Start farming in Konoha

Senju Hashirama said with a little embarrassment, "This is as it should be. People in your production department have worked hard this month." After all, it is the only department in Konoha Village that can make money. Other departments are spending money. Now He had a headache when he saw the account books. Now that he finally saw a profitable department, he couldn't let anyone feel bad, so he said, "This way, your production department will hand over half of this harvest, and the rest of the money will be at your department's disposal."

When Xu Qiang heard this, he was relieved that he had 4 taels in his small treasury that could be used. The other elders were very surprised when they heard Xu Qiang's report. After all, it was nothing to hear Xu Qiang say that he could earn 100 million taels. It’s something on paper, not something that can be done. Now that there is 8 taels of real gold, the impact is different. This money is more than what their family earns in a year, and it is also very easy. If you don't know, this farm cannot be separated from Senju Hashirama Mudun, they all wanted to build such a farm themselves. After all, the surrounding areas of Konoha Village were surrounded by forests. It was very simple for ninjas with ninjutsu to cut down trees and establish farmland. But now I can only watch, after all, I can't take away the business of my own village. However, seeing that the Hokage had so much extra funds, and that they were available every month, they read books one by one and asked Senju Hashirama for funds for their departments.

Xu Qiang saved half of the funds and immediately summoned his men to distribute all the benefits this time. After all, the rewards must be distributed early. Xu Qiang gave each ninja 10 taels of silver, 2 chickens, 100 kilograms of rice, and 100 eggs. The chickens and eggs were all from his own chicken farm. Under Xu Qiang's modern breeding technology, there are now 10 chickens, and tens of thousands of eggs are produced every day. Now that the market in Konoha Village is beginning to be saturated, Xu Qiang no longer expands the scale of the chicken farm, but even so There are more than 300 people working on the chicken farm. There are not enough women in Shanxia Village. Many villagers nearby have started to work for him. So this time he can take care of his own business. The other 1000 working villagers did not receive as good treatment as the ninjas. They lost 10 taels of silver, and the rest were the same as the ninjas. Xu Qiang, the ninja who helped cut down the forest, also asked his subordinates to give him 2 chickens, 100 kilograms of rice, and 100 eggs. Although these things were not of high value to the ninjas, they were still considered a token of their kindness.

After rewarding his men in this way, Xu Qiang started his next plan. Based on his 10 years of reading farming novels, the most suitable way to build a small and simple industrial base is the five small industries. These five small industries generally refer to the five industries of small steel, small coal mines, small machinery, small cement, and small fertilizers. enterprise. In the past, when watching Industrial Overlord, the protagonist explained the five small industries to Africa, which is industrially backward. The current industrial environment of the ninja world can be said to be worse than that of Africa. After all, the ninja world has no industrial base, and these machines are all imported from outside the ninja world. Those transported from the mainland can only start with the simplest ones.

But when Xu Qiang went to collect information, he realized that he was thinking simply. Even if a basic steel plant costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, a steel plant with complete supporting facilities would be even more expensive, without millions of taels of silver. Don't think about it. It's basically as expensive as the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works in the Qing Dynasty. He can't even afford a blast furnace with 4 taels of steel without even thinking about it.

Xu Qiang put down the budget he had listed in his hand to build a steel plant and gave up. "It will take some time to build a steel plant with the funds in my hands. I can earn enough money by doing light industry first." So he changed his plan and decided to build Farm No. 2, but this time he was not growing food. After all, he was growing crops. Too much can't be sold for a price. This time he planned to grow cotton, and then spin it into cotton cloth to sell for money. After all, the first industrialization was based on the Jenny spinning machine. Moreover, the investment is small and the results are quick.

It happened that after the second batch of rice was harvested, his ninjas didn't have much to do. After all, it was usually taken care of by 1000 ordinary farmers, so Xu Qiang asked them to open up Farm No. 1 near Farm No. 2, but this time There were no other ninjas from Konoha to help, and the 100 ninjas under him slowly opened it up using wind escape. It took 10 days to clear out 10 acres of land, and then Xu Qiang found Qianju Zhujian and asked him to create a seal to release Mudun.

Senju Hashirama asked strangely, "Have you opened a second farm? You are not afraid that there will be too much food to sell. After all, with Mudun, 10 acres of land can be used as 100 million acres for them, and I I heard that the harvest per acre of land here is three times higher than that of ordinary land. Isn’t this equivalent to our Fire Nation having 3 million acres more land, and the Fire Nation consuming so much food?” Done? For a while, Hokage's Senju Hashirama no longer knew anything about farming as before. He knew that such a continuous increase in food production would eventually bankrupt the farmers of the Fire Country, thus causing the Fire Country to fall into turmoil again, so Just ask clearly.

Xu Qiang didn't know Senju Hashirama's worries, but he still told his plan, "Hokage-sama, originally I planned to build a steel plant. But I checked the information about the steel plant and found the simplest steel plant It takes hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to build it, and the steel plant also has many supporting facilities, which means more money. It can’t be built without millions of taels of silver. Of course, we can’t build a small one now. So much money, but we can't get hundreds of thousands of taels now. So I want to open up a cotton farm here, so that we can use machines to weave cotton, use cotton cloth to make money, and solve the financial problem of the steel plant. "

Senju Hashirama was relieved to hear that it was not used to grow food, but he couldn't understand the rest. After all, for ninjas, he couldn't imagine what else the steel plant was used for except making weapons, but ninjas use weapons. It didn't cost much steel, so he didn't pay much attention to the steel plant, so he asked, "Are steel plants so important? Our country has always imported steel from the Kingdom of Iron. Now that the Kingdom of Fire is at peace, there is no demand for steel." Too much."

Xu Qiang was very uncomfortable with Senju Hashirama's idea. After all, Xu Qiang's empire attached great importance to steel because it was poor and weak in the past. By the time he grew up, it had produced more than half of the world's steel, but in this country with ninjutsu In this world, the strength of a country depends not on steel, but on ninjas. Therefore, powerful countries do not attach great importance to the production of steel. Most of the weapons in the world are made by the Kingdom of Iron, and high-quality weapons are made by the Kingdom of Craftsmen.

"In addition to making weapons, steel has many other uses. If you want to make machines that can improve work efficiency, you can also use steel to build houses. You can also use steel to make trains and improve transportation efficiency." So Xu Qiang carefully explained to the native Qianju Zhujian. All aspects of trains are used.