Planting tea this time was originally a joyful and happy event, but Liang Chuan completely ignored the tea monopoly system of the Song Dynasty, and he refused to become a vassal of the Sun family. The relationship between Liang Chuan and Sun Houpu heated up rapidly, and then suddenly dropped to the freezing point.
Sun Houpu also admitted that tea is not something that everyone can touch. If you just want to get by, it doesn't matter, but if you want to make a lot of money, it is difficult. The atmosphere was a bit awkward, and Sun Houpu was embarrassed to stay in Helu any longer.
He explained some management methods and precautions of the tea garden to Liang Chuan. He explained everything in an orderly and detailed manner. Now he has nothing to hide. If Liang Chuan's tea garden wants to do well in the future and make a lot of money, he will have to When he came to see their Sun family, his experience as a businessman told him that no one would have trouble with money.
He went to say goodbye to Zheng Ruoying with a sincere face, but Zheng Ruoying didn't even look at her. Zheng Ruoying thought that this man named Sun had deceived Liang Chuan, and her impression of him was not very friendly. Now, It's plummeting.
People who are unkind for the sake of wealth are terrible.
The next day, Liang Chuan asked all the village girls to stop what they were doing, bring their hatchets and follow him up the mountain. Everyone was wondering why Sanlang was so free to take them to the mountain to cut moso bamboo today.
When tea seedlings are newly planted in the ground, they need a huge amount of water. There is no river on the hillside, so water trucks cannot load them, and we cannot just watch the tea seedlings wither. Carrying water on the hillside is a very unreliable task. It is more tiring than carrying water from the south stream to the dry fields on the north bank. No one is willing to do it.
God won't let it rain, so I have to rely on myself.
Sun Houpu is indeed an expert in the tea industry, and the land he chose is also a first-class place suitable for the tea industry. In the early morning, there is still a thin layer of morning mist floating over this tea garden, and the water vapor is very abundant. This condition is a necessary condition for growing high-quality tea.
Liang Chuan led more than thirty village girls to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo. Two people work in groups, and each group has to chop a bamboo. The shape of bamboo should be straight and slender, and the bamboo joints should be straight and straight. The entire moso bamboo must be long enough, the bamboo body must have no insect holes, and the bamboo trunk must not be damaged. Although there are a lot of conditions, there are still many moso bamboos with good quality in the bamboo forest.
All the branches on the bamboo must be chopped off with a hatchet, leaving only the bare bamboo trunk. In this way, it is quite easy for two people to carry a laughing bamboo.
There is no stream on the hillside, but there is one on the mountain, and this stream does not rely on rainwater, so there is no dry season at all. The stream on the mountain is fault water, and its source is groundwater. It will take a long time for the groundwater to dry up. Unless large-scale geological changes occur, the stream on the mountain is small, but like a waterwheel, the water will flow continuously. Continuously.
Liang Chuan's idea is to use moso bamboo to transport water pipes. There are no iron rods to connect the bamboo joints, so he breaks the bamboo into two and cuts off one third. The remaining two thirds are still left to transport water. The key is this You can easily remove the bamboo knots and turn a piece of moso bamboo into a smooth water pipe.
More than thirty village girls, two of them carrying a bare moso bamboo, passed by the water diversion point closest to the tea garden, and placed moso bamboo one by one in the tea garden. Liang Chuan asked them to help break the moso bamboo into two parts. After breaking through the bamboo knots inside, they could go back to making bamboo weaving. They couldn't help with the rest. However, after these women made bamboo weaving for a few days, they were able to break the bamboo in a decent way. The base was shaped into shape. Some of the bamboos were not chopped enough, so they took the bamboo back to make bamboo weaving. It could not be wasted.
A bamboo is about ten meters long, and the distance between the fifteen branches connected head to tail is nearly two hundred meters, which is enough to divert the water from the mountain stream to the tea garden.
The next step is to pay attention to the connection between moso bamboos. The water intake point must be the highest, and then we start to create an angle to let the mountain spring flow down the bamboo tube. The head of the bamboo tube is narrow and the root is thick, so that the head of the previous one can be embedded into the tail of the next one. Where the height is not enough, branches can be used to set it up.
He Baozheng saw Liang Chuan's waterwheel and was surprised by Liang Chuan's creativity. His own wheat fields did not need to be watered because they could be harvested around April. But he also planted a lot of vegetables himself, but these vegetables would all suffer without water. The tenant farmers of the Zheng family knew this Baozheng, and they also knew that Baozheng helped his employer build the waterwheel, so they had no reservation. Give He Baozheng water to irrigate the ground.
He was really impressed by how much knowledge this Saburo had in his head, and how much knowledge he could build a waterwheel. Today I saw again that the tea gardens on the mountain no longer need to draw water. The water is directly drawn from the mountain springs and streams, and the pipes are made of moso bamboo. Although the water volume is not large, it is the same as the water tanker. It can irrigate enough in one day.
Liang Chuan wanted He Baozheng to introduce a tea farmer to help him take care of the tea garden. If a tea seedling died while taking care of it, he would be charged. This person must be trustworthy and reliable.
Liang Chuan will definitely pay the wages, because his land no longer carries water, and it is very easy to take care of it. He would like to take over this job, but Liang Chuan told him that there is still a lot of work waiting for He Baozheng at the foot of the mountain. Now He has to be responsible for managing the village girls, transporting bamboo weaving, and turning mosquito coils into an industry. He Baozheng is responsible for these things, and he can no longer be a tea farmer.
He Baozheng said, how about letting the third uncle come? The third uncle has nothing to do now, and the cow is too old, and he has no children. If he doesn’t do something to save some money, his future pension will be a big problem. . Liang Chuan was overjoyed when he heard this. Yes, he didn't expect that he still owed his third uncle a favor. This wasn't right.
Uncle Zheng used to farm a kind of land by himself, and Lao Niu would go out to help others plow the land and earn some hard money. Now that he is old, he has no work to do. Because the efficiency of the old cow is too low, it is better to use a hoe to cultivate the land.
He Baozheng told his third uncle what Liang Chuan meant. The third uncle's face was always smiling, but he was not stupid. He also said: "I know your good intentions. Everything Sanlang is doing in the village now is a great good deed." , everyone depends on Sanlang for their living. He is worried that I will have no way of living when I get old, so he asks me to work, but I am afraid of ruining Sanlang's big things, and Jialuo will not be able to do this..."
The third uncle's words were sincere. He was afraid that he would drag others down. He Baozheng was also afraid that the old man would have no one to support him in the future. Liang Chuan did this as a good deed and wanted to persuade him, so he persuaded the third uncle to help manage the tea garden. Liang Chuan said that he would give his third uncle five hundred coins every month, and he would be responsible for weeding the tea garden, picking up moso bamboo, and watering the ground.
Five hundred pennies, the third uncle had a smile on his face, but he was crying in his heart. Three hundred pennies was enough for him to buy rice for himself, and he still had two hundred pennies left. The key was that he was not a useless old man that others disliked. The bones are gone, so they have a place to go.
Xiaoyi Liang Chuanlang, a true hero in fighting tigers.
Sun Houpu emphasized to Liang Chuan many times that after the new tea garden is built, the key to making the tea seedlings grow vigorously, with deep roots and luxuriant leaves, and rapid and high yields lies in the management of the tea garden.
Liang Chuan took He Baozheng and Zheng Sanshu to arrange the moso bamboo water pipes. In the future, they would connect the water pipes wherever water was needed, and when it was not needed, the water would be released and flowed down the mountain. Liang Chuan told Uncle Zheng all the tea-growing management essentials that Sun Houpu told him.
Uncle Zheng was the same age as him, and He Baozheng would call him uncle when he saw him. Because he and He Jinyin, the few remaining elderly people, are the oldest in the village. But the third uncle is neither blind nor deaf, and although his hands and feet are a little slow, he is still a good farmer.
Tea seedlings have been planted in the tea garden. No one has planted anything in this barren mountain for hundreds of years. He Baozheng and Liang Chuan are the first to do so. Weeds within three inches of the tea seedlings must be pulled out by hand. If you use a hoe, you are afraid of damaging the roots of the tea seedlings and affecting their survival.
After three inches, plow one to two inches shallowly, and one foot away, plow deeply between the rows four to five inches. With the tea row as the center, make a border one foot wide and one to two inches high, a bit like a sugar cane field. This is easy to understand. If you tell Uncle Zheng once, Uncle Zheng will smile and nod his head to understand.
Liang Chuan carefully explained to his third uncle several times that this tea garden was related to his life and fortune. If the teakeeper at the mountain farm knew that Liang Chuan planted tea leaves in the ground and then deliberately killed the tea seedlings, then he would It's going to be bad luck. These tea seedlings are now precious treasures and must be taken care of carefully.
The third uncle said that you treated me so well and gave him a way to survive. He would help him do this well. The farmer repays his kindness and is not a poisonous snake in spring who forgets the person who saved him in winter.
After cultivating the soil in the new tea garden, in April or May, within one foot of both sides of the tea tree, shallow hoe and weed two to three inches of shallow plowing, and one foot away, cultivate four to five inches deep. The second time of weeding is in July and August when summer begins, and the third time is after autumn, with one shallow plowing and one intensive plowing.
This kind of labor is nothing in the eyes of their farmers. Wheat and rice have to be harvested and threshed. The tea seedlings only have to be watered and weeded. With one piece of hoeing a day, a small tea garden of one acre can be repaired and beautiful in a few days. Beautiful and bright.
The most difficult part is that this sloping land needs to be gradually transformed into terraced land. The soil from the mountain must be moved down and leveled, the terrace surface must be repaired, the ladder walls must be protected, and some small drainage ditches must be dug to prevent flash floods. There may be a lot of things in the first year. , but after the tea garden is repaired, it will be wandering around every day.
Liang Chuan repeated all the key points to his third uncle verbatim. To be cautious, he also asked his third uncle to repeat the words himself. .
The work on the mountain is done, and this tea garden is finally settled. Although it is far from what was expected and cannot be directly profitable, it is still a fixed asset of one's own. How can I still say that I am the owner of the manor when I see others in the future? , people with tea gardens, haha.
"Lao He, please help me go to Xinghua to see which official is managing the tea garden households. Let's talk to him and we will come to the door ourselves to save us the trouble of them coming to find us!"
