Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

Now Xie Minyan gets dividends every month and earns her own dowry. She doesn't have any thoughts about the family business. As Xie Xian said, as long as she has money in her hands, she won't be worried.

Seeing that the topic was becoming more and more off topic, Xie Changhuan hurriedly said, "No hurry, no hurry." He glanced at Xie Xian helplessly.

"Why not? I didn't rush you before when you were not in good health. But now the Second House is in need of people, why don't you hurry up and give birth to more children for me?"

The old man agreed with Xie Xian's proposal 100%, and his expectant look on his face made Xie Changhuan flee in panic.

The New Year's Eve dinner ended with Xie Xian's great victory.

The annual leave for the ancients was very long, because the journey was long and everything took a lot of time.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the workers returned to work one after another. The first thing Xie Xian planned for the new year was to solve the problem of eating meat.

In another month, fishing will be banned on the river.

Among large livestock, sheep are scarce, horses and cattle are both strategic materials, and the only fast and efficient ones left are pigs and chickens.

Nowadays, pigs are generally the same as toilets, and people find it sensory unacceptable to eat pork.

So Xie Xian thought for a long time and decided to feed the chickens.

Two rows of houses were quietly built near the Heishiwei Textile Factory, and the fleet on the river also received orders to start collecting eggs from various places. Now not many people raise chickens at home because there is no surplus food and they cannot afford to feed the chickens.

If you want large quantities of eggs, you can only find them on the farms of wealthy families. All the rich eggs in Pingcheng have been taken away, so you have no choice but to look for them farther away.

"My lady, the fire here has been burning for three days and the temperature has stabilized." Qingdai reported the progress to Xie Xian with the notebook in her hand.

She only remembered that the body temperature of chickens was slightly higher than that of humans. She had only heard of hatching eggs but had never done it herself, so she could only figure it out slowly.

"Let's give it a try first. We have to wait for a month to see the effect." A few days ago, a special person was arranged to heat the kang. The temperature should be just slightly hot, and the most important thing is to keep it constant.

Every kang in the room was covered with a reed quilt, and the whole room was so warm that people could not stay there for long without sweating all over.

In another room, Xie Xian was teaching them how to use a lamp to perform B-ultrasound on eggs.

Polish a piece of iron sheet until it is smooth to make it reflect light, place it on the oil lamp, and then put the eggs on it.

Nowadays it is too difficult to identify fertilized eggs using sunlight in winter, so we have to find a way ourselves.

Xie Miao and the others looked at the blurry black dot in the egg and were very excited. "Lady, is this the fertilized egg you mentioned?"

Xie Xian nodded and said, "If there is no black shadow, no chicks can be hatched at all." If there is a black shadow, the probability of failure is also quite high.

When I was in the countryside, the fun of children was a basket of yellow fluffy stuffed animals. No one could resist such a cute animal as a chicken.

In ancient times when there was no artificial incubation, chickens raised at home required careful care, and hatching hens into chicks was also a very difficult task.

At first, some people didn't believe that eggs could be hatched in this way, but as a few weeks passed, looking through the light, they saw a small black dot slowly develop into shape, which made everyone look at Xie Xian with more awe.

Under the light, watching a little life beating in the eggshell, I marvel at the miracle of life.

As baskets of eggs were delivered, both rooms were put into use to incubate the eggs.

The fertilized eggs are screened, and the unqualified eggs are used as snacks. Eggs are also a main dish in the mine's recent meals.

Only after knowing that 3,000 eggs had entered the incubation cycle in batches did Xie Xian start to think about the issue of feed for the chicks. She had to prepare it in advance.

Feeding chickens with grain alone is not worth the effort, so the earthworm breeding plan was also put on the agenda. Just after the 39th day of the coldest period of winter, the weather began to warm up and the ground thawed. Xie Xian mobilized an army of children to start digging earthworms all over the world.

The reed stalks that have been stored for a whole winter and are not used up are all chopped up and used for composting. The fallen leaves on the mountains, grass stalks on the fields, slop, etc. are all edible for earthworms.

Even though the temperature is still a little low right now, we can build a simple shed and cover it with straw to keep it warm. In less than half a month, we can get twice as many earthworms.

Everyone believed in Xie Xian's words and was full of energy.

Before Xie Xian returned to the sect, she handed back the method of making manure, but at that time no one paid attention to what a little girl said. But now, some people have already started to quietly build their own manure piles.

The feces that used to be everywhere on the path have now become a treasure. Children will be scolded if they urinate or defecate anywhere, so the good things should be kept within the family.

With the rise of composting, Xie Xian came up with a good idea.

"Have you heard? The textile factory is collecting earthworms?"

"Ah? There's still someone who wants to climb that night?" Someone didn't believe it.

"Why would I lie to you? Several families have piled up manure and are digging out earthworms! I heard they have been raising them for half a year. Five kilograms of night crawlers can be sold for a lot of money." When they heard that there was money, everyone pricked up their ears.

"Is it the compost heap that stinks?" They had heard of it before, but no one took it seriously.

"Of course! The sooner the compost is made, the more night creepers there will be in it. Not to mention whether it can fertilize the soil, you can make back your investment just by selling the night creepers!" He clapped his legs in excitement.

Someone asked with a smile: "But I heard that you don't have a compost pile at home!"

The person who spoke turned pale, as if a sore spot had been touched, and he continued with a straight face: "Get up today!" Then he carried the shovel and went to the back mountain.

The people at the entrance of the village were in an uproar. If this was true, they had to hurry up and build a manure pile. In the past, they disliked its stink, but now the night creepers in it can be sold for money. It is said that if they are spread on the ground after a year, they can fertilize the soil. Where can you find such a good opportunity?

This completely changed people's view of compost piles.

Xie Xian didn't know that the composting method that had been promoted for half a day in previous years had now made a breakthrough starting with a tiny earthworm.

But she didn't care. In the plan, there were many things to consider regarding raising chickens. She didn't have a lime mine, but purchasing it was very troublesome, so she needed people to find lime.

In addition to building a chicken coop, if raising chickens in the mountains, you also need to weave a fence. The large peach forest on the back mountain of Taozhuang also needs to be renovated.

Xie Xian was thinking about raising chickens, but the pen and paper in her hand had already distracted her thoughts from pruning and grafting peach trees.

Last year’s peaches were not very tasty, so it seems that the focus this year is to make use of these lands.

There are large tracts of wasteland near Blackrock Guard. Due to soil problems and the difficulty of planting, the yield of ordinary crops is limited. Xie Xian plans to reclaim all of it and try planting some cotton first.

The entrance to the refugee camp began to get lively. Xie Xian applied to the government office for several hectares of land, which has now become a hot topic in Que County.