Chapter 383: Fuzhou's Summer Harvest
Zhou Zhian carefully put a cleanly washed white towel on his head, and then tied the enamel water cup around his waist with a red belt.
While stretching his trouser legs, the woman instructed: "When the time comes, make up for it more in front, don't hide in the back." โ
"It's up to you to say that." Zhou Zhi'an looked impatient. For such a major event as the ribbon cutting of the reservoir, of course, I have to rush forward desperately.
I heard that Young Master Qin was going to cut the ribbon on the reservoir in person, as a man who was talking and laughing with Young Master Qin, how could he not rush up and show his face.
This year's summer grain harvest simply scared Zhou Zhi'an โ and that was too much.
The Xiahetao area completely fell into the hands of Qin Mu, and the arable land was magnified more than ten times and dozens of times at once. In terms of livestock, it provided farmers with a large number of cattle, which gave Zhou Zhian a new labor force.
He rents three times as much land this year as he did last year.
With the ploughing oxen, those brand new farming implements play a bigger role. Deep ploughing has truly become a reality.
And after last year's training, the level of technicians in the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau has also increased significantly, and they have provided more professional guidance to farmers, and these people are already experts in pesticides and field management.
Zhou Zhi'an has just obtained a bumper harvest that he never dreamed of. Now the wheat in his house is almost piled up, and there is no place to put his feet.
With so much wheat, Zhou Zhian felt that even the landlords in Fuzhou couldn't catch up with their own grain.
He was sincerely grateful to Yu Liyan. The princess is really merciful and compassionate.
And the princess's man is the object of Zhou Zhi'an's gratitude. After all, the princess hadn't spoken to him, but Qin Muke had educated them seriously.
Zhou Zhi'an has never forgotten every sentence that Young Master Qin said, he said that if you double the grain, it will really double this year.
So next year, wouldn't it be more than three or four or five times more than to use that fertilizer?
Zhou Zhi'an's dreams now are all those new furniture made by Young Master Qin. Last year, he was just thinking about it, but now Zhou Zhian feels that the furniture is at hand.
When the grain is sold, I must buy such a set - Jia Hongxian also opened a branch in Yongbyon, ** new furniture.
But that's all for later, and the most important thing now is to get to the reservoir quickly. Xiaohe Reservoir is not far from Dongshengzhou City. From Yongbyon to Dongshengzhou, you have to walk for a few days, Zhou Zhian brought dry food to the front of the yamen to gather with the large army, and then set off in a carriage.
Qin Mu didn't dare to name this reservoir, if it was called the Yellow River Reservoir, it would really be unaffordable. It's a shame.
The small river reservoir is good. This is just a small tributary of the Yellow River, and the difficulty of construction belongs to Qin Mu's current technical level that he can afford.
After nearly 10,000 people in the general battle, mainly 3,000 fierce slaves doing hard labor, on the basis of scientific solutions, and with the construction artifact of cement, the reservoir was finally completed after the completion of the summer grain storage.
Qin Mu flew to Dongsheng Prefecture as soon as possible.
This is the first water conservancy project he built in this time and space. During this period, he experienced various difficulties and encountered a large number of problems, but they were all perfectly solved with the collective efforts of Qin Mu and everyone.
Now Qin Mu was standing by the reservoir, looking at the calm water, and his heart was extremely excited.
With the Xiaohe Reservoir, the Xiahetao area has truly bid farewell to the tragedy of relying on the sky for food, and since then it has been able to ensure harvest in drought and flood, and has become the granary of the northwest.
Qin Mu picked up the scissors and cut the red silk together with Zhe Keqiu, completing the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
If you have a reservoir, you have to have a water conservancy bureau.
The first director of the Water Conservancy Bureau was Hu Chuan. The former director of the glass factory is now excited. He didn't expect that he would be able to rise again in a short period of time.
After kicking his brother-in-law away that day, he immediately promoted Hu Chuan, the deputy director of the factory, to be the factory director, and was fully responsible for the production of the glass factory.
Hu Chuan is also really talented. Since he took office, there have been no major accidents at the glass factory, and production has been going smoothly.
Because of his achievements, he was one of the first to transition to the industrial age. Now that there is a reservoir, there is a need for professional managers.
He was promoted to this position - Hu Chuan has been involved in the construction of the reservoir.
Water conservancy is related to food, and this is a really important matter, and it must be handed over to people who are down-to-earth and capable.
Now that Hu Chuan is the director of the water conservancy bureau, the first problem he faces is that he has no one under him.
Although some people were taken by him in the process of repairing the reservoir and were brought into the water conservancy bureau, the manpower was still far from enough.
These people can do their jobs, but when it comes to administration, they are far behind.
How many people in the Great Song Dynasty understand administration now?
Hu Chuan had a headache about this matter all day long, he asked for someone to ask for a few times, and wanted to ask a college student to come over - a college student, not a student, but he didn't agree to him.
Those students are all in Wujiazhuang, and they can't be used before they graduate. And even if they graduate, they need them, and the new situation needs a lot of talents, which round will be used by Hu Chuan for the time being.
Figure it out for yourself, and you have to do it well, you can't mess it up.
For the smooth operation of water conservancy facilities, Hu Chuan can be regarded as exhausted. I happened to see Zhou Zhi'an today, and Hu Chuan suddenly thought about it.
Director Zhou is a talent.
He is a big and small figure in Yongbyon City, and now he is only doing grassroots work a little condescending, come, follow me.
So Zhou Zhi'an was suddenly faced with a difficult choice.
Do you want to be an official, or continue to farm and make money.
This problem is too difficult to choose, and it makes Zhou Zhian's forehead sweat for a while - it's not easy to do!
The little people have the problems of the little people, and the big people have the problems of the big people.
Qin Muhe and Zhe Keqiu faced many more problems than Zhou Zhi'an.
This year, there was a bumper harvest in the Xiahetao area, but on the contrary, there was a famine in Linzhou, Fuzhou.
People are running away, no one is farming, and naturally there is no food to harvest.
But the court doesn't care about you, how much grain should be paid, not a single grain is missing.
The imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the grain has to be handed over to the villages.
Li Zheng is all landlords.
The landlord had no one under him, so there was no harvest.
They can't delay if they want to delay now, and the eunuch Li Yan is sitting in Fuzhou, waiting for this year's summer grain!
Zhao Ji's difficulties, Li Yanquan understands. If the official family wants to buy the city, they need a lot of money, and now they rely on grabbing some land to sell it for money.
Li Yan still doesn't understand why the Zhe family sent so many people to Yongbian to farm, and abandoned Fuzhou and Linzhou.
This can't be said, where is not the earth? Where not to shoot grain?
You are deserted here and there, don't you want the nest?
He wanted to go to Yongbyon to have a look, but he didn't leave for a long time. It's not that his legs and feet are not good, but that Yongbyon is no longer the land of the Great Song Dynasty.
The Fold family dared to run around, but he really didn't dare to run around. Go to the land of Liao, or Jin, how can he, a eunuch, dare to go abroad without a holy decree?
So he could only sit in Fuzhou, wait for the summer harvest, and take advantage of the grain shortage to get the land into his own hands.
Don't look at Li Bangyan daring to grab land in Wujiazhuang, he Li Yan really doesn't dare to rob the land in Zhejia.
Fuzhou is not the Great Song Dynasty, it is not so large, and the place is small and easy to manage. At the same time, the Zhejia family is shrewd, and the past dynasties have managed Fuzhou well, especially in the field paperwork, there are no loopholes.
It is difficult for Li Yan to play Ming Robbery.
He is now robbing more than 1,000 acres of land, but this is too little, a drop in the bucket.
Li Yan could only wait patiently until the summer harvest to have a real chance.
Small landlords will go bankrupt at this time, and when the time comes, they can only sell their land at a low price, how can they get tens of thousands of acres themselves, and reluctantly give an explanation to the official family.
Zhe Keqiu was very clear about Li Yan's plans, but he didn't want Li Yan to take away an acre of land.
The lands of Fuzhou and Linzhou were planned by Qin Mu as future mechanized farms.
Zhe Keqiu realized the power of the diesel engine, so he yearned for the mechanized farming described by Qin Mu.
The people of this time and space are basically all farmers, and farmers have a deep affection for growing crops - people will starve to death if they don't have food.
I really want to see all kinds of large machinery and facilities busy on the countryside. He felt that even if he died after reading it, this life would be worth it.
What a joy it is for one man to plant a thousand acres of land!
You can't let Li Yan take the land.
"Gongye, what should I do about Li Yan?" Now that Qin Mu is here, he must have an idea with Qin Mu.
"How many acres of land does the bankrupt landlord have now?"
"Fuzhou has a total of 30,000 hectares of land, 450,000 mu, Linzhou is 10,000 hectares more than Fuzhou, and now the two states have about 1 million mu of land, and there are about 300,000 mu of bankrupt land."
"The situation in the world is chaotic right now. There are strong enemies outside the Great Song Dynasty and bandits inside, and it is a good time for us to develop with peace of mind, and we can't get too stiff with the imperial court for the time being. We left the fragments and corners of the land to Li Yan, and connected the land suitable for mechanical farming, and did not let it at all. โ
"Okay." Zhe Keqiu nodded.
"That's right, Mr. Zhe, that Yin Kuo ......" Qin Mu remembered his brother-in-law. This person went to the capital, why didn't he hear Mu Nanxing mention it?
"I had people stop him and didn't enter Beijing. I said his father was going to die, so go back quickly. He said angrily.
Yin Kuozhi is stupid and bold, beyond the imagination of what can be imagined.
He never imagined that his brother-in-law would dare to betray him. If it weren't for the fact that his sister had just given birth to a big fat son for herself, she would have wanted to send someone to kill Yin Kuo.
Now deceive him into going home and let his father and mother take strict care of him, which is already the greatest kindness that can be sought.
He never wanted to see Yin Kuo again. If he is allowed to see this brother-in-law, I am afraid that he can't help but shoot him - he can still use a gun now.
"That's good," Qin Mu nodded, "Mr. Zhe, I'll leave it all to you here, and I'll go back to Weishan Lake." The steel mill is about to be built. When the time comes, look at it, this world will be completely changed! โ
Looking down from the sky above Weishan Lake, several huge chimneys rise from the ground, like giant cannons, spitting gunpowder smoke into the sky.
They guard a strangely shaped steel beast, a truly epoch-making symbol of the planeโthe 21st Century Blast Furnace!