It was also noon, Xuancheng County Magistrate Li Guan took several government servants to have dinner in Shuanghuang Village.
All literate people in the county were sent to each village to explain what to do if livestock got sick, and it was best to prevent them from getting sick in advance.
He found that this was a normal village, and the villagers were so stupid! I've told it over and over again, but I just can't remember it.
He missed Xiaqiu Village. He didn't need to explain it himself. There were no problems with the livestock and poultry raised there.
I also raise a bunch of bamboo rats and rabbits. If you get tired of eating pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese, you can change your taste.
I was raised to waste before, eating meat in the village and delivering meat to my home.
Now……
"Qianshi! The court has an order that when officials go to places, they must provide food and food. If you don't accept it, where do you want to trap me?"
Li Zhixian told Huang Qianshi, the head of Shuanghuang Village, that he would hand over grain to him and four government officials, ten kilograms of rice, in the shell.
"The magistrate said so, I, I will accept it, you are a good official!"
After Huang Qianshi declined twice, he took the bag with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Just an ordinary official." Li Zhixian shook his head and ate.
Rice is served for lunch in Shuanghuang Village. Locally grown rice is served. There are two dishes, one is dried eggplant stewed with lard residue, and the other is stewed radish with crab. The radish is not yet peeled.
The table next to me only had lard residue and dried eggplants, but no crabs.
Li Zhixian also tried his best to eat the previous dish. He was afraid of crabs and didn't want to eat them.
This year, Xiaqiu Village taught others how to make crab baskets. When Xiaqiu Village caught crabs itself, they did not sell them. Instead, they ate part of the crabs and kept the other part as drunken crabs.
The crab in Shuanghuang Village should be dead and cannot be sold, right? You make money selling crabs, don’t you know how to make braised pork for me?
How hard have I worked? I've been to your poor village three times and you, the village chief, can't remember it. Why do you know so little about it?
Aren't you ashamed? It's a good idea to have the same elders as the boss, and you can still copy books by yourself!
Look at the children in Xiaqiu Village. They recite and write, memorize formulas, and have an abacus every day.
If you learn simple livestock disease prevention and treatment methods, I can go to Xiaqiu Village.
Thinking like this, Li Zhixian found that Hanhan, the village guard in Xiaqiu Village, looked more pleasing to the eye than Huang Qianshili in front of him.
The four government officials were lucky enough to sit at the main table, but they would rather go to Xiaqiu Village and sit at the next table than sit in the good seats in this village.
When eating in Xiaqiu Village, when did you have less than four dishes? Even breakfast is served with a bunch of side dishes.
What's more important is the atmosphere of the meal. Everyone in the village eats together, with smiles on their faces.
There are two tables in Shuanghuang Village. The people at the other table have sad faces. Some people look into the bowl of crab stewed with radish on this table from time to time.
Is it possible for your village to make more copies of the same dish? It's better to go outside and eat dry food by yourself.
Someone in Xiaqiu Village also looked around and saw that the food was not enough, so he immediately added more food.
This place is not far from Xiaqiu Village. How about riding two horses there and bringing some food back?
In a bad mood, everyone ate quickly. After finishing the meal, Li Zhixian continued to talk, even though he was unwilling to do so.
Thinking about it again, other colleagues are in a similar situation and have a psychological balance. Let’s teach quickly! Why not stay in Xiaqiu Village for two days before the Chinese New Year?
Lizhi County is still doing well, but when livestock in other villages get really sick, the officials can only take care of the animals by giving them medicine and taking care of them.
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Zhu Yuanzhang, who was also having lunch, was in a happy mood. He didn't care whether the officials were working hard or not. After the decree was issued, he was idle and not working in winter?
Today he ate roast duck with shrimp oil side dishes sent from the village, and nothing else was needed.
"Boss, please eat more, you are tired from class." Queen Ma rolled up roast duck for her son.
Zhu Biao received a strict education. He held the plate with both hands and said, "Mom, eat it. Dad, is the court short of medicine? Animals need a lot of medicine when they are sick."
Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of the duck soup and put down his hand: "It's not very lacking. This book on veterinary treatment is very good. It contains mostly hard-to-find medicines. There is no ginseng, velvet antler, ganoderma and other medicinal materials."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked people at Taiyuan Hospital whether the medicine was expensive, but if it was expensive, it would not be worth giving to livestock, and the price would be higher than the livestock themselves.
For some medicinal materials that are difficult to find locally, there are alternatives that are cheaper but less effective.
To what extent do we need to know the symptoms, properties, and effects of the medicine before we can give a prescription?
Treating animals like this, what about humans? Better medicines will be available. It’s not an exaggeration to call him a master of Chinese medicine.
"Dad, why don't you give him an iron coupon for the alchemy book?" Zhu Biao felt that he should be praised.
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head slightly: "If you have it in your heart, you have it. It is better not to give it than to give it."
"Besides, we don't know the other party's name, so we can't just give it to the chief." Queen Ma added from the side.
Zhu Biao seemed to have thought of something and changed the subject: "Last time I sent a hundred prescriptions, some of which were imported. Although there are substitutes, they are not as good as the original ones. We should ask more foreigners to send them to Ming Dynasty."
"My son's words are true. Sell them more rock sugar and soap. The roast duck in the restaurants of Sanshishibo is just as the letter says. Foreigners like to eat it and are willing to buy it at a high price."
Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy when he said this. He wanted to make money from foreigners. The roast duck produced in the palace could only be sold for 600 yuan each. How much did the duck cost?
The key is a duck. You can buy it and take it away for 600 coins. You can eat it in a restaurant as a set meal for four people with pancakes, green onions, sauce, etc. The same duck costs 1,000 coins.
How can that person make money so well? Foreigners still have to eat set meals because there is no place to buy sauce, and the sauce for roast duck is different from black bean sauce.
It's equivalent to one or two silver dollars for a roast duck meal for a family of three.
If Guanglu Temple dares to repay me one tael of silver, no, one hundred wen, I will kill them all.
I gave it to you after I got the prescription from the village. How dare you lie to me? Do you want to make extra money from me?
If not, you get your salary and everything else is cost.
Zhu Yuanzhang ate and thought happily. He had already felt the problem of trade surplus and deficit.
In the past, good silk and porcelain were always sold to foreigners. Making those things was also very troublesome and the profit was low.
After going outside, the profits were higher, and they made off the huge price difference.
"I don't know if he is busy, Biao'er, you can write a letter tomorrow and ask if there are any other ways to make money from foreigners.
I guess he is not short of money, and the village has plenty of money to spend. What does he want? We will give whatever we have. "
Zhu Yuanzhang decided to make an exchange. Every time he made the exchange, he did not suffer any loss, and the other party seemed not to suffer any loss either.
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Zhu Wentian didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang was planning on himself, so he continued to lead people to burn glass in the afternoon.
His pursuit is simple. As long as he produces colorless glass, other colored glass will be easy to handle. Adding different things will change the color.
They even specialize in burning glass of special colors, and then melt it with colorless glass to make colorful glassware.
For example, a glass flower with green leaves is melted and shaped layer by layer, heated again and again with new materials, and finally a glass flower with gradually changing petal colors is obtained.
The color is similar to that of fireworks. Adding different metal powders will result in different colors after burning.
