ebookland Chapter 400 Promotion of Chicken and Duck Breeding
Chapter 400 Promotion of Chicken and Duck Breeding
In the front hall of Yuxuan Pavilion, following Ying Yu's order, the maid immediately brought another main dish to the table.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a duck, right?"
"Is this the duck that can kill locusts?"
"I didn't expect that besides dealing with locusts, this duck can also become a delicacy with delicious color, fragrance and taste. Just looking at this product makes people salivate!"
Seeing the ducks on the dining table, all the officials exclaimed in amazement.
Ying Yu smiled slightly.
This finale dish is one of the most famous delicacies, even in the later generations where there are so many delicacies.
Now that it appeared in Daqin thousands of years earlier, it definitely has a huge lethality for these foodies.
And this last big dish is the fruit wood roast duck which is very well-known in later generations.
This time, besides the vermicelli processing workshop, another industry that Ying Yu intends to promote is poultry farming.
Compared with pigs, chickens and ducks grow faster. Hens and ducks can start laying eggs after four to five months, and roosters and ducks can be slaughtered after half a year.
Moreover, as small poultry, chickens and ducks are more convenient to raise. One breeding base can feed tens of thousands of chickens and ducks at the same time, which is much more efficient than raising pigs.
And the consumption is also huge.
With the current spending power of the people of Daqin, even if tens of millions of chickens and ducks are released from cages a year, they can be easily consumed.
The accompanying eggs and duck eggs are more suitable as nutritional supplements for infants and government students.
This is one of the key items of Ying Yu's improvement project of Daqin people's dining table.
"I didn't expect this duck to have so many ways!"
After listening to Ying Yu's introduction, Ying Zheng happily put a piece of roast duck wrapped in bread into his mouth, his eyes narrowed and he said.
Who would have thought that this little duck can not only satisfy the appetite, but also benefit the country and the people, which is really the most pleasant thing.
Wang Jian and the others didn't even care about appearances, and started to fight for each other.
The chefs of Yuxuan Pavilion carefully prepared nearly a hundred roast ducks all morning, and they were divided up by a group of foodies in just a moment.
"The delicacies in His Royal Highness's residence are absolutely unique in the world."
"And this wine, although it is slightly inferior to Zuixianniang, it is full-bodied and fragrant, and it can definitely be called the best Xianniang!"
"Eating delicious food in His Royal Highness's residence is not only for enjoyment, but also for more important gains every time."
"The commercial value of chicken and duck breeding and brewing of fairy wine is probably not lower than that of vermicelli."
"My Daqin's next step to drive the peasant household economy depends on these industries that have just been discovered by His Highness."
The courtiers patted their swollen stomachs contentedly, discussing with emotion.
With the improvement of productivity, purely agricultural income lags behind that of industry. This is a trend of social development, and it is difficult for Ying Yu to change it.
In order to increase the income of farmers, it is necessary to carry out industrialized finishing processing of the initial agricultural products and livestock products to increase their incidental value.
For example, the price of potatoes and sweet potatoes is only one yuan and one stone. Even after the rebound, the price is at most two yuan.
But after being processed into vermicelli, one stone can easily be sold for more than [-] Wen.
After deducting processing losses and costs, the profit can be doubled at least, and it will be more popular.
In addition, poultry farming and wine making are also important ways to increase farmers' income.
With the current grain output of Daqin, the grain grown by the farmers will definitely be able to make a lot of surplus.
Otherwise, it would not have lowered food prices to where they are today.
In such an abundance of food, it is absolutely easy to use part of it to raise domestic pigs, chickens and ducks.
Moreover, pigs can be fed with bran, and chickens and ducks can be raised to catch insects by themselves, etc. The consumption is actually not large.
The income it brings is much higher than that of simple farming.
And it can also greatly improve the dietary structure of the people of Daqin.
This is not the future generations who are extremely rich in material and need to eat less meat to lose weight. It is definitely beneficial for the people of Daqin to eat more meat.
Especially for developing children and teenagers, after eating well, their bodies will be strong, and they will have more energy whether they are studying literature or martial arts.
Moreover, it can also greatly improve the physical strength, health index, etc. of the people of Daqin. It can be said that the benefits are endless.
What Ying Yu wants to build is not just an empire on which the sun never sets on a simple border.
What he wants to achieve is not only that the territory is unique throughout the ages, but also that the common people live and work in peace and contentment. The centripetal force for the Great Qin royal family must also far exceed that of all dynasties and generations in history.
Only in this way can the people of Daqin truly lead the world and stand on top of the world.
Just imagine, when foreign countries are still in the midst of all kinds of wars, there is not enough to eat, and there is no warm clothes.
One day, it was suddenly discovered that the people of Daqin not only had ample food and clothing, but also often ate meat in different ways. Pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish came in rotation. The degree of the blow was definitely not compensated by the propaganda of foreign royal families.
One can imagine how much this group of people yearned for Da Qin.
They will definitely try their best to learn Qin Wen and Qin Yu, hoping to integrate with Da Qin.
It only needs a little guidance from Daqin, and there will be various kneelers and guides who yearn for Daqin in these foreign countries, further deified Daqin, and carried out Daqin's cultural colonization more thoroughly.
The spirit has been assimilated by Great Qin, and these countries naturally have no resistance to Great Qin.
Once there is a battle with Daqin, there is no need for Daqin to hit the opponent's territory, and the opponent's internal chaos will first arise.
Comparing the two, the people of Daqin will naturally be more proud and have a sense of belonging. With the comparison, the tide will continue to rise.
Now that the Great Qin has long-term stability and stability, there is the most basic guarantee.
Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.
In the same way, governing a big country can also start with cooking small fish.
Ordinary people, what they see and ask for are the simplest basic necessities of life.
Having a spacious place to live, having enough food to eat, being able to read books, and having the hope of making progress is enough to make most of the people of Great Qin give up their hearts to the Great Qin royal family and the imperial court.
But the hearts of the people are stable, and if there are no problems within Daqin, it will always be able to maintain its lead over foreign lands.
As for countries such as Rome and Carthage that cannot even guarantee food supply.
It seems to be quite strong, but in fact, in front of Daqin, they have no power to resist now.
This time the locust plague, they wanted to get life-saving food from Daqin, and the price they paid would definitely exceed their imagination.