"It's really a blue thread......," Chen Zuocai said quietly.

Everyone felt the same way, but no one sighed and complained, but they all had a feeling of excitement.

Chen Zuocai had already planned to take his family to live in Penghu County, and after a few months, the Eastern Domain had a clue about everything here, that is, he moved his family to the Nan'anxi area to settle down.

His wife was not too willing, but at this time, he could only follow Chen Zuocai's arrangement.

Qin Dongyang, Li Yi, Fu Qian, and Kong He all planned to relocate their families.

The Eastern Domain urgently needs a large number of people to enrich the place, Xu Zixian has tried every means to immigrate to the Eastern Domain, and the Nan'an Hou Mansion also has a separate courtyard here, Xu Zixian and Chen Wenjun, as well as Xiuniang, Xiaomei and other direct relatives will move to the Eastern Domain.

If the lord is like this, how can his subordinates not follow him?

"It's going to get better later." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "Nan'an Creek and Huaxi are less than twenty miles apart, and the displaced people Ding Zhuang who will move over in the future will be bundled together and used to build roads first." ”

"Good idea." Chen Zuocai immediately agreed: "Even now, there are a lot of idle people, who used to build houses for the rest of the month, and now there are many idle craftsmen and Ding Zhuang." ”

"Good." Fang Shaoqun didn't say much about this kind of internal affairs, but he also expressed his approval of it.

Prior to this, more than 1,000 households and nearly 5,000 Zhangzhou displaced people had been relocated, as well as immigrants from many towns such as Nan'an and Gukou, and after Xu Zixian obtained the actual seal of 10,000 households, the original population of the Eastern Domain, plus more than 10,000 people who moved over, was not enough, and at least 20,000 people had to be introduced in Penghu, and it was also planned to introduce population to Fuzhou and Quanzhou.

moved too much at once, and the degree of development here in the Eastern Domain couldn't keep up, Xu Zixian didn't plan to become a fat man in one bite.

Even now, there are more than 30,000 people who have moved over and the original residents, of which about 6,000 or 7,000 are strong men.

Even women and children are mainly healthy people who can live.

This is not surprising, the displaced people in the long-term upheaval of the life, those old and weak health is not good for a long time gone, those who can survive, physical fitness and adaptability have been severely tested, from Fuzhou and Xinghua Army to the Eastern Domain, there is not much discomfort for these displaced people.

The only thing to worry about is the plague disease.

More than 10,000 displaced people were all relocated at the end of February and early March, and they had been living in shacks or tents earlier, and thanks to the provision of several hundred ploughing oxen and a large number of large animals such as horses, mules, and donkeys, as well as sufficient equipment, by early April, the expected 100,000 mu of cotton fields had been completely reclaimed.

This result was also expected by Xu Zixian.

More than 10,000 people, not only strong men, but also women and children can also fight, plus more than 3,000 horses, hundreds of cattle, more than 1,000 mules and donkeys, as well as a large number of agricultural equipment made of fine iron, forks, rakes, shovels and shovels, if you can't open up 100,000 acres of land, then it is really a ghost.

100,000 acres of land are all around several streams, and craftsmen such as Lin Jiusi and the three brothers of the Zhang family are building houses and other facilities at the same time, they also take Ding Zhuang to build keel waterwheels to divert water, whether it is pulled by manpower or livestock, it can basically guarantee the irrigation water of more than 100,000 acres of land.

Cotton fields do not need much water, in fact, when the sunshine conditions are met, it is more suitable to grow cotton in dry places.

The Eastern Domain was also a forced choice, but fortunately, as long as the technical conditions and daily care were passed, the output of the cotton fields would not be less than that of the current Songjiang and Dongchang Mansions, which was enough.

If the yield is not enough, the total amount will be piled up, and the Eastern Domain will always be piled up into the largest cotton-producing area in the Great Wei Dynasty and even in the entire Asian region.

That's enough.

Due to the abundance of manpower and animal power, not only more than 100,000 acres of cotton fields have been opened, but also some additional vegetable fields have been opened.

It's not much, nearly 2,000 immigrants, a family of one or two acres of vegetable land, almost that's the number.

The next step is to open up paddy fields, which should be in the upstream direction of cotton fields, burning wasteland for farming, and large-scale land reclamation.

The number of future immigrants in the Eastern Domain is based on 100,000, and the demand for food is extremely high. And if you raise another 30,000 soldiers, 600,000 stone grain a year is the minimum number.

A soldier eats at least one stone of rice a month, and if the meat can be guaranteed, this figure can be lowered, but not too much. The heat security of this era cannot be compared with that of later generations.

A soldier has 12 stone of grain a year, not counting the expenditure of meat and salt, 30,000 people and 600,000 stone, which is about the same.

The existing bean fields, sorghum fields, and a small number of rice fields in the Eastern Domain were simply not enough to supply such a large number of immigrants and troops.

There will also be a large number of military horses and horses, cattle and sheep, beans and sorghum on the island that can be used as concentrate for animal husbandry, which is too far away to supplement the shortage of human needs.

Xu Zixian's plan is to have at least one million acres of paddy fields, which will be enough in about five years.

Coupled with a certain number of soybean fields, sorghum fields, and hemp fields, and cotton fields based on millions of acres, if everything goes well, the utilization of the entire Tainan Plain will be about the same.

Don't forget that there are plenty of shrubs and grasslands left behind for grazing horses, and horses can't be herded in the mountains, but only in plains.

The entire Tainan Plain is only so large, and at least 300 square kilometers of plain area must be left for horses, Li Yi, Kong He and others have already gone to investigate, and the location of the pasture must also be quite elegant.

The forest should be sparse and not too dense with shrubs, preferably low shrubs and the densest grass.

The concentrate must be fed to the war horses, but the grass and trees should also be dense, Li Yi and they selected the site for a few days, roughly set in the north of the upper reaches of Nan'an Creek and Huaxi, with a radius of hundreds of miles, and planned to set up some sentry towers and insert some wooden stakes to isolate the shengfan.

The ranch also requires at least a few thousand people, and it takes a lot of people just to build watchtowers and fences.

Fortunately, the forest is lush, and no matter what you do, you are not afraid of no wood.

To build a ship, you need to buy timber from all over the country, and there are a lot of large logs in the Eastern Domain, but they are all deep in the mountains, and it is quite difficult to deal with the natives if you want to go into the mountains to cut it.

Even more difficult is to transport the cut wood, the cost will increase tenfold, hundredfold.

It is better to spend some money to buy large logs from timber merchants all over the country, or even from the South Seas, and ship them back by ship, which is much cheaper than going to the mountains to cut wood.

Then Ding Zhuang had to be summoned to build roads, build peripheral fortifications, and build all kinds of factories, brick kiln factories, carpentry factories, iron-making blast furnaces, textile factories, oil mills, and so on......

While everyone was whispering and chatting, walking through the deserted path, Xu Zixian had been thinking about these things in his mind.

These thoughts did not make him feel difficult or daunting, but rather uplifted.

The half-light and half-dark earth, the small hills, the sparse trees, shrubs, grasses, the fragrance of grass and trees in the air, and the sound of the waves from the sea on the left-hand side, the fishy smell of the sea breeze...... On this big island, everything feels novel, there is a peculiar feeling, Xu Zi thought about it for a long time, and suddenly smiled to himself.

That is, "the earth is under my feet, and the national economy is in my hands, who dares to speak more"?

That's too arrogant and not a good thing.

"Junhou, cotton field, I see cotton field."

With the help of the light of the torches, after walking for more than half an hour, I finally saw the cotton fields.

There are still quite a lot of shrubs and weeds around, but the cotton fields that are divided into ditches and ridges and connected by canals still appear in front of Xu Zixian and others.

The canals are vertical and horizontal, and the cotton fields are almost impossible to see.

It was already late April, and the cotton fields had been blooming for almost a month, and by the light of the torches, Xu Zi jumped off his horse first and observed the cotton seeds on the ridge.

The cotton seed has already topped out the tender green seedlings, and above the ditch, as far as the eye can see, there is a green everywhere.

Xu Zixian couldn't help but feel dizzy...... Sowing seeds at the end of March or early April, harvesting cotton in early autumn, 100,000 acres of cotton fields, as soon as you make a move, it is so big, and things are full of uncertainty, this thing is actually called doing it yourself?

Time is tight and the task is urgent, to be honest, Xu Zixian is also gambling, and the bet is not small.

If things don't go well, the displaced people can't open the cotton fields smoothly, and they don't sow in time after they come out, the method used is not right, and the seedlings are not smooth, anyway, as long as there is a problem in one link in this chain, Xu Zixian will undoubtedly have a big trouble.

Chen Dujing, the old man, won't say anything, what about the rest of the clansmen of the Changwen Marquis Mansion?

Complaining, disgruntling, or even evacuating, is not impossible.

A large number of immigrants cannot cultivate cash crops, they can only grow food, wasting a year's time is a trivial matter, a large amount, hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars of investment can not wait for people, there is no cotton without cotton fields, without cotton, water-powered looms and textile machines will not be useful.

If a textile base could not be formed, a cloth trading house could not be opened, and the Eastern Domain could not attract more merchants and fleets.

A year is like a waste, and there is no way to wait for someone to invest millions of dollars.

At this moment, seeing that the cotton fields had already emerged, Xu Zi first took the lead in breathing a sigh of relief and exclaimed.

There were immediately waves of sound around him, and it was obvious that Chen Zuocai and Chen Daojian, as well as Gao Shilai and others, were all breathing a sigh of relief before this.

Li Yi had sent someone to contact Xu Zixian once, and when it came to the cotton field, he could only say that he was optimistic, after all, there was no large-scale emergence of seedlings.

In the past few days, Xu Zixian has lost contact with Penghu and the sea, but someone has touched it, and he is quite optimistic about the emergence of cotton seedlings, but he always does not feel more at ease when he sees it with his own eyes.

"Is there a prince ahead?"

On the opposite side of a large cotton field, there seemed to be a faint light, and someone shouted loudly from a high place.

"It's the prince!" Gao Shilai stepped forward and replied loudly.

"Okay, it's the prince here."

There was an excited shout from the opposite side, and then many people strode along the ridge, and the distance of a few hundred steps came in an instant, and soon Qin Dongyang, who was wearing a martial arts robe, walked in the forefront, followed by Jin Baoyi, who pressed the obstacle knife, and then Lin Cunxin, Li Fuxiang and others.