In Zhou Huairen's opinion, farming is a very simple matter, there is no need to waste so much energy, especially His Royal Highness has to keep an eye on this matter personally, how can this work? Your Highness is a man who does great things.

"It's best to connect the granges in various places, find a person in charge in each place, and I will personally give them a batch of seeds, and I will also give them a batch of slaves, and try not to find outsiders in our granges, all rely on this batch of slaves to farm the land, if this batch is not enough, then go to the human market to buy people."

Li Xiang knows that it costs a lot of money to do this, not to mention that there is more land to buy, so there are more people who need to farm, you rent these lands to those who need land, and you only need to collect rent every year, although the income from finding slaves to farm is relatively large, but the money to buy slaves is not a small number.

"The grain planted by His Highness can't be known to the outside world?"

Zhou Huairen is not a fool, if he were a fool, he would not have guessed this step, seeing that Li Xiang was so cautious about this matter, he immediately understood what was going on.

"We can't be known by the outside world for the time being, and if we are known by the outside, then our plan is meaningless."

Li Xiang's seeds are exchanged in the system, and the yield per mu of land should be at least more than 2,000 catties, which may be called immortal seeds in this era.

"Then we bought nearly 300,000 acres of land, and if we used all slaves, then that number would be more."

Zhou Huairen frowned and said, now a person can take care of less than ten acres of land a year, after all, this time is done manually, without the slightest machinery, if we all go to buy slaves, then we need at least 30,000 slaves, and they must be healthy.

"Why did you buy so little land? I remember that when I left, there were already more than 100,000 acres, didn't you say that great achievements have been made? ”

Li Xiang immediately frowned when he heard this number, how could it be so little, couldn't he have done anything for a while?

"If we go back to Your Highness, the land we purchased is relatively scattered, only about 300,000 mu can be concentrated, if all the land is added up, it can be at least about 600,000 mu, but the other 300,000 mu of land is not concentrated, and we have no way to farm according to this model of Your Highness."

Hearing Zhou Huairen say this, Li Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, if your work efficiency was so useless, it is estimated that you would have been fired a long time ago.

"How about clearing wasteland?"

At this stage, there are still a lot of wastelands in the country, but no one is going to get them, as long as they are sorted out a little, these wastelands can also be turned into fertile land.

"We have sent people to the places mentioned by His Highness, and we have indeed made great achievements, and we have opened 20,000 acres at present."

Speaking of this, Zhou Huairen was more happy, Li Xiang pointed out some places in the country, but these places are currently wasteland, but Li Xiang said that as long as these places are slightly transformed, they can be turned into fertile land immediately.

In three months, there are 20,000 acres of fertile land, which is indeed a good achievement, you must know that in this era, if you want to develop wasteland, as long as these wasteland are not owned, you only need to report to the local yamen, and then pay a small part of the money, these wasteland will immediately be your own.

"This work cannot be stopped, and it will continue to operate for the next period of time."

Buying land and developing wasteland, these are Li Xiang's two ways to go, both can increase the land area for Li Xiang, spend more money to buy land, and spend more time developing wasteland, but the final effect is the same, that is, to increase the land area in Li Xiang's hands, and then increase the grain production in Li Xiang's hands, and then the major families will not be able to threaten the imperial court with food.

Under Li Xiang's dictation, Zhou Huairen finally knew what was going on with these granges, on the surface, this was a grange, but after all the construction was completed, it was like a landlord's powerful farm, and it was like a big prison, and there was no way to get out of it.

Slave owner's estate......

Zhou Huairen finally understood what was going on, there had also been a slave dynasty in this land, but it had been proven that the slave dynasty could not develop at all, why did our Highness go backwards?

"Your Highness, are we using too many slaves? For example, this huge grange in the west of Luoyang needs at least 1,500 slaves in it, you must know that they are all strong and strong, and we must have at least 300 or more warriors, so our expenses ......."

Zhou Huairen didn't continue, but Li Xiang also understood what he meant, it costs money to find someone to look at these slaves, don't look at these slaves now, after a while, they will definitely stand up and resist, and such things happen every year all over the country.

"You don't have to worry about the caretaker, I will personally send someone over, and I don't need to provide them with too much salary."

After this battle, Li Xiang has received more army rewards from the system, and at present, there are at least 100,000 troops in Li Xiang's system, and these people can be used as armed guards after they are taken out.

Although Li Xiang said so, Zhou Huairen still frowned, if there is something wrong in the middle, then our life is still not good, after the slaves run out, it will definitely affect the local security, if the local local officials impeach His Royal Highness because of this matter, then His Royal Highness's status in the imperial court ......

"I know what you're worried about, put your heart in your belly, and for the rest of the while, we'll be working these farms."

Li Xiang said very confidently, the first batch is this 300,000 mu of land, if all the grain is planted, according to the output of two seasons a year, we can produce 4,000 catties of grain in a year, all of which is 600,000 tons.

Of course, this is just an experiment, all the cultivated land in Datang is only more than 600 million mu, according to the heyday of this land, it is far worse, as long as Li Xiang can reach one-third of the national output, then he is qualified to wrestle with the major families, of course, he is also qualified to wrestle with the imperial court, and then the emperor's grandfather wants to take away our military power like this......

Hehe......