(Chapter 2 delivered, 8,000 words updated)

Outside the big city of Zhenyuan Mansion, the desolation of the past has long been gone, and more than 100,000 people who have migrated here have turned the neighborhood into fertile fields everywhere.

The more than 100,000 people who had gathered together had already been divided into villages by the Yamen of the General Office and moved to various places. There is fertile land in the Northeast, and the surrounding area of Xishenwei is a fertile land that has not been cultivated much, all of which are borderless land, and Lian Zining distributes them at will, so the general office yamen is also extraordinarily generous. According to the ancient system of the Wei and Jin dynasties, each male strong man was given 70 acres of land, and each sturdy woman was given 50 acres of land.

Three or five hundred households in a village, according to the area they are divided, they are relocated there, forming a pattern of three or five miles of one village.

The spring ploughing work has been over for a while, and the corn seeds have been sown, and now they are green corn seedlings that are less than a foot long.

Farmers are always conservative, which is understandable, and when it comes to the food of a family, it is natural to be cautious. They instinctively had a slight suspicion of corn, a crop they had never seen before, but under the strong suppression of the government, they had to plant it, but the government's promise to distribute grain if the harvest was not good, still made them feel a little comforted.

But now many people have put their minds at ease, these new things called corn are growing so happily, no matter how you look at it, it is also a good crop, maybe it is really like those adults say, an acre of land can be beaten five or six stones!

God grandpa. Five or six stones? We've never heard of it, but we dreamed of it. Don't have five or six stones, if you can have an output of three stones, let's go to the General's Mansion and kowtow to Uncle Wu Yi.

A warm wind blows, the green seedlings rise and fall like waves, and there is a cry of chickens and ducks in the village not far away, mixed with the laughter of children and the laughter of adults.

A piece of abundance and happiness, no one could have imagined, this time last year. The Jurchen army is galloping here. A few months ago, it was desolate.

Lian Zining's manor outside the city has a full 20,000 hectares, that is, 2 million acres of land, which is a huge grange with a radius of dozens of miles.

It's different from Kannai. Most of his land here is paddy fields, and the tributaries of the Songhua River are very dense, especially in the vicinity of Xishenwei, where the water flows vertically and horizontally, and there are rivers and streams everywhere. Not to mention, there are large lakes and swamps.

Therefore, there are many paddy fields outside the Guan, and the rice produced in the northeast has always enjoyed a good reputation in the national dynasty, which can also be seen.

And Lian Zining's land. Nature occupies the best and most fertile piece.

He never thought that he was such a clean and noble person, and he would definitely do anything that he could do for his own personal gain without harming the interests of others. These are ownerless wastelands around Xishenwei, who occupies them or not? If I can give it to those civilians, why can't I take some?

Of course. He didn't have to do it himself, after Lian Zining showed a little meaning, the people in the general office of the yamen understood and put a large piece of water in the vicinity, which was the most fertile and creamy, and the water network was vertical and horizontal, under the name of Uncle Wu Yi. At the same time, some veterans who are proficient in farming are also selected as tenants, and in this vicinity, there are 26 villages, a total of more than 10,000 households, all of which are tenants of Lian Zining.

Two million acres, a lot, in fact, is not necessarily, for ordinary people, it is naturally an unimaginable astronomical amount, but for the wealthy, it is just a number.

The palace of the king of Shu has guarded Chengdu for more than 100 years, with more than 100,000 hectares of land, and its fields and manors are all over Huguang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other political envoys. During the Wanli period, King Fu was in Luoyang, Emperor Wanli and Concubine Zheng Guifei were very distressed by this big fat son, and they wanted to seal 30,000 hectares of fertile land near Luoyang to him, and later found out that the fertile land near Luoyang had been divided up by the local magnates and gentry, and the local officials only made up 10,000 hectares of land.

Unlike the south, where the north basically grows one crop of wheat and then grows some other crops, the south now has one crop of wheat and one crop of rice, or two crops of rice, and in some places, such as the Lingnan region, which is particularly warm, there are also three crops of rice, so that the harvest is much higher than in the north.

The more grain you have, the richer you will be.

The natural environment of the north and the south is different, and many aspects such as water conservancy, fertilizer, and soil fertility have caused uneven harvests.

One acre of land in the northwest harvests half a stone of grain, or even less, and when some are bleak, the grain produced is not as much as the seeds sown. In the north, from Shaanxi to the east, most of the mu yield is one stone and one and a half stones, and the rice production of the two lakes in the south of the Yangtze River is the highest six or seven stones per mu, and the gap is too big.

At the beginning, Lian Zining's 500,000 mu of land in Shandong received 50% of the rent, and one acre of land could hand over seven and a half buckets of husked wheat grains, which could already be regarded as a fertile field.

There are not many rivers in the whole north, so the paddy fields are precious, water, is the source of everything, with water you can grow rice, you can raise fish, and then dig pond mud for fertilizer, in the era of no agricultural industry, a large number of rivers are wealth, in China, at first it was the Yellow River Basin, then the Yangtze River Basin became the center of wealth and civilization, the Ming generation, the most Jinshi is Jiangnan, the richest area with the most wealth, is also Jiangnan.

However, the Northeast is different, where the water veins are longitudinal and horizontal, and the water resources are very abundant, and there is no shortage of paddy fields. In addition, corn itself is a high-yield crop - it can generally reach about 2,000 catties in later generations, even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China when industrial fertilizers were not popularized, it can reach 1,500 catties, and if you add the fertile bonus of the Northeast, it will be even higher.

1,500 catties, one stone of Daming is 190 catties, that is, the output of nearly eight stones. However, this number is a bit terrifying, and Lian Zining only said that it is about five stones.

"Amber, look at our land, the harvest is not bad."

Lian Zining turned sideways. Said to Amber in the carriage on the side.

In May, although it is cool outside the border. The weather was already hot, and Lian Zining wore a thin blue satin suit, which was very neat. More than 2 million acres of land, hundreds of miles around, only wandering around the periphery, walking around and looking, and riding a horse, it was also so hot that he was sweating profusely.

Amber and Nona were both sitting in the car, and Nona was supposed to ride a horse, but was pushed in by Lian Zining. It is said that it is a girl's family. Be a little demure. Still, she was very lively, and the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and both Amber and Nona looked out, pointing as they looked.

Since coming with Lian Zining. They rarely get out of the city, especially Amber, who stays in the General's Mansion and doesn't go out of the gate. This time, I came out for a walk, looked at the blue sky and green fields, and looked at the harvest in my own field, and a sense of satisfaction arose, and I was already very happy.

The armies are all fighting abroad, and the things that should be arranged have been arranged. It depends on how the battle is going over there. If the ground of Kemu Mountain is settled and everything goes well, then the next road will be much easier, and if a stalemate is reached, then everything will have to be re-planned.

So. Lian Zining found that he was very rarely idle, and it was boring to nest left and right in the house, so he simply took Amber and Ye Nai out of the city, and called Shi Dazhu and other guards, as well as the general office of Hong Chaojiao, plus Wang Dachun, Gonzalez, Qiwei and others, so they were old guys who came out to relax.

Everyone was lazily riding on their horses, looking around, and dozens of guards were loosely guarding the periphery, relaxed.

It's a trip to the world, so you don't have to be so nervous.

The name Dai Xian, who helped Lian Zining take care of the grange, is in his sixties and is very old and reliable. His family has been the son of Dai Mansion for several generations, and later Dai Zhangpu entered Beijing as an official and brought him here, Dai Mansion also has a lot of manor properties outside the capital, he has always been taking care of it, and he has been doing this for more than 40 years, and his experience is very old. Later, Lian Zining got married, and their family came over together as a dowry, and when Lian Zining returned to the customs, Qinglan specially sent him over.

It is not an easy task to manage the farmland, and there are many doorways, getting along with the tenants, collecting rent on time, giving the tenants to write things during the New Year and festivals to win people's hearts, and even if the scale of the grange is larger, you have to worry about water irrigation, cattle farming tools, etc., which are trivial, not inferior to managing a city.

It is often seen in later TV dramas that tenants are forced to die by landlords, in fact, not all landlords can do more than tenants. It is not uncommon for the owner to be deceived by the tenants, and even some of the tough tenants resist the rent and do not pay.

Guan Zhuang wants to win people, the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, not everyone is down-to-earth and willing to work, and there are also quite a lot of treacherous and slippery bankers who are in a bad mood. Don't think that the small people are easy to bully, calculate that their family has enough to eat, and then there are many people who ignore everything, the landlord and the villager are divided in half, and the harvest is less, and the ruthless landlord will force the farmer, even if the tenant is starved to death. Some tenants bully honest landlords, pay less and conceal revenues, and deliberately cheat, and this kind of thing is not uncommon.

Therefore, whether the people in charge of the village are effective or not is the key to a year's harvest.

Can farming make money?

Of course you can, otherwise what are those wealthy families desperately trying to annex and occupy land? Don't talk nonsense about the most important land for Chinese people, if you don't make money, no matter how powerful the tradition is, it will die out.

In fact, in this era, in addition to ocean trade, the most profitable thing is farming.

Many wealthy families have thousands of acres of land at home.

How much is the harvest? This is not accurate, in a disaster year, or even beyond the ends of the income, in vain put the money of livestock and cattle in it. But if it is a good year, a harvest will be hundreds of thousands of millions of stone rent, and these grains will be silver for nothing!

It is precisely because of the stimulus of this huge profit that those powerful families are desperately merging, accumulating abundant funds, and then opening money banks, pawnshops, silk factories, cart shops, etc., to make profits in many ways, but in terms of fundamentals, it has to fall on the cultivated land.

Dai Xian rode a big green donkey, wearing an indigo blue gown and a Liuhe unified hat, although he was not young, but he was very energetic, and behind him, more than ten grange stewards followed.

Seeing Lian Zining stretching out his hand to wipe his sweat, he smiled and said, "Uncle, are you tired?" ”

It stands to reason that if you enter the Lian Mansion, you should call the master, but some of the subordinates who came over with Qinglan called the master, and some called the uncle, Lian Zining didn't care, but felt very close.

At this time, the spring ploughing is over, the crops are growing just right, they are not too busy, and Lian Zining came out at the right time.

"Not tired, not tired." Lian Zining smiled and asked, "You are so old and still busy, you are really tired." ”

Dai Xian hurriedly said: "Uncle, you said this, but the little one can't afford it, and you are busy, what's so tiring?" Even if we are tired, look at these fields, and think about the hoards of grain, we are also happy in our hearts. ”

He lowered his voice and said: "Others don't believe it, but we have seen it in Shandong with our own eyes, look at it from a small point, with our land so fertile, let alone five or six stones per acre of land, even if it is seven or eight stones, it is not impossible." ”

He has been to Shandong, so he naturally knows how much of a bumper harvest he has achieved by planting corn in Shandong, the ground in Shandong is not fat, and the yield of one mu of land is more than five stones, and Lian Zining's 500,000 mu has collected more than one million stones just for rent, let alone here.

Lian Zining naturally knew, and he smiled: "Dai Lao, I have a question to ask." ”

"Ouch, you call me that. You can just call me Lao Dai, and if you have any questions, just ask. Dai Xian hurriedly waved his hand.

"That's it, let's call it Lao Dai! Lao Dai, let me ask you, even if we have five stones per mu of land, I will collect two stones of rent at that time, which is not much, right? After receiving the grain, how do you sell it, through what channels, and how long does it take to turn it into cash? Lian Zining asked.

He really didn't know much about these things, and none of the rents he collected last year were sold, and all of them were brought here to be distributed as grain.

In my previous life, I saw too many things about cheap grain hurting farmers, and now I see that a large amount of grain is going to be brought down, and I always feel a little bottomless in my heart, for fear that it will not be able to turn into cash.

Another important reason is that he is now short of money to spend. (To be continued)

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