Chapter 162 Alfalfa
People are collective, whether they are traversers or not. From a country to a gang, what is the most important quality of a leader? It's not how wise and clever it is, it's not a personal charm, it's just that you always remember that you are the spokesperson of an interest group!
To put it simply, a leader is about maintaining his own fundamentals! If it does, then don't cry and complain that the interest group will abandon the leader.
The choice of interest groups is sometimes quite passive. For example, your father and your teacher are a certain interest group, and you naturally label this interest group. It is impossible for Chongzhen's son to help Li Zicheng rebel, and it is impossible for Li Zicheng's son to fight bloodily for the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, now Qin Bai is very helpless in his heart, he is really not good at reincarnation. If you can be reincarnated in a scholar and copy poems to go to the imperial examination, you can rely on your own scholarly mind to ensure that you can make your classmates and famous prostitutes scream again and again.
However, now that he has become a big leader step by step, this is actually the pinnacle that the grassroots can reach in this era. If you want someone to have someone and money, if you lower your body and kowtow to the third grandmother, don't say much, as long as you don't die, it is not difficult to be a rich man for the rest of your life. 35xs
But Qin Bai just chose to be uninhibited and love freedom all his life, and took the initiative to challenge the difficulty of hell. Especially the difference in philosophy with his subordinates. Although they were also in favor of finding a way out, they didn't feel too anxious. But Qin Bai felt that his eyebrows were already burning, so he spent a sky-high price to buy that rotten land.
So Qin Bai was faced with a problem, he needed to find a reason to convince everyone, even if there was no reason, he had to make up a reason. He suddenly recalled that when he was a military academy in his previous life, the military academy was located on the outskirts of a coastal city. And around the military school, there is a large field of alfalfa.
Alfalfa is a good thing, commonly known as golden cauliflower in folklore, and there are also names such as grass head. It can be used as a vegetable, and among the dishes of this gang, the wine herb head and the grass head circle are all famous dishes. But it is even more famous for its use as a pasture grass and is loved by almost all kinds of livestock. However, with the widespread use of feed in modern society, it is no longer common to grow alfalfa in large areas.
However, alfalfa has another function, that is, it can be planted on mildly saline land, and it can also fertilize the land, and the yield is also very high, and it can be harvested three to five times a year. If that's the case, and since those wastelands are capable of growing weeds, why not try growing alfalfa?
Thinking of this, Qin Bai said, "Why did you choose there?" It's because it's a good place for us. Let's talk about the way back first, it must be far enough, Fushan will be seven or eight days away from our Jingjiazhuang. If it's too close, it's better to stay in Xiaohongling Village. But it is also convenient to go back and forth, although the Jiaolai Canal is no longer open to boats, but you can run horses along the river. There are many mountains and difficult roads in our place, and only this road is the smoothest. Also, the way back cannot be a dead end. On the side of Fushan, if there is really an accident, we can also get on the boat and hide on the island or even go to sea. Finally, there is security. After all, Fushan is a thousand households, and outsiders have scruples when they come, so they won't go up to Xiaohongling like that, and hundreds of people will openly knock on the door, right? ”
These words are reasonable, and everyone nods. Qin Bai continued: "Besides, is this land worth a few thousand taels? I understand that it's definitely not worth it! But it's not completely useless. We can grow goldenrod......"
"Goldenrod?" Everyone else was amused, "Isn't that a pig thing?" ”
In those days, alfalfa was not specifically cultivated, because the mountains were full of this wild vegetable. Except for a small amount as a vegetable, most of it is made as a type of wild vegetable as hogweed.
Qin Bai lit a cigarette, what he wanted was such an effect: "Think about it, pigs love to eat, and other cattle, sheep and horses also love to eat, why don't you plant and raise livestock?" There are thousands of acres in the valley over there, and we can open as many as we want on the tidal flats, even if we raise a few sheep and a cow per mu, how many can be slaughtered every year? There are two or three hundred taels for a hundred sheep, and twenty or thirty taels for each cow, and a thousand or eight hundred taels a year is no problem, right? How many people can you feed, you say? ”
"Isn't that right?" Cao Dacai had a question, "I see the Tartars grazing there, and only a few hundred livestock can be grazed in a large pasture?" ”
"Then we still have a horse shed and a cowshed here, and I haven't seen that we can't feed it?" Qin Bai smiled and said, "Also, no one is allowed to plant pasture. Grazing cattle and sheep rely on their own feet to find food, and we plant grass and cut it to feed the cattle and sheep. It's nothing more than a different approach, as long as you don't starve the cattle and sheep. ”
There was silence in the room, and the others felt a little confused in their heads. This has violated their common sense, even if the people in the Central Plains raise cattle and sheep, they are rushed outside the house to graze, and no one has ever thought of Qin Bai's method.
Qin Bai is talking about modern centralized breeding, which is also a common sense for modern people. If tens of thousands of acres of alfalfa land can be reclaimed, thousands of cattle and tens of thousands of sheep can be raised theoretically.
Of course, this is only theoretical. Due to the absence of chemical fertilizers, alfalfa yields were not as high as they are in modern times. And without antibiotics, the mortality rate of plague is relatively high. But these problems can be solved. On the one hand, there were also veterinarians in this era, and there were also herbs to prevent pestilence, and on the other hand, the density of breeding should be reduced, so as not to cause the total annihilation of the army in one death. Therefore, the number of slaughters per year may far exceed what Qin Bai just said, and even Qin Bai himself feels that this may really be a trick?
"Really?" Cao Dacai was still a little confused.
"Try it! We can afford to splurge anyway. ”
There was laughter in the house, and everyone was right to think about it, to raise less first, and if it was feasible, then to raise more. It's really not good, it's just a waste of some silver to buy lambs and calves, which is a few hundred taels at most. Even a few thousand taels have been "wasted", are you still reluctant to give up these hundreds of taels?
To be honest, even now, Qin Bai still has the mentality of giving it a try. First of all, those wastelands are not necessarily able to grow alfalfa. However, he was able to convince these subordinates that this had already served his purpose.
"Who is that to send? Do you want to go? Cao Dacai asked. The experience of raising livestock here may be Cao Dacai's first.
Qin Bai smiled and shook his head: "You can't do it, if you don't have your mother-in-law, your aunt and baby are going to cry?" In the laughter, Qin Bai ordered: "Xiao Dong, Qiwa, this time the two of you will go." I'll prepare the things, and the people will arrange them for you. When you arrive, don't worry about the rest of you, except to see if you can grow golden cauliflower, and build us a house! The more you cover, the better! ”