?? Next to the Hulin Army camp in the eastern suburbs of Xiyang City, a large pig farm is extremely noisy. Bazhou Governor Yuwen Wen is "guiding" pig farming work on site. If you are in the report of the title party in later generations, you can get a sensational title: Yuwen envoy is with the pig.

Or "Pig and Yuwen Envoy are together", this boring text is similar to "Water Margin" and becomes "The Story of One Hundred and Five Men and Three Women", but at this time, who dares to arrange this in the Bazhou area like this will definitely evaporate the world.

This pig farm was invested and opened by him. The elderly pigherds were invited to choose the best piglets, and the rows of pig houses were also carefully designed. This pig farm now has more than 3,000 pigs.

The piglets in the neat rows of pigpens were groaning and eating feed while the roof was blocking the scorching sunlight outside. Yuwen Wen walked in front of the pigpen and looked at the round little piglets with joy.

This is still the "Phase I Project" when the second phase is completed, the pig farm will have more than 8,000 pigs. This is not a whim. Yu Wen Wen is doing it randomly. After all, there were pig farms with a large scale since the Western Han Dynasty, and in this era, pig farms with a stock of more than 1,000 are not uncommon.

He did not have an "unfulfilled love" with pigs, but he actually felt the pressure of raising soldiers and lacking meat. Five thousand soldiers of the Hulin Army were just 5,000 big buckets. The training intensity of three days off for one day increased their appetite. If you have the strength, you have to eat meat, and the source of the meat became a problem.

Based on the calculation of two taels of meat per day, five thousand soldiers consume at least ten thousand taels of meat per day, which is converted into sixteen taels per day, which is 625 kilograms. In a month, it is nearly 19,000 kilograms. This figure will cause Yuwen Wen’s headache.

Cows cannot be killed. After all, there is no need to think about the cattle on the plowing land. As for the mutton that was popular in the Northern Dynasties, it is too expensive. Chicken, duck and fish can be used as a recharge, but the demand is too high, so pork is a very suitable source of meat.

In this era, there was a view on pork that cannot be eaten in large quantities will lead to various diseases. Yu Wen Wen naturally ignored these views. Those who think that eating too much pork leads to illness are nothing more than the wealthy family's wealth disease according to later generations, which is similar to nonsense to poor people who can't eat meat a few times a year.

As for later generations, some people said that "pork is cheap" in the Song Dynasty, so it is even more nonsense to prove that pork is cheap meat. "pork" refers to low prices, not low-priced "simple". Ancient people made the word "home" with a treasure veil above a treasure veil below. As the saying goes, "no pigs cannot be raised in a family and do not eat them?

So Yuwen Wen had already made up his mind to treat pork as the main edible meat in the military camp food. Anyone who dared to complain, he personally did the "ideological work". Fortunately, the Hulin Army never thought that there was not enough meat to eat, which one was not as pretentious.

In addition to obtaining pork, its liver, etc., it can also be eaten to ensure vitamin intake, which is very helpful in avoiding soldiers' night blindness. In addition, pig skin can be made with fish bladder glue, which is a common adhesive. It can be made of bows and arrows for civilians and can be bonded to various furniture.

Another advantage is that the source of edible oil has been established. In today's era, edible oil is mainly meat oil, while vegetable oil, that is, vegetarian oil, basically became popular after the Song Dynasty. The widely edible meat oil is basically lard, chicken oil, and even dog oil, so boiling oil with fat pork can solve the problem of edible oil well.

You cannot underestimate the problem of cooking oil. If you don’t even have a little oil star in three meals a day, then you will soon be hungry. Pigs, one of the twelve zodiac signs, can solve these two major problems at the same time. The situation of pig farming in Bazhou is very common, but the demand cannot withstand the surge, so Yuwen Wen decided to raise pigs on a large scale.

But the problem followed. In this era where there was no feed or hormones such as "pigs grow quickly", it took more than a year or two years to grow from a piglet to being pulled out and slaughtered. In other words, the three thousand piglets in Yuwen's pig farm will be slaughtered more than a year later.

In addition to the grilled suckling pig, meat consumption in the past two years can only be achieved by fish, chickens, ducks and geese. As for the live pigs that can be provided by private pig farming, it is one of them. He has announced that as long as it is a sick pig, the people will be able to collect as much as they are.

The traditional way to raise pigs is to grazing, that is, to raise pigs. By this era, a combination of slaughter and grazing has appeared. The book "Qimin Yaoshu" written during the Northern Wei Dynasty explained how to raise pigs:

If the circle is small, it will be fat and ill, and if the slumber is small, it will be fat and filthy. If the mud is dirty, it will be necessary to escape the heat. It is also necessary to avoid rain and snow. The grass grows in spring and summer and grazing at any time. The genus of chaff will be separated on the day. It will be released in August, September, and October without feeding; all chaff will be kept waiting for the poor early spring.

The meaning of the word "converted to vernacular is that the smaller the pigpen, the better the pig is inconvenient to move faster. The dirtier the pigpen, the better, so the pig can get drunk in the sludge to escape the heat. The pigpen can keep the pig away from rain and snow. In spring and summer, the weeds sprout and can be stocked. However, when the weeds are not nutritious enough, additional feed should be added. In August, September, and October, weeds will grow without adding feed and keep them for the spring next year before feeding.

Although free-range stocking is also common, Yuwen Wen decided to adopt the form of complete captive breeding because he wanted to raise pigs to accumulate fertilizer. The pig manure is a good fertilizer to be released in the farmland to increase income, and the captive pigs also increase weight quickly.

This is an open statement, and the reason is that Yuwen Wen is very interested in some kind of companion creature in the pigpen because that thing can meet his "special needs".

As for the feed used for feeding pigs, it is very convenient. "Qimin Yaoshu" also records that "pigs are very aquatic grass, raking water and algae to make the shore, and pigs eat them all, and they are all fat." Bazhou is full of lakes and algae, so Yuwen is very confident about the vigorous development of the pig farming industry in Bazhou.

What's more, this is the historical trend!

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the great poet Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou as deputy envoy of Xietuan for the Wutai poetry case. He not only left behind the famous "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia" on the riverside of the west of the city, but also personally created the delicious "Dongpo Pork".

Everything originated from the very cheap pork in Huangzhou at that time. In Su Shi's era, the pig farming industry in Huangzhou was booming, so he wrote a poem "Ode to Pork", which included the poem "Huangzhou is good pork. It is as cheap as the soil".

Huangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is today's Bazhou, has always been against the trend of history. Yuwen Wen, who has been moving against the trend of history, has to vigorously carry out pig farming in Bazhou this time. Even because of the widespread harvest of breeding pigs, piglets and encouragement of people in the state to raise pigs, they are called "Pig Tai Sui".

"You just need to feed pigs with the ones in Bahe City, just take care of them." Yuwen Wen told the pig farm manager that the big lake northeast of Bahe City is now an important fishing ground. The naval soldiers and their families who settled in Bahe City go fishing every day and catch Pingyao and come back. It is considered a killing of two birds with one stone.

"Also.<>It is necessary to collect pig manure carefully and don't waste it. Don't deal with it casually when you see it dirty."

It is a good thing to collect the feces from the pig farm and ferment them after being taken to the fertilizer field. Now, no matter what kind of feces are drawn in Xiyang City, they are collected by the manure truck and processed in a centralized manner before being used for fertilization. Yuwen Wen's pig farm is naturally no exception.

It was a bit risky when it came to the beginning. If a swine fever hit, it would be a waste of money. Therefore, Yuwen Wen had very strict requirements on the pig farm from top to bottom. No matter who entered and exited the pig farm, he had to change his clothes to avoid bringing the swine fever from outside.

The second is to prevent parasites. Nowadays, some people know that using herbs to deworm insects with pigs. Although the effect is questionable and the prescriptions are diverse, Yuwen Wen still encourages the swineherds to use medicine. If one does not work, then the other will change until it takes effect.

Pig parasites are divided into two types, inside and outside the body. Extra-parasites are more harmful to scabies. In addition, there are mosquitoes and flies. These external parasites are particularly common in summer and autumn, so water is not allowed in pig farms to prevent mosquitoes and flies from reproduction and breeding. Piglet inspections are also frequently carried out to avoid the occurrence of bacteria.

For internal parasites, it is basically the main thing to prevent them. If piglets with abnormal status are found to be isolated or dealt with immediately to avoid other problems, this can only be treated by the experience of the swineherd.

Especially for the prevention of pork tapeworms, not only pig farms, but also pork sold on the market will be destroyed immediately if they are found. Anyone who dares to sell them will be punished severely. The prevention of parasites also depends on the "professional ethics" of the pigherds, so Yuwen Wen gave them good treatment.

The wages of the pigherds are not low and they also require food and accommodation. When they are born, they have commissions for every pig, so the pigherds are also very enthusiastic. Raising pigs is not too difficult these days. Many people raise a few pigs at home. However, the whole process of raising pigs proposed by Yuwen Jun is a bit novel but not very out of lineage.

What is particularly special is that Yuwen Zhijun is very interested in the white mold that appears on the earth wall of the pigpen. People who use pigpens to scrape it down and collect it specifically. Anyone who raises pigs in pigpens has seen it, but no one knows what Yuwen Zhijun wants to do.

Another point is that the construction of septic tanks is very particular about what cement is used to lay several layers of cement. It is said that they are afraid that feces will penetrate deep into the underground to pollute the wells. It is the first time they have seen someone care so much about the water source of pig manure.

Yuwen Wen was very satisfied after walking around the pig farm. All the pigs in this section except the breeding pigs were castrated. On the one hand, it helps to increase the meat yield and improves the meat quality and removes the so-called fishy smell. Although it took more than a year to be slaughtered, a roasted suckling pig from time to time is also a good choice.

He was about to pose to continue to "guid" the pig farming work, but Yuwen Shiwu whispered in his ear: "Master, the time is coming..."

"Well, that's all for today." Yuwen Wen looked at the sky and said, "Be careful, don't get swine fever!"
Chapter completed!