Chapter 43: The Worm
Zheng Lizheng passed Wei Renshi's words to the villagers, and the villagers were surprised when they heard about it.
In addition to being used as bait when fishing, this earthworm is collected by the medical workshop as medicinal herbs.
But Wei Renshi actually spent money to buy earthworms from everyone, and everyone really couldn't understand it.
If you don't understand, you don't understand, but digging earthworms can be exchanged for money, and no one will stop doing this. The children in the family are idle, teaching them to dig earthworms, and they can dig a lot of them in a day. I passed the time again, and I didn't have to dangle in front of the adults, and I made money, which is a good thing - I don't have to go out of the house and don't delay pouring the dung.
What Zheng Lizheng said was a guarantee in the village, and when it came out of his mouth, no one would think it was a lie.
So for a while, the children in the village were running around, and there were big children leading the children to dig earthworms.
Wei Renshi didn't care what the villagers thought, when the villagers were talking about why he wanted to collect earthworms, Wei Renshi led people to put fences in his fields.
There is something strange about this fence, and the bamboo weaving underneath is almost a man high, and the gap in the weaving is very small. It's the usual way to see the fence above.
Therefore, to insert this kind of fence, you have to pick out a narrow ditch at the edge of the ground that is almost one person high, and then insert the fence into it, and then cover it with soil and bury it.
His family's field is also a few acres, cutting bamboo poles and splitting them into slivers to ask people, weaving bamboo to ask people, picking trenches, inserting and burying people, and people have to pay, and it is spent consistently.
The wife and Xi'er in the family were distressed, but Wei Renshi was glad that today's labor is really cheap.
On this hot day, because they are afraid of earthworms arching away, they do this kind of fence, and the amount of work is not small, and each person is only 50 yuan a day, and they already feel that there is a lot, and they are a little afraid to take it!
Wei Renshi felt that he couldn't treat others badly, it was not easy to do work, it was hot and tiring. So he went to the village to find the Taoist priest who had set up a Dan furnace there to buy wall frost, went back to make some ice, and made ice water for everyone to drink, but it turned out that they were grateful to Dade.
They are all simple working people!
Wei Ren sighed in his heart.
It didn't take a few days for the strange fence to be put up.
Zheng Lizheng also brought people to turn over the soil and put dung on it. Because he had already spoken before, Wei Renshi made a mechanism to let the villagers no longer have to carry water to water the land by themselves, and in return, his family's fields were cultivated and taken care of by Zheng Lizheng and the villagers, so no one said anything.
The weather is beautiful, the sun is good these days, and after the sun exposure, the soil is turned over again, and the dried manure can be mixed into the soil.
Wei Renshi had already collected several large baskets of earthworms, so he began to let people sprinkle the baskets and soil all over his several acres of fields.
In addition, a separate piece of land was set aside to enclose and all the remaining earthworms were poured into it.
"Wei Langjun, what are you doing with so many of these things in the ground?" Zheng Lizheng asked as he sat down to rest after helping out with the work.
Wei Renshi scooped up a bowl of ice water, handed it to him, and said, "Uncle Zheng, drink some to relieve fever first." ”
After speaking, he said to the others: "You're welcome, everyone, this jar is full of ice water, scoop it and drink it casually." ”
"Thank you, Wei Langjun!" The people on the side were all overjoyed, and there were people inside: "Wei Langjun is really a real person, and there is ice water to drink when he works with Wei Langjun!" The wages are also more than a mile! ”
After everyone gathered around to scoop up ice water and drink, Wei Renshi sat next to Zheng Lizheng and asked, "Uncle Zheng, do you want to lead the people of the entire Changgu to plant the fields and become rich?" ”
"Look at what you said, a certain person is from Changgu, and he is from Changgu, if you can make the big guys live well, then you naturally want to." Zheng Lizheng replied, and after speaking, he asked again: "Could it have something to do with you throwing the earth dragon into the ground?" ”
Wei Renshi nodded: "The worm has no claws and teeth, and the muscles and bones are strong, but it can eat the soil and drink the yellow spring...... Tsk, it's actually a good thing! ”
"It's true that it can heal, next to it...... It's useless, is it? Zheng Lizheng was puzzled.
Wei Renshi laughed and said, "In the next step, I will raise chickens and ducks on the few pieces of land in this circle, and if possible, I will also raise cattle." Crops are grown in other places. ”
"Something to do with this earth dragon?" Zheng Lizheng asked.
"Not bad. The earth dragon can turn the soil and loosen the soil, and its dung can make the fields fertile. The feces of chickens and ducks can be used as food for the earth dragon, and the extra can also be used to fertilize the fields. Chickens and ducks can feed on earthworms, which also grows up chickens and ducks with excellent meat quality and better chickens. If there is an extra dragon, it can be sold to the medicine shop, and these earthworms feed on the feces of chickens and ducks, and they grow well. In this way, each link is beneficial to other links, and the output of each link is not wasted and has value. After such a circle, you can see how much more harvest you can get than just farming. Wei Renshi smiled and said to Zheng Lizheng: "And this earth dragon can also improve the wasteland and turn the wasteland into fertile land, which is a good thing." ”
"What?!" Zheng Lizheng was taken aback, paused, and asked again: "Let's not talk about the previous words, Wei Langjun just said that this earth dragon can turn wasteland into fertile land?!" ”
"Yes, especially the salty land in Longyou Road." Wei Renshi said: "Naturally, there are other methods that need to be cooperated, and this earth dragon is just one of them. ”
"So, Wei Langjun knows how to improve those salty lands?" Zheng Li's face became solemn, and he asked again.
Wei Renshi nodded: "I know some." ”
Zheng Lizheng grabbed Wei Renshi.
"Uncle Zheng, what is this for?" Wei Renshi saw that Zheng Lizheng was holding his sleeve tightly, so he asked puzzled.
"Wei Langjun, your land must be good!" Zheng Lizheng swallowed his saliva and said, "It must be good!" If there is really a way to turn those salty lands into fertile land, Wei Langjun ...... You'll be knighted! ”
"My land is not salty land." Wei Renshi said.
"That's not okay!" Zheng Lizheng glared at the boss, Wei Renshi had never seen him look like this. But I heard him say again: "Wei Langjun, do you really have the method of improving the salty land?" ”
Wei Renshi nodded and said, "Yes, indeed." ”
"A certain family in the early years of the army in Longyou Road...... There's more salty land there! Zheng Lizheng said: "Fuchang also has salty land, and you can't grow things. You...... If you really have a way, if you sell this face, you don't want to go to the county government to come for you! ”
"Uncle Zheng?" Wei Renshi was surprised to see that Zheng Li was so excited.
"When a certain person is in the army, he needs to be tuntian. Large tracts of salty land, no crops can be grown, and the brothers and the people there starved to death one stubble after another...... Zheng Li was gritting his teeth: "The above will also be punished, saying that we can't do a good job of farming...... The people there still have to pay taxes, and their families are ruined for money and food! ”
Zheng Lizheng's words made Wei Renshi a little moved.
Wei Renshi does know some ways to improve saline-alkali land.
If it is really as Zheng Lizheng said, if these methods are effective, they can be knighted, then Wei Renshi doesn't mind testing Fuchang's land first.
The four words knighthood and merger are still quite attractive to Wei Renshi.
If you don't want anything else, you just want a noble identity.
In this Tang Dynasty at sunset, anything can happen. Politics will only become more and more turbulent, and society will only get darker. At this time, there is a layer of noble status, which is a very effective protection for yourself and your family.
"Well, let's try it first." Wei Renshi thought for a while and replied, "You don't have to ask the county government for it, let alone tell the county government first." I can pay to cooperate with Uncle Zheng to buy those wastelands first, and then test them on them. In this way, even if it fails, it will not bear the blame. ”
Zheng Lizheng thought about it, nodded and said, "It's still Wei Langjun's thoughtfulness!" Wei Langjun rest assured, I will pay this money. ”
"Not necessarily. Even if I can't improve it into fertile land, I can use the wasteland for myself. Wei Renshi said: "Uncle Zheng, the more you can buy, the better, and then when my money is enough, I will withdraw your money to you with interest, and these fields will be with me." ”