Half a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Yuanzhang finished understanding the situation.
"Don't be anxious, Biao'er. If you just hold the imperial examination and give the number one scholar, it will kill Xiaqiu Village. It's good as it is now. Let's go have mutton soup with you at noon."
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't do that kind of thing. Opening an imperial examination for one person was simply crazy.
Zhu Biao calmed down: "They have trained their manpower, do they want to build a livestock transfer station?"
"Bring the map, let's do some calculations to see where there are transfer sites. This is not just a transfer site, it can also be a breeding ground, especially for poultry."
Zhu Yuanzhang was already accustomed to how powerful the masters of Xiaqiu Village were. It looked like a staging ground, but in fact there were many ways to do it!
People who go to work in Xiaqiu Village must learn how to hatch poultry and let the big poultry take the smaller ones.
When they arrive at the transfer yard outside, the poultry they raise can provide seedlings for the people around them.
When the livestock and poultry in people's homes are sick, they must go to them for help.
A transfer station can help people in a large area and teach them the knowledge of breeding.
When they plant the fields again and the people see that the yield is higher than their own, they still have to ask them.
It should be called a place of knowledge. It is better than sending people from the yamen to teach the people alone.
Officials follow a script, and people in Xiaqiu Village must be proficient in practical operations.
In fact, Xiaqiu Village should not pay them wages. The skills they learned in Xiaqiu Village can allow them to make money easily.
After finding the map, Zhu Yuanzhang told his son what he had thought of.
"Dad, the experts in Xiaqiu Village are really foresighted! It's a pity that they don't raise rabbits. There are many places suitable for raising rabbits, but they can't raise bamboo rats."
Zhu Biao found that there was a gap between himself and his father, and he still had to learn.
"It's simple. Just tell them when you go to drink mutton soup, and they will raise rabbits.
The transfer yard outside is indeed suitable for raising rabbits. Rabbit meat is also meat, and rabbit skin is also good.
To raise livestock, you must have pasture. Rabbits can give birth to many babies in one litter and grow quickly.
But it's not easy to raise, and it dies accidentally, and you don't even know why. "
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was not easy to raise a large number of rabbits, so he died not knowing what was going on.
Zhu Biao: "..."
He decided to give it a try and ask about it. His father said it was difficult to raise and told Xiaqiu Village to talk to him.
The father and son looked at the map. The main places started from Sichuan, then went northwest and then north.
There are a large number of livestock in these places, so the transfer yards must also be built to match this range and gradually extend to the south of the Yangtze River.
It was only at the second moment that the father and son stopped until their eyes hurt.
"Let's go! There are still two quarters of an hour until noon. Let's go first and call your mother and Concubine Sun. They should go to the Crown Prince's Mansion to see the Crown Princess first.
Others also called. It was hot and it was boring to stay in the palace. Seeing that it was only two days to ten days, let the children go over to play. "
Zhu Yuanzhang had a rough plan in mind. He looked at the time and went out to eat.
When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao arrived, Zhu Xiang was already helping. Of course he would come here to eat the mutton soup.
Zhu Wentian was cutting the meat, and for a while he was frying the mutton with onions in a large pot. If he didn't stir-fry the mutton blood, he would put the mutton blood into the mutton soup bowl.
There will be fried belly, grilled lamb face and hand-caught lamb chops, and the lamb tendons will be grilled and eaten by the children, together with the lamb skewers.
The braised lamb tail is just that, it’s not enough to share with too many people, so it’s ranked down according to status.
The biggest difference between braised in red and braised in soy sauce is that the former uses sweet noodle sauce and the lid of the pot is not opened during the whole process.
The children can also play with the lamb spine. They don’t need to chew it too clean, otherwise it will waste their tongues. It doesn’t matter if there is some meat left, and they can be thrown to the dogs together with the bones.
The dogs in Xiaqiu Village will not be let out when outsiders are around to avoid biting people.
Zhu Xi was chopping green onions. He was very good at knife skills. He could not starve to death by himself.
Zhu Biao went to the village chief: "Zhu Lizhang, will our village raise rabbits?"
His voice was low, because he was afraid that the other party would say he couldn't, which would cause him to lose face.
"Yes! Oh! His Royal Highness, are you talking about breeding in the transit farm? Tomorrow, Xiaqiu Village will start raising rabbits. Once you have raised them, teach them."
The headmaster nodded, yes, with Hanhan here, he can do anything.
"I heard that rabbits are difficult to raise." Zhu Biao felt that his father was right and asked if Xiaqiu Village was fine.
"Actually, it's a matter of cleanliness. The inside of the rabbit cage must be clean, the grass it eats must be clean, and if you need to drink water, boil the water and let it cool.
If the grass is dewy, it must be dried well after feeding the rabbits.
When there is no other food but only dewy grass, wash the grass with cold boiled water and then shake off the water as much as possible.
When the rabbit is pregnant, remember to feed bean cakes and wheat bran are also good. If you give it to the rabbit, if the rabbit does not refuse, it means there is a lack of phosphorus.
When raising rabbits intensively, you need to give them a little salt occasionally. If you eat too much, they will die. This is not allowed if salt is not available in the food.
I'll write it down later, Your Highness, you will read it again. Raising rabbits is indeed quite troublesome, but not all places can raise bamboo rats. "
The director briefly introduced how to raise rabbits, but there are too many more details to write.
Zhu Biao: "..."
People from the palace arrived one after another, and the children were the happiest. They finally came out again. They also brought toys to play with their little friends.
Drinking mutton soup is secondary to them, being able to play with the children in Xiaqiu Village is more important.
Even babies who have just learned to crawl can share a common language with the same babies in Xiaqiu Village, where they are drooling and trying to 'speak' to communicate.
The other women naturally chatted with the women in the village, listened to interesting things outside, and then looked at each other's celebrities.
Nühong is needlework, including making clothes, shoes, and embroidery.
The women in the palace and the women in Xiaqiu Village had learned to darn before. This kind of darning is seamless darning, especially for damaged silk, satin and other expensive things.
If the hole is not big, you can use darning to repair it. After the darning is done, if you don’t look at the back but only the front, you won’t be able to find that it has been damaged without looking carefully.
Now this craft has been spread, and those who are good at embroidery will make money by darning for others.
Today, the women in the palace saw women from Xiaqiu Village knitting sweaters. Rolls of wool were laid out, and then they were weaved back and forth with bamboo needles.
Everyone knows how to knit, but is this thread made of wool? Use it to knit clothes?
Queen Ma asked and got the answer that this sweater is very suitable for Nanjing in winter, especially when the water freezes and melts quickly, and it snows again.
With this extra piece of clothing, you will be very warm. Wear it under the outer coat, not outside, as it is breathable.
At the same time, this kind of woolen clothes can consume a lot of wool, and the wool does not have to be made into felt, wool, etc.
By weaving into threads, you can make clothes and wear them to keep warm. People in the areas north of the Yangtze River, or north of the Yellow River, have an extra layer of protection in winter.
(End of chapter)
