Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

After selecting the fruit trees for the orchard, Zhao Yuanzhen chose the fruit trees to decorate the courtyard.

Plant a few pomegranate trees in the east, a few jujube trees in the west, and a bamboo patch in the southeast.

Plant some banyan trees outside the main gate

Persimmon trees, grape vines and ginkgo trees can be planted in front of the other courtyards.

You can't just plant any tree in the courtyard. The ones Zhao Yuanzhen chose are those with good meanings and good feng shui for the courtyard.

You can build a long corridor near the west and plant some grapes on both sides. You can rest under the corridor under the shade. The grapes are beautiful and delicious.

Plant some flowers and plants and use the backyard to grow vegetables.

I bought everything I needed. The unit price wasn't expensive, but the quantity was large, so I spent more than 1000 points.

Just take a rough look for now, the detailed arrangement will have to wait until I'm not busy. The farmhouse of my dreams must be designed carefully.

It was almost evening, so Zhao Yuanzhen stayed in the shop.

The next day, he took out the sea buckthorn trees and wolfberry trees, and sent a servant to the cart shop to call for a dozen carts to transport them back to the village.

The farmers were already waiting in their yards.

This was what Zhao Yuanzhen had instructed before.

There were 110 people in total. When they saw the convoy coming, they hurried to help unload the trucks. They left some wolfberries for planting in the yard and took the rest away.

Sea buckthorn is unloaded near the plot.

All the remaining wolfberries were taken to the village.

Ten farmers were left in the courtyard, and there were also servants at home who could help with planting.

50 people went to the fields to plant sea buckthorn.

50 of them went to the farm to plant wolfberries.

Planting trees is actually a simple job. Part of it is digging holes, part of it is planting trees, and part of it is watering.

Everyone was doing things in an orderly manner.

These trees will take two days to plant.

Construction has also started at Zhuangzi. Because Zhao Yuanzhen is doing a justice plan, many places have to be demolished before construction can begin.

Therefore, Zhuangzi is now in chaos with all kinds of demolitions happening.

Most of the dismantled building materials can be reused.

Bricks, tiles, soil, etc.

They are demolishing the land here and planting in the orchard over there.

Zhao Yuanzhen went to the capital again and brought back all the fruit trees.

The sea buckthorn and wolfberry trees have all been planted, and this time everyone came here to plant fruit trees.

Measure the distance, adopt the cross planting distance, and plant the fruit trees.

There are many fruit trees here, and they took almost 4 days to plant.

Because I bought a lot, there is some left over.

The remaining orchard is planned to be planted on the farm.

More trees should be planted behind the kitchen and in front of the poultry area.

After the house in Zhuangzi is built, he will plant some flowers, plants and trees in front of and behind the house.

After the farmers planted the trees, they began to prepare the fields.

A part of it was left to organize the orchard, and the rest was used to organize the 1000 acres on the other side of the farm.

Those more than 1000 acres are for growing rice.

It needs to be tidied up.

Everything that needed to be demolished in Zhuangzi has been demolished, and the materials have been delivered and construction has begun.

The canteen was built first. After all, there were more than 300 people in the village, including the craftsmen and carpenters who came to work.

All the servants who had nothing to do at home were sent over to help build the house.

Because the canteen was built on two floors, a lot more materials were needed.

I don’t know how many truckloads of wood were transported here.

In addition to the 50 bags of cement, Zhao Yuanzhen bought another 200 bags and placed them here.

The kitchen walls, floors, pot tops, stoves, worktops, food serving tables, etc. are all made of cement, making them easy to clean.

There were more than 80 servants, plus 20 construction craftsmen, a total of more than 100 people.

The construction of the two-story building was relatively slow. The canteen took 7 days to build. When there was no kitchen, food was prepared at home and delivered to the canteen. However, the kitchen at home could not cook anything too sophisticated, so basically all the food was steamed buns and pickles.

We ordered 500 bamboo plates, 500 bamboo cups, 500 bamboo bowls, and some large ceramic jars with lids and bamboo faucets to hold hot water.

When the canteen was built, Zhao Yuanzhen delivered the large iron pot, pot lid, chopping board, cooking surface, basins of various sizes, spoons, shovels, knives, as well as customized plates, cups and bowls.

There were originally 10 cooks in the village, and Zhao Yuanzhen later bought 20 more.

These cooks have all been trained by Bai Wei, so they know how to cook many dishes and are very efficient.

Zhao Yuanzhen’s requirement for every meal is three dishes and one soup, one meat and two vegetable dishes, and another soup. Hot water is also required every day, and there is a big pot specifically for boiling hot water.

If you see there is no hot water in the tank, refill it in time so that the people working can drink water.

Several long tables were set up to place plates, bowls, cups, chopsticks, spoons, etc.

Zhao Yuanzhen showed everyone the dining process.

After finishing work, I go to the bathroom to wash my hands first. There is a long cement washing pool in the bathroom with a large water tank and a row of faucets on it.

After washing your hands, go get a plate. If you want to drink soup, take a bowl. If you don’t want to drink soup, you can get a cup and get hot water.

Take the plate, chopsticks, and spoon, go to the main food window, hand the plate to the cook, they will serve you the rice, and then go to the food window to get the dishes.

There are three staple window settings.

Although there are only three dishes, there are two windows for each dish to prevent slow serving due to too many people.

After the three dishes were served, they took their own plates and found a table to eat.

In the dining hall, Zhao Yuanzhen placed many tables, including long tables for four people, tables for six people, and tables for eight people.

The tables can seat more than 500 people.

After finishing the meal, put the plates, bowls, cups, spoons and chopsticks you brought with you in the recycling basin prepared by the canteen.

In fact, it is a campus canteen model, but it is indeed very practical.

Seeing that everyone understood, he signaled that it was time to eat.

Seeing that everyone was queuing up at the staple food window, Zhao Yuanzhen suggested that they could order the vegetables first and the staple food last, so that the order could be staggered and more efficient.

Everyone was curious and excited when queuing. This semi-self-service mode is quite fun.

After everyone got their food, a few close friends sat together and talked in low voices.

The food was eaten up completely without any leftovers.

Food was very precious in the Daliang Dynasty, and it was a luxury for everyone to have enough food because no one would waste food.

There are several halls on the second floor of the cafeteria, one for reading and literacy and one for leisure and entertainment.

There will be someone teaching literacy every night, and those who want to learn can come and listen to the class.

As for leisure and entertainment, there are billiards, archery, sword practice, etc.

It’s not open yet. Let’s talk about it when Zhuangzi finishes his work and gets back on track.

Then the construction of the dormitory building began.

Perhaps because the servant had mastered the construction skills, the boys' and girls' dormitory buildings were built in just 13 days.

Because it is a two-story building, it is not appropriate to build a kang.

Zhao Yuanzhen found a group of carpenters to make furniture in advance.

There are 4 beds in one room, which are bunk beds.

There is a long table and four chairs in the middle.

There are also four large terraced wardrobes and a four-layer shoe cabinet, one layer for each person.

This is how the room is arranged, and this is all the furniture needed.

10 carpenters are working on it.

Because they have been building since the house was demolished. A lot of them have been built now.

There is no public washroom on the second floor and waterproofing is too troublesome.

There is only a large washroom on the first floor.

The bathroom is divided into two parts, one part is for washing face, brushing teeth and doing clothes.

One part is set up as a small cubicle for the bathtub.

There are a total of 20 bathtub cubicles and two large rows of washbasins.

They are all made of cement.

The rooms are numbered, starting from 101, and the number plates are hung on the doors.

Each floor elects a building manager who is responsible for checking the dormitories and arranging the cleaning of each dormitory every day.

Each dormitory has a dormitory head who is responsible for dormitory hygiene.

It is also a school management model. Zhao Yuanzhen said that you don’t have to care about these details, as long as it is useful.

April is coming soon. After renovating the canteen and dormitories, we will build the breeding area first and start catching the various breeding cubs.

Fortunately, the breeding area is simple, so we just built a shed on top of it, and partially used cement on the ground and walls to keep warm and make cleaning easier.

Although these sheds were easy to build, there were quite a few of them and they took four or five days to build.

After covering, cleaning, disinfecting, rinsing, and drying for a day, Zhao Yuanzhen began to transport various little ones over.

There are 50 male and female piglets, selected from breeding pigs with good meat quality.

There are 300 male and female chicks, 1 ducklings, 00 geese and 100 sheep.

We have been specially trained in poultry breeding and can start work directly.

The chicks, ducklings and geese are still young, and are raised in cages for fear that they may be eaten by wild animals.

The feed is the shells of various grains plus some cornmeal, some chopped wild vegetables, and a ton of processed shellfish powder that she bought, all mixed together to feed the babies.

Feeding shellfish to small animals can supplement calcium and help them grow taller and bigger.

These seedlings were bought from the mall. The best varieties were selected. They have all been vaccinated and fed with medicine, so there is no need to worry about diseases.

As for the sheep, they are driven out to the mountains to graze during the day and driven back at night. They are released for four hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon, and then they do not need to be fed again.

When you are thirsty, go to the river and drink water.

In fact, if ducks and geese are a little older, they can be released through the back door to eat grass and insects in the rice fields.

While the factory was being built over there, Zhao Yuanzhen took the idle servants, cooks and maids to tidy up the vegetable garden over here.

First plant green onions, leeks, spinach, garlic, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, radish, lettuce, beans, green beans, peas, potatoes, celery, lettuce, peas, chrysanthemum, coriander, lettuce, etc., which are vegetables that can be planted directly.

Then, eggplant, cucumber, zucchini, cabbage, loofah, bitter gourd, tomato, etc., which needed seedlings, were planted.

These vegetables are also planted in the backyard of our house, and the vegetable gardens on both sides are basically self-sufficient.

Vegetables like spinach, Chinese cabbage, radish, lettuce, coriander, and house greens are all quick-growing vegetables. They will grow in a few days after being planted and can be eaten in about 10 days.

In some corners, many winter melons and pumpkins are planted.

These are vegetables that don't require much care and have strong vitality. Just pick them in the fall.