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Text Chapter 485: [Ten Thousand Butchers]

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    The Wang family's yard is a house with a width of more than ten acres, located in the middle of Wangjiazhuang.  Now in this large courtyard, only Gui'e and several descendants live.  To the east of the house, there is a shabby construction area, where there are all low houses. Some of the roofs are covered with straw. If the wind blows, the roofs may be blown away.

    Wangjiazhuangzi is as simple as this. Outside the main house and the tenant area, there are large fields.

    Gui E took Li Chengqian for a walk around the fields. They did not enter the tenant residential area. They just looked around a few times and then returned to the Wang family yard.

    "It seems that the things your farmers here grow are too monotonous. Apart from a large area of ??wheat, there are only one or two acres of vegetables and nothing else!" Li Chengqian shook his head and said.

    Li Chengqian didn¡¯t know much about farming at first, but when he saw the houses where farmers from the Wang family lived, he knew that their economy was very poor.  If they can't get rid of poverty and become rich, this field can no longer bring them income!

    Regarding Li Chengqian's theory, Gui'e was not angry after hearing it. Instead, she looked at Li Chengqian with great interest and asked in a sweet voice: "Master Li, how do you think this field can be cultivated?"

    Now in Gui'e's eyes, Li Chengqian is a powerful person who has methods and can conjure ingenious tools.

    When she heard that Li Chengqian had objections to their farming methods, she suddenly thought that Li Chengqian had a new and good farming method, so she looked at him expectantly.

    Li Chengqian doesn't have much farming experience, but he knows that if he wants to make a fortune, he must cater to the market. Plant whatever the market needs or lacks. Only by planting in this way can he make money by selling in the market, which is better than planting all the time.  It is much better to have a few acres of wheat!

    "Grain must be grown in fertile fields. This cannot be changed. If you change to other crops, the government will come and arrest you!" Gui'e reminded Li Chengqian, "But Master Li's statement is good.  A few pieces of poor land can be used to grow things that are lacking in Anli, and if sold, the tenants can make some money!"

    Oh, I never thought that the government would control everything grown in this field!  However, Gui Gui'e did not directly deny Li Chengqian's words, and she also thought of using poor land to grow cash crops, which was quite clever.

    ???????????????????????????????????? But seeing that she thought about it for a long time and didn¡¯t say anything again, and her beautiful eyebrows furrowed deeper and deeper, it¡¯s obvious that she lacked market research, so such a fantasy may not be possible!

    "It's not urgent. I'll go to Chang'an later and see what's not for sale and what people want to buy." Li Chengqian said. At this time, he thought of something and said, "Yesterday I saw the farmer brother Bai Bai.  Give me a spoon of eggs to thank me. These eggs must be very valuable in gold, so you can mobilize your tenants to raise hens together, and they can sell them for money if they lay eggs!"

    After saying this, seeing Gui'e's face slightly embarrassed, Li Chengqian knew what she was thinking of, and quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that there were not enough eggs, but just"

    "Well, it's just my imagination. Master Li is not that cool!" Gui E smiled.  She asked: "It's just that raising chickens consumes too much food. If you raise one or two at home and just leave them outside to find food, that's okay. But if you raise seven or eight, you have to feed them regularly at home. In this way, the family will have no food."  We don¡¯t have much food, how can we be willing to be eaten by chickens?¡±

    "Who said you need to feed chickens with food? I have a way to raise chickens. I" Li Chengqian thought of a chicken-raising TV program he had watched before and said.

    When Gui E heard this, her eyes widened and she looked at him expectantly.

    At this time, a loud voice rang outside the door: "Wang's wife, come in, Wanlong has sent pork to your family!"

    When Li Chengqian heard the voice, he stopped and turned to look at the door.  Gui E also turned around and looked out.

    I saw a big man at the door, wearing a black coarse cloth shirt. The sleeves and waist of the clothes could be seen to be greasy and smooth. It seemed that he was a butcher who killed pigs.  'When Li Chengqian was in the East Palace, it was very difficult to eat a piece of pork. Later, he had to bang his head against the wall before he could eat pork.  But during that struggle, it was already known that the Tang Dynasty had strange views on pork. They believed that nobles could not eat pork and would lose their portion. Only commoners would eat pork.

    Pork is so delicious, yet it is looked down upon?

    Li Chengqian was very surprised by this idea, but later he understood it after seeing a live pig.

    Scientists say that pigs are animals that love cleanliness the most, but it is not because they naturally love cleanliness that they can be clean. In addition to environmental problems, there are also behavioral reasons.  The pigs raised by modern farmers are extremely stolen, let alone the backward ancient times like the Tang Dynasty.

    "Anyway, anyone who has seen live pigs in the Tang Dynasty will have no appetite for pork.

    Li Chengqian also reduced the frequency of eating pork because of this.

      But this is only this reason, there is a more important reason: all pigs in ancient times were black!

    That¡¯s right, after Li Chengqian came to Datang, he never saw a white pig. The pigs were all black!

    This is a very strange thing. How come there are no white pigs? Aren¡¯t there so many white pigs in modern times left over from history? Even Zhu Bajie on TV is so white and cute, but there were none in the Tang Dynasty?

    If Li Chengqian could read the original work of Journey to the West, he would actually find that Zhu Bajie is not a white pig, but a black pig.  It¡¯s not that Wu Chengen wanted to demonize Zhu Bajie, but the pigs in his era were all black.  The white pig "seems" did not enter China until the late Qing Dynasty.  I won¡¯t say much about the historical knowledge here.

    Anyway, Li Chengqian couldn¡¯t find white pigs, so seeing that the pig skins on the table were all black, he couldn¡¯t eat them, let alone those Tang Dynasty nobles who hated pigs since they were born.

    Now that I hear this Wan Butcher coming to deliver pork, it seems that the Wang family often eats pork!

    Gui'e next to her looked slightly embarrassed when she heard Wan Long's voice. Why didn't Wan Long show any interest at all? There were distinguished guests here, so he shouted out like this.  Not only was their discussion of the new chicken raising method interrupted, but Li Chengqian also learned about the Wang family's eating of pork. It was really embarrassing!  !

    When Gui E made no sound, Wan Long came uninvited and walked in from the door. He wiped his oily and black hands on his clothes, smiled at Gui E, and then looked at her with some hostility.  Li Chengqian.

    "Thank you for your hard work, Wan Tu Tu, please drink a bowl of water!" Gui'e's face returned to calmness and she said to Wan Long.

    "Thank you for coming in." He pointed at Li Chengqian and asked, "Who is this? Is he a new tenant?"

    Gui'e introduced Li Chengqian's identity to Wanlong and told him about yesterday's water windmill incident, with a tone of praise for Li Chengqian.

    This made Wan Long very dissatisfied and said: "Master Li came to our Wangjiazhuang to help us. We are very grateful. However, it would not be good if Butler Zhu from Huangzhuang knew about this. If you think that Master Li was betrayed by Zhu  The butler has been kicked out. You can become an apprentice with me, Wanlong, and you can make a living by killing pigs!"

    (To be continued)
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