While listening to Xiahoulan's report, Liu An silently calculated the total number of fields that could be planted, and all of them added up to nearly 70,000 acres of cultivated land!

And this does not include the need to plant cotton, that is, if Liu An wants to plant all the seeds, he needs to prepare at least 70,000 acres of cultivated land, and 70,000 acres of manure and water for cultivating the fields.

This is an extremely large number, and it is not difficult to put a little effort into cultivating the fields.

But 70,000 acres of fields require manure and water...... It's a bit difficult.

Liu An even doubted that from now on, he would be able to keep pouring water from the endless kettle day and night to save enough water for 70,000 acres of land.

After all, it is not just necessary to water the field once, it is necessary to irrigate the crop before planting, and it needs to be watered two or three times according to the condition of the field during the growth of the crop.

However, this year's severe drought will inevitably make the loss of water in the fields even more serious, and it may take four or five irrigations to ensure that the yield will not be reduced.

Manure is even more difficult to do, and as with irrigation, if you use manure that is not as fertile as fertilizer, it is not a matter of fertilizing only once.

But even so, Liu An did not want to reduce the amount of cultivated land.

In short, plan ahead and prepare as much as possible for the field, and then decide how much land you want to cultivate when it comes to spring ploughing.

After thinking about it in his heart, Liu An instructed Xia Houlan: "Fuzheng, you arrange it as soon as possible, buy a large number of low-priced manure, how much you want, you can see how much, you can set the price, and make every effort to buy it in nearby counties, if there are farmers who are willing to sell their own manure, you can increase the price appropriately." ”

"No!" Xia Houlan replied.

"In addition, the cistern of the manor is too small, so dig another cistern next to it, and open it up after digging, and the water must be kept unstoppable, and when it is full, the cistern will be expanded. At the same time, find out if there is a large pit suitable for a reservoir in Zhuo County, dig and deal with it after finding it, and give priority to filling all the reservoirs at that time, and then rely on manual excavation after all are full. I'm going to plant all the seeds, ploughing the fields, fertilizing, needing water and fertilizer, etc., and I'm going to make sure that it's in order. ”

"No!"

Liu An then asked, "How is the livestock being raised?" ”

Xia Houlan opened another bamboo slip that recorded information related to domestic animals, and reported the breeding situation of various domestic animals to Liu An one by one in the past year.

After a year of breeding, there are now 120 adult carrier pigeons in Liu's Villa, 20 sent to Luoyang, 30 in Wuyuan, and 20 when Liu Bei left.

There are also more than 100 chickens laying eggs, war dogs have given birth to 36 cubs twice, and goats are also more than 30.

Cows, beef cattle and BMWs have also given birth to cubs.

Under the care of the master breeder, all the livestock grow up healthily.

However, because when he was in Zhuo County, Liu An received too little contribution, and the number of various animals was not large, and there was no way to compare with the Bingzhou side.

Nodding, Liu An motioned for Xia Houlan to take a seat, and opened the system to check the current cumulative contribution: 2069.

Among them, 2,000 points were kept by Liu An for the next wartime lottery plate to be used when the lottery plate was opened, and the remaining was enough to draw six animal breeding lottery plates or farming lottery plates.

Liu An was very hesitant about this, he didn't know how much manure each animal produced in a year, so he didn't know which was more cost-effective to choose which was more cost-effective, whether the farming lottery plate to obtain fertilizer or the livestock lottery plate to obtain animal manure.

Puzzled, Liu An simply looked at the people present and asked, "Do you know how many acres of manure produced by a cow in a year is enough to fertilize the field?" ”

On it together