A little calculation will show that Zhuwei Lake is not a big lake, but it has a water area of tens of thousands of acres. On average, one meter of dredging is six to seven million cubic meters of silt...
Wang Shouzhe has seen the dredging boats in this world.
They all use dredging rakes manually to dig the silt onto the ship. A dredging ship can hold about ten cubic meters of silt.
The sludge that is usually cleaned up has good organic matter itself. After being mixed with other fertilizers and fermented, it becomes a better agricultural fertilizer and can supplement the fertility of farmland.
After all, there is no accumulation of heavy metal pollution in the silt at the bottom of rivers and lakes in this era.
But the problem is, six to seven million cubic meters, that is six to seven million ships! If ten dredging ships work all year round, and each ship needs to clean three ships and fill three ships every day, it will be a project of more than 20,000 days. I have to work non-stop for sixty or seventy years!
The silt shrinks greatly after drying, and the swamp itself is mostly mud. It is estimated that only two to three thousand acres of fertile land can be filled at most. The entire project is expected to cost more than tens of thousands of dry gold.
After spending a lot of manpower, material, energy, and time, it is not cost-effective to open up one acre of land for three or four thousand gold.
If Zhuwei Lake is cleaned two more meters deep, the cost will not only double, but the deeper you dig, the harder it will be to clean it. Even if you buy fertile land, you can buy an acre of mature land with just two or three dry gold.
However, the account is not such a simple calculation. With the large-scale dredging of Zhuwei Lake, large fish can be cultured and even spiritual fish can be released after the water storage capacity is increased. From the long-term consideration of the family, relying solely on wild fishing is not a long-term solution. , the source of income is not stable.
If economic fish species, or even spiritual fish species, can be cultivated on a large scale, this is the correct way to start the family's basic industry. The investment scale is huge and time-consuming, but once the construction is successful, it will be a steady source of financial resources for the family.
Moreover, in order to encourage the Xuanwu family to open up wasteland, the government exempted the newly opened land from paying grain for the first ten years, which was a considerable saving.
Of course, given Wang Shouzhe's personality, even if he had to do this huge project of dredging, filling, and reclaiming land, it would not be possible to complete it in sixty or seventy years. By then, even his great-grandson would be here...
This planned project had been brewing in his mind for a long time.
I originally planned to start small-scale implementation next year, and then gradually increase the scale of the project, striving to dig Zhuwei Lake two meters deep within ten years, fill in the swamp with four to five thousand acres of fertile land, and gradually build it into the family's next large-scale farm. There are tens of thousands of acres of breeding water and thousands of acres of fertile farmland.
The annual output value must not be low, and the total cost should be controlled within 30,000 dry gold.
But now, the plan has changed a bit!
Standing on the awning boat, Wang Shouzhe put his hands behind his back and looked at the wilderness on both sides of the strait. He had the posture of overlooking the territory and brewing the family's thousand-year legacy.
Ding Laoqi and Wang Shouye, who were born in the same generation, were sitting in the cabin. Their originally anxious hearts gradually calmed down. Looking at the fourth brother standing with his hands behind his hands, he was so tall and majestic, and a feeling of admiration and admiration arose in his heart.
I am Wang Shouye.
In the future, I must become a man who is as upright as my fourth brother.
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The awning boat docked at the small pier of Xingsheng Farm. Under the frightened leadership of the farm's Wang family branch chief, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye went together to find Wang Xiaohan.
At this time, Wang Xiaohan was taking care of the twenty acres of precious spiritual fields, carefully removing the weeds in the spiritual fields. Those weeds were pulled out as soon as they sprouted, so as not to give them any extra chance to absorb.
Nutrition and Reiki.
If the same acre of spiritual land is cultivated intensively, even half a percent more output will be a considerable resource.
Wang Shouzhe did not disturb him, but waited patiently.
This [Xingsheng Farm] is the second farm opened by ancestor Zhou Xuan. It has two thousand acres of fertile land, a small livestock farm, and a small field dedicated to growing fruits and vegetables. In addition, the most important thing is
It was Xingsheng Farm that opened up twenty acres of spiritual land.
The terrain here is surrounded by a small branch of the remaining Liuping Mountains. The original land contained a lot of broken stones, and theoretically it was not a very suitable land for land reclamation.
However, Patriarch Zhouxuan chose this place to open up wasteland, and he did not hesitate to dig a canal to bring in water but also to open a farm. This is because there is a spiritual spring in the cracks of the mountain stream here.
There is a spiritual spring, which means there is a small spiritual vein here.
As long as the spirit gathering array is built around the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins can be condensed and not dispersed, gathered and nourished in the land. Then the spiritual springs will be directed to irrigate the land, and then combined with various agricultural methods to fertilize the land, we can gradually open up the land.
Create a spiritual field suitable for planting various spiritual objects.
Once you have your own spiritual field, you will have your own spiritual rice output, and a Xuanwu family will truly have its own foundation.
Therefore, Patriarch Zhouxuan named this farm "Xingsheng Farm", which naturally means that he hopes that the family will prosper.
This spiritual spring and that small spiritual vein can support about sixty acres of spiritual land at its maximum. However, the Wang family was relatively unfamiliar with the technology of planting spiritual rice at that time, so in order to avoid consuming the spiritual vein in vain. Therefore,
For the time being, only one spirit gathering array has been built and twenty acres of spiritual land have been opened up.
I originally thought that after the Wang family's spiritual rice planting technology became more mature, the remaining 40 acres of spiritual rice fields would be opened up. However, before the plan could be implemented, the Wang family encountered a catastrophic disaster.
Afterwards, the family was in panic and resources were in short supply.
Investing in Lingtian is also a project with a large investment and slow return. All I want to do is cultivate a Lingtai ancestor first, and then slowly save money to open up the Lingtian and accumulate family heritage.
However, I don’t know whether the second uncle Wang Dingtian, the eldest son of the family who was the first person to be trained, was psychologically traumatized due to the huge disaster he experienced when he was five years old, or whether it was because the family elders were too hard on him, or whether it was because
He himself was so anxious that he went crazy and died at the age of twenty.
You must know that the Wang family's "Xuan Yuan Jue" has always been known for its neutrality and peace. Even if we count from the Wang family of Longzuo a thousand years ago, there are only a few people who practice it and become evil.
While the family was grieving, they focused their attention on Wang Dingyue, the second son of the Wang family, and Wang Xiaohan, the sixth son. The elders, who had learned their lesson, did not put too much pressure on Wang Dingyue, but cultivated him in an orderly manner.
More pressure actually focused on Wang Xiaohan, a disciple of the direct lineage with extraordinary talents. It was just that it was relatively late when he was allowed to take the road to Lingtai. It was not until nearly twenty years ago that Wang Xiaohan kept secret.
After swallowing family secrets and selling a lot of property, I got the [Heavenly Spirit Pill] in exchange.
Promotion failed!
Later, Wang Dingyue died in another area.
This matter is also strange to say. Originally, Wang Shouzhe thought that the family was really at the end of its rope and could not buy the Tianling Pill for Wang Dingyue. However, Wang Shouzhe thought about it carefully recently, and there was still something vaguely wrong.
Ancestor Longyan could sell his portable spiritual treasure [Turtle Scale Shield] for Wang Shouzhe to raise resources, but why didn't he buy it for his late father Wang Dingyue?
In addition, after the death of the previous head of the family, Patriarch Longyan did not even show her face. Was it because she was afraid that someone would see something was wrong? There is a high possibility that she took action forcefully during this period.
If the ancestor took action, who would he do it with? Could it be that it was not his late father Wang Dingyue who went to the outer lands alone, but the ancestor who accompanied him?
If the speculation is consistent with the actual situation, why did the ancestor and his late father Wang Dingyue go to the outside world at such a critical moment? Is it really just as publicized to the outside world, because they need to raise resources to seek opportunities?
Definitely not.
Wang Shouzhe has reason to believe that his ancestors and clan elders are hiding a big secret from him. And that secret should be very important to the Wang family! Perhaps, there is also a chance to advance to the Lingtai realm in the outer realm, but it is just because of the failure of his late father Wang Dingyue
Already?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it should be like this, otherwise Longyan ancestor would definitely choose to sell the turtle scale shield and exchange it for his late father Wang Dingyue's heavenly elixir. Instead of both of them taking risks and going to the outside world together to seek some bad opportunity.
If you have a chance, see if you can pry out some information from the ancestor's mouth.
While Wang Shouzhe was thinking, the Sixth Master finished taking care of the weeds and walked out of the forest and field. When he saw Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye waiting outside, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Shouzhe, why are you here? Wait a minute.
It’s been a long time, why didn’t you call me earlier?”
Although Wang Shouzhe couldn't see through his cultivation, he could feel a sense of depression in his mental state. It was very obvious that he had not yet recovered from the failure of spending huge sums of money to attack the Lingtai realm. He was only sixty-five years old, but
I feel even older than the fourth old lady Wang Xiaozhi, like a real old farmer.
"Hello, Grandpa Six." Wang Shouzhe handed over his hand.
"Grandpa." Wang Shouye rushed forward.
"Hey, you little brat, why are you coming to see grandpa with your fourth brother?" Wang Xiaohan picked up Wang Shouye, teased him for a few words, and asked the deputy chief to take him to play.
Later, Wang Xiaohan invited Wang Shouzhe to drink a cup of ordinary tea in front of the small thatched cottage where he lived in seclusion: "Shouzhe came here this time to persuade me to go back to the road of Lingtai?"
Wang Shouzhe had previously sent his generals to deliver [Peiyuan Pill] and Lingshi, and wrote to him about his plans. However, Wang Xiaohan refused the matter, saying that his ambition was old and he only wanted to build a thatched cottage in the spiritual field.
In front of you, protect me for life.
Wang Shouzhe didn't blame him for this salty fish mentality.
He took a sip of Fan tea, looked around, glanced at his simple thatched cottage, smiled and said: "No, Shouzhe just came to say goodbye to Grandpa Sixth, and to take a last look at the spiritual field left by ancestor Zhou Xuan.
.After all, Shouzhe is just a dying man."
"What?"
Wang Xiaohan almost crushed the cup and said in shock and anger, "Wang Shouzhe, what are you talking about?"