Chapter 109: Jinyiwei actually has a veterinarian (two more updates for Nuanyang 1314 Silver)
"The imperial chef in the imperial dining room dislikes the lack of seasonings and wants Jin Yiwei to collect some cooking seeds from various places!"
After seeing the ladies leave, Chu Yi took the opportunity to come over and report.
"I remember that I brought back a lot of seeds when I came back last time, but the words on them have not been translated yet. I will translate them later and let them be planted in the farm. Among them are many seasoning seeds!"
Don’t talk about anything else, just say one Chinese prickly ash, one chili pepper, onions, ginger, garlic, etc., none of which are available in this era.
Without so many kinds of seasonings, even a good chef can’t make delicious food!
"Jin Yiwei has a brother who used to be a veterinarian and knew how to castrate piglets. The commander of Jin Yiwei, Zhang San, wrote to him that he wanted to raise a large number of pigs on the farm to provide meat for the army and Jin Yiwei!" Chu Yi continued.
"That's right, let him teach more apprentices!"
According to Zhao Wenji, in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of pigs were raised for meat. However, pork in this era was still an extremely low-class food in the hearts of the people, so the commander of the Jinyiwei specifically wrote to ask if he could raise it.
When it came to raising pigs, Zhao Wen remembered that he had only been thinking about increasing grain production, but he had forgotten that he could also increase the variety of meat.
After all, the meat of this era was mainly mutton, and the number of animals raised was extremely rare. As for beef, it was even more difficult to think about. Every head was extremely precious, and the death of one had to be reported to the county government in person by the township chief.
Pigs can give birth to more than ten pigs in one litter, so they are obviously the most suitable for mass breeding.
"Take this veterinarian out and ask him to build a pig farm in the farm. He will not only raise meat pigs, but also more breeding pigs and sows. Record the breeding methods and castration methods. Tell him, if there are
One day, there were pig farms owned by his disciples in every county in Daqin, so I made him a marquis!"
"I will pay as much as it costs to start a pig farm, so he doesn't have to worry about the cost!"
"Yes!" A look of surprise flashed in Chu Yi's eyes. He really didn't expect that just a veterinarian who worked in the streets would have the opportunity to become a marquis just because he wanted to raise pigs.
Not to mention that he was envious of such a good thing, I'm afraid even Zhang San, the commander of the Jin Yiwei, would be envious. But this was someone else's opportunity, and even if he was envious, he couldn't replace it.
I remembered that the most common meats before time travel were pork, chickens and ducks. Since I want to set up a pig farm, I can definitely set up a poultry farm: "In addition, I am looking for someone who is proficient in farming and let him try to use it on the hot kang.
Incubate chickens and ducks under a quilt to see if they can hatch."
Zhao Wenji seemed to have seen this before during his time travel, but didn’t pay much attention to it.
However, chickens and ducks are also meat that can be cultivated in large quantities. Find a few people to lay the foundation first. Even if you can't test it, you can search for it from other worlds if you have the opportunity in the future.
"Yes!" Chu Yi really didn't know that chickens and ducks could be hatched using quilts on the kang, but since His Highness arranged it, someone would definitely do it.
"I'm asking if anyone in Jinyiwei knows how to open a jewelry store. If not, find one. There are too many jewelry and jewelry in the warehouse. Open a jewelry store to get rid of some of them!"
The nobles of the Chu region had obtained too much gold in exchange for their collection of books, so Zhao Wen naturally had to find a way to exchange for some.
"Yes!" Chu Yi respectfully agreed. Manager Liu could handle this matter without asking Jin Yiwei. Compared with Jin Yiwei, an outsider, Chu Yi was naturally more willing to deal with Liu Bang, his immediate boss.
Seeing that His Highness had already made arrangements, Chu Yi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Your Highness, there is one more thing you should pay attention to!"
"Nowadays, the coins of the Chu region are extremely confusing. There are not only those from the original Chu country, but also those from other countries. Even privately minted coins from small southern countries are also circulating in the Chu region. These coins have different weights, and profiteers often use them to deceive.
People!"
Minting coins privately in the Ming Dynasty was a capital crime. If Chu Yi hadn't heard it from the eunuch and the palace maid, Chu Yi would not have known that the coins of the Qin Dynasty would be in such a mess now.
"Doesn't the imperial court have a unified standard for coins?"
Zhao Wen really hasn't bought anything outside since time travel. After thinking about the reforms of the Qin Dynasty carefully, the books have the same text, the cars have the same track, the weights are the same, and the deeds are the same. There really is no unified standard for coins. I can't help but think about it.
Shake his head gently.
"I remember that among the people I brought here this time, there was a casting craftsman. I asked him to collect the coins on the market and re-cast them according to the Qing Dynasty coin standards. He also submitted a letter to the court to unify the weight and standard of the coins!"
"When the new coins come out, an announcement will be made in Jiujiang in my name. No one is allowed to accept privately minted coins!"
Privately minted coins are often extremely rough and can be recognized at a glance, and Jiujiang County is now the surrounding goods distribution center. As long as Jiujiang refuses privately minted coins, standard coins will be able to circulate in a short time.
In the afternoon of that day, news spread that His Highness's farm had purchased live pigs at a high price.
The meat of uncastrated pigs has an extremely strong smell. Even castrated pigs will not taste very good without suitable seasonings, so very few people in this era are willing to eat pork.
However, because pigs reproduce quickly and are easy to feed, some people still raise them. Now His Highness's farm is buying them at a price much higher than the market price. People who raise pigs in the surrounding areas immediately drive away the pigs they raise.
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In the farm, thousands of people were busy building pig houses under the command of a middle-aged man.
Lin Yue never expected that just by being able to castrate pigs, he would have the opportunity to become a marquis. Several hours had passed, but he still remembered the jealousy and envy in the commander's eyes when he told him.
From the moment he received this order, he secretly swore in his heart that he would not hesitate to die from exhaustion for this opportunity.
"Here, all the boars are coming here!"
He shouted loudly to a young man in the farm, turned to look to the other side, and said urgently: "All the uncastrated pigs are sows, and they are all locked up in the pig house over there!"
On the other side, some carpenters are building troughs for pigs.
"come here!"
He waved to a young man not far away, and now all the orphans in Jiujiang and even the surrounding counties were taken into the farm by His Highness. Some even sent their children who could not be raised at home, and His Highness also took them all in.
came down, so there were many young people in the farm.
"Tell everyone outside that I will pay you one copper coin for a hundred pounds of pigweed, as much as you want!"
"Are we also going to harvest what we cut?" The young man's eyes suddenly lit up. It is not easy to find a job to make money, and cutting pigweed is so simple that even a child can do it. Naturally, the young man was not willing to miss this opportunity.
"No matter who it is, as long as it's pigweed, I'll take it from here!"
In just a short time, there were already more than a thousand pigs. These pigs were not castrated, and most of them were sows. After breeding, the number would increase tenfold in a short time.
In addition, pigs eat a lot of grass, so Lin Yue now has as much as he wants.