Chapter 162 Alfalfa
People are group, no matter whether this person is a time traveler or not. From a country to a gang, what is the main quality of the leader? It is not that he is smart or smart, nor is he that his personal charm is his always remember--you are the spokesperson of an interest group!
To briefly explain in modern terms, the leader must maintain his basic foundation! If it violates, don’t cry and complain that interest groups will abandon this leader.
The choice of interest groups is sometimes quite passive. For example, if your father and your teacher are an interest group, you will naturally label it as an interest group. It is impossible for Chongzhen's son to help Li Zicheng rebel, nor is it possible for Li Zicheng's son to fight bloody battles for the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Qin Bai is very helpless now. He is really not reincarnated. If he can be reincarnated as a scholar and copy poetry to the imperial examination, he can make his classmates and famous prostitutes scream continuously with his own academic master's mind.
However, now he has become a leader of the courageous success. To be honest, this is actually the peak that grassroots can reach in this era. People need people and money, if you lower your posture and kowtow to the third grandma, you won’t say much, as long as you don’t die, it’s not difficult to be a rich man in your life.
However, Qin Bai chose to be unruly and free all his life and took the initiative to challenge the difficulty of hell. Especially the differences in concepts with his subordinates. Although they also agreed to find a way out, they didn't feel anxious. However, Qin Bai felt that he was already in a bad mood, so he spent a sky-high price to buy the piece of bad land.
So Qin Bai faced a problem, and needed to find a reason to convince everyone, even if there was no reason, he had to make up a reason. He suddenly recalled that when he was studying in a military academy in his previous life, the military academy was located in the outskirts of the coastal city. There was a large area of alfalfa fields around the military academy.
Alfalfa is a good thing, commonly known as golden cauliflower and grass head among the people. It can be used as a vegetable. Among the vegetables, wine herbs and grass head circles are all famous dishes. But what is more famous is that it can be used as forage and is loved by almost all kinds of livestock. However, with the widespread use of feed in modern society, it is no longer common to plant alfalfa.
However, alfalfa has another function, which is that it can be planted on lightly saline-alkali land, and also fertilized the land, with a particularly high yield, and can be harvested three to five times a year. Since that is the case, since those wastelands can grow weeds, why not try planting alfalfa?
Thinking of this, Qin Bai said, "Why choose where? It's because that place is very suitable for us. Let's talk about the retreat route first. You must be far enough. Fushan District is seven or eight days away from our Jingjiazhuang. If it's too close, it's better to stay in Xiaohongling Village. But it's convenient to go back and forth. Although the Jiaolai Canal is no longer open to the boat, you can run horses along the river. There are many mountains and roads in this place, and only this road is smoothest. In addition, the retreat route cannot be a dead end. There are really unexpected problems with Fushan District. We can also take a boat and hide on the island or even go to sea. In the end, it's safe. Fushan District is a thousand household office after all, and outsiders have their own concerns. They will never go back to Xiaohongling like this. Hundreds of people are publicly called?"
These words were reasonable and well-founded, and everyone nodded. Qin Bai continued: "Apart from that, is this place worth a few thousand taels? Everyone understands that it is definitely not worth it! But it is not completely useless. We can grow golden cauliflower..."
"Golden cauliflower?" Everyone else was happy, "Isn't that something for pigs?"
In this era, there was no special planting of alfalfa, because the mountains and fields were full of this wild vegetable. Except for a small amount of vegetables, most of them were used as a kind of wild vegetable to make pig grass.
Qin Bai lit a cigarette, and what he wanted was this effect: "Think about it, pigs love to eat, and other cattle, sheep and horses also love to eat, why don't you raise livestock? There are thousands of acres in the valley over there, and we can get as much as we want on the tidal flats. Even if we raise a few sheep per acre and a cow, how much can it be slaughtered every year? There are two or three hundred taels per cow, and two or three dozen taels per year, and eight hundred taels a year, right? How many people can you support?"
"No?" Cao Dacai had a question, "Well, I saw the Tartars grazing, and it was so big that they could only grazing hundreds of livestock?"
"Then we have a horse-drawn cattle here, but we haven't seen it, but we can't support it?" Qin Bai smiled. "And, no one is allowed to plant grass. The grazing cattle and sheep rely on their own feet to find food. We plant grass and cut it and feed cattle and sheep. It's just a different way, as long as you don't starve cattle and sheep, you'll do it."
The house was quiet, and the others felt a little confused. This violated their common sense. Even if people in the Central Plains raise cattle and sheep, they would rush outside the house to stock them. No one had ever thought of Qin Bai's method.
What Qin Bai said is modern centralized breeding, which is also common sense for modern people. If tens of thousands of acres of alfalfa fields can be cultivated, in theory, thousands of cows and tens of thousands of sheep can be raised.
Of course, this is just theoretical. Since there is no fertilizer, the yield of alfalfa is not as high as modern times. And without antibiotics, the mortality rate of plague is relatively high. But these problems can be solved. On the one hand, there were also veterinarians in this era and herbs to prevent and treat plague; on the other hand, reduce the density of feeding and do not cause the entire army to be wiped out once they die. Therefore, the annual output may be far more than what Qin Bai said just now. Even Qin Bai himself felt that this might be really a big deal?
"Can you really do it?" Cao Dacai was still a little confused.
"Try it! We can afford to squander anyway."
There was a laugh in the room, and everyone thought it was right. Raise less first. If possible, raise more. It really doesn't work. It's just a waste of money to buy lambs and calfs, at most a few hundred taels. Even a few thousand taels have been "wasted". Are you still reluctant to leave these hundreds taels?
To be honest, even now, Qin Bai still has the mentality of trying it out. First of all, the wastelands may not be able to grow alfalfa. However, being able to barely convince these subordinates has achieved its goal.
"Who will send? Do you want to go?" Cao Dacai asked. In the experience of raising livestock here, Cao Dacai may rank first.
Chapter completed!