Chapter 92: The Animal Husbandry Revolution

Daning City is the place where the Ming army is garrisoned, and Fang Jin is stationed here. The Daning garrison had 15,000 men.

Among them were 5,000 horsemen.

The tribes of Uliangha have been reorganized and organized according to the system of the guards, and the three guards of the Wuliangha have become veritable Daming guards.

Of course, the officers of the guards at all levels are still the leaders of the tribes, but their high-ranking nobles have all arrived in the city of Beijing, and they are under the control of Fang Jin in the city of Daning.

But moderation is temperance.

Half of Fang Jin's mind was to guard against these Mongols.

What if something happens to them?

Therefore, Fang Jin did not allow the Mongols to enter Daning City, and only allowed them to build camps near Daning City, and one camp after another was set up outside.

Duanmurui came here in the summer, and most of these camps were built by him, and at the same time, the silage pits were naturally built. I don't know how many silage pits there are in this area.

In fact, if you really want to talk about this technology, it has no technical content, it is nothing more than watering and burying the grass to isolate oxygen. Of course, there are some small details to pay attention to.

But by and large, not much worse.

The rest is just hard work.

In this era, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Mongolia, manpower is the most valuable, and it is also the least valuable.

It is an indisputable truth that the most valuable thing is naturally the strength of the people, but as for the least valuable, because no one is willing to pay for the strength of the people.

Therefore, when Duanmur Rui, in the name of the emperor, instructed the Mongols to do this, although the Mongols were full of complaints. But in the face of the strong Ming army, they didn't dare to say anything.

Plus they also have to get a lot of things from the Ming army.

It's just that they never thought of it. This thing really plays a big role in the winter.

In the middle of heavy snow.

Duanmurui brought the leaders of the Mongolian tribes, and even Fang Jin came to see.

The reason why Fang Jin came was because it was explained by the emperor himself, although Zhu Qizhen felt that he had to explain how many things he had to explain every day.

But in fact, Zhu Qizhen does not personally explain many things every day, and more approves the opinions of the cabinet. Now even if Zhu Qizhen approved a lot of things, put it in the Ming Dynasty, two capitals and thirteen, not fifteen provinces, plus Liaodong, and North Korea.

There are not many things distributed in each place.

Naturally, it is highly valued by the local community.

Duanmuri took matters into his own hands and excavated a silage cellar. Inside there was green silage with juice.

Immediately someone put the silage in the stable.

The horses, who had never seen any of these things, stepped forward to sniff lightly. As if he had discovered something, he immediately ate the silage cleanly.

Because since the beginning of winter, the snow has fallen, and the herdsmen have accumulated

The fodder was also eaten. The animals had been hungry for a while.

Some people have even started slaughtering livestock.

Some people may think that it is normal to slaughter livestock, after all, what do these herders eat if they don't kill livestock? 、

Many people have the illusion that nomads also ate meat every day in ancient times, but this is not the case, and in ancient times, low-level herders lived more on dairy products.

Horses, sheep, cows, and camels are all very important possessions for them.

Even if there is slaughter, it is very limited.

These animals are more of a means of production.

Sold into the customs in exchange for grain or other materials necessary for production. Instead of eating meat in a single meal.

That's why the Watts are so dependent on tributary trade. caused by the economic structure of both sides.

Watching the horse munch on silage, the herders became excited.

Animals seem to have an instinct that they instinctively know what is edible for them and what is not edible for them. to prevent them from eating poisonous food.

Of course, this is not 100% true.

When dealing with the products of nature, it also has a fairly high accuracy rate.

Since Marken eats silage, then it is said that this silage is not a problem in a high probability.

In fact, I don't know how many times silage has been experimented in the capital. There is no risk in the decision, of course, there may be some problems in the high probability. But this is also a minor issue.

It's just that the local herders don't believe it.

After all, for the Mongols, it was about how to raise livestock.

They are the professionals, and they don't believe in the technology of the Han people so much. These animals are their lifeblood, fundamental, so they would rather stand up to Duanmurui and take a look at it again.

Duanmu Rui is also by them.

So a group of high-ranking and powerful people gathered around the horse pen, looking at a horse that was simply isolated, and after eating the silage, they regurgitated leisurely.

"Alright." The more an old man looked at it, the more surprised he became, and said, "No problem. ”

"Plop", I don't know which one of the Mongols knelt on the ground first, kowtowed to the south, and said, "Long live the Great Emperor." ”

For a time, countless Mongolians kowtowed in the direction of Beijing, saying everything, showing some incoherent speech.

Let Duanmu Rui and Fang Jin also have to kneel down and salute.

After their passion subsided, Duanmu Rui ordered the silage cellars to be opened and the animals began to be fed, but there were problems of one kind or another.

First of all, silage is not enough.

Although Duanmurui has a lot of silage cellars in reserve, it is also a very large amount of work to fill these silage cellars with pastures, so that it cannot be said that Mongolian herders are lazy.

But they don't believe much in it after all. This skeptical sentiment has affected the work of reserves.

Also, some silage cellars are out of order.

Although the silage cellar is to dig a pit in the ground, and then bury the moist hay in it, and bury it with a seal. The most important thing is to keep out the air.

But after all, this is the first time to do it, although Duanmurui has brought a lot of technicians from the capital, but compared to the scale of raising war horses in Beijing, the scale here in Daning is much larger.

There are also not enough technicians.

As a result, a considerable number of silage cellars have been turned directly from silage into fertilizer. When you pick it up, everything becomes farmhouse fertilizer.

There's no way around it.

Even so, the silage was enough for a significant number of animals to survive, and even if some died, it had already allowed the herders to survive the best possible year.

However, silage alone cannot solve all the problems of pastoralists.

Keeping livestock warm is also a considerable issue.

Mongolian nomadic tribes, they do not have a fixed enclosure, and even if they do, it is very rudimentary, only restricting livestock from running around, and it does not have the function of keeping warm.

Normally, these animals will just be close together, huddled together to keep warm.

But there were still outlying animals that froze to death.

Duanmurui also understood why the emperor valued the silage method at this moment.

The reason why the herdsmen did not want to build a good warm livestock cellar was because they could not even guarantee forage in winter, and the livestock would inevitably starve to death and lose fat in winter.

This is also the reason why the nomadic tribes go south in the autumn, because they spend the whole spring and summer to raise their fat.

And the presence of silage breaks this.

After the forage problem is solved, the herders have the energy to find the next solution, such as building a warm livestock pen.

Matching with silage.

And when a warm livestock pen is built, that's when settlement begins.

A part of the place north of the border of the Ming Dynasty is suitable for farming and grazing.

Although the grain harvest is not good, as long as a little can be grown, it can make up for the lack of food for the herders.

In addition, Duanmurui also knew that Shaofu planned from Xuanfu to Daning, from Datong to Kaiping, and from Yatouguan along the Yellow River to Dongshengwei.

These three gallops.

In the future, the Monan grassland is likely to be built on both sides of the road, with small plots of cultivated land near the settlement, and large areas of divided grassland away from the settlement.

A few large cities, which play more of a role in trade.

In this way, I don't understand what Mobei looks like, but Monan Mongolia can be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and even the county system can be implemented in the mainland.

Duanmuri may not know what the economic base determines the superstructure. But he clearly felt this, and even more felt his future.

If Mo Nan County, who is more suitable to be a magistrate than him?

For a time, he was full of passion in the promotion of silage.