Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 437 Different Management Methods

So these three people were also very anxious.

This time, seeing Hualei, a newly arrived fifth-rank official, was also being ignored. Her superiors had not assigned her a fixed person to do the work. Seeing that Hualei had filled out an out-of-office form, he mustered up the courage to find Hualei himself.

After Hua Lei understood the situation, she realized that she shared the same suffering.

Soon, the four of them arrived at the foot of the barren mountain, which was more than a mile away from the official road. Fortunately, there was a compacted dirt road here, and although it was bumpy, the carriage could go directly to the foot of the mountain.

Standing at the foot of the mountain in the south, Hualei opened the topographic map. She should be standing at the south side of the gourd bottom.

The height of the entire barren mountain is not very high, generally about 700 to 800 meters. There are four or five mountains on the north side that are relatively high, about 1,200 to 1,300 meters. Moreover, the slopes of these barren mountains are relatively gentle, similar to the South Mountain.

At this time, the sun has already slightly moved westward. Looking to the southeast, you can see the western slope of the Nine Mountains. This means that the southern and western slopes of the Nine Mountains have sufficient sunlight for half a day.

The east and north slopes, in contrast, receive less sunlight because the mountains cover each other, especially the north slope, which receives even less light.

After driving the carriage to the other side of the gourd bottom and looking to the southeast, we saw that the west and north slopes of more than a dozen mountains to the north did not have sufficient sunlight, only some scattered diffuse sunlight.

However, the eastern slopes of these dozen mountains have half the sunshine time in the morning. In contrast, the southern slopes are almost all blocked by the mountains next to them, so the sunshine is relatively less.

After looking at the general situation of the barren mountain slope, Hualei carefully looked at the river at the foot of the mountain. The foot of the mountain here is the end of the river, forming an angle with the river.

There is plenty of water. If we install a hand-pulled water truck by the river to irrigate something, it will be very convenient for the nearby area.

After driving the carriage around the foot of the mountain for a short while, Hualei arrived in the middle of several barren hills and stopped.

On the topographic map, among the more than twenty barren mountains, seven or eight mountains in the north have relatively dense trees, while the barren mountains in the south and in the middle are basically covered with bushes and weeds.

Hualei took a quick look and found that the actual situation was basically consistent with the topographic map. So he drove the carriage around into a basin between several mountains.

This basin is slightly larger than the one in Hualei's home, and the terrain is relatively flat. The mountains in the north are relatively high, while the mountains in the east and south are relatively low, making the basin feel slightly tilted.

I went to several basins to take a look, and the conditions were generally similar. The areas of several basins were still very large.

Although there are ups and downs in the middle, if it is slightly modified and a few ditches are dug according to local conditions, economic crops such as rapeseed can be directly planted.

I just don't know if the Silin Bureau is willing?

Hualei can plant whatever she wants on her own barren mountain, including sweet potatoes and potatoes as crops, as well as ophiopogon japonicus and wolfberry as medicinal herbs.

She also planted tea trees and rapeseed as cash crops, and also kept grape vines and many other types of trees according to local conditions.

However, these barren mountains belong to Emperor Shengwu and are under the jurisdiction of the Silin Bureau. How to transform them is not something Hualei can decide.

If these barren mountains are transformed into land for growing crops, according to the customary rules of the Dasheng Dynasty, the land for growing crops must generally be reallocated to the Sino-Agricultural Bureau and managed by it. At that time, the income from the crops will of course also belong to the Sino-Agricultural Bureau.

If it is transformed into medicinal herb cultivation, it will most likely be managed by the medicinal herb cultivation department under the Imperial Medical Service. Of course, the income from the medicinal herbs will also belong to the Imperial Medical Service.

Only if the land is transformed into trees, fruit trees, etc., will the income belong to the Forestry Bureau. This means that what you transform and plant is actually related to the final distribution of benefits.

However, now, all the barren mountains belong to the Forestry Bureau. If I rashly transform them into other crops, the officials of the Forestry Bureau will definitely not be happy. Isn't this just stealing meat from one's own mouth and giving it to others?

From the perspective of Emperor Shengwu, no matter what is planted on the barren hills, the profits generated are all money in his pocket, but the distribution of benefits is definitely different for different government offices.

This is also the reason why the Forestry Bureau wrote in its previous reclamation plan that it wanted to plant trees on all the barren hills. The Forestry Bureau was definitely unwilling to transfer the management rights and profits that originally belonged to it to the Agriculture Bureau or the Imperial Hospital.

However, if we really want to plant trees everywhere, it is definitely possible, as long as we plant them in the appropriate areas according to their different habits. And relatively speaking, it is simpler than transforming and planting crops.

After all, crops need to be plowed, planted, and harvested every year, which requires a lot of manpower. Planting trees, although they also need maintenance, relatively speaking, requires much less manpower.

However, if I write a plan according to this idea, on the one hand, Emperor Shengwu will definitely think that I am being lazy when he sees it.

On the other hand, this is actually a waste. After all, in the Great Sheng Dynasty, there are still many people who are not well fed, clothed, or have insufficient oil.

The reason why soybean oil is so expensive is that the production is too small. If the basin is converted to grow rapeseed, more oil will be produced and the price will naturally come down, so that ordinary people can afford it.

Although it is difficult to transform barren mountains into rice terraces, it is possible to plant sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and wheat on other gently sloping hillsides.

As for planting medicinal herbs, you also need to ask what the Imperial Hospital's medicinal herbs planting department lacks the most? Then you can pick some suitable ones to plant.

However, whether it is trees or medicinal herbs, they are not as economical as crops. The most important thing is to fill your stomach first.

Hua Lei sighed softly. She was probably like a mouse in a bellows, being bullied from both sides.

Moreover, even if he was willing to offend his superiors in the Forestry Bureau and insisted on changing the planting pattern to rapeseed, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, his plan might not be approved.

Because the working mode of the Silin Bureau is somewhat different from that of the Sinong Bureau, or it can be said that it is completely different. According to the saying of the previous life, the Sinong Bureau implements flat management, while the Silin Bureau implements vertical management.

When I was the head of agriculture at the Agriculture Bureau, although I definitely followed my superiors' orders on the general direction, the Bureau also decided what to plant.