Chapter 988: Changes in the Wei Clan

The machine well technology can create an underground hot spring, and the hot spring can be used for daily watering and raise the temperature through a small canal that curves back and forth in the greenhouse.

Coupled with plastic film and organic fertilizer, the ground temperature can be increased, and growing vegetables in winter is no longer a difficult technology.

Good things are rare for everyone, and in the hearts of the nobles, the poor royal historians are blind beep, and that's because they can't afford to eat them!

Lao Tzu has embarked on the horse winter vegetable project, which can be regarded as blocking the gun for the emperor, this is what our nobles should do, isn't it? !

So the nobles went to Sujia Zhuangzi to learn from the experience, invested in the vegetable garden, and gradually opened up Wei's into a huge out-of-season green vegetable base.

Cultivation requires technology, so in addition to the vegetable garden, it has now become the largest agricultural science and technology research institute in the Great Song Dynasty, as well as a breeding base for aquatic domestication.

Sitong Firm has successively applied the grafting technology provided by Suyou, the dwarfing technology of fruit trees, and the laws of genetics discovered by Xiaomei to agricultural practice, and has created considerable benefits.

By artificially pollinating peas, Xiaomei has revealed the first of the three fundamental laws of genetics - the law of gene segregation.

Then, further on this basis, through the study of goldfish genetics, the second one, that is, the polyploidal form of the first, was discovered - the law of free distribution.

Today's Xiaomei is no longer fighting alone, but a scientific research team specially provided by the Sitong Agricultural Technology Department has carried out experimental observation of fruit flies, and is moving towards the third law - the law of chain exchange.

On this basis, the hybrid cultivation of various agricultural crops is also in full swing under the unique conditions of Wei's family.

The main objectives are several - high-yielding rice seed research, high-yield wheat seed research, cruciferous and Likaceae selective crossbreeding research.

The last of these is a major project, including high-yield rapeseed crops, edible vegetable crops, livestock green storage crops, and sugar crops.

In addition to these two categories, there are carrots, sweet elephant grass, spice crops, etc.

For example, sweet elephant grass, in the north of the latitude of Bianjing, needs to be sown every year, but in Weishi, because of the guarantee of warm water, it can be harvested for three consecutive years if planted in a year.

As a result, it has naturally become another major project of agriculture - a base for livestock selection and breeding.

The prosperity of horse racing, the state's policy of encouraging horse breeding, new horse training methods and the maturity of modern horse farms have made horse training a rising career.

Just as the local tyrants of later generations were keen to collect luxury cars, famous horses are now a symbol of the status of the nobles.

The five-foot-8 inch horses that could only appear in the Qiji Courtyard in the past are now everywhere in the Wei Clan.

Zhao Ji deliberately opened up a racecourse in the Wei family, and also set up an equestrian guild, personally serving as the head of the guild, and every once in a while, the nobles' drinking parties and horse races would be held here.

The Jockey Club also has the nature of gambling, and it is also a big source of income for the Emperor Song Charity Fund, the dignitaries of the Jockey Club hold exquisite glasses, silicone-filtered wine, eat delicate baked snacks, and open and close their mouths are what are the professional terms such as "pedigree", "purebred", "speed factor" and "endurance factor", just like the horse was raised by their own hands.

In addition, Wei's vigorous development also includes the pig industry, animal power cattle and dairy cattle industry.

All these things, the best are in the Su family, in the Sitong firm.

Many things are still state secrets, and several buildings next to Sujia Zhuangzi are guarded by guards, subordinate to the Tianwu New Army, and directly and blatantly supervised by the Imperial City Division.

Legend has it that there is a secret trick to trick the heavens, and all you need to do is use straw to make the shape of a livestock, and after one night, all the female animals in the farm can be pregnant with foals, calves, lambs, and piglets.

Although the guess was wrong, it was not far wrong.

Along the way, in addition to the green space, there are many windmills and waterwheels by the Huimin River.

Winter wheat has emerged and entered a crazy growing season, and now wheat rice, which is not delicious and difficult to digest, has completely bid farewell to the tables of the people of the 16 counties of Gyeonggi.

Instead, there are big steamed buns, pancakes, noodles, and even a meal of shepherd's cabbage dumplings in spring.

It's all thanks to those windmills and watermills.

The importance of food made from dough that has been fermented and adjusted to pH is self-evident and difficult to digest and become soft and delicious and nutritious.

In the past, flour was enjoyed by the upper class, and the people ate more wheat rice, and it was recorded in the collection of notes written by Zhang Ling in the Tang Dynasty that Cao Huai was defeated instantly, "leaving wheat rice, thousands of miles from head to end, and more than a foot on the ground." ”

To process, it requires manpower, and grinding and screening also takes effort.

It wasn't until there was an automatic machine that didn't require a lot of manpower that it was considered to have crossed this hurdle, and flour finally began to enter the homes of ordinary people.

In addition to saving manpower, it also saves food.

One pound of flour steamed eight large steamed buns, which can feed a strong man for two days.

By handing over most of the chewing work to the stone mill and most of the digestion to the yeast, the absorption and conversion rate of food is greatly improved.

The rest of the bran, which is difficult to digest, can be used as additional feed for livestock and can also be used as materials purchased by the Sitong firm, and there is no loss at all.

In addition to the preparation of organic products such as ethanol, methanol, ether, penicillin, yeast, etc., the main purpose of Sitong's acquisition of bran is to produce a large amount of feed through a new process.

In fact, this technology is the earliest extrusion technology used in metal processing, the high-pressure sealing technology used to manufacture hydraulic presses, and the superposition of steam processing technology used in shipbuilding, applied to the feed industry, can produce a powerful thing - extruded feed.

In the era of overnutrition in later generations, this thing was simply a disaster, creating countless fat people for the world, causing the market of fat people to fall again and again.

However, in today's widespread food scarcity, the effect of this thing can be called heavenly!

At first, the board of directors of Sitong was not very interested in the scientific research direction proposed by Su You, because the three technologies are now considered high-precision, and they are used to produce feed, which is a bit of a big fuss.

However, the results of the experiment surprised the bigwigs of the board.

According to the report of the experimental team, the conversion rate of raw bran directly used by livestock is up to 30%, and if it is prepared into material, it can be increased to 40%.

However, extruded feed can increase this conversion rate to 99% against the sky!

The four links are equivalent to buying scrap and producing gold.

Then don't say anything, it's serious to put it into production quickly!

Although the production cost of feed is not low, Sitong can still make a lot of money.

Because poultry, livestock, and fish, after eating this kind of feed, their physique is extremely strong, not to mention, the growth rate is very fast, and the efficiency of milk production and egg laying is extremely high.

The price is not expensive, the market of feed sales, in Shaanxi, Bianjing, Zhejiang, Shuzhong, where there are more intensive farms, the sales volume is getting higher and higher.

And all of this is the benefits brought by the Institute of Science to the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial historians blindly forced them to say that the Institute of Science and Technology is an "evil science", which is ridiculous from the Son of Heaven to the common people, and may even be in their own minds.

Not to mention anything else, just rely on science and engineering knowledge to make the hens at home have an egg a day, sometimes happy and one each morning and evening, the ground can grow three or four catties of a big radish, cabbage, dogs and royal histories say that the sky is broken, and the old men do not recognize it.

The biggest mistake that Lao Tzu has made is to pay taxes and fatten up this group of hollow bosses......

This kind of evil is willing to be done every day! Do we really think that our little people are all idiots?!

Wei Shi came all the way, and there was a peculiar sight - a fish pond.

Nowadays, the winter in Bianjing is actually quite cold, and the new city wall of Kaifeng Mansion designed by Su You, there is also an ice room hidden in the wall, which is to use the climate in winter to freeze the spring water into ice, store it in the wall, and then take it out for royal use in summer, plus make ice and snow cold drinks to make money.

This business is under the jurisdiction of the Ice and Snow Affairs Department of the Imperial City, don't underestimate this small design, the benefits brought to the royal family are not less than tens of thousands every year.

The expenses of the Imperial City Division, Su You's convenient design completely solved it for Zhao Ji.

Wei's fish pond, because it uses warm water flowing through the vegetable garden, although the temperature has been greatly reduced, it is still possible to meet the needs of a few fish ponds without freezing.