What is the smallholder economy?

First of all, its production, according to the brick family, appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the marker is the iron plough and ox ploughing, and the most benefited is the Qin Dynasty that has risen rapidly after the Shang Dynasty reform, since he unified the six countries, this small peasant economic system has also been extended to the whole country, and finally affected our country for more than 2,000 years, and this phenomenon still exists in some remote villages.

The model of the small-scale peasant economy, which relies entirely or mainly on the labor of self-employed individuals to meet their own consumption, is typically a self-sufficient farmer and a weaver, and rarely buys anything from the market except for the necessary daily necessities.

For example, just like the militia group practiced by the people of Tangjia Village, if they want to eat meat, their subconscious idea is to raise piglets and then slaughter and eat them when they grow up, instead of going to the market to buy them.

Poverty is a constraint, but the root is the conscious idea of self-sufficiency.

Even if it is a dog, his eyes are on the coal mountain, and after getting the money, he still chooses to buy piglets to raise meat and eat by himself.

Someone asked, why do the people in their militia want to eat meat, but why do they stretch out their hands to the dogs and ask for money? The answer is the word "township party".

From ancient times to the present, these two words have always existed in the army, like "Xiang Yu who has no face to see the elders of Jiangdong", and the corps under his command is composed of the children of his hometown, and the backbone of the Yuejia army is also his township, as well as the western army of Wu Lu in front of him, and the backbone elements are also the sons and nephews of the Deshun army.

Therefore, if this militia group is trained, it is the dog that benefits the most, which is why the people of Tangjia Village ask the dog for money.

Worry is naturally sorrowful, unless you really let this militia group go to receive the yamen's salary, otherwise you have to solve it yourself, after all, whose food you eat will do things for whom, this is the rule in the army.

The dog couldn't get them armor and weapons, but there was still a way to get pork, rice and noodles, so on the last day of Yuchuan County, the dog ran around, visited all the people close to him, and then endured the strong reluctance and took out all the money he earned.

A total of 800 taels of silver were scraped together, and on a wasteland on the south side of Liujia Village, a large open space was encircled, and men, women, and children went into battle together to build a workshop specializing in raising pigs.

Five hundred piglets is the largest number that dogs can buy in Yuchuan County, but fortunately, half of them are gilts, and they will give themselves double the return in two or three years.

There are more pigs, and then let the old people to feed, it is easy to exhaust the old people to death, so this militia has turned into a "logistics soldier" specializing in raising piglets, in addition to daily drills, but also to feed the little piglets who are humming and screaming, for a time the people of the county covered their mouths and laughed, calling the militia "pig army"

When the news reached the county government chief Bo Hall, Sun Zhu Bo, who was in charge of military service, regretfully crossed out the name of this militia on the official document, and ordered that in the future, except for the banner, not a penny of training subsidies should be given to the militia in Tangjia Village.

Of course, the dog doesn't know all this, and even if he does, there is nothing he can do, because the dog finds that raising pigs is not an easy task.

Five hundred pigs only died overnight, and five or six died inexplicably, and the angry dog jumped to his feet, shouting for a careful diagnosis of the cause of death, and helplessly found that these pigs were actually starving to death.

The pigs of this era are not the same as the pigs that grew up eating feed in later generations, their staple food is bran and weeds, so a pig has to be raised for a long time before it can be slaughtered, even if it is slaughtered, it is not as good as the big fat pigs that are white and fat and trembling meat in later generations.

Later generations of pig farms will have a special "nutritious meal" so that pigs can raise fat well, even if it is an ordinary villager's house, feeding pigs is to use ground coarse cornmeal mixed with oil and water leftovers.

Corn is not in this era, so they can only eat without oil star brush pot water, fortunately, pigs are omnivores, as long as they can eat enough, never picky eaters, but piglets, especially the full moon not long after, a lot of things can not eat, at this time must be like feeding horses, eat some fine grain, over a period of time.

But there is not enough food, there are not enough people, where are they willing to feed the animals?

found the reason, the dog had no way to solve it, one or two heads could still feed a little food, which was more than 500, so they threw this problem to them.

Anyway, the pig has been bought for you, whether you can eat the meat, that is your problem, the dog shook his hand vigorously, the horsewhip sounded in the air, and the big green mule under the ass ran up.

"Brother dog, you have to watch us often!"

The dog Yu and Dasha, who sent the dog out of the city, shouted at the dog with a loud voice.

"Don't worry, when the title of the little master's gold list is named, he will naturally come back to see you, and when the time comes, I will take you to the state city and eat and drink spicy food every day."

"Okay brother dog, we are waiting for you at home, and when the time comes, you must pick us up and go early."

In this way, the dog took Da Da Lang and two mute men, as well as the newly acquired little scholar Yang Xiaoxiu, and drove a carriage towards Longzhou.

On the way back to Longzhou, he would naturally pass by Yang Xiaoxiu's house again, so the dog and his party settled at his house again, this time, his grandfather did not kill the pig to entertain the dog and his party, it was just an ordinary household meal.

It's also a loss that the pig was not killed, otherwise the dog would really miss the "pig breeding cheats".

"Xiao Xiu, why are your pigs so well raised for nothing?"

Yang Xiaoxiu glanced at the fat pig sleeping alone in the pigsty and said, "Maybe it's too lonely!" ”

Lonely? The dog glared at him fiercely, and turned to his grandfather for questioning.

"Uncle Yang, your pig is really fat!"

Uncle Yang was picking up winter clothes for his grandson, and when he heard the dog's question, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Little official, this last pig is to be kept for the New Year, I promised a few neighbors to keep meat for them, and the order money was collected, and now I can't kill it." ”

The dog looked at him and explained to himself apologetically, smiled, and said with relief: "Uncle Yang thinks it's bad, well, what, don't tell the old man, I also feed some pigs at home, but they don't look as good as your family, so I have this question." ”

"I see!" Hearing that the little official in front of him didn't want to eat pork, Uncle Yang secretly sweated and said: "Haven't you heard of 'feeding the pig Jinfang', little official?" ”

"'Feed the pigs'?" The dog shook his head blankly.

Uncle Yang explained to the dog with a smile, and it took a while for the dog to understand, isn't this the Han Dynasty people figured out the "Huainan Wanbi Technique", which remembers the method of feeding pigs he said, and the name is "Hemp Salt Fat Pig Method".

"Take three liters of pockmarks, pound more than 1,000 pestles, boil them for soup, put them in one liter of salt, and take three dendrobs of bran, and feed them to fat."

This method is like the feed of later generations, so that the pigs eat a lot of meat, and the people of Tangjia Village naturally know that they will do the same when feeding the pigs.

So the dog pouted and complained to him, "This is how we feed in the village, and we don't see piglets grow meat well." ”

"Hahaha! Petty officials: That's because they didn't put fat powder! ”

"Fat meat powder? So what? The dog looked confused.

"This method is only known to us in the village!"

The dog looked at him with a proud look on his face, and knew that this was a secret recipe that was not passed down in the village, so he had to exchange the benefits for it, but he was now poor and white, and he only had thirty or fifty copper coins on his body, where could he take it, so he rolled his eyes and stared at Yang Xiaoxiu, who was playing with his sister-in-law:

"Don't worry, Uncle Yang, your grandson, I will take good care of him, as long as it is within my ability, I will definitely not forget him, and I promise you that if you have the opportunity, I will also let him participate in the imperial examination, even if it fails, I will find a place for him and arrange a good errand."

As long as he doesn't let his grandson pout his ass and eat in the ground, some secret recipes are nothing, this time, Yang Laohan didn't hesitate anymore, pulled the dog and whispered in a low voice:

"Since the petty officials are interested in listening, the old man naturally knows everything, this fat meat powder is made of hemp seeds and salt, ground into foam, sprinkled a little bit every time they are fed, the effect is very good, and these pigs are best to let them eat without moving, so that they can grow meat with peace of mind."

Well, it is indeed the working people who are the most wise, and they participate in it every day, and some good methods are naturally figured out, and then passed on from generation to generation.

The dog who got the secret recipe was naturally very happy, and respectfully saluted the old man and said: "In this way, thank you, thank you, don't worry, Xiao Xiu will naturally not let him be wronged if he follows me." ”

Yangjiazhuang Dog and his party only had a short lunch, and then took advantage of the time to continue to set off, the terrain here is the more north the terrain is undulating, the trees in the forest are also bigger and bigger the north, the monkeys in the mountains are also more and more bold, and they sneak down to the back of the carriage to drag the things on it in broad daylight.

Then the dog saw a strong male monkey riding on a branch of a tree with a piece of red silk, and the wild creature was quite clever, and saw that the mule pulling the cart had a cloth saddle on its back, and he actually did the same, and draped the red silk over his body, and then got carried away and barked at the people who chased him under the tree.

"Okay, okay, give it the red silk, don't chase it, hurry back and hurry."

After enjoying the good show of "Monkey King vs. Dumb Man", the dog looked up at the sun that was about to set, and quickly called them back to continue the journey, otherwise, they would have to spend the night in the wilderness tonight, and the dog didn't want to sleep in fear.

The team continued to set off, because the matter of the wild monkeys was delayed for some time, so the group finally arrived at Wangjiazhai in the night.

Wangjiazhai is a very ordinary small village, there are only seventy or eighty households in the whole village, less than 400 people, usually in addition to serving the fields, they go into the wild forest to pick some wild medicinal materials and sell them for money.

The dog borrowed two rooms from the village house and slept for one night, and the group continued to walk, and finally arrived in Longzhou City when the sky was about to set.

As soon as they entered the city, the dog first came two boiled fragrant pig's trotters, borrowed water to wash their hands, two hooves, and a cup of tea went into their stomachs.

"Happy!"

The oily dog said to Yang Xiaoxiu, who was also full of oily stains: "How is it, are you still homesick?" ”

"Uh-huh, don't think about it! My grandfather said let me serve you well, go back and find me a good errand, earn money, and eat and drink spicy food every day! ”

"Hahaha......"

The dog laughed almost out of breath and shouted: "Brother Huge checkout!" ”

and led him to see the more prosperous cities.