Chapter 784: Victory of Pattern

As soon as February passes, the land of Jiangnan becomes busy.

The farmers began to tidy up the stables and ditches, pick out manure from the pig manure pits, consolidate the field ridges, plow the field soil, and topdress...

Although the immigrants from central Sichuan are growing rapeseed in the fields, they cannot be idle. They have to work as part-time workers in the polders nearby. There is no way, there is too much land, and it is impossible to grow it just by relying on local immigrants.

At the same time, the immigrants from Shuzhong also brought them excellent planting habits and advanced planting tools. With the ground-and-window seedling room, the seedlings in the ditches can be sown in advance and grow stronger than in previous years.

Ten polders for immigrants from central Shu and ten polders for immigrants from Liangzhe Road, a total of 40,000 acres, are the experimental fields created by Su You.

One-third of them are planted with wheat, and cotton seedlings are planted between the wheat ridges before the harvest in April. After the wheat is harvested, the wheat fields become cotton fields, achieving two harvests a year.

One-third is planted to rapeseed, and mid-season rice is planted after harvesting in April, thus achieving two harvests a year.

The remaining one-third is still planted to early rice according to the old method, but the seedling planting time is advanced, and it can also be deployed for two seasons.

In order to achieve sufficient fertility, composting is necessary. Fortunately, scouring out mud has been a project task in recent years. The sludge in Daggang is already very fertile. With the addition of grass and manure, good farmyard manure can be piled up.

For at least ten years, the land will not be fertile enough to use chemical fertilizers.

After one year of planting, you can also plant alfalfa or beans, which is also a way to accumulate nitrogen fertilizer.

But these are things for another day. Now just digging dirt and compost is hard work.

But people are full of energy.

Su Shaobao gave us a fertile field with guaranteed harvests despite droughts and floods. If we don’t risk our lives to plant it, we would be losing our moral character.

People who leave their hometowns and join the immigration team first have various helpless reasons;

Secondly, they are not lazy people, they are all people who have ideas and dare to do it.

Through the experience of later generations, Su You knew that such people can exert their greatest initiative as long as they are given a land where they can be independent.

This is the first time that immigrants feel that they have a future to live in, and the first time that they can live openly and for themselves!

Not only the hard-working men, but also women, old women, and old men all participated in this magnificent construction. After boiling water for cooking, they had to go to the fields.

The older children in the family are also responsible for raising chickens, driving ducks to the pond, and leading their younger siblings to cook pig grass and feed it to the pigs.

Su You directly ordered the armies in various places that the soldiers on the two Zhejiang Roads must serve the country with loyalty and care for the people. Therefore, it is the duty of the soldiers to help the people harvest and sow crops during the busy farming season! This time the new army expanded, they were selected from among the models of supporting agriculture.

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With the participation of the army, large-scale construction around Taihu Lake has become more vigorous.

However, Su You did not treat them lightly. Each person received 300 food allowance per day and received the same pay as the migrant workers who opened up wasteland.

Soldiers also need a future. Su You brazenly declared to Wang Zhongzheng that this was called reform through labor, cutting the marrow of the Book of Changes, and accepting re-education from the working people.

Let’s start with the ugly words. In the future, the two Zhejiang Roads will definitely not need so many soldiers. Those who cannot be educated will face professional elimination!

What do retired soldiers do? Is it farming? So learning planting techniques now is also to lay a solid foundation for changing careers in the future.

The happiest people are Zhang Dun and Cai Jing. They have done their ideological work well and everyone has hope for the future. Their work suddenly became easier.

Coupled with newspapers controlling public opinion and propaganda, Liangzhe Road, like every place where Su You had ever served, fell into a feverish construction mood.

So when Chao Buzhi rushed over with the letter that Bianjing Colander was born, Su You was actually pulling his trouser legs and pulling the plow with Zhang Qi.

This is also a characteristic of Jiangnan. The paddy fields are soft and soft. Even if there are no cattle, two people can plow two acres of land in a day by relying on human power and pulling a sharp-pointed shaft plow.

It would take one family a month to plow 40 acres of land, and this was even when Suyou equipped them with the most advanced hard plows.

Suyou has seen trouble during harvest time.

Then he gloated and imagined the cries of those powerful men who guarded hundreds of acres of fertile land and could not hire anyone when human resources became even tighter in the future.

It seems that the price of water buffalo in Jiangnan is going to increase, so we need to notify the Sitong Organization to start animal husbandry in advance...

Planting rice in March is also hard work. Fortunately, Sichuan has already invented a "rice horse"

The rice horse is like a small canoe with baskets on it to hold rice seedlings. People can sit on it to transplant rice seedlings, without having to bend down and stand in the paddy field to transplant rice seedlings.

Even so, when the fields planted by immigrants from Zhejiang and Zhejiang are finished, the rapeseed grown by immigrants from central Sichuan will be harvested again.

Su You looked at the plump and plump rapeseed pods, two-thirds of which had turned yellow, and felt that every cell in his body was crying out in pain. He felt like crying bitterly: "What evil have I done..."

Li Laoshuan rushed over to characterize Su You: "Young master, you shouldn't be a farmer. Why are you trying to be so strong?"

Liu Wanchun also led the villagers from Anhewei over: "Shaobao, those who work hard will govern others, and those who work hard will govern others. You work during the day and review official documents at night. It's too hard. Now Yonganwei is helping us plant.

Now that the rice is done, it’s our turn to collect rapeseed for the folks in Yong’anwei!”

Su You also felt that he had been a little overworked recently: "I can't be strong anymore... Then I will change my job and manage logistics for everyone. It will be no problem."

He directed the village to set up several big pots, and the big pot dishes under Su Shaobao's guidance made the villagers give a thumbs up. Shaobao should have done this a long time ago! This is his serious job!

There are also ways to cook big pot dishes. Stir-frying in a big pot won't make it fragrant. It must be stewed, braised, or braised to be authentic.

The oil and water should be abundant, and the flavor should be rich. A bucketful of rice should be topped with a big spoonful of toppings, and the taste...tsk tsk tsk...

When Su Shaobao cooks, he will not waste a single bit. For example, if a pig has only its bristles, teeth, hoofs, shells and bones, he can cook it into delicious food for you as long as the rest is meat!

In April, the rapeseed harvest was finished, Yonganwei began to store water for plowing, and the planting of medium-sized rice began again.

The waterwheel and oil mill at the head of the village began to operate.

It is similar to the popcorn tube of later generations, but it is enlarged many times in a large frying vat. The rapeseed is placed in it and rotated for frying, which saves a lot of labor.

The fried rapeseed needs to be cooled and ground into powder.

After grinding, the rapeseed sand needs to be steamed in a large pot for half an hour to increase the oil yield.

Then put it into a cylindrical iron bucket. There are fine holes on the lower side of the iron bucket to drain the oil.

Then there is the first squeeze.

Nowadays, with hydraulic equipment, through the principle of pressure, a waterwheel mill can get enough pressure.

This device can squeeze out 70% of the oil for the first time. Then the rapeseed cake is taken out, crushed again, steamed again and pressed again, so that the oil can be completely squeezed out.

The oil yield rate is much higher than that of traditional manual oil pressing mills, and it does not require labor.

What remains is pure rapeseed cake, which is an excellent feed additive for fish, poultry, and livestock.

When the first pot of rapeseed oil was squeezed out, the whole Yong'anwei was filled with the fragrance of rapeseed oil!

"Hahahahaha..."

Su You's extremely proud laughter spread throughout the village. In Li Laoshuan's words, the young master was extremely happy!

This is not just a matter of a little oil, it solves the biggest bottleneck in the development model of the Taihu Lake Basin - the problem of satisfying the interests of all parties!

Zhejiang immigrants don't have to worry about rapeseed. Take Yong'anwei, an immigrant from central Sichuan, as an example. With 2,000 acres of land, each farm has 40 acres, and each household has an average of 2 acres, which means there are twenty-five households.

The cost of enclosing two thousand acres of land is higher. Based on one mu, an investment of two thousand dollars is required.

Including subsidies such as agricultural tools, seeds, and housing worth ten guan per household, a total of 2,250 guan is needed for Yong'anwei to meet the standard for immigrants to move in with their bags.

Sitong Company has taken over all these tasks, and the cost is actually much lower than this.

Then the first season of rapeseed on the land is used as the income. Calculated based on the oil produced per acre of land, it is 200,000 jins of rapeseed oil.

Even if the value of vegetable oil is only half that of sesame oil and camellia oil, at fifty cents per catty, this is still a profit of 10,000 guan!

Excluding the initial investment, Sitong will earn a profit of 7,750 yuan!

This is such a girly way to gain face and dignity!

Of course, the actual rate of return cannot be so high, and there are also various expenses such as management costs.

But the profit margins are there. Sitong did not lose money and make money, and there was enough motivation to stimulate businessmen to invest in Suhu land development.
Chapter completed!