After hearing this, Xing Yuanjia was just stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "It's okay, he just wants to rob him. As long as he can do this well, it doesn't matter whose credit it is."
Sure enough, his intuition was right! Master Lu Changsheng looked at Xing Yuanjia, somewhat silent.
He has been with County Magistrate Yue Jingwei for many years and has met all kinds of people. It is rare to see someone as simple and sincere as Xing Yuanjia, who does not compete for credit and only wants to do a good job.
Generally, people like this will never get ahead.
But for some reason, when he saw Xing Yuanjia, Master Lu Changsheng suddenly wanted to make Xing Yuanjia stand out.
Why can't a person who is willing to do practical things for the people not be admired by others?
Once upon a time, didn't he also want to be that person?
It's a pity that a person's power is too weak, and he eventually falls into the world.
He can't become that kind of person, and Master Lu Changsheng also hopes that someone can become that kind of person.
Xing Yuanjia didn't know this.
He just felt that this master seemed to be particularly "easy to use". No matter what he said, the master was willing to help him.
For Xing Yuanjia, nothing could be better.
He was very happy and became more energetic in doing things.
Not long after, the villages connected to the tidal flat were mobilized and began to plow the tidal flat.
The mud dug out of the tidal flat is not useless. It is sprinkled with lime, wrapped in plant ash, mixed with other vegetation and buried in a pit less than 20 centimeters, so that it can be used to fertilize the land in the coming year.
If you are worried that locusts will hatch out of the fertilizer, then there will be more crops that locusts cannot eat, and you will starve them for a few meals and see how they survive.
Even if a few survive, there are still poultry and other animals waiting outside.
After the tidal flats were hollowed out, they were used to store water and turned into fish ponds.
Now that the fish pond is ready, it will be of great benefit.
1. Once the fish pond is tidied up and the fish are raised, they can not only be sold but also eaten.
They used to not be able to eat meat a few times throughout the year, but now they can eat fish a few times, which is good.
Second, the purpose of building fish ponds was to eliminate locusts. Now it can not only eliminate locusts, but can also be used for other purposes. It is an unexpected surprise.
Third, the fish pond will be turned over every few years. The mud in the pond is the best fertilizer and is perfect for fertilizing crops.
With all its benefits, this fish pond has only a hundred benefits and no harm.
Therefore, the people in the village dug very hard, and adults and children came to help.
The fish pond is busy, and the fire kang is also on the agenda.
He and his father-in-law explained to Xing Yuanjia that although the fire kang could be used to heat the floor, Jingzhong sent a master not to help them keep warm, but to teach them how to use the fire kang to hatch chicks and ducks.
"The demand for these ducks and chickens is not small. It is unrealistic to transport the chickens here directly. So the idea above is to let you learn to hatch chickens and ducks by yourself and become self-reliant."
"This way, if something happens, you can handle it yourself."
"Chickens are hard to preserve, but eggs are easier to preserve. For two cents each, any household can afford it."
"The eggs belong to each family, so hatching them together is a good thing for you."
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Eggs are easy to handle. If there is really a demand, even if they don't raise chickens at home, most people can afford to buy a few if they grit their teeth.
However, raising chickens also requires costs, and not all families can afford to raise them.
But it's different now. Now their village has a "Chicken Officer" and a "Duck Officer", who will be responsible for raising chickens from now on.
Ordinary people do not need to raise their own chickens. As long as they are hatched successfully on the fire kang, each family will have some quotas. They can just hand over the chickens and let the chicken officials and duck officials take charge.
The above arrangement is not only to provide benefits to the local people, but also to reduce "costs".
After all, so many chickens and ducks are also a "burden".
"Ah, you don't need hens or ducks to hatch eggs?"
Xing Yuanjia looked surprised.
He saw that chickens and ducks could eat locusts, and indeed he considered raising chickens and ducks to catch locusts, but what he wanted was to hatch chickens and ducks in the traditional way.
He didn't know exactly how to solve it. Anyway, when he told his father-in-law, he told his father-in-law that it was feasible.
Xing Yuanjia thought that the imperial court would transport a large number of chickens and ducks in the coming year.
result……
Instead of transporting chickens and ducks, they transport eggs directly and let you hatch them yourself.
He and the father-in-law nodded: "Yes, otherwise the court would not have made such an arrangement. If Mr. Xing doesn't believe it, you will know after you give it a try."
"Believe it, believe it, of course I believe it. Since it was tested by the imperial court, it must be true." A smile appeared on Xing Yuanjia's face, and he was extremely happy.
I was worried before that it would be difficult to herd chickens and ducks, but now it seems that the court is well aware of it.
If he knows what he is doing, and the court knows what he is doing, he can feel more at ease when doing things below.
Not long after, the Huokang officer and his party arrived.
What Xing Yuanjia didn't expect was that Zheng Yangrong was not only a fire kang official, but he was also quite good at raising chickens and ducks.
No, when people come here, they are not only busy with the fire bed, but also busy with arranging food for the ducks and chickens.
Yes, that's right, just arrange food.
Although chickens and ducks are used for grazing, we should also prevent the chickens and ducks from not having enough to eat, so we should open a small stove for them, right?
Therefore, Zheng Yangrong taught Xing Yuanjia how to raise maggots and earthworms to feed chickens.
"I can understand earthworms, this maggot..."
Xing Yuanjia lowered his head and glanced at the latrine not far away. He couldn't imagine that the thing that crawled out of the latrine would be specially raised?!
Just let the chickens run to the huts to find food and raise them by yourself...
"These maggots are not ordinary things. If you raise them well, it won't take much trouble. Just dig a hole and get rid of them every once in a while. It's best to prepare two or three times and open a bunch at a time. You don't have to do anything.
If you do it, the chickens and ducks will be able to eat..." Zheng Yangrong naturally saw Xing Yuanjia's expression and silently expressed in his heart that he was also shocked when he first learned about it.
But……
Isn't there a saying called "really fragrant"? He is.
When he followed Mrs. Yao, he felt that Mrs. Yao was simply imaginative. How could anything be used to feed chickens?
But in fact...
When he finally got it done, he realized how easy it was and how much meat the chickens and ducks had eaten, which was more effective than feeding them grain.
Forget it, the waste residue can eventually be used to fertilize the land, which is very effective.
After following Old Mrs. Yao for a long time, Zheng Yangrong gradually began to think about the taste - Old Mrs. Yao is not picky, but he seems to like to have multiple uses for one thing?
Zheng Yangrong continued, "Don't think this thing looks dirty, but let me tell you, if you get it right, this thing will be fertilizer for the fertile land. Don't you always feel that the manure pits at home are not enough for your farming? This thing
It's just fat, but one is pulled from something, and the other..."
Zheng Yangrong looked like "you understand".
As a rural person, Xing Yuanjia naturally couldn't find it too dirty. He just thought it was a bit incredible at first, but when Zheng Yangrong said that this thing had so many uses, he suddenly felt that it was a treasure.
For a time, Xing Yuanjia regarded Zheng Yangrong as his "master" and was about to learn from him.
Zheng Yangrong was happy to see that Xing Yuanjia was a practical person.
Unlike some of the officials in the imperial court, damn, they dislike this and that...
Is there any use in denouncing it?
If you have the ability, would you like to find something "clean" to feed the chickens?
