Chao Gai observed the words and looks, and quickly understood that this Li Yun was a mixed-race child, although he was good at martial arts, but he didn't know how to make a living, and Li Yun even had a difficult life after leaving the yamen's errand.

Immediately, Chao Gai said: "Your mother's illness is very serious, and the old man is only in his fifties, so he can't keep doing this." The saint has a cloud, and the children of people should be filial piety. ”

Li Yun sighed and said, "Hey, I also want to be treated, but my dignified seven-foot man has nothing to do, where can I have the money to take medicine and see a doctor." Li Yun is about to cry, there is a way to be a rich man, it is difficult for a man without money, and it is not nonsense to say that a penny is difficult for a hero.

Chao Gai said: "Brother Li, don't be sad, I have a hospital in Yuncheng, and the price of seeing a doctor and taking medicine is very cheap, so Brother Li can go and live." ”

"This, is it appropriate?" Li Yun said.

Chao Gai said: "Brother Li's skills are difficult for ordinary thirty or fifty people to get close to. Wouldn't it be a pity that such a good martial art was buried in the grass. Yuncheng County is in need of a good capital, I don't know if Brother Li is willing. ”

Li Yun was very surprised, even Lu Fang next to Chao Gai was also surprised, there were three patrols in Yuncheng County, Li Kui, Chao Zhang, and Chao Ran. Outside the city, there are Liu Tang and Niu Gao cavalry patrols.

Li Yun said: "This, is this appropriate?" Isn't Li Kui the head of the infantry in Yuncheng, he can't give me a quick look if I pass over, and besides, I have foreign blood. Don't Chao Tuanlian care about this? ”

"Now there are three infantry patrolling in the city in turn, but it has been getting busier and busier recently, and Li Kui has to be transferred out and not patrol in the city. Chao Ran was transferred to the Trade City to patrol, Brother Li used to take fifty people to Chao Zhang to be responsible for the security patrol in the city, and when it comes to handling cases, you are much richer than Chao Zhang, so it is still very suitable. As for the issue of foreign ancestry, it's not a thing, it's all passed down from ancestors, and I think your ancestors should be Europeans. ”

Li Yun was taken aback: "Chao Tuanlian knows Europe? ”

"You know, there is a very powerful country called the Roman Empire, the Roman state is strong, the army is huge, and the Roman aristocracy likes gladiatorial fighting."

Li Yun said: "It was there that my grandfather was a warrior of a small tribe in the south of Rome, who was captured by the Romans in the battle with Rome and fought in the Roman gladiatorial arena. Later, he was favored by a businessman of the Great Song Dynasty and bought it. I came to the Great Song Dynasty, and this businessman was my grandmother's father. Grandma's father saw that my grandfather was good at martial arts, loved, diligent and studious, so he married my grandma to my grandfather. This is the third generation of me, although I am an overseas Yi person, but I have always used the etiquette of the Great Song Dynasty, and now I am an out-and-out Han person. ”

"Do you speak Roman?" Chao Gai asked.

Li Yun said: "I will say, my grandfather passed it on to my father, and my father passed it on to me, but I am the only one in my generation, and I haven't spoken Roman for several years, and I am gradually getting rusty." ”

Chao Gai was overjoyed and said: "I have a caravan of sea trade there, and I will go to Rome to trade in a few years, and I am worried that I will not be able to find a deal." ”

Li Yun said: "That's no problem, I'll still be able to do it basically." ”

Immediately, Chao Gai said: "Then it's decided, you deal with the family affairs, and then go to Yuncheng on an errand later." ”

Chao Gai arranged for Lu Fang to give Li Yun a settling-in fee of fifty taels of silver, and Xu Jie also prescribed medicine to Li Yun's mother, but if these medicines were bought in Yishui, the price would be very expensive, so it was better to wait a few days to go back to Yuncheng to get the medicine.

Li Yun immediately said that he would take care of the affairs at home in two or three days, and then rushed to Yuncheng, Li Yun thanked Chao Gai and Xu Jie repeatedly.

Li Kui and Bao Xu had already bought a wooden cage, and the team continued to hurry, not too far in front of the farm, but Chao Gai considered that the leopard scared the pigs on the farm, and immediately let the bald head guard the leopard stay in an inn in front of him to wait.

This is a large barren mountain converted pig farm, with an area of at least 2,000 acres, but only about 500 breeding pigs and 3,000 or 4,000 piglets.

Chao Gai pointed to a hill in front of him from a distance and said to Xu Jie: "This mountain is a breeding farm, and the scale is not small." ”

Xu Jiedao: "I never thought that raising a pig would be so large-scale, I have only seen a goose factory in Yuncheng, tens of thousands of geese are overwhelming, densely packed with white dazzling on the water, and here is a mountain to raise pigs, which is really magnificent." No wonder Chao Tuanlian wants to personally inquire about pig raising. ”

"The country is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented. Food is nothing more than grain and meat, and the so-called pig food is safe in the world, which shows the importance of raising pigs. What the common people are busy all year round for is just to eat a meal of meat during the New Year. There are more pigs and more grain, more grain and more pigs, it is such a cycle, and you can't underestimate this pig raising. Chao Gai said.

The group rushed forward, and saw a crowded team of two or three hundred people at the gate of the pig farm.

"What's going on?" Chao Gai said.

Over there, Li Kui couldn't bear it for a long time, so he pulled a young junior with one hand and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"The pig farm is recruiting, and if you go late, you won't be able to get in line, so let it go." Said the young offspring.

Li Kui hurriedly let go of this person and let people go to line up, and Chao Gai and the others went over to see if it was okay. There were about 300 people, lined up in two lines, and at the front was the registration place. The team consisted mainly of sixteen or seventeen-year-old half-grown children, but there were also a small number of strong men.

The person in charge of the pig farm is from Chaojiazhuang, so he naturally knows Chao Gai, and when he saw Chao Gai, he immediately came over and said, "Why is the owner here?" ”

"Pig raising is a big deal, you can't take it lightly, just pass by here today to take a look, take me into the field for a walk." Chao Gai said.

The director took Chao Gai, Lu Fang, Xu Jie, Li Kui, and Bao Xu into the pig farm, Xu Jie turned out to be a doctor, where did he come to this kind of filthy place, I thought it would be very smelly, but soon found that the environment of the pig farm is very good, the pigsty is made of stones, and the tile house is built on it, and the outside of the pigsty is the moon flower, the flowers are blooming brightly, and a few bees are buzzing to collect honey and fly back and forth. The barn is clean and unclean.

"There are now 550 sows in the factory, and 310 are pregnant, and 50 of them are about to give birth," said the farm manager. According to the plan of our general manager Li, the pregnant sow is a separate pen to avoid damage from fighting. Three sows in the empty period are in a pen. Boars, on the other hand, are not kept in captivity and play on the playground all day long. As for the piglets, the situation is similar, after weaning, they basically play in the sports field, because of the large space, which greatly reduces the spread of diseases. ”

Xu Jie said: "I see that each pig has a label on its ear, what is it for?" ”

Although the field manager didn't know who this person was, he followed Chao Gai and naturally wanted to tell others: "This is called an ear tag, and it is marked with numbers." Generally, the pig is numbered by the year, month and day of birth, and the corresponding record book will have the pig's father, mother, and piglets, as well as the growth and disease resistance of these piglets, so that we can judge which sow is good according to these data, and we will select good breeding pigs and eliminate poor breeding pigs. This Yimeng black pig is a very good pig breed, and the fat pig can grow three hundred catties. ”

Xu Jie was a little surprised that pigs could be raised like this. Of course, it is not for nothing that Chao Gai asked Xu Jie to come over, Xu Jie, as a doctor, has a little better medical skills than Chao Que, although pigs and people are different, but they have the same medical theory. Xu Jie mentioned a lot of details to help the farm prevent and treat diseases.

The field manager wrote them down one by one, and Chao Gai asked: "What's going on at the door, how many people are going to be recruited in the field, why are so many people here?" ”

The director said: "Recently, due to the increase in piglets, it is necessary to hire ten workers to clean the pigsty, 300 wen per month, food and housing, and a subsidy of 50 catties of grain. ”

Recruit 10 people, there are 300 people, it is not easy to farm in the mountains, this year is either drought or flood, there is no drought-resistant corn, peanuts and other crops here, so they all expect to work to earn some money to subsidize the family.

Chao Gai said: "Then you are like this, recruit a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old descendants, with a consistent monthly payment, and choose a salary that can be paid for half a year, but you have to go to a far away place to farm, you publicize it and see if anyone is willing to sign up." ”

"Okay, how about the dealer recruit more people?"

"Three thousand, the first batch of so many will do, and then we will talk about it slowly." Chao Gai said.

The director said: "I'll let them sign up first, I'll send someone to inform the owner when the registration is almost done." ”

Chao Gai and other people left Yishui County and rushed back to Yuncheng, Yuncheng No. 1 Shipyard Ye Chun had good news again, and caused eight bird ships, one after another, Chao Gai's ocean-going fleet has 30 bird ships suitable for sea cargo passenger transportation, and the carrying capacity has been greatly enhanced. The Asuka ship sails on the power of the wind, and only one captain and more than ten sailors are required to operate it. When Hu Cheng returned from New Jeju Island again, he told Chao Gai good news, that is, Meng Kang had successfully led 500 craftsmen to build the New Jeju Second Shipyard in New Jeju. The second shipyard is next to the machinery factory, and the second shipyard is mainly to build larger Fu ships, and the Fu ships are equipped with huge paddle wheels, and they plan to build steam ships with the steam engines being developed by Ma Hua and others, but it is not so easy for the new shipyard to be put into production, not to mention that it will be more than half a year later.

In the living room, Chao Gai and Hu Cheng were talking secretly, and Hu Cheng said: "Now there are 6,000 strong men who have immigrated to New Jeju to farm, as well as more than 600 craftsmen and 100 sailors. The troops are a little insufficient, so we have to send a competent cadre to go over. ”

Chao Gai said: "In the past few days, more than 3,000 descendants have been recruited from Yizhou, all of whom are sixteen or seventeen years old. All 30 bird boats were used, carrying more than 3,000 people, and a few hundred ploughing cattle were transported. As for the matter of sending troops, when you come back next time, I will take people over to develop for a while, and then you can lead the team to run the maritime business. ”

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