Chapter 165 Start construction site
What she said about sweet potatoes was really good. Zhong Jing actually knew about sweet potatoes, but he only regarded them as a common crop and didn't think too much about them. Like a fake sweet potato.
"Is that thing really that good?"
Zhao Liya was categorical: "At least it is very suitable for raising pigs! If you want to raise a lot of pigs, you must have it! Otherwise, it doesn't hurt to feed pigs with radish greens, Chinese cabbage and small cabbage? Besides, radish and cabbage don't grow as fast as sweet potato vines." Ah. You can’t just feed pigs with weeds and vegetables, that’s not nutritious, and it’s hard to fatten pigs, and sweet potatoes are even more nutritious for pigs when they bear fruit!”
Zhong Jing nodded, "It makes sense!"
Life in the military camp is actually very hard. It seems that the court has completely forgotten about them. Basically, don’t think too much about the military salary.
Poor sergeants have few meals a year that are really full, let alone meat. Raising pigs can also improve food.
Of course, it’s much better now. Ever since I met Sister Xiaoya and made a fortune with Sister Xiaoya, my life has become more and more affluent.
Zhong Jing didn't know how to choose the site for the pig farm, and he didn't need to think about it to know that the big soldiers under him were even more ignorant, so he had to ask Sister Xiaoya for this matter!
Of course Zhao Liya won’t let it go. The military and civilian families should be close.
So the next day, Zhong Jing simply accompanied Zhao Liya to wander around on and around his home site. The military camp is located in an important place, and the Lingnan area is sparsely populated. According to the regulations, there is no one in the forty miles of the military camp. In fact, the area is fifty or sixty. There are no people in the mile, and there are no people in the distance, so it is very simple to raise pigs.
Yu Xiaofang wanted to go into the mountains. He observed along the way, and felt that there were many mountains here, and they all looked pretty good. He was full of expectations for something to be gained.
"Xiaoya, how many days will you be here? I can arrange the time."
It is rare for people who go to the mountains to collect herbs to return on the same day, unless they go directly to the medicine, and they know where it grows not too far away, and they come back quickly after picking it.
It’s like collecting herbs like a treasure hunt. It’s hard to say how many days you will go into the mountain, it depends on the situation.
Zhao Liya thought for a while, and said with a smile: "We've all come here, and it's rare to come here. It will take four or five days."
Zhong Jing: "You can just stay here for a few more days, I can't wait!"
Yu Xiaofang is also eager. So he said, "Then—five days? I'll be back in about five days."
"good."
Zhong Jing was very generous, and allocated five people to accompany Yu Xiaofang into the mountain, "They are very familiar with the mountains in this area, so you can rest assured."
Yu Xiaofang happily thanked her.
Lin Mo thought to himself, General Zhong is a good man, Zhong Ming and others are fine, but this is the army, and who among the men in the army has a bit of a temper? From the front of General Zhong, who would have thought this would happen? They were ordered to follow Xiaofang into the mountain, General Zhong's words were like military orders, they dared not disobey, but when they were away from General Zhong, who knows if they would obey?
Xiao Fang's temper and stinky mouth are not a person willing to be wronged. When the time comes, he won't accept anger and talk nonsense, which angers people, and he is afraid that he will fight.
Of course, although Xiaofang doesn't know martial arts, she never lacks all kinds of weird medicines around her. If you really want to fight, it's hard to say who will suffer more.
But in this way, wouldn't there be suspicion and dirtyness for no reason?
not worth it.
Shu Yan hurriedly laughed and said: "What's wrong with Xiaoya and I staying in the barracks? I was just about to say that the mountains are dangerous, you should go with Xiaofang."
Lin Mo smiled softly: "That's fine."
So, Lin Mo also followed into the mountain. He is good at martial arts, as long as he finds an opportunity to show his skills, he may not be able to frighten those people.
When Zhao Liya and Shu Yan were wandering around in the company of Zhong Jing, Yu Xiaofang and Zhong Jing had already left the house.
Zhong Jing thinks that with the help of Xiaoya, who is smart, capable and lucky, the pig raising business will definitely be prosperous. So he decided to make a big one with great ambition.
He wants to raise a thousand pigs.
Zhao Liya also thinks it’s okay. There are more than 22,000 people in the barracks. What’s the point of raising a thousand pigs?
And she also suggested raising about 20 sows, so that they can produce and sell themselves without buying too many piglets from outside.
Zhong Jing felt that it made sense, and nodded to show that he would follow suit.
One thousand pigs, plus twenty sows, then, with four hundred acres of sweet potatoes, the output is enough to feed the pigs, and the sweet potato vine shoots and sweet potatoes can also change the taste of the soldiers to satisfy their hunger.
Zhao Liya suggested that six pig farms should be divided, five of which would raise 1,000 pigs, and the other one would be dedicated to feeding sows.
After walking for a day, six locations have been confirmed.
Zhao Liya didn't determine it randomly, and tried to make the distance between them reasonable, so that they wouldn't affect each other, but they wouldn't be too far away either.
Because it is necessary to consider the later treatment of pig manure retting and composting, and consider not to be too far away from the sweet potato field, which will be more convenient for feeding and management.
Repair the roads and connect these places with each other, so that the ox carts and donkey carts can pass smoothly, and they will be connected as one, making travel cheaper.
Zhong Jing was very happy, got the blueprint of the pig farm from Zhao Liya, and immediately ordered Zhong Ming to find someone to take charge of this matter, and immediately built several pig farms in this way.
There are also sweet potatoes, which have also begun to be planted.
Zhao Liya reminded him to send someone to find Zhu Miao quickly.
If you buy a few heads, or even thirty or fifty, there is no problem, and you can buy them easily. But a thousand heads is a big number!
Suddenly, if you want to buy it, you will never be able to buy it. You can only look for it in advance, and then place a deposit to make a reservation.
Zhong Jing slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "That's right, thanks to sister Xiaoya reminding me! Otherwise, when the pig farm is built, there will be no pigs, and it would be a big joke!"
Zhao Liya and Shu Yan both laughed.
Zhao Liya smiled and asked curiously: "By the way, after walking around so many places today, I found that you have planted a lot of lychee trees in this area. You can see them everywhere. I wish they were all over the mountain. Why are there so many? !"
There are also other fruit trees, such as longan, mango, jackfruit, grapefruit, orange, and even carambola, bayberry, loquat, jujube, water apple, lotus mist, plantain, etc., but at a glance, there are lychees.
Shu Yan also smiled when she heard the words: "I saw it too, and I was also puzzled! Could it be that the soldiers especially like to eat lychees?"
Although, the scale of this lychee tree is still a bit exaggerated.
(end of this chapter)