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Chapter 157: Inspecting Huangzhuang (seeking a monthly ticket)

ps: The first update is here! Please give me a monthly ticket!&1t;/p>

The period is two years, March, and it is already full of spring.⊥小,...o&1t;/p>

The ice and snow had already melted, and the green wheat began to thrive on the land of Northern Zhili. There was still snow in the winter of the second year of the Tianqi period, providing sufficient groundwater for the North China Plain.&1t;/p>

After experiencing the winter snow, these winter wheat grew gratifyingly. Zhu Youxiao’s emperor's carriage appeared in a suburban imperial village.&1t;/p>

"Welcome the Emperor to inspect, long live my emperor, long live my emperor." Xu Guangqi brought a group of students from the Royal Academy of Sciences and farmers in the Royal Village to greet him.&1t;/p>

"Flat." Zhu Youxiao saw the crops growing well along the way, and immediately felt very happy.&1t;/p>

"Thank you, Your Majesty."&1t;/p>

Xu Guangqi and a group of farmers stood up. Xu Guangqi stepped forward to welcome Zhu Youxiao into the imperial village. The farmers were listed beside the road, with smiles on their faces, and their eyes were full of love when they looked at Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

After Zhu Youxiao found that the south was short of food, he did not dare to rely too much on the southern food, otherwise it would be easy to starve the people in the south. So he paid more attention to northern agriculture. It was late spring, so he came out to inspect the farm.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, this is the house of the farmers. The new house just built this year belongs to the new Huangzhuang Experimental Village. They are all brick and wood structures. If possible, they will be promoted to other Huangzhuang." Xu Guangqi took Zhu Youxiao to look at the Huangzhuang. Although he participated in the planning of the Huangzhuang, this was the first time Zhu Youxiao came to Huangzhuang.&1t;/p>

Inside the imperial village are rows of neat houses, all of which are more than 60 square meters, brick and wood-structured tiled houses. They are divided into four rooms, a kitchen, two larger rooms. One is for the elderly, the other is for the head of the house, and two small rooms are for the children. There are not so many people in the house, so they can be kept for the guests to sleep. The area of ​​more than 60 square meters has been reasonably utilized. Outside the house, there is a multi-functional livestock shed for raising cattle, mules, horses, donkeys, chickens, and a warehouse and material room. At the same time, a well was dug at the door for water collection.&1t;/p>

All houses are exactly the same.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao walked to the door of a farmer's house and saw a cattle, a donkey, and more than twenty chickens in the livestock room. The scene was very lively.&1t;/p>

"No, not bad." Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, then walked into the farmer's home. When he went in, he felt that the light inside was so bad and it looked dark.&1t;/p>

"Xu Aiqing, the light in this house is too dark. This must be changed. The room must be equipped with two glass skylights to let the light go. In addition, the windows can also be replaced with glass windows. In addition, ventilation should be paid attention to to prevent gas poisoning incidents." Zhu Youxiao, like a leader of later generations, instructed on the spot.&1t;/p>

"Prince, glass is valuable and farmers cannot afford it." Xu Guangqi reminded in a low voice. Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "Royal subsidies are not needed."&1t;/p>

Xu Guangqi naturally knew the fact that glass is not actually costly, but he still said with doubts: "Will the sales of glass be affected by this?"&1t;/p>

"The glass industry is no longer so profitable this year. I decided to continue to reduce prices, so there is no need to worry about sales issues." Zhu Youxiao said that glass has been sold for more than a year, and the current price is already a little too late. Anyway, it is time to buy the powerful and the most important ones have bought it. At such a price, there are not many who will buy it, so naturally, they will continue to reduce the price.&1t;/p>

"The Emperor really loves the people as much as his son." Xu Guangqi praised, although he felt that farmers use glass or not, it was just an irrelevant detail. Life with glass continues, and life without glass is the same. However, the emperor is willing to subsidize, which is always good for farmers.&1t;/p>

"Go out and have a look!" After looking at the layout of the house, Zhu Youxiao felt satisfied and walked out. A group of villagers followed closely behind. Because it was a test village, the construction funds were allocated by the treasury. The emperor paid for them to build a house, so he was naturally grateful.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, this is a public toilet, there is a public bathhouse over there, and there is a pig farm." Xu Guangqi introduced to Zhu Youxiao along the way, "Public toilets are cleaned every day, and the public bathhouse is fired once every seven days. The biogas from the biogas pool is used to make fires, the feces of the toilet, the feces of livestock, and the feces of the pig farm are all poured into the biogas pool to fertilize, and then distributed to each household for field fertilization."&1t;/p>

Public toilets and public bathhouses are both key facilities for rural sanitation. Zhu Youxiao asked: "Is there a special garbage dump?"&1t;/p>

"Some, all the garbage in the village will be dumped in a concentrated manner and then incinerated. Porcelain and glass fragments, which are easy to cut, are specially filled in places." Xu Guangqi replied, taking Zhu Youxiao to visit. Then Zhu Youxiao visited the biogas pool and pig farm.&1t;/p>

The biogas technology in the Ming Dynasty was already very good and could be used to make fires and cook. However, the biogas pool in the imperial village has a greater function to ferment fertilizer.&1t;/p>

It is not possible to directly fertilize human and animal feces. First, the odor is too heavy, second, there are many parasites, and third, it is not fully decomposed. After the methanogens in the biogas are decomposed, the nutrient substances are decomposed, which is more conducive to the absorption of crops, and high temperatures can kill parasites.&1t;/p>

There is currently no nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, and human and animal manure is obviously an important source of fertilizer.&1t;/p>

At the same time, raising pigs will produce a lot of feces. If discharged into the river, it will cause pollution. The biogas tank can obviously solve this problem well.&1t;/p>

Then the farmers began a live demonstration, using biogas to make a fire, boiling the water used in public bathhouses. At the same time, they used biogas and a large pot to make pig feed.&1t;/p>

In farming, pig feed is usually cooked first and then used to feed pigs. This makes it easier to digest after eating it, but there will be a lot of fat meat. However, these fat meats can be boiled into cooking oil, which is also an important daily necessity for rural people.&1t;/p>

Nearly two hundred pigs are raised in the pig farm, both of which are of different sizes.&1t;/p>

The pig farm is a "collective enterprise" in the imperial farm. The feed required for pig farming is divided into each household. The main feed for pig farming is sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines, as well as wheat bran and water.&1t;/p>

Sweet potatoes can be used to feed pigs in normal times, and in disaster years, it can be used to prevent disasters. On weekdays, you can also eat them.&1t;/p>

The task of feeding pigs is to be the peasant women in the imperial village, divided into ten teams, each team responsible for seven days, and there is also a peasant women team responsible for boiling water in the public bathhouse and a peasant women team cleaning public toilets.&1t;/p>

The farm work in the field is not a collective system, but a private ownership system. If you can't be busy on weekdays, you can ask other farmers to help you. If you help me for a day, I will also help you for a day. This does not require an official organization. Such mutual help is common in rural areas. When helping each other, they will work hard and will not be cheating. After all, if you help others, they will not ask them for help in the future, and no one will be willing to help them.&1t;/p>

The big pot rice is obviously not reliable, but it is still possible to build a collective system for pig farms. Everyone offers the same amount of feed, and not too much pig farming work. Ten women can rest for seven days together for two months. They do more things, and some of them are hard-working and doing less, and it is nothing. They are always doing things, which is something that the villagers can tolerate, but those who do not work hard must be told some gossip. Rural people are simple and pay great attention to reputation. Moreover, there are always people who are willing to work hard. These days, people believe that suffering losses are a blessing. Doing more of this kind of collective thing can also accumulate blessings.&1t;/p>

If you are sick or something, you can adjust your leave and remember to go to work.&1t;/p>

Of course, pigs are raised. But how do you divide pork? This is the highlight. If the distribution is uneven, the farmers will lose their enthusiasm.&1t;/p>

After all, different parts of pigs have different nutritional content and different popularity. It is obviously inappropriate to simply divide them by pound.&1t;/p>

The collective pig farm was proposed by Zhu Youxiao, and the specific meat sharing system was also formulated by him personally.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao adopted the method to adopt the "market-oriented" model, that is, when slaughtering pigs and sharing meat, all prices are marked as clear as meat stalls in the vegetable market. Farmers first pay for the pork they want to eat, then concentrate the money, and then divide it evenly into the hands of each farmer. And the money is collected and divided on the spot to avoid corruption.&1t;/p>

If there is too much meat and cannot be sold in the royal farm, then let the butcher buy the meat at the market whole price and then sell it to nearby towns and villages.&1t;/p>

According to the public opinion feedback from each royal farm, farmers are very satisfied with this system, and farmers in Huangzhuang are more enthusiastic about operating collective pig farms.&1t;/p>

Some royal farms with more sandy land have expanded the scale of pig farms. The largest number of pig farms has been raised by the pig farms. The pig farm has raised 500 pigs.&1t;/p>

As the urban economy of Northern Zhili has been relatively prosperous recently, the demand for pork has increased greatly, and the pork market is very optimistic. These imperial villages have obvious money to make money by expanding the scale of pig farming.&1t;/p>

It is difficult to embezzle such a collectively owned industry. After all, farmers are watching, and the chief has no power, and the villagers can't suppress it even if they make trouble. After all, the farmers in the imperial village have no clan power, and those farmers with relatives are all divided into different imperial villages for resettlement. Those families with single and lonely forces dare not arouse public anger.&1t;/p>

In addition, Zhu Youxiao sent someone to stare at the bottom, it is even more impossible for these farmers to embezzle any corruption.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao looked around the enthusiastic pig farm and instructed: "Pig farms should be kept clean as much as possible, and epidemic prevention measures should be taken. Agricultural companies should also pay attention to veterinary facilities and try to avoid swine fever and other conditions. Dead pigs should also be landfilled immediately and dead pigs should not be allowed to flow into the market."&1t;/p>

"Yes, the emperor." Xu Guangqi responded. He was the "technical director" of the Royal Agricultural Company at this time and was also responsible for this. After inspecting the village, Zhu Youxiao, who was very satisfied, walked to the fields for inspection under the guidance of Xu Guangqi.&1t;/p>

This experimental village has achieved stable income from drought and flood. After repairing complete water conservancy facilities, Zhu Youxiao naturally needs to inspect carefully to see if it is reliable. (To be continued...)&1t;/>&1t;/p>
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