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Chapter 28: Zhan Shaoning comes

Chapter 28

But before the lamb leg was roasted, Chu Hechao sent another message.

The soldier said in a serious tone: "The general said that your military achievements had been reported to the court a month ago. Just like your request, the general also asked the emperor to reward your military achievements to your father."

When Yuanli heard this, his anger suddenly became helpless, and he just couldn't get angry anymore.

First make people angry, and then show off before making them completely angry. Yuanli had to say that Chu Hechao really knew how to grasp the degree of angering people to death but not offending them. 

Yuanli was too lazy to give the roasted lamb leg to Chu Hechao, and directly divided it with his subordinates and started eating meat himself.

A few days later, Chu Hechao gave Yuanli 500 people to escort Yuanli and the wounded all the way back to Ji County.

On the way, Yuanli and Liu Jixin talked about the livestock farm.

Liu Jixin said: "If the lord wants to raise livestock, the most suitable animals to raise in Youzhou are cattle, sheep and horses. There are many grasslands in Youzhou, and people can be sent to move cattle, sheep and horses to the grasslands for grazing. Pork is expensive and fishy, ​​and it is a waste to raise them."

Yuanli pondered for a while and said, "You make sense."

In Ruyang, cattle and sheep are more expensive than pigs. He almost forgot that this is not the case in Youzhou. Because there are grasslands in Youzhou, grazing cattle, sheep and horses is the most cost-free means here.

In this case, can the lard used to make soap be changed to other animal oils?

After thinking about it, Yuanli shook his head in his heart again.

Other animal oils can be added, but lard cannot be discarded.

Among the rewards issued to him by the system are agricultural and livestock books such as "Postpartum Care of Sows", which contain ways to increase pork production. Once the pigs are raised fat and strong, the production of pigs will increase, and the price of meat will fall. From ancient times to the present, the demand for pork by the people is far greater than the sum of other livestock such as cattle and sheep. Cows and sheep cannot be something that every household has, but pigs can.

Pigs eat a lot of things, and if you don't pursue the taste, it's actually not difficult to raise them. After all, even the word "home" contains "pig", which shows the significance of pigs to the people. Today, it is still at the level of "princes eat cattle, nobles eat sheep, officials eat pigs, scholars eat fish, and common people eat vegetables". Common people can't eat a bite of meat in their lives. Cows are good partners for farming. Not to mention that they will be punished if they are killed, the people are reluctant to kill cattle. In order to improve the lives of the people and make the soldiers strong, the breeding of pork must not be given up.

But Yuanli didn't say these words to Liu Jixin for the time being. After returning to Jixian County, Yuanli first went to see the progress of the captives' work.

Zhao Ying and Wang Er were responsible for supervising the captives' work. They didn't slack off for a day. Yuanli had been gone for a month, and the captives had built the soap shop and the livestock farm under their supervision. In addition to these two places, part of the wasteland was also reclaimed.

Yuanli rewarded them and asked them to build rows of houses allocated to the wounded soldiers as staff dormitories.

After hearing Yuanli's plan, even the normal soldiers who escorted the wounded back began to envy him. The wounded soldiers were smiling, and the wounded soldiers who could still work felt full of strength. They joined the captives without saying anything and worked with them, wanting to speed up the construction of their own homes.