The thank-you gifts sent by these neighboring villages add up to ten pigs and eight sheep, where can they all be killed in a while?

You can only raise it first.

Since he wants to raise it, Wei Renshi plans to raise it a little more finely.

Don't say what you want to do in the future, even if you keep your own *** fine, the meat quality is more delicious.

And if you want to raise these things, you have to gelding first.

Gelding, that is, castration. The castration of livestock includes not only male but also females.

Livestock castration is the removal of the gonads of livestock and poultry, that is, the removal of ** or ovaries.

Especially in pigs, after castration, boars and sows lose their sexual physiology, their temperament becomes docile, and their aggression will be significantly reduced, which is convenient for feeding and management. It is also possible to no longer separate male and female, but directly mixed group breeding, reducing labor and cost.

In addition, castration can also make the meat of livestock and poultry more delicate and have no fishy smell. It can be used to supply a large amount of energy required for reproduction to promote growth, which is conducive to fattening, can also shorten the feeding cycle, eliminate bad varieties, and facilitate the breeding of improved varieties.

In fact, the gelding pig appeared as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, and "Zhou Yi Da Animal Hexagram" has the saying "the tooth of the pig, auspicious". It means that the castrated pig is no longer aggressive, and its teeth are not afraid, so it is auspicious.

However, the purpose of castration of the pig here is to reduce its aggressiveness, or for sacrificial purposes. However, it has not been applied to aquaculture.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that the phenomenon of eating pork on a larger scale made people discover the effect of castration on livestock and poultry.

So at this time, there should be people who know how to castrate these pigs.

Wei Renshi thought about it and turned his head to look at Zheng Lizheng. saw Zheng Lizheng's face frightened, staring at him incredulously.

"Castration?! What for? What do you want to do?! Zheng Lizheng looked frightened.

"I can't eat all these pigs, so I have to raise them." Wei Renshi said to him: "This pig can only keep one breeding pig, a few sows can give birth, and the rest are all geldings." After gelding, the pig not only grows fast and fat, but also has mellow meat without peculiar smell...... Tsk, this is my unique secret to farming. ”

Zheng Lizheng looked at Wei Renshi, and then at the pigs, and said with suspicion: "Can you still have these benefits if you are castrated?" ”

"Isn't it?" Wei Renshi clapped his hands and said, "My house hasn't been built yet, so I have to build a pigsty first." ”

"What's so difficult about that, I'll shout to Boss Shi later, and the pigsty will come out after you finish eating." Zheng Lizheng said with a smile.

"My pigsty is not ordinary." Wei Renshi said: "What I built is called a breeding farm. ”

"It doesn't matter what your name is, don't you just raise some chickens and dogs." Zheng Lizheng said with a smile: "By the way, I gave the plunder you made to the county government, and the county lord will report it, but it will take some time." ”

"I'm not in a hurry." Wei Renshi said: "Uncle Zheng, you can farm with me and raise livestock." Let's start five or five, and it won't take two years for your family business to catch up with you and your brother. ”

"Farming and raising livestock can save a family business so quickly?" Zheng Lizheng was surprised.

"It depends on who planted and raised it." Wei Renshi said: "It may not be possible for others to come, but I can come." ”

"Wei Langjun is a kind-hearted person." Zheng Lizheng smiled and said, "Then I won't shirk Wei Langjun's support." Wei Langjun has a lot of things to do all day long, telling him what to do, and taking care of these things for Wei Langjun in Changgu. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Zheng." Wei Renshi saw that Zheng Lizheng understood what he meant, and agreed, so he smiled.

Zheng Lizheng said again: "castrated people...... I really don't know much about this. But you can go and ask, and you can ask if you think you can ask. ”

Wei Renshi nodded and said, "This matter is very important, if you really can't inquire, you can only find a pig killer, let's find our own groping." ”

Zheng Lizheng suddenly showed a look of disgust on his face, and said, "Don't worry! If you find Luoyang, you must find it! ”

"Also, if the villages have been rained for several years, there must be wheat that cannot be germinated. Uncle Zheng, if you help me ask, just say that I am willing to buy a large number of these sprouted wheat. Wei Renshi said again.

"Sprouts? What do you do with it? Zheng Lizheng asked.

"There are a lot of uses. For example, you can make feed. Wei Renshi replied: "Actually, you can also make wine, but I don't know if you can get used to that alternative taste." ”

"That's easy to say." Zheng Lizheng nodded and said, "Wei Langjun is really strange, these things that everyone doesn't want can come in handy when they come to Wei Langjun." ”

Wei Renshi grinned, and the two went home together.

I was not idle at night, I drew the specifications of the pig house I wanted to build, and when Jiao Haiqing came over, I would start to build a farm, repair a few houses, and repair the current house at home.

Early the next morning, Wei Renshi woke up and smelled the fragrance of the courtyard. After eating, he praised Xi'er's craftsmanship for getting better and better, and then left the house, borrowed a donkey cart, and took Boss Shi to Fuchang City to find a blacksmith.

The blacksmith had indeed made the coal stove, and Wei Renshi took a closer look, and the blacksmith's craftsmanship was good, the beating was tight, and the shape was also very beautiful, almost no different from the pattern he had drawn. and set a set of iron pipes and elbows, which are also just right, tight but not dead.

The manual coal hammer is also done, it is a little heavy, Wei Renshi mentioned it, and it feels good.

The kettle used with the coal stove is also very good, and the handle is also wrapped with a layer of cork, and the cork is wrapped with several layers of cloth, which is very useful.

"Master Zhang, what a craft." Wei Renshi has come to the blacksmith to fight a lot of things, so he is also familiar with the blacksmith. After reading it, he praised it.

"Thanks to Xiaolang for taking care of the business." Blacksmith Zhang smiled.

Blacksmith Zhang helped Boss Shi carry the coal stove onto the donkey cart, and Wei Renshi found an earthen kiln outside the city. The inner stove tube was also done, Wei Renshi directly took it and tried it on the coal stove, and then frustrated the outside a little, so that it could be firmly stuffed into it, and it was just placed on the horizontal iron net inside the coal stove.

The inner stove is very important because it can isolate the heat and lock the heat in the inner stove. If there is no inner stove of yellow mud, then there will be no one to sit next to the coal stove.

I tried the coal hammer with the yellow mud on the kiln, and the embryo can also be put into the inner stove by coincidence, which is perfect.

In this way, the coal stove is made.

The coal stove was pulled back with a donkey cart and unloaded. Wei Renshi said to Boss Shi: "Let's go with coal next." ”

The donkey cart arrived at the side, and the family also came to see the excitement.

Boss Shi's grandson came over with Zhang Changgui, who was pointing to the wooden stick, and Xi'er also came with them and brought some ice water to everyone.

"This charcoal has to be powdered first. There is a water mill by the river, so pull the coal over first. Wei Renshi said.

"Okay." Zhang Changgui walked to the basket with a wooden stick, leaned on the wooden stick, grabbed the rope on the basket with one hand and lifted it up, and the basket of charcoal was lifted half of his body by him, and then put it on the donkey cart.

"Wow!" Wei Renshi was stunned.

This basket of charcoal is almost 300 catties!

Is this still human?

They drove the donkey cart to the river, hammered the charcoal into powder with a water mill, and swept it back.

The sun-dried river mud was ready a few days earlier. Mix pulverized coal and water in a ratio of 1:10 and stir into a coal paste. Then mix together and stir according to the ratio of two iron shovels, coal paste, and one iron shovel soil.

"Uncle Shi, come and get coal." Wei Renshi gave the coal hammer to Boss Shi.

Shi Boss pressed the coal hammer against the prepared coal paste, and then went to the open space next to it to push out the formed honeycomb coal.

The afternoon sun was still very poisonous, and under the scorching sun, everyone just drank a few bowls of ice water and chatted for a while, and the honeycomb coal that was beaten out had been dried.

"Test the coal stove!" Wei Renshi shouted, and everyone immediately came over, and carried the two gas pipes, as well as the coal stove and honeycomb coal, onto the donkey cart and went home.

Looking around to find a location, Wei Renshi asked them to put the coal stove over, and then under Wei Renshi's command, several people worked together to connect the two pipes through the elbow, one end was connected to the coal stove, and the other end was extended outside.

Burn a fire outside, the charcoal burns red and red within a few minutes, put a piece of honeycomb coal in the coal stove, and spread a piece of red charcoal on it, and then go down a piece of honeycomb coal, the ventilation fire door below opens, Xi'er takes a fan and fans along the fire door to fan in, and soon, the coal on top is faintly red. It didn't take long for flames to erupt.

Seeing that the flame on the honeycomb coal was gradually rising, Wei Renshi put another piece on it, then closed the round lid on it, and put the kettle on top of the round lid.

When I went out to see, puffs of green smoke were coming out along the tin pipe, and when I went into the house, I sniffed hard, and I couldn't smell any gas.