The Ming Dynasty started with caution

After leaving the palace, Zhou Yu couldn't wait to come to Yan's house. He ran to the chicken coop in the yard and really saw a group of chicks running around proudly.

These chickens were really different. They were all like fighting cocks, very energetic. Zhou Yu couldn't help but be tempted.

"My Lord, you are stealing..." He Neng said with a sad face.

"Humph, I just borrowed them to take a look, and I will definitely return them!"

Zhou Yu grabbed most of the running chickens and stuffed them into the carriage, and ran away with a whoosh.

Yan Chengjin came back from work and heard He Neng say that Lord Changning came to steal chickens again. He went to the chicken coop and saw that most of them were missing.

Zhou Mansion,

After returning from Yan Mansion, Zhou Yu squatted in front of the chicken coop and pondered, motionless. The housekeeper Zhou Wangcai had a bitter face: "Master, what's so good about this chicken?"

Zhou Yu cursed: "You know shit! Look at the sick chicken you raised, look at the running chicken raised by Yan Chengjin, how dare you eat my Zhou family's rice."

Zhou Wangcai looked aggrieved: "Master..."

"Now it's a severe cold, people are going to freeze to death, let alone animals. If I raise these chickens that are not afraid of the cold and sell them to the ministers in the palace, I don't know how much money I can make." Zhou Yu became energetic again.

After two days of thinking, I still couldn't figure it out.

Zhou Yu came to Yan Mansion again in a flash, rubbing his hands and said to Yan Chengjin: "My dear nephew, how did you make this chicken? Why can't I understand it?"

This is Darwin's theory of evolution. If you can understand it, you are Darwin.

Although artificial selection of genetically modified organisms is very simple, it is to breed the strong ones continuously, just like hybrid rice, and continuously select the ones with full grains for hybridization until the upper limit can be reached.

It seems to be high school biology knowledge, which is undoubtedly a fantasy for Zhou Yu.

Speaking of which, except for horses, which were raised on a large scale by the court, there was no large-scale breeding industry in the Ming Dynasty. Zhou Yu was the first large chicken farmer in the capital.

"My Lord, return the stolen chickens first, and I will tell you." Yan Chengjin said.

Zhou Yu looked embarrassed, but he still paid the money to buy all the chickens, and was severely cheated by Yan Chengjin.

Yan Chengjin is also a man of integrity. Not only did he tell him the method, but he also gave him a veterinarian.

Zhou Yu was happy! He arranged it when he returned.

……………………

Warm Pavilion,

Emperor Hongzhi has been worried about the cattle for the past two days, and he has no intention of reviewing the memorials. He put his hands behind his back and looked at the portrait of Taizu for a long time.

After the ban on cattle was issued, the number of oxen for farming did not increase, and now there is a severe cold.

Without cattle, how can the people plough the land in the spring? Thinking about it, he felt ashamed of his ancestors. As he looked at it, his eyes became cloudy.

"Has the prince gone to Yan's house recently?"

Mou Bin bowed and reported: "The prince has been in the East Palace these days."

"It's good that he didn't. The prince is the crown prince and will have to govern the world in the future. The world is not so easy to govern." Emperor Hongzhi sighed.

Mou Bin thought for a while and said: "Changning Earl always goes to Yan's house. It seems that he is conspiring with Yan Chengjin... It is said that they are going to make a fortune together..."

Li Dongyang's old face twitched fiercely.

Speaking of Yan Chengjin, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly became interested. This guy is steady and cautious, which makes him feel that he can trust him.

"Let Yan Chengjin come to see me."

Yan Chengjin followed Mou Bin to the cabinet. Before he could pay his respects, Emperor Hongzhi asked, "I heard that you and Lord Changning have been planning to make a fortune these two days? Let me hear how you make a fortune."

Yan Chengjin was a little embarrassed. Your Majesty, it was not me who said that. It was Lord Changning himself who said that I made a fortune... I made a fortune.

"I guess some factory guard misreported the news. This is because the running chickens in my family were not frozen to death. I told Lord Changning that if the best chickens that can resist cold and cold are used for breeding, the offspring seem to be able to resist cold as well, and they are strong and more likely to give birth to chicks. This is the truth I learned from the saying that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. Therefore, Lord Changning shouted that he had made a fortune."

Can the sayings of dragons giving birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes be used in this way?

This was refreshing for Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang and others.

After thinking about it, it seems to make sense. According to the saying that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, then cold-resistant chickens will give birth to cold-resistant chickens, right?

Emperor Hongzhi looked straight at Yan Chengjin, his voice trembling: "Really?"

"I'm not sure yet, but... none of the chicks hatched in my house have ever frozen to death, so I call it the law of the strong."

Hiss!

The faces of Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang and others changed drastically.

Yan Chengjin knew that this was too incredible for them, but cold resistance was really a drizzle in the theory of evolution.

Some species evolved from swimming in the water to running on the ground, and from running on the ground to flying in the sky.

If you really tell Emperor Hongzhi that humans evolved from monkeys, Emperor Hongzhi and others might think he has a brain disease...

Li Dongyang was the first to think of the key point, so he asked anxiously: "Can this method... be used on oxen?"

Emperor Hongzhi also looked over with expectation.

All living things can be used.

"I think we can let Lord Changning give it a try." Yan Chengjin said.

The theory of evolution can certainly be applied to cattle, and breeding can increase the number of cattle reproduction.

However, Yan Chengjin is more worried about the epidemics brought by the Little Ice Age.

The Black Death almost destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire.

During the Great Cold, there was no food, and many refugees began to catch rats to eat. Any major epidemic would lead to the decline of national strength.

The fields were not cultivated, the population dropped sharply, and the people were displaced.

Emperor Hongzhi wanted a prosperous era, and Yan Chengjin wanted it too.

After the Black Death, the West was brought about a Renaissance, which in turn promoted the Industrial Revolution in the West.

But it was not the case in the Ming Dynasty. History has proved that the Industrial Revolution did not originate in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to prevent trouble before it happens.

Yan Chengjin thought for a while, and then said: "I also have something to ask for. Now many people have no rice to cook, so they catch rats to eat, which may cause epidemics."

Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a few times and found it incredible: "There are still people who eat rats?"

Why not eat meat?

You are the emperor, although you shout frugality every day, but can the eunuchs really watch you eat bran and vegetables?

The so-called frugality of Emperor Hongzhi is naturally from super luxury to ordinary luxury standards, far from the point of not being able to eat enough.

Yan Chengjin wanted to say that rats are still a relatively normal food on the list of foodies.

I was thinking about how to explain to Emperor Hongzhi.

At this moment, Liu Jian stepped forward with a serious expression: "It is true. Your Majesty, have you ever heard of this? When hungry, people will eat anything. Before I entered the government, there was a year of famine. Many people in the village ate rats. It is not unreasonable that there was an epidemic during the famine."

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Yan Chengjin, what do you want to say?"

Yan Chengjin was delighted and said: "When rats are hungry, they will dig out the seeds in the ground and eat them. I think it is better for the government to collect rats for one penny each!"

Li Dongyang was dumbfounded.

Emperor Hongzhi's face twitched fiercely: "What does the court want rats for?"

"This action seems to be the court collecting rats, but in fact it is to eliminate the epidemic. If the court spends money to collect rats, the refugees will not be willing to eat them and exchange them for money. Since Shuntian Prefecture has opened its warehouses for relief grain, the refugees will be idle after eating. Why not let them find something to do, so that they can have money to survive the winter and not think about rebellion all day long."

Li Dongyang felt a little painful: "One penny per rat, you pay the money?"

"If I pay, I will pay." Yan Chengjin immediately agreed.

Where I, Yan Chengjin, am, don't even think about the possibility of an epidemic. If there is an epidemic these days...

Just go and see where it is buried.

Liu Jian and others were speechless.

People spend money to eliminate pests and give money to refugees to comfort them. What else do you have to say?

Emperor Hongzhi felt embarrassed and coughed dryly: "The Yan family has made great contributions, how can we let the Yan family pay? I will pay half."

"…………" Yan Chengjin.

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