During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was the saying of "six animals", which referred to horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens.

In the Book of Rites, cows, sheep, and pigs are called Taigao, which is a delicacy that can only be enjoyed by kings and ministers.

And ordinary people "drink alcohol in the countryside, eat wax, and sacrifice without wine and meat", simply put, it means that ordinary people are not celebrating festivals every year, red and white ceremonies, and they can't eat meat.

Beef was the most important meat in the beginning, but after the invention of the wooden plough in the late Warring States period, China became an agrarian society, and after that, cattle became the most important labor, and the eating of beef was forbidden.

In the Water Margin, those murderers, ruffians and hooligans live in the store and open their mouths, and they close their mouths to two catties of beef, which is actually a kind of sabotage and rebellion, and there is no beef to sell at all in reality.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, spiritual thought transcended material pursuits and became the mainstream of thought, and from then on, pork became a food that could not be put on the table.

Because pigs grow up in filthy places, their meat smells fishy, and they are rejected by the people.

Since then, mutton has become the most important meat in China, and in the thousand years from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, no meat can challenge the status of mutton.

During the Song Renzong period, the palace consumed 430,000 catties of mutton a year, but the pork was not even one percent, only 4,100 catties.

The emperor invited his ministers to dinner, and serving pork was a curse, receiving foreign guests, and serving pork could even provoke war.

Pork is only for the most inferior palace maids, eunuchs to eat during the New Year's holidays.

As for Su Dongpo's invention of Dongpo meat, it is actually to encourage people to eat pork.

In fact, in order to remove the smell of pork, Dongpo meat uses a lot of spices and complex processes, which are not affordable for ordinary people at all.

The original pork is very sassy, and the shredded meat is also very thick, which is similar to the wild boars of later generations.

However, in later generations, eating wild boar meat could use a large amount of seasoning to suppress the taste, but the ancient people did not have this condition.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, in fact, castration technology had already begun to spread. Horses are called geldings, cattle are called Qian, pigs are called pigs, sheep are called Qian, dogs are called Yi, and chickens are called geldings, all of which are recorded in the oracle bone inscriptions.

However, people who do this business are looked down upon, and they belong to the most lowly industry, and they have not been able to expand.

More importantly, animals were castrated in ancient times to change their habits, not to eat meat.

Whether it is horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, castration is to castrate the wild nature and obey orders.

Therefore, castration does not start with the young, and it also leads to the fact that for thousands of years, people did not realize that from the time of the young castration of pigs, they can get unruly pork.

It was also from the Song Dynasty that China lost the north, and even the northwest, and horse meat withdrew from the people's table.

Horse meat is actually not delicious, the shredded meat is still thick, and fish has gradually replaced horse meat from this era and become the food on the people's table.

Of course, Zhao Dezhao knows very well that pork can actually be very delicious, although it cannot be said to exceed beef and mutton, but there is one thing that cattle and sheep can't compare, that is, pigs are easy to raise.

Whether it is to hunt pigweed like cattle and sheep, or to eat people's leftover food, it can be fed.

Rice bran and wheat bran, the outer skin removed from the surface of rice and wheat grains, will become the main source of nutrition for pigs in the future.

In China, an agrarian society, there is not much grass, but the leftovers of these two main ingredients are inexhaustible.

Therefore, the promotion of pork and the improvement of the customs of the people of the world should start now.

Out of the east gate of Hanjing, go straight for eight miles, located in the Yuliangping tidal flat on the side of the Han River, there is a large courtyard.

Yuliangping and Yuliangzhou stand opposite each other, and the Han River is more than 1,000 meters wide in the middle.

The land is low-lying and fertile, but because it is often attacked by the Han River, it is a tidal flat overgrown with reeds and weeds.

Raising pigs here not only avoids densely populated areas, but also provides countless forages, which can reduce the workload of the swineherd.

Zhao Dezhao couldn't help but be a little moved when he saw Cai Lingxing who greeted him at the door.

A thorn can be said to be a middle and high-level official of the Great Song Dynasty, who can go deep into the people and pay attention to the people's livelihood, no matter what his ability is, he can be said to be a good official.

How many thorn histories can learn about swine fever in pig farms regardless of their identities and can personally investigate?

So after seven or eight steps, Zhao Dezhao jumped out of the carriage and said loudly: "Such an affair alarmed Cai's parents, it was really Dezhao's tiredness, and he felt guilty. ”

When Cai Lingxing heard that Zhao Dezhao had changed his name from Cai's assassination to Cai's parents, his heart warmed, his nose was sore, and he almost burst into tears.

This is the prince, the current Hanjing stayed, and the future son of heaven can get the title of Cai's parents, and die without regrets.

He bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "For one term as an official, for the benefit of one party." The old man knows that he is shallow in learning, and he can't scold Fang Yu in the temple, so he should practice it himself, stay behind, and relieve the worries of the people. ”

The officials behind him bowed and saluted, and several swineherds burst into tears of excitement and knelt down on their knees.

"Excuse me, excuse me." Zhao Dezhao corrected Cai Lingxing and said: "If you live in the temple, you will worry about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about the king, this is the way of officials, and Cai's parents can deserve this praise." ”

Cai Lingxing stood up straight, but he was a little dazed, and muttered: "If you live in the temple, you will worry about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about the king, and you will have to stay in praise, and you will die of old decay without regrets!" ”

This sentence is a sentence in Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" a few decades later, although it is not as famous as "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", but it is more standardized than it in the way of being an official.

In the centuries that followed, countless officials used this as a benchmark.

Talking to Cai Lingxing at this time, the shock to him can be imagined.

Zhao Dezhao nodded to the officials, but went to personally help up a few ordinary swineherds.

Even if they are in charge, they are all ordinary people, and when they see the prince for the first time, they can't help but bow down.

Zhao Dezhao can be alienated from officials, but he must be friendly to the people.

Several swineherds were helped up by Zhao Dezhao, still speechless with excitement, and burst into tears.

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile: "At the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, there was a hundred wastes waiting to be revived. This world is the world of my Zhao family, and it is also the world of the people. As a prince, I have to do my best for the Great Song Dynasty, and as a common person, I will also contribute to the Great Song Dynasty. Wanger and others will work diligently in the future and serve my Great Song Dynasty. ”

A swineherd couldn't help but kneel down, bowed his head to the ground and said: "If you can see the prince's face and be encouraged by the prince, the villain is enough in this life." ”

Zhao Dezhao smiled: "Listen to you, but do you know how to read?" ”

He bowed his head and said: "The villain has spent five years in private school, knows a few words, can count, and now he is a clerk for the pig farm." ”

Zhao Dezhao said: "People have high and low, nothing is expensive or cheap, and being able to do one thing well is ability." ”

Cai Lingxing only reacted at this time, turned around and said: "Xia Guan just asked people to inform the prince of swine fever, but he never thought that the prince would be here in person. This place is pickled, the prince ......"

Zhao Dezhao helped up the kneeling swineherd, turned around and smiled: "It's okay, tasting the flavors of the world and knowing the warmth and coldness of the world is the way of people." ”

"Taste the flavors of life and know the warmth and coldness of the world. Left-behind talents, every word and pearl, old decay admires. ”

Zhao Dezhao smiled, and was not complacent because of this. I am almost two hundred years old, and I have three more lifetimes of experience and thousands of years of knowledge than others, and everything I see is dull.

was surrounded and entered the pig farm, and the rancid smell became much stronger, and everyone couldn't help but cover their noses, but Zhao Dezhao didn't seem to smell these smells.

After looking around, Zhao Dezhao knew what was wrong.

This swine fever is not the swine fever of later generations, but a parasitic disease of pigs.

This pig farm is also built according to the drawings given by Zhao Dezhao, one pigsty, one pigsty for twelve piglets, and six pigs for one pigsty, which are raised separately.

In addition to breeding pigsties, both boars and sows are castrated from an early age.

The pigsty has a half-circle house, half of which is open-air, which is not much different from the pig farms in the countryside in later generations.

The front row is fed, and there is a sloping slope between the two rows of pens, and the pig feces are swept and then washed under water.

Supposedly, this should avoid swine fever, but the pigsty is still land, and here it is in the tidal flats, and when it rains, the pigsty becomes a pond.

In the Song Dynasty, miasma was rampant everywhere, parasites were rampant, there was no disinfection here, and almost all pigs had parasitic diseases.

The pigs of today are not the white pigs of later generations, only black pigs. The bristles on the black pig are like steel needles, erected one by one.

Each pig is miserable, and most of the pigs can see the joints on the top of the bones.

Although there is a pigsty isolated, if they can't avoid mutual infection, the pigsty is like a white building.

Zhao Dezhao looked around and said: "Nancheng Cement Factory has begun to produce cement, lime, Cai Thorn Shi will go to the Jiedu Embassy the day after tomorrow, I will open a batch for you, first disinfect the ground of the pig farm with quicklime, and then harden it with cement."

There is also sulfonamide, tomorrow I will also give you a batch, mix it in the pig food to feed the pigs, remove the intestinal worms, and then clean the pigs.

In the future, the pig farm should pay attention to waterproofing, since the pigsty has been established, it must be completely isolated, and the germs between the pigsty must not continue to spread. ”

Cai Lingxing asked: "Quicklime is not fresh for poisoning, but what is cement hardening?" What is sulfonamide? ”

Zhao Dezhao said: "Sulfonamide is the magic medicine used for wounded soldiers after the last explosion, as for cement, you will know tomorrow." ”

Cai Lingxing exclaimed: "Miracle medicine, for pigs?!" ”

In the explosion a few days ago, sulfonamides played a magical role. The people of this era are not resistant to drugs, although it is a sulfonamide of low purity, and the side effects are still great, but most of the wounded are not infected.

It is equivalent to saying that as long as the lightly injured people who did not die at that time, even if they were burned beyond recognition, they survived.

So far, the name of the miracle medicine has spread throughout Hanjing, and now the world calls sulfonamide the miracle medicine.

Hearing that it was going to be used for pigs, Cai Lingxing immediately said: "Absolutely not, it is difficult for people to ask for a dose, how can it be wasted on pigs!" ”

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile: "It's okay, now the side effects of sulfonamide are too big, so it has not been vigorously implemented, at most in a year or two, I can make the Great Song Dynasty, whether it is a soldier or a common person, can buy sulfonamide at a low price." ”