Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1681 Chicken Farm

The reason for success is still so simple. Because it is located in the valley, when the mountain floods, the saplings and tree seeds are washed into the valley. In addition, there are barriers to avoid strong winds, and the water source at the bottom of the valley is better preserved than on the ridge. The pine forest first grew in the most open area of ​​the valley behind Lianhe Township.

Then along the valley, the pine forest began to expand upward along the valley tenaciously year after year, and now has left a huge bright green claw mark on the red mountain.

This is thousands of acres of excellent regenerating forest.

The land on the ground has been covered with thick pine needles, which effectively reduces the loss of surface soil. However, the aging effect of the pine needles is average, and the nutrients on the ground are very thin, resulting in relatively single vegetation in the mountains.

Along the way, the most common plants Zhou Zhi saw were vines and ferns. The vines included Millettia reticulata, Kudzu vine, Polygonum multiflorum, and Chinese yam. There were also many other plants that Zhou Zhi did not recognize but that the great Bimo thought were good medicinal materials.

The ferns are even very simple. After careful identification, Zhou Zhi only found three or five species, and the most common one is the one used to make bracken.

It is now the peak season for fern. Places with slightly better light are full of fat fern buds, covering the mountains and fields. It can be said that they are inexhaustible.

"Elbow, do you regret it?" Old Chi Ri saw Zhou Zhi staring at the mountain of ferns in a daze, and couldn't help but laugh: "You promised the kids that you would take as many ferns as you could. Now you find that they are worthless. Do you regret it?"

"Not really." Zhou Zhi did not regret it: "This thing can only be harvested for two or three weeks at most, after that it will be old. I was thinking whether we can mobilize the whole village to harvest it in the next few weeks. We can expand the scale and increase the shipment volume."

"Come on." Tu Liangzhi was holding a stick and chasing away a non-existent poisonous snake. Hearing this, he hurriedly stopped her: "This is the time to plant crops. Everyone is here to pick bracken. Who will plant potatoes? We can't throw away the watermelon and pick up sesame seeds!"

"Then can we develop some forage farming?" Zhou Zhi had another idea: "Then raise the sheep in a pen like chickens?"

"Sheep eat grass too much, digging it up by the roots, which is very detrimental to soil and water recovery. As more and more people raise sheep, more and more grassy hills are needed, which creates a contradiction between industrial development and nature protection. If we don't solve it, the small contradiction will grow from small to large, and finally become an irreconcilable disaster."

"Growing grass?" Old Chi Ri felt that this question was a bit beyond the scope of the syllabus: "Our ancestors haven't grown grass for thousands of years. Let's not talk about whether this job is feasible or not, we don't know how to do it!"

"Our ancestors never thought that thousands of years later our mountains would be barren, our waters would be muddy, and we would lack fodder for raising sheep." Zhou Zhi said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "So this is a new situation and a new problem that cannot be solved by relying on past experience. We should trouble Renzhong for this matter and ask him to go to the Autonomous Prefecture Agricultural Bureau to find information."

"Just wait until the call is connected." Shama Ricong was quite pleased with the scenery of the big pine forest, especially since there were already many squirrels, birds, and pheasants in the mountains. The air was good, and the pine needles were soft and comfortable to step on. He said, "I can help you find information in the state when the time comes. There are classmates in the Agricultural Bureau."

"You guys are really good." Tu Liangzhi had a hard time saying, "They asked for our phone number when I went back to the state. At the last meeting, they said the line only went to Jiukou Township, not Lianhe Township. I talked to the county magistrate for a long time but he refused to budge."

"Actually, when there is no need to contact the outside world, the walkie-talkie brought by Elbow is quite useful." Lao Chi Ri said with a smile.

Now he often goes to the surrounding villages to interview other Bimos with a walkie-talkie on his waist and a tape recorder and a camera in his hands. Actually, in Zhou Zhi's opinion, the old man is just showing off, but the old man said that Bimos never accomplish things alone, but always work together.

Recalling the status and responsibilities of Bimo in the social life of the Yi people, this is an "intellectual class". This class is not an independent class, no matter it is defined by Western tradition, Eastern tradition, or Marxist-Leninist system. It is a class that relies on the ruling class to play its role. So from this perspective, what Lao Chiri said is really right. If you put it nicely, you can call it "Emperor's Teacher", and if you put it bluntly, you can also call it "Scholar's Rebellion Failed for Three Years".

"In fact, we now have a satellite phone line." Zhou Zhi was a little amused: "But that thing is not very convenient for communication. It is easier to call abroad than to call domestically, and it is easier to go online than to talk on the phone, so it is better to get a call as soon as possible."

"Well, to use the words in the political textbook, this is the production relations ahead of the productivity." Ah Zi took a piece of chicken blood vine as a whip: "Is it Brother Elbow?"

"That's about right." Zhou Zhi couldn't say that the satellite phone was at most a production tool, so he could only vaguely say, "Policy decisions must be adapted to local conditions and pay attention to the problem of acclimatization. Otherwise, the old incident of the poverty alleviation suckling pig being eaten by the villagers will happen again."

"Here we are. Right here. How about this elbow?"

In fact, we didn't walk very far before we came to a relatively flat area. It seemed to be a terrace and looked like a former foundation.

There was a ditch in front of the foundation, but it has dried up now. Behind it is a red soil "wall" with a steep slope. Only after climbing up will it become a gentle slope.

There are two or three acres of flat land between the two, which is a perfect place made in heaven, overlooking the grain station below.

"This place is great." Zhou Zhi said, "How was this place created? It doesn't look natural."

"This was mined a long time ago when the Tusi building below was being built." Old Chiri said, "At that time, Tusi buildings were made of mud bricks, and this is actually a mud brick field."

"If you want to build a chicken farm, just fence it off on three sides, then build a waterproof shed on the earth wall over there, dig some holes in the earth wall, and stuff some buckwheat stalks into it to make a chicken coop." Gillette said, pointing to the earth wall opposite.

"Is it that simple?" Zhou Zhi was surprised: "It's a bit like digging a cave."

"This is already complicated." Jilie Abi said, "Or you can build a straw shed in the middle of the chicken farm and pile up hay in the middle. Our Yi rock eagle chickens are not as expensive as chickens outside. In the early days, they were even free-range, let out in the mountains to find food on their own."

"What's the difference between this and pheasants?" Zhou Zhi was amazed: "Will they come back if we let them go?"

"Yes." Gillette thought Zhou Zhi's idea was strange: "Cats remember a thousand miles, dogs remember ten thousand miles, and chickens only remember two and a half miles. As long as the nest is built well, they will go out during the day and come back at night to jump onto the branches and spend the night."

"It seems that many of the previous breeding habits have changed." Zhou Zhi laughed: "There are basically no free-range chickens in our area. They are all raised in pens, the only difference is that the pens are big or small."