On the official road north of Xiyang City, Huangzhou Governor Shi Hao Wubo rode back to the city, along the way a large area of paddy fields are releasing water, and the "rice-wheat rotation" supervised by him is about to begin, this new farming technology has been implemented in the official fields of Huangzhou for two years, and now it is officially promoted on a large scale. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a witness, Hao Wubo is about to witness the large-scale promotion of a new technology, and one of the protagonists of this time is him.

Under normal circumstances, the paddy fields will be idle after the autumn harvest and will not start spring ploughing until the next year, but the "rice-wheat rotation" should drain the water of the paddy fields after the autumn harvest and then plant winter wheat.

Harvest before the arrival of spring ploughing, then store water, and start planting rice after spring ploughing.

To put it simply, it is not easy to do, as long as one of these links goes wrong, it will affect the normal rice planting, and the next year's harvest will be affected.

However, after several years of small-scale promotion, Huangzhou is already familiar with the technology of rice-wheat rotation, so it dares to promote it on a large scale and try its best to increase grain production.

Farmers who practice rice-wheat rotation have to be busy all year round, but the government will not charge additional land rent for the extra winter wheat harvest, that is to say, they can sell if they can't eat enough.

Is it good to sell? Good to sell!

Flour is milled into flour in the water-powered mill and sold on the market, the supply exceeds demand, not to mention anything else, the cake stall owners are big buyers, there are more and more residents in Xiyang City, not everyone can go to the wine shop to eat banquets, so the most common cooking cake sales are getting better and better.

Because of the rotation of rice and wheat, it is conceivable that the "farming" after the autumn harvest cannot be idle.

Hao Wubo looked at the farmland on both sides of the official road, and a sense of pride arose, if he wanted to open up wasteland and farm land on both sides of the Yangtze River, the construction of water conservancy was the top priority, and the canals, river embankments, and river embankments in Huangzhou were all the hard work of him, state and county officials, and countless people.

While he was imagining, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him, and the sound was so familiar that Hao Wubo was shocked, and he spurred his horse and shouted to the left and right: "Quick, hurry up in front of them and enter the city!" ”

Many fat pigs were crowded on the four-wheeled carriages, loaded by the carriages, and slowly drove towards Xiyang City, leaving a howl all the way, which could be heard from afar.

Hao Wubo and his entourage rode horses, rushing past the side of the pig cart, a total of twenty carts before and after, holding their breath so that their faces turned blue, and it was easy to pass the convoy, and a gust of autumn wind blew, which smoked them in the downwind direction again.

"This pig kills every day, and you can't kill it all!"

Some officials complained, and Hao Wubo was a little helpless when he heard this: Who asked the officials and soldiers to ask for a large amount of pork? There are also only so many pigs in Huangzhou.

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The pigs are howling, the sound is shaking the sky, the slaughterhouse in a corner of Xiyang City, is killing pigs on a large scale, the butchers are in a group of six, and more than ten groups of strong men sharpen their knives Huo Huo to the fat pigs.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, killing pigs is a technical job, and the relevant preparations should be thorough before moving the knife, first you have to boil water, and then take out a large wooden barrel to put a door panel on it, which is for the pig killing platform.

Pig killing knives, meat cleavers, meat knives, bone chopping knives, short wooden sticks, round-headed wooden sticks, hooks, planers, water scoops are lined up, all this is ready, and the next step can begin.

The muscular butcher Huang Twenty-five took an iron hook and led the four men to the pigsty, where he first went in with one of them and hooked the mouth of a fat pig, and then the man grabbed his ear, and the two of them pulled the pig out of the pigsty.

Several strong men carried the pig to the pig killing platform and held it down, and then stabbed the heart with a knife and began to bleed, after the pig's blood was drained, the pig was pushed into a large wooden barrel and poured boiling water, which was to facilitate shaving.

A line of pig hair on the back of the pig is called the bristles, all of which are plucked and collected, which is the best hair on the pig's body, which is long, bright and hard, and is most suitable for brushes.

After plucking, the butchers used a planer to shave all the coarse hairs of the pig from head to tail, then put the pig back on the door, and used a sharp knife to remove the hooves of the four pig's feet, and then cut a hole in each of the four feet.

Take a round-headed wooden stick that is about a foot long and poke it through the four openings, poke it back and forth between the skin and the pork, try to separate the skin, and then blow into the openings of the four pig's feet.

After the pig's body is rounded, tie the opening of the pig's feet with four straw ropes, then use a planer and a long knife to shave the rest of the body clean, and then start cutting the meat.

The first is to cut off the pig's head and tail, then the pig's neck, and then to disembowel, and several people lift the pig up and hang it upside down on a hook prepared in advance, which is also a hard work.

Then use a knife to cut open the pig's belly, pig's heart, pig's lungs, pig's liver, pig's stomach, large intestine and small intestine, etc., and each thing is placed separately in the basket prepared next to it.

After processing the pig's internal organs, start to process the pig's body, first cut off the limbs, then cut the pig body into about a dozen pieces of clean meat, and finally chop the ribs into small pieces of similar size.

At this point, after a pig was slaughtered, someone transported the various "parts" of the pig, and then gave Huang Twenty-five a piece of bamboo plaque as a certificate of "piecework", and then there was a stick of incense time to rest, and the time will continue as soon as the time comes.

They sat on the bed beside them, gulped warm water, took out towels to wipe their sweat, killing pigs was a hard work, and they had to rest before continuing, while there were many groups of butchers on the side.

In the shrill howl, a thin young man helped Huang Twenty-five bring a bowl of salt water, and when he saw this hot scene, he asked with some doubts: "Uncle Twenty-five, so many pigs, can you kill and eat them?" ”

"Why can't you finish eating? You kid let go of eating, and you can eat a pound of meat in one meal! ”

Huang Twenty-five joked, this is his distant relative, he is a nephew, and the four walls of the family have never touched meat since he was a child, and now he is short of manpower to kill pigs, so he takes care of his own people.

"Am I not hungry?"

The young man was a little embarrassed, but he still mustered up the courage to continue asking, asking questions related to pig killing, he is now regarded as the apprentice of the clan uncle, and has entered the business of butcher.

"Uncle, if you kill a pig, why is everything useful on the pig?"

"Of course, the fat pig is a treasure all over its body, and it can't be wasted at all."

Huang Twenty-five began to point out to his nephew, and all in all, everything on the pig was useful.

Pig bristles can be used as brushes, pig intestines can be made into fat sausages and sausages, pig's feet can be made into ham, neck meat can be made into bacon, not to mention pork, fat meat can be boiled in oil, or made into braised pork and Dongpo meat.

Pig offal can also be eaten, in fact, the people didn't eat much offal at first, but the soldiers of the Hulin Army outside the city ate it happily, so they gradually got used to it, pig liver, pig lungs, pig tongue, anything can be cooked and eaten.

It is said that eating pig offal can brighten the eyes, and there is no finch blindfolded at night, whether it is true or not, anyway, it is not easy for people to eat meat in these years, and they can eat it.

Pig's trotters, pork ribs, and pig's blood can also be made into delicious dishes in the wine shop, pork bones can be made into soup, pigskin can be made into leather products after tanning, and even if it is stinky pig manure, it can be used for manure.

Not to mention the now famous Huangzhou ham in Shannan, there are countless shops in the city that specialize in making ham, so there are more and more people raising pigs in Huangzhou, and it is not uncommon to see pig farms with a breeding scale of more than 10,000 heads.

Relying on this, the price of pork in Huangzhou is much cheaper than elsewhere, and even the people can afford to eat pork from time to time on weekdays, and their "pig slaughter" who kill pigs is getting more and more comfortable.

"Uncle, there are so many pigs, what are you going to feed them?"

"Duckweed, anyway, there are ponds and lakes everywhere, and I rowed a boat to fish them back and sell them to pig farms, and there are weeds all over the mountains, and some grasses can be fed to pigs."

Speaking of this, seeing that the nephew didn't seem to understand, Huang Twenty-five continued to point.

"Those fishermen, if they don't fish, they can support themselves just by catching duckweed, do you say they can make money? There are also those who go to cut pigweed, and they can also support their families, but they are tired. ”

"Not only all over Huangzhou, but even in the neighboring Hengzhou, Yizhou, and Qizhou, there are people who collect pigweed and duckweed, and transport them to Huangzhou to sell to various pig farms, which is also a profitable business."

Hearing this, the young man nodded, he had also heard about this, but no matter how much money he made, it couldn't compare to killing pigs, and his clan uncle could earn a lot of money every month by helping people kill pigs.

This is just wages, every time you kill a pig, you can take a pound of meat back, this is a lot of money saved, when he first came to join the uncle, he only ate the first piece of fat pork in his life, and he almost choked to death after devouring it.

There are many pig farms in Huangzhou, and there are many butchers like dogs, there are pigs killed every day, and the butchers are too busy to recruit people everywhere, he is able to enter the industry, ready to improve his life with a pig killing knife.

He had seen Uncle Clan before, and his original figure was not very good, but in recent years, as the pig killing industry has become more and more prosperous, Uncle Clan has begun to gain weight, and he is now not strong enough to fight, but if he eats fat meat for a few months, he will have the opportunity to operate sooner or later.

No, it won't take a few months, it's his turn to kill a few more, and recently everyone has been killing pigs to a soft hand, because the official army needs Huangzhou pork, a lot.

Pork is not only available in Huangzhou, but only pork in Huangzhou is cheap and abundant, so the officials and soldiers also spend a lot of money to procure.

"Uncle, the officials and soldiers want so much pork, can you finish eating?"

"Can't finish eating? You can eat all the reed sticks, the appetite of those fighting men, tsk. ”

Huang Twenty-five became excited when he said this, the government didn't know which string was wrong, and he actually placed a big order for pork, a lot of pork, and the owner of the pig farm was now able to laugh when he slept, and they were the butchers who also made a fortune.

Kill pigs every day to kill to the soft, but count the money also to the soft, last month he earned more than two times a month, this month I am afraid that the wages will rise, the more pigs killed, the more wages.

"Uncle? This pork... Uh, it's going to stink in a few days, right? Where did it have time to transport it to the official army, I think it was to make ham? ”

"Of course you make ham, you can't forget this ham after eating it, don't you know, in the ham workshop, the room is full of pork legs, which is more spectacular than the scene of dried fish!"

"But doesn't it take more than half a year to make ham? Where is the time to do it, and what if the deadline is missed? ”

"So our pork in Huangzhou, there is another method that is not found elsewhere, and it can be preserved for a long time, and the officers and soldiers of the Baozhun Army lick their fingers when they eat it, guess what?"

The gong sounded, the rest time came, the slaughterhouse guys beat the gong to urge Huang Twenty-five to continue to work, each group of slaughterers set the number of pigs to be killed every day, more than the best, kill enough until enough.

Rubbing his sour arm, Huang Twenty-five picked up the iron hook and looked at the pigsty, the fat pig who couldn't stop howling, in his eyes, was always a copper coin, the more he killed, the more money, and he couldn't wait to kill two more pigs with two more hands.

If the officers and armies fight all year round, then they will be developed!

Looking at his companion who was full of "murderous aura", he immediately waved his hand vigorously and shouted at the top of his throat: "One more!" (To be continued.) )