"Keiko, if you add some fishmeal to the feed, will the pigs grow faster?" Chao Gai asked.

Li Qingzi said: "Is the fishmeal that the owner said is fishmeal made by drying and crushing the fish?" ”

"Of course."

"I feel that it will definitely grow faster, considering the price, a fattening pig can add one or two fishmeal a day to ensure that it can be slaughtered in advance." Li Qingzi said.

Chao Xun said with a smile: "The owner of the village is thinking of the small fish in Wheat Ear Lake, but the drying of small fish is a problem, there are too many flies, and they are easy to rot." ”

"We don't need to dry it, we can dry it." Chao Gai said mysteriously.

"How do I dry it?"

"You can build a narrow house with bricks, one meter wide and three meters long, with a fire burning ground and a layer of iron or stone slabs in the middle. Layer the small fish on it, the temperature inside is very high, the small fish will dry up in less than a day, and then crush it with a stone mill, isn't the fishmeal become? The daily output does not need to be much, a few hundred catties is enough. Chao Gai said.

Chao Xun immediately understood Chao Gai's design, which was absolutely feasible, not to mention that he was an old businessman who was very sensitive to this business opportunity, so he immediately said, "Then let Ruan Ying open an aquatic product processing in Shijie Village, processing fishmeal and dried fish." ”

Lee Kyung-ja was very satisfied with the fishmeal pigs and left happily, now the pig farm is very large, 200 sows, more than 1,000 piglets, and 200 fattening pigs, it can be said that there is no such a large pig farm in the entire Jeju Prefecture, and there is a sense of accomplishment when you think about it.

"The equipment required for the fish processing workshop is not complicated, the drying room, the stone mill, the small fish. Except for Xiaoyu, the others almost don't cost much money, and it is easy to recruit people. There is also a spice workshop, and Uncle Xun feels that it is appropriate to arrange it for someone to manage. Chao Gai said.

Chao Xun said: "The fishmeal processing workshop is arranged to Ruan Ying to be in charge, at present, the fishmeal is basically for self-use, and the department store is also responsible for the export of processed dried fish, so it is still very easy to collect small fish in Shijie Village." The spice workshop you are talking about is processing incense spices. ”

"No, it's five-spice powder and cumin powder for seasoning. It is sold to the north of the Great Liao Kingdom, the Great Jin Kingdom, and the Mongolian Steppe. ”

Chao Xun thought for a while and said, "I am directly in charge of this spice workshop, and if there is large-scale trade, it is necessary to cultivate the original production area." ”

Five-spice powder is very commonly used in the wine restaurant chef of the Great Song Dynasty, even ordinary people are useful, the price is not cheap, it belongs to the medium level, but the price is expensive on the grassland, the grassland people are mainly beef and mutton, the taste is not good, and the five-spice powder and cumin powder are needed, especially the barbecue meat and cumin powder taste is beautiful.

The ingredients of five-spice powder are Sichuan pepper, large ingredients, cumin, dried ginger, etc., of which the main one is Sichuan pepper powder. Zanthoxylum pepper trees are widely planted in Shandong, but they belong to the small-scale peasant economy, and there is no planting mode towards commercialization, so Chao Xun said that it is necessary to cultivate the source of raw materials, and the pepper trees are easy to raise seedlings, and the seeds are planted in autumn after degreasing, and they will germinate and grow in the spring of the next year, and they can have a bumper yield in three years.

Chao Gai and Chao Xun set the direction of development, and the machine of Chaojiazhuang ran rapidly. Ruan Ying arranged for the construction of a drying house, a stonemason to build a stone mill, and recruited manpower to build a fish processing workshop in Shijie Village. The spice workshop in Chaojia Village needs more simple things, a few cauldrons, a few stone mills, put peppercorns and so on in the pot to fry, and then use stone mills to crush, and finally put it into a hardcover small porcelain bottle to seal it is completed. Of course, according to the requirements of Chao Gai, there is also a paper label on the outside, which is written with five-spice powder and small characters next to it, Chao Ji.

These trivial matters were mainly handled by Chao Xun and Ruan Ying, and Chao Gai only asked about the design of the drying room, and arranged for the ironsmith to cast five or six large iron plates. The drying room building is still very good, in order to facilitate operation, it is three meters eight long, one meter four wide, two meters five high, three meters long inside, one meter wide and two meters high, and the combustion chamber is covered with iron plates. The temperature of the drying room can reach seventy or eighty degrees after heating the iron plate below, and the small fish can be placed on the iron shelf on the third or fourth layer to dry, if the fish fillet is made, the sliced fish can also be directly placed on the iron plate, the temperature of the iron plate is as high as 100 degrees, and the fish fillet can be baked, which is also a technical job, and the workers need to master the heat, but there is no too advanced skill, Ruan Ying arranged for the workers to study.

The drought in Yuncheng has eased slightly, there are two small rains, the thirsty land has been moistened, the hearts of the people who have just put down have been shocked by the locusts in a cold sweat, and the villages of the entire Yuncheng County have found swarms of small locusts, as senior farmers everyone knows that this thing grows the fastest, don't look at it is still small now, and it can't fly, it can be overwhelming in a month at most.

Although everyone did not see the tragic situation of the locust plague in Qingzhou last year, they all saw the wandering victims, all of whom were yellow and thin. In half a year, there are three more bandit mountains in Qingzhou, and three bandit caves in Erlong Mountain, Peach Blossom Mountain, and Qingfeng Mountain. Ordinary people had no choice but to go to the patriarchs, village heads, and baozheng in their respective villages. When these people discussed that the locusts plague was a major matter, they did not dare to organize people to fight them, because the common people were superstitious and convinced that the more locusts were struck, the more they would fight. The big guy discussed to find the Yuan county order, but the county order was not easy to see, the wolf-like official stood at the door of the county government with a big waist and a round waist, holding a water and fire stick and carrying a waist knife, and directly coaxed people away, and it didn't take long for the tax collectors to collect the summer grain tax in advance, three buckets of wheat per mu of wheat, no wheat, and pay according to one bucket of thirty wen. Now it's time to die, and some people are already thinking about which child to sell.

At this time, someone said: "Haven't you heard, Chaojia Village, Wujia Village, Shijie Village, there are no locusts there, they have tens of thousands of chickens and ducks grazing, and they have eaten up the locusts, and the chickens all lay double yolk eggs." ”

Someone next to him immediately gave him a blank look: "You are a fart child, so you didn't say it." Everyone knows that chickens and ducks eat locusts, but the problem is how many chickens and ducks can there be in our village, and there are more than 1,000 chickens in a village, which is not very useful at most. ”

"Why don't we go to Chao Gai, he is the king of the umbrella in the rain and the charcoal in the snow." Another said.

"Look for Chao Gai, look for Chao Gai." Many village chiefs have expressed their opinions. As soon as everyone saw that it was okay, it was decided, and they pooled money to buy two fat pigs and went to Chaojia Village.

Chao Gai happened to be studying the recipe of five-spice powder with Chao Xun, and a group of vendors sent a large number of peppercorns. Zhuang Ke came to report that the nearby village chief Bao Zheng had come and asked to see Chao Gai.

Chao Gai and Chao Xun were still startled when they came to the entrance of the village, not to mention more than 100 people, you must know that there are only 150 or 60 village chiefs in the entire Yuncheng County, and the number of people in the county town is only 100,000 people.

"Uncles and uncles, what do you want to see me?" Chao Gai said.

The village chiefs recommended a white-bearded elder and told Chao Gai that Chao Gai led everyone into the village, and the family couldn't sit down, so he simply sat under the tree.

The white-bearded elder said: "The years have not been peaceful recently, first there was a drought, and now there are locusts. We heard that Chao Baozheng organized tens of thousands of chickens and ducks to eat all the locusts near your village, so we hope that Baozheng can send some chickens and ducks to help us get rid of the locusts. ”

Chao Gai touched his chin, pondered, and said, "Is this this?"

The white-bearded elder was anxious and said, "We beg you to ensure that justice is urgent." Saying that, the white-bearded elder led people to kneel down for Chao Gai.

Chao Gai helped him up, and said: "The old man is not breaking my life, since everyone can afford me Chao Gai, I am naturally obliged, but I also have a few requirements." At present, there are 40,000 adult chickens and ducks in our village, and a total of 60,000 chickens and ducks that have hatched for more than a month, and a total of 100,000 can be grazing. It's just that there will definitely be a loss of chickens and ducklings, but I just hope that no matter which village you go to, each village can organize dozens of people to help guard the chickens and ducks at night, assist in grazing during the day, and do some odd jobs. ”

"No problem, no problem. There are no problems at all, as long as the locusts can be cured, and the owner's chickens and ducks are lost, we will make some compensation. Everyone agreed.

"Okay, let's all go back, in the last few days, I have started to arrange one after another, and send chickens and ducks to exterminate locusts according to the distance." Chao Gai said.

In fact, Chao Gai has been anxious recently, the effect of chickens and ducks to kill locusts is only in the early stage, that is, the effect of dealing with small locusts is good, once the locusts fly all over the sky and the chickens and ducks kill locusts, then laugh and talk, without mechanized spraying pesticides, it is impossible to kill locusts. Chao Gai immediately arranged for Li Qingzi to send chickens and ducks to start grazing and exterminating locusts in the county tomorrow.

Chao Gai returned to training camp.

Training was in full swing in the camp, and all platoons and squads practiced hard, and no one dared to be lazy.

Li Kui has made rapid progress recently, it turns out that he can't beat Chao Ran with his fists and feet, it is easy for Chao Ran to knock him down with skills, and slowly Li Kui has also comprehended these skills, this is amazing, the same punch, Li Kui's power is much stronger than Chao Ran, and with Li Kui's thick skin and thick flesh, Chao Ran was defeated. However, Chao Ran, like Chao Zhang, belongs to the balanced development type, the basic queue and formation are very solid, and the training skills, guns, bows and arrows, reading and writing are much stronger than Li Kui, Li Kui's advantages lie in his fists, feet and axes, as for archery, training is completely ignorant.

When Wu Yong came back, Chao Gai had just finished practicing the Golden Dragon Swallowing Heavenly Halberd, and he just wanted to take a break when Wu Yong came, and his face was happy.

"Brother, it's done, go back to the house and say." Wu Yongdao.

In the tent, Chao Gai said: "You have been gone for more than ten days, and the matter has been done." ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Although it is close to the city of Jeju, less than a hundred miles away, but when I arrived in the city, I was blinded, pretending to be money and couldn't find anyone to send it, and I inquired in many ways, and I got acquainted with two powerful figures, one is He Tao, the chief catcher of Jeju Mansion." The other one is Jeju regimental training envoy Hwang An. ”

"It's them." Chao Gai was also a little surprised, these are two enemies.