On the other side, Tianshun, who is destined to be short of food for five years, has a big court meeting, and the most discussed is how to get through the current difficulties.

In addition to asking merchants to donate grain, or continuing to send sailors to buy grain overseas, in short, it is generous to others and does not damage half of themselves.

Xia Hongdi has been on the throne for five years, and he has been giving disaster relief food for 3 years, and the surplus grain in the official warehouse is not able to meet the rations of the people in Daxia this year.

At this time, Wei Guogong came out of the list: "Your Majesty, in the minister's mansion, leave enough food for the people in the palace to eat for a year, and the rest is willing to donate all the money to the imperial court, although it is a drop in the bucket, I hope to let a few more people eat a few more full meals!"

This, this, the ministers of the previous dynasty did not expect that this fire would actually burn on themselves.

"Good! Defending the country and worrying about the people, worthy of being my minister!" Xia Hongdi is happy, his father-in-law can really be anxious about what he is anxious about!

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal and is willing to donate the surplus food at home!"

After the defense of the country made this head public, no one dared to fall behind, and the civil and military officials rushed to donate food to the people.

Up and down, the rest of the noble and wealthy businessmen in the capital also donated generously, and the Zhongqin Bofu was unusual, and did not follow suit.

During this time, Cuihua took the small laborers of the house in Dali Village, and they were too busy, not only to go to the fields to catch locusts during the day, but also to help the chickens and ducks go home in the evening.

The children of Dali Village can also use locusts to go to Yuanfu to change copper plates, and when they finish catching crops in the field, they will go to the forest to catch them.

Taking advantage of the good weather, Cuihua asked the cook to boil the locusts and began to dry them.

These high proteins are not only edible for people, but also good feed for chickens and ducks.

If there is not enough food, the meat will make up! If the people of Daxia have dozens of chickens and ducks in each family, and there are eggs and meat to eat, how much food can they save?

Who said that you have to use grain to raise chickens and ducks? In addition to locusts, Cuihua also has a special trick - Earth Dragon (Earthworm)!

"What are you talking about? Girl, do you want to raise a dragon?" Daddy Hu is unbelievable, this earth dragon can still be raised?

"This earth dragon is going to make a hole, you can't raise a family!" Zhang's disapproves of it, how can her daughter be whimsical?

"Mother, I'm going to dig a big pit, and then use bricks and cement to smooth the bottom and surrounding of the pit, so that the earth dragon can't escape.

Anyway, they just eat some rotten fertile soil, and they don't even need forage, and now, they use this to raise chickens and ducks, and chickens and ducks lay eggs or eat meat.

If this method is successful, our mother can hatch chickens and ducks, and we can raise them without spending too much food, and if this method is sacrificed, how many people can be saved!"

When the girl said this, can the old couple still support it? Without waiting for Zhang's to speak, Daddy Hu was the first to express his attitude:

"You want it, you want it, girl, since you've thought about it, let's do something, if we can do it, when your father and I celebrate the New Year, we have to show off in front of our ancestors!"

This will make Daddy Hu think about using these methods in exchange for any benefits, so that farmers can have more ways to survive, what is it for him to spend some time?

Seeing that the man and the girl were already gearing up, Zhang could only keep silent, but thinking that the wild wild man seemed to be a pile of them, it should not be difficult to feed.

Just do it, the big pit of the dragon breeding in this place was dug in the Hu family, and two big pits were dug at a time, two big pits with a length, width and height.

Hu Sanniu, the son who burned pastel porcelain in the R&D center, was caught by Hu's father to gather wool, worked a few nights to repair the cement pit smoothly, and also made a roof shade on the pit.

After the cement was dry, according to his daughter's request, Father Hu dug up ten baskets of cow dung and ten baskets of black soil (weeds, straw, dead branches and fallen leaves, etc.) from the cowshed of Zhuangzi, and poured them into the cement pit.

Then a layer of fine soil was sprinkled on the surface, and the whole pit was watered with water.

Well, it doesn't smell good, and it's better than a latrine.

The earth dragon thing is still very easy to find, but in half a day, Daddy Hu dug nearly ten catties, and put five catties into a dung pit.

A few little guys followed from beginning to end, very curious, it turned out that the earth dragon was still there

They can be domesticated, they are familiar with this thing, and they use the earth dragon as bait for fishing.

"Father-in-law, how long will it take for this earth dragon to grow up?" Xiao Wu expressed curiosity.

"It's going to take two months, right?" Daddy Hu isn't sure, he's never raised this thing.

"Can the Earth Dragons eat it?" Xiaoliu is most concerned about this!

"Ouch, my stupid grandson, the earth dragon raised by cow, you want to eat it?"

"Ah, don't eat, don't eat, Xiaoliu doesn't eat cow poop!"

"Hahahahaha."

In fact, it is not the case, and the dried earth dragon is also regarded as a traditional Chinese medicine in modern times, but it has not been used for medicinal purposes at this time.

Cuihua, the shopkeeper, also demanded that Daddy Hu's process of raising the earth dragon should be recorded, this method has been completed, and he must teach others, so that Daddy Hu is helpless, and pulls his in-laws Zhao Xiucai to do the paperwork every day.

The Zhao family is now eager to have a place for them, as long as Zhao Xiucai gets out of school, he will go to the Hu family on time to report, and the breeding diary is done in detail.

Cuihua said to Daddy Hu that she would raise the dragon as a poultry, but this poultry eats poop and mud, and if the poop and mud in the pit are eaten up, it must be continued in time, and the soil must be moist and cool.

In addition to explaining to her father, Zhang, who breeds chickens and ducks, also told carefully:

"Mother, the earth dragon that was raised can't be fed directly to chickens and ducks, you have to wash the soil in water, then put it in a big pot, cook it and then cut it into pieces and feed it!"

"On weekdays, don't chickens and ducks dig their own food in the soil? What is the reason for cooking and then feeding?"

"It's just like people can't always eat raw meat, ordinary people, eat raw meat or the meat is undercooked, do you want to diarrhea after eating?"

"Got it!" Zhang said that she would pay attention to it when she raised chickens and ducks, and it was hatched with hard work, and she was raised to death, so it was strange if she didn't feel heartache.

"Don't give the freshly hatched earth-eating dragon, it will take seven or eight days to grow up to slowly add it, and it's best to eat some rice bran or something at first."

"Your mother is not stupid, raising chickens is much more than you!"

The Cuihua who should be explained has been explained, and then, he returned to the capital with a group of dolls and a large pot of fried locusts, and the book has to be read well.

However, she didn't return to the capital for ten days, and as soon as she came back, Cuihua heard the news that officials in the capital donated food, but fortunately, she knew it in her heart, but she was not in a hurry.

Starting from the donation from the capital, the local officials also bled according to the amount of the donation from the upper official.

Cuihua and Heiwa are looking through various books every night, and in addition to poultry farming, they also need to find out more edible food in the existing conditions.

"Seafood, in addition to meat products such as fish and shrimp, and sea vegetables that are easier to catch than seafood, should not be missed!"

"That's right, daughter-in-law, I remember saying that this kelp is now kombu, and eating it can also cure big neck disease, this kind of sea vegetable is really nutritious and filling!"

"Seaweed, sea stone flowers, and seaweed can also be eaten, and the queen's oyster sauce mill is mostly on the coast, so it is convenient to buy a large number of them."

"It's hard work, daughter-in-law, let's sort it out, we can't watch the people eat Guanyin soil!"

Before the end of Fuyue, Daddy Hu took him and Zhang's dictation, and Zhao Xiucai sorted out, "Chicken, Duck and Goose Artificial Incubation Method", and "Earth Dragon Breeding Law" and "Chicken and Duck Breeding Law" to find Cuihua.

"Girl, it's done, it's done, my mother, now those earth dragons look so dense, every time I want to turn the mud, I can give your father and I goosebumps!"

"Haha, Dad, has my mother fed chickens and ducks with a dragon? Do they like to eat?"

"Why not, eat so happily, you can grab a fight!"

With such a method of benefiting the country and the people, Heiwa did not delay, and handed the sign into the palace on the same day.

Seeing the four books brought by Zhong Qinbo, Xia Hongdi was very interested and grabbed it and immediately read it.

The first volume of "The Great Law of Eating Marine Food", which is sorted out by Cuihua, is about seafood

How to preserve it and how to eat it in a pattern of marine plants.

The last three volumes were brought by Daddy Hu, and Xia Hongdi's eyes lit up, and he was more interested in the last three volumes. As he flipped through, he asked, "Have you tried all of this?"

"Your Majesty, these chickens, ducks and geese, the minister's mother-in-law has hatched thousands, and the locusts grow quickly, less than two months, they all weigh three catties, and the earth dragon was raised by the minister's father-in-law in the last month.

The minister's father-in-law said that if the people could feed these poultry without spending too much food. Then you can save a lot of food by eating eggs and meat.

They are weak and weak, and they are willing to teach this method to all the people of the Great Xia Dynasty for free, and I hope that the people of the Great Xia Dynasty will suffer less famine!"

"Good! Good! Good! Aiqing not only can come up with a clever plan whenever the court is in trouble, but the female relatives in the family are even more heroines among women, and the parents who can give birth to such heroines are extraordinary!"

This will, Xia Hongdi will no longer complain about Mrs. Zhongqinbo's jealous temperament, don't think he doesn't know, if you want to say that making food must be Mrs. Yuan's idea, how many men understand this?

When Heiwa left the palace, the emperor asked the eunuch to go to Dali Village and presented an award to the Hu family: a set of pastel porcelain produced by the imperial kiln, one hundred taels of gold, and specially awarded the title of Zhang's seven products.

Although the Hu family knew that after hearing this method, they would definitely give their family more or less rewards, but no one expected that the reward would be so big.

"Boss, baby daddy! Isn't this a dream? I've become a seven-rank widow, and I can still receive the kind of money?" The eunuchs have been gone for a long time, and the Zhang family has not come back to his senses.

"I didn't dream, now it's okay, old woman, you are the only one in our Hu family who eats imperial grain!"

"This majesty is too generous, I, I haven't done anything, what kind of big skill is this hatching chick?"

Zhang's happy words were incoherent, she never expected that she would encounter such a beautiful thing at this age.

Zhao Sanniang and Qian Alan are also happy for their mother-in-law, their Hu family is finally different from ordinary farmers, and the children and daughters in the family will be more decent when they say goodbye in the future.

Not to mention how happy the Hu family is, Cuihua and Heiwa have been happy for them for a long time, although the idea was made by their husband and wife, but the hard work is still the old couple.

The next day, the officials of the Imperial Court Pastoral Office came to Dali Village, and they not only had to learn the refined breeding method, but also followed it from beginning to end.

Only when they learn it, can they make a standard process to inform the people of the world, such things that benefit the people, the officials of the pastoral department are also very attentive, humble and consultant, and they are eager to live in Dali Village.

The villagers of Dali Village soon learned the news, and most of them were still very happy for the Zhang family, they were not only the neighbors of Bofu, but also the villagers of the widow!

The old villagers from Shu are all full of red faces, and they have to be close to each other, and now these people in Dali Village, looking at the old villagers who have fled from the famine, are very respectful, and their lives are many times stronger than in the downstream villages.

The people who are close to the Hu family are happy for the Zhang Ruren, but the rich businessmen and wives who donated a lot of grain in the capital are sour, although the Zhang family is just the last of the edicts, but who would not be rare about this?