Chapter 384 Got it! (4k)
"What do you think?"
Liang Qu asked when he saw several people turn to the end of the album.
"Excellent, very wonderful!"
"Mr. Liang is a scholar, and his slight move is extraordinary!"
"I have always heard that Mr. Liang has many wonderful ideas. He created the pinyin method in the school and the new anchor in the river and lake office. I never thought that he also has wonderful methods for farming. Seeing is believing."
The shopkeeper of the Changchun branch of Yixing Town is the son of Chen, the shopkeeper of the main hall of Pingyang County, so he is called Little Chen, and he highly praises Liang Qu's creative idea of co-planting.
Liang Qu is no longer the same as before. He has heard others' praises so much that his ears are calloused, but he doesn't take it to heart, not to mention that it is all the wisdom of the predecessors.
"Don't worry, if you have any questions, just tell me. To be honest, I don't know much about raising black-spotted frogs and golden-line leeches, and I don't know if there are any conflicts of interest."
"Mr. Liang is too modest. I think there are not many problems in the breeding methods of rice-frog and rice-leech. At least if it is handled properly, the situation of mutual complementation and mutual breeding can indeed be achieved without much difficulty."
"Once the joint cultivation is achieved, each acre of frog field can produce at least one acre of rice out of thin air, increasing income while reducing the use of fertilizers and feed, reducing costs, and greatly improving the output rate!"
The two herbal medicine merchants are more and more happy, and they are convinced by Liang Qu's idea.
This time, the two did not have too many expectations, just to "accompany the prince to study."
If it is not too much, they will agree on the spot, just to win the favor of a local tyrant. If it is too much, they will spend money to find the herbal medicine merchant association to mediate.
In the herbal medicine circle, dealing with warriors is inevitable, and no one is made of mud.
I never expected that I could get such a big surprise from a family of fishermen for generations!
There are many things to pay attention to when farming, and the first one is fertilizer.
What is "keeping the water in the field of others"?
You should pee and poop in your own field!
Whether it is riverbed mud or composted feces, it is all white silver.
In addition to fertilizer, another major problem in farming is pests.
Dashun does not have pesticides, but it does not mean that pests are not treated. The more common method is to use Jiacao and Mangcao.
Coastal areas will even calcine oyster shells to produce oyster ash, and use the alkalinity of oyster ash as an insecticide.
The methods used include mixing with seeds for collection, planting with seeds, soaking in water or spraying with boiled juice, burning smoke, and applying insect holes.
One by one, all require manpower and investment.
Rice-frog co-breeding is different.
Frog feces is fertilizer, and frogs themselves eat insects!
Rice-frog co-breeding reduces the use of fertilizers while solving the pest problem in disguise and reducing feed input!
In addition, the two suspected that planting rice in frog fields would also help increase the yield of black-spotted frogs.
Ordinary frog farming is nothing more than digging shallow ponds, concentrating all frog species in a muddy field, and surrounding them with nets.
If the frogs are raised a little more densely, if the water quality is not paid attention to for a few days, there will be several infectious plagues, and ponds will die of diseases.
The breeding environment is no match for the lush green rice fields.
As for rice-leeches, they are more complicated than rice-frogs, but the general situation is still similar, except for the details.
Seeing that the two had no objection, Liang Qu made the decision.
"Since you two have no problem, I will take it seriously. But after the rice is cooked, how should the rice be eaten? Do you have any opinions?"
The two herbal medicine merchants looked at each other, whispered a few words, and the older one stood up.
"Sir Liang, why not do this? We will manage the 15 acres of land and plant them with our people. In addition, we will each contribute 100 acres, totaling 215 acres.
We will not do summer farming. We will test the results from spring farming. If we lose, we will bear the loss. If we make a profit, the income of the 15 acres will all belong to... this person..."
"Chen Qingjiang."
"It will all belong to Mr. Qingjiang. The remaining 200 acres will be based on the average profit of previous years. Sir Liang will take half of all the extra income.
In the future, when the scale is expanded, it will be the same. The extra profit will be split 50-50. The cost, labor, and management will all be borne by us. How about it?"
Liang Qu thought for a while.
"Good!"
The biggest cost of farming and breeding is actually time.
Once you miss the time period, you have to wait until next year.
The two medicinal material merchants are strong and they are so generous in the trial stage. Liang Qu naturally has no objection.
What's more, the extra income will be split 50-50. Liang Qu is completely a zero-cost business and will not involve any energy.
Win-win.
The most important point is that breeding is an asset that can help a large number of people get rich!
Why can't many local nobles act rashly, even if they commit crimes?
It is precisely because they are deeply rooted that they are closely related to the overall interests of the local area.
A move will affect the whole body.
After a simple discussion on the distribution of benefits, Liang Qu invited everyone to have lunch.
It happened that the flying dragon sent by Fan Zixuan was not eaten.
In the next few days, the breeding of rice frogs and rice leeches was further improved in the hands of the two medicinal material merchants. At the same time, the two parties drafted an agreement and entrusted the medicinal material merchant association to find an intermediary for guarantee and signed and sealed it. However, the identity of the intermediary was unexpected by Liang Qu.
"Shanzhang!?"
Zhao Ji stroked his beard and smiled.
"Why, are you surprised to see me?"
Liang Qu bowed respectfully: "I am indeed surprised. I didn't expect that you, Shanzhang, would come to act as a middleman."
Shopkeeper Chen bowed and said: "Shanzhang Zhao is highly respected and well-known. He is the perfect match."
"I have read the agreement between you in advance. If the rice-frog and rice-leech planting method can really increase the output per acre of land and be promoted, it will be a good thing. The disputes between ancient and modern times are nothing more than the output of the fields."
"The headmaster has a profound insight!"
It is true that the middleman has benefits, and Zhao Ji cherishes his reputation.
If it is a simple negotiation of interests, Zhao Ji will never appear here.
Yang Dongxiong is actually better, a local hero, and has the same relationship with the medicinal materials chamber of commerce.
But Yang Dongxiong is Liang Qu's master, so there is a difference between relatives and strangers.
The middleman fully agrees, and there is no problem with the agreement.
Liang Qu signed and sealed on the spot, pressed his seal of nobility and name, and made two copies, which were kept by both parties.
A few days later.
Chen Qingjiang's 15 acres of land were reclaimed with ridges and frogs under the hard work of buffaloes, and the frost hanging on the weeds on the ridges has not completely melted.
Liang Qu was accompanied by a breeder.
"As Lord Liang has seen, all fields are expected to be reclaimed by April, and bamboo tubes and fences will be installed."
"What do you usually do to raise frogs in new fields?"
"Disinfection first."
"Disinfection?"
"That is, sprinkle 140 to 240 kilograms of quicklime mixed into a slurry on each acre of land to kill pests and insect eggs, eliminate the epidemic, and prevent black-spotted frogs from getting sick.
After cleaning the pond for twelve hours, add water to submerge the field surface, and then soak it for another twelve hours to drain the water, and finally refill it with new water to eight-tenths full. It will take about three days before black-spotted frog seeds can be planted.
When rice is transplanted in summer, it is probably the growth stage when tadpoles grow limbs. According to Lord Liang's plan, there is not much difference from our usual frog raising, except that a rice transplanting link is added in the middle to change the terrain of the frog pond."
Seeing that the farmers were talking clearly, Liang Qu couldn't help but nod.
The idea was given, and the rest was up to them to do, wait for money, expand the scale, and become a tyrant.
After finishing the breeding business, Liang Qu didn't have much to do for the next half month.
A two-story wooden house was newly built by the pond, and the snake demon that the dragon man had mentioned never appeared.
Very comfortable.
Until the end of the first month of the year.
Liang Qu finally received a reply from his senior brother from Liujinhai, and rode to the post station to receive the package.
The package was heavy.
Liang Qu's heart was pounding.
He rubbed his fingertips and nervously opened the package.
In the middle of the cloth package, two yellow-covered ancient books that had been deposited over the years came into view.
"Qinglong Killing Sutra"!
"Qinglong Seven Killing Spears"!
Before and after the observation, the cover and cover were both intact, and there was not much damage!
Intact!
"Ha."
Liang Qu exhaled a breath, his tense nerves relaxed, and he fell on the chair.
It's not easy.
It's too difficult.
From the exchange of water control for martial arts to today, it has been half a year!
After many twists and turns, two martial arts were obtained in full!
Since the day he sent the letter, Liang Qu's heart has never been relieved, always worried that it would be in vain.
No other reason.
There are too many variables to piece together a place with two books.
Who knows if the place set up at the beginning is still there after a long time of changes?
Who knows if two mice got in and destroyed it, or if a strange man fell off the cliff and got there first.
Fortunately.
"Sir Liang, here is another package of yours, sent by Quan Heyuan Prefecture."
The post station clerk brought out another object, square and neat.
Opened it, there were two wooden boxes.
Liang Qu was not in a hurry to open it, because there was a letter sent with the two secret books.
After opening the wax, the writer was none other than his senior brother Yang Xu.
The letter began with a greeting, and then Yang Xu told the cause and effect of this search.
It turned out that the location given by Liang Qu was an underwater cave.
The cave was completely submerged in the sea of gold. It was dug on the cliff of Kumu Cliff and was extremely hidden.
Even though Yang Xu knew the exact location, he led his men to search for it in the ice and snow for two days.
There were not many things in the underwater cave, only some daily necessities, some furniture, and the rest were two martial arts secrets and two precious plants.
Yang Xu guessed that the precious plants grew later, because the roots all came out from the gaps in the furniture, squeezing the wood and cracking it.
Leaving the roots behind and taking the things away, Yang Xu rushed back to Heyuan Prefecture without stopping and entrusted the messenger to send it. It can be said that he was in a hurry.
The two wooden boxes contained the two precious plants.
Yang Xu specifically explained why there was only half of the 300-year-old blood ginseng in one of them.
He took part of it and used it to share with his brothers as hard work, and the remaining half was sent with the other precious plant along with the letter.
At the end of the letter, Yang Xu wrote a few encouraging words, saying that if there was a chance, he hoped that the two of them could meet in Huangzhou.
Liang Qu put away the letter and opened the wooden box.
Blood ginseng, with its bloody name, seems to be red all over, but in fact it is only a light orange-red.
It is a very good healing medicine, often used to make life-saving pills. It has excellent life-saving and breath-retaining effects for people below the Wolf Smoke Realm.
In the previous battle with the Ghost Mother Cult, each person took one Bu Ji Pill, and the main ingredient was this.
Another portion...
In the wooden box, three black-skinned fruits, the size of a chicken head, with a circle of flesh on the top, rolled around, and the skin was slightly wrinkled.
The long journey and the bumpy ride caused the three fruits to be slightly shriveled, and many places showed signs of ulceration.
Liang Qu held the wooden box, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
It turned out to be three cockscomb fruits!
No wonder there was no mention of it in the letter. It was not a great thing at all.
There would be no difference between the cockscomb fruits grown in Liujinhai and those grown in Jianghuai Lake.
These three things were transported thousands of miles from Liujin Sea to Jianghuai Lake, and the manpower and material resources consumed in the process have exceeded their own value!
Indeed, it is quite remarkable that a small cave can occasionally grow a good healing medicine like blood ginseng, how could two of them appear at once.
Close the wooden box.
Liang Qu suppressed his excitement, packed up his bags and rushed back home, closed the door and entered the quiet room.
From today.
Retreat!
In the quiet room.
Liang Qu lit the Jinming oil lamp, opened two ancient books, and studied them carefully.
A few days passed in a flash.
Except for eating and washing, Liang Qu hardly stepped out of the quiet room, and his daily routine became the same as that of the old monk.
However, something unexpected happened today.
In the pond, the old toad was quite dissatisfied. It faced the wooden house by the pond and asked about it. After learning that the wooden house was inhabited by the dragon man, it clamored to see Liang Qu.
"How did the dragon man live in it? Who agreed? Who allowed it?"
It's not that the old toad is unhappy.
Fists, can't move, river otters and beavers all live in the same pond, this place looks like a water beast paradise.
There are many beasts, it's lively, it's good.
What made the old toad unhappy was that Liang Qu had not told him!
Didn’t they say that the frog tribe was the owner of this place?
Fists and beavers were there before, so they lived there.
But there were newcomers, and they didn’t even tell him!
The fat catfish hugged the old toad, and was busy calling him, while sending a message to the gods in the spiritual connection, looking for a way to break the deadlock.
In the secret room.
Liang Qu, who didn’t have much success, was rubbing his eyebrows, and he shuddered when he heard the message.
Bad things.
The dragon man moved into the pond without telling the old toad!
There is always a loophole.
Forgot that the old toad was the nominal owner of the pond.
For a moment, it was a bit embarrassing to explain in person, but...
In the pond, the fat catfish, who was holding the old toad’s waist and delaying it from entering the inner courtyard, suddenly let go of the old toad.
The old toad's waist loosened, and he was caught off guard and fell face first onto the pond stone. He stood up cursing, scolding the footless frog for not being a frog.
However, the fat catfish stood out of the water at this moment, with two long whiskers fluttering in the wind. In the solemnity, there was a sense of majesty!
The fat catfish waved his long whiskers, pointed and scolded severely, and at the same time secretly glanced at the old giant clam.
The old giant clam understood something, cleared his throat, and spoke loudly.
"Duobao Toad! Have you forgotten the great wish of the frog clan's ancestors to unify the great lake?
The old toad was frightened and hurriedly lay on the ground.
"Don't dare to forget it for a moment!"
"In this case, we must unite all the forces that can be united and form the broadest united front! Make more friends and fewer enemies!"
"Make more friends and fewer enemies? "
The old toad smacked his lips and waved his claws.
"Keep talking, keep talking!"
The pond was noisy.
The otter watching nearby seemed to be thinking about something.
In the quiet room.
The candlelight was dim.
After finally getting the fat catfish to persuade the old toad, Liang Qu turned his attention back to the two secret books, which was quite a headache.
In three days, he read through the entire two secret books, and learned from the preface of the complete version of "Qinglong Qisha Gun" that there were causes and consequences.
The founder of this gun method was the master of heaven and man who left his charm in "Qinglong Shajing"!
The complete version of "Qinglong Shajing" is a general martial arts secret book, which can be used by those who learn swords and those who learn swords. It can also be used as a method of killing.
"Qinglong Qisha Gun" is a set of gun techniques that Tianren Grandmaster summarized after observing "Qinglong Killing Sutra".
Because the two come from the same source, the true energy that can be condensed is Taiqing Longgang!
Therefore, Liang Qu does not have to make a choice, but it is not so easy for both to get started in practicing true energy.
At least the last two moves of Qinglong Qisha Gun must be fully practiced into the realm of minor success.
Fortunately, Liang Qu, who has the mirage worm, still has plenty of time.
The only problem...
"Is the charm so difficult to comprehend?"
