Time flies in the hustle and bustle, and the sixth day of the new year has arrived in a blink of an eye. According to the rural tradition of central Yunnan, the New Year should be over. Qi Jingtao took advantage of the fact that there was basically no one at the granary river construction site, and had already taken the time to transfer a large number of fruit tree seedlings prepared by Lao Qi to the temporary nursery of the granary river, and only waited for the villagers who were over the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to come to help transplant them.

The fruit tree saplings prepared by Lao Qi are growing well, and they seem to have been kept fresh and moisturized by the ring space, and their vitality is even stronger, and they are likable when they look at it.

There is a historical tradition of planting and operating orchards in Qiguanying, and during the period of the People's Commune, the Qiguanying Brigade undertook the task of planting and supplying fruits to the supply and marketing cooperatives. With a long tradition of planting, there are many people in the three natural villages to which Qiguanying belongs who know how to manage orchards.

Qi Zhengming took advantage of the opportunity for everyone to celebrate the New Year at home during the Spring Festival, not only organized the orchard management team, but also screened out nearly 500 people from the whole village who were willing to sign up to help him, these people were not temporary helpers, but hired as full-time employees of the orchard.

The full-time employees are mainly from three natural villages and 11 production teams under the jurisdiction of the village committee, covering more than 400 villager families in the village committee. Qi Zhengming's selection of orchard workers is very targeted, and the vast majority of them are villagers aged 40~50, and villagers in this age group have rich agricultural experience. Moreover, people of this age group are still strong laborers in the countryside, hard-working, rich in management, and particularly responsible, and are the best people to run orchards.

After Qi Jingtao prepared the fruit tree seedlings, Qi Zhengming took these more than 500 full-time employees as the backbone and divided them into ten operation teams and more than 100 operation groups. In addition, these work groups divided the work into sections, and led more than 1,000 villagers who temporarily invited helpers to start transplanting fruit tree seedlings.

They are all experts in agriculture, and the water conservancy conditions of the orchard are laid nearby, which solves the most labor-intensive watering problem of fruit tree transplanting. In just one week, all the fruit tree seedlings were planted in the ground.

In the later period, the daily management was mainly based on these more than 500 people, and the daily production management was organized according to the division of labor and cooperation according to the farm work that each person is good at.

After the Spring Festival holiday, Qi Jingtao is not worried about the transplanting of fruit trees in the granary river, and he has to drive to the granary river orchard every day after work to see the progress of transplanting. Others thought that those fruit saplings were bought by him from other places, but only he knew that those fruit saplings were seedlings from time and space in 2016. Saplings are also living organisms, they are alive. He wanted to take a closer look at the growth of the trans-space-time species that had been transported through the ring space.

"Xiaotao, now that the water is available, the fruit tree seedlings have just been planted this year, as long as the fruit tree seedlings are watered and fertilized regularly to ensure that the fruit tree seedlings survive. The people in the village who came to plant fruit trees have experience in fruit tree planting management, and those veterans led the digging of pits and soil cultivation. I don't see the situation yet, but I don't think it's a big problem. Spring has already begun a year ago, and the saplings have already woken up, so as long as you observe for about ten days, you can basically determine the survival rate. The fruit tree seedlings that cannot survive should be distinguished, and there is still time to replant them this year......"

Qi Zhengming and his son walked on the hillside, checking the transplantation of fruit saplings and talking about things in the orchard.

"Dad, I'm not worried about this. Theoretically, saplings can survive as long as they are planted before the Qingming Festival. As you can see, these fruit tree seedlings bought this time are different, they are all seedlings cultivated with large nutrient bags, and they are already alive and well. Many of the fruit tree saplings are almost two meters tall, so I wonder if we will be able to eat the first cherries this year. These fruit tree seedlings were transported from other places for a long time, and I came here to see if they could adapt to the climate here. ”

"The survival rate of fruit tree seedlings cultivated with this large nutrient bag is indeed high, and the fruit tree seedlings grow tall and strong, but it is a little troublesome when transplanting, but the effect is very good, and maybe it can also shorten the fruit-bearing cycle. However, don't expect a fruit tree harvest in the last three years. Hehe, such a large mountain valley can't be idle. Look at it, it's bare, and when the rain comes, you will suffer. In case of heavy rain, it will also cause serious water and soil flow. Qi Zhengming pointed to a large area of bare hillside and said.

"Dad, in terms of the planning plan, aren't there flood control canals, dams, and ponds?" Qi Jingtao asked puzzled.

"Your aunt and father have organized excavators and bulldozers to excavate, but you also have to prevent accidents. It was originally covered with thatch and shrubs, and the surface was protected by vegetation. This time, we carried out large-scale development and clean-up, burned all the fires, and re-excavated and leveled the land over the hillsides, and completely removed the vegetation on the surface. You see, now it's just the fruit tree seedlings transplanted. The fruit tree saplings are still small, and the whole orchard is sparsely pulled, how conspicuous is the large area of soil exposed?" Qi Jingtao pointed to a large area of bare red soil to show his son.

"Hehe, it's too monotonous. Dad, should you plant some thorn seedlings such as betel nut as soon as possible in those isolation zones on the periphery? Those things grow very fast, and they don't pick the ground. After it grows up, it can not only play a role in isolation and protection, but also be beautiful during the flowering and fruiting period, and it is very ornamental. Those with steep slopes, and between the fruit groves, are shrubs, meadows, and shelter woodlands on the plan. This year, we can also arrange for people to plant as soon as possible, and I will send the seedlings over in a few days. It's just that the land in the orchard is not well arranged, so you can't grow grass. Qi Jingtao doesn't seem to understand agricultural matters, so he can only talk about things according to the planning map provided by Lao Qi.

"Hehehe, you, don't always think about trees. The official name here is the Granary River, and there was no water source before, so it is such a good name for nothing. It's different now, with such a big mountainous area, you invest so much money into development. Every ten acres of land is arranged with a water storage tank, which can have a good harvest when planting flue-cured tobacco and grain, and can also prevent soil erosion. Qi Zhengming pointed to the mountains and said his next plan and vision in high spirits.

"Growing grain and flue-cured tobacco in the orchard? Qi Jingtao looked at his father suspiciously.

"Hmph, where is the usual cleverness? Who stipulates that only fruit trees can be planted in the orchard? Look at how much land can be occupied by those planted fruit tree saplings, and how much space is there between fruit trees? Now fruit tree saplings are basically about two meters high, as long as you let go of the half meter of land around the roots of fruit trees, how much land can be used? Those fields are idle and only grass grows. Apart from corn, what kind of crops can affect the normal growth of fruit tree seedlings?" Qi Zhengming looked at his son with amusement, and blurted out a series of scolding.

Qi Jingtao was stunned by his father's questioning, his face was hot and weird, and after he came to his senses, he immediately said to his father convincingly: "Hehehe, that's really the case! Dad, are you an expert in farming, or do you have experience." Hehehe, crops can be interplanted with each other, and crops and other cash crops can indeed be planted in the orchard. However, don't think about flue-cured tobacco, that thing is too wasteful of labor. Dad, these fields are all raw land, and the peppers grown in the raw land are good. Just plant all the peppers. ”

Qi Zhengming looked at his son with a smile and asked, "Hehehe, which orchard will grow flue-cured tobacco? It's good to grow chili peppers, and the peppers that come out of the wasteland are particularly spicy. If all the peppers are planted, the area that can be planted here is three or four thousand acres, and so many peppers can be sold?"

"Dad, have you forgotten what Shi Lei is doing? You just need to organize people to plant it by hand, and let him sell it. If the green peppers in the market are not available at a high price, we can still keep them and sell the dried peppers. Planting chili peppers is trouble-free, not afraid of backlogs, more convenient and worry-free than planting flue-cured tobacco, and does not need to be controlled. Qi Jingtao made up for his mistakes and gave his father suggestions that he thought was appropriate.

"It's okay, even if you can only plant 3,000 acres of chili peppers, you can harvest 3,000 catties of green peppers per mu, and sell them for 2 yuan per kilogram. If it is planted, a crop of chili peppers can also have a gross income of 16 or 7 million. The temperature here is high, the frost-free period is long, and it is planned to plant two or three crops a year. You don't have to wait for the fruit to bear fruit, I can get back the money you put in when I grow the crops. In addition, the aquaculture industry can also start ......"

Qi Zhengming guided his son through education, walking in his orchard with high spirits, pointing out the country and talking about the future, as if he was ten years younger.

A man with a career is very energetic regardless of his age!