farming female castellan

Chapter 25 Is there any legend about this land?

Wang Lizheng said: "The land on the south side of the canal is homestead. You can just choose a place. There are no ready-made fields in the village for sale. If you want to buy land, you can buy the land on the north side of the canal."

Those places in the north are those two unique scenery.

One is right next to the canal.In such a place where irrigation is convenient, there are various weeds growing in clumps here and there, and some places are still very dense.There were a few people mowing grass on the wasteland, looking at Chen Fan and the others from time to time.

When you get closer, you can see that there are clearly visible white marks on the bare ground.

Another thing that is even more strange is the large white open space to the north of the grassland, where there are almost no weeds.

"Saline-alkali land." Chen Fan judged in his heart, "Just because some weeds can grow here, it can be considered as barren grassland. Can it be said that there is heavy saline-alkali land? I have actually seen such a large area of ​​heavy-saline-alkali land with my own eyes. "

Saline-alkali land is basically in arid and semi-arid areas, where precipitation is small and evaporation is large, and salt dissolved in water tends to accumulate on the soil surface.But such a large area of ​​saline-alkali land appeared in this water town, which is simply unimaginable.

"Is there any legend about this land?" Chen Fan asked Li Zheng.

"Legend? What legend?" Li Zheng was confused.

"Isn't it rumored that some fairy treasure fell down, or that the stars in the sky fell down and sank this land?" Such a big pit with a square of a hundred acres was formed.

"No, no." Lizheng shook his head like a rattle, "The terrain is always high and low, isn't the mountain much higher than the ground, isn't the lake much lower than the ground, Xitou Mountain, Yudai Lake, those big There are no legends about Tangxiaogou. Neither does this land."

Chen Fan wanted to curl his lips, it was really not cute at all.Are you all curious or unimaginable?The old man also said she was a monster.You don't even have the imagination of the old man fleeing famine.

By the way, where did that old man go?

Two or three villagers swayed over and stood a few steps away from them, looking at them.The mowers are still mowing, and the busy people in the field are still busy.

"The terrain is so low, why isn't this place a muddy place?" Chen Fan asked again.

"It is true that this land often accumulates water, but the water dries up quickly, and it will dry up in a few days when it is sunny."

"Then it will become a saline-alkali land." Chen Fan added in his heart.

The terrain is low, the drainage is not smooth, and there are often thunderstorms in summer. The heavy and dense rainwater fills the land at once, and the salt seeps into the lower layer of the soil along with the rainwater.

If there is no place to drain the stagnant water, the underground water table will rise rapidly, resulting in salt accumulation; when the weather is hot and dry, the water will evaporate rapidly, and the salt in the groundwater will accumulate on the surface of the soil as the capillary water rises .

A lot of knowledge that she usually read and put aside, after she came to this era, all of them began to be dug out from the corners of her memory.

At this time, there were a few more villagers watching, and they began to whisper.

Lizheng said: "If the girl buys it, I will sell it to you at a lower price. If this field is cultivated well, the soil fertility will not be bad. It is very convenient to irrigate by the canal, and the field is close to the house, so it is convenient to cultivate. The girl planted Too far away is too hard."

Chen Fan looked at Guanshi Li, and Guanshi slightly nodded his head.

Generally speaking, this village is still very suitable for living. Manager Li has basically considered all aspects of her when he brought her here, or the Liu family also considered it in the same way?
Thinking of this, Chen Fan said to Li Zheng: "Mr. Xie Lizheng is considerate. I believe in your vision. Let's buy the land here."

When the onlookers heard her say this, they all wowed.Someone immediately yelled: "Girl, do you know what this place is? Look at those weeds, do you think your seedlings can outgrow these weeds?"

"Girl, some people tried to open up wasteland, but they didn't grow anything, so they stopped planting. Later, all the grass grew on the side of the canal, and the grass farther away didn't even grow." Everyone around the audience laughed. stand up.

"Yes, yes, hardworking people tried this land many years ago, but they couldn't grow it anymore. The hardworking old farmers didn't take care of it. Miss, you have only been working in the field for a few years. Are those people still good?"

The people who mow the lawn are not the same as those people: "This land is bought by you now, can we still come here to herd cattle and sheep in the future?"

"Can you still come and mow the grass?"

"Can I still come to dig wild vegetables in spring?"

These are their primary concerns.Although the barren grassland does not grow crops, it also provides a lot of pasture and wild vegetables for the villagers.

Lizheng was not disturbed, and explained the price of the field to Chen Fan, five hundred yuan per mu, and almost ten mu of land by the canal.

Five hundred words?It's not cheap to sell the wasteland at this price.This is no ordinary wasteland, it is a saline-alkali land that is many times worse than the wasteland.

Lizheng is like a dedicated salesman explaining to customers: rocky and sandy soil is [-] to [-] yuan per mu; low-grade land is [-] yuan per mu; Twelve thousand dollars per mu.

Twelve thousand dollars! 12 taels of silver!Chen Fan took a breath.

Except for those extreme examples, the land in the Southern Song Dynasty was only five taels of silver per mu, and the most expensive good land in the capital was only 20 taels of silver; in the late Qing Dynasty, one mu of good land only cost seven or eight taels of silver.In this county, who knows how far away from the capital, an acre of fertile land costs 100 yuan, so how expensive should the capital be?There are two thousand wen in inferior land, and only two thousand wen in good land.There is also this kind of rocky sandy soil, which costs 100 to [-] wen per mu.People only need more than [-] Wen in dry land, only more than [-] Wen!

Is land so expensive in this era?She thought about the information all night yesterday, and it seemed like it was all in vain.There is no way to refer to the land here at all with the historical records on her side.Maybe there shouldn't be a comparison, after all, they are two different time and space.

"Please measure it for me, sir." Chen Fan decided.

They walked around the canal to the wasteland.Li Zheng continued to explain with all his heart: "The measurement of the homestead and the field is five feet. One step wide and 240 steps long is one mu."

Chen Fan quickly flipped through the materials in his mind: the Shang Dynasty was very short, less than 17 centimeters; then it was the same in several dynasties, more than [-] centimeters per foot; the Sui Dynasty was close to [-] centimeters per foot; Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were three More than ten centimeters, one mu of land is very large.Chen Fan started to get agitated, and she pinched her fingers to control her agitation.

She was still thinking that Lizheng and Li Guanshi were already measuring the barren grassland, and when they measured one side, they inserted a wooden stick to mark it.

(End of this chapter)