The chicken coop is made of concrete pillars, one and a half feet high, with a wooden shed on top, which is tall and ventilated.
Use fishing nets to make four walls below to prevent weasels from stealing chickens in the middle of the night.
A chicken coop is about one and a half feet long, with a total of three chicken coops side by side.
Other chicken houses are located in other directions to prevent the spread of chicken plague. Even if there are sick chickens, they will not be wiped out. However, it is summer, so there is still a smell.
Kangxi looked around and made no comment, so everyone came out.
Niguzhu was hugged by Xiaosong and couldn't help but lie in her ear and said: "It stinks."
Xiaosong pointed to the forest in the distance and whispered: "There are free-range chickens over there. They don't stink and the meat is strong." The chickens raised in this house are more tender and suitable for roasting. The ones on the mountain are stewed.
Soup is better.
After looking at the chicken coop, everyone added a pig pen.
When he saw clearly the inside of the pig pen, Kangxi's face dropped.
Brother Fifth had been here twice before and knew what the taboos were. Brother Dai Jiu explained: "It was repaired a few years ago. The floor is clean and easy to clean, so the pigs don't get sick." It turns out that the partitions in the pigsty are
The walls and floors are all made of cement.
Brother Jiu also saw that Kangxi had a bad look on his face and explained: "The cement was not taken from the cement kiln of the Ministry of Industry. It was saved when I asked someone to try firing it in Xishan before and used it here."
Kangxi's face turned even darker.
This pigsty is no place for training your son.
When he came out, Kangxi said to Brother Jiu: "Now that we know that cement plus river sand is as hard as stone and is a good building material, why don't we use it on our own house instead of building a pigsty?" What on earth do you think?
Not to mention overkill, isn’t this too wasteful?
This pig house is also divided into a breeding pig house, a sow house, a piglet house, and an adult pig house. Is it necessary to live in such a delicate house?
The ninth elder brother also felt puzzled and said: "Khan Ama, my son's Nabeile Mansion was not repaired until thirty-seven years, and there is no time to repair it." Kangxi: "..."
Brother Jiu saw that he had a dark face, and everyone was holding their breath and concentrating. They were no longer as relaxed as before. They suppressed their anger and said hurriedly: "My son also wants to thank Khan Ama for his kindness. It's all a mansion rewarded by Khan Ama. It's good, too."
I have to praise the Construction Department and the Ministry of Works for their poor intentions. The house was repaired for nothing. I guess we can wait until Fengsheng and the others get married before repairing it."
Kangxi's face turned round. Who doesn't like to hear good words? Especially the truth.
The Queen Mother praised Brother Ninth, smiled lovingly, and said: "Such a clean pigsty is probably the first in the world. No wonder it can raise so many pigs." Brother Ninth came to the Queen Mother, supported the Queen Mother's arm,
I know that this is the Queen Mother giving father and son two steps to go down.
He was grateful in his heart. He was not as elated as usual. He was rare and humble and said: "Royal grandmother, this amount is nothing. According to the records of predecessors, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a poor scholar named Yidun who specialized in raising sows.
Bred cows and ewes, and after ten years, they will be as rich as the princes, with thousands of them. During the Han Dynasty,
There are also people who raise a thousand pigs; in the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an officials raised three thousand pigs, and there were many private pig farms. Nowadays, Zhili is famous for raising pigs. The pork shops in the capital are all in the capital.
The pig farmers in the county provide pigs, which are the daily pigs for the palace. If the imperial palace cannot supply them, they sometimes buy them from outside."
These are all found in miscellaneous books at home.
Brother Ninth discovered that his own Fujin was a man who loved studying knowledge and never aimed for the wrong things.
Regarding breeding, I also read through a lot of books and summarized the previous experience before asking others to start. Therefore, no matter what Fujin does, the basic results are very ideal.
Even if there are occasional unsatisfactory times, good results will be achieved after adjustments.
The chicken coop is ventilated and the pig pen is clean, both of which are the meaning of Fujin.
It's just that it's not easy to talk about this in detail in front of the emperor. Brother Jiu will hide this matter and just regard it as his own idea. The queen mother listened carefully and said: "Are there many butcher shops outside now?"
Brother Jiu said: "There are so many. There is no shortage of butcher shops in any shopping street. The people in the inner city are all banner people, hard-core farmers, and their lives are prosperous. There is at least one errand in each family. If they don't need the money to buy meat, the people in the outer city
There are many officials living in the capital, as well as businessmen studying for exams and doing business in the capital, and there are also many rich people. This butcher shop is also complete...
"However, the price of pigs has also increased in recent years. A 150-pound pig can be sold for 6 taels of silver, which can support three sheep. In the past few years, it was only 5 taels of silver..."
"Although I didn't make any money from outside, I spent more than two thousand taels of silver to supply my own house and restaurant. In addition, if you add chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and sheep, you can also get a discount of two thousand taels.
Three thousand taels of silver saves a lot of money on food. The cost of breeding is less than 40%, and the rest is earned...
"Not only are these livestock and poultry self-sufficient, but the same goes for my grandson's vegetable garden and melon orchard in recent years. They can also use a lot of surplus to supply the restaurant. The money settled at the restaurant is enough to cover the expenses of the village. This is another thing.
Saved a fortune...
"Our government is also frugal. The master has four dishes, and the manager has half the number. The subordinates only have one dish and one meal, so there is no extra expenditure. On the contrary, in the palace, when the official offices and shops were counted that year, the grandson was called to live in Di'anmen Nei Street.
Open the head and tail in two folds
The basket restaurant is hung under the imperial kitchen. The leftovers transported from the imperial kitchen are mixed and sold in folded baskets. A sea bowl costs four cents, and paired with steamed buns costing one cent each, it is a meal. This is all.
, how much money do you think you earn every day?”
Having said this, Brother Jiu looked at the Queen Mother, waiting for an answer.
The Queen Mother thought for a while and said: "There are two restaurants, which restaurant has to sell more than a hundred copies, right? Do you have one tael of silver?" One tael of silver can be exchanged for 800 cash.
The Queen Mother went on to say more.
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "The dishes in the palace are all regular dishes, and the number of people who serve food every day is almost fixed. The leftovers shipped out of the palace are also about the same. On average, five thousand bowls and baskets are sold every day. In summer,
If you sell more, you can have 6,000 bowls, and the income from just the baskets will be 750 taels of silver in this month, plus the extra money in the summer, it will be 10,000 taels of silver in a year..."
"This shop is a government building, so we don't need to rent anything. The people who use it are all from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They earn one or two taels of silver a month. The total cost is three hundred taels for a year, and the rest is earned."
"
Not to mention the Queen Mother, even Kangxi heard about it for the first time. All I can say is that it was dark under the lamp.
This was a small addition made by the Ninth Prince when he took office as the General Manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After the "nest case" came out in the Accounting Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, everyone's attention at that time was on the removal of the children of various families in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
It just so happened that the imperial dining room was also inspected again and again at that time.
Ninth Brother knew that he would transport more than a dozen trucks every day to save leftovers and divide them among the small restaurants outside, so he turned this into a government-run business. As a result, after a month, Ninth Brother was surprised when he saw the accounts.
Even Baiweiju, with its good business, is not as profitable as this folding basket restaurant, because it is a business without capital.
Although there was a summary of news from the Imperial Palace, most of it was about Ninth Prince's big moves or events at Baylor House, and such daily errands were not included in the summary. The Queen Mother looked at Ninth Prince and praised: "You have done your job carefully."
He knew that the imperial kitchen was wasting money, but he didn't hold on to it. Instead, he found another way and used leftovers to make money. It was not easy for anyone in the palace to be an errand, and there were not many low-level eunuchs and palace servants.
If we really have to directly arrange for everyone to be frugal in their daily rations, their lives will be even more difficult.
Brother Jiu felt proud this time and said: "My grandson is stingy and can't bear to see the worms below taking advantage. Instead of taking advantage of those minions, it is better to make more money in the internal treasury. In the future, Khan Amma wants to tour the south, the east, and the west."
The inspectors don’t need to listen to the censor’s nagging, they can just withdraw the money from the internal treasury.”
The Queen Mother looked at Kangxi and said: "At the age of Jiu Age, it is rare for him to be able to handle his errands well and manage his own life well without the emperor having to worry about him."
Kangxi also felt that Brother Jiu's matter was appropriate, but seeing how proud he was, he didn't want to praise him too much, so he told the Queen Mother: "It's just a matter of imitation. Before the wedding, the economy is just talk on paper..."