Chen Xisong showed his waist card, and the imperial city guards immediately let him go, and took him in to drink tea and wait.

The female official quickly went to report, and in only half an hour, Chen Xisong was allowed to meet the emperor.

The number of officials with this treatment currently adds up to less than ten people. And among these people, Chen Xisong is the only fifth-grade official, and he can run to the Forbidden City at any time.

"Your Majesty, Chen Langzhong is here."

"Let him in."

Chen Xisong walked quickly into the side hall, and said with a happy face: "The minister greets Your Majesty!" “

"Sit down." Zhao Han smiled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Chen Xisong has long been familiar with the road, and he sits on the bench like he came to drink tea with an old friend.

Zhao Han was curious: "What kind of goods do you have?" “

Chen Xisong couldn't wait: "Your Majesty, it's a pig... Ah, no, it's to persuade the agricultural department to breed good pigs. “

The original Agricultural Persuasion Institute has been upgraded to the Agricultural Persuasion Division, which has three jurisdictions: animal husbandry, fruits and vegetables, and grains. It is responsible for the cultivation of improved varieties and the guidance of magistrates in the promotion of high-quality crops and livestock.

Zhao Han asked, "What's a good law?" “

Chen Xisong: "This new pig is large, matures early, grows fast, is docile, and easy to fatten. ”

"That's really a good pig, how did you breed it?" Zhao Han asked with great interest.

Every time Chen Xisong entered the palace, Zhao Han was very happy. The female officials and the palace maids also like to see Chen Xisong, and the emperor must have good words today.

Chen Xisong introduced: "After coming to Nanjing, it was still a persuading farm, and it was already cultivating pig breeds. Jianghuai pig ears are large, Hebei pigs have thick skin, Shandong pig's feet are short, Liaodong pig's head is white, Henan pigs have a light taste (not fishy), Jiangnan ears are small, and Guangdong pigs are fat and white...... Pig breeds vary from place to place. Therefore, the ministers were crossbred separately and their excellent offspring were selected and then cultivated. ”

Chen Xisong's speech became faster and faster, and he gushed endlessly: "The best pig breed to be bred is to cross the big flower face of Taihu Lake with the 'rice pig' of Jintan." 'Big flower face is large, thick bones, thick skin, moderate fat and thin, the disadvantage is that it grows slowly, and the folk are also called 'sand pigs' or 'thick-skinned pigs'... The offspring of the big flower face and the rice pig have maintained the advantages of the big flower face and the large body, becoming fatter and giving birth to more children. After three or four generations of cross-breeding, the characteristics tend to be stable, and the ministers call it 'Misha pig'. “

Suddenly, Chen Xisong stood up excitedly and paced back and forth: "Misha Pig is already excellent, but there are even better!" The Misha pig was crossed with the Huabai pig from Guangdong, and the first parity was effective. This new pig grows very fast and is still large, and the sow can be bred after half a year. At least 10 piglets are born in the first birth, and more and more are born from the second litter. A maximum of one sow can be farrowed, and eighteen piglets can be born in one litter! And the characteristics are also very stable, compared to the big flower face, the pig skin becomes thinner, and the fat is much longer! ”

A lot of fat is not a disadvantage in ancient times, but a very pleasing advantage.

Chen Xisong took out a piece of paper from his arms and forwarded it to Zhao Han by the female official: "Please Your Majesty give the name of the new pig!" ”

Zhao Han read this piece of paper, but saw that the column of the pig's name was empty, and the rest was written about the characteristics of the pig: large body, thin skin, fat meat, short feet, small ears,

Black and white, pure white, pure black. It matures quickly, has many litters, is easy to fatten, and is really a high-quality pig.

Zhao Han commented with a smile: "Wufu Minfeng, Guotai Min'an, it's called 'Guotai Pig.'" It can be promoted in Jinling Mansion first, so that the large pig farmers around Nanjing City can buy a few piglets and try it back. Large pig farmers have tasted the sweetness and will take the initiative to breed next year. When ordinary farmers see it, they will definitely be red-eyed, and this Cathay pig can be promoted. “

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Chen Xisong immediately flattered.

Zhao Han thought for a while: "Over the years, you have worked really hard. If Datong Sheji can have a bumper harvest of grains and six animals to prosper, you will also have a great merit in it. I can't wait for you, so I will make you a persuading farmer. Persuade the meritorious people of the agricultural department, if you make a list, you will be rewarded as appropriate. ”

I was also rewarding it before, but this time it was very generous, and I was directly named an earl.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Chen Xisong was overjoyed, raising pigs and farming to make him an earl.

The reason why Zhao Han is so generous is that pigs are too important, and the second senior brother has long become the main source of meat for the Chinese people.

Gelding pigs did not start in the Song Dynasty, they existed as early as the pre-Qin period, but they were popularized on a large scale in the Song and Ming dynasties.

There is a cloud in the Book of Changes: "The Tooth of the Pig".

In human terms, even a castrated pig will become docile, even if it has sharp teeth, it is not harmful.

"The Book of Rites" has clouds: the pig is just a rat, and the dolphin is fat.

There is no mowing pig, the skin is thick and the hair is coarse, and it is called a pig. The castrated pig, fat and round hips, is called a dolphin.

And the word "home" is a pig (pig) that has not been castrated, and a roof is built on it. There's a roof, and there's pigs, it's a home.

A small farmer's home, building a pigsty and raising two or three pigs. Pour the leftovers into it, and then beat some pigweed, and you don't have to bother to take care of it, and you can sell it after half a year and a year. Pigs also poop a lot, which can be used as farm fertilizer, and there is enough fertilizer to grow food.

In this way, small farmers have benefited immensely, and it is no wonder that pigs were called "black gold" in ancient times (most of them are black pigs in China).

China's pig breeding technology, as well as pig breeding technology, has always been the world's leading.

The Roman pig in Europe was crossed by the introduction of South China pigs in the Tang Dynasty.

The Yorkshire pig in England has not yet appeared at this time. At the beginning of the 18th century, the British introduced Cantonese pigs and crossed them with Thai pigs and English pigs. The largest white pig in later generations, which occupied almost the world's pork market, was crossed again by the British Yorkshire pig, and belonged to the mixed blood of the Chinese Cantonese pig.

The "Cathay Pig" named by Zhao Han combines the characteristics of Taihu Sand Pig, Jintan Rice Pig and Guangdong Huabai Pig, but the appearance is more inclined to Taihu Sand Pig.

The more Zhao Han thought about it, the more comfortable he became, he took up the pen and wrote down the eight words "five grains are abundant, six animals are prosperous", and said: "Hang it in the yamen of the agricultural department, go to the craftsman to engrave the brand!" “

Chen Xisong bowed down and retreated, walking with the wind.

Yubi Mobao, to persuade the agricultural division to hang, who the fuck dares to make a time?

Ministry of Rites.

Chen Maosheng has entered the cabinet as the prime minister, and the Ministry of Rites is now headed by Wang Tiaoding.

The emperor's decree was sent, and the canonization of the earl was a major matter, which had to be handled by the Ministry of Rites himself.

"Persuade the farmer?" Wang Tiaoding felt very strange.

Liu Mai, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, said with a smile: "Hearing that Chen Langzhong raised a good pig, Your Majesty was happy, so he was crowned an earl." This is rare in ancient and modern times,

I'm afraid it won't take a few days, and the whole of Nanjing will spread all over Nanjing. “

Wang Tiaoding: "Persuading the Agricultural Division to do a lot of work, Chinese cabbage is what they promote, and now it is a winter delicacy for high-ranking officials and nobles and small people." In the past two years, after corn and sweet potatoes, the Department of Agriculture has been promoting potatoes again. Presumably, what a good pig is, it is also a new breed of pigs, and pork may be cheaper in the future. “

Liu Mai nodded and said: "If this is the case, it is enough to benefit the country and the people." ”

Liu Mai also belongs to the patriarchal faction, and was originally a child in Yongyang Town, Luling County. Not only is he highly qualified, but also has outstanding political achievements, he is the first political envoy of Guangdong, and he is fully qualified to serve as a scholar.

Liu Ziren, who had just joined the cabinet as prime minister, was the first political envoy of Zuobu in Guangdong. Both of them are surnamed Liu, and their hometowns are not far away, and after describing the family tree, they can talk about a distant brother.

Isn't there a relationship?

There are many such cases, so they are intertwined. Jiangxi officials not only have three major factions, but also various small groups.

Wang Tiaoding: "Chen Langzhong's earl's seal, let the people below engrave it." Before Chen Ge Lao (Chen Maosheng) entered the cabinet, he had already decided to advance his age, and I think there is no need to discuss it anymore, just go directly to His Majesty. “

The age of entry for the younger, originally set at 7 to 10 years old, can be entered during this period.

Chen Maosheng plans to advance the entry age to six years old, which will be beneficial to poor children.

Those wealthy families who value education often enlighten their children at the age of five. By the time he was seven years old, he had already recognized a lot of words, and Xi immediately threw away the poor children.

In recent years, many former court scholars who are not qualified to be officials have started their own new courses. Then, he was invited by a wealthy family to be a private tutor and took a high salary to make up lessons for his children. In this way, the achievements of the rich and noble children have thrown off the poor children as a whole.

Compared with the past, more and more students from wealthy families are now taking the entrance examination results in various provinces.

What Chen Maosheng can do is to advance the age and let the poor children be enlightened earlier.

There is another phenomenon that makes Chen Maosheng very helpless.

The magistrates are getting more and more relaxed about the children's problems. In other mountainous areas, even in the county town, because of the cancellation of free lunches, many children did not come to study, and the local government turned a blind eye.

When Chen Maosheng was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in addition to formulating a general strategy, he could only manage the inside and outside of Nanjing.

He often travels in micro-clothes, wandering around the city and beyond. Once it is found that school-age children are not studying, there will inevitably be officials who will be hung up, and the chief of the Rite Section of Jiangning and Shangyuan counties will be ordered by Chen Maosheng to get rid of three.

This incident made the magistrate in Nanjing very miserable, and the first thing the chief of the rites section in charge of education did was to find out the loss of children. Those over the age of 10 do not care, they must study under the age of 10, and if they do not let their children study, let the county severely punish their parents.

Nowadays, inside and outside Nanjing, the enrollment rate of school-age children under the age of 10 is not 100 percent, but 70 percent.

But the quality of education is getting rougher and rougher, because there are too many students.

In the city of Nanjing, the number of schools is constantly increasing, and the classrooms are full. There are dozens of people in a class, and the teacher can't take care of it at all, and many schools in the bottom blocks are purely sheep-herding teaching, and the teacher is too lazy to take care of sleeping in class.

However, no matter how foolish you are, after reading it in three years, you can still write a letter in the vernacular, and it is not a problem to read the vernacular at all.

As a direct result of such education, popular reading materials in Nanjing are selling well.

After finishing school, most of the children run away to become apprentices or find other livelihoods. It's hard to earn some salary, and you haven't started a family yet, and you don't have any other entertainment, so you can get a newspaper to read.

There is already a book rental shop in Nanjing, and you can rent it back by paying some deposit.

It is even possible to rent newspapers for a very low rent. They are all market tabloids, vernacular articles, and even serialized popularity.

In the entire Jinling Mansion, the market tabloids have developed in a blowout, and more than 40 have been opened one after another, including those that have gone bankrupt. And there is celebrity gossip news, a certain Qinglou selects an oiran, and which famous character appears in the goulan or theater, etc., young people who don't read much but are literate like to watch this.

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