The popularity of crops such as sweet potatoes and corn has caused a surge in grain production. What is accompanied by is the surplus of private barns.

The people are really afraid of hunger. It can be said that hunger has been engraved into their bones. When you have a bumper harvest of high-yield grain crops, the first thing that comes to mind is to store grain.

Store a large amount of food in case of emergency. In case of natural disasters and man-made disasters, for example, droughts and floods, these foods can be life-saving at that time.

Especially the terrible yield of corn and sweet potatoes is several times that of previous crops such as corn. Moreover, the taste is better.

What should I do if the food surges every year and I can’t finish it? Of course, I raise livestock, and chickens, ducks, geese, horses, cattle and sheep have become the best feed for livestock.

In the feudal era where farming society was the main focus, how could the people dare to think of the current living conditions of big fish and big meat? Some of the older generation had never eaten meat several times in their lives.

Pork is an extremely fishy thing. Ordinary wealthy families sneer at it. Only poor people eat pork. This thing has such a strong smell, so how can it be?

Even so, it is a luxury for the people to be able to eat a meal of pork. Most people have night blindness, which means that when it comes to night, their eyes are blurred.

Night blindness refers to the situation where the patient's vision decreases significantly or loses sight in the dark or at night. Night blindness is mainly caused by malnutrition, which affects the metabolism of retinal rod cells due to vitamin A deficiency. In ancient times, malnutrition was generally observed, and night blindness was extremely common.

If you suffer from night blindness, you only need to eat some foods such as pork liver and chicken liver, and it will improve immediately. Even so, this is almost a luxury for an ordinary family.

But now, every year, at the market, chickens, ducks, geese, horses, cattle, sheep, and livestock are everywhere, and have already entered thousands of households.

Pork has long been no longer fishy, ​​and instead, pork has become a delicacy on the dining table. It is even better than other wild game such as elk and wild sheep.

It is just because Zhu Cilang improved his pig farming technology. After inciting the piglets, the grown pork will no longer have a fishy smell.

Before the Song Dynasty, only the poor would eat pork. People in the upper class regarded pork as cheap meat and would not even taste it.

"Book of Rites": A gentleman does not eat fat and fat.

"Mandarin·Chu Yu II": The emperor eats Tailao, and all three animals are complete. The princes eat cattle, sheep, pigs and animals. The princes eat cattle, the officials eat pigs, the scholars eat fish and roasted fish, and the common people eat vegetables.

"Talking about the Cong of the Back Mountain": The imperial chef does not eat meat.

Even as Sun Simiao, a medical saint of the Tang Dynasty, said, "Eating pork for a long time will cause sperm to cause long-term illness. Eating pig meat for a long time will cause muscles and muscles all over the body to suffer from stalemates."

In ancient times, mutton was the favorite of high-ranking officials and nobles. Of course, beef was the same, but because of the protection of agriculture in ancient times, oxen was forbidden to be slaughtered, so beef circulating on the market was not common, and eating mutton was the mainstream.

But mutton was definitely a luxury in ancient times. Even Emperor Song Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen, was reluctant to eat mutton. Song Renzong wanted to be particularly delicious, and even used mutton as an official salary with ingenuity. One morning, he sighed to his close ministers, saying that he had insomnia and hungry last night, and wanted to eat roasted sheep. The close minister asked, why didn’t you say last night? Renzong: I’m afraid that this time, the imperial chef would kill a sheep every night, waiting for me to eat when I’m hungry.

The imperial kitchens in the Song Dynasty "stop using mutton". During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, the imperial kitchen slaughtered 350 sheep a day, and during the reign of Emperor Renzong, 280 sheep a day, which was reduced to 40 per day. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the Kaifeng imperial kitchen consumed "434,463 pounds and 4 taels of mutton, and 19 pounds of lambs were often lambs."

It is common for imperial power families to eat mutton, and the powerful are also flocking to it. But who can afford such expensive things in ordinary people?

Since the grain output has increased, society has been developing continuously. Even in the suburbs of Beijing, professional chicken raising households have long appeared.

Those chicken farmers raise the hatched chicks on a large scale. They go to the market to buy grain to feed them, let the hens lay eggs, and slaughter the roosters. The rise of the breeding industry has made many people live by raising them.

The Fangshan white duck eggs in Shangshen prison were made by duck farmers who specialize in raising ducks.

Since Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the country, participated in the investment of Zhu Cilang Xishan Glass Factory, he originally wanted to make a fortune. In fact, the profits of Xishan Glass Factory are amazing, and Zhou Kui should be regarded as the richest man in the capital.

But he, the richest man, is a blank stubborn. First of all, 90% of the profits of Xichuan Glass Factory belong to the court, and Zhou Kui only has 10% of the profits.

Even this profit is enough to make Zhou Kui the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

The problem is that he, the richest man, could not get a penny from Xishan. Zhu Cilang did not give a penny every year in profit dividends.

Zhou Kui naturally stopped doing it, so he wrote a letter to mention this matter. Zhu Cilang comforted you, you are not short of money now, you need so much money. I will keep the annual profit dividends for you and continue to invest in the expansion of the glass factory.

In other words, Zhou Kuimao didn't get any money, and Zhu Cilang just drew a cake for him. He, the richest man, was just an empty airs.

After a long time, Zhou Kui came back to the taste. I got up earlier than a chicken and went to bed later than a dog, and I worked day and night. As a result, I ended up working for you for free.

Zhou Kui's psychology was unbalanced. As a father-in-law, he naturally had many ways to make money. Although he knew that the court was decisive in combating corruption, especially after Zhu Cixuan took office, he even carried out serious rectification of the officialdom.

Zhou Kui gradually discovered that the methods of making money in the past were useless. Now everyone is in danger and dare not take risks easily. After all, compared to the white money, their own heads are more important.

But this is not a problem for Zhou Kui. By chance, he and Chen Degui of Shangshenjian got into trouble. Shangshenjian is not a regime department and will not easily attract the attention of court officials. Shangshenjian is also a fat department, which is a fat department.

The two soon became a gangster. At the beginning, Chen Degui and Zhou Kui made five more money. The two divided the accounts with five or five, and Zhou Kui gradually became dissatisfied with this again.

He felt that a small Shangshen supervisor had divided the seals so many times. Chen Degui observed his expression and looked at his expression, so he hurriedly started to open the three-seven. Zhou Kui took seven, and Chen Degui got three.

Zhou Kui was satisfied here, and Chen Degui felt unbalanced again. Why should I risk losing my head and give you 70%? If the matter is revealed, I will move my head, and you will probably be safe and sound because of your identity as a father-in-law.
Chapter completed!