Chapter 47: The Pigsty
Due to the fact that the farm is about to be busy, the soldiers will not be able to train for a long time, so the grade evaluation of the skills in the army can only be said after the farm is busy.
Regarding the issue of meat, this is also something that Wang Dou has been thinking about for a long time.
Only by providing enough meat can the sergeants be physically strong and have the physical strength to endure high-intensity military training, so that they can become elite troops in the future. Eating meat can also reduce the night blindness of the sergeant, giving Wang Dou a powerful attack method for night attacks in the future.
Wang Dou thought about it, and still slightly adjusted the martial arts level of the future sergeant, and in the future, the sergeant who is assessed as the best in martial arts can eat four taels of meat a day. A sergeant with a medium martial arts skill can eat two halves of meat a day. Sergeants with inferior martial arts can eat one or two halves of meat a day. Soldiers, you can eat one or two meats a day.
One pound of Daming is sixteen taels, which is about six hundred grams in later generations. A sergeant with a superior martial arts eats four taels of meat a day, nearly 150 grams, which is equivalent to the food standard of the Japanese Army in the sixth year of Showa.
But even so, Wang Dou's five teams of soldiers, even a team of soldiers, and a team of Han Dynasty did not collect at night, and they ate a lot of meat this year, not counting the other meat in the fort. And with the expansion of Wang Dou's power, this meat will become more and more a prominent problem.
At present, Daming's meat is relatively monotonous, except for pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, etc. And now the disaster in Daming is getting more and more serious, prices are soaring, the price of a pig in Baoan Prefecture last year is equivalent to a cow, if you have to buy meat to eat, it is inevitable that you can't afford to eat, Wang Dou decided to raise it himself.
In order to avoid putting all the eggs in the same basket, Wang Dou decided to raise a variety of meat sources.
In addition to pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks and fish must be raised. However, the environment in Baoan Prefecture obviously cannot raise sheep on a large scale, so they can raise some casually. The cost of chickens is low, and you can go out to find food by yourself, so you don't have to worry much, and chickens can also lay eggs. The same goes for ducks, which can be put into the river to eat fish, and likewise ducks can lay eggs. If there is a locust plague, you can also drive those chickens and ducks to the fields to eat locusts.
It's a pity that there are more infectious diseases in chickens and ducks, and a chicken plague can die so that not a single chicken is left.
The cost of fish is also low, and it can also be built under the pig pen, and pig manure, chicken manure, and duck manure are all good feed, which can greatly reduce the fish's need for food such as feed. The fertilizer of the vegetable field can be taken from all kinds of chicken, duck and pig manure.
Wang Dou's plan not only made the military households of Jingbian Fort novel, but also the soldiers and civilians of Xinzhuang, Dongjiazhuang and Shunxiang Fort heard about it, and they rushed over to see the excitement with curiosity.
In fact, Wang Dou's approach is not new, this kind of circular feeding method has been done in a family named Tan Xiao in Changshu, Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of June of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Qi Tianliang came back with those military households and bought all the things Wang Dou wanted.
He ran a lot of places on this trip, as far as Huailai City, when he reported the experience of this trip to Wang Dou, he just shouted that the price of the Ming Dynasty is expensive, in the past, a little piglet only cost six dollars of silver, and now it costs more than one or two. In the past, an old sow that could give birth only cost ten taels of silver, but now it has risen to thirteen taels. In addition to the purchase of fish fry, chicken and duck fry, etc., the silver he brought out this time was spent again.
However, after the piglets and fish fry were bought, this Baihu Canal Livestock Farm also began to officially operate.
Wang Dou asked Tao to select a group of women from Jingbian Fort, some old and weak men, and some children with the ability to work to herd ducks and sheep, raise pigs and grow vegetables.
Their monthly wages were also paid by the fort, which made these Jingbian Fort military families who got jobs very happy, and they had another way to subsidize their families, so that their families could live a better life.
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In the current Jingbianbao City, there are rows of barracks of military households, separated by several streets and alleys.
Obviously, the military families in the fort now do not have the ability to buy land and build houses on their own. Moreover, there was not much spare soil in the fort, so every family lived in the barracks. At present, Jingbian Fort is also strictly forbidden for outsiders to enter casually. If there are any military households in the fort that want to bring outsiders in, they must be reported in advance, and they also need to be carefully inspected afterwards.
At the same time as building a livestock farm outside the fort, Wang Dou also decided to build a public bathhouse inside the fort, which Wang Dou had been thinking about for a long time. ”
Both of them were stunned for a moment, and Han Zhong said again: "It's just a mixed bath for men and women, will this ...... Too that? ”
"Mixed bathing for men and women?"
Wang Dou couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't expect the rumors to turn out like this, he said: "Where is the mixed bathing of men and women? The women, they have their own pools, and men are not allowed to enter. ”
"Oh."
The two nodded in unison. Gao Shiyin exhaled, and the expression on his face didn't know whether he was happy or disappointed.
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At the same time as building the bathhouse, Wang Dou also asked people to build several public toilets in the fort to prevent the military households in the fort from polluting the environment by dumping toilets, and at the same time collecting a large number of high-quality fertilizers.
After the bathhouse and public toilets in the fort were built, the military households in Jingbian Fort would begin to prepare for the grain harvest.
On this day, Wang Dou was discussing with Qi Tianliang in the official hall about the grain harvest at the time, when a military household came to report with a strange face, saying that there was another woman outside the fort who came to take refuge, hoping that Lord Zongqi could take it in.
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Lao Bai Niu: Back to A passer-by, a book friend, in the book, Han Chao asked a few subordinates to eat tadpoles raw, which was already in May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and there were tadpoles everywhere at that time.