Castrated piglets include not only male piglets but also gilts.
However, Yun Chao is not ready to attack the gilt just yet.
It's not that he has any special hobby for sows, it's mainly that he doesn't need it yet.
Yun Chao's first priority now is to increase the number of pigs. As long as there are no physical problems with the sows, Yun Chao is ready to let them give birth to piglets.
When the equal quantity comes up, it is not too late to consider the quality of the pigs.
Three hundred piglets, almost half of which were boars, were castrated by more than a dozen people in a short time.
It is a pity that despite the personal guidance of Zhao Runchun, the so-called first famous doctor in Qingyang, three poor little piglets still sacrificed their young lives for the dining table of the people of the Dawu Dynasty.
As expected, one of the piglets was tricked to death by Zheng Tu.
For this reason, Wang Laoshuan has always been cold-blooded towards Zheng Tu. If his men hadn't killed two of his men, he might have scolded Zheng Tu bloody.
Yun Chao couldn't help but laugh when he saw Zheng Tu and the two pigherders with their heads hanging down and looking like they had made a big mistake.
"What are you doing? Raise your heads and puff up your chests. Pig breeding is a craft. Since you are learning a craft, you can't succeed just once. Now three little pigs have died, and you are like this. If When a few more die tomorrow, will you still cry like girls?"
"ah?"
After hearing what Yun Chao said, Zheng Tu and the others not only did not feel relieved, but were actually stunned.
"Will these pigs die tomorrow?"
Yun Chao patted their shoulders: "What do you think? Your balls have been cut off. Isn't it normal for a few of them to die?"
These days, there are no antibiotics. Once the wound becomes infected, it doesn't matter how many piglets die. Even people may die, and how many people will die like this.
"Then...what should we do?"
Yun Chao waved his hand: "Nothing to do. I will think about it carefully when I go back, sum up my experience, think about where the mistakes were made, and try not to make them again in the future. This way, we can improve the success rate the next time we breed pigs. Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
Yun Chao saw that everyone's emotions were almost adjusted, so he took Zhao Runchun to see his daughter.
When doing experiments, there is no way to fail. Failure is not terrible. The key is that everyone’s energy cannot be exhausted.
Yunchao doesn't want his men to turn into a bunch of machines that can only do work. He must liberate their minds and let them be brave enough to innovate and try boldly, so that they can accept more new things in the future.
…
"Brother Chao, the charcoal has been delivered. Do you want to go and take a look?"
Zhang Sihai was covered in soot, as if he had just climbed out of a coal pile.
Yun Chao was very happy: "Thank you for your hard work, Sihai. Go back and wash up and change your clothes."
Zhang Sihai was so moved.
It's not easy.
It’s not easy!
It’s been a long time since I heard Brother Chao praise me. I’m so touched!
"Brother Chao, I... I'm not working hard. Pingshan County didn't run away in vain this time. Those mine owners agreed to give us at least a thousand pebbles of coal every month, all at the lowest price..."
Seeing Zhang Sihai moved to tears, several boys around Yun Chao curled their lips.
Deserve it!
You've been following Brother Chao for a long time, but you're the best at making jokes.
If I had known today, why bother in the beginning.
So Brother Zaochao made you the shopkeeper of the Lion House, but you chose to seek your own death. Who can blame you for being in this business now?
Well, by the way, why did this kid Zhang Sihai not call himself "I" just now, but changed it to "I"?
This is a discovery of conscience, are you not going to show off anymore?
…
Now that coal has arrived, Yunchao will not let it sit idle.
The purpose of spending money is to exchange for greater value, not to hoard supplies.
"Wang Dongfeng, find a few people, build an earthen stove, burn it with coal, and see how it goes?"
"ah?"
Wang Dongfeng looked confused: "Brother Chao, I have never burned charcoal. Will our wood stove work well?"
Yun Chao shook his head: "Forget it, find some masons and I will guide them myself."
There are craftsmen and a labor force, and it is not easy to build a coal stove.
The principle of this thing is very similar to that of a wood stove. Anyone with a little life experience will know what is going on at a glance.
Yun Chao has never eaten pork, and has seen pigs running away. In his previous life, when he was a child in his hometown, people often served this kind of coal-fired earthen stove. Whether it was a wedding or a funeral, rural people often served this kind of stove when they held banquets. .
A bricklayer can even build a house, so how difficult is it to build an earthen stove?
These days, many craftsmen are multi-talented, just like general practitioners, who can cure all the problems of the whole body. Unlike later generations of doctors who have such a detailed division of labor, a doctor who can treat teeth cannot cure fingers at all.
After the earthen stove was ready, Yun Chao asked people to start lighting the fire before it was allowed to dry.
I selected some relatively fine coal, mixed it with loess, added water to make it into a paste, and shoveled it into the earthen stove.
Use an iron bar to poke several holes in the coal paste in the stove from top to bottom.
Then light a fire in the fire chamber below the stove and ignite the coals above.
Not long after, the coal in the earthen stove was ignited.
A strange smell, accompanied by thick coal smoke, made many people cough uncontrollably.
Yun Chao waved his hand and motioned for everyone to step back.
Although the earthen stoves are placed in the open air and the soot smoke does not kill people, inhaling too much is not good and is harmful to health.
"Brother Chao, is such a big charcoal smoke poisonous?"
Not many people in Wolong Village, Sanshui Town, or even Qingyang County have ever burned coal.
Therefore, all of Yun Chao's men were unsure and seriously doubted that this kind of charcoal could poison people to death.
Carboniferous and charcoal should be the same thing in everyone's mind.
Charcoal is poisonous and can poison people to death when burning a fire in the house in winter, so this kind of charcoal should be similar.
Yun Chao nodded: "It is poisonous, and this kind of coal is bituminous coal, which is more poisonous. Smelling it is bad for your health."
"ah?"
Everyone stepped back some distance: "Then...then we still need to use it?"
Knowing that Pingshan County produces bituminous coal, Yun Chao is in a good mood. If he wants to make coke, bituminous coal is the most suitable.
"I don't use this coal to make fires and cook, I use it to make iron."
"Ironmaking?"
Everyone was confused, they knew very little about iron smelting.
Fortunately, there are still a few knowledgeable people, such as the blacksmiths.
Tang Long first raised an objection: "My dear friend, it is not easy to use charcoal to make iron. The iron produced is very brittle..."
Yun Chao waved his hand to stop him from continuing.
There are some things that can be made public, and there are some things that Yunchao doesn't want to make public.
For example, Yunchao has no intention of making his iron smelting technology known to everyone.
"Lao Tang, don't worry. Since I want to use coal to make iron, I have my own reasons. Come on, come on, come with me, and I'll tell you the specific method!"
