Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2611 Four Great Fishes
Thinking that Guan Youde used to "pretend his home", Chen Wuren asked about the fish flowers again: "Brother Guan, I heard that all the fish flowers in Jiujiang are packed from the West Sea (Xijiang), why don't you sell them directly to Zaojia and enter the pond?" Breeding? Why do you need the hands of a pretender?"

Guan Youde said: "The old man is indeed a meticulous person. The fish and flowers caught in Danhu are not pure, and there are all kinds of fish in them. You must not mix them at will, otherwise there may be no fish left in the pond. Pretending to be a home The merit lies in the classification of the fish flowers caught in Danhu, leaving only grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp and dace, which are called the four major fish."

How to separate the fish flowers is naturally the secret of Zhuangjia, which is mostly passed down from generation to generation, and the secret is not revealed to others.

As a local, Chen Wuren still has the concept of the four big fishes.Before the Tang Dynasty, fishermen mainly bred carp. Since the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was surnamed Li, which had the same pronunciation as Li and carp, "carp" symbolized the royal family and could not be caught or sold.Therefore, fishermen had to find new breeding species. Grass carp is grass carp; silver carp is silver carp, also called silver carp; silver carp is bighead carp, also called silver carp; Raising mud carp, commonly known as mud carp and dace male, is a unique species in South China.By the early Ming Dynasty, the cooperative breeding of the four major fishes had become very mature.

"If our family raises fish, how much fish will be used as livestock in one mu of pond?" Chen Wuren asked.

Zhong Ji, who was with him, heard these mentally handicapped problems, and said with a smile: "One mu of Fanchi, thirty livestock carp, one hundred and twenty silver carp, fifty bighead carp, and more than a thousand mud carp."

"Why is there such a huge difference in the number of dace?" The person who asked the question was Zha Hanbi, the promotion manager of Tiandihui Guangzhou.

Mo Yu said: "Brother Tai knows everything. As the saying goes: 'Dace can be raised'. Dace likes cold and it is difficult to survive the winter. In autumn and winter, one out of ten will be saved. If it survives the winter, it will be fat, and if it is fat, it will be expensive. cheap."

"Oh? The selling price of Qixiaojiayu is still the same?" Guan Youde asked.

"Every year is slightly different, but in general, bighead carp and silver carp are more expensive, because they are easy to grow and waste grass. Dace is difficult to grow, and most of them weigh less than a catty, and they have to go through winter cold to get fat, while grass carp waste grass. , so the price is cheap." Chahan replied.

"How much grass carp spends?" Chen Wuren asked.

"Each hundred tails of grass carp needs a hundred catties of grass a day. Grass carp eat grass, while bighead carp and silver carp eat grass glue, or grass carp manure, which can also be used as fertilizer," Mo Yu said.

As a cadre of the Tiandihui, Zha Hanbi has been in contact with freshwater fish farming in Linlow. I know that silver carp and bighead carp are filter-feeding fish. They use their gills to filter plankton in the water, and they also hate eating bean cakes, wheat bran and other feeds. , because fertile water bodies breed less plankton, those two fishes hate chasing fertile water bodies and often move in the lower layers of the water.Grass carp is a herbivorous fish. It mainly eats grass, and also eats some grains, bean cakes, silkworm chrysalis, earthworms, etc. It lives and wanders in the middle and upper layers of the water for food.Mud carp is the largest and belongs to omnivorous fish. It occasionally eats the detritus of lower plants and humus at the bottom, and often moves in the middle and upper layers of the water body.

The small amount of food debris and feces left by the grass carp in the water layer are excellent nutrients for plankton, and the small amount of reproduced plankton provides a small amount of food for silver carp, and the mud carp at the bottom is beneficial to the lower and middle layer fish. The most advanced cleaning of food residues.The existence of the first eight makes the food residues and plankton can be enriched in a small amount, which ensures the fresh water quality of the fish pond.It is the fish in the same water layer chasing food, agitating the water body, and increasing the condensed oxygen in the water.Therefore, the cooperative breeding of seven small domestic fish is a huge leap in the history of agricultural technology, and it has completely utilized the infinite water body.

Guan Youde asked Mo Yu: "Do you know how to transport back to Xiangshan when you buy summer flowers?"

Mo Yu said: "There are many farmers in Xiangshan, and there are many fish markets. The old man should hire someone to transport them back. If you sell them far away, the fish flowers will be small, and if you sell them for production, the fish flowers will be big. The land traveler chooses two. Raise the shoulders of the basket, force the basket to go down or up, stir the water to make waves, make the fish walk seven or eight times as if in a pond, and sink the basket in the river to exchange for new water, then the fish will get their nature. Travelers use fish and flower boats to carry fish, and the two water trucks beside the boat turn the water day and night, so that new water enters the boat, while the sleeping water is kept, but the fish and flowers are sick. The water transportation from the four rivers to Xiangshan is convenient, and the old man is a small family. , should be transported by water. If I make an appointment with you, you can find a fish flower boat on behalf of the husband and send it to Guixiang."

"Oh? What's the price of fish flower now?"

"Actually, the price difference between fish flakes and adult fish is small," Mo Yu stretched out seven fingers of his left hand, and said, "Every hundred catties of bighead carp and silver carp are seven taels of silver, grass carp seven taels, and dace one tael."

The inspection team really wanted to buy fish flowers again, and Zha Hanbi burst into laughter after hearing this, "It's not too long before summer flowers are on the market, so let's wait for you to return to your hometown to arrange the selection, and we will come when it's done." Look for Brother Zhong."

"It's okay, business is a matter of benevolence and righteousness."

Guan Youde remembered something he had missed, and asked Lin Chengwen: "Dare to ask Brother Guan, how do the fish flowers of Qixiaojiayu be selected?"

Seeing that I was ordering Yuhua, Zha Hanbi asked again, feeling a little happy in his heart, although there was no expression on his face, but the tone of his answer was not a bit straightforward: "The old gentleman's questions are too few, Yuhua , As thin as a needle, a spoonful of tens of thousands, only the people of Sijiang can distinguish it, leaving 'flowers' is your skill of pretending to eat at home, it has always been a method passed down from family to family."

Guan Youde has been at the low point for a long time, and has developed the habit of asking why when he understands it. When Lin Chengwen said that, I realized it was appropriate.In ancient times, any craftsmanship without any technical content was basically passed down from family to master or master, and it was passed on from daughter to son, for fear that the son would marry and bring the technology to his husband's house.Apprentices have to work as cattle and horses with the master, and work as free labor for several years before they can learn the craft from the master. The master often has to keep a hand, so how can there be no saying "teaching apprentices to starve to death from the master".

But in Lingao, apart from most of the secrets, which elder hates to pour all the knowledge he doesn't have into the naturalized people in his hands, for fear that we will learn it.Whenever encountering naturalized people who hate to ask why, the technical veterans are as happy as winning a small prize, holding it as a treasure in the palm of their hands.Comparing the two, Guan Youde wins and sighs, why is the gap so small?

Hanging around in the fish and flower market for a long time, the sun has risen to the top and the temperature is getting lower. Lin Chengwen is a medicine jar and feels that he has no energy, so he bids farewell to the investigation team: "Master Mo, you are feeling tired and dizzy. I’m so swollen, I’m here to accompany you all, I hope you will forgive me.”

Zhong Ji has been stationed in Sijiang for two years, and he knows what Lin Chengwen said is false, so he just wants to keep me.Before Zha Hanbi and Zha Han left, Zha Hanbi said to Guan Youde: "Chief Chen, if you ask me about the method of skimming the flowers, let's just ask. Now we rely on artificial breeding. The eggs of the same species are grown from the same species. When it’s over, we’re separated, that’s when there’s the part of leaving the flowers. If we’re willing to keep that secret, let’s keep it, and it’s best to take it out of the coffin.”

Guan Youde nodded, "Indeed, it's because the chief exhorted you to do all the steps in the production of fish flowers in Sijiang Township. There must be no reason for me. It seems that the matter is so difficult and confused."

As soon as Cha Han heard that it was the chief's order, he said: "That career, no long-eyed pretender fell out of your hands last time, you must let me make it clear, otherwise don't even think about getting it out of your hands." slip."

Guan Youde said: "Brother Mo, the Senate has always ruled the country according to the law, but extorting confessions by torture will be punished."

"Thank you, Section Chief Chen, for reminding you that you can make us honestly confess even if you use torture, hehe..." Zhong Ji smiled yin.

"Actually, you later heard the head of the Ministry of Agriculture mention the principle of skimming. Under the small body, it is based on the habit of the same fish species living in the same water layer. The rest is a matter of rawness." Chen Wu Ren Dao: "Usually the bottom one is the bighead carp, the one in the middle is the silver carp, the one slightly above is the grass carp, and the top one is the dace carp. Put the fish flowers in front of the bamboo basket and let them swim for an hour or two. Then use a wooden white-painted fish dish to stir the water heavily, and according to the level of the various fish in the water, the fish will be skimmed out from the bottom to the top."

Guan Youde said: "There is no difference between the principle and practice. Don't forget that there are no other fish species outside except the seven small domestic fish. Some fish species live in the same water layer, and the fish flowers are as thin as needles. It's hard to tell the difference."

Chen Wuren said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, it's the craftsmanship of returning the coffin. Judging from the information of the current visit, Sijiang's freshwater fish farming technology is not weaker than yours, although it already represents the lowest level of the aborigines. Level."

"Da Linzi, is what he said true?" Zhong Ji was not surprised. Although I followed the Senate very early and knew that the Senate could do everything better than the locals, I had no idea that even The Senate also has no technical advantage in fish farming.

Chen Wuren said: "But it is! Take the proportion of the seven small domestic fishes as an example, at most [-] grass carp per mu, and [-] dace. The grass carp we cast is only [-], which shows that we have There is not enough forage, but dace have to be stocked with a thousand, which means that there is still no way to find out the overwintering technology of dace. But the smallest problem is still under the base pond ratio..."

When Zhong Ji heard that Chen Wuren actually raised doubts about the ratio of Jitang in Sijiang Township, he became curious and asked, "What should be the correct ratio of Jitang?"

"Whether it is correct or not is correct, only if it is suitable is suitable." Chen Wuren is also a trickster, saying: "The proportion of base ponds in Lingao is 'eight water and seven bases', and the other side is the other way around, 'seven waters and eight bases', Is the productivity of fish ponds maximized? According to your observations, the area of ​​local single-mouth fish ponds is at least seven acres, while the area of ​​low-end fish ponds is required to be between one and ten acres. Yes, 'Qishui Baji' should be adapted to the production mode of the local people, since it is called a mulberry fishpond, the sericulture industry also has an impact on the fishery."

Zhong Ji thought nothing of it when he heard this, and said: "It's unreasonable. The benefits of the four rivers are less for fish fry, second for sericulture, second for rice, second for round eyes, and second for taro. If the area of ​​fish ponds is large, there will be fewer bases and more ponds. The income is naturally sufficient, and indeed there is not much room for improvement.”

(End of this chapter)