The cotton fields have been opened to about 150,000 mu, mainly because the number of large livestock is sufficient.

Cattle have been bought to the extreme, the entire Fujian Road waterwheel will not exceed 10,000 heads, the number of cattle this year is scarce, precious, from the government ban on killing healthy cattle, not allowed to eat beef regulations is seen.

Pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, eat them at will, horses can also be eaten, but horses are expensive and no one eats them, mules, donkeys, but there are people who raise them to kill meat and eat it.

Only cattle, no matter what the purpose, killing and eating meat is not enough.

Only when the cow dies of old age or disease can it be skinned and killed, and the tooth sacrifice is given to those who want to eat beef, which of course is quite expensive.

In the Water Margin, there are records of eating beef everywhere, which is intentional, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes are deliberately violating the ban of the government. In real life, it is a situation that does not exist.

There are a lot of cattle, it is Fu Er, Ling Yi, Ling II and other repaired ships, to Zhejiang, Jiangling area to buy, the distance is far away, the cattle are not suitable at sea, get off the boat to the island to die several batches, it is too cost-effective.

Fortunately, there are a lot of horses bought, more than 6,000 mules and horses, two horses or double mules are good, and it is very easy to plough dozens of acres of land a day.

In the Han Dynasty, the land in China was vast, and there were few paddy fields, and there were many dry crops, so horse farming was still the mainstream, and after the Sui and Tang dynasties, the scope of rice fields was greatly expanded, and cattle farming became the mainstream, and horse farming was close to being eliminated.

In Europe, because of the vast and sparsely populated land, the high per capita land occupancy, and the fact that dryland crops such as wheat and oats have been cultivated, horses have always been cultivated.

In addition, the population of China is large, once the dynasty is settled, the world is peaceful, or it will not be long before the land annexation will be quite serious, the per capita land is insufficient, but the consumption of horses is much greater than that of cattle, although the efficiency of horse farming is four times that of cattle, but how can there be so much land for horses to cultivate?

There are also technological innovations and advances, heavy horseshoes, and new iron yokes that make horses more efficient in ploughing the land.

There are also quite a few reasons for the difference in horse breeds.

European horses are not durable and have poor tolerance, but European horses have a strong advantage in farming, tall, heavy, and explosive, compared to Huaxia with low and strong endurance, they can run long distances, but the Mongolian horses with poor impact and explosiveness are much stronger.

Even though there were many inconveniences, Xu Zixian still made up his mind to plough the horse.

Judging from the results, the effect of horse ploughing is indeed much faster and stronger than that of ox ploughing.

Since there are no tall horses, they plough with two horses, the efficiency is as fast, two horses and one yoke, the yoke of fine iron, plus the heavy shoes, the horses gallop through the waves in the wasteland, and often can drive out dozens of acres of land in one day.

From February to April, more than 100,000 acres of cotton fields were opened in two months, and all seedlings emerged, this achievement made the Marquis of Dechang quite satisfied, and in the end people understood the reason why Xu Zixian bought a large number of cattle, but also insisted on buying more mules and horses.

The yoke was made by Fu Qian in Nan'an, and it was tested, how could Xu Zixian do something that he was not sure of?

The next step is to open up more acres, at least two or three hundred thousand acres of paddy and dry land.

Deep ploughing, fine cultivation, sufficient water conservancy, turning over the pond and mud, accumulating manure......

The climate of the Eastern Domain is quite superior, as long as the management is in place and the measures are done well, with Fu Qian's level of agriculture, he dares to say that he will receive at least three stones on average.

That's pretty remarkable.

In some corner plots of Fujian, two stones could not be collected.

Jinghu can also have an average of three stones, the natural conditions there are more favorable, after the founding of the Great Wei began to develop Jinghu North Road and South Road, a hundred years later, the two lakes became a big granary, the grain output exceeded Jiangnan West Road and Liangzhejiang Road, but also exceeded Jiangnan East Road.

In northern Shaanxi and northern Shanxi, soil erosion is severe, not to mention that the yield per mu is two stones, three stones, or even higher, and the average yield per mu of one acre can have one stone.

The Eastern Domain, with its abundant natural conditions, is a good place for farming.

Xu Zixian's plan is to go crazy in the next year or two.

"If we seek unity through struggle, we will survive in unity, and if we seek unity through compromise, we will die in unity." Fang Shaoqun said with a smile: "This is what the prince said, I think it makes sense." ”

"Feng Qi means to fight?"

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"Well, take the tribe that came to you as an example," Fang Shaoqun made a downward splitting gesture, his eyes had already cooled: "Use a group of heads to warn those students." ”

"That's what Da Wei did before." Li Yi was a little embarrassed, after all, from the standpoint of the scholar, it is necessary to influence the distant people with benevolence and virtue, but the history of more than 200 years is not fake, the natives are only afraid of prestige but not virtue, do not hit a stick, give sweet dates first, I am afraid that they will gain more inches.

"I'll leave this matter to Zhang Huchen." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "I'll go see the cavalry in a while...... The periphery was guarded with guards, and the Bow and Arrow Society continued to burn the wilderness in the depths, causing dissatisfaction among the natives. The cavalry battalion is scattered to patrol, and as soon as there is a warning signal, it will be dispatched immediately, and I will be killed a few times, and then I can talk to the natives. ”

"What are you going to talk about?"

"One of the things the natives want is peace of mind, we do have some offenses at their borders, but let them understand that their borders are ours, not themselves." Xu Zixian said slowly: "What I give them, they can ask for it, and if I don't give what they want, they won't get it." The other is to get food and clothing, the territory we open up is large, and there are many prey that are scared away, so we have a loss to them. I was thinking that we could help them financially, so that they would have a better life and be much less resentful. The richer you are, the more you are afraid of accidents. ”

"Is this a solution?" Li Yi thought for a while and said, "Can't you give them some food for free?" There is still a lot of food hoarded on our island. ”

Li Yi added another sentence and said with a smile: "If you can buy peace with food, I believe Kong Xuanping will also be happy." ”

"You can't give it for nothing." Xu Zixian said very coldly: "All the time, the Chinese emperors and ministers have had an illusion, in order to show China's material resources, they either give it for nothing, or give it half and half give it half, and use this method to attract people to pay tribute, or negotiate peace, what's the use of this?" Thousands of years later, it has proven useless over and over again. Let's not be too narrow-minded, don't say things that are not of our race, and exterminate all the aliens. Don't be too naïve, thinking that if you give them money and food, you can make them really support us, and from now on they will be happy and surrender to us. Give it for nothing, and sooner or later there will be a day when you can't afford to give it. Sooner or later, there will be a day when the desire will be insatiable. Fair trade, there are losses and gains, this can last. As long as either side feels that they have suffered a loss, or that they have taken advantage, the matter will not be good. Let's exchange grain, medicinal herbs, and copper coins for their sand gold and deer skins. Previously, there were businessmen who came, and the trade volume was too small, so we purchased it on a large scale, and the grain could be given to them at cost price, which was the largest preferential treatment, after all, we made them suffer a loss when we opened up the wasteland. In this way, it will not be one or two tribes that will benefit, but they will have a solid supply of food and will become rich. When you are rich, you don't want to make trouble, you just want to live a good life. In addition, a large number of indigenous Dingkou can be attracted to Nan'anhou Mansion to do things.

A large number of factories, trading houses, shipyards, and fleets all require a large number of dingkou, and Xu Zi first planned to use a small number of people and a large number of livestock to farm the land, so as to save land fertility and release more people to industry and commerce.

In Britain, sheep cannibalism means that land is handed over to a small number of hired workers, and a large number of hired farmers lose their jobs and land, so they can only squeeze into the cities to find opportunities.

This gave the factory a large number of low-paid industrial workers, Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first industrial revolution occurred, the whole country underwent earth-shaking changes, industrial industry formed, cities appeared in large numbers, foreign trade flourished, trade developed, then industry and commerce were more prosperous, and the more labor was employed, although in the early days of industrialization, workers had low wages and had been struggling on the food and clothing line, but the longer the time, the higher the trade profits, and the welfare and wages of workers were slowly raised.

During this period, there was also a game between the working class and the capitalist class, which was also full of blood and tears.

Xu Zixian would not exploit agriculture too much in the early days, making it a low-wage and toiling industrial worker.

To develop, it is also necessary to balance.

"What the prince said is very true." Li Yi has no objection to the current decision, it is okay to redeem or forcefully suppress, the important thing is not to cause a large number of deaths and injuries to immigrants, nor to affect the reclamation of wasteland, otherwise it will be very unfavorable to the overall situation.

"Gong Li should put more thought into the matter of epidemic prevention." Xu Zixian said: "Recently, when the epidemic has been infected, there have been more than 100 people, and if a high fever is found, they will be isolated immediately, and there will be pills and powders, which will also be distributed for free......."

Speaking of this, Xu Zixian sighed and said, "No."

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There is a powerful healer! ”

There is no way to complain about this, it can't be said that the Marquis of Changwen doesn't care, or Xu Zixian doesn't care.

Fujian doctors, who are slightly famous and go out to make money, are almost all collected on the island.

All kinds of pills and powders against malaria and epidemic gas, no matter how expensive they are, are purchased in large quantities.

In order to fight against the plague, and now the number one enemy on the Eastern Domain, the Nan'an Hou Mansion does not know how much money it spent, Kong He is difficult to see on his face when approving the budget, but there is no way, the money in this batch cannot be less.

If you have a small amount of money, you may lose your life, and this loss cannot be afforded by the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

Fang Shaoqun suddenly said, "Is the prince short of money now?" ”

Xu Zi calculated first, and said with a smile: "Immigration, development, factory building, industrial development, epidemic prevention, which one doesn't cost money?" There are also costs for ship repairs, shipbuilding. Now there is no serious entry in the Eastern Domain, adding up to less than 20,000 guan a month, Penghu is purely investing money, and the imperial court has a tax official Chang Ping in Penghu to transfer, Wei Yanke can't give me the money in the Penghu treasury, Nan'an, it is the peak season, the group practice donation plus warehouse and other miscellaneous items, the monthly income is 90,000 guan, these months, it is estimated that it is about this number......"

Fang Shaoqun smiled and said, "The prince only said how many there are now...... I knew that in three months, it would be almost time for the Eastern Domain to make money. ”

How much money is left, how many materials, in the Eastern Domain, it should be the top secret, except for Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, there should be only Kong Xuanping who knows.

Li Yi's expression was calm, he had no intention of withdrawing, if Fang Shaoqun knew, and Xu Zixian still had to hide from him, the left assistant of the secretary pavilion, then this official could just resign.

"Okay, Fengqi is really aggressive...... Xu Zixian smiled bitterly and said: "There are still 300,000 yuan worth of goods that are being sold in government-run commercial houses, which is also a means to attract merchant ships to come." There are still 600,000 yuan in cash, and that's almost the way our family is here. ”

"How much do you have to spend each month?"

"Recently, there have been fewer immigrants, and the new battalion has recruited six battalions, and then three battalions, well, it will take about 250,000 to 300,000 a month."

This cost is not small.

Tens of millions of people on Fujian Road, more than 100,000 people in the forbidden army and more than 100,000 troops in the box, and the cost of a month is estimated to be five or six hundred thousand.

It's not surprising to think about it, although the Changwen Marquis Mansion helped buy a large number of cattle, horses and farm tools, and also helped build a large number of houses, even the other courtyards were built by the Changwen Marquis Mansion.

But Xu Zixian's determination has been decided, and the development of the Eastern Domain is far more than what is in front of him.

He kept hiring workers to open up wasteland, constantly buying cattle and horses, and constantly building and buying farm tools...... It doesn't cost anything?

There is a bigger head is to raise soldiers, prepare weapons, war horses, and warships, which is the largest amount of money, and now it is as frugal as possible, such as wanting to pay all government soldiers, this matter has not yet been decided.

There are nearly 10,000 government soldiers and officials, and each person adds a consistent amount of money, and the cost is 10,000 yuan a month, which is more than 100,000 yuan a year.

Be cautious!

In addition, there are many immigrants, and houses are constantly being built, in fact, they are settlements.

Many people criticize this matter.

Why did the Hou government build houses for immigrants? They came here, and it was natural for them to help with farm tools and livestock seeds, and they couldn't let people come to settle empty-handed to open up the wasteland.

But why should the house be built?

Can't live in a shack, or can't you set up a tent?

It is enough to cultivate the land at home, slowly save money, and then slowly build a house, there is no need for the Hou Mansion to take on this matter.

But Xu Zixian still decided to help the officials under his rule build houses, although it was not free, but asked them to pay it off gradually over a period of three years, and it could even be extended to five years.

This is a loss-making deal in the Hou Mansion, but for Xu Zixian, who is interested in development, this transaction is not a loss.

If it weren't for these good conditions, why would it attract more and more immigrants?

Ding Kou is the greatest wealth, many people don't understand this, and Xu Zixian doesn't plan to say too much.

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