Chapter 203 Slavery Manor

In Zhou Huairen's view, farming is a very simple matter, and there is no need to waste so much energy, especially since His Highness has to keep an eye on this matter personally. How can this be done? Your Highness is a person who does great things.

"You'd better connect the farms in various places and find a person in charge of each place. I will personally give them a batch of seeds and a group of slaves. Try not to find outsiders in our farms. We rely on this batch of slaves to farm the land. If this batch is not enough, then go to the human market to buy people."

Li Xiang knew that it would cost a lot of money to do this, not to mention that if you buy more land, there will be more people who need to farm the land. If you rent the land to those who need it, you only need to collect rent every year. Although it is relatively profitable to find slaves to farm the land, the cost of buying slaves is not a small amount.

"The grains His Highness grows cannot be known to outsiders?"

Zhou Huairen was not a fool. If he were a fool, he would not have guessed this step. Seeing how cautious Li Xiang was about this matter, he immediately understood what was going on.

"It cannot be known to the outside world for the time being. If it is known to the outside world, then our strategy will be meaningless."

Li Xiang's seeds are all exchanged in the system, and the yield per mu of land must be at least two thousand kilograms. In this day and age, this kind of yield may be called fairy seeds.

"Then we purchased nearly 300,000 acres of land. If we used slaves entirely, the number would be too much."

Zhou Huairen frowned and said, now one person can take care of less than ten acres of land a year. After all, it is done manually without any machinery. If we all buy slaves, then we at least need Thirty thousand slaves, and they must be in good health.

"Why did you buy so little land? I remember that when I left, there were already more than 100,000 acres. Didn't you say you have made great achievements?"

Li Xiang frowned immediately when he heard this number. How could it be so few? Didn't he do anything for a while?

"Going back to Your Highness, the land we purchased is relatively scattered. Only about 300,000 acres can be gathered together. If all the land is added up, it will be at least about 600,000 acres. But the other 300,000 acres of land Without concentration, there is no way we can farm according to His Highness’s model.”

Hearing what Zhou Huairen said, Li Xiang breathed a sigh of relief. If your work efficiency was so useless, I would have fired you long ago.

"How about reclaiming wasteland?"

At this stage, there are still a lot of wastelands in the country, but no one is taking care of them. With a little tidying up, these wastelands can be turned into fertile farmland.

"We have sent people to all the places His Highness mentioned. We have indeed made great achievements. We have now opened 20,000 acres."

Zhou Huairen was quite happy when it came to this matter. Li Xiang pointed out some places to him across the country, but these places were currently wastelands, but Li Xiang said that with a little renovation, these places could soon become fertile farmland.

Twenty thousand acres of fertile land were gained in three months, which is indeed a good achievement. You must know that in this day and age, if you want to develop wasteland, as long as there is no owner of the wasteland, you only need to give it to the local government After reporting it and paying a small amount of money, these wastelands will be yours immediately.

"This work cannot be stopped and must continue to operate in the next period of time."

Buying land and developing wasteland are two ways for Li Xiang to take. Both can increase the land area for Li Xiang. It costs more to buy land and more time to develop wasteland, but the final effect is the same. , that is to increase the land area in Li Xiang's hands, and then increase the grain production in Li Xiang's hands. By then, major families will not be able to threaten the court with grain.

Under Li Xiang's dictation, Zhou Huairen finally knew what these farms were like. On the surface, it looked like a farm, but after all the construction was completed, it looked like a farm owned by a powerful landlord. Inside, it looked like a big farm. It's like a prison, there's no way out of here.

The slave owner's estate...

Zhou Huairen finally understood what was going on. There had been a slave dynasty in this land, but it had been proven that the slave dynasty could not develop at all. Why did our Highness want to reverse course?

"Your Highness, are we using too many slaves? For example, this huge farm in the west of Luoyang needs at least 1,500 slaves. You must know that they are all strong and strong, so we must have at least three slaves. If there are more than a hundred warriors, then our expenses will be..."

Zhou Huairen did not continue, but Li Xiang also understood what he meant. It would also cost money to find someone to watch these slaves. Even though these slaves are submissive now, after a period of time, they will definitely stand up and resist. This happens every year across the country.

"Don't worry about the guards. I will send them there myself. There is no need to provide them with too much salary."

After this battle, Li Xiang has received more army rewards from the system. Currently, there are at least hundreds of thousands of troops in Li Xiang's system. After these people are taken out, they can be used as armed guards. If there are slaves If you want to run out, I can only blame you people for being blind.

Although Li Xiang said so, Zhou Huairen still frowned. If something goes wrong in the middle, then our life will still be difficult. After the slaves run out, it will definitely affect the local public security. If the local officials are because of this, If His Highness is impeached for this matter, then His Highness’s status in the court...

"I know what you are worried about. Keep your heart in your stomach. In the next period of time, we will work hard on these farms."

Li Xiang said very confidently, the first batch is the 300,000 acres of land. If all of it is planted with grain, based on the output of two seasons a year, we can produce four thousand kilograms of grain a year. That adds up to 600,000 tons.

Of course, this is just an experiment. The total cultivated land in the Tang Dynasty is only more than 600 million acres. According to the heyday of this land, it is far behind. As long as Li Xiang can reach one-third of the national output, then there will be We are qualified to compete with the major families, and of course we are qualified to compete with the imperial court. When the time comes, the emperor will try to take away our military power like this again...

hehe……