Glass lamps were hung up one after another, illuminating the already dark canteen even brighter.
Everyone drank ice-cold rice wine. Each of the sixteen dishes was only a small plate, which felt like it could be eaten in two bites.
The space in the middle of the canteen is freed up for singers and dancers to perform. This prevents someone from whispering and being heard by others, and also prevents silence.
But the sound of the instruments was not loud, it was enough that there was movement nearby and the dancers were swaying around.
They belong to the etiquette team, no one stares at them, usually after others have finished eating, they get the reward and then eat.
Eighteen plates were placed in front of the ministers, sixteen of which contained vegetables. One was used to hold the vegetables, and the other was larger. There were bones in the vegetables that could be spit into.
There were only six dishes in front of the Crown Princess, as was the case for pregnant women in Xiaqiu Village, and there were four dishes that no one else had.
"Li Zhixian, you have to endure hardships in school, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang liked Li Zhixian and asked him to eat at the table next to him.
"Your Majesty, I come back. Every time I come back, I must walk around and take a look.
Check whether the livestock has grown smaller, which pig is the fattest, and whether there are more bees in the beehive.
Overall, it looks just like your own home. And we must learn that when we are an official, we cannot expect all the benefits from Xiaqiu Village.
I am the lord of a county, so it is easy to find an open space in the county.
Outside Xuancheng is Wanxi. There used to be a quarry, but it was unsuitable for farming, so I..."
Li Zhixian revealed the secret that Xuancheng County raised bamboo rats and poultry on its own in the original quarry outside the city.
The market in the city would leave a lot of rotten vegetable leaves at night, and the yamen collected them in front of Guancheng Gate and took them outside to feed bamboo rats and poultry.
Then we found a craftsman. There was basically no stone left in the quarry, but it was enough to produce several sets of stone mills.
Put ten sets of stone mills next to the quarry to grind rice for the people. The people are willing to grind it themselves, free of charge. After grinding it themselves, they will sweep it up and take away the rice husks and so on.
If the people can't push it, they can rent animals with rice husks or wheat bran. After grinding the things, some of the rice husks and wheat bran will be left behind.
These continue to be used to raise bamboo rats and poultry. There is a bamboo forest nearby. The government officials who take a break go to the bamboo forest to cut young bamboo and dig bamboo shoots to feed the bamboo rats.
Bamboo rats give birth to eight litters a year, with several babies in one litter. They can mate in half a year. As long as the food can keep up, the number...
Poultry eggs are usually partially hatched, and the rest are divided among the government and county officials.
If everyone gets the eggs and doesn’t want to eat them themselves, they can save them and exchange them for other things to supplement their family income.
I have been raising bamboo rats for a year and have not killed them yet. I am waiting to kill a batch in a few days so that I can divide the meat and sell the fur, boil the oil and process the rat whiskers.
At night, outside the city, the government officials who came off duty and the county government officials changed shifts to guard the places outside the city to prevent things from being lost.
The reason is that the official tried breeding and learning first, accumulated experience, recorded the process, and ensured safety.
After it is confirmed to be successful, it will be promoted to people in counties in Ningguo Prefecture who are willing to participate in breeding, and help the people become rich.
After Li Zhixian finished speaking, he pursed his lips and looked at His Majesty. Just like this, how could we not do it?
The ministers nearby: "..."
This was the first time they had seen someone who could claim to use public tools for personal use in such a high-sounding way.
After thinking about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it. As for why the poultry eggs are separated? Because I don’t know if there is something wrong with the ones I raised, I’ll try the poison myself first.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled instead: "As long as you don't rob the people of their rice husks and chaff and use them to feed them, how about promoting bamboo rats to the people?"
"Your Majesty, the Xuancheng County under my administration does not need my promotion. The twenty-one villages except Xiaqiu Village will learn from Xiaqiu Village themselves.
Raising pigs, poultry, bamboo rats, raising large livestock, building silos, and raising sheep, including farming.
In the absence of greenhouses, they would do whatever Xiaqiu Village did by other methods.
I just focus on Xiaqiu Village and a few things in the city, and don’t worry about anything else.
The purpose of killing bamboo rats this time was to cooperate with the government and select those with fewer rats.
Only if we find someone to cooperate and let the people know that bamboo rats are valuable will they be willing to breed them.
There are many bamboo forests in the south of the Yangtze River. If they find bamboo rats, the people usually eat them themselves. How can there be many artificially raised rats in the wild?
In addition, if you need medicine, Xiaqiu Village has provided prescriptions for medicines that are cheap and easy to find..."
Li Zhixian talked about Ning Guofu's plan to let the people see the value before they are willing to raise them. At this time, he will tell them what situations they will encounter and what medicine to use.
People who don't believe it can go to the quarry outside to take a look. Many people knew about it before and came to grind rice and take a look.
In the eyes of the common people, the bamboo rat is just a little fleshy, with a small skin that can be used as a small mat or something.
Usually when you see them when digging bamboo shoots, you can catch them if you can. If you catch them, they are good for a meal.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, gestured to Li Zhixian with the wine bowl, and drank by himself.
Li Zhixian was flattered and quickly took a sip.
The ministers heard this and said that the government office of Ningguo Mansion and the county government of Xuancheng County had selfish motives. Yes, they just wanted to increase their income.
However, when people are increasing their income, they really have the people in mind, and they are really trying to breed bamboo rats.
Bamboo rats will get sick, and when raising them, once the female bamboo rats give birth to babies, they must be separated from the male bamboo rats, otherwise the male bamboo rats will bite the babies to death.
In the wild, the female bamboo rat will leave the male bamboo rat and hide if she has baby bamboo rats in her belly.
After the baby bamboo rats are born and can live independently when they are raised, the female bamboo rats will go back to find the previous male bamboo rats.
Then there are more complicated operating methods, otherwise you won’t be able to lay so many nests a year, but the more complicated the operation, the easier it is to have problems.
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After lunch, Li Zhixian and four other officials from Xuancheng County followed Zhu Yuanzhang.
Guan Xian Cheng, Zheng Zhubo, and Wang Dianshi were responsible for introducing poultry farming, bee farming, and eel farming.
Other villages don’t raise eels, so they catch them. Xiaqiu Village must raise eels. They are medicinal and should be eaten fresh at any time.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy as he walked and listened. He hoped that all the local officials in the Ming Dynasty could be like this.
If you find an official at random, there will be no problem with normal paperwork and case judgment.
Then he became familiar with all aspects of people's lives, took out a kind of animal and immediately told him how to raise it and what medicine to use when it was sick.
He knows all the habits of poultry, can hatch them artificially, and can feed the hatched ones to hens, ducks, and geese.
You can also understand the functions and feeding methods of animals and fish that can be used in daily life.
Including honey harvesting to honey shaking, how to control the nesting, etc.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the four people in Li Zhi County with smiles in his eyes, and prepared to let them stay in Xuancheng County and not be busy with promotions.
Xiaqiu Village needs to be stabilized. If the original officials are promoted, I don't know what the new officials are thinking.
When the time comes to cause trouble to Xiaqiu Village, so what if someone is killed? The loss cannot be undone.
Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking this way, and everyone came to the wheat field. The wheat field was golden, which looked dazzling in the sun.
(End of chapter)
