Villager of Daming

Chapter 575 Artificial bee harvesting (first update)
"Divide one box into four boxes?" In the greenhouse, Zhu Biao and Zhu Chong put on protective gear and watched the children in Xiaqiu Village divide the bees manually.

Xiaqiu Village brought two boxes of bees here, and many of them died on the road.

We kept feeding honey on the road. When we arrived at Helin City, we built two glass greenhouses before letting them out. The other greenhouses could only be pollinated manually.

Some time ago I was trying to get the queen bee to lay eggs and increase the number of bees while continuing to feed me honey.

As the number of bees increases, spleens are added to give the new bees a place to live.

Now we have reached the stage of artificial bee separation. Four queen bees need to be separated from one bellows and some of the bees will be taken away to other tents.

If in Ningguofu, the bees begin to divide naturally during this season, the old queen leaves the hive with nearly two-thirds of the bees, leaving the original place for the new queen.

He Lin obviously did not have the conditions, so he could only divide the bees manually, and in the future, he would have to manually eliminate the old queen bees, once every few months, depending on the specific situation.

Only in this way can the bee colony be healthier and the quality be guaranteed. However, in places where there are no bees, the old queen bee can be kept alive for an extra year or two by continuously dividing the bees.

"It depends on how many virgin queen bees there are, and then humans intervene. Most people just eat honey and don't see the queen bee." The chief replied.

"How could they be allowed to create this... situation?" Zhu Xi still had questions.

"Natural selection, when the honey source is sufficient, the worker bees will find ways to build a queen bee. In this case, the quality of the queen bee is guaranteed.

The other is when the old queen suddenly dies or is injured, and the worker bees seize the time to temporarily build a queen's platform. The quality of this is not very good.

Just like a dynasty, under normal circumstances, the prince is raised until the old emperor dies or abdicates.

If the old emperor suddenly has a problem, he can only temporarily choose one to come up. This will obviously cause problems. "

The director said that he deliberately did not look at Zhu Biao, otherwise it would easily cause misunderstanding.

Zhu Biao nodded in agreement: "Indeed, because I am the prince, my father and mother hope to train me well.

According to what the mayor said, is it artificial swarming after the construction of the royal platform that is now under natural conditions?
How many months will it take for native bees to appear?Collecting bees in a mud bucket? "

"It depends on the situation. There are a lot of bar bees here locally. Bar bees can build nests on the ground, but they are not suitable for breeding.

Where do wild bees look around for nesting sites?Some flowers have spent a long winter, and they need warm days to swarm.

Once winter passes, many of them will die.We have already made bee trap buckets and will put them outside when the flowers bloom. "

The chief said, stepping aside and picking out another box to be sent to other greenhouses.

In order to ensure the quantity and quality of the bees we brought, we fed them a lot of honey and no sugar.

Two beehives turned into eight. After that, we stopped shaking honey. When the flowers bloomed all over the grassland, we could add more beehives.

Look at the quantity again. When the newly added spleen is full and the overall quantity is sufficient, continue to divide the eight into 32 or even [-], depending on the specific situation.

It is a breeding model that relies exclusively on selling bees to make money. There is not much money in a box of bees. If the bees cannot be divided quickly, the beekeeper will lose money.

When the number of bees increases in the future, in order to eat honey, the bees can be allowed to divide naturally, and a hive with multiple queens can be created.

"The royal jelly we eat is what the worker bees feed the queen bee?" Zhu Xi continued to ask.

The current Ming Dynasty has no research on royal jelly, but Xiaqiu Village provides royal jelly to the palace and the village.

"Yes, but children can't eat it. They will mature early after eating it, unless women want to get married early and men get married early. In that case, eating royal jelly can be considered as compensation for helplessness!
A woman should be at least 16 years old to give birth to a child. Too early is not good. In the past...sigh..."

When the head of the village talked about this matter, he was quite helpless. He didn't understand it before, but it was still like this, and there were many difficult births.

Now we have Hanhan, and Hanhan is in control. He is not allowed to marry so early. He insists on marrying a daughter-in-law. If she is under age or in poor health, she will avoid getting pregnant.Anyway, people in Xiaqiu Village can't go outside now, only people from outside can come in.

"My sister must do as the chief says." Zhu Biao believed that the master was not wrong. He didn't know that his eldest sister was actually married at the age of 16, so she was actually seventeen.

Historically, she married Li Shanchang's son Li Qi, but was later exiled due to the impact of the Hu Weiyong case.

Where were you exiled to?Jiangpu is very close to Nanjing, just across the river. Zhu Yuanzhang still felt sorry for his eldest daughter.

Is that called exile?The consort Li Qi left Nanjing with his wife and children and was driven across the river.

If the princess wanted to go home to see her father and mother, she would have to cross the Yangtze River and then enter the Qinhuai River. It would take half a day. She would have to go out in the morning and have lunch when she got there. It was too far.

Just calculate the distance and you will know that it is about thirty miles away!

It is still unclear who the princess will marry, just as Zhu Ping did not marry Wang Baobao's sister.

"Go back and practice calligraphy." Zhu Ping pinched a cucumber and walked out while rubbing the thorns with his hands.

When he got outside, he shivered and quickly stuffed the cucumber into his sleeves and put his hands together.

I don’t feel the arrival of spring now, even though it will be Qingming Festival in ten days.

Tea leaves started to be picked in Xiaqiu Village. Mingqian tea is all young shoots and can be eaten as vegetables.

No other people are allowed to enter these eight greenhouses to avoid being stung by bees.

In other greenhouses, someone picked the vegetables to see how high they were, and gave some to the herdsmen for the other soldiers to eat.

There are also herdsmen who come into the greenhouse to help with work. Seeing so many vegetables, they always smile.

The herdsmen ate vegetables for a period of time and found that their health was indeed better than at this time in previous years. While they were grateful, they also trusted the court more.

Zhu Wentian returned to the palace and continued to make tourmaline crafts.

The good natural tourmaline is tourmaline, the bad one can be used for acetylene gas welding, and it can be ignited after adding water.

Like Zhu Wentian, someone saw a small amount of tourmaline thrown away by workers at the construction site when he was a child. The children put the tourmaline into a small pit with mud, added water, made mud paste on the outside, poked a small hole, and struck a match to make a fire.

The self-heating hot pot is like this. When the mouth blows the air, it ignites at a moment's notice and is a flammable gas.

Of course, there is no tourmaline there, but other catalysts, the main material being quicklime.

This thing can be made in the laboratory in Xiaqiu Village, including aluminum and magnesium, which are used in fireworks.

It is still possible to produce a small amount of aluminum alloy for the village, but the cost is high.

The head of the village is free again. He has nothing to do. The only people in the village are busy.

He found Hanhan and saw Hanhan using a large number of tools to mass-produce works of art: "Hanhan, what month does farming take place here?"

Zhu Wentian put an object that needed polishing aside and continued to work on the next one: "It's early! The frozen soil has not yet finished melting. In the north, it is very difficult to live without technology.

Seeing that there is a river next to it, it is not suitable for growing rice. It is difficult to manage. When planting wheat, you have to find a way to get rid of birds and other things.

But the northeastern region where the Jurchens are located is suitable for growing rice, and it is so delicious that it is grown only once a year. "

(End of this chapter)