met free Chapter 358 You dare steal my words?
Chapter 358 You dare steal my words?
Lu Buping was slightly taken aback and asked, "Fruit tree? Apple?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded. “There is an idiom in the ‘Wu Yue Chun Qiu: He Lu Nei Zhuan’ that means ‘adapting to local conditions.’ I have always agreed with this, because some lands are suitable for growing grains, while others are not, but may be suitable for growing medicinal herbs and fruit trees.”
“Since Qixia County has a lot of inferior land, and growing grain there may not yield good results, we might as well plant fruit trees and medicinal herbs on all of this land.”
"If planting fruit trees and medicinal herbs doesn't work, then we'll have to think of other ways. But if we can make a name for ourselves in growing fruit trees and medicinal herbs, then these bad lands will become good lands in the future, and the people won't have to keep focusing on those few acres of fertile land."
Lu Buping nodded thoughtfully, then cupped his hands and replied, "Yes, thank you for your guidance, Prefect. I have remembered everything you just said."
Yang Shaofeng smiled and nodded, "In addition to what I just mentioned, Qixia County also needs to set up a small cement workshop, as well as small workshops such as lime kilns and brick kilns."
After a slight pause, Yang Shaofeng added, "If we can find a mineral vein, Qixia County will also need to build another small coal mine, and we can also set up a honeycomb briquette workshop along the way."
Qixia County has a complex topography, with four distinct seasons and frequent droughts and floods. The soil is alkaline, making it difficult to achieve good harvests from crops like wheat and sorghum. The only way to make the people of Qixia County prosperous is to change their mindset, shifting from relying on the land for food to relying on the land for fruits and medicinal herbs.
In addition, Qixia County has many hills, and quarrying, lime production, and cement production can also become another economic pillar of Qixia County.
As people gradually become wealthier, the lack of food naturally ceases to be a problem.
After all, Shandong is not just Qixia County; there is plenty of land suitable for growing grains and vegetables.
Yang Shaofeng said with a smile, "Once these messy workshops are gradually set up, the biggest problem in Qixia County will not be whether the people can have enough to eat, but that there will never be enough manpower."
Lu Buping felt that Yang Shaofeng was exaggerating a bit.
Qixia County is indeed poor and the environment is not very good, but Qixia County has more than 3,000 people, of which 1,000 are able-bodied young men. Unless there is a large-scale conscription of laborers, how could there be a shortage of manpower?
Yang Shaofeng, of course, had no idea what Lu Buping was thinking. He simply continued to instruct, "After you return to Qixia County, start making a plan based on this idea. Once the fruit tree seedlings and Physician Yang and the others arrive in Dengzhou, we will begin to implement it step by step."
Lu Buping obediently bowed in agreement, but then hesitated for a long while before tentatively saying, "Your Excellency, the people of Qixia County are suffering terribly..."
Ok?
Yang Shaofeng felt inexplicably that the sentence sounded familiar.
Did I tell Wang Qiong that the people of Ningyang County are suffering terribly?
Did I tell Zhu Biao that the people of Ningyang County are suffering terribly?
Well, you, Lu Buping, dare to steal my lines!
Yang Shaofeng gave a forced smile and said to Lu Buping, "Come, tell me, just how miserable are the people of Qixia County?"
Lu Buping glanced at Yang Shaofeng discreetly, but remembering what that scholar Zhao from Ningyang County had told him, Lu Buping steeled himself and said, "Your Excellency, Qixia County is infested with wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoons, causing great suffering to the people. I am incompetent..."
Wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoon dogs?
Yang Shaofeng was taken aback at first, then frowned and looked at Lu Buping coldly, saying, "Qixia County is infested with wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoons, and the people suffer greatly from them. And you only come to tell me this now?"
Lu Buping was startled and quickly said, "Your Excellency, please calm down. I have already organized the people to hunt wolves. Now the wolves, badgers, foxes, raccoons and other animals have all hidden in the deep mountains and forests and will not come out to cause harm for the time being."
Upon hearing that the wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoons would not harm the people for the time being, Yang Shaofeng gave a slight snort and said, "Then what do you mean by telling me this? Do you want me to mobilize the soldiers of Dengzhou Guard to help you get rid of the wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoons?"
Damn it?
Lu Buping thought to himself that it really was Yang Dianfeng. He had only asked Yang to help him find a way to sell wolf and fox pelts, but Yang immediately mobilized the army to kill wolves, badgers, foxes, and raccoons.
Lu Buping chuckled twice and said, "Your Excellency, what I was thinking was whether we could bring wolf and fox pelts to the market to sell. If that were possible..."
Lu Buping glanced cautiously at Yang Shaofeng and continued, "Scholar Zhao said that if it's feasible, we could catch wolves and foxes to raise..."
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Lu Buping and retorted, "What are you going to feed the wolves and foxes? Don't tell me you're planning to feed them leftovers like dogs? Damn it, food is scarce right now. The bowls of ordinary people are cleaner than dogs lick. Where are we going to get leftovers to feed the wolves and foxes?"
Without a doubt, the Zhao student that Lu Buping mentioned must have come from the county school in Ningyang. These scoundrels not only know the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, but they are also masters of all sorts of unorthodox and heretical methods. I don't know how Wu Yanhu and Chen Mo taught them.
Unfortunately, these bastards lack practical experience, and they inevitably make some assumptions when looking at problems.
Just as Yang Shaofeng was secretly complaining to himself, Lu Buping chuckled twice and said in a low voice, "There are always some leftovers, and Zhao Shengyuan and I have already had a few wolf cubs fed to us. Apart from growing a little slowly, there's nothing else wrong with them."
Upon hearing Lu Buping's words, Yang Shaofeng immediately became interested.
Wolves and foxes both belong to the Canidae family, especially wolves. There is no reproductive barrier between wolves and dogs, so it's not surprising that you could feed wolves and foxes with leftovers.
Besides, we should trust the power of ordinary people—besides the internet celebrity wolf who quickly degenerated into a dog, wasn't there also an old man who raised a red-bellied pheasant like a chicken?
It turns out that as long as people are willing to raise them, they can usually raise even the most difficult animals to survive to a certain extent.
After a moment's thought, Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "Once the market opens, you can bring the wolf and fox pelts to sell. If those Koreans don't know their value, I'll find you another market."
Lu Buping was overjoyed and repeatedly bowed to Yang Shaofeng, saying, "Thank you, Prefect! Thank you, Prefect!"
After waving for Lu Buping to leave, Yang Shaofeng began to ponder the problems in Laiyang County.