After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Jiang Baichuan's land was developed along the mountainside, his old house was on the mountainside, and above the mountainside were dense forests.

It seems that his uncle did have some calculations in his mind. He knew that the house was built on the mountainside, and the forest above the mountainside could not be moved.

Otherwise, water and soil will be lost all year round, and if the mountain collapses, their family will suffer!

The old house has not been lived in for many years, and it looks a bit gloomy from a distance.

Jiang Youliang put down the basket, and took out the yellow paper and paper money and incense candles that he had brought with him. First, he folded the yellow paper and piled it up one by one, and then inserted the candles on both sides of the yellow paper. Two sticks of incense were also lit, and one was given to Jiang Xiaoman.

"Come on! Let's kowtow to your cousin and ask him to bless you with a smooth sailing this year!"

As he spoke, Jiang Youliang bowed three times with the incense stick in his hand, and lit the yellow paper on the ground.

The old house, which was originally slightly gloomy, suddenly became warm.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but after burning the incense, Jiang Xiaoman also felt that the old house was not as scary as before.

The father and son spent half a day cleaning the dusty old house. The Daxian Cave was also blocked. Looking at the kitchen, some parts of the stove had collapsed and needed to be repaired. Two iron pots to install.

"Dad, the mountain road is not convenient for transportation. I told Uncle Bai Chuan that I plan to buy a drying machine. I will dry the picked chrysanthemums here in the future. After making chrysanthemum tea directly, I will carry it down the mountain to save money." Lots of shipping costs."

Jiang Xiaoman didn't intend to live in this house. He had a general look at the layout of the house just now, and he already had some plans in his mind——

The kitchen side will not be moved for the time being, but all the sundries next to it can be moved out. At that time, the stove can be used to cook for the workers who come to work, and there are some tables and chairs in the space next to it, so you can sit here and eat.

The largest main room on the first floor was converted into a tea-making workshop with drying machines, and the finished scented tea was moved upstairs for temporary storage.

The tool room on the east side is not moving, it is cleaned up, and when the time comes, people will be invited to pick scented tea, and some farm tools will also be placed.

There are three rooms upstairs, one is used as a storage room, and the remaining two rooms, one for men and one for men, are just for the hired tea pickers to live temporarily.

Recently, he has been working hard to learn about the cultivation of imperial chrysanthemums, and he has also watched a lot of news programs. He knows that picking imperial chrysanthemums is a highly seasonal job. Usually, flower seedlings are transplanted in spring, and the picking volume is the largest in early November, accounting for About 11% of the yield per mu, at this time, it is necessary to hire a large number of tea pickers to go up the mountain to pick. Otherwise, the time will be too long, the flowers will fully bloom, and the dried flowers will not be sold if the flower shape is not good.

Next, it can be picked once a week, and the flowers that will bloom one after another can be picked off. At this time, because the output is not high, fewer workers can be hired to pick them.

After picking these three crops, there are basically only some scattered flower buds that have not yet opened.There is not much dry tea that can be made at all. Jiang Xiaoman plans to open it to his relatives, friends and nearby villagers. Anyone who wants to come to the field to pick it by himself, and then go home to dry it. It is enough for the whole family to drink for a year .

This is the case when you go back to your hometown to start a business. You can’t just focus on making a fortune for yourself. When the time is right, you should also let the relatives and friends around you get some benefits. Big one.

They haven't heard of it here, but Jiang Xiaoman has read a news before, saying that a man saw a neighbor's watermelon and sold it for a lot of money, so he wanted to ask him for two watermelons, and the neighbor said that the remaining watermelons were sold The person made an appointment, and the person heard that the neighbor was too stingy, so he deliberately found an excuse to perfuse him, but in the middle of the night, while no one was paying attention, he took a pair of scissors, sneaked into the melon shed, and cut off all the neighbor's watermelon seedlings !

Jiang Xiaoman had been studying abroad before, so he didn't really know the nature of the villagers very well, so he didn't dare to take the risk, so he might as well be a generous person at ordinary times, so he could spend money to avoid disasters.

Moreover, he has read a lot of field management knowledge about imperial chrysanthemums that it is mentioned that this thing is a perennial plant, and after the first year's flowers are picked, the flowering branches on it must be cut off in time.

And in order to ensure more germination in the coming year, after cutting off the old branches, lightly loosen the soil around the roots of the chrysanthemums, and add a layer of fermented farm manure. It is best to spread a thick layer of chaff or straw. Help the chrysanthemum root to survive the winter and keep warm.

In this way, the perennial roots of the chrysanthemum hidden in the ground will grow fat and strong, and the new shoots that will grow in the coming year will be more and stronger.

So, anyway, the flower branches above will be cut and thrown away after harvesting. Even if the villagers who come to pick chrysanthemums break the flower branches, it is actually nothing.

Hearing what his son said clearly and logically, Jiang Youliang nodded, feeling a little proud in his heart, thinking that he is indeed his son. Although growing flowers and growing food sound like two different things, they are both serving the land!

Look at his son, he is so good at planting flowers!

Because this place is far away from home, the father and son simply cleaned the house, and Jiang Xiaoman took a memo on his mobile phone to record the daily necessities that needed to be purchased, and the two hurried down the mountain.

When turning the corner, Jiang Youliang saw that the tea trees on both sides of the mountain road had grown very tall, Jiang Youliang really wanted to take a pair of big scissors and shave their heads immediately!

What a beautiful tea tree, why is it so barren?

"By the way, Dad, didn't I make small tea cakes this year? Anyway, I see that there are many tea trees on this mountain, and even the houses are ready-made. Why don't you invite a few people from our village to come here and take the tea here? Pick some tea leaves too?"

Jiang Youliang silently calculated in his heart that the tea tree was abandoned by others, which meant that he didn't want money.

Hiring 3 to 5 helpers from the village costs 100 yuan per person per day. If you order them quickly, each person can pick tea leaves worth 600 to [-] yuan per day, and if you remove the cost of three meals, it seems that you can really earn a lot of money. Pen?

"Okay! Anyway, we don't have much tea. When our tea is finished, I'll find a few people to pick it here." Jiang Youliang didn't want to put all the burden of life on his son's shoulders, so he could make more money for the family. With some money, he would be happy even if he was a little tired.

After the beginning of spring, the reservoirs and ponds in the Langshan area began to close their boats to raise fish. Spring is the season for many fish to lay eggs and reproduce. Fishing in this season is tantamount to killing chickens to get eggs.

The smoked fish business from years ago could not be done for the time being, and the source of income was cut off. Lang Ying was a little anxious.

However, soon, Jiang Xiaoman brought her good news.

"Sister Yingzi! Didn't you get a few acres of mountain land? Would you like to plant imperial chrysanthemums with me?"

"What chrysanthemum?" Lang Ying looked at him in bewilderment.

"That's it! I'll search it for you!" Jiang Xiaoman opened the mobile shopping app, and found a flagship store of Jinsihuangchrysanthemum with the highest sales.

Lang Ying is also used to buying things online now, and when she opened the shopping cart, she was speechless.

"Hey! Why is this golden chrysanthemum so expensive? They sell it by the catty, but they sell it by the flower? It costs 80 yuan for 68 large flowers?"

"That's right, this kind of golden silk chrysanthemum is very beautiful when it's soaked, one by one, like flowers blooming in water, and they are all sold according to grade specifications, the higher the grade, the higher the price I searched on the Internet, and even the lowest grade can be sold for 70 to [-] yuan a catty."

"It's so expensive? It's hard to serve, right? Can we make a living?" Lang Ying was a little moved.

She originally planned to follow Jiang Xiaoman's example and plant honeysuckle on the edge of the several acres of mountain land she was allocated. At that time, she would put a few bee barrels and stop picking scented tea, so she would let the honeysuckle bloom and tell the bees to collect honey. It doesn't take much effort, the honey can still wait for Shanyan and the others to come to collect it.

The rest of the good land will be planted with yams and kept for home use, or sold for some pocket money.

However, if it was replaced by Emperor Chrysanthemum... Even if she didn't grow it well, all the ones she picked would be defective, even if it could only be sold for 40 yuan a catty, it would be much more cost-effective than growing yams!

How much is a catty of yams?

If the planted chrysanthemums really sell for 40 yuan a catty, the money from selling the flowers alone will be enough for her to buy a houseful of yams, okay?

Besides, after earning money, why does she let the girls eat yams?Isn't it delicious to eat white rice?

As a mother, as long as you have more money, who doesn't want to let your children eat something good?

"Then, are these imperial chrysanthemum seedlings expensive? Xiaoman, you know the situation of my house, and now you are preparing to build a house. After the house is built, you may not have much money in hand..." Lang Ying pursed her lips in embarrassment , struggling to think about whether to ask Jiang Xiaoman to borrow a sum of money to buy seedlings now.

If this emperor chrysanthemum can really make money, according to what Jiang Xiaoman said, as long as she spends money to buy seedlings in the first year, she can raise seedlings by herself later on. Sell ​​seedlings to others?

Then this acre of land can earn two stubbles of money!

"There is no rush to buy seedlings. If you are willing to plant with me, I will count your land as well. Then I will ask other people's homes if they want to plant together."

"I checked on the Internet. In the past few years, our county has supported policies for rural youths to return to their hometowns to start businesses, especially for the cultivation of special agricultural products. It is said that they can apply for project subsidies."

"My family doesn't have enough land, and if I add yours, I'll ask other people's houses, and I'll always have to collect dozens of acres of land. Otherwise, the project is too small, and people probably won't even look at it."

Jiang Xiaoman only found out when he was watching a column on New Farmers Entrepreneurship and Getting Rich. It turns out that the country still has so many support policies for rural youth entrepreneurship!

Especially in remote mountainous areas like Langshan, which has just escaped the poverty line, it is said that not only financial support is provided, but if the project is suitable, free technical support and low-interest loans will also be provided.

After leaving Lang Ying's house, he went to Jiang Yu again, but what he wanted to tell Jiang Yu was for him to think carefully——

"Brother Xiaoyu, you will definitely live at the foot of the mountain in the future, have you considered renting some mountain land at the foot of the mountain?"

"Huh? What are you doing with the mountain land? Do you grow artichokes? It's not expensive, so it's so convenient for us to buy and eat." Jiangyu doesn't like farming, especially planting artichokes. Exhausted!

"Then you can't shoot fish every day, right? After a long time, fans will get aesthetically tired and lose fans easily." Jiang Xiaoman reminded him, "I plan to apply for a project in the village and strive for some subsidies. If this thing is done, maybe it won’t cost much, and it will add a lot of employment opportunities to our village, and we can make some money along with it.”

"What project? Let's talk about it first!" When it comes to making videos, Jiang Yu is finally a little interested.

Jiang Xiaoman's project plan is mainly divided into three steps:

The first step actually does not require other participants to invest together, mainly from his own family.He plans to use the mountain land of his uncle Baichuan's old house as a "project first-phase demonstration site" and plant chrysanthemum seedlings first.

The second step is what he is doing now, convincing people in the village who have mountains and ambitions to start a business to work with him.However, Jiang Xiaoman's plan does not require them to pay for the land at the beginning, but to include their family's mountain land in the "second batch" and "third batch" of business support objects.

In this case, if the project is not approved, then these people will have no loss at all, and there will be no entrepreneurial risk.

But if the first batch comes down, Jiang Xiaoman can use the government subsidy funds to continue to support the next batch of people to plant chrysanthemum seedlings.

The planting of imperial chrysanthemums actually means that it costs a little money to buy seedlings and kill insects in the early stage. Chrysanthemum seedlings are prone to insects, so in order to prevent spraying when they bloom later, we must strictly prevent insect pests during mid-term management.In addition to these two expenses, other such as fertilizers are completely unnecessary!

And there is another advantage of planting imperial chrysanthemums, that is, you only need to buy seedlings in the first year. As long as you do a good job of maintenance after flowering, its perennial roots will germinate by themselves in the second year and send out more new branches.

At that time, instead of buying seedlings, they might be able to sell seedlings outside. Wouldn't this be another income?

As for the third step, it is naturally tea making and sales.In fact, this is the most profitable part, Jiang Xiaoman plans to pull Shan Yan and the others to do it together.

One is because they have a good relationship.Second, the more profitable the business, the greater the risk.Jiang Xiaoman has small arms and legs, if someone really wants to compete with him for business, how can he beat him?

But Shanyan is different. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a "land snake" in the area of ​​Langshan.Moreover, according to Jiang Xiaoman's secret observation, although this guy is usually quiet, in fact, he has a very wide network of connections. From their county town to the city, he knows many bosses!

Although acquaintance is not necessarily a strong relationship, but for mountain people, this relationship alone can already deter some people's small thoughts.

The main thing is-

"Brother Xiaoyu, I heard that many scumbags now like to buy a house before marriage, which is regarded as pre-marital property. When the time comes, if the three sisters of Shan Cha and the others get married, and one of them is unhappy, tell them to get out of their house. Brother Yan is too old to help, so what about the three girls?"

Jiang Yu followed Jiang Xiaoman's train of thought for a while, and silently clenched his fists.