Next to the Hulin Army barracks in the eastern suburbs of Xiyang City, a large-scale pig farm is bustling with hustle and bustle, and Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wenwen is 'guiding' the pig raising work on the spot.

Or "Pig and Yuwen make Jun together", this kind of boring text is similar to "Water Margin" becoming "The Story of One Hundred and Five Men and Three Women", but at this time, who dares to arrange Yuwen Wen like this will definitely evaporate from the world.

This pig farm is invested in him, inviting old swineherds to choose the best piglets, and the rows of pig houses are also carefully designed, this pig farm now has more than 3,000 pigs.

In the rows of neat pigsty, the little piglets are humming and eating feed, and the roof above blocks the scorching sunlight outside.

This is still the 'first phase of the project', to the completion of the second phase of the project, the pig farm will have more than 8,000 pigs, this is not Yuwen Wen's whim, foolishness, after all, since the Western Han Dynasty, there are thousands of pig farms, and in this era, thousands of pig farms are not uncommon.

He didn't have an 'unfinished relationship' with the pigs, but he really felt the pressure of raising soldiers and lacking meat, 5,000 Hulin soldiers are 5,000 big rice buckets, and the intensity of training for three days and one day off makes their food increase, and if they want to have strength, they must train their muscles, they have to eat meat, and the source of meat has become a problem.

According to the calculation of two taels of meat a day for a soldier, the meat consumption of five thousand soldiers a day is at least 10,000 taels according to one catty and sixteen taels is converted into 625 catties, which is nearly 19,000 catties in a month, which makes Yuwenwen have a headache.

Cattle can't be killed, after all, there is a shortage of cattle in the cultivated land, where are they willing to kill cattle and eat meat, and horses don't have to think about it, as for the mutton, which was very popular in the Northern Dynasties, it is too expensive. Chicken, duck and fish can be filled, but the demand is too great, so pork is a very suitable meat source.

In this era, there was a belief that pork could not be eaten in large quantities and would lead to various diseases. Yu Wenwen naturally ignored these views. Those who think that eating more pork causes illness is nothing more than the rich and noble family's rich disease, which is the "three highs" according to later generations, which is similar to nonsense for the poor people who can't eat meat a few times a year.

As for later generations, some people said that in the Song Dynasty, "pork is cheap", so it is nonsense to prove that pork is cheap meat, pork "cheap" refers to the low price, not to refer to the low "cheap", the ancient man-made word "home" above a treasure cover head below is a pig, as the so-called no pig is not a family and does not eat what?

So Yu Wenwen has already made up his mind to regard pork as the main meat in the barracks food, who dares to complain, he personally went out to do 'ideological work', fortunately, the Hulin army has never felt that the meat is not enough to eat, and no one is so hypocritical.

In addition to killing pigs, the liver can also be eaten to ensure the intake of vitamins, which is of great help to avoid night blindness of soldiers, in addition to the pig skin can be boiled glue, together with the fish bladder glue, it is a commonly used adhesive, the military can make bows and arrows, and the civilian can bond all kinds of furniture.

Another advantage is that the source of edible oil has been settled, and in today's era, edible oil is mainly meat oil, while vegetable oil, that is, vegetable oil, is basically not popularized until after the Song Dynasty. The widely consumed meat oil is basically based on lard, chicken fat and even dog fat, so boiling oil with fatty pork can solve the problem of edible oil.

You can't underestimate the problem of edible oil, if you don't have even a little oil star for three meals a day, that person will be hungry soon, one of the pigs of the zodiac can solve these two problems at the same time, the situation of Bazhou people raising pigs is very common, but they can't bear the surge in demand, so Yuwenwen decided to raise pigs on a large scale.

But then came the problem, in this era when there is no feed or hormone such as 'pig fast growth', it takes more than a year for a pig to grow from the point where the piglets can be pulled out for slaughter, which means that the 3,000 piglets in Yuwenwen's pig farm will be slaughtered for more than a year.

In addition to the food of roast suckling pig, the meat consumption in the past two years can only rely on fish and chickens, ducks and geese to top, as for the pigs that can be provided by private pigs, he has already made an announcement, as long as it is not a sick pig, the people rush to collect as much as they want.

Pig raising, the traditional way is grazing, that is, free-range, to this era has appeared in the form of pig raising combined with house feeding and grazing, the Northern Wei Dynasty book "Qi Min Yaoshu" on how to raise pigs to explain:

The circle is not tired of being small. If the circle is small, it will be fat, and it will not be filthy. The mud is so muddy that it escapes the heat. It is also necessary to have a small field to avoid rain and snow. Grass grows in spring and summer, grazing at any time. The genus of dregs and chaff should not be with that day. In August, September and October, they are not fed; All the chaff is stored for the beginning of spring.

Converted into the vernacular, it means that the smaller the pigsty, the better, the pig is inconvenient to move, the faster the fattening, the dirtier the pigsty, the better, then the pig can burrow in the sludge to escape the heat, and the pigsty can make the pigs shelter from the rain and snow, the weeds germinate in spring and summer, and can be stocked, but at this time, the weeds are not nutritious enough to add feed, and in August, September and October, the weeds do not need to add feed to stay and wait for the next spring to feed.

Although stocking is also very common, Yu Wenwen still decided to take the form of complete captivity, because he wants to raise pigs to accumulate fat, pig manure is a good fertilizer, released in the farmland can increase income, captive pigs fattening speed is also fast.

This is an explicit statement, but the secret reason is that Yu Wenwen is very interested in some kind of companion creature in the pigsty, because it can meet his 'special needs'.

As for the feed for pigs, it is very convenient, because it is also recorded in the "Qi Min Yaoshu" that "pigs are very stool, aquatic grasses, raking cocoons, algae, etc., so that the shore is near, and pigs are eating them, all fat", Bazhou is full of lakes and algae, how can not be fished out, so Yuwenwen is very confident in the vigorous development of Bazhou's pig industry.

What's more, this is the trend of history!

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the great poet Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou because of the Wutai poetry case, and he not only left the famous "Nian Nujiao Chibi Nostalgia" in the Chibi Rock by the river in the west of the city, but also personally created the delicacy of "Dongpo meat".

Everything originated from the very cheap pork in Huangzhou at that time, and the pig industry in Huangzhou was prosperous in Su Shi's era, so he made a poem "Ode to Pork", which included the poem "Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as soil".

Huangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty is today's Bazhou, Yuwenwen has always been against the trend of history, this time to comply with the will of God in Bazhou to vigorously carry out the pig industry, even because of the wide harvest of pigs, piglets and encourage the people in the state to raise pigs, known as "pig Tai Sui" do not care.

"You can just get the algae you need to feed the pigs with the side of Bahe City, and you can manage it." Yu Wenwen explained to the manager of the pig farm that the big lake in the northeast of Bahe City is now an important fishing ground, and the sailors and their families who settled in Bahe City will fish every day and come back with algae.

"Also, pig manure must be carefully collected, don't waste it, and don't dispose of it casually when you see it dirty."

The manure of the pig farm is collected and fermented and then used to fertilize the field is a good thing, and now the manure pulled by whatever is in Xiyang City is collected by the manure truck and used for fertilization, Yuwenwen's pig farm is naturally no exception.

As soon as it came up, the scale of 3,000 pigs was a bit risky, if a swine fever really went away, so Yuwenwen had very strict requirements for the pig farm from top to bottom, no matter who entered or left the pig farm, he had to change his clothes so as not to bring the swine fever from the outside.

The second is to prevent parasites, now pig breeding has been known to use herbal deworming, although the effect is doubtful and the prescription is varied, but Yu Wenwen still encourages the swineherd to use medicine, one does not work, and then change the other until it takes effect.

Pig parasites are divided into two kinds in vivo and in vitro, and the external parasites are more harmful to scabies mites, in addition to mosquitoes and flies, these external parasites are especially many in summer and autumn, so pig farms are not allowed to accumulate water so as not to breed mosquitoes and flies, and the inspection of piglets is also carried out frequently to avoid the occurrence of epidemics.

For internal parasites, it is basically to prevent it, if the piglets found to be in abnormal state are immediately isolated or treated to avoid waves and others, this can only rely on the experience of the swineherd There is no special medicine to cure.

Especially for the prevention of pork tapeworms, not only pig farms, but even the pork sold on the market is destroyed immediately once it is found that 'rice pork' is destroyed, and anyone who dares to sell it will be severely punished, and the prevention of parasites must rely on the 'professional ethics' of the swineherds, so Yuwenwen treats them well.

The wages of the swineherds are not low, but also including food and housing, to the slaughter of the pigs, each pig has a commission, so the enthusiasm of the swineherds is also very high, this year it is not too difficult to raise pigs, many people have their own pigs at home, just Yuwen envoy proposed the whole process of captivity, some novelty, but not very out of line.

Out of the ordinary, Yuwen Envoy Jun was very interested in the white mold that appeared on the earthen wall of the pigsty, and asked people to scrape it down and collect it, this kind of white mold has been seen by anyone who raises pigs in a pigsty, but no one knows what Yuwen Envoy Jun wants this kind of thing to do.

Another point is that the construction of the manure tank is very particular about what cement is used, paved with several layers, it is said that they are afraid that the manure will go deep into the underground to pollute the well, they have raised pigs for so many years, it is the first time to see someone so concerned about pig manure will 'pollute' the water source.

Yu Wenwen walked around the pig farm and was very satisfied, the piglets in this pen except for the breeding pigs are all castrated, one is to help increase the meat rate, and the other can also improve the meat quality to remove the so-called fishy smell, although it is more than a year after the slaughter, but from time to time to a roast suckling pig or something is also a good choice.

He was about to pose and continue to 'guide' the pig breeding work, but was whispered in the ear by Yuwen Fifteen: "Lord Lang, the time is coming"

"Well, that's all for today." Yu Wenwen looked at the sky and said, "Be careful, don't get swine fever!" ”

After saying that, he hurriedly left with his entourage, and the swineherd looked at his hurried back and was a little confused: what happened to Yuwen Envoy, who often laughed and didn't say anything on weekdays, couldn't be calmer anymore? (To be continued.) )