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Liu Gaowang, Wang Shouzhe's father-in-law, winked at him fiercely.
Although you have a good relationship with the people in the Academy, but you can digest 40,000 people at once, how can we in Ping An Town bear it
Chen Dewei from the Donggang Chen family also looked at Wang Shouzhe with some concern. The total population of Ping'an Town is only 40,000, right
Fang Youan looked deeply at Wang Shouzhe, with a touch of emotion in his eyes: "Junior Brother Shouzhe, I have seen your determination to solve the problem. But these 40,000 people are too many after all. We can think of other ways. "
This time, Fang Youan came here for a large-scale mission. As the chief inspector, if the supervision and relief efforts are not effective this time, his development will also be affected in the future. How can Wang Shouzhe not be moved if he cooperates like this
"Senior Brother You'an, since there is a problem, it must be resolved." Wang Shouzhe said seriously, "Our Wang family has also saved some food in the past two years. If we buy more from other places, we can barely support the 40,000 refugees for one or two. Years is also possible. Just in the past two years, our Pingan Town needs to dredge the river and consolidate the embankment, and there is still a shortage of manpower in the area under our jurisdiction."
"Okay. Since Junior Brother Shouzhe is determined to do so." Fang Youan said, "I will work hard for Junior Brother to try to exempt Ping'an Town from taxes for three years. Junior Brother can collect all taxes as usual and keep it for his own use." He can Speaking of this matter, there must be a certain degree of certainty, and it can be regarded as reciprocating.
"Thank you, Senior Brother You'an." Wang Shouzhe bowed his hands and apologized.
"What a courage, how courageous." Lei Qiuwei praised, "Since Shou Zhe's younger brother can have such courage, I, the Heavenly Man Lei, can't be too far behind, and take another 5,000 people."
The rest of the families also expressed their willingness to accept more refugees.
Among them, the Gongsun family of Shanyang, the Liu family of Shanyin, and the Chen family of Donggang. They all received hints from Wang Shouzhe's eyes, and in the end they all gritted their teeth and charged an extra 10,000 people.
Under the leadership of Wang Shouzhe, the originally difficult refugee problem was solved with ease.
Fang Youan's mood suddenly became very good, raised the spirit wine and said: "In the face of disaster, we Changning Wei can be so united, You'an is on behalf of those refugees, thank you for standing up and taking responsibility."
So and so, then naturally everyone is happy.
After this welcome banquet.
The entire Changning Guard entered disaster relief mode.
And Ping An Wang Clan, also under Wang Shouzhe's decision, fully operated and entered into the big plan.
Clan members, family generals, and excellent collateral backbones.
They all threw themselves into the work.
Expansion of temporary refugee camps, transfer of food, organizing the admission of refugees, registering them, and various follow-up arrangements.
certainly.
When the refugees have settled down a bit, the Wang family will organize them, and those who should build river embankments will build river embankments, and those who should dredge river channels will dredge river channels.
Even in the big sand table planned by Wang Shouzhe in Ping'an Town, the future waterways will criss-cross and extend in all directions, and some new riverways need to be dug or expanded.
His plan is to gradually build the entire Ping'an Town into a granary with countless fertile fields.
And as the head of the family, he naturally only needs to focus on the big and let go of the small, and make overall arrangements.
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Xingsheng Farm is one of the main foundation farms of the Wang family.
After continuous development and development, compared with the situation of less than 4,000 mu ten years ago. Today's Xingsheng Farm's fertile land has reached 7,000 mu, nearly doubled.
Then at this time, Xingsheng Farm has entered the bottleneck period of land reclamation, and it is difficult to expand the scale at a high speed.
The reason is simple, he is surrounded by hills and mountains. Terrain suitable for irrigated production has been developed.
The rest are high-lying highlands, which can barely be expanded into farmland, and irrigation is the biggest problem. If the water resources are transported by manpower, the cost of the final output is so high that even the Wang family cannot afford it.
Problems similar to the bottleneck period of land reclamation have spread throughout Ping'an Town
After a long period of land reclamation, and Wang Shouzhe's encouragement to land reclamation.
Now in the entire Ping'an Town.
The total amount of family land owned by the Wang family has reached more than 60,000 mu, with a total of 13 farms, large and small. The rest of the civilians owned more than 100,000 acres of land.
A total of 170,000 mu of fertile land was reached, ranking among the top three in the entire Changningwei area.
If you want to develop again, you have to make those terrains that are not suitable for farming suitable for farming.
Ping'an Town is surrounded by mountains, and the land inside is mostly high and low hills. Of the total area of less than 4,000 square kilometers, more than 70% to 80% of it is hilly and mountainous land that is not suitable for farming.
Faced with so many hilly terrains in Ping'an Town, the best way Wang Shouzhe could think of was to use terraced fields.
In this world, agriculture has also developed for a long time. The development of terraced fields in such a hilly area was not created by Wang Shouzhe, and there are many similar records in the academy.
However, terraced fields are not the mainstream in this world, not even a minority.
The reason is very simple. The cost of land reclamation per acre of terraced fields is several times that of ordinary grain fields, and the difficulty of cultivation is also high, coupled with difficulties in transportation and irrigation.
As a result, the production cost per mu has been far higher than the purchase price of grain.
Under such circumstances, which aristocratic family would develop terraced fields
On this day, Wang Shouzhe arrived at Xingsheng Farm.
The current person in charge of Xingsheng Farm is a female collateral clan named Wang Juan. She has been very smart since she was a child, and she also studied in the ethnology of Wang's main house, and has been developing in Xingsheng Farm since then.
Relying on serious responsibility and long-term accumulation, her performance has become more and more outstanding. From the manager to the chief and then to the chief, she is also considered to be the best among the collateral clans.
"Wang Juan, meet the head of the family." Wang Juan brought some of the principals in the farm to welcome Wang Shouzhe's arrival.
She is only about twenty-six or seventeen years old now, but she looks calm and capable, and even Patriarch Xiaohan has always praised her unceasingly.
"Excuse me." Wang Shouzhe waved his hand lightly, "I am here to check the development and technological development of the terraced fields. Wang Juan, please take me to see it first."
In his original plan, the large-scale development of terraced fields will take only one or two years. However, this time the flood caused the displacement of a large number of refugees.
Therefore, it is imminent to build terraced farms, otherwise it would be just to dredge the river and build embankments. How can it use so many people? No matter how rich the Wang family is, they cannot afford to support too many idlers.
"Yes, Patriarch." Wang Juan didn't talk nonsense, and led Wang Shouzhe all the way to the terraced experimental field.
This large experimental terraced field was built on the north slope of Xingsheng Farm.
The north slope faces south with plenty of sunlight, the slope is small, and there is a lot of room for development.
Scores of terraced fields have been built on the north slope, and now it is the time when the wheat ears are filling. Wang Shouzhe can see a blue-green ocean at a glance.
"Report to the Patriarch." Wang Juan led Wang Shouzhe all the way to report, "This experimental terraced field is about 300 mu, and we planted our No. Fine work. Therefore, the growth momentum is very good, and the quality of the wheat produced may be better."
"Cultivation of terraced fields is not easy, mainly reflected in the difficulty of development, irrigation, and transportation." Wang Juan said succinctly, "First of all, transportation is not easy, because the terraces are high and low, and various transportation costs are high, often requiring manpower. In this regard, according to the instructions of the owner, I built a ribbon-shaped cement road between the terraces. In this way, we can use ox carts, horse-drawn carts, or rickshaws for transportation. Although the one-time investment is large, it can save long-term transportation manpower.”
Wang Shouzhe saw that among the vertical and horizontal terraced fields, there was a winding concrete road winding up to the top of the terraced fields.
"In addition, the owner requested a monorail transport vehicle for the experiment, and I also built one." Wang Juan said, "There is a winch at the highest point of the terrace, which can be used to drive the winch gear with cow force to pull the monorail transport vehicle to the highest point. After harvesting the grain, the monorail transporter can slide down by its own strength. In terms of harvesting speed, it is faster than ordinary farmland.”
While speaking, Wang Juan also showed a look of admiration to Wang Shouzhe. As expected of the head of the family, there are whimsical ideas everywhere.
The monorail transport vehicle is a product that Wang Shouzhe has asked craftsmen to build and experiment in these years. It is not suitable for flat ground, but suitable for high ground drop. On Earth, some mountain orchards use this.
The only problem is that there is a huge demand for iron. Even just building a monorail is extremely iron-intensive.
That's why.
Over the years, Ping'an Township has been purchasing a large amount of crude iron, even at a premium.
The demand for rough iron in Ping'an Town is too great, and iron is used everywhere.
"What about irrigation?" Wang Shouzhe asked.
"We planted a large number of water-storage trees at high places to maintain a certain amount of water. In addition, we also excavated and repaired the water-storage sky pool with cement. The water-storage sky pool can effectively irrigate the entire terraced fields, and the excess water will also enter The water channel flows into the river." Wang Juan said, "I also want to ask the owner for instructions to use the original sunken trough to build a large water storage sky pool on the top of the Luoying Gorge cliff, and build an aerial canal to connect all the terraced fields. In the event of water shortage in the dry season, we can pump water to the top of Luoying Gorge by building a water dragon array under Luoying Gorge.”
This plan
Wang Shouzhe was also taken aback by her, it seems that the handwriting is a bit big, right? This girl seems to have a bigger brain than him.
But this girl has always had a good mind, is also very hardworking, and has a solid cultural background.
I think Wang Shouzhe had already been taught when she was helping Wang Lici study.
Obviously she worked hard in ethnology when she was young.
It was also that time that he entered Wang Shouzhe's field of vision.
"Patriarch." Wang Juan said, "I have surveyed a lot of terrain and drew preliminary drawings. Although the initial investment is huge, once successful, all the slopes and hills around Xingsheng Farm will be transformed into terraced fields, and Solve the dry season irrigation problem."
His last sentence convinced Wang Shouzhe: "Just come to me after you sort out a detailed plan and a preliminary budget."
"Yes, Patriarch." Wang Juan's eyes lit up, looking very excited. She considers herself very lucky to have met a patriarch who can bring out her abilities to the fullest.
"Create out a plan for the large-scale development of terraced fields." Wang Shouzhe ordered.
The biggest problem with terraced fields is the cost issue. If ordinary food is grown, it can be grown until the Wang family goes bankrupt. But if planting Wang's No. 19 wheat variety, it will still be profitable in the long run.
"It's the head of the house."
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At night, in the mouth of the East China Sea.
A large sea cargo ship arrived at the mouth of the sea with relatively gentle water after going through wind and waves all the way.
In the cabin room.
Wang Zongchang sorted out the last point of the account book, and after careful inspection, there was no problem. Only then did I stretch my waist, and my mood relaxed a little.
He was about to arrive in Donggang soon, and he had completed more than half of the mission this time. He got up and went out of the cabin, and got to the bow to get some fresh air.
Today the moon is bright and the sky is full of stars.
Suddenly, an angry voice came from the cabin: "Xiao Zheng, you are crazy, you dare to touch this thing."
"Get out, whoever stands in my way will die!" An extremely violent voice roared.
"Clang clang clang."
A series of clashing sounds of swords sounded.
"If you dare, you are not afraid of my son... ah~" There was a scream.
"I want strength, I want revenge. Boss, I'm sorry!"
"I said, those who stand in my way will die." The voice roared.
Several boatmen of the Chen family rushed over instinctively.
"Bang bang bang!"
As soon as they reached the door of the cabin, they flew back upside down and fell on the deck, their necks had been cut open, and they died.
A young man covered in blood rushed out from the cabin, holding a steel knife in his hand with a hideous face, and his eyes were even more fierce and scarlet.
Without hesitation, he rushed to the side of the ship outside the deck, ready to jump into the sea.
"Father, sister! I have gained strength!" The young man's eyes were shining red, and he shouted as if a little delirious, "Wait, wait! I will definitely avenge you."
This place is almost approaching the port, as long as he can escape into the sea, the world will let him go.
Suddenly!
A white sword glow pierced the night sky and slashed at the young man.
Although the young man was in a strange state, his reaction was very fast, and he swung his knife away.
"clang!"
There was a heavy clang of gold and iron.
The young man seemed to have bumped into a transparent wall, and he took four or five steps backwards. His scarlet eyes looked at the passerby in horror, and he roared, "Who are you? How dare you block my way."
A heroic young man in basalt attire, holding a broad-edged war sword, said with a gloomy expression, "You bastard, you want to run after killing someone? Hurry up and catch him, and follow me to Donggang to accept the crime."
This heroic young man was naturally Wang Zongchang who came to the bow of the boat to get some air, but he didn't expect to meet this scene with him.
As an ally of the Chen family in Donggang, naturally he would not stand by and watch.
"Whoever stands in my way will die!" The scarlet youth roared frantically and charged towards Wang Zongchang.
"How dare you resist." Wang Zongchang's face was as sinking as water, his figure swayed slightly, like catkins fluttering in the wind in the night.
The unique "Liuxu body technique" handed down by Wang's family has been cultivated to the point of proficiency by him.
With a flick of his wrist, the sword light flickered away. It was the Wang family's Xuanyuan swordsmanship that was pure, honest and powerful.
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