Villager of Daming

Chapter 658: Rhythm is difficult to connect with strategy

"Li Zhang, it's like this..." Zhu Biao repeated the words from the side.

"Your Majesty, forgive me, the common people were distracted just now." The head of the village apologized.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "We sometimes get distracted, but the top dressing is very good, and there is nothing wrong with the texture and taste of the pickles."

"Your Majesty, since we will start planning things there next year, we will make an announcement this year that people in the nearby state capital will raise pigs in their homes. Uncastrated boars and uncastrated sows should not be killed during the Chinese New Year."

The head of the village didn't mention whether he should make something to send over, but instead talked about raising pigs.

As I said before, the people of the two lakes freed up their manpower to grow things in places where mechanized operations are not easy, and the extra time was spent on breeding.

Raising poultry is easy. Artificial incubation can produce a large number of chicks in one month. The eggs are hatched every day, and thirty batches of chicks are produced in two months.

Pigs are not good. Pigs need four months. Some pigs are butchered or castrated. The pigs will be killed that year. If this is not done, piglets can be born.

Hanhan said that in terms of climate, Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei are the most suitable for raising pigs, and in terms of local crops, Shandong and Henan are suitable.

Because they can only be raised in the open air, and the winter is too cold, pigs in northern areas cannot stand it, and neither can humans.

When it freezes, all the feces in the pig pen are frozen. The pigs can survive if they are given bundles of grass, but they don't gain fat. All the fat is used to fight the cold.

When people clean up the pigsty, they use a hammer and pestle and a pickaxe to dig out the latrine pit.

Wheat is grown in Henan and Shandong, and the bran of the wheat can be used to feed pigs. Where rice is grown, the rice husks are not eaten by pigs.

However, straw can be fed to pigs. Pigs that eat straw will grow meat slowly. If they are fed straw all the time, the pigs will lose fat.

Likewise, pigs eat wheat stalks.The pigs of Ming Dynasty grow slowly unless they use good feed.

If people don’t have enough to eat, how can there be anything for the pigs to eat?Just keep the pigs alive and grow slowly, and then kill them for meat after they are almost full.

There is a technology for fermenting rice husks and poultry manure to make pig feed, but it is unrealistic to promote it to ordinary people.

Normally, it would be fine for an ordinary household to raise a few pigs, but don't expect them to be able to raise them on a large scale.

"Yes, to raise pigs, you need to catch the piglets first. Let's help catch them. We will buy bigger pigs first and send them to the people for them to raise.

The first two years are a bit tougher. You can only raise them but not kill them. Unless there are many boars, they will be castrated, raised, and killed for their meat.

Transport the pigs along the Yangtze River to Yingtianfu. Yingtianfu has a large population and high consumption, making it easy to sell.

When they make money, they can give us the money for catching pigs.anything else? "

Zhu Yuanzhang found that he had indeed acted too hastily. He only thought about what the people could do, but forgot that they had nothing.

The people were asked to raise pigs. The people were not allowed to leave the area of ​​​​one hundred miles of their residence. If they did, they had to open a road to guide them.

What's the use of opening the way?Do people go hundreds of miles away to buy a few piglets and then take them home?Carrying a load to carry a pig?

After a problem was solved, Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to ask again. While asking, he turned his head back and forth to look at the other ministers who were following on horseback.

The ministers' eyes fell elsewhere, as if they didn't know that His Majesty was looking at them. They were tired because the development pace of Ming Dynasty was too fast.

They found that in the past two years, one thing happened after another.

At first, the palace was busy, producing various things to exchange with the Yi people for supplies needed by the Ming Dynasty.

Ever since Xiaqiu Village moved outside Donghuamen, everything became different. Later, when it moved outside Chaoyangmen, things became even more complicated.

It seems that as the location of Xiaqiu Village changes, so does the operation of Ming Dynasty.

Especially during the prince's northern tour, as the prince's team advanced, officials from places along the way kept sending title books to the court.

Under normal circumstances, a minister must think carefully about what he wants to ask His Majesty to do. It would be good if he can propose something in a few years.Xiaqiu Village is different. They use technology to drive events, playing a game of chess all over the world, like... Zaifu leads the six departments to act.

It's just a single village, how can we think about so many things?Aren't you afraid of being exhausted like Zhuge Liang?

The ministers have no choice but who can give the answer immediately?He had to look away.

Zhu Yuanzhang pursed his lips. He also knew that his demands were too high. He had previously required that candidates who took the imperial examination should be able to become officials immediately, so as to replace the political monopoly of aristocratic families.

Disappointed, he stopped the imperial examination and continued to use family members recommended by others as officials.

Now I expect the ministers to be like the masters hiding in Xiaqiu Village and give good ideas at any time.But when manpower is limited, who can do everything possible?

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, and finally looked at the boss and gave an apologetic smile, as if to say, our requirements are too high, and masters are also human beings.

Chief: "..."

He didn't understand, what was His Majesty's expression?Encourage us?Then let’s talk!

So the chief responded: "Your Majesty, Hunan and Hubei are named after Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake is the first lake in the Ming Dynasty, with no equal.

There are people on the land, and there are also people in the lake. Your Majesty knows the power of Dongting Lake by having water fights, and the people there are familiar with boating and swimming.

The tides in Dongting Lake are very big, but the Dan people are able to live and reproduce in that environment. They are most familiar with the conditions of the lake.

There are fish, shrimps and crabs in the lake. There is little shrimp and crab meat, but there are many fish.Resource utilization depends on tool usage.

The common people's fishing boats are too small. After the war, the warships will not be used by fishermen. The warships do not exist for fishing.

We now have new technology, the boats are fast, and we can jointly fish with local people, specifically..."

The captain couldn't stop talking and told Zhu Yuanzhang to dismantle the original wooden warship and rebuild it into a larger fishing boat.

Many warships are double-decker. If they are not dismantled, they will be sent to the Qinhuai River. There are flower boats on the Qinhuai River, and those with two floors are luxurious.

The warships are all luxurious. They can be modified into flower boats. Not only can they play in the Qinhuai River, but they can also go to the Rouge River and Shijiu Lake.

Even like the flower boat that went to Xiaqiu Village before, I walked here and had something to eat.

The official ships and experienced local fishermen provided their skills to establish regional joint fleets throughout Dongting Lake.

A small steam engine was used as the power system for the rebuilt fishing boat to be larger, and everyone worked together to make money by fishing for fresh fish from the lake.

Then, Dongting Lake aquatic products basic processing and deep processing workshops were established on the shores of various places.

The common people pursue the simplest things: enough food, warm clothing, and a home.

In this way, it can not only win the hearts of the people, but also bring economic benefits, and make aquatic products available to people who cannot eat them through logistics.

“To unite all the forces that can be united and organized by the imperial court, it reflects the superiority, advancement and technology of the Ming Dynasty.

Create a huge Ming tree-shaped structure with His Majesty as the center, ministers as the trunk, local officials as the branches, and the people as the leaves.

Thereby improving the mutual cooperation system of industry, agriculture, finance, education and other multi-faceted systems.

In His Majesty’s great thoughts…”

"Okay, okay! Yi Chang, that's okay, we understand! Now that you say it, we think it's okay! Hehehehehe!"

Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted what the li leader was about to say at the end, because he knew what was going to follow.

The ministers: "..."

(End of this chapter)