Poor family mother and son

Chapter 451

I have to say that Xu Zhixian still really understands clearly.

In general matters, Chu Qing is straightforward, but when it comes to interests, Chu Qing always takes it lightly, for fear of causing misunderstanding.

What's more, Chu Qing arrived after the two letters. Xu Guangming immediately saw the point that Chu Qing couldn't say: there might be a locust plague.

Xu Guangze likes the dishes at Chu Qing's house very much. They are all stir-fried dishes with different flavors.

Coupled with the "Yuye Qiongjiang", for Xu Guangze, a wine worm who "even if there is no food, he still has to order two or two", he doesn't want to get off the table.

Chu Qing has a personality similar to that of a man, he eats whatever he wants, drinks whatever he wants, and does whatever he wants, which makes Xu Guangze feel more at ease, and he almost takes off his robe to cool off.

After drinking for three rounds, Xu Guangze still said unwillingly: "Well, our county has used your village's method to turn over the soil in winter and freeze the insect eggs in the soil to death. I even told Huai'an County;
The locusts in our two counties are the fewest, maybe a little more than in previous years;

Let me tell you about other places, go and have a look in the crop field. The position below the knee is full of locust gnats, jumping around. If you stand in the field for a while, your trouser legs can climb up a layer. "

Locust gnats are the larvae of locusts, also called nymphs and jumping gnats. They look like adults with short wings, small bodies, and big heads. They must molt four or five times to become adults.

Whether they are adults or larvae, they all have one thing in common: traveling in the same direction, walking forward and following, and never turning back.

If you have food, you will stop and eat, and if you have nothing to eat, you will keep moving forward.

The locusts hovered left and right in the sky, forming groups, forming groups, and marching staggeredly in the sky and fog.

Locust gnats, which are tens of millions of times denser than locusts, encounter ditches and cross ditches during their crawling, and climb walls when they see walls.

Every time they climbed upright at the base of the wall, there would be piles of bouncing bouncing ones at the bottom vying to climb up first.

It forms one layer behind another, and the back gets thicker and thicker. When the bottom layer can't bear the pressure, it will fall down in batches and go up again, repeatedly until it climbs over.

What Xu Guangze said was told by the boy from Chu Qing’s family who delivered goods to various places, so Xu Guangze was angry and anxious:
"Tell me, it's just that it hasn't taken flight yet. Once the locusts can fly and a gust of wind blows over, no matter how clean our county is, we will be implicated by them. Isn't it a waste of prevention?"

Chu Qing didn't know whether to tell Xu Guangze that he had written to Qi Zhizhou, after all, Qi Zhizhou was his superior, so he mentioned Song Tingshan: "How is your brother-in-law?"

Xu Guangze: "It's okay with them. He also understood what you meant as soon as he received the letter, and he did what you said. I got a lot of chicken and duck seedlings in our county from him."

Speaking of this, Xu Guangze immediately added: "Anyway, it's you who pays for it, where else do you want it from?"

Chu Qing corrected: "Credit!"

Xu Guangze: "It's not me paying for it, I'm just running errands!"

Well, that's right too.

"Are our two counties in Jizhou better? What about the other counties? Didn't the emperor issue an edict ordering all places to dig up soil and mow grass and raise poultry?" Chu Qing asked.

Xu Guangming leaned close to Chu Qing and said in a low voice, "The emperor gave the order, but he didn't give any money. You wrote me a letter and told me that you can buy chickens and ducklings on credit."

He raised his eyes to look at Zhuo Yao and the master again, and suddenly realized that it didn't help whether he lowered his voice or not, so he sat up straight again.

He went on to say: "In fact, even if the emperor gives money, it won't work. When will the disaster relief money be fully implemented in our hands?"

What Xu Guangze didn't say was that even when his brother-in-law was in office, he had to be exploited one layer before he could be issued, but the exploitation was relatively less.

"If you don't give money and let you work, who do you think can seriously implement it? Copy the edict into a notice and paste it on the wall, and then it will be conveyed. It is the common people's business whether they listen to it or not. Anyway, tell them." Xu Xu gloss said.

In this regard, Chu Qing declined to comment.

Everyone's position is different, and the way and angle to solve the problem are also different.

Xu Guangze asked: "How long do you plan to credit your chickens and ducks? Is it just one or two months?"

Chu Qing also wanted to talk about this issue. Keeping on credit would form a bad habit, and she wasn't going to do that.

"Old Xu, I have a suggestion, do you think it is reasonable." Chu Qing said.

Xu Guangze became interested: "Say it! Everything you say is reasonable!"

Chu Qing smiled and said: "A large part of the farmland in Jizhou has been abandoned. I bought a wasteland two years ago and built a weaving workshop, but there are still many wastelands;

It is still too early to return to farming, and it will require a lot of subsidies and corresponding government orders;
However, the wasteland should be used or must be used. It has stopped in the past few years. There has been no war and chaos, and many families have imported a lot. Using the wasteland will also benefit the future distribution of small fields, isn't it? "

Xu Guangze nodded: "Yes, in another ten years, another group of adults will rise up, and they will also get the fields, and they will still be those wastelands."

Chu Qing: "My idea is to use the wasteland to plant pasture and raise poultry, so that our county will not need to borrow chickens and ducks on credit in the future, and it can recycle itself;

You see, poultry has many benefits, meat and eggs can be sold for money, if you can’t find a merchant to buy them, you can just sell them to me; there is also pasture, pasture is also valuable..."

Xu Guangze: "Who is going to take care of the wasteland!"

Chu Qing: "In the past, no one was there because there were few laborers and farm tools. These were all secondary. The main reason was that there was little yield in the fields, right?
If the yield in the field is low, farmers will put all their energies on those good fields and cultivate them intensively in order to achieve high yield and high yield. But the same is an acre of land, how much more can you produce if you take care of it?
Two mu of land is more profitable than one mu of land, right?
As long as there is a lot of profit, the people have hope, and they are not afraid that no one will work. I said planting grass because I can guarantee the income of farmers. "

Chu Qing began to "paint cakes": "Look, planting grass and raising poultry on the wasteland is equivalent to planting fodder for the poultry, and if there are insects on the pasture, it is equivalent to providing meat for the poultry;

And the excess pasture can be sold, for example, to me. You know that my family Lao Yu and Lao Zhao have set up a horse farm. Although they also set up a piece of land to plant pasture, it is still not enough to eat. "

Daxuan has his own racecourse, not many, but the operation is very difficult.

The common people know that there is a shortage of horses in Daxuan. Is there really a shortage?In theory, what should be lacking is a good breed of horse like the Voss horse.

But the real situation is that there is also a shortage of native horses.

The direct reason for the lack of horses is the high cost of feeding and the difficulty of raising horses.

The digestive system of horses is very weak and they cannot ruminate like cows. Therefore, it is impossible to feed horses without eating for several meals at a time.

Moreover, horses can't just eat grass, they also need to be fed, that is, food.

Older than their horse farm, a Worth horse needs more than 3000 catties of pasture and more than four stones of grain a year. This is almost every [-] acres of harvest to feed a horse, which is more expensive than feeding a family. money.

Chu Qing continued: "Furthermore, grass is easier to grow than grain, so don't pick the land. The key is that there are fewer diseases and insect pests than grain, which is easy to care for;

Raise some chickens, ducks and geese in the wasteland, and usually let the elderly and children graze and catch bugs in the pasture;

The poultry manure is collected, which can be used as manure, and can also be used to breed insects and supplement the food of poultry;

Do the math, pasture can be sold for money, poultry can be sold for money, raw eggs can be sold for money, even if you don’t want poultry manure, you can also sell it for money after cleaning it out;

You can see the money, do you think there is still a lack of labor?

Now the chickens and ducks in the hands of the people, in addition to paying on credit, they can also make a lot of money, let them sell less eggs for hatching, and they will have everything. "

(End of this chapter)