Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 77
The first step plan to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain is already established, but there is no need to worry for the time being. Send someone to look for it?
Then you have to manufacture or purchase equipment, recruit or recruit manpower, etc. Anyway, there are a lot of things to do first. It’s not as simple as knowing that there is a mine here, and you can start mining directly tomorrow.Even if everything goes well with the preparations here, I'm afraid it will take half a year before work can start.What's more, he plans to do several things at the same time, so it may take more time.

However, there are still other ideas available for relying on mountains and eating mountains.If it is true in future generations, with so many mountains and forests, part of them can be used to plant cash crops, such as fruit forests, which are very good choices.In this area in the west of Beijing, apples, pears, walnuts, and cherries are all suitable for planting.As for the future sales destination, the idea is naturally to rely on the capital and eat the capital.

The advantage of planting fruit trees is that you don’t need to spend too much labor after planting them. Most of the time, healthy rural women and even half-grown children can take care of a large orchard.But there are also troubles, that is, it takes a long time to select seedlings and grow fruit trees to maturity.

Again, Gao Yushi does not have the energy and financial resources to toss about this matter at present, and it is too slow to take effect in time, so it is great to be a long-term plan.

Is there any close-range plan?There are also.

As far as Gao Yushi has seen along the way this time, there are many Zhe trees and oak trees in this area.These two kinds of trees are natural resources that can be used very well-the area attached to Sanshen Garden has a circumference of sixty or seventy miles, and most of them are mountain forests. What is the use of just that little field?Such a large mountain forest, how could it be his style not to use it?Especially now that he is still at the start-up stage, and the general environment is in the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to think too much about environmental protection. Besides, he is not going to use it to burn charcoal on a large area, and he will not cut down too much.

There is a story about the Zhe tree. It is said that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo took out the yarrow used for divination, and made hexagrams according to the principles of the Book of Changes, and made calculations in a serious manner.At that time, it was the entertainment time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He was playing a game called "shefu" with his courtiers.

"Shooting" means guessing, and "covering" means covering. Putting an object in a container to cover it up, people guess the hidden things in the container through divination. It was once very popular in the court of the Han Dynasty, which is elegant and You can also bet on the lottery.

This time, all the courtiers couldn't guess the title given by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but Dongfang Shuo read the divination hexagrams and said: "I think that the dragon has no horns, and it is called a snake and has feet. If it’s right or wrong, it’s a lizard.” It turned out that the hidden object was indeed a shougong, and Emperor Wu of the Han clapped his hands and gave him ten pieces of silk.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to the interest and asked questions continuously. Dongfang Shuo guessed them one by one, and won a lot of rewards.

Some of the spectators next to him turned red-eyed.Guo Sheren suddenly stood up and said that he was willing to compete with Dongfang Shuo, and if he was defeated, he was willing to be punished.As a result, Guo Sheren was defeated, and the court was beaten.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked about the secret of winning, and Dongfang Shuo said, "I once did divination for the shooting, and the result I got was "Zhemu". Human affection is like hiding a rabbit. The number of people in the house is poor, so why not thank you early." Zhe is pronounced as "this", and the material of the Zhe tree can be used to make good bows, so it is called "can shoot". cover.The hexagram "Hiding the Rabbit" is the shape of hunting and catching rabbits, which is exactly the appearance of Guo Sheren being beaten.After hearing this, Emperor Wu slapped his legs and laughed, and Dongfang Shuo's reputation as "Da Zhan She Fu" spread from then on.

Regardless of whether the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Dongfang Shuo was fabricated by later generations, the wood of the zhe tree is indeed suitable for making bows, and the name "good at shooting" has existed since the pre-Qin period.It is said that the branches of the Zhe tree are long and tough, and the black magpies gather on the branches. When they are about to fly away, the branches bounce off and the black magpies howl. bow".

At present, there are many trees in the mountains and forests attached to Sanshen Garden. If some good craftsmen are hired to teach some wood-finding methods, and cultivate a group of wood-hunting talents among servants, servants and even long-term tenant workers, wouldn’t they be able to make money by selling bow and Zhe wood?In the 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, wars have almost never stopped. As long as you can provide suitable bow-making trees in batches, relying on your own background, are you afraid you won’t be able to make this money?
Let’s talk about oak trees. In a broad sense, oak trees are also called oak trees or oak trees (there is a narrow distinction, but in fact the difference is very small and can be ignored).Speaking of oak trees, many people may not be familiar with them, but speaking of oak trees-everyone who knows a little about the history of European voyages should have heard of them.

When it comes to the age of great navigation in Europe, the Royal Navy of the British Empire is certainly inevitable.The oak tree is designated as the "national tree" in the United Kingdom, and it is called the "royal oak tree".The old military song of the British Navy is even called "Heart of the Oak Tree".

Why are oak trees so important to Britain?Because warships before the ironclad ship era were all made of wood, oak was the best material for shipbuilding.The reason why the top-level wood is to use oak trees that are more than 100 years old is to make the oak used for building warships have greater strength and higher hardness.

The most representative is the British "Victory", which is made of oak trees over 100 years old.These oak trees must undergo a 14-year aging treatment after being harvested before they can be used to build warships.The purpose of aging treatment is to ensure that the oak does not crack, does not deform, and has dimensional stability.The ship used 5000 such oak trees, and the entire construction process took 19 years.

另一艘战舰柏勒罗丰号(不是后来的柏勒罗丰级无畏舰)，是一艘配备了74门火炮的战舰，在建造过程中总共消耗了至少3000棵80—120年树龄的橡树。该舰由1782年开始建造，历时四年完成。总共耗费15万至17.5万立方米的木材。

But in fact, the role of the oak tree is not only for shipbuilding, this kind of tree is actually a treasure.The leaves of this tree can be used to raise tussah silkworms. The wood itself is strong and highly resistant to decay. In addition to shipbuilding, it is also widely used in construction, and can also be processed to make furniture and burn charcoal.

Because acorn contains more starch, it can be used to make oak wine, alcohol, starch, rubber oil, etc., and can also be used as feed.Tannins extracted from oak bark, leaves, shells, and acorns are necessary materials for leather industry, printing and dyeing industry, and fishery.Cork has a thicker cortex and can be used as an industrial cork material.Oak can also cultivate a variety of edible fungi such as fungus, shiitake mushrooms and dense fungi.

Shipbuilding is a matter that will definitely be done in the future with high pragmatism, but it is still too early, and I don't have the strength.For similar reasons, the functions of other oak trees are too late to be developed and utilized for the time being.

However, since the oak tree can also be used to make furniture, isn't that a good way to use it right now?

I can make money by cutting down trees with a bald head, but I can’t make money by cutting down trees with a high level of pragmatism?Not only do I cut down trees, but I can also gather carpenters to set up a furniture factory!
(End of this chapter)