Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 240 VII Desire

I'm afraid no one present has heard of the concept of an ecological circle, but it doesn't prevent Mr. Chen from continuing to inquire about the details.

Zhang Shouren wanted to win him over, but he didn't hide it, and revealed all his plans.

In fact, some places now have small ecosystems.

For example, some Yi people in the southwest raise carp in the rice fields, one is to eliminate insects, and the other is to increase the harvest when harvesting, which kills two birds with one stone. [

Such things are just a collection of one or two things, and what Zhang Shouren has to do is to build a large ecological circle.

Turning water by waterwheels, pressing wells by hand, and livestock wells are solutions to water conservancy problems.

Dig a large number of ponds and raise fish, this is to accumulate water power and solve the problem of fertilizer.The chicken manure is used to feed the fish, and at the same time it can also fatten the pond, accumulating fertile mud, which kills two birds with one stone.

Free-range chickens and ducks can eliminate insects, and sheep can remove weeds. At the same time, their manure can also be used in the fields and ponds, which is also part of the entire ecological circle.

Of course, these things are easier said than done.

If any link goes wrong, the entire ecosystem is in danger of collapsing.

If Zhang Shouren just wanted to get ordinary fields and harvests, he would not take such risks.

After solving the problem of insufficient irrigation, intensive cultivation and more livestock will increase the yield by at least [-]-[-]%.Even doubling it is not entirely impossible.

However, one and a half stones per mu and two and three stones per mu cannot solve major problems.

It is not for such a little profit to mobilize so many teachers and people to farm the fields.If we follow the method of Zhang Shouren's ecological circle now, the yield per acre will be four stones on average and six stones in high yields, and there will be no problem at all.

Another advantage is that the water is accumulated enough to grow rice.Not only northern crops such as sorghum and wheat, rice can also be grown in places like Shandong, and it is ripe several times a year, with high yields and high prices, which is more cost-effective.

It is also possible to grow valuable cash crops, which is also Zhang Shouren's real intention to hire all the landlords and tenant farmers.

These days, the Chinese are all small farms, forming their own system. For thousands of years, they have always been in the form of such a self-contained small-scale peasant economy. Intensive cultivation, one family as a unit, and the goal of self-sufficiency in production, this method, is very backward.

Simple labor, powerless in the face of natural disasters, how to fight against natural disasters with one person and one household.

Therefore, in the event of a disaster, it must be unlucky, and displacement is minor. Like the current situation in Daming, it is a true portrayal of the powerlessness of the small peasant economy against natural disasters.

Zhang Shouren has seen the big farms of later generations, and the production methods like big farms, so naturally he will no longer tolerate his rule to continue to be maintained like this.

The Fushan area is under control, and most of them are military households, so they can carry out reforms according to their own wishes, which is very coincidental.Moreover, disasters have been frequent recently, and many army chiefs and landowners have lost confidence in farming, which happened to allow him to buy a large amount of land to carry out his own large farm to cooperate with the ecological circle plan.

If all goes well, in a year or two, half of Shandong will become Jiangnan in the North.

With his prestige of financial and material resources, it is not only possible but also feasible to integrate all forces into a farm-style business model. [

In the Jiangnan area in the late Ming Dynasty, due to land annexation, some landlords occupied tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres. To a certain extent, it was also an alternative embodiment of large farms.