Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 163 Fusu: I want to raise chickens!
Yuhua Hall of Lanchi Palace.

According to the law of Qin, one day off for bathing every five days.

It was three poles high in the sun, and Fusu was lying on the big soft bed, admiring the beautiful scenery under the sun.

In front of the dressing table, after taking a bath, Tian Ji looked like a delicate water lotus.

The palace is as warm as spring, so this delicate and beautiful water lotus is covered with an almost transparent tulle, which is as soft as moonlight, outlining an elegant and charming figure.

She is so beautiful, really... Fusu put his hands behind his head until he smelled a strange smell.

"What's the smell?" He asked, then sniffled and walked in the direction of the smell.

Fusu put his face next to Tian Ji's flawless pretty face, staring at the paste in the jade bowl in front of her.

After Tian Ji rubbed his face with pink, she giggled and said, "Your Majesty is asking about this?"

Fusu 'punished' the mature woman who was full of girlishness, and said in a low voice: "Yes, the taste is so strange, why have I never seen it before?"

"No, don't..." Tian Ji guided Fusu with her hand, and replied with trembling voice: "This is a kind of female facial makeup made by my concubines. It is made of cow bone marrow, mixed with spices and cinnabar, and can be applied thinly. Rouge, can be used as lip balm when applied thickly..."

Cinnabar, heavy metal warning... Fusu shuddered suddenly, and subconsciously exerted force with both hands. Although Tian Ji felt a pain, she immediately felt an inexplicable joy, so she hummed softly.

But Fusu didn't know anything about the fact that she seemed to have awakened some great talent.

What he thought in his heart was, no wonder the average life expectancy of future emperors is not high, the faces of concubines are painted with lead powder, and the lip balm is made of cinnabar...

And most of these things were swallowed by the emperors into their bodies...

Hey, being an emperor is too difficult!

He didn't ask Tian Ji where the cinnabar came from, because of the first emperor, the cinnabar piled up like a mountain in the warehouse in the palace.

Fusu felt that he could still save it. After all, cinnabar only decomposes mercury and other heavy metals after being heated.

So he questioned it carefully, and learned that the cinnabar was only used to adjust the color, and there was no heating during the whole process, so he immediately relaxed and tasted it carefully for a while.

Well, it smells so good.

After a while, Fusu bid farewell to Tian Ji, who was lying on the bed with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair, and strode away from Yuhua Palace.

Walking out of the palace gate, the cold winter wind made him subconsciously wrap up the ermine cloak that the servant put on him.

At the same time, his footsteps became a little weak, and he changed from the dragon and tiger steps just now.

As the old saying goes, there are only exhausted cattle, but no plowed fields.

At this moment, Fusu had a deep understanding of this!

Winter is here, can spring be far behind... Fusu looked up at the sun that continued to emit light and heat, and inexplicably thought of such a sentence in his heart.

Spring is here, everything is flourishing, and a kind of insect will reappear in people's field of vision.

locust!

Whether it is the current Qin Dynasty or the human society of later generations, locusts are a major threat to agricultural production.

Fusu remembered that not long after that, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a huge locust plague.

Due to the dry weather, a large number of microorganisms in the soil died, resulting in the survival of locust eggs buried in the soil.

So the locust plague started in the land of Qilu, and then swept all the way west until Dunhuang County, the westernmost point of the Han Dynasty, and then entered the vast Gobi, which is the Xinjiang region of later generations.

The locust plague wiped out the most core agricultural areas of the Han Dynasty along the way. As for whether the Western Regions caused losses, Fusu is not sure due to the lack of relevant records.

What he knows is that once the locust plague occurs, if it is not handled properly, not only will there be starvation everywhere, but there is also a great possibility that there will be another locust plague in the coming year!

Well, locusts cost 12 yuan a catty... Fusu remembered the scene he saw in the vegetable market before crossing.

However, in later generations, the degree of "migratory locusts do not take off to cause disasters, soil locusts do not spread and harm, and inbound locusts do not take off twice" has little to do with foodies.

The main method is to use modern methods, such as microbial pesticides such as microsporidia locusts and metarhizium anisopliae, as well as scientific and technological means such as botanical pesticides.

However, what he can imitate is to control locusts in the fields by raising chickens and ducks!
However, this brings up another issue.

That is, there were no chickens and ducks in the homes of the heads of Guizhou during this period!
And this season, hens don't nest, that is, they don't take the initiative to hatch chicks.

The main reason is that the weather is too cold and cannot be raised after hatching.

Fusu sat on the shoulders with curtains, wrapped tightly in the mink fur cloak around his body, and thought of a word in his mind.

As long as the mind does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties!
Since the hens are unwilling to incubate chicks, let's change the way of thinking and hatch chicks artificially!

In the later generations, the breeding industry has long been on a large scale. Many small chicken farms rely on buying chickens from professional hatching institutions for breeding, and they will not carry out breeding by themselves.

Fusu remembers that in later generations, every May Day, there would always be people from chicken farms at the gate of the primary school, selling the roosters eliminated by the chicken farm at the gate of the school.

One for fifty cents, three for one yuan.

Fusu buys it every year, but the final result is to send the chick to a relative's house in a village in the city after being beaten...

After all, it is forbidden to keep animals such as chickens and ducks in the community.

Heh, now that I am the emperor, if I want to raise chickens in the palace, who would dare to object... After Fusu Secondary School for a while, I began to think about how to make use of the existing conditions to artificially incubate chickens.

First, there needs to be enough fertilized eggs.

This is not a difficult point, because now roosters and hens are mixed together, and each egg can theoretically hatch a chick.

And Fusu, as an emperor, especially an emperor who is not short of money, naturally has no shortage of eggs.

Another one is sufficient temperature, um, to be precise, a constant temperature.

After a large number of heated kangs were built in the palace, hens could be replaced by heated kangs. The only difficulty was that the temperature could not be controlled.

If the temperature is low, the final harvest may be fluffy eggs, but if the temperature is high, the harvest will be fluffy eggs that can be eaten directly...

But what a problem!

Fusu lifted the curtain, and said to Han Rang who was following Jianyu, "Is the glass tube I had someone make before ready?"

Han Rang thought for a while, and said with certainty: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the glass tubes have already been delivered, and the slaves have already put them into the warehouse."

Fusu nodded, affirming Han Rang's ability: "Have someone take them out and send them to Qinzheng Palace."

"Also, take some water, wax, red paint, cork, vegetable oil, and saltpeter, and send them to Qinzheng Hall!"

After Han Rang surrendered and left, Fusu recalled the dusty memories in his mind.

He wanted these things, so naturally he wanted to make a simple thermometer.

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