Eyeing the surrounding "idle" land, it is not a matter of a year or two, after Ran's and Wuhan negotiated with the Shu brocade agent for export, Zhang De first took a piece of land in Huangzhou. That is, the mulberry forest along the river in Huangpi County, where Brother Xiaobai is located, after several years of operation, the total number of acres of five kinds of mulberry trees exceeds 250,000 mu.

Among them, there are naturally the normal results of enclosing polders and building river embankments, but there are also many acres of land along the river in Huangpi County, which were bought by the government and the people, and eventually formed the largest mulberry leaf production area in Jingchu area.

The increase in the base of silkworm raising has also made a large number of cottage Shu brocade flood the market, many of which are exported to the East China Sea and South China Sea silk boats, in fact, many times, it is no longer the expensive Shu brocade, just the local goods of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep.

In fact, whether you know how to do it or not, you are extremely welcome to Huang Pisi, just the price gap is enough for people to abandon the royal goods without hesitation.

Only aristocrats and big businessmen can follow the royal trend without caring about the price, and pretend to be forced with Shu brocade on the outside or behind closed doors.

Like silk, soybeans are also an important material that Zhang De considers. It is not only an important feed supplement for horse farms, but can even be said to be the cornerstone of the breeding industry.

With the rise of the citizen class in Wuhan, the non-agricultural population has increased dramatically, and this growth rate often requires more meat intake. In order to ensure the supply of meat protein, there will be no skyrocketing prices and meat will be bought, so we have to put the high-risk aquaculture industry on the agenda.

In fact, this is also something that Zhang De has been implementing, even if he knows that the anti-risk of the aquaculture industry is low in these years, he has to do this.

The feed source, which is a high-quality protein source, can only rely on soybean meal.

The rest of the bran, rice bran, and taro can only be said to be the icing on the cake, and they can't be done fundamentally.

The county seat that has successfully become the meat supply base in Wuhan is Puqi County. In the process of building the reservoir, a new official road was built to lead directly to Puqi County. After Puqi County rests and recuperates the water, the waterway can also go straight downstream. It doesn't take much time to arrive in Hanyang or Jiangxia, as long as the weather is suitable, there is no upper limit on the number of live pigs transported in a day on the Yangtze River.

However, the situation in Puqi is similar to that of Yalanyi, both of which are mountainous and flat, and have no geographical advantages. Although the Yalanyi is not much better, it is directly adjacent to the river, and there are still scattered patches of gentle land in the southwest direction, and it is not a half-day walk from Baling County upstream.

It's a good place.

Two years ago, Zhang De sent people to rent some scattered fields in this place in the name of private people, about 10,000 acres, all of which were planted with soybeans. The average yield per mu is more than 100 catties, although it is not much, but it is enough to meet the current demand.

This year's latest survey, handed to Zhang De, shows that Yalanyi can actually level the cultivated land for development, at least 300,000 mu, and if a huge amount of money is invested to build a dam and repair the reservoir, then this number can be doubled.

It is impossible to build a dam and a reservoir, and the population of this place can be said to be almost none. During the annual flood season, waterlogging often occurs, and landslides can be seen everywhere. The most important thing is that Zhang De does not have so much manpower on hand to allocate it to do another big project.

If the Yalanyi really wants to build a reservoir, it must be the same as the southern Jiangxia area, and it must be a large-scale systematic project.

And the population gap between the two is more than 100 times, and Zhang De naturally focuses on it.

However, if you want to get out of Yuezhou to get out of the borderless land, it is not much of a problem in itself, but a series of troubles after development is the time to test human nature.

It is impossible for Lao Zhang to have a relationship with Yang Sili's successors, and the local land-sitting households in Yuezhou saw that two or three hundred thousand acres of land were taken by Wuhan to grow beans.

Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhang De not only had to communicate with Yang Sili, but also for the Yalanyi, the government and the people had to go hand in hand.

The government-run farm should be opened, not only to be opened, but also to be opened with great fanfare, and it should be opened together with the Yuezhou Thorn Mansion. As for the money, Zhang De didn't expect Yuezhou to produce even a copper plate, what he wanted was the red and white deed of the land.

Private farmers also have to enter the field, 300,000 acres of soybean land, don't want to eat if you don't have any strength. Lao Zhang's first consideration was the king of Jiangxia, and Li Daozong didn't mind "self-defilement", which could not only deter the Yuezhou guy next door, but also give the emperor's brother an explanation.

In addition to Li Daozong, Fang Jun, the son of Fang Qiao, the new governor of Jiangnan West Province, will also make an appearance. He is no threat to Lao Zhang, but for Yuezhou, Yanzhou, Langzhou and other prefectures and counties, it is a big difference.

After all, according to the new system and new decree of the imperial court, nominally speaking, Fang Qiao, the king of heaven, is their top boss. Fang Qiao is used to being an ambassador again, not to mention Jiangnan, Hedong Guannei, Hebei, where has he not suppressed it? In a mere "barbaric" place, do you dare to make a mistake?

With a two-pronged approach, Lao Zhang didn't dare to say that the Yuezhou tenants were really obedient, but it was effortless to let the Yuezhou officialdom be taken by him.

And in these years, if you get the officialdom, you can get everything.

In the past, the imperial court was afraid of sitting on the ground, but now the court is eager to have a sitting household who is willing to jump out and make trouble. Up and down, Emperor Lao Tzu got five surnames and seven hopes, and he didn't let me get a few local sages.

It makes sense everywhere.

After drawing up the charter, Lao Zhang immediately sent someone to start communicating with the Yuezhou Assassin Mansion, and after a few rounds of talks, things were directly on the right track.

The first is to measure the land, check the number of Yalanyi Dingkou and the registration situation; The second is that the two sides are handed over to the center of the upper table of Jiangnan West Road, and the new "Linxiangzhuang" is added, and one person is set up to order the grain and one person; In the end, Yuezhou paid for it, and Wuhan paid for it, and the embankment was renovated to plan the houses.

The whole thing was pushed very quickly, the eldest grandson Wuji ran back to the center twice with an old bone, and Fang Xuanling was not idle, he temporarily went to Yuezhou to inspect the local work, and none of them dared to fart.

In fact, 300,000 acres of land still have to be leveled before you can have 300,000 acres of land, which is nothing to many wealthy families.

But only those who know Zhang De's plan know that it is extremely profitable.

At present, the price of pork in Wuhan is based on one catty and ten yuan, and the meat of a pig ranges from 50 catties to 100 catties, which is equal to the minimum gross profit of half a catty. According to the statistics of the embassy last year, Wuhan ate more than 1.2 million pieces of pork alone.

This kind of data will never be known to outsiders, even if it is to observe the embassy, except for a very small number of people in the Duzhi Branch, there is only Zhang De's staff team, and even the county orders below are unknown.

It can be said that even if Fang Xuanling is as holy as a Buddha, he throws the local data to him and takes a look at him, and he is as evil as a demon. What's more, the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Daozong and others, who are already "full of evil", just saw a corner of the market, they were already hot, and they couldn't wait to kick Lao Zhang away, and then eat and drink nonsense.

If it weren't for Lao Zhang, Lao Yin and Li Daozong would definitely do this, and Lao Zhang was quite confident in them.

The particularity of Wuhan makes it a labor black hole, and under the current development trend, no matter how much labor is invested in it, it will be quickly digested.

Once this labor is digested, he has become a screw in the Wuhan area, and he has also become a part of the market, which has nothing to do with the will, nor does it transfer because of the will.