Zhang Youfu thought for a while: "There is another way, but it is a bit troublesome and cannot be done in a short while."
"As long as I get this land, I'm happy to wait a little longer." Wu Nanhai said, as long as it's done before autumn.
"Then you just wait for news from me." Zhang Youfu asked Wu Nanhai for more than two hundred taels of silver, and then wandered around several large fields near the county seat. He spent more than ten days trying to buy 70 acres of paddy fields, and then took
The land was returned in exchange for the land deed.
Seeing this result, everyone in the Agricultural Committee couldn't laugh or cry. The price offered by Chuan Chuan Group during several negotiations was already 200 taels of silver. If he didn't want the silver, the Agricultural Committee even offered to exchange it for something in kind, but the value was not worth it.
Under this situation, everything was vetoed by this old man. How could he agree to it just by exchanging the land deed?
"Isn't it just because he wants to be a landlord? Now it's natural to give him a landowner deal." Zhang Youfu said proudly.
"Aren't we willing to pay? It's different to buy land with money."
"Barbarians have never seen the world, they are just afraid of being deceived." Zhang Youfu said contemptuously - the difference between urban and rural areas is still quite serious.
"So that's it." Wu Nanhai nodded. It seems that this low-income person has his own merits in being able to work as a prostitute in the county for a long time.
"The habits of traditional farmers are really incomprehensible." Ye Yuming expressed such emotion at that time.
"Farmers in the past had no exposure to the world, were uneducated, were often deceived, and were very wary. That's why it was difficult to do rural work."
According to Zhang Youfu, what is even more difficult to understand is this group of "thieves" - they are powerful and powerful, and they directly occupy the land and the landlord dare not do anything. Even the county government will never do it for such a thing.
A pauper goes to offend the thieves.
To put it simply, this method is to win people's hearts, but when Zhang Youfu thought about it, it seemed that it was not that simple.
The land purchased with great effort and cost is to the south of the farm. The Wenlan River has a small backwater area here, forming a large shoal with a large number of reeds. The land is flat, with small undulations nearby.
The hilly land is also convenient for getting water. After Wu Nanhai and Yang Baobao made a survey, they felt that it would be more suitable for a formal breeding farm here.
The new breeding farm has two breeding farms for livestock and poultry. Wu Nanhai likes coming here very much, not only for work reasons, but also has a great sense of accomplishment every time he comes here. Especially after the voyage around the island, he gets
The channels for product resources were further expanded. Bopu opened regular flights to Changhua and Yulin. A large number of cattle and sheep were transported from Changhua, causing the population to expand rapidly. Everyone's favorite meat - pig
The number of people in the group has also expanded. According to his estimation, by next year, at least among the time-travelers, the per capita meat-eating standards of the citizens of the great cosmic countries in the 21st century will be restored.
Wu Nanhai went to the horse pen first. Yang Guobao was recently learning horse riding from Nick. He felt that the bumps on the bicycle's buttocks on the dirt road were too painful, and the seat was so craggy that his perineum hurt.
"I don't want to get prostate problems because of riding a bicycle. I have a wife." Yang Baogui learned how to ride a horse and planned to ride a horse when he went out. Nick promised that he could ride a Yunnan horse when he went out.
As a reward for treating horses.
When Wu Nanhai went to look for him now, Nick told him that Yang Baobao had gone to the poultry farm to supervise the hatchery.
This large hatchery was built in conjunction with the Tiandihui's poultry promotion plan. Artificial egg hatching appeared very early in China and was very popular in the Ming Dynasty. It is not a brand-new time travel technology. However, artificial egg hatching is not popular in Lingao.
Although chickens, ducks and geese are common local poultry, their breeding scale is not large and there is no demand for them.
There are many local artificial egg incubation methods, the most common ones are the kang incubation method in the north and the tank incubation method in East China. Wu Nanhai is not a breeder, so he still needs to teach Yang Guigui about this matter. He used to go to the countryside to work as a farmer
Great service and a lot of knowledge.
He suggested that the northern kang incubation method should be used. This method has simple equipment, large hatching capacity, and is very suitable for large-scale breeding needs. If the technology is skilled, the hatching rate will be between 80 and 90%, which is comparable to the modern electric incubation method.
Up and down. An ordinary seven-fire kang incubation workshop can hold 2,600 eggs at a time and can hatch 15,000 eggs per month. Even if it needs to be expanded, it is quite simple and requires almost no modern equipment and
Materials - Compared with fired bricks, adobe bricks are more suitable for hatcheries due to their thermal insulation properties.
When Wu Nanhai came to the construction site, he saw Yang Baoguo giving guidance on the construction site. The newly built hatchery had been slightly improved, with a tile roof and brick-clad exterior walls - after all, in Lingao, it was purely made of adobe.
Houses don't last long.
"I always feel it's a bit of a waste." Wu Nanhai looked at this simple little house under construction. He was worried about where to find 2,600 fertilized eggs each time. Because there are few eggs, the embryonic shelf life of fertilized eggs is very short.
It is short-lived, so the sperm eggs collected are all naturally hatched by the hens.
"It won't be wasted. Drying work is inevitable during the rainy season. Can this hatchery also serve as a drying room?"
Yang Guoguo advised him not to worry: "The first batch of broods can provide about 200 chicks, which is enough for 20 small farmers. Gradually, the batch size will increase. This is a step-by-step process - you want us to
When we first moved here, there were only a few chickens? Now there are hundreds of them. The growth rate is thousands of percent. If we continue to mobilize the masses like this, we may need to expand by the end of the year."
"Take me to see the chicken coop."
"Okay. Let me give them a few words first." Yang Baoguo took a look at the situation on the construction site. The most important fire kang flue has been basically completed - this part is the most important. A well-coiled fire kang can save fuel and transfer heat quickly.
. Those who cook poorly will smoke because they don’t like the heat. It is also a specialized craft. Of course, there are no workers who make hot pots in Lingao, and you can’t find them even among immigrants. It all depends on the free-range farming method of Piao Tianweng.
, planting climbing vegetables as shelter for the chicken shed. The new chicken house realizes separate housing. The breeder chickens are raised separately, and the laying hens, chicks and rearing chickens each have their own space without interfering with each other. It is convenient to press their
The state adds different feeds. Finally, there is a bronze turkey, and now they have expanded to about ten.
About two hundred chickens are moving in the vast space under the cage net. They seem to be in good spirits. Water has just been sprinkled on the ground and there is a smell of lime.
"Chicken manure is cleaned regularly here every day, and then lime water is sprinkled for disinfection - there is nothing we can do, the density is still too high. We have to prevent diseases. Besides, chicken manure is also feed, so it cannot be wasted."
"We don't raise fish, do we?"
Chickens have short digestive tracts, and the feces they excrete also contain many nutrients. Wu Nanhai knew that there is a kind of circular agriculture that raises chickens next to fish ponds and feeds the chicken manure to the fish.
"Feed the pigs."
"Damn, that's disgusting." Thinking about the smell of chicken manure, Wu Nanhai felt bored.
"Pigs really like to eat it after fermentation." Yang Guogui said with a wry smile, "To be honest, I don't like this feeding method either. When there is enough feed in the future, I will use it as fertilizer."
Wu Nanhai followed him to the duck shed. Ducks are actually much more profitable in poultry breeding than chickens. Ducks are omnivorous poultry and can forage for themselves in grazing. They are resistant to rough feeding and have a high feed conversion rate. In spring
When the first rice was planted, Fashilu also experimented with raising ducks in rice fields, allowing ducks to forage in the rice fields. They could not only use the snails, small fish and shrimps in the rice fields, but also eliminate pests and weeds.
Fa Shilu planned to wait until the rice in the rice field was harvested before driving the ducks in to clear the field and eat the grains and scattered rice left in the field. This is much more convenient and thorough than manual cleaning. This is unprecedented in Japan.
There is a nice term called "duck rice farming", which is a retro style of pure natural rice farming.
The duck shed is located next to the river bend. A bamboo fence separates the bay from the river, and there is a gate that can be opened and closed to prevent the ducks from running away. The reeds here are dense, the river water is rich in nutrients, and there are many trees along the river bend.
There are a large number of aquatic animals such as snails that ducks love to eat. The Agricultural Committee found a duck farmer among the immigrants to go out to raise ducks every day. He also fished for snails and clam shells, smashed them and used them as feed for the ducks.
"Don't step on it." Yang Guogui reminded him not to step on the grass on the riverbank. The ducks may have laid their eggs in it casually. In the evening, duck farmers will patrol and pick up all the eggs.
"We now have more than 200 ducks and more than 30 geese. Ducks and geese save much more feed than chickens. In addition to egg poultry that need to supplement protein feed, a large amount of them use green feed. The egg production rate is very high.
It’s not bad. It can also be used as a breeding target for promotion.”
The ducks are local native ducks and Peking ducks brought from modern time and space. Yang Baogui planned to cross them to see the effect. As for the goose traveler, he did not bring it because the native goose breeds in China are recognized as superior breeds. He
I simply bought a few from the market - the most common lion-headed geese in South China.
Wu Nanhai said: "Raising ducks and geese require water, and the breeding conditions are restricted, so they are not as easy to promote as chickens. Besides, duck eggs and goose eggs are not popular. Everyone still likes eggs. If duck eggs are not made into preserved eggs, some people are willing to make salted eggs.
Want to eat? Have you ever eaten goose eggs?"
"I've eaten bad goose eggs before, and they tasted good." Yang Baogui recalled the delicious taste of bad goose eggs back then.
"Poultry grows quickly. It would be great if pigs could also have such a high reproductive efficiency."
"The reproductive rate of pigs is not bad. Sows can give birth to 20 piglets in two litters a year. If they are well raised, the survival rate is still very high." Yang Guogui said, "The biggest problem is the lack of sows."