Many people were confused.
"My lord, can this pig manure really be used to raise fish?"
"Of course!" Li Zhao affirmed and said: "Next, let's get things done first, Uncle Zhong!"
"Old slave is here!" Li Zhong was very respectful.
"Today we will count all the fish ponds in several major villages. If the number of fish ponds is not enough, we will dig them manually." Li Zhao ordered.
"Yes!" Soon, Li Zhong went to do it.
In fact, it is not difficult to count fish ponds, and the data will be available soon.
"Among the five major villages: Longmen Village, Lijiazhai, Wujiaxiang, Zhaojiatun, and Liujia Village, there are a total of 32 ponds!"
These ponds vary from big to small, the big ones are very big and the small ones are very small.
Li Zhao nodded and said: "For the time being, I will use half of it as a test. How is the depth inside?"
"Back to the prince, they are generally relatively shallow, and only a few are relatively deep." Long Jiaan responded immediately.
Although the water quality in this era was very good, people would sometimes drown in the ponds, and those that were deeper were the ones that had drowned people.
"Assign manpower today to dig the pond deep for me."
"yes!"
Li Zhao took out the topographic map and finally chose only about eight large ponds, leaving the rest untouched.
As for the test base, Li Zhao hesitated again and again and chose to be in a remote area. It was best not to affect everyone's living environment.
Once the experiment fails, everyone will not smell bad.
Although Li Zhao is quite confident in these two improvement plans, confidence does not mean that he will not overturn. It is best to be cautious.
"We chose this area for our fish ponds, and we dug ten of them in total." Li Zhao immediately marked out an area and handed the matter over to Li Zhong.
"Also, please help me find this grass."
When Li Zhao took out a sample, many villagers realized that this stuff was everywhere.
"This kind of grass is called Polygonum. If you can, collect as much as possible. It will be of great use to me!"
"yes!"
Polygonum is a wild plant and a hidden treasure.
It has a very high value and is most suitable for fishing.
The operation method is also extremely simple. You only need to mash it and mix it into the water to stir up all the fish and shrimp in the water.
But it has been disabled in the post-era.
Of course, this kind of grass can actually be used to cover persimmons. As we all know, persimmons are picked in advance, and they will not taste good until the hard ones turn into soft ones.
This grass has a ripening effect.
In addition, Polygonum vulgaris can also be used to make vinegar and make wine. It is the most pure and natural koji.
The koji brewed with this substance not only tastes good, but is not easy to get addictive. This is the favorite thing of many folk masters.
In today's era, the environment is very pristine. Li Zhao actually discovered during his inspection that there are many kinds of fish in this era. Not only that, the fish are very fat.
It’s just that not many people eat fish because it’s too fishy.
Maybe it's because everyone is focusing on farming. Even if someone fishes occasionally, they can barely make ends meet.
If the fish is sold at a high price, no one will buy it, and if the fish is sold at a cheap price, there will be no way for you to survive.
Therefore, this industry, which should have great potential to make a fortune, has stagnated due to various restrictions.
Of course, there is another important reason why fish is not popular, and that is that it is not delicious.
If it is not delicious, it will have an unpleasant fishy smell. This is the same reason that pork is disliked and not put on the table.
For Li Zhao, this is an undiscovered treasure house.
Li Zhao knew very well that in the post-modern era, fish have been eaten in countless ways.
What's more important is that very few people in this era raise fish. Even if there are people who raise fish, they are from the rich and powerful class. They are purely arty and keep the fish for viewing.
The fish resources in this era are really abundant.
In his observations over the past few months, he discovered grass carp, bighead carp, crucian carp, bream, white stripe, wheat ear fish, etc.
If you really have to observe and discover it carefully, there will definitely be more.
In the spring of next year, Li Zhao will also raise fish specifically in the rice fields. The rice fish raised in this way will definitely be plump and fresh.
Even just making a bowl of milky white crucian carp soup can make people linger.
After Li Zhao formulated the strategy, everyone immediately implemented it.
Li Zhong took the lead to select a site, mobilized manpower, tools and oxen to start planning the pond. The pond should be large and preferably square or rectangular.
The main reason is that Li Zhao has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder and wants to make himself comfortable.
As a result, Prince You's Mansion started a new project again.
Now, the construction of Prince You's Mansion has slowly come to an end, and not so many workers are needed.
At most, Prince You's Mansion will be completely completed around March next year, and there will be no need to celebrate at that time.
Therefore, many people are worried that if Prince You's Mansion is completed, will everyone have no work to do?
Li Zhao just wanted to say that they thought too much.
With development, the types of work we do will gradually be subdivided.
Different types of work require different construction sites, and Li Zhao is changing everything subtly.
The subsequent construction of Prince You's Mansion is completely completed by professional and technical talents, and ordinary people cannot intervene.
Therefore, there is no conflict in digging a pond.
Since there are no excavators, manual excavation is quite tiring.
Li Zhong selected a thousand people to do this work. The ten ponds are all fifteen meters long and eight meters wide. The reason why the pond was only planned to be so large was that Li Zhao wanted to accumulate experience first.
Anyway, there is enough time. As long as the fish pond is explored with experience in the early stage, it can be continuously expanded in the later stage.
With these ten ponds and eight ponds in the five major villages, Li Zhao felt that it was enough in the early stage.
Construction started on the fish pond, and Li Zhao also began to arrange follow-up work.
"Zhao Tiezhu!"
"I'm here!"
"You did a good job in clearing land, filling water, and digging ditches last time. This task is still left to you." Li Zhao pointed to the Longmen River to the fish pond at the foot of the mountain forest and said: "This distance is too far. Although the digging is deep, the underground There is a possibility that water will emerge, but we must also be prepared to bring live water in."
This distance is really not that far, a full seven kilometers.
It was a scary project to dig a seven-kilometer ditch purely by manpower to prepare for long-term water diversion in the future.
"can you do it?"
"Yes!" Zhao Tiezhu agreed without saying a word: "Your Majesty, in terms of manpower..."
"I'll give you a hundred people, is that enough?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Tiezhu immediately laughed and said, "That's enough, that's enough."
"However, this ditch is different from the previous ditches that diverted water for irrigation. It needs to be deep and wide. This is the plan I made. After the digging is completed, we will pile stones on the two walls of the ditch and stone slabs at the bottom."
