After the main talk, Liu Mingqi also invited Gong Yuan to have a meal.

The one who took the lead during the meal was a fine pig raised by his own home, and Gong Yuan tasted it with relish.

"It turns out that the pigs in Prince Yu's Mansion taste the best!" Gong Yuan, who ate a few pieces of sweet and sour pork ribs in a row, exclaimed repeatedly, "It's different from the ones outside! Even though I thought the pork outside was already top-notch, it was still more than one step behind yours."

Didn’t Liu Mingqi write “pig raising secrets” about pig farming before?

This "pig raising secret book" was not deliberately kept confidential and was directly circulated.

First of all, it was despised by the farmers.

Raising a pig is so troublesome, it is more expensive than raising a child. Do I have that much money to raise?

But then it made many rich families like it very much. However, these rich families did not decide to raise it themselves. Instead, like Nangong Ji, they were waiting to buy some of the pigs raised by Prince Yu's Mansion and go home to eat.

This saves trouble and allows you to eat the best pork.

It's just a little bit of money, what's the big deal?

It would be very interesting if the Prince Yu Mansion is willing to sell it - we can't eat exactly the same as the Emperor, but at least the quality is similar.

All right.

I can only say that rich people think it right, so they don’t have to face the screams and smells of pigs at home all day long.

But there was still a group of people who really started raising pigs.

These people are in the restaurant business.

Especially in mid-to-high-end restaurants, their meat on weekdays is mainly chicken, duck, geese, fish, and mutton and beef can only be eaten at very high-end banquets.

They carefully analyzed the cost of raising pigs and found that if they raised too much, the cost would not be much higher, and every part of the pig could be used to cook. This is thanks to the versatility of Prince Yu, who wrote down the menu in detail, so everyone thinks raising pigs is very profitable.

So even some medium and high-end flower buildings participated in the pig farming industry.

They established multiple pig farms within 30 miles outside the Imperial Palace City, actively raising pigs according to pig farming secrets, and also spent money to invite farmers from Xiaoge Village and Xiaoyou Village to direct the technology, allowing them to make a lot of extra money.

It was February after the Spring Festival, and the earliest batch was on sale as early as August. Gongyuan, who happened to come to the capital, caught up with the good times and had a lot of fun eating.

Pork is fat and oily, and many people like it.

Especially dishes made with lard are more popular with people of this era than ordinary cooking methods.

Gong Yuan is from Jiangnan. It is traditional for people from Jiangnan to like sweets, so dishes such as Dongpo pork, sweet and sour tenderloin, and sweet and sour pork ribs are very similar to his appetite.

Liu Mingqi watched him keep eating sweet and sour pork ribs, and smiled unconsciously, "Is there anyone raising pigs in Jiangnan now?"

"I don't know, it should be there? But most of them cannot be sold yet, and there is no large-scale popularization." Gong Yuan said while still not stopping, "Prince, I heard that your sausage and bacon are awesome. Can I bring some when I go back?"

Gong Yuan is such a straightforward person, and he will say things he likes directly.

Liu Mingqi didn't mind, "When will you go back?"

Gong Yuan replied: "Wait a few days later, Duoyi and his palace examination will be completed."

Jing Ruisi, the number one talent in Jiangnan, has a name called Mu Yu.

A rising star in Jiangnan, the talented man Dai Feihua, with many meanings.

These two are both juren who came to Beijing for the imperial examination in Jiangnan. Now the imperial examination has passed, so I will wait for the palace examination in the past two days.

According to everyone's guess, they can at least get the second Jinshi.

There is no way, the students in Jiangnan are so strong.

Of course, if Gong Yuan refers to it, the Zhonghuang List would be perfect.

Liu Mingqi pondered: "In November, the weather should be more suitable. You don't have to worry about breaking it if you take it back now. Then you can go to Prince Yu's Mansion to get it."

"Okay!"

Gong Yuan smiled and bowed to thank him, "Jiangnan may be a little colder this year than in the capital. It snowed a few days ago! In such weather, it is no pressure to preserve this meat product."

Liu Mingqi said in surprise: "How do you know that it snowed lightly a few days ago in Jiangnan?"

These days are almost the deadline for this year's canal transportation. When the dry season in November comes, it will no longer be able to pass, and can only be transported and passed by land.

But logically speaking, it takes about fifteen days to get from Jiangnan to Beijing, and twenty days to get a little slower.

How could he know what happened a few days ago?

Fei Ge delivers a letter?

As soon as this thought arose, Gong Yuan on the other side said, "Jing Muyu's family cares about him very much, so Fei Ge arrives almost every other day. In addition to reminding him, there are also a lot of news happening in Jiangnan.

Their flying pigeons are very good at delivering letters. The ordinary ones may take six or seven days, seven or eight days, but the Jing family's carrier pigeons only cost five or six days at most. So we will naturally know what happened five or six days ago."

Big dog!

Liu Mingqi recited silently in her heart.

It is not uncommon to send letters from Fei Ge around the country. Every official office has more or less carrier pigeons for message transmission.

But raising a carrier pigeon is very troublesome and expensive, and it is several times more expensive than raising a family.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages for carrier pigeons.

If the imperial pigeons come from the Governor's Office in Jiangnan to Wenyuan Pavilion, they will not be late within eight days.

The carrier pigeons from ordinary governments will be slower.

The Jing family has cultivated such excellent carrier pigeons, which is even more powerful than the royal ones. This is what they have put in.

While thinking, Liu Mingqi asked casually: "Then besides snow, is there any interesting news in Jiangnan?"

"There is no interesting, but there is a fierce war." Gong Yuan said without stopping.

"War?" Liu Mingqi was startled, "There are Japanese pirates?"

The economy along the coast of Jiangnan is very developed, but from time to time, there are thieves who cannot get along in Japan who can't get along with the ship to rob and plunder.

Although most of them will be wiped out by the Zhoushan Navy of the Northern Navy, there will be fish that miss the net after all, and they will go to the shore to burn, kill and loot.

Although my Dakang was established by literature, it was definitely not the kind of weak that was so bad that I was in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, these Japanese pirates could only capture the fishing village that was closest to the seaside. If they did not escape immediately, they would be rushed by nearby garrisons and would not be able to escape at all.

There are no exceptions.

For example, more than ten years ago, a group of Japanese pirates with more than 3,000 people rushed into the mainland and rushed into Hai'an City. Although the defenders fought to the death, the entire army was destroyed and the city fell due to various reasons.

In the end, more than 30,000 people were slaughtered in Hai'an City without time to escape, all the food and treasures were stolen, and even the entire city was set on fire.

Although this group of Japanese pirates were wiped out by the Zhoushan Navy and the Lianyungang Navy who were driven to the scene, and at most only a dozen small boats were left to escape at night, the losses caused were still very large.

Tens of thousands of people were killed, tens of thousands of people who fled lost their homes, and the entire Hai'an accumulated over hundreds of years was destroyed.

The most important thing is that this is the first time that someone has invaded the hinterland of Jiangnan since the founding of Dakang, causing such great damage!

Emperor Jinghe was very angry, and the elders were also very angry.

At that time, the governor of Jiangsu, the governor of Jiangsu, and the inspector of Jiangsu were all dismissed, and fifteen senior officials including the governor of the Northern Navy were all dismissed from office and exiled.

Since then, the navy, who did not dare to neglect, continued to strengthen patrols and even often drove around Japan to wander around. When they saw a ship that felt something was wrong, they would immediately go up to check. If they found that it was a Japanese pirate, they would directly defeat the sunken ship.

Dakang's navy was very tempered in this regard.

It is precisely because of the previous tragedy that Liu Mingqi understood the harm of Japanese pirates to the coast that he blurted out.

Gong Yuan shook his hand immediately after hearing this: "No, it's not, it's not the Japanese pirates, it's me that exaggerates it... In fact, it's a fight between Governor Liu and the merchants."

Oh, it turns out to be this one.

Liu Mingqi breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiangnan is really in chaos.

If the tragedy of that year happened again, once the people in Jiangnan were dispersed, it would be too difficult to help the whole country.

As soon as he heard Gong Yuan’s words, he knew it was because of food.

However, Gong Yuan didn't know that the strategy Liu Renhuai used recently was actually the idea that Liu Mingqi came up with.

The boy asked, "How is it? Tell me!"

Gong Yuan said: "In recent months, the imperial court has not caused a large amount of grain reserves to be resold because of the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue. It is also because of the large amount of relief for those victims who have lost their land and houses due to the disaster, so the Ministry of Revenue's grain warehouse storage is even more scarce.

But this year, Jiangnan actually had a bumper harvest, so Governor Liu wanted to discuss with grain merchants and buy more grain at a more appropriate price to supplement grain warehouses in various places, especially grain warehouses in Jiangnan, Shandong and Beijing.

But the merchants refused this year because they knew that after two consecutive years of disasters, food must be a scarce material, so this year they could sell it at a relatively good price so that they could make a lot of money.

Governor Liu paid seven cents per liter, and grain merchants had at least ten cents per liter, and both sides were stuck here. Especially as the closer they were to autumn and winter, the sooner the canal transportation stopped, the more courageous they became.

After all, when the year goes up, next February and March, it will happen that many people will consume their food in stocks. The food prices will always rise, and they can earn more.

No matter how Governor Liu finds a way to discuss with the landlords and grain merchants, they just refuse to sell grain.

Everyone was in a stalemate for almost half a month, but now there has been a sudden change. Prince, do you know what happened?"

Liu Mingqi cooperated and asked curiously: "What happened?"

"Hehe, Governor Liu actually bought a lot of cheap food from Japan!" Gong Yuan showed admiration, "The Japan also achieved a great harvest this year, so it hit it off. Governor Liu bought more than 10 million stones of their food in one go, and unloaded goods from Songjiangfu Port, Zhejiang Port, and Ningbo Port through water transport ships one by one!

You don’t know the scene. According to the letter from Jing Muyu’s home, thousands of dock workers unload and load trucks at the dock every day, and transport them to the canal ships.

Many times, due to various mistakes, the bags cracked and many white rice fell down! Such a scene made the grain merchants and the landlords’ faces turn blue!”
To be continued...