The four craftsmen signed the contract, and with infinite fear of the little master in their hearts, they left happily.

The little young master said that it is best for the two families to work nearby, so that they can come and ask at any time if they don't understand, and it is also convenient for him to follow up and guide in time.

The owner of the house is gracious.

The two families went back to move and moved to Zhao's mansion, and since then they have become the core figures of Zhaozhuang and live in the coveted blue brick and tile house.

If you don't move, you can't do it.

Just their small and broken shop, if they want to do large pieces, and work with other craftsmen to mass-produce production equipment, it is simply not possible. To expand but no territory.

You think, there are more than 3,000 households, and tens of thousands of people are in this village and city, even if the scope of the castle in Zhaojiazhuang is indeed not small, it is not spacious. The only place in the village that is rich is the owner's family.

That's not your average affluence. Not to mention open space and gardens, there are at least 100 empty houses alone. The ancestors of the Zhao family wanted to prosper in people, but the result was that the population was too small.

The housekeeper Lao Liu is loyal and conscientious, not to mention, the housekeeper's ability is also extraordinary, and he has perfectly inherited the experience of the Liu family as a housekeeper and carried it forward. What the master didn't expect, he thought of. It was inconvenient for the master to do it, and he did it. The master's black cauldron, he carried it. The master must be high, he is vicious and black

The Liu family has a core saying: A housekeeper who can't take the initiative to share the worries and solve the troubles of the main family is not a good housekeeper.

Therefore, Lao Liu personally took people to help move, settle everything, and picked a few clever boys in the house to be apprentices.

Naturally, everyone who is not a fool understands that this is also close surveillance monitoring. But not offensive. Unless you really have bad intentions.

Inner house.

Zhao Yue asked his mother: "Mother, why don't we raise pigs and chickens?" ”

Why?

The situation in the village, we told you when we chatted, and then asked, this is a pit. It's not a big pit, it's a small pit. Little thing, pit people and pit addiction? You dare to dig a pit for your mother. It's a pity that my mother knows you too well and won't fall for you.

Pretend not to hear something.

Wife doesn't care. Lao Zhao's identity had to respond.

He also felt that this son seemed to have a poisonous tongue and simple words, but the lethality was too great, and the damage was terrible, and you were annoyed but there was no reason to attack him.

If you don't get this simple question right, it's a pitfall. So he blushed and said in a low voice, "Why? There is a shortage of food. ”

staring at his youngest son, there is a hidden threat: If you dare to trap your father, be careful that I will clean you up. Lao Tzu taught his son that it was right. It's none of your prodigy, it's not a prodigy.

Zhao Yue smiled at his mother, kissed him fiercely, and then asked everyone: "Then, what do wild boars and pheasants eat in the seaside forest?" ”

Sure enough, it's a pit, but it's a pit.

Others don't stand up to thunder, Lao Zhao, the owner of the father, can only bite the bullet, "Eat grass and eat grass seeds." Doesn't eat grain, so grows slowly, meat firewood. ”

As soon as the word firewood came out, everyone first understood something, and then they all laughed: This little guy is really smart, but he has also lost a little.

Zhao Yue also smiled and said: "That's right, no matter how firewood the wild boar and pheasant are, it's also meat, isn't it?" The taste is still delicious. Therefore, pigs and chickens are not impossible to raise, or they have to consume food. Grow slowly, let's think about it. ”

He quickly turned his head to look at his father, whose face was as "fierce" as Guan Gong's gaze, and explained with a smile: "Dad, it's not that the child is cheating on the father, the child just wants to explain the problem." ”

Pointing to the little head, "What is the essential difference between humans and animals?" What is the biggest difference between people and people? It's not the shape physiognomy, it's here. ”

"Man and God are intelligent beings. We have brains, we can think, we should have imagination and creativity, and we can't be fixed by some habitual thinking, cognitive patterns and so-called common sense. Otherwise, how to improve the ability and quality of life? ”

Bearded Daddy stepped down from the stage at this time, his face was bright, and he nodded thoughtfully like everyone else.

"Pigs and chickens can grow if they eat grass. Then let's plant grass. They grow whatever they like. Grain can be grown, but grass is not simple? Plant it in the wilderness and let it grow on its own.

With grass comes bugs from the ground. Still worried about the chicken you don't have to eat? Anyway, it will be slaughtered in the winter. Don't worry about the cold and the grass withered. A year's worth of pork is still tender and delicious. What a cheap thing. ”

"If you want to raise chickens for the New Year, let's raise earthworms, which are the dragons. I've got a way. No food anyway. ”

Proficient in physical chemistry, building a greenhouse to engage in humus and earthworm cultivation, it is not as simple as playing.

By the way, the mushrooms are also done by the way.

I have to do more greenhouse vegetables, otherwise I will have to eat cabbage and radish and cabbage in winter. It's bad luck to be in this world, and it's not good to eat again

"By the way, Uncle Ma, you have traveled south and north, and you have seen a lot, do you know if there is such a grass as alfalfa in the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Little nephew, you don't want to cheat me again, do you?"

Ma Dacai laughed and made a joke, twisted his beard and thought about it: "I've heard of it." That's good fodder for raising horses. Well, it seems that in Xijing, I have never seen it anywhere. It is said to be deeply rooted, very devoured, and spread widely, and is not welcomed. I think I can get it. ”

"It's better to get it."

Zhao Yue stretched his waist and lifted his spirits, "Our village is between two rivers. The vast wilderness between the two rivers, isn't it up to us?

Plant alfalfa on the banks of the wild land and rivers, and do not fear its spread, and let the horses, cows, sheep, and pigs be grazing, so that the livestock can forage for food at will. There are two rivers separating you, are you afraid that it will run away?

At most, arrange for people to ride horses and dogs to patrol to prevent theft. You can also practice equestrianism and run horses. Next year, we will capture more Liaokou horses. War horses must be raised. ”

No matter how difficult it is for Zhao Zhuang to raise more than 30 horses, most of them are accumulated and bred by beating Liaokou.

"As for chickens, find a field with trees, make a big circle with fences, branches, and nets, and raise them. A few grass huts were built on the side, and some people who could not work, ate, and waited for death were arranged to keep dogs to watch them, so as to prevent people and wild beasts. Kill two birds with one stone. ”

In Zhao Yue's eyes, Zhao Zhuang in this remote place wants to develop greatly, and the geographical environment is too favorable.

The fort is rectangular in the east-west direction, and is stuck on the high ground between the east and west rivers.

The north of Zhuangbei is a rocky land with undulating mixed weeds and a small number of Zhao family fields, and there is a small peach forest, which is the love of the main mother Zhang Yihui and the contribution of Zhao Laocai to his wife's love.

Further north are rocky hills and pine forests to the sea.

Within a few miles of Zhuangnan is the swamp of rocks and weeds that is not suitable for planting or is too difficult to open up and abandoned, then the fields of the Zhao family, and then the fields of other villages, and dozens of miles to the south are the sources of the east and west rivers, and one is not too big and not small at the foot of the dense forest hills, and the extremely deep reservoir swallows up several lives every year.

The two rivers, because they are not big, do not have a serious name, and the locals are used to calling them the East River and the West River.

The two rivers flow northward from the birthplace, into a trumpet barrel shape, through Zhaozhuang to the north, the East River begins to turn eastward, passing through the fields and rocky hills, and finally penetrates the lush pine forest into the sea;

The West River runs north through the barren hills and disappears into the vast forests of the sea.

West River northbound, because the terrain from wide to narrow, before the water flow is larger, in the rainstorm period of the year to the narrow ditch gradually rushed into a wide ten meters or even dozens of meters, the deepest ten meters of steep ditch, after the Cui family in the upstream to open the flow of water irrigation, the water flow to the Zhaozhuang section has been very small, in fact it is just a kneeless stream, but the Zhaozhuang people had to build a few stone arch bridges to facilitate passage.

The East River, from narrow to wide, has been three or four miles wide in Zhaozhuang, but it is not in the rainstorm and flood period, and the deepest part of the water is only to the chest of an adult, and only a flat-bottomed boat can be walked. The river beach on this side of the village is reed land and sand and gravel, the river water is relatively clear, the terrain to the east is gradually lower, the water is gradually deeper and more muddy, and the bottom of the river is mostly silt.

Not too far to the northeast of Zhaozhuang, there is a large mound that rises gently at the turn of the East River, and it is densely covered with river willows. It is the most ideal place for a paper mill in Zhao Yue's eyes.