Chapter 54 Expansion! Great Development in Ping'an Town

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Wang Shouzhe's father-in-law Liu Gaowang winked at him fiercely.

Although you have a good relationship with the people in the academy, how can we, Ping'an Town, handle 40,000 people at once?

Chen Dewei from the Donggang Chen Family also looked at Wang Shouzhe with some concern. The total population of Ping'an Town today is only 40,000, right?

Fang Youan looked deeply at Wang Shouzhe, with a trace of emotion in his eyes: "Junior brother Shouzhe, I see your determination to solve the problem. But these 40,000 people are too many after all. We can also think of other ways. "

Fang Youan came here with a large-scale mission this time. As the chief inspector, if the inspection and disaster relief are not effective this time, it will also affect his development in the future. How could Wang Shouzhe not be moved by his cooperation?

"Senior Brother You'an, since there is a problem, it must be solved." Wang Shouzhe said seriously, "Our Wang family has also saved some food in the past two years. If we buy more from other places, we can barely feed the 40,000 refugees at one tael. It's okay to do it every year. It just so happens that in the past two years, our Ping'an Town needs to dredge the river and strengthen the river embankment, and there is still a lack of manpower in the area."

"Okay. Since Junior Brother Shouzhe is so determined," Fang Youan said, "I will work hard for Junior Brother and strive to exempt Ping'an Town from taxes for three years. Junior Brother can collect the full tax as usual and keep it for his own use." He can If you speak about this matter, you must have a certain degree of confidence, and it can be regarded as reciprocating a favor.

"Thank you, Senior Brother You'an." Wang Shouzhe apologized with his hand.

"What a spirit, what a courage." Lei Qiuwei of the Lei clan praised, "Since Brother Shouzhe can have such courage, my heavenly being, the Lei clan, cannot fall too far behind and recruit five thousand more people."

Other families have also expressed their willingness to accept more refugees.

Among them, the Gongsun family of Shanyang, the Liu family of Shanyin, and the Chen family of Donggang. They all received the hint in Wang Shouzhe's eyes, and finally they all gritted their teeth and accepted an additional ten thousand people.

Under the leadership of Wang Shouzhe, the originally very difficult refugee problem was easily solved.

Fang You'an's mood suddenly became very good, he raised his spirit wine and said: "In the face of disaster, our Changning Guards can be so united. You'an, on behalf of those refugees, thank you for standing up and taking responsibility."

In this way, everyone will be happy next time.

After this reception banquet.

The entire Changning Guard entered disaster relief mode.

And the Ping An Wang family, under Wang Shouzhe's decision, fully moved into the big plan.

Clan members, family generals, and outstanding backbones of the descendants.

They all threw themselves into the work.

Expand temporary refugee camps, transfer food, organize the reception of refugees, register them, and make various follow-up arrangements.

certainly.

When the refugees had settled down for a while, Wang would organize them to build embankments for those who needed to build embankments, and dredge the rivers for those who needed to dredge the rivers.

Even in the large sandbox planned by Wang Shouzhe in Ping'an Town, the future waterways will crisscross and extend in all directions, and some new rivers will need to be dug or expanded.

His plan is to gradually build the entire Ping'an Town into a granary with countless fertile fields.

As the head of the family, he naturally only needs to focus on the big ones and let go of the small ones, and make overall arrangements.

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Xingsheng Farm is one of the main foundation farms of the Wang family.

After continuous development, compared with less than 4,000 acres ten years ago. Today, the farmland of Xingsheng Farm has reached 7,000 acres, nearly doubled.

Then by this time, Xingsheng Farm had entered the bottleneck period of land reclamation and it was difficult to expand its scale at a high speed.

The reason is simple, he is surrounded by hills and mountains. The terrain suitable for irrigated production has been developed.

The rest are all highlands, which can barely be expanded into farmland. Irrigation is the biggest problem. If water resources were transported by manpower, the cost of the final output would be so high that even Wang would be unable to bear it.

Problems similar to the bottleneck period of land reclamation have spread throughout Pingan Town

After a long period of land reclamation, and Wang Shouzhe's encouragement to open up land.

Now in the entire Ping An Town.

The total amount of family land owned by the Wang family has reached more than 60,000 acres, with a total of 13 large and small farms. The remaining civilians own more than 100,000 acres of land.

The total area reaches 170,000 acres of fertile land, ranking among the top three in the entire Changningwei region.

If we want to develop again, we can only make those terrains that are relatively unsuitable for farming suitable for farming.

Pingan Town is surrounded by mountains, and the land inside is mostly hilly. Of the total area of ​​only about 4,000 square kilometers, more than 70% to 80% are hilly and mountainous areas unsuitable for farming.

Faced with so many hilly terrains in Pingan Town, the best solution Wang Shouzhe could think of was the terrace model.

In this world, agriculture has developed for a long time. The development of terraced fields in such hilly areas is not Wang Shouzhe's original creation. There are many similar records in the Academy.

But in this world, terraced fields are not mainstream, and can’t even be considered a niche.

The reason is very simple. The cost of land reclamation per acre of terraced fields is several times that of ordinary grain fields. Farming is also difficult, coupled with transportation difficulties, irrigation difficulties, etc.

As a result, the production cost per unit of output has been much higher than the purchase price of grain.

Under such circumstances, which aristocratic family would develop terraced fields?

On this day, Wang Shouzhe arrived at Xingsheng Farm.

Today, the person in charge of Xingsheng Farm is a female collateral clan member named Wang Juan. She has been very smart since she was a child. She also studied in the clan school of the Wang family's main house, and has been developing in Xingsheng Farm ever since.

Relying on her seriousness, responsibility and long-term accumulation, her performance has become more and more outstanding. From steward to principal to chief principal, she is also considered to be the best among the collateral clan members.

"Wang Juan, meet the head of the family." Wang Juan took some of the owners of the farm to welcome Wang Shouzhe's arrival.

She is only about 26 or 27 years old now, but she has a calm and capable appearance. Even Patriarch Xiaohan has always praised her.

"No courtesy." Wang Shouzhe waved his hand lightly, "I am here mainly to check out the development and technology development of the terraces. Wang Juan, please take me to see it first."

In his original plan, large-scale development of terraces would only take one or two years. However, this time the floods caused a large number of refugees to be displaced.

Therefore, it is urgent to establish terraced farms. Otherwise, we can only rely on dredging river channels and building river embankments. How can we use so many people? No matter how rich the Wang family is, they cannot afford to support too many idle people.

"Yes, head of the family." Wang Juan didn't waste any time and led Wang Shouzhe all the way to the terraced experimental field.

This large experimental terraced field was built on the northern slope of Xingsheng Farm.

The north slope faces south with plenty of sunshine and a small slope, so there is a lot of space for development.

Thousands of terraced fields have been built on the north slope. Now it is the time when the wheat is earing and grouting. Wang Shouzhe can see at a glance a green ocean, with layers upon layers, staggered with high and low, which is quite spectacular.

"To report to the head of the family." Wang Juan led Wang Shouzhe all the way to report, "This experimental terraced field is about 300 acres, and is planted with our Wang's No. 19 wheat seed. Because it is easier to control the amount of irrigation water, it is more efficient. Fine work. Therefore, the growth momentum is very good, and the quality of the wheat produced may be better."

"Terrace farming is not easy, mainly because it is not easy to develop, irrigate, and transport." Wang Juan said briefly and comprehensively, "First of all, transportation is not easy, because the terraces are high and low, and the transportation costs are very high, which often requires manpower. In this regard, according to the instructions of the family owner, I built ribbon-shaped cement roads between the terraces. In this way, we can transport by ox carts, horse carts, or rickshaws. Although the one-time investment is large, it can save long-term transportation manpower."

Wang Shouzhe took a look and saw a winding cement road winding up among the high and low terraces to the top of the terraces.

"In addition, the owner of the family requested a monorail transport vehicle for experiment, and I also built one." Wang Juan said, "There is a winch at the highest point of the terraces. The winch gear can be driven by cattle force to pull the monorail transport vehicle to the highest point. It is full. After harvesting the grain, the monorail transport vehicle can slide down under its own power. The harvest speed is faster than that of ordinary farmland."

While talking, Wang Juan also looked at Wang Shouzhe with admiration. As expected of the head of the family, there are wonderful ideas everywhere.

The monorail transport vehicle is a product that Wang Shouzhe has asked craftsmen to build and experiment with over the years. It is not suitable for flat ground, but suitable for high ground. On Earth, some mountain orchards use this.

The only problem is that the demand for iron is huge. Even just building a monorail consumes a lot of iron.

That's why.

Over the years, Ping'an Town has been purchasing large quantities of crude iron from outside, even at a premium.

Ping'an Town's demand for crude iron is too great, and iron must be used everywhere.

"What about irrigation?" Wang Shouzhe asked.

"We planted a large number of water-retaining trees in high places to maintain a certain amount of water. In addition, we also dug and repaired the water-retaining sky pool with cement. The entire terraced field can be effectively irrigated in the water-storing sky pool, and excess water will also enter The water channel flows into the river." Wang Juan said, "I also want to ask the owner of the family for instructions to use the original sunken sky channel to build a large water storage sky pool at the top of the cliff of Luoying Gorge, and build an aerial channel to connect all the terraces. Tianchi for water storage. Once there is water shortage during the dry season, we can pump the water to the top of Luoying Gorge by building a water dragon array under Luoying Gorge."

This plan?

Wang Shouzhe was also surprised by her. She seemed to be a bit generous, right? This girl seems to have a bigger brain than him.

However, this girl has always been very smart, very studious, and has a profound cultural background.

I think Wang Shouzhe had already learned this when she was helping Wang Lizi study.

It was obvious that she had worked hard in ethnic studies when she was young.

It was also at that time that he came into Wang Shouzhe's field of vision.

"Master," Wang Juan said, "I have surveyed a large amount of terrain and drawn preliminary drawings. Although the initial investment is huge, once successful, all the slopes and hills around Xingsheng Farm can be transformed into terraces, and Solving dry season irrigation problems.”

His last words convinced Wang Shouzhe: "You just need to come to me after sorting out a detailed plan and preliminary budget."

"Yes, head of the family." Wang Juan's eyes lit up and she looked very excited. She felt that she was lucky to have met a family leader who could use all her abilities.

"Let's sort out a plan for large-scale development of terraced fields." Wang Shouzhe ordered.

The biggest problem with terraced fields is the cost. If ordinary grain is grown, it can be grown until the Wang family goes bankrupt. But if you plant Wang's No. 19 wheat seed, it will still be profitable in the long run.

"It's the head of the family."

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At night, inside the estuary of the East China Sea.

A large shipping cargo ship passed through wind and waves and arrived at the mouth of the sea where the water was relatively gentle.

Inside the cabin.

Wang Zongchang sorted out the last bit of the account book, and after careful inspection, there was no problem. Then he stretched out and felt a little relaxed.

He was about to arrive at Donggang, and he had completed more than half of the mission this time. He got up and left the cabin, and went to the bow to get some air.

The moon is bright today and the sky is filled with stars.

Suddenly, an angry voice came from the cabin: "Xiao Zheng, you are crazy, you dare to touch this thing."

"Go away, anyone who stands in my way will die!" an extremely violent voice roared.

"Clang clang clang."

A series of sounds of clashing swords sounded.

"If you dare, you won't be afraid of the young master...ah~" A scream sounded.

"I want strength, I want revenge. Boss, I'm sorry!"

"I said, anyone who stands in my way will die." The voice roared.

Several Chen's boatmen rushed over instinctively.

"Bang bang bang!"

As soon as they reached the cabin door, they flew backwards and fell on the deck. Their necks were cut open and they died.

A young man covered in blood rushed out from the cabin. He was holding a steel knife in his hand and his face was ferocious. His eyes were even more ferocious and scarlet.

Without hesitation, he rushed to the side of the ship outside the deck, preparing to jump into the sea.

"Father, sister! I have gained strength!" The young man's eyes flashed red, and he shouted as if he was a little delirious, "Wait, wait! I will definitely avenge you."

This place is almost close to the port. As long as he can escape into the sea, the world is open to him.

Suddenly!

A white sword light cut through the night sky and struck at the young man.

Although the young man was in a strange state, his reaction was very fast, and he swung the knife away.

"clang!"

A heavy clang of gold and iron sounded.

The young man seemed to have hit a transparent wall, and took four or five steps back. His scarlet eyes looked at the person coming with some horror, and shouted: "Who are you? How dare you block my way."

A heroic young man in Xuanwu attire, holding a broad-bladed war sword, said with a gloomy face: "You bastard, you killed someone and you still want to run away? Hurry up and arrest him, and follow me to Donggang to collect your guilt."

This heroic young man was naturally Wang Zongchang who came to the bow of the boat to take a breather, but he didn't want to be encountered by him in this scene.

As an ally of the Donggang Chen family, naturally he would not stand idly by.

"Anyone who stands in my way will die!" The scarlet young man roared crazily and charged towards Wang Zongchang.

"How dare you resist." Wang Zongchang's face was as heavy as water, and his body swayed slightly, floating in the wind like catkins in the night.

Wang's family's secret skill "Catkin Body Technique" has been practiced to the point of perfection by him.

He flicked his wrist, and the sword flashed away. It was the pure and powerful Wang Xuanyuan Sword Technique.

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