Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 339 Share the joys and sorrows, share the adversity

  Zhu Houzhao's whole person looks much leaner!

  Since it is necessary to do everything by yourself, Liu Jin is not allowed to intervene in ordinary chores.

  Laundry, lighting, cooking, and even mending clothes, are now very proficient in everything.

  The next day, people came from the palace and brought a lot of food from the palace, all kinds of rare preserved fruits and pastries, there were as many as several baskets.

   One was given to Zhu Houzhao, and the other was given to Fang Jifan.

   Zhu Houzhao seemed annoyed. There were a lot of things, but they were still not enough. After all, there were many people in Xishan.

   It was the **** who pulled Fang Jifan aside, Zhu Houzhao took a look, immediately became vigilant, followed quickly, and stared straight at the eunuch.

  The **** no longer dared to hold Fang Jifan to have secret talks, but said: "Your Majesty has given an order to Uncle Xinjian. Your Majesty said that Uncle Xinjian has worked hard to take care of the crown prince..."

   Zhu Houzhao suddenly had blue veins on his forehead, and his face turned red!

What? Who takes care of whom?

  Fang Jifan is still very moral, but when he heard it, he thought it was wrong. What does it mean that he takes care of the prince?

  Does the prince still need to take care of it? Your Majesty obviously doesn't know the prince clearly!

So Fang Jifan hurriedly said: "Please go back and report to Your Majesty, father-in-law, and say that I am very ashamed. In fact, I have a brain disease, and there have been occasional signs of recurrence recently. Thanks to His Royal Highness, the prince took care of me. As for the fact that I take care of the prince, it is purely nonsense. Don’t dare to do it, and can’t afford to do it.”

  After listening to Fang Jifan's words, Zhu Houzhao felt much more at ease, and his anger disappeared immediately. He grinned and said, "Yes, yes, I will report it like this when I go back."

  The little **** looked at Fang Jifan with difficulty, then at the crown prince, and hesitated.

   "Fart if you have to!" Zhu Houzhao shouted impatiently seeing the little eunuch's strange expression.

Then the little **** said with a sad face: "Your Majesty said that Uncle Xinjian has always been modest, never took credit for himself, and was cautious in his words and deeds. He had expected that Uncle Xinjian would say such things. His Majesty... Shengming... wrote it, so His Majesty explained otherwise, saying that it was Xinjian. Uncle Ju has made great contributions, and on the next rest day, he will go to the palace with the prince to have an audience, and the prince has been resettling the refugees for some time, and His Majesty also wants to hear how the prince arranges the refugees."

   "..." Fang Jifan sighed, not knowing what to say.

  It seems that a person has too much black history, and it is not easy to change it!

"Also..." Seeing that His Highness the Crown Prince's face was not looking good, the little **** hurriedly changed the subject, took out a small bag, and said: "This...is a cake made by Her Highness the Princess herself, and I invite Uncle Xinjian to taste it. Her Highness said, It was not easy for Uncle Xinjian to treat her illness, and he never knew how to repay her, these cakes are just a humble meaning."

  Fang Jifan took over the small burden, which was very delicate and with a light fragrance, Fang Jifan felt a warmth in his heart, which could not be found in a group of old men in Xishan!

  He just wanted to say something, Zhu Houzhao said: "What about my palace, do you have any of my palace?"

  The little **** said awkwardly: "Your Highness, this...no..."

   "..."

   Zhu Houzhao looked very melancholy.

   Waiting for the **** to flee, Zhu Houzhao watched the eunuch's back, his face fluctuating.

   "It seems...everyone doesn't like me." Zhu Houzhao said sadly.

  Liu Jin was at the side, and said happily: "Your Highness, I like you the most."

Fang Jifan put on a serious face, he could see that Zhu Houzhao was a little frustrated, and said: "Your Highness, this is because His Majesty has high hopes for you, but you don't believe His Highness, you will enter the palace next month, Your Majesty asked His Highness This relief to the victims is a golden opportunity from God, instead of feeling sad here, it’s better to cheer up and see you with admiration when the time comes for three days. Your Highness, can you do it according to the minister’s method?"

   "Did... done, every household, every town, a detailed investigation..." Zhu Houzhao said.

   "That's it." Fang Jifan patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Instead of mourning and complaining, let them see how powerful His Highness is."

  Zhu Houzhao's complexion looked better now. Lao Fang usually likes to be lazy and pretends to be sick. In other respects, he is still very good.

  He nodded and nodded, thinking hard, but he said: "Why doesn't my sister send pastries to my brother?"

"This is because…"

"Bring the cakes." Before Fang Jifan could finish speaking, Zhu Houzhao snatched the cakes away, and said with a wicked smile: "It's better to be alone than to be happy together. It's better to share food. I'll try it first. Don't you want to eat?" He also said, do you want to share joys and sorrows with others?"

   As he spoke, he took his bundle and ran away quickly.

  …

  The life in Xishan Academy is boring and interesting.

   After some days, Xishan bought a group of cows and horses, and besides, there were pigs.

  These foals, calves and piglets began to be distributed to households, and raising horses and cattle has been put on the agenda.

Shen Ao is very interested in a foal that was assigned to him. His Royal Highness and Uncle Xinjian let them raise the horse. On the one hand, it is to observe the habits of the horse. On the other hand, it is said that it is also to teach the farmers how to feed it. Promote outside the customs.

  Tuntian Qianhusuo has found a resettlement site outside the customs, and began to try to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, especially potatoes, which are the top priority!

  In the future, the Thousand Households will set up settlements there. Now that we have reached the grassland, we have food and settlements, but the grassland should not be wasted like this. At the same time, it is extremely necessary to develop animal husbandry.

  Uncle Xinjian requires all readers to record their experience in raising horses. If they are well-raised, they must know why they are well-raised, what they usually feed the horses, and their temperament. If they are not well-raised, they also need to record the gains and losses.

  It is extremely rare for farmers and scholars to combine to raise horses and cattle.

  The arrival of these ponies and calves immediately added a bit of fun to the entire West Mountain.

  Every morning, Xiao Huzi had to go to the pen to see his pony with his own eyes before he was willing to go to school, and Zhang Sanba began to look for some fodder for the pony to eat.

  Shen Ao observed the foal's feces, hair, and daily temperament of the foal, and recorded them one by one.

  Actually, Fang Jifan is most interested in pigs.

  The ancients loved to eat mutton and dog meat. For example, the dog butchers are often said to be similar to the pig butchers of later generations. Although pork is not uncommon, it has never been liked by the ancients.

  The reason is that the ancient pork tastes...very sour.

  Besides, in this era, the meat yield of pork is not high, because the pig estrus period is relatively long. Once it enters the estrus period, the pigs tend to be irritable and have less meat.

This is probably no different from human beings. In addition to freckles, adolescents are also prone to irritability. They often say "what are you looking at, what are you looking at?" .

  But if the things below are cut off, the world will be clean, and life will have nothing to look forward to. It’s nothing more than eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating, and letting the world be turbulent. I am calm and calm.

Therefore, castrating a pig not only removes the smell from the pork, but also makes the pork easy to be loved by people. It is not necessary to put a lot of seasonings in order to cover up the smell like in this era, so that it can be made into Dongpo. Meat is edible.

   Even so, there are still not many people who like to eat pork, and people still prefer more mutton. But if the stench can be removed, it will be very different. The number of people who can accept pork is bound to increase greatly.

In addition, it can increase the meat production in a large amount. Uncastrated pigs are impulsive, irritable, and extremely restless. Restless like to wander around, and it is not easy to grow meat, but if they are castrated, the meat production will be extremely high. .

  Bowling pigs have actually appeared since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they have not been popularized on a large scale. The reason is that the castration of pigs cannot be disinfected in time, which can easily lead to the death of pigs!

Think about it, if you **** ten pigs, seven or eight will die, even if the remaining pigs grow better, have higher meat output, and the meat quality is delicious, even if the pigs only need to be free-ranged, they will just walk around slowly, Don't worry that it will rush around like an uncastrated pig, and it will take a lot of manpower to have people watch it, and you may not be willing to castrate a pig.

   Then, to solve the problem of castration, the first thing to consider is to sterilize at low cost to ensure the survival rate of barrows.

  Fang Jifan especially sought out the farmers.

Many farmers prefer to raise sheep. On the one hand, the selling price of mutton is better; Furthermore, the meat production rate of pigs in this era is actually not much higher than that of sheep. Fang Jifan has seen pigs here, and they are indeed not fat.

   The profession of swineherd disappeared after the popularity of barrows.

   All in all, in this era, meat is a luxury. If you want to bring meat into the homes of ordinary people, you must find a high-yielding livestock.

  Pig... became Fang Jifan's target.

  As soon as he heard that he was going to raise pigs, Zhu Houzhao seemed extremely unhappy!

  The Ming Dynasty did not prohibit the raising of pigs, but Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, that is, after Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne in history, once made a decree to prohibit eating pork, thinking that this pig was a bit offensive to himself.

   It can be seen that Zhu Houzhao has a lot of resentment towards raising pigs.

Fang Jifan almost dragged Zhu Houzhao, and said, "This is a pig, not a pig. Those who talk about pigs are all uneducated people. Your Highness, isn't our goal to make countless people live a better life? What's so good about beef?" Pork meat is delicious, very fragrant."

   "I would rather kill all the cattle in the world!" Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "I will never eat pigs... pigs..."

  But although Zhu Houzhao was extremely reluctant, he still obediently followed Fang Jifan to a circle, and Liu Jin also excitedly followed behind, looking around.

  Besides, a man was sharpening his knife...

  (end of this chapter)