Chapter 374

November 28 of the lunar calendar.

Zhang Qianxiu and his party set foot on the train to Zhongzhou province.

Tang Hui and Qiu Xuewen are going to shoot advertisements in Shangjing. Everything in the advertisements is contracted to Qiu Xuewen, so Zhang Qianxiu doesn't have to worry about it.

Yuan pengchi went with him. He wanted to help to see the place. He also brought several students, all of whom were his students, who were studying for a doctoral degree.

Chen Defu and Chen Desheng are busy taking care of each other.

Chen Defu and his village are called Chenzhuang because most of the people in the village are surnamed Chen.

There are many plains in the north, and the terrain is flat. Especially in this season, it looks like a brand new piece of paper, flat and white.

Along the way to the village, people at the entrance of the village have been greeting for a long time, and a horizontal bar "warm welcome" has been drawn. These four words are practical and can be used no matter who comes.

Surrounded by a group of people, everyone went into the village. It's afternoon now. It's impossible to go to the field to have a look. It's dark early in winter.

There is still a big difference between the living habits of the north and the south. In the south, there are many clans. Compared with the north, the villages and clans of the southerners are more united. There may be some noise in the villages, but as long as there are some villages outside, just shout, everyone will come, regardless of the reason, and help the people in their own villages first.

In the 21st century, even in some southern villages, if you want to sell your house and land to others, you have to get the consent of the villagers. Otherwise, you can't sell it. That is to say, there are some villages that are very united inside, but they are very disgusted that outsiders come to live in the village for a long time. They only know their own people.

In this case, the greater the proportion of a certain surname in a village, the more obvious the situation is. If there are many surnames in southern villages, which belong to the villages built after the founding of the people's Republic of China, there is no such situation. But if a certain surname in a village accounts for 70% or 80%, and there are ancestral halls, which have a history of hundreds of years, then the village is more likely to be united and exclusive.

The clan concept of villages in the north is not so strong. The overall unity of villages is not as good as that in the south, but they are more inclusive.

Even if Zhang Qianxiu's large-scale contract is beneficial to the village, he may encounter many clans in the south.

But there won't be so many problems in the north. Let's discuss them. If we want to, we will be willing. If we don't want to, we will be pulled down.

This is influenced by the culture and social conditions of the north and the south. It has nothing to do with the individual.

The next day, at noon, people came from several villages next door. Let's discuss and see the specific place.

Chen Defu specially answers various questions for Zhang Qianxiu and others.

Zhang Qianxiu asked: "Mr. Chen, how many mu of land are you willing to rent this time? Specific numbers. "

"Boss Zhang, we had an emergency meeting last night. Most people in our villages are very willing to cooperate with you," Chen said

"Therefore, the area is a little more than what we said last time, which is 16430 mu."

"Of course, this is the total area. We have already measured it. The gap will not be very big."

More than 16000 Mu!

Zhang Qianxiu made a big budget estimate, that is 10.95 million square meters, which is big, but in fact, there is not much land to grow. No matter what agriculture does, the number looks big, but the profit is not much.

More than 16000 Mu is a rectangle with a width of 3000 meters, that is, a six mile road and a length of 3650 meters, that is, a distance of more than seven miles.

If you walk around, it's 13 kilometers, 26 miles. Most people have to walk for more than three hours.

Zhang Qianxiu asked, "are they all fields?"

Chen Defu's face was slightly embarrassed: "boss Zhang, because we rent it all to you, so we calculate the total area. There is a road running through the whole planting area in the middle, and we don't include that area."

That is to say, they include all the fields, ridges and some paths except the main passageway for villagers to enter and leave the village.

Zhang Qianxiu didn't say anything. Now there is no concrete road in the village. As for those farmlands, if he really rents them, he would push them all away.

As for those canals, they may also be re planned.

Zhang Qianxiu asked, "do you have a map?"

Chen Defu took out a folded piece of red paper: "boss Zhang, this is our own painting. It may not be very standard. You can make do with it."

Zhang Qianxiu spread out on the spot and put it on the snow: "Professor Yuan, come and have a look."

Yuan pengchi was on the side and asked several of his students to come and analyze with him.

The map is still quite detailed. The scale is certainly not up to the standard of printing, but they all mark the width, so we can probably see which places are rented to Zhang Qianxiu.

Zhang Qianxiu didn't see anything. Yuan pengchi looked at the map and the terrain, and finally pointed to a corner of the map and said, "this place is not very good for irrigation! The canal doesn't go there. Depending on your terrain, it should be higher. It should be the earth bag. "

Zhang Qianxiu took a look at the place yuan pengchi pointed to, and then looked at the distance. There was indeed a soil bag. Because of the snow, the soil bag didn't look very high, just a little undulating.

Chen Defu said: "there is vegetable field, but it's not very high."

One of yuan pengchi's students said, "the drop is about two meters, and the canal can't go up."

Chen Defu nodded: "it's not going up, it's all watering with water, but boss Zhang wants to rectify it, and it can be leveled at that time."

Zhang Qianxiu asked, "Professor Yuan, how much will it cost to push it flat?"

Yuan pengchi explained: "that soil bag needs to be dug at least one meter down. At that time, the canal will come down from the highest level, and it should be able to irrigate. That piece of land has about 100 mu. Compared with the whole piece, it's really small, but the project is not small."

That piece of land is just in the middle, low around and high in the middle, so even if the canal is built, the water will not go up, because the middle is concave. Only the one hundred mu land in the middle is protruding.

Chen Defu quickly said: "this is not a big problem. If boss Zhang thinks the cost is big, we can set aside more than 100 mu."

"If boss Zhang thinks that there is a little obstacle in the middle, we can draw out the whole corner. There are about 1000 mu in that corner. We can grow it ourselves."

Zhang Qianxiu said with a noncommittal smile: "we'll see it then. Let's see other places."

A circle down, is a whole morning, not all read.

After dinner, she went on to see the places she hadn't finished. Su Yuwei didn't go with her in the afternoon and wanted to go to other places. Chen Defu specially arranged for a female cadre to accompany her.

During the whole day, he finally made a round of these places. On the whole, Zhang Qianxiu was quite satisfied, but he never gave Chen Defu a reply.

In the evening, Zhang Qianxiu called Yuan pengchi and some of his students together for a small meeting, while Su Yuwei was listening.

"Professor Yuan, do you have any problems in this area?" Zhang Qianxiu asked.

"There's no big problem, but I suggest going to the water source. If there's no problem with the water source, it's OK to produce more than 1000 Jin per mu," Yuan said

"Although we didn't take the soil for testing, I had a look at it and it was quite fertile."

Zhang Qianxiu said, "let's go to see the water source tomorrow."

Su Yuwei said at this time: "I went to see the water source. There is not a lot of water in winter in a large reservoir. The reservoir is estimated to have several hundred mu, which is public."

"But he irrigates a large area. If there is a drought, he may not be able to supply it."

"I went to several villages around and asked. They said that if there is a small drought, the water will not be enough, especially rice, which needs more water."

"But I also heard that the government intends to contract out the reservoir. If you can contract out the reservoir, you can not sell the water to your village or sell less in a dry year. It's no problem to irrigate your 10000 mu land."

Zhang Qianxiu didn't expect Su Yuwei to find out all this.

"The authorities won't agree, will they?" One of yuan pengchi's students said, "even if the reservoir is contracted out, the government will definitely ask you to release water during the irrigation season."

Yuan pengchi took a look at his students and said, "Xu Lun, don't worry about these things. Just do a good job in research and investigation."

Xu Lun was silent at once.

But Zhang Qianxiu was lost in thought. The government really would not allow him to do so, but there are many ways to deal with it. For example, he irrigated his paddy field in advance, and there is only so much water left. I can give you all the water that can be put, but the people below are certainly not enough.

Or, deliberately arrange for themselves to release water several times, no one can help themselves.

A reservoir of several hundred mu, no matter too many places.

Zhang Qianxiu asked, "daughter in law, is that the only reservoir responsible for irrigation in this area?"

Su Yuwei said: "at present, there is only one reservoir."

In fact, this is a dilemma. It's not a big problem to rent a reservoir. The problem is that we have been in a drought year. Can we really ignore other people?

That reservoir is estimated to be in charge of tens of thousands of acres of paddy fields, that is, tens of thousands of people's irrigation water. If Zhang Qian only cares about himself, regardless of others' life or death, he will make money, and then tens of thousands of people, I don't know how many people will suffer.

Seeing Zhang Qianxiu's hesitation, yuan pengchi said, "Mr. Zhang, in fact, if it's just a year of water shortage, who do you put more water here and less water in other places, the impact is not big. After all, a reservoir also manages such a wide place."

"A little less land per mu is enough for you."

"If it's a drought, even if the level is divided equally, most people will not have any harvest, and some will even have no harvest. If you put all the water here, you can at least guarantee your harvest of more than 10000 mu."

Zhang Qianxiu knows that yuan pengchi's words are reasonable. In fact, yuan pengchi's main purpose is to set up a research institute. Only if Zhang Qianxiu continues to do so can he set up a research institute. If the land is not contracted, he will not continue to pay for it.