In later generations, many people often hang a female sentence in their mouths, money can make ghosts grind! It's like money can do anything! But can you really do whatever you want if you have money?

Well, this time it seems to be really possible!

Even if the merchant goes to plough the field, it is completely different from those old landlords, and there is a pride everywhere! Thanks to Liu Zongmin, he got almost all the peasant landlords in the north of Huguang, and the land annexation that all dynasties and dynasties have been trying to prevent was played to the peak at this time, in the south of the Yangtze River, Qian Qianyi's land spanned six counties, with more than 1,400 hectares of land, and there were as many as 80,000 or 90,000 tenants and cultivators under the Qian family, which can be regarded as a super family in the south of the Yangtze River.

But the first batch of six or seven hundred Shanxi coal bosses, Jingshi factory owners, and big businessmen in Liaodong stationed in Huguang, with an average of more than 1,000 hectares of land, Mao Jue created nearly a thousand super families in one winter! The merchants from the north almost occupied all the fertile and fertile land from Xiangyang to Wuchang, and the land seemed to be patched, with a piece of grange separated by barbed wire in the east and a piece in the west.

The only thing that can't be compared is the population, Beiming is not lacking anything now, it is a lack of people, the major mines in Shanxi are recruiting, the coal boss from the north is just bringing silver, and the township party can come to one or two hundred to die, or the relationship is not good, it is temporarily difficult to hire on the spot, part of the originally dense population of Huguang was pulled into the army by Liu Zongmin, and part of the population was consumed in the tug-of-war of Zhang Xianzhong, Yang Sichang, Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu, and the rest at this time either fled to Jiangnan or fled to Hunan in later generations. The Liangguang area went to escape the war.

Fortunately, in order to encourage Beishang to develop Huguang, Mao Jue's policy was biased, and the population obtained from the population trade with Zhang Xianzhong was supplemented to the Shaanxi generation that was extremely empty in the war, and now it is directly intercepted to Huguang, and a large farm can almost allocate about 5,000 employees.

Jiangnan is a lot of people and little land, and the average family can get a few acres of land, and tens of thousands of people can easily cultivate 1340,000 acres of land, but this lake is vast and sparsely populated, and 5,000 people cultivate 100,000 acres, even if 5,000 people are all strong laborers, with an average of 20 acres of land per person, it is definitely tired to vomit blood, and it belongs to the type of long-term workers under Zhou Papi's hands.

Fortunately, the second benefit of having money has been revealed, we don't have enough people, and we have enough livestock! It's no wonder that Li Huimei drooled when she looked at it, and she planned to get here before she set off. Shanxi is right next to Mongolia, cattle and horses are cheap, and the three or four hundred coal bosses and factory owners have brought down more than 100,000 cattle and horses in one go, and this number is enough to pull an army of hundreds of thousands of people if it is placed in Chongzhen for a few years.

Moreover, in recent years, Mao Jue has also spent hundreds of thousands of taels every year to encourage innovation, and in terms of agricultural production technology, the southbound and northern merchants have much more advanced than the intensive cultivation of the Southern Ming Dynasty, creating enough conditions for land reclamation.

So, the guys were ready, around March, the weather had just warmed up, and the coal bosses who owned the land with serious circumstances personally picked up their hoes and rolled up their sleeves to take the lead in the work.

It is really an incomparable local tyrant, an incomparably spectacular scene, standing at the head of the city, Li Huimei, who couldn't stay idle, looked at the flat Xiangyang fertile field, a whole trip to a field several miles wide, just like a cavalry confrontation, enough to equip the high-grade Mongolian horses that were equipped with fine horses were put on harnesses like violent creatures, a column of six horses, pulling a three-plough with loose earth rims, and the short but energetic Sichuan man behind him sang a spring song and fiercely pushed the plow behind, such a longitudinal row is several miles in the trumpet, and he doesn't even need to turn around. The huge team is full of energy, just pull forward.

The originally soft and fertile soil of Huguang was quickly pulled out of deep scars under the plough of Sanhua forged by Liaodong iron and fire cold, and the fragrant soil was softly planed out.

Last winter, employing farmers from Henan on the opposite side, along the Yangtze River, the cement ditch water conservancy project has already been prepared, taking advantage of the melting ice and snow to open the dam, the bright and cold Yangtze River water, Jingjiang water was introduced into the ploughed farmland, and the high-quality paddy fields appeared on the ground level like a huge glass mirror.

Even the rice planting, these rich coal bosses from the north are different from this era, or horse-drawn animal power rice transplanters with big wheels creaking on the paddy field, a push arm on the top, with the horse moving to push down the early rice seedlings that are still with soil, and there is a small gear at the bottom to drive the clamping, loosening, clamping, loosening the gear mechanical arm that moves back and forth, grabbing the seedlings and inserting them into the earth.

If the manpower bends over and carries a backpack, it will take a whole day to one acre of land, but this thing can run down, ten or twenty acres a day.

Of course, the quality is certainly not as easy as the fine manpower to insert one by one, but anyway, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and what is needed is this kind of extensive agriculture!

Collective labor and the use of a large amount of animal power have created a miracle in this agricultural era, and in the eyes of Li Huimeiba, in just 20 days, Huguang Farm, which has less than 2,000 middle-aged laborers, has almost completed the spring plowing of early rice.

However, there is still a big difference between Huguang and Jiangnan in the cultivation mode, just when every inch of land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is full of seedlings, these coal bosses and farmers have created an amazing waste, and the best Huguang field has only been reclaimed half, and the remaining 50,000 acres of land have been planted from house to house, leaving 10,000 acres of melons, fruits and vegetables, and the rest of the water is planted with grass, all of which are high-quality pastures, and they are specially raised for those livestock brought from the north.

The grass grows much faster than the seedlings, a few spring rains will come out more than half a person tall, the livestock who have been busy for a spring just eat the tender green fodder on the spot, and the soybean meal imported from the north can also be slowed down at this time, and the first wave of reclamation of the large farms and pastures in Huguang began to officially embark on the right track.

After the spring ploughing, he was not so busy, and he threw the work to his subordinate farm workers, and the rich grandsons became playful again.

It was early in the morning, rubbing her eyes, Li Huimei climbed the city wall as usual to see what these fat sheep from the north were doing, but this time, the spectacular collective labor that could be seen every day was gone, but not far from Xiangyang City, a huge oval building built with cement and bricks was as if it had appeared overnight.

Women and cats are an attribute, following Li Zicheng to fight for many years, Li Huimei's first reaction was that this group of big fat sheep was building fortifications, preparing for the siege of Xiangyang City, in order to find out clearly, this little girl is not afraid of heights, stepping on the battlements, poking her head and looking down as much as she can, but what makes the little girl's teeth itch is that this group of rich grandsons is too extravagant! A large circle of such a large oval building, all covered with a canvas fixed with steel bars, and after looking at it for a long time, she saw nothing, and only heard an earth-shattering roar from inside.

Angrily stomped his little feet, glanced at Gao Guiying who didn't follow the killing, slipped down the city wall, and threw away the white filial piety clothes he was wearing, Li Huimei stomped into the hole in the city wall when Li Zicheng repaired the palace like a little mouse, and slipped out of the city in a blink of an eye.

A few minutes later, at the oval east and west gate built on the ruins of the city of Xiangyang City, a little girl wearing a white gauze dress and a long cloth skirt probed her brain and touched her.

It seems that he really came to farm, and there was no guard at all, but the passionate shouts kept coming into his ears, and along the hole opened by the oval cement wall, Li Huimei easily blended in.

"Wow!!"

As soon as she got inside, even Li Huimei couldn't help but widen her eyes with excitement, she looked like a city wall in a stepped shape inside, a total of eight or nine floors, at this time it was already crowded with tens of thousands of landlords and landlords in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, both men and women, one by one, as if crazy, desperately waving their fists forward.

In the middle was a huge, complex track, with ten lanes, narrowed and narrow, a deliberately raised hill, and a river running through it, and on ten tracks, a total of nine ornate four-wheeled carriages drawn by two horses were waiting diagonally on the track.

In the center of the starting track, a military observatory-like high platform was erected, and under the intently watched gaze of the nine drivers, a strong man who was still wearing only a red single coat and showing his chest and stomach in the cold spring took the hammer and swayed in front of the large gong that was more than one person high.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

Airplanes~

The hammer slammed into the gong, and before the sound wave could be transmitted, in an instant, nine racers with several layers of thick leather armor wrapped around their bodies and neck guards wrapped around their necks were almost like turtles, and the special carriages flew out like arrows from the strings, and the whole arena was even more boiling.

"Shenyang Guards, come on, get down those old Xi'er !!"

"Pull it down! In the Spring and Autumn Period, when our Jin people played car wars, you Liao people were still bare-ass barbarians! Qiao Leshan! Come on! Our Qi County team will win! ”

"You are all grassroots, and the victory must belong to our Jingshi Tongzhou team, come on, !!"

Under this kind of infection, even if all the young ladies who don't leave the door are crazy, and even a chick doesn't know if she is confused, she reached out and pulled out the red belly pocket in the corset, roaring desperately, and the enthusiastic cheers in the audience also quickly infected Li Huimei, a military lady, and I don't know who to cheer for, anyway, hiding at that entrance, she also danced and cheered.

Creak~~

In the jerky sound, the nine carriages galloped to the first corner, the first five light carriages neatly flicked their tails and drifted, and the cowhide tires smoked and grinded out black marks on the track, which caused the whole field to boil, especially the one on the edge was not thrown well, and the butt hit the wall and smashed it, and the rider rolled out like a gourd, and many people in the stands scolded and slapped on the thigh, and the nervous and exciting Li Huimei also followed on the fence.

"Stupid, come on!!"

(End of chapter)