Song Tuanyuan was stunned for a moment and asked shopkeeper Song to take her to have a look.
At the gate of the city, Shopkeeper Song's Gulu soup was overturned and flowed all over the floor. Standing beside it were several men with fierce looks. One of the men was very angry and was still cursing. The people around him also pointed Pointing.
Song Tuanyuan stepped forward, looked at those people, they were all unfamiliar faces he had never seen before, and asked: "Why do these heroes do this? Is there a reason?"
One of the bearded men shouted: "We are merchants. We just arrived here and saw that the food was good. We wanted to eat a few bowls before leaving, but we didn't expect that the cooked meat turned out to be camel meat! Do you know that our generation There are many deserts, and we rely on camels to transport goods. There are few cattle and horses. I didn’t expect you to eat camel meat. How can you be worthy of them working so hard to bring us food?”
At this moment, Shen Lin came with someone and said a few words in front of Song Tuanyuan, and Song Tuanyuan nodded.
Shen Lin stepped forward and briefly spoke to that person, and those people quickly apologized to Song Tuanyuan.
"I didn't know this stall belonged to the Ji family. I'm so rude!" said the bearded man.
Song Tuanyuan looked at him: "Aren't you going to fight for the loss of the camel?"
The big man quickly waved his hands and left dejectedly.
Shen Lin stepped forward and said: "These are a few gangsters who want to receive protection money. They have been hanging out in Annan County these days and have been warned several times. This time they want to take advantage of the opportunity to leave and blackmail them again. It ended up hitting Madam on the head!"
Song Tuanyuan nodded, but looked at the pot of soup poured on the ground. It was a waste. There was still a lot of meat and vegetables in it!
"Let's put it away, wash it, and eat it ourselves. We won't do business today!" Shopkeeper Song said.
Song Tuanyuan asked: "Shopkeeper Song, where did this camel come from?"
Shopkeeper Song quickly said: "These camels were sold to us by farmers. Don't worry, they were all paid for in real money and not stolen!"
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is, can we consider using pork instead of camel meat?" Song Tuanyuan asked.
"Pork?" Shopkeeper Song was stunned for a moment, "Most of the people in this city are cows and horses, horse-drawn carts, and cows plow the land. There is a large area of land outside the city, except for the desert, which is grassland, so cattle, sheep and camels are the most common ones. As for the pigs , saying that they don’t like eating grass very much and like to eat grains. The cost of breeding is too high, and the price is more expensive than camel meat!”
Song Tuanyuan thought for a while, and indeed, it was because it was easy to raise camels in this generation, and the Gulu soup was made from camel meat. Pork was indeed scarce, and it was relatively rare compared to Tiancheng and Taiping cities.
It's just that pigs reproduce faster than cattle, sheep, horses, camels, etc. The number of cattle, sheep, horses, camels, etc. is the upper limit, and pigs can sometimes give birth to more than a dozen. If the feeding method is proper, the pigs can be raised fat. If pigs are strong and strong, the number of pigs will increase, the output will increase, and the price of meat will decrease.
Song Tuanyuan felt that we could start from this idea.
After Song Tuan returned home, he immediately called for the Song family and the Sun family and asked them to find out if there was anyone raising pigs nearby.
"There used to be a pig farmer in Annan County who gave birth to piglets a few days ago, but because there was no food, he planned to kill the sow for meat!" Song said.
Song Tuanyuan quickly asked Mrs. Song to take her there.
In the remote countryside, Song Tuanyuan saw the old sow and a litter of piglets.
The piglets are only ten days old and are very fat and cute, and the sow is also in her prime.
The farmer was very happy when he heard that Song Tuanyuan was interested in buying a pig, and asked for a price of one tael of silver.
The sow weighs 200 kilograms, and with a dozen piglets, the deal is pretty good.
But Song Tuanyuan doesn't plan to take the pigs away. There is no place to raise pigs in the city now. Instead, she wants to persuade other people in the village to come to her house to adopt piglets for free. She provides feeding methods and agrees to wait until the pigs grow up.
Purchased for twenty cents per catty of pig.
Twenty cents per kilogram of hairy pig can be roughly equal to thirty cents per kilogram of pork, which is at least twice as much as selling it yourself.
"This pig eats a lot!" After hearing about this, the villagers came to have a look and were a little excited. After all, pigs grow very fast. It is not a problem to gain twenty or thirty pounds in a month. In the second half of the year, these pigs will all
Being able to eat meat costs close to half a tael of silver at 200 kilograms, but the monthly food problem is not a small one.
"I can provide you with pumpkin seeds, which can be planted in open spaces outside. The yield of these pumpkins is high, and there will be wild vegetables to eat after spring. Plus, I provide free cornmeal mixed feeding!" Song Tuanyuan said.
As soon as the villagers heard that this was not free pig raising, but a little effort, this country effort and effort was the least valuable, they immediately took advantage of it.
After Song Tuanyuan paid the farmer one tael of silver, all the twelve piglets were taken away, and the sow stayed at the farmer's home to continue raising piglets.
Song Tuanyuan asked the Song family to record the names of the adopted people and distribute a certain amount of cornmeal every month. They also discussed with the village chief that if this batch of piglets were raised well, they would use this village as a pig breeding base in the future.
Everyone gets rich.
And in the second half of the year, when she came to pull the pig, it weighed more than 200 kilograms, and the top three heaviest pigs were rewarded with half a tael of silver.
Hearing this, those farmers who had thought they were lucky and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to deprive themselves of cornmeal, immediately made plans. After all, it was really hard to find a way to earn a tael of silver in the past six months!
The village chief also nodded quickly. Seeing that among the twelve adopters, two had outside surnames and were usually not creditworthy, he immediately discussed with Song Tuanyuan and found two other adopters to take over.
Song Tuanyuan took one look and knew that the village chief was interested, so he nodded.
There were only a dozen pigs in this batch. The number was too small. The village chief helped find a few pigs in nearby villages. There were about a hundred pigs and a dozen adult pigs. Song Tuanyuan asked the butcher to kill them first.
Bought it back.
On the second day, Shopkeeper Song started making Gulu soup with pork at his stall.
Although the camel meat is delicious, the pork has the aroma of pork. When the spring breeze blows, the aroma spreads for more than ten miles, attracting many people to the city gate.
Shopkeeper Song was also worried that switching to pork would affect his business. Unexpectedly, business was better than before, and he couldn't close his mouth with laughter.
However, Song Tuanyuan was still worried that the supply of pork was insufficient now. After testing the water, he would still have to use camel meat first, and then use pork in the second half of the year.
But shopkeeper Song tasted the sweetness of using pork, and went to the countryside to find pork himself the next day. As a result, everyone's enthusiasm for raising pigs also increased!
While Song Tuanyuan was busy working, Song Fuxin and his family also arrived in Annan County.
The eighth day of March is the day when Song Tuanyuan and Ji Changan got married!
In a cave, a man in gray clothes entered and saluted the black shadow, "My lord, Song Tuanyuan is getting married to Ji Changan!"