Liu Mingqi is a science man, so she naturally likes people who are very clear about numbers.

Zhao Cunzheng's taste for his appetite is very clear about all the data.

With just a few words, the situation in Xiaoge Village appeared in front of the boy in three-dimensional way.

"That's how you count it, every household has more than a dozen pigs." Liu Mingqi said.

"Yes." Zhao Cunzheng said with a smile, "For your blessing, everyone has made a lot of money by boiling lard. This year is really good!"

"That's good."

Liu Mingqi forgot it, even if each household sells only ten fat pigs, it can increase the income of ten taels of silver.

As a farmer, ten taels of silver a year is really a good income.

"That is, there are too few fat pigs nowadays, not enough to kill them. Otherwise, we would hate to kill pigs every day." Zhao Youjin said with a smile, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

"Everyone kills pigs every day, so everyone has a big pig farm." Liu Mingqi smiled slightly, "But if there are too many pigs, it will be even more troublesome if there are too many pigs."

“You are talking about it.”

Zhao Youjin's face sternly.

When raising these poultry and livestock, the most feared thing is various plagues. At that time, they would not die one or two ends, but the poultry and livestock in the whole village would die.

"How many young and middle-aged people are in your village?" Liu Mingqi asked again.

"There are 133 men in their twenties to forty years in the village, but there are 64 strong women who can stand up to one man." Zhao Youjin said, "The women in the village have been working since childhood, no worse than men."

Liu Mingqi nodded, but did not continue to say anything.

Several people walked while talking and walked into the village in a blink of an eye.

Because the Imperial Palace has been in peace for a long time, the village does not have any defenses such as posts. It is less than two miles to go down the official road and go directly to the entrance of the village.

The village probably built the house in an irregular cross shape. Although it was a bit scattered, there were still spacious roads connected to each other, but these roads were usually made of mud. Once it rained, it was difficult to pull out the two feet when they sank.

Under the leadership of Zhao Youjin, Liu Mingqi walked around more than twenty families at will and found that only a small number of families were cooking lard.

The women followed the method given by Prince Yu's Mansion to cut the oil into pieces and put it in a pot, and mixed it with a scoop of cold water. When the cold water evaporated, the rest were all clear lard.

When the temperature of the lard drops and condenses into milky white oil, it can be put into a clay jar and sold to Lu Gui, and he organized people to hand it to Prince Yu's Mansion.

Lu Gui is not alone, he also has a group of people, otherwise he would not be able to transport all the lard from more than a dozen villages nearby.

Women work, but men are not at home.

When asked about Zhao Youjin, he said that men carried the pork they had killed in the morning and went to nearby markets or even in the capital to sell them.

After all, it is summer now, and the slaughtered pork cannot be stored for a long time. It must be sold as soon as possible, otherwise it will be wasted if it smells bad.

"It's interesting to say." Lu Gui interrupted from the side: "In the past, lean meat was valuable, but fat meat was not valuable. As a result, the price of lean meat has dropped sharply because of the increase in pork slaughter, so the price of lean meat has dropped sharply by half, and you can buy a pound for five cents."

"But because the fat is valuable, in general, everyone has increased their income a lot and they are very happy." Zhao Youjin quickly added.

Liu Mingqi knows the price.

Previously, at the meat stalls inside and outside the capital, the fat meat was 50 cents per pound and the lean meat was 10 cents per pound.

Now it is completely the opposite. Lu Gui bought lard in the village for 25 cents per pound. Even if others charge at a cheap price, it will cost at least 22 cents per pound. However, the price of lean meat plummeted by half because it is too much.

From the perspective of economic principles, this is very normal, but the people must not think so deeply.

Why did Liu Mingqi come to Xiaoge Village?

The reason is that the lard purchased by Lu Gui is of the best quality.

When Chi San asked him, he said that the villagers in Xiaoge Village were the most honest in refining lard and had never been fooled here.

Liu Mingqi happened to find a group of honest and hardworking people, so she came here to inspect.

Judging from the first impression and the various situations that were later random inspections, Xiaoge Village is indeed a simple folk custom.

Well, except for this Zhao Youjin Zhaocun, it's a bit slick.

After watching the refining, I arrived at Zhao Youjin's home. There were already several respected village elders waiting.

After giving a lecture, Liu Mingqi sat in the middle without hesitation.

"Everyone, I'm here today, there's something to entrust you." The young man said directly.

"Your Highness, you can make us think of us if you can do things!" Zhao Youjin said in front of everyone: "You said that as long as we can do it, there will be no other words."

"I want to ask everyone to help me feed some pigs." Liu Mingqi said.

Zhao Youjin and others: "!?"

Everyone had a question mark on their faces, what is this?

Fortunately, Liu Mingqi explained, "The pigs I want to feed are different from what you are feeding now. First, I only have boars born in the past month; second, I need to castrate the boars; third, boars must follow the recipe I gave them to eat in the future, and they are not allowed to eat dirty things."

Zhao Youjin and others + Lu Gui: "!?"

"Your Highness..." Lu Gui is a businessman and wants to be more active, "Do you want to eat pork?"

After he asked this, the villagers present immediately understood.

Feeding boars from scratch, but still feeding them so finely. Why is it not for eating?

Their faces also changed drastically, and even the timids quickly knelt down, their voices filled with crying: "Little Prince, you must not eat it! What should I do if there is a problem with the food? No one in our village can bear this responsibility!"

Zhao Youjin was also a little scared when he cried like this.

If the little prince really had any problems with their pork, he really didn't dare to say what would happen.

After all, he is the prince's prince and the emperor's nephew!

Before Zhao Youjin could speak, Liu Mingqi raised her hand and said, "Don't worry, this matter has nothing to do with you. You just need to do what I said."

After pausing, seeing that they were still worried, Liu Mingqi simply said, "I will ask Prince Yu's Mansion to make a contract for you, indicating that as long as the acceptance is passed, everything has nothing to do with you, right?"

"This...we still can't take responsibility."

"Raising a pig for three taels of silver."

"Little Prince..."

"I am responsible for the food of the pigs for five taels of silver."

"We did it!"

Zhao Youjin stood up and bowed.

The eyes of several old villages beside them were flashing.

It’s like picking up five taels of silver per pig, and you don’t have to produce feed by yourself. Isn’t this the same as picking up for free?

Although it costs a lot of labor to take care of, what is the money that the labor force of the country people means? It is so satisfying to earn so much!

A village elder rushed to ask: "Your Highness, how many boars do you need? Which families should you designate to raise them? Are there any requirements?"

"First one hundred heads, whether you have ones yourself or you buy them outside." Liu Mingqi said, "As for who will raise them, I suggest you come together."

"Together?"

"Yes, I saw that there was a mud and stone open space on the west side of the village? You just built a shed there... Well, I will draw a schematic diagram for you today, and then wait until the piglets are weaned and feed them here."

"But this should be, how should we share the benefits..." The old village wanted to speak but stopped.

"You want to ask how to share the money, right?" Liu Mingqi smiled, looked at his embarrassed expression, and said, "If you want to feed them, you not only cook feed every day, clean the pigpen, but also let them stroll in the bamboo forest... In this case, one person will be sent to each household first! Then, you can share a little bit of each household."

"But you can't get so many people, right?" Zhao Youjin said: "Even if there are 100 pigs, thirty people at best is enough. We have been taking care of pigs for hundreds of years, and we are very skilled."

"The first batch of pigs were taken care of more carefully, so that everyone could learn how to take care of them in another way. This is just the beginning." Liu Mingqi drew a big cake for them and said, "If these hundred pigs are well fed, then the next time there will be five hundred, one thousand or even more. Don't you want it?"

"think!"

Zhao Youjin and others shouted in unison, but their voices didn't look like the old man at all.

Isn't this nonsense?

A pig costs five taels of silver, and a thousand pigs costs five thousand taels of silver.

Each household is divided into about 40 taels. What a huge income. You can be a small landlord!?

"Then do it well. I just send someone to supervise it." Liu Mingqi continued, "But I put my ugly words in front of it. If anyone steals feed to feed his livestock, or asks my pigs to eat those dirty things, I will not only not give you money, but also hold you responsible and you will pay my money."

"Don't worry, we must do it seriously." Zhao Youjin patted his chest and said, "The little prince believes in us and gives us a golden road to make a fortune. Whoever doesn't cherish it or destroy it is the enemy of our entire village!"

"When I come to collect lard, I will help you keep an eye on it. If anyone dares to do anything randomly, I will tell you." Lu Gui also said to the side.

His words caused a group of village elders to blow their beards, but they could do nothing.

Prince Yu's mansion is their great god of wealth, but Lu Gui is also a direct little god of wealth, and he can't afford to offend him.

Of course, Liu Mingqi himself would not relax supervision, but people in this era, especially farmers, are generally simple and timid.
Chapter completed!