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Chapter 121 The City Built a Vegetable Garden orchard Chicken Food
March 1591, 4 AD.

After nearly half a year of hard work by thousands of civilians, the expansion project of the Wuzhai Fort city wall, which cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, was completed.After the expansion, the wall of Wuzhai Fort has a circumference of seven miles and a height of three feet and eight feet. The whole city wall is covered with bricks and mixed with cement, which is extremely solid.

There are several enemy towers and horse faces along the city wall, so that there is no dead angle for combat outside the city wall.Outside the city, water from the Qinglian River is drawn to form a moat. There are urns at each of the four city gates, and each has a suspension bridge.After the completion of the Wuzhai Fort City, it is magnificent, open, and strong. As long as the food and wages are sufficient, even if tens of thousands of soldiers besiege the Wuzhai Fort City, they should not easily capture it.

In addition, Wuzhai Fort has also undergone good planning. The division of streets, the location of temples and theaters, the design of roads in each fort, the expansion of military camps in the fort, and the transformation of underground waterways have all been well planned. detailed arrangements.

The expanded Wuzhaibao City has orderly streets, rows of houses, straight, clean, and wide concrete streets, and perfect drainage ditches and underground waterways beside the streets.Next to it are big trees that have been transplanted one after another. Under the big trees, some stone benches are placed from time to time for pedestrians to rest.Naturally, next to these stone benches, you can see elegantly shaped wooden barrels from time to time, which are specially placed for garbage.

In addition, Wuzhaibao also draws clear water into the city from the south gate, passing through various streets, forming a series of canals around the city. Tree-lined, there are some buildings such as rockery, stone pavilions and lawns. This is the public garden of Wuzhai Fort, which is exclusively for the military households in the fort to relax.

In addition, in the current Wuzhaibao City, each street has a public toilet, which is divided into men’s and women’s toilets, with special cleaning and management. It only costs one penny to go to the toilet, and two pennies for the big toilet. .In addition, several large public baths were built, providing a full range of services such as bathing, back scratching, hair combing, shaving, and pedicure.

After the expansion and renovation of Wuzhai Fort was completed, more merchants from all over the world were attracted to do business here, and the merchants who had previously crowded into the old city also moved their shops to the new area. For a time, around the newly built Along the streets, merchants vigorously purchased land and began to build shops and houses.In the current Wuzhai Fort, various streets such as grain, oil, cloth, non-staple food, tea, medicinal materials, and daily necessities have gradually formed in the fort. Walking on the street, its prosperity and vitality have surpassed that of Kelan. In Zhoucheng, more and more people from nearby counties came to Wuzhaibao to seek a living.

Of course, Huang Laifu is satisfied with all of this, and Mr. Andaishan of the Ministry of Industry is also very satisfied. The completion of the new city of Wuzhaibao has part of his credit. After the expansion of the city wall of Wuzhaibao is completed, Mr. Andaishan can return home with confidence. The Ministry of Industry is back.

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March 1590, 4 AD.

The third son wiped the sweat off his forehead and smiled contentedly. Right now he is in the big vegetable garden outside Wuzhai Fort.The vegetable garden is huge and filled with all kinds of vegetables.

Everyone busy in the vegetable garden at this time is some experienced vegetable growers invited by Wuzhaibao from nearby.These former vegetable farmers, last year, were growing vegetables to supply the needs of military households and merchants in Wuzhaibao, earning some hard-earned money to spend.

After they heard the news that Wuzhaibao was going to build a large vegetable garden at the end of last year, they were quite worried. If this happened, wouldn't the vegetables they grow be taken away?But then they were hired one by one to Wuzhai Fort and became the gardeners of Wuzhai Fort's big vegetable garden. Now they get four qian per month, and they are also rewarded for doing a good job. This kind of stable life naturally makes them very satisfied.

And because the third son's father is a member of the military, and he has rich experience in growing vegetables, he also became a small boss. He has five yuan a month and manages the tenth person under him. Live enthusiasm.

At this time, he looked around, and the hillside on the left was full of rapeseed flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see.This was planted in the fall of last year. After a winter in the ground, it bloomed in spring.Last year, the harvest of rapeseed in Wuzhaibao was not good. Huang Laifu always wondered why the harvest of rapeseed in Wuzhaibao was not good.
Later, the agricultural technology team found out that it was a problem with seeds. After introducing improved varieties, Huang Laifu decided to plant them in large quantities. After all, rapeseed is an excellent feed for various livestock, and it can also be used for large-scale oil extraction. It cannot be replaced by other products, even peanuts. Cannot replace canola.After the spring, the current rapeseed is growing well. After hearing the report, Huang Laifu was relieved.

In fact, in addition to rapeseed, peanuts are also important food and oil crops for oil extraction.However, although peanuts were introduced to China as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and became more widespread in Wanli, the relevant seeds have not yet been purchased in Wuzhaibao, so we can only consider it later.

On the hillside on the left is rapeseed, and on the flat ground on the right of Sanzida, there are slices of Chinese cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, spinach, celery, cucumber, carrot, loofah, water spinach, eggplant, green onion, garlic, green beans and other vegetables .

In the Ming Dynasty, cabbage and radishes became the main cultivated vegetables at that time. Therefore, in the vegetable garden, cabbage and radishes were the most cultivated land.These vegetables are planted in spring and can be harvested until November.And after autumn, the vegetable garden will switch to some cold-resistant vegetables, such as broad beans, peas, rape, shepherd's purse, etc.

Huang Laifu has planted so many vegetables. Naturally, he hopes that in the future, the large vegetable garden of Wuzhai Fort will not only be able to supply the needs of Wuzhai Fort, but also open up markets. At least it can supply Kelan Prefecture, Shenchi Fort, Ningwuguan and many other The needs of the Northern Shanxi Army Fort.

In addition to the above vegetables, the Wuzhaibao Vegetable Garden also planted a large area of ​​beet, which has a high average yield per mu and high sugar content. It is an important raw material for making white granulated sugar and soft white sugar. Waiting is still an ideal juicy green feed, Huang Laifu naturally attaches great importance to it, and ordered the vegetable team to plant a large number of beets.

Huang Laifu is naturally salivating for pumpkins and other things with an yield of tens of thousands of catties per mu. Unfortunately, at this time, pumpkins, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, kidney beans and other South American vegetables have not been introduced to Daming, at least not to Shanxi. We can only talk about it later.

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On April 1590, 4, the Wuzhaibao Orchard.

The leader of the fruit tree group, Han Bing and Han Baihu, led a group of gardeners who were busy and sweated, making his fat face even more greasy. At the end of last year, he got a thousand taels of silver in dividends Later, Han Baihu became more and more concerned about the work that Huang Laifu shared with him. He was determined to strive for a good result this year, so that the guards would pay more attention to him, so the money would naturally be more.

Han Baihu is not interested in war drills, but he has a lot of experience in farming and vegetables.However, he is also a layman when it comes to planting fruit trees, so his fruit tree team specially invited some fruit farmers from Kelan Prefecture and even Taiyuan at high prices.

After the spring, some apples, grapes, pears and cherries were planted in the Wuzhaibao Orchard, and a large field of flower mushrooms was cultivated in a greenhouse.

Since the planting of these fruit trees, Han Bing's hundreds of households have come to visit every day. At this time, he was listening to an old fruit farmer talking about fruit tree grafting.Due to the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, the cultivation technology has been greatly improved. There are more than ten kinds of various fruit tree cultivation methods and fruit tree grafting methods.The Laiyang pears and Qiubai pears currently grown in Wuzhaibao were bred in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Han Bingbaihu is also very concerned about improved varieties, which is related to the future output of his orchard.At this time, after he heard the two grafting methods of "dagger grafting" and "sending branches" talked about by the fruit farmer, he had already made a decision in his heart.

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On April 1590, 4, Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm.

Wang Qinian, the head of the animal husbandry team, is observing the eating conditions of the chickens. Most of these chickens are hatched in earthen tanks. Chickens hatched by themselves have poor health.

And right now, Wang Qinian is using the stack chicken easy-to-fertilize method to fatten and feed the chickens in Wuzhaibao's large livestock farm. Right now, various non-staple food workshops in Wuzhaibao are in full swing. The traditional method of feeding chickens and ducklings naturally cannot keep up with the needs of Wuzhaibao's development.

Therefore, Wang Qinian chose a chicken food selection method based on the records in "The Book of Immortals and Gods", which is to use oil and noodles to roll into large pieces at the fingertips, and grind them with soil sulfur, and give them to the chicken with hard rice every day. Feeding the chickens, sure enough, with this feeding method, these chicks and ducklings are growing up rapidly day by day.

And beside Wang Qinian, apart from Qian Shi, the steward of the Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm, who looked at him with admiration and envy, there were also several veterinarians who followed Wang Qinian and observed the actions of these chicks.

The establishment of the Wuzhaibao large livestock farm, the establishment of the horseshoe slope sheep farm, and the large-scale breeding of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., the advantages are visible, but the same disadvantages are also visible.In ancient society, there was a shortage of veterinarians. Once all kinds of animals were raised in captivity, there would be many problems. Wang Qinian and the veterinarians were not allowed to be busy.

No, yesterday, Wang Qinian and several veterinarians worked all night on a few sick pigs in Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm. In fact, there are many veterinary books in Ming Dynasty, and the diagnosis and treatment methods have made great progress. , Regarding the treatment of sick pigs, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were books such as "The Complete Book of Pigs" published, which recorded various medical methods such as diagnosis of color veins, observation of color and other medical methods, and also listed 72 common refractory diseases of sick pigs. serious illness, etc.

However, books are books, and they may not be able to cure all the diseases of livestock. To make a large livestock farm run well, this daily close observation is inevitable. Wang Qinian loves this job, and other veterinarians do it for the reward. Good job, no matter what the purpose, they must do their duty.

And each person's own duties have also brought Wuzhaibao into a virtuous circle of development.

(End of this chapter)