Chapter 1938 I originally set my heart towards the bright moon
How would these rat farmers know that rats can also get sick, but they will not be treated when they get sick, and they will give birth to new ones directly after they die.
The big mouse heard his sister's call and hurriedly came out of a turn in the sewer.
This is one of the nests he built for himself.
"Weir, what do you want from me? Are you hungry again?" he asked.
"No, I haven't been hungry since you taught me how to eat newborn mice alive," my sister said matter-of-factly, making people on the ground shudder. "They are the little mice I raised. Some of them have red eyes. They seem to be...
What the gentlemen want most."
"Take me to see it quickly." The big mouse's eyes lit up and he said immediately.
Soon Weir took the big rat to a rat farm that was as big as a basketball court.
It is said to be a rat farm, but it is actually completely different from modern cages where mice are fed three-dimensionally.
Because there is no such technology.
There are passages here, with rows of tall stone houses on both sides of the passage.
Rats can bite, so the house must be made of slate, not wood. This is to train their teeth. Rats' teeth will grow throughout their lives, and they are not afraid of cavities and will envy the dead.
There are five or six very tall and small windows on the house, all made of iron railings.
There are observation ports and feeding ports.
This alone is quite a test of the blacksmith's skill, but medieval blacksmiths were able to complete the work.
After all, such complex armor can be made, so making iron fences is not a problem.
Once anything reaches scale, complex technologies will gradually emerge.
The big mouse stepped on the stone steps outside, stood on the observation port, and cautiously peeked in.
The observation port is much smaller than the feeding port, and its iron fence is denser. Rats generally cannot climb that high, and even if they can climb up, they cannot get out.
But there are exceptions, which require the rat keeper to take turns.
Most people don't care much about it, and it doesn't matter if a few run away.
But the big mouse told his sister that she must not let such a thing happen. If it happened, the escaping mouse must be killed as soon as possible.
Because they will go home, and in the process of going home, they will bring the devil back.
At this time, the big mouse looked down, and then used a igniting stick to light the hanging oil lamp in the mouse's house.
Under the light, he saw several mice with glowing red eyes!
There is not a mouse around them.
The other mice were huddled in the corner, shivering.
If you look carefully, next to the red mouse, you can see the heads of mice that have been chewed up until only a piece of skin is left!
The big mouse saw this horrifying scene, but he was not afraid of being rejoiced.
"Great, feed these rats more, they need to eat more!"
As he spoke, he used a long mousetrap to catch a red mouse and put it into the mouse's mouth.
He asked his sister to get a mouse cage and put the red mouse in it.
Then he carefully distinguished the male and female of the other party and determined that it was a female mouse.
Repeatedly, he found a male and a female.
Then put them in a separate rat room.
Add dregs and food.
However, they didn't even look at it.
The big mouse is very clever, has high IQ and emotional intelligence, and he is the kind of person he is talking about.
The observation talent and reasoning talent are full.
He quickly thought of the key point and caught an ordinary mouse.
Sure enough, this time, a male and a female ate ordinary mice.
Then they start that, and then that.
Three days later, the female red-eyed rat gave birth to her pups!
This speed surprised and delighted him!
He saw hope of escaping from this dark rat farm!
He immediately fed more rats.
However, danger soon approached.
A month later, the supervisor asked everyone to turn in this batch of rats.
Rats breed quickly, so if they are managed in batches, it is normal for them to leave the house once a month.
You must know that the growth rate of chickens can reach 42 days per batch.
Not to mention the faster mice, just because medieval technology cannot be compared with modern chicken raising technology.
Then the big rat feeds too many normal rats to the red-eyed rats and can't come up with enough rats!
The consequences of this kind of thing vary from mild to severe.
The lightest thing is to report a rat disease and make up for it next time; the most serious thing is to despise God's grace, throw it into a rat farm and feed the rats!
Considering the behavior of a big rat, the punishment will naturally be light.
Only this time, people who were jealous of him united and even reported the supervisor.
The person who accepted their report was none other than a priest who came to level up the rats this time.
As for the purpose, one is to vent jealousy, and the other is that someone is interested in the position of supervisor.
The clergyman was furious when he heard that someone was actually colluding with others to exploit the rats.
"Well, you dare to falsify even the most important offerings to us clergy. This is deceiving God and blasphemy!" The clergy ordered someone to bring in the ledger and find someone to pair it with.
It was discovered that there was indeed a problem with the account book. xx million rats were supposed to be handed over every month, but due to various reasons, only three-fifths were handed over.
It was said that it would be made up next month, but a real disease appeared next month, so the shortfall of the rat that was not paid last month was filled into the real disease report.
So they failed to make up for it, and this became a routine. They could already predict that rat disease would occur in a few months, and then concealed the output and counted the shortfall as rats that died of disease.
As for the advantages of concealing the report, firstly, the rat feed can be sold, and secondly, it can have a lot of free time. Some people even spend half of the month enjoying themselves outside.
This benefit is great enough.
This kind of thing was very common in the Middle Ages.
What's more, after you checked, there was still a disease. As for how many rats died from the disease, would the noble priests be able to count them one by one?
impossible.
The cleric was furious and without seeing anyone, he directly ordered the supervisor and related personnel to be thrown directly into his own rat house and not to be fed for seven days!
You must know that these mice are used to eating every day, and not eating for seven days is enough to drive them crazy!
