Lady of the Lord From the East

Recently, the pate factory in Sardinson has seen a buying rush.

Although the braised pork was only sold in the market for a few days, the impact was very big. People who had eaten it no longer felt that the pork was not delicious, but fell in love with the deliciousness. When they found that the braised pork was gone, they would not Few people also went to buy pork, trying to make such delicious food by themselves.

It's actually not difficult to make. When the servants set up a stall to sell braised pork, the method of making braised pork is not concealed. You can remember their production process by watching a little bystander. Obviously, they do not mean to hide it, but they seem to be promoting this practice. , and the seasoning spices are not too hard to find, except for the peppers, which are currently only available in some reserves in the castle, and the rest of the seasonings are available in Sardinson, but pork is more difficult to buy.

It's not that there is no pork in the market, but it's obviously not a stoked pig like Sardinson County. It's small and the price of meat is cheap. You can buy one for two silver coins, but anyone who has eaten it knows that the meat tastes bad.

The residents sent pigs, and those who were willing to keep the meat were in the minority, and they basically kept it for themselves. However, if someone was willing to pay a higher price or exchange it for other meat, they would also be willing to sell it, but the quantity was limited. Very little, buy more.

And there is a whole slaughterhouse of pigs there, so naturally someone will go there and try to see if they can buy pork.

But the pigs in the slaughterhouse are all prepared for the meat sauce factory, and they have no right to sell meat. At first, of course, they shook their heads and refused to sell, but many people came to ask, and many of them still saw business opportunities and prepared to do pork business. The owner of the meat stall, these people are also half of them. When the slaughterhouse is busy recently, they will also leave the meat stall to the family to watch, and they come over to take a part-time job to help kill pigs, but they can't see their heads. Looking down, the relationship is not bad, and I have been asked a lot. This question is still reported to the masters to decide.

Also reported is the number of pigs received by the slaughterhouse this time.

There were records of how many pigs the castle sent out. There are many free people who came to Sardinson County this year. At the beginning of the year, the population of the entire county was only about 10,000 households. By the end of the year, it had increased to 11,000. Among the thousands of households, about 30% of the total number of households dared to take piglets back home. Although there are cases of piglets being raised to death, this is very rare. Other people's pigs are well raised. , There are more than 3,000 pigs that have been collected in the past few days.

It is not easy to slaughter so many pigs. Now, hundreds of pigs are slaughtered every day. The production and production of the meat sauce factory can’t keep up. It takes almost a month to process all the pigs. These pigs freeze to death in the slaughterhouse, and the pressure there is actually a lot.

"Since someone wants to buy it, let's sell a few heads every day. You can go back and set the specific number yourself. Don't affect the production of the meat sauce factory. If the price is to be sold at the market price."

Next year, the number of people raising pigs in Sardinson County will inevitably increase. It is impossible to sell all of them to the meat sauce factory, and they will not be able to eat them. Therefore, it is necessary to promote pork. It is best for people to develop the habit of eating pork, so that their pigs will be better in the future. Sell.

The price of pork is actually not too bad, even higher than that of sheep. The main reason is that mutton is the main source of meat at this time, and there are many people who raise it, so the natural price will not go up, and meat sellers have to remove wool. The valuable parts of sheepskin are cheap if only the price of meat is considered, and there are few people who raise pigs, and the taste is not very good but acceptable. At this time, there are also people who don't like the smell of sheep and think that the taste of pork is good. There are many people. It also means that something is rare and expensive, so the price of pork is actually higher than that of mutton, but it is not easy to sell.

When they collect pigs, they are charged at the lowest market price. In the past few days, because everyone has realized the deliciousness of pork, people who can't buy pork have also tried to buy pork that has not been fanned, and then Surprisingly, I found that using **** garlic and wine braised pork can remove most of the fishy smell. Although it still tastes worse than the braised pork from the castle, it is not bad.

In addition, pork is rare at this time, so the price of this pork has risen a little more in the past few days. They can still make a little difference by selling pigs at the market price.

The slaughterhouse quickly decided to sell ten pigs every day. They will not kill these pigs because they are too busy, so the people who buy the pigs have to find someone else to kill them. Basically, these pigs are Sell ​​it to those meat stall owners, they can kill and sell it themselves, and ordinary people don't need to buy too much pork at one time, they can wait until the meat seller kills the pig and pick it up at the stall.

The price of pork that has been killed and classified is naturally different from that of live pigs. There are profits on both sides, and customers can also buy pork. It can be said that everyone is happy.

Soon, the meat sauce factory also launched a lot of new flavors of canned pork. In the past, the factory only sold various meat sauces. These meat sauces are the best companions for them to eat with pasta, or directly It can also be very good on bread slices, but the type is really only meat sauce, and this time, they have newly developed canned braised pork and canned luncheon meat. The former is the cut meat they have eaten, and it also contains A lot of sauce, the latter is a whole piece of meat like ham, and these two flavors are very suitable for everyone's appetite. It can be said that it has been very popular after its launch. There are countless people who place orders, plus For other flavors of meat sauce, it can be said that the pigs in the slaughterhouse have been arranged clearly before they are killed.

On Wei Wei's side, she had already contacted the merchant who sold piglets to them before, and booked the piglets for next year.

Although there are a lot of pigs raised on the farm, and hundreds of piglets were born this year, new breeding is also underway this month, waiting for a new litter of piglets next spring. The piglets born this year will arrive next year. It can also grow, but no matter how large the farm is today, it is obviously impossible to provide many piglets to the colonists, so it is necessary to continue to find people to buy piglets.

In order to determine this number, the group of recruits who are still in training were sent to various townships to ask how many people would like to raise pigs next year. Those who are registered now will be able to take piglets to continue raising them next year.

After a year of breeding experience, everyone became more courageous. Almost every household said they wanted to raise pigs, and some people asked if they could raise sows, because only boars were distributed in the castle last year.

"You can raise sows next year, but there is a certain quota, and only people who are good at raising pigs can raise them."

Raising sows is mainly used to give birth to cubs. Sows are harder to handle before and after pregnancy than at other times. If they are not careful, they will die in childbirth. People who are inexperienced should not dare to let them raise them. Otherwise, the compensation for death alone will hollow out most of them. 's property.

Moreover, after the sow gives birth, no matter how many piglets are born, the territorial people who are raised can only keep one. If there is only one litter in one litter, the next litter will belong to the lord. Of course, generally speaking, one litter per litter. Very rare - but as long as they keep the pig, they can keep one per litter, regardless of whether these piglets are kept or sold to the castle.

"What about the sow that gave birth? Will the Count take it back?"

The person in charge of the registration turned over his record book: "If you want to raise sows, the piglets will be turned in within three years, and then the pigs will be yours, but the piglets will be paid according to the normal tax."

The best growth period for a sow is between three and five years. Although it can still give birth after that, the quality of the piglets is not as stable as before, the female pork is not as good as the male pork, and the old sow is even worse If you eat, they don't accept it, and leave it to the people to deal with it at will.

After this condition was clearly laid out, there were more people who wanted to raise sows. It seemed that they were at a loss for one litter, but it was only three years, and as long as they did not raise dead sows in three years, It is safe to have six little pigs, but you don’t need to spend money to buy them, and you don’t need to raise them for the lords. Even if they sell the piglets directly, they can make a fortune, and if they keep their own If you grow up and sell them when they grow up to a hundred kilograms, that's five or six silver coins apiece. With six, they can steadily earn an income of one gold coin and ten silver coins for three years!

Gold coins, those are gold coins that many people have never touched in their entire lives.

And these are all tax-free! And even if their sows will start paying taxes after three years, they will only pay taxes for one litter, and the rest will be theirs.

"I want to raise sows! I sign up!"

"I'm also registering, sir, please register for me!"

A group of people scrambled to sign up, but they remembered that the other party said there was a quota for raising sows.

The registered person knocked on the table and said loudly: "Don't make any noise, the people who can raise next year must be people who have raised sows and have successfully made the sows give birth. The people who brought piglets last year will be given priority, and the others will not be raised this year. Even if you have experience, you can't raise people, don't crowd, queue up!"

Hearing this regulation, people who have already regretted not going to pick up piglets this year are even more regretful. Among them, those who have raised pigs before are the most distressed, but the rules are there, no matter how uncomfortable they are, next year will only be Can start with boars.

Of course, there are many people who want to raise pigs in their hearts, but there are also a lot of people who don't act in their hearts. These are mainly people who have stable jobs and do not have the conditions to raise pigs at home, so they can only envy them silently.

According to the statistics of the final list, the number of applicants who want to raise and have the conditions to raise pigs has increased to more than 6,000, which means that they have to book more than 6,000 piglets next year, of which about 1,000 are to raise sows. .

As the ingredients for roasting suckling pigs, the price of piglets is of course not based on the price of pork. The current market price is about one silver coin for a half-month-old piglet, and the sow is more expensive by half a silver coin. More than 6,000 piglets, even if there are many discounts, it will cost 300 gold coins.

"...It's so cheap." This is Felix who has just finished reading the annual income and expenditure report.

"Boom"

Wei Wei, who was holding the report, tapped him with the report. The sound was a little loud, but it didn't hurt at all.

"Don't be too inflated, think about the past, the income of Sardinson County was only 5,000 gold coins a year."

Felix was silent. He thought about what he won in the arena when he was still a knight. How much does his fief earn every year? After deducting the income and expenses, the net profit is about 100 gold coins.

Sure enough it swelled.

But whoever looks at these three hundred gold coins after seeing a bunch of astronomical figures in the unit of ten thousand just now will not think that it is too much, it is even just the price of a few bottles of essential oil.

"Saddinson did earn more this year, but we also spent more."

Wei Wei almost broke her fingers to settle the bill for him.

The money they have earned this year is even tens of millions of gold coins. This income is in the whole of Europe. I am afraid that only the church can compare with them, but this is gross income. It has shrunk significantly, especially in Sardinson County, all kinds of construction have not stopped. Now the road is almost repaired, and the wharf, shipyard and new city need to be repaired. Which of them does not need money, they basically have to invest in these earnings. , all the money can be said to be in their hands, and very little can be left.

Well, it's probably the amount of a small gold mountain piled up in the castle's treasury, which is really too little.

As soon as Wei Wei settled the bill for him, Felix stopped talking. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that they seemed to be really poor?

"The pier is already under construction, but the construction speed is very slow in winter. It is estimated that it will take half a year to repair, and it will not be available until next summer at the earliest. The shipyard has not yet been shadowed, and the material cost of a ship is a lot of wood alone. Well, think about how much gold you spent buying those ships, not to mention new cities, which are a lot of money."

So don't think that 300 gold coins is cheap, they still continue to be thrifty and housekeeping, and they spend all their money in the right place, but they can't be extravagant.

Felix raised his hand and surrendered: "Isn't it okay for me to let the caravan people push the price hard? Try to buy the most piglets at the lowest price!"

That's more or less.

Wei Wei stopped the topic satisfactorily and started another conversation: "Has the construction team already repaired the road?"

The construction team who built the road was invited before the winter last year. Although they were always transferred to other projects in the middle, the labor force was always increasing. It took a year for them to finally put Sardin Several major roads in Sen have been repaired. As for those small roads, they are not within their scope of construction. Felix does not want to waste money. The terrain of Sardinson County is mainly plain, with few hills, so the main road has been repaired. , Although the small roads leading to the villages have not been built, it is not impossible to walk, and there is no need to use the luxury of cement roads. It is enough to let the villagers build dirt roads and stone roads when they are slack.

The main project is finished. Although the construction team has other work, it is true that some people are spared, but obviously they can't rest for long. No, Wei Wei plans to let them know that there are spare staff. Going to build a new city.

"Pierre has already made the model of the new city, and it is very good. Now that they have time, let's start repairing it."

The model was made by Wei Wei and Pierre together. Felix hadn't seen the final result. Hearing her talk, he expressed curiosity to take a look.

The model was placed alone in a vacant room, the one-meter-long and wide model was placed on the table, and most of the area around the model was still blank, only the future use was marked on it, only the middle they discussed before. The first phase of the project was completed. The scaled-down model looks like a work of art. There are only some differences in the coloring. Those who don't know it think that they have seen a small country.

Felix looked at the part that had already been done. With the city hall as the center, the two residential areas, parks, hospitals, banks, markets and other buildings of different styles were built and placed on it, even the church. The regions are symbolically modeled.

Felix was very interested in the Chinese-style park. When he saw Wei Wei's drawing, he thought it was beautiful. Now that he saw the model, he thought it would be a popular place.

However, he also noticed that there were some differences between the model and the design drawings he had seen at the beginning. Among them, there was a building that was as gorgeous as the City Hall, but did not know what it was used for.

He pointed to the building just beside City Hall and asked them, "What is this?"

Wei Wei said: "Opera House, you can also call it a concert hall."

"Concert hall, I can understand, what is opera?"

"A performance art, kind of like ancient Greek theatre, but in the form of singing and music."

At this time, Europeans' understanding of drama was still limited to ancient Greek drama. Opera, a form of entertainment that was popular with nobles, had not yet appeared. They would listen to bards playing and singing music and stories, and appreciate the theater music of ancient Greek dramas. Those enduring operas have not been reproduced.

Wei Wei also remembered when she was making a model that she should arrange more entertainment facilities, and an opera house would obviously be a good stage, and it was destined to attract many nobles to come and enjoy the performance.

"So, you can sing opera?"

Wei Wei naturally can't sing pure opera, but she can sing "Carmen", which is written in Chinese.

So at Felix's urging, she cleared her throat and sang "Carmen" to him

"Love is just an ordinary thing, not unusual at all..."

The pronunciation of all Chinese, no one but herself could understand it, and luckily she couldn't understand it, otherwise Felix would be blown away when he heard the lyrics.

So Felix, who couldn't understand, not only didn't blow up, but also applauded enthusiastically.

"Looks like we'll have to find some people to come back and line up the opera you're talking about, and it's bound to be a hit."

Wei Wei said she was not in a hurry. She just had an idea for the time being and had no immediate plans to act. Whether it was finding a suitable actor or having someone write the script, it could not be done in a day or two.

And she has other things to do, especially this winter, she doesn't have much free time.

After looking at the model, Felix decisively typed out that the construction of the new city could begin, and let the spare laborers go to repair the temporary station first, and then the construction could start.

The construction team had vaguely heard about Sardinson's plans to build a new city early in the morning. Although this news was only circulated among a small number of people, people like Nissen who had a close relationship with Pierre were still more or less able to After inquiring about some news, the reason why they did not go home to rest after finishing the road was also waiting for this project.

Sure enough, a few days after they finished building the road, someone from the castle came to inform them that they were going to a new work place.

The location of the new city is the intersection of Sardinson and Thrott. This piece of land is not open space, but half grassland and half woodland, so the first thing they have to do is to clear all the trees on the forest floor, leaving enough space. Land to build cities.

This winter, they plan to turn the selected area into a suitable open space. When the land freezes next spring, they can start building the city directly.

Pierre, as an architect, went with the construction team with blueprints and models, and probably wouldn't return to the castle in winter.

And Raymond, who has been a disabled person for several months, has finally recovered from his illness. He no longer has to travel around in a wheelchair and crutches, and because of his good recovery, he has not left any sequelae.

Raymond, who had regained his freedom of movement, couldn't wait to go back to the laboratory, but Wei Wei told him to wait until next year on the grounds that it was not suitable to move in winter and that there was no heating facility in the newly built research institute. , This winter, Raymond can only make do with the other three alchemists.

And those three alchemists deserve to be friends with Raymond for many years. They have real skills. Wei Wei gave them the subject of fertilizer before. Nitrogenous fertilizers, phosphorus fertilizers, urea and other chemical fertilizers have been researched. Of course, the initial synthesis was successful, and it is still very early to be put into use. Now they can only synthesize a small amount with various instruments in the laboratory, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. , is simply impossible to mass-produce.

But after seeing the hope, Wei Wei, who had seen the results, happily gave them a large bonus, and by the way, asked them again if they wanted to accept some apprentices.

The alchemists who had already had an idea immediately indicated that they had someone they liked, and among them, Raymond took a fancy to Mike, the servant who had been taking care of him.

This seems not too surprising. Mike is not too old, a young man in his early twenties. He is serious and responsible. In the past, he would often hit Raymond or something. After the last bombing incident, people were even more calm. , Raymond wants him to be an apprentice, it's normal.

Wei Wei only called Mike and asked him if he agreed.

"Of course, I'm very willing to learn from Mr. Raymond!" Mike replied happily, even the name has changed, I think they have already communicated in private.

Wei Wei thought that the alchemists who had apprentices to teach would be quiet for a while, but the truth told her that she thought too much. Raymond ran around in other people's laboratories for several days, and came to Wei Wei. Wei wants a new research topic.

He said that he had set up a new room as a makeshift laboratory, and he didn't need to hang out with other people - apparently their research topics did not interest him.

Wei Wei really didn't have anything special to study recently, so she was so annoyed that she drew a steam engine design and threw it to him.

She didn't need to elaborate on how important the steam engine was, but she drew it for Raymond just to let him toss himself and not bother him, and didn't think he could really do it.

Raymond didn't know what Wei Wei was thinking, he held the blueprint like a treasure, and a head of new knowledge about steam, and ran to study it.

Wei Wei felt that for a long time to come, Raymond probably wouldn't move to the laboratory, and he probably wouldn't look for him again until he found out that the steam engine couldn't be made.

Satisfied with the result, Wei Wei recruited the maid and asked her if the doctors had arrived?

"They're all waiting in the hall."