Xu Zixian said: "What's important is that water trucks are all formed, the channels are excavated, and the fields are irrigated with water."

Fu Qian looked proud of his face. Not far away, there was a huge water truck, which was as high as seven or eight feet tall. You can see it a few miles away. It was made of elm as the beam, and then rotated with bearings and water buckets to divert water into the ditches. Such a water truck turned around day and night with the help of water flow and high slopes, without the need for manpower and animal power to transport it, and constantly introduced the river water into the main channel.

Then, the water accumulates from the main canal several miles long. After the water of the main canal is full, the gates are opened from the branch canal to release water, and the fields are irrigated and soaked.

However, before this, the fields must be deeply plowed and broken, then water will be released and lime will be placed to burn the fields.

In this way, by mid-May, you can cover the river mud and plow it again, and the fields will basically be mature.

If the crops are then irrigated in time, weeding, insect control, and fertilized, the crops planted will be harvested.

There are still many large water trucks like this in front of you. One large water truck can irrigate 30,000 to 40 mu of land, and it is almost the same to build 40 million mu of land.

But in fact, it is impossible to irrigate all the fields with water trucks. After all, some burnt fields are close to the foot of hills and hills, and there are no streams along the way. The distance to divert water is too far, and the effect is not good. Without the irrigation ground, the water power will be insufficient to continue flowing and gradually dry up.

It is not difficult to dig deep wells in the middle of these acres. Digging deep wells is not difficult. In ancient Rome and other places, there are records of digging deep wells of hundreds of meters. It is not difficult to dig purely by manpower.

The difficulty is continuous water diversion, and it saves time and effort.

Fu Qian is worthy of being a master craftsman. After he was asked to dig a deep well, he used a keel water wheel with a wheel and used a donkey to divert water.

Such well water can also be discharged day and night. One well can irrigate hundreds of acres of land and drill dozens of wells. Those plots far from the water source can also have water conservancy for planting.

There is no more way, and it can only be done to this extent.

With sufficient water conservancy, fertile land, pest removal, and better treatment and share of official tenants, they will definitely work hard to farm. If they harvest more, the Nan'an Hou Mansion will also make a lot of profit.

The method of horse farming has been proven to be quite effective.

There were dozens of fat horses in front of me, covering one place, from east to west several miles, at least over a hundred groups of such organizations, riding the wind and waves in the wasteland.

Two horses were tied together by a yoke and pulled the iron plow and kept moving forward. The horse plowed the land much faster than the ox. In the pre-Qin period, China also used horse plowed the land, but later changed to ox plowed. There were many factors here, so there was no need to talk about it. However, the advantage of horse plowed is that it was far higher than ox plowed, which is an indisputable fact.

Xu Zi was a later generation and a student of the history department. He knew clearly that after the founding of the Republic in later generations, he also changed to horse farming on a large scale. However, many problems arose later, ox farming was still the mainstream.

Later, we cultivated land with machinery, and there were very few manpower and cattle. Cattle fell from the position of labor and became one of the mainstream people's meat eating, unlike before that, which had a higher status.

Even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, before the currency reform, the value of RMB 1,000 was a scene of the double horse farming fields.

With horses plowing the land, with sufficient manpower, two horse suits or single horse suits plows, people support the yoke and plow behind them, the efficiency is highest to five times that of ox plowing, and even more than ten or twenty times that of manpower.

The hundreds of acres of land in front of me looked endless at first glance, but more than a hundred horses and hundreds of strong men were plowed out after half a day. Then the women picked up stones and grass roots and then replanted them again. The first plow was completed.

Then release water and put lime in, the whole plot boils and white smoke rises everywhere.

This kind of scene is everywhere along the road connecting the official road around the island and the hundreds of households.

There are still some places where roads are still being built. Men drove mules and horses to pull stone mills more than one person tall, and kept slamming the rammed earth road. The drainage ditches on both sides of the road have been dug, and it is rainy in the East Band, so road drainage is still important.

On both sides of the road, various trees such as willows and elm were also planted. These trees marked the road and shaded in summer. Planting trees on both sides of the road is also a tradition of Han people to build roads. On some century-old official roads, willow trees completely cover the road above. Walking in it is like walking through the corridor of willow branches. In midsummer, it feels like a different world.

"In another five days," Lin Jiusi's white hair, although he was a master and had great experience in farming. He said to Xu Zixian with certainty: "We will go to the fat fields here, and after sowing, we will definitely gain a lot."

"This is the best." Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian: "All craftsmen who participate in waterwheel design, shaping, and installation have their own rewards. If there are any examples, you can directly formulate the reward list and amount according to the rules, and then report to the cardinal room to approve the money to Mr. Li."

Waterwheel and water well are both large projects. The Craftsmanship Department has more than 300 qualified large and small craftsmen, and the treatment in Nan'an Hou Mansion is not low. This time, the waterwheel project includes the elite among craftsmen, Fu Qian led the way, and the rest of the craftsmen have also made considerable efforts.

If you don’t get a reward, everyone will be lazy. But Fu Qian himself has a share and has a good wife in his family, so he never asks for anything. The more he does this, the bigger the official position and the more money he receives, so he believes that the family has a good wife and does not cause any trouble.

Xu Zixian said: "What's wrong with the water wheel forging armor and the hydraulic oil press?"

"Hydraulic armor forging is still exploring." Fu Qian said: "Hydraulic oil pressing is not difficult. The principle is very simple. It just costs a lot of money. The budget is 5,000 jin. Kong Xuanping has not approved it. If he has no money, he can only pause it."

"Kong Xuanping is making trouble again?"

"It's not his fault..." Fu Qian smiled and said, "In the past half month, more than 6,000 new immigrants have to build settlement villages and resettle them. In terms of grain, all the immigrant soldiers of official households now have a total of more than 60,000 people. The food consumed every day is hundreds of stones. Now Lingyi, Ling2, Fu3, and dozens of large ships are going to Fuzhou to buy grain every day. According to Kong Xuanping, because we buy too much grain, the price of grain in Fuzhou has increased a lot. If we don't save more frugality, we may not be able to support the day when we collect cotton and weaving cloth."

Xu Zi sighed first. Although he had hundreds of thousands of chunks of money to save, the head of the family realized that the firewood and rice were expensive. The water trucks dug wells and burned wasteland and fields, and the manpower and material resources used were astronomical. Some of the strong men were almost full, and the labor costs would be consumed in a lot of money and grain.

You should know that although these officials and households work hard, they are paid to the labor force of the Hou Mansion, but the food they eat is provided for free.

With large-scale construction, ship repairs, and shipbuilding, all things have not stopped. I spend too much money every day, and the money is simply transported out like mud and sand. Kong He is the head of the family, so it would be strange if he doesn't feel sorry for him.

Feeling sad is just an emotional matter, but if the financial situation is not supported, it is blamed for the person in charge of the family being careless or even careless.

Because of this, even Fu Qian, a great worker, could understand Kong He's painstaking efforts. If it was not an urgent task, such as water wheel oil pressing and armor forging machines, although they all knew it was a good thing, including the planned steelmaking furnace, and Xu Zixian proposed that the boring machine that Fu Qian was designing and researching was used for the spring used to make crossbow machines, but if it was not an urgent task, it could only be temporarily suspended.

Now the Marquis' daily income is too small and the expenditure is too much, so Kong He should be extra cautious and careful.

What people are waiting for is the harvest of cotton fields from August to September. If the output of more than 100,000 mu of cotton fields is quite large, based on the 300 to 400 kilograms of seed cotton per mu, you can get more than 100 kilograms of cotton, and you can get three or four pieces of coarse cloth per mu. Each piece of cloth is sold for about five or six jin in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it can be worth more than ten jin overseas. If you remove the part that you have to distribute to Changwen Hou Mansion, you can still make a profit of nearly ten jin per mu. More than 100,000 mu of cotton fields is a profit of one million jin.

Of course, this is the part of the official household's debt discount. Otherwise, there would be no such big profit.

If three years later, more than 100,000 mu of cotton fields can earn 300,000 to 400,000 guan, and the profit will still be quite generous.

In fact, before this, the Nan'an Hou Mansion borrowed debts to the official households, which meant that the taxes, houses, farm tools, and grains were all owed to the official households by credit, and the official households had no doubts about this. After all, the things were too good and they could not buy them with their own skills on Fujian Road.

A few years later, after paying off the debt, the Nan'an Hou Mansion began to impose taxes on domestic officials, unified the so-called official salary and offering money into summer and autumn taxes, imitating the Tang system to collect rent and mediocre people, and there were 40 days of hard work. In addition, all miscellaneous taxes were exempted.

In this way, the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion can tax the land of tens of thousands of households and 10,000 or 20,000 households in the country on a lot of land. The income is quite high, and it can also collect sericulture tax to expand the income from raw silk. For the people, although the tax is more than ordinary official households, everyone knows that the royal residences and the Duke's Mansions cannot only charge a little donation of a few dozen cents a month. The increase depends on the style of the heads of the royal residences of various royal residences. If there is fierce greed, the burden of collecting official households is almost no less than that of the private households.

The simple and frugal ones are almost not collected. Xu Yingbin, the Marquis of Nan'an, had this style.

The Nan'an Hou Mansion has a very good reputation, which is one of the important reasons why many people are willing to serve as their official households.

After that, it will be changed to tax service and form a system, which will reassure people and is a solemn promise.

In fact, Wei Chu only collected industrial and commercial tax and land rent. The less miscellaneous taxes it collected, the more the country's expenses it would cost. At most, the fiscal revenue reached 160 million trump cards, which was a huge amount of income, even a big country like Tianfang was far from as much as it was.

Since then, the administration of officials has become worse, and the wealthy households have imposed hidden taxes on the common people, and more and more taxes have increased. The court has gone back on its word and the tax amount has been stronger every year, but its income has fallen year by year. By the Chongde period, its income has only been 100 million chunks, and there are still some shortcomings.

If cotton fields are in normal condition, and large-scale land reclaimed also has income, the Nan'an Hou Mansion's income reaches more than 2 million guan a year, Kong He is afraid that he will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

In the perception of Kong He and others, the king Xu Zixian was too capable of turmoil. I am afraid that tens of millions of yuan would not be enough, but I always had to increase my income, which was far above the expenses, so that people could feel at ease.
Chapter completed!