"In addition, Lingnan will produce a kind of sugar called sucrose, which is much sweeter than beets. When it is shipped to Xianyang, we can make some sweet dishes."
I suddenly remembered something: "Are there any people raising pigs around Xianyang?"
"Uh." Ying Lan looked at Baling, who shook his head with a confused look on his face.
"Your Majesty, I have never understood this. Generally, no one raises pigs except for farming to accumulate fertilizer, and for the sake of reproduction, there are very few pigs."
Xiangyun interrupted: "Sister Lan, what do you mean?"
Baling looked at Ying Lan with curiosity on his face.
Ying Lan's face turned red. She also accidentally heard about it when the eunuchs in the previous palace chatted. A girl is naturally shy to speak.
When I looked at her look, I couldn't help but feel a little funny. Shi Shiran said, "It's just a castrated pig."
Baling still didn't understand. Xiangyun continued to ask curiously: "Your Majesty, what is a castrated pig?"
I put down my chopsticks and said seriously: "Just cut the pig's thing like a eunuch!"
Ba Ling exclaimed, threw away the chopsticks in his hand, and the clouds rose up on his cheeks like Ying Lan, obviously he understood.
Seeing that Xiangyun wanted to continue asking, I couldn't bear it anymore and quickly said: "Children can't listen to this. You will know when you grow up."
Xiangyun curled his lips and did not continue to ask.
I looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "What's so shy about this? There is a saying in the Book of Changes: The fangs of pigs are lucky. Even the saints avoid it, but you are so shy."
Judging from the expressions of the two of them, it is obvious that they do not want to discuss castration with the saint...
I continued: "Ying Lan, you should raise some by yourself and don't feed those messy things. You can still make many dishes with pig pigs. The recipe I asked Cook Jia to give you contains many recipes for pig pigs. You can find them Come and try it and you will know."
In this day and age, pigs are fed with human excrement, so it’s better to raise it yourself, otherwise it would be too disgusting to eat pork that has been eaten with feces...
"Nowadays, pigs are rarely used for food. They have two most important functions: the first is to sacrifice. The three most important animals for sacrifice are cattle, sheep and pigs. This shows that the status of pigs is not low. The second is to make compost."
“As for why I rarely eat it, there are only four reasons:
The most important reason is that pigs are mainly used for compost among the people, so they need to produce offspring and continue to raise them, and they are generally not castrated. No one would want to eat the taste of uncastrated pigs.
For the two, Zuo Qiuming said in "Guoyu": The emperor eats too much, the princes eat cattle, the ministers eat sheep, and the officials eat hogs. It can be seen that people of my status eat beef and sheep, but not much hog meat;
All three are now black pigs, not white pigs. The meat of black pig is not very tasty, and you are not very good at handling the internal organs;
Finally, pigs can be eaten and are insatiable. Folks believe that eating pigs will make people as lazy as pigs;"
"But I don't think this is a big deal. As long as it's delicious, people will naturally come to eat it."
Ying Lan nodded, the embarrassment gone from his face: "Then I'll ask Li Qing to find the boss and give it a try first."
"Yeah." I responded: "But there is one thing I have to remind you. Don't reveal the recipe I gave you. For example, the method of making pork meat. If it is profitable, many people will choose to use grain to raise it. The pigs, or most of the pigs, will be castrated, which will have a great negative impact on Daqin's grain production, so there is no need for iron pots or anything like that."
Ying Lan said solemnly: "Lan understands."
After eating, I felt much better and was about to take Meng He back to Sihai Palace, when I suddenly remembered the land purchase.
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that Li Si also has several properties outside the city. Remember to stay away from him..."
From now on, he will mainly produce saltpeter. If it suddenly explodes one day, it will also blow up Yinglan's fields...
Ying Lan thought I meant not to compete with Li Si for land, so she quickly said: "Lan understands."
Then I took Meng He to Xianyang Palace and passed by Weishui Bieyuan. I changed my mind and took Meng He around to Bieyuan.
Yuchi went to hand over to Zhang Han and Qi Liang. Only Han Xin and some craftsmen and sergeants were in the garden.
When Han Xin saw me arriving, he quickly stepped forward and saluted: "See you, Your Majesty."
I smiled slightly: "No need to be polite. I was passing by and came to see you."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I am sincerely frightened." At my signal, Han Xin took me around the garden.
Walking to the school field, I patted the horizontal bar in the field: "Do you know what this is for?"
Han Xin shook his head: "Your Majesty, I don't know."
I walked under the horizontal bar, jumped up suddenly, and was about to do a pull-up to show him, but I felt my arms went weak and fell directly, almost falling to the ground.
Han and Xin quickly stepped forward to help me: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
I smiled awkwardly, pretending to be a failure! This Fusu's body is too weak. It seems that he will need to strengthen his training in the future.
"It's okay, it's just like what I just demonstrated. Pull up with both arms and pass the head over the bar. It can exercise the soldier's arm strength and shoulder strength. I will teach you how to use it when all the things here are installed. .”
Then we walked around in a circle and found that except for the single bridges, parallel bars, and barbells that were not all in place on the school grounds, even the lake next to it had been transformed into a training ground for armed swimming.
The rain had stopped and the sun was a little scorching. Han Xin and I walked to the lake and stood under the shade of a tree.
"Your Majesty, during the great victory on the grassland, has Xin's strategy been used?" Han Xin wanted to know how his strategy was.
I smiled slightly: "If the Wolf Court is closer, it is indeed a good idea."
Han Xin was stunned: "What does your Majesty mean?"
I smiled bitterly: "The two of us thought very well, but we ignored the biggest problem. The Wolf Court is thousands of miles away from Yunzhong, and the most critical suspect has no effect at all."
Then I briefly told him about the Western Front.
Han Xin quickly apologized: "Xin lacked experience in leading troops and had never been to the border, which almost put His Majesty in danger."
"It's not your fault. I didn't know about this until I got to Shangjun. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the generals leading the army can't respond in time, let alone you who are thousands of miles away." This matter was originally my fault, so underestimated There was a war.
"By the way, did Yuchi give you an official position?"
Han Xin responded: "Your Majesty, Xin has no military exploits and no suggestions. How dare you accept an official position in vain?"
"Hmm..." I thought for a moment and said, "Well, after this is over, you can choose to go to Hexi. I have big plans for there in the future. It's just that the environment there is much worse than Guanzhong, and the city is still under construction. I don't know. Are you willing?"
Han Xin was overjoyed: "Your Majesty is willing to give Xin a chance, how dare Xin be picky."
I nodded: "Okay, you go find Meng Hanyu. He is in Zhangye and is currently the supervisor of Hexi and the governor of Zhangye. However, Hexi, like Donghu, has a special situation. His supervisor is bigger than the governor of the other four counties. You After you go there, you will start as a captain of thousands. Whether you can be promoted based on military merit in the future depends on your own ability."
Such people are like birds in a cage in Xianyang, which is a pity. If he can endure the loneliness and start as a captain, I believe he will have a different life trajectory from the history books. If he felt that he was overqualified and left without saying goodbye, that would be fine. Xiao He would never persuade him to stay.
Having said that, for a person who has no experience in leading troops, a commander is not considered a minor official...
