Chapter 370: Benefiting the Country and the People
Xiao Jing on the side could only stand on the side, and he had to serve His Majesty before he could eat some leftovers!
It's just that at this time, he was already hungry, and when he heard the prince and His Majesty say that it was really fragrant, he couldn't help but salivate a little, and he was about to serve soup to Emperor Hongzhi.
Fang Jifan said: "Your Majesty, when you come to Xishan, it's better to serve the soup yourself." ”
"......" Emperor Hongzhi was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Fang Jifan strangely: "Are there so many rules in Xishan?" ”
"Yes." Fang Jifan said confidently: "The prince and the ministers, because of the hard work of the farmers, they want to let the nobles and rich children in the capital also taste the hardships here, and plan to set up a farmhouse here at that time to attract people to come here to play, and when they get here, no matter who they are, they need to do it themselves......"
Farm stay......
Emperor Hongzhi thought this name was very vulgar.
But when I think about it carefully, I feel that in this cheesiness, I can't help but have a few different tastes.
Yes, there are so many people in Beijing who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains, it is a good thing to come here to exercise.
Besides, it's not bad here, don't I usually stretch out my hands for clothes and open my mouth for food? I was really tired when I was digging potatoes, but when I look back, I also feel that it is a different experience.
At least in this Ming Dynasty, this Xishan is unique.
Wrong......
Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi gradually came back to something!
No wonder Fang Jifan instigated the prince to come, didn't he just want to take this opportunity to promote his farmhouse?
This guy is really slippery.
But on second thought, Emperor Hongzhi was obviously happy to see it happen!
He didn't expose the seemingly hidden purpose behind Fang Jifan, but instead said to the ministers: "Your sons and nephews, you also have to come here to walk more, it's beneficial." ”
As he spoke, he got up, filled a bowl of soup himself, and then took a sip, but his eyes suddenly lit up.
At first, it is a light salty taste, and then mixed with a rich meaty sweetness.
Pork...... Is that what it tastes like?
He felt more and more bizarre, and couldn't help but say to Fang Jifan: "Is this really pork?" ”
"Your Majesty, this is pork." Fang Jifan said without hesitation: "The minister has always been a child, and the minister can use the reputation that the minister has accumulated for many years to vouch for." ”
Emperor Hongzhi felt even more strange, obviously in his cognition, pork should not taste like this.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the broth in front of him and said in surprise: "This pig is different from pigs elsewhere. ”
While speaking, the ministers have already started, and since His Majesty thinks this pig-killing dish is delicious, everyone will naturally start to do it!
Sure enough, when I tasted it, the taste was excellent.
Perhaps people in later generations mainly ate pork when they were young, so they didn't think how delicious pork was, but felt that beef and mutton were more delicious.
But in this era, it is reversed.
After tasting the first bite, the appetite is really opened, and some people especially like to eat this fatty meat, and when they take a bite, they are full of ointment, and they can't help but want to chant poetry.
Emperor Hongzhi continued to ask: "I have never eaten such pork, tell me, where did this pig come from?" ”
Emperor Hongzhi said this, and he also has a foundation, this pig is strange.
Fang Jifan said with a smile: "Tuntian is not only Tuntian, of course, it is not just planting, this livestock is also related to Tuntian, the minister is a thousand households in Tuntian, and he is naturally extremely concerned about this animal husbandry, especially over the years, he has been inspired by His Majesty, and His Majesty can be described as a ...... to Tuntian."
"Getting to the point!" Emperor Hongzhi interrupted Fang Jifan with a look of disgust.
Fang Jifan had no choice but to say embarrassedly: "This pig is indeed different, it is bred by a special method, not only the meat is delicious, but also ...... There is a little more meat than the average pig. ”
"More meat?" Emperor Hongzhi smiled slightly, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
But Fang Jifan's next sentence shocked many people, only to see him say: "The same pig, the old breeding, four months down, can be born from piglets to seventy or eighty catties, but if it is a pig bred in Tuntian, it is also in April, and it can be directly born to one hundred and fifty catties for slaughter." ”
"One hundred and fifty pounds ......"
Everyone was still eating, but they were all stunned.
Liu Jian and the others looked up in astonishment.
One hundred and fifty pounds of pig ...... That's not a small deal.
And it's only been raised for four months.
They more or less knew about raising sheep, after all, the imperial court had to send ministers to be in charge of horse administration, which included raising sheep in border towns.
Let's just say that this sheep raising, over the course of a year, only grows seventy or eighty pounds of meat, which is a lot.
That's it, it's already rare, many sheep, in fact, are skin and bones, less meat, fifty or sixty pounds are also very much.
And this pork grows so rapidly, isn't it the same domestication time, and the meat produced is six or seven times that of sheep?
Emperor Hongzhi looked sluggish, he obviously didn't understand the strangeness here!
Seeing this, Xiao Jing hurriedly whispered in the ear of Emperor Hongzhi and patiently explained.
Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized that pigs had grown so fast. Not only that, but there is still so much meat produced?
Fang Jifan said: "What's more, pigs are omnivorous animals, different from sheep, and now the minister promotes potatoes and sweet potatoes, and wants to come to the future...... The people's land will definitely increase a large amount of production, this increase in production, only afraid that there will be a surplus of grain, the so-called cheap grain hurts the peasants, this is not unreasonable, but if it is surplus food, or some surplus supplementary food, if it is really impossible to eat, it can be used to feed livestock, with these surplus grain in exchange for a large amount of meat, isn't it good? ”
It's really a word to wake up, Liu Jian and the others are already bright.
The emergence of sweet potatoes and potatoes has indeed triggered a drop in land prices, and many of the ministers present have lost a lot, but such things cannot be avoided, even if there is suffering, it is only hidden in the heart.
The essence of the increase in grain production lies in the surplus of grain, and hoarding it also requires costs, and everyone has food to eat, so who is scarce of grain?
As a result, a large amount of land is bound to be barren.
But what if the grain is useful?
There is no shortage of food in the world, but this meat is in great demand in the world.
It's one thing to be full, but it's not easy to eat well.
People say that the people have vegetables, what is the food, to put it bluntly, in fact, it is just malnutrition, not only can not eat enough, but also do not eat well, compared with the Tatars on the steppe, although they rely on vegetables, fruits and grains, can barely fill people's stomachs, but why many people, although they work every day, but in fact do not have much strength?
There is only one reason, and that is that you can't eat meat.
Fang Jifan was deeply touched by this.
In this era, not eating well really has a great relationship with physical fitness, such as the general rich family, such as Fang Jifan, because of the rich nutrition, the protein can be completely guaranteed, so although Fang Jifan is only sixteen years old, he is already one meter seven, compared with other nobles, it is actually not too high.
In the same way, if it is an ordinary person, one meter seven, is already considered a 'giant', and many people are only between one meter five and six, even men.
In the last life, in the era when Fang Jifan grew up, it was almost higher than the generation.
Height is one thing, so is physique, until he came to Daming, Fang Jifan knew that a person who is familiar with bow horses can actually beat more than a dozen people with his fists.
The reason is very simple, to be familiar with bow horses, on the one hand, they have undergone special training, and on the other hand, people who can play bow horses are definitely among the wealthy!
Sufficient nutrition, physical fitness is better than those who can only live on yellow rice for two meals a day, and do not see meat stars all year round and have thin yellow muscles, I don't know how many times stronger, this is simply how many people come to fight how many people, like a tiger into the flock.
It's just that in this era, the efficiency of converting grain into meat is too low, and to improve, we must first use sweet potatoes and potatoes to feed a large number of people, so that they can get food and clothing, and then have surplus grain, and at the same time start large-scale breeding, in order to solve this problem.
Pig...... It's really good for the country and the people.
After being silent for a long time, Emperor Hongji finally understood something!
His eyes were slightly open, and the light in his eyes was more brilliant, staring at Fang Jifan tightly, and asked with a bit of urgency: "Can you really increase meat production so much?" ”
He was still a little incredulous, but his heart was more hopeful!
If so, then it will solve a big problem, especially in the case of abundant grain, meat itself can replace food for consumption!
Not only that, potatoes and sweet potatoes are actually not easy to store, instead of bothering to store them, you might as well use them for raw meat, if the people can also eat some meat every once in a while, this ...... How much good governance it has to be.
"I don't believe it, you take me to see it."
Emperor Hongzhi, who was still hungry, no longer had the heart to eat, because now he had something more important than a full stomach.
He's on his feet.
Liu Jian and the others also stood up one after another, and their minds had already begun to calculate rapidly!
This pig raising, obviously more cost-effective than raising sheep, and more importantly, sheep to eat grass, grass must be taken with sheep to graze, Daming is not a grassland, there is not so much grass, so the scale of sheep raising is naturally small.
But now, the future of food is bound to be abundant, so ......
At the urging of Emperor Hongzhi, Fang Jifan had to lead everyone to move to the pigsty.
The pigsty was split in two, and on one side were the uncastrated pigs, which were obviously a lot smaller!
At this time, these pigs also happened to be in estrus and began to be irritable!
Some pigs began to think about not wanting to eat, because they didn't get venting, so they began to foam at the mouth, and even didn't bother to eat.
Some pigs even hit the fence irritablely, looking extremely anxious, running back and forth in the pen.
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