Chapter 221 In the field of hope... (Here comes, five thousand chapters!)

Zong Baosheng and his wife were allotted the ten acres of land they had dreamed of. After alloting the land, the whole family got on their horses and built the field ridge according to the benchmarks they had set. They went to the Yamen to go through the formalities and got the land deed. They were relieved.

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Then Zong Baosheng went to apply for household registration according to the instructions of the Yamen, and then the Yamen allocated a homestead.

Unlike other people, Zong Baosheng had some money on hand, so he thought about building a good house instead of just building a straw shed with bamboo and straw to settle down.

Zong Baosheng went to consult and found that the current cement prices are quite cheap. He thought that his children would be old in a few years, and if it was just a thatched shed, it would be difficult to find a wife by then, so he discussed it with his wife.

So I decided to build a brick house.

Building a house is easy, and now he is considered a small foreman. It is actually relatively easy to find someone to repair the house, as he knows many people.

But the couple was still entangled.

Ten acres of land is indeed very good, but they did some simple arithmetic and found that compared to working as a foreman, the income from farming was far less than working on a construction site. But with ten acres of land in hand, if they replant,

That would be such a waste of natural resources.

In the end, it was the clan's wife who gritted her teeth and said: "Master, you just go to the construction site and work for as long as you can. The children and I will work on the fields. It doesn't matter if we work more or less. We can get a small harvest anyway. Without you anyway

No matter how much you earn, it’s all earned!”

Zong Baosheng was a little unbearable: "The children are still young, and your body is also weak. If something goes wrong due to fatigue..."

Zong's wife gritted her teeth and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, head of the family. I heard that the county government has some kind of training program in Sanggitang, which teaches us how to plant things.

If you are planting rice or something, it might be very busy, but I heard that Sanggitang is not very busy.

Just dig a fish pond, put the fish in it, and then plant mulberry trees, then you can raise some silkworms.

My children and I are both capable of raising silkworms. The children can pick mulberry leaves while I take care of the silkworm babies at home. I heard that I can earn a lot of money."

Zong Baosheng was immediately moved after hearing this: "Is there still such a way? Yes, I'll go to the county government and have a look."

As expected, Zong Baosheng went to the county government office. As expected, the county government office sent people for consultation. So many people went there that they even started a class. In fact, it wasn’t too difficult. Zong Baosheng was a good at work. There were many things

It was all based on analogy. After listening to it, he decided to build this mulberry pond.

It’s not all that Sanggitang is easier. In fact, Sanggitang has more trivial things, but the key point is that the output value of Sanggitang is much greater than that of growing rice!

Rice takes half a year, and one acre of land can produce three or four shi of grain. In one year, it is less than eight shi of grain. In a good year, one shi of grain can be sold for 1,000 yuan. In other words, in one year,

, one acre of land can receive less than eight thousand yuan.

But if it is developed into a mulberry fish pond, one acre of fish pond can produce three thousand kilograms of fish. If it is grass carp and carp from the south, the selling price is also considerable.

According to Zong Baosheng’s experience, fish in summer are cheaper, but if they are raised in the south, they can be raised until winter.

Fish in the north are very precious in the winter, and the price is almost as high as that of mutton. If the year is good, a catty of fish can be sold for 100 cents, and three thousand catties of fish can be sold for 300,000 cents.

Of course, if large-scale breeding is carried out in the south, the price will definitely be lowered, and the freight will be more expensive, but it should be no problem to sell it for ten or twenty cents.

So three thousand catties of fish per acre, based on ten cents per catty, is 30,000 yuan, which is nearly 40 guan. A fish pond with ten acres of land is also an income of 400 guan!

This is just the income from fish, there is also the income from mulberry trees and silkworm raising. According to experts invited by the Yamen, one acre of mulberry trees in the mulberry pond can support twenty kilograms of silkworm cocoons.

Mulberry trees can support two hundred pounds of silkworm cocoons.

From 100 kilograms of dried cocoons, you can finally get about 38 kilograms of cooked silk. From 200 kilograms of dried cocoons, you can get 76 kilograms of cooked silk. In previous years, the price of one kilogram of cooked silk could be sold for 120 yuan, that is

It is said that you can earn nearly 10,000 yuan each time!

What’s even crazier is that according to experts, because of the warm climate on Guangnan East Road, it can be raised at least six or seven times a year. This is still taking into account that their technology is not very good, because the Jiangnan area has reached 12 times a year.

A case of harvest!

That is to say, just from raising silkworms, these ten acres of land can earn 120,000 yuan a year. 120,000 yuan, that is 155 yuan of money!

Therefore, the annual income from fish and sericulture produced by a ten-acre mulberry pond adds up to an income of 555 guan!

This kind of income is unimaginable to Zong Baosheng.

When he was in the north, he only grew wheat and rice, and could only grow one season a year. After paying taxes, his income was so little that he could not even feed his family.

He really never thought that ten acres of land could produce so much money. While listening to the class, he realized why the north was poor but the south of the Yangtze River was so rich. This was the reason!

After Zong Baosheng listened to the course, he no longer planned to go to the construction site. He wanted to develop the ten acres of land into a mulberry fish pond. With the ten acres of mulberry fish pond, his family would be able to live a good life in the future!

Of course, it is not easy to serve this ten-acre fish pond. The fish not only need to eat silkworm excrement, but also have to cut the grass to feed the fish. Grass carp eats grass, and carp and the like can eat grass carp feces and silkworm excrement.

And raising silkworms is also very labor-intensive. He has four sons. Although they are not very old, they are capable of picking mulberry leaves and taking care of silkworm babies. In this way, their family has six laborers.

, it should be more than enough to take care of ten acres of fish ponds!

Zong Baosheng decided to build a mulberry fish pond, but he encountered a big problem. He couldn't dig a ten-acre fish pond by himself. The workload was too much. What should he do?

Zong Baosheng thought about it but had no choice but to go to the county government office again to try. He had no choice but to talk to the government officials about the matter. He was also afraid that the government officials would be impatient and curse, so he leaned half of his body and was ready to leave at any time. Unexpectedly, the government officials

Also quite enthusiastic.

"The county government has already thought about this problem. Haven't there been some new northern refugees recently? They can also share the land, but they have never worked, so why should they share the land?

Therefore, the county government asked them to help you, the people who built the embankment before, dig the fish ponds so that they could obtain the land. This is only fair.

Don't worry, the county government is already organizing it, and you can start digging fish ponds soon. You can go to the household house to register first, and we will naturally notify you when the time comes.

By the way, this requires money. The money is not a salary, but is used to buy food. You can't let people work without even giving you a mouthful of food. But don't worry, it's not much money. One acre of land

All you need to do is give me money."

Zong Baosheng was overjoyed when he heard this. An acre of fish pond only costs the same amount of money, which is really equivalent to free money.

He wanted to hire someone to dig it before, but when he asked about the price, he was scared away. But that's normal. Ten people can't dig a fish pond with one acre of land in a month. It can be imagined that ten people can't dig it well.

How long does it take to dig out an acre of fish pond, and how much labor does it cost?

Zong Baosheng paid the money and waited for a few days. The reason why it was so fast was because he took the initiative to ask. Others dared to go to the Yamen to ask. Zong Baosheng was familiar with Xu Jin.

I thought that I was also a person related to the government, so I dared to ask.

However, when the fish pond was dug, Zong Baosheng found that he had overestimated the difficulties before. Digging the fish pond here was really not too difficult, because the terrain here was not high to begin with, and as long as the dam was

Once it is built up, it will naturally become a fish pond. It does not involve too much earthwork, so it is very easy.

Zong Baosheng wanted to dig the fish pond deeper, so he made delicious food every day and even bought big bones to make porridge for the refugees to eat. Naturally, the refugees reciprocated and helped him dig the fish pond half a meter deep. This was an extremely

Excellent fish pond!

Zong Baosheng did not turn all ten acres of land into mulberry fish ponds, but dug about six acres. He planned to grow rice or vegetables on the rest. After all, as a farmer, you still have to be self-sufficient, and you have to have rice and vegetables!

Zong Baosheng's family is a microcosm of the entire Pearl River Delta. A large number of refugees went south to divide their fields under the organization of various county governments, and then helped the farmers who were originally assigned to dig fish ponds. The entire Pearl River Delta set off a boom in construction.

It has been so busy until February, and spring plowing has also begun.

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While Zhang Heng was busy, he received a letter from Bianjing, a letter from his teacher and father-in-law.

Zeng Gongliang asked in his heart whether the young couple was used to things on Guangnan East Road, and then talked about the recent situation. At the end, he revealed what happened in Bianjing recently.

After reading this, Zhang Heng looked a little solemn.

Zeng Gongliang revealed that a lot of things have happened in Bianjing recently. In the first month of the year, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Li Yuanhao, who gave the Song Dynasty a headache, died in civil strife. The Song Dynasty lost a strong enemy;

In the first month of the leap year, the rebellion of Wang Ze in Beizhou was also put down by Wen Yanbo.

It was originally a very good thing, but something went wrong during the Lantern Festival, the 18th day of the leap month.

On this day, a shocking assassination occurred in the Song Dynasty Palace. The target of the assassination was none other than the current emperor Zhao Zhen!

"...That evening, four of the Chongzheng Palace officials, including Yan Xiu, Guo Kui, Wang Sheng, and Sun Li, plotted a coup. They killed the military academy, robbed troops, climbed into Yanhe Palace House, entered the Forbidden City, and burned the palace.

Curtain, cut the inner man's arm.

The three of them were killed by the guards, and Wang Sheng hid in the north tower of the palace city. After a few days, he found them, and the captors immediately branched out, and the soldiers did not know what their original plan was."

On the night of the 18th day of the leap lunar month, four personal officials from the Chongzheng Palace, Yan Xiu, Guo Kui, Wang Sheng, and Sun Li, suddenly carried out this precise assassination.

They first killed the military academy and snatched the weapons for assassination. Then they entered over the wall of Yanhe Hall and went straight to the inner courtyard of Song Renzong's palace.

When they approached the gate, they encountered a blockage.

Although it was stopped in the end, the person behind it had not been found out by the time the letter was sent, and now the court was already noisy.

Some people say they want to investigate to the end, but some people are opposed to continuing the investigation, and now they have become a quarrel.

Zeng Gongliang told Zhang Heng to be more cautious in his recent actions, try to reduce contact with the DPRK and not to get involved in this matter.

After Zhang Heng read it, he thought about it for a while and then put the matter behind him.

There is really no need to pay too much attention to things that are thousands of miles away.

His most important thing now is to keep an eye on the states and counties and quickly start spring plowing. The food gap in Guangdong will be very large this year. Zhan Chongwen is constantly recruiting refugees in the north to go south, and more and more food is needed.

Already.

Now Zhang Heng is constantly purchasing grain from Fujian and Guangxi to cope with the current situation. He also has to urge spring plowing and plant all the crops to ensure this year's autumn harvest so that he can cope with the subsequent large number of disaster victims.

While Zhang Heng was developing the Pearl River Delta, he was also investigating the actual population and cultivated land in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, and northern Guangdong. In his memory, the cultivated land in the three regions of eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong, and western Guangdong was actually no better than that in the Pearl River Delta.

Less, even much more.
To be continued...