Chapter 31: The Summer Resort

The land of 2ooo hectares is 2o square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of Nauru, the third smallest country in the world (21 square kilometers) if compared with the earth in the 21st century, but in the world's major 6 hectares, 2ooo hectares of mountains and forests are just a glance at the height of a helicopter at a height of kilometers.

Liu Jiajian's summer resort lives up to its name, and the sailing dock is extremely luxurious, with teak floors that are usually reluctant to be used on the decks of cargo ships, from the water's edge all the way to the dam. The strips of bluestone have smoothed the surface, and the rice pulp is built like the breast wall of the city. The stone-paved freight road can accommodate four two-wheeled carriages in parallel, which is more extravagant than the public road built in the city of Shaonan.

The so-called 41 rooms are even larger enough for a family of camels to vacation, and there are three rows of small terraced houses hidden on the other side of the bamboo forest, all of which are intended for the use of accompanying servants - these houses are not even counted in the property.

The 7 Hanoi boats docked between the docks, 6 of which are a layer of dhow sails and sails, can take 20 people up and down, the appearance is ordinary, and the Xiding that was specially introduced is a big guy, two masts and three layers sound like nothing, in fact, there are 100 meters in length, do not look at the structure, and can be completely unimpeded in the offshore water.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't know the price of the ships of the Great Xia Dynasty, but seeing the handmade zuò wooden boats that were bigger than the house, he knew with his knees that it was definitely more expensive than the house.

Coupled with the big trees that grow freely in the mountains and forests, Liu Bin's generous gift is not shabby if it can be regarded as a dowry, and Cheng Jinzhou is completely in doubt.

Yang Ming's body is not as fragile as it seems, and after a simple introduction to Cheng Jinzhou, he sat on the dock with great interest and caught a fish, that is, there is a similar thing on this kind of private holiday dock, and when it is placed elsewhere, the crowds and boats that come and go have long been driven out of the fish a few kilometers away.

The housekeeper of the villa is also surnamed Liu, and he accompanied Cheng Jinzhou with 120,000 careful introductions to the things in the villa. In the tradition of the Great Xia Dynasty, all major clans like to use people from their own clans, it doesn't matter if their ability is poor, loyalty comes first.

This is a society that struggles without a family, and it is much more difficult to turn one's back on one's relatives than to turn one's back on appreciation.

Liu Zhuo's biggest worry is that the new master will expel him without saying a word, and even now, he is cautious, for fear that something will go wrong.

There are very few households, and occasionally they meet them on the road, and when they see people wearing silk and satin, they all kneel down and salute.

The land and woodland in the Zhuangzi are all so big that after walking not far, Cheng Jinzhou began to get impatient, stood on the horse and looked into the distance, and asked: "Go to the barn and have a look." ”

Steward Liu had a dense layer of small beads of sweat on the back of his neck, and said in a humming voice: "The barn in Zhuangzi only has a few dozen stones of grain. ”

"So little?" Cheng Jinzhou paused, although the land is small, there are 2oo acres, and it is said that it can also beat hundreds of stones of grain. All he wanted was to get some extra money to go back.

"The rules in the villa are that new grain must be sent to all prefectures, taste it fresh, and ask for good luck." Steward Liu paid more attention to what he said.

Cheng Jinzhou said with annoyance: "There is still this rule? ”

"Yes." Steward Liu had already bent it into dried shrimp and said: "Every year when the new rice comes down, all the prefectures have to deliver it, as little as one or two stones, and as many as ten stones, you may have eaten small fragrant rice planted by Xiding before." ”

"That's it?" Cheng Jinzhou asked unwillingly.

"Yes. Xiding's small fragrant rice is still a little famous, and many people in Shaonan like it very much, and sometimes they will make people come to ask for it. Steward Liu's words were full of pride.

The summer resort of the aristocratic family, planting things is not for money at all, they are all thinking about making distinctive things, either as gifts or to show off, which is naturally different from Cheng Jinzhou's fantasy.

Dozens of stones of grain is enough for Zhuangzi's own use, Cheng Jinzhou dispelled the idea of getting some food and leaving, patted his head and said, "Let's go to the field and have a look." ”

Steward Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and took the lead without saying a word, but the two helpers around him looked at the "chasing wind" behind Cheng Jinzhou with a strange face, and the "high-headed horses" that were taller than people were actually rare, let alone the shiny jujube red horses that were brushed all over the body.

Such a thoroughbred horse is not suitable for farmland.

In fact, Cheng Jinzhou did not have the idea of going to farmland.

He just compared the structure of the farm and confirmed it with the content of "On Agriculture".

Varro's depiction of a Greek farm with a predominantly Mediterranean climate and a predominantly cash crop cultivation – similar to the aristocrats of the Bactrian Dynasty, the Greek aristocracy preferred to grow grapes and olive trees for oil than to grow grain.

However, the most useful aspect of "On Agriculture" for Cheng Jinzhou was how to build a large private farm in the style of a plantation.

The Bactrian Dynasty was still in a productive environment of yeoman farmers and tenants, and the aristocracy owned estates, used tenants, and received most of the production, which was originally a better mode of production than farm slavery. However, in terms of cooperative production, especially unified planning, there is no experience in the Shaonan area, which has a large river network.

Compared with the manors of tens of thousands of hectares of land in the Greco-Roman era, the nobles of Shaonan are small and ordinary, and most importantly, the nobles with knowledge have never participated in the organization of production.

A few minutes of running on a country lane leads to a series of farmland, backed by ridges, down gentle slopes down the river valley and up and down.

2oo acres of green land can give people a shock.

Cheng Jinzhou bent down to look at the wheat on the edge of the field and asked, "This river valley looks like it can still be cultivated, and the mountain is also there, why is it empty?" ”

"The river valley occupies too much water, and the slopes on the mountain have little land, and there is no manpower to open it." Steward Liu replied, somewhat disappreciative in his heart, this is a summer resort, not a grain-producing Zhuangzi, there are many households that are difficult to control, and it has lost the value of summer play.

The Liu family is far away in Hexi, so naturally they will not be interested in such a Zhuangzi.

Cheng Jinzhou suddenly had some hope, and after a little thought, he pointed to the nearby col and said, "A livestock shed should be built here." Cattle and chickens and ducks are mixed. ”

"Yes." Steward Liu didn't know why, but he could only agree.

"The farm should be divided into 4 parts......"

"Tall trees should be planted on both sides to prevent rocks from slipping ......

"Strong labor should be united......"

Cheng Jinzhou was comparing there, and the housekeeper agreed while breaking out in a cold sweat.

The summer resort was originally a place for Liu Bin to relax and relax, including the land, and naturally it also served for this purpose. Liu Bin didn't let Cheng Jinzhou sell it, just worried that he would have money to spend indiscriminately, but in fact, from the moment he sent it out, it was impossible for him to interfere with anything.

Even if Cheng Jinzhou relies purely on imagination, he wants to make drastic reforms with his bare hands.

Steward Liu's curiosity was too great as a child of a noble family, so he first agreed one by one.

When Cheng Jinzhou talked about the rise, he fantasized first. Grain is a hard currency, if you have money, you can buy grain and only save it in small batches, once it involves thousands of tons and tons, after all, you have to do it yourself, this piece of heaven and earth, is the first experimental field.

The Grain King of the Great Xia Dynasty. Cheng Jinzhou immediately began to praise himself.

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