The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 481 Major Contribution Award

Fu Bao is an easy baby to take care of.

I spend most of my time sleeping.

They only whine and whimper when they're hungry or need to poop.

He is willing to drink his mother's milk.

He doesn't complain when we switch to another wet nurse.

Compared to his sister's stubbornness back then, who only recognized her own mother, she was practically an angel.

With his mother helping him with bowel movements every day, the little guy is incredibly healthy.

Gan Minglan only needed three days to restore her body to its peak condition before giving birth.

However, it's really boring to lie in bed during the day after the child has fallen asleep.

Just as the 30th day had passed, ignoring Zuo Wenkang's nagging, she announced the end of her postpartum period.

She has to go to work!
During her late pregnancy and the three months of postpartum confinement, she had many new achievements waiting for her to review, and she needed to be awarded a major contribution award for her related work.

Just like.

The paper mulberry trees planted a year ago have now grown into a forest.

Following toilet paper, Kansai-made paper made from mulberry bark has been launched!
Master Hongming contributed a great deal of experience to its production process.

Having recovered from his leg fracture, Zen Master Hongming did not want any reward; he only hoped to stay at Xianyan Temple in Dunhuang.

The Xianyan Temple in Dunhuang is no longer the place where treasures had to be offered to protect its gates. With the increase of Han Chinese immigrants, its incense offerings have become increasingly prosperous.

It has the air of a famous temple.

The abbot of Xianyan Temple dared not give face to the Zen master whom the General Zhenxi had invited back from the southwest.

He led all the monks of the temple to personally welcome Zen Master Hongming.

In his later years, Zen Master Hongming practiced Zen in this famous temple and left behind many calligraphic works that are renowned to later generations.

Of course, these are things to follow.

Among those receiving the major contribution award were three elderly women with an average age of fifty.

Supervisor Wang, Supervisor Yu, Supervisor Tang!

The three drew inspiration from their experience with the Ganluchuan greenhouse seedling nursery.

It took more than a year to develop a technology for artificially incubating young chickens, ducks, and geese in large greenhouses.

Gan Minglan inspected the chicken, duck, and goose sheds and listened to the three supervisors report on the hatching success rate and survival rate. She was very satisfied.

With a wave of his hand, he awarded each of the three men a two-courtyard house and two hundred taels of silver.

Manager Zhang, who was in charge of the pig farm, was so envious that his eyes were practically red with envy!
Gan Minglan also comforted her:
"Although sows can't lay eggs, you can research how to make them have more piglets at once! If you can increase the number of piglets per litter to more than twelve, you'll receive a major contribution award!"

Supervisor Zhang: Good, good, good! We all start on equal footing, she can't be worse than those three! It's just about getting the sow to have more piglets, she can do that too!

After awarding the major contribution award, the next step is to look at the project.

The Kansai Military Academy, which will open on the day of Lidong (the beginning of winter), has undergone ten months of renovation and reconstruction and can now accommodate 5,000 teachers and students to study, live, and exercise.

After making some requests regarding the school's canteen and dormitories, General Gan's next itinerary was to inspect the two border trade cities of Weilumu and the Ili River Valley.

During the construction of the two border trade cities.

All fifteen provincial administrations of the Yongtai reign received invitations from the Guanzhong border trade city.

The invitation invited merchants from various regions to bring their specialties to Guanzhong to participate in border trade. Meanwhile, the tribes west of the Ili River Valley and north of Weilumu also received news that cities in Yongtai Dynasty would be open to merchants for large-scale trade in late autumn.

After six months of propaganda, the news that the Han Chinese court had restarted border trade had spread tens of thousands of miles.

At a meeting where the generals of the ten garrisons in Kansai gathered.

Gan Minglan inquired about the reactions of both sides after receiving the invitation to trade.

Tian Jiu, the head of the border trade city stationed in the Yili River Valley, laughed before even speaking:

"Hahaha, General! The five hundred shops planned for the Hu people and foreign merchants in the border trade city of the Yili River Valley are definitely not enough!"

In the past month, thousands of caravans and tens of thousands of people have come from the west, with foreign merchants making up the majority of them!

Some merchants from Hu (Hubei and Hunan provinces) heard that they were allowed to rent shops in the border trade city and conduct business there long-term, so they entrusted their goods to acquaintances in the trade and returned to their hometowns to source their goods!

Gan Minglan: "."

Well, after three years of internal strife and more than a year of recuperation, I wonder how much stock these foreign merchants have accumulated.

She quickly gave instructions:
"Have people who can understand both Chinese and the languages ​​spoken by the foreign merchants do the translation work. Make sure that all goods entering the border trade city are of genuine quality! Issue a stern warning to those who engage in fraud, selling inferior goods as superior ones, or delivering goods that do not match the description. Once discovered, they will be permanently banned from entering the Yongtai Dynasty border."

Tian Jiu: "General, please rest assured, anyone who dares to cause trouble on our territory will be made to lose everything!"

Gan Minglan: "Very good!"

General Gu, who was assigned to guard the Weilumuwei Garrison, also stated:

"More than a dozen tribes near Weilumu, including the Oirat and Khoshut, are also very enthusiastic about this trade. Those who have traded with us in recent years have built a certain level of trust. Tribes further north of the snow-capped mountains have also been notified."

Not only were they notified!

Also, because they were not far from Weilumu, they had already set up camp near Weilumu for almost a month.

If it weren't for the presence of the Great General Cannon and three thousand border guards, the anxious herdsmen would have stormed into the border town of Weilumu long ago.

Gan Minglan nodded in satisfaction and turned to look at the garrison commander of Guazhou:

"Have the merchants selected by each provincial administration office arrived in place?"

"Reporting to the General, they've all arrived! Fifteen provincial administrations, each with ten merchant guilds. There are also small merchants who joined along the way after spotting caravans. In the past three months, Guazhou Garrison has received over three thousand merchants and nearly fifty thousand cartloads of goods who came to participate in border trade."

"Come, let this general see what good things the merchants of the various provincial administrations within the Great Wall have prepared for this year's border trade!"

Gan Minglan took a quick look at the list of goods handed over by the garrison commander of Guazhou.

There are essentially four main categories: handicrafts, metal products, handicrafts, and agricultural and sideline products.

Gan Minglan was still inside and discovered some niche tracks.

For example, among the tea merchants of the Bashu Provincial Administration Commission, there was a general merchandise merchant.

The merchant's inventory list contained only one very special item, called a yáng chariot.

The 飏车 is a rotating hand-cranked fan-wheel.

After threshing, the grains can be poured into the feed inlet of the threshing machine, where the chaff, broken straw, and grains are separated by shaking the fan.

The people of the Central Plains used it for more than two thousand years.

Even in the rural areas of the 21st century, its presence can still be seen.

Such farming tools are not found in the Hu region.

Not to mention the Western Regions and the Western Barbarian countries to the west.

The owner of this trading company seemed to be taking a desperate gamble, shipping two hundred speedboats at once without even investigating the market!