Chapter 785: Additional Income to be Attempted
"It's better to eat at Li Dongzhu Zhuangzi, before I came, I heard that Dongshi sells an oyster and scallop of the same size, which costs five yuan."
Xiaolan and Princess Yongmu didn't eat vegetables just now, and sat and ate melon seeds, melon seeds of seed melons.
Datang now has several varieties of watermelons, including watermelons that specialize in producing seeds, which are not sweet, but have large seeds and many seeds.
Seed melons are planted in Longyou Road, which is something that the middle and upper classes eat, and the lower classes have the money to buy melon seeds to eat.
Li Yi looked at a small pile of melon seed shells and smiled: "If you think Zhuangzi is good, you will live for a long time, I like to eat melon seeds, there is enough for you to eat all year round." ”
"It's not that I love melon seeds, I'm waiting for you." Xiaolan retorted, knocking the melon seeds so much that her tongue hurt.
Li Yi nodded and followed the topic of melon seeds and said: "The Gobi region is the most suitable for growing seed melons, and I have a technology called stone compaction technology.
Put stones on top of the soil of the Gobi, and plant seeds and melons in them, and you don't have to worry about it, the scourge of wild beasts generally does not cause much harm, and there are no wild boars there.
When the season comes, all that can be left is income, the melon seeds are taken out and dried, and I have a way to fry the current taste. ”
"The five spices know." As soon as Xiaolan heard the melon seeds, she couldn't help but reach out to grab them.
Princess Yongmu tapped her fingers on the table, and Xiaolan stuck out her tongue.
Princess Yongmu looked at the melon seeds and was curious: "Li Lang, why do you use stones to put them on the ground?" ”
"I also learned that when stones are pressed against the soil, the soil is not easily dried by the wind, and when it rains, the stones can retain moisture.
The seedlings of the cold melon are particularly tenacious, and after germination, they come out of the soil and do not care about the stones on them.
Soak the seeds in warm water and plant them, and people don't have to take care of them, and they don't even need to hoe the grass. ”
Li Yi compared the information and said, people just plant it like that, there is nothing wrong with it.
"Birds eat watermelons in the wild?" Princess Yongmu doesn't know who eats watermelon.
"Hedgehogs, wolves, badgers, wild horses, sheep, wild boars, pheasants, and so on."
Li Yi looked at the information and gave the answer, he found that it was a thing and ate watermelon, including people.
"You want to tell the people to plant?" Princess Yongmu first thought of the Li family's Zhuangzi's ordinary skills, which were not kept secret.
"People who live near the Gobi have to take the seeds and transport them after planting. Raise the price of watermelon seeds, and the merchants will collect them. ”
Li Yi doesn't care about technology, what he thinks about is whether the person who grows seeds and melons can make money.
The melon farmers themselves do not have sales channels, and everything can only depend on the buyers.
Princess Yongmu lowered her head and thought about it, and asked, "How much money will the merchant give for the melon seeds now?" ”
"It depends on what the merchant thinks, how far away it is, how good the melon seeds are, and the price usually given is very low."
Li Yi shook his head again when he talked about the businessman.
He gave benefits to businessmen and promoted business development, but he also knew the nature of businessmen.
It is better to plant seed melons in the Gobi than to grow watermelons, the shelf life of watermelons is short, and the seeds are taken from the seeds.
If the watermelon seeds collected by Zhuangzi are 20 yuan per catty, from the nearest place in Longyou Road, the raw melon seeds collected by merchants are 1 yuan and 1 catty.
Excluding transportation costs, merchants made a lot of profits, so they had to collect taxes, twenty taxes and one tax.
How many watermelon seeds can be produced in one acre of land, according to the current watermelon varieties and land area, fertilizer and care, one acre can produce about 50 catties of seeds.
Longyoudao can be better, producing more than 70 catties of seeds.
Princess Yongmu apparently thought of the same question: "Is it cost-effective to grow watermelon seeds?" ”
"How can I say it, if people don't take care of it, they can earn fifty dollars by deducting the cost for one purpose, and if they plant wheat, one hundred and twenty or thirty catties per acre of land will be produced, which is almost ten buckets of rice, and twenty or thirty dollars of bucket rice."
Li Yi talked about the output and price, and the rest has not been said.
"It's a good deal to grow food." Xiaolan directly compared and gave the answer.
"Xiaolan, tomorrow I will let you go to the Gobi to plant wheat, you want to plant a stone per mu, and you have to take care of it in the ground every day.
I'll give you weight armor, Mo knife, crossbow, and bow, and you can watch it yourself, plant ten acres first, and then ......"
"Don't don't, I don't want it, I'm a girl, no, I'll die." Xiaolan shook her head into a rattle.
"The wheat we eat only produces one stone per acre?" Princess Yongmu was thinking about the production problem.
"We are all good land, one acre can produce two to three stones, the Gobi can't grow wheat at all, and it's not enough to toss if you plant it.
The people who live there grow a little bit of vegetables, then herd sheep, or goats, and eat grass and dig roots.
When a heavy rain comes, if the number of sheep is small, it will always be maintained. ”
During the Chinese New Year, Li Yi frowned when he talked about the people living in the Gobi area.
It's still very bitter there, and it's not very far from Jingzhao Mansion.
Those people raised sheep, and when they wanted to sell them, they didn't give grass to eat, and when they were sent to Chang'an, the sheep were so hungry that they screamed.
Like the pigs, they are hungry, otherwise they will be fed with pressure.
In the eyes of others, it is a way of life, but in Li Yi's eyes, it is helpless.
He considered from the whole of the Tang Dynasty and the imperial court, and there were people who were not living well, so they had to find a way.
Just like that story, two fathers and sons, saw a begging man.
The father of a father and son said to the child, "If you don't work hard, you will be like him in the future."
Another father told his children that if you don't work hard, you won't be able to help them in the future.
Li Yi is now in the second level, he has to find a way to make more people live a good life.
I happened to see watermelon seeds today, so if you can get the locals to try planting them?
By providing seeds and methods by themselves, the locals can increase their income and their living standards if they work a little for ten days and a half months.
"How do you know that the floating grass, the years urge people to grow old, the wind and the moon, flowers and birds, a smile and the dust......"
Singing on stage, the 'audience' sang along, and the voices suddenly became louder.
Li Yi suddenly stopped talking and slapped the rhythm.
Princess Yongmu blinked her big eyes, and she didn't understand why she wanted to raise goats, and then the number was that.
She also doesn't know how much she can yield per mu, and if she can't farm in the Gobi, how can she grow vegetables?
At the end of the song, the host came to the stage to announce the curtain.
"Eat, you can eat it, use a colander to fish, if you cook it for a long time, the scallops will shrink too much, and the oysters will be boiled."
Li Yi came back to his senses and used a small colander to fish out the two seafood he had put in just now.
He glanced at the empty plate in front of the two of them, and took a small bowl to scoop the spices.
Chili oil, garlic juice, ginger juice, cold noodle soup, sesame sauce, beef sauce, soy sauce, aged vinegar, sugar, bean curd, oyster sauce, green onion and coriander foam.
I didn't put leek flowers, because these seasonings were salty enough, and I needed to put more cold noodle soup when I put leek flowers.
"Come on, one person scoops two spoonfuls, this year's dumplings are salted, don't dip them in soy sauce when eating, dip them in vinegar or eat them directly."
Li Yi scooped the seasoning he had mixed into a large plate and talked about the dumplings.
"Boiled dumplings?" Princess Yongmu slandered dumplings, and all the dumplings she ate were taken from the Li family Zhuangzi.
When it comes to mixing stuffing, Queen Wang doesn't worry about others, so the Li family Zhuangzi wrapped it and hurriedly took it and sent it over.
Li Zhuangzi's dumplings put very little salt, in order to dip in soy sauce to eat.
There are still many people during the Chinese New Year, including prisoners, how can there be so many dishes to use, just put more salt.