"You are moving fast enough. I originally thought it would be great to have 50,000 stones, but I didn't expect that I had already stored 80,000 stones." Looking at the underground grain kiln that was three or four feet higher than the surroundings and covered with oil cloth felt and straw on the top, I nodded with satisfaction.

"However, this is not enough. Try to buy more food and grass from other places. I hope to save more than 10 million stones by the end of next year. Can it be done?" I turned around and asked in a low voice to Zheng Ye.

"I thought that there are wars now, and it is unlikely that I would buy grain in large quantities like this year. Moreover, the current war industry has affected Hebei and Henan. In the past three months, the food and grass we can collect is less than one million stones. It is optimistic that by the end of next autumn, we should be able to save enough. In addition, according to your instructions, we have purchased 7,000 acres of flat wasteland in Hancheng County..." Speaking of this, Zheng Ye looked at me hesitantly. "Although these wastelands are flat enough, if we want to farm, we will not have enough manpower."

"It's okay, try to make as much as you can. As for the lack of farming labor, this is not difficult, but I'm afraid this matter is to be entrusted to you. Taking advantage of this winter and early spring, I'll try to get people. Of course, the best way is to recruit refugees. Anyway, we have nothing to lack now, the only thing we lack is the population. The number of refugees is unlimited, the more the better, do you know?" I patted Zheng Ye's shoulder and whispered.

"Don't worry, young master, I know what to do." Zheng Ye nodded very well. "In this way, with enough manpower, these 7,000 acres of wasteland can be turned into fertile land."

I turned around and asked Li Yuanfang, "By the way, didn't you say that there would be another Turkic caravan to arrive this year? Do you know which route they are taking?"

"Young master, they are leaving Jinyang. It is estimated that there should be more than half a month left, but when you arrive in Luoyang, you are probably near Jinyang now." Li Yuanfang was slightly stunned. After thinking for a long time, he said with certainty.

"Okay, I'll send a message to the old housekeeper immediately and send someone to pick him up. The horses don't have to go to Luoyang, Dongdu, and transport them here directly. As for the wine, they have to go to Dongdu to find the old housekeeper to go." I thought about it and ordered solemnly. "This time, all the horses brought by the Turkic caravan were left behind, and this young master is of great use.

Li Yuanfang nodded in understanding. After a while, a group walked towards the inner room of the business. Two carrier pigeons flew out from the pigeon cage there and flew towards the east capital Luoyang.

"Young Master, what should we do next? There are more than 30 craftsmen coming here now. You can't let them stay and do nothing every day, right?" Zheng Chen asked quietly from the side.

"The first thing is to recruit people from the county town, first repair lime and cement kilns. By the way, there are also brick and tile kilns. When there are refugees, let them do these things first. It doesn't matter if we don't have oxen. Let's talk to the old housekeeper and make thirty pairs of heavy plows for me for horse farming, and then send them directly to me." After thinking about it, I made a decision.

Ma Geng was found in the Han Dynasty. Now that I am new to this, I saw this thing in the book, so I curiously asked the blacksmiths in the mansion to create it and experiment. I have to say that this thing is indeed very good, and it is strange that no one uses it. After inquiring with the old housekeeper, I found out that even in the Great Sui Dynasty, horses were still scarce. Fighting horses were needed and transportation required horses were needed. And the Central Plains lacked a place to produce horses. Therefore, after the Han Dynasty, Ma Geng gradually disappeared.

Therefore, horse farming cannot become popular, and what's more, if you want to use horse farming, you can only use it in dry land in the north, and use it in the south is completely nonsense, so only oxen can do it.

However, after my master's strict survey and scientific calculations, although Hancheng County has seven mountains, one water and two parts of fields, these two parts of fields are completely in a flat area, and the population is sparse, so it is very useful to use horse farming.

Moreover, the land here is fertile enough. In fact, as long as you cultivate deeply and apply organic fertilizer, not to mention anything else, there is no problem with Ganggang's output now.

The grain harvest in this era depends entirely on Feng Shui. Uh, no, it depends on whether the fertility of the land is enough. I have seen the farming methods of my tenants. Whenever the autumn harvest is over, they will burn the straw into ashes and then scatter it in the fields. It is said to be fertilizer, and I have died of sweat. I remember that when I was in my early 190s, I could still see such farm fertilizer in the countryside.

After burning wheat bars, sorghum stems and so on, they are scattered in the fields as a kind of material for fertile soil. When I grow up, I realize that this is called organic fertilizer, but the fertility of this organic fertilizer is too low.

However, after I started working in the township, I set up an organic fertilizer demonstration base there to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and plant organic fertilizers, which achieved good results. Although it is not chemical fertilizer, it is much better than the untreated farm fertilizer.

The divisions and craftsmen brought by this master have been placed. According to the instructions of this master, five days later, the heavy plowing harness used by the ten pairs of horse farms and other tools had arrived in Hancheng County with the ship. After getting this thing, the deep farming work in winter can finally start.

The 7,000 acres of wasteland purchased here were lands that had been cultivated by people in the past, but with frequent wars, the population of Hancheng County decreased a lot, causing nearly half of the land here to be wasted. The 7,000 acres of wasteland purchased by this young master did not spend much money, because it had been deserted for many years. According to the old farmers in Hancheng County, it had been deserted for at least nearly a hundred years.

However, if it falls into my hands, it is definitely a treasure. It’s not enough to have enough manpower? It doesn’t matter, my son Ma Duo will be the one. I remember that the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was because it was vast and sparsely populated, but it lacked heavy agricultural farming machinery. What should I do?

So the four horses were used to pull the horses and pull the plow, which could cultivate 80 acres of land a day. One acre in the Sui Dynasty was only equivalent to 0.7 acres of later generations. In other words, the four horses were used to pull the plow, which actually could cultivate 100 acres of land every day. I don’t know how much faster it would be to climb than the cattle.

The heavy-pull plow produced by this master was not from ancient times, but was created by the horse-pull plow that I had seen in later generations. The efficiency and depth of cultivation can meet the requirements needed by the planting industry.

It only takes five sets of such heavy-pull horse-drawn plows, and these 7,000 acres of land can be fully cultivated in just twelve days. In addition, the three-legged cart that can also be sown was also made.

According to historical records, a three-legged car requires a labor force of one calories and can sow a glutinous land in one day, which is 100 acres.

In other words, if you let the heavy horse pull the plow and cooperate with the tripod cart, you can finish even the plow and sowing in twelve days, which shows how awesome this is. It is completely a semi-artificial mechanized operation in the handicraft era.

Unfortunately, it is winter now, so the agricultural machinery transported, except for the horse-drawn heavy plow, can only be applied with butter and thrown into the warehouse for storage.

However, taking advantage of this era, we should first open these deserted fields and turn the soil up and go through the wind, frost, snow and rain, and then we will get better after the spring of the next year. It is a very pleasant thing to appreciate horse farming. Seeing Li Yuanfang and others driving this thing to run wildly on the deserted fields, the fertile and yellow-brown soil was turned up, and the grass chips were flying around. Seeing that the land was deeply rolled up, my young master's mood became more and more comfortable, and even the cold wind seemed to be dispelled by the hot scene.

"Young master, it's time to go back. This is your time to work in the yamen." Aside from me, Miss Qingxia, wearing a fur, whispered. I have saved it now. It's almost time to work. I'll quickly greet Li Yuanfang. After leaving behind people, I hurried to the Hancheng County Government with about twenty troops.

After returning to the county government office, he said hello to the county magistrate and the county magistrate who had already squatted in the county government office, he squatted on the soft couch and asked about what official duties these two had to deal with?

Next, there were a bunch of trivial matters, including the home losing chickens, the west losing dogs, Wang Ermazi and Zhao San, and Liu Qi and Ba were in trouble because of land disputes, so they asked the government office to make a decision.

There is also the old offender in this county who died of illness, hoping to let his son Zhao Butcher inherit the family business. I saw this young master's eyes. No matter how you look at it, they all look like various gossips in newspapers, and now they all happen in front of me.

In addition, how should the servants be assigned first next year? Well, the servants in this era are all taken turns to serve by the people, so they are both called servants and servants. In the county government, whether they are guardians, slaughterers, or those who maintain public order on the streets, they are all these people.

In addition to these two, there are also chief clerks and scholars, which are also complicated. I will continue to start the day's numb work. Fortunately, although everything is mixed, I usually only in charge of the assignment, such as throwing the fights to the county magistrate and throwing the land dispute away from the county magistrate. There are not many things that really need to be handled.

The main reason is that I am not the kind of person who takes over power. After dealing with all the matters, I looked at some official documents on my desk for a while, and was slowed down for a long time, and finally finally, I touched my empty belly. I hooked my fingers at Sister Qingxia. Sister Qingxia understood and walked into the office.
Chapter completed!