One of the advantages of eating meat is that after the oil is sufficient, there will be much less food to eat, so Zou Yu has not let people stop to expand the scale of breeding.

It is not the same thing for the grassland to be empty, in addition to the establishment of Dingxiang, two horse farms in the clouds, and a large area of open space, but there are not enough manpower to develop it for the time being, so Zou Yu feels that in the way of driving sheep, a large number of sheep are concentrated, from spring to autumn, nomadic in the entire grassland!

Drove out the Turks, now most of the grassland, have become Zou Yu's own land, originally the grassland is in the form of tribes, each family occupies a large area for grazing, now there is not so much attention, where the water and grass are the best, where to graze!

After statistics, after the beginning of spring next year, there can be as many as 500,000 sheep, tens of thousands of calves, and 30,000 foals, driven to the grassland to go to nomadism.

This is to gather most of the sheep, the ox is a calf, and cannot help with the ploughing, and the horse is a foal, which cannot be ridden or used to pull a cart.

One of the advantages of this concentration is that it frees up more manpower and allows the people on the ranch to grow more land! At the same time, after the beginning of spring, cattle and sheep eat grass in the grassland until the beginning of winter, saving a lot of feed.

This way, only the government comes forward, can do, even if it is a tribe of nomads, they are also divided into open grazing, after all, there are too many cattle and sheep, a place is simply not enough for them to eat, and the farther place, may be someone else's territory, and need to move more frequently.

Hundreds of thousands of sheep, divided into ten groups, will pass through the grassland as if they were ploughing the land until winter, and before that, they will return to the gate and return the cattle and sheep to their owners.

The entire grazing operation will dispatch 10,000 female herdsmen, 3,000 soldiers, and 1,000 sheepdogs! The role of the soldiers is to guard against possible attacks, and the second is to clear the wolves of the steppe so as not to threaten the sheep.

Although most of the Turks have fled to the depths of the steppe, it is not excluded that there are still small tribes that are lucky enough to stay near the Great Wall.

Dingxiang, the garrison in the clouds, will also support the grazing people on the grassland at any time, so there is still no big problem with security, especially if there are a large number of sheepdogs, and the sneak attack of wild beasts is very small, which also makes the herding people much easier.

The food and salaries of the herdsmen were partly provided by the herdsmen who provided the cattle and sheep, after all, it was to help them graze, and the other was provided by the imperial court, which had a large part of the cattle and sheep.

Of course, 500,000 sheep can produce enough wool to pay their salaries, and there is still a surplus.

Cattle and sheep breeding will be carried out separately in the future, ewes and breeding sheep are still in captivity, and the rest of the sheep are used as meat sheep and lambs, and they go to the grassland for intensive grazing every year.

In this way, the yield and quality of sheep will be greatly improved, and the goat's milk and wool will not be delayed.

As for whether it would be a waste of manpower to graze with soldiers, after all, the living and expenses of soldiers are greater, which is not at all, because they also have a task of cleaning up the small tribes of the steppe, and clearing the countless hares and prowls on the grassland.

Those huge numbers of animals just provide meat for them and the dogs, and Zou Yu has always been very much in favor of the idea of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, and to find enough food from nature and form an industry, that is the best.

Zou Yu remembers that in the rainforest, many tribes, even in later generations, were reluctant to farm because they could get enough food from nature to keep them from going hungry.

This is also why the laziest tribes in later generations are those tribes in Southeast Asia and South Africa, because of the habit of not lacking food for a long time.

If you are lazy, you will be poor, but Zou Yu is not worried about raising the people under his rule lazy, because the people of the Central Plains, from ancient times to the present, are the most hard-working people, this is a habit that is deeply rooted in the bones, and it will not change because of this, whether it is in a comfortable or difficult environment.

What's more, the north doesn't have as much food as the tropical rainforest, so it's good to be able to find a lot of supplies from nature.

As for the herders, there is one more income, and that is to hunt for mushrooms! Every spring and summer, there are a lot of mushrooms on the grassland, and when they are collected, they can not only eat themselves, but also dry and transport them back.

Mushrooms are delicious and belong to the favorite of the aristocracy, especially in winter, when fresh vegetables are scarce, and dried pickles in summer are their favorites, not to mention the delicious mushrooms!

The yield of mushrooms and fungus is not low, but Zou Yu didn't know how to cultivate seeds for this thing, so he also handed it over to Yang Yu and asked him to study it slowly.

It must be a very good thing to be able to produce one more food, wild fungus production is limited, and the same is true for mushrooms, if a way can be found to cultivate seeds, the people will have a more convenient food, after all, their growth cycle is very short! At least in Zou Yu's impression, there is no food with a shorter growth cycle than them, except for bean sprouts!

Yang Yu was also very interested, and he got a lot of rotten wood in Jinyang and was experimenting.

Of course, wood chips are mixed with animal manure to grow mushrooms, which is what Zou Yu told him, but the seeds are the biggest problem.

I don't have to think about it for a short time, Zou Yu spent the first New Year of his accession to the throne, with Emperor Qin ascending the throne as the first year of China, and after the New Year, it happened to be 866 years of the Chinese calendar!

In the new year, everything is going on in an orderly manner, Zou Yu has been secretly glad many times that he took Luoyang and got the hidden grain of Hanjia's granary, so that he can keep raising so many captives to build roads without a food crisis.

From Jinyang to Liaodong, north to Mayi, at least the main road between the counties, has been completely repaired, and the next step is to connect the newly occupied places last year, especially the two roads leading to Dingxiang and Luoyang!

The captives who started to build the road have been building for three years, and there is still more than a year to go, and their labor reform time is coming, but this time Zou Yu did not plan to let them build the road all the time.

From the 100,000 road construction troops, 30,000 people were selected, and 20,000 people were selected from the miners to form a 50,000 team, armed, ostensibly to go to the domestic city to build roads, at least on the surface, it is indeed building roads! It's just that it's done in batches.

Li Jing had already secretly come to Liaodong, and at the same time came Zhang Zhongjian, Qin Qiong, Xue Wanche, Luo Shixin, Pei Yuanqing, Luo Cheng, Qin Yong, Liang Shitai, Xin Fang'er, Xin Wenli, Gao Kan Ten Generals, who secretly trained soldiers, this time Zou Yu made up his mind to destroy the three countries of the peninsula in one fell swoop.