Seeing An Sanxi, thirty centurions dismounted collectively, ran over, ran three steps in front of An Sanxi, knelt down on one leg in uniform, put their right hands on their chests, bowed their heads and said respectfully: "I'm attending the farewell ceremony." .”
"Get up, all of you, you are all my good brothers," An Sanxi also said with red eyes. "I never thought we would see each other again on the grassland one day."
"Farewell Zhe, we are coming with our tribe and our ponies to follow your footsteps non-stop. Please lead us to attack those who betrayed the prince and make them pay the price for their treachery." Mu Qinglu said loudly.
"My brother, don't worry. The princess is here. We will recruit troops first, and then go one by one to settle accounts with those who killed the prince. None of them can escape. I swear to Changshengtian here that I will chase them to the end of the sky. , and asked them to capture them one by one and sacrifice them before the souls of the prince and princess."
"It turned out to be Zhebiexu's death."
"Se Lengge, kill the cows, slaughter the sheep, and bring out the pear blossom liquor. I want to have a good drink with my brothers to comfort myself after ten years of separation."
On that day, the tribe had a wild carnival, jars of strong wine were opened, roasted sheep were sizzling with oil, and countless roasted naan cakes were brought up.
His brothers were all very drunk. Everyone was very happy. The princess also came out to accept everyone's visit and drank the kumiss offered by everyone.
An Sanxi didn't feel bad about killing the sheep at all, even though he was not rich now, with many people and few livestock.
Yang Fan has promised to provide enough food. Don't worry about food. Let go of recruiting troops and buying horses, recruiting surrenders and accepting rebels.
Yang Fan also plans to replace all cattle, sheep and livestock. This will increase productivity and improve the lives of herders. This is more important than anything else. More convincing than anything else.
The sheep need to be replaced by fine wool sheep, and this fine wool can develop the textile industry. The current local wool is too hard, making clothes scratch the skin and making it uncomfortable. Can only be used to make felt.
The cows need to be replaced by Sanhe Friesian cows, which produce a lot of milk. Far more than native cattle. It produces more than four tons of milk a year. After retirement, you can also become a beef cattle.
In addition to local horses, Don hippos and Arabian horses will be added. Crossbreeds were bred and excellent horses adapted to the local environment were gradually developed.
In the future, wells will be dug around the castle for irrigation, highly nutritious pasture will be planted, and long-term storage of green fodder will be produced. It ensures that you can settle down and raise livestock all year round.
There were hundreds of captured prairie horse thieves working hard at the quarry. The coolies used steel drills to drill holes, and the soldiers filled them with fertilizer and explosives, then blew up the mountains and built houses with the quarried stones. Let the herders settle down.
In this way, the livestock capacity of the same piece of pasture will be greatly increased, and more people can be fed in a smaller area.
The way we live on the grasslands now requires 3,000 acres of pasture to support a family. That is about two square kilometers of land, and the nomads need to be moved throughout the year to avoid destroying the grass roots and turning the place into a desert next year.
It seems that at least ten square kilometers are enough for a family to be nomadic. Therefore, there are very few people on the grassland and development has never been possible.
If the animal husbandry industry wants to develop greatly, it needs a large number of experienced herders. Yang Fan needs to lure the herdsmen from Taiji and the herdsmen. Come and herd his sheep.
Yang Fan has begun to prepare to solve the problem of grassland invasion of the Central Plains for thousands of years.
That is to settle down, combine agriculture and animal husbandry, and develop a collective economy. Instead, new breeds of cattle and sheep were raised, and the woolen textile industry was developed. In this way, the hinterland will become a trading partner of the grassland instead of an object of plunder.
Herdsmen are accustomed to relying on trade rather than war to obtain winter food, so that they can truly extinguish the flames of war along the Great Wall.
These three thousand herdsmen families belong to An Sanxi's subordinates.
They also brought many Torgut tribesmen. They heard about Jebe's deeds and yearned for Jebe's ideas and stance.
The valleys are full of herdsmen and slaves who are willing to come and seek refuge, but there is no chance to escape.
They had already had enough of those fat-headed Taijis. They heard that Jebie gave everyone cattle, sheep, and grazing land. Everyone is distributed according to their work. Countless people came running after him.
An Sanxi was so happy that he brought over 10,000 herdsmen at once.
The Torgut and Ordos tribes suffered heavy losses. Ansanxi planned to push further west, defeat several tribes between it and the Torgut tribe, and annex them.
This would expand the population to 100,000 people. One hundred thousand people would be a proper big tribe.
The total population of Lindan Khan's Chahar tribe will not exceed 600,000. With one hundred thousand cavalry, they are already the most powerful force on the grassland.
According to Yang Fan's plan, in the future, the grassland here will combine agriculture and animal husbandry. We should also develop light industries such as wool textiles, leather, and meat processing.
The pastures in this area are actually good, but they are too close to the Great Wall, and the Mongolian tribes are not willing to stay here any longer. Feeling unsafe.
The weather has become colder and drier in recent years. If we use underground water for irrigation, we can plant high-quality alfalfa and sweet stalks, and then make silage fodder in the autumn. Enough to feed livestock for a winter.
In winter, livestock can be packed into stone houses so that they can spend the winter safely indoors even if there is no heating.
After all, the stone house blocks the cold wind. Silage provides adequate nutrition. Even livestock born in winter can survive.
Besides, there is no shortage of coal mines in Inner Mongolia. Small open-pit coal mines are everywhere. Zunhua has no shortage of iron and can provide hundreds of thousands of iron stoves. Whether it is people or livestock, heating is not a problem.
The next day, Ansanxi distributed the first batch of completed tube buildings to these 3,000 herdsmen households. These tube towers surround his military camp.
Those who can live here are military officers and some administrative staff. Including what kind of commercial organization Yang Fan is stationed here.
He planned to ask Yang Fan for instructions from these old troops to form a separate cavalry regiment. From now on, these people will serve as the cavalry regiment directly under the cavalry regiment and be used as his personal soldiers. In the future, no matter how large the cavalry force develops, these people will be used as personal soldiers.
Everyone got excited when they heard that they would be assigned a house as soon as they arrived. After all, they all fled here and threw away their felt bags and everything else. Nothing is missing now.
An Sanxi directly followed the standards for guarding Qianhu Station and provided all the supplies.
Thirty centurions followed their zebel to see the house. I didn't expect the conditions here to be so good. Surprisingly, instead of living in a felt bag, I can live in a house like the one in Han Dynasty.
This earth building is so tall and scary that it looks like it is a big stone and very solid. It feels like it can live for hundreds of years without getting damaged.
This earth building is also built of cement and stone, across the river from the Bastille. On the west side of the river.
The centurions were all assigned houses. Each apartment has three bedrooms and one living room. Mongolians have never seen buildings. The catwalks and stairs fooled them.
The tallest building in the earth building is the water tower, which is also a watchtower. The water was pumped from the well to a high level step by step by manpower, and then flowed down by itself using iron pipes. It became tap water.
Every household has installed running water, flush toilets, and sewers. There are garbage shafts on each floor. Life is too comfortable.
Seeing the running water, Mu Qinglu and others were stunned. I almost cried with excitement when I saw a cast iron stove that burned coal.
Zhebie was so kind to his old brothers. Iron was so precious that Zhebie was willing to give each of his old brothers an iron stove. This thing is much heavier than an iron pot.
Mu Qinglu returned to his new home drunk that night. His wife quickly helped him in, and the three children stared at him with their little eyes.
"Head of the family, Zhebie is still the same Zhebie he was back then. He was so kind to us." She wiped away her tears.
Mu Qinglu saw that the furniture at home was all made of elm wood. Although there was no paint, the purple-red color of the yellow elm wood was just as beautiful.
The floors are all covered with floors, and you have to take off your shoes at the door when entering the house. There are plenty of beds, bedding, and pots and pans at home.
"In the afternoon, you go to Zhebie's place and someone will move it here. Now we don't lack anything. I heard that the children can still go to school."
Mu Qinglu didn't say anything. What he saw today shocked him too much.
"From now on, our family will follow Zhe and never go anywhere. Uh,"
Seeing that he was about to vomit, his wife quickly brought the wooden trash can over. Let him hang his back.
After vomiting for a while, Mu Qinglu felt the urge to drink. The Lotus Baijiu was too strong, but he liked it too much. Zhebie was right, this is what men drink.
"I won't go there, so I'll follow Zhe. It's so happy, and I won't go there either."
The voice gradually died down, and Mu Qinglu fell down on the solid elm bed with a roar like an iron tower. It made a loud noise that shook the earth.
Snoring began.
She silently took off his robe and boots, laid him down, and covered him with the quilt. I wiped my tears and went to the kitchen to look at the casserole on the iron stove, with rice porridge cooking in it.
Food is very precious on the grassland, because food can be stored for many years, but meat cannot be stored. Having a bag of grain can even save a family's life when food is cut off in winter.
Coarse grains are at sky-high prices. Today, Zhebie actually gave every centurion a full load of white rice. She thought she was dazzled and grabbed several handfuls before confirming that it was white rice.
She had never eaten white rice more than once in her life. She couldn't bear to cook dry rice, so she cooked a casserole of white rice porridge for her three children.
Looking at the eldest daughter Haas (Yu Shi) and her two younger brothers, they were scratching the door frame, staring intently at the white rice porridge churning in the casserole, with a longing expression on their little faces.
"It'll be ready soon. Haas, bring the stainless steel basins for your two brothers. I'll serve you porridge now."
After speaking, I filled a large bowl for Hass and set it aside to cool down. The two little boys had to use that kind of steel basin, and one side broke the porcelain bowl.
Porcelain on the grassland is a good thing that only gentlemen can afford.
After thinking about it, she gritted her teeth again, took out a piece of pickle from the jar, carefully chopped some, and put a little in the bowls for the three children.
Salt is even more rare on the grassland than in the mainland. Unexpectedly, a jar of twenty kilograms of pickles was delivered in the afternoon.
Seeing the three children wolfing down porridge and eating pickles, she couldn't help but shed tears again.
Since these soldiers and horses were divided up by Taiji, their lives have plummeted. Taiji not only coveted these elite soldiers, but also distrusted them. When distributing supplies, they treated them like stepmothers and were ostracized.
It had been a long time since the children had had enough to eat. Now they are fine. Zhebie has returned to the grassland. They had something to rely on again. No need to rely on others anymore.
