Yuan Guoliang Had Arrived

"So, Little Xu, you want us to raise these Wagyu cattle here in our country?"

A few minutes later.

After hearing Xu Yun's explanation.

Old Guo couldn't help frowning. His expression looked uncertain.

"Little Xu, is your idea reliable? I remember raising beef cattle takes expertise too, doesn't it?"

"We can't exactly ask the Japanese to give us their breeding techniques as well, can we?"

"Mm, that is a problem."

Xu Yun nodded frankly and explained:

"Still, even though we can't ask them for their breeding techniques—assuming they even have such things—we can make up for it with numbers."

"Numbers?"

Old Guo was taken aback, but he quickly understood what Xu Yun meant.

"You mean that interest-free loan?"

Xu Yun didn't answer. Instead, he gave Old Guo a thumbs-up.

To be honest, the Japanese didn't have much experience with livestock farming at this point. Their Black Wagyu had been developed purely by putting in the time.

Historically,

for more than a thousand years, from the Nara period until before the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese had been forbidden from eating meat. If they wanted any, they had to sneak it in secret.

It wasn't until the Meiji Restoration, when Japan began comprehensively learning from the West—wearing Western suits, studying foreign languages, and imitating Western lifestyles—

that things changed.

Anyone who had been classmates with Emperor Meiji in a past life knew the story.

In 1872,

Emperor Meiji led the way by picking up a piece of beef with his chopsticks. From then on, eating meat became a trend.

The emperor ate it, the army ate it, and even ordinary people began craving beef.

To satisfy the Japanese people's growing demand for meat, the Meiji government imported quite a few foreign cattle breeds and crossbred them with native Japanese cattle.

After a