"It's really hard..." Chen Zuo said quietly.

Everyone felt the same, but no one sighed and complained, but they all felt excited and uplifted.

Chen Zuocai had already planned to take his family to Penghu County first to live. After a few months, Dongfan had a clue about everything, so he moved his family to the Nan'anxi area to settle down.

His wife and children were not very willing, but at this time he could only follow Chen Zuocai's arrangements.

Qin Dongyang, Li Yi, Fu Qian, and Kong He all planned to move their families here.

The Dongfan urgently needed a large population to enrich the place. Xu Zixian had already tried every means to immigrate to the Dongfan. Nan'an Marquis Mansion also built a separate courtyard here. Xu Zixian, Chen Wenjun, Xiuniang, Xiaomei and other direct relatives would move to the Dongfan to live.

If the lord is like this, how can the subordinates not follow?

"It will get better in the future." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "Nan'anxi and Huaxi are less than twenty miles apart. Ding Zhuang, who will move here in the future, will be used to build roads first."

"Your Majesty is a good idea." Chen Zuocai immediately agreed: "Even if there are many idle people now, I spent more than a month on building a house. Now there are many idle people in the craftsman and Ding Zhuang."

"Good." Fang Shaoqun didn't say much about such internal affairs, but he also expressed his agreement.

Before this, more than 1,000 households and nearly 5,000 refugees in Zhangzhou had been moved, as well as immigrants from many towns such as Nan'an and Gukou. After the official family was granted 10,000 households in Xuzi, the original population of Dongfan, plus the more than 10,000 people moved there were not enough. At least 20,000 people were needed to introduce population in Penghu, and plan to introduce population in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. With the killing weapon of official households, this should attract enough immigration base within the year.

There were too many moves at once, and the development level of Dongfan could not keep up. Xu Zixian did not intend to become a fat man in one bite.

Now, there are more than 30,000 people who have moved over and the original residents, of which about 6,700 strong men are.

Even women and children are mainly healthy people who can live.

This is not surprising. In the long-term displaced life of refugees, the elderly and weak in health have long been gone. Those who can survive have physical fitness and adaptability have been severely tested. There is not much discomfort for these refugees from Fuzhou and Xinghua Army to Dongfan.

The only concern is malaria disease.

More than 10,000 refugees were transferred at the end of February and early March, and they had lived in shacks or tents earlier. Due to the provision of hundreds of plowing oxen and a large number of large animals such as horses, mules, donkeys, and sufficient utensils, by early April, the expected 100,000 acres of cotton fields had been fully reclaimed.

This achievement was also expected by Xu Zixian.

More than 10,000 people are not just strong men, but also women and children. In addition, there are more than 3,000 horses, hundreds of oxen, more than 1,000 mules and donkeys, as well as a large number of agricultural equipment made of fine iron, all with forks, rakes, shovels and shovels. If you can't open 100,000 acres of land, you will be really a ghost.

The 100,000 acres of land are all around several streams. While Lin Jiusi and the three brothers of the Zhang family were building facilities, they also brought Ding Zhuang to build a water-drawing water truck. Whether it was driven by manpower or animal animals, they could basically ensure the irrigation water for more than 100,000 acres of land.

There is no need to use too much water for cotton fields. In fact, when sunshine conditions are met, it is more suitable to grow cotton in places with dry weather.

Dongfan was also a forced choice. Fortunately, as long as the technical conditions and daily care were passed, the output of cotton fields would not be less than that of Songjiang and Dongchang Prefectures today, which is enough.

If the yield is not enough, just use the total amount to pile it up, and always pile it up into the largest cotton-producing area in the Great Wei and even the entire Asia region.

This is enough.

Due to the sufficient manpower and animal power, not only did they open more than 100,000 mu of cotton fields, but also some vegetable fields, which were easy to do, and there were almost a few thousand.

Not too many, nearly two thousand immigrants, one or two acres of vegetable fields in each family, is almost the same.

The next step is to open up rice fields, which should be to burn wasteland and build fields upstream of cotton fields, and to open up large-scale land.

The future immigration on Dongfan Island is based on 100,000 yuan, and the demand for food is extremely high. If you raise another 30,000 troops, 600,000 stones of grain per year is the minimum number.

A soldier can eat at least one stone of rice a month. If meat can be guaranteed, this number can be lowered, but it cannot be lowered too much. The caloric protection of this era cannot be compared with later generations.

A soldier will have twelve stones of grain a year, not counting the expenses of meat, fish, salt and vegetables. 30,000 people will have 600,000 stones, which is almost the same.

The existing bean fields, sorghum fields and a small amount of rice fields in the Dongfan are simply insufficient to supply such a large number of immigrants and troops.

There are also a large number of military horses and horses, cattle, sheep, beans and sorghum on the island, which can be used as essence for pasture and animal husbandry. It is too far apart to be used to supplement human needs.

Xu Zixian’s plan is to have a minimum of one million mu of rice fields, which is enough within almost five years.

Adding a certain number of bean fields, sorghum fields, hemp fields, and cotton fields with a base of one million acres. If everything goes well, the utilization of the entire Tainan Plain will be almost done.

Don’t forget that you have to leave a large number of shrubs and grassland areas for horse grazing. If you put horses on it, you can’t put them in the mountains, and you can only put them on plains.

The entire Tainan Plain is so big that at least 300 square kilometers of plain area must be left for horse release. Li Yi, Kong He and others have already gone to inspect, and the location of the ranch must be quite sophisticated.

The forests should be sparse and the shrubs should not be too dense. It is best to be the places with the densest low shrubs and turf.

The essence must be fed to war horses, but the grass and trees must be dense. Li Yi and his team chose a few days to sit down, and they were basically set to the north of the upper reaches of Nan'an River and Huaxi, with a radius of hundreds of miles. They planned to set up some sentry towers and insert some wooden stakes to isolate the birth of the zodiac.

The ranch also requires at least a few thousand people, and it takes a lot of people to build sentry towers and some fences.

Fortunately, the forest is lush and no matter what you do, you are not afraid of not having any wood.

To build a ship, you need to buy timber from all over the country. There are a lot of large wood here in the Dongfan, but they are all in the deep mountains. If you want to cut it into the mountains, you have to deal with the indigenous people, which is quite difficult.

What is even more difficult is to transport the cut wood out, and the cost will increase by ten times or a hundred times.

It’s better to spend some money to buy large wood from wood merchants all over the country, or even buy wood from Nanyang and transport it back by boat. This is much cheaper than cutting wood in the mountains.

Then we have to call Ding Zhuang to build roads, repair peripheral fortifications, build various factories, brick kiln factories, wood factory, iron smelting blast furnaces, textile factories, oil pressing factories, etc.

As everyone whispered and chatted, walking through the deserted path, Xu Zixian kept thinking about these things in his mind.

These thoughts do not make him feel difficult or afraid, but rather feel quite excited.

The land everywhere is half-light and half-dark, small hills, sparse forests, shrubs, grass, the fragrance of grass and trees in the air, the sound of waves from the sea on the left hand, the fishy smell brought by the sea breeze... On this big island, everything makes people feel novel and a strange feeling. Xu Zi thought for a long time before suddenly laughed.

It is "the earth is under my feet and the national economy is in control. Who dares to speak more?"

This is too arrogant and not a good thing.

"Junhou, cotton field, I saw cotton field."

With the help of the light of the torch, after walking for more than half an hour, I finally saw a lot of cotton fields.

There were quite a lot of shrubs and weeds around, but the ditches were divided into ridges and ridges, and the cotton fields connected to the canals still appeared in front of Xu Zixian and others in the shape of a street.

The canals are crisscrossed, and the fields are almost invisible to the edges.

It was already late April, and the cotton field was almost a month old. With the light of the torch, Xu Zi jumped off his horse and observed the situation of cotton seeds on the ridge.

The cotton seedlings have already topped the tender green seedlings. On the ridges, looking around, there is a turquoise green everywhere.

Xu Zixian couldn't help feeling dizzy... Sowing seeds at the end of March or early April, harvesting cotton in early autumn, and 100,000 acres of cotton fields. It was so big at one's action, and the matter was full of uncertainty. Is this just called myself doing it?

Time is tight and the task is urgent. To be honest, Xu Zixian is also gambling and has been gambled a lot.

If things go wrong, refugees cannot open the cotton fields smoothly, and after they are opened, they do not divide the seedlings into time. The method is wrong and the seedlings are not smooth. Anyway, as long as there is a problem with one link in this chain, Xu Zixian will undoubtedly have big trouble.

Chen Dujing, the father-in-law, wouldn’t say anything, what about the rest of the tribesmen of Changwen Hou Mansion?

Complaints, dissatisfaction, or even evacuation are not impossible.

A large number of immigrants cannot cultivate cash crops and can only grow food. Wasting a year's time is a trivial matter. A large number of investments of hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan cannot wait for people. Without cotton fields, there is not enough cotton. Without cotton, hydroloons and spinning machines will have no place to use them.

If a textile base cannot be formed, a cloth business cannot be opened, and the Dongfan cannot attract more merchants and fleets.

A year is wasted, and there is no way to wait for someone with a million yuan investment.

At this moment, when the cotton fields had already emerged, Xu Zi was the first to relieve herself and whirl up.

There were immediately sounds of sounds around him, which showed that Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian, Gao Shilai and others were all breathing before this.

Li Yi had sent someone to contact Xu Zixian once before. When talking about cotton fields, he could only say that he was optimistic, after all, there has not been a large-scale emergence.

These days, Xu Zi first lost contact with the sea in Penghu. Someone came over and reported that the cotton fields were very optimistic, but he always felt more at ease when he saw it with his own eyes.

"Is it the lord in front?"

Opposite to a large cotton field, there seemed to be a vague light, and someone shouted loudly from a high place.

"It's the lord!" Gao Shilai took a step forward and answered loudly.

"Okay, it's Junhou here."
Chapter completed!