It takes about ten days to soak fresh ginseng, wash it, steam it and dry it in the sun.
When this batch of ginseng came out, everyone found that the top-dressed ginseng had no white skin or furrows, and was bright and smooth with a yellow-tinged red color.
It takes more than four kilograms of ordinary fresh ginseng to produce one kilogram of dry goods. For top-dressed ginseng, it takes less than four kilograms to produce one kilogram of dry goods, which obviously weighs heavily.
When you think about it this way, the comparison is simply too obvious.
After topdressing, not only the yield of fresh ginseng is high, but the quality of the red ginseng produced is also good.
Anyone who is not stupid knows what to do next.
"Xiao Xu, the advanced individual this year is still you."
Yu Shouguang was so happy that he immediately decided that the outstanding individual reported by the second brigade this year was Xu Shiyan.
"Xiao Xu, we must give full play to the advantages of young people, keep up the good work, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, continue to innovate, and contribute to our team."
Yu Shouguang patted Xu Shiyan on the shoulder and expressed great expectations for him.
"Thank you, Uncle Yu. I will definitely continue to work hard."
When the leader praised him, it was an affirmation of him. Of course Xu Shiyan was happy, and he had to express his attitude or something.
The sticks were raised and processed, and the ginseng fields on the other side of the Xiaohei River were also dug up and poured with soil in preparation for planting ginseng.
On October 5th, the policy finally came down.
Members are allowed to plant small plots of land and are encouraged to raise livestock, pigs, and poultry.
Individuals are allowed to open restaurants, photo studios, and process and sell surplus grain.
Members are allowed to quit the cooperative and work alone, contracting land, and continue to implement the labor management form of contracting work into groups, fixing five bonuses and one bonus, and calculating compensation based on output.
The collective retains the mountain, and the abandoned farmland is allocated to individuals to plant trees. Trees are planted in front of and behind the house, and whoever plants it owns it.
As soon as the new policy came out, Xu Shiyan's heart dropped to his stomach.
From now on, he can do something without any worries.
Of course, there's nothing he can do right now, it's not the right time, he'll have to wait until spring next year.
Apart from anything else, if you plant some fruit trees on the hillside in your backyard and raise some chickens, ducks and geese, it will definitely be fine.
Right now, what Xu Shiyan has to do is prepare fertilizer.
This fall, the Second Brigade planted 4,000 feet of ginseng, and Yu Shouguang announced that base fertilizer should be used on all 4,000 feet of ginseng.
In the summer, Xu Shiyan led people to crush five thousand kilograms of bean cakes.
Except for part of the fermentation top dressing, the rest is accumulated and fermented, dried and stored, waiting to be used in the autumn.
Four thousand feet of ginseng land is used as base fertilizer. This is a big deal and requires a lot of fertilizer. The bean cake alone is not enough and needs to be matched with other things.
Su Zi, it's easy to cross the stone, and you can more or less climb it, but the soil in this kang hole is not good.
How many households are there in the second brigade? Even if everyone rips out the kang and builds it again, there won’t be enough earth for the kang hole.
So we have to find another way to use peat soil instead of kang hole soil.
Nowadays, when it comes to proportioning such a large amount of fertilizer, it is impossible to just point to Xu Shiyan alone.
So Xu Shiyan found Zhao Jianshe, Yang Chunming, Huang Shengli and other people who got along well with them all and led them to work.
"We are tight on time and have heavy tasks, and the work is a bit tiring. Let a few brothers overcome it and grit their teeth and get the work done.
I have taught you all the recipes. Learning how to do it is a job, and it will definitely be beneficial in the future. Try not to say anything when you go out."
It's not that Xu Shiyan is stingy, holding something in his hands and refusing to hand it over. This must be tested and verified before the effect can be convincing.
Even though the recipe is quite simple, you may not be able to understand it without him personally teaching it.
If someone else tries to learn it without knowing anything about it, they will burn out the mallet if they make trouble.
When the time comes, people won't say that they didn't learn well, they will only say that there is something wrong with Xu Shiyan's recipe.
"Third brother, don't worry, we all know the seriousness of it. If you don't let me tell you, we definitely won't tell you."
When Zhao Jianshe heard this, he was the first to express his position.
Despite his straightforward nature, he knows right from wrong and good luck.
Xu Shiyan didn't treat them as outsiders, so he asked them to work together and passed on the recipes to them. He couldn't betray his third brother's trust no matter what.
"Yes, Brother Xu, don't worry, we promise to keep this matter secret. If anyone comes out and talks about it, I will be the first to slap him." Feng Chao was more direct.
Yang Chunming, Huang Shengli, and Sun Xiaofeng also stated that this recipe would never be disclosed to anyone without Xu Shiyan's approval.
These people are not stupid, of course they know that Xu Shiyan is doing this for their own good.
Confidential formula, learning it is skill. No matter what age, if you have skill, you will rely on it. That is no joke.
Needless to say, you can tell just by looking at how popular Xu Shiyan is in the second brigade.
These will be key training targets in the future. If you don’t keep them all in the future, you can take over Shouguang’s class. So why don’t you just follow them and learn from them?
If they didn't have a good relationship with Xu Shiyan, if Xu Shiyan didn't regard them as his brothers, could he teach them the recipe?
This is all affection, they all appreciate it and remember Xu Shiyan's kindness.
"Well, work hard and save some money in the past few years.
Looking at the current situation, if the guarantee is not enough, it will be contracted in some year.
When I can be contracted in the future, I am familiar with the people in the Forestry Bureau, and we can rent a piece of land ourselves, and our family can plant several hundred feet of sticks. What will happen then?"
Xu Shiyan had already planned to contract a piece of ginseng land when he had money in his hands after the land was allocated to each household.
If you can't grow that much at home, you'll sell it.
In his previous life, those who sold ginseng in the field made a lot of money. He knew how to do this. As long as he had the capital, he would have no problem keeping it.
"Hey, we all follow the third brother. Whatever the third brother says, we will do it."
Yang Chunming and others were happy when they heard this. Facts have proved that following the third brother will definitely be beneficial.
Enough chatting, let’s get to work.
Mix crushed perilla seeds, crushed stone, fermented bean cake powder, and peat soil in a certain proportion.
Peat soil is different from kang hole soil. It is raw soil, and there may be insect eggs in it.
Therefore, during secondary accumulation fermentation, a certain proportion of pesticides must be added to the fertilizer.
The fertilizer is accumulated and fermented, spread out to dry again, then bagged and sent to the mountains.
The area for applying base fertilizer this time is too large. It would be too time-consuming to spread it all in the furrow when planting ginseng.
Therefore, Xu Shiyan requested that fertilizer be spread on the large ridges, and the soil should be poured in again and mixed evenly.
This is faster, but the amount of fertilizer used is slightly more, which is within an acceptable range.
Now the people in the second brigade are very convinced of Xu Shiyan, and they will do whatever he says.
Isn't it just a matter of pouring the soil again? No problem, as long as the yield of the mallet can be increased, not to mention pouring it once, but ten times will be fine.
In this way, all the fertilizer was transported to the mountain and mixed with the ginseng soil.
Then, ginseng seeds were planted at the other end of Bridge No. 2, and all the women in the team tried their best to select them.
Divide the good ginseng seeds into equal parts, split them into strips using corn pods, and tie the ginseng seeds into handfuls.
The main reason why we use cornstarch is that it rots easily.
Even if you forget to remove the ginseng when planting it, it will rot when buried in the ground and will not affect the growth of the stick seeds.
If you use nylon rope or plastic rope, if you forget to pull it off, you may tie up the ginseng seeds. In the end, the ginseng seeds will not be broken until the seal is pulled out.
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