Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 181 Buying Land and Planting Peach Trees (4)

The piece of land that Qin Muzhang bought is said to be a wasteland, and it is really barren. There are not many big trees on it, and there are few trees. On the contrary, there are more shrubs and more weeds.

This mountain is not very high, and its altitude is about 100 to less than 200 meters of low mountains and hills, but its area is slightly wider.

In fact, according to such an environment, there should be many people reclaiming the land, but in fact, the Yong Dynasty had a vast land and few people. There was a lot of land around Qinjiazhuang that could be planted, so there was no need to reclaim this wasteland.

The main issue is tax payment. The policy of the Yong Dynasty is not bad. There is no need to pay tax for the first three years of reclaiming wasteland, but there is no need to pay tax after three years.

Many people are reluctant to reclaim too much wasteland. After all, wasteland is not as productive as fertile land. If you can only pay taxes after a year of hard work, isn't that a waste of manpower and material resources?It's better to honestly plant the fields they already have.

The people in Qinjiazhuang were too lazy to reclaim the land on this hill, so they were bought by Qin Muzhang. It is still troublesome to plant more than 3000 mu of land, but they have plenty of time.

Qin Muzhang took his daughter-in-law, his eldest brother and uncle together to get out the fire-proof belt of the three thousand acres of land.Of course, they couldn't burn all of the 3000 mu of land at once. Instead, they divided the area and burned the bushes and weeds inside.

This is also to protect some wild fruit trees or arbors inside. Although there are relatively few arbors in this wasteland, there must be hundreds of arbors in more than 3000 mu of land, and they are relatively thick.So in order to protect these hard-to-survive arbors, of course they have to be handled carefully.

"Are you really planning to plant thousands of acres of peach trees?" Liu Wenwen asked Chen Qiuxiang while helping to extract the vitality of the weeds and bushes in the field.

"If thousands of acres of peach trees are really planted, and when the season comes, there will be a large area of ​​peach blossoms, which will be very beautiful." Liu Wenwen continued.

"Yes, more than 3000 acres of peach blossoms, the picture must be very beautiful." Mingshuang also said.

"Why did you think of planting peach trees?" Gao Xueyao looked at my sister-in-law curiously, "I bought so much land just to plant peach trees. People who know it almost say that you are out of your mind, right?"

Gao Xueyao is also very aware of people in this era, or in other words, farmers in this era basically grow food. Even if thousands of acres of land are used to grow vegetables, they may not understand it, let alone grow fruits?
Moreover, most of the peach trees that Chen Qiuxiang plans to plant are ornamental peach trees, and there are not too many other peach trees that can bear fruits and eat them. The two types of peach trees are basically split in half.

People who know about this approach may feel that Chen Qiuxiang and his family have gone out of their minds, otherwise, why would they do such a waste of land?
"I plan to turn Qinjiazhuang into a tourist attraction." Chen Qiuxiang thought for a while and said, "The tourists in ancient times were basically rich people or those literati, and what did they like?"

"Plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, plum blossoms should not be grown here, after all, we don't have snow here. As for orchids and chrysanthemums, they are not better than peach blossoms, and bamboo... my next plan is to plant a large area of ​​bamboo ocean."

"More than 3000 acres of peach blossoms are in full bloom, do you think those literati would want to come and see them?
"Chen Qiuxiang said.

Everyone else nodded, Gao Xueyao said, "It's me who wants to see the beautiful scenery of more than 3000 mu of peach blossoms in full bloom."

Chen Qiuxiang and the others divided pieces of land, and then she and Liu Wenwen took the vitality of the plants in this area to kill the weeds and bushes, and then set them on fire.

Because the fire zone was created, and these plants were dry and dead, they burned very quickly. Probably the weeds were basically burned away once the fire passed.

The land that had just been burned could not be planted. Chen Qiuxiang and the others planned to fertilize the land on the third day after burning the weeds and bushes. The fertilizer she produced was still very useful.

When fertilizing the land, don't forget to sprinkle insecticides to kill all the insect eggs in the land, and don't worry too much about plant ash on the ground.

In this way, Chen Qiuxiang and the others burned the weeds and bushes, fertilized the land and killed insects, and then planted the saplings.The people in the front cultivate, fertilize and kill insects, and the people behind dig holes and plant trees, and the efficiency is much higher at once.

This time, Qin Muzhang's family didn't ask other people in the village to help with the work. Basically, the two brothers and his uncles planted together. As for Qin Muzhang's cousins, they were basically not available.

Qin Lichun and the others were either working in the insecticide potion workshop and tofu workshop, or in Qin Songtao's kiln factory, and they were basically not free.

But Qin Lichun's daughters-in-law came to help, and Qin Lichun's eldest son, Qin Zhiyang, also came to help. He is 14 years old and a capable young man.

Qin Zhiyang is not very good at reading, and it is impossible to take the route of the imperial examination, so he stopped studying after studying in the school for a few years, and now he basically goes home to help with work.

Qin Lichun's daughter, Qin Zhiyue, also came to help. Although she is two years younger than her brother, she is also very capable, and the work she does is not too hard. She won't be allowed to dig a hole. Just put the sapling in the dug hole, put some fertilizer and cover it with soil.

Although Qin Fengcang, Qin Wu's, and even Qin Gao's in the old house felt that Qin Muzhang's farming was too messy and a waste of land, but when Qin Muzhang's family planted trees, they still had to wait until the time when Qin Muzhang's family planted trees. Call someone over to help.

Anyway, it's the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, and there's not much work to do on my family's land, so it's not bad to help Qin Muzhang's family plant.

The twelfth lunar month of this year is not very cold. According to Qin Muzhang and others, the temperature should not drop to single digits. Basically, the temperature during the day is around [-] or above, and at night it is basically [-] to [-]. It wasn't very cold.

With such a temperature, the crops planted can still survive.Coupled with the support of Chen Qiuxiang, Wang Mingya, and Liu Wenwen's wood-type abilities, it is too useless for every one of these peach trees that have been planted to die is Chen Qiuxiang's abilities.

It took about half a month to plant hundreds of acres of peach trees. Qin Muzhang and the others stopped working and prepared for the New Year.

It may take a little longer to plant the 3000 mu of peach trees, but Qin Muzhang and the others basically reclaimed most of the wasteland. The reason why they didn’t reclaim all of them was because they were worried about the ones that had been reclaimed before planting. The barren land has grown tender grass again.

The work was stopped on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. Of course, Qin Muzhang and the others couldn’t let the helpers work for nothing, so they gave some things to Dafang and Qin Songjiang’s family, such as a rabbit for each person, and a catty of beans for each person. Dried tofu, sweet potato flour per catty, etc.

I gave them these to thank them for their help during this time. Although they are relatives, their family rarely goes to other houses to help with work, so it is more at ease to give something or money.

(End of this chapter)