I was the richest man in Da Song

Chapter 43 Persuasion
"The food of hogs is unclean, so they are called hogs. Hogs are hogs, aquatic animals, and their sex tends to be dirty. That's why gentlemen don't eat hogs!" Xiang Minzhong explained from the side.

"If Wang Qin has a problem with the old man and the others, if he knows that we raise pigs, those censors will definitely rush over like mad dogs." Wu Bingzheng also shook his head, the young man's eye sockets are a little shallow after all.

"Do you still think about raising pigs now?" Li Hang asked.

"Sir, it's not that pig food is unclean, it's because they insist on feeding unclean things... vomit..."

Thinking of how the pork he ate before was raised in this way, He Shao couldn't even utter a complete sentence now.

"All in all, it's okay for people in Kaifeng to taste it occasionally, but if serving it on the table becomes a daily routine, it's absolutely impossible"

The kind of pigsty and toilet integrated in the farmer’s house, pigs eat manure to protect the environment and serve as a fertilizer factory to provide fertilizer for the farmland. This is not a pig, this is a living toilet with four legs!
"Sir, don't we Han people like to eat pork all the time?" He Shao asked.

"That's not true. It is recorded in "Spring and Autumn" and "Zuo Zhuan" that there are good products for banquets, and accompanying tripods for banquets. It is also mentioned in Zhou Rites that every great sacrifice in a country must be accompanied by a tripod, and this tripod is pork.

The meat of the Qin and Han dynasties was also mainly pork, and a granny was set up to raise pigs, and the Han people ate pigs until the Jin Dynasty. "As the prime minister, Li Hang is naturally knowledgeable and knowledgeable, even such an unpopular history is clear.

"Since the five chaos in China, the Hu people have become powerful, and the eating habit of eating sheep has gradually affected the Han people. In the Tang Dynasty, the royal family of Li and Tang was of Xianbei blood and also respected eating sheep.

In addition, the Han people kept pigs in latrines that were combined with latrines, which was really filthy, so scholar-bureaucrats seldom ate pork.

After hundreds of years of influence, ordinary people no longer know how to cook pork, and fewer and fewer people eat it. "Xiang Minzhong added.

Although ordinary people occupy the vast majority of the population, the mainstream of a dynasty is the scholar-officials and the emperor!
"So the eating habits of the Han people over the past few hundred years have actually been changed?" He Shao asked.

"The same can be said"

He Shao thought for a while, and it was much more difficult to get Hu Hua's diet back on track than he had first expected, but it was not impossible.

"Although I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to let the people of Kaifeng City eat pork, but if Feng Lang tells you this matter, I am still sure I can do it?"

"Don't be ignorant that the sky is high and the earth is thick. Eating sheep has been the eating habit of the Han people for hundreds of years. The power of this hundreds of years of inertia is very powerful."

Xiang Minzhong wanted to make He Shao realize that it was not that simple to accomplish this.

"Everything in the world depends on the person and the will. If you have a third of your wisdom, you can do it."

Starting from the fragrant meat shop, to the hot pot restaurant selling ice and wine, everything he did was never done before, but he did it.

"What are you going to do"

"First of all, we can't use this kind of latrine to raise pigs anymore. We can feed them bran fodder or even restaurant hog water. The pigs raised in that way will be white and fat.

Secondly, eating habits are not static, each dynasty is different, and this habit can be changed in the orientation.”

Others don't know how to guide public opinion, but He Shao is an expert in this area.

"Since you say so, then I'm relieved. If you say it can be done, then it can be done."

Li Hang has great confidence in He Shao, if there is only one person in the world who can accomplish this, it can only be him.

"I pay less than 2000 million guan in taxes throughout the year. If you really do this and save a few million guan, it will be a great event that benefits the country and the people." Wu Bingzheng said while pinching his beard.

"Don't worry, it will take half a year at most. This matter is not only related to the national economy and people's livelihood of millions of people in Song Dynasty, but also a huge profit industry."

In the dynasties with underdeveloped productive forces, the breeding industry was the heavy industry in the feudal era. Even Fan Li once said such words as haste to enrich livestock and female livestock!
"We old guys are all stubborn, I still don't understand, but since you insist on doing it, so what if we take some risks and notoriety for you?"

Xiang Minzhong didn't know how He Shao was going to do it, but he knew that if the success was huge and the rewards were worth the risk, that was enough.

"Yanzhao is currently guarding the border, and the Yang family has no one in charge, so the old man will make decisions for them."

"Feng Lang, there is one more thing. When will the two crops of rice and the grain seeds with an yield of [-] shi per mu really exist?" Sinonong Cheng Wu Bingzheng asked.

"You have to tell us the truth, if you lied then we still have time to make up for it"

"Uncle, don't worry, how dare I make fun of this kind of thing?" Does He Shao know better than anyone else.

"In this way, we can rest assured that the grain with an yield of [-] shi per mu is far away across the ocean, how many soldiers should we send to get it back?"

Xiang Minzhong is a different kind of literati, not only entered the military position as a civil official, but also has a more general character than a military general.

"I can't rush this within two or three years. Once the time is right, Feng Lang will send someone to bring it back."

"Okay, your husband is ready to play. Since you don't want to help the officials and us, it is not impossible for us to write a letter to His Majesty to confer you a title as soon as the two season rice arrives."

The official system of the Great Song Dynasty was complicated, including sending officials, sending salary officials, scattered official ranks, honorary officials, and titles.

The dispatched officials are the specific duties, and the dispatched officials are the ranks, only the rank, salary, chapter and order, etc., and the titles and honors have no real power but their status is very lofty.

After the Taizu released his military power with a cup of wine, most of the people had titles, but it was the first time to confer a title on a merchant. What He Shao valued more was that the Lord had the privilege of being tax-free and even death-free!

"Thank you sir"

A lord who doesn't have to get up early to go to court, but also has a high status and doesn't care is still very useful.

After convincing these three big shots, the matter became more than half.

When He Shao came home, he saw his father, He Anwen, drinking a small wine with pork head meat, and took a sip of the wine with a piece of meat. Normally, He Shao would not let go of such delicious food, but now he was lying on the wall while retching.....
"What's the matter, Feng Lang, feeling unwell?" He Anwen asked.

"That's not true, father, do you know where this pig grew up?"

"It's in the toilet, otherwise where else could it be?" He Anwen said as a matter of course while eating.

"Can you eat all of this?"

Seeing He Anwen's calm appearance, He Shao was a little skeptical about life.

"Isn't everyone's life like this?" He Anwen said, "Your grandfather died early. When I was seven or eight years old, I had nothing to eat. When your father and I were most hungry, we would often fight with a group of adults in the fields. Eat something, and sometimes beat your head to the point of bleeding, do you know what they are robbing?"

"what?"

"Big goose shit! They came from hard times back then, how dare you despise pork? This is a good thing!

There are not many people in Kaifeng who really suffer from the disease of riches and honor, maybe His Majesty the Emperor will eat pork behind closed doors."

(End of this chapter)