Liu Yan stayed in the ancient town for another two days, and then returned to Dapanbao with a large number of orders.

At this time, it was already the end of November, and there were not a few days left before the deadline for the delivery of Dapanbao roasted pot wine and soap, but Liu Yan was not in a hurry. In the past few days, the output of the distillery has been increasing, and the four pots are started at the same time, coupled with the large quantities of koji, sorghum and other raw materials purchased by Miao Shao and others, it is not difficult to prepare the quantity on the order.

Not to mention soap, since the first two months, Liu Yan has been stockpiling inventory when he was supplying Wang Wei Town, in order to open up his own sales channel today.

So after Liu Yan returned to the General Flag Office, he sent someone to invite Wang Yunhe and Chen Jiang, handed over the orders for the wine shop and soap workshop to the two, and instructed the two to prepare them as soon as possible.

Since the last time Wang Jing and Wang Yunhe came to visit the winery, Liu Yan returned to the General Flag Hall and had a long talk with their father and daughter.

Liu Yan unabashedly expressed his admiration for Wang Yunhe in person, and proposed to let Wang Yunhe stay in Dapanbao and be responsible for taking care of the newly built winery. The supply of sorghum to the winery is in charge of Wang Jing.

For Wang Jing and Wang Yunhe's father and daughter, this kind of thing is like pie in the sky. Wang Yunhe can not only take this opportunity to go further with Liu Yan, but also control a winery that is making money every day and receive a good salary. And Wang Jing is even more incredible, it is foreseeable that the future output of Dapanbao Distillery will be very huge, and the amount of sorghum required will also be a huge amount, which means wealth for Wang Jing and silver for nothing!

So even if Wang Jingdang agreed, Wang Yunhe was still a little embarrassed, so he nodded and agreed.

At this time, Wang Yunhe and Chen Jiangshi looked at the large amount of orders, and they were all overjoyed.

Chen Jiang's family naturally knew the affection between Liu Yan and Wang Yunhe, and the two admired each other, but neither of them pierced this layer of window paper.

So Chen Jiang said with a smile: "Okay, since Captain A has already ordered, then I will take a step forward to get ready, so as not to obstruct the eyes of the future master mother here." ”

After speaking, Chen Jiang's left with a smile amid Wang Yunhe's shy stamping of his feet.

Liu Yan didn't expect Chen Jiang's to come to this help, and said embarrassedly: "Have you worked hard in the winery these days?" ”

Wang Yunhe said "um", and then changed the topic and said: "By the way, in the past two days, I have seen that most of the food in the fort is green vegetables, and now the military households in our fort have some money in their hands, but they are suffering from the fact that there is no meat to sell in the fort, and it is very inconvenient to go elsewhere to buy, so the military households in the fort have many complaints." ”

"Oh?"

During this time, Liu Yan really didn't care about this, so he said: "I know about this matter, and I will find a way to solve it in the past two days." But now I want to talk about us, Miss Wang, you see ......."

Before Liu Yan finished speaking, Wang Yunhe sighed and said, "If you have something to say, you can tell my father, why are you talking to me about this!" ”

After speaking, Wang Yunhe ran away with the order.

Liu Yan touched his nose and said to himself, "I haven't finished talking yet." ”

Then Liu Yan sat on the chair and thought about the meat problem raised by Wang Yunhe, if there was not much meat available for consumption in Dapan Fort, it would not only be a problem of poor food for the military households in the fort, but also related to the combat effectiveness of Liu Yan's dun army.

Because only by providing enough meat can the Dun army be physically strong, so that they can have the physical strength to endure high-intensity military training, so that they can become elite troops in the future. At the same time, sufficient meat can also reduce the probability of night blindness in the Dun army, so that Liu Yan will have a powerful attack method for night attacks in the future.

Now Liu Yan's banners and dun armies will be assessed every month, the superior ones are the superior dun army, the qualified ones are the middle dun army, and the unqualified ones are the inferior dun army, and those who fail to pass the assessment for three consecutive months will be immediately expelled from the dun army sequence.

Liu Yan thought from this that since the martial arts of the dun army can be distinguished by rank, the treatment of the dun army should also be distinguished. Under the premise of the same level of military salary, the dun army with the highest level of martial arts assessment in the future can eat four taels of meat a day, the dun army with medium martial arts can eat two halves of meat a day, and the dun army with inferior martial arts can eat one or two halves of meat every day.

At this time, one pound of Daming was sixteen taels, which was about six hundred grams in later generations. The dun army, whose martial arts are the best, eats four taels of meat a day, nearly 150 grams, which is equivalent to the food standard of the Showa six years of the small Japanese army in later generations, which is not high.

But even so, Liu Yan's Six Banners Army ate a lot of meat in a year, not counting the demand for meat from other military households in the fort. And with the expansion of Liu Yan's power, this meat will become more and more a prominent problem.

At present, Daming's meat is relatively monotonous, except for pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, etc. And at present, the disasters in various parts of Daming are getting more and more serious, the prices of the same north and south of the river are soaring, according to the price of a pig in the Lingshan Acropolis last year is equivalent to a ploughing cow, if you have to buy meat to eat, even if Dapanbao is relatively rich now, it is inevitable that you can't afford to eat, so Liu Yan decided to raise it himself.

After thinking about it, in order to avoid putting all the eggs in the same basket, Liu Yan decided to raise as many meat sources as possible, except for pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks and fish.

However, the environment of Lingshanwei obviously cannot raise sheep on a large scale, this is the coastal area of southern Shandong, there is no large grassland to raise sheep, so you can only raise some casually. Liu Yan still tends to raise chickens, the cost of raising chickens is relatively low, not only can they be raised in captivity, but they can also be released to find food to eat, don't worry about it, chickens can also lay eggs.

The same is true for ducks, which can be put into the river to eat fish and shrimp, and ducks can also lay eggs. If you catch up with the locust plague, you can also drive those chickens and ducks to the fields to eat locusts.

However, what makes Liu Yan more headache is that there are more infectious diseases in chickens and ducks, and when a chicken plague comes, not a single chicken can die.

Similarly, the cost of fish farming is relatively low, and it can also be built under the pig pen, and pig manure, chicken manure, and duck manure are all good feed, which can greatly reduce the demand for feed and other foods for pond fish. Unfortunately, fish farming requires a lot of water, although Dapanbao is in the coastal area, but the fresh water resources are not abundant, only one Nanhe is relatively close, but the water flow is not very large.

Finally, considering the problem of meat yield, Liu Yan decided to focus on pig raising, supplemented by chickens, ducks and fish, and implement a variety of livestock business models.

However, it is not easy to raise pigs at this time, and the pigs of the Ming Dynasty at this time are not the kind of white and fat domestic pigs of later generations, and the kind of white pigs of later generations are actually foreign species introduced from the West.

At this time, the domestic pig of the Ming Dynasty is black, which is the firewood pig that later generations said, and it is only one hundred or forty catties a year, and the maximum is about one hundred and fifty catties, and the pig meat rate is about seventy catties to eighty catties of meat. The big fat pigs that reach more than 200 catties need to be raised for about two years.

And in this era, there is no leftovers, there are not enough people to eat, and pigs still have to eat? Therefore, domestic pigs can only eat pigweed and add some bran, and they also need a large number of people to go out to beg for pigweed.

Moreover, large-scale pig raising, it is not easy to find sows and many piglets, so after thinking about it, Liu Yan decided to raise a hundred pigs first, and then slowly expand the scale.

After the news of Liu Yan's decision to raise pigs on a large scale came out, it became a hot topic in Dapanbao at that time.

Miao Shao, the small flag officer, was sent by Liu Yan to buy piglets, as well as chickens, ducks, fish fry, lambs and other livestock, Miao Shao immediately took a team of dun troops, and brought enough silver, and some experienced old military households, etc., went straight to the Guzhen Inspection Division, and then went to the Lingshan Acropolis, and finally bought the number of livestock seedlings that Liu Yan needed.

At the same time that Miao Shao took people to buy livestock breeds, Liu Yan also transferred a group of Dapanbao military households, built a livestock farm in the area of Xitongqu, and also dug two fish ponds near the location of the Nanhe River to prepare for fish farming.

Of course, pigs and sheep could not be kept inside the fort, so they had to be built outside the fort. At the end of the Xitong Canal, it has been silted up and abandoned, and due to the irrigation of the fields by large water wheels, the water flows here and becomes a puddle.

Liu Yan had two fish ponds dug here, raised them with soil on top of them, and built several pigsty here. Next to the pigsty, a number of duck pens and chicken pens were built.

Later, the pigs ate pigweed and bran, and the chickens and ducks either ate pig manure or went out to find food. The fish in the pond below can eat pig manure, chicken manure and duck manure. If you can't eat all of this dung, you can also take it to fertilize the fields. In this way, a circular feeding method is formed.

In addition, not far from the livestock farm, separated by a depression and a ditch, Liu Yan also mobilized some military households to plant more than ten acres of vegetable land there for the military households in Dapanbao to eat. The fertilizer of the vegetable field can be taken from all kinds of chicken, duck and pig manure.

Liu Yan's novel plan not only made the military households in Dapanbao feel novel, but after that, the soldiers and civilians of Wangjiazhuang, Xiahezhai Qianqianhu and Guzhen Inspection Department heard about it, and rushed over to see the excitement with curiosity.

In fact, Liu Yan's approach is not new, this kind of circular breeding, in the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, there is a family named Tan Xiao in Changshu, Suzhou, it is said that at that time also achieved a very good harvest, but did not attract the attention of the imperial court, and then did not promote it.

In a blink of an eye, on November 31, Miao Shao, the small flag officer, returned to Dapanbao with those military households and bought all the things Liu Yan wanted.

When he reported his experience to Liu Yan, he just scolded the price of the Ming Dynasty now, in the past, a little piglet only cost six dollars in silver, but now it costs more than one or two. In the past, an old sow that could give birth only cost ten taels of silver, but now it has risen to thirteen taels. Coupled with the cost of buying fish fry and chicken and duck fry, the more than 800 taels of silver that Miao Shao brought out this time were not left at all, and they were all spent.

However, Liu Yan was not distressed, anyway, a few hundred taels of silver was no big deal for him now. Now after the piglets, fish fry and so on are bought, this Xitongqu livestock farm will also begin to officially operate, and the military households and people of Dapanbao and the dun army can get a stable supply of meat, which is the most important thing.

So Liu Yan asked Chen Jiang to choose a group of women from Dapanbao, as well as some old and weak men, and some children with the ability to work to herd ducks and sheep, raise pigs and grow vegetables.

Their monthly wages were also paid by the fort, which made these Dapanbao military families who got jobs very happy, and they had another way to subsidize their families, so that their families could live a better life.

At the same time, Miao Shao also brought back a piece of news to Liu Yan: the merchants of the Guzhen Inspection Department have recently hoarded a lot of iron and coal, and it seems that they are preparing to concentrate on this winter and the beginning of next spring.

Liu Yan immediately smiled and said: "It's really good, I was about to stock up on materials for the Firearms Supervision Office, and someone helped us transport the goods, it seems that I am going to go to the Guzhen Inspection Department again." ”