Chapter 300: Planning for Qinjiacun

In early spring, Yang Qing brought the people from the agricultural technology station over.

After consulting many people, Yang Qing finalized the overall plan for Qinjiacun.

After Qin Delu got hold of this plan, he was extremely excited.

This is too detailed; from now on we just have to follow it, right?

Rivers, waterworks, lakes, farmland and orchards, fish ponds, forests, pastures……

Almost all usable land in Qinjiacun has been put to use.

The wasteland, hills, and marshes they originally thought useless have all been utilized.

It's simply using their village's land to the utmost.

According to the design, the village and factory will gradually move onto Chaotic Stone Slope.

Yang Qing also explained, pointing to that parcel of land they considered worthless and said.

After investigation, this land is the most geologically stable spot in your village, ideal for building the village and factory without occupying farmland.

If the original village is gradually demolished, it can add about two thousand mu of arable land to your village.

As for water, when constructing the village's waterworks, gravity pumps and windmills will be used to divert water into the small reservoir created by improving the mountain depressions here.

For rural housing construction, I also referenced the Long-term Rental project and designed a modern plan for you.

If you can implement the plan, in ten years your Qinjiacun will be completely transformed.

In the early stage, this area will serve as a quarry, contributing to Qinjiacun's construction.

When quarrying, follow the plan.

This way, the new village won't need foundations; we can just use stone foundations.

When quarrying, if the work is finer, we can even quarry the walls.

Zhou Wei looked on enviously, but the projects are huge; they couldn't possibly finish them quickly.

For now they can only put effort into waterworks, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries, and industry.

Qinjiacun now has three tractors, thanks to the development of handicrafts.

One winter let them make a fortune.

In farming, having the agricultural technology station staff and three tractors made plowing and sowing much easier.

People hardly need to pull plows and seeders anymore; it saves a lot of labor and works better than manual labor, so Qin Delu and Zhou Wei don't have to worry too much.

Qin Bing led a group of people to follow an agricultural technology station technician to learn crop rotation techniques.

The technician explained in detail; they listened attentively and took notes enthusiastically.

Qin Cheng led a group to follow a technician, learning fruit tree cultivation and grafting, pruning techniques, and how to shape fruit trees.

Qin Cheng also learned with great relish.

Ma Xianglin, meanwhile, followed a technician to learn composting techniques; Qinjiacun had composted a lot of fertilizer over winter, but most of it wasn't processed well, not fully decomposed, probably because the turning wasn't done properly, and pests weren't cleaned up.

The technician had Ma Xianglin call all the village's chickens over, so people could turn the compost while letting the chickens peck at the bugs inside.

Of course there are many earthworms in there too; they also need to be properly protected.

Earthworms and fertilizer are now the farmers' treasure; they must be well protected.

Upon hearing the technician list the many benefits of earthworms, Ma Xianglin immediately issued the village's first ban.

From now on, villagers of Qinjiacun are forbidden to dig up earthworms to feed chickens and ducks.

Seeing Ma Xianglin so receptive, the technician continued.

These frogs and snakes are also beneficial insects.

Frogs eat insects; snakes eat mice.

Ma Xianglin is very receptive to advice.

Then from now on, villagers of Qinjiacun are forbidden to catch frogs and snakes.

Seeing that they truly heeded advice, the technician...

Bees help pollinate; dragonflies eat mosquitoes and flies; ladybugs eat aphids; mantises eat pests……

Ma Xianglin immediately designated the 'ten not to kill'.

Upon hearing this, Yang Qing quietly lowered his hand that had been reaching for a frog.

It seems there's no way to improve their livelihood.

Of course, things couldn't be just these.

To show off the machine's awesomeness, Yang Qing also organized a competition.

One group of twenty people, another group of one hundred twenty people.

Group one used tractors plus animal power plus human power; group two still relied on traditional craftsmanship, mostly human power assisted by animal power.

The tractor at full horsepower can plow about fifty mu a day; closely behind it, people drive horses to harrow the field, then people pull seeders to sow, and finally the last person follows close behind to ridge.

At this speed, the efficiency of twenty people exceeds that of over a hundred.

The key is that the heavy work is done by the machine; the next day those twenty can still work energetically, while the over a hundred, after yesterday's plowing, are nearly dead from exhaustion, still sore all over, today their efficiency is markedly lower, and they have to divert some people to harrow, sow, and ridge.

On the first day, over a hundred people could plow over a hundred mu; the next day only a few tens of mu remained.

Meanwhile, the tractor group's efficiency actually increased as their coordination improved.

One tractor saves thirty laborers; if those saved laborers work and earn ten dollars a month, thirty people make three hundred, at least three thousand a year.

Three thousand dollars, in this era, can buy one and a half tractors.

Three tractors equal four and a half.

Worth it, very much so; this tractor must be bought in greater numbers, preferably increased to ten.

Even Yang Qing covered his face at this calculation.

Although it's nonsense, it's actually not wrong.

Because the brick factory is already under construction, once bricks are produced, a large amount of transport capacity will be needed.

Sufficient transport capacity means that the produced bricks can quickly generate value.

You should know that it's currently the farming season, and there is simply no spare transport capacity for them to use.

The brick factory is built not far from the low-lying area, which is the site of the future artificial lake.

Doing this not only gives the brick factory high-quality soil, but also does not damage the farmland soil.

By the way, this also saves the work of digging the artificial lake.

As long as we dig according to the plan, a small artificial lake can be completed in just a few years.

And Yang Qing designed a series of interconnected lakes; once one is dug, another follows.

Enough to supply the brick factory for several decades.

Yang Qing designed it as a series of lakes, an important reason being to raise fish, shrimp, and turtles, and incidentally produce some other aquatic products.

You should know that water chestnuts and corms used to be an important snack, popular for several decades.

When coated with sugar, they are extremely delicious.

These are all revenue-generating projects.

And many of these low-lying areas are marshes, where grain cannot be grown at all.

With so many projects, the people of Qinjiacun are busy non-stop.

After Yang Qing finished doing what he could, he continued to busy himself with the Agricultural Machinery Factory's affairs.

Ge Hongtao, after optimizing the hand-guided tractor once again, began to feel bored.

This hand-guided tractor no longer has any value in further optimization.

(It was originally a counterfeit, with relatively mature technology.)

So he turned his gaze toward a genuine tractor.