"Your Majesty, I have planted a lot of sweet potatoes near the pig farm and have tested them. Sweet potato vines can indeed be fed to domestic pigs, and the effect is quite good."
In a farm outside Nanjing.
Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of people were following Song Yingxing to visit a pig farm.
As the group walked, Song Yingxing introduced the situation of the pig farm to Zhu Yuanzhang.
This pig farm was just built last year. It was an official pig farm built under the leadership of Song Yingxing after he became Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
"The piglets are castrated, raised in pens, and now sweet potato vines are added as feed. The process is basically complete!"
"If our Ming Dynasty can build more pig farms like this, ordinary people will be able to afford meat in less than ten years."
"I will give Chang Geng credit for this matter."
"You are indeed very talented, and you deserve to be called a national scholar." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a face of joy.
He has reason to be happy.
Now in the early Ming Dynasty, the army has begun to promote the simplified version of the Thirty-Six Body Refining Postures on a small scale.
If you want to practice this set of body-building exercises, you must keep up with your diet.
In other words, you have to eat meat. Without a large amount of meat intake, practicing the Thirty-Six Physical Exercises will only make you useless.
This has created a huge shortage of meat.
This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang asked Song Yingxing to try to establish a pig farm in the late Ming Dynasty.
This pig farm can only be regarded as an attempt. If this breeding method is feasible, after returning to the early Ming Dynasty, this kind of pig farm can be spread on a large scale.
"Your Majesty, in fact, these pig-raising techniques have been recorded in Jia Sixie's "Essential Art of Qi Min" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. I am just picking up others' wisdom."
Song Yingxing was a little ashamed.
He did not have too in-depth research on animal husbandry. After receiving the task of building a pig farm from Zhu Yuanzhang, he also read many books, among which the one that helped him the most was "Essential Art of Qi Min".
“Even so, it’s amazing!”
While Zhu Yuanzhang was speaking, he glanced at Shan Anren who was following him, and said with a smile: "Isn't that right, Shan Shangshu?"
Shan Anren.
Now the Minister of Industry in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang recruited him and many technical officials from the Ministry of Industry this time just to let him learn from their experience.
After all, Song Yingxing can't go to the early Ming Dynasty yet, so the next work of expanding the pig farm in the early Ming Dynasty still has to be left to Shan Anren.
Not only that, there are many technological advances, including bricks and tiles, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt making, coal mining, oil extraction, and other advanced technologies that require one by one.
to learn and then use these advanced technologies in life and production in the early Ming Dynasty.
This is a big project, and Zhu Yuanzhang has been doing it in an orderly manner since he entered the late Ming Dynasty. A few years have passed, and it can be said that some results have been achieved.
"I am ashamed of myself!"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured. I will humbly consult Song Shangshu and live up to your Majesty's expectations." Shan Anren said respectfully.
He had also watched "Tiangong Kaiwu", so naturally he deeply admired this great craftsman who lived more than two hundred years later.
"very good!"
"Leave two people to record in detail all the techniques and experiences used in this pig farm."
"Back in the early Ming Dynasty, we used the experience here to expand the pig farm."
"The rest of us will return to Nanjing with us!"
"We don't have much time to stay in this world. There are still many things that have not been done. There are many advanced technologies to learn, so we must seize the time!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved to everyone, leading them to stride away.
Just half a year ago, while the military campaign in the north was going on, Zhu Yuanzhang also began to recruit a large number of officials from the early Ming Dynasty into the late Ming Dynasty.
Now that the civil unrest in the south has been basically quelled, and the disasters last year were much less severe, coupled with the redistribution of land, the entire Ming Dynasty has basically turned the corner, and has even begun to show prosperity.
Under such a situation, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped hiding and began to open the late Ming realm to all early Ming officials.
After all, his own strength is limited after all. If he wants to develop and progress a vast empire, and if he wants to learn as much as possible from the experience and lessons accumulated during the Ming Dynasty's 276 years of development, it requires the cooperation of countless people.
Hardworking.
Of course, doing so will also bring some minor hidden dangers.
For example, in the original history, those nobles and officials who were beheaded or even exterminated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
It is inevitable that they will also enter the late Ming Dynasty and even see future history.
These people still need to spend some time and means to comfort and comfort them.
Back in Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang rushed to a side palace in the imperial city without stopping.
The people staying in this hall have one thing in common. They are basically all nobles who were exterminated by Zhu Yuanzhang in the original history.
Including Li Shanchang, Chang Yuchun, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu, and most of the twenty-eight princes.
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang striding in with great energy, Li Shanchang and others all trembled, and their eyes began to show fear.
Especially Li Shanchang, cold sweat was flowing down involuntarily.
He had just read his own history and found that in the 23rd year of Hongwu, three clans were exterminated, and the crime was for forming a party and treason.
This was a heinous crime, and he really couldn't bear it.
And he didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang meant when he suddenly called them all over and showed them the history so straightforwardly.
Could it be that he wanted to nip it in the bud and kill himself and others first?
"Every brother must have seen his own history."
"We know, you must have a lot to say to us?"
"Today we specially set aside a day just to listen to what you have to say."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down on the main seat, turned to look at Li Shanchang and said with a smile: "Shanchang, since we became the emperor, you are the big brother of the Huaixi Group, you should say it first!"
Hearing the words "big brother", Li Shanchang trembled all over, knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanzhang with a bang, and said in a trembling voice: "I am guilty!"
Behind him, Chang Yuchun, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu and others also knelt on the ground.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and walked to Chang Yuchun first to help him up.
"If our invincible general goes by the history recorded in this world, he died early and is naturally not guilty!"
"There's Feng Sheng, get up too!" Zhu Yuanzhang helped Feng Sheng up again.
"After seeing the history of this world, the one I feel most sorry for is you!"
"We killed you unjustly!"
Zhu Yuanzhang patted Feng Sheng on the shoulder, sighed deeply and said, "But we can't help it. Although we are only reading history through history books, we can still see the helplessness and bitterness hidden in it."
"If Biao'er really dies and leaves a young son to succeed him, if we don't kill you, Duke of Song, I'm afraid I won't even dare to close my eyes even if I die." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.
