soon.

Juren Lu was dealt with and successfully reached a land replacement plan for 350 acres of large fields to exchange 300 acres of small fields.

The largest landlord, Lu Juren, signed a cooperation agreement.

The other landlords in Lujia Village naturally could not persist and had to agree to cooperation, including Li Xiucai, who had the strongest resistance. His family's 50 acres of fertile land was replaced with 60 acres of large fields.

The land acquisition work of the publicity team in Lujia Village was successfully completed.

After some replacement, the land obtained was 1,688.2 mu, which was reduced by nearly 200 mu, accounting for just over 50% of all the land in Lujia Village.

The other half of the land is almost all the land of the landlords, and very few belong to ordinary people.

This has formed a distinctive pattern in which collective manors account for half and landlords account for half.

Of course, the land acquisition target of the propaganda work team is not the village of Lujia Village.

The surrounding seven or eight villages, including Chenjia Village, Xia Village, Tanlin Village, Majia Village, and Yejia Village, are all within the planning scope. As long as each village expropriates an average of 1,000 mu of land, the goal of expropriating tens of millions of land will be quickly completed.

Fortunately, the propaganda team was progressing very smoothly. It only took two or three days to get the Lujia Village done, and it probably won’t take many days to get the surrounding villages.

There must be difficulties in resistance.

There are also those who are unwilling to cooperate.

A landlord who firmly opposes and refuses, and who doesn’t agree with it will definitely appear one or two.

However, ordinary farmers with fewer land at home will basically join collective manors.

Most landlords will cooperate. After all, they have not suffered real losses and their interests are not damaged. Instead, they are likely to get more benefits. They have no reason to refuse.

As for a very small number of stubborn landlords, when most of the human resources are in the hands of Xujiazhuang, and when the efficiency of good varieties, farm tools, and farm workers have obvious advantages, the end of stubborn resistance will naturally not have any good endings.

What's more, Xujiazhuang has prepared a despicable last resort, unless you have a tough backstage and a high-ranking official in the court, otherwise your son will disappear today and your grandson will be abducted tomorrow. No one can bear the blow - of course, unless you have to, Xujiazhuang doesn't want to get to this point.

...

Xujiazhuang.

Xu Yuan took time to inspect a farm covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres on the back mountain to the west.

In fact.

The breeding farm built on the low slope of the back mountain is one of the most important places in the manor. It comes to inspect it every few days, very frequently.

Because his manor is not an ordinary manor that mainly cultivates.

Instead, it is a manor operated by a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The breeding industry accounts for a large proportion.

Take this livestock farm for example. It raises more than 500 cattle, more than 1,000 sheep, more than 300 donkeys and more than 50 horses. They are all large and medium-sized livestock.

There is also a large pig farm next to it, which raises more than 3,000 domestic pigs.

In addition, there is a poultry farm specializing in raising chickens, ducks and geese, with tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese.

The manor covers an area of ​​more than ten acres of water storage ponds and irrigation river networks, and also adopts the mulberry-based fish pond model, which raises a lot of fish and shrimps, and can catch tens of thousands of kilograms of fish every year.

In short, in Xujiazhuang, animal husbandry and fishery accounts for a considerable proportion, occupying thousands of people's labor force for a long time, and is responsible for breeding.

"The owner of the farm has added 15 calves, 23 lambs, 8 donkeys and 1 pony this month, but due to injuries, two strong cows and seven sheep died. After the dead meat was cooked, it was distributed to the poor people around... The owner of the farm, Zhou was improperly managed, so the owner of the farm asked the owner to punish him."

The manager Zhou Zonghe, a middle-aged man in his thirties who was very knowledgeable about breeding, bowed and looked self-blame.

"No need to do this. As the saying goes, Taoism is rich, but those with hair don't count. The breeding industry is a high-risk industry. With so many cattle, sheep and horses together, the probability of an epidemic is very high. Those with weak constitutions will die. In addition, the fight between each other is also common. You just need to ensure that there will be no large-scale outbreak of epidemics, and there will be no large-scale casualties. It is normal to die three or five people occasionally, so you don't have to blame yourself."

Xu Yuan waved his hand and said unconsciously.

"Xie Zhuangzhu, Zhou will do his best to reduce the number of livestock deaths every month, and ultimately achieve immortality."

Zhou Zonghe still spoke and promised that his strong sense of responsibility always made him want to achieve perfection.

"By the way, is the silage feed to livestock now enough? Should we expand the scale of makita planting and produce more feed this year?"

That's right.

One-third of the land in Xujiazhuang is divided into pasture fields, which are specially used for planting crops for feed such as forage, alfalfa, barley, etc., and are harvested and chopped and only given to livestock and poultry, so that a large number of pigs, cattle, sheep and horses can be raised.

Speaking of precious land, it is not enough to grow food for food. Why do you have to spend more than 3,000 acres of food specifically for the livestock to eat? Isn’t this a waste?

But Xu Yuan didn't think so, of course he had his considerations.

And he is learning from the advanced agricultural and animal husbandry development model of modern Western countries, absorbing its advanced experience and leveraging its huge advantages.

But my ancestors did not learn the traditional farming strengths and insisted on learning what Western farming model was. Is Xu Yuan advocating foreign countries and advocating the West too much?

However, it is not.

The farming model that combines agriculture and animal husbandry actually has extremely huge advantages.

One third of the land is used as Makita.

One-third of the land grows beans and rapeseed to increase soil fertility.

One-third of the land is used to grow staple foods such as wheat, rice, potatoes, etc.

Rotations every three years can maintain soil fertility well and reduce the amount of fertilizer used.

Ensure the security of staple food.

It can also bring a lot of meat, eggs and milk through the development of animal husbandry and breeding.

Studies have shown that in the 18th century, farmers in Western countries had an annual per capita meat consumption of 45 kilograms, and there were also a lot of milk, which was too much to make cheese. Therefore, Western adults are generally strong, tall, and powerful.

In the 18th century, the "My Qing Dynasty" was in the prosperous age of sweet potatoes. Due to the underdeveloped animal husbandry, almost all the land was used to grow grain. Not to mention the per capita meat consumption of 45 kilograms, there was probably not even 5 kilograms. Each of them was thin and dull, and was a prosperous era with severe malnutrition.

As for milk, don’t even think about it. By the 21st century, the Chinese people have not developed the habit of drinking milk frequently, and there is not so much milk.

With a large amount of meat and milk, and supplementing enough protein, the human body will become healthy and healthy, and the military value will be higher. There will be no situation where the Tatars in the north will enter the pass. More than a dozen soldiers of the Ming border soldiers cannot defeat a single Tatar.

So meat is combat power.

Milk is combat power!

Xu Yuan will do whatever it takes to increase the per capita meat consumption of the people in the manor, with the goal of more than 50 kilograms! The children's milk consumption should also be increased to more than 1 kilogram per day.

Therefore, in Xu Yuan's eyes, the importance of developing animal husbandry is no less than that of agriculture, and it is even more important!

In addition, if there are too many cattle raised in the manor, it can also serve as animal power to improve labor efficiency. You should know that there was a saying in ancient times that one cattle is worth six.

If there are too many sheep raised, you can provide wool raw materials for textile tweed fabrics to keep warm and beautiful.

If you raise more horses, you can cultivate ancient tanks - cavalry. In the era of cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of one cavalry was equivalent to that of six infantry, and mules and horses were also a must-have for logistics.

In addition, the feces of livestock and poultry such as cattle, sheep, horses, etc. can also be concentrated in the biogas pool, and together with human feces, they will continuously ferment the biogas and use them as daily fuel. The biogas is even more effective in fertilizing the field.

all in all.

The combination of agriculture and animal husbandry brings too many benefits, at least much stronger than the traditional farming model.

Xuyuan's Xujiazhuang not only developed agriculture and animal husbandry, but also raised more than a dozen acres of fish in the pond, planted hundreds of mulberry trees and silkworms, and built a large number of factory workshops, which were engaged in the comprehensive development of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and industry. Compared with the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, it is more than one latitude advanced.

It is precisely because all industries are prospering that Xuyuan's Xujiazhuang, although the area is only 10,000 mu, can support the tens of thousands of Dingkou in the village, provide five or six thousand jobs, and achieve common prosperity.

Of course, the good varieties, fertilizers, pesticides, and various machinery brought by Xu Yuan from modern society have also played an extremely important role, accounting for at least five successful labors. I have to mention it here.

It is completely reasonable to combine all of this and Xujiazhuang achieved great success in just two years.

"The scale of Makita does not need to be expanded, it is already enough to eat."

Zhou Zonghe shook his head and said, "There are not many livestock now. The water and heat in the south are abundant, and the maidland yield is high. The area of ​​more than 3,000 acres is enough. If it is not enough, you can eat cattle and sheep if you cut the wheat and corn stalks. If the forage is not enough, you can also spend money to buy weeds from surrounding villages, which cost five kilograms per cent. Many villagers are willing to cut them. If they really don't work, they will cook the excess grain. Cattle, sheep and horses are the favorite. In short, the number of livestock now, even if it doubles, it can ensure that they eat full every day!"

"That's good."

Xu Yuan nodded and felt much more relieved.

Indeed, in the cold temperate northern zone with harsh climates and drought and little rain, nomadic peoples can do a good job in animal husbandry and raise hundreds of thousands or millions of cattle, sheep and horses. Now in Nanzhili, where rain is more abundant, and with this group of hardworking and smart Chinese people, there is no reason why they might not do a good job in animal husbandry, and they will only do better!
Chapter completed!