Chapter 10 The Fish
A large sum of money was spent, and in more than a month, the desert in front of Qilian Village suddenly bloomed with a new look.
Centered on the artificial lake Shengui Lake dug by Cai Hongming, on the right is a white yak and ostrich farm, and on the side of the hill a bulldozer has been pushed out of terraces, on which sweet elephant grass and thatch brought by Cai Hongming from his hometown are planted. Sweet elephant grass is a very good high-protein and high-yield pasture, generally in 2-4 meters, up to 5 meters, but it is not cold-tolerant and cannot grow until 5 degrees. However, Cai Hongming doesn't care about these, he uses other feeds in winter, and it's a big deal to cover them with greenhouses.
On the left is an office building, but it's not finished yet, just a concrete frame has just been poured.
In front of the building is a vegetable patch in which the seeds that have just been sown have just sprouted; Behind the vegetable patch is a large sweet potato field, and the sweet potato vines that have just been planted have come to life and look fresh green.
The sweet potato field is a rice field in the past, and these rice seeds are hybrid rice sold by Cai Hongming, and it is said that the yield per mu reaches more than 1,000 catties, and I don't know if it's true or not. The hillside on the side is also bulldozed out of terraced fields, planted with sweet elephant grass and thatch. These are used as fodder for white yaks, ostriches, and fish.
After planting sweet potatoes and rice, Cai Hongming led people to start greening.
Rows of mulberry trees were planted on the edge of the lake, cold-tolerant green grass was planted on the ground, and aquatic plants were planted on the lake to raise fish. He set aside a large area of land by the lake as a beach, and the beach was planted with palms, which looked very tropical.
The northwest is dry and rainless all year round, so Cai Hongming originally didn't want to build roads, but later felt that it was not a good thing to be dusty when the wind was blowing. A five-meter-wide cement road was built on the side of the mountain. The greening trees on the side of the road are made of Korla fragrant pears, and the pear blossoms will open in the future, and they will be snow-white, which is simply beautiful.
In the future, Cai Hongming will prohibit cars from passing here, and smoking and other behaviors are not allowed, so as not to pollute this beautiful environment.
The greenery inside is done, and the office building has also begun to sandblast on the exterior wall, and it is estimated that it will be completed soon, and the houses in Qilian Village will be built after completion. Originally, Cai Hongming, Hachiko and the others had bright tiles on the outside of their houses, but now they can't. To remove the blast completely. It gives the whole village a hazy desert feel.
It is worth mentioning that Cai Hongming bought all the land in Qilian Village, but the houses of Hachiko and others did not move.
He planned to turn the area into a residential area, with desert-style houses. It can be given to the staff in the future. It can also prepare for the construction of tourist resorts in the future.
Plant things like rice and sweet potatoes. Cai Hongming began to look outside.
He wanted to build a wall outside the land he bought, that is, outside the mountain col where Qilian Village was located, to resist the wind and sand. In the past, he wanted to use poplar trees, saxons, and sagebrush, but now he has money. Building walls would be a better idea.
It took a long time to build the walls, and the construction team was too busy to build the houses. He called in another engineering team to build this high wall against the wind and sand.
With his appeal and the charm of money, the new engineering team spent two weeks pouring a foundation in the place designated by Cai Hongming.
On both sides of the city wall are wide cement walls, which are filled with earth and filled with water and compacted, so that the walls are not only cost-effective but also durable.
Standing at the gate of the city that had just had the prototype of the city wall, Cai Hongming imagined the scene of standing on it after the completion of the city gate, overlooking the vast desert, and he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.
At this time, the mobile phone rang, and the convoy of fish fry arrived.
There are no fish in the Turtle Lake now, Cai Hongming planned to release them last year, but winter is coming, and I am afraid that I will not be able to feed them. I contacted the fish fry early this morning, but unfortunately there was no fish fry he wanted at the fish hatchery, and he said that he would wait, and he waited for a few months, until a few days ago he called to say that the fry had arrived and would be sent over tomorrow.
There are several trucks transporting fish fry, and there are large buckets on them, and the oxygen generators are constantly running, so as not to suffocate the fish in the large buckets due to lack of oxygen.
Cai Hongming's fish fry include mackerel, grass carp, silver carp, carp, and some freshwater shrimp, which are considered to be mixed, among which grass carp, silver carp, carp, and freshwater shrimp are very common, and it is difficult for mackerel.
The sturgeon, also known as the Da's sturgeon, belongs to the cartilaginous fish, the species originated in the Cretaceous period 130 million years ago, and is the only precious fish in the Heilongjiang River basin in the world. It is mainly distributed in the Heilongjiang River and the lakes connected with its larger tributaries, especially in the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River. Secondly, it is distributed in the lower reaches of the Ussuri River and the Songhua River, and it is also occasionally found in the lower reaches of the Nenjiang River.
The whole body of the fish is a treasure, the bones are fried and crispy, the meat is delicious, and the eggs produced are carefully made, which is the precious food caviar.
There are more than 20 species of sturgeon in the world, and in the past, only the eggs laid by three sturgeon species named Beluga, Ossietra and Sevruga in the waters north of Russia and south Iran were recognized as true "caviar" by the traditional market, which was an important reason for the high price of caviar in the past.
Among them, Beluga is the most expensive, only the caviar of Beluga over 60 years old can be made into caviar, which means that less than 100 Beluga can meet the requirements every year; Asetra must also be over 40 years old for its caviar to be made into caviar; Sevruga, which has the lowest age requirement, also requires them to be over 20 years old.
Such demanding requirements, combined with the indiscriminate killing and overfishing of caviar because of its high price, have led to the reduction of these expensive caviars year by year.
It was also at this time that caviar from China topped this gap. In 2010, when many European countries legislated to ban the fishing of wild sturgeon, China produced 8 to 10 percent of the total caviar in the world of 150 tonnes.
There are several main varieties of Chinese caviar: Siberian sturgeon caviar, Shi's sturgeon caviar, hybrid sturgeon caviar, Russian sturgeon caviar, and Dab's caviar are quoted per kilogram of 9,360 yuan, 10,660 yuan, 13,910 yuan, 16,510 yuan, and 22,100 yuan, respectively.
At this year's APEC summit, the caviar of Dab's fish has become a delicacy on its table, and the price has also risen all the way.
So Cai Hongming wants to raise this kind of fish, which can be eaten and sold for money, so why not.
A truckload of fish was transported to the edge of the Turtle Lake and fell, watching a tail of fish jump into the water, Cai Hongming couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the harvest in a few years.
To harvest fish eggs to make caviar, the d'art sturgeon must reach the age of six. He didn't have to wait that long, so he bought commercial fish that had been raised for two or three years, some five-year fish and some that were about to spawn. If you feed it with the water jade toad liquid again, I believe that you should be able to catch fish eggs to make caviar next year. A kilogram of caviar is tens of thousands of pieces, and it is fascinating to think about. However, the six-year-old Dab's fish is actually not a good time to harvest eggs, the bigger the fish has to be raised, the more eggs will be received, and the higher the price will be sold.
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