Why did you build such a big school in the first place, isn't it just to let more children enroll?

Yu Guozhen has done a survey, there are six small villages near Nansha Village, the large ones, such as Li Shouren's village, have more than 200 people, and the small ones are like Nansha Village, and they are all marriages with each other, and the kinship relationship is extremely complicated.

Not only do the children who go to school not have to pay money, but they also take care of three meals a day, which is already an unimaginable preferential treatment for the poor farmers in the neighborhood: this is equivalent to someone else paying for rice to help him raise his son!

And the price they have to pay is just a small laborer at home who herds cattle and mows grass - not to mention that after school, they can still herd cattle and mow grass!

Li Shouren was the first, and there will be more in the future.

"My school is for Nansha Village......" Yu Guozhen did not rush to agree.

"The little kid can be sent to his aunt's house." Li Shouren said quickly, the peasants have never lacked such little cunning.

"This is not good, after all, it is not from Nansha Village, there are three free meals in my school, there are always some bad meals, and your village is far away, and the road is not very easy to walk, you have to rush to school early in the morning to exercise, it is inconvenient for children." Yu Guozhen said again: "The road is muddy and slippery, and you fall like a mud monkey, and you parents are also distressed, right?" ”

"Villain...... When the villain went back, he asked the whole village to build the road together, scoop up sand from the river, and pave the road! Li Shouren thought for a while: "However, if this is the case, the children in the villain's village ...... Is it possible to come here? ”

"Where the road leads, you can come here!" Yu Guozhen promised. But soon, he added: "The gravel road must be passed, the dirt road cannot be completed, and there shall be no grass on both sides of the road, so as not to hide snakes and beasts to harm people." ”

The road imagined by Yu Guozhen was different from the road imagined by these villagers, Fu Bao and Li Shouren glanced at each other. They all responded with a grin. Their laughter proved that they had other plans in mind, but Yu Guozhen didn't notice it at this time.

In fact, after ten days. When Yu Guozhen saw the "road" that extended to Nansha Village, he almost didn't get happy.

This "gravel road" is indeed paved with gravel, but the width of the road is only one foot. And the so-called sand and gravel only have a very thin layer.

"Master, this road is really easy to take." Seeing Yu Guozhen's appearance, Li Shouren also stepped on the road: "Master, don't lie to you!" ”

Yu Guozhen was a little speechless, well, the villagers of the two villages spent ten days to build a one-foot-wide and half-centimeter-thick "gravel road", as long as a light rain. It will not be seen at all. Yu Guozhen wondered if they had picked up two or three loads of river sand to the road, and then used a broom to sweep the road.

"First of all, I took the child. Pack food, not like you, short catties and short two, with small steamed buns with big fingers to make up the number. Then, the road doesn't work, and you have to rework. I will ask someone to teach you how to cultivate, and if you work, if anyone does not work, or if they do not work, their children, including those of their relatives, will not be allowed to go to school. It is now October 24th, and I will repair this road before February next year, and I will only send technical guidance, and I will not send people to repair the road for you. You can tell the surrounding villages that anyone who wants to send their children to school will have to build roads! ”

The gravel road is the minimum, Yu Guozhen doesn't want to be the savior, he just wants to be a guide, so it is impossible for him to cover everything, even if he has the ability. Like a small Changhua County, there are not even 10,000 Han Chinese, and Yu Guozhen can fully afford all of them in exchange for their cooperation in construction. But Yu Guozhen knows that what others give will never be cherished, and only what is paid for labor can truly belong to him.

Although he now controls the two large granaries of Hoi An and Xinhang, of which Hoi An was developed early, with more than 800,000 mu of fertile land, and Xinhang was opened up a little later, and there are also 400,000 mu of paddy fields, plus Xinxiang, the number of peasants directly engaged in large-scale agricultural production in the three places has reached 220,000, and the yield of rice per mu is about 480 catties (four stones), and both places have two crops of rice a year, with an annual yield of more than 800 catties per mu. The twelfth year of Chongzhen is a rare good year for these two places, so the expected rice output this year is as high as 960,000 tons, that is, more than 900 million catties. Maize, potatoes and sweet potatoes are the main food crops after rice, and they have been promoted in Xinxiang, Hoi An and Xinhang. The yield of corn per mu is only more than 180 catties, that is, 90 catties, and 120,000 mu of sloping land and dry land have been sown, with a total output of 10.8 million catties. Potatoes made Yu Guozhen extremely disappointed, in his imagination should be a species of food killer, in fact, there are many restrictions, especially in the high humidity and high heat environment, the yield is not ideal, the yield per mu is only 400 catties, fortunately, potatoes can be interplanted with rice and wheat, and can fix fertilizer and live soil, which is not without a small supplement. However, the yield of sweet potatoes made Yu Guozhen very happy, and his yield per mu was as high as 1,000 catties. Potatoes and sweet potatoes combined add up to 330,000 tons. In this way, Xinxiang's total grain output in the 12th year of Chongzhen was 1.3 million tons, which was enough to feed 3.6 million people with an average annual consumption of 360 catties of grain, while the current population under Yu Guozhen was just over 1 million—plus those who gathered in Tamna to transport 20,000 catties of grain south every month.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, for Yu Guozhen, there is never too much food, so the issue of food preservation in hot flashes has been raised.

The reason why Yu Guozhen wanted Fu Bao's land was to lead him to start farming according to Xinxiang's agricultural technology, from seeds to soil and fertilizer to farming technology, all according to the Xinxiang model, so that the Fu family's fifteen acres of land should be able to receive about 150 yuan of grain a year. That's a lot more than he now only produces twenty or thirty stone of grain a year!

As long as Fu Baojia follows Xinxiang and makes a profit, then it can be extended to all neighboring villages in the coming year, and it can be extended to the entire Changhua County in three years. This was done without strong intervention by Yu Guozhen, and it has extremely important reference value for future promotion throughout the country.

In the next few days, Fu Bao began to work under the command of Xinxianglai's agricultural technician. The rest of the villagers were extremely envious when they saw Yu Guozhen's 30 stone of grain for his family's harvest in the coming year, including rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. But they couldn't be idle, and building roads became their top priority this winter. All the children in the family who want to eat free food in the school will have to work hard, and they can get a small amount of subsidies during the work and contribution, and they can also enjoy canned meat with Huwei if they do well. This is a rare occurrence, so the majority of the people are highly motivated.

Those who are not tall, Yu Guozhen does not embarrass them. It's just for people to register secretly.

Seeing that everything in Changhua was on the right track, Yu Guozhen also traveled all over Nansha Village and the surrounding villages, and every household had investigated. Yu Guozhen returned to Changhua on November 28, leaving behind a working group of 10 people, these ten people are all from Jiawei and have enough self-protection ability, and the villagers who have tasted the sweetness of Huwei are no longer hostile to them, and even the second leper at the beginning is now honest.

Changhua can not be regarded as a city at this time, but can only be regarded as a small village, after nearly five months of construction. Most of the village's low, dilapidated shacks are gone, replaced by two rows of bungalows built on the wasteland north of the village. These bungalows were used as compensation for the relocation of the original residents, and the fact that they could live in the brick houses also made the villagers very happy.

The vacated area is the ore outcrop dump under construction, and the site that has been leveled is seen. There is also a corner built and piled up with ore, Yu Guozhen is very happy in his heart. At the beginning of the industrial age, steel and coal were everything, and these iron ores would be turned into tools and weapons to create wealth and protect interests.

In Changhua, he was going to stay for only one day. Then I went back to Xinxiang and came to Nansha Village after the New Year. But just before he could leave, a clipper came into view.

This kind of flying clipper ship of about 300 tons, Longmen Shipyard has built about ten, and its biggest role is to transmit news. The ship was marked with Xinhang, proving that it was sailing from Xinhang, and Yu Guozhen frowned when he saw it: "Something happened?" ”

Rushing directly from Xinhang to Changhua, instead of taking a trip from Hoi An, proves that there is something urgent, and it is too late to even dock at Hoi An!

After a while, the ship entered the port, and at this time, Yu Guozhen had already seen Ye Wuya standing at the bow of the ship with an anxious face.

Ye Wuya has always been known for his poor relationship in the Tiger Guard, and even the expressionless Zhang Zheng is only afraid that he is slightly inferior compared to him. And Ye Wuya is aggressive, often unforgiving, although Yu Guozhen also persuaded him to be more restrained and soft, but the nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change.

But he is very safe in doing things, otherwise Yu Guozhen would not entrust him with all the affairs of Xinhang.

"Official, official!"

Still at the bow of the ship, Ye Wuya shouted, there was no majesty of more than 200,000 people under the governor of Xinhang.

Under the Xinxiang system, Hoi An has the largest population, and there are nearly 300,000 people in Hoi An because a large number of light industries have also been transferred to Hoi An; The second is Xinhang, a vast swamp and wetland, which requires a lot of labor to develop, 200,000 people are placed in Hoi An, but Ye Wuya is still shouting that there is a shortage of manpower. The second is Xinxiang, which now has a population of more than 100,000 and has been connected with the old Qin'zhou city.

"What's wrong?" Yu Guozhen asked.

"Lin Jianxue, Ding Fugui, you all come here." Ye Wuya said backwards, and without waiting for the boat to dock, he jumped onto the dock: "Official, the Spaniards are slaughtering our Chinese people in Luzon!" ”

Yu Guozhen's scalp exploded, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "When did it happen?" ”

"I started two months ago, and after receiving an order from the official last time, I sent someone to Luzon for a trip, and when I learned the news, I also brought two Chinese businessmen who escaped." Ye Wuya's face was full of anger: "It's unbearable!" ”

At this time, the ship docked, and two skinny Chinese people came ashore, and when they saw Yu Guozhen, they cried and bowed down: "Overseas outcasts Lin Jianxue, Ding Fugui, meet His Royal Highness Nanhai Bo!" ”

Yu Guozhen listened to the accents of these two, it seemed to be from the Fujian area, he motioned to Ye Wuya to help the two up, and then said softly: "What is going on, you say, I listen!" (To be continued)