"Uncle, your majesty is so generous, why do they still want to fall into trouble?"
In Suyi, fourteen-year-old Huo Qubing raised his head on the blood-stained ground and asked Wei Qing about his doubts.
Instructing the new soldiers to detain the prisoners, Wei Qing said calmly without turning his head: "If you don't have enough to eat, you will fall asleep; if you don't wear warm clothes, you will become a bandit."
It has been more than a year to train new soldiers. The good families around Chang'an are generally good. In addition to their age, these people are ambitious and bloody, and are slightly better than the old soldiers of the Han Dynasty.
Since training, Wei Qing has led more than 10,000 people on frequent treks around Chang'an. Now they have reached Suyi, and they will reach Shuofang County further north.
"However, His Majesty's decrees are good. Whether it is the late emperor or Your Majesty, they are targeting the rich and powerful, but why are these people still not full?"
Wei Qing turned around and glanced at Huo Qubing, who had just reached his chest: "Qubing, you are still a little young. When you grow up, you will naturally know."
The Han Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, and the presence of refugees also lasted for hundreds of years. Whether it was the beginning of Liu Bang's founding of the Han Dynasty or the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, their shadows can be found throughout history books.
In other words, throughout Chinese history, the figure of refugees has never disappeared.
Wei Qing didn't know what would happen in the future, but he always lived by Liu Che's side and could clearly see and hear the behavior of Emperors Wen and Jing as well as Liu Che over the years. This all meant that they were suppressing military meritorious deeds.
It is contradictory to say that the Han Dynasty relied on military merit to establish the dynasty, but whether it was Liu Bang, Empress Lu or Wen Jing, they were constantly weakening the land rewards of military merit.
No one who holds the throne is stupid. They have always been aware of the land annexation problem caused by the disadvantages of military merit, but there is nothing they can do about it.
Fortunately, there is still a Xiongnu in front, and there is no excessive danger in the Han Dynasty. But one day, these suppressed refugees will rise up and change the world. Even then, they will still live a peaceful life. life today.
"Oh." Huo Qubing scratched his head in confusion and asked no more questions.
As the founding supervisor of the Yulin Army, he trained these new soldiers according to the specifications of the Yulin Army. More than ten thousand new soldiers cleared the battlefield. For the refugees, they had no ability to resist these people. .
"Go back to Suyi and garrison!"
"promise!"
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Wuhuan.
More than a hundred miles away from Wuhuan, in a pasture, near the water.
A one-story building covering an extremely large area is located here.
The building is paved with clean and flat cement floors, and numerous replica pig pens are dotted around it.
Most of these pig pens are now empty, with only a hundred or so holding piglets.
These pigs neither looked like the white pigs in Zhang Qi's impression, nor were they the black pigs found in the grasslands of Han Dynasty.
The pig's fur is gray in color, and it is hunched over the feeding trough and is constantly eating. The pig food is as sticky as porridge, and the only things that can be recognized are sorghum stalks, pumpkins and melon vines.
The floor of the entire pig farm has been spread with lime, and even now you can still see scattered white spots.
Zhang Qi walked in the aisles of pig pens and pig pens, followed by dozens of people.
"Your Majesty, the pig farm has carried out daily disinfecting tasks in strict accordance with your requirements. These piglets are growing very fast. According to current observations, they can be slaughtered within two years."
The manager of the pig farm is one of the thousand people Zhang Qi brought out last time, and the other people are recruited from Wuhuan City.
While watching, Zhang Qi nodded. If it weren't for the lack of modern equipment in the pig pen, Zhang Qi would have thought he was visiting a modern township pig farm.
It can be seen that the managers are very attentive.
"Well done. Let's raise these piglets first. When your people have enough experience, you can teach them to the people in Wuhuan and Xianbei. If you want to expand the scale, you still have to rely on the power of the people."
Zhang Qi patted the pig farm manager on the shoulder and walked quickly to leave. Although there were only a thousand or so piglets, the taste would not be reduced much because of the number.
The smell of feces and urine is overwhelming. Although the hygiene is done quickly, there are still some residues.
Regarding the treatment of excrement, the scarcity of fertilizers in this era led Zhang Qi to attach great importance to these pickled things. In addition to cow dung, which can also be used as heating material for people in winter, other excrement has special people responsible for collecting it and transporting it to Fermentation in sparsely populated compost pits.
Today, in addition to growing beans to increase nitrogen fertilizer in the land last year, Xianbei now also uses fermented black water to dilute and spray.
The nearly 400,000 acres of fields around Xianbei are now lush and green. With the farmers' careful care, this year's harvest is destined to be bumper.
Four hundred thousand acres of land is already the limit that Xianbei can cultivate. Unlike Wuhuan, Xianbei currently only has more than 70,000 people. Excluding gathering, smelting and other laborers, there are only more than 40,000 people who can be responsible for the fields. Four hundred thousand acres of land requires each person to be responsible for about ten acres on average.
In addition, the area of 400,000 acres is indeed not small. Today, Xianbei has begun to implement the village system and develops it in the form of militia and military settlements.
Except for the more than 30,000 people in the royal court, the others are distributed around the fields.
Military camps are a good thing. They can replenish the armed forces and allow a large number of herdsmen to get used to farming life.
However, due to manpower shortage, the land reclamation movement in Xianbei has now stopped.
Fortunately, this situation will not last long. When Wuhuan City is built, Zhang Qi will move a large number of Wuhuan people to Xianbei. By then, the fields can continue to be expanded.
Except pigs.
The breeding of chickens, ducks and geese is also in progress. Meat, eggs, milk, and milk can be produced by pigs, cattle, and sheep. Meat can be produced by pigs, cattle, and sheep, and milk can also be produced by pigs, cattle, and sheep, but eggs, they are really powerless.
Moreover, as the army expands, the consumption of arrows will naturally increase. If we only collect the birds in the Greater Khingan Mountains, it will not be long before there will be only a bunch of bare birds left in the Greater Khingan Mountains.
Arrow feathers are an important part of the arrow shaft. Although they can be replaced by hardened leather, the best ones are still bird feathers.
Production has always been linked to each other. Since poultry is to be raised, the food source of the poultry must also be raised.
Earth dragons, also known as earthworms, appeared in Zhang Qi's sight.
It is very good to mix earthworms into meat paste and mix it with hay for poultry breeding, not to mention that the by-products brought by earthworm breeding can also have the effect of fertilizing the fields.
Zhang Qi had no reason not to breed them.
Even the things needed to breed them are not lacking on the grassland.
All kinds of feces are their best breeding ground.
(End of chapter)
