However, there is another problem. Even if the grain fields in Wuzhaibao returned to the previous good weather, the grain output was far from meeting Huang Laifu's mind.

For thousands of years, most of China has implemented a natural economy that is intensive and self-sufficiency, and Wuzhaibao is no exception.

The main feature of this economy is that it uses grain cultivation as the main body, households as the unit, and production self-sufficiency as the purpose, and its management methods are backward. Farmers repeat simple labor year after year and earn very little, which leads to the slow development of the social economy in the long term.

This natural economy not only has backward productivity, but also often has powerlessness in the face of natural disasters. With a single family, the individual power is always small. When encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are often displaced.

Of course, there is a reason for this production method. China has always had a large population and a small land, and lacks arable land. If you want to produce as much grain as possible on a limited land, you can only increase the yield of grain crops per unit area. This is the origin of intensive cultivation.

Although there are many military households in Wuzhai Fort farming for the Huang family, in fact, it still has this kind of small-scale farming operation method. In the past, when the weather was good, there were not much income in Huang Laifu, and now there are even fewer disasters when there are frequent disasters.

However, after seeing the production methods of large farms and large farms in later generations, Huang Laifu will certainly not use this natural and economical production method. The area around Wuzhaibao is vast and sparsely populated, and it just happens to implement the plan of large farms. Not to mention Wuzhaibao, it is located in the nine north sides of the north, with a vast and sparsely populated land and a lot of land. Moreover, due to the disasters during the small river period, many fertile fields were abandoned and can be used.

This large-scale farm-like production method is incomparable to the small-scale farm-like production method. It not only can greatly increase the yield of grain and other crops, but also has much stronger disaster resistance than those of small-scale farmers. For example, those large companies and factories in later generations are always more productive and resistant to stress than some small family workshops.

Take the British not far away for example. In 1633, 57 households in the manor of the noble Barlow had 57 public holders, cultivating more than 2/3 of the land land. Another seven land renters rented less than 1/3 of the land. However, the amount of land rent paid by these seven capitalists was close to nearly 1/2 of the total land rent income of the Barlow manor. After 16 years, in the same manor, the number of land renters increased to 10, 42% of the land rented in total, and the land rent paid accounted for 67% of the total. The 46 farmers who cultivated nearly 58% of the land paid only 29% of the total land rent income.

This is why many lords are keen on land enclosure. The famous land enclosure movement in history was directly facilitated by capitalists' rents land. Decades later, the production method of large farms or ranchs in Britain replaced the natural land farming method in the UK and promoted the development of capitalist agriculture.

Moreover, due to its strong strength, large-scale farm-style production methods are easy to adopt advanced technology, use new farming methods and farming technologies, expand the arable land area, improve fertilizers, etc., increase grain output, and form a virtuous cycle.

In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the development of the commercial economy, a similar Datianzhuang-style business model also appeared.

In some Jiangnan areas in the late Ming Dynasty, due to land annexation, some landlords occupied tens of thousands of mu or even hundreds of thousands of mu. It was very common. Under the stimulation of the development of commercial agriculture and the existence of a large number of labor force separated from the land, the agricultural management methods of some landlords also changed. Pay attention to large-scale comprehensive management to fully realize the potential of the land.

Tan Xiao’s business method in Changshu, Suzhou is quite typical. His business scale is very large and has achieved practical success. He hired more than a hundred villagers to work for him. He rented out part of the land and hired most of the land to operate. Judging from his tens of thousands of land, from reclamation, planting to management, the number of employees required is a large number of employees. Most of the products in Tan Xiaozhuang’s fields are put on the market, and the space utilization is very clever and reasonable. It can be said that this is a three-dimensional farm for the purpose of commodity production.

There is also Pan Yunduan in the Wanli period. Among the one or two thousand acres of land owned by his farm, a considerable number of employees were hired to operate. The varieties of crops planted are also diverse, including rice, wheat, beans, rapeseed, cotton, vegetables, as well as watermelon, dates, peach, persimmon, cherry, orange, plum, plum, fragrant round and other fruits, osmanthus, osmanthus, plum blossoms, peony, rose, bamboo, cypress, pine, holly, cypress, palm and other flowers and trees. In addition to being used for the farm products, some of them are also put on the market. It is also a typical farm-style operation.

However, this kind of farm-style operation is only a minority. In the Ming Dynasty at that time, the natural economy still occupied a decisive position, especially in the northern area, which relied on the weather to make a living. The self-sufficiency small peasant economy was still dominant. It was destroyed in the small glacier disasters over the past few decades.

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Speaking of which, in China's thousands of years of agricultural production, it has been far ahead of Western countries for a long time.

China implemented a multiple crop rotation during the Warring States Period, and Europe did not have a rotation rotation in Britain until the 1730s.

The earliest commonly used fertilization technology in China was during the Warring States Period. Europe did not start fertilizing farmland until the 10th to the 11th century AD.

China had already adopted branch cultivation of crops and fine weeding methods at the latest in the 6th century BC. However, in Europe, these farming methods were not adopted until the 18th century AD.

A multi-tube seed seed seed van invented in the 2nd century BC, while there was no seed in the West until the 16th century AD, so the seeds had to be sown on demand by hand.

China has been free from the shackles of poor plows for a long time, while the West has been using a method with extremely low efficiency and great physical energy to plow the land for thousands of years, causing the greatest waste of people's time and energy.

It was not until the late Middle Ages that Europe knew that there was a plow wall. The Chinese plow with a wall was brought back to Europe by Dutch seamen in the 17th century AD. By the 1870 AD, it was the cheapest and best plow. Western designers innovated this plow in the following decades and produced modern plows. It was the result of many improvements to our plows and was also an extremely important factor leading to the European agricultural revolution.

Of course, in the ancient West, there were also some agricultural technologies that were commendable, such as horse trench.

With the characteristics of cattle and horses, compared with the input costs and outputs of cattle and horse farming, the benefits of horse farming are much greater than those of cattle farming. The way of using horses as the livestock for farming is quite common in Europe, but in China, horse farming is only occasionally used. Although horse farming technology appeared in China during the Han Dynasty.

Speaking of which, the yoke that popularized Western horse farming was introduced from China. Unfortunately, horse farming was not popular in China. This is like the wall plow originated from China, but it led to the agricultural revolution after it was spread to Europe.

There are many reasons why Ma Geng is not popular in China. However, no matter what, Ma Geng has obvious advantages in operating large farms and using dry land. Huang Laifu wants to build a large farm, so he will certainly not let Ma Geng go to use it.

China's agriculture for thousands of years has been more developed than the West, and countless technologies have been introduced to the West. But in the end, the West produced an agricultural revolution, which promoted the industrial revolution and created many world powers in the West, but China did not. No matter what the reason is, Huang Laifu appeared in this era and history will be different.

Huang Laifu bid farewell to a group of people in the main hall and went back to his room to check the computer and prepare. He was preparing to do some preparations during the slack season so that when spring was in full swing, he would show off his skills.

Looking at Huang Laifu's back, Huang Sihao smiled slightly and looked relieved. Gu Qianhu also smiled with his beard. His son-in-law is talented and ambitious, so he is naturally satisfied.

Butler Yang smiled respectfully at Huang Sihao and said, "After the young master went out for a trip, the people have changed a lot. I want to congratulate you here!"

Huang Sihao said with satisfaction: "This is also the spirit of the ancestors. It seems that the growth of the Huang family will depend on Fu'er in the future!"

Only Gu Yunniang curled her lips and thought to herself: "Why did Huang Laifu become a different person?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!