After this episode, Yang Pei continued to visit the pig farm.

"Master Wei, is Lord Taishou raising pigs just to increase nutrition for the soldiers?" Yang Pei observed every little detail in the pig farm and asked about the questions in his heart.

"Not only that, I'm afraid few people will notice. If a person eats a lot of meat, he will consume a lot less when he eats food again. In fact, if you think about it, the nomads who live in the northern steppes, how they live on a daily basis, you will understand. Moreover, people who eat meat regularly have greater strength than ordinary people.

Juedi also said that compared with raising sheep and cattle, raising pigs is more economical. Unlike cattle and sheep, pigs are omnivores and will eat whatever food you can bite them on. It's not like raising sheep, which is very picky about food. At the same time, the so-called pig farmers in the past, in fact, their breeding methods are not illegal.

You see that the reason why these pigs are lazy one by one is not because they are sick, but because they have all undergone a special treatment, so they behave like this. In this way, a pig farm only needs one elderly person and two children around 10 years old to survive. An elderly man and two children do not consume as much food a day as an adult man.

In addition, those pig farmers in the past did not pay attention to the living environment of these pigs, and the food they fed, let alone grass, they even dared to feed the pigs. The pigs raised in this way are called 'dirty pigs' by the people, so it is strange that this kind of pork tastes good? It's no wonder that people would rather eat the more expensive lamb once a year than the cheaper pork. ”

Wei Dan told Yang Pei and others about Jin Jue's original statement about the benefits of pig raising.

"Oh, I see! In this way, it is really like this, the Xiongnu and Xianbei people eat meat on weekdays, and rarely eat wheat food. I didn't see them all starve to death, and besides, the strength of the Huns and Xianbei people was much greater than that of ordinary people. Sima Qing said in surprise when he heard this.

No one had ever thought about this before, so they thought that if they wanted to supply the soldiers and the people, they had to hoard food.

"Lord Bookkeeper, did you say that the secret method you said made people castrate these pigs, yes or no?" At this moment, the taciturn, unsurprisingly unspeakable man who had been following Yang Pei suddenly interjected and asked.

"Wow!" After hearing these words, Wei Dan looked at this person for the first time, looked up and down at the other party several times, he nodded, and then replied: "Not bad!" As this strong man said, you may not imagine that these pigs were all piglets two months ago. Since they were castrated, these piglets have grown much faster than almost everyone could have imagined. ”

After listening to Wei Dan's explanation, Yang Pei and the others turned their heads and looked at the lazy and sturdy pigs in the pigsty, and they couldn't say anything in surprise.

How is this possible?

Sima Qing is a son of a family, and he doesn't know how difficult it is to give birth to such a heavy pig in such a short period of time. Yang Pei is different from the man beside him, one of them is a pro-people official, and the other is just an ordinary person, and he knows the situation very well in this regard.

"Master Wei, what kind of food are you feeding these pigs here?" After relieving himself, Yang Pei asked the key points as soon as he opened his mouth.

Wei Dan thought for a moment and replied: "Well, before winter, the weeds collected by the people in the mountains, the old grain left in the warehouse that has become a little rotten and inedible, and so on, are roughly these two things. ”

He's not the supervisor here, so he doesn't know much about it.

Next, the group left the pig farm and went to the charcoal warehouse, which was relatively simple, with only temporary spires, and only a wall about the height of the calf of a child of about five or six years old had been built around it, just to keep out the snow.

Yang Pei and Sima Qing also touched the charcoal with their own hands.

The rest is the new brick houses and the unique scene in the county seat of Luoyang County, where food is distributed to everyone in the city every day.

Of course, Jin Jue naturally wouldn't let more than 100,000 people gather around to receive food together.

After the construction of the new brick houses, the city began to register the number of people and personnel in each household according to the houses.

After that, when the food was distributed again, Jin Jue asked people to distribute it according to the content recorded in the household register.

This matter, Jin Jue gave full authority to Fu Gan to complete, in comparison, Fu Gan is an upright person and very smart, generally speaking, it is difficult for the little officials who work under him to deceive him. Even if someone really succeeds in taking advantage of favoritism, Jin Jue doesn't care, once such people are discovered, Jin Jue will not punish them but reuse them in the future.

People who can think of ways to deceive Fu Gan, even if they are small officials, must not be easy to match.

When Yang Pei and Sima Qing really saw that one-third of the people in the city went to the canteen to receive their daily meals, some dissatisfaction in their hearts immediately dissipated with the wind.

Although the food provided to the people by the canteen in Luoyang County is very simple, it is absolutely not perfunctory, and Yang Pei and Sima Qing have tasted it personally, and the cooked food provided in the canteen is absolutely not mixed with any sand or other things.

Not only that, although Yang Pei didn't see Jin Jue come here to receive food, he met Liu Xiongming and three other colleagues in the future

—Wei Duan, Fu Gan, and Yang Hui.

In Luoyang County, except for the second elder, Jin Jue and his wife, no one can enjoy privileges. Even if it was the food of the second elder and Jin Jue's husband and wife, it was Lu Huo who took the food of these people in front of the people at the beginning of distributing the food in the canteen.

For Jin Jue not to come, the people are also very understanding. Let's not talk about identity, the people in the city have seen Jin Jue's inconvenient legs and feet, and when he walks, he has some long and short feet.

The cooked food distributed to the hands does not taste good, nor is it very bad. This is indeed a little difficult to swallow for Sima Qing, who has always been well-dressed and well-fed, but Yang Pei and the man beside him ate extremely sweetly.

From this point of view, it is not necessarily a bad thing for this little taishou to gather all the hidden or stored grain in the homes of the people in the city.

Although the amount of cooked food distributed to each common person is somewhat small. But, at the very least, this kind of food can be eaten in the stomachs of the people, so that all the people of the city can survive in the winter.