Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 262 Let Liu Bowen and his son go home to raise pigs

Liu Bowen's answer did not exceed Yang Xian's expectations.

Liu Bowen did not save much money during his years as an official. After returning to his hometown to retire, he could only farm the land.

This is not difficult to guess. Ancient literati also praised Tao Yuanming's life of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence.

But in addition to Liu Bowen, Liu Lian also had to be considered. You must know that Liu Lian resigned and returned home with Liu Bowen.

He is still young.

You can't spend the rest of your life farming with Liu Bowen.

Even if you throw away the identity of Liu Bowen's son.

Liu Lian is still very talented. When trouble comes to the Congo, he is a traitor and a traitor. He is perseverant and energetic. He has done a lot of practical things as an errand in the Ministry of Industry over the years.

Although he is no longer in the officialdom now, such talents should not be wasted like this.

So Yang Xian extended an olive branch to him and said, "Brother Meng Zao, I have a project here that is suitable for you."

Liu Lian shook his head slightly and said, "Thank you very much, Duke Yang, for your kindness, but if it weren't for being with my father, I wouldn't have quit my job at the Ministry of Industry."

In Liu Lian's view, staying with Yang Xian, whether as an official in Yangzhou or working in Mingji Trading Company, would mean leaving Liu Bowen. To him, that would make no sense.

Yang Xian smiled and said: "Brother Meng Zao misunderstood, you can take it back to Qingtian to do what I said."

Liu Bowen on the side also spoke at this time: "Let Xiwu finish what he said. You are still so young, and you are always thinking about what it would be like to accompany an old man like me."

Yang Xian said: "Mingji Trading Company is now planning to expand the breeding industry. The teacher's hometown of Qingtian, with its green mountains and green waters, is very suitable."

"Aquaculture?"

"Yes, just raising chickens, ducks and pigs." Yang Xian nodded and smiled.

Here, I have to dispel a rumor.

"Pig" was never a taboo word in the Ming Dynasty. Because Zhu Yuanzhang's own surname was Zhu, which was homophonic, he specifically changed the name of the pig. It was called "Fei Fei" in spoken language, and "豕" and "屘" in writing.

These are all rumors.

It is even more outrageous to say that Lao Zhu’s family does not eat pork.

In the second volume of "Nanjing Guanglu Temple Chronicles" "Meal Shame", there is a record of a meal menu for June of the 17th year of Hongwu: "Pork stir-fried with yellow vegetables, vegetarian meat with clear sauce, steamed pig's trotters and tripe"!

The rumors disproved themselves.

However, during the Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a ban on raising pigs. This was done during the reign of the ridiculous emperor Zhu Houzhao.

The ban on pigs by Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty was copied and issued by Wang Xianfeng, the left minister of the Ministry of War, when he visited Yizhen in December of the 14th year of Zhengde.

A month later, the pig ban was passed back to the capital. At that time, Yang Tinghe, a cabinet scholar who stayed in the capital, couldn't laugh or cry. In February of the 15th year of Zhengde, he published a poem "Please exempt the ban on pig killing", mercilessly refuting Ming Wuzong's Those three unrefuted reasons for banning pigs required Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty to issue a new edict to abolish the ban on pigs.

In March of the fifteenth year of Zhengde's reign, the Ministry of Rites issued a report stating that the country's normal rituals must use "three animals": cows, pigs, and sheep. Ming Wuzong had no choice but to quietly lift the ban.

In other words, the "Pig Ban" that has been widely circulated among the people only appeared for three months in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. It was just a small episode.

Nowadays, many people spread rumors and use this point to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty. I really don't know what to say.

Return to Shenhou Mansion.

Yang Xian's words confused Liu Bowen and his son.

They originally thought that Yang Xian could come up with some good projects.

In the end, it turned out to be raising chickens and ducks. Needless to say, this was what Yang Xian wanted to do when they returned to their hometown to farm.

The old man had chicken millet and invited me to the Tian family.

Chicken and rice are the representatives of pastoral life. Yang Xian saw the expressions of Liu Bowen and his son and knew that they had misunderstood. He smiled and then said: "The breeding industry I am talking about is completely different from the kind of free-range chickens and ducks you think of."

Raising chickens in this era is just like raising chickens in rural areas in later generations. Some are free-range. When the time comes to feed the chickens, the chickens will not run around, and some are fenced. They also raise ducks and pigs. Usually there is a chicken coop at home or in front of the house, and a few chickens are raised and let out to find food during the day, and then feed some.

Liu Bowen and others took it for granted that this was what Yang Xian was talking about.

Isn’t it just raising chickens and ducks? How can it be different?

If there are more, raising dozens of them is considered a large scale.

Yang Xian didn't waste any time and asked his servants to find a blackboard and chalk. Then he directly taught Liu Bowen and his son various modern breeding knowledge on the spot.

Half an hour later.

"That's about it. Some specific details can be discussed further." Yang Xian put down the chalk in his hand, clapped his hands, and looked back at Liu Bowen and his son.

Liu Bowen and Liu Lian were in a state of shock with their eyes wide open and their mouths slightly open throughout the whole process.

Can we raise chickens and ducks like this? !

A scale of tens of thousands?

Just listening to it was so shocking that it was hard for Liu Bowen and his son to imagine how they would react when they saw this scene with their own eyes.

You must know that before this, the person who raised the most chickens was Zhu Jiweng, a Luoyang native in the Han Dynasty who lived at the foot of the North Mountain of Shixiang. Legend has it that he had raised chickens for more than a hundred years and had more than a thousand chickens.

This incident was recorded in Liu Xiang's "Biography of Immortals", which was China's first systematic biography of immortals.

In other words, even in the fairy tales imagined by the ancients, there were only more than a thousand chickens at most.

Yang Xian opened his mouth to tens of thousands, which people in this era would not even dare to dream about.

No wonder Liu Bowen and his son were so shocked.

According to Yang Xian's plan, three huge breeding farms are planned to be built in Qingtian.

Raise chickens, ducks, and pigs respectively.

The three farms all adopt the unified feeding management method of later generations for large-scale breeding.

The next few decades will be a time of rapid development for Ming Dynasty.

The people of the Ming Dynasty also cannot afford to lose their physical fitness, so they must prepare a large amount of meat in advance.

This matter was already in Yang Xian's plan. The breeding department of Mingji Trading Company has also been established, but the right candidate has not been found for a while.

Now Liu Bowen and his son can be said to be the best candidates.

"Is this kind of thing really possible?" Liu Lian asked.

"Brother Meng Zao, have you seen anything that I can't do in these years?" Yang Xian asked with a smile.

After listening to Yang Xian's words, Liu Lian's eyes were shining and his body was trembling slightly.

In this era, as long as you are a good man, you will definitely want to do some great achievements.

Although Liu Lian has resigned from office now, it does not mean that he has lost his ambition.

As long as this matter is done well, it is destined to leave a mark in history.

How could he refuse.

(End of this chapter)