Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 544 White-Feathered Chicken

After Zhao Zhen returned to Liangshan from Qingzhou, he relaxed without the pressure of fighting. He just wandered around the manor with Cheng Wan'er and others every day.

The entire Bai Shi Manor has changed a lot compared to before. Although the original houses were made of high-quality wood, through the seizure of the foggy world and tributes from various states, there is no shortage of rosewood, huanghuali and other woods and furniture, but the small woodwork and decorations are much worse.

Looking back now, the carved beams and painted buildings are everywhere, which is worth the hard work of Wang Yi and others in the painting. Cheng Wan'er led the team to select the decorations that suit the occasion.

People who didn't know the details thought it was a noble family with a history of thousands of years. However, the Baishi Manor was not large enough after all, especially after Zhao Zhen reorganized the army, the soldiers stationed in Baishi Manor became more and more crowded. Therefore, in addition to the old land of Baishi Valley, now to the south, a piece of land has been expanded in the newly built Liangshan City.

This land was not expanded from the existing land, but was placed there by a boundary stone of unknown origin that Zhao Zhen found when he was counting the warehouse.

After the boundary stone was put down, it was just a dilapidated village the size of the misty world of [Zhuangyuan Zhanglou]. Including this land, the circumference of the entire Baishi Manor is already 1,500 feet. After cleaning, construction has now begun.

The natural garden layout is still used. Four thousand [Xiaoqi personal troops] and five hundred [Reconnaissance battalions] will be stationed here in the future. The original two small military camps will also be moved south, and the four personal battalions will be stationed around the two sides of the newly built meeting hall, and take turns to guard the Baishi Valley behind.

In the original Baishi Valley, only the three Qingyuan guards were stationed there to cooperate with the personal camp. After the camp was built, Baishi Valley Manor was only used as Zhao Zhen's residence. In addition to the pagoda temple and the treasure house on the east hill, many houses were also built near the stream on the east side of the hill to accommodate the increasing number of servants in the manor.

At the time of Sipai on this day, Zhao Zhen was practicing martial arts in the training ground. Zhao Ji led Wu He, the manager of the goose farm, to approach. Zhao Zhen saw them and asked, "Have you arranged for the lion-head geese?"

Wu He said quickly, "Sir, the new goose farm is located in Yangzhuang, Xiaohuangshan. According to your instructions, the manager here is Liu Xiang, the youngest son of Liu Mu, the third elder of Jingmen Town. We also selected a capable person from each of the other two goose farms to serve as assistants. Together with the farmers we recruited, we can now graze and raise goose normally."

"In addition, the 50 male geese that my husband asked me to select, along with five soldiers who were to serve as [goose guests], have been sent to Qingzhou Prefecture, Yanzhou, Yizhou, Liangshan Prefecture, and Dengzhou to serve as goose soldiers in the army for trial."

Zhao Zhen listened and nodded.

Nowadays, in addition to the two goose farms in Liangshan Prefecture, many ordinary farmers also raise hundred-brother geese. After all, compared with ordinary geese, the number of eggs laid by hundred-brother geese is twice that of ordinary geese.

Of course, the size of the Baizi goose is smaller than that of ordinary domestic geese. If used as meat geese, it cannot compare with domestic geese. Therefore, farmers mostly raise them together.

In fact, the saying that one man's success brings prosperity to all his family members is fully reflected in Zhao Zhen. Not to mention the heroes who came to join him, but only the eight stewards in Zhao Zhen's family, not to mention the chief steward Zhao Yuanli and the head of the manor guard Zhao Ji, who were always by Zhao Zhen's side.

The most capable Ding Chou was appointed as the magistrate of Yishui County, Tang Ting was also appointed as the chief clerk of Liangshan County, Zhu Sha became the head of Liangshan Township in Shuibo, and as for Li You, Chao Cuo and Tang Sen, who were slightly less capable, they each managed a business for Zhao Zhen.

As for Sun Zheng, a scholar from a village school, he was promoted by Zhao Zhen and became the magistrate of Dengzhou.

Although many official matters were squeezed into various government offices and county officials were not fully staffed, there were not many official matters that required Zhao Zhen to personally handle.

The official documents sent by the prefecture were reviewed by Liu Huiniang, Wu Yong, Zhu Wu, Pei Xuan and others before being finalized by Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen would handle the documents for up to two hours in the afternoon.

After Wu He left, Meigui led Zhao Shiqilang, who had been waiting for a long time, over. After greeting each other, Zhao Zhen asked, "Shiqilang, how is the white-naped crane that Taoist He sent?"

Zhao Shiqilang said, "Sir, these five pairs of white-naped cranes are well-trained and are not afraid of people. When Taoist He left these white-naped cranes, he also handed them over to me. Therefore, these cranes have built nests on Liangshan Mountain, and two pairs have laid eggs. I have brought the cranes here today."

As he said this, he asked Zhao Zhen to leave the house. At the sound of a whistle, ten white-naped cranes were seen landing from the sky.

Ten white-naped cranes flapped their wings, surrounded Zhao Shiqilang and touched him with their beaks.

Zhao Shiqilang pointed at Zhao Zhen, and the white-naped cranes all looked over. Zhao Zhen saw them and quickly used the bird-training technique to communicate with them. These ten cranes were all trained by the Crane Taoist using the bird-training technique, and they naturally ran over when they sensed the same aura.

Zhao Zhen took a bunch of Liangshan dried silverfish from Buddha's hand and fed one to each of them. The white-naped cranes immediately became close to Zhao Zhen. After playing with him for a while, Zhao Zhen waved his hand and let the white-naped cranes fly away.

Zhao Zhen took another booklet from the Buddha's hand and said to Zhao Shiqilang, "Shiqilang, you are naturally close to birds. Take a look at this booklet "Detailed Explanation of Breeding Birds."

Zhao Shiqilang took the booklet and flipped through it quickly.

After reading it, Zhao Shiqilang bowed and said, "Thank you for your help, sir. After reading this book "Detailed Explanation of Bird Taming", I have become a bird trainer. With this experience, I am confident that there is no bird that I cannot tame."

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "That's good. You have been taking care of all the magical birds in the farm. Now that you are a bird trainer, your ability to train birds will surely be even better."

"Can the black pheasant and the white pheasant be paired?"

Zhao Shiqilang said awkwardly: "Sir, although the white pheasant and the black pheasant are gentle, they don't like each other. The black pheasant has laid three eggs in total, and none of them have been fertilized."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen sighed. Ever since he got this pair of auspicious beasts, Zhao Zhen had been thinking about pairing the two pheasants to see if they could hatch a new auspicious beast. But it seemed that this was not going to work.

"However, the snow holly has bred into a new group. At the beginning, the snow holly, the seven-colored pheasant and the red-feathered rooster were all placed in the chicken farm, and the three roosters left many offspring. The chicks of the three spiritual chickens were no different at first, but as they bred more, the offspring of the snow holly appeared to be a kind of chicken with white feathers like the snow holly. However, this chicken is plump and not very active, and its growth rate is twice that of other chickens. Now I have raised these more than 300 chickens separately. If the offspring of this chicken are all like this, it can be confirmed that this chicken must be a new breed and deserves the word "specialty"."

Zhao Zhen was overjoyed and asked, "Have you ever eaten this chicken?"

Zhao Shiqilang said, "Sir, there are more than 300 chickens here, how can you bear to give them away?"

Zhao Zhen said, "If the hens are reluctant to part with them, then how about the roosters? Zhao Ji, go to the chicken farm and get two roosters."

After a while, the rooster was delivered and Zhao Zhen took a look.

world log
Adult chicken (different species, descendant of Luxi fighting chicken Xuelihong, yellow beak, white feathers, white legs, yellow claws, red crown.)
Race: Chicken
Level: Level 0 and Level 1

Characteristics: Quiet Level 1 (moves slowly, sits or lies still for a long time when full), Fast-Growing Level 1 (grows rapidly).

"Sure enough, although this chicken is not a spiritual species, it has become an alien species." As he said this, he asked someone to send two chickens to Li Xiaoer in the back kitchen. One was stewed and the other was roasted according to the Zhang family's method of roasting chicken.

Soon, Li Xiaoer brought two lunch boxes. After Zhao Zhen tasted it, he asked others to taste it as well. Zhao Zhen asked, "What do you think?"

Rose said, "Sir, this chicken doesn't taste very chewy."

After hearing this, the others nodded.

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "That's right. A slight difference in taste is not a big deal. If there are more chickens, we can supply them to the army."

Then he turned to Zhao Shiqilang and asked, "What does this chicken eat?"

"This chicken is not active and cannot be left scattered on the mountain like other chicken farms. I built a chicken coop and feed it with chaff mixed with grass. If you think this chicken can be used, please give it a name."

Zhao Zhen said: "This chicken has white feathers all over its body, so it is also called white-feathered chicken. You should compile the breeding method of white-feathered chicken into a book and teach a few more people. In the future, in addition to Dapulian pigs and Tuhe black pigs, white-feathered chickens will also be a common item in the army, so don't be slack."

(End of this chapter)