A group of black and white swallows were flying freely in the sky, sometimes swooping down and sometimes rising into the sky.
Together with the flowers all over the mountains and plains, it forms a harmonious natural scenery.
Long Feier took several children and played hide-and-seek among the flowers. However, the little girl had good cultivation and could quickly find others, so she was a bit suspected of cheating.
Long Xiaoqi followed her grandma and walked among the flowers, showing her rare well-behaved and sensible manner.
At this time, Long Dahai, together with Liu Yu and others, were checking their spiritual veins and calculating their annual income.
Mengzhuangxiang is a first-level mid-level spiritual vein. After years of nourishment by the spirit gathering array, it is about to be cultivated to a first-level high-level spiritual vein.
Above the spiritual veins, there is an orchard of spiritual trees. There are one hundred and twenty spiritual trees, most of which are first-level and middle-grade spiritual trees.
Eighty of them are fruit trees, and each tree can sell spiritual fruits worth about six spiritual stones every year.
Eighty trees, this is the income of close to 500 spirit stones.
The remaining forty spiritual trees are sold for materials, and a batch of wood can be sold in about ten years.
This income is very considerable. A three-foot-long first-grade medium-grade wood can be sold for twenty spiritual stones.
A piece of wood about three feet long can be sold for two hundred spiritual stones.
These forty spiritual trees harvest an average of eight hundred spiritual stones every year.
But now, all the fruits on the eighty spiritual trees have been picked, leaving only the fresh branches and leaves.
The forty spiritual trees were also cut down, leaving only their roots.
Not far from the orchard, there is a manor.
There is a piece of land in the manor, about two acres in it. It was originally a medicine field, but now there are only some seedlings of elixirs.
There are also several spiritual trees and flowers in the manor, which are elegantly and quietly arranged.
As for the flower field, it is where some female relatives are playing.
There are several kinds of smart bees there, and the main purpose of the flower farm is to keep bees and collect nectar.
In the past, eighty jars of Spirit Bee nectar could be collected every year, and each jar cost five Spirit Stones.
A total of four hundred yuan can be sold.
Long Dahai became the owner of the village and restored the previous harvest. The village could harvest 1,700 spiritual stones every year.
The villages that were expropriated yesterday are now under Long Dahai's own name, and he has bought them out.
The income of each of these villages is about ninety spiritual stones.
This income is six hundred and thirty yuan per year.
There are still seven villages that need to pay taxes. The annual taxes of the villages here are higher than those of Yushan County, and they pay about fifty spiritual stones every year.
From the tax of fifty spiritual stones in each village, Long Dahai can get ten of them.
If the villages are managed by others, these seven villages will harvest 70 yuan a year.
Fourteen villages harvest 700 spiritual stones every year.
Counting this income, the Long family can theoretically harvest 2,400 spiritual stones every year.
For two thousand four hundred yuan, you can buy three top-quality magic weapons and one and a half foundation-building pills.
However, these are just gains and do not include the manpower and material resources invested every year.
Besides, the cost of buying out the seven villages for twenty-five years is about 8,700 spiritual stones.
This needs to be taken out at once.
With 8,700 yuan plus 6,600 yuan in compensation, the 20,000 spiritual stones in Long Dahai's pocket instantly shrunk by four-fifths.
The initial investment in Mengzhuang Township and several villages also requires a lot of expenses.
Long Dahai felt that he had become poor again.
However, this is investing in the future and investing in the family, so there is nothing to be reluctant about.
There are nearly 500 households in Mengzhuang, with a population of nearly 2,500.
It has 18 villages under its jurisdiction, with an average of more than 1,000 people in each village.
There are more than 23,000 people in Mengzhuang Township.
This is already considered a relatively large township in Yushan County, but in Beiyan Prefecture it can only be considered a middle-to-lower level.
Long Dahai walked into the manor. The jade floors and the rooms made of sandalwood gave people a heavy feeling.
However, all the furniture inside was gone, and it looked empty.
"It's really a bit stingy."
How many spiritual stones are wooden tables and chairs worth?
But the Zhou family, the original owner of the village, still didn't leave any behind.
"Liu Yu, you take a few brothers and drive a camel beast to the countryside to buy some furniture."
In fact, you can also make your own furniture, but it is a bit troublesome and not sophisticated enough.
Mengzhuang Township produces forest trees and there are also shops selling furniture. Buying some is convenient and simple.
After it stabilizes, Long Dahai will decorate it according to his own preferences.
Let's make do for now.
The manor is not far from Mengzhuang, and you can reach the countryside soon after leaving the door.
This manor was obviously used by monks and had traces of the spirit gathering array, but the array was no longer there.
This place will also become the residence of the Long family monks in the future.
As for ordinary people like Long Auntie, they can live in the village owner's residence in the village.
Long Dahai planned to hand over the mundane affairs to his eldest brother and his second brother. The eldest brother would manage the infrastructure construction, while the second brother would manage the mundane affairs in the village.
Long Dahai will also send people to the Yunxiao Clan's station, and together with the two outer disciples of the Yunxiao Clan, they will be responsible for delivering news and purchasing items.
Long Dahai plans to let his nephew Long Xiaoyu take responsibility for this matter.
There are not many things to do at the residence, only a few days of busy work every month, and it does not take up too much of my nephew's cultivation time.
It is already autumn, and there is nothing going on in the forest and flower fields.
The forest farm is the general name of the spiritual tree orchard and the spiritual tree garden.
After inspecting the spiritual veins and products of Mengzhuang Township, Long Dahai went to the government office and recruited two monks with experience in forest farms and flower farms to take charge of early care and management.
The two monks were only at the sixth level of Qi training, but they were already in their thirties, so they didn't have much expectations for foundation building.
With their strength, they cannot become Muramasa in Beiyan Mansion. With their families, they just want to find a stable job.
Long Dahai gave them twenty spiritual stones per year, which was already very generous, so they came to Mengzhuang Township.
A man named Deng Xiaolin was honest and honest, married to an ordinary woman, and had two children.
A man named Wang Wensheng was a bit dull and didn't like to talk, but he had two beautiful mortal wives.
The two of them were arranged in the manor.
The Zhou family, the original owner of the village, has many monks, so there are dozens of houses in the manor, which is enough for the Long family and the monks they recruited.
If the recruited monks do not report, they are not considered members of the Long family.
The Long family currently has ten monks, and Long Dahai has no intention of recruiting other monks to join the Long family.
Two experienced monks arrived, and Long Dahai asked them to explain some basic knowledge about forest farms and flower farms. Long Dahai would also learn from them when he had time.
An important matter currently before Long Dahai is the candidates for the village leaders of the fourteen villages.
If the family has enough manpower, Long Dahai plans to arrange for all his children to go to the village for training.
Long Dahai’s current candidates for village leadership include his nephew Liu Yu, nephew Long Xiaoming, husband Zhou Jin’s son Zhou Wen, and his niece’s son-in-law.
Qiqi came to Mengzhuang Township and wanted to stay here.
In the end, Aunt Long felt sorry for her granddaughter and mentioned a few words to Long Dahai, who had no choice but to agree to her request.
Zhang You also agreed. The Zhang family is uncertain, and it is safe for the nephew to be here.
As for the few acquaintances from the Yushan Sect who had come to ask for help, Long Dahai had already sent letters, and it was estimated that five of them could come over.
These are the candidates for the nine village presidents, and there are still five village president vacancies.
"The remaining five candidates should be handed over to acquaintances in Yushan County, so they can be used with peace of mind."
Long Dahai picked up paper and pen and wrote letters to Zhang You and Long Xiaochuan.
Let the two of them recommend some reliable people from Yushan County.
Five or six days have passed since the matter was settled.
By the end of January, Long Dahai planned to go to the village to inspect.
Of course, he must have a clear understanding of his own territory.