"I think it has something to do with the fact that the places where people raise pigs are relatively clean."
A courtier from a farmer's family guessed after looking at the relatively clean pigs.
Their family had raised pigs before, and no matter how much they cleaned the pig pens every day, the hair on the pigs' bodies would still be dirty in some places, especially the abdomen.
After these two ministers opened their mouths, other ministers also expressed their opinions.
Seeing all the ministers, no one guessed that Emperor Zhaoxing was in a better mood.
Finally, he made his answer public.
Ministers: "..."
No one can guess such a reason!
The person who came up with the idea of castrating pigs is really a capable person who dares to think wildly!
But no matter what, this is the gospel of Quan Daqi!
If pigs can be castrated to gain dozens of kilograms more meat, more people will be able to eat the meat.
"It is said that after castration, the meat of pigs has almost no fishy smell. I will give the meat of this pig to all my dear friends to taste."
Emperor Zhaoxing did not like to eat pork. Although the excerpt from Gan Lixin stated that the pig had no fishy smell, Emperor Zhaoxing still had no interest in trying it.
"I thank the emperor for the reward!"
All the ministers bowed and bowed to express their gratitude.
It is a great achievement to enable more people to eat meat. Emperor Zhaoxing will naturally reward the person who comes up with this method and raises this pig.
As for the reward, Emperor Zhaoxing felt that it looked familiar after seeing the name of the pig farmer.
The eunuch on the side knew what he was thinking and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this Miss Shen is the one who made the windmill, the waterwheel, and discovered the tomato."
"It turned out to be her." Emperor Zhaoxing also remembered, "I didn't expect that this person would do something that benefited the people so quickly."
The Great Eunuch: "Your Majesty, I think this servant may be grateful for the kindness the Emperor has bestowed upon her, and wants to repay the favor, so she worked hard and came up with this move."
Emperor Zhaoxing nodded, he was very impressed by the words of the great eunuch, and he also believed that the great eunuch's words were reasonable.
A peasant girl burst into tears of gratitude after receiving a reward from an emperor, and she worked hard to repay him.
It was him, the emperor, who gave the peasant girl the ambition to make progress.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty!"
Seeing the look on Emperor Zhaoxing's face, all the ministers knew that the words of the great eunuch had touched Emperor Zhaoxing's heart.
Immediately shout out the Holy Spirit.
Wen Chengyuan, the first assistant, lowered his eyes when he saw Emperor Zhaoxing immersed in the sound of "Holy Light".
The Palace of the Minister of Industry.
As soon as Shen Cheng returned home, he told Shen Xiao that Shen Zhiyao had raised more than 200 kilograms of pigs and was rewarded by Emperor Zhaoxing.
"I don't know what the emperor will reward her in the end."
This time, Emperor Zhaoxing did not directly mention the reward for Shen Zhiyao in the court hall.
"Tell me, this girl refused to leave at first, but now that the opportunity has come, why doesn't she want to come back?"
Shen Cheng couldn't quite understand it. After all, in his understanding, Shen Zhiyao was someone who could come and go as soon as they called her.
"Perhaps, over the past year or so, she has changed a lot."
Shen Xiao had not seen Shen Zhiyao in person. When he heard the news about her from Shen Cheng, he felt that Shen Zhiyao now did not look like the person they knew.
But it has been more than a year, and it is normal for people to change.
"Father, mother has sent Shen Zhiyao more than a dozen letters. The content of Shen Zhiyao's replies every time is very perfunctory. It seems that she will probably not come back."
When Shen Zhiyao was mentioned, Shen Xiao thought of Xiangxiang.
Last time he wrote to Xiangxiang, asking her to get close to Shen Zhiyao, and to persuade Shen Zhiyao to come to the capital without leaving any trace.
Unexpectedly, Xiangxiang never replied to him.
Not long ago, he learned that Xiangxiang left Tongfang County shortly after he wrote that letter, and now there is no news.
"If there's nothing going on with Shen Zhiyao, dad, let's think of other ways."
After saying this, Shen Xiao returned to the Imperial College. Now he is studying in the Imperial College and preparing for the next spring.
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Nearly ten days later, Emperor Zhaoxing's reward came.
When the imperial edict arrived, Shen Zhiyao was at Zhuangzi and asked people to fish in the pond.
The fish in her pond have grown large enough to be fished.
"Girl, Gan, Mr. Gan is here. There is also a white-faced father-in-law with Mr. Gan, asking you to go out to receive the order."
Mrs. Sun walked to the pond in a panic and brought the news to Shen Zhiyao.
Hearing this, Shen Zhiyao asked the fisherman to continue. After tidying up her clothes, she went to the gate.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: Shen Zhiyao, the daughter of the Shen family in Tongfang County, is now... specially canonized as the head of the county. I express my gratitude for this."
The white-faced eunuch closed the imperial edict and handed it to Shen Zhiyao: "County Lord, please accept the edict."
"The daughter of the people thanks the Emperor for his kindness. Long live the Emperor. Long live the Emperor."
Shen Zhiyao moved his hands forward, took the imperial edict from the white-faced eunuch, and then straightened up.
He gave the white-faced eunuch a bag of silver.
In addition to making her the county head, Emperor Zhaoxing also rewarded her with some brocade and jewelry.
After the white-faced eunuch and Gan Lixin left, Shen Zhiyao took the imperial edict and looked at the boxes of rewards, her surprise still not dissipated.
Does this mean the county lord is sealed?
A bit casual.
However, for her, this is a good thing.
With the status of county leader, she has an extra layer of talisman in Tongfang County.
The news that Shen Zhiyao was named the County Lord spread like wildfire in Tongfang County.
After learning about this, Patriarch Shen excitedly invited Shen Zhiyao back, opened an ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, and informed his ancestors about this.
The Shen family actually has a county head!
What a blessing from our ancestors!
From now on, he will definitely order his clan members not to cause trouble and not to ruin the reputation of the county lord.
After worshiping her ancestors in Lihua Village, Shen Zhiyao went back not long after.
Back at the village, while she was waiting for people to haul the fish out of the pond and drag them to the dock to sell, she saw an old woman standing in Mao Dazhuang's yard from a distance, seemingly acting out.
It wasn't until evening that Shen Zhiyao saw Mao Dazhuang's mother-in-law, Aunt Wu, and realized that it was Mao Dazhuang's own mother who was causing trouble in Mao Dazhuang's yard today.
It turned out that after Mao Dazhuang and Madam Wu got married, Madam Wu gave birth to a daughter for the first time. At the time of delivery, Madam Wu almost had to go through hell and waste all her efforts before giving birth to Mao Chunyu.
After giving birth to Mao Chunyu, Mrs. Wu was unable to regenerate due to physical reasons.
After learning about this, Mao Dazhuang's father could not see Mao Dazhuang without a son, and asked Mao Dazhuang to divorce Lady Wu and remarry her.
But Mao Dazhuang refused, so he wanted Mrs. Wu alone, and he didn't care whether he had a son or not.
In the end, Mao Dazhuang and Mrs. Wu left their homes and were separated, so Mao Dazhuang became a sharecropper.
Mrs. Wu was also the only daughter of her parents. Her father passed away not two years after she and Mao Dazhuang were separated.
Then, Mao Dazhuang proposed to take over his mother-in-law, Aunt Wu, to live together.
Today, Mao Dazhuang's mother-in-law came to ask for money from him.
