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Chapter 45: Killing a Pig (Part 1)

Chapter 45

As soon as Yuanli decided to kill the pig, the news spread quickly to the army.

After hearing about this, the generals were all shameless and wanted to get involved. Led by Yang Zhongfa, they found Yuanli together and rubbed their hands to discuss with Yuanli whether they could let the soldiers in the army help Yuanli.

Of course, the soldiers did not want to be paid. But it would be even better if they could be given some pork after helping.

Yuan Li could see what these old foxes were thinking at a glance. He laughed in his heart and nodded in agreement. "Two thousand pigs is not a small number. I would love to have soldiers in the army willing to help me kill pigs. Don't worry, the army will need pork."

The generals were overjoyed and nodded again and again. "Mr. Yuan, don't worry. We don't want much. We will give you as much as you want. Just smelling the meat is enough to make our subordinates happy. Of course, even if you don't give us anything, we are happy to work for you."

Yuan Li couldn't help laughing. "You don't have to be polite to me. After all, it's not easy to kill two thousand pigs. But I want to ask first, how many of the 20,000 soldiers stationed in Ji County can kill pigs?"

Yang Zhongfa and others looked at each other. They said goodbye to Yuan Li for the time being and hurried to find people who could kill pigs in the army. After searching for a long time, they found 70 or 80 people who could kill pigs in the army of 20,000 people.

Among these 70 or 80 people, more than a dozen had only seen others kill pigs and knew roughly where to cut them, but they hadn't done it themselves.

They were embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, Master Yuan. We can only find these soldiers in our army who can help you kill pigs."

If they could only help this little, even if Yuan Li was willing to give them meat, they would not have the face to take it.

"It's okay."

Yuan Li could have expected this result.

The soldiers were from poor families and low status. They might not be able to eat a bite of meat in their entire lives, let alone killing pigs.

He thought about it and smiled, "Although they can't kill pigs, there are many other things they can do. Not only do they have to kill pigs, they also have to scald their hair and wash them, bleed them, cut their hooves, etc. A pig is very strong when it struggles, and at least two or three people are needed to help hold it down. Let our soldiers do some work like boiling water and scalding its hair. This is also a tiring job that requires many people."

The generals' eyes lit up and they nodded repeatedly, "This is a good job!"

Not to mention being tired, as long as the soldiers knew that they could eat pork after killing the pigs, they would definitely work happily.

In ancient times, killing pigs also had to be done on a chosen day. Yuanli looked at the almanac and set the day for slaughtering pigs five days later.

The generals pondered and asked Chu Hechao, then took the soldiers to the mountain to chop firewood to prepare firewood for boiling water and scalding pigs on the day of slaughtering pigs.

As the generals guessed, the soldiers were so excited that they couldn't sleep after learning that they were about to help slaughter pigs and would be compensated with pork after slaughtering. They looked forward to the arrival of the day of slaughtering pigs every day for five days, and they were even more energetic when they followed the generals to the mountain to chop firewood.