Zhang Jun stared at Shu Jiming without saying anything. Shu Jiming did not show weakness and stared at Zhang Jun as well.

The moon crossed the sky, casting mottled shadows in the bamboo forest. The breeze blew, and the bamboo leaves made a rustling sound. The fighting stopped, and a few unknown insects suddenly started chirping.

After a long time, Zhang Jun suddenly laughed and said: "Zhi Niang, I'm in a bad mood today, and I'm angry with you guys! That's it, that's it, I've had a fight and vented my anger, so that's it for today!

If I have any regrets, please bear with me!"

After saying that, he bowed his hands to Shu Jiming and the other five people.

For a moment, Shu Jiming and the other five people couldn't react. Suddenly they started fighting, and Zhang Jun suddenly changed his face again, and they all froze there.

Wang Zhongfu stepped forward and said: "It was originally a trivial matter that led to a fight, but it was just motivated by emotion. Brother, I don't care about it, so how can we care about it? Today we are destined to have a glass of wine, how about it?"

Zhang Jun said: "You look like you are all students from the nearby military academy. How much money do you have on you? I'm treating you to a drink today! Make sure you don't get drunk and don't come back!"

After saying that, he smiled and led Lu Cheng and the others back first. Wang Zhongfu motioned to the other people to follow Zhang Jun and the others.

After the fight just now, Zhang Jun's anger disappeared. Suddenly he realized that for his future future, it would be best to go to a military academy and study for two years. Why are you afraid of being laughed at by others? Zhang Jun has always done things unexpectedly. Today I just met him

I went to several military academies and asked them what life was like in the military academies. When I was free from official duties, I went to the military academies and became a military commander.

Rangdong Town is located between Rangxian County and Nanyang County. The land is flat and fertile, so-called fertile land. The breeding farm for cattle and sheep established by Wang Xiaolie is here, and it has achieved remarkable results in the past two years. On April 13th,

, Wang Xiaolie and Chen Qiudao, accompanied by Gao Ying, the magistrate of Dengzhou, arrived at the breeding ground. As the situation calmed down, Wang Xiaolie intended to inspect the various states under his rule with Chen Qiudao.

Yang Shou from Tiji Breeding Farm and his officials were waiting on the road early to greet Wang Xiaoyou and his party.

Not far from the entrance, a separate courtyard was built, which is where the breeding farm works. The courtyard is not big and is kept very neatly. Many flowers and trees are planted around it. A pond is built in the east and a pavilion is built next to the pond.

Entering the courtyard, Yang Shou said: "The world is getting hot. Zhenfu should take a rest in the pavilion first."

Sitting in the pavilion, Wang Xiaolian said: "In the past two years, I asked you to build a breeding farm. Council Chen was not familiar with many things. Now that you are here today, can you tell me why you built this breeding farm? What happened in the past two years?"

What effect?"

Yang Shou raised his hand and said yes. "The cattle in Xiangyang and Dengzhou used to be sold from Jinghu North Road. After Jingkang, there were so many bandits on Jinghu Road and there were many fewer cattle traders. In order to prevent the lack of local farmland,

Not long after Zhenfu occupied Xiangyang, he set up this breeding farm to raise calves and sell them to farmers. Over the past two years, the farm has grown from a few dozen cows to nearly a thousand now.

We have set up cattle farms in the five surrounding states and achieved great results. In addition, in compliance with the orders of the town governor, we have selected high-quality breeding cattle and cows and tried our best to optimize the breed of cattle. Since last year, we have selected high-quality farm cattle.

We are trying to expand the population this year and next.”

Chen Qiudao said: "The turmoil in Jinghu has indeed caused a shortage of cattle on Jingxi Road. The governor of Yuanyuan built a cattle farm here long ago."

Wang Xiaoxing said: "It's not just cattle farms, there are also horse, donkey and mule farms in Fangcheng County, and there are sheep farms in Lushan County. Now, we have good breeds, and we want to promote them to other states and counties, and build more."

There are several places to build these breeding farms, one is to cut off the source of cattle protection, and the other is to optimize the breeds. Having good breeds will bring a lot of benefits to the people."

Chen Qiudao said: "That's what Zhen Fu said."

Of course, people in the Song Dynasty knew that there were good varieties and origins of cattle, donkeys, horses, mules, and even chickens and sheep, and there were also bad ones. But people in this era did not have a clear concept of breeding, let alone scientific methods.

Wang Xiaolie said to Yang Shou: "Are the cows you bred better than the ones before?"

Yang Shou said: "Back to Zhenfu, we compared carefully and found that they are better than the previous cows. The most important thing is that the characteristics of the calves born by these cows are basically stable. It is no longer like before when you raise a cow and you don't know how the calves will be.

.The first one did well, but the second one didn’t know how.”

Wang Xiaolie nodded and said to Chen Qiu: "This is one of the purposes of setting up a breeding farm. If there are good varieties, they should be preserved and continued. If you do it consciously, the varieties can slowly improve and become more and more popular.

good."

Chen Qiudao nodded and didn't say anything. He always felt that he couldn't understand the knowledge about high-quality seed breeding that Wang Xiaolie told him before. But he couldn't make sense, and the breeding farm did have achievements, so he could only accept it.

After asking about the situation at the breeding farm, Wang Xiaolian said: "What are the benefits of the breed of cattle you chose? I have nothing to do today. Let's listen."

Yang Shoudao: "The breed selected now, according to Zhen Fu, can be regarded as a large-scale cattle used for both meat and labor. The bull is about four feet three inches tall, and the cow is about three feet eight inches tall. An adult bull weighs one thousand kilograms, and an adult female weighs one thousand kilograms.

It weighs about 800 kilograms. It can be used when it is about two years old, but it cannot do heavy work. When it is five years old, its body will grow, and it can be used for ten years after that. "

Wang Xiaolie said: "Most cows are like this. But considering its height and weight, it is indeed a rare big cow. How is the work?"

Yang Shou said: "If it is an adult ox, it can plow three acres a day. If it is a big steer, it can plow five acres a day. It can pull a thousand kilograms of goods and travel sixty miles a day without being tired. Such an ox was not tired in the past.

Cows are far inferior."

Wang Xiaolie thought for a while and said: "Plowing three acres of land a day is still a bit slow. It takes ten days for a household to plow thirty acres of land."

Yang Shou said: "It's fast enough. We checked the nearby farmers and found that each family uses one cow, which is enough to plow the fields. And it can also be used to transport harvested grains to their homes. I don't know how convenient it is."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Our requirement is that one cow per household, and preferably a donkey or mule, can cultivate all the land. I don't see many people growing rice around here. Each household needs more than thirty acres of land. To do this,

It’s a lot of work.”

Yang Shoudao: "Most of the farmers nearby plant wheat in one season and beans in the next. Sometimes it's soybeans, sometimes peas or black beans. In the past two years, soybeans have been used to squeeze oil and make tofu. Most of them grow soybeans.

.Compared with other crops, soybean straw is a good feed. When used to feed cattle, you can feed a lot less concentrate. This is related to the fact that cattle are raised well here."

Legumes have nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, which can increase soil fertility and are good seasonal crops. Dengzhou is relatively warm, so it takes a long time to grow after wheat is harvested, and the yield of soybeans is okay. Further north, the yield of soybeans is poor.

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In fact, it is impossible for a household to grow all the 30 acres of land in wheat or rice. Whether it is for crop rotation or other purposes, other crops will always be planted to stagger the farming and harvesting seasons. It should be enough for one household to raise one cow.

In this era, there are fewer people and more land, and resources are not very scarce. Wang Xiaolie's ideal well-off family is a family of 30 to 40 acres of land, five people, and one cow and one donkey. Farm work is not very stressful, and you can still do it.
Chapter completed!