Destiny Only Han

Chapter 219

Guanzhong, Liyang.

On the market, pedestrians are like weaving.

This is not only because of another victory ahead, that is, Han Xin defeated Zhao in the first battle and captured Zhao Wangxie alive. More importantly, it is now the winter and October of the third year of the Han Dynasty, which is the Spring Festival during this period.

The farmer who has been busy for a year finally has time and spare money to go to the market and buy some things for the New Year after the autumn grain is stored in the warehouse.

Well, in fact, many customs of later generations have been basically formed during this period.

For example, in the month of Jianzheng, that is, three days before the first day of the first lunar month (Zhengdan Day), it is necessary to prepare sacrifices for sacrificial activities.

On Zhengdan Day, parents will take the whole family to worship the ancestors.

After the sacrifice, it is natural to eat and drink...

After a few days, visiting relatives is an activity that ancient people liked very much, but modern people are slightly indifferent to.

Well, it is worth mentioning that, according to the rules of this period, on Zhengdan Day, the big bell will be rung at about three o'clock in the morning, and all the ministers will be summoned to the palace to congratulate them, and to give the king a New Year's gift... …

Courtiers at the level of the Sangong and the Marquis needed to present a pair of jade biscuits, among which two thousand stones and the official gift of two thousand stones was a lamb.

As for the lower grades, officials from a thousand shi to [-] shi are a wild goose, while officials below [-] shi are a chicken.

Not to mention the fact that there is no holiday during the Chinese New Year, and even if you work for the boss, you have to give the boss a red envelope. It is true that the capitalists of later generations will feel inferior...

Because Liu Bang was fighting with Xiang Yu in Xingyang at that time, Liu Ying accepted the worship of Xiao He and others on behalf of Liu Bang during the first lunar month of the third year of the Han Dynasty.

Those jade biscuits are going to be put away by Liu Ying, and they will be sold at a discount before the first month of next year...

This is how the perpetual motion machine that runs once a year becomes.

Well, a considerable part of the gold unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Hun of the Caspian Sea in later generations was prepared as gold.

The princes and kings offered gold to the ancestral temple, and the emperor sent out the gold as a reward.

After going back and forth, in fact, no one loses.

Of course, in the Hanwu period, in order to beat the Huns to death, the poor and crazy Liu Xiaozhu began to think about his own relatives and meritorious relatives.

The Son of Heaven, personally squatting in front of the gate of the ancestral temple, looked at the gold and sacrifices offered by the princes and kings one by one. If there is a slight mistake, the title will be deprived of the title, and the family will be confiscated...

After him, the emperors of the Han Dynasty followed suit, so that a certain hand with big ears above the knee was reduced to selling shoes and weaving mats to support their families.

"It's so miserable!"

Liu Ying murmured softly, and kept shuttling among the crowd.

The purpose of his visit to the market today is mainly to skip school...

Well, the old man Shusun Tong is good at everything, but he likes to hold Lu Zhi to make Liu Ying, well, there are also Liu Le, Liu Fei, and Liu Ruyi who just replaced his third baby tooth...

Whenever this old guy comes to class, he always likes to go to Lu Zhi to ask for instructions and report on what he is going to teach today.

Therefore, after school, Lu Zhi, who showed up at the right time, would come to check the homework of Liu Ying and others.

Naturally, there was a series of crackling sounds of bamboo shoots frying pork, and cries like a pig being slaughtered in the yard.

After going back and forth, others dare not, but Liu Ying rose up!
However, in order to avoid being severely suppressed by Lu Zhi, he still took a lot of thought.

The reason why he came out to wander around today is just three words.

Watch people's livelihood.

After fooling Lu Zhi for a while, under the eyes of Liu Le and others, "the boss is begging for help", Liu Ying strode away with her sleeves flung...

The so-called poor is alone, and comrades still need to be patient.

But in fact, when Liu Ying went to the market today, she had another idea.

buy eggs.

On Zhengdan Day, he received a lot of bundled live chickens as a gift, among which there were many big hens with bright feathers.

It would be a pity if they were all killed and eaten.

Therefore, these hens were kept in the pens of the Taiguan, which is also known as the imperial dining room in later generations, and they were used to lay eggs and chickens endlessly.

So, Liu Ying had a different idea.

Focus on raising chickens and ducks.

As the situation in Guanzhong gradually stabilizes, many previously abandoned lands will also be slowly replanted.

While plowing the land, a large number of bugs hiding on the surface will be turned up.

These are all natural high-protein feeds.

Moreover, raising chickens and ducks in the fields can also effectively eliminate locust larvae and avoid locust disasters.

So what Liu Ying is going to do is to buy some fresh eggs laid by poultry mixed with male and female in farmers' homes.

Only in this way can it be possible to hatch chicks and ducklings.

Although this is not the time for poultry nests, it is also the season for hatching eggs.

But fighting against the sky is a lot of fun.

The technology of artificially incubating poultry eggs in later generations is not a secret for a long time.

Even without the help of off-the-shelf equipment, many elementary school students can hatch chicks just by making their own parts.

The difficulty Liu Ying faces now is that she cannot accurately control the temperature.

However, this is an old problem he encountered when he was in Hanzhong a year ago.

Today, with the continuous production of glass products, a set of instruments customized by Liu Ying has already been sent to the East Palace.

The nature of a gentleman is not different, and he is good at things.

It is impossible to control the temperature by human body perception, so just use a thermometer.

And a simple thermometer is actually not difficult to make.

In Guanzhong, the influence of altitude is almost negligible.

Therefore, the temperature of ice water is zero degrees, and the temperature of boiling water is naturally one hundred degrees.

After determining the value from zero to one hundred, you only need to divide the distance between two points into one hundred values ​​on average.

This is not difficult at all for those old craftsmen who can be accurate to the slightest difference with the naked eye.

So, there is a thermometer, and there is a kang for incubation.

Then as long as enough poultry eggs are bought, an artificial hatchery is born.

Liu Ying only needs to make a small-scale investment in the early stage, and there is no need to worry too much about the subsequent operations.

The price of eggs is about seven to eight dollars a piece, and the same is probably true for duck eggs.

But a small chicken the size of two fists is worth two hundred dollars.

The difference in price is naturally due to the need for food consumption in poultry farming.

In the large-scale farming of later generations, the price of eggs is about [-] to [-] cents each, and the price of small chickens is mostly three or four yuan.

In the bazaar, Liu Ying showed the attitude of a rich and powerful nouveau riche.

But whenever he picked up an egg or a duck egg and looked at it against the sun, and there were black spots in it, which meant it was a fertilized egg, he started to sweep the goods without haggling at all.

And the prince Xima Zhao Yao who was following behind him naturally stepped forward to pay the deposit, sign the contract, and agree with the stall owner on the delivery address.

Of course, the location is a farm outside the city.

After all, if he raises chickens on a large scale in the Prince's East Palace, he is afraid that Lu Zhi will kill his relatives in a minute...

When Liu Ying kept buying, buying, and buying, she suddenly felt that the corner of her clothes seemed to be gently grabbed by someone.

He looked down and saw a skinny little boy with a pair of dry, dark hands, and two sparkling eyes.

"My lord, please do me a favor, buy me..."

The title of son and grandson is actually a bad street title in Guanzhong.

After all, for hundreds of years in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the descendants of the old Qin royal family and other royal families in the Warring States period could use this identity to call themselves.

Well, for example, Liu Ying's unborn Oududou Liu Heng gave birth to a son named Liu Qi, and his daughter-in-law's ex-husband was named Jin Wangsun.

Moreover, in the era when the old Qin Kingdom and the six Kanto kingdoms were all destroyed and wars were frequent in the world, no one cared about the rigor of titles anymore.

Liu Ying lowered her head and looked at the little boy kneeling on the ground. Seeing that the boy was about three or four years old, she couldn't help frowning.

His first thought was, of course, that he had encountered something similar to Immortal Jumping.

I bought a child by myself, and then the family of the little boy ran out, saying that he was a child abductor or something...

Or, the little boy and others, as the internal agent lurking in the courtyard, opened the courtyard door when people were unaware, and lured thieves into the house.

Liu Ying lowered her head and asked, "What is your name? Where do you live? Where are your parents? Are there other people in the family..."

A group of people watching the excitement around saw a child asking another child in a serious manner, and suddenly burst into a series of laughter.

In the troubled times like the end of Qin, they saw a lot of self-selling themselves.

Nowadays, it is not easy to feed and clothe one's family members, and there is no extra sympathy to share with strangers.

And most importantly, the little boy was too young, not at all old enough to work.

The little boy froze in place for a while before he said:

"My name is Yuan Kuai, and my family lives on the edge of a big lake in the south. My father, my father used to be a thief...but he joined the Han army and died for the king of Han! I also have a mother and younger brother in my family. ..."

"Young master, just buy me. My mother is sick and needs money to see a doctor...my brother was born not long ago, and I need money..."

"I can do anything..."

In the little boy's kowtow like pounding garlic, Liu Ying couldn't help being slightly moved.

Perhaps, this is the carved beams and painted buildings in front of us, revealing the lives of the poor in the Han Dynasty outside the prosperous and peaceful Liyang City.

With no clothes to cover their bodies and no food to eat, their lives are in jeopardy.

Liu Ying clearly remembered that all soldiers who died in battle received a large sum of money as funeral expenses.

But if it is true as the little boy said, it is not impossible to return to poverty due to serious illness.

He was going to let Zhao Yao go with the little boy to have a look. If it was true, he would not only buy the little boy, but also take care of his family.

And, not only that, he was going to discuss with Xiao He to see if there was any way to help a family like the little boy.

(End of this chapter)