Qin Ning looked at Qin Zhao, and his eyes were immediately filled with more worship.

He worked hard every day and ran errands everywhere, and only earned eight taels of silver a month. Brother Zhao could just set up a water truck to irrigate the wasteland, and he could make a big deal of more than 30,000 taels of silver out of nothing. The gap between them was more than ten thousand?

Qin Zhao walked to the fields by the river and said, "In the future, irrigation canals will be built in these fields. The tall canals will be higher than the ground and can lead water to wasteland more than ten feet away."

Qin Ning followed Qin Zhao with admiration, thinking about these land value. He did it again and again, and suddenly thought that Qin Zhao could not only irrigate wasteland in Jinghai Fort and Qinjia Village, but now Qin Zhao has this water truck tool that can install bearings, and he can do the business of reclaiming wasteland elsewhere in the future.

If it is spread throughout Xiangshan County, it will be developed.

Qin Ning said with a slight tongue: "Governor, this water truck is really a sharp thing. If this continues, you will be richer than the prefect."

Qin Zhao turned his head when he heard this and asked curiously: "Is the magistrate the richest person in Guangdong?"

Qin Ning laughed and approached Qin Zhao and whispered: "Governor, don't you know yet? The prefect is so good at plundering, and uses his nephew as his minions to gather everywhere, so he is so rich. I heard that his money is not dared to put it in the prefect's office, for fear that the clerks would find it. They hide the money in the four big houses in Guangzhou City."

"Every big house has relatives with dozens or hundreds of guards, guarding them even tighter than the city wall."

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "So this prefect is so ugly? Even the clerks in the yamen can't believe it."

Qin Ning smiled and said, "It's not just the clerk who trusts him. No one in the officialdom can trust him. I heard that Ding Kuichu and Wang Huacheng's two factions don't like him, and they both think that his appearance is too ugly and his hands are too dirty."

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Then I will treat this prefect well in the future."

Qin Ning was stunned and smiled and said, "The Guardian is joking, why are we going to fight the magistrate to the death?"

Qin Zhao said: "Qin Ning, you go to Guangzhou City more than these days to find out which yards the prefect's money is hidden in, and find out the addresses of those yards. When you come back, I will reward you!"

Qin Ning looked at Qin Zhao in surprise, then patted his chest and said, "Governor, you know my ability to inquire about the news. Isn't this a trivial matter easy?"

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On the tenth day of July, Qin Zhao took Qin Ding'an to inspect the farmland in Qinjia Village.

The rice in the rice fields is not yet mature, but it needs to be removed and weeded. The villagers of Qinjia Village waved their hoes in the rice fields in groups of three or three. Seeing Qin Zhao coming, they hurriedly lay in the rice fields and kowtowed to Qin Zhao. Qin Zhao only waved his hand and asked them to continue working.

Walking to a high place, Qin Zhao stood up and looked down at the farmlands of the entire Qinjia Village.

In the past ten days, Qin Zhao asked Qin Ding'an to hire all the villagers of Qinjia Village to reclaim wasteland. Now Qin Zhao's 3,000 acres of wasteland have been roughly reclaimed and the land has been leveled. Just build the irrigation canals to turn these wastelands into paddy fields.

The trees and weeds on the wasteland are burned with fire and turned into wood ash and sprinkled on the soil, which can ensure the fertility of the land in the first year.

Qin Zhao looked around and felt that his three thousand acres of new fields were vast and endless. This wasteland spread to the land next to Zhaojia Village, all within 40 feet of the Laolao River.

Qin Ding'an walked to Qin Zhao with his hips and said, "Governor, the cost of this water truck is very high. A water truck requires twenty taels of silver to add wood, and another carpenter machine tool will be continuously running for fifteen days before it can be processed and formed. Blacksmiths also need to use Sugang to make bearings. In this way, the cost of the water truck is close to thirty taels per frame."

"Governor, if the plan to irrigate the fields by the water truck fails, it will be a big loss."

Qin Zhao looked at Qin Ding'an and was a little unhappy.

Qin Ding'an is not as smart as Qin Ning and others. He is a little bit tactful and always likes to say alarmist words. So after Qin Ning and others were promoted to officers, Qin Ding'an was still not valued, and he still held the position of manager under Qin Zhao's account, only receiving four taels of silver a month.

However, Qin Dingan was very satisfied with his treatment. He never seemed to have thought he would be valued by Qin Zhao.

Qin Zhao ignored Qin Ding'an and walked to the cultivated new fields.

These new fields have been dug, and the fields are in the shape of fields, looking in a waste. Apart from the river, irrigation canals have also begun to be built. The canals are five or six meters above the ground, and are convex. The high canals transport the river water all the way to the new fields far above the river.

A canal has been built, and one canal connects three water trucks. Water kept flowing from the canal. Qin Zhao looked around the canal and felt that the water in the canal was as high as four or five taps in later generations. I thought it would be no problem to irrigate 150 acres of paddy fields at the right time.

Qin Zhao calculated that if the land rent of 3,000 mu of wasteland is collected every year, the land rent income of 1,500 stones will be obtained in a year. According to the current price of grain of about 3,000 taels per stone, the silver price will be 4,500 taels.

This is a considerable income.

More importantly, once the wasteland is successfully reclaimed, the villagers of Qinjia Village can greatly expand the per capita farming area. Now the per capita farming area in Qinjia Village is about two mu. With these 5,000 acres of new fields, the per capita farming area in Qinjia Village can reach ten mu. According to the current output, farmers can get 14 stones of grain each after deducting the land rent.

What is the concept of 14 s of grain per person? Calculated by half a kilogram of rice per person per day, one person actually only needs 15 s of rice per month, which is only 180 s of grain a year, and a little more than one stone. Putting aside the per capita consumption, if the villagers of Qinjia Village plant these 5,000 acres of new fields, each person can get more than 12 and a half stones of grain per year.

With so much food, there is enough fish and meat every day, so everyone can eat half a pound of meat every day.

If you don’t have big fish and meat every day, you can exchange food for money, buy clothes and daily necessities, and repair houses, so that you can have a good life.

Qin Zhao looked at Xintian under his feet and thought a lot.

In fact, the most profitable thing in the Ming Dynasty was agriculture. After all, what was most scarce in this troubled era was food, and the food grown would never have to worry about sales. Guangdong and Guangxi did not experience famine and war. The grain produced was sold far to the north, and it was exchanged for silver to flow back to Lingnan, which led to the prosperity of Guangzhou City.

Qin Zhao was thinking there, but he saw a group of people suddenly running from afar. The clothes that the group of people were wearing were decent and seemed to be somewhat organized. They rushed to a group of villagers who were building the canal and started to quarrel with the villagers.

The troublemaker is here.

Qin Zhao took a breath and waved his hand and said, "Let's go and have a look."

When everyone walked to the group of people, they heard the group of outsiders shouting loudly: "Master! You thieves are prisoners! You rent the fields of Master Wang Juren, so plant them well. Who allows you to build canals on the fields?"

Qin Zhao listened carefully to the man's scolding words and realized that he was a servant of the juren Wang Yuan's family.

The tenant, who was called a thief, looked disdainful and cursed: "Wang Ermazi, don't talk nonsense. Why is this field Wang Juren's field? This is the field I offered to avoid the land tax thirteen years ago. This is my field! I built a canal on my field. What's the matter with Guan Wang Juren?"

The man who was called Wang Ermazi rolled his eyes and shouted, "Qin Laosan, since you know what offering is, you should understand. Thirteen years ago, you drew the land deed with Wang Juren, signed the contract and pressed the handprints. Your land has been Wang Juren's field since then. You have been farming in Wang Juren's field for so many years and have lost so much land tribute. Are you not grateful to Wang Juren?"

The farmer, known as Qin Laosan, said angrily: "What's the shortage of land tax? This year, the Guardian said it clearly, and we all know that land tax is only two dou and two in one acre. Over the years, Wang Juren collected my land rent of nine dou, but he dared to say that we're short of land tax? I beat you to death with one stick!"

Wang Ermazi couldn't say that Qin Laosan was unable to say that he went up and grabbed Qin Laosan's hand and said, "Qin Laosan, you have built a canal on the Juren's field without authorization, and you and I will meet the official!"

Qin Laosan suddenly became panicked and tried desperately to get rid of Wang Ermazi's hand.

"What official should I meet? Who will go to see the official with you? If you want to see the official, go to see the guard of our village!"

"What kind of guardian? You are all civilians, follow me to meet the magistrate!"

Qin Zhao couldn't listen to this and shouted, "Tang Ba Lamb, where did the turtle come from? How dare you show off your power in my Qinjia Village?"

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Chapter completed!