Chapter 562 Effort
At the foot of Lingxiao Mountain, buds sprouted out of the ground, weaving a thin green carpet.
The mountain stream is gurgling and flowing endlessly. Reaching the bottom of the mountain, it merges into the creek.
There are lush forests in the mountains, including pines and cypresses, elms, willows, and poplars. As if feeling the warmth of spring, the towering trees stretch themselves in the breeze and make pleasant sounds.
This is the Lingxiao Mountain in Zhongqiu County, Zhao County. It is the place where the great sage Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Road. It is also the southern source of the Sang River.
As soon as he entered the mountain, Zhang Bin had many feelings.
He is from Zhongqiu - Zhongqiu is now Neiqiu County. In the Sui Dynasty, the name was changed to avoid Yang Zhong's taboo.
I have feelings for every plant and tree in my hometown.
When he was young, he even visited the old Zhangjiao Village on Lingxiao Mountain.
At that time, the village was occupied by a group of bandits and had just been cleared out when he arrived. Unexpectedly, decades later, the village was occupied by a group of defeated soldiers.
It was relatively peaceful this time. Chen Gong arrived at the foot of the mountain with 6,000 soldiers from the Right Battalion of Silver Spears and thousands of cavalry from the Yi Congjun.
The defeated troops were so frightened that they surrendered directly - we are only a hundred or ten people, why don't we send tens of thousands of cavalry to encircle and suppress us? Isn't it too much?
Zhang Bin stroked the big locust tree in front of Fuzhai and sighed softly.
The high spirits of my youth seem to have stayed here.
"There are mountains and mountains, and the mist is steaming. In summer, it will be green and green, and the cool breeze will blow. Duandi is a good place." Shao Xun pointed to the hillsides, woods, and river valleys far and near, and sighed. .
"If the Huns come, they will station their troops here." Hu Wufu said, twirling his beard.
As a sacrificial wine, he is probably the most leisurely person in the shogunate, bar none.
This is a one-size-fits-all position with no specific responsibilities. You can be extremely busy or extremely idle. For Hu Wufuzhi, it was obviously the latter.
"Why did Yan Guo say that?" Shao Xun asked with a smile.
“The old fortress of this mountain has not collapsed. The water is sweet and the soil is lively, which is good for woodcutting.” Hu Wufu said: “There are still big trees on the mountain, which can be used for camping with tree fences. There are also tigers, leopards, deer and rabbits. You can hunt wild animals with the chiefs, why don’t you come to herd them?”
"Yan Guo has made a lot of progress. Many people have not heard of the term 'Zhu Mu'." Shao Xun praised.
The Hu people cannot fight without the resident herders.
There are many cavalry, and it is impossible for the war horses to be fed with food. They must be grazed, and they must have a place to graze.
So, sometimes they fight very quickly, coming and going as fast as the wind. Sometimes it was very slow, and they stayed at herds for a long time, fattening the horses and fattening the cattle and sheep accompanying the army.
Before taking action, the commander-in-chief of the army also likes to meet with the commanders and leaders to deepen their relationship while discussing the battle plan.
Hu Wufuzhi has been really well-informed over the years, and he can actually tell one, two, and three things. It’s not easy.
Shao Xun also likes this place very much.
The ancients liked to raise horses in hilly areas. Because horses are animals that like warm and cool climates, the temperatures in the mountains are low, which makes them feel very comfortable.
There are many river valleys in the mountains with lush vegetation, providing drinking water and pasture for horses.
Fangjianmu City, a very important military horse racing station in the Tang Dynasty, was built in Luliang Mountain.
On the gentle slopes of the hills, the horses are free to play and have a huge amount of activity. Strictly speaking, they are healthier than stable horses (horses raised in stables and fed with food), and their bones and bodies are also better developed.
But these places cannot be effectively used for agricultural cultivation - well, strictly speaking it is not impossible. If there are sweet potatoes, these mountainous areas can be used.
It cannot be used to grow food, but it can be used for grazing, which improves land use efficiency, although grazing sheep in the mountains is very damaging to the environment.
"Ju Qu Chong." Shao Xun shouted.
"I'm here." Juquchong, wearing a fur coat, jumped out and said loudly.
"This mountain and the village are given to you." Shao Xun said.
“Thank you Ming Gong for your kindness.” Ju Quchong said in surprise.
"How many people, cattle and sheep do you have in your department?"
"There are 5,000 men and women, 6,200 horses, and 39,000 cattle and sheep."
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"A little less." Shao Xun said.
"I ran around in a hurry and lost some. Later I snatched some, ate some, and even ran to death..."
"Stop talking." Shao Xun shook his head and laughed.
A tribal population probably corresponds to more than ten large and small livestock.
In the eighth year of Taikang in the Guo Dynasty (287), the Xiongnu governor Dou Deyi Yu Ju and others came to surrender, bringing a total of 11,500 people, 22,000 cattle, 105,000 sheep and horses. unknown.
The size of livestock is 1:4.77.
When the Japanese later investigated the number of livestock in Ximeng and Humeng, the number of large and small livestock was 1:4.78.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Tsarist Russia surveyed the Kalmyk Mongols (Turghut) in the Volga River Basin. The ratio of cattle to sheep was 1:4.1 - the quality of the Volga River grassland was still higher than that of the Mobei grassland.
Pure nomadic tribes are almost at this level. Half-cultivating and semi-pastoral tribes may have more livestock, but not much more, because part of their energy is devoted to farming.
"Is this mountain enough to support your people?" Shao Xun asked again.
“That’s enough.” Juquchong said: “According to legend in the clan, it takes more than ten acres of grassland in the north to raise a sheep. If it is a sandy desert, it would take sixty or seventy acres of land. You can raise a sheep on about three to five acres of land in Lingxiao Mountain. It would be better if you graze on the flat land below the mountain.”
Hu Wufu was shocked. Isn't this a damn big difference?
If the animals were grazed in the Hebei Plain, wouldn't it be several times or even ten times that of the northern grasslands?
No wonder that after these barbarians entered the Central Plains, none of them wanted to leave. Children were born in litters, household registrations increased, and there were many cattle, horses, and alpacas.
The mountains, shoals, hills, and swamps that the Han people could not use were excellent grazing places for them.
He once saw a river beach where no one was farming. The reason was that floods flooded every spring, and no farming family could bear it. But after the floods receded, the pastures grew wildly, and the Hu people felt like they had found a treasure. They said that the cattle raised by grazing on this kind of riverbank land were delicious and produced more milk.
If he hadn’t come to Hebei with Mr. Chen, he really wouldn’t know what’s going on here. It’s full of knowledge. Although Henan and Hebei are only separated by a big river, the customs in Youzhou and Jizhou where a large number of Hu people have entered are already different.
Henan is full of neatly groomed wheat fields, orchards, mulberry forests, and vegetable beds.
Hebei also has these, but there are many more different things. Before the Hu people invaded and moved southward, there were more horses and other livestock in Hebei than in Henan, much more.
Perhaps Hebei had earlier contact with the Hu people and had more exchanges. After all, the sudden cavalry for which Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty was famous was recruited in Hebei.
Shao Xun seemed to have seen what Hu Wufu was thinking, and said with a smile: "In the Yan State, adapting to local conditions is the most important thing. In Henan, I had people transplant mulberry seedlings, three crops in two years, and plant millet and wheat in rotation, but I didn't let them farm and herd. But in Hebei, it is necessary to make some small changes in the rotation of millet and wheat, and to raise more livestock according to local conditions."
Juqu Chongxiaoyindi. Looking at Hu Wufuzhi, I couldn't put it down for Lingxiao Mountain, and I was even more delighted with the river beach and abandoned farmland at the foot of the mountain.
"You just said that for grazing in Lingxiao Mountain, one sheep can be raised on three to five acres of land." Shao Xun looked at Ju Qu Chong and said.
“We need a better place.” Ju Qu Chong said.
Shao Xun nodded and said: "But if you grow pasture and raise sheep -"
Shao Xun thought for a while, he didn't know how much alfalfa could be produced per acre in Hebei, so he decided to be conservative Point: "One or two acres of land can raise a sheep."
"It's not cost-effective, it's better to farm." Ju Quchong said.
Raising a sheep for one year only produces twenty or thirty kilograms of meat. Even if one sheep is raised on an acre of land, it is still not as cost-effective as harvesting more than a hundred kilograms of wheat. This account will still be settled.
Even if income from sheepskin and wool is included, it is still a little worse than farming.
"Then it's up to you to cultivate the farmland at the foot of the mountain." Shao Xun said impatiently.
"Raise livestock in the mountains, riverbanks, and wastelands. I will send people to teach you how to plant farmland and how to arrange fallow fields. I will teach you until you know how to do it."
"I gave you the land, but there is one thing."
"Ming Gong, please speak." Ju Qu said respectfully.
"Each family's land is for farming and grazing, and no one is allowed to cross the boundary."
"Obey."
"If you have this village, others will also have a city." Residents are not allowed to attack or rob each other.”
“Obey.”
“Every three months, we will send people to Zhongqiu, Bairen, and Fangfang counties to report their respective situations. On patrol. "
"I obey."
"If you dare to abandon the land and leave, I will send troops to pursue you as soon as you are reported to the county. You will be punished by yourself. Understand?”
"Understood."
"Drills are conducted twice a year. The shogunate of General Ryuchang sends people to summon them. You must not disobey. If you need to go on an expedition, you must prepare your own horses and equipment and obey orders."
"As ordered."
Shao Xun nodded with satisfaction.
This is his attempt to integrate and assimilate the Hu tribe.
Since the Later Han Dynasty, there have been too many ills that have been accumulated and have never been cleared up. The governance model since the Later Han Dynasty seems to have reached its end, and new ways are urgently needed.
Continuing to act according to the system since the Later Han Dynasty, it is just another Western Jin Dynasty. Sooner or later it will explode. Guo Zuo may not be much longer than the Western Jin Dynasty.
In the past, Cao Mengde tried to solve the problem of the gentry becoming more powerful since the Later Han Dynasty, but failed in the end.
Besides the gentry, he did not touch more and more issues of the barbarians at all, and passed this thunder to the hands of the Western Jin Dynasty, which eventually exploded.
Now, not only has the thunder of the noble clan not been dismantled by the Cao family and the Sima family, it has a greater yield and a stronger explosion power.
The big thunder of the Hu people has exploded, and now we need someone to clean up the mess. Otherwise, there will be a second explosion, and even trigger an explosion of incredibly powerful ammunition, turning the entire north upside down.
Besides these two major thunderstorms, there are also thunderstorms such as talking about harming the country, Wentian and Wuxi, and land annexation. These are all ranked at the back.
No wonder some people say that the Cao Wei and Western Jin dynasties were both "low-quality" dynasties. They did not take the initiative to solve the problem, but instead delayed the problem, making it more serious and even creating new problems, which finally led to After three hundred years of troubled times, "debts were cleared".
What kind of era is this...
Thinking of this, Shao Xun felt a little dispirited.
Forefathers committed evil, and future generations will suffer.
In order to reduce trouble, anyone dares to collect it from home.
For the sake of stability, all conflicts should be postponed.
In order to be the emperor, I dare to compromise on anything.
At this moment, the victory on the battlefield seems not so worthy of boasting.
"Yan Guo, please draft an official letter as soon as possible and send it to General Long Xiang's shogunate. From now on, these people will be under their control, and the cultivated land and pasture will be divided as soon as possible. Officials will be selected and the list will be submitted to me for review." Shao Xun waved his hand. said.
“As ordered.” Hu Wufu responded.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but he felt that Mr. Chen was a little anxious.
If we win a few more battles and recruit surrenders and rebels, won’t the north be unified? What's there to be anxious about?
Didn’t Cao Wei and Guo Chao all come here like this? Aren't they all good - well, maybe not so good.
But what other earth-shattering thing do you want to do?
(End of this chapter)