Wang Tianxiao had been wondering where he would live after the family split up, but now he doesn't have to worry about that anymore. He and his wife can live in the mountains temporarily until Wang Fang goes to school. After a few years of recovery, they can build the most impressive house in the whole village.
His wife had suffered so much with him, so he was determined to make her live a life that was both happy and respectable.
He roughly measured the area of the station's flat land. Excluding the area occupied by the buildings, the remaining space was about 30 mu (approximately 2 hectares), or more than 10,000 square meters.
It's a perfect opportunity to build a breeding farm.
As for what to raise, he already had a plan.
It's not about raising sheep or chickens, but about raising deer.
The reason he chose to raise deer was because in his previous life he had worked as a feeder at the deer farm for three years, where there were more than fifty deer.
It can be said that his deer-raising techniques far surpassed those of most people in this era.
At that time, people didn't even think that deer could be raised. Even if they occasionally caught a deer, they would basically just skin it and eat the meat, making it a one-off deal.
Wang Tianxiao, however, knew that the profits from deer farming were almost astonishing in this era when prices were not yet fully fixed and scarcity drove up prices.
It is a blue ocean.
However, the most difficult thing about raising deer is not the location, but where to get the deer.
To raise 100 sika deer, a space of one or two thousand square meters is sufficient. Even if the number of deer increases to 500 in the future, there will still be enough space here.
But Luyuan is a big problem.
Ziwu Ridge is home to both sika deer and red deer, so raising sika deer would definitely be the first choice for animal husbandry.
There is basically no difference between the blood and meat of red deer and sika deer, but the antlers, which are the main source of profit, are not of the same quality.
Sika deer antlers are more effective, almost three times more so than red deer antlers, and their value is also several times that of red deer antlers.
Therefore, from an economic perspective, raising sika deer would be more cost-effective.
Based on past experience, in this era, because there is very little large-scale breeding of sika deer, it is difficult to buy deer calves directly. The only way to accumulate a batch of original deer breeds is to capture wild deer.
However, catching wild deer is not an easy task. One must wait until the peak season for deer calving the following year to see if any calves can be caught.
Forget about catching an adult deer.
Not to mention the terrifying fighting power of adult deer, which even one or two dogs might not be able to handle, even if you are lucky enough to capture one, it would be very difficult to keep it alive.
Wild deer are extremely stubborn. Once captured, they may go on a hunger strike, even self-harm, or bang their heads against walls until they die. Getting them to obey is harder than climbing to heaven.
After thinking it over, Wang Tianxiao decided that if all else failed, he should go to the farm station and find the old farm manager to see if he could get ten animals to raise first, and then gradually expand the scale.
In short, raising deer and other tamable wild animals was one of Wang Tianxiao's important plans in his later years. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that there was no policy regulation at the moment to make a profit from the era.
Compared to aquaculture, Wang Tianxiao's other plan is his main focus.
That is medicinal herb cultivation.
Over the past three days, he has been inspecting various parts of Yangziling and found that the soil here is mainly sandy loam and clay loam. Due to the accumulation of leaves and wild fruits over the years, as well as the fermentation of wild animal droppings and corpses, the land has become very fertile.
The mountains have plenty of sunshine and water, which almost meets all the requirements for growing dandelions and wormwood.
In those days, because Western medicine had not yet fully entered the lives of ordinary people, people mainly relied on traditional Chinese medicine for medical treatment. Therefore, almost every city, especially those near mountains, had fixed purchasing stations for Chinese herbal medicines.
When Wang Tianxiao went to sell the rabbits, he had already inquired about the prices. A pound of dried dandelions could sell for five yuan, and a pound of white wormwood could sell for seven yuan.
Dandelions and mugwort were originally wild vegetables that were found everywhere, so people in this era would only pick some when they were in season, and then accumulate two or three catties in the autumn to sell for ten or twenty yuan.
Due to limited awareness, few people think of growing this kind of thing.
Wang Tianxiao knew that these things could be sold for money, and they could also be cultivated; he was entitled to make that money. The prosperity of traditional Chinese medicine has a cycle, and he wanted to take advantage of this best decade.
He chose to start with Artemisia argyi and dandelion because these two Chinese medicinal herbs are particularly easy to grow, requiring almost no effort and having the lowest cultivation costs. Unlike Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, which require a lot of manpower and resources.
He doesn't have much capital right now, nor does he have time to do anything else, so he can only start with the simplest things and accumulate his first pot of gold.
It was another busy day, and he was exhausted when he got home.
But when he thought about his future life, he was filled with fighting spirit.
Li Yali's health is currently unstable, with periods of improvement followed by periods of remission.
When I'm in a good mood, I'll cook some relatively substantial meals. If I really don't have the energy, I'll just heat up some steamed buns and eat some pickled vegetables.
His wife wasn't feeling well tonight, a little dizzy, so the meal was quite simple. Wang Tianxiao ate a little, then steamed a bowl of egg custard for his wife and fed it to her.
My wife is a hardworking woman; if she has even the slightest bit of strength, she will never choose to lie down.
He hadn't been there for his wife during those difficult years in his previous life, and he didn't know how hard she had worked alone. Now that she was by his side in this life, he would definitely do his best to make her happy.
When he went to bed at night, he gently held his wife's hand and placed it in his own.
Two cats were snuggled up beside me, sleeping soundly and purring.
The next morning, Wang Tianxiao went directly to the town's herbal medicine supply and marketing center.
Here you can not only buy and sell various Chinese herbal medicines, but also obtain information on the harvesting, identification and roasting of herbs. Seeds, tubers and seedlings of various herbs are also sold here.
Wang Tianxiao had visited once before, inquired about the prices of various herbs, and selected some to grow himself.
These are mostly product categories that are easy to survive, reasonably priced, and don't require too much effort.
The first wave consists of dandelions and white wormwood.
Dandelion, also known as "Po Po Ding," is a very nutritious wild plant. When used as a traditional Chinese medicine, it can treat many diseases, such as clearing heat and detoxifying, treating stomach ailments, mastitis, and so on. It has a very wide range of applications.
Moreover, dandelion is a common plant used for both food and medicine. When it is young, it can be used as a wild vegetable, and it can be harvested layer by layer, just like chives. It can be harvested every half month to thirty days, from spring until the plant matures in autumn.
According to later medicinal herb cultivation techniques, each acre of dandelion can produce more than 2,000 kilograms of green leaves. Even if the finished product is used as a traditional Chinese medicine, at least 500 kilograms can be harvested.
However, to maintain high yields, scientific planting methods are needed, which are clearly not suitable for Wang Tianxiao's model, as he has more resources in the entire mountain area.
Therefore, his policy from the very beginning was simple and brutal: sow widely but reap little.
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