At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 327, Helping Farmers and Fusu’s Friends

September 26, the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City, Zhaoli.

Hu Hai is still contacting textile factories, but farmers in Zhaoli have already begun building factories according to Hu Hai's plan.

At this time, news came from the countryside that an opera troupe was going to Zhaoli today, so that they could be prepared to welcome them.

The people in Zhaoli were overjoyed to have free opera to listen to. It was really a great joy in life.

With Xu Fan's support, the opera troupes in Guanzhong have developed rapidly. There are official opera troupes, folk opera troupes, regular opera troupes with high prices and extremely realistic stage props, and those with three or two people on the grass stage. Opera troupe.

After the autumn harvest, it is common for villages in Guanzhong to have enough money to invite folk opera troupes to come and have fun, but these all cost their own money.

The imperial drama troupe was not only formal, but also free of charge, so the people of Zhao Li naturally took it seriously.

They immediately prepared the stage, and villagers from all over the country gathered in Zhaoli and took their seats to watch the show.

When the opera troupe came to Zhaoli, they were warmly welcomed by the villagers. Many villagers asked: "Captain, is the opera brought here this time "The Fairy Pair" or "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" ?”

The expressions of other villagers were the same as Jiang Tao's. The whole world belonged to the emperor. It was not normal for the emperor's family to have a breeding farm with tens of thousands of poultry.

Jiang Tao said: "You look like an honest person, how could you edit the story to be so unreliable? There are tens of thousands of poultry. I have never seen so many poultry since I was a child."

And he can lay tens of thousands of eggs a day. Are you concentrating all the eggs in the world on his family?

Wu Yue smiled and said: "Elders, don't be anxious, I will answer your questions one by one."

Li Zheng Jiang Tao said: "Didn't you hear the old saying that if a family has ten thousand gold, it doesn't matter if they have feathers? Look at that guy named Yun Ye. A chicken plague almost destroyed his family. His family has a big business and he can still handle it. We will be promoted to ordinary people." If something like this happens, my family will be destroyed.”

When Jiang Tao heard this, he nodded and said: "It turns out that this is the emperor's breeding farm. No wonder there are so many poultry."

Most people do not believe in the method of hatching on a heated kang. They have only seen chickens and ducks hatching chicks and ducks, so they instinctively think that hatching on a heated kang is fantastic.

Sure enough, the content of the opera is similar to what Fusu thought. It is about a farmer who raises free-range poultry and gets rich by relying on this skill. Then he does not forget his original intention and leads the villagers to make a fortune together. There are tens of thousands of poultry in one farm. Later, he was reused by the emperor and became a noble.

The key technologies are explained very clearly, such as the fire-kang incubation method, the use of earthworms as feed for fattening, and the prevention of poultry plague. Various aspects such as the difficulty and setbacks encountered, and the plot are also introduced. There are ups and downs, and the routine is completely copied into science.

"I like to listen to "The Perfect Match" and want to sing "The Perfect Match"!" Many villagers shouted.

At this time, a slovenly middle-aged man appeared on the stage. He smiled and said: "Hello, Zhao Li, I am Wu Yue, the screenwriter of "The Poultry King". I just heard many elders discussing the plot of "The Poultry King", and I will explain it myself. If you have any doubts about the situation, you can tell me in person."

"First of all, the fire-kang incubation method is real. It is a method thought up by the emperor. More than a dozen of our farm brothers have practiced it and it has been successful. Using this incubation method, we can hatch 500 chickens at a time."

Fusu was not interested in such a plot, but the villagers were interested in seeing it. This was telling their own stories. Many villagers were imagining what life would be like if they had tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese in their homes. ?
"I really have so many poultry at hand. I eat chicken, duck and goose three times a day." A villager sighed.

Only Wu Yue was smiling bitterly. The people were unwilling to think. They were used to pushing everything to an authority and then leaving it to that authority to help them think.

The leader of the group, Jiang Li, was also accustomed to these situations and said: "What we brought here is new music. The emperor asked us to arrange the opera from "The Book of Wealth" plus "The Poultry King""

There is also the fire-resistant hatching method. Myths and stories have never been so outrageous. Without chickens and ducks to hatch, how could this egg hatch on its own? "

"You are living like an emperor!" A villager said with disdain: "I am not as greedy as you. Isn't it good to keep chickens, ducks and geese to lay eggs? Tens of thousands of eggs are laid a day, and two of them are enough for me." It’s better to sell the rest.”

"Now the Emperor has built a large poultry factory in Shanglinyuan. Using this incubation method, nearly 10 chickens, ducks and geese have been hatched. Now the Shanglinyuan Poultry Farm can produce tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and goose eggs every day. So Yun Ye This person is fake, but this poultry farm is real."

"Is hatching under a fire kang reliable? Doesn't all hatching rely on chickens and ducks? When have you ever heard of hatching under a fire kang?"

"'Poultry King'?" When Fusu heard how vulgar the song was, he understood that it should be a song used by the imperial court to promote farmers.

"Yes, this opera is just like a fairy tale. A chicken farmer can become a nobleman and a high official. Then can those of us who farm the fields also become noblemen and high officials?"

But in the words of the emperor, farming must be scientific. If you don’t think about it, you won’t make progress. If you encounter problems, you won’t solve them. Educating the people really has a long way to go.

Wu Yue continued: "Now the imperial court has a policy. 6 chickens, 2 ducks are sold for 1 yuan, and a goose is sold for 2 yuan. One household can get 30 chickens, 10 ducks, and 2 geese." , If you need it, you can come to me and sign up, and the poultry will be delivered in three days, and you will pay for it. "

"So cheap?" The price Wu Yue gave was only half of the market price. At this time, even Fusu believed that Emperor Han had really invented the fire-kang incubation method.

"I want to order some poultry." Jiang Tao said immediately.

The price of food is low this year, so he originally wanted to raise more poultry. Firstly, he would consume some food, and secondly, the price of poultry would be higher, which would be more cost-effective for Jiang Tao. Now there are poultry seedlings that are twice as cheap.
Of course he signed up. Anyway, the total amount is only 24 yuan, which is a small amount of money that the villagers in Zhaoli can still afford.

"We also want to make a decision." Other villagers also enthusiastically signed up. In fact, many villagers have already raised more chickens and ducks. Now that they heard that there are cheaper chicken and duck seedlings, of course they want them.

A small Zhao Li ordered more than 3,000 chickens, thousands of ducks, and more than 200 geese.

Jiang Tao even said: "Why is there only so much? If I want to raise more chickens, ducks and geese, you can give me ten times the number of poultry."

Ten times that is only 240 yuan, and Jiang Tao can still afford this amount of money.

Wu Yue smiled bitterly and said: "Old man, one hundred thousand poultry may seem like a lot of benefits for the people in Guanzhong these days, but it is only enough for a few thousand households. If you ask for more, others will not get a share."

"And more importantly, more poultry is not better. The more poultry you raise, the more likely you are to get chicken plague. My current court has no way to treat chicken plague. The only way is to prevent it."

Jiang Tao said nervously: "How to prevent it?"

Wu Yue said: "With free-range chickens, as long as the number is not too large, it is not easy for chicken plague to occur. Even if a loss occurs, it will be within the range of your family. If hundreds of chickens, ducks and geese die this time, I am afraid that the elderly You can’t bear it either.”

Jiang Tao thought the same thing. If he raised too many chickens, he would not be able to bear the chicken plague.

Wu Yue continued: "If you want to raise more, it's not impossible. This junior has a "Cultivation Encyclopedia" here, which is a book that records the breeding techniques of our farmers. If you follow this, you can reduce a lot of difficulties."

Jiang Tao asked: "How much does this book cost?"

"100 dollars"

Jiang Tao frowned, but said nothing. Dozens of poultry only cost 24 yuan, but a book cost 100 yuan. He was not willing to pay for it.

Wu Yue said: "Old man, if you just want to raise a few dozen chickens and ducks to make some money for your family's expenses, experience will suffice."

"If you want to raise a sufficient number of poultry, you must read the above knowledge. This "Encyclopedia of Breeding" was written by more than 30 disciples of our farmer family who accumulated experience. It only costs one hundred dollars and is absolutely cost-effective."

It's a pity that Wu Yue's words were a lie. Jiang Tao was ecstatic about the tangible poultry seedlings, but about the thin "Poultry Encyclopedia", Jiang Tao felt that Wu Yue was deceiving him.

Fusu took out a handful of money and said, "Can I buy this book now?"

Wu Yue smiled and said: "Of course." After saying that, he gave the book to him. Seeing that Fusu was a scholar, he said: "The most precious knowledge in this book is the fire kang incubation method. If you learn it well, you will become a doctor within 5 years." A wealthy businessman is not a problem.”

Then he looked at the surrounding villagers, shook his head and said, "They don't know treasures. They only think that these poultry seedlings are valuable, but they don't know that the knowledge in opera is the most precious."

"Your Majesty knows that the people in the world are illiterate, so he uses this entertaining method to teach them knowledge, but they don't cherish it at all. They just read it."

Fu Su said: "Even if they don't understand it now, they will eventually understand it in the future. They can feel who treats them well and who treats them poorly in this world. There is a process of acceptance after all, as long as the people remember Yes, one day these knowledge will shine brightly, brother, there is no need to worry."

After being enlightened by Fusu, Wu Yue felt much better. He smiled and said: "My farm has only been studying breeding for 3-4 years. It is not considered rich in experience. Brother, I can also specialize in it myself. If I gain something, we can work with each other." comminicate."

Fusu nodded.

That night, Wu Yue handed over the order he had recorded to a subordinate, who then ran to Shanglinyuan to prepare the poultry.

There are eight opera troupes like Wu Yue in Guanzhong. After singing opera, they will promote Shanglinyuan's poultry just like Wu Yue. Relying on the low price and the prestige Xu Fan has accumulated in recent years, Guanzhong People are very enthusiastic about buying poultry, and scenes like this can be seen everywhere in Guanzhong.

Guanzhong, Shanglinyuan.

The sound of "chichijijiji" was extremely noisy. There were hundreds of furry little things on a fire bed.

The merchant smiled happily and said: "With the thermometer, the success rate of the fire kang incubation method has increased from more than 60% to 95% now. After this method is popularized, people all over the world can eat meat. I am a big man." The world of Datong is one step closer.”

Two years ago, Xu Fan told the merchants about the fire-kang incubation method, and the merchants also succeeded in the experiment. However, this method is not valuable. It is too difficult to control the incubation temperature. If the temperature is high, it will be easy to scald the cooked eggs and the temperature will be too low. It can't hatch, let alone keep the temperature for dozens of days. Even if farmers take careful care of it, the success rate is very low, so it has not been popularized in Chen County. The failure rate of half of the poultry seedlings is unbearable for the people, and they prefer to use poultry for hatching.

And when Xu Fan made glass, the thermometer was just a matter of skills. In the era of Han Dynasty, there were many materials and theories for science and technology, but there was no difference between the craftsmen of this era and the eighth-level workers two thousand years later.

Xu Fan told the craftsman how to make a thermometer, and soon a simple mercury thermometer was made. There were not many scales on it, only one scale suitable for hatching, but this was enough. The fire kang plus the thermometer, The efficiency of hatching suddenly skyrocketed.

In less than half a year, Xu Fan's poultry population increased from hundreds to hundreds to hundreds of thousands at the Shanglinyuan farm.

Now the first batch of poultry has begun to lay eggs. Tens of thousands of eggs can be harvested every day when the day is high, and there are thousands of eggs when the day is low.

Xu Fan said: "We need to build more fire pits for hatching. Don't be afraid of waste. There are millions of farmers in Guanzhong. Each household needs 30 chicks. This is a demand of 3 million. Our hatcheries are far from enough. Meet the needs of the entire Guanzhong.”

Xu Fan regards Shanglinyuan as the poultry base in Guanzhong. Now this base can produce about 500 poultry chicks every day. This number is already very high for a breeding farm, but for the entire Guanzhong, it is really not worth mentioning. .

From the time Xu Fan started selling poultry seedlings, tens of thousands of poultry seedlings in Shanglin Garden were sold out in less than a month.

Therefore, Xu Fan wants to continue to expand the scale of hatching, preferably to hatch thousands of poultry chicks every day.

Shang Nong said: "Your Majesty's kindness should not only benefit Guanzhong. The people in the Central Plains, Hebei, and Jianghuai should also feel your Majesty's grace."

Xu Fan said: "It depends on the ability of your farmer. This base alone employs 300 farmers and thousands of helpers. If you can find farmers with enough experience, of course I am willing to promote it all over the world."

Now the merchants and farmers have stopped talking. If you want to train a qualified farmer's son, two or three years is not enough.

Then Xu Fan probably said: "The key is for them to learn it on their own. I have told the people all over the world the fire-kang incubation method through opera, but not many people are willing to learn it. The method passed down from Zhao Gao According to the news, the shipment volume of thermometers this month has not exceeded 100 pieces. If the people are unwilling to learn, what can I do?”

If you want to learn the fire-kang incubation method, a thermometer is the most important instrument. In order to help farmers, Xu Fan has raised the price of the thermometer to 300 yuan each. This is already the cost price, but no one buys it, and Xu Fan is also helpless.

After the two sighed for a while, Xu Fan comforted the merchant and said: "Take your time. As long as there are successful examples, the people will be willing to follow them."

Xu Fan was very confident about the learning ability of the Han people. Back then, Mount Fuji apples came as a luxury product, but in the end they became cheap.

There is also the home appliance industry, which was reduced to nothing in less than 10 years. This is also the case for the photovoltaic industry and the mobile phone industry.

On October 2, the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City, Zhaoli.

A cavalry team of more than ten people came quickly from Chidao to Zhao Liwai.

Most of the fields in Zhao Li have been harvested. A large group of chicken and duck seedlings that have just been issued by the imperial court are foraging in the fields. A few old cows sit leisurely and chew the cud. Not far away, children can be heard reading. The sound of the sound, the scenery of a comfortable paradise.

The leader smiled and said: "The changes in Guanzhong are still big. We only have a few thatched houses in Shangjun, and even in the government office, we can't see a few brick houses. In a small village in Zhaoli, half of the houses are bricks." Even the tile-roofed houses in this village are richer than our cities.”

"Governor, the situation in Shangjun is much better now. In a few years of development, our Shangjun may not be able to become a land of abundance." The soldier behind said.

Cao Xing laughed and said, "This is nonsense. Our Shangjun has several miles of canals, but Guanzhong is full of canals. Every small village has one canal. How can our Shangjun compare with the imperial court's investment in Guanzhong?"

After speaking, Cao Xing led a group of them into Zhao Li.

"Who is this guest looking for?" Wang Wen looked at Cao Xing and the others warily.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "A certain person is Fusu's friend. I came here to find him."

Wang Wendao: "Master Zhao is in primary school, I can take you to him."

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Thank you very much."

"The Master said on the river: The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night." Fusu said.

"The Master said on the river: The deceased is like this, and the husband does not give up day and night." A group of children followed behind, shaking their heads and reading.

When Cao Xing heard the sound of reading, he did not enter the school. Instead, he asked someone to lead the horse and wait outside.

Fusu noticed what was going on outside and said to the students: "That's the end of today's class."

The students stood up and saluted Fusu and said, "Goodbye, Master." Then they left the classroom one by one, laughing and joking.

Fusu saw Cao Xing salute and said, "But he didn't know that the county governor was here. It's really disappointing to welcome him from afar."

Cao Xing smiled and said: "You two brothers are a bit unkind. I let Hu Hai go without embarrassment to you two brothers at all, but in the end you publicized this matter to everyone in the world. This time, I'm afraid someone's The situation is difficult, and this is all thanks to your brothers.”

Cao Xing did want to teach the Fusu brothers a lesson.

After this plan, all the county guards of the Han Dynasty will be transferred, which is already known to the world.

Naturally, the governors from various places would not accept appointments until the last minute. They tried their best to find out how they were evaluated within the imperial court and where they could be transferred.

Cao Xing was a veteran of Chen County, so he naturally had his own channels to learn about the imperial appointments.

Although his intention to seize business travelers was good and the consequences were not bad, His Majesty still rated him as rough in law enforcement. After this time, I will stay and study.

(End of this chapter)