Chapter 1,630 Changes

That's enough. Suyou is actually determined to build this railway. He has the means to get it for a mere five million dollars.

But the railway is not just a railway. What he wants is to boost the industrial and mechanical processing capabilities of the Fourth Road, so that Hebei itself has the ability to produce steel, process rails, and even manufacture locomotives.

Accumulating technology and cultivating talents are far more important than a railway.

Therefore, the boss's thoughts cannot be known to these two people. They must be allowed to fight for it on their own, so that their subjective initiative can be mobilized.

Moreover, Su You had more confidence in Shen Kuo and Song Yongchen than in himself.

In order to encourage Shen Kuo, Su You also made a promise: "Hedong Road is now isolated from the three roads, so I will leave it all to Cunzhong, but I will definitely give him the support he deserves."

"I will order you two diesel steamers and three steam steamers from Zhengzhou, and use them to hook up to tugboats. They will refuel you, pump you up, and increase your power. How about that?"

This was a free gift of 300,000 yuan of equipment. Shen Kuo couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Thank you so much, Mr. Ming, for your help. Shen Kuo will definitely live up to his mission!"

After injecting chicken blood for Shen Kuo and Song Yongchen, Su You inspected Zhending's sealed pile warehouse and grain, oil and food processing base, and then went down the river, turning into the sleeping water connecting Hutuo River and Hulu River at Gaocheng, and arrived at Julu

, turn into Zhanghe River from Daluze next to Julu, and go all the way south to Feixiang.

I inspected all the way and arrived at Wujiazhuang. It was already October this autumn.

In Su You's mind, this was a great voyage comparable to the trip to the Erlin Department when he was nine years old. When he arrived at Wujiazhuang, he found out the water network of the Yellow River and Haihe River Basin in Hebei Province, and successfully explored the water network connecting several large towns in Hebei Province with

The main waterway channel on the front line.

If we calculate that a waterway is worth 10 million guan, this trip is equivalent to a value of 50 million guan.

Of course, this is just the original value, and this is only the main waterway. In fact, there are many channels downstream that can be navigable, or can be navigable with a little modification and dredging.

But to really play its role, there are still many things that need to be done, such as the construction of docks, the establishment of guard posts, the establishment of embankments and sluices, the formation of fleets, etc.

But the biggest problems affecting the economy - capital, resources, technology, manpower, transportation, and finance - can all be solved here.

Hebei is very stable this year. After the chronic manpower problem is solved, as long as money is given, service will no longer be a problem.

It is another good year, and Hebei No. 4 Road has ushered in a very fruitful year.

This can be seen from the development of Wujiazhuang.

Li Xinniang built a dock by the Zhang River in Wujiazhuang. The winery was not far from the dock. There was an endless stream of boats coming from all over the river to buy wine and feed. The furthest merchants came from Qinghe, Shexian and Xiangzhou.

When there is commerce, it is necessary to set up hotels and hostels.

Distillers grains are a good thing for fattening livestock. With the feed for livestock, there will be livestock.

With livestock, the population on the farmland can be greatly reduced, and Li Xinniang organized them into trade and workshops.

Sitting in the Wu family ancestral hall, Su You watched the delighted Xin Niang report to him the changes this year.

This year, one-third of the land in each township has been planted with sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes have been harvested, and now we are making starch, vermicelli, and roasted koji according to the methods taught by Suyou.

The sweet potato field has now become a wheat field.

The other two-thirds of the land were planted with wheat in mid-to-late October last year, leaving wide spaces between the wheat, and then in early November, rapeseed was planted between the reserved rows.

In early May this year, after the rape harvest, two rows of cotton were planted in the rape stubble belt. In late May, peanuts or potatoes were planted in the wheat ridges.

In addition to wheat, one acre of land this year also harvested 3,500 rapeseed plants; 2,000 cotton plants; 5,000 peanut plants, or 2,000 potato plants.

This kind of planting method also requires huge initial investment. One acre of land is supplemented with 7,000 kilograms of farmyard manure, and Su You allocates 150 kilograms of ammonium bicarbonate, 100 kilograms of superphosphate, and 4 kilograms of potassium chloride from Wujiazhuang.

Ten pounds.

Before and after transplanting cotton seedlings and setting flowers, additional compound fertilizer should be added.

Li Xinniang didn't expect a good harvest from the village at all. In recent years, the farm's grain reserves have been enough. There are sweet potato fields and a winery to guarantee the bottom line. One acre is equivalent to the previous four or five acres, even if the remaining land is grainy.

He was not afraid of any gains, so he had the courage to let Su You "engage in practice."

As a result, in one year, one acre of land can harvest 200 jins of wheat, 100 jins of lint, and 100 jins of rapeseeds. Those who intercrop peanuts can harvest 200 jins of peanuts, and those who intercrop potatoes can harvest 400 jins of potatoes.

Wu Cunzhi never paid attention to these trivial matters in Zhuangzi. He took care of the livestock all day long, served his own good horses, and taught his children martial arts and archery.

When Zhuang Shang was invited to attend wedding banquets by many families recently, he realized belatedly that why so many families in Zhuang Shang were building new houses this year?

Isn't it? The average household in Wujiazhuang is 150 acres. This year, all of them have been planted without break farming. The average household is 30,000 jins of wheat, 1,000 jins of cotton, 4,500 jins of vegetable oil, 30,000 jins of peanuts, or 60,000 jins of potatoes.

Thousands of pounds!

Wheat is worth two hundred guan, cotton is worth 100 guan, and oil is more expensive, a total of 700 guan!

No need for oil, 60,000 kilograms of potatoes are still two hundred pounds at half the price of wheat.

The average household in Wujiazhuang has earned as little as 500 guan from farming this year, and as many as 1,000 guan!

This does not include the breeding industry that Wujiazhuang has been engaged in.

In the past, the average household income of Wujiazhuang was more than 200 yuan a year, which was already a first-class village in Hebei. This year, the income has doubled, and the income has even quadrupled. It would be strange if it doesn't start to shake.

Wu Cunzhi took a handkerchief at the door and smoked the wheat ash all over his body: "This year's harvest was so good that I didn't even ride a horse in March. When I got up, Xin Niang ordered me to take her to grind flour and press oil. It's not even dawn yet, folks.

They just picked up their burdens and lined up."

At this point, Xin Niang made a gesture of worshiping Buddha: "We are so lucky that the Prime Minister has equipped us with so many machines, opened a winery in advance, and built a dock, otherwise the food will not be turned into money."

Wu Cunzhi loves his horses the most: "According to what Tanhua Lang said, feeding livestock finely chopped food plus extruded feed and grains is more economical than before, and the fatter ones... Anyway, the Xia horses I met before can't follow me.

What a comparison!”

This is not Su You's skill, it is a method of raising horses calculated by the Agricultural College of the Capital University using scientific and engineering methods.

The amount of feed a horse needs per day is equal to the weight of the horse multiplied by 0.025 to 0.035. A horse weighing 700 kilograms requires 21 kilograms of fodder.

The ratio of grass to concentrate can be adjusted from 82 to 64 based on the nutrient content and dosage of the grass.

The most common ratio is 73%, which is fifteen pounds of grass and six pounds of concentrate per day.

The most common ingredients of the concentrate are extruded feed consisting of wheat bran, ground corn or coarse flour, soybean meal, fish meal, silkworm pupae and coarse salt in proportion.

If you make it yourself, the wheat needs to be broken first, and the beans need to be cooked or pressed for oil.

Feeding should be divided into four meals a day, each time in the order of grass, water, and feed. The rule of not eating for one hour after a meal and not eating for an hour after feeding should be followed to ensure the horse's gastrointestinal health.

This is just about feeding, there are a lot of other knowledge, and the methods of raising horses by the dignitaries in Bianjing City are even more powerful. Those horses are used to participate in horse races to win large bonuses, or to show off on the hunting grounds.

It is the same in any era. Just like how private cars sprung up after the miscellaneous fees for buying cars in later generations became a drizzle, after livestock were not included in the taxation standards in the Song Dynasty, people who raised horses and cattle in the Song Dynasty also had the same reason.

It has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and ushered in an explosive growth.

The previous government tried every possible means to plunder the people. Now Su You has taught them that you have to try every possible means to make the people rich first, and then you can plunder them.

In the past, when taxes were collected, the people had to "resist violence" for three years and two years. Now in Wujiazhuang, Su You's policy is to lose three dou per mu, which is thirty kilograms, and the rest is yours.

Three dou per mu was considered a cruel policy in the Han and Tang dynasties, but now Wu Cunzhi felt uneasy about it.

After collecting so much but handing over so little to the government, the country won't treat us as a fugitive and affect Xun'er's future, right?
Chapter completed!