Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 370 High Salary Recruitment

Because of the misalignment, the North Mountain and the West Mountain block a lot of sunlight on this slope. However, as the sun moves, there is still a short period of oblique sunlight on the slope, which meets the growth requirements of Ophiopogon japonicus.

With the young steward's enthusiasm in imparting experience and methods, Hualei was just what he wanted. So he immediately paid the money and ordered this batch of Ophiopogon japonicus ramets on the same day.

After the weeds were harvested, the land reclamation workers carefully plowed the western slope to a depth of about one foot. After drying it for a few days, they removed all the weed roots, broke up the soil carefully, sprinkled some wood ash, and added enough base fertilizer to make the soil loose, fine, and nutritious, which was conducive to the growth of the roots of Ophiopogon japonicus.

Choose a sunny day and dig longitudinal ditches at a certain distance. First, apply diluted pig manure water in the ditches, then plant the seedlings, three plants in a clump. After planting, cover them with soil and compact them with your feet to fix the seedlings in place.

In order to provide shade for Ophiopogon japonicus, Hualei adopted the intercropping method, planting soybeans between two rows of Ophiopogon japonicus. Because soybeans grow fast, they can meet the shading conditions required by Ophiopogon japonicus seedlings, thus promoting the growth of Ophiopogon japonicus seedlings better.

When Ophiopogon japonicus is in the root expansion period after October in the second half of the year, it needs sufficient sunlight, and the soybeans have been harvested. In this way, they will not affect each other and kill two birds with one stone. Of course, this is also one of the experiences that the little steward of the Imperial Hospital taught Hualei.

Hualei put his knowledge into practice and put it into practice immediately. In order to thank the steward for actively imparting such good experience and increasing Hualei's production and income, Hualei also secretly slipped him a silver ingot, and both of them were very happy.

After the Ophiopogon japonicus was planted, the water pipe was turned on and watered. Half a month later, all the Ophiopogon japonicus had survived and were growing well. Hualei led a group of people to carefully weed the Ophiopogon japonicus and loosen the shallow surface soil, and it was almost done.

However, even though there were many Ophiopogon japonicus plants, they were still not enough to cover the entire west slope. Therefore, Hualei also planted many medicinal seedlings collected from other departments of the Imperial Medical Service on the west slope.

According to the growth characteristics of each medicinal material, they were given a suitable environment and planted separately. Soon, the western slope was also lush and green.

The flower buds of those that are not suitable for planting on the west slope of the mountain have also been moved to other places. We strive to provide them with a suitable environment, making sure that these medicinal herbs can live comfortably and feel at home.

As for the key points that need to be paid attention to in the process of planting various medicinal herbs, Hualei also humbly asked the masters of the Imperial Hospital for advice, and also carefully took notes. She also borrowed a lot of books on medicinal herbs from the Imperial Hospital and took some of them home to copy.

Because she feels that her abilities and energy are limited, Hualei plans to hire a few people who know how to grow medicinal herbs to help her take care of them.

However, such professional talents are hard to find in dental shops, so she went to ask the staff of the Seedling Department of the Imperial Hospital.

Do you know or have any family members who are elderly people who have retired from the Seedling Department of the Imperial Hospital but are still in good health and willing to grow medicinal herbs? She is willing to hire them with a high salary to help manage the medicinal herbs on her own barren mountain.

Because Hua Lei learned that at the end of each year, the Imperial Hospital would dismiss a group of elderly people who had reached old age and send them home. Some of these elderly people who returned home were still in good health, but they had to go home when they reached old age, just like the retired elderly in her previous life.

Unexpectedly, Hualei was able to hire two elderly people. Mr. Huang, who was in his sixties, had been home for two years. He had been growing medicinal herbs in the Seedling Department of the Imperial Hospital for his entire life. When he reached a certain age, he returned home after letting his son take his place.

Because he knows about medicinal materials and works in the Imperial Medical Bureau, he takes very good care of himself and is still in very good health.

After retiring from the Imperial Hospital, he had nothing to do at home every day, so when he heard Hua Lei's request, he came over happily. The other Mr. Qian was in a similar situation.

After the two masters arrived, Hua Lei went to Sifangyuan Yahang to buy some younger servants who could read and write. She picked out some clever boys and asked them to follow the two masters and slowly begin to learn how to grow medicinal herbs.

Now that the medicinal materials were handled by professionals, Hualei felt relieved.

During this time, she drew a diagram of the wind-powered waterwheel with the help of Rong Jin and asked Uncle Zhao to make it. Because of the previous waterwheel, Uncle Zhao was now very skilled in making waterwheels.

This wind-powered waterwheel is very similar to an ordinary waterwheel. The waterwheel itself is basically the same, except that the original power was powered by human foot pedaling, but now it is replaced by a windmill to drive it.

Soon, the ordinary waterwheel was made, and the next step was to make a windmill. Hualei drew a circular windmill shape, and in order to correspond to the seven buckets of the waterwheel, Hualei also used seven sails on the windmill.

The sail frame was made of strong wooden strips, and then the sail was stretched, and the windmill was completed. Because it needs a lot of wind to drive the waterwheel, Hualei made the sails relatively large.

The shape of the sail was drawn by Hua Bud with reference to the sails on the ship. There are sails on their own ship, so the material is not difficult to find.

After finding Liang Xiangyi, not long after, Liang Xiangyi sent someone to deliver a few pieces of sailing fabric. It was very thin, but not breathable. However, the color was ugly, a very dirty white.

When it was used as a sail on the boat, it became dirty and gray in a few days, but I didn't care about it. However, now that it has been installed on a one-meter-high waterwheel and placed in my own yard, this circle of white sail looks a bit ugly and even seems very unlucky.

So, Hua Lei took the fabrics to a wool sweater dyeing shop, dyed them into several colors, and then stretched them onto the windmill according to Tianhong's color matching ratio.

Because she felt that if the sails were all red, they might be too dazzling, and if they were all green, they might not be visible among the trees in the forest. Black was too dull, and she didn't dare to dye it yellow. So she dyed it in several colors.

Of course, the main reason was that she picked a few colors that she liked from the remaining colors in the dyeing workshop. It would take too long to customize it.

So, after five or six days, the colorful sail fabrics were all completed and were carefully stretched onto the windmill by Uncle Zhao.

Now we just have to wait for the windmill and waterwheel to be connected, then we can test the wind-powered waterwheel, right?