Three Kingdoms: Everything Can Be Gamified

Chapter 301 Pigeon and Fat Pig

Zhang He wanted to raise homing pigeons for a long time. The problem was that the paper was not easy to fold and many things were imperfect.

Especially since the breed of pigeons is not good and cannot meet the standards of homing pigeons.

There were more raptors and wild beasts in ancient times, and the advantage was that low houses made it easier to find targets.

It is necessary to focus on cultivating the pigeons' self-protection ability, foraging ability, and of course sufficient physical strength.

This means that we must first breed a breed that is suitable as a homing pigeon, and then, based on this breed, breed a breed that is more suitable for survival in the wild and long-distance flying.

It took three years to cultivate the current batch of more than 100 homing pigeons.

They are docile, can accurately find their destination, and have better survival ability in the wild.

After many layers of breeding, the highest distance was able to fly from Jinyang to Guzang. Of course, that was just without testing the longer distance.

The speed is twice that of the [-]-mile express, and the distance of [-] kilometers can be reached in about two days.

If we hurry up, we have to consider the terrain. No matter how fast we go, it will still take five or six days.

If you go to Chang'an, you can basically arrive in one day as long as you don't encounter any large birds of prey.

The wings are very developed and can carry a hundred grams of things while flying. The limit is about 150 grams.

This means that small bamboo tubes can be used to deliver documents of hundreds or even a thousand words through carrier pigeons.

Especially the flying height can also minimize the possibility of being shot down by crossbows, unless they are tired and have to come down to rest.

"Send a batch of young birds to Chang'an, Ji, Yangdi and Puyang respectively." Zhang He ordered.

"Here!" Several people in charge of raising pigeons responded quickly.

These pigeons can just eat soybean meal or earthworms. Earthworms have always been raised on a large scale, so it is not a problem to buy some.

As for the soybeans that Zhang He has improved over the past three years, apart from grinding the soybean milk, they are all used for oil extraction. After all, the oil content is relatively high.

The by-product of oil extraction is a large amount of soybean meal.People can also eat it, but it is basically used to feed livestock, including chickens, ducks and pigeons.

Nowadays, earthworms are raised everywhere, and chickens and ducks are raised intensively. The large number of chickens and ducks has caused a significant drop in local meat prices.

Except for lazy people and people who deliberately mess around, as long as they work hard and buy some chicken and duck meat every now and then to go home and beat their teeth, that's more than enough.

Not to mention that with the release of a large amount of soybean oil, many people can even add some oil to their cooking at home.

If there is more oil, there will be less food to eat. The food produced in various places can feed more people, mainly because the price has also dropped.

The people under Liu Bei's rule can be said to be the happiest. After all, they can really have enough food and clothing.

If you are a citizen of Chang'an, you can even go to night school to enrich your knowledge.

Rather, excluding government night schools, many students who graduated from night schools now open night schools in various places to earn extra money.

I work during the day and teach for an hour or two at night. I get some extra income every month, and my family's life becomes visibly better.

Naturally, more people will join this industry.

A large number of people who have completed enlightenment appear. It is conceivable that the number of people who will take the next imperial examination will be very scary.

But this kind of thing will be a headache until the next imperial examination!

A conservative estimate is that it will take another three years before there is another imperial examination.

If anyone can be aware of this problem during this period and prepare early...

Seeing the carrier pigeons being packed and sent out one after another, Zhang He slapped his head, hurried to the military camp, copied four copies of the usage of the carrier pigeons, and asked someone to send them over.

He had mentioned homing pigeons before, but no one had actually seen or used them.

Even if you know it, the people below will naturally use it normally, so you need to write down the usage.

I smiled as I wrote that if carrier pigeons were put into use in large numbers, special pigeon houses would probably be set up in Chang'an.

A large number of carrier pigeons must be gathered here to deliver news from various places. At the same time, carrier pigeons from various places are transported here for temporary release.

It has to be said that in this era of inconvenient transportation, carrier pigeons can make the delivery of messages more convenient, but not by much.

After all, you have to take the pigeon somewhere else first, and then you can use its homing properties to bring the news back to the local area.

At the same time, another batch must be sent to Chang'an or other places, otherwise no other pigeons can bring the news there.

Of course, there is a solution to this, which is to set up pigeonhouses in inns, which means a large number of inns and a large number of dovecotes are needed.

The carrier pigeons are received through the inn and then passed on layer by layer.When it reaches a certain level, the carrier pigeons are sent back to the station on the upper level one by one, waiting for the next message delivery.

This is obviously the safest and most worry-free method, but on the other hand, the labor cost will inevitably increase.

But generally speaking, it is much faster than riding a horse, especially in areas with more mountainous areas. Pigeons are more convenient than cavalry.

Whether or not to do that is left to the imperial court and the Dukes. Zhang He is only responsible for making suggestions and not accepting their opinions.

Anyway, he has laid the foundation and the breeding of homing pigeons has been completed.

Taking Ji, Yangdi, Puyang, Jinyang, Chang'an, and even Nanzheng as the starting point, stations will be gradually set up on both sides, and the homing pigeon system will soon be completed.

"Next!" Zhang He stood up, stretched, and then went to another area.

It's not like I've been doing nothing in the past three years. I'm either dealing with government affairs, busy with military affairs, or trying to improve varieties through games.

Let’s just talk about cotton. If you give it another five years, it’s possible to improve it into long-staple cotton.

This thing is native to South America. The fiber of this thing is soft and long, and its strength is also high.

The cotton native to India is coarse staple, which has low yield and short and thick fibers, making it unsuitable for machine spinning.

In the past, I couldn't be picky. After all, cotton would be good, and we couldn't go to the Americas.

Later, when I had time, I specialized in breeding myself, and at the same time I found someone to help me breed for a period of time, and gradually there was a trend of becoming longer.

Normally it's not that fast. After three difficulty gamification bugs, the improvement of varieties became very abnormal.

It’s really thanks to the low AI of this game-based plug-in, otherwise there would be an anti-bug patch or something like that.

In other words, Zhang He is no longer satisfied with gamified plug-ins. He has begun to exploit bugs to exploit this plug-in!
But this time it's not cotton, it's something else - domestic pigs!
These are the black pigs that have been selected and bred layer by layer. It would be better to say that Chinese pigs are basically black pigs.

Now these guys are chewing pigweed.

There are many varieties of pigweed, including those that can be fed to pigs, but this batch has a stronger digestive system and can basically be digested except for poisonous weeds.

So hunting pigweed has become much easier.

They are more greedy and less mobile than the previous breeds. They weigh about [-] pounds in about one year, and actually reach about [-] pounds, and they are almost ready for slaughter.

I am also used to the measurement unit of kilograms, but every time I talk about hundreds of kilograms, I still feel a little confused.

"Kill a pig today!" Zhang He ordered, "Kill one of the five selected breeds to see which one tastes better."

Now that it has been able to fatten quickly, the next step is how to ensure the taste.

When it comes to eating, we should pay attention to the quantity and the taste. We should grasp it with both hands and use both hands to be firm.

He put the pigs with good meat in another area.

After layers of selection and breeding, the taste is better, fragrant but not irritating, fat but not greasy, and thin but not woody.

Of course, the distance can be directly used to make sashimi, and it may need to be bred for four or five generations.

In other words, he was cheating. If someone else could reach this level in his thirties, it would be pretty good.

As for the batch he wants to kill, it is the result of breeding with the batch with the best quality meat and the fastest growing batch.

When the taste is no longer so bad, you gain weight quickly, and you are not picky about food, then it will almost be commercialized...

　Carrier pigeons use the habit of pigeons to return home, so first you have to send the pigeon to another place, and then let it fly back. In this way, you can send the letter back.

　　Then after sending it back, you have to send the pigeon to that place again before it can be used for the second time.

　　This means that point-to-point is equivalent to a trip on horseback. Emergency contact is okay, otherwise it will be a lot of trouble.To improve carrier pigeon communication, we have to rely on stations located fifty or twenty miles away to relay letters out.

　　Combined with Qiyi, it not only expands the business scope, but also makes the recovery and delivery of homing pigeons more convenient.

　　As for domestic pigs, it is normal for different branches to appear.

　　After all, the most difficult thing to learn from is Pokémon, and everyone knows that starting from the Alola region, this Pokémon has been somewhat exhausted, and reskinned Pokémon began to appear, euphemistically called the XX region form.

　　However, looking back, in the tenth episode of the Pokémon Special, it was mentioned that the appearances of Pokémon in different regions and living environments are somewhat different, so letting the crystal catch them repeatedly is not sure whether it is a foreshadowing of the XX form. Or maybe it's a coincidence.

　　Therefore, during the raising process, different domestic pigs will appear obese and delicious depending on the feeding methods. It is normal, right?
　　Adjusting my schedule doesn't feel smooth. Now in Chapter 3, I can theoretically rest for four hours and then go to bed, but coffee is a problem.The coffee shop at the milk tea shop opens at nine o'clock, but I get up at six o'clock to write... I can't let it go the next day. Maybe I have to really adjust my schedule and make my own coffee from now on.

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