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As a result, no one wanted to try it.A group of old and young men just felt like they were not wearing pants, □□ chilly, looking at the new county magistrate who was three points prettier than the girl, their hearts were full of awe!

The matter of castrated pigs has a long history, but it is rarely spread among the people.Pork is sold in the market, and the price is more expensive than mutton. However, most people just buy pork suet and take it back to boil the oil. Few people eat pork.

Xu Mingxu didn't quite understand what was going on, all he knew was that the pork from the Tu family was delicious.There is no loss in raising pigs.

It can be said that in the current big man, agriculture is the foundation of the country is not just a casual saying.

Agriculture is the real pillar industry of the country. Even almost all officials in the imperial court including the emperor, as well as all families, mainly earn their income from farmland.

This is no exception in Anchang.However, although Anchang is a plain, the land is not fertile enough, the annual precipitation is not sufficient, and the temperature is also low. Only some drought-resistant and cold-resistant coarse grains can be grown. Even in a good year, the yield per mu is only a few tens of catties.

The people here are not lacking in farming.However, how much land you plant, you have to pay the corresponding tax.After all, if he cultivated an extra mu of land, his harvest would not be much more.Therefore, the common people are not very interested in opening up wasteland, but are full of enthusiasm for privately reclaiming wasteland and secretly planting some fields that do not pay taxes.

In addition, Anchang's main agricultural income is animal husbandry, which specifically refers to raising sheep.Not to mention that every farmer has a dozen or twenty sheep, even in this county town there are bleating noises everywhere.Some wealthy households specially find calving ewes to eat goat milk, while ordinary households just feed one sheep.

"There are merchants from other places who come to Anchang to collect. A sheep can be bought for two hundred yuan. If it is better raised, or if it happens to be a better year, a sheep can be sold for two hundred and twenty thirty yuan. "The master of Anchang County was explaining the local ecology to Xu County Magistrate who had just come out of the pigsty. Resisting the urge to pinch his nose, he continued, "My lord might as well raise some sheep. The sheep here in Anchang are excellent. The young caravan came here especially." It was better than tossing about these dirty and smelly pigs.

"Two hundred Wen?" Xu Mingxu thought he heard it wrong.

"When a sheep grows up, it weighs about one hundred and eighty catties. After slaughtering, it can weigh forty to fifty catties with bones and meat. It can be sold for more than five yuan per catty. You can eat it in Anchang County elsewhere. Sheep, including chewing and various expenses along the way, will be more expensive." The master book patiently explained why the price of local mutton is cheap.

Xu Mingxu, as a manager of the Dahan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is also responsible for compiling agricultural economics. His knowledge of agriculture is far beyond that of ordinary people. In addition, he is deeply influenced by his roommate Tu Mouse, a money fanatic, and he also has some understanding of prices in various places.

An Changyang, of course he knows, and has eaten a lot.In autumn and winter, the Tu family will send Anchang mutton to Guozijian. In addition to giving it to teachers, it can also improve the food for their own family members studying in Guozijian.

He took advantage of Tu Hao's time to eat a lot, but Tu Hao could only eat a few thin slices.Thinking of this, the expression on his face subconsciously softened a little, and he said: "The Anchang mutton is delicious, fat and tender, and it is not comparable to ordinary mutton."

Therefore, in the capital, ordinary mutton sells for seven or eight yuan a catty, and some of the better ones sell for ten yuan, while Anchang mutton sells for fourteen or five yuan, and the supply is often in short supply.He knew that the so-called specialty products would be cheaper locally, but he didn't expect it to be so cheap.

"So, I can try to raise a few." Xu Mingxu did it when he thought of it, and there happened to be a land snake master by his side, so he asked where he could buy lambs and asked Xiao Zhong to buy them, "Just buy three or five lambs. Don't buy too much."

Xiao Zhong held the copper coins, and his little tanned face suddenly became distressed along the way: "Master, I am a bookboy, not a shepherd."

"Well, you are a book boy." Xu Mingxu affirmed his job, "Hurry up and buy lamb."

"Let's go!" Xiao Zhong left happily.

The master left with Xiao Zhong in a dazed expression, and the master left behind was also dazed for a while: "Mr. Shaolang only plans to raise three to five sheep?" But the pigs raised three to five hundred head. Isn't this ratio a bit wrong? ?

Xu Mingxu didn't feel wrong at all: "Well. When it's Chinese New Year, send it back to the capital so that grandparents can taste the authentic An Chang sheep." Send another one or two to the butcher's house, if the little mouse can grow up this year If you are stronger, you can eat a few more bites of mutton.

The master raised his hand and twitched the mustache on his lips, and said a little too late, "Mr. Shaolang is very filial." The problem is that raising one is raising, and raising two is also raising, why not raise more?Didn't they hire so many people to raise pigs?Does making money conflict with filial piety?No conflict!

Xu Mingxu only thought in his mind that he couldn't finish eating too many little mice, so he could only watch others eat him, how pitiful he was.

The fact that the new county magistrate wanted to raise sheep did not attract the attention of the local people.In today's Dahan, officials will bring a wave of new agricultural technology, or excellent grain seeds and cash crops to the local people every once in a while. The people are grateful, but they will inevitably get used to it.

The current county magistrate likes farming, which is not a particularly new thing.It's hard to say about raising pigs, but when it comes to raising sheep, people in Quan'an Chang County are full of confidence, and feel that there is no problem in giving guidance to the new county magistrate.

Xu Mingxu ignored these, and started to raise funds step by step after modifying the plan he had made long ago.

Tu Hao established a rural cooperative two years ago, specializing in grape cultivation.Xu Mingxu also personally participated.When he was in the Imperial College, Qi Qi was more inclined to be responsible for various external liaison matters. The real assistant work was done by Xu Mingxu, and he always knew the general process of this aspect.Although the folk customs in Anchang are different from those in the capital, they haven't encountered any major problems after all.

When the weather entered the sweaty summer, in Xu Mingxu's county pig farm, more than half of the piglets had been adopted by local farmers, and the extra space was just used for the grown pigs to separate pens.

Outside the pigsty, there were people building barns under the leadership of craftsmen.A cross-shaped kang road is dug underground, covered with stone slabs, and the top is paved neatly with compound soil.The walls of the barn are also very solid.

"It's better than human living." A craftsman sighed, his hands were not slow, and he only raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead when it was about to flow into his eyes.

Another craftsman grinned and nodded with his chin at the shed on the other side: "It must be a good place for no one to live in."

Over there is the place where they live temporarily. The foundation is higher than that of the barn here. Naturally, there are kang roads underneath.

As soon as the white house was built, it attracted people from Anchang to watch. Many people directly called this place the Snow House.

Xu Mingxu only found out after he came to Anchang that this place still produces lime, the quality is not very good, but it is enough to paint the walls.This work shed is only for experimentation, and it seems to work well now, and it can be used to improve the housing conditions of the local people.

Nowadays, most houses are made of earthen walls. It is not a big problem that it is not easy to clean. The main reason is that the earthen walls are easy to dry and crack. If it rains or snows, especially in winter, the inside of the house is very cold. Every winter It is a contest of life and death.People who have the conditions will repair it every year, but the climate in Anchang is dry, and the repaired place cannot be well combined with the original wall. Often, one or two frosts can make the wall skin peel off.

For houses with slightly better conditions, some stones will be added to the outer wall, so that the wall will be stronger, of course, but the soil used to fill the gaps in the middle will inevitably be peeled off after a long time, and finally become holes one by one, becoming the favorite of some wild bees .

As for people living in brick houses, there are really a minority in Anchang.

"I didn't expect this lime to be used in this way." The summer is hot, but it will rain heavily every few days.The work shed is newly built, but the inside of the house can't even feel the slightest bit of damp.The thoughtful craftsman thought about it secretly, "Lime is not a rare thing, but some grass stalks are added to it. After I go back, I plan to burn it myself and wipe my house."

This lime looks good now, but he is not sure if it is really durable.But in front of my eyes, after plastering the house, it turned from the original dust to white. It looked clean and bright, much better than the original house.

Lime can be burned by themselves. The straw used by the new county magistrate here, they don’t have so much straw, they can use grass stalks, which is a little more troublesome to deal with, but they don’t have jobs every day, so they just take their time when they have free time Yes, it doesn't cost anything.

The other craftsmen thought it made sense when they heard it: "It is said, we will paint the house first after we go back."

"Wouldn't it be nice to see it all white and miserable?"

"It's better than dusty."

"Isn't it easy to get some color inside?"

"Easy to say, why don't you try it?"

"Try it! But we have to ask Mr. Xu first."

A group of craftsmen also thought about it: "Yes, I have to ask."

"This prescription belongs to Mr. Xu, we can't use it casually."

"Yes, you must ask Mr. Xu!"

"What do you want to ask me?" Xu Mingxu trotted over slowly on a bay red horse with a dull coat, jumped off the horse lightly, and patted the horse to play by itself.

This is a war horse he bought from the military camp. It has just been cured after being ill. It can go out for a run today, and it will be sent to the military camp again after it is recuperated in a few days.

There are more than a dozen war horses like this on the fenced pasture.

War horses are very precious military supplies.He was able to get in touch with these war horses because of the few experienced veterinarians he met when he was compiling the Agricultural Classic, and the matchmaking by Yao Guanshi.It was only recently that the barracks revealed that they would send a few ponies.

The craftsmen talked one after another about the plaster wall, but Xu Mingxu didn't take it seriously at all: "This method is widely circulated among the people, so you can just use it." He was playing with the lamb not far away. The book boy called out, "Xiao Zhong, I'm back!"

"Hey!" Xiao Zhong struggled to get up from the ground, snatched back the booklet he had ordered from Xiao Yang's mouth, and ran to set up the car covered in grass clippings.

There are also Fanshang here in Anchang, but it is different from the ones in the capital. Most of them come from the west. With the language barrier, not only communication is difficult, but also many unnecessary misunderstandings will occur.His young master said that they have to learn from each other and promote international exchanges in order to deceive people... No, it is for mutual benefit.

After the master and servant returned to the county office, Xiao Zhong continued to study diligently, and Xu Mingxu wrote a letter to Tu Hao.This is his daily habit.It's just that I write letters every day, but now it's not as convenient as when I lived in Wanchunzhuang, and I have to send them out after a while.

Every time Tu Hao received a thick stack of letters, the content not only contained words, but also various styles of Anchang drawn by Xu Mingxu. The most recent one had pictures of energetic ponies.

Seeing that the letter said that he would take him to ride a big horse in the future, he was happy but also a little worried: "I think I will grow strong by then, and these ponies will not grow as fast as I do, and they will be crushed by me."

Qi Qi: "Don't think too much."

The author has something to say: Big Sun o(*////▽////*)q: If you don’t ride a big horse, you can ride your brother.

Little Mouse o(〃'▽'〃)o: How bad it is.

Big Sun (*/w＼*): No, this is very good, sit on it♂.

Little mouse ⊙▽⊙: Hey!

Big Sun? (????): Very good, now we can hurry up.

Regarding the plaster on the wall, it is actually plaster of paris, adding paste or something ← these are based on long-term and vague impressions. It seems that it is an ancient building or something else. The teacher mentioned it in class, don't take it seriously.The ancient paste was basically burned with glutinous rice, which was quite expensive. In ancient times, the rich man-made tombs and some city walls would also be used. Generally, people who are suffering from haha ​​​​should not do this in their homes.The stupid author made a brief description in the article, please don't pursue the details.After searching for a long time, I found a method of plaster of Paris for wall painting in Japan. It is to filter the viscous water with burned seaweed cloth, then add fluffy plant fibers, and add lime to fully stir.I asked the Queen Mother this morning, and the Queen Mother said that the plaster walls used to be painted with straw inside, otherwise they would not be able to be painted, and there was nothing else.So I struggled for a long time what is it for_(:з」∠)_