Breeding is nothing more than chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep, as well as pond fish farming, pond planting, which is the ecological breeding that can be done in ancient times.

However, he was still young, and he could not tell his mother about these plans, otherwise he would definitely arouse his mother's suspicions, so he had to ask his mother for good food.

Although Yang Wenli is the heart and soul of the Yang Chen family, he will be clinging to any delicious food, but there are really no good things at home.

If two pigs are fed at home, they will be killed for the New Year, and it is impossible for a few hens that lay eggs to kill chickens and take eggs. The best meal in normal times is nothing more than scrambled two eggs. Cattle are ploughed in the fields, and the government is not allowed to slaughter them, and sheep are simply not available. Small landlords! I still want to have some big business.

Yang Wenli had nothing to do anyway, so he begged his mother to buy some poultry and livestock to raise by himself, and everything was self-reliant.

The Yang family is a businessman, a farmer and a businessman, and in the Ming Dynasty, the merchant was the four people, and was deprived of the qualification to take the meritorious examination, so the Yang Chen family did not expect his son to study, as long as he grew up healthy, he would be relieved, so Yang Wenli had a lot of time to do what he wanted to do.

Of course, in the Wanli Dynasty, merchants no longer adhered to the system set by Zhu Yuanzhang. Because businessmen are often wealthy families and have deep friendships with the government, they dare to disobey the emperor's decree. But the Yang family can't, the Yang family is a small businessman's family, without the protection of officials, as long as someone informs him, he will definitely be guilty of killing his head.

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"Fourth uncle, please help me go to the state city to buy some chickens, ducks and goose seedlings, as well as a few piglets and sheep." Yang Chen was crying by his son and wanted to eat meat, so he had to find Zhao Laosi, the long-term worker in the family, and tell him.

The small Yang family is too small, and the big ones are all women, so they can't go to the state city to buy poultry and livestock, so they have to let the long-term workers buy them.

The long-term worker is basically similar to the subordinate, and he is also a person who helps the master's family to do things all day long, but he has personal freedom, but the main family only needs to entertain a lunch meal, and the long-term worker has to go home to eat dinner. This was not cost-effective at the time, because the ancients lived for two meals a day. Therefore, basically everyone is willing to be a person, and being a long-term worker is only available in small landlord families like the Yang family, and large families are all bought by people.

After buying poultry and livestock seedlings, Yang Wenli had something to do, and he took out the artificially cultivated earthworm technology that was not very popular in later generations, and used earthworms to feed chickens, ducks and goose seedlings.

Raising pigs, in the Ming Dynasty is prohibited, Emperor Zhengde has issued an order to kill pig people, because the old Zhu family surname Zhu, Zhu and pig homonym, so it is forbidden to raise pigs and kill pigs, very absurd.

However, the government could not prohibit people from raising pigs, and some people surnamed Chen dug holes to raise pigs, retaining valuable pig breeds. Now that Wanli Ye is in power, of course, there is no problem in raising pigs, because the gentry and nobles also need to eat meat. In ancient times, it was forbidden to slaughter cattle, which was a common custom among the people, and if there was no pork and beef, there was really no meat to eat.

It is not realistic to rely on mutton alone, the weather in the south is hot, and sheep cannot be raised, and goats are animals that eat grass roots, which have a great destructive effect on the grassland, and the meat yield is not high, so raising goats in the south is not popular.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the ancient times have known that the pig is raised in a circle, half grazing and half feeding, the pig will be free-range in the spring, summer and autumn aquatic grass abundance period, let it eat the fat aquatic grass, in the middle of winter, only to use the spare forage and bran to cook and feed the pigs.

Of course, Yang Wenli would not do this when raising pigs, so he carved a hillside and arranged for long-term workers to use wooden railings to enclose it and adopt the pen feeding method. It not only allows the pigs to have a large place to move, but also eats three meals a day and is artificially fed.

Although the cost is higher than that of free-range farming, it can improve the slaughter time, which is basically a batch of half a year, and free-range breeding takes at least one year or more.

Pigs can also be artificially fed with a large number of earthworms, earthworms are high-protein things, and pigs can also grow fat when they eat them.

There is also a large number of sweet potatoes to be planted, sweet potatoes can be boiled pig food, even for pigs to eat raw, in short, it is one of the best pig feed.

The Ming Dynasty has basically introduced sweet potatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes and other foreign high-quality species, but only in a small number of places along the southern coast, which is just convenient for Yang Wenli's ecological breeding plan.

It is easy to say on paper, but the real practice is the most time-consuming, and Yang Wenli's scientific ecological breeding plan is three years old.

Because the initial scale was small, a batch of them had to be eaten every year, and after three years, Yang Wenli's ecological breeding finally had a little scale.

In the past three years, Yang Wenli has also actively inquired about farming. He was a farmer in his previous life, and although he was a gangster, he had to go home to do farming whenever his family was busy with farming, so he knew a little about agriculture.

Although the Yang family has tenants, they also keep ten acres of good paddy fields, and ask long-term workers to take care of them, just to get more food, which is just convenient for the practice of Yang Wenli's scientific farming plan.

Modern farming has been systematically summarized and improved by agricultural experts, which is many times stronger than ancient farming, where farmers explored by themselves and passed on by word of mouth, which can be seen from the difference in grain production every year.

The highest yield per mu of rice in ancient times was only more than 300 catties, while the yield per mu of modern conventional rice reached more than 600 to 800 catties, with an average difference of more than one time per mu, which is all the credit of science. That is to say, as long as scientific farming is carried out, a higher yield per mu can be achieved in ancient times. This is very important, in the troubled times of the Ming Dynasty, there have been cases of different children and cannibalism, scientific farming is even more commendable, Yang Wenli can see it more clearly than anyone else.

In ancient China, except for Hainan, the rest of the country was planted with single-crop rice, and the main reason was that it could not solve the problem of cold protection and warmth of early spring rice seeds, and there was no plastic film at that time.

Generally, the two crops of rape and rice are rotated, and sometimes only grass seeds are sown in winter to fertilize the field. In this regard, there is no difference between ancient and modern times.

Scientific farming must first be scientific breeding. Choose rice seeds with full grains and golden color. First of all, it is necessary to disinfect and sterilize rice seeds, and strong chlorine is generally used in modern times, which is a chemical, and there was no such thing in ancient times. Yang Wenli used natural sulfur, which could be bought in ancient times, instead of strong chlorine, which may be less effective, but it is better than not sterilizing and disinfection. Then soak the seeds in warm water to improve the germination rate of rice seeds.

The next step is to choose a convenient water source for rice field breeding, in ancient times, it was generally dispersed, because it is a single crop rice, the climate is warm, there is not much difference. However, special small-scale paddy field breeding can sterilize and disinfect the field, which can significantly improve the growth rate of seedlings and obtain strong seedlings. If the seedlings are planted again, the effect is even better.

Yang Wenli happens to know the key, so he is more serious than modern agricultural experts, the whole farming process is detailed to the extreme, meticulous, he wants to do his best to increase the yield per mu.

…… To be continued