"Brother, don't worry, it will definitely be. Zeng Toushi is too high to the top, and he will not treat us as an opponent yet. Ruan Xiaoqi said.

Chao Gai said: "It's not early, I'll go to sleep, and you can continue to be on duty." ”

At dawn the next day, the wake-up call sounded in the camp, and the morning training began again. Chao Gai arranged training and brought two guards back to the village, and there were a lot of things in the past few days. There are nearly 10,000 acres of sand and gravel barren beach in the east and west villages, 20,000 acres of barren mountains, and there are more than ten miles of river beach along the stream can also be transformed into fish ponds for use.

Soon after leaving the camp, Liu Youtian came over on horseback, and Chao Gai said, "Liu Youtian, what are you doing here?" ”

"Back to the owner, the mulberry cuttings have fallen, I hired a few experts from the village to guide, and the short-term workers also found a hundred, and the two hundred acres of mulberry seedling cuttings were completed in a few days, and I suddenly remembered a major event that scared me with a sweat on my forehead."

"What, as for being scared like that?" Chao Gai asked.

"Last year, there was a large-scale locust plague in June on the boundary of Qingzhou Prefecture, and several counties did not harvest grains. Qingzhou Jeju is not far away, it is difficult to guarantee that this kind of thing will not happen here, not to mention that the owner has high hopes for Tianwang cotton and Tianwang rice, 500 catties of peanut seeds have also been sown and sown 50 acres, as for Chaotian pepper has also begun to raise seedlings, once it happens, the consequences are unimaginable. Liu Youtian said.

Chao Gai was also taken aback, it turned out that when he was in the Xinjiang Agricultural Reclamation Corps, Chao Gai had seen the locust disaster, at that time there were pesticides, there was mechanical spray to exterminate insects, naturally he was not afraid, now, there is nothing to do, if there is a locust plague, the cotton, corn, peanuts, and peppers he brought are all scum.

Chao Gai's brain is spinning rapidly, agricultural things are difficult to hold, there are no pesticides, there are chickens and ducks, and it is very effective to control locusts through chickens and ducks.

"Ducks, duck eggs. Chickens, where to sell eggs, to a large number of them, the more the better. Chao Gai asked.

Liu Youtian said: "Don't worry, the owner of the village, there are a lot of chickens and ducks, you must know that we are relying on Liangshan in Shuibo, and there are still three or five thousand ducks in Shuibo." There are more duck eggs, and tens of thousands of duck eggs are not a problem. The range of chickens is wider, and it is not a problem to collect 10,000 chickens or 100,000 eggs. ”

Chao Gai nodded, this number is still quite satisfied, "Who knows the technology of incubating chickens and ducks on the fire kang?" ”

"I've heard people say that the incubation of the fire kang depends on the feeling to grasp the temperature, which is very profound, and it is a technique that is passed on to men and not women, so I don't know the specifics. But why did the owner ask about the chickens and ducks? ”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, let's go and supervise the seedlings, in addition to mulberry saplings, poplar saplings, willow saplings are cultivated, and I have a big use in the autumn, don't delay." ”

Cuttings are not a rare technology, the direct point is to cut the new branches of last year into a four-inch length section with scissors, arrange it and insert it in the ground, and then water it frequently to keep the soil moist for about a month to take root. Of course, the trees that can be cut are very easy to take root, such as mulberry, willow, poplar, etc., and the tree species that cannot easily take root cannot be propagated by this method.

Chao Gai guided in the past, mainly to arrange the density to be larger, and there was nothing else, of course, everyone was surprised, the first time I saw someone cultivating more than 200 acres of saplings, you must know how there are more than 10,000 saplings in an acre, at least 2 million trees in 200 acres, a huge number of amazing.

When Chao Gai came to the farm, the sheep had already gone out to graze, the cattle and horses were busy farming, and the farm seemed a little empty.

"The owner is here." The head worker of the farm greeted Chao Gai.

"Yes, you are in charge of Li Qingzi." Chao Gai asked.

"On a newly built pig farm."

When Chao Gai came to the pig farm, Li Qingzi was checking the body of the newly bought big black sow, in this era, ordinary people eat very little meat in their daily lives, and those who can eat are considered good days, and occasionally eat meat is mainly mutton, and a small amount is pork. As for beef, only a fool would come to the restaurant and slap the table and say, "Bring me two catties of beef." First of all, no one will kill the cattle casually, the cattle are an important labor force to pull the cart in the cultivated land, and the value created by keeping the cart and pulling the cart is far higher than killing it, and secondly, the cattle killed are either sick cows or old dead, not to mention that the beef that works all year round is very strong and tastes very poor.

"How many new pigs have been added?" Chao Gai asked.

"There are 30 new sows, 2 boars, and 200 fattening piglets, each of which is only about 20 catties, but it can be guaranteed that these 200 piglets can be slaughtered at the end of the year. When the site is completed, you can buy another 200 sows. ”

"How much can a little pig grow by the end of the year."

"Two hundred catties is definitely no problem, if you are willing to give up food, three hundred catties is not impossible. There are still a lot of aged sorghum soybeans. "Look at the arrangement, these 200 pigs will definitely be slaughtered for the New Year, I have a big use, and after two years, you will build a 10,000-head pig farm for me, and 10,000 pigs will be slaughtered a year." Chao Gai said.

Li Qingzi rubbed his hands and said happily: "That's a good feeling, 10,000 pigs can be lined up in the county seat." ”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "It's only a few dozen miles to the county seat, what's so strange about queuing up to the county seat." I came here today to talk about something important. ”

Chao Gai called Li Qingzi to the house, and Chao Gai said: "Now that a large number of chickens and ducks are needed, I will arrange for the chief manager to cooperate with you to build five new duck houses on the side of the stream, each of which can raise at least 3,000 ducks." Ten new chicken coops were built on the barren slope, each of which was at least 3,000 chickens. ”

"Fifteen thousand ducks, 30,000 chickens, that's not a good buy." Li Qingzi proposed.

"You can collect 3,000 adult ducks, 6,000 adult chickens, and eggs for the rest. Hatch a batch of hens, and then you are someone nearby who can find someone who knows how to hatch chickens and ducks on the kang? Chao Gai asked.

"Yes, there are many people over there in Weishan Lake who understand this, they all hatch duck eggs and goose eggs, eggs are good to hatch with hens, a hen can hatch twenty eggs, at least fifteen or sixteen chicks, hens will also take care of chicks, very good."

"Then you arrange for someone to invite such a person over, don't be afraid to spend money, you must learn this technique."

Li Qingzi scratched his head: "If you let the family teach the technique, I'm afraid it won't be possible without a few dozen taels of silver." Besides, there are too many details, and it will take at least a year to learn them all. ”

"Then invite two people back first, and teach us the skills of hatching ducklings, so let's arrange it quickly." Chao Gai shook his hand and left, Li Qingzi seems to have good actual ability, horses, cows, sheep, and pigs are all raised very well, sanitation and disinfection and regular feeding of veterinarians are arranged, and the isolation of sick animals is arranged in an orderly manner, and it is rare that Li Qingzi actually prepared a medicine package for the treatment of diseases, such as medicine for the treatment of indigestion in cattle, which has been prepared and made into pills, and some cattle have symptoms and directly feed the cattle with medicine. A bit of a Chinese patent medicine, Chao Gai plans to wait for things to be almost busy and sell this Chinese patent medicine as the main drug of his own pharmacy.

Li Qingzi immediately took action and went back to Zhuangzi to discuss with the governor, who sent two Zhuangke who often went out to Shijie Village to find Ruan Ying and asked him to send a boat to Weishan Lake to invite people. Dozens of people were sent to walk the streets and alleys to start buying chickens, ducks and their eggs.

The duck house is simple to build, and then built on the high place on the bank of the stream, because the time is short and the task is heavy, the wooden fence used for the fence is also made of wood to build a shelf, covered with tarpaulin, and the simple duck house is become.

The stream between the two villages is actually not small, the water surface is more than ten zhang wide during the summer rainstorm, and it is five or six zhang wide in normal times, the water is not about one meter deep, and the water flow is slow, and there are seventy or eighty meters of wetlands on each side, which are overgrown with weeds. The first duck house was completed in three days, and the first batch of ducks arrived, a total of 3,000 ducks, all purchased in the fishing village near Shuibo, large and small, with all kinds of ducks, some flowering, some white, and some green-headed. Li Qingzi carried out a simple classification, put the same breed of duck together, and waited for the new duck house to be built in the future.

The villagers of the breeding factory are also tired, busy for several days, and when they come down in the evening, everyone comes to rest by the stream, and there are humane: "Why do you say that the owner of the farm suddenly wants to raise chickens and ducks on a large scale?" ”

"I must be going to eat chicken and duck eggs for everyone, but I've heard that the students who go to school in the newly built school are in charge of two meals a day, and our village is righteous, and the children are not allowed to eat boiled eggs for breakfast." Another Zhuang Kedao.

"I think I'm going to give everyone chicken soup." The crowd muttered.

Just when the big guy was collecting chickens and building a chicken coop, the father and son of the Hua family in Wenshang Village, more than 30 miles east of Dongxi Village, were discussing the issue of whether to sell chickens.

The Hua family is a medium-sized household in Wenshang Village, with 200 acres of land, four cows, and occasionally hires people from the village to help. Lao Hua has two sons, the eldest son is married, and the second son is not young, they are all twenty years old, born with a medium build, dignified appearance, and a good figure, which can be regarded as a handsome guy in our Song Dynasty, and it stands to reason that he should also get married, but this second Hua Lei is a fan of Chao Gai in Dongxi Village, he loves to practice his fists and feet, and he does not do the work in the farmland on weekdays, and he grazes more than 1,000 Luhua chickens for the family, and he is used to using a 30-pound mixed iron rod, and his strength is not small. An iron ball the size of a soybean can kill a pheasant at once.

"Dad, the Chao family is collecting chickens, and the most Luhua chickens we raise in Wen are our family, so it's better to give this chicken to Chao Baozheng, and I'll go and have a future with him." Hua Lei Dao.

Lao Hua smacked his lips: "That's a thousand Luhua chickens." ”

"It's not all sent, leave two hundred, send eight hundred."

Lao Hua said: "This Chao Gai opened a hotel, opened a department store, opened a horse market, and opened a medical hall school, obviously has a lot of ambitions, I will gamble for your future, and I will go to Dongxi Village to deliver chickens early tomorrow morning." ”