After the items were distributed, the soldiers all went on holiday.
Military pay was also paid in advance.
Yang Fan originally thought they would go shopping in Zunhua City.
As a result, for three days in a row, they all slept soundly at home. The rigorous training during this period made them physically and mentally exhausted. They even lost interest in playing poker with their wives.
The next day, Yang Fan came to the Qianhu Station outside the castle to inspect the pig farm run by the station.
After all, it is best to allow them to be self-sufficient and be able to meet their needs through development of production.
Forming a self-circulation is the right way.
This time Yang Fan came without his wife and concubines, so he brought sisters Xiang Yi to serve him. These twin sisters looked very eye-catching in their straight military uniforms and boots.
These sisters are very popular with Mr. Yang, and even Xiao Niangpi knows that they are used to serving Mr. Yang, so they give them some respect.
Outside their military uniforms, they wore modern light brown Burberry windbreakers gifted by Yang Fan, which cost 80,000 yuan each. They outlined the waists of the two beauties in a way that made people unable to take their eyes away.
They were very happy to be out with their master.
The people who came from Xinghe Iron Factory were Yang Fan’s domestic slaves.
They have a sense of superiority,
They think that serving the master is their unique right, and others who come after them are not qualified.
Yang Fan was also dumbfounded. This was the case in this era. House slaves from wealthy families were the envy of poor people.
This pig farm is very large, raising a total of 15,000 pigs. After all, there are 20,000 people living in the castle.
Yang Fan looked at the pig pen made of cement and green bricks and nodded with satisfaction.
The pig pens are neatly arranged in rows, with concrete floors and smooth sewers.
Employment arrangements can also be made for military personnel's family members.
Women and old people feed the pigs and clean the pig pens every day.
Pig manure can be used to accumulate fertilizer. It can be composted together with the manure in the septic tank of the public toilet in the fort.
Yang Fan looked at it for a while and suddenly realized why all the second senior brothers were black.
They are all short, stubby, and not very big.
"Did you specially select pig breeds? They are all black pigs."
After Yang Fan finished speaking, he found that the scene was filled with a strange atmosphere. Everyone looked at Yang Fan in surprise and said nothing.
Xiang Yi looked around and said cautiously: "Master,
Aren’t most pigs black?”
"What! They're all black, no white?" Yang Fan was surprised.
Seeing Sister Xiangyi shaking her head in confusion, Yang Fan was a little confused.
He has never raised pigs at home,
I really don’t know about pigs, but I remember that most of the pigs I saw when I was young were white pigs.
Yang Fan knew that there must be something he didn't know about here. After the inspection, Yang Fan returned to his office in the three-story building on Tulou Square.
Yang Fan opened his laptop and started researching about China's black pigs.
Yang Fan entered Chinese black pig in Baidu, clicked search, and soon got the results.
The content displayed by the search surprised Yang Fan.
Domesticated pigs have been domesticated in China for at least 5,000 years.
The local pigs domesticated by the Chinese are almost all "black pigs", and only a small part are "spotted pigs". The proportion of spotted pigs is less than 10%. The Chinese pigs are all short and thick.
There have been no pure white long pigs in China for five thousand years.
The article said that many people born in the 1980s may still recall the scene of raising pigs in the countryside when they were young. At that time, almost all black native pigs were raised.
When people born in the 1990s recall the scene of raising pigs, most of them already see white pigs.
The Chinese people's perception of pig hair color has obviously undergone tremendous changes. What has happened in just a few decades?
It can turn "black pigs" into "white pigs".
Yang Fan frowned. He was born in 2000 and had never seen a black pig before.
He felt a little uneasy. Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and domestic animals also belong to the agricultural category and are related to the people's dining tables.
Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people.
This is no small matter.
A shocking title,
Yang Fan was frightened when he saw it.
The black pig was completely defeated in the "black and white" war. China's native pigs are already on the verge of extinction. They will become the second extinct species after the extinction of China's native bees.
What is currently known is,
Eight Chinese black pig varieties with excellent nutritional value and aroma have been confirmed to be extinct by the scientific community.
Yang Fan felt uncomfortable in his heart. In recent years, we have lost too many precious things in order to develop our economy.
He still remembered how he felt when he read on the Internet that most of the Chinese bees were extinct.
"China is one of the first countries in the world to domesticate bees, but in modern times bees are on the verge of extinction."
"Most of the bees you see are Italian bees."
"The bees that fly into our sight in the fields are almost impossible to be native wild bees."
China is one of the earliest countries in the world to domesticate bees, and the word "honey" even appears in oracle bone inscriptions.
But in modern times, Chinese native bees are on the verge of extinction.
In Sichuan, medium bees can hide in mountains and forests, but in the north, especially in the North China Plain, medium bees that cannot hide in mountains and forests have difficulty surviving the winter and die in large numbers.
"Fortunately, the mountain forests near Miyun Reservoir have isolated the invasion of Italian bees and provided a small paradise for the Italian bees."
It is said that the bee is currently only found in special protected areas and has been effectively extinct in the natural environment.
He continued browsing to see how the local pigs had fallen to this point. During his time in the Ming Dynasty, he was once surprised by the deliciousness of black pork. When one family made braised pork, the whole village could smell the aroma. In contrast,
, modern white pigs are garbage.
After checking a lot of information, Yang Fan roughly figured out the ins and outs.
In fact, like liquor, liquor was brewed from grain in the past. In the past, most people in the country did not have enough to eat, and needless to say, they could not afford to drink wine. Liquor was only for the rich.
After Xinhua, when the people are the masters of the country and those exploiters are eliminated, it is a question whether the liquor industry will still exist.
Of course, the common people also had a need to drink. However, at that time, there was not enough food to eat, and there were even fewer people making wine. How to ensure that every common person had wine to drink? If it was still produced in small quantities, who would drink it and who would not.
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We can't shut down all the wineries.
So alcohol-blended wine came out.
This can at least provide a relatively fair solution. Grain wine can be more expensive, but blended wine is definitely affordable for everyone.
The same goes for Chinese black pigs.
Chinese pigs are delicious, just like grain and wine, but they take 1-2 years to be slaughtered and require a lot of grain. This kind of pork is not affordable for ordinary people.
At that time, in order to improve the living standards of the people and enable most people to afford meat, it was necessary to introduce foreign pig breeds that gain weight quickly, take less time to be sold, and save feed.
In the 1950s, China introduced "Large White Pigs" from the Soviet Union on a small scale. In the 1960s and 1970s, China introduced "Yorkshire Pigs" from Britain, "Landrace Pigs" from Denmark, and "Duroc Pigs" from the United States on a large scale.
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And these pigs have an obvious sign: they are all white pigs.
After several generations of crossbreeding, these pigs were optimized to make them more suitable for breeding in China, but the demand was not large and they were never popularized. At that time, a large number of local black pigs could still be seen.
In the 1980s, the situation changed dramatically. With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for pork increased sharply.
Everyone suddenly found that there was not enough pork to eat, and the price rose sharply. At this time, the advantages of these "white pigs" were reflected.
China's native black pigs need to be bred for 10-12 months if the standard weight is 200 kilograms, and some breeds even take more than a year to grow to such a large size.
A foreign white pig only needs 5 months to grow to 200-300 pounds.
In addition, white pigs have greater advantages. Compared with black pigs, white pigs are not picky about food, produce more lean meat, and have low feeding costs. In this way, farmers can make more money.
Because the contrast was too obvious, and driven by interests, all over the country, in just a few years, domestic pork dominated by black pigs was defeated by foreign white pigs. From then on, white foreign pigs were everywhere, and the color of pigs in the minds of Chinese people
, also gradually changed from black to white.
There are more than these reasons. In addition to high breeding costs, another important reason for the demise of local black pigs is too much fat. Almost all Chinese native pigs are "fatty" pigs, which is also a natural selection in our long-term domestication process.
Historically, people lacked fat, so they liked fat meat. For a long time, local pigs were always fatter.
When this type of pig native to China grows up, the pig's head will become fat with wrinkles, its legs will be short, its belly will be big, and its belly will often touch the ground.
After the opening up, people became richer and their demand for lean meat was greater than their demand for fat. In this way, "foreign white pigs" that can produce more than 60% lean meat took the lead again and completely replaced the domestic black pigs.
disuse.
Yang Fan felt uncomfortable. It was understandable that these measures were taken to improve people's lives. However, as a precious Chinese species resource, these black pigs must not be allowed to become extinct. Today, people's lives have improved and they can afford good, high-quality pork.
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It is a pity that these high-quality pigs have become extinct.
According to a set of official data from 2016, among the 90 unique local pig breeds in my country, 8 breeds have become extinct and 29 breeds are endangered or on the verge of extinction.
The market share of local pigs dropped from 90% to 2%!
Yang Fan found out that many local cuisines must use meat from special pig species. This is also related to food culture.
There is a native Chinese black pig in Zhejiang called "Liangtouwu". The pig's head and buttocks have black hair, and the middle part of the body has white hair. It is the best choice for making Dongpo pork.
There is also an ancient pure black pig breed in the Northeast. If this kind of pig appears in dreams, Northeastern people think it is a bad omen. They call this black pig the "Black Evil God".
Why Northeastern pork stewed vermicelli, pot-roasted pork, and pork belly are so delicious and famous across the country? It should be because they use local black pigs.
If the Northeastern cuisine is missing the black pork, it will not taste good in the mouth.
In Shandong Province, there are some places where the "Licha Black Pig" is famous for its pork head meat.
There is also the "Lingao Suckling Pig" in Lingao, Hainan, which grows up eating rice and dried fish.
There are many more, these are super high-quality local black pork with excellent taste.
Now that Yang Fan is not short of money, he gradually begins to care about many things that he was not interested in before. Yang Fan decided to do a pig census in the Ming Dynasty to see how many breeds of pigs there are in the Ming Dynasty and how many are not available in modern times. Yang Fan wants to lose these in the Ming Dynasty.
The precious species resources in the dust of history are brought back to modern times.
Let these pork products with high nutritional value and excellent taste reappear on the dining tables of contemporary people. Our country has a vast territory and a wide variety of species. These are precious treasures left to us by our ancestors. We must not lose them all.
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We cannot be unworthy descendants.
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