The cotton fields have been opened to about 150,000 mu, mainly because the number of large animals is sufficient.

The cows have been bought to the extreme, and the water trucks on the entire Fujian Road will not exceed 10,000. These days, there are few and precious cows and are rare. This is evident from the government’s regulations that the government prohibits killing healthy cows and prohibits eating beef.

Pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks are eaten at will, and horses are also OK, but horses are expensive and no one eats them. Mules and donkeys are raised to eat them.

There is only cow, no matter what its purpose is, it is impossible to kill and eat meat.

Only when a cow dies of old age or illness can it be peeled and killed. It is a tooth sacrifice for those who want to eat beef. This meat is of course quite expensive.

In Water Margin, there are records of eating beef everywhere, which is intentional. The heroes of the world deliberately violate the ban from the government. In real life, it is a situation that does not exist.

There are many cows, including Fu Er, Ling Yi, Ling Er and other repaired ships. They went to Zhejiang and Jiangling to buy them. The distance was long. The cows were not used to the sea. They got off the boat and died on the island. It was too unprofitable.

Fortunately, I bought a lot of horses, with more than 6,000 mules and horses, and two horses or double mules are well set up. It is very easy to plow dozens of acres of land a day.

During the Han Dynasty, China had vast land, few paddy fields, and many dry crops, so horse farming was still the mainstream. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the scope of rice fields was greatly expanded, and ox farming became the mainstream, and horse farming was almost eliminated.

In Europe, because of its vast land and sparse population, high per capita share of land, and the growing of dryland crops such as wheat and oats, it always uses horse farming.

In addition, China has a large population. Once the dynasty is established and the world is peaceful, land annexation will soon be quite serious. The per capita land is insufficient, and the consumption of raising horses is much greater than that of cattle. Although the efficiency of horse farming is four times that of cattle, how can there be so much land for horses to plow?

There is also technological innovation and progress, heavy horseshoe and new iron yoke pulling have enabled horses to cultivate land to achieve higher efficiency.

There are also considerable reasons for the differences in horse breeds.

European horses do not last long and have poor tolerance, but European horses have strong advantages in farming. They are tall, heavy, and have strong explosive power. Compared with China, they are low and have strong endurance and can run for long distances, but the impact and explosive power of Mongolian horses are much stronger.

Even though there were many inconveniences, Xu Zixian still made up his mind to Ma Geng.

Judging from the results, the effect of horse plowing is indeed much faster and much stronger than that of ox plowing.

Since there are no tall horses, we should cultivate with two horses, which is as efficient as the speed. Two horses and one yoke, a yoke made of fine iron, and heavy hoofs, the horses fly like waves in the wasteland, and often can produce dozens of acres of land in a day.

From February to April, more than 100,000 mu of cotton fields were opened in two months, and all of them emerged. This achievement made Changwen Hou Mansion quite satisfied. In the end, people understood the reason why Xu Zixian bought a large number of cows, but insisted on buying more mules and horses.

The yoke was tested by Fu Qian in Nan'an, and it was tested. How could Xu Zixian do something unsure?

The next plan is to open more acres of land, at least 200,000 to 300,000 mu of rice fields and dry land.

Deep cultivation, meticulous production, sufficient water conservancy, mud is produced through the pond, and manure is accumulated...

The climate in Dongfan is quite superior. As long as the management is in place and all measures are done well, with Fu Qian's agricultural level, he dares to guarantee that he will receive at least three stones on average.

This is quite remarkable.

There are no two stones left and right in Fujian.

On average, there are three stones in Jinghu, and the natural conditions there are more favorable. After the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, Jinghu North Road and South Road began to develop. A hundred years later, the two lakes became large granaries, and the grain output exceeded Jiangnan West Road and Liangzhe Road, and also exceeded Jiangnan East Road.

In northern Shaanxi and northern Shanxi, soil erosion is severe. Not to mention the yield per mu of two stones, three stones, or even higher, one mu of land can have an average yield per mu of one stone. Even if there is a burning of high incense, the ancestors will have spirits.

Dongfan has abundant natural conditions and is a good place to farm.

Xu Zixian’s plan is to open up the land within one or two years.

"When seeking unity through struggle, unity will exist; when seeking unity through compromise, unity will perish." Fang Shaoqun said with a smile: "This is what Junhou said, and I think it makes sense."

"Fengqi means a fight?"

"Well, use the invading tribe as an example," Fang Shaoqun made a slashing hand gesture, his eyes were already cold: "Use a group of heads to warn those born."

"The Wei Dynasty did this before." Li Yi sighed a little. After all, from the perspective of the scholar-officials, he should influence people from afar with kindness, but the history of more than 200 years is not fake. The natives only fear power but do not have virtue. They don't give sweet dates first, for fear that they will become more aggressive.

"Leave this matter to Zhang Huchen." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I'll go and see the cavalry later... I'll use guards to guard the periphery, the bow and arrow club, and the arrow club continue to burn the wasteland deep, which aroused dissatisfaction in the natives. The cavalry battalion was scattered on patrols. Once there was a warning, I would be dispatched immediately and kill me a few times. Next, I can talk to the natives."

"What do you plan to talk about?"

"One of the things the natives ask for is peace of mind. We do have some of them who have violated their borders, but we must let them understand that their borders are decided by us, not themselves." Xu Zixian said slowly: "What I give them, they can ask for, and if I don't give them what they want, they won't get them. The other is to get food and clothing. The land we have opened up is large and the prey we have scared away is to lose them. I am thinking that we can give them some help in the economy, so that they will live a better life, and they will be less afraid of hatred. The richer they are, the more afraid of something happening."

"Is this a solution?" Li Yi thought for a while and said, "Can't you give them some food for free? There is still a lot of food stored on our island."

Li Yi added another sentence and said with a smile: "If you can buy peace with food, I believe Kong Xuanping will be happy."

"It cannot be given for nothing." Xu Zixian said coldly: "In history, Chinese emperors and ministers have had an illusion that in order to show China's material resources, they either give them for free, or give half and half, and use this method to attract people to pay tribute or negotiate peace. What's the use? After a thousand years, it has proved uselessness over and over again. We should neither be too narrow-minded, and we should not say anything that is not my race, and we should kill all the foreign races. We should not be too naive, thinking that giving them money and food can make them truly support us, and we will be pleased and surrender to us from now on. We will give for nothing sooner or later, and we will have a day of insatiable desires sooner or later. Fair trade, losses and gains, so that we can only

For a long time, as long as one of the parties feels that they have suffered a loss or take advantage of it, this will not be good. We will exchange grain, medicinal materials, copper coins for their sand gold and deer skin. Before, there were merchants who came, and the trade volume was too small. We purchased them on a large scale, and the grain could be given to them at the cost price. This is even the greatest preferential treatment. After all, we will make them suffer a loss when we open up land. In this way, it will not benefit one or two tribes, but they will obtain food steadily and become rich. When they are rich, they will not want to cause trouble, but want to live a good life. In addition, they can attract a large number of native Dingkou to the Nan'an Hou Mansion to do things.

A large number of factories, commercial banks, shipyards, and fleets all require a large number of Dingkou. Xu Zixian plans to use a small number of people and a large number of pastoral livestock to farm, which can save land fertility and release more people to industry and commerce.

The sheep in Britain eat people means giving the land to a small number of hired workers. A large number of hired farmers lose their jobs and land and can only squeeze into the city to find opportunities.

This gave factories a large number of low-wage industrial workers. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first industrial revolution occurred in the UK, and the entire country underwent earth-shaking changes. Industrial industries took shape, cities appeared in large numbers, foreign trade flourished, and trade developed, and industry and commerce became more prosperous, and the more workers were employed. Although in the early stages of industrialization, workers' wages were low and they had been struggling on the line of food and clothing, the longer the time, the higher the trade profits, and the workers' welfare and wages gradually increased.

There is also a game between the working class and the capital class, which is also full of blood and tears.

Xu Zixian would not exploit agriculture too much in the early days, making him a low-paying and hard-working industrial worker.

To develop, it is also to be balanced.

"What the Lord said is very much." Li Yi had no objection to his current decision. It was okay to buy redemption or strong elasticity. The important thing was that it could not lead to a large number of deaths and injuries of immigrants, nor could it affect the land reclamation, otherwise it would be very unfavorable to the overall situation.

"Mr. Li should think more about epidemic prevention." Xu Zixian said seriously: "There have been more than 100 people in recent times. Once the dose is found to have high fever, they will be isolated immediately. There are also pills and powders, and they must be distributed for free..."

Speaking of this, Xu Zi sighed first and said, "How come there is no capable doctor!"

There is no way to complain about this. We cannot say that Changwen Hou’s Mansion is not attentive, or Xu Zi is not attentive.

The doctors in Fujian, who are a little famous and far away from home, have almost all been collected on the island.

Various pills and powders to fight malaria and epidemics are purchased in large quantities no matter how expensive it is.

In order to fight the plague, it is also the number one enemy on Dongfan Island now. I don’t know how much money the Nan'an Marquis Mansion has spent. Kong He was extremely difficult to see when approving the budget, but there was no way. The amount of money he should be paid for cannot be lost.

If you have a small amount of money, you may lose your life. This loss will not be lost to the Marquis of Nan'an Mansion.

Fang Shaoqun suddenly said, "Does Junhou lack money now?"

Xu Zi calculated first and smiled and said, "Immigration, development, factory construction, business development, epidemic prevention, which one is worthless? There is also the cost of repairing ships and building ships. The Dongfan has no serious investment yet, and the total amount is less than 20,000 guan per month. Penghu is purely investing money, and the imperial court has tax officials Changping transfers in Penghu. Wei Yanke cannot give me the money from the warehouse in Penghu. Nan'an, it is now the peak season. Group training donations plus warehouses and other miscellaneous items, earning 90,000 guan per month. In these months, it is probably about this number..."

Fang Shaoqun smiled and said, "June only talks about how many there are now... I know that in three months, it will be almost time for the Dongfan to make money."

How much money and supplies are left, it should be the first secret in the Dongfan. Except for Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, the only one who knows should be Kong Xuanping.

Li Yi looked calm and he had no intention of quitting. If Fang Shaoqun knew about it and Xu Zixian would hide it from him, Zuo Fu from the Secretary-General, then this official could be resigned and stopped.

"Okay, Feng Qi is really aggressive..." Xu Zixian smiled bitterly and said, "Shang Yu's goods worth 300,000 yuan are being sold in the official commercial bank. This is also a means to attract merchant ships. There are still 600,000 yuan in cash, which is almost the same for our family."

“How much does it cost per month?”

"There are fewer immigrants recently. The new camp soldiers have recruited six battalions and the third battalion. Well, it will take about 250,000 to 300,000 yuan a month."

This overhead is not small.

There are tens of millions of people on Fujian Road, the imperial guards plus the wing army more than 100,000. The monthly expenses are estimated to be 500,000 to 600,000 yuan. In Dongfan, an isolated island, the expenses have reached half of Fujian Road. This number is quite amazing.

It is not surprising to think about it. Although Changwen Hou Mansion helped to buy a large number of cattle, horses and farm tools, and also helped to build a large number of houses, even the other courtyards were built by Changwen Hou Mansion.

But Xu Zixian's determination was determined, and the level of development of the Dongfan was far beyond that in front of him.

Keep hiring workers to open up land, keep buying cattle and horses, keep creating and buying farm tools... don't spend money?

There is also a bigger head of raising soldiers, preparing weapons, war horses, and warships. This is even more important for spending money. Now we are trying to save as much as possible. For example, if we want to increase the salary for all soldiers in the palace, this matter has not been decided yet.

Nearly 10,000 officials were added to the government, and each person had to spend more than 10,000 guan a month, which was more than 100,000 guan a year. It was easy to increase the money, but it was difficult to reduce the salary.

Be careful!

In addition, there are endless immigrants and houses need to be built continuously, which is actually settlements one by one.

Many people criticized this matter.

Why did the Hou Mansion build houses for immigrants? When they came here, it was natural to help them with agricultural tools and animal seeds. They should not let others immigrate and open up the land without any help.

But why do you need to build a house?

Can't you live in a shack or can't you build a tent?

Just open up land and farm, save money slowly, and then slowly build houses. There is no need for the Marquis’ Mansion to take on this matter.

But Xu Zixian decided to help the government officials build houses. Although it was not free, they had to pay them off gradually in three years, and even extend them to five years.

This is a loss-making deal in the Hou Mansion, but for Xu Zixian, who is interested in developing, this deal is not a loss.

If it weren't for these good conditions, why would it attract more and more immigrants?
Chapter completed!