Although Cai Zhongquan was a little disappointed with this fund-raising activity, Zhang Mengcheng on the side felt that there was finally a slight turnaround.

Because the representative of the Li clan who was constantly asking questions to him at this time was actually Zhang Mengcheng's trust that he had privately placed in a group of security landlords.

This person's name is Li Zhigao, and he is also a talent in Baoan County. When Zhang Mengcheng was still studying in the county before, the two naturally knew each other. After that, Zhang Mengcheng followed his eldest brother to fall into the grass together, which broke off the contact between the two. But after the salted fish in Jinding Mountain turned over, the two gradually had a little intersection.

That is Hou Sanguang, the security magistrate, in order to deal with the two families of Jindingshan and Artemisia Dingding, he united some local tyrants of the security guard. Li Zhigao, the kid, took the opportunity to choose to take refuge and came up with some ideas for Hou Sanguang, which caused Jin Dingshan and Artemisia to encounter a little trouble.

But that's all, the next thing is that Xiucai and Cai Zhongde began to play. In the end, under the strong counterattack of the two families, Hou Sanguang was directly packed up into the puppets of the two families. The other rich men standing behind Hou Sanguang were also beaten severely. And Li Zhigao, because he reacted quickly, or because he was more acquainted, directly chose to take refuge in Jindingshan secretly.

In this fundraising activity, Zhang Mengcheng gathered everyone in his personal name. Because of some of the things that Xiucai and Cai Zhongde did before, the rich people in various places of the security guard have a lot of fear of Zhang Mengcheng.

Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng, who is self-aware, also predicted that there might not be a too enthusiastic response. So before that, he privately summoned Li Zhigao and discussed it with him. Li Zhigao hid among the security guards and other local tyrants, and quietly sang a double reed with Xiucai.

Now, Li Zhigao has specially considered the language of the organization, although he has introduced the difficulties of reclamation outside the border wall. But with Xiucai's clever reply, it seems that these difficulties can be solved.

Under Li Zhigao's somewhat "admired" and "happy" performance, other rich people who had lacked interest before finally began to become interested in Zhang Mengcheng's plan.

“…… Some of the walls of Xindu City only need some simple repairs, and they can completely cope with the powerless harassment of Dazi. Even if we don't set up a camp in Xindu City, we choose to be in those areas where the water and grass are better. It is also possible to build a temporary camp by himself, Dazi's ability to attack is limited, and he will not break through the camp so easily. ”

"That, dare to ask Leader Zhang, how many paddy fields can be cultivated in those scattered oases outside the side wall?" A rich landowner, who had a slight interest in the reclamation plan, cautiously inquired.

"Just in the places where the officials and soldiers smashed their nests before, according to my estimates, hundreds of hectares of land can be opened, and if the canals are dug for irrigation, 50 to 100 hectares of paddy fields, I don't think there should be much of a problem."

For the first inquirer, Zhang Mengcheng replied very confidently.

"Then dare to ask Lord Qianhu, if you come to Tuntian, how much is the production capacity per mu like this?" Another rich man became interested and asked about the expected output.

Someone is interested again, Zhang Mengcheng is in a good mood. He said the answer that he had already estimated in his heart. "The river land and the beach land can harvest three to five buckets of millet per mu, and the paddy fields need to repair the ditches to be guaranteed, so it is not clear. However, some of the middle of the plaster ground should be able to harvest one stone per mu, the medium one has five or six buckets, and the inferior ones are between two and three buckets. ”

Although these production matters have been introduced by Hermes-Epitek who has cultivated outside the walls before. But the rich people didn't care about it at that time, and now that Zhang Mengcheng said it himself, the audience present immediately changed to another reaction.

"A hundred hectares is tens of thousands of acres, and the harvest is thousands of stones, plus the output of other land, there may be tens of thousands of stones. I didn't think that Dazi's pasture was so good, and I always thought that there was sand outside the wall. ”

"Yes, this is still proven by the officials and soldiers, and how many are those that have not been discovered? We can only have one or two buckets of land per mu, and the land outside the side wall is really fat. ”

"Jin Dingshan, a thousand households nicknamed Xiucai, has a good ability to farm. If all these fields were cultivated, wouldn't the grain that could be harvested every year be piled up into a mountain? ”

"But after all, this place is outside the side wall, and Tatsuko suddenly kills him on horseback. Whether or not they can be repulsed, Tatsuko can destroy all the crops with just a fire. ”

"Isn't doing business to dare to fight, how can you get rich if you keep shrinking your hands and feet?"

"It's true that I also think Tatsuko will be bad. And there is so much land, how many people have to be called over before it can be reclaimed. There are only a few people in our entire Baoan County, so don't we plant the land of Baoan, so I don't think this business will work. ”……

The rich men in the field had their own ideas, and some of them finally had some thoughts in their hearts after realizing the fertility of the land outside the border wall. Some people are worried about various problems and are still reluctant to take risks.

Zhang Mengcheng wrote down the reactions of these people one by one, intending to find out the key development goals in it. As long as this meeting can make up more than 100 taels of silver, then Zhang Mengcheng feels that this work is worth it.

Because Zhang Mengcheng only needs an upfront investment now, as long as he tastes the sweetness at the beginning, there will only be more and more funds after that.

Originally, Xiucai didn't want to do such trouble, and he had the idea of developing it alone. And he had hesitated to follow his eldest brother to Shanxi before. But unexpectedly, the eldest brother didn't have this idea, but instead used the method of drawing lots to exclude himself from the leader of the reinforcement army under the pretense of drawing lots.

Now Zhang Mengcheng has nothing else to do, but fortunately he picked up his previous idea of developing the Dazi site outside the side wall.

However, because the eldest brother went to Shanxi this time to ensure the purchase of grain and grass, he brought a lot of silver left by the cottage public inventory, and his eldest brother also thought that Xiucai's idea was too exaggerated. Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng had to expand the objects of raising development funds to outside the cottage.

"Xiucai, it seems that the interest of the rich people has been aroused. Blow with them again, and let them take out the money. ”

Cai Zhongquan found that the atmosphere had been flipped upside down, and he also became excited. hurriedly asked Xiucai to continue to flicker and not let go of this good opportunity.

"Now is not the time, and it will be bad to ask for money directly. These people have tight pockets, and even if they want to pay for it, they will contact us privately. ”

Zhang Mengcheng, who has been in charge of operating in Jinding Mountain, has had a lot of dealings with the landlords of the security guards. Therefore, the urine nature of these people has long been seen clearly by Xiucai.

The next development was indeed the same, and few people announced in public that they would invest. Instead, after leaving, they talked to their acquaintances, and then privately scraped together some money and sent it over. In addition to Zhang Mengcheng's words, which are indeed very useful, Li Zhigao, a qualified trust, also contributed a lot.

Finally, after counting the silver coins, Zhang Mengcheng found that it exceeded his expectations, and he got a total of more than 150 taels of silver. These funds, together with some of the private wealth that Artemisia Peak and himself had already put together, had a total of three hundred taels of silver.

If you think about it yourself, you can solve the cost of seeds and farming tools for this reclamation activity. As for the next problem, it is the formation of the reclamation team, but Zhang Mengcheng already has some ideas.

In the past, although Zhang Mengcheng managed the left-behind armed forces of the cottage, the left-behind troops were only set up for the soldiers in the northern military fort to take turns to return to the cottage, so Xiucai could not be called at will.

But since taking over Che Jibao's sentry cavalry, Zhang Mengcheng has been adjusted for such a long time. The Sentinel Cavalry, which had suffered heavy casualties, had been restored to its formation with Zhang Mengcheng's efforts. With these twenty-five elite cavalrymen, at least the armed defense of the reclamation team in the future can be regarded as a certain guarantee.

Zhang Mengcheng's plan for his beginning, that is, to take more than 100 people out of the wall to develop first, and then slowly expand the staff after gaining a firm foothold. So the next work is mainly to start recruiting Jianding who are willing to follow him out of the wall.

But before we can move on to the next step, we need to clear the hurdles that come back to us.

"Xiucai, how much money did you raise?" Guan Zhiqing, the second master, already knew about Zhang Mengcheng's previous affairs, so this time he ran back to Jinding Mountain from Jingbian.

"Second brother, you don't want to stop me again, you'd better die of that heart in this matter." Zhang Mengcheng understands the thoughts of the second master, he just wants to press himself on Jinding Mountain to be a housekeeper for everyone.

"Actually, Xiucai, you can think about it for a while, isn't there any township test for martial arts this year, you can stay in the village and practice your skills."

The big boss led the troops to Shanxi, and the second boss naturally had full authority over the remaining brothers. However, Zhang Mengcheng's reclamation plan was allowed by the eldest brother before he left. Because in the lottery before the eldest brother and the second master, Zhang Mengcheng's lottery was not put in at all.

After this matter was discovered by Xiucai, Zhang Mengcheng naturally would not let it go, and finally got the approval of the plan after some hard work.

"Don't worry about martial arts, I naturally have arrangements. In fact, you don't have to care about anything else, second brother, I have already taken care of the affairs of the cottage, and there are regulations I have formulated everywhere, so there shouldn't be any mess. ”

Through Zhang Mengcheng's efforts for several years, now all the work of Jindingshan has entered the formal, and there is really no need to worry too much. And now it's winter, except for the main supervision of the winter training work of Shanzhai Tunding, nothing else is important.

"Alas, since I can't stop you, then you can go out of the wall and take a look. I heard that you still want to take a group of children out of the cottage school, and Yuze will also follow you? ”

"That's true, it's not bad to follow me out this time. However, if you are afraid of something happening to the second brother, it is not impossible to let him continue to stay in the cottage. ”

"Forget it, since Xiucai is so confident, I won't stop it. It's just that when do you plan to get out of the wall, after all, it's still winter, and you can't go out to farm even if you want to. ”

"When the men and others are ready, they will set off immediately. Although it is not possible to farm outside the wall now, it is good to graze and accumulate manure to save fertilizer for the future. ”

"What, grazing!?"

After hearing Zhang Mengcheng's plan, Guan Zhiqing, the second master who had seen a lot of things, finally felt that his brain seemed to be a little insufficient.