Yang Shaozai took the lead and when developing the population, Cai Jing was not idle either.
The reward system was quickly finalized, and not only that, but also a series of supporting systems.
For example, some of the temple land previously confiscated by the Department of Culture and Education was given to local medical schools for the cultivation of herbal medicines.
Then, if children under ten years old get sick, they can enjoy free treatment at local school buildings.
Reducing the death rate is as important as increasing the birth rate, and Cai Jing is the founder of the residential care system and can be said to be the earliest promoter of national welfare in the world. It is easy to formulate this system.
Population is the foundation of everything. In this era, there are countless resources waiting for people to develop and occupy them.
It is absolutely worth paying some financial expenditure for this. As long as the upper management saves some frivolous expenditure, it will be more than enough.
During Zhao Ji's time, the expenditure on repairing a garden in one year was enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people.
Now that the imperial court's tax revenue has increased significantly, there is no major threat from the border, the battle lines have been pushed beyond the Great Wall, and Nanyang is still being developed, Yang Lin does have the confidence to issue some benefits.
After the newspaper was published, the reputations of Cai Jing and Yang Lin became indistinguishable. People praised the two men and many strange and bizarre stories began to spread.
Both of them are linked to the gods in heaven. People are so down-to-earth, and it would be easy for them to give you some food to make you a god.
This spring, the entire land of China is immersed in the joy of giving birth to a baby.
Zhaodefang is not exempt from vulgarity. In the back kitchen, Suina with a rosy face is next to the stove.
Yang Lin had just worked hard on her, and before he got up, Suina warmly helped him cook cheese common in the grassland.
Slowly boil the milk over low heat, stir the anti-stick pan with a spoon; let cool, remove the milk rinds, filter and put into a small crock pot; add yeast and keep warm, and wait patiently for the cheese to form.
It was three o'clock in the morning when Yang Lin stretched out. When he opened his eyes, the sunlight outside the window was a bit harsh.
Outside the room, Suina came in holding a small jar, licking the black hair around her ears. There was a layer of blush on the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, looking very shy.
Yang Lin smiled and waved, and said, "What's delicious?"
Su Yina opened the lid, and a smell of milk came to her face. Yang Lin was stunned for a while and said: "This is..."
"Cheese, people in our tribe, no matter how tired they are, can regain their energy after eating some."
After saying that, I didn’t know what I was thinking of, I lowered my head and became shy.
Yang Lin took a bite and found it was very delicious. He stirred it up casually and it became as solid as paste, as white as glutinous rice, and as thick as boiling snow.
Seeing him tossing and turning and only taking one bite, Suina thought it was not to his liking and said a little aggrievedly: "This is a delicacy from our grassland. If Dalang doesn't like it, I'll ask the chef to make some soup for you."
Come."
Yang Lin smiled and said, "If you like it, why don't you like it? When you eat this, is the milk you use produced by ordinary cows?"
Suina was a tribal princess and was not very clear about these things. She thought about it and said, "There are some who use goat's milk and horse's milk, but the Mongolians like to use cow's milk. They have dairy cows that specialize in producing milk."
When Yang Lin heard this, he felt energetic, sat up straight, and asked Suina to help him put on his clothes. Then he touched her face and said with a smile: "You have made a great contribution today. I will reward you when you come back."
Suina didn't know why. She watched him carry the cheese and leave in a hurry, not knowing what contribution he had made.
Yang Lin brought the cheese to the door and asked Lu Qian and others to take him to the Mingtang.
Bai Shizhong and others were very busy. With a decree to encourage childbearing, Zhongshu's disciples didn't know how long they would be busy.
When they saw Yang Lin coming in with a jar, they all looked up at him. Yang Lin smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll bring you some cheese."
...
There was silence in the hall, and everyone looked at him with puzzled eyes. Yang Lin sat down on Bai Shizhong's chair and asked, "Come on, eat, you're welcome."
A gentleman from Mingtang brought a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks, and several court officials shared the cheese and praised it profusely.
Zhang Shuye was the first to hold back and said, "Young Master, I'm afraid you didn't come here specifically to deliver cheese."
Cheese has been around since the Han Dynasty, but it has never become popular.
Because in the Central Plains, cattle have a relatively high status, and cattle are the main labor force in farming society.
The milk produced by ordinary cows is not enough for calves to drink, and no one has the luxury to make cheese on a large scale.
However, there are also some people who like this method. Du Mu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote, "If you endure cooking cheese, you will never play with a jade plate."
Bai Juyi, a master of eating, drinking and having fun, has long been living a life of drinking milk. Especially his "Boiled Chyle with Crispy Soup", the sweet fragrance can still be smelled from the words even after a thousand years.
"The spring air is cold today, so I ask myself what I want. Warm yew white wine, milk and rehmannia glutinous rice porridge." Butter wild garlic wine, milk and rehmannia glutinous rice porridge not only warm the stomach but also satisfy the craving. Bai Juyi could have so many wives and concubines, he must be a man who values health and wealth.
A person with a taste for life.
The enlightenment of enlightenment refers to cheese. In the Nirvana Sutra, life is divided into five flavors: milk flavor, cheese flavor, raw crispy flavor, cooked crispy flavor, and delicious flavor. Milk comes from cows, cheese comes from milk, Jesus is born from cheese, and Jesus is born from raw milk.
Jesus comes from cooked Jesus, and from cooked Jesus comes enlightenment.
Daigo, that is, dry cheese, is the highest state of dairy processing. Daigo enlightenment is the highest state of spiritual satisfaction.
Yang Lin smiled and said: "In the past few years, Tea Horse Trading, what is the most purchased product?"
Zhang Shuye understood this quite well and replied: "Shao Shao, the first is the mutton, and the second is the horse."
People in the Song Dynasty liked to eat sheep, so the demand for mutton once exceeded that of horses.
Even though the Song Dynasty was short of horses for a hundred years, there was a great demand among the people and the army, but it still couldn't compare with the enthusiasm for eating sheep.
Yang Lin nodded and said: "The Mongolians on the grassland have a kind of dairy cow. This cow is not used for plowing the land or eating meat, but it can always produce milk."
"Milk can strengthen the body. It was mentioned in "Essentials of Qi Min" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Sun Simiao also said about the benefits of milk in the Tang Dynasty."
"I intend to send people to the grasslands to introduce dairy cows and sheep to improve the people's physical condition. What do you think?"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, thinking that it was not good, that this was simply unnecessary, and that such trivial matters as the people's food and drink should not be something that big officials like themselves need to worry about.
However, since Yang Shaozai proposed it, it would not occupy much manpower or spend too much money. Bai Shizhong, Zhang Shuye and others did not want to object.
The two big guys didn't express their opinions, but of course the others were cheering and supporting them very much.
Yang Lin was overjoyed. These officials were relatively open-minded. He immediately said: "After it is introduced, we need a place to breed it and we need to test the correct way to eat it. The most important thing is that the dried cheese can be used as military rations."
, so that our soldiers have the capital for expedition."
"All of this is troublesome to you."
When everyone heard this, they secretly screamed, "It's not good! They've been fooled!"
When he was about to raise the difficulty, Yang Lin had already picked up the jar and walked out. Lu Qian stepped forward and said, "Young Zai, where are you going next?"
"If you go to Cai Jing's place, you have to discuss this matter with Cai Jing. These people are not good enough."
Breeding dairy cows and goats is much more useful than simply eating mutton.
Agricultural societies rely heavily on cattle, and there is a fear that after the introduction of cows, cows will be used to plow the land.
It would be best for the imperial court to first set up a few government-run milk factories. This can be combined with Cai Jing's residential care system, and it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.