kingnovel Chapter 819: Move home here?
Chapter 819: Move home here?
Zhou Guo laughed, "I am just a civilian, you are an official, how can I not let you go if it is my turn?"
She took him to look around the fields for about half an hour, then left with the people from the yamen. She was eager to see the remaining land and see how to make changes.
By the time Li and his men came over and were about to pay their respects to the magistrate of Song County, everyone had left.
Li asked, "What is the county magistrate doing here? Are you familiar with him?"
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Mom, have you forgotten that I sent crabs to him? How can I act on his territory without dealing with him? If I don't go to his house, he might think I look down on him and make trouble for me later. It's not worth it."
Zhou Su's eyes sparkled. "Sister, if we put them in a row like this, can we really turn this large area of white hair into fertile farmland?"
Everyone looked at her. Land was a big deal for farmers like them. It was the livelihood of the whole family. Even if the sky fell, they could not ignore the work on the fields. Owning their own land, a lot of land, was the dream of every farmer who worked on the land.
Zhou Guo said: "If nothing unexpected happens, this is the case. In two years, these fields will be able to grow food."
When everyone heard this, they became excited. Originally, the family only had about 30 acres of land, and now they were suddenly told that these lands were all fertile farms of the family. It felt so unreal for a moment.
Zhou Gu sighed, "If my grandparents were still alive, I don't know how happy they would be. All they wanted in their lives was to buy a few more acres of land for the family."
This was the case when the family was well off, but later on, as their circumstances gradually declined, he would often secretly hear them sighing and lamenting that the family still had too little land.
Li said, "I'll burn paper for them when I get back and tell them about this great thing."
Zhou Guo said: "No hurry, wait until the plots of land in other counties are completed."
Besides, she still has so much land, and there are more and more people there. I think the water conservancy should be repaired this summer and autumn, and put into use next year, and the seeds can be harvested on it the year after.
The Li family hasn’t seen the other pieces of land yet and wants to know how big they are.
Zhou Guo said: "That's easy. I'll take you to see them when the land is finished."
Those lands have not been completed yet. After the irrigation and drainage of this land begins, follow-up measures must also be followed up.
Sprinkle a thick layer of straw on the ground and plow deep into the soil.
Apply a thick layer of organic fertilizer.
Choose salt-tolerant forage grass to plant.
She had already prepared the grass seeds before this. Alfalfa, Suaeda salsa, Salicornia herbacea and other grasses are all salt-tolerant and alkali-tolerant. She scattered them on the land and waited for a month before turning them deeply into the soil.
When the time comes, plant another crop, harvest a part, and turn the rest into the ground to fertilize the soil.
Of course, these are all for later.
After Song County was completed, the family stayed in Song County for a day.
After dinner, the Li family members had nothing to do so they wandered around the land, looking at the pond, the ditch, and the water. They actually liked it even more than Cangshan Village.
Zhou Guo said: "How about we move our family here?"
The whole family shook their heads, "How can that be possible? Even though we have a lot of land here, Cangshan Village is our home!"
"Our land, mountains, and relatives are all over there. How can we move to Song County? Although Song County has a lot of land, there is nothing now. And do we not want our family there anymore?"
Neither of them agree.
She smiled and said, "I saw you guys liked it so much, I thought you didn't want to go back."
She really liked him, especially Li. She had earned thousands of taels of silver but had never been so happy. After dinner, she would stay in the fields, the experimental fields, and the newly irrigated saline-alkali land, with a smile on her face all the time.
It seems that no matter how much money you make, it is not as real as land and does not give you a sense of security.
Li said, "After all, our food and clothing all come from the land. No matter how much money we earn, it's all empty. Without food, we can't eat our fill with silver. So land and food are better than silver."
Those who have fled have special experience in these matters. When the time comes, food will be more precious than silver!
Zhou Guo smiled, "We don't lack food at home. Not to mention what we harvested last year, didn't the elders in the village say that this year should be a bumper year? The weather was dry in the past two years, but this year the weather is good and the harvest is much better than last year!"
Zhou Mi said: "Even if the weather is good this year, the harvest will belong to other people. Everyone has so much land. Can we have a few more acres of land this year than last year? Isn't it the same as last year? We still have to buy the same amount of fertilizer."
Zhou Guo said: "Even if the fertilizer is the same as last year, everyone has more surplus grain and will sell it. Don't forget that I am still a grain merchant. I own dozens of grain shops of all sizes. I sell a lot of grain every year. In addition to selling our own grain, I also have to go to the countryside to collect grain."
In fact, no one except Zhou Guo knew how much food there was at home.
There are so many shops in the house, and I thought that all the harvested grain must have been sold.
The only things left are those stored in the caves of Cangshan Village and those in the warehouse.
When everyone heard her say this, they just nodded, and no one asked why they had to go out to buy grain when the family harvested so much grain every year.
I guess it’s because business is good and they’re all sold out.
The next day, Li and others went back, some went to school, and some made fertilizer.
It is the spring plowing season now, which is the busiest time of the year. They can spare one day, which is already very crowded, and they cannot spare another day.
Zhou Guo stayed alone in Song County.
Now there is no one in Song County, and Erpang has been sent out. In addition to managing the fertilizers in more than a dozen counties around Song County, she also has to manage this land.
She has so many saline-alkali lands under her control, and this is the first one to have water. As for how to deal with it later, she has to lead her subordinates step by step and guide them hand in hand.
In this way, once this piece of land is cultivated, she won't have to keep an eye on the other pieces of land one by one.
Song County now has the largest number of people and livestock, and she has rented fleets from several nearby counties.
The caravans came and went every day, some collecting ashes, some raking up dead branches and leaves, some transporting fertilizer. The road around the village was trampled out by the traffic, and it was wide enough for four ox carts to run side by side.
There are also many people who make compost.
In addition, after the land was washed, she had people spread a thick layer of hay on it and then plowed it deeply.
She led Old Man Zhang and his son to raise seedlings, apply fertilizer, and plow the soil to prepare the fields.
This year's experimental field has been expanded to ten acres. Although the harvested rice is not enough to plant next year's land, she did not expect that this could be accomplished in one year. This year she will cultivate the land and plant the first crop next year. At the very least, it will take until the year after next for the rice to take deep roots in this land.
Old man Zhang and his son were very confident and said, "Boss, these acres of land will have a good harvest this year. We may be able to get up to three shi per acre."