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After a little calculation, it becomes clear that Zhuwei Lake is not a big lake, but it has an area of tens of thousands of mu of water. An average of one meter of dredging is equivalent to six to seven million cubic meters of silt...
Wang Shouzhe has seen dredging boats in this world.
They all use dredging rakes manually to dig the silt onto the ship. A dredging ship can hold about ten cubic meters of mud.
The silt that is usually cleaned up has good organic matter itself. After being mixed and fermented with other fertilizers, it is a better agricultural fertilizer, which can supplement the fertility of the farmland.
After all, there is no accumulation of heavy metal pollution in the river and lake bottom silt in this era.
But the problem is, six to seven million cubic meters, that is six to seven million ships! If ten dredging ships work all year round, each ship will clear three ships and fill three ships every day, which will be a project of more than 20,000 days, and it will take 60 to 70 years to work all year round!
And the silt shrank a lot after drying, and the swamp itself was mostly silt, and it was estimated that it could only fill in a good field of two to three thousand acres at most. The whole project is expected to cost more than tens of thousands of gold.
After spending a lot of manpower, material resources, energy and time, it is not worthwhile to get three or four dry gold to reclaim one acre of land.
If Zhuwei Lake is cleaned up two meters deeper, the cost will not be multiplied, and the further you dig down, the more difficult it will be to clean up. Even if you go to buy fertile land, you can buy an acre of cultivated land with two or three dry gold.
However, the calculation is not so simple. With the large-scale dredging of Zhuwei Lake, large fish can be raised after the water storage capacity is increased, and even spirit fish can be stocked. From the long-term consideration of the family, it is not a long-term solution to rely solely on wild fishing, and the source of income is not stable.
If economic fish species, even spiritual fish species, can be cultivated on a large scale, this is the correct way to develop a family-based industry. The investment scale is huge and time-consuming, but once it is successfully built, it will be a continuous source of financial resources for the family.
Moreover, in order to encourage the Xuanwu family to open up wasteland, the government exempts the newly opened land from paying grain for the first ten years, which is quite a saving.
Of course, with Wang Shouzhe's personality, even if it is to do this huge project of dredging and filling soil to make fields, it is impossible to do it in 60 or 70 years. By that time, even the great-grandson will come out...
This planned project was originally in his mind and had been brewing for a long time.
I originally planned to start a small-scale implementation next year, and then gradually increase the scale of the project, trying to dig Zhuwei Lake two meters deep within ten years, fill the swamp with four to five thousand acres of fertile land, and gradually build it into the next large-scale farm of the family. That is to say, there are tens of thousands of mu of breeding waters and thousands of mu of fertile land.
The annual output value must never be low, and the total cost should be controlled within 30,000 dry gold.
But now, the plan has changed a bit!
Standing on the awning boat, Wang Shouzhe looked at the wilderness on both sides of the river with his hands behind his back. There is quite a posture overlooking the territory, brewing the family's millennium foundation.
Sitting in the cabin, Ding Laoqi and Wang Shouye, who were originally anxious, gradually calmed down. Looking at the appearance of the fourth brother standing with his hands behind his back, he was so tall and majestic, and the emotion of worship and admiration spontaneously arose in his heart.
I, Wang Shouye.
In the future, he must become an indomitable man like the fourth brother.
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The awning boat docked at the small wharf of Xingsheng Farm. Under the leadership of the head of the Wang family's collateral line of the farm, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye went all the way to find Wang Xiaohan.
At this time, Wang Xiaohan was tending the precious 20 acres of spiritual fields, carefully removing the weeds in the spiritual fields. Those weeds were pulled out as soon as they sprouted, so that they would not have any chance to absorb nutrients and spiritual energy.
Similarly, if one mu of spiritual land is intensively cultivated, even if it yields half as much, it is not a small resource.
Wang Shouzhe didn't bother him, but waited patiently.
This Xingsheng farm is the second farm opened by the ancestor Zhou Xuan. Sitting on 2,000 mu of fertile land, there is also a small livestock farm and a small field dedicated to growing melons, fruits and vegetables. In addition, the most important thing is that Xingsheng Farm has opened up 20 acres of spiritual land.
The terrain here is surrounded by a small branch of the remaining veins of Liuping Mountain. There are many broken rocks in the original land, and theoretically it is not a very suitable land for opening up wasteland.
However, the ancestor Zhouxuan chose to open up wasteland here, and he did not hesitate to dig a canal to attract water to open up a farm. It is because there is a Wangbobo Lingquan in the crevice of the mountain stream here.
There is a spiritual spring, which means that there is a small spiritual vein here.
As long as the gathering array is built around the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins can be condensed and not scattered, gathered and nourished in the land, and then the spiritual springs are used to irrigate the land, and then combined with various agricultural methods to fertilize the land, the land can be gradually opened up. Create a spiritual field suitable for growing various spiritual things.
With its own spiritual field, it can produce its own spiritual rice, and a Xuanwu family can be regarded as having its own foundation.
Therefore, the ancestor Zhouxuan named this farm as Xingsheng Farm, which naturally meant that he hoped that the family would prosper.
This Wang Lingquan, as well as that small spiritual vein, can support about sixty acres of spiritual fields to the maximum extent. It's just that the Wang family was relatively unfamiliar with the technique of planting spiritual rice back then, in order to avoid wasting spiritual veins for nothing. Therefore, only one spirit gathering array was built for the time being, and twenty acres of spiritual fields were opened up.
I originally thought that after the Wang family's technology of planting spiritual rice was more mature, I would open up the remaining 40 acres of spiritual fields. Unexpectedly, before the plan could be implemented, the Wang family encountered a catastrophe.
Afterwards, the family panicked and resources were scarce.
Investing in Lingtian is also a project with large investment and slow return. He was full of thoughts about cultivating a spiritual platform ancestor first, and then slowly saving money to develop the spiritual field and accumulate family heritage.
But I don't want to, the second uncle Wang Dingtian, the eldest son of the family who is the first to be trained, doesn't know whether it is because he experienced a huge disaster when he was five years old, which caused psychological trauma, or because the elders of the family pushed him too hard, or because He himself was too anxious, and at the age of twenty, he went mad and died.
You must know that Wang's "Xuan Yuan Jue" has always been known for its integrity and peace. Even if it is counted from the Longzuo Wang family thousands of years ago, there are very few people who have become obsessed with cultivation.
While the family mourned, they focused their attention on Wang Dingyue, the second son of the Wang family, and Wang Xiaohan, the sixth son. The elders who had learned their lesson did not put too much pressure on Wang Dingyue, but cultivated him in an orderly manner.
More pressure actually focused on Wang Xiaohan, a straight-line disciple with extraordinary talent. It's just that it was relatively late when he was allowed to walk the road to the Lingtai. It was not until nearly twenty years ago that Wang Xiaohan kept secret, swallowed the family secrets and sold many properties in exchange for the Heavenly Spirit Pill.
Promotion failed!
Afterwards, Wang Dingyue died in Outland again.
This matter is also strange to say, originally Wang Shouzhe thought that the family had really run out of money and could not buy the elixir for Wang Dingyue. But Wang Shouzhe has thought about it recently, and there is still something vaguely wrong.
Patriarch Longyan could have sold his spiritual treasure, tortoise scale and shield, to raise resources for him, Wang Shouzhe, why didn't he buy it for his late father, Wang Dingyue
Besides, after the death of the first Patriarch, Patriarch Longyan didn't even show his face, was he afraid of being seen as something wrong? There is a greater possibility that she acted forcefully during this period.
If the ancestor did it, with whom? Could it be that the person who went to the outer domain was not his father Wang Dingyue alone, but accompanied by his ancestor
If the speculation is in line with the actual situation, why did the ancestor and grandfather Wang Dingyue go to the foreign domain at such a critical moment? Is it really just as advertised to the outside world, because it is necessary to raise resources to seek opportunities
Certainly not.
Wang Shouzhe has reason to believe that the patriarch and clan elders are keeping a big secret from him. And that secret should be very important to the Wang family! Maybe, there is also a chance to be promoted to the Lingtai Realm in Outland, but it's just because of the failure of the late father Wang Dingyue
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this should be the case, otherwise Patriarch Longyan would definitely choose to sell the turtle scale shield and exchange it for the heavenly elixir to his late father Wang Dingyue. Rather than both of them taking risks to go to the outer domain together to seek some broken opportunities.
If there is a chance, see if you can pry some news from the mouth of the ancestor.
While Wang Shouzhe was thinking, the sixth old man came out from the forest field after dealing with the weeds. After seeing Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye who were waiting outside, he couldn't help stretching his brows and smiling: "Shouzhe, why are you here? It's been a long time, why didn't you call me earlier?"
Although Wang Shouzhe couldn't see through his cultivation, he could feel the depression in his mental state. It is very obvious that he has not recovered from the failure of spending huge sums of money to attack the Lingtai Realm. He was only sixty-five years old, but he felt older than the Fourth Old Master Wang Xiaozhi, like a real old farmer.
"Hello, Grandpa Six." Wang Shouzhe cupped his hands.
"Grandpa." Wang Shouye pounced on him.
"Hey, you little brat, why did you come to see grandpa with the fourth brother?" Wang Xiaohan picked up Wang Shouye, teased him a few words, and asked the head of the side department to take him to play.
Afterwards, Wang Xiaohan invited Wang Shouzhe to have a cup of ordinary tea in front of his hermit's cottage: "Shouzhe came here this time, is he still persuading me to take the road to Lingtai again?"
Previously, Wang Shouzhe had sent his family generals to bring Peiyuan Pill and Lingshi, and wrote to him about his plans. However, Wang Xiaohan refused the matter, saying that his ambition was too old, and he only wanted to build a grass hut in front of the spiritual field and guard it for a lifetime.
Wang Shouzhe didn't blame him for this salty fish mentality.
He took a sip of Fancha, looked around, glanced at his hut, smiled and said: "No, Shouzhe just came to say goodbye to the sixth grandfather, and finally take a look at the spiritual field left by the ancestor Zhouxuan .After all, Shou Zhe is only a dying person."
"what?"
Wang Xiaohan almost crushed the cup, and said in shock and anger, "Wang Shouzhe, what nonsense are you talking about?"
An astonishing breath erupted from him.
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