Chapter 1679 Planting Plan
As for the Sichuan peppercorns and star anise, she and Shao Yunduan went to look at the land that day and found that they were growing wild in the surrounding mountains and forests, and they looked pretty good.
This idea suddenly occurred to me at that time.
Otherwise, why would she buy 50,000 acres of mountain land in one go?
With the blessing of supernatural powers, she is not worried at all about the growth of medicinal herbs, peppercorns, star anise, etc. After harvesting, she will dry them and then find buyers. Even if transportation in the mountainous area is not very convenient, she does not have to worry.
She also wanted to grow some lychees, longans, mangoes, dragon fruits and the like, but after weighing the pros and cons, she gave up reluctantly.
These tropical fruit trees are not suitable for growing here yet. Let's wait two years.
This place is not too far from the provincial capital of Yuzhang. If you really want to eat it, it can be easily transported here by horseback.
After deciding what to plant, the next step is to start clearing the land.
Time is a bit tight, but Qiao Xuan is willing to pay.
One thousand acres of land is ready-made and can be used to grow medicinal herbs. The three thousand acres of wasteland are connected to the one thousand acres of land. The terrain is relatively flat compared to the mountains. There are few trees, mostly shrubs and weeds.
But even such land is not easy to reclaim. The shrubs grow in clusters, and many of the stems have thorns. They grow in clumps and intertwine with each other. The roots underground are tangled and interconnected. Digging them out with the roots is definitely not a small project.
As for the mountains, there are more trees. The mountains that Qiao Xuan bought have already been selected. Most of them are overgrown with weeds and have fewer trees. Even so, cleaning them is a big project.
Now it is the time for spring plowing. In about half a month, it will be time for sowing. It is the busiest time for farmers, and the wages for hiring people to open up wasteland are much higher.
Moreover, we have to hurry as all the herbs, potatoes, peppercorns and star anise have to be planted before mid-May.
After Qiao Xuan talked to Song Shi, Mian Mian and others, everyone became a little nervous.
Songshi quickly recruited workers in the city, paying 35 cents a day, including lunch.
This was a good job with good pay, and many people signed up, but not many had hoes, sickles, hatchets, axes and other tools for land reclamation at home. Iron farm tools were not cheap, and not all farm tools in rural areas were made of iron, nor were they complete, not to mention city dwellers who had no land or only a small vegetable plot. And only iron tools could be used for land reclamation.
Turquoise could only give up with regret.
After all, they didn't have these tools at home. There were blacksmith shops in the city, but iron farm tools were not easy to buy and there were not many of them. Even if they bought all of them, there were only about 40 farm tools in total.
In the end, only eighty people were hired, and only half of them could bring their own farm tools.
If we hire villagers during the slack season, there won't be this problem.
The eighty people were divided into two groups, working on the plains and in the mountains at the same time.
On the mountain side, Song Shi brought a few people to watch it personally, and on the flat land side, Lu Qian, Liu Fu, Mo Li and others helped to watch.
Qiao Xuan gave instructions one by one, asking them to assign tasks to everyone and try to be as orderly as possible. They should not use the firewood from the land reclamation at home, but pile it up first and divide it among dozens of people on the last day.
The reason why they are not allowed to take away things every day is because we are afraid that trivial matters such as who took more or who took less will arise and affect the progress.
Even though this is just a small benefit, there will always be people fighting for benefits.
(End of this chapter)
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