Author: That sour candy

Wang Lizheng said: "The land south of the canal is all homestead land. The girl can just choose a place. There are currently no ready-made fields in the village for sale. If the girl wants to buy land, she can buy the land north of the canal."

Those lands in the north are those two unique scenery.

One place is right next to the canal. In such a convenient place for irrigation, there are all kinds of weeds growing in clumps here and there, and some places are very dense. There are a few people cutting grass on the wasteland, and they look at Chen Fan and the others from time to time.

Eye.

As you get closer, you can see clearly visible white marks on the exposed ground.

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

"Saline-alkali land." Chen Fan judged in his mind, "Just because some weeds can still grow here, it can be regarded as a wasteland. Can it be said to be a heavy saline-alkali land over there? I actually saw such a large area of ​​heavy saline-alkali land with my own eyes.

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Saline-alkali lands are basically found in arid or semi-arid areas, with low precipitation and high evaporation. The salt dissolved in the water easily accumulates on the soil surface. But such a large area of ​​saline-alkali lands appears in this water town, which is simply unbelievable.

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

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

"There is no legend that some fairy treasure fell down, or the stars in the sky fell, and this land collapsed?" The land was obviously much lower, as if some huge object fell from the sky, smashed

There was such a big pit measuring a hundred acres square.

"No, no." Li Zheng shook his head like a rattle, "There are always high and low terrains. Aren't the mountains much higher than the ground? Aren't the lakes much lower than the ground? Xitou Mountain, Yudai Lake, those big

There are no legends about Tangxiaogou. There are no legends about this land either."

Chen Fan wanted to curl his lips, it's really not cute at all. Aren't you all curious and imaginative? The old man even said she was a monster. You don't even have the imagination of the old man who fled.

By the way, where did that old man go?

Two or three villagers wandered over and stood a few steps away from them, watching them. The mowers continued to mow the grass, and the busy people in the fields continued to be busy.

"The terrain is so low, why hasn't it become a muddy area?" Chen Fan asked again.

"This land does often accumulate water, but the water dries up quickly. It will dry up in a few days if the weather is clear."

"Then it becomes a salt-alkali land." Chen Fan added in his mind.

The terrain is low, drainage is poor, and there are frequent thunderstorms in summer. The heavy and dense rainwater fills the land all at once, and the salt seeps into the lower layers of the soil along with the rainwater.

If there is no place to drain the stagnant water, the groundwater level will rise quickly, leading to the accumulation of salt. When the weather is hot and dry, the water will evaporate rapidly, and the salt in the groundwater will rise with the capillary water and accumulate on the surface of the soil.

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A lot of knowledge that she usually put aside after reading it started to come out from the corners of her memory after she came to this era.

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

Li Zheng said: "If you want to buy it, girl, I will sell it to you at a cheaper price. If this field is well cultivated, the soil fertility will not be bad. It is very convenient to irrigate by the canal. The field is close to the house, and it is also convenient to cultivate. The girl is planting

It’s too far away and too hard.”

Chen Fan looked at Manager Li, who nodded slightly.

Generally speaking, this village is still very suitable for life. Manager Li has basically considered all aspects for her when he brought her here. Or maybe the Liu family also considered this?

Thinking of this, Chen Fan said to Li Zheng: "Sir Xie Lizheng is considerate. I believe in your vision, so just buy the land here."

When those onlookers heard what she said, they all screamed. One of them shouted out quickly: "Girl, do you know where this place is? Look at those weeds, do you think your family has them?"

Can the seedlings outgrow these weeds?”

"Girl, some people tried to open up wasteland, but they didn't plant anything, so they stopped planting. Then all the grass grew beside the ditch, and no grass grew further away." He said this, which made everyone in the audience laugh.

stand up.

"Yes, yes, hard-working people tried to plant this land many years ago, but in the end they couldn't grow it. The hard-working old farmers didn't take care of it well. Girl, you have only been working in the fields for a few years. How can you grow it?"

Are those people still good?"

The people who cut the grass have different concerns from those people: "Now that you have bought this land, can we still come here to graze cattle and sheep in the future?"

“Can you still come over and cut the grass?”

"Can we still come here to dig wild vegetables in the spring?"

Their primary concern is these issues. Although crops do not grow on the wasteland, it also provides the villagers with a lot of pasture and wild vegetables.

Without being disturbed, Li Zheng explained the price of the land to Chen Fan, which was five hundred cents per mu and almost ten acres of land beside the canal.

Five hundred cents? The price for selling wasteland cannot be considered cheap. This is not an ordinary wasteland, it is a saline-alkali land that is countless times more disgusting than wasteland.

Li Zheng was like a salesperson trying his best to explain to customers: rocky, sandy and soil land costs 200 to 300 coins per acre; low-grade fields cost 2,000 coins per acre; medium fields cost 6,000 coins per acre; good land is expensive.

Twelve thousand dollars per acre.

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

Except for those extreme examples, in the Southern Song Dynasty, farmland was so expensive that it only cost 5 taels of silver per acre. The most expensive good land in the capital was 20 taels of silver. In the late Qing Dynasty, one acre of good land only cost 78 taels of silver. I don’t know how far it is from the capital.

In a county in our country, one acre of good land costs 12,000 yuan, so how expensive is it in the capital? It costs 2,000 yuan for low-grade farmland, but only 2,000 yuan for other people’s good farmland. And there is such stony and sandy land, every day

An acre actually costs 200 to 300 cents. People only need more than 100 cents for dry land, just over 100 cents!

Is land so expensive in this era? She thought about the information all night yesterday, but it seemed that all her thoughts were in vain. There was no way to use the historical records from her side to refer to the land here. Maybe it shouldn't be compared in the first place.

After all, they are two different time and space.

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

They walked around the ditch and walked towards the wasteland. Li Zheng continued to explain with all his heart: "The measurement of homesteads and fields are all measured in steps of five feet, and one step is wide and 240 steps long is an acre."

Chen Fan quickly flipped through the information in his mind: in the Shang Dynasty, the foot was very short, less than 17 centimeters; in the following dynasties, it was almost the same, with more than 20 centimeters per foot; in the Sui Dynasty, the foot was close to 30 centimeters; in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the foot was 3 centimeters per foot

More than ten centimeters, an acre of land is very big. Chen Fan started to get excited, and she pinched her fingers to control her excitement.

She was still thinking that Li Zheng and Manager Li were already measuring the grassland, and after measuring one edge, they inserted a wooden stick to mark it.
Chapter completed!