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Chapter 238 encountering a pig herd

Song Yang's fleet waited for three days in Changshou. The wind and snow finally passed, but the temperature still did not rise.

When I was bored in the house, I walked around the city to get some fresh air.

Not to mention, it really made Song Yang famous.

Originally, I wanted to see people's livelihood, but I ended up seeing the talents that Jiangzhou is in urgent need of!

Song Yang was walking around the county town that day when he heard the scream of some kind of creature far away.

I ran over with Gongsun Qi and others and saw that it was a man in the yard castrating pigs!

Song Yang proposed the method of castrating pigs with the breeding farm last year.

However, in fact, no case has been successful so far.

The longest-lived pig only lived three days after castration.

The main reason is that the number of pigs raised in Jiangzhou is not high, and they are reluctant to use them for experiments until they are slaughtered.

But I didn't expect that Changshou would encounter a pig castration incident.

"Your Majesty! This place is filthy, please move away."

This place is a government-run livestock farm.

The clerk knew Song Yang.

"No problem, no problem, you are busy, I just want to take a look." Song Yang waved his hand.

Song Yang has said so, even petty officials cannot drive people away.

He turned around and muttered: "This prince actually likes to look at castrated pigs, bah~"

The pigs howled for most of the morning.

The people inside had finished their work, and Song Yang stopped the clerk as soon as he came out.

"Why do you castrate pigs?"

"Back to your lord, we didn't use castration in the past, but there were too many boars in the pen, and they would fight every day. That's why Master Jin came up with this method." The clerk answered honestly.

"Oh? Master Jin? Who is he?" Song Yang became interested.

The clerk pointed to a middle-aged man who was packing away the strict utensils in the pig pen and said, "Here, that's him."

"Master Jin, come here." Song Yang called out.

Master Jin was startled. He had just heard from the clerk that a prince from Jiangzhou was watching his castration outside the yard.

It made him restless, his hands were shaking a little, and he almost declared failure.

Unexpectedly, the prince called him again at this moment.

"Common citizen Jin Jianbin pays homage to the prince. His prince is a thousand years old!"

Song Yang called him, but he didn't dare to delay. He put down his tools and trotted over to kowtow to Song Yang.

"Master Jin, please get up quickly." Song Yang personally pulled up Master Jin and said with a smile.

"I don't dare! I don't dare! Your Majesty, the poor man just castrated the pig, and it smells like urine." Master Jin hurriedly got out of the way.

"What's the matter? I've even killed pigs before!" Song Yang laughed.

Indeed, pig castrations always failed in the past. Song Yang personally visited a dying pig and directly sent him a box lunch to eat for everyone.

"Uh." Master Jin was stunned and didn't know what to say. Has the majestic prince ever killed a pig?

"In today's world, it is not shameful to rely on craftsmanship to make a living. I can not only kill pigs, but also farm. I was a good laborer during the autumn harvest last year!" Song Yang boasted.

"It turns out... Your Majesty knows everything." Master Jin sighed with emotion when he heard this.

At the same time, most of the fear of Song Yang disappeared.

What Song Yang wants is this effect, to build some relationship with him and make it easier to talk.

"Come, let's sit down and chat?" Song Yang pointed to the small stool at the door of the work shed and said.

This is for workers to rest.

Song Yang didn't need Master Jin's consent and went straight to the small stool to sit down.

Master Jin and the clerk did not dare to sit down and stood in front of Song Yang honestly.

"Sit down! How can you talk if you don't sit down?" Song Yang greeted.

But the two men remained unmoved.

"I want you to sit down!" Song Yang said with a straight face.

Gongsun Qi on the side looked at the two of them with his hand on the handle of the knife.

The clerk and Master Jin were so frightened that they hurriedly sat down. If they didn't sit down, the prince's guards would watch him...

"Relax, I just want to talk to you about the matter of castrating pigs."

"I also raise a lot of pigs in Jiangzhou..."

Song Yang comforted him and got to the point.

When the subject of the castration came up, Master Jin gradually relaxed.

In fact, this thing didn’t just start. The former annuity master started to castrate pigs.

At that time, the boars in the pig pens were kept separately.

Because they started fighting as soon as they got together, and some even resulted in death.

During the rainy season the year before last, the rains destroyed some of the corrals, so we had no choice but to raise the pigs together.

Then another fight broke out, and another pig was injured.

But since that incident, the injured pig has hardly fought with other boars.

Master Jin also discovered this as a swineherd.

So they proposed to castrate the pigs to prevent them from fighting each other and causing unnecessary casualties.

Mo Yu, who was the magistrate of Changshou County at the time, was very focused on agriculture and animal husbandry. After hearing this, he felt that what Master Jin said made sense.

So he strongly supported Master Jin’s pig castration business.

After more than two years of development, before the natural disaster, the level of long-lived castrated pigs was already very mature.

"That's it. Master Jin, I just said that the situation in Jiangzhou is similar to longevity, so I would like to ask Master Jin to go to Jiangzhou and help teach the techniques of castrating pigs."

"Of course I won't let you work in vain. If you want gold, silver or food, or if you want to be an official, you can."

Song Yang extended an invitation to Master Jin and even offered to let Master Jin become an official.

"Being an official?"

Master Jin was also shocked. He didn't expect that a castrated pig could still be an official.

"To be precise, he is an official. The livestock factory in Jiangzhou is short of a shepherd official." Song Yang explained with a smile.

"Lao Jin. The prince has said so, so go ahead. It would be good to be a minister!" The clerk on the side also advised.

He himself is only the smallest official in charge of the pig pen, while the Mu Li is responsible for all animal husbandry and is his immediate superior.

"But here..." Master Jin hesitated.

"Huh? Lao Jin. Didn't your eldest son Jin He also learn your skill in castrating pigs? Wouldn't it be great to let him take over your duties? Don't you worry about Jin He's work all day long?"

The clerk persuaded again.

Song Yang was very satisfied when he saw that the junior official was so smart.

"Old Jin, this..." Song Yang glanced at the clerk.

Qi Qiu hurriedly said: "Little Liu Kai."

"Yes. What Lao Liu said is right. If you are willing to go to Jiangzhou with me, I can talk to Mr. Bai about your son's work." Song Yang promised.

Song Yang didn't say that he would take both father and son away. After all, Yingzhou also needed people to work.

It is enough to have someone who can teach you the technology.

After hearing what Song Yang said, Lao Jin looked at the junior official Liu Kai again.

"Then...can I bring my family?" Lao Jin lowered his head in embarrassment and asked.

"You guy! Don't forget your little wife at this time!" Liu Kai pointed at Lao Jin and said.

It turns out that Lao Jin married a new daughter-in-law after the natural disaster.

He is over fifty, and his new wife is only twenty years old, ten years younger than his son...

After all, Lao Jin worked at the yamen gate. Although his status was not very high, he was still better off than the ordinary people who had no whereabouts.

So even after the natural disaster, there were girls who couldn't survive and were willing to follow him.

"Take it with you, this is the right person." Song Yang knew the whole story and nodded with a smile.

"That's okay! Then the common people will go to Jiangzhou with the prince!" Jin Jianbin nodded heavily.

Now, the matter of castrating the pigs has finally been solved!


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