Li Ke originally wanted to ask, but he held back. The main thing is to ask others how others praise themselves. This seems... a little wrong. Although he is shameless enough, he is not so shameless. In the past few years, his shame has grown back a lot.
"Well, yes, everyone can tell the truth, but we still have to consider the actual situation. In fact, if everyone takes a step back, there is no unexplainable contradiction. To put it bluntly, these contradictions are very small things." Li Ke laughed. He nodded and said.
"Let's go and take a look inside your house." Putting this matter behind his mind for the time being, Li Ke went about his own business first.
After entering Tiechui's village, it was different from the previous villages in the Hehuang Valley. Although the distance between each household was relatively close, it was relatively speaking. In fact, each household had a very close one. A large livestock pen can contain various livestock, so it covers a larger area.
Moreover, these livestock pens also take into consideration issues such as retting and fertilization, and have reserved roads, and the position where they are kept is relatively low.
You can smell the faint smell of livestock manure in the village, but it is very light. Because the ventilation here is good, the smell will dissipate quickly.
The houses in the village are not small in size. They are basically one main house and two side houses. The side houses are built relatively low and have no large windows. There is only one small window for lighting.
"Why are these side houses built like this?" Li Ke asked curiously. If you don't understand, just ask. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. He's not omnipotent with these things.
"This is improved based on local conditions. The local environment is relatively dry. Although there are only small windows and thickened walls, it will not be damp. On the contrary, such a low side room will be cooler in summer and can store some things. , for example, dairy products are not easy to spoil.”
"Your Highness, actually this side room looks relatively small from the outside, but it is actually about a foot deep underneath, so it looks small, but the space inside is not small." Iron Hammer introduced.
"Go in and take a look." Li Ke was very interested. This was a method improved based on local experience.
Pushing open the door of the side room and going inside, Li Ke felt that it was much warmer than the outside world. It was the coldest time in winter, but the temperature here was much warmer than the outside world.
Tie Hammer and the others lit an oil lamp next to them. Li Ke looked at the environment here. The side house also had a stone foundation and was built with adobe. As Tie Hammer said, the actual ground of the side house was one foot shorter than the ground outside. , so the space inside is high enough.
The threshold is specially raised to prevent rainwater from entering when it rains.
There is also a stove in the side room, but there is no fire kang here. In addition, there is a separate granary in the innermost part of the side room.
There is about a foot between the four walls of the granary and the walls around the side house, and the bottom of the granary is also raised with a stone foundation. It is suspended. Li Ke also saw that the granary was designed in this way to prevent rats. .
In this case, it is almost impossible for rats to enter the granary from all places.
The walls of this granary are not very thick, and its bottom is also suspended. If there is a hole, it can be easily discovered.
There is already food in the granary, and there are also many tools in the side room, as well as various pottery basins and pottery urns.
Li Ke opened the lid of a pottery urn and saw some frozen meat and dairy products inside, which were obviously prepared for the New Year. At this temperature, this place is a natural refrigerator.
"Have you learned the pickling method of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Ke remembered something and asked with a smile.
"I understand, Your Highness is here." The owner of this family hurriedly walked to a large vat nearby and took off the lid.
Li Ke walked over and took a look, my dear, the pickled vegetables in it were sauerkraut.
Wash the whole cabbage, press it into a vat, and sprinkle it with salt. This can still be seen in the Northeast more than a thousand years later. Now Li Ke has just brought it forward. Of course, the reason why this can be done here can be regarded as a geographical advantage. After all, it is next to Chaka Salt Lake.
The salt here is naturally very cheap. Compared with the inside of Datang, it is naturally very cheap.
The salt used for pickling vegetables was naturally the cheapest salt they bought, but this kind of salt was considered to be the best salt in the past.
They pickled two large tanks of pickled vegetables like this. In addition, there was also a large tank of pickled vegetables, which were made by directly pickling radish, cabbage, cabbage, garlic, etc. together. To them, this was It is the most important meal in winter.
It seems that these herders have learned to dig a small part of their farmland and use it to grow vegetables.
"Very good. I feel relieved after seeing this. In this case, you can eat some pickles even in winter. These pickles can relieve your tiredness and make your food richer."
"Do you grow all these vegetables yourself?" Li Ke asked with a smile and nod.
"When I return to Your Highness, some of it is grown by us. Our place is fine and we can grow it, but there are some places where we can't grow vegetables. They buy them directly."
"Like Chinese cabbage, in the Hehuang Valley, after the wheat is harvested, the wheat fields are plowed, and then the seeds of Chinese cabbage are sown. In late autumn, the harvest is just in time. In late autumn, waiting in Chihai City There are markets in several places, and everyone comes from one village and buys more than a dozen carts of Chinese cabbage, or directly replaces it with some dairy products, mutton, etc."
"So everyone gets what he needs. Now that the cattle and sheep are our own, the cattle and sheep harvested every year are enough to eat." Tie Zhui explained seriously.
"Yes, but you still have to be careful. I know that on the grasslands, people are accustomed to using the number of cattle and sheep to show their wealth. Many people like to have a lot of cattle and sheep."
"But firstly, you have to consider the carrying capacity of individual pastures, that is, how many cattle and sheep each person's pasture can accommodate at most. You must know it well. Secondly, there is the risk of too many cattle and sheep."
"You are all herdsmen, so you should know better than me. There is a saying in the Central Plains that if a family has a lot of money, it does not count those with fur. It is because livestock is too risky."
"If there are too many livestock, sometimes a natural disaster or a disease among cattle and sheep will lead to the death of a large number of cattle and sheep."
"So it is enough to maintain a certain number of cattle and sheep. More is not always better."
"Excess cattle and sheep can be sold, and then turned into some fixed property, etc. In this regard, in the future, the court will definitely introduce some tools suitable for use on the grassland, etc." Li Ke nodded and said.
