Out of respect for the superiors, or for some other reason, at the beginning, these conservative officials didn't dare to say anything, and they even carefully observed what Han Qi brought them to do.

But looking at it, there was something wrong with the taste, Han Qi seemed to ignore them, and he didn't mention anything about what to say, which was wrong.

Originally, my mind was uncertain, and I saw Han Qi talking like this, talking endlessly, and in the end, he went to the place where the dung was piled up, and in the smelly place, discussing what the amount of manure was piled up every day, which was really embarrassing.

It's hard to make it happen, they went to complain through an expedited 800-mile rush, and finally got this treatment, although their original intention was to pull down a high-ranking official like Han Qi, a senior official at the level of a privy deputy envoy, and it was not so insulting.

No matter how they are, they are also high-grade Beijing officials, as long as they are decentralized, at least they are the head of a state and county, and they are really hundreds of miles, it is not so embarrassing, and this is not to be regarded as a person.

Even the most stable conservatives were a little angry, they came to listen to Han Qi's explanation, not to be insulted, and for a while, everyone was a little excited.

Han Qi didn't pay attention to the ideas of these conservatives, originally, he had the idea of supporting it, but now after coming to the ranch, when the development of the ranch is far better than he imagined, of course, he pays attention to the ranch.

This ranch located in Qinfeng Road, not all the pastures in the northwest, the largest one, but a very typical one, here itself, the water and grass are abundant, because there is a tributary of the Yellow River, the grass here is very vigorous, and it is also the reason why it was selected to starve.

It was daytime, and the whole ranch had a large herd of horses, a large herd of cattle, except for a few parts, most of the cattle and horses had gone out to graze in the vast grassland, and the rest of the personnel began to clean the whole cattle pen to ensure that when the cattle returned, there was a clean place.

This practice, in the beginning, was very unaccustomed to all the herders.

You must know that these Western Xia herdsmen, from the moment they were born, were constantly grazing, almost riding on horseback, and they still didn't know what grazing was all about.

However, the pressure from the top to the bottom made them only able to follow the orders from above, and if they did not obey, they would have to pay the price of their lives, which no one dared to accept.

In addition to grazing according to the requirements of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is also necessary to clean the shed honestly, and the manure that is cleaned up will not be thrown away, but specially sorted, put aside, piled up, and watered from time to time.

In the place where the dung is piled up, that kind of feces, urine, and inexplicable smell, in the end, combined with the taste, is really unacceptable, and being able to stand here is even if the city government is relatively deep.

Of course, Han Qi saved and supported their ideas, of course, after coming to the ranch, he personally asked some of the personnel of the ranch, and some simple changes made him very satisfied.

According to these skilled herders, cattle, sheep and horses are not prone to disease, and they grow well, grow meat quickly, and have a high fertility rate.

In the eyes of the herdsmen, this is the protection of the eternal life, and the longevity has always been the belief of the grassland peoples, and this is used to explain the incomprehensible.

But Han Qi knew very well that this should be Zhao Xin's suggestion, and it worked again.

In Han Qi's opinion, Zhao Xin is very magical, and some of the magic is incredible, as if he understands everything, and all difficult things are not a problem at all in front of him.

Zhao Xin's suggestion was to come with those workers, before the implementation of this suggestion, what was the pasture in Lingzhou, although it was also peaceful, but in the pasture, every once in a while, some livestock died, and sometimes, there were even a lot of them.

According to the herdsmen, this is the punishment of eternal life, and the flesh of these sick and dead animals cannot be eaten, or burned, or buried, otherwise, there will be a greater disaster.

Looking at the huge number of animals dying one after another, Han Qi thought of some methods, but it was difficult to work.

With the skills of the Northern Song Dynasty, maybe you can find a lot of farmers who farm the land very well, but if you want to find some outstanding herdsmen, it may not be much better than these herdsmen in the Western Xia.

At first, Han Qi thought that maybe these Tangut people were doing evil, but after investigating for a long time, there was no reason, and he was skeptical about the punishment of immortality that these Tangut people said.

At this juncture, Zhao Xin's letter to Han Qi from thousands of miles away also mentioned suggestions, two of which were about grazing.

Maybe before, Han Qi wouldn't care too much, but Zhao Xin had already shown his magic with practical actions, and it can be said unceremoniously that the Daimyo's Mansion was unbelievable, and with his own strength, he changed the ironmaking pattern of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, so that the entire Iron Division of the Ministry of Industry was completely paralyzed, and the entire Northern Song Dynasty, I don't know how many blacksmiths were unemployed.

If there is no longbow team, no fortress, I am afraid that I will see the opportunity on the side of Western Xia, and I must also consider the rebound, there is no scene in the northwest at all.

Zi Bu is silent, this is what Confucius said, and it has also penetrated into the hearts of every Confucian student, but when I saw Zhao Xin, some of the sayings really can't continue, and some of them are incomprehensible, even more so for high-level personnel like Han Qi, but without divine instruction, how to explain the unbelievable in Zhao Xin.

The development of Lingzhou, this is an unprecedented thing in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, whether it is the reclamation of a large amount of farmland, or the grazing of large-scale livestock, it is something that the Northern Song Dynasty has never encountered, and there are many problems that may arise, and it is always no harm to listen to Zhao Xin's advice.

Trust in Zhao Xin is one aspect, and on the other hand, his suggestion is relatively simple, but it is to strengthen management, for example, classify cattle and sheep, separate stocking, and at the same time, for livestock sheds, also strengthen cleaning, clean out of the manure, and other accumulation, other uses.

Han Qi didn't know what the benefits of cleanliness were for grazing, but in Zhao Xin's letter, he specifically told him that animal manure should not be accumulated in the livestock shed, and that it could be stored in a place, divided into different layers, and placed naturally, with a certain amount of water and storage, it could be used in about two or three months.

Han Qi didn't quite understand, but he still did it, thinking that it was just an extra credit, but after a month, the mortality rate of livestock has been greatly reduced, as long as the pasture is raised according to this method, it is almost difficult to encounter the death of livestock, and even the growth of livestock has been greatly improved.

In fact, unconsciously, Zhao Xin gave Han Qi two more suggestions, one is of course the method of breeding, even under the premise of semi-stocking, do a good job of hygiene, clean up the manure, can also reduce the occurrence of diseases, improve production.

Animal husbandry is a money-making business, and there is a joke about two people, one of whom has an egg, and one eats it, and the other person hatches the eggs into chicks, and then hatches the eggs to give birth to chicks, and soon becomes rich.

The joke is about a simple reason that livestock can be multiplied, theoretically, and even multiplied indefinitely.

Under the premise that there are no natural predators, the number of organisms will rise sharply, whether it is the rabbit disaster in Australia or the Asian fish disaster in the United States, it is based on this reason, in principle, farming is a value-added process, and the number is increasing.

But one of the biggest problems that plagues breeding is disease, which is the case in ancient and modern times, but some people are losing money because of animal husbandry, the reason is that the disease, the more populations, the more diseases appear.

Animal husbandry is to feed living things, living things, always more valuable than dead, that kind of infectious disease dead livestock, can not eat, will get sick, then more troublesome.

A large-scale plague can make a thriving pasture completely ghostly, and it often appears on the grassland, and sometimes, the rise and fall of a powerful tribe comes from this.

Cleaning up the manure will not completely avoid this plague, but it can be greatly reduced, the feces will breed many kinds of bacteria, most of which are not highly infectious, but can reduce immunity and resistance, which is especially true for breeding.

At the same time, even if there is no large-scale plague, simply cleaning up the environment, providing a good environment for livestock, and reducing the occurrence of minor diseases and disasters is actually a way to increase production, and these are the lessons that have been summed up in later generations.

There were sporadic deaths before, the number was too small, but the total number was quite a lot, under the total of more than 20 million, almost every month, hundreds or thousands of deaths would be killed, which was a problem that must arise in breeding, and at the same time, there were enough births.

It's just that after the statistics, Han Qi faintly felt bad, ordinary herdsmen don't understand this statistics, but in his simple figures, this mortality rate is gradually rising, which has proved that the crisis is already accumulating.

However, he couldn't find any solution, animal husbandry, for him, and even for the Northern Song Dynasty, was a new topic, not to mention a huge number of livestock at once, even if it was a small amount, it was a difficult problem to solve.

Lingzhou and the northwest, naturally have the foundation of animal husbandry, such a huge area, is also regarded as a rich land in the Hetao, rich in water and grass, completely has the conditions for large-scale breeding, the use of the original Western Xia herdsmen plus the northwest Fanhu, they are very familiar with grazing, why the mortality rate will appear, accumulating a crisis, which makes Han Qi very puzzled.

In fact, the reason is very simple, although Lingzhou has a large amount of pasture, it is not as large as the original land of the five states of Western Xia, and the huge number of livestock must be raised in semi-captivity, such as the current pasture, there are more than 300,000 cattle and horses, and the number of sheep is even more.

In the original Western Xia, no matter how rich the tribe was, it was impossible for a tribe to concentrate so many cattle and sheep, in this case, using a completely nomadic method, it was impossible to make these animals grow perfectly, and semi-captivity was the only way.

In the 21st century, although there are still grazing on the grassland, but in the Central Plains, the most non-staple food is pig raising, and several listed companies are mainly pig raising or processing pork, such large-scale enterprises, all of which are captive.

Captive breeding is the most suitable breeding method for the development of animal husbandry, but before the development of science and technology and breeding technology to a certain extent, concentrated breeding is not a scientific method, it is a nightmare.

Concentrated breeding, when a large number of various manure accumulates, it is easy to breed more bacteria, and infectious diseases, not handled well, there will definitely be problems, which is what the herdsmen call the punishment of longevity.

In the absence of scientific research, what cannot be explained by ordinary reasons can only be explained as the punishment of immortality, or by some supernatural force, but in reality, it is all bacteria that are at work.

Even in healthy people's bodies, there are countless bacteria, and even the role of some bacteria in the 21st century has no mechanism to find, but it does not delay Zhao Xin to guide in the Northern Song Dynasty.

A good and ventilated environment, a closed and clean breeding place, at the same time, some necessary disinfection means, as well as animal husbandry medicines, this is the fundamental reason for the great development of the aquaculture industry in China in later generations.

In this era, there are no scientific sheds, no convenient ventilation conditions and design, and even human medicines are not complete, not to mention livestock, but this is not a large-scale farm in later generations, but a semi-stocked grassland environment, as long as the sanitation is done, the effect can be improved a lot.

If it is said that the cleaning of the shed is only a simple means, he only increases the output of animal husbandry to a certain extent, and the other means is black technology.

Involving microorganisms, the accumulation of fertilizers, and even the treatment of basic green manure, any of these three was very difficult to understand for the Northern Song Dynasty.

For the treatment of manure, in the 21st century, his scientific name is manure, which is some treatment of manure, a natural fertilizer, so that his utility is stronger and more suitable for soil absorption.

Animal manure, or human manure, which is the most natural fertilizer, as early as spring and autumn, or even earlier, human beings have begun to put these into the land to increase fertility.

Crops and flowers, all rely on manure to be in charge, but also from the use of manure, began to gradually penetrate into the hearts of the people, fertilizer can increase the yield of food crops, this is clear.

The feces that have not undergone any treatment are not only very ineffective, but also prone to problems, such as not conducive to the absorption of armor, and the effect is not strong, and it is easy to be lost.

The method of accumulating fertilizer has only appeared in modern times, it used to be passively used, sometimes good, sometimes bad, scientific accumulation of fertilizer, to a certain temperature, ventilation, and a variety of fungi, through fermentation and bacterial changes, the raw fertilizer becomes mature, easier to go up to the land, and it is not easy to be lost, which will increase the fertility of the soil for a long time.

If you want to talk about these scientifically, even Zhao Xin can't understand it, but in the 21st century, the era of developed consulting has brought countless information, even on the Internet, you can see such black technology, even if he just remembers a little bit, he can use it in this era.

The livestock population in Lingzhou is very large, more than 20 million cattle and horses, in a considerable period of time, will exist in Lingzhou for a long time, cattle and horses such a large livestock, eat a lot, of course, pull more, their feces are very large.

If it is replaced by Western Xia, it is only grazing, and wherever it is thrown, the manure is slowly released in the soil, which increases the yield of forage.

But this is Lingzhou, after the completion of the water conservancy construction in the entire northwest, the terrible water conservancy project will bring a huge amount of land, and these lands, under the water, will receive an astonishing amount of irrigated land.

Under such natural conditions, when the surge in yield per mu can already be expected, with this fertilizer, it is really perfect.

As long as the population of this livestock breed gradually expands, and the sheer number of cattle, sheep and horses can provide a steady stream of fertilizer, and these fertilizers can even supply a huge amount of land in the entire northwest.

Crops and flowers depend on dung, this sentence is a true portrayal of farmers' farming.

Water is very important in the cultivation of crops, but it cannot directly represent the yield, it only represents a presence and no, as well as the improvement of the basic yield, when the total amount reaches a certain level, no matter how much water has no effect.

The presence of water and the absence of water represent the question of whether the harvest can be obtained, but if the same place, the same growers and different lands, between good and bad, on the one hand, the planting technology and diligence, but on the other hand, it is these fertilizers.

Experienced old farmers often look for such things, or take their own manure to use, but these are not a scientific method, sometimes, a little later, there is a possibility, let these fertilizers, all wasted, or even burn these crops.

Experienced old farmers, for the treatment of fertilizer, their own experience, this experience, does not have the generalization, but because of the lack of cost and the method of sorting out the farm fertilizer, it has a great universality

The problem of land fertility plays a vital role in the growth of plants, why is the silt field in the south of the Yangtze River so popular, is not because the farmland composed of a large amount of silt naturally has a variety of fertilizers, and the yield is very high!

These fertilizers may not be as good as those silt fields, but under the current water conservancy conditions in the northwest, coupled with these fertilizers, a terrible yield is really possible.

Han Qi didn't know the benefits of these piles of manure, but from the point of cleaning the shed, the benefits of Zhao Xin's suggestion had been proven, and Zhao Xin also made it clear that it would be treated into fertilizer here.

On the premise of asking the old farmers, Han Qi also understood the benefits of manure fertilizer, which is the secret recipe for increasing crop yields.

He just didn't expect that after this manure was scientifically processed, sterilized, and moist fermented, some parts of the soil that were not easy to absorb became easy to absorb, and the effectiveness of these natural fertilizers was at least three or five times higher than before, and then under the guidance of Dinghai Science, the farmland in the northwest really exploded.

The average yield of the irrigated land itself is between 2.5 stone and 3 stone, which has increased a lot compared to ordinary dry fields, but compared to the silt fields in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not as good, or even far worse.

The silt fields in the south of the Yangtze River, the top, can even reach the output of 5 stones, or even 6 stones, any development of the silt fields, will attract a lot of officials and nobles to compete, sometimes, under the use of huge manpower and material resources, the final gain, may only be a small part.

Unfortunately, there are very few silt fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and as development continues, their production is still showing a gradual decline.

This is what these Northern Song Dynasty people saw, and they didn't even understand what it was, but for Zhao Xin in the 21st century, it was very simple, and the fertility was reduced.

The growth of plants requires different elements, and the absorption of active ingredients in the soil will not be the same for different crops.

The same crop that has been planted for a long time will be gradually lost with large-scale planting, and in this case, unless the silt field is silted again, their fertility will not be able to keep up.

Fertilizer is a way to improve soil fertility, fallow and deep ploughing, which are similar methods, and are also ways to cultivate the land.

The land in the northwest has not been cultivated with crops itself, but there is not enough spoilage matter, so it can only be called raw land, and the yield of raw land is limited, even if there is water to irrigate, it can reach the minimum figure of 2.5 stones, which is already very good.

In the end, when more than half a year later, the entire planting season, after the final end, the northwest shocked the entire Northern Song Dynasty with an average yield of close to 4 stones, a barren land on the border, after such a change, it became a rich land, close to the output of 4 stones, which is also the best paddy field in the south, can provide the yield.

Han Qi didn't realize this at all, but purely from the point of cleaning up the shed, he had already seen the benefits, this huge ranch, compared to more than a month ago, he got the data, I don't know how much better, so he forgot the purpose of coming here, and talked deeply with the person in charge of the ranch.

According to the calculation of more than 50 million acres of irrigated land in the entire northwest, the improvement of close to 1 stone will bring more than 50 million stone of grain, and this alone, the lowest price is as much as tens of millions.

Food is very important for the northwest, water conservancy projects can solve the problem of having and not having, but on the original basis, the investment is relatively not a lot of manpower, but can greatly increase the grain production, which is also very important for Han Qi, on behalf of Lingzhou can develop better, this output, further consolidate the foundation of the entire northwest, so that Han Qi's foundation is more deep.