Chapter 1057 The Smell of Food Independence

"Dou Wuxing is proficient in weather and farming. You should ask him more about farming issues."

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The boss's plans and requirements came one after another, at least 27 or 28, without any hesitation. Everyone grabbed pens and small notebooks and kept taking notes, and there was no time to ask questions.

He Lingchuan hadn't been so high-spirited for a long time, pointing at the sand table as if pointing at the mountains and rivers.

In the past, he was so poor that he could only hold back his ideas for the time being. Today, he finally vented them.

This kind of spending money like water, this kind of boldness, this kind of exhilaration, this kind of exhilaration, this kind of exhilaration, is the feeling of being a great lord!

Lei Ni looked up halfway and saw the brilliance in the lord's eyes, so scared that she quickly lowered her head.

Once this man has money to back him up, his mental outlook is different.

"Min Tianxi, the watchtowers, beacon towers, barracks, and arsenals on these reef islands must be built." He Lingchuan pointed out 17 or 18 small reef islands in a row. These islands are not inhabited or cultivated, but they are distributed on the periphery of the archipelago and have important military value.

Min Tianxi quickly agreed.

"Qiu Hu." He Lingchuan turned to Qiu Hu, "Recruit people, recruit more people. Before late spring, the guard team must be expanded to more than 3,500 people, and then the whole army will have to conduct exercises. If there is a need for weapons and armor, you will contact Songyang Prefecture."

Maintaining an army is the most expensive. Food, salary, weapons, medicines, and various consumables, even gluttons can't eat that much. So the Yangshan Guard Team could only maintain a scale of 1,400 to 1,500 people.

Spending money may not necessarily build an ever-victorious army, but an ever-victorious army cannot do without money.

Now, He Lingchuan has the confidence to expand the army.

"Yes."

He Lingchuan rubbed his hands and smiled at his men: "The task arrangement is completed, and I have only one request for everyone-"

"Big-get started!"

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In a blink of an eye, it was late spring and early summer.

Six months later, the Yangshan Islands have changed a lot.

The Yangshan Islands have entered the busy farming season again.

From Bailie to the Yangshan Islands, the highlight of late spring is the harvest of palm oil. Palm oil is harvested twice a year, in spring and autumn.

In previous years, half a month after the palm forest hung red silk and held the opening ceremony, the oil-collecting caravans and large ships came and lined up to stop at Blade Port.

However, the situation has changed this year. Some merchant ships choose to stop directly at the Yangshan Islands instead of Blade Port and purchase directly at a fixed point.

The archipelago provides berthing discounts for buyers of palm oil. Because of offshore tax avoidance, there is no need to go to Blade Port for customs clearance. Caravans enjoy lower prices when buying various specialties in the Yangshan Islands.

Blade Port is naturally unhappy, but there is nothing it can do.

This year, palm oil is still harvested in abundance.

Compared with the hectic first palm harvest last autumn, the Yangshan Islands are much more relaxed this spring, with personnel organization, tool allocation, and logistics and transportation in good order.

A few months have passed, and the archipelago has built seven medium-sized cargo ships on its own, and purchased five medium-sized ships and 27 small boats to alleviate the shortage of transportation capacity.

As for large cargo ships, they can only be built slowly because they take too long and require too much labor.

After the palm harvest, the winter wheat harvest in early summer will follow!

So the harvest season in this area is one after another, April and May are in a row, and everyone has work to do.

The Yangshan Islands first planted wheat seeds last autumn. Although the planting method was rough and the fields were not planned, in Dou Wuxing's words, it was a "waste of farm labor", but the soil was indeed fertile, and the yield per mu was close to 350 kilograms.

The weather was good, and it was good weather for half a month in a row.

The island was golden under the sun, with yellow wheat fields and threshing grounds everywhere. Farmers were busy in the fields, and hired birds of prey drove away the bird thieves in the wheat fields.

The yellow dog and the little mink dug holes everywhere on the ridges to catch mice.

When the first bag of wheat was delivered to He Lingchuan and the first handful of wheat grains flowed through his fingers, he raised his head, closed his eyes, and exhaled heavily.

His island finally began to produce grain!

Since He Lingchuan bought the Yangshan Islands, all the food consumed on the island has been purchased from outside for the past nine long months. They were purchased from Blade Harbor, foreign merchants, and all channels that could be found in the Yangshan Islands. Even Fang Canran helped him find a big grain merchant.

In order to feed so many mouths on the island every day, the Yangshan Islands have fought countless times with profiteers who hoarded and drove up grain prices, and fought countless times with Blade Harbor and Bailie who stabbed them in the back and played dirty tricks.

All this happened against the backdrop of the war between Bejia and Mou State not ending and the high grain prices in the rear of Mou State.

He Lingchuan knew how much money he had spent and how much he had paid.

The hardships were too much to be told to outsiders.

It was not easy to get to this point, and the Yangshan Islands were producing grain on their own!

Everyone held up the shelled wheat kernels, put them under their noses and took a deep breath, and their faces showed an intoxicated look.

It smelled so good.

This was the smell of satisfaction, the smell of a good harvest.

This is the smell of food independence!

He Lingchuan almost laughed wildly:

From today on, Yangshan Islands will also join the ranks of profiteers!

But before He Lingchuan finished laughing, Dou Wuxing came over to remind him: "Your wheat fields are planted in a mess, but you can still produce more than 300 kilograms per mu. It's probably because Emperor Liujiang has come several times. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant, and plants are the first to be affected. Not only Yangshan Islands, but other places have also increased production."

Yes, in just the past year, Emperor Liujiang has descended three times; in the two years before that, there were also two times.

The Emperor's sap seeps into the soil, and the first benefit is farming, and then the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is revived.

Practitioners like He Lingchuan can clearly feel the increase in the concentration of spiritual energy around them.

"We can't do extensive planting anymore, so as not to waste the natural resources!" Dou Wuxing continued, "We must hurry up to harvest wheat. Good weather will only last for a month at most, and then we will enter the flood season. We also need to re-plan the fields, dig ditches, fill the soil with wheat straw, and prepare to switch to rice. Time is precious, don't waste a moment!"

The intensive cultivation of the Yangshan Islands will start with summer rice, and Dou Wuxing has been ready for a long time.

"...You have the final say." Now that there is sufficient manpower, He Lingchuan has also equipped Dou Wuxing with a team to monitor and guide the astronomy, water conservancy and farming of the Yangshan Islands.

After the Yangshan Islands became famous, it also attracted many people to come and join.

The training of talents must be grasped, which is also He Lingchuan's experience.

After the development of the entire Yangshan Islands, the farmland area expanded, and Lei Ni could not manage it alone. He Lingchuan took back the right to organize the production of agricultural work from her, divided the agricultural work on the island into several areas, and assigned a person to be in charge of each area.

The Yangshan Islands are like a machine with an increasingly tight structure. It was running bumpy after the last expansion, but now it is finally running smoothly.