Early the next morning.
Lu Mu early took a dozen people and rode about twenty horses to the southeast of the royal court.
There is a well-developed water system and a lot of flat land, which is the farmland area designated by Zhang Qiding.
Qu Yuuli and the others naturally took them with them, a dozen people and two.
The extra horses are used to pull the plow.
Horses are easier to plow than oxen. When there is a big difference in strength, horses are more obedient to commands.
However, the useful life of horses for plowing fields is not as long as that of cattle. Horses are often used up after a few years.
These are not a big deal in a grassland. The population is small in the early stage, and there are not many horses needed for plowing. Zhang Qi can afford it. Besides, if the number of horses is small, can't he still go to the grassland to rob them.
After running to the southeast for a while, Lu Mu didn't choose carefully. In Zhang Qi's words, now that the land is vast and sparsely populated, he can pee wherever he wants.
The ground was not completely loosened and was hard.
Lu Mu stepped on the ground, and the force of the shock made his feet numb.
"Let's start here, two horses and one plow, try to break the ground first."
Lu Mu told the dozen herdsmen behind him that these people were all followers of Zhang Qi, so Lu Mu led them without even needing guards.
Several herdsmen nodded respectfully, spit into the palms of their hands, and then wielded pickaxes made of fine steel to dig into the soil.
You can't do it without a pickaxe. Winter has only been a month, and the daily temperature has not risen much in the Northeast Plains in the north.
In the weather in February, the highest daily temperature where Zhang Qi is currently is no more than ten degrees, and at night, the temperature can reach below zero.
When the weather is cold, the ground is hard. Under such conditions, clearing land is a nightmare.
However, since Lu Mu took the initiative to ask for a battle, he would complete it no matter how difficult it was. Hearing that there were still most of the Xianbei soldiers in the royal court, he couldn't do it, so he brought them here.
The herdsmen dug the soil, and Lu Mu observed carefully. After a large hole appeared on the ground, he asked one person to set up the curved shaft plow, and one person controlled the two horses to use force at the same time.
Click, click, click.
The plowshares of the curved shaft plow were buried in the ground and were pulled forward by the horses.
The ground cracked, grass roots and stones were pulled out, and a ravine appeared on the ground.
Seeing that it was possible, Lu Mu quickly arranged for the next group, and the two curved shaft plows began to operate. Although the speed of plowing the ground was slow, it was slowly moving forward.
After plowing for more than ten meters, there was a click, and the connection between the wooden plow frame and the plowshare suddenly broke.
Lu Mu was startled, but did not panic. He came here today to test the curved shaft plow. Now he found that it can be used, but the frozen soil is too hard and the wooden plow frame cannot bear such a large pulling force.
After asking someone to pack up the broken plow frame, Lu Mu got on his horse, leaving a group of people to continue using the intact one, while he returned to the royal court with the broken plow frame.
In the royal court.
Zhang Qi is at the racecourse with Ma San at the moment.
The completed imperial army horses that were given to him last time were indeed pregnant as expected.
And according to Ma San's speculation, the pregnancy time of these horses has exceeded half a month.
He forgot to mention it when we were discussing the matter last night. When he woke up in the morning and personally served Zhang Qi's horse as usual, he suddenly remembered it and reported it quickly.
Zhang Qi was naturally extremely excited when he learned that the horse's horse was pregnant. Although most of the horse's genes were inherited from the father's line, the mother's genes were not inherited. As long as the pregnant mare could give birth to a stallion, he would be able to Relying on the flow rate to complete the gestation of several or even dozens of generations.
Change various physical attributes of the mixed-breed horse.
While caressing the imperial horses at the racecourse, they became very spiritual after being patched up, and they had a natural affinity for Zhang Qi, so they behaved extremely well-behaved when Zhang Qi stroked them.
"Everyone, be brave. Can I give that boy Temujin a test in advance? It depends on whether the genes in your body can compete with that stallion."
Holding the carrot of the riding and slashing world, Zhang Qi fed these imperial horses. After being intimate for a while, he found a place and took the six imperial horses back to the riding and slashing world.
Let the cubs take good care of him. He only needs to wait outside for about ten days, and these imperial army horses will give birth to cubs.
And when these cubs reach three years old, which is thirty or forty days in the outside world, these young horses will mature and enter the breeding stage.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Qi only needs one year to breed a super horse.
Combining high endurance, high explosive power, and high control, as long as Zhang Qi needs it, the entire Eurasian continent will become his back garden.
After sending the horse off, Zhang Qi returned to the outside world. He had a lot of things to deal with now, and it wouldn't be good if he disappeared for too long.
The Department of Justice is already being established, and it is now in the initial stage of concentrating. Zhang Qi has not set any harsh laws, only regulations that can improve stability such as no rape, robbery, fighting, and petty theft.
The royal court has entered a state of military control. There is no such thing as human rights. In short, everything must be obeyed by Zhang Qi. If you don't listen, your social status will be lowered and you will become a complete tool.
Military control has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that there is a high degree of unity and the energy can be used in one place. The disadvantage is that if Zhang Qi is cruel, then this place will turn into a hell on earth.
Fortunately, Zhang Qi is still ambitious, and it is not good to indulge in debauchery when there are millions or even tens of millions of people under his rule.
The more people there are, the more fun you can have.
When the time comes, Dilraba, Gulinaza, Malzaha and so on will come.
Let people know what it means to be happy when the wind blows, and the horse's hooves are anxious. From now on, the king will not go to court early.
He returned to the yurt to review a few inquiries sent by Hui Ren, and was about to discuss the specific matters of the 'Advent Day' with Na Qi when Lu Mu hurriedly walked in from outside.
"Mr. Lang."
Lu Mu entered the yurt and saluted Zhang Qi, then breathlessly took a sip from the water bag carefully handed over by the female soldier.
"Lang Jun, the plow you gave is very useful, but the frozen soil is too hard now and the wooden plow frame cannot support it for a long time, so I thought, could you give me a batch of plows made of pure iron?"
Lu Mu told him his purpose and asked someone to hand the broken plow frame to Zhang Qi to see.
Zhang Qi saw the pieces of wood, put down the charcoal in his hand, and picked up a piece.
Indeed, as Lu Mu said, the connection between the plowshare and the plow frame was the most severely damaged area.
If you want to cultivate enough fields before the Northeast Plains can be planted, it may be difficult to just use this ordinary curved shaft plow.
Zhang Qi frowned and thought for a moment.
Not to mention being made of pure iron, just by reinforcing the joints with steel and then covering them with iron materials, the amount of iron used in this set of curved shaft plows will increase dramatically.
Moreover, if it is reinforced with steel, it must be completed in the world of riding and cutting. At that time, the price of a curved shaft plow will not be lighter than that of a person.
Seeing Zhang Qi thinking, everyone in the yurt closed their mouths.
After a long time, Zhang Qi slowly said: "I know, I'll think of a way, and I'll give you ten of them tomorrow."
In the end, Zhang Qi chose to use plows and dinars. No matter how much he spent, it was not as important as the development of the outside world.
(End of chapter)
