The beef of the Rahman Kingdom has a unique flavor, which is very different from the beef of Datang, in addition to the different taste, it is also more assured to eat, and there is no psychological burden, after all, Datang is not allowed to kill cattle casually, unless the cattle lose the role of arable land and cannot continue to serve human beings before they can be slaughtered, so that eating beef in Datang will have a sense of crime, and there will be no such feeling here.

If you want to say that the Rahman Kingdom also has arable land, it should also need to plough oxen, but the strange thing is that the peasants here almost never use ploughing oxen to work, and they may not know how to use ploughing oxen! Or, they grow crops that don't require much arable land and just need to dig a hole.

In addition, the main food source of the Rahman Kingdom did not come from agriculture, grazing, hunting, fishing, and gathering were all very important food sources, and these food sources accounted for the majority, far exceeding the food that cultivated land could bring, which was very different from the Tang Dynasty.

You must know that in the entire Tang Empire, the food provided by cultivated land occupies a very high proportion, and if there is no food provided by cultivated land, it is estimated that more than half of the people of Datang will starve to death.

After Li An invented the machine and greatly improved agriculture, the output of agriculture was even higher, and the proportion of the rations of the people of the Tang Dynasty was even larger than before.

Food sources such as animal husbandry, fishing and hunting accounted for a very low proportion in the Tang Empire, but in the Rahman Kingdom it was the complete opposite.

The main reasons for this situation are: first, the development of iron tools in Europa is much more backward than that of Datang, and without reliable and cheap iron tools, it is difficult to popularize agricultural tools on a large scale, which causes the backwardness of agriculture.

In addition, the forest coverage rate of Europa World is relatively high, the soil is compacted and hard, and if cheap stone and wood tools are used, it is impossible to achieve reclamation at all, which objectively causes the backwardness of Europa's agricultural development.

Forest soils are not conducive to arable land, but they are very suitable for the growth and reproduction of wild animals, and hunting is a very good means of making a living by using the unique forest resources.

In the slightly gentler forest, you can also plant a variety of fruit trees, and the manpower and material resources required to plant fruit trees are much smaller, and you can even directly collect wild fruits.

In addition, the topography of Europa is very different from that of Datang, which is a typical landlocked country, while Europa is full of oceans, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, the Baltic Sea in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west.

Since Europa has many oceans and a relatively long coastline, fishing and hunting have naturally become a very important means of livelihood, and obtaining food from the sea is very suitable for the strangeness of the Europa people.

That is to say, the huge forests and the long coastline provide sufficient food for the Europa people, which leads to their agriculture being much more backward than the Tang Dynasty, after all, as long as they can eat enough, who will work hard to farm, among all the ancient civilizations, agricultural civilization is the most advanced, but at the same time it is also the hardest and most tiring, as long as it is not forced by the survival dilemma, no one wants to engage in agriculture, unless he is a fool.

It is precisely because Europa mainly relies on hunting and fishing for food that for thousands of years, they have lagged behind the Chinese, while the African continent mainly relies on hunting for a living, and has never farmed, so it is naturally even more backward.

Later, due to the development of iron tools and the increase of population, it was no longer possible to feed the huge Europa people by hunting and fishing, so their agriculture gradually became more advanced, and the level of civilization was greatly improved, and there was a tendency to catch up with China.

Later, due to the rise of the Age of Discovery, these Europa people need to constantly research larger and more advanced ships, so as to better plunder from afar, and then continue to develop their intelligence, so as to completely surpass China and become the highest civilization on the entire planet.

But judging from the Tang Dynasty where Ang Lee lived, Europa's civilization was still too backward, much worse than the Tang Dynasty, and even less than the civilization of the Umayyad Dynasty, and slightly stronger than the civilization of the African continent.

"Li Shilang, the cattle here are all strong, why don't they use it to plow the land?"

The subordinates looked at the beef that was openly sold, frowned and sighed.

Li An said with a smile: "The utilization rate of ploughing cattle here is not high, and I saw ploughing cattle busy in the field a few days ago?" But more farmers like to use hoes directly, because ploughing cattle are too expensive, ordinary farmers can't afford them, and they don't need ploughing cattle, they don't have much to cultivate, and the amount of land they farm is too small, and the strong cattle raised by grazing herdsmen can't be used as ploughing cattle without training, so they can only be used as food. ”

"What Li Shilang said is that the Turks in the north of my Datang have raised so many cattle, and not all of them are used to eat meat, only I have a lot of arable land in Datang, and I can't do without the help of cattle, so I can't eat cattle."

The subordinate suddenly thought of the Turks and spoke.

Li An nodded and said: "That's the truth, looking at the world, there are really not many people who rely on planting like my Datang!" The Turks in the north are completely based on grazing for their livelihood, although the small countries in the south also grow crops, however, the proportion of fishing, hunting and hunting is not small, that is to say, only I Datang, the demand for cattle is the largest, therefore, the imperial court will issue a decree not to allow the people of the world to slaughter cattle, however, this situation will change in the future, as long as the machine for cultivating the land is popularized, in the future, there will be no need to use the cattle, the machine is far from being comparable to the cattle in terms of cost and efficiency, in the future, After all the people of Datang use the machines to plough the land, no one will use the ploughing cattle anymore, so that we can eat beef unscrupulously. ”

This is Ang Lee's ideal, after all, the efficiency of using ploughing cattle is too low, far less efficient than that of machines, when the machine completely replaces ploughing cattle, the excess cattle can be used for cooking.

The subordinates hurriedly said: "There are so many cattle in Datang, if you want to replace them all with machines, it is estimated that there is still a long way to go, and there are not decades of time, I'm afraid it won't be completed!" ”

Li An said affirmatively: "You are right, there are too many cattle in Datang, and the use of machines to replace them can not be completed overnight, but I am afraid that after the machine replaces the cattle, no one is willing to raise cattle, after all, the cost of raising cattle in Datang is too high, far less cheap than the cattle raised by the Turks in the north, and after the train leads to the north, the cattle and sheep are sold from the grassland to Datang, and the transportation cost is much lower, so that the grassland cattle and sheep can go to the table of the people of Datang at a relatively low price, and the people of Datang will raise cattle themselves. Wouldn't it be a loss, so that there would be no one to raise it in the future. ”

Say that my face is full of melancholy, although the machine replaces the ploughing ox, is the progress of history, but the pastoral interest is much less, just imagine, the old farmer led the ploughing ox to work in the field, what a perfect picture! When the machine appears in the field, it looks quite stiff, and the picture sense is far less good than that of the ploughing ox.

"Yes! After the popularization of the machine, Datang will no longer have ploughing cattle, and it will not be easy for the people in the future to see ploughing cattle. ”

The subordinate said.

Of course, it is unrealistic for the cattle to disappear completely, after all, in many remote mountainous areas, the cattle are still very valuable, in the environment of many terraces, it is difficult for machines to climb up, but the cattle can climb up very easily to work.

Therefore, even in the high-tech era of later generations, ploughing cattle can still be seen in remote places, so it is impossible for ploughing cattle to disappear completely, but they will become more and more rare and difficult for people to see.

What is lost is always the best, in the era of ploughing cattle everywhere, no one will think that ploughing cattle have anything good, and after ploughing cattle are gradually replaced by machines, ploughing land has become a landscape, many people in later generations will go to remote mountainous areas, take photos with old farmers and ploughing cattle who plough the land, and feel that this kind of picture is the most beautiful.

Ang Lee likes the unique flavor of the beef of the Rahman Kingdom, but the largest specialty here is the olive oil, which can be seen selling olives almost all over the street.

Compared to grazing cattle, growing olive is so easy and easy that there is really nothing left except for the hard work of collecting the fruit.

After all, olive is the fruit of the tree, as long as a tree is planted, there is no need to deliberately ask, as long as there is no particularly major drought and flood disaster, the tree will not die, that is, as long as the sapling is planted, and then wait for the harvest, it is too easy, and planting crops such as herbaceous plants such as rice and wheat is too hard, many times harder than planting fruits.

However, from the aspect of filling the stomach, the food that can be provided by crops per unit area naturally far exceeds the amount of food that fruit trees can provide, so no matter how hard it is to grow crops, it is not possible to change all of them to fruit, otherwise, many people will starve to death.

In many places in the Rahman Kingdom, the land situation is not very ideal, and the pressure on growing crops is too great, and the fertility of the olive oil is not high, even if it is very barren land, it can grow lush olive trees, so the people here are very wise to choose to plant olive trees.

The olive produced by the olive tree is a very nutritious fruit, which is good for human health, for example, it can promote human blood circulation, improve the function of the human digestive system, improve the function of the endocrine system, have great benefits for bones, prevent and treat cancer, anti-aging, and protect human skin.

Among them, anti-aging and protecting people's skin are the main reasons why many people respect this fruit, after all, people are very beautiful, and they don't want to age themselves, and they want to be forever young.

Olea europaea does have this effect, its interior is rich in fatty acids with excellent affinity with the skin, rapid absorption, can effectively maintain skin elasticity and moisturization, can eliminate facial wrinkles, prevent skin aging, effective skin care and prevent chapped hands and feet, is a kind of edible beauty skin care products, loved by the majority of consumers.

In addition, olive can also be refined into the active ingredient, it is made into olive oil, olive oil in later generations belongs to the high-end edible oil, is a lot of ordinary people can not afford to eat edible oil, anyway, Li Ang in the previous life can not afford to eat olive oil, can only eat cheaper soybean oil and rapeseed oil, and even ate gutter oil.

The reason why olive oil is expensive is because olives are the fruit of fruit trees, and the yield per unit area is far inferior to soybeans and rapeseeds, and it is more nutritious and sought after by the masses, so how can the price not be high.

In addition, many vegetable oils are obtained by high-temperature pressing, that is, in the process of oil extraction, a very complex chemical reaction is generated, but olive oil is not the case, olive oil is made from fresh olive fruits, directly cold-pressed, without heating and chemical treatment, retaining natural nutrients, known as the most suitable oil for human nutrition among the oils found so far.

The use of olive oil and olive oil pomace has been used on the Mediterranean coast for thousands of years, and in the Europa world, olive oil has many nice names, such as liquid gold, vegetable oil queen, Mediterranean nectar, etc., just by listening to the name, you can see how good olive oil is.

Li An looked at the subordinates beside him and said: "These olives are very good, you should buy more and bring them back, by the way, olive oil is also a good thing, and you should also bring more back." ”

The subordinate said: "Li Shilang, since these olives are so good, why don't we bring some olive trees back?" In this way, it will be very convenient when you want to eat olive in the future. ”

Li An nodded very happily and said: "The son can be taught, very good, olive trees must be brought back, the barren land in the south of the Tang Dynasty is the most suitable for planting olive trees, however, too big olive trees can't be brought, only some small saplings can be brought, it will take several years to bear fruit?" Therefore, in the next few years, if we want to eat olive words, we still need to get it from here. ”

For such a good thing as olive, of course Ang Li will not give up the introduction, as long as this fruit tree is introduced to Datang, it will not take a few years, Datang's olive can achieve self-sufficiency, and then it will be a great wealth.

After all, the Tang Empire is vast, what kind of terrain and climate there are, in the huge territory of the Tang Empire, there must be a climate and soil conditions that meet the growth of olive, it is estimated that this area of Lingnan is more qualified, is fully able to meet the growth of olive, this is certain, so, as long as you bring some olive saplings back from the Rahman Kingdom, in the future, there will be a huge olive estate in the Tang Dynasty to meet the living needs of the people of the Tang Dynasty and improve the living standards of the people of the Tang Dynasty.