My whole family is dancing

People from Baijia carefully inspected the swamp in Gexian Village, and Baichangfu dug seven or eight holes to verify that the land here was suitable for sugar cane.

"I don't know how many years it has been. The black mud is shiny with oil. It would not be worthwhile to use it all to grow sugarcane. It can be used to grow some food."

After they walked for a while, Baifuer found a nest of eggs in the dry reeds, bent down to pick up a piece of mud and threw it towards the distant reeds, and many birds flew up for a while, It seems that this is still a habitat for birds.

Bai Changfu said, "One and a half meters down here will be dry. When the time comes, stop the water source, remove the reeds above, and then dig deep to dig out all the black mud underground. After being exposed to the sun in summer, two times in winter After the heavy snow freezes, wheat can be planted in the spring of next year."

Baifuer didn't understand this, "Can't we plant this year?"

"It won't work this year." Bai Changfu said again, "This land looks fat, but it will turn into hard lumps after being turned up and dried. The crops will not survive if they are planted. It is not possible to grow crops with mud."

Bai Fuer said that he has learned again.

Zhang Xianyu also asked a few questions, and after getting the answers, he knew what was in his mind. The [-] mu of land was included in their pockets, and the next focus was to open up wasteland. Of course, they wanted to use it as soon as possible after the capital was spent.

Everyone stood here to discuss, and Zhang Xianyu said that he wanted to find the head of Gexian Village, "We are too far away from here, and there are too many things at home, so we can only find someone here."

The workshop is still making sugar, and then it is necessary to prepare for spring plowing. These are major events, and none of them should be delayed. How can I go here if I have the time?
"Last two months, the village head Zhou of Gexian Village sent sugar cane to the sugar factory. I think he is okay, so he should be willing to help."

Bai Changfu said, "Then what are you waiting for, go find him now."

Just as the crowd was about to leave, a few came from afar, and the leader shouted and asked, "Where did you come from, and what are you doing here?"

Waiting for the people to approach Baichangfu to negotiate, the leader heard that it was from Baijia and hurriedly greeted them, and asked them what they were here for.

"Old man, we bought this piece of land from hundreds of families, and we are going to open up wasteland to grow food."

"You bought it?" The leader raised his voice, "Are you going to plant sugarcane here? Oh, it can't be planted here."

"Oh no, sugar cane should be grown, but grain cannot be grown."

The people from Baijia thought they didn’t know what there was, so they hurriedly asked, and the old man said, “It’s just this black mudflat, there is not much water and there are many small fish, and when the weather warms up, there are many birds. , Some people in the village tried to plow the ground here to plant wheat before, but the seeds were eaten up by birds before the seedlings grew up.

Baifuer understood that all the migrating birds settled here. There are reeds to live in and small fish and shrimps to eat. This is their paradise.

If there are too many birds, the crops will be ruined, which is naturally unpleasant.

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"If this is the case, when we open up wasteland, we have to leave a place to live, and we can't drive them all out."

Bai Changfu nodded, "Your grandma said, you have to be in awe of everything you do. Those birds have been here for so long, we can't occupy all the territory as soon as we come."

He said and looked at the farthest piece, "That piece is full of mud, I don't know how deep it is, and there are a lot of reeds, so let's not open it, and save it for them."

"As for the birds eating crops" is a question, "We can only open up wasteland first and see the situation. Without such a large piece of land, they should go to other places, right?"

Everyone also meant the same thing, and Bai Changfu said casually, "It's such a big piece, when will it be finished?"

"You want to open up this piece of black mudflat?" The old man's ears perked up, "Do you need to hire someone to open up wasteland?"

The few men who followed the old man had their ears pricked up, and when they heard this, their eyes lit up and they stepped forward to recommend themselves, "Boss Bai, our village also grows sugar cane, and we sell it to Wenchang Village for many years."

"Our village is not like your village. It is not as rich as your village. If you want to hire people to open up wasteland, can you consider hiring us? We also have a lot of people in Gexian Village. They are all hardworking people, and they will definitely work hard."

"That's right, invite us, it's very convenient for us to stay in this village."

Zhang Xianyu opened his mouth to inquire and found out that the leader is Zhou, "Zhou Dasheng, the head of the village is from your village, right?"

"Hey, that man is my uncle."

Zhang Xianyu nodded, "We are going to find him, please lead the way."

Several people enthusiastically led them to the village, and it didn't take long to find the head of the village who was busy in the field.

"Are you going to open that black mud flat?"

Li Chang Zhou also told about the bird infestation, and Zhang Xianyu said there was no problem, "We can still grow sugar cane, but those birds can't eat the sugar cane, right?"

When Zhou Lichang saw this, he didn't say anything, and asked them how they wanted to open up wasteland.

Baijia has experience on this point. "For the land, we require that the reeds on it be cleared first, and then the ground must be plowed two feet deep. We will pay 120 renminbi for one mu of land."

They used to pay [-] yuan per mu for outsourcing land reclamation, but it was dry land, and this black mud flat seemed to be difficult to reclaim wasteland, so the price would naturally increase, and more, because deep plowing was more difficult.

Zhou Lichang thought this price was very reasonable. After all, it was much more difficult than ordinary land reclamation, so he said that he would help them collect it.

Baichangpu took out a penny and gave it to Lichang Zhou, "It's a bit troublesome for us to come here, so I ask Lichang Zhou to help Zhang Luo as much as possible."

Having money and not having money are two different things, one tael of silver is enough for Zhou Lichang to work with all his heart.

The news was quickly released. Many people came to the door of Zhou Lichang’s house. They heard that land reclamation costs 120 Wen per acre. This kind of work does not happen every day, it depends on luck.

This is the first time that such a good thing of making money at the door of the house.

What's more, if it is a parcel of land, everyone in the family can go.

Zhou Lichang raised his voice and said Baijia's request for this land reclamation. Hearing that they had to dig two feet deep, they didn't have much opinion. As long as the money is enough, everything else is easy to talk about.

The next step is for everyone to register and sign up, how much land to rent, etc. Bai Changfu explained that he would come to measure the land tomorrow, so he took the family away, and left the rest to Zhou Lichang.

It was already evening when they returned to Wenchang Village, Baichangfu and Baichangpu went to the sugar factory without returning home, Zhang Xianyu figured out her abacus again.