Chapter 186 Managing the Tea Garden
This time, growing tea was originally a happy and joyful event, but Liang Chuan completely ignored the Song Dynasty's franchise for tea, and he refused to become a vassal of the Sun family. The relationship between Liang Chuan and Sun Houpu warmed up sharply and suddenly dropped to freezing point.
Sun Houpu also admitted that tea is not something that everyone can touch. If you just want to just live by yourself, it doesn’t matter, but it’s difficult to make a lot of money. The atmosphere is a bit awkward, and Sun Houpu is embarrassed to stay in He Lu again.
He explained to Liang Chuan some management methods of tea gardens and the precautions were made, and he said it was organized and everything was fine. Now he had nothing to hide. If Liang Chuan's tea gardens wanted to do well in the future and want to make a lot of money, he had to come to their Sun family. The experience of the businessman told him that no one would be unable to get along with the money.
He said goodbye to Zheng Ruoying with a sincere look, but Zheng Ruoying didn't even look at her. Zheng Ruoying thought that this Sun's trick had deceived Liang Chuan. Her friendliness of his impression of him was not high, and now it has been falling sharply.
It is terrible to be rich and unkind.
The next day, Liang Chuan asked all the villagers to stop their work and take their hatchets to follow him up the mountain. Everyone was surprised why Sanlang had such leisure to take them to the mountain to cut bamboo together today.
The tea seedlings are newly planted in the ground, and the water needs huge amounts. There are no rivers on the hillside. They can’t even load water trucks, and they can’t watch the tea seedlings die. It is very unreliable to carry water on the hillside. It is more tiring than carrying water from the south stream to the dry fields on the north bank to water it. I guess no one is willing to do it.
It doesn't rain, so I can only rely on myself.
Sun Houpu is truly an expert in the tea industry, and the land he chose is also a top-notch and good place suitable for the tea industry. In the early morning, there was a thin morning mist floating on this tea garden, and the water vapor was very sufficient. This condition is a necessary condition for a good tea plantation.
Liang Chuan led more than 30 village girls to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo. Two people in groups, one group of them should cut a bamboo. The shape of the bamboo should be straight and slender, and the branches should be straight and straight. The whole bamboo should be long enough, the bamboo body has no insect eyes and the bamboo stems are not damaged. Although there are a lot of conditions, there are still many bamboo forests with good quality.
All the branches on the bamboo should be cut off with a hatchet, leaving behind bars of bamboo. It is quite easy for two people to carry a laughing bamboo.
There are no streams on the hillside, but there are ones on the hill, and this stream is not close to rain, and there is no drying period at all. The stream on the hill is fault water, and the source is groundwater. It takes a long time to dry up the groundwater. Unless large-scale geological changes occur, the stream on the hill is small, but like a water truck, the water flow will continue.
Liangchuan's idea was to use bamboo to transport water pipes. If the bamboo joints do not have iron rods to pass through, they would break the bamboo, divide them into two, cut them off one third, and the remaining two-thirds of the water supply still have surplus. The key is that it is easy to remove the bamboo joints and make a bamboo smooth water pipe.
There were more than thirty village girls carrying a bare bamboo, attached the water diversion point closest to the tea garden, and placed bamboos one by one into the tea garden. Liang Chuan asked them to help break the bamboo, divide it into two, and then they could go back to weave bamboo after opening the bamboo joints inside, and they couldn't help the others. However, after these women made bamboo weaving for a few days, the broken bamboo skills were all very well-designed, and the bases were formed. Some of them were not cut enough, so they carried the bamboo back to weaving, and they could not waste it.
A bamboo is about ten meters away, and the distance between the head and tail of fifteen is nearly two hundred meters, which is enough to lead the water from the mountain stream to the tea garden.
Next, we need to pay attention to the connection between bamboos. The water intake must be the highest, and then start creating a little angle to let the mountain spring mountain flow down the bamboo tube. The head of the bamboo tube is narrow and thick, and the head of the upper can be embedded at the tail of the next one. If the height is not enough, then use branches to build it up.
He Baozheng saw Liang Chuan's water truck and was amazed by Liang Chuan's creativity. He didn't need to water his own wheat fields because they could harvest them around April. However, he also planted a lot of vegetables himself, and these vegetables were all affected without water. The Zheng family tenant farmers knew Baozheng, and they also knew that it was Baozheng who helped his boss to build the water truck, so they did not reserve the land to water He Baozheng.
He was really moved that how much knowledge was contained in this Sanlang's mind could be built by a water truck. Today he saw it again. The tea garden on the mountain did not need to get water. The water directly attracted from the mountain spring and mountain stream was made of bamboo as pipes. Although the amount of water was not large, it was the same as the water truck. It was enough irrigation in one day.
Liang Chuan wanted He Baozheng to introduce a tea farmer and help him take care of the tea garden. If the tea seedlings take care of death, he would be charged with the crime. This person must be trustworthy and reliable.
Liang Chuan would definitely pay his wages, because his land was no longer carrying water, so he said it was easy to take care of it. He wanted to take on this job. But Liang Chuan told him that there were still a lot of work waiting for He Baozheng at the foot of the mountain. Now he had to be responsible for managing the village girls, transporting bamboo weaving, and mosquito coils to form an industry. He Baozheng was responsible for these things, so he could no longer be allowed to be a tea farmer.
He Baozheng said, otherwise I would let my third uncle come. My third uncle has no work now, and the cow is too old, and I have no children and no children to do anything and save some money. In the future, my retirement will be a big problem. Liang Chuan was overjoyed when he heard this. Yes, why didn't he expect that he still owed my third uncle a favor, which was not right.
Uncle Zheng San used to grow a kind of land himself. The old cow was taken outside to help others plow the land and earn some hard money. Now he is old and has no job. Because the old cow is too inefficient, it is better to use a hoe to reclaim the land by himself.
He Baozheng told Uncle San about Liang Chuan's meaning. Uncle San's face was always a smile, but he was not stupid. He also said, "I know your kindness. Sanlang's things are great charity in the village now. Everyone lives with Sanlang. He is worried that I have no way to live when I am old, so he asks me to work. But my old hands and feet are afraid that Saburo will ruin his major affairs, and Jialuo will not be able to do this..."
Uncle San’s words were sincere, for fear that he would drag others down, and He Baozheng was also afraid that the old man would not be supported in the future. Liang Chuan did this kind of good deed, so he persuaded him to persuade him to help manage the tea garden. Liang Chuan said that he would give Uncle San’s money to 500 cents a month, so he was responsible for weeding in the tea garden, taking the bamboos over, and watering the ground.
The third uncle smiled and cried in his heart. Three hundred cents were enough to buy rice and eat by himself, and he could still have two hundred cents left. The key is that he is not a useless old bone that everyone dislikes, and he has a place to go.
Xiaoyi Liang Chuanlang, a true hero in fighting tigers.
Sun Houpu has repeatedly emphasized to Liang Chuan that after the new tea garden is built, the key to making the tea seedlings grow vigorously, with deep roots and lush leaves, and rapid and high yields lies in the management of the tea garden.
Liang Chuan took He Baozheng and Zheng Sanshu. After decorating the bamboo water pipes, he would connect the water pipes wherever they needed water. When they were not needed, they would release the water and flow to the foot of the mountain. Liang Chuan said the same thing as the tea-growing management tips Sun Houpu told him.
Uncle Zheng is the same age as his seniority. When He Baozheng sees him, he will call him uncle. Because he and He Jinyin and the only remaining old men are the largest in the village. However, Uncle San is not blind and deaf, and his hands and feet are slower, and he is still a good way to take a crop.
The tea seedlings in the tea garden have been planted. No one will plant things in this barren mountain for hundreds of years. He Baozheng is the first person in Liangchuan, who has never been able to do so forever. Within three inches of the tea seedlings, weeds have to be pulled out with hands. If you use a hoe, you will be afraid that hoeing will damage the roots of the tea seedlings and affecting survival.
The place three inches later is shallow plow one to two inches, one foot away, and deep plow four to five inches between rows. The tea behavior centers to form a raft that is one foot wide and one to two inches high, which is a bit like sugarcane land. This is easy to understand. If you say it to Uncle Zheng San, Uncle Zheng San nodded and understood.
Liang Chuan explained to his third uncle several times that this tea garden was related to his wealth and life. If the tea officials in the mountain ground knew that Liang Chuan planted the tea leaves in the field and deliberately killed the tea seedlings, he would be in great trouble. These tea seedlings are now precious treasures, so they should be taken care of.
Uncle San said that you treated me so well and gave him a way out. He would help do this well. The farmers are grateful, not the poisonous snake in spring, and they forgot to save him in winter.
After the new tea garden is cultivated, by April and May, within one foot of the two sides of the tea tree, shallow weeding for two to three inches shallow plowing, and shallow plowing for four to five inches deep within one foot. The second weeding is in July and August when summer begins, and the third time after autumn, shallow plowing and once in the middle of each.
Such labor is nothing to the eyes of their farmers. The wheat and rice have to be harvested and threshed. The tea seedlings can only be watered and weeded, and one piece a day can be honed. A small tea garden of one acre can be repaired beautifully in a few days.
The hardest thing is that this slope has to be slowly changed into a ladder, and the soil on the mountain is moved down and leveled, the ladder surface is renovated, the ladder wall is protected, and some small drainage ditches are also digging to prevent mountain torrents. There may be a lot of things in the first year, but after the tea garden is repaired, it will sway every day.
Liang Chuan repeated all the key points to Uncle San word for word. In order to be cautious, he asked Uncle San to rewrite these words himself...
The work on the mountain is done, and this tea garden has a settlement. Although it is too different from what you expect and cannot make a profit directly, it is also my own fixed assets. In the future, I can say that I am the owner of the manor and the person with the tea garden, haha.
Chapter completed!