Chapter 193

"The family harvested 3.2 million pounds of wheat, 15 million pounds of sweet potatoes, more than 8 million pounds of nuts, beans and various wild vegetables, 500000 pounds of pickled fish and 5 million pounds of hay. It raised 805 beef cattle, 277 dairy cows, 184 farm cattle, 2789 goats, 10981 wild boars and 173 horses."

Lilia's report caused a slight agitation.

"I personally harvested the crops. There were 400 pounds of wheat per mu! And we sowed only 70 pounds of wheat!"

"What a miracle!"

"No! It's all adults' credit!"

The village chiefs were talking, and Victor was a little proud. The planting method of deep cultivation and careful cultivation has indeed brought a bumper harvest. Randall led only 600000 pounds of wheat seed and more than 8000 mu of wheat field, with an average yield of 400 pounds of wheat per mu, and the planting and harvest ratio is close to 1:6. Such a harvest makes the village heads who boast of being experts in farming stunned and unbelievable.

Victor knocked on the table, the village chiefs immediately quieted down, and Lilia continued to report.

"At present, Randall's population is close to 8000, including 5000 young people. There are 3500 people settled in Hekou village, 1200 people led by Lord Nelson, 600 people in brick kiln village, and the rest are distributed in the other six farms. We have to pay 500 gold sol to 8000 people every month. Of course, the money eventually flows into the canteen. But the purchase of vegetables from private plots has become a big expense of the family."

"Randall's private plot is close to 1000 mu, and our monthly cost of buying vegetables is more than 200 kinsol. This is not only the income that free workers can save, but also the net expenditure of the family." Lilia said and looked up at Victor. There was worry in her eyes.

Randall led to sell purple cane wine to the York family, but the York family was unable to pay the money for the time being. They compensated with rye and beans. Randall's real income comes from the trade in Songlin town. Victor sells secret silver, medicine, green brick, snow sugar and coffee to the chebman family, and buys refined gold, cattle, sheep and horses, wheat, salt, linen and cattle and sheep skin. The profit of the trade is 1200 gold sol per month. Randall's expenses are almost 500 gold sols. Therefore, Randall collar's monthly net income is only 700 gold sol.

Lilia is in charge of Randall's financial power, but she has only 9000 kinsol. This money is too little for a sub Baron, not to mention that Victor still owes the Kingdom 5000 gold sols, and this year's annuity may not be less. Lilia had a headache at the thought of it.

Of course Victor knows about Lilia's troubles. Victor was not so poor, but he invested a lot of money in the construction of mercury and the free civil and commercial team, which is the reason for the financial tension. However, Victor has just made a fortune. He found 198 berry purple gold coins worth 160000 gold sol from assassin ace, but he didn't tell Lilia.

"Everyone already knows about the family." Victor looked around and said slowly, "although this is a big harvest, it's not the time for us to cheer. Because Randall's population is growing, and we haven't been self-sufficient."

"I hope that by this time next year, Randall collar can accommodate 12000 people and no longer need to buy food and materials. This is an impossible task for ordinary development collar, but we can do it! To this end, I want to put forward some requirements to you."

Victor made a plan for agricultural production next year. He increased the wheat planting area to 40000 Mu and distributed 60 pounds of wheat seeds per mu. The sweet potato does not need much care. It is directly expanded to 100000 mu, with 45 pounds sown per mu. Victor also asked to reclaim 20000 mu of farmland to grow lentils, coarse beans and rye. According to the plan, victor will consume 2.4 million pounds of wheat and 4.5 million pounds of sweet potatoes. It is expected to harvest 14 million pounds of wheat and 40 million pounds of sweet potatoes next year.

In terms of animal husbandry, the more cattle and sheep, the better, but the survival rate of captive wild boar cubs is too high, and large pigs can eat, which has become a great burden. Victor decided to leave only breeding pigs and young pigs, kill all the other adult wild boars, and the pork will be pickled, sold or eaten.

In addition, Victor also put forward the requirement of dividing pigs into households, that is, he entrusted wild boars to farm families, and each family raised three piglets. When the wild boar is slaughtered, farm families can get half of the wild boar. Dividing pigs into households can not only save the wages of raising wild pigs and improve the income of farmers, but also avoid the risks brought by centralized feeding.

After dividing pigs into households, industry enters the village.

Victor's original development idea was to concentrate on the development of agriculture, achieve self-sufficiency in food, and finally reserve a large amount of food to provide logistics support for the operation of the regiment. Therefore, Victor completely handed over the professional village to the alchemists. There is no doubt about the ability of alchemists, but their number is limited after all. They have to build armaments, and the output of daily necessities is somewhat insufficient. Victor often buys many linen and leather goods, so he is often cut by the chebman family.

This harvest gave Victor great confidence. He began to consider achieving self-sufficiency in daily necessities, training skilled workers and paving the way for the employment system.

Brick kiln village has been taken over by ordinary villagers, and nearly 200 alchemy militia have been liberated. Victor decided to put flax and wood production into the hands of the villagers. However, Randall collar still focuses on the development of agricultural water conservancy. If we continue to adopt the professional village production mode, it is somewhat inappropriate. Victor's solution is to bring industry into the village.

Industry into the village is actually the beginning of the employment system. Victor had six farms under his command. He asked two farms to build wood workshops, two linen workshops and the last two leather workshops. Each workshop arranges two auxiliary soldiers for alchemy. They usually teach the villagers the skills of division of labor and cooperation. After the farm receives the production task, the village head is responsible for recruiting people and organizing production. The auxiliary soldiers for alchemy provide technical support, and Victor pays the remuneration.

"Your villagers mainly do farm work, and all kinds of production are their sidelines. But you must urge the villagers to receive training in division of labor and cooperation and don't think about private plots all day. I'm not going to continue to allocate private plots. If anyone slows down, I'll take back his private plots. Do you understand?" Victor said to the village chiefs.

"Sir, we understand."

"Don't worry, sir. Learning a craft can make money. No one will refuse such a good thing. At the beginning, I worked for Shifu for five years in vain in order to learn carpentry!"

Victor nodded with satisfaction and asked, "do you have any questions?"

The village heads shook their heads one after another, saying there was no problem. Only Nelson raised his hand and said, "Sir, what's wrong with my territory?"

"I'll arrange it for you. You can train the guard at ease!" Said Victor unhappily.

"Oh." Nelson put down his arm contentedly.

Victor shook his head and continued, "since there is no problem, let's discuss the construction of the village."

When the family's internal affairs are handled, we should start to solve the problem of people's protection from the cold. As early as a few days ago, Victor asked the village chiefs to be prepared. He would mobilize 4000 people to build houses for those hired workers in three months to let them spend the cold water season. Now that the task of harvesting crops has been completed, it is time to start the project.

The village chiefs looked at each other. Maureen raised his hand and said, "Sir, we have a suggestion. Build the village house under Randall's leadership so that those people can move here. After the water season, they can go back to work. The village is still ours."

Victor smiled, "that's a good suggestion. That's the spirit of the meeting I want to see. Although, I can't agree with this suggestion, because once they live, they won't go back. Who makes our Randall collar so attractive?"

The village heads smiled proudly, and Victor continued: "If we help them today, they will help us. When the first reservoir is completed, I will mobilize those young hired workers to dig two stream reservoirs for Randall. Although there is plenty of rain in the water season, the stream reservoir is only 80 mu in size, and more than 10000 young people can dig it in ten days. This is the reward for our construction of village houses."

"The cottage cannot be built according to the shed. The shed is too small, the number of people it can hold is limited, the materials it consumes are too much, and it is too late. I designed a large and long house, which is rectangular, 30 meters long, 6 meters wide and 2 meters high, and can accommodate 30 people. The large and long house uses logs as a frame, soil as a wall and hay as a roof. It is not beautiful, but it must be strong. Can you do it?"

Maureen patted his chest and said, "no problem!"

Victor's jaw head said: "in three months, others can't build a cottage with a capacity of 12000 people! But our Randall family can certainly finish it!"

"Go back and prepare! Start tomorrow!"

When the village chiefs left the meeting room, Victor asked Lilia, "how's the purchase of sheep fur coats?"

Lilia shook her head and said softly, "we can only buy 2000 sheep fur coats. Songlin town said that if we want more sheep fur, the price must rise. Three sheep fur coats are priced as a golden sol."

Victor sighed. With the mobilization ability and organization ability of Randall family, it is not very difficult to build a village with 12000 people, but the sheep fur jacket to keep out the cold can only be purchased from the chebman family. Under normal circumstances, one kinsol can buy 12 sheep fur jackets, but the chebman family has raised the price by four times! Victor can accept the price, but I'm afraid these materials are limited Money can't buy it.

The gap of warm clothing is about 14000 pieces. The chebman family can't make up such a large quantity. They can only buy from other families, and the price increase is also the meaning of the problem. But the problem is that even if other families are willing to sell and want to make up the remaining 12000 sheep fur coats, most of them will have to wait until next year.

Fortunately, Victor had already prepared. He asked, "how's the purchase of wool and coarse linen?"

Lilia nodded and said, "there's no problem with coarse linen. 20 carts of coarse linen can be transported tomorrow. There's something wrong with the wool. Songlin town asked to exchange green bricks for wool and two carts of green bricks for a cart of wool. They also asked, why do we want wool?"

Victor smiled, "you want to know, too?"

"Yes!" Lilia gave a silly snort.

"Sheepskin scroll is an important industry of the southern Lord. They make sheepskin scroll from sheepskin, and the goat wool is thick and short, so it's useless to cut it. The southern Lord burns the wool every year in the water season. It is said that those abandoned wool piles are like hills."

"We bought the wool, sewed a suit of clothes with two layers of coarse linen, and stuffed the wool in. That's a warm clothes."

"Ah?! is that ok?"

"What's wrong? As long as you can keep out the cold! Big long houses and wool lined jackets are my ideas." Said Victor proudly.