Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 42 Inventory of Liu Yumei Feeding Pigs Huang Laifu ([-])
This place, of course, also has a name, it is called Wuzhaibao Livestock Farm.The livestock farm occupies a vast area. Construction started on April 4, and today, April 13, just after it was built, everything is still rough like the rest of the farm.

There are a total of about [-] piglets in these pig houses in the farm, all of which have just been put into the pig house.It took Huang Laifu a lot of energy to buy these piglets. Generally, in the farmhouses of Daming at this time, they usually raise a few pigs, at most a dozen pigs. many.Where can I find two thousand piglets at once?

Huang Laifu entrusted Qu Yuanrui to contact him since last year, and until now, he bought about [-] piglets from various places.It seems that Huang Laifu's plan to raise tens of thousands or even [-] pigs is not so easy to realize.But now the scale of this livestock farm is also the largest in Ming Dynasty.

Each of these little piglets is about 2 months old. When they were bought, one piglet cost 200 yuan in silver, and 4 piglets cost about 6 taels of silver.If it is fed for [-] to [-] months, and it can be sold at [-] catties, and the cost of bean cakes, pig grass, wheat and other feeds for pigs, and straw for pigs, a pig can earn about One tael of silver.

Also, you can't always buy piglets from outside, you have to produce them yourself.Generally speaking, a sow can have more than a dozen litters at a time, and can give birth to about twice a year.At this time, the market price of Daming sows was about 10 taels of silver per head. Huang Laifu also bought 50 sows from various places for 500 taels of silver after many efforts.His future plan is to buy another 200 sows.

There are tens of thousands of fish and ten thousand chickens and ducks by the pond next to the pig house. When the chickens and ducks are bought, they cost about one penny each, and they can be sold for one cent.Huang Laifu is mainly here to lay eggs. After the chickens and ducks grow up, it is conservatively estimated that tens of thousands of eggs can be provided for Wuzhaibao every year.

Moreover, Huang Laifu has another plan for raising these chickens and ducks. At this time, there are often locust plagues in Ming Dynasty. It is a great benefit.Chickens and ducks are the natural enemies of locusts, and it is not comparable to manpower to eat locusts.

Regarding this large livestock farm, apart from admiring Huang Laifu's boldness, everyone in Wuzhaibao is also very curious about this recycling-style breeding method. There are often some military households in the castle and the residents of the nearby No. [-] Farm. Come here to watch the fun.

The workers in this large livestock farm are basically women from military households in Wuzhaibao, some old people who are able to work, and some children also come to herd ducks.Their basic monthly rations are three buckets, and as for the rewards, they are also modeled after the various farms in Wuzhaibao.It can be said that now, there is no idle person in Wuzhaibao, everyone is doing things everywhere.

In the large livestock farm at this time, some military household women were busy feeding pigs, chickens, and fish, and some military household children drove ducks to the Qinglian River to eat fish and shrimp. Although they Small, but each person also has a bucket of monthly food.

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As soon as Liu Yumei, a military craftsman girl, opened the pigpen, the piglets in the pen rushed up one after another, and all of them rushed to eat, and one piglet even pushed the other end to the side. .

Liu Yumei yelled "Hey, here, here", while scooping the pig food from the bucket into the trough of the pigsty.The little girl next to her, Liu Erniu, laughed: "Sister, look, these little pigs are really greedy."

Liu Yumei said: "It's good for pigs to be greedy. They grow fast if they are greedy. By the end of the year, we will have pork to eat." As she spoke, she continued to scoop pig food into the trough of the pigsty.

Liu Erniu clapped her hands and said, "Yes, pork is really delicious."

Liu Yumei smiled and said, "I know you're greedy, just like these little pigs."

The two chatted and laughed, the same situation happened in other pigpens, women in Wuzhaibao carried pig food, and some children with snotty noses were accompanied by them.Everyone opened the pigpens and fed the piglets. Everyone was busy non-stop. There were about dozens of Wuzhaibao women, old people, and children working in this large livestock farm.

These women were originally just doing some housework at home, guarding some of the monthly food of their men.However, Huang Laifu developed many places, and there was a serious shortage of strong laborers in Wuzhai Fort, so a large number of Wuzhai Fort women were hired to do these things such as weeding pigs and feeding pigs and chickens.

These women are very happy to be able to support their families, and they all work very hard.Moreover, there are special supervisors in the large livestock farm. If they do not work hard, they will be scolded if they are found out, and their monthly rations will be deducted in severe cases, and they will even be kicked out of the large livestock farm. Therefore, no one dares to neglect.

Liu Yumei, a military craftsman girl, was also among the hired women. She was paid three buckets a month, and she was rewarded for her good work.And Liu Erniu either helps her sister with work, or goes to herd ducks, with a monthly ration of one bucket.

"You all work hard, don't be lazy."

Liu Zongqi's mother-in-law, Qian Shi, shouted at the busy group of women, turned her head and said respectfully to Huang Laifu and the others: "Young Master, you go this way." After the big livestock farm was built, Qian Shi was also hired by these Among the women from military households in Wuzhaibao, Huang Laifu didn't know much about these women, and Mrs. Qian had met them a few times, so he appointed her as the steward of the large livestock farm immediately, which also meant to encourage Liu Zongqi.

My mother-in-law and aunt have also become the people who manage dozens of people, Liu Zongqi is naturally overjoyed, the husband and wife dare not neglect, usually Qian also does his best, and does not dare to relax in the matter of the large livestock farm.

At this time, Huang Laifu was also accompanied by Gu Yunniang, He Fuqianhu, Jiang Baihu, Yang Baihu, Qu Yuanrui and others. After he got the report that the big livestock farm had entered orbit, he brought everyone to inspect. At the gate of the big livestock farm, when Qian got the news, he naturally didn't dare to neglect, and welcomed the group of people in respectfully.

Huang Laifu said "Yes", seeing the busy scene in the large livestock farm at this time, and everyone was working hard, he couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.Said: "Sister-in-law Qian, you have done a good job."

Qian's face immediately burst into laughter, as if all her hard work had been rewarded, she repeatedly said: "This is all a matter of duty, a matter of duty. We are not in the slightest about what the young master explained. Don't dare to relax."

Huang Laifu nodded.They talked and walked, and they came to a pigsty next to Liu Yumei, a military craftsman girl. At this time, Liu Yumei was feeding the pigs. When she saw Huang Laifu and a group of people coming, she hurriedly stood aside. Her younger sister, Liu Erniu, saw so many people. Come over, even more scared to hide behind my sister.

(End of this chapter)