Chapter 31 The Summer Resort
2,000 hectares of land have 20 square kilometers. Compared with the earth in the 21st century, it is equivalent to the area of Nauru, the third smallest country in the world (21 square kilometers). However, among the continents of the world, 2,000 hectares of mountains and forests are just a glance of a thousand-meter altitude of helicopters.
The summer resort built by the Liu family is worthy of its name. The sailing dock is extremely luxurious. The teak floor that is unwilling to be used on the deck of the cargo ship is paved from the waterside to the dam. The strips of bluestone have flattened the surface and are built with rice mortar like the chest wall of the city. The cargo road paved with stones can accommodate 4 double-wheeled carriages in parallel, which is even more luxurious than the public roads built in the south of Shao.
The so-called 41 rooms are even larger, which allows the Camel family to take a vacation. There are three rows of small row houses hidden on the other side of the bamboo forest, all of which are prepared for the accompanying servants - these houses are not even counted in the property.
There are 6 of the seven Hanoi ships docked between the docks, which are a one-story sloop and a boat, which can be used to ride twenty people up and down. The appearance is ordinary. The Xiding, which was specially introduced, is a big guy. The two-mast and three-story tier sounds nothing, but in fact it is a length of 100 meters. It does not depend on the structure and can be completely accessible in the offshore.
Cheng Jinzhou didn’t know the price of ships in the Daxia Dynasty, but he looked like a handmade wooden boat larger than a house. He thought it was definitely expensive than a house.
In addition to the freely growing sky trees on the mountains and forests, Liu Bin’s generous gift would not be shabby if it was a dowry, so Cheng Jinzhou was completely confused.
Yang Ming's body was not as fragile as he looked on the outside. He simply introduced Cheng Jinzhou to one of the first and second days, and then sat on the dock and caught fish. It was only on this kind of private resort dock that there were similar things. Put them elsewhere, the crowds and boats coming and going had already been driven out by the fish a few kilometers away.
The housekeeper of the villa was also surnamed Liu, and he accompanied Cheng Jinzhou to introduce the things in the villa to Cheng Jinzhou with great care. In the tradition of the Daxia Dynasty, all major tribes like to use the people of their own tribes. It doesn’t matter if they have poor abilities, loyalty is the first priority.
This is a society where there is no family, and it is much more difficult to betray relatives than to be appreciated.
What Liu Zhuo was most worried about was that the new owner drove him away without saying a word. Even now, he was cautious, afraid that something would happen.
There are very few farmers. Occasionally, they meet on the road. When people see people wearing silk and satin, they all kneel down and salute.
The land in the village and the forest land were amazing. Not long after walking, Cheng Jinzhou began to get impatient. He stood on the road and looked into the distance, and asked, "Go to the barn and take a look."
There was a dense layer of sweat beads behind the back of Butler Liu's neck and said in a buzzing voice: "The barn in the farm has only a few dozen stones of grain."
"So little?" Cheng Jinzhou made his way. Although the land was small, it was 200 acres, and it could only make hundreds of stones of grain. He was thinking about getting some extra money back.
"The rules in the villa, new grain must be delivered to the various residences, taste some fresh food and auspicious things." Butler Liu paid more attention to his speech.
Cheng Jinzhou said in a very upset: "There are still these rules?"
"Yes." Butler Liu had already turned into shrimp rice and said: "Every year, new rice comes, each government will deliver it, ranging from one or two stones to more than ten stones. You may have eaten small fragrant rice grown by Xiding before."
"Just send it all out?" Cheng Jinzhou asked unwillingly.
"Yes. Xiding's Xiaoxiangmi is still famous. Many people in Shaonan like it very much, and sometimes they will ask for it." Butler Liu said proudly.
In the summer resort of the noble family, they plant things for money, they all want to make out distinctive things, either giving gifts or showing off. This is naturally different from Cheng Jinzhou's fantasy.
The dozens of stones of grain were enough for the farm to use it himself. Cheng Jinzhou gave up the idea of getting some food to leave and patted his head: "Go to the field and take a look."
Butler Liu breathed a sigh of relief and took the lead without saying a word. The two gangs beside him looked at the "Zhufeng" behind Cheng Jinzhou with a strange look. "High-headed horses" that were taller than others were actually rare, let alone the greasy and shiny maroon horses all over his body.
Such thoroughbred horses are not suitable for trekking in farmland.
In fact, Cheng Jinzhou had no idea of trekking into farmland.
He just compared the structure of the farm and confirmed it one by one with the content in "On Agriculture".
The farm described by Varo is a Greek farm with a Mediterranean climate, and the cultivation is mainly based on economic crops. Similar to the nobles of the Great Xia Dynasty, the great Greek nobles would rather grow grapes and make wine and olive trees to squeeze oil than grow grain.
However, the most useful thing about "On Agriculture" for Cheng Jinzhou is how to build a large private farm in the plantation style.
The Daxia Dynasty was still in the production environment of self-cultivated farmers and tenants. The nobles owned manors and used tenants to divide the majority of the production from them. This was originally a better production method than farm slavery. However, in terms of cooperative production, especially unified planning, the Shaonan area where there are many river networks, there was no experience.
Compared with the manors that cost tens of thousands of hectares of land in the Greece and Roman era, the nobles of Shaonan were small and ordinary. Most importantly, nearly a hundred years have passed since the era of actively reclamation of land and increasing output.
After a few minutes of running on the country road, you can see the continuous farmland, backed by the ridge, down the gentle slope to the river valley, and extending up and down.
200 acres of green land can actually give people a shock.
Cheng Jinzhou bent down and looked at the wheat beside the field and asked, "This valley looks like it can be cultivated, and the other side of the mountain is the same. Why is it empty?"
"If the river valleys occupy more, water will be generated. The slopes on the mountain are less produced, and no one has ever opened them." Mr. Liu replied, feeling a little disagreeable. This is a summer resort, not a grain-producing farm. If there are too many farmers, it is difficult to control and it has lost the value of summer resorts.
The Liu family is far away from Hexi, so naturally they will not care about such a village.
Cheng Jinzhou suddenly looked at him, and after thinking for a moment, he pointed to the nearby valley and said, "The cattle and chickens and ducks should be built here to raise cattle and chickens and ducks."
"Yes." Butler Liu didn't understand why, but he could only agree.
“The farm should be divided into 4 parts…”
"High trees should be planted on both sides to shade them to prevent the rocks from sliding down..."
"The strong labor should be unified..."
Cheng Jinzhou was competing there, and the butler agreed while sweating coldly.
The Summer Resort was originally a place where Liu Bin used to relax, and naturally served it for this. Liu Bin did not allow Cheng Jinzhou to sell it, just worried that he would spend money indiscriminately, but in fact, from the moment he was sent out, he could not interfere with anything anymore.
Even if Cheng Jinzhou relies solely on imagination, he wants to make drastic reforms with bare hands.
Butler Liu could only think that the aristocratic child was too curious, so he agreed one by one.
When Cheng Jinzhou talked about the rise, he first fantasized about it. Grain is a hard currency. If you have money, you can buy grain only in small batches. Once thousands of tons are involved, you have to do it yourself. This world is the first experimental field.
Cheng Jinzhou, the king of the Daxia Dynasty, immediately began to praise himself.
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Chapter completed!