Chapter 68 Rise Up! Salted Fish Elder

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A little calculation will show that Zhuwei Lake is not a big lake, but it has a water area of ​​tens of thousands of acres. On average, one meter of dredging is equivalent to six to seven million cubic meters of silt...

Wang Shouzhe has seen the dredging boats in this world.

They all use dredging rakes manually to dig the silt onto the boats. A dredging ship can hold about ten cubic meters of silt.

The usually cleaned sludge itself has good organic matter. After being mixed with other fertilizers and fermented, it becomes a better agricultural fertilizer and can supplement the fertility of farmland.

After all, there is no accumulation of heavy metal pollution in the silt at the bottom of rivers and lakes in this era.

But the problem is, six to seven million cubic meters, that’s six to seven hundred thousand ships! If ten dredging ships work all year round, and each ship cleans three ships and fills three ships every day, it will be a project of more than 20,000 days, and it will take sixty or seventy years of work all year round!

The silt shrinks greatly after drying, and the swamp itself is mostly mud. It is estimated that at most, only two to three thousand acres of fertile land can be filled. The entire project is expected to cost more than tens of thousands of gold.

After spending a lot of manpower, material, energy, and time, it is not worthwhile to open up one acre of land for three or four thousand gold.

If Zhuwei Lake is cleaned an additional two meters deep, the cost will not only double, but the deeper you dig, the harder it will be to clean it. Even if you want to buy fertile land, you can buy an acre of cultivated land with just two or three dry gold.

However, the calculation is not that simple. With the large-scale dredging of Zhuwei Lake, the water storage capacity will increase, and large fish can be cultured, and even spiritual fish can be released. Considering the long-term of the family, relying solely on wild fishing is not a long-term solution, and the source of income is not stable.

If we can breed economic fish species on a large scale, or even spiritual fish species, this is the correct way to develop a family-based industry. The scale of investment is huge and it takes a long time. However, once the construction is successful, it will be a steady source of financial resources for the family.

Moreover, in order to encourage the Xuanwu family to open up wasteland, the government exempted the newly opened land from paying grain for the first ten years, which was a considerable saving.

Of course, given Wang Shouzhe's personality, even if he had to do this huge project of dredging, filling and creating land, it would not be possible to complete it in sixty or seventy years. By then, even the great-grandson will come out...

This planned project had been brewing in his mind for a long time.

I originally planned to start small-scale implementation next year, and then gradually increase the scale of the project, striving to dig Zhuwei Lake to a depth of two meters within ten years, fill in the swamp with four to five thousand acres of fertile land, and gradually build it into the family's next large-scale farm. There are tens of thousands of acres of breeding water and thousands of acres of fertile farmland.

The annual output value must not be low, and the total cost should be controlled within 30,000 dry gold.

But now, the plan has changed a bit!

Standing on the awning boat, Wang Shouzhe put his hands behind his back and looked at the wilderness on both sides of the strait. It is quite the posture of overlooking the territory and brewing the family's thousand-year legacy.

Ding Lao Qi and Wang Shouye were sitting in the cabin. Their originally anxious hearts gradually calmed down. Looking at the fourth brother standing with his hands behind his hands, he was so tall and majestic, and the emotion of admiration and admiration arose in his heart.

I am Wang Shouye.

In the future, I must become a man who is as upright as my fourth brother.

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The awning boat docked at the small pier of Xingsheng Farm. Under the frightened leadership of the farm's Wang family branch chief, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye went together to find Wang Xiaohan.

At this time, Wang Xiaohan was taking care of the twenty acres of precious spiritual field, carefully removing weeds in the spiritual field. Those weeds were pulled out as soon as they sprouted, preventing them from having any chance to absorb nutrients and spiritual energy.

If the same acre of spiritual land is cultivated intensively, even half a percent more output will be a considerable resource.

Wang Shouzhe did not disturb him, but waited patiently.

This [Xingsheng Farm] is the second farm opened by ancestor Zhou Xuan. Sitting on two thousand acres of fertile land, there is also a small livestock farm and a small field dedicated to growing fruits and vegetables. In addition, the most important thing is that Xingsheng Farm has opened up twenty acres of spiritual land.

The terrain here is surrounded by a small branch of the remaining veins of Liuping Mountain. The original land had a lot of broken stones. Theoretically, it was not a very suitable land for land reclamation.

However, Patriarch Zhouxuan chose this place to open up wasteland, and even dug canals to divert water to open up a farm. It is because there is a spiritual spring in the cracks of the mountain streams here.

The presence of a spiritual spring means that there is a small spiritual vein here.

As long as the spirit gathering array is built around the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins can be condensed and not dispersed, gathered and nourished in the land. Then the spiritual springs will be directed to irrigate the land, and then combined with various agricultural methods to fertilize the land, we can gradually open up the land. Create a spiritual field suitable for planting various spiritual objects.

With its own spiritual field, it will have its own spiritual rice output, and a Xuanwu family will truly have its own foundation.

Therefore, ancestor Zhou Xuan named this farm [Xingsheng Farm], which naturally means that he hopes that the family will prosper.

This spiritual spring and that small spiritual vein can support approximately sixty acres of spiritual land at its maximum. It's just that the Wang family was relatively unfamiliar with the technology of growing spiritual rice back then, in order to avoid consuming spiritual veins in vain. Therefore, for the time being, only one spirit gathering array was built and twenty acres of spiritual fields were opened up.

I originally planned to open up the remaining 40 acres of spiritual rice fields after Wang's technology for planting spiritual rice became more mature. Unexpectedly, before the plan could be implemented, the Wang family suffered a disaster.

After that, the family was in panic and resources were in short supply.

Investing in Lingtian is also a project with huge investment and slow return. All he could think about was cultivating an ancestor of the Lingtai first, and then slowly saving money to open up the Lingtai and build up family heritage.

Unexpectedly, Wang Dingtian, the second uncle of the family's eldest son who was the first to be trained, didn't know whether it was because he experienced a huge disaster when he was five years old, which caused psychological trauma, or because the family elders later forced him too hard, or maybe because He was so anxious that he went crazy and died at the age of twenty.

You must know that the Wang family's "Xuan Yuan Jue" has always been known for its neutrality and peace. Even if we count from the Wang family of Longzuo a thousand years ago, there are only a few people who practice it and become evil.

While the family was grieving, they focused their attention on Wang Dingyue, the second son of the Wang family, and Wang Xiaohan, the sixth son of the Wang family. The elders who had learned their lesson did not put too much pressure on Wang Dingyue, but cultivated him in an orderly manner.

More pressure is actually focused on Wang Xiaohan, a straight lineage disciple with extraordinary talents. It was just that it was relatively late when he was allowed to take the road to the Lingtai. It was not until nearly twenty years ago that Wang Xiaohan kept the secrets of his family and sold a lot of property in exchange for the [Spirit Pill].

Promotion failed!

Later, Wang Dingyue died in another area.

This matter is also strange to say. Wang Shouzhe originally thought that the family was really at the end of its rope and could not buy the Tianling Pill for Wang Dingyue. But Wang Shouzhe thought about it carefully recently, and there was something vaguely wrong about it.

Ancestor Longyan could sell his portable spiritual treasure [Turtle Scale Shield] for Wang Shouzhe to raise resources, but why didn't he buy it for his late father Wang Dingyue?

In addition, after the death of the previous family leader, Longyan Patriarch did not even show his face. Was he afraid that someone would see something was wrong? There is a high possibility that she took action forcefully during this period.

If the ancestor took action, who would he do it with? Could it be that his late father, Wang Dingyue, was not alone when he went to the outer lands, but was accompanied by his ancestors?

If the speculation is consistent with the actual situation, why did the ancestor and his late father Wang Dingyue go to the outside world at such a critical moment? Is it really just as publicized to the outside world, because we need to raise resources to seek opportunities?

Definitely not.

Wang Shouzhe had reason to believe that the ancestors and clan elders were hiding a big secret from him. And that secret should be very important to Wang! Maybe, there is also a chance to advance to the Lingtai realm in the outer realm, but it's just because my late father Wang Dingyue failed?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this should be the case, otherwise Longyan ancestor would definitely choose to sell the turtle scale shield and exchange it for his late father Wang Dingyue's heavenly elixir. Instead of both venturing to the outside world to seek some bad opportunity.

If you have the chance, see if you can pry out some information from the ancestor's mouth.

While Wang Shouzhe was thinking, the Sixth Master finished taking care of the weeds and walked out of the forest and field. When he saw Wang Shouzhe and Wang Shouye waiting outside, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Shouzhe, why are you here? Wait a minute. It’s been a long time, why didn’t you call me earlier?”

Although Wang Shouzhe couldn't see through his cultivation, he could feel the depression in his mental state. It is very obvious that he has not yet recovered from the failure of spending huge sums of money to attack the Lingtai realm. He is only sixty-five years old, but he feels older than the Fourth Old Master Wang Xiaozhi, like a real old farmer.

"Hello, Grandpa Six." Wang Shouzhe handed over his hand.

"Grandpa." Wang Shouye rushed forward.

"Hey, you little kid, why are you coming to see grandpa with your fourth brother?" Wang Xiaohan picked up Wang Shouye, teased him for a few words, and asked the deputy chief to take him to play.

Later, Wang Xiaohan invited Wang Shouzhe to drink a cup of ordinary tea in front of the small thatched cottage where he lived in seclusion: "Shouzhe came here this time to persuade me to go back to the road of Lingtai?"

Wang Shouzhe had previously sent his generals to deliver [Peiyuan Pill] and spirit stones, and wrote to him to tell him his plans. However, Wang Xiaohan refused the matter, saying that his ambition was old and he only wanted to build a thatched cottage in front of the spiritual field and protect him for the rest of his life.

Wang Shouzhe didn't blame him for this salty fish mentality.

He took a sip of Fan tea, looked around, glanced at his simple thatched cottage, smiled and said, "No, Shouzhe just came to say goodbye to Grandpa Sixth, and to take a last look at the spiritual field left by ancestor Zhou Xuan." .After all, Shouzhe is just a dying man."

"What?"

Wang Xiaohan almost crushed the cup and said in shock and anger, "Wang Shouzhe, what are you talking about?"

An astonishing breath burst out from him.

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