Chapter Eighty-Five: The Birth of the Pot Helmet (Seeking Follow-up)
After the poultry has eaten the worms, they have eaten all the rotten leaves that have been eaten by the worms, and when the new leaves grow, they can no longer graze in the vegetable fields.
Therefore, Yang Chuan let people build dozens of 'breeding farms' in the surrounding wasteland, mountain forests, ponds and bamboo forests, so that it is not only convenient to manage, but also can effectively prevent the outbreak of chicken plague, so as not to be greedy for a while, and the chickens, ducks and geese in the land of Guanzhong will be wiped out.
Having seen the horrors of 'avian flu' and 'swine fever', Yang Chuan didn't dare to gamble on luck.
Tangyi's father was a natural shepherd, Yang Chuan just briefly talked about the stakes, and the Huns immediately understood the mystery and quickly formulated a very complete poultry grazing plan.
In this way, vegetables and vegetables grew extremely lushly, and more than 100,000 poultry were visibly fattened, and even the output of eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs began to gradually improve.
Today, dozens of baskets of poultry eggs are shipped to Chang'an City every day, and the money sold to Pingyang Hou Cao's family, Wei Qing's family and some wealthy families has become a large amount of income for Yang Chuan......
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In Yangchuan's fiefdom, after the crops are harvested, a crop of vegetables is planted, and chickens, ducks and geese are used to weed, catch insects, and improve the soil.
This time, he learned wisely, and after visiting Yang Chuan politely, he came to the vegetable field to 'observe' poultry pest control.
is worthy of being a giant businessman, Sang Hongyang just walked around the field and understood Yang Chuan's true thoughts-
After the crops are harvested, plant a stubble of vegetables and vegetables, use the weeds and insects in the vegetable field, and breed a large number of chickens, ducks and geese at the same time.
In this way, the same farming, in the more than 2,000 acres of land in Yangchuan, it is equivalent to two or three times more harvest.
If all the fertile land in the Han Empire were to adopt this business model of combining 'planting and breeding', and the agricultural income would have increased substantially, wouldn't it be just around the corner?
After a day and a night of observation, Sang Hongyang thought that he had mastered all the secrets, so he visited Yang Chuan again.
"Young Master Yang Chuan, Sang Hongyang wants to tell the boss of the Great Agricultural Order about the farming methods on your fiefdom, and go up to the heavens to listen, and want to spread it in the land of Guanzhong, I don't know if it's possible?" Sang Hongyang asked straight to the point.
Yang Chuan was skewering with Cao Xiang, and casually promised: "Okay, just look at it and do it, this is your responsibility, of course; What's more, I'm just a thirteenth-level mid-level prince, and I don't have any official position, so even if I want to hide my secrets, I'm afraid I can't do it, right? ”
This was very polite, but Sang Hongyang's face did not change, and he arched his hand and said: "Sang Hongyang has thanked you." ”
"Ji Tian Ling, don't you masturbate a few strings?" Yang Chuan raised a handful of barbecue meat in his hand and asked with a smile.
Sang Hongyang glanced at Cao Xiang, who was expressionless, secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said "another day", and then drifted away, looking at the direction he left, it should be to rush back to Chang'an City overnight.
"Sang Hongyang is not authentic," Cao Xiang glanced at the back of Sang Hongyang riding a thin donkey, "Again and again squeezing profits on you, but not mentioning your return, this kind of person does not have any bottom line;
Yang Chuan, you have to beware of this person in the future. ”
Yang Chuan smiled indifferently, grilled the meat skewers skillfully, and said leisurely: "Didn't you say that you want me to become a valuable person?" ”
Cao Xiang shook his head and said: "I'm talking about fair trade, there must be dealings, mutual benefit and reciprocity, this is what a serious businessman should look like." ”
"But this Sang Hong sheep, businessmen are not businessmen, officials are not officials, for their own promotion and knighthood, they have begun to do whatever it takes, once this kind of person becomes a big peasant order of the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not only hurt us powerful families, but even the good lives of ordinary Chinese people will be very sad......"
Regarding Cao Xiang's kind reminder, Yang Chuan was noncommittal.
How can there be a real 'fair trade' in this world?
Regarding Sang Hongyang's "no bottom line", Yang Chuan didn't bother to put a beak or two.
The Han Empire's consistent tradition is that "strong cadres and weak branches", as long as the emperor and nobles have enough fat on their plates, who cares about the livelihood of the people?
Therefore, his biggest wish at the moment is to do everything possible to turn his fiefdom into a vegetable garden, meat basket and cornucopia for the entire Chang'an City, so that people are reluctant to destroy it with their hands.
Only in this way can it be possible to prevent serious damage to their fiefdom in the process of expanding Shanglin Yuan in the next three to five years.
In Yang Chuan's conception, if the entire Han Empire is regarded as a banquet that lasts for a long time, the food on the table of the emperor and magnates in Chang'an City is naturally the most elegant.
And elegance is expensive.
For example, in the account books of the Inner Palace, the coins consumed by Liu Che to eat a pot of chicken soup are about 900 to 1,002, which is almost the same as an acre of thin fields in Guanzhong, Hanzhong and the six counties.
If you can provide the entire Chang'an City with fresh vegetables, poultry, meat and eggs for a whole winter, it will be a very considerable income.
Moreover, there is another fundamental reason why Yang Chuan is so painstaking, that is, selling the crops on his fiefdom to obtain money, not only is it not considered a "merchant act", but it is protected and supported by the imperial court to a certain extent.
In the Han Empire, this was important.
Before becoming a powerful family, Yang Chuan didn't want to inexplicably turn himself into a lowly person again because of making some coins......
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Huo Qu was sick and came in the dust.
He brought twenty carts of wheat, saying that his uncle-in-law Liu Che had heard that Yang Chuan had a very good ability to grind off the bran of wheat, so that the once rough "wheat rice" was transformed into the most exquisite food in the world.
Therefore, Liu Che asked Huo Quzhi to make a special trip to grind some flour for him.
In addition, the emperor also heard that Yang Chuan, Cao Xiang and Huo Qubing developed a kind of military food called "meat sandwich bun" for the Yulin Army.
Listening to Huo Qu's narration, Yang Chuan only felt tired for a while.
The creature of the emperor is really elusive, and sometimes, it is simple and rude to the extreme, and the three clans who will cut off their heads and chop off their hands if they don't agree with each other; But this is sometimes, but it is tactful and heart-pounding.
For example, this time, Liu Che clearly wanted the secret of stone grinding and flour processing, but he didn't know how to say, you are an emperor, and you still play this kind of scheming game with a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, which is outrageous.
Yang Chuan didn't say a word, he directly wrote these two "secret methods" in detail on the two rolls of sheepskin, and in front of Huo Quzhi and other Yu Linjun, he seriously demonstrated the specific methods of scones and noodles.
Especially the cooking method of scones, he not only has no reservations, but also does a little bit of ingenuity.
Pot helmet.
The pot helmet is not only easy to carry, but also can ensure that it will not deteriorate for more than a month in a dry environment, and was once one of the best military rations in later generations.
The method of pot helmet is also very simple, that is, add an appropriate amount of alkaline water, eggs, animal fat, etc. to the fermented dough, and then knead in a large amount of dry flour, after repeated pressure and kneading, and bake it on the oven, casserole or iron plate.
In order to justify the name of the "pot helmet", Yang Chuan directly used Huo Quai's helmet to bake a few scones, and said seriously: "Look, the reason why this kind of scone is called a pot helmet means that when our army travels for a long distance, not only can we use the pot to make cakes, but in case of emergency, we can also use the helmet to bake cakes, how convenient it is." ”
After Huo Quzhi tasted a piece of dry and crispy, wheat-fragrant pot helmet, his excited eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Yang Chuan, your baked pot helmet is delicious, you are very powerful... But when are we going to catch a few golden eagles for me? ”
Yang Chuan couldn't help but laugh.
This Huo Quai, he is stunned by the matter of the golden eagle, no matter what he says, he will always turn to that matter in the end.
Yang Chuan smiled and said, "When you come back from Chang'an City, we will go and catch the eagle for you." ”