Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 72 Cow Dung Feeding Pigs
Chapter 074

There is a saying that what you are afraid of will come.Ran Ming secretly groaned in his heart, with a hint of displeasure flashing in his eyes.Although it was only for a short moment, it was captured by the old fox Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan can also guess that it must be that Ran Ming hates the humble status of his daughter being the daughter of a merchant.He didn't express it at the time, but he was slightly displeased with Ran Ming.He and Liu Mo looked at each other, and seeing Liu Mo's beautiful eyes revealed a sad expression, Liu Yuan sighed silently in his heart: "My poor daughter, why are you doing this?" Except for Ran Ming in the world, why don't you worry about getting married?"

Ran Ming himself hadn't sorted out his words yet, but Liu Yuan said in a slightly blunt tone: "Cao Min sees Your Highness!"

Ran Ming smiled and said: "Mr. Liu came just in time, please take a seat!"

Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment. This was a different square table where he usually ate, like a copywriter for official documents.In this era, even when entertaining guests, there is a small table for each person.It's like a small table on a kang in Northeast China.He has never heard of Ran Ming's way of eating with host and guest, and master and servant sitting together.

Especially the kind of chair with a backrest is even more strange.

Regardless of Liu Yuan's surprised gaze, Ran Ming pulled away the chair next to the table on the right side, and said to Liu Wei in a very gentlemanly manner: "Miss Liu, please sit down!"

As he spoke, Ran Ming quietly pulled Liu Wei over, and gently pressed her on the chair. Liu Wei stared blankly at Ran Ming, even more puzzled.

During the dinner, Wang Meng also felt uncomfortable with Ran Ming's actions, after all, in this era, men and women have never had the habit of eating at the same table.But Ran Ming was his master, so he didn't object.The scene was a little awkward.

"Hehe, the old man hasn't eaten yet, what a coincidence!" Liu Yuan didn't care about Wang Meng's gaze, just sat down like Ran Ming asked Liu Mo to sit down, picked up the bowls and chopsticks that the maid had just prepared for him, picked up the mung bean sprouts and put them on the table. In his mouth, he picked up a piece of salted fish directly.

For Liu Yuan's thick skin, Wang Meng was convinced, he muttered in his heart: "This merchant is really vulgar!"

Ran Ming thinks this is actually good, it doesn't need to be so embarrassing!Ran Ming called Liu Mo to eat with his chopsticks.According to later generations, this is a very common thing, but it was different in ancient times. It is very impolite to let female family members come out to greet guests.

Liu Mo timidly sat down with Ran Ming, and then she asked anxiously: "Your Highness, do you hate slaves very much?"

In fact, Ran Ming can't say that he hates Liu Mo, but he is too mature mentally. In later life, he is actually 56 years old. Although he is not Liu Xiahui who can sit still, he prefers that kind of mature woman rather than this kind of woman. Kind of young girl.Besides, Ran Ming was a little disgusted with Liu Yuan's forced marriage.Naturally, Ran Ming would not talk about his own thoughts face to face, and asked instead: "Do I hate you for everything I do to you?"

"Then why didn't you accept the slave to come in for so long!" Liu Mo summoned up his courage and said loudly, "The slave is already here!"

In later generations, she is still young, but she is a very old girl in this era.Li Er married his eldest grandson Wugou, who was only 12 years old at the time.It's insane to think about it, how dare a 12-year-old girl have the nerve to do it.Seeing Liu Li's anxious expression, coupled with Liu Yuan's gnashing of teeth hating iron and steel, Ran Ming felt a burst of joy. It seemed that Liu Li's father and daughter did not communicate well at all.

Ran Ming hurriedly explained: "How can you allow yourself to be the master of marriage matters? The Queen Mother's edict has not arrived, and if I arrive, I will welcome you through the door!"

It was only then that Liu Wei remembered how embarrassing it was for him to say such a thing. He blushed, smiled embarrassingly, and changed the subject: "I didn't expect that there are so many delicacies here, Your Highness, so I can feast my mouth today?"

It was fine if Liu Wei didn't say anything, but when he said this, the scene became even more embarrassing, and in the extremely depressed atmosphere, the four of them had dinner.

Leaving aside Liu Mo, Wang Meng and Liu Yuan entered Ran Ming's study again!
Ran Ming asked directly: "Mr. Liu, the first batch of [-] shi of grain has arrived, how much is there to follow?"

Liu Yuan said confidently: "I will never break my promise, and all the [-] shi of fine grain will arrive within two months."

Ran Ming asked Wang Meng again, "How much food shortage do we still have in Qingzhou?"

Wang Meng said: "According to the sorted household registration, Qingzhou now has a total of 17 households, with a total of more than 68 mouths. The food shortage is mainly due to military rations and newly registered new households. It needs 32 shi!"

Ran Ming sighed, even with Liu Yuan's [-] shi of grain, there is still a large shortage of food, not to mention Yecheng and Wei County, the food gap is even bigger, although he has some gold and silver, but if all of them are used Buying grain is still not enough. Buying a large amount of rice grain from Jiangnan will attract the attention of the Jin Dynasty, and if it is not done well, it will lose everything!
Ran Ming didn't want to count on Liu Yuan. Even if he married Liu Mo, he still wanted to get enough benefits from himself. If there were no benefits, he would definitely quit.What Qingzhou needs most now is open source.Since Duan Kan occupies 65 counties in the six prefectures of Qingzhou, Qingzhou has not experienced large-scale war damage, so the situation in Qingzhou as a whole is the best compared to the four northern states.

The common people are basically self-sufficient in food, and the gap is very small.Considering these problems, Ran Ming finally decided to use his own method to solve the food problem.

In fact, as a business tycoon in later generations, Ran Ming has many ways to get rich.If it takes Ran Ming a few years in business, he can easily get rid of Liu Yuan!

"To solve the crisis, we just need to increase income and reduce expenditure!" Ran Ming said: "We in Qingzhou have no choice but to reduce expenditure now, the people's life is too hard. So the only way is to increase income! Mr. Liu can continue to buy from Jiangnan. Rice, in addition to using green salt, I will open a paper mill and use high-quality rice paper to go to the south of the Yangtze River to exchange food!"

Liu Yuandao: "There are many paper-making workshops in the south of the Yangtze River. I'm afraid the profit will not be too big, and the income will not be very high!"

Ran Ming said: "It doesn't matter, the rice paper made by Gu is much cheaper than theirs, only one-third of their price, and the quality is better!"

Liu Yuan pondered, Qingyan's income in Jiangnan was far more than Liu Mo said, and now if there is really the rice paper that Ran Ming said, the Liu family's investment is likely to be paid off quickly! "

Liu Yuan left satisfied, and Ran Ming dragged Wang Meng to a horse farm outside the city.

Qingzhou has a lot of natural pastures. Although it is not as vast as the grasslands in Youzhou and Inner Mongolia, after the bastard Duan Kan occupied Qingzhou, he destroyed many fields for pastures, so the scale of pastures in Qingzhou is quite large now.With the war horses captured by Ran Ming and those from Qingzhou, there are almost 30 adult horses, and there are quite a lot of cattle!Basically, it can meet the agricultural production of Qingzhou!
On the way, Wang Meng looked very puzzled, and the anxious Ran Ming asked, "Your Highness, why is it so urgent!"

"I found a way to make Qingzhou rich!" Ran Ming said with joy, "Qingzhou has a huge food shortage, and we don't have the financial resources to solve this problem by just buying. We only need to tap our own potential and increase efficiency. That's why I thought of raising pigs! "

"Puchi!" Wang Meng almost didn't choke on his own saliva, he really didn't know how expensive he was, "Ahem, Your Highness, we have little food, how can we use it to raise pigs?"

Ran Ming said seriously: "This pig raising can actually be raised without food! My method is to use the manure of cows and horses!"

"Shit!" Although Wang Meng's knowledge is good, he never thought of this level.

Ran Ming explained: "Sir, I don't know that, in addition to some cellulose, the manure of cows and horses also contains relatively rich crude protein, crude fat and trace elements, etc. It is a good feed for pigs!"

"Cellulose?" "Crude Protein", "Crude Fat" and "Trace Elements" Wang Meng can be regarded as highly educated, but he has never heard of any of them.Looking at Ran Ming's excited expression, he murmured in his heart: "Could it be that Your Highness is in a hurry and lost his mind?" Wang Meng was very anxious. He looked at Ran Ming like a Martian, but Ran Ming never noticed it. !

When he finally came to the cattle farm outside the city, Wang Meng was really afraid that Ran Ming would make a joke.Quickly persuaded: "Your Highness, feces are such a dirty thing. If it is eaten by a pig, it will be fine even if it is a pig. Who would dare to eat this pork? Aren't you afraid of being poisoned to death?"

Ran Ming said: "Actually, the cows eat grass, and the excrement they pull out is also clean, it doesn't matter!"

"Can you really raise pigs?" Wang Meng wondered.

Ran Ming found the person in charge of the cattle farm and asked him to collect the cow dung, then find a large pot, pour fresh cow dung into the pot, add a lot of water, set up a fire under the pot, and use a wooden stick to Stir in the pot, and when the boiling water evaporates the foam in the pot, Ran Ming asks people to turn off the fire.Take out the cow dung from the pot, add a little coarse salt, add a little bran and stir together, and when the cow dung cools down, find a pig to feed it.

To Wang Meng's surprise, these pigs ate cow dung very sweetly!

Ran Ming looked at the piglets happily eating cow dung and explained to Wang Meng: "Actually, this cow dung can be fed to pigs or I discovered it by accident. Pigs can eat cow dung. After feeding pigs with processed cow dung, a piglet can be fed to pigs for only 200 day. It takes five to six months to grow more than 20 catties, one person can feed forty or fifty pigs, and can produce ten thousand catties of meat in half a year, which can be made into dried meat or canned meat. Qingzhou has about 150 cattle , the cow dung produced can feed 3000 million pigs, and after half a year, 70 million catties of meat can be produced, and we in Qingzhou have less than [-] people, and we can solve most of the food, and pig dung is also a treasure!"

"What?" Wang Meng can be regarded as having seen Ran Ming's touchstone technique. He turned the most useless cow dung into treasure, and suddenly turned it into food for more than 6 people a year.Wang Meng asked curiously: "What method?"

"Pig dung can be used to raise fish!" Ran Ming said, "Especially that kind of catfish, they like to eat pig dung. Fish fed with pig dung grow fast and grow big. In this way, pig dung can feed hundreds of fish." Tens of thousands of fish, and fish farming is not counted, the pig manure soaked in the pond has become a good fertilizer, dug out to cultivate the land, and can increase production in large quantities!"

"Really?"

"Don't you know the result if you let people try it?" Ran Ming said to Wang Meng: "This will be the focus of work in the future, and this method of chain breeding must be implemented well."

Wang Meng wondered: "Although pigs can be raised, no one likes to eat meat!"

After being reminded by Wang Meng, Ran Ming realized that the custom of eating pork probably only gradually became popular after Su Dongpo made Dongpo pork.Ran Ming thought for a while and said, "It doesn't matter. The common people even eat grass roots and bark. Now that there is meat for them to eat, they will not object. There is still a way to make this pork delicious!"

(End of this chapter)