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Chapter 246 Farming is not easy
With what happened in Tuyuhun this year, Niu Jichang's impression of Wang Dong is naturally not good. Thinking that Wang Dong is about to reclaim a thousand acres of fertile land, he will naturally compete with himself for business in the Shanzhou market, and he is even more unhappy. taste.

Niu Jichang knew that Shanzhou was said to be poor to the outside world, so the food production was too small, but in fact, he himself was born in a farming family, and he still had quite intuitive feelings about the climate and land. In fact, although the land in this place is not fertile, it can be cultivated, and the water source is still plentiful. The reason why there is no way to produce large-scale grain is actually because this place is already at the end of the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the population has reached hundreds of thousands. , but it is still too small for such a big city, and most of the people are gathered in Shanzhou City. There are no farmers in the surrounding villages who come here to cultivate, so a lot of land is idle. If these idle land are developed, In fact, it can grow a lot of food.

People like Wang Dong, if they sincerely want to take root in this place and become a grain farmer, they will definitely have good crops if they work hard. It is also ripe, and the natural energy of food is continuously grown.

And even if Wang Dong cultivates and grows the grain and does not enter the military purchase system of Zhechong Mansion, as long as it is put on the market in Shanzhou City, the originally high grain price in Shanzhou will be suppressed a little. It's just a little bit of suppression, at most it can affect Zhechong Mansion in Shanzhou, a prefecture-level area, but it will indeed slightly damage his business with Li Junxian.

"It's good for General Wang Bie to want to farm, but I saw last week that there weren't that many people inside and outside the city who could help him find thousands of acres of fertile land."

The seriously wounded people nodded when they heard Niu Jichang's words. Although part of their work is to supply food and fodder for the army, in fact the biggest source of income in the entire supply system is the large amount of soybeans and pastures that are supplied to war horses, which are real food for people. Not much, after all, the food intake of a horse can easily be equal to three ordinary government troops, and the military horses must also eat well. is higher.Even the money from selling drinks in the army is richer than the annual income from selling military rations. There are also various other channels, such as the production of military boots, the purchase of fabrics for flags, and the sale of various ordnance products. Iron ingots and more.

Although the production of military equipment and the production of military equipment in the Tang Dynasty are all in charge of specialized military craftsmen, it is naturally impossible for all the materials they need to be transported from Chang'an by the treasury, so a large part must be provided by these people. Merchants came to make up.

If this business is to be completed in Longxi, they naturally have to rely on Niu Jichang to provide them with the purchase list needed by the army in time, so that they can prepare the goods in time, so that their money can be very stable. With Li Junxian at the helm, he provided them with a huge backing.

When such a profit chain is activated, thousands of taels of silver are circulated in it every year.

It has been more than three years since Li Junxian started this kind of business when he came to Lanzhou as the governor. Some of the merchants were originally small traders. There are also some people who were originally in debt but have also turned around in the past few years of business, so they naturally regard this business route as extremely important.

When everyone heard that Hou Junji promoted Wang Huilai to serve as a general on the left, and at the same time gave him a thousand acres of fertile land outside Shanzhou City, the first reaction was not whether the food grown by Wang Hui would conflict with them. What makes everyone even more worried is that Hou Junji and Hou Shangshu seem to be staying in Longxi forever. Does he also want to create a profit space for himself in Longxi by promoting people and rewarding fields?This is the big problem.

This was also what Niu Jichang was worried about. It was okay for Hou Junji to make money, but if it delayed their business in Longyou, it would be troublesome.

However, after he got to know more about it, Niu Jichang found that it seemed that Hou Junji's reward to Wanghui was just the one thousand mu of land, and he didn't interfere too much after that. After careful investigation, Niu Jichang gradually found that Hou Junji had his own money. For example, during this expedition, the Marquis of Tuyuhun collected quite a lot of loot from the loot and the princes of Tuyuhun. This method is much rougher than that of Li Junxian, but the income comes from more easily and happily.

Niu Jichang judged that Hou Shangshu was not a long-term business idea like Mr. Li's. Hou Shangshu's method was much more straightforward, just grab it by hand.

This made Niu Jichang heave a sigh of relief, since the opponent he was facing was not Mr. Hou Junji, but just a little Wang Hui, a Zhechong Fu Zuobie general.Come to disturb my business, I'm afraid the size is still too small.

When they heard Niu Jichang talking about the lack of people, the three of them looked at each other and couldn't help smiling. Niu Jichang's meaning was already obvious. Wang Hui didn't have Hou Junji as a backer behind him, so it would be more convenient for everyone to do things.

It is possible to manage a thousand acres of land with Wang Hui's dozen or so people, but that would only be extensive planting and low harvest, and the harvest will never be high, not to mention that if the thousand acres of land is really going to be manned to build ditches. There are about a hundred people, and then the initial investment in real operation is definitely more.

Would it be possible for Wang to recruit so many people in a short period of time without Hou Junji's support?If there is still a glimmer of hope for his land in Guan, but his land is allocated to places like Shanzhou, why should people who are capable of farming in Shanzhou be tenants for landlords?
Shanzhou has a vast land and few people. If the farmers here are more courageous, they can go to the mountains to hide, and it is not difficult to farm and support the whole family by themselves. At that time, Datang Juntian paid very little tax, and the annual harvest was not much less than that of ordinary small farmers, and it was enough to support their families.

Of course, it is possible to recruit tenants by reclaiming land outside the city last week, but the way everyone can think of is to wait until there is a disaster and some refugees may come from Longyou. At that time, Wang Hui can open a porridge shed to help these refugees, and then choose from them. He watched the people in Zhongyong sign the deeds of selling themselves, making them his slaves, or just hiring them as tenant farmers. With so much land, he could gather a large group of bankers several times. This is also an ordinary big landowner. This is a commonly used method, but if you want to create a village that can cultivate thousands of acres of fertile land, it will take more than ten or twenty years of operation.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)