Thinking that Guan Youde was a "decorator" in the past, Chen Wuren asked about the fish flowers again: "Brother Guan, I heard that the fish flowers in Jiujiang are all harvested from the Xihai (Xijiang), why not sell them directly to the home builder?"
Pond breeding? Why do you need to go through the decorator’s hands?”
Guan Youde said: "The old gentleman is indeed a thoughtful person. The fish and flowers caught by the households are not pure. There are all kinds of fish species in them. You must not mix them at will, otherwise there may be no fish left in the pond. Decorate your home.
The merit lies in the classification of the fish caught by Danhu, leaving only grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp and dace, which are called the four major fish species."
How to separate the fish and flowers is naturally a secret of the decoration family. It is mostly passed down by the decoration family from generation to generation and is kept secret.
As a local, Chen Wuren still has some concepts about the four major fish species. Before the Tang Dynasty, the main species raised by fishermen were carp. Since the emperor of the Tang Dynasty had a surname of Li, which sounds the same as Li, and "carp" symbolized the royal family, they could not be caught or fished.
To sell. Therefore, fishermen have to look for new breeding species. Grass carp is grass carp; silver carp is silver carp, also called silver carp; silver carp is bullhead fish, also called silver carp. Unlike the Yangtze River Basin, Jiujiang villagers do not raise herring.
Instead, they raise dace, commonly known as Tu dace or Dace male, which is a unique species in South China. By the early Ming Dynasty, the cooperative breeding of the four major fish species was very mature.
"If my family raises fish, how many fish will be needed for one acre of pond?" Chen Wuren asked.
Zhong Ji, who was with him, listened to these mentally retarded questions and said with a smile: "One acre of Fanchi can support thirty grass carp, one hundred and twenty silver carp, fifty bighead carp, and more than a thousand earth carp."
"Why are there such huge disparities in the number of squids?" The question came from Lin Chengwen, the promotion manager of the Guangzhou region of Tiandihui. He had the impression that Lingao was not raised in this way.
Zhong Jidao: "Brother, I don't know something. As the saying goes, 'You can't raise dace fish'. Dace fish likes the heat and cannot survive the winter. In autumn and winter, there will be only one fish out of ten. If it does not survive the winter, it will not be fat. If it is not fat, it will be cheap."
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"Oh? The selling prices of the four major fish species are still different?" Chen Wuren asked.
"It varies slightly every year, but in short, the price is bighead carp, while silver carp is more expensive because it grows easily and does not require grass. It is difficult for dace to grow, and rarely weighs as much as a pound. It also has to go through the cold winter to fatten, while silver carp requires no grass.
So the price is cheap." Zhong Ji replied.
"How much grass is spent?" Lin Chengwen asked.
"Every hundred tails of grass carp requires a hundred catties of grass a day. Grass carps eat grass, and bighead carp and silver carp eat grass glue, or grass carp's dung can also be fertilized." Zhong Ji said.
As a cadre of Tiandihui, Lin Chengwen came into contact with freshwater fish farming in Lingao. He knew that silver carp and bighead carp are filter-feeding fish. They usually use their gills to filter plankton from the water. They also like to eat bean cakes, wheat bran and other feeds.
Since fertile water bodies breed more plankton, these two fish like to chase fertile water bodies and often move in the upper layers of the water. Grass carp is a herbivorous fish and mainly eats grass, but also eats some grains, bean cakes, silkworm pupae, earthworms, etc.
It likes to wander in the middle and lower layers of the water to look for food. The earth dace is the smallest and is an omnivorous fish. It often eats detritus of higher plants and humus at the bottom, and often moves in the middle and lower layers of the water body.
The large amounts of food scraps and feces left by the grass carp in the upper layer of the water are excellent nutrients for plankton. The mass-producing plankton provides a large amount of food for silver carp.
Carry out final cleaning. The existence of the latter three prevents food residues and plankton from being enriched in large quantities, ensuring fresh water quality in the fish pond. Fish in different water layers chase food, stir the water body, and increase the dissolved oxygen in the water. Therefore, the four
The cooperative breeding of large fish is a huge leap in the history of agricultural technology, making more complete use of limited water bodies.
Chen Wuren asked Zhong Ji: "I wonder how to transport the summer flowers back to Xiangshan?"
Zhong Ji said: "There are few farmers in Xiangshan and there are few fish markets. The old man should hire people to transport them back. Those sold nearby will have big fish flowers, and those sold far away will have small fish flowers. Land travelers can pick up two
The basket is moved gracefully on the shoulders, and the force is used to make the basket go up or down, stirring up the water to make waves, so that the fish can walk two or three miles like it is in a pond, and then sink the basket into the river to get new water, and the fish will get its nature. If the water
Travelers should use a fish boat to carry fish. The two waterwheels beside the boat turn the water day and night so that new water can enter the boat without leaving any water. Then the fish will not get sick. Water transportation from Jiujiang to Xiangshan is convenient. Since the old man is a wealthy family, he should use it
Water transportation is preferred. If you make a reservation with me, I can find a fish and flower boat to send to your hometown on your behalf."
"Oh? What's the current price of fish flowers?"
"Actually, the price of fish flowers is about the same as that of adult fish," Zhong Ji stretched out the four fingers of his right hand and said: "For every hundred catties of bighead carp, silver carp is four taels of silver, grass carp is two taels, and dace is one tael."
The inspection team didn't really want to buy fish flowers, so Chen Wuren burst out laughing after hearing this, "It will take some time for summer flowers to go on the market, don't be in a hurry, I will arrange to pick a foundation when I return home, and I will come to find Brother Zhong when the matter is completed."
"It doesn't matter, business cannot be done without righteousness."
Chen Wuren remembered something he had missed before and asked Guan Youde: "May I ask Brother Guan, how do you select the fish flakes from the four major fish species?"
When Guan Youde saw that he did not order fish flowers, he asked again, feeling a little unhappy. Although he did not show it on his face, his answer was somewhat straightforward: "The old gentleman has too many questions. Fish flowers, as fine as
There are tens of thousands of needles in a spoonful, but only people in Jiujiang can distinguish them. The "flower" is my craft of dressing up the family and eating. It has always been a family tradition and has never been passed down to others."
Chen Wuren stayed in Lingao for a long time and developed the habit of asking why when he didn't understand. When Guan Youde said this, he realized that something was wrong. In ancient times, any craft with some technical content was basically passed down by family or master.
It is passed down from generation to generation, and is passed down from male to female, for fear that the daughter will bring the skills to her husband's family when she gets married. Apprentices have to work as cattle and horses with their masters, and serve as free labor for several years before they can learn the craftsmanship from the masters. Masters often
You have to save a little, otherwise there would be a saying that "teaching apprentices starves the master to death".
But in Lingao, except for a few secrets, which veteran is eager to pour all the knowledge into the naturalized people under his command, for fear that they will not be able to learn. Whenever they meet the naturalized people who like to ask why, the technical veterans are as happy as
Winning a big prize, holding it in the palm of your hand is like a treasure. Comparing the two, Chen Wuren was very disappointed. Why is the gap so big?
After wandering around the fish and flower market for a long time, the sun had already risen to the top and the temperature was getting higher. Guan Youde was like a medicine jar and felt a little exhausted, so he said goodbye to the inspection team: "Master Mo, I am a little tired and dizzy.
I won’t accompany you anymore, I hope you’ll forgive me.”
Mo Yu had been stationed in Jiujiang for two years and knew that what Guan Youde said was true, so he did not keep him. After Guan Youde and Zhong Ji left, Lin Chengwen said to Chen Wuren: "Chief Chen, there is no way to skim flowers."
Forget it if you ask. From now on, we will rely on artificial breeding. The eggs of different species will be separated from the beginning, so there will be no such thing as flower skimming. If they are willing to keep this secret, let them keep it. It is best to bring it to
Go in the coffin."
Chen Wuren nodded, "Indeed, but the chief told us to understand all aspects of fish flower production in Jiujiang Township. He must have a reason. It seems that this matter is not so easy to figure out."
When Mo Yu heard that it was the chief's order, he said: "It's simple. Next time if any unsighted decorator falls into my hands, I will make sure to tell him clearly, otherwise he won't be able to escape from my hands."
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Chen Wuren said: "Brother Mo, the Senate has always governed the country according to the law, and torture to extract confessions will be punished."
"Thank you, Section Chief Chen, for reminding me that I can make them confess honestly without punishing me, hehe..." Mo Yuyin laughed.
"Actually, I heard the head of the Ministry of Agriculture mention the principle of flower skimming before. It is generally based on the habits of different fish species living in different water layers. The rest is a matter of proficiency." Lin Chengwen said: "
Usually the one floating on the top is the bighead carp, the one in the middle is the silver carp, the one below is the catfish, and the one on the bottom is the dace. Put the fish flowers behind the bamboo basket, let them swim for an hour or two, and then use wooden
The white-painted fish dish gently agitates the water and skims out the fish from top to bottom according to their different levels in the water."
Chen Wuren said: "There is a difference between principle and practice. Don't forget that in addition to the four major fish species, there are also other fish species mixed in. Some species live in the same water layer, and the fish flowers are as thin as needles. They must be distinguished.
It’s not easy.”
Lin Chengwen said: "It doesn't matter, it's all craftsmanship that goes into the coffin anyway. Judging from the information we have visited so far, Jiujiang's freshwater fish farming technology is not better than ours, although it already represents the highest level of indigenous people."
"Xiao Linzi, are you telling the truth?" Mo Yu was a little surprised. Although he had followed the Senate very early and knew that the Senate could do better than the locals no matter what they did, he didn't expect that they could even raise fish.
The Senate also has technical advantages in this kind of thing.
Lin Chengwen said: "No! Take the stocking ratio of the four major domestic fishes. Lingao stocks at least 100 grass carp per mu, and only 500 dace. They only stock 30 grass carp, which means they don't have enough.
Of forage, one thousand dace have to be put in. This is because the overwintering technology of dace has not yet been explored. But the biggest problem still lies in the ratio of the base to the pond..."
When Mo Yu heard that Lin Chengwen actually questioned Jiujiang Township's ratio of foundation ponds, his curiosity aroused and he asked: "What is the correct ratio of foundation ponds?"
"There is no right or wrong, only appropriateness or inappropriateness." Lin Chengwen did not show off, saying: "The proportion of the base pond in Lingao is 'six water and four bases', but here it is the other way around, 'four water and six bases', fish
The productivity of the pond has not been maximized. And according to my observation, the area of local single-mouth fish ponds is mostly less than five acres, while the fish ponds in Lingao are required to be between seven and ten acres. However, the 'four water and six base' should
It is compatible with the local people’s production model. Since it is called a mulberry fish pond, the sericulture industry also has an impact on the fishery.”
Mo Yu listened thoughtfully and said: "It makes sense. The benefits of Jiujiang are more fish fry, second sericulture, second rice, second round eyes, and second taro. If the area of the fish pond is small, the foundation will be more and the pond will be less. The profit will be
Naturally, there is still a lot of room for improvement.”
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