"Don't worry, listen to me." Gao Feng comforted.

Can I not be in a hurry? This is related to my career, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, because you don't feel like me. Gu Zheng sat down helplessly.

After Gu Zheng sat down, Gao Feng asked, "Have you ever heard of cash crops?" ”

Seeing that Gu Zheng shook his head, Gao Feng knew that he had asked the right question, otherwise he would be suspicious if he dared to talk about it.

"It's a new term I just came up with, and it's normal that adults haven't heard of it." Gao Feng said shamelessly, and then explained: "Cash crops are relative to grain, some of them are edible, some are inedible but can be used as materials, one thing is common, that is, they can be sold for money, I call this kind of crop cash crops." For example, the fruit on this table is a cash crop. ”

Gao Feng interpreted the definition of cash crops with his own understanding, and no one could understand it anyway, let alone raise objections, right?

Seeing that everyone understood, Gao Feng continued: "On the sandy land in the south, you can plant a large number of cash crops, especially fruits, so that you can not only fix the sand and prevent chemicals, but also have a harvest, why not?" Besides, the fruit that grows in the sand is sweeter than the rest of the land and its value will be higher. ”

"Your suggestion is good, but have you ever thought about how to ensure the sales and storage of fruits if we grow fruits on a large scale, such as grapes, persimmons, peaches, etc.? If it rots in the ground, how can it generate value? Also, the cost of growing these cash crops is not low! Gu Zheng didn't give it for nothing, this is also what worries him the most, so the question is very sharp.

It is also said that except for pears, other fruits cannot be stored for a long time, and some even have problems with transportation, and if you count the cost of planting, you may lose even your pants.

Hearing this question, Gao Feng seemed to be confident, and only listened to him say: "The sales question will be answered later, I have a fruit that meets the conditions for large-scale planting." ”

"What fruit?" Gu Zheng asked anxiously.

"Apples." Gao Feng replied.

"Apples?" Gu Zheng questioned, and even looked sideways at a few people around him, and when he saw that everyone shook their heads, he knew that it was not his own shallow knowledge, but a new term.

Knowing that he had put another oolong, Gao Feng sneered and said: "Tsuki, everyone has always heard of it, this is a new type of persimmon, I call it an apple, just to distinguish it from the general persimmon, and another point is that it is more delicious than the persimmon, and it is also easy to store and transport, so it is the most suitable species for large-scale planting." ”

In fact, this sentence Gao Feng said wrong, the apple is actually a kind of apple, but everyone doesn't know the apple, of course he has to say that the apple is a kind of apple.

In the Song Dynasty, apples had not yet been introduced to the Central Plains, so it was normal for everyone not to know, but there were some cultivation of this thing in Tibet.

The reason why Gao Feng proposed to grow apples was due to the introduction of his classmates. Feng County is the hometown of apples, especially the red Fuji apples, which have been exported to the north and south of the river, and their planting sites are in the southern sands of the county.

The second is that he found two fruit trees in Li Qikun's house, but Li Qikun still called it a coffin, and Gao Feng did not explain it, but he had a selfish heart.

"As far as I know, it takes a long process from seedling to tree, so how can we ensure that we can plant a large area as soon as possible?" Gu Zheng asked again.

Everyone agrees on this point, so they nodded their heads in agreement.

You can't, brother, brother doesn't need to directly raise apple tree seedlings, brother can raise begonia seedlings, and then graft it, this is a common method for raising apple trees in later generations, it is too simple.

"My lord, I can sign an agreement with the government to guarantee the supply of more than 100,000 apple tree seedlings within two years, and the price will be as good as possible, how about it?" Gao Feng no longer explained to them at all, even if the explanation was in vain, it was better to be blunt.

"Okay, if you can do this, I will ask for credit for you in the name of the government." Gu Zheng readily agreed, who wouldn't want to do this kind of thing?

"It's not necessary, but you need some land to raise seedlings, and please ask adults." The work can be done, but it can't be done in vain, and it is still okay to collect some benefits appropriately.

"How much land do you want? What kind of soil? Fu Jia asked for what to say. As the head of a county, this little right still exists, Gu Zheng readily agreed.

"Two hundred acres of land, as long as it's not sandy land, I live in the Dong family manor in the south of the city, it's best—"

"Okay, in the south of the city, five miles west of the Dong family's manor, there is exactly a piece of idle land, almost three hundred acres, you can use it for three years, but you have to take it back after three years." Before Gao Feng finished speaking, Gu Zheng interrupted him and said.

"That's very good." Gao Feng thanked. Now you make a lot of money, and it is not easy to find a good thing to use public land to make private money.

"After the south of the city is finished, what about the north of the city? What can be planted in the north of the city? Gu Zheng was basically satisfied with Gao Feng's suggestion, if it was really as he said, he had a wish, and he was full of hope when he thought of Chengbei.

"There's no need to plant anything in the north of the city, because it's a big gold mine in itself." Gao Feng said.

"What? Gold mine? And this kind of thing? Not only did Gu Zheng scream, but even the others were shocked inexplicably, why did no one know about such a good thing, and how did you know about it?

It's a joke again, isn't it? Gao Feng shook his head speechlessly, when will his language be standardized?

"My lord misunderstood me, I mean there is a big underground salt mine there, and salt can be sold for money, so I likened it to a gold mine." Gao Feng explained.

Feng County has a peak of salt mines, and I also listened to my classmates. It is said that the salt mine area here has hundreds of square kilometers, the reserves have tens of billions of tons, belongs to the rich ore, the ore content is extremely high, and the distribution of rock salt is concentrated, the salt quality is good, it is very valuable for mining, the most important thing is that the later generations have been mined here, and it is exported to the province and beyond.

Therefore, when Gao Feng heard that there was a saline-alkali land in the north of the city, his first thought was that the underground salt mines were at work, and digging here would definitely dig out the salt.

Even if the gold mine was replaced by a salt mine, it was beyond everyone's understanding, and salt was a gold lump in that era, no less than the discovery of gold mines.

However, it is easy for everyone to recognize that there is a salt mine underground, after all, it is a saline-alkali land above, how can it become like that without salt?

"Gao Feng, if it is really as you said, you can be regarded as having made great contributions to the county, and at that time, a certain person will personally go to the court to give a commendation, even if it is a meritorious card, it is not an exaggeration." Gu Zheng made a direct statement.

He had already rubbed his hands excitedly, eager to dig out the salt immediately, for him, the value of the salt mine is much higher than planting fruit trees, at least this is direct, the current can be seen, and the fruit trees do not know what year and month to see the results?

"My lord, do you want to listen to it?" Seeing that Gu Zheng was excited, Gao Feng shook his head helplessly, you, the county governor, would really sit back and enjoy it, if it weren't for the people of the county, I would reveal the information like this?

Of course, Gao Feng did not shirk Gu Zheng's promise this time, if there is a halo shining on his body, it will be convenient to act in the future, how can he be afraid of those juniors?

"Listen, listen, you go on." Gu Zheng, who came back to his senses, hurriedly said.