Liu Yan stayed in the ancient town for another two days, and then returned to Dapanbao with a large number of orders.
It was already the end of November, and there were only a few days left before the deadline for delivering Dapanbao Shaoguo wine and soap, but Liu Yan was not in a hurry. The winery's output has been increasing in the past few days, and the four pots are started at the same time. In addition, Miao Shao and his people have purchased large quantities of koji, sorghum and other raw materials. It is not difficult to prepare the quantity for the order.
Not to mention soap. Since the past two months, Liu Yan has been stocking up on supplies to Wang Wenzhen in order to open his own sales channel today.
So after Liu Yan returned to the flag office, he sent someone to invite Wang Yunhe and Chen Jiang, handed over the orders for the winery and soap workshop, and asked them to prepare them as soon as possible.
Since Wang Jing and Wang Yunhe came to visit the winery last time, Liu Yan returned to the headquarters and had a long talk with them.
Liu Yan unabashedly expressed his admiration for Wang Yunhe in person, and proposed that Wang Yunhe stay in Dapanbao and be responsible for taking care of the newly built winery. Wang Jing is responsible for the sorghum supply to the winery.
For Wang Jing, Wang Yunhe and his daughter, this kind of thing is like pie in the sky. Wang Yunhe can not only take this opportunity to get closer to Liu Yan, but he can also control a winery that makes a lot of money every day and receive a generous salary. And Wang Jing is even more incredible. It can be predicted that the output of Dapanbao Winery will be very huge in the future, and the amount of sorghum required will also be a huge amount. For Wang Jing, this means wealth and a lot of money. !
So even though Wang Jingdang agreed, Wang Yunhe was still a little embarrassed, so he nodded in agreement.
At this time, Wang Yunhe and Chen Jiangshi were overjoyed when they saw the large order.
Chen Jiangshi naturally knew about the affection between Liu Yan and Wang Yunhe. The two admired each other, but no one broke through this layer of paper.
So Chen Jiangshi said with a smile: "Okay, since the commander has given the order, I will go ahead and get ready, so as not to hinder the future mistress's eyes here."
After saying that, Chen Jiangshi left with a smile amidst the sound of Wang Yunhe stomping her feet shyly.
Liu Yan didn't expect that Chen Jiang would come to help, so he said awkwardly: "Have you been working hard at the winery these days?"
Wang Yunhe said "hmm", then changed the subject and said: "By the way, in the past two days, I have seen that most of the food in the fort is vegetables. Now our military households in the fort have some money in their hands, but they are suffering from the fact that there is no meat for sale in the fort." , it is very inconvenient to go elsewhere to buy, so there are many complaints from the military households in the fort."
"oh?"
Liu Yan really didn't care about this at this time, so he said: "I know about this matter, and I will find a way to solve it in the past two days. But now I want to talk about our affairs, Miss Wang, look... "
Before Liu Yan could finish speaking, Wang Yunhe groaned and said, "If you have anything to say, go talk to my father. Why are you talking to me?"
After saying that, Wang Yunhe ran away with the order.
Liu Yan touched his nose and said to himself: "I haven't finished speaking yet."
Then Liu Yan sat on a chair and thought about the meat problem raised by Wang Yunhe. If there is not much edible meat in Dapanbao, it will not only be a problem for the military households in the fort to eat poorly, but also the problem of Liu Yan's Dunjun. combat effectiveness.
Because only by providing enough meat can the Dunjun soldiers be strong and have the physical strength to endure high-intensity military training, so that they can become elite troops in the future. At the same time, sufficient meat can also reduce Dunjun's probability of night blindness, giving Liu Yan a powerful means of attacking at night in the future.
Now Liu Yan's various flag pier armies will be assessed every month. Those who are excellent will be classified as superior pier troops, those who pass will be classified as medium pier troops, and those who fail will be classified as lower pier troops. Those who fail the assessment for three consecutive months will Immediately expel the Dunjun sequence.
Liu Yan thought from this that since the martial arts of the Dunjuns can be distinguished by level, the treatment of the Dunjuns should also be distinguished. Under the premise that soldiers at the same level receive the same pay, from now on, those with superior martial arts can eat four taels of meat per day, those with average martial arts can eat two and a half taels of meat per day, and those with inferior martial arts. You can eat one or two halves of meat every day.
At this time, one kilogram in the Ming Dynasty was sixteen taels, which was about six hundred grams in later generations. Dun Jun, whose martial arts was excellent, ate four taels of meat, nearly 150 grams, every day, which was equivalent to the food standard of the Japanese Army in Showa 6 of later generations. It was not low.
But even so, Liu Yan's Six Flags Dun Army ate a lot of meat in a year, not counting the demand for meat from other military households and civilians in the fort. And as Liu Yan's power expands, this meat diet will become more and more a prominent issue.
At present, the meat diet of the Ming Dynasty is relatively monotonous, except for pigs and sheep, it is chicken, duck, fish, etc. Moreover, the disasters in various parts of the Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more serious. Prices are soaring in the north and south of the Yangtze River. Last year, the price of a pig in Lingshan Acropolis was equivalent to a cattle. If you have to buy meat to eat, even if Dapanbao is relatively wealthy now, you will inevitably be unable to eat. , so Liu Yan decided to raise it himself.
After some thought, in order to avoid putting all the eggs in the same basket, Liu Yan decided to raise as many meat sources as possible, including pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish.
However, the environment in Lingshanwei obviously does not allow for large-scale sheep raising. This is the coastal area in southern Shandong. There is no large grassland to raise sheep, so we can only raise a few casually. Liu Yan still prefers to raise chickens. The cost of raising chickens is relatively low. Not only can they be kept in captivity, but they can also be let out to find food for themselves. Chickens can also lay eggs without much worry.
The same goes for raising ducks. You can put them in the river to eat fish and shrimps. Similarly, ducks can also lay eggs. If there is a locust disaster, you can drive the chickens and ducks to the fields to eat the locusts.
But what makes Liu Yan more troublesome is that there are many infectious diseases in chickens and ducks. If a chicken plague comes, not a single chicken will be left alive.
Similarly, the cost of raising fish is relatively low, and it can be built under the pig pen. Pig manure, chicken manure, and duck manure are all good feeds, which can greatly reduce the need for feed and other food for pond fish. Unfortunately, fish farming requires a lot of water. Although Dapanbao is located along the coast, fresh water resources are not abundant. There is only one Nanhe River nearby, but the water flow is not very large.
Finally, considering the issue of meat yield, Liu Yan decided to focus on raising pigs, supplemented by raising chickens, ducks and fish, and implement a variety of livestock management models.
However, it was not easy to raise pigs at this time. The pigs of the Ming Dynasty were not the white and fat domestic pigs of later generations. The white pigs of later generations were actually exotic species introduced from the West.
At this time, the domestic pigs in the Ming Dynasty were all black, which were called firewood pigs in later generations. They could only raise 130 to 40 kilograms a year, or about 150 kilograms at most. The meat yield of pigs was about seven. Ten to eighty pounds of meat. It takes about two years to raise a fat pig weighing more than 200 kilograms.
And there is no such thing as leftovers in this era. There is not enough for people to eat, so why do pigs still have to eat? Therefore, domestic pigs can only eat pig grass and some bran, which also requires a lot of manpower to go out to collect pig grass.
Moreover, for large-scale pig raising, it is difficult to find sows that can give birth and many piglets. After much thought, Liu Yan decided to raise a hundred pigs first and then slowly expand the scale.
After the news of Liu Yan's decision to raise pigs on a large scale came out, it became a hot topic in Dapanbao.
Miao Shao, the flag officer, was sent by Liu Yan to buy piglets, chickens, ducks, fish fry, lambs and other livestock. Miao Shao immediately brought a team of Dunjun soldiers, enough money, and some experienced veterans. The military households and others went straight to the Ancient Town Inspection Department, and then to Lingshan Acropolis, and finally bought all the livestock seedlings Liu Yan needed.
While Miao Shao led people to buy livestock breeds, Liu Yan also mobilized a group of Dapanbao military households to build a livestock farm in the Xitong Canal area, and also dug two fish ponds near the Nanhe River. Prepare to raise fish.
Of course, pigs, sheep, etc. cannot be kept inside the fort, so they have to be built outside the fort. At the end of the Xitong Canal, this place has been silted up and abandoned. Due to the water diverted by large water trucks to irrigate the fields, the water flows here and forms a puddle.
Liu Yan had two fish ponds dug here, raised soil above the fish ponds, and built several pig pens here. Next to the pig pen, some duck pens and chicken pens were built.
From now on, pigs will eat pig grass and chaff, and chickens and ducks will either eat pig manure or go out to find food on their own. The fish in the pond below can eat pig manure, chicken manure and duck manure. If you can't eat up all the dung, you can use it to fertilize the fields. This forms a cyclical feeding method.
In addition, not far from the livestock farm, separated by a depression and a ditch, Liu Yan also mobilized some military households to plant more than ten acres of vegetable land there to feed the military households in Dapanbao. Fertilizer for vegetable fields can be obtained from various chicken, duck, and pig manure.
Liu Yan's novel plan not only surprised the military households in Dapanbao, but also the soldiers and civilians from Wangjiazhuang and Xiahe Village's Qianhu Office and the Ancient Town Inspection Department heard about it and came over curiously to watch the excitement.
In fact, Liu Yan's method is not new. This cyclic breeding method was practiced by a family named Tan Xiao in Changshu, Suzhou during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that very good harvests were achieved at that time, but it did not arouse the imperial court's attention. Although it was taken seriously, it was not promoted later.
In the blink of an eye, on November 31st, Miao Shao, the flag officer, returned to Dapanbao with the military households and bought everything Liu Yan wanted.
During this trip, Miao Shao took people to many places, as far as Lingshan Acropolis. When he reported his experience to Liu Yan, he only complained about the high prices in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, a piglet only cost six coins, but now It will take one or two more. In the past, an old sow that could give birth only cost ten taels of silver, but now it has risen to thirteen taels. Including the expenses for buying fish fry and chicken and duck seedlings, the more than 800 taels of silver that Miao Shao brought out this time was not left at all, it was all spent.
But Liu Yan didn't feel bad. Anyway, for him now, a few hundred taels of silver is no longer a big deal. Now that the piglets, fish fry, etc. have been purchased, the Xitongqu livestock farm has begun to officially operate. The military households of Dapanbao and the army can obtain a stable supply of meat. This is the most important thing.
So Liu Yan asked Chen Jiang to select a group of women from Dapanbao, as well as some old and weak men, and some children who were able to work, to herd ducks and sheep, raise pigs and grow vegetables.
Their monthly rations and wages are also paid by the fort, which makes these Dapanbao military households who got jobs very happy. They have another way to subsidize their families, so that their families can live a better life.
At the same time, Miao Shao also brought back a piece of news to Liu Yan: The merchants of the Ancient Town Inspection Department had recently hoarded a lot of iron and coal, and it seemed that they were preparing to make concentrated purchases this winter and next spring.
Liu Yan immediately smiled and said: "That's great. I was just about to stock up on supplies for the Firearms Inspection Department, and someone helped us transport the goods. It looks like I have to go to the Ancient Town Inspection Department again."
