Takegami Muraki is worthy of being a self-proclaimed person, and he quickly chose a certain location in the mountain based on the terrain, and standing here and looking around, he could look down on the entire land of the Kurokawa family, and there was a river at the foot of the mountain, which spread directly into the sea.

As for building a cottage at the mouth of the sea, it is not impossible, but it has lost this kind of geographical advantage of overlooking the whole territory, and anyway, Zhang Zhongjun has not much possibility of building a ship and going to sea, so he also approved the location of Takegami Village.

In addition to selecting a site, the Takegami Village tree, which is guarded by four bean soldiers, also wanders around the territory to see which places are suitable for reclamation as farmland, which places are suitable for planting fruit trees, and by the way, to find out how many useful wild crops there are in the territory.

During this period, the four bean soldiers did not kill some fierce beasts, but this place may be close to the sea, and it is considered to be a place of intensive human activity, all of them are wolves, bears and other fierce beasts, and in addition to wolves and bears, they have also found several hares living everywhere, and there are a large number of pheasants in the mountains and forests.

But there are no other large animals. As for the demons and monsters, I really haven't encountered them.

Takegami Muraki quickly copied a topographic map of Chiyuki and drew the location of the cottage on it, as well as the location of roads, farmland, houses, and shopping towns.

Judging from the topographic map alone, if all the construction is completed, it will be a prosperous area that does not belong to the town level. Of course, this is just an expectation for the future, and Muraki Takegami does not believe that Zhang Zhongjun will be able to develop this kind of future vision in a short period of time.

Roads, cottages, and dwellings are all easy to complete, but the farmland is the most difficult to complete, because the farmland is so poor that it is almost impossible to grow grain, and an area of 50,000 mu can produce 1 stone of grain, and 1 stone of grain is only 1,000 kilograms, that is to say, an acre of land in this place only produces 0.02 catties of grain, and an acre of land in his meow does not produce a single ear of rice! How poor is this?

Takegami Muraki worriedly told Zhang Zhongjun about his worries, but Zhang Zhongjun waved his hand and smiled: "We don't want to develop such a large area of land at once, we only developed a thousand acres at the beginning." ”

"Ah, only 1,000 acres of development, will it be too little? The yield of this grain ......" Takegami Muraki asked a little stunned, after all, he saw that Zhang Zhongjun did not choose the population that came to take refuge, and in the past few days, dozens of cottages have sent thousands of people, and the most is more than 3,000 people, adding up to a total population of more than 60,000!

I don't know how many gold bars weighing one pound were given just for the ransom fee, and now the rations for these 60,000 people are all purchased from these dozens of cottages at a high price! The timber and stones built are a pound for the young men and women of these 60,000 people to go to the mountains to cut and mine, but the tools are purchased from the castle town in Zijin County. There are also various utensils necessary for these people to settle down, which are also purchased in large quantities from Zijin County. Not to mention the cost of the equipment, the freight alone is a lot of money!

It stands to reason that the lord will not take care of the people's settlement equipment, and even things like the dwellings do not need to be taken care of by the lords, and the lords themselves deal with it.

But if you think about it, you know why your lord did this, and I really don't care about the settlement of these people, and if they dig their own nests to live, I don't know how many people will starve to death. Their original lord has already received the ransom fee, they are the lords of the Kurokawa family, and if the Kurokawa family ignores them, they will only starve to death except to be savages.

If you really want to do this, in the end, maybe one or two hundred thousand people will survive, but the reputation of your own lord will be completely ruined in this Beihuang Village, and if you want to recruit people in the future, I am afraid that the redundant population of those cottages will not come out even if they starve to death.

Where is it like now, I don't know how many cottage leaders want to defect, but unfortunately, the previous big sale has made these dozens of cottages empty of excess population, if they don't agree, those leaders will definitely not have the courage to defect, even if they defect, their own side will not be acceptable, otherwise a crime of embezzling the assets of colleagues is enough to make it difficult for the lord to move an inch in Zichuan's house.

Therefore, it is not a question of how to develop new land, but how to feed these 60,000 people, and because of this, Takegami Muraki has an opinion on the development of only 1,000 acres of land.

As I said before, the yield of one acre of mature fields in this world is at least 2 stones, and one stone of grain in this world is enough for 1,000 kilograms, plus the ears of rice in this world are very large, and each grain is as big as a grape in the ordinary world, so it can be said that a bunch of ears of rice is enough for an adult to eat for a day.

If it is calculated in this way, one acre of 2 stone ripe fields can feed 3 strong men for a year, everyone is half hungry and half full, only to say that if they survive, there is no problem with one acre of 2 stone ripe fields to feed 20 people.

As I said before, the ashigaru who receives 1 stone of grain can feed a family of five, so this data is normal, so Mao's competition for land is the mainstream of this world.

Zhang Zhongjun said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the 1,000 acres of land that your lord and I are going to develop with all my might, with the blessing of magic powder, I will make these 1,000 acres of farmland turn into a fertile field with a yield of 3 stones per mu in just one year! When this 1,000 acres of fertile land is stabilized, we can reclaim 10,000 acres around! After the reclamation of this 10,000 acres is completed, we will definitely not lack food." ”

"1,000 acres of wasteland will become a fertile field with a yield of 3 stones per mu in a year? This is impossible, the material rate of magic powder is at most 1 catty ......!

Zhang Zhongjun pretended to be from his arms, but in fact, he conjured a bag of spell powder from the storage ring, and threw it to Takegami Muraki very casually, deliberately making a disapproving look and said: "This kind of thing, I have a few hundred catties now, and I can reach tens of thousands of catties in the future, so to speak, as long as the money can solve the problem, it is not a matter at all!"

Takegami Muraki carefully untied the bag and inspected the contents of it, and after confirming that it was spell powder, he directly said excitedly: "Lord, since you have so many spell powder, why don't you directly expand the reclamation area? We don't need a harvest of 3 stones per acre, as long as we harvest 1 stone per acre, we can directly expand to 3,000 acres! Such a large area can better arrange your people, after all, there are 60,000 people!"