Chapter Sixty-Eight: Rise Up!
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A little calculation can make it clear that Zhuwei Lake is not a big lake, but it has a water area of about 10,000 acres. On average, one meter of dredging is six or seven million cubic meters of silt......
The dredging boat in this world, Wang Shouzhe has seen it.
All of them are manually used with dredging rakes to dig the silt onto the ship. A dredging ship can carry about ten cubic meters of silt.
The sludge that is usually cleaned out has good organic matter, and after being mixed with other fertilizers and fermented, it is a good agricultural fertilizer, which can supplement the fertility of farmland.
After all, there was no accumulation of heavy metal pollution in the silt at the bottom of the river and lake in this era.
But the problem lies in the fact that 6 or 7 million cubic meters is 6 or 700,000 ships! If 10 dredging boats work all year round, and each ship cleans up three ships a day and fills three ships, it is almost a project of more than 20,000 days, and it will take 60 or 70 years to work all year round!
The silt shrank a lot after drying, and the swamp itself is mostly muddy, and it is estimated that at most only two or three thousand acres of fertile land can be filled. The entire project is expected to cost more than tens of thousands of dollars.
After spending a lot of manpower, material, energy, and time, it is not cost-effective to get three or four dry gold to open up one acre of land.
If the lake is cleaned up to a depth of two meters, the cost will be doubled, and the further you dig down, the more difficult it will be to clean up. Even if you go to buy fertile land, that is, two or three dry gold can buy an acre of cooked land.
However, the account is not so simple to calculate, with the dredging of a large area of Zhuwei Lake, the increase in water storage can be used to breed large fish, and even to stock spirit fish. From the long-term perspective of the family, relying on wild fishing alone is not a long-term solution, and the source of income is not stable.
If you can breed economic fish on a large scale, or even spirit fish fingerlings, this is the right way to open the family's foundation industry. The scale of the investment is huge and time-consuming, but once it is successfully built, it is a constant source of financial resources for the family.
Moreover, in order to encourage the Xuanwu family to open up wasteland, the government exempted the newly cultivated land from paying grain for the first ten years, which is a lot of savings.
Of course, with Wang Shouzhe's personality, even if he wants to do this huge project of dredging and filling the soil, it will not take him 60 or 70 years to do it. When that time comes, even the great-grandson will come out......
This plan was originally in his mind and had been brewing for a long time.
Originally, it was planned to start small-scale implementation next year, and then gradually increase the scale of the project, and strive to dig Zhuwei Lake two meters deep within ten years, fill in the swamp out of four or five thousand acres of fertile land, and gradually build the next large-scale farm of the family, that is, there are 10,000 acres of breeding waters, and thousands of acres of fertile land.
The output value of a year is absolutely not low, and the total cost should be able to control less than 30,000 dry gold.
But now, the plans have changed a bit!
Standing on the canopy boat, Wang Shouzhe carried his hands behind his back and watched the wilderness on both sides of the strait. It has a posture overlooking the territory and brewing the family's thousand-year-old foundation.
Wang Shouye sat in the cabin, his originally restless heart gradually calmed down, looking at the appearance of the fourth brother standing with his hands in his hands, he was so tall and majestic, and the emotion of worship and admiration in his heart arose.
I, Wang Shouye.
In the future, he must become a man like the fourth brother, standing up to the sky.
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The canopy boat docked at the small wharf of [Xingsheng Farm], and under the leadership of Cheng Cheng, the director of the Wang family next to the farm, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye went all the way to find Wang Xiaohan.
At this time, Wang Xiaohan was tending to the twenty acres of precious spiritual fields, carefully removing the weeds in the spiritual fields. Those weeds are pulled out as soon as they sprout, so that they do not have a chance to absorb nutrients and aura.
The same acre of spiritual field, if it is intensively cultivated, even if it produces half a percent more, it is a large resource.
Wang Shouzhe didn't bother him, but waited patiently.
This [Xingsheng Farm] is the second farm opened up by the ancestor of Zhouxuan. It has 2,000 acres of fertile land, a small livestock farm, and a small field dedicated to growing fruits and vegetables. In addition, the most important thing is that Xingsheng Farm has opened up 20 acres of spiritual fields.
The topography here is surrounded by a small branch vein in the remaining veins of Liuping Mountain, and there are many broken stones in the original land, which is not a very suitable place for reclamation in theory.
However, the ancestor of Zhou Xuan chose to open up the wasteland here, and did not hesitate to dig a canal to attract water to open a farm. It is because there is a bobo spiritual spring in the gap between the mountain streams here.
If there is a spiritual spring, it means that there is a small spiritual vein here.
As long as the spirit gathering array is built around the spiritual vein, the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein can be condensed and not dispersed, and it can be gathered and moistened in the land, and then the spiritual spring will be introduced to irrigate the land, and then the land will be fertilized with various agricultural methods, and the spiritual field suitable for planting various spiritual objects can be gradually opened up.
With its own spiritual field, it has its own spiritual rice output, and a Xuanwu family can be regarded as truly having its own foundation.
Therefore, the ancestor of Zhou Xuan named this farm [Xingsheng Farm], which means that he naturally hopes that the family will prosper.
This Wang Lingquan, as well as that small spiritual vein, can support the appearance of sixty acres of spiritual land to the greatest extent. It's just that the Wang family was relatively unfamiliar with the technology of cultivating spiritual rice back then, in order to avoid consuming spiritual veins in vain. Therefore, for the time being, only one spirit gathering array was built, and twenty acres of spiritual fields were opened.
I thought that after the Wang family's planting technology of spiritual rice was more mature, the remaining forty acres of spiritual fields would be opened up. But he didn't want to, before the plan could be implemented, the Wang family suffered a catastrophe.
After that, the family was panicked and resources were scarce.
Investing in Lingtian is also a project with a large investment and slow returns. All of them are thinking about cultivating a Lingtai Ancestor first, and then slowly saving money to open up Lingtian and accumulate family heritage.
But I don't want to, Wang Dingtian, the second uncle of the eldest son of the first family who is the object of cultivation, I don't know if it was because he experienced a huge disaster when he was five years old, which led to psychological trauma, or because the elders of the family behind him were too pressed, or he himself was too anxious, and he went mad at the age of twenty.
You must know that Wang's "Xuanyuan Jue" has always been known for its neutrality and peace, even if it is counted from the Longzuo Wang clan thousands of years ago, there are very few people who have cultivated and fallen into demons.
In addition to the family's grief, they focused on Wang Dingyue, the second son of the Wang family, and the sixth Wang Xiaohan. The elders who learned the lesson did not put too much pressure on Wang Dingyue, but cultivated them in an orderly manner.
More pressure was actually focused on Wang Xiaohan, a talented straight-blooded disciple. It's just that it was relatively late when he was allowed to take the Lingtai Road, and it wasn't until nearly twenty years ago that Wang Xiaohan swallowed the [Heavenly Spirit Pill] obtained in exchange for the secret sale of many properties by swallowing the family.
Failed promotion!
Subsequently, it was Wang Dingyue who died in the outer lands.
This matter is also strange to say, originally Wang Shouzhe thought that the family was really exhausted, and it was impossible to buy the Heavenly Spirit Pill for Wang Dingyue. But Wang Shouzhe has thought about it recently, and there is still something vaguely wrong in it.
Longyan Ancestor can sell the portable spirit treasure [Turtle Scale Treasure Shield] for him Wang Shouzhe to raise resources, why didn't he buy it for his ancestor Wang Dingyue?
In addition, after the death of the ancestor of the family, Longyan Ancestor did not even show his face, was he afraid that someone would see that something was wrong? There is a greater possibility that she made a strong move during this period.
If the ancestor did it, then who did it with? Could it be that it was not the ancestor Wang Dingyue who went to the outer land, but the ancestor who accompanied him?
If the speculation is in line with the actual situation, why did the ancestor and his ancestor Wang Dingyue go to the outer regions at such a critical moment? Is it really just the way of external propaganda, because they have to raise resources to seek opportunities?
Necessarily not.
Wang Shouzhe has reason to believe that the ancestors and clan elders have a big secret hidden from him. And that secret should be very important to the Wang family! Perhaps, the outer region also has a chance to advance to the Lingtai realm, but it is just because the ancestor Wang Dingyue failed?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it should be like this, otherwise Longyan Ancestor would inevitably choose to sell the Turtle Scale Shield and exchange it for the Heavenly Spirit Pill for his ancestor Wang Dingyue. Instead of both of them taking risks to go to the Outlands together to seek some breaking chances.
If you have the chance, see if you can pry some news out of the ancestor's mouth.
Just as Wang Shouzhe was thinking, the sixth old lady finished dealing with the weeds and walked out of the forest field, and after seeing Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye waiting outside, he couldn't help but stretch his brows and smile: "Shouzhe, why are you here?"
Although Wang Shouzhe couldn't see through his cultivation, he could feel a depression and twilight in his mental state. It is very obvious that he has not yet come out of the failure of the Lingtai Realm that cost a lot of money back then. He is only sixty-five years old, but he feels even older than the fourth old lady Wang Xiaozhi, like a real old farmer.
"Hello Grandpa Six. Wang Shouzhe gave up.
"Grandpa. Wang Shouye pounced.
"Yo, you little hairy head, why did you follow the fourth brother to see grandpa?" Wang Xiaohan picked up Wang Shouye, teased a few words, and asked the side head to take him to play.
Subsequently, Wang Xiaohan invited Wang Shouzhe to drink an ordinary cup of tea in front of the small grass house where he was in seclusion: "Shouzhe came this time, did he still persuade me to take the road of Lingtai again?"
Previously, Wang Shouzhe had sent a general to send [Pei Yuan Dan] and spirit stones, and wrote to him to explain his plans. However, Wang Xiaohan rejected the matter, saying that his ambition was old, and he only wanted to settle in front of the Lingtian and protect his life.
Wang Shouzhe didn't blame him for this salted fish mentality.
He took a sip of Fan Tea, looked around, glanced at his humble cottage, smiled and said, "No, Shouzhe just came to say goodbye to the sixth grandfather, and finally take a look at the spiritual field left by the ancestor of Zhou Xuan." After all, Shouzhe is nothing more than a dying man. ”
"What?"
Wang Xiaohan almost popped the cup, and said angrily, "Wang Shouzhe, what nonsense are you talking about?"
An astonishing aura erupted from him.
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