In the golden autumn of September, when the fragrance of wheat is floating in the air, after a short rest, these 10,000 people began to work as workers.
Xi Zhong led them to the Quanzhou Military Reclamation Farm. The large areas of land were connected into one piece, horizontally and vertically. The sea breeze blew over and the wheat made a sound that made people fascinated.
Xi Zhong proudly said to Guo Jia: "This was originally a swamp. After I became the governor of Yuyang County, I led the people to build 100 large windmills here. After pumping water for a year, I finally turned this place into a swamp." The stagnant water in the swamp was drained, and now it has become the most fertile land in the entire world. Even if you don't recognize bird droppings, the yield per mu can exceed 5 dan."
"A farm like this has 100,000 acres of land and can harvest 500,000 dan of grain in a year. There are seven or eight such farms in this swamp. Our Yuyang County can harvest 3 to 4 million dan in a year. It is precisely because of this batch of food that I can call on the people of the county to carry out various infrastructure construction."
Yuyang County itself has some military reclamation farms, but in the second batch of land allocation policies, all this land was allocated. In the Daqian court, the income from the farms of county and local governments generally belonged to the local area. of local fiscal revenue.
At first, it was easy for the opera lovers to divide their fields, but the consequence was that the fiscal revenue of the entire Yuyang County government plummeted, and many officials could not afford even decent small benefits, which caused dissatisfaction among many people.
Xi Zhong found that the only way to solve this problem was to re-establish farms or factories belonging to Yuyang County. However, Xi Zhong did not know much about factories and did not dare to build them at will. If he wanted to re-establish military reclamation farms, most of them in Yuyang County The land has been allocated. Are there any large pieces of wasteland suitable for farming elsewhere?
Xi Zhong searched around on the map and found that the swampland near the coast of Quanzhou County was the place where he made great achievements.
The level of development in Youzhou during this period was very low. The wastelands had not been fully developed, and no one was willing to work on developing the swamps. It was difficult for ordinary people to truly solve the problem of the swamps, but the wealthy nobles who had the ability to develop the swamps could not. They are not willing to put in such hard work. Rather than developing such difficult swamp land, it would be easier for them to plunder the land from the hands of the people.
Therefore, no one has developed the 800 miles of swampland in Quanzhou for thousands of years, and such a place is a God-given land for the play. The common people cannot develop the swamp, but it is not difficult for the officials of Daqian. Quanzhou County’s coastal areas The area already has sea breezes blowing all year round. As long as you set up windmills in low-lying areas, connect them with pipes to the swamps, and drain the water into the sea, you can get a piece of flat and fertile land. And the investment is not too high.
Xi Zhong did not encounter any difficulties in the development process. He drained the water in one year, and in the second year he began to organize farmers to reclaim farmland on some drier lands. Over the past few years, the swamp has been shrinking, especially in Yuyang County. Seven or eight farms with an area of more than 100,000 acres have been established. This swampland in Yuyang County has become the largest agricultural center in Yuyang. The grain produced is directly supplied to the large commodity market of Jidu, providing The Yuyang government made a lot of money.
After hearing this, Guo Jia said with admiration: "Brother Zhicai is a great talent, this swamp has lasted for thousands of years, and finally turned into fertile land in your hands. I am afraid that after a thousand years, this land will still have the legend of Brother Zhicai." Like Li Bing and his son, the Zhicai Brothers will leave their name in history and be passed down through the ages."
Xi Zhong laughed and said: "It is a happy thing in the world to be able to serve as an official and benefit a party. Without the support of the Daqian court, I would not be able to do such a thing. Fengxiao feels that such a project can leave a name." Qing Shi, but I don’t know that such a project can only be regarded as a normal thing for me."
"There are at least a dozen such projects in the entire Daqian territory. Under the leadership of the government, we, the officials of the imperial court, are constantly transforming the world and making it suitable for people to live and live. Each of us has the ability to change the world. Pride! There are no other obstacles to so many projects, and only the imperial court can do it. If the nobles and nobles are still here, I am afraid that the fields in my brother's hands will not be preserved at all!"
Guo Jia looked stunned, and after a long time he smiled bitterly and said: "Yes! Without the environment that Lei Gong created for Brother Zhicai, Brother Zhicai would not have been able to achieve such great political achievements in just a few years. Most of the credit for this must go to Thunder God."
Of course Xi Zhicai was talented, but in the Han Dynasty, talented people like Xi Zhicai, not to mention being a chariot-rider, were not uncommon.
However, in the environment of the Han Dynasty, where cliques were formed to exclude dissidents, even talented people could not display their abilities. Instead, they had to spend most of their energy on guarding against hidden arrows shot in their backs.
At the local level, the nobles and nobles are also taking advantage of the interests of the big men. If you want to make some changes, these nobles will come out to hold back or even beat them out. Even the second generation of Cao Cao's top officials were taught a lesson by the local nobles. How could ordinary officials do so much in the land of the Han Dynasty? It is the norm to live in harmony with the light!
Therefore, even if the Han Dynasty had unparalleled talents such as Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Lu Zhi, they could not fully utilize their talents, but let their talents be wasted in endless internal fighting.
Nowadays, officials like Xi Zhicai who have the courage to change the world are almost impossible to see in the environment of the Han Dynasty.
But in the land of Daqian, Xi Zhong said that people like him are very capable, and he saw dozens of such huge agricultural projects. The land of Daqian is full of this kind of transformation of nature. Engineering, the great power of the country is simply unimaginable!
Just as the Guo family was sighing, a sudden sound came. Guo Jia looked at the source of the sound. Only to find a steel monster running slowly in the field, which even caused panic among the people of Crab Island who were harvesting straw. One by one, they dropped their sickles and fled from the steel monster, but Cao Zhen and his men drove them back with whips.
Guo Jia asked curiously: "What kind of strange machine is this? Its big chimney that emits black smoke seems to have something to do with the steam engine you recently developed!"
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "This machine is called a steam harvester. It uses a steam engine as power to harvest grain. A machine like this is more efficient than 100 people harvesting. This machine developed by the government a few months ago is already
It’s an improved version, we’ll use it here for experimentation.”