shan: "...do you call this road construction? Even horses can't get in."
Village head: "My lord, you can come in without riding a horse."
Bai Shan didn't bother to continue this question, and asked directly: "When was the last time you built roads?"
The village chief said uncertainly: "Four years ago? Or five years ago."
"Where do you send your corvee every year?"
The village head immediately said: "The official roads and some water canals outside the mountain, and sometimes go to the sea to build a pier."
Anyway, it was not issued to the corvee of his own village.
Bai Shan frowned, "Is there a pier in Beihai County?"
The village head said: "A few years ago there was one, it was in the area of Longchi, but it was not built later, it was abandoned."
Bai Shan: "Why waste it?"
Village head: "Because there is no money?"
Bai Shan: ...
Forget it, let's ask about this kind of thing when we meet Fang Xiancheng and Dong Xianwei. How can he ask a village chief who can't even understand his own village corvee
Bai Shan reached out his hand to touch the wheat in the field, and said to the village chief, "It's all ready to be harvested, so go ahead and work. When the busy farming season is over, I will issue you a duty order and build a special way out."
The village chief was worried, and asked nervously, "Do you want to repair it and go outside?"
Bai Shan: "I do have this ambition, but there are not many of you, and the mountain roads are difficult. If you don't send laborers from other places, it will be good if you can go outside within five years with your village alone."
He said: "You can't delay the farming time for a road."
The village chief let out a sigh of relief.
Seeing this, Bai Shan said, "But don't slack off, it is very important to have a road leading to the outside. If your village has a road leading to the outside, when bandits kill you, you will still be besieged. Is it impossible to ask for help here?"
Bai Shan believes that the reason why the bandits are able to attack Xiaoliu Village again and again without any scruples is because it is isolated and helpless.
The mountains on all sides protected the village, but also cut off their way, so they had to find a way.
And surrounded by mountains, even if the land is fertile, they just don't lack food, but life is not just food, there is also clothing, housing, and the need for knowledge.
In one lifetime, one must leave something for this world. This is a worthwhile walk in this world, isn't it
Only when Xiaoliu Village leads to the outside world can all this be realized.
Bai Shan's heart moved, Xiaoliu Village was like this, so why not Beihai County
Speaking of which, Beihai County is also small and has few people. After arriving in Qingzhou City, many caravans will divert to Laizhou and go out to sea from Laizhou Bay. Except for the caravans that fancy salted fish will come to Beihai County, other caravans will also come here In order to sell things, it is rare to take goods from Beihai County.
But Beihai County has few people and is poor. How many merchants can come to sell things
Even if they eat delicacies from mountains and seas every day, they won't be able to leave much money for Beihai County, so they still have to find ways to attract more merchants.
So how to attract it
"My lord, my lord?" Seeing that Bai Shan was in a daze, the village chief couldn't help calling twice.
Bai Shan came back to his senses, suppressed his thoughts, and said to the village chief, "Have you sown your rice seeds?"
"Yes, they've all sprouted."
"Come on, let's go take a look."
The village chief then turned around and took them to see the seedling fields in the village.
There are not many people in their village, and the places where rice seedlings are raised are mostly in the field at the end of the village, and the river that flows through their village is right next to it.
The river is not big, so there is no danger of flooding. At this time, the water of the river is flowing, and the fields on both sides are full of blue seedlings.
Bai Shan went down the field ridge to look, reached out and pulled out a seedling to look at. At this time, it was only one finger high, but the color was about to turn dark green, which showed that the fertility of the land was good.
He looked at the rhizomes of the seedlings, they were a bit thin, and the root system was not as good as the rice seeds that Datou had grown experimentally in Pu Village.
However, there is no shortage of water here, and it is normal for the root system of the seedlings to be underdeveloped.
Bai Shan asked the village chief, "What was the average rice yield per mu in the field last year?"
The village chief opened his mouth, but didn't answer. They have nothing to do to calculate the average yield per mu
Bai Shan changed a few questions, "How many acres of land does your family have, how many acres of rice did you plant last year, and how many bags did you harvest? Did you weigh it?"
The village chief could answer that he had a good memory, and the annual harvest was very important.
Bai Shan listened carefully, calculated silently in his heart, and finally got a general understanding. He asked, "Which family planted the best land in the village last year?"
The village chief also knew it, and said: "As for Erzhu's family, his old man is an old man. He is very good at farming. He has two fields in his family that are very fertile, and he can grow higher yields than other families every year. ,Pity."
Bai Shan sighed, it's a pity, he still wanted to rent a few acres of experimental fields here, and let the best growers come to plant them.
He turned to look at the village chief and asked, "Is there anyone in the village who wants to rent out the fields?"
Village head: "... No need, hard work can still be done, just like Erzhu's wife's family, the mother and daughter can't finish the planting, and the village will help plant it. People in the village, why don't they have to rent someone's house? ground?"
Bai Shan said: "I want to rent the land."
The village chief didn't know what he had imagined, and the smile on his face was a bit forced. He said: "Why rent, if adults want to farm land, how many acres of land do small families have, why not give some to adults?"
Bai Shanju glanced at him condescendingly and said, "My family is in Longzhou, and my family is in the capital. What do you want the land here for?"
village head:…
Although I was stunned, I was inexplicably happy, and I breathed a sigh of relief again.
Bai Shan withdrew his gaze, looked at the entire paddy field and said, "I think the climate in this mountain is good. I have some new rice seeds and I want to try them here. This kind of field is called an experimental field, and it doesn't take much , you can rent two or three acres.”
He said: "It's not urgent. I don't have the rice seeds. Even if I want to plant them, it will take next year. You can help me ask who is willing to rent out the land, and then find me an honest and obedient farmer."
The village head immediately agreed, as long as you don't need land, you can rent it out for a few years, and the county magistrate will be promoted in a few years, right
Bai Shan only returned to the village before dark, the village was bustling with smoke, and because of the harvest of wheat, people in the village ate late today.
Man Bao and the others had just closed the booth, and they had something to say to each other as soon as they met.
Bai Shan paused, and said, "You speak first."
Man Bao said: "I have seen almost all the people in this village. Tomorrow afternoon, I will leave the village and go to several nearby villages for free consultation."
Bai Shancai said: "I also want to go to a few nearby villages. There are bandits in the mountains. It is impossible to rob only Xiaoliu Village, especially a bandit den with about a hundred people. You can't survive just by robbing Xiaoliu Village." Come down, so I want to see the situation in several other villages."