Capital Datang

But at this moment, Xiao Yu frowned and asked: "Liu Lang, there are only 2000 people working on a land of [-] mu. So, one person will be responsible for [-] mu. How can this be managed?"

Xiao Yu's question was on point. It is said that a strong labor force can only manage seven or eight mu of land at most, and even if it includes livestock, it can only manage more than ten mu of land. It is obviously unreasonable for one person to manage fifty acres.

Cui Yu, who was also on the horse, laughed and said: "The old man doesn't know, this plantation is different from domestic land cultivation, because the crops planted in the plantation are single, so they are generally worked in a unified way, and in the In terms of farming, the requirements are not as high as those in China, and they don’t pay much attention to the yield per mu. In addition, a lot of animal power is used, and the promotion of high-end furniture, so the plantation does not need too many people, and this is Taiwan. One of the reasons for developing Makien."

Cui Yu is right. Although Taiwan’s plantations are mainly sugar cane, there are also some plantations that are mainly other crops, such as rice, tea, etc. These crops are of a single variety, which is convenient for large-scale management and can save a lot of money. Manpower, and this is exactly the problem of dealing with Taiwan's small population.

After hearing this, Xiao Yu nodded thoughtfully and said: "I see, this plantation should expand the method of thick planting several times, and one person can manage more land. Although this will reduce the yield per mu, as long as there is With enough land, the total output is quite astonishing.” Capital Datang 345

"The old man is wise, the cultivation in this plantation is indeed very careless. It was a pity for the slave family for a long time at the beginning. For example, one mu can produce a hundred catties, but now it can only produce eighty catties." Twenty catties. One hundred thousand mu is hundreds of thousands of catties, which can make people feel distressed." The speaker was a young woman in a Hu suit.She is also the only female family member who rides on horseback.

Hearing the humorous words of this woman, Concubine Yang and the others in the car all covered their mouths and laughed.The identity of this "woman" is very prominent, she is the Mrs. Cui who transformed Cui Yu from a playboy into a shameless and courageous young man, she is also Cheng Huailiang's biological sister and Cheng Yaojin's biological daughter.

Just now when Cui Yu and Wang Kuang greeted Li Yin's people in front of the gate, Li Yin saw this Mrs. Cui at a glance, because compared with other women, this Mrs. Cui not only dressed differently from other women.In addition, there is also an indescribable heroic spirit on her body, one can tell at a glance that she is the queen of the general, which is very imaginable with the Cheng Huailiang brothers, and she really deserves to be Cheng Yaojin's daughter.

Hearing Mrs. Cui's words, Empress Xiao also laughed and said: "Zixiao is a housekeeper. Qinghe Cui family can marry a daughter-in-law like you. I am really envious of others. Fortunately, you don't have any sisters, otherwise If you just propose marriage, I am afraid that the gate of Lu Guogong's mansion will be trampled down!" Zixiao is Mrs. Cui's name.

Although Empress Xiao's words were somewhat joking, they were also true. After Cui Yu married this Mrs. Cui, she immediately corrected herself.This makes many people very envious, after all, who doesn't have a prodigal son, if they can marry such a daughter-in-law.That is really the virtue of the ancestors.It's a pity that there is only such a daughter in the Cheng family, and there is nowhere else to ask for it.

Mrs. Cui has a straightforward personality.Hearing Empress Xiao's joke, she smiled and said a few jokes.On the contrary, he talked with Concubine Yang and Wen Xin very much.

..."" Li Yin listened to the jokes of these female relatives, and at the same time had a low-pitched conversation with Cui Yu and Wang Kuang next to him, and looked up at the sugarcane groves on both sides of the road from time to time.It was just the harvest time of sugarcane, and in some mature sugarcane forests in the distance, there were already many naked slaves wielding machetes to harvest.

It wasn't until Li Yin got closer that these slaves were relatively free. They didn't wear any shackles on their bodies, and they weren't tied into a string with ropes. They just had the brand of slaves on their faces, and there was one Han Chinese in every dozens of slaves. Overseer.What surprised Li Yin was that the Han overseer was surrounded by dozens of slaves with knives, but he only had a whip in his hand. When he saw someone slacking off, he would whip a whip, as if he didn't worry about these slaves' resistance at all.

The supervisor's bold behavior aroused Li Yin's curiosity, and he immediately asked Wang Kuang, but Wang Kuang smiled and said, "Your Highness, these slaves are natives of Nanyang. He is the least courageous, and dare not resist the supervisor at all, and there is a rule in the plantation, that is, if one person dares to resist, then the whole team of slaves will be killed, so even if some slaves dare to resist, I am afraid that the supervisor does not need to do it , the other slaves of the same team will kill him."

Li Yin was taken aback when he heard this. He didn't expect that there was such a regulation in the plantation. It was really poisonous. Even if the slave wanted to resist, he had to see if the other slaves agreed?

Then Cui Yu and Wang Kuang introduced some management methods of plantation slaves. For example, these slaves did not come from the same place and could not understand each other. For example, some slaves who performed well would be rewarded and given some Relative privileges, in this way, establish a "noble" class among the slaves, even if the slaves at the bottom have hatred in "Capital Datang Chapter 340 Five Plantation", most of them will only target those privileged slaves, If it is not possible at that time, some privileged slaves will be killed to appease the resentment of the slaves.

Li Yin was very appreciative when he heard it, but he didn't expect that people like Wang Kuang could even come up with such a method. Instead, you can use this method to rule the colony.

After walking around the sugarcane forest for a few times, Li Min and the others followed Wang Kuang and others to the juice extraction factory in the plantation. There were not many workers here, but it was built by the river. The waterwheel, with the help of water power, squeezes the juice from the cut fresh sugarcane like oil, and then puts it into a special large wooden barrel, and transports it to the city. Different prices are set for color, sweetness, etc.

"Brother Cui, why don't you sell the sugar cane you harvested directly, instead you have to add an additional process of squeezing the juice. Isn't this causing trouble for yourself?" Li Yin asked a little puzzled.Although the plantation was the solution he thought of, he had never managed the specific operations inside, so he really didn't know much about these details.

After hearing this, Cui Yu and his wife looked at each other, and then explained with a smile: "Your Highness does not know, if you buy sugar cane directly, although you save a lot of trouble, the price is also very low, it is far less cost-effective than squeezing it into juice and selling it. After juicing, not only can we raise the price, but we also have one more thing to make money.”

Hearing Cui Yu's words, Concubine Yang couldn't help asking curiously: "This is strange, isn't there some bagasse left after the juice is squeezed, can it be sold for money?"

"Capital Datang" saw Mrs. Cui immediately smiled and said: "The imperial concubine guessed right, it is this bagasse..."

At this time, Li Yin also came to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I remembered, this bagasse is a good thing, not only can it be used to make paper, but it is also a good fodder, it is best used to feed livestock. "

Being robbed by Li Yin, Madam Cui, who has a straightforward personality, couldn't help but give Li Yin a blank look, and then said: "Your Highness is really knowledgeable, our plantation produces an amazing bagasse every year, most of which are sold to make paper, and the rest Some of them we opened a breeding farm on the grassland in the south, where the cattle and sheep mainly eat these bagasses, the meat is very delicious, and the imperial concubine and the lady of the country will have to taste it later!" Capital Datang 345

Concubine Yang also smiled when she heard this: "There is an advantage here overseas, that is, you can eat beef as you like. If you were in Datang, it would be an extremely rare thing."

Concubine Yang's words made everyone nod and smile. The Tang Dynasty forbids slaughtering cattle, let alone eating beef. This is mainly due to Xuan Wei. Cattle are the main livestock in the field. It's important, and in order to show support for agriculture, the royal family strictly enforces the rule of fasting beef, so even if Concubine Yang is a noble concubine, it is still difficult to eat beef.

After leaving the juice factory, Wang Kuang took them to visit the subsidiary industries of the plantation, such as the farm just mentioned, there is also a small winery, and even a huge lake for raising Fish, it can be said that he has thought of everything he can think of.

[-] mu of land is not a small amount. Li Min and the others only visited a small part of it after a long time. In the end, everyone was hungry. Mrs. Cui immediately called everyone back to the residence at the entrance of the manor, and they were ready. The banquet was also immediately put on, and everyone talked while eating.And Li Yin also tasted the cattle and sheep raised in the plantation, as well as the self-brewed sugarcane wine. The color of this wine is light yellow, a bit like the rice wine of later generations, but the taste is slightly sweet and mellow , not as strong as white wine, it is more suitable for women to drink, but if it is distilled again, it may be more suitable for men to drink.

Speaking of which, Wang Kuang and Cui Yu are really good here. There is a large mountain in the northeast of the plantation, which has a lot of prey. The next day Li Yin and the others went up to the mountain to hunt, and they really harvested a lot. I "shot" a lot of prey with my own hands. After hunting, everyone sat together to eat barbecue. There was no distinction between monarchs and ministers.

It's a pity that because of limited time, Li Yin and the others couldn't stay in the plantation for too long. After all, Concubine Yang had a special status, and Xiao Yu still held an important position in the court. After staying in the plantation for three days, Li Yin and the others had to say goodbye to Cui Yu and the others.

It's just that just when Li Yin and the others were preparing to go back in Tainan, Lu Qing suddenly sent an urgent military report, and along with this letter reporting the military report, there was something in it, and it was this thing that immediately It made Li Yin's originally very happy mood become gloomy and gloomy.To be continued. )