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Text 717 [The Earl of Raising Pigs and the Prosperity of Culture]

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

    The female officer quickly went to report, and within half an hour, Chen Xisong was allowed to meet the emperor.

    There are currently less than ten officials with this kind of treatment.  Among these people, Chen Xisong is the only fifth-rank official, and he can go to the Forbidden City to face the saint at any time.

    "Your Majesty, Mr. Chen is here."

    "Let him in."

    Chen Xisong quickly entered the side hall, and said with a happy face: "I pay homage to Your Majesty!"

    "Sit down." Zhao Han smiled.

    "Thank you, Your Majesty."

    Chen Xisong has long been familiar with the road, and sat down on the bench, as if he came to drink tea with an old friend.

    Zhao Han asked curiously, "What else is there to receive?"

    Chen Xisong couldn't wait: "Your Majesty, it's a pigah, no, it's to persuade the Secretary of Agriculture to breed good pigs."

    ?The original Institute for Encouraging Agriculture has been upgraded to the Division for Encouraging Agriculture, with three institutes under the jurisdiction of Animal Husbandry, Fruit and Vegetable, and Grain.  Specially responsible for cultivating fine varieties and guiding local officials to promote high-quality crops and livestock.

    Zhao Han asked: "What's a good way?"

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

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

    Every time Chen Xisong enters the palace, Zhao Han looks very happy.  The female officials and maids in the court also like to see Chen Xisong, the emperor must have a lot of good words today.

    Chen Xisong introduced: "After I came to Nanjing, I was still in the Quannong Institute, and I was already breeding pig breeds. Jianghuai pigs have big ears, Hebei pigs have thick skin, Shandong pigs have short feet, Liaodong pigs have white heads, and Henan pigs have a mild taste  The pigs in the south of the Yangtze River are small, and the pigs in Guangdong are fat and white There are different breeds of pigs in different places. Therefore, the ministers and others crossed them separately, and selected their good offspring before breeding."

    Chen Xisong spoke faster and faster, eloquently saying: "The best pig breed bred is to cross Taihu Lake's big painted face with Jintan's rice pig." The big painted face is big, with thick bones and skin.  Thick, fat and thin, the disadvantage is that it grows slowly, and it is also called "sand pig" or "thick-skinned pig" in the folk The offspring of the big painted face and the rice pig have maintained the advantages of the big painted face, become fatter, and have more babies.  Yes. After three or four generations of crossbreeding, the characteristics tend to be stable, and Chen et al. call it 'Misha pig'."

    Suddenly, Chen Xisong stood up excitedly, pacing back and forth: "Misha pig is already very good, but there are even better ones! Crossbreeding Misha pig with Guangdong gray pig, the effect will be seen in the first litter. This new breed  Pigs grow fast and are still big. Sows can be bred after half a year. The first litter will give birth to at least ten piglets, and the second litter will produce more piglets. The litter is at most one sow, and it will be born in one litter  Eighteen piglets! And the characteristics are also very stable, compared with the big painted face, the pig skin has become thinner, and the fat has grown a lot!"

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

    Chen Xisong took out a piece of paper from his bosom, and the female officer forwarded it to Zhao Han: "Your Majesty, please give the new pig a name!"

    Zhao Han finally read the paper, but saw that the pig name column was blank, and the rest were written about the characteristics of pigs: large body, thin skin, fat meat, short feet, small ears,

    Black and white, pure white, pure black.  It matures quickly, has many litters, and is easy to fatten. It is actually the top grade of pigs.

    Zhao Han commented with a smile: "Wufu Minfeng, Guotai Minan, let's call it 'Cathay Pig'. It can be promoted in Jinling Mansion first, so that the large pig farmers around Nanjing can buy a few piglets and go back to try it out. Pig raising  The big households have tasted the sweetness, and they will take the initiative to breed next year. Ordinary farmers will be jealous when they see it, and this Cathay pig will be popularized.¡±

    "Your Majesty is wise!" Chen Xisong flattered immediately.

    Zhao Han thought for a while: "You have worked really hard these years. If the land of Datong is able to have a bumper harvest of grains and six animals, you will also have a great contribution to it. I can't treat you lightly, so I will call you the uncle of the farmer. The secretary of the farmer's house  Those who have meritorious deeds, if you make a list, they will be rewarded as appropriate."

    I was also rewarding before, but this time I was so generous that I even made an earl directly.

    "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your reward!"

    Chen Xisong was overjoyed that raising pigs and farming actually made him an earl.

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

    The barrow did not start in the Song Dynasty, it existed as early as the pre-Qin period, but it was promoted on a large scale in the Song and Ming dynasties.

    "Book of Changes" has a cloud: "The tooth of the pig is auspicious".

    In human terms, even a castrated pig will become docile, even though it has sharp teeth, it will not cause any harm.

    "Book of Rites" has a cloud: the pig is just like the mouse, and the dolphin is like a shield.

    There is no cutting pig??Children.  Those who are over ten years old don't need to worry about it. Those under ten years old must study. Whoever doesn't let their children study will have the county magistrate severely punish their parents.

    Today, inside and outside Nanjing, the enrollment rate of school-age children under the age of ten is not 100%, 70% is certain.

    However, the quality of education is getting worse and worse because there are too many students.

    In the city of Nanjing, the number of schools is constantly increasing, and the classrooms are packed to the brim.  There are dozens of people in a class, and the teacher can't take care of them at all. Many schools in the low-level neighborhoods are purely sheep-herding, and the teachers don't bother to care about sleeping in class.

    However, no matter how foolish you are, after three years of reading, it is still possible to write letters in vernacular, and reading vernacular is not a problem at all.

    The direct result of such education is that popular books in Nanjing are selling well.

    Most of the children who finished their studies went to become apprentices or find other jobs.  It's hard to earn some wages, and you haven't got a family yet, and you don't have any other entertainment, so let's read the newspapers.

    There are book rental shops in Nanjing, and you can rent them back if you pay a deposit.

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

    ?In the entire Jinling Mansion, tabloids in the market have developed rapidly, and more than 40 newspapers have been opened one after another, including those that have closed down.  And there are celebrity gossip news, such and such a brothel has selected the oiran, and which famous actor has appeared in Goulan or a theater, etc. Young people who don't read much but can read like to watch this kind of news.

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