Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 16 Construction of Happy Village
If you have money, you should spend it, especially after being poor for a long time, Sun Xiangfu no longer needs to dress like a beggar. At least, he now has several robes made of silk cloth, and a robe that is equivalent to the length of Xiaoheji. As a squire, even the merchants at the fair began to compliment him when they saw him. This is the benefit of being rich and powerful, no, it should be the benefit of spending money on him.

After walking around for a while, Sun Xiangfu spent twenty guan in Xiaoheji, buying more than a dozen shi of grain and a few shi of soybeans. This was his relatively normal expenditure. The most frightening thing was his harvest. The fish is all pulled by a boat, and each boat is a thousand catties. How much is it worth?The power of a large number of people is the truth verified by the Taizu of later generations. When the whole village of Xingfu Village started to make fish cages, it only took a few days for the total number of fish cages to exceed one thousand.

Now, every time a round of fish cages is collected, more than 2000 catties of various fish can be obtained. Two rounds a day, that is three to four thousand catties. The production of the cages allowed everyone to dig ponds in the bamboo forest and raise all the eels and loaches that were caught. That’s right, they were not sold, and all were raised, except for the dozens of catties of fish that were sent to the Qin Mansion every day.

"Xiangfu, isn't the pond we dug a bit too much? There are more than 100 ponds, and the children can't even dig earthworms."

The eel and loach pond should not be too large, and it is good to be in the shade of the bamboo forest open space. The Xingfu Village covers an area of ​​a few hundred meters of dirt hill, and now, half of the place has been dug into the eel and loach pond.

"Then chop up the endless scale fish and feed it to the eel. For the loach, you can use some platycodon root to grind it into foam, or throw a few bundles of rotten grass in each pond, and only feed a small amount of fish offal. Yes. Yes, Marin's new plow has also been made. Except for the fishing time in the morning and evening, everyone is asked to gather at the barren field. I will take advantage of these two days to open up the remaining 2000 mu of land for a season of planting. Summer beans."

It's already the beginning of July, if we don't plant, those lands will be desolate this year.

"Two days, more than 2000 acres of wasteland? Why can't I help but question you?" Sun Dali couldn't accept it.

"If you've seen the plow I designed, it's not impossible."

The next morning, the sun was scorching, but Sun Xiangfu had to work under the sun. Now it was the last farming period, and ten buffaloes were reluctantly driven to the edge of the wasteland. At this time, each of the big wooden guys The matter was hung behind the cattle by the strong men in the village.

That's right, it's a Quyuanli, and it's a big Quyuanli with four plowshares. The plowshares are made of refined iron by Marin. The plow of the plowshare was pulled by these oxen to walk in the field.

"Well, why do I feel that the land is so fragile? The ox walks with a four-headed plow, and it is as fast as when it is not pulled. My God, if you go down the five roads, you will directly reach the Wuxiangtian. At the end, fifty mu."

All the farmers in the village who have been cultivating for generations are stupid. The speed of plowing the field with a single plow is twice that of the original triangular plow, four is eight times, and five groups is forty times. After the efficiency was magnified by forty times, this wasteland of more than 2000 mu was turning into fertile land at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Walking to the end, fifty acres, walking back, another fifty acres, just going back and forth. In less than two days, more than 2000 acres of land have been cultivated, and more than 100 people, under the leadership of Sun Xiangfu, started sowing , A few stones of soybean seeds were all sown into the field.

"I feel that our village will no longer have to worry about food. Moreover, as the village chief said, we can eat meat every day, whether it's fish, pork, or mutton." Wang Erxiao Yang, a child among the villagers He said happily.

"Well, in the future we should worry about what to do if the uneatable meat stinks." Zhang Shu, another villager, said cheerfully.

"Stop daydreaming, you two, we are still far away from eating meat! At least, until the two major projects in the village are completed." Sun Dali interrupted the chat between the two at an inopportune time.

"The two major projects? The two major projects?" The two looked at Sun Dali and asked.

"It's the village public house, and the village fishing ground. The village chief said that we will try to get everything done before the end of the month."

Soon, Xingfu Village launched the two major projects that Sun Dali mentioned. The so-called public houses are houses for public use. It was not that there were no houses before, but the scale was too small. There were only two small warehouses, one cowshed, and What Sun Xiangfu needed was a large house that could accommodate the whole village people, with complete production and living facilities. Therefore, the whole village people began to get busy.

Under Sun Xiangfu's assignment, the whole village spent one day digging the corners, including all the houses and courtyards, covering an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters.

Then Wang Fu and Wang Gui led more than a dozen people to be responsible for the timber, mainly making tripods and beams.

Marin and Zhang Quan took the rest of the people to burn bricks and tiles. They were burning these things when they were burning charcoal before, and there are already a lot of hoarding.

After all the materials are ready, it has been three days later. It is not difficult to build bricks with clay. The hard part is to meet Sun Xiangfu's production standards, such as horizontal lines. Many villagers don't understand the use of this thing, and he The villagers are also required to lay bricks in different stacking ways horizontally and vertically. It is not enough to stack them horizontally. In this way, all bricks are required to be of the same size, and those bricks that fail to be fired will eventually be used for paving the ground.

It is not difficult to learn these things. In just two days, more than 100 people built all the brick walls with window holes, and then put the tripod on the wall, the main beam on the top, and the tiles. In the eyes of the villagers, Except for the doors and windows, the house is considered complete.

But in Sun Xiangfu's view, it was not enough. When the two brothers Wang Fu and Wang Gui built doors and windows according to Sun Xiangfu's design, Sun Xiangfu came to the cave again. After two days of tinkering, he finally fired some White lime, let people use a bamboo scraper to brush the entire outer wall of the house, which can prevent ants and crawlers.

By the end of July, everything including the long wooden table and long bench requested by Sun Xiangfu had been completed, and the whole public house was considered to be completed. It is about 500 square meters, including a hall of more than [-] square meters. In the hall, there are dozens of long benches and long wooden tables. Sun Xiangfu is the only person in the village who can read and write, so he wrote all these spirit tablets.

On the left and right sides of the hall are the blacksmith room, carpentry room, kitchen, and two grain warehouses.Each room has an area of ​​more than 200 square meters. Next to the courtyard wall are two sundry storerooms, a barn barn, and a firewood house. All the floors are paved with blue bricks. The white walls look very clean. In addition to sleeping, eating and working, everyone basically gathers in the dormitory.

Of course, after finishing this matter, everyone has to stop. Fishing grounds are not those small holes and ponds that the villagers dug in the bamboo forest. Sun Xiangfu had an idea when he passed the two firewood mountains in the village for the first time.

The two Chaishan Mountains are joined together in a figure-eight shape, and there is a canyon in the middle. The Chaishan Mountains are not very tall, and only when the rain is strong, there will be a small stream flowing down from the gorge and into the small river. Build a long dam at the foot to block it, and the entire canyon will become a triangular reservoir with an area of ​​more than a thousand acres. This scale is enough to breed thousands of catties of fish that Xingfu Village salvages every day.

If you have an idea, you have to put it into practice, set fire to burn the weeds in the canyon, and clean up all the carnivores such as mountain turtles and snakeheads in the stream. But the embankment does not need to be too high, because the water coming down from Mount Chai is not much, and the entire canyon cannot be filled in 100 years. Therefore, the embankment only needs to be two or three meters high at the beginning. More than 100 people, one day Hundreds of meters can be built, and in a few days, all the dams will be built.

A few water dragons designed by Wang Fu and Wang Gui according to Sun Xiangfu were erected on the embankment. The children played happily on the water trucks, and the water in the small river was continuously sucked into the reservoir by the water trucks. Time, there were several heavy rains during the period, and when August came, the fish fry that Xingfu Village had hoarded for many days were finally ready to go into the water.

"Village chief, why do we only stock these three kinds of fish in the fishery?" Shi Dalang was appointed by Sun Xiangfu as the fishery manager. Under his leadership, more than a dozen and a half children in the village will take care of the fishery. He asked Sun Xiangfu one by one.

"Crucian carp, carp, and grass carp are fish species with strong reproductive ability, strong survival ability, and not picky eaters, and these three kinds of fish grow meat quickly. Although crucian carp only grows to more than a catty a year, but he can grow into several There are hundreds of pieces, and they are nutritious. Pregnant women must eat them, and they can be sold at a high price in the middle of winter.

Carp can grow up to three or four catties a year, and it can also breed many. Grass carp is even better. Although it eats a lot and is not as reproductive as crucian carp and carp, it can grow to more than five or six catties a year. There is no upper limit for its growth when it grows to more than a dozen catties, or even for a few more years. It is possible to grow to tens of catties or more than a hundred catties. We only need to put fry in the first year, and we will have continuous energy and harvest.

As for other species like silver carp, it needs running water. In the reservoir, its cost performance is not as good as these three fishes. Although the price of snakeheaded fish is slightly higher, as long as there are more snakeheaded fish in the pond, there will be no other fish species in the pond in the future, because it It is a carnivorous fish.There are also Huanggu and whitebait, which don't grow much meat in a year. They are chicken ribs. The white scales grow fast enough, but they have a strong fishy smell and are cheap. "

(End of this chapter)