This mountain is mine

Chapter 9 Planting Fruit Trees

The joyful words reminded Zhao Yixin of Jitang agriculture in the southern Guangdong area.Pond-based agriculture means planting mulberry, sugarcane, and fruit trees on the base of fish ponds, which are combined with fish ponds to be called mulberry-based fish ponds, cane-based fish ponds, and fruit-based fish ponds.

Residents of southern Guangdong who live on the plains dug low-lying areas prone to floods into ponds to raise fish, and piled the excavated pond mud around them, called "foundation dikes". Fruit trees, sugar cane, mulberry trees, flowers, etc. were planted on the dikes. , so that it can not only prevent floods, but also obtain additional harvests, and the materials left after the crops are processed can still be put into the pond as feed for fish.This fish pond culture mode can not only obtain more, but also save costs and can be used repeatedly.

This is really the creation of the wisdom of the working people!Back then, when Zhao Yixin saw these, he couldn't help admiring them.Industrious and intelligent people can always transform and use the environment to the greatest extent without destroying it.

Zhao Yixin felt that their fishponds could learn from the Jitang agriculture in Southern Guangdong.Make a dike from the excavated soil, and then plant some trees or other things on the dike.But they don't raise cicadas here, and they don't have sugar cane, so it's not suitable to plant mulberry trees and sugar cane.They can grow some fruit trees and grains that are common here.

Zhao Yixin told everyone about the Jitang agricultural model and suggested that they do the same.

"Do what you say!" Nineteen is now very convinced of Zhao Yixin, in his eyes, everything Zhao Yixin says is right. "I still worry about what to use the dug up soil for!"

"What should we plant on it?" Sanliu asked. In fact, he wanted to plant a lot, such as apples, pears, pomegranates... When the harvest season comes, the trees are full of red, yellow, and fragrant fruits. A few fresh and fat fish were fished out of the pond and returned with a full load. Thinking about this kind of life, I think it is wonderful.

"What do you think is a good plant?" Zhao Yixin asked everyone.

"Planting a persimmon tree is good, and it can be used to make persimmons if you can't finish eating it!" Yu Jia said.

"Pomegranates are also delicious. The plump flesh is sweet and juicy when you bite into it." After Sanliu finished speaking, everyone seemed to be really eating pomegranates, and some children couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

"Let me tell you, it doesn't matter if you grow apples, each one is big and red, and it's crispy and sweet when you eat it." Lin Cheng loves apples, and every time his family goes to the streets, he will buy some for him.But they seldom go down, and they can't eat it many times a year.If apples are planted here, he can eat them often.

"In this case, let's plant everything. After planting the fruit trees, we will plant sorghum next to it. How about this?" Zhao Yixin suggested.Anyway, with so many places, it is no problem to have a few kinds of fruit trees.Everyone was happy with the result.

"Why do you think so much, you can plant whatever you want." Nineteen said, "Now let's fix Kitty first."

"Nineteen is right to remind you." Zhao Yishen smiled, "The embankment can't be planted even if it hasn't been built yet."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's do it!" Sanliu rolled up his sleeves.

"We're here to help too." Huanxi wanted to join in.Before digging the fish pond, Nineteen and his gang refused to let them do it. After half a month, Huanxi felt that he was going to rust.

"No, just sit next to you!" Nineteen said, and the other men nodded, "Let's not waste all our energy."

"It's embarrassing for us to look at it from the sidelines. If we all work together, the speed will be much faster, so that the fish pond will be completed sooner." Lin Cheng said.

"That's right." Nineteen laughed, agreeing with Lin Cheng and the others.They had always doted on their wives and were reluctant to let them work, but if they wanted to, he couldn't refuse, and he would just arrange lighter work for them later.

Zhao Yixin also joined them, and a group of people worked in full swing.When Zhao Yixin returned to his room after taking a shower at night, he found that his whole body was sore.Zhao Yixin smiled helplessly, this unworked body is delicate!

In the following time, they were busy cleaning and disinfecting fish ponds and building embankments, and they were very busy.After another half a month, the fish pond was finally finished.

"It's time to plant trees now!" Sanliu kept thinking about his pomegranate.

"You're the only one in a hurry!" Nineteen laughed thirty-six.

"Of course I'm anxious, it will take a long time for it to bear fruit." Sanliu said.

"The trees we buy from the town are all trees that are about to bear fruit, and we will be able to eat them next year." Zhao Yixin said.

"I can't wait!" Hearing Zhao Yixin's words, Sanliu wished he could eat delicious fruits in the coming year now.

"We dug the hole first, and then put in the rotten leaves and roots to cultivate the soil." Zhao Yixin said.The planting of fruit trees pays attention to "big seedlings, big pits, big fertilizers, and big water" to facilitate survival and vigorous growth.

"The pit needs to be dug bigger, and more fertilizer should be put in." The big seedlings are good seedlings, and they are ready.Fruit trees are planted by the fish pond, and there is also a lot of water.All they have to do now is dig a hole and cultivate the soil.

"Okay!" Nineteen led the men in the village to dig a hole, and the rest went to pick up dead branches and leaves.

"Young master, it's really fun here!" Zhao Yixin and Huanxi also went to pick up branches, and they walked a little farther.

It has been a few days since I came to Yunyin Village, Huanxi lives very comfortably here, there is no seduction, no conspiracy, only simple and straightforward people.Although they are bandits, their minds are simple, and their daughter-in-law is even more kind and gentle.Huanxi felt that he was much happier in Yunyinzhai than before.

"That's right, there are good mountains and rivers and good people here." Zhao Yixin said.He also had a very comfortable life in Yunyin Village. Before that, he had thought about what kind of life he would live if he was not the prince.Zhao Yixin likes the comfortable and leisurely life described in the poem "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely".

"Young master, I really envy them. They are like a family. No, they are closer than family members." Huanxi is very envious of the people in the village. Although they are not related by blood, they are closer than relatives.Huanxi was sold into the palace by his family when he was young, half of his heart was hatred and the other half was longing.

"Now we are also from the village." Zhao Yixin felt the enthusiasm of Yunyin Village, and he believed that even if he was not Shen Yangqing's daughter-in-law, they would warmly accept him.

"Huanxi, is there anyone you like in the village?" Zhao Yixin teased him, "If you follow a man here, don't you become a family?"

"My lord, what nonsense are you talking about!" Huanxi couldn't help blushing, thinking of the man who always came to look for him, Huanxi was a little bit springy.

"I'm talking nonsense? But why are you blushing?" Seeing Huanxi's reaction, Zhao Yixin knew something was wrong.

"My lord, I won't tell you anymore." Huanxi became angry and ran to the side and said.

"I don't know which guy it is." Zhao Yishen smiled, it would be great if Huanxi also made a family here.

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It was already a few days after Nineteen and the others dug the hole and accompanied the soil.

"It's finally time to plant a tree!" Sanliu and a few children happily gathered around the fruit tree to be planted.

"Sanliu, take them aside to play first." Nineteen came over and said to Sanliu.

"Okay!" Sanliu also knew that he was in the way here, so he hurried away with a few children.

"Come here three or six times." Zhao Yixin said.He was busy before, so he didn't take a good look at the children in the village.

"How old are you all?" The children liked Zhao Yishen very much, and when they saw Zhao Yishen calling them, they all ran over and surrounded Zhao Yishen.

"I'm five years old." The first to speak was the sixth child, who was the oldest in their generation. "He is four years old, he is three years old, and the one in Uncle Wang's arms is one year old." Uncle Wang is the nineteen's daughter-in-law Wang Jie, and his son was just born last year, the youngest child in the village.

At present, there are five children in the village plus Sanliu, and Sanliu takes them all over the mountains and plains.Except, of course, the smallest one.

"What do you usually do?" Zhao Yixin didn't need to plant trees and fill the soil, so he simply chatted with the children.

"We followed Uncle Sanliu to pick up fruit and catch rabbits in the mountains." Four-year-old Shen Chengyu is a lively child of Shiliu and Chengqi.

Shen Yangqing and his generation belonged to the Yangzi generation, and their children belonged to the Chengzi generation.

"Don't you guys study?" After Zhao Yixin asked, he realized that the cost of studying in Daliang was high, and ordinary farmers would not let their children study unless they were very smart.So most of these children's parents are illiterate, and they cannot teach their children themselves.In addition, as bandits, they advocate force, and they don't pay much attention to reading, so none of the children in the village go to school.Even Sanliu is 12 years old, and he has never been to school.

"None of us are going to study." Shen Chengfeng said.Shen Chengfeng is the sixth child.

"That's it." Seeing these children, the idea of ​​starting a private school appeared in Zhao Yixin's mind.

Over there, the number of people is strong, and the trees and sorghum are planted quickly.Their Guozaji pond is considered complete, and the next step is to put the fry into the fish pond.

They chose carp, grass carp, silver carp, and bighead carp for polyculture. This fish farming technique is recorded in "Fish Culture Classic".Polyculture pays attention to stocking fish of the same age and different specifications of different species with different habitat habits and feeding habits in the same water body, making use of the characteristics of different fish inhabiting different water layers, and using the space of the water body three-dimensionally, not only It can increase the density of stocking fish, and the feces of grass carp can provide nutrients for other fish after changes, while the fish below can remove residual bait and improve water quality.

The polyculture of fish of the same species, different ages and different sizes also provides conditions for batch fishing and balanced marketing in one production season, and at the same time, large-size fish species are cultivated for the next year.

Zhao Yixin chose four kinds of fish according to everyone's taste among many varieties, and everyone agreed with his choice, and they also thought it was the best.

"Let's release the fry!" Someone shouted, and everyone rushed to the pond.

"Brother Nineteen, hurry up and let go!" Sanliu was the most excited, he had already seen the carp alive and kicking.

"Let's put it!" After Nineteen finished speaking, he called the others to put buckets of fish fry into the fish pond together.

When the fish was released, everyone cheered.After a month of hard work, the fish pond was finally built.A sense of accomplishment filled everyone's hearts.

"Tell everyone a good news, tonight we have a whole fish feast!" Nineteen shouted to everyone.

"Wow!" Sanliu felt unbelievable, with both surprise and joy on his face.I knew that there are few fishes here, and the fish are sold very expensively. They usually only eat them once during the festivals in their village.

Zhao Yishen was standing aside, looking at the crowd with smiles on their faces, the corners of his mouth also curled up.He knew that everyone couldn't wait to eat fish, so he bought fish with his own money, and planned to hold a whole fish feast to reward everyone.

"It's a pity, the boss and the others haven't come back, so they won't be able to eat it." I don't know who mentioned the other people who went to the Western Regions to deliver goods.

"Leave some and wait for them to come back." Nineteen said.

"Too."

Even so, everyone's interest was still reduced because of the lack of people in the village.All of a sudden, the atmosphere became silent.

"Back, Boss and the others are back!" At this moment, the people stationed in the village ran and shouted to them from a distance.

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small theater:

Grass carp: "I am the fish that lives at the top of the food chain in the fish pond! There are always a group of fish peeping at me from below every day!"

Other fish: "..."