King Xiang sent a bounty, which reminded Jiang Long that King Huai had promised 1,000 taels of gold in public when he was in Xinglin, that is, 10,000 taels of silver.

Originally, he forgot about it, and didn't want to go to the door to ask for it.

But now that King Xiang has fulfilled his promise, and he is short of money at this time, he naturally wants King Huai to fulfill his promise.

It costs a lot of money to build a large farm on a farm.

And Jiang Long didn't have the habit of reaching out to ask people for money in her previous life, so it was really unnatural for her to ask Mrs. Jing and Yao's mother for money.

Because there is no feed, the sheep and cattle here are thinner than the shijie in the previous life.

Adult sheep can produce meat on average 40 catties of mutton, the market price of mutton per catty is about 15 Wen, which refers to the ram that Tian Dazhuang has castrated, if it is ordinary mutton, the value is much lower than only about 10 Wen.

The mutton of the ewe is not fishy, but the sheep keepers are reluctant to kill the ewes to sell the meat, so that the ewes give birth to lambs, so that they will only be sold when the ewes are old, and the meat of the old sheep is not only very thick like dry firewood, chewing, and the taste is not very haode.

So the price of a pound is about ten cents.

A pound of meat is fifteen yuan, and forty pounds of meat can be produced, plus the price of sheepskin, a total of about six hundred and fifty yuan, which is the price at which it is raised and sold.

The purchase of lambs is naturally cheaper, but a two-month-old lamb is also around 150 yuan, and the ewe is much more expensive, because the ewe can give birth to lambs, and some breeds of ewes can even give birth to two litters a year, one is about 950 yuan.

A lamb and an ewe are worth one piece of silver, and a thousand taels of silver can buy a thousand lambs and a thousand ewes.

The population of the farm is more than 1,300 people, and the average person is less than two sheep.

Almost no one in the farm went to a private school to read and write, and they were all capable, and even if they went to the farmland, they could be regarded as half adults, while raising sheep and cattle only needed to graze and mow the grass, without much physical strength, so only six or seven years old could be regarded as half an adult.

Therefore, it is counted according to the head, not by each family.

The price of cattle is much more expensive.

Adult bulls have good physical strength and can pull ploughshares to plough the land, and can also pull people on ox carts to pull goods.

When you are old, you will kill the slaughtered meat, and the price of meat is about the same as the price of mutton, but beef is deboned, and mutton is generally not deboned, so it is really calculated, the price of beef is cheaper, but the cowhide of a cow alone is also expensive.

The price of one is around fifteen taels of silver.

The cow is more expensive, and although its physical strength is not as good as that of a bull, it is not much worse, and it can also give birth to calves, which cost only twenty taels of silver.

That's not a lot of a thousand taels of silver.

Of course, if you want to engage in breeding, you can't do without pigs and chickens.

However, the price of pork is the cheapest, the price is only around seven Wen, and generally ordinary people with conditions will raise a few pigs at home, and slaughter pigs for money during the New Year's Festival.

Since there are so many people raising pigs, it is natural that you can earn a lot of money by raising pigs.

The main reason is that the pigs grow faster, and the piglets caught in the spring can be slaughtered in the winter, and there is more meat, and the pigs are less likely to get sick.

Raising chickens is also more cost-effective, one is to sell meat, and the other is to sell eggs.

However, it needs to be on a certain scale.

But the shortcomings of raising chickens are obvious, that is, there are many diseases, and almost all of them die after an epidemic, which is why people dare not raise more even if they can raise them.

In addition, there are ducks and geese.

Ducks and geese are easier to raise, rarely get sick, and can lay eggs and sell them for money, the only condition is that there must be a large water field.

There are small fish, shrimp and water snails in the water farm, and ducks and geese eat them quickly and strongly, which can also increase the production of eggs.

After Jiang Long and Tian Dazhuang discussed, they first decided to raise cattle, sheep, and pigs.

Raising cattle and sheep is more experienced, as long as you have good eyesight when buying, don't mistakenly buy the sick ones back, and you will be fine.

Pigs are very solid, as long as they are fed well and don't go hungry, they will be fine.

Once agreed, it's time to get started.

The purchase of lambs, ewes, calves and cows must be handled by Tian Dazhuang himself.

It is absolutely not okay to leave it to a layman.

In this way, Tian Dazhuang was busy hitting the back of his head with his heel, and he disappeared all day long.

In addition to the purchase, the farm also has to build a cattle pen, a sheep pen and a pigsty.

Since Jianglong wants to go to Dali, he naturally puts the cattle, sheep and pigs into a centralized breeding, which is convenient and efficient, and does not let the tenant farmers share some and raise them at home.

The two ends had to be carried out at the same time, and the manpower was not enough, so Tian Dazhuang recommended the more flexible people in the two farms to Jiang Long.

One is called Zheng Zhi and the other is Yang Qiang.

The two lived in the farm, and they were not afraid of Hu Guan before, but the relationship between them and Hu Guan was not as stiff as between Tian Dazhuang and Hu Guan.

After Jiang Long met with the two, he found that the two were treacherous and not enough to reuse.

Even when the two of them rolled their eyes, he could see that these two wanted to see their own good show.

Obviously, he felt that he had a lot of money to fool around, and when the time came, he would not be able to raise cattle, pigs and sheep, and he would lose money.

Although Jiang Long doesn't like the two, most of the tenant farmers in the farm are honest and simple, just like puppets, what you ask them to do, they do what they do, even if Jiang Long has eight heads and eight mouths, he can't be called by the commander.

So I can only use two people first.

The two of them still have the ability, choose the site to build the sheep, cattle and pigsty, contact to buy green bricks, and then find a bricklayer and mason, a series of things Jiang Long just said roughly the requirements, so there is no need to worry about it.

But even so, Jiang Long was in a hurry for three days before he was idle.

There is no way, some things involve more silver taels, Tian Dazhuang, Zheng Zhi and Yang Qiang have never dealt with Jiang Long, and they dare not make decisions without permission, they always have to report first and then implement them.

However, after three days of contact, I found that Jiang Long was very angry, his hand was open, and he was not angry, that is, he no longer always ran to his small courtyard.

Lin Ya was also a little busy, because Jiang Long handed over all the money to her to manage.

It's like an accountant in a company in a previous life.

If the three of them want to come to get the silver, she has to ask clearly, keep the accounts, and when the things are bought, she will personally take someone to check and verify.

At noon on this day, the weather was fine, Jiang Long practiced boxing, brought the jade hairpin vase, and a few personal guards out of the courtyard, and came to the edge of the farmland for the first time.

As the weather warmed, the rest of the tenant farmers, with the exception of those who helped build the cattle, sheep and pigsties, toiled in the fields.

It's time to sow seeds, so let's plow the land first.

However, Jiang Long frowned when he saw the tenant farmers pulling the ploughshares with manpower to plough the land.

In the previous life, it was almost all mechanized, and there were not many people who used cattle to plow the land.

In addition to the fact that manpower cultivated land is very hard, the liliang of people is small, and it is not possible to cultivate deeply.

Just plough a very shallow layer of soil.

It's too deep, and people just can't pull it.

In the process of deep ploughing, you can turn over the soil, loosen the soil, mix the soil, break the soil, improve the soil structure, increase the bottom moisture of the soil, loosen the lower layer of the soil, and move the water part of the soil downward, thereby increasing the water content of the soil.

Deeply ploughing an inch of soil, and enduring ten days of drought is the truth.

In addition, deep tillage can increase the air permeability of the soil, thereby increasing the effective components in the soil.

Third, it is conducive to the elimination of weeds, diseases and pests.

Fourth, promote the root development of food crops.

Fifth, deep fertilization can be done, which is conducive to gradually maturing the underlying soil and increasing the absorption range of the root system.

The concentration of so many benefits will naturally increase the yield of food crops.

Jiang Long led a group of people to the edge of the field, and saw an old tenant farmer with gray hair sitting not far away smoking a dry tobacco stick, so he walked over.

Seeing Jiang Long and his party from a distance, the old tenant farmer quickly stood up, looking restrained and nervous.

"Don't be nervous."

Jiang Long waved his hand lightly and said with a smile: "I'm just asking about something." ”

The old tenant farmer was dressed in linen clothes, which were covered with patches, and his expression was slightly soothed when he heard this, and he replied respectfully: "Little young master, if the old slave knows, he will not dare to hide it." ”

"What kind of food crops do we usually grow on our farms......"

With Jiang Long's inquiry, he learned that this age is similar to the ancient times of China.

Food crops include wheat, corn, rice, sorghum, buckwheat, and various legumes.

Among them, rice is generally only sown in the south, and there are few farmlands suitable for rice cultivation in the north.

After Jiang Long's detailed questioning, he found that Daqi did not seem to have sown corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes.

You must know that corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are absolutely high-yield food crops.

If seeds can be found, at least the tenant farmers on the farms will not have to go hungry.

Looking at the old tenant farmer's shabby linen clothes, Jiang Long could hardly imagine how such an old man could survive the cold winter.

The linen cloth is poorly insulated, and it is also breathable, and when you walk outside in winter, as long as the wind blows slightly, it is like not wearing clothes, and the wind can blow directly on the body.

This year, we must make all the tenant farmers rich, no longer hungry, and able to wear cotton clothes.

Jiang Long said secretly in his heart.

When Jiang Long asked about the yield, he suddenly understood why the tenant farmers were so poor when there was so much farmland in Weishenme Farm.

The average yield of wheat per mu is only about 250 catties.

This is still good land.

Jida can reach 200 catties.

Needless to say, Sha Tin is that no one dares to use Sha Tin to grow wheat except for the layman who does not listen to persuasion.

The average yield per mu of sorghum is higher, but it is far less than modern, generally every family in the farm will plant some sorghum in the secondary field, and the wheat planted in the fertile field is sold for some money after the autumn harvest, and they just eat sorghum rice.

Sorghum rice is bitter and astringent, and Jianglong will never be able to eat it.

After the spring ploughing, it is time to sow the seeds immediately.

Jiang Long's questioning at this time was an urgent thing to remember.

It's too late to ask where to find corn and potatoes and sweet potato seeds.

He came up with the idea of making Tujia fertilizer.

In the previous life, the yield of weishenme grain would have been so high?

Isn't the main reason just that the fertilizer is good?

However, fertilizer is a bit too cumbersome and difficult to make.

Therefore, Jianglong can only choose to make Tujia fertilizer.

Although Tujia fertilizer is not as good as chemical fertilizer, it also plays a great role in increasing grain production.

It can also improve the soil quality, if it is insisted on for many years, the yield per mu will not be worse than that of modern chemical fertilizers after several decades.

This matter is more urgent, now there are only a few days before sowing, and in addition to finding enough raw materials to make Tujia fertilizer, it still has to ferment for a few days.

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