In Yangkou Dadi, a large number of reeds and calamus are planted on the outside of the embankment, while willows, mulberries and hemp are widely planted on the inside. The mulberry and hemp are slightly sparse, while the willows are extremely dense.
The "poplar" of willow is not a poplar tree, but a red-skinned willow. It grows quickly, has deep roots, and has an excellent berm effect. Especially when the earthen dam is not resistant to erosion, combined with the stone pond, as long as it does not suffer a hundred-year disaster
If you encounter a major flood, you can get through it without any danger.
Moreover, the method of planting red willows widely is very simple. Just plant branches wherever you can find them. As long as they are not exposed to the sun, 70% of the time they will survive and they are absolutely durable.
Another advantage of this tree is that it can provide a large amount of rattan, which will have good toughness after being baked or steamed.
Daily utensils, such as baskets, baskets, etc., can be processed with red willow.
Another example is the construction of fish ponds in inland rivers, and the fences made of red willows are enough to support them for more than half a year.
In Li Jie's territory, protecting the river embankments and embankments is a top priority. As long as the embankments are preserved, with the environmental qualifications of the Yangtze River estuary, the rice field yield per mu can easily increase to more than 300 kilograms.
In Jiangyin City alone, it is not a problem to develop 300,000 acres of rice fields in the short term as long as they are willing to invest in labor.
However, this year Li Jie did not plan to open up much in Jiangyin. Instead, he planned to open up a large number of manors on the other side of the river, especially along the line north to Pheasant.
At this time, a water village had been built inside the Yangkou Dadi, and a market was formed around the water village.
This market specializes in purchasing the furs of capybaras, elk, wild sheep, rabbits and other wild animals. The main task of Li Jie's expanded "White Sand Warrior" this year is to use hunting as a means to strengthen organization.
At the same time, due to the expansion of the scale of brave men, the squad was restructured to a full strength of ten people, and five to ten more people could be added if the expansion was strengthened; the squadron was restructured to a full strength of one hundred people, and the squadron leader was treated as a "hundred-man general" garrisoned in the border town of Wu State, and could also be expanded.
The squadron was strengthened; the brigade was restructured to have a full strength of 1,000 people. The brigade captain was only said to be a staff assistant to the county doctor. In fact, his treatment was the same as that of a marching "Sima".
Others couldn't afford the money, but Li Jie didn't care.
After all, County Magistrate Li doesn't have any big pursuits. In terms of infrastructure, he mainly builds roads and factories. His "palace" is still relatively shabby, with a very ordinary wood and stone structure, and it is not complicated.
Without the pavilions and pavilions of "Jiangyinzi", a lot of money is left. And the "harem" expenses are not large, and the harem participates in the management of Jiangyin City to a high degree, which saves a lot of "harem" money.
"Maintenance expenses.
Generally speaking, it is a pleasure to give the money that the nobles used to show off to their younger brothers.
The additional benefits are also quite unexpected, because Li Jie is not interested in big houses, or he doesn't care about the decoration at all, and even the other management of Jiangyin City are also very frugal.
It doesn't matter if you are not frugal. The boss drives a Charade, and you drive a fucking Ferrari. See if the boss wants to fuck you.
Therefore, the large-scale buildings in Jiangyin City have been transformed from the "big pavilions" in Baisha Village to factory buildings or large shops. The slightly luxurious ones are usually water villages or dock markets.
The most popular areas on Li Jie's territory are the two large markets.
In Jiangyin City, the Xixi Wharf Market in Baisha Village is the most prosperous, while in the north of the Yangtze River is the Shuizhai Market in Dadi, Yangkou.
And because Shuizhai Market is located in Yangkou, the sea is not far to the east at this time. Most of the merchants who come here to trade call it "Haiyang".
So County Magistrate Li also followed the trend and changed the original name of "Jiangyang" to "Haiyang".
The current agent of Hai Duong Market is Sha Heng.
The main daily task is to count the fur goods traded in Haiyang Market. Here is the largest fur goods warehouse in Wu State, and the warehouse manager is an uncle of Dan.
Uncle Yi also had to cross the river to work as a warehouse supervisor. After all, he was old and his learning ability was quite poor. But the characteristic of Jiangyin City is that no matter how hard it is, you have to study. If you can't learn, you have to learn, otherwise you will
Be eliminated.
For the survival of the family, Uncle Yi had to do this.
In less than a year or two, too many drastic changes have taken place. Dan's life trajectory has no experience to draw from. There are only a handful of women in the world who can replicate Bai Dan's experience.
It can be said that there are only a handful of strange women who can achieve this kind of class jump for hundreds of years.
As Dan's uncle, Shu Yi has to work hard, because no matter how stupid he is, he still knows that Dan is limitless now and is the future guarantee of his entire family.
As long as they are alive, their family can rely on Li Jie and develop and grow.
Therefore, with his own personal efforts and Dan's strong desire, Shu Yi said goodbye to Baisha Village, took his son, several fellow villagers, and friends from his hometown introduced by Gongzi Ba, and went to Haiyang to take up his post.
When it comes to finances, it is acceptable for Li Jie to use his power for personal use, but the position of assistant is a position that foreign scholars compete for.
Especially now that the market in Haiyang is huge, even if you are just assisting the market, a slight tilt when purchasing leather goods will bring about an astonishing price difference.
This is an unprecedentedly lucrative position. Those who can follow Uncle Yi to Haiyang Market, without exception, have tried their best.
"Is this Yangkou Dazhen?"
"Shou Li has taken control of this place and has been reinforcing it for months. Originally, there have never been so many reeds and calamus outside the big pond. As for the stone pond, it has never been seen before. It was Shou Li who led the people to build and reinforce it himself."
The scale of the stone pond is not small. It mainly compacts the tidal flat and uses a large number of wooden piles and stone pillars to prevent the stones from being washed away by the river.
This is a type of breakwater. With a large number of reeds and calamus, and normal river erosion, the damage to Yangkou Dadi can be ignored.
Even because of this arrangement, a unique ecology has been formed. In the past, it was quite difficult to catch eels at night, but now, if you go down the embankment with a torch, and depending on the low tide, the number of eels caught at night is quite considerable.
Li Jie opened eel farms directly inside the dam. The scale of these farms was not small, and the reason for their formation was to build river embankments in conjunction with the dredging of the river.
Enter from Yangkou Dazun, pass through Haiyang Market, and go north along the Pheasant River to reach Pheasant.
In the process of regulating the pheasant water, dredging, enclosing fields, burning wasteland, and building embankments naturally formed a large number of low-lying lands.
Because the dredging work was too heavy, some low-lying areas were slightly transformed by Li Jie and turned into eel farms.
Catching eel seedlings is very simple. When Li Jie was still working as a foreman, artificial breeding of eels could only be said to have produced initial benefits. In most cases, the seedlings needed to cultivate eels in East Asia were still caught in the wild. And because of the rivers and seas
Due to pollution problems along the coast, the number of eel seedlings has dropped sharply.
But even if it drops sharply and goes to catch seedlings at night, the dense situation will cause trypophobia in normal people.
The scene in the water looked like millions of tapeworms twisting and turning, it was extremely disgusting.
Foreman Li once built an internal road for a farmer. The job was not big and only cost tens of thousands of yuan. However, the farmer's wife ran away with him and took away a large sum of money from him, causing the farmer to be heavily in debt.
In desperation, the farmer gave the eels to Foreman Li.
This also led to Li Jie not feeling much about the eels even after being picked up by Dan.
It is obviously very fat and tender, and the teriyaki eel rice is even more fragrant, but after eating it, I feel like vomiting...
However, this did not prevent Foreman Li from raising eels after he became the head of Township Li and the head of County Li. It cost nothing anyway. If he had nothing to do, just feed him some fishmeal. If 10,000 seedlings died, 80% of them would be a net profit.
It doesn't matter how delicate the eel is at this time, because the eel farm itself is better than nothing.
Besides, the water quality near Haiyang Market is quite good, and there are abundant earthworms, red worms, and shellfish. With fish meal, as long as the water in the fish ponds is changed regularly, County Magistrate Li has no worries about chemical emissions contaminating the fish farms.
What we really need to worry about are wild animals like capybaras and crocodiles that like to steal chickens and dogs.
Even if there are more than 90% sudden deaths in more than a dozen farms, as long as one farm produces adult eels, all of them will be made back this year.
Adult eels are very resistant to handling, and long-distance transportation is not a problem. Through Hangou, they can be directly transferred to Huai County, and then through the mature waterways of Wu State, whether they take the Huai River or Surabaya, they can initially reach the Central Plains area.
There is no worries about the market for live eels, but the real big profits come from dried eels.
Direct air-drying or pickling and air-drying will produce a umami flavor. Of course, Li Jie would not eat it when he was a foreman, because farmers said it was unhealthy and slightly toxic.
But County Magistrate Li was thinking, it’s amazing how could it be so easy to die if you have diarrhea?
Besides, it’s not just about eating it yourself, but selling it to others, so what are you afraid of?
If it weren't for the difficulty of catching pufferfish, County Magistrate Li would have planned to make pufferfish into dried pufferfish and export it to fellow Song people for a taste.
The most fresh food in the Yangtze River, it tastes very exciting and tastes great.
After entering the entrance, I felt as if I was in heaven, and then I ascended to immortality, forgetting all the regrets in this world.
Unfortunately, I don’t know why County Magistrate Li is more poisonous than pufferfish. When he was the village chief of Baisha Village, he didn’t catch a few pufferfish.
On the contrary, there are a large number of pufferfish in the coastal areas of Dongsha.
It's just that the savages in Dongsha are relatively simple. They don't eat it themselves. They purify the toxins in the puffer fish's guts, infiltrate them into arrowheads, and then shoot small animals or something.
"There is a ranch in Haiyang?"
"After the spring comes, the main purpose is to raise cattle and sheep. To the east of Jiangyin City, deer, donkeys, and horses are raised."
The scholars who followed Uncle Yi to Haiyang for work were all surprised. Originally, they were surprised that there were obviously many large livestock in Jiangyin, but why there were not many cattle during spring plowing. In the paddy fields, elephants appeared.
The amount of work is more than that of cattle, and the number of times cattle work is probably not as much as that of slave labor.
Now when I cross the river and take a look, I realize that most of the cattle are in the north of the Yangtze River, and there are quite a lot of them and the scale is quite large.
There is only one pasture. Some scholars from Shuyong Kingdom made some estimates and found that there should be more than 300 oxen. There are also cows in the pen, and they seem to be producing milk, because there are milk buckets like those in Baisha Village.
This kind of wooden barrel is very obvious, with special markings on it.
However, milk is not meant for drinking, it is mainly used as a dairy product.
Another important material purchased by Suzhou Baisi is dried milk and cheese.
In Haiyang Market, among the commodities traded in furs with hunting teams and Huaiyi, after grain, cloth, and stone tools, dairy products were the most popular.