Traveling through the Three Kingdoms: She brings unlimited supplies to build infrastructure

Chapter 123 Broiler Chicken
"Madam!" Ah Qing, who was seriously picking up chicks from broken eggshells, raised his head and saw Gongsun Yan and the others, with a cheerful smile on his face.

"So many chicks!" Ah Qing's cheeks were also red with joy, but unlike Gongsun Cheng's joy at the birth of a new life, Ah Qing's joy was more simple.

A lot of chickens means a lot of eggs, which means a lot of delicious food.

When her family was in Xiangguan, she kept a few chickens. Whenever the chickens laid eggs, her mother-in-law would save them to go to the market to exchange for some firewood and salt.

On birthdays, you can also get a boiled egg to eat.

Although she is now in Guzhu, her wife treats her very well and she can often eat eggs with the young master, but she still remembers the scene when she was a child begging her mother for eggs.

Her mother had said a few days ago that she was staying at her new home in Guzhu to get ready, and that she would also look for some chicks to raise.

To Ah Qing, these chicks are countless eggs and wealth.

So I take care of them very proactively and attentively.

"Ah Qing brought the young master here early in the morning and cleaned the house, prepared feed, and took good care of him." Zhao Xi, who followed behind, praised with a smile.

"Mr. Zhao." Although Zhao Xi praised her, Ah Qing huddled up like a little quail when she saw Zhao Xi coming in.

Ah Qing also studied the evening enlightenment course seriously, but his grades were almost at the same level as Gongsun Cheng.

Regarding teachers’ mental suppression of poor students, it has been the same since ancient times.

When meeting his division commander Zhao Xi, Ah Qing always looked like he was shrinking.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Ze also reacted like this.

He had recently imitated Zhao Yun and others in growing a short beard. However, the image of him becoming more powerful after growing a short beard did not affect his ability to stay away from Zhao Xi when he saw him, and never dared to look at Zhao Xi.

Gongsun Yan also praised Ah Qing, holding Gongsun Cheng's hand with one hand, and under Gongsun Cheng's reluctant gaze, he put the chicken in his hand on the Ge cloth padded in the bamboo basket.

Chickens have always been a part of the small-scale peasant economy and an image of ideal life. They are one of the criteria for defining abundance in Mencius's statecraft.

However, farmers in ancient times were not wealthy. They did not have that much food to raise chickens, and they did not have that many seedlings.

A hen can hatch up to twenty eggs at a time.

Like Gongsun Yan, buying eggs that were about to break out of their shells and incubating them at a constant temperature was something that could only be done more than 1000 years later.

These are improved white-feathered chickens that she bought in the trading machine.

What may make Ah Qing a little disappointed is that the taste of this white-feathered chicken is much worse than that of traditional free-range chickens from farmers. Moreover, Ah Qing cannot lay as many eggs as Ah Qing thought, so he will have countless eggs to eat in the future.

As a broiler breed, this type of chicken pursues meat production rate and growth cycle.

White Feather Broiler Chicken is Gongsun Yan’s attempt to solve the meat problem.

This kind of chicken has innate advantages. It grows fast and strong. It can grow one pound of meat by eating 1.6 pounds of feed. If fed feed, it can be slaughtered in 42 days.

These seedlings are purchased directly from the system, and their ancestor genes are stable and can be bred directly.

As for future biological breeding and other issues, it is not an area that Gongsun Yan has time to study.

She could only hand over the subject to specialized craftsmen and let them learn and explore on their own.

Gongsun Yan just planned to raise a large batch of white-feathered chickens first to provide a stable source of meat for the farmers in the army, also called Lone Bamboo Manor.

Now the sergeants of the army have changed from the original meal of fine noodles to three meals of noodles and broken rice. They also have tempeh produced in the Guzhu Manor and are given minced meat sauce every seven days.

But this is just a toothpaste festival, and it is impossible to reach the level of protein supplementation.

Not to mention meeting Gongsun Yan’s expectations.Gongsun Yan smiled as he watched the chickens being carried basket by basket to the heat preservation room next door. A kang was also set up inside to keep the temperature warm, and water and chicken feed were also prepared.

She seemed to be able to foresee that after the chicken farm was built, batches of broiler chickens would be released, a scene that would be cruel to the chickens but beautiful to people.

"Little lady, what is this?"

The so-called layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Zhou Xing could see at a glance the pros and cons of using a fire wall to hatch eggs without a hen.

Although it is good to hatch chicks in such large quantities, it also consumes a lot of food and time.

Therefore, when Zhou Xing still considered the raising cycle and cost of traditional domestic chickens, he did not pay much attention to these troublesome chicks.

But what surprised him even more was the new type of fire pit in the house.

At Gongsun Yan's signal, he touched the kang that was covered with chicken manure and eggshells without any objection at all. The warm kang platform made his eyes flash with strange colors.

As Zhou Xing, who was born in the bitter cold of Youzhou, it would be strange if his neighbors or villagers didn't freeze to death.

Many families huddled together in haystacks and went to sleep alive. The next day, the corpses of the family were found. Perhaps they would not be discovered by neighbors or relatives until the stinking rot in early spring.

When Zhou Xing saw the wall of fire in a wealthy family, it was not like he didn't feel unsatisfied.

But so what, Li Shu is just an ant to those wealthy families, a string of numbers that can provide labor force.

However, the Lady Gongsun in front of her was different!

Zhou Xing could use countless words to describe Gongsun Yan's characteristics, but the one that impressed him the most was his kindness.

Zhou Xing's eyes lit up. If this fire wall technology could be popularized in the village, facing the increasingly severe cold weather in recent years, the number of villagers freezing to death would be reduced.

This can also be used like policies such as rent reduction and new crops in the village to attract more refugees.

Zhou Xing is a kind man, and his first reaction is that such a thing can increase the banker's survival.

However, his mind was only limited to one village.

He did not consider that he would soon be appointed as the county magistrate of Lulong County.

The plan in his heart is still for Lone Bamboo Manor, hoping to attract more refugees.

His thoughts are what most people think today.

After all, local wealthy families have been doing this for countless years.

On the one hand, they rely on their power to obtain important official positions and seize privileges; on the other hand, they use these privileges to strengthen themselves and gain more and more stable positions.

Especially a wealthy family like the Gongsun family in Liaoxi, which has a family of two thousand stones, has always done this.

"This thing is called a fire kang, and it will be popular in the village later."

Gongsun Yan didn't know what the steward Zhou Xing was thinking, otherwise he really wouldn't know whether to praise him for his loyalty or call him a dog official, so he patiently explained to him.

"Thank you, little lady, for your kindness." Zhou Xing was overjoyed when his guess was confirmed. With all these measures, the village will surely have abundant food and clothing and a prosperous population in the coming year.

Seeing the joy on his face, Gongsun Yan just thought that he was kind-hearted, and bent down to pick up Gongsun Cheng, who was still looking at the chicken longingly.

I thought that I would ask Zhao Xi, who was already familiar with the village, to find a puppy for Gongsun Cheng to raise in the village later in the day.

(End of this chapter)