"Sit." Li Ke pointed to the chair next to him. Fang Xuanling was here, and no one else could come to attract attention.
After Fang Xuanling sat down, Li Ke asked, "If you have anything to do, please just tell me, Mr. Liang Guogong."
"It's like this, Your Highness, the overall follow-up policy for Hanhai Prefecture has almost been formulated. However, there is one thing I want to ask Your Highness, that is, whether Hanhai Prefecture and the surrounding herdsmen will adopt the same policy as Qinghai, or formulate a completely new one. Policy?" Fang Xuanling asked.
"What aspect are you referring to?" Li Ke was a little confused. Hasn't this been discussed before? Overall, it must be the same as Qinghai.
"Regarding the division of pastures, should we follow the method of Qinghai Prefecture and divide fixed pastures for all herdsmen so that they can graze their sheep, so that these herdsmen can convert from nomadic herding to fixed grazing, or should we formulate a completely new policy? Still support their nomadism?" Fang Xuanling asked.
Li Ke frowned. This is indeed a problem. The entire Hanhai Prefecture is somewhat different from Qinghai. First of all, the population of Xue Yantuo is much lower than the herdsman population near Hanhai Prefecture.
Secondly, the main areas for nomads near Qinghai Prefecture were the Hehuang Valley, Qinghai Lake, Red Sea and other places, and then near the source of the Sanjiang River.
To be precise, the nomadic areas are not large. After fixing the herdsmen in these places, coupled with Qinghai Prefecture's early strategic location and material transit location, and the Hehuang Valley began to grow food, Qinghai Prefecture's food supplement There's enough time.
But Hanhai Prefecture is different. If the number of livestock in Hanhai Prefecture is calculated based on Xue Yantuo's population, it will be at least 30 million. If this number of livestock is fixed locally, how to deal with hay in winter?
Although alfalfa is high-quality forage, there are not many areas in Hanhai Prefecture that meet the conditions for planting it, which means that the amount of forage that can be replenished in winter is not very large.
The amount of pasture these livestock require is a huge amount.
Of course, it is not impossible to allocate land and fix the residences of herdsmen. It can be combined with some distribution methods in later generations, but the amount of such a project is not a small number.
"I have a few ways, but I'm not sure if I can implement them." Li Ke thought for a while, he was not omnipotent, and whether he could implement them was unknown.
He also needs professionals in this world to help with calculations.
"Well, Tian Meng hasn't set off yet, right?" Li Ke asked.
"No."
"Let's go and find them. By the way, I asked someone to find Li Yan and Li Shangshu. They said that I need a few professional people who can calculate. In addition, I asked Shi Yu to find some people in Qinghai Prefecture and come to Qin Wangzhuang outside the city. Me." Li Ke said helplessly.
"yes."
Naturally, Fang Xuanling did not need to go to the notification, but was left to the guards to notify. Li Ke took Fang Xuanling back to Qinwangzhuang.
He was a little helpless. Hey, he was planning to spend a few days at Qin Wangzhuang, but Fang Xuanling came to find him. The main reason was that only Li Ke could handle this matter, which was very painful.
After returning to Qinwangzhuang and waiting for more than an hour, the talents Li Ke needed arrived here. People who were better at calculations were also watching, and Tian Meng naturally came over.
"That's right, you guys who came back from Qinghai, have you ever calculated how much pasture is needed to feed one sheep, one horse, and one cow? Give a rough number." Li Ke asked.
"Your Highness, this is not difficult. In fact, based on the number of cattle, sheep and horses in Tuyuhun that we previously counted, and the amount of land we currently count, we can roughly calculate it." A person said immediately.
"Give me a rough number." Li Ke said directly.
The following people immediately started calculating with relevant data, and they discussed a lot in the process.
About half an hour later, one of them said: "Your Highness, according to our calculations, the pasture area required to feed one livestock is approximately 1,000-1,500 square meters. This is based on comprehensive calculations." Yes, in fact, if high-quality pasture such as alfalfa is planted, 50 square meters can feed a sheep."
"But if it is a purely natural pasture, considering that some very barren grasslands and grassland with rich water and grass require different areas, and the forage that cattle, sheep and horses eat is also different, we based on the cattle and sheep of Xue Yantuo's original herdsmen. The proportion of horses is roughly estimated. The average pasture area required to support one livestock on the grassland must reach this number to be able to fully support it." This person quickly reported to Li Ke.
(This number is roughly calculated by referring to the actual number of pastures and livestock in Mongolia, because most of Mongolia still maintains the primitive grazing method, and the water grass in ancient times is better than the modern one. If it is land professionally planted with grass , it must be much smaller than this number. In addition, the difference between pasture and pasture is also very large.)
"Yes." Li Ke nodded, then turned to Fang Xuanling and the others and said, "Actually, the way of maintaining their nomadic life and the way of maintaining their fixed residence have their own advantages and disadvantages."
“One of the reasons why prairie people are nomadic is because they stay in one pasture in the summer and go to another pasture that has not been eaten by cattle and sheep in the winter. In winter, they let the cattle and sheep find hay to survive, basically chasing rivers.”
“Because cattle and sheep are the species they live on on the grassland.”
"The second is that nomadic herders on the grassland cannot be nomadic alone, nor can they be nomadic in several families. Their nomadic groups are often relatively large. The main reason is to prevent a large number of wild animals on the grassland, and the second is safety issues. It is also common for small tribes to plunder each other." Li Ke said.
"So, if they are allowed to be nomadic, it will be very difficult to find people once anything happens. In this case, their sense of belonging to our rule will be reduced."
Li Ke said that he had carefully learned about the herdsmen of Tuyuhun when he was in Qinghai. The grasslands of this era were very different from those of later generations. The simplest point is that on the grasslands of this period, the number of wolves far exceeded Imagine.
Later generations had a population of 400 million at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the population on the grasslands was far greater than that of the Tang Dynasty today. Even so, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, large-scale wolf clearing activities were carried out on the grasslands.
In this era, one can imagine how many wolves and other wild animals there are.
In order to ensure the safety of themselves and their livestock, herdsmen on the grasslands cannot herd alone. At least several families must herd together. Otherwise, safety cannot be guaranteed.
Another point is that there are always natural and man-made disasters on the grasslands. Take Xue Yantuo as an example. There are countless small tribes under Xue Yantuo's name. Among these small tribes, if a natural disaster occurs to the livestock of a certain tribe and causes large-scale deaths, this If a tribe wants to survive, there will be the possibility of sneak attacks on other surrounding small tribes and robbing sheep, cattle, and horses.
The distance between the various tribes on the grassland is very long. These tribes fight with each other, and many times the people above are unable to stop them.
Of course, unless absolutely necessary, small tribes belonging to the same big tribe will not conquer each other.
Therefore, if the current nomadic way is maintained, some policies of the Tang Dynasty cannot be implemented well, and Li Ke plans to combine some policies of later generations of Inner Mongolia with some of the current nomadic policies.
