After distributing things, the soldiers all went on holiday.
Military pay was also paid in advance.
Yang Fan originally thought they would go shopping in Zunhua City.
As a result, for three days in a row, they all slept soundly at home. The rigorous training during this period made them physically and mentally exhausted. I no longer have any interest in playing poker with my wife.
The next day, Yang Fan came to the Qianhu Station outside the castle to inspect the pig farm run by the station.
After all, it is best to make them self-sufficient. It is the right way to be able to develop production to meet demand and form a self-circulation.
This time Yang Fan came without his wife and concubines, so he took Sister Xiang Yi with him to serve him. These twin sisters look very eye-catching in their crisp military uniforms and boots.
This pair of sisters is very popular with Master Yang, and even Xiao Niangpi knows that these are people who are used to serving the master, so they give them some respect.
Outside their military uniforms, they wore modern light brown Burberry windbreakers given by Yang Fan, which cost 80,000 yuan each. The outline of the two beauties' waists makes people unable to take their eyes away.
They were very happy to be out with their master.
People who came from Xinghe Iron Factory, because they were Yang Fan's domestic slaves, they had a sense of superiority and believed that serving the master was their unique right, and others who came after him had no qualifications.
Yang Fan was also dumbfounded. This was the case in this era. House slaves from wealthy families were the envy of poor people.
This pig farm is very large, raising a total of 15,000 pigs for the second senior brother. After all, there are 20,000 people living in the castle.
Yang Fan looked at the pig pen made of cement and green bricks and nodded with satisfaction.
The pig pens are neatly arranged in rows, with concrete floors and smooth sewers.
Employment arrangements can also be made for family members of military personnel.
Women and the elderly feed the pigs and clean the pig pens every day.
Pig manure can be used to accumulate fertilizer. Compost together with the feces in the septic tank of the public toilet in the fort.
Yang Fan looked at it for a while and suddenly realized why all the second senior brothers were black.
They are all short, stubby, and not very big.
"Did you specially select the breed of pigs? They are all black pigs."
After Yang Fan finished speaking, he found that the scene was filled with a strange atmosphere. Everyone looked at Yang Fan in surprise and said nothing.
Xiangyi looked around and said cautiously: "Master, aren't most pigs black?"
"What! They're all black, no white?" Yang Fan was surprised.
Seeing Sister Xiangyi shaking her head in confusion, Yang Fan was a little confused.
He has never raised pigs at home, so he really doesn’t know the situation of pigs, but he remembers that most of the pigs he has seen since he was a child are white pigs.
Yang Fan knew that there must be something going on here that he didn't know about. After the inspection, Yang Fan returned to his office in a three-story building on Tulou Square.
Yang Fan opened his laptop and started researching about China's black pigs.
Yang Fan entered Chinese black pig in Baidu, clicked search, and the results came out quickly.
What the search revealed surprised Yang Fan.
Domesticated pigs have been domesticated in China for at least 5,000 years.
The native pigs domesticated by the Chinese are almost all "black pigs", and only a small part are "spotted pigs". The proportion of spotted pigs is less than 10%. Chinese pigs are all short and thick in body.
There have been no pure white long pigs in China for five thousand years.
The article said that many people born in the 1980s should still recall the scene of raising pigs in the countryside when they were young. At that time, almost all black native pigs were raised.
When people born in the 1990s recall the scene of raising pigs, most of them already see white pigs.
The Chinese people's perception of pig hair color has obviously undergone tremendous changes. What has happened in just a few decades?
It can turn "black pigs" into "white pigs".
Yang Fan frowned. He was born in 2000 and had never seen a black pig before.
He felt a little uneasy. Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and livestock also belongs to the agricultural category and is related to the people's dining tables.
Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people.
This is no small matter.
A shocking title made Yang Fan tremble with fear.
The black pig was completely defeated in the "black and white" battle. China’s native pigs are already on the verge of extinction. It will become the second extinct species after the extinction of native bees in China.
It is currently known that eight Chinese black pig varieties with excellent nutritional value and aroma have been confirmed extinct by the scientific community.
Yang Fan felt uncomfortable in his heart. In recent years, we have lost too many precious things in order to develop our economy.
He still remembered how he felt when he read on the Internet that most of the Chinese bees were extinct.
"China is one of the first countries in the world to domesticate bees, but in modern times, bees are on the verge of extinction."
"Most of the bees you see are Italian bees."
"The bees that fly into our sight in the fields are almost impossible to be native wild bees."
China is one of the earliest countries in the world to domesticate bees, and the word "honey" even appears in oracle bone inscriptions.
But in modern times, China’s native bees are on the verge of extinction.
In Sichuan, medium bees can hide in mountains and forests, but in the north, especially the North China Plain, medium bees that cannot hide in mountains and forests have difficulty surviving the winter and die in large numbers.
"Fortunately, the mountain forests near the Miyun Reservoir have isolated the invasion of Italian bees and provided a small paradise for the Italian bees."
It is said that the bee is currently only found in special protected areas and has become virtually extinct in the natural environment.
He continued browsing to see how the local pigs had fallen to this point. During his time in the Ming Dynasty, he was once surprised by the deliciousness of black pork. When one family made braised pork, the whole village could smell the aroma. Modern white pigs are garbage by comparison.
After checking a lot of information, Yang Fan roughly figured out the ins and outs.
In fact, just like liquor, liquor was made from grain in the past. In the past, most people in the country did not have enough to eat, let alone drink wine. Wine is for rich people.
After Xinhua, when the people are the masters of the country and those exploiters are eliminated, it is a question whether the liquor industry will still exist.
Of course, the common people also had a need to drink. However, there was not enough food to eat at that time, and there were even fewer winemakers. How to ensure that every common person had wine to drink? If it was still produced in small quantities, who would drink it and who would not. In the new society, everyone is equal and naturally has the right to drink.
We can't shut down all the wineries.
So, alcohol-blended wine came out.
This can at least provide a relatively fair solution. Grain wine can be more expensive, but blended wine is definitely affordable for everyone.
The same goes for Chinese black pigs.
Chinese pigs are delicious, just like grain wine, but they take 1-2 years to be ready for slaughter and require a lot of grain. Common people cannot afford this kind of pork.
At that time, in order to improve the living standards of the people and enable most people to afford meat, it was necessary to introduce foreign pig breeds that gain weight quickly, take a short time to be sold, and save feed.
In the 1950s, China introduced "Large White Pigs" from the Soviet Union on a small scale. In the 1960s and 1970s, China introduced "Yorkshire Pigs" from the UK, "Landrace Pigs" from Denmark, and "Duroc Pigs" from the United States on a large scale. .
And these pigs have an obvious sign: they are all white pigs.
These pigs have been crossbred and optimized for several generations to make them more suitable for breeding in China, but the demand is not large and they have not been popularized. At that time, large numbers of native black pigs could still be seen.
In the 1980s, the situation changed dramatically. With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for pork increased sharply.
Everyone suddenly found that there was not enough pork to eat, and the price rose sharply. At this time, the advantages of these "white pigs" were reflected.
China's native black pigs need to be bred for 10-12 months if the standard weight is 200 kilograms, and some breeds even take more than a year to grow to such a large size.
A foreign white pig only needs 5 months to grow to 200-300 pounds.
In addition, white pigs have greater advantages. Compared with black pigs, white pigs are not picky about food, produce more lean meat, and have low feeding costs. In this way, farmers can make more money.
Because the contrast was too obvious, and driven by interests, all over the country, in just a few years, domestic pork dominated by black pigs was defeated by foreign white pigs. From then on, white foreign pigs became everywhere, and the color of pigs in the minds of Chinese people , also gradually changed from black to white.
There are more than these reasons. In addition to high breeding costs, another important reason for the demise of local black pigs is too much fat. Almost all Chinese native pigs are "fatty" pigs, which is also a natural selection in our long-term domestication process.
Historically, people lacked fat, so they liked fat meat. After long-term selection, local pigs tended to be fatter.
When this type of pig native to China grows up, the pig's head will become fat with folds on its face, its legs will be short, its belly will be big, and its belly will often touch the ground.
After the opening up, people became richer and their demand for lean meat was greater than their demand for fat. In this way, "foreign white pigs" that can produce more than 60% lean meat took the lead again and completely replaced the domestic black pigs. disuse.
Yang Fan felt uncomfortable. It was understandable that these measures were taken to improve people's lives. However, as a precious Chinese species resource, these black pigs must not be allowed to become extinct. Today, people's lives have improved and they can afford good, high-quality pork. .
It is a pity that these high-quality pigs have become extinct.
According to a set of official data from 2016, among the 90 unique local pig breeds in my country, 8 breeds have become extinct and 29 breeds are endangered or on the verge of extinction.
The market share of ground pigs dropped from 90% to 2%!
Yang Fan found out that many local dishes must use meat from special pig species. This is also related to food culture.
There is a kind of Chinese native black pig in Zhejiang called "two-headed black pig". The pig's head and buttocks have black hair, and the middle part of the body has white hair. That is the best choice for making Dongpo pork.
There is also an ancient pure black pig breed in the Northeast. If this kind of pig appears in a dream, Northeastern people think it is a bad omen. They call this black pig the "Black Evil God".
Why the Northeastern pork stewed vermicelli, pot-roasted pork, and pork slices are so delicious and famous across the country is because they use local black pigs.
Northeastern cuisine would not taste good without black pork.
In Shandong Province, in some places, the "Licha Black Pig" is famous for its pork head meat.
There is also the "Lingao Suckling Pig" in Lingao, Hainan, which grows up eating rice and dried fish.
There are many, many more, these are super high-quality local black pork with great taste.
Yang Fan is not short of money now, and he gradually begins to care about many things that he was not interested in before. Yang Fan decided to conduct a pig census in the Ming Dynasty to see how many breeds of pigs there were in the Ming Dynasty and how many were not available in modern times. Yang Fan wanted to bring these precious species resources that were lost in the dust of history back to the modern era.
Let these pork products with high nutritional value and good taste reappear on the dining tables of contemporary people. Our country has a vast territory and a wide variety of species. These are precious treasures left to us by our ancestors. We must not lose them all.
We cannot be unworthy descendants.
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