Han Qi is a very thoughtful official, and similarly, he is also very pragmatic.

The development of a place is inseparable from the grain brought by agriculture, but simply growing grain can only solve the problem of food and clothing, and cannot make him rich.

Why is Jiangnan rich, food ensures that enough people can be fed, but what really makes Jiangnan rich is Jiangnan's tea and silk.

This strong foreign trade materials of China, which has risen since ancient times, has been flourishing for more than a thousand years, and the Silk Road on land and sea has almost laid the foundation for exchanges in ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient.

Many of China's good things also spread to Europe by relying on the Silk Road by sea and land.

For example, the four major inventions of gunpowder, paper, and printing have had a revolutionary and historical impact on the whole world.

At the beginning, Han Qi was only ready to ensure the grain of Lingzhou, and once the border military state could be self-sufficient in food and had a certain surplus, it would be very crucial for the status of this military state to improve.

When the farmland and water conservancy construction in Lingzhou and the northwest was successfully carried out and the cultivated land could be expected, Han Qi had more ideas, for example, to make Lingzhou rich.

The Lingzhou Peace Conference brought cattle and sheep, which were initially placed in Lingzhou, was a problem, but after the rational use and the construction of many pastures, after raising them, they became a source of growth, and at the same time, the trade with the medicine and various fur specialties from the Western Xia side was also another aspect.

Animal husbandry and farmland, which represents the two legs of Lingzhou in the future, is also the two legs of the northwest, and commerce will revitalize these economies.

During this time, Han Qi's attention was more focused on dealing with these conservatives, but after coming to the ranch, he found that after almost a month, the development of the ranch was even higher than he expected, and it was much higher.

Under Zhao Xin's suggestion, there are signs of mutual promotion between pastures and farmland, and the farms that can produce from pastures need fertilizer, even if it is the most basic base fertilizer, the amount required is also very large, but more than 20 million livestock, not to mention all the supply, at least a large part can be supplied.

As for the farm, Zhao Xin just thought of the method of green storage feed, and tried it when he was in Baozhou, maybe planting to produce feed can not solve all the feed, but can solve a part of it, and increase the output of beef and mutton.

The two, which seem to have nothing to do with each other, can actually ensure the utilization of waste and increase income from the side, with these two as the basis, in the future, the transaction with the Liao State and the Central Plains will definitely make Lingzhou regain its past glory, which makes Han Qi very satisfied.

Han Qi was satisfied, of course, the discussion was a bit off-topic, itself, just to support these conservatives, with the deepening of the conversation, Han Qi really felt the improvement of this animal husbandry, the meat of each animal grows more, and the small animals grow more, and at the same time grow faster.

In the face of the huge base of 20 million heads, any little increase will create terrible wealth, not to mention such a large increase, conservatively estimated, should be more than 3 percent, at most, and can even reach 50 percent.

It turns out that the growth rate of about 3 percent is an increase of 50 percent, and the growth of hundreds of thousands of various animals in almost a year is a huge benefit for Lingzhou, and it may need to be adjusted in order to be able to adjust millions of animals when attracting immigrants in the future.

Now, it is not needed at all, and the huge output will not only allow the northwest to obtain enough livestock, but also form a prosperous market, and even after two or three years, when these livestock are fixed, it will become a fixed income in Lingzhou.

Because of this, Han Qi's conversation was more in-depth, not only about cattle and horses, but also about how much they ate, and the usual basic figures, using this to wake up these officials, but as they talked, they found that the natural growth rate was very high, and everything in the ranch was very gratifying, so they deviated from the topic, and more about the operation of the ranch, and even paid a lot of attention to cleaning up the manure.

To be honest, these conservative personnel, under the coercion of Han Qi, came to see what Han Qi wanted to do, but when Han Qi arrived at this ranch, he had been doing other things.

Those cows and horses, those fertilizers, and even cleaning, Han Qi himself came to clean with great interest.

They all understand this, the big leader's show is the same as the emperor plowing the field, to put it bluntly, it is just a symbolic meaning, does it really let the emperor plow the field?

Han Qi is the same, I'm afraid that except for this time, the time when he came to the ranch was very little, and during this time, working with the herdsmen was not a show.

Zhou Heju was a little depressed, could it be that Han Qi asked them to come here, just to watch him put on a show, what is the meaning of this for them.

In the enclosure, they couldn't say anything, but when they got outside, when they arrived at the place where the dung was piled up, they couldn't bear it anymore, and how long it would take, so they put them in front of a pair of dung, and just waited.

In Zhou Heju's opinion, Han Qi just wanted to humiliate them, this is something that they can't accept at all, even if it is far from Han Qi, those with backgrounds didn't come, but a few people still changed their eyes, and the highest-level Zhou Heju was promoted, with him as a representative, to show Han Qi,

There was resentment in his heart, so Zhou Heju spoke very politely, and asked directly to the point: "Manager Han, if you are like this, then when we go back, we still have to write to the ministry, I don't know how many times can Manager Han stop us?" ”

Blocking it once is too much, and it can be blocked a few times, not to mention a privy deputy like Han Qi, even if it is the head of the Eastern Mansion, he doesn't dare to do this, Zhou Heju is a little damaging when he says this.

Han Qi's eyes narrowed slightly, and a murderous aura directly rose into the sky, as the head of both the military and the government, Han Qi, who had even been on the battlefield in person, showed a momentum that not everyone could resist.

Zhou Heju is the same, he is not even an important person in the conservative faction, otherwise, he would not have been sent to Lingzhou.

The conservatives know very well that at this time, if any conservative member comes to Lingzhou, he may be dealt with by Han Qi by seizing a certain opportunity.

Zhou Heju secretly said that it was not good, his status was not high, and he had not experienced the anger of the level of participating in the governor's affairs, especially Han Qi, who was decisive in killing and dabbling in both the military and the government, and immediately took a few steps back, not daring to speak.

In Han Qi's majesty, there are really not many people who can still remain calm, just when these people thought that Han Qi was going to pick up the plane and get angry, Han Qi suddenly retracted all his momentum, turned around instead, handed the shovel in his hand to a ranch supervisor, and then walked over and said, "I finally can't hold it back, I thought you had seen it!" ”

Han Qi's momentum was retracted, which allowed Zhou Heju to calm down, and he didn't dare to have his previous attitude, so he maintained a low attitude, and said with some puzzlement, "What do you see?" ”

Not only Zhou Heju was confused, but so were the others, Han Qi's open momentum actually showed that if Han Qi wanted to suppress them, there was no problem at all, let alone them, the third and fourth grades, and even the second rank of the senior members, in the face of Han Qi's anger, there were few who could calmly reply.

So it's not to entertain them, what is it, Han Qi's meaning is something, what is it.

But after thinking about it, there was no gain, when they came to this ranch near Xiping Mansion, they all saw something, there were no cattle and sheep, just a cowshed, plus some cleaning personnel, Han Qi seemed to say something to these people, but they didn't care about it, so they didn't care.

Han Qi looked at the group of conservatives with a sneer and said, "Since you don't understand, then I'll make it clear to you, this is not the place to talk, come with me!" ”

The conservatives nodded, and those who remained neutral next to them were also a little curious, they were even more strange than the conservatives, what Han Qi meant by what he meant.

However, Han Qi's ranch is really good, without their impression, the herdsmen are dirty, the scene of feces everywhere, the accumulated feces are divided into several parts, the earliest accumulation, it has been more than 30 days, the smell has almost dispersed, and the last one is still very smelly, they are far away, and they haven't looked at it, so I don't know why these are

Han Qi led them into a house, and the others had already been cleaned up, and then stood in front of the desk, and said, "Do you know how much a cow and a horse have to eat in a day?"

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Eating, any living being, cattle and horses, even including people, need to eat, this is a common sense, several young officials, even thought that Han Qi was still humiliating them like this, their faces turned red with anger, but they didn't say anything, but it was Zhou Heju who was the leader, he seemed to realize something after some experience, and said: "Feed for cattle and horses, how can you forget this?" ”

A young official next to him, who didn't know the situation, quietly asked next to him: "How much do the cows and horses eat?" ”

Most of them don't know much, and the few who know about them are also stunned, they clearly think of something.

Han Qi didn't give them a chance anymore, his anger was like a tide, and he pressed on them layer by layer, and said: "What do you think, why, only the Liao State and Western Xia have large-scale cavalry, although it is said that it is also very difficult to obtain cavalry before, but it really takes effort, and it is not very difficult, but why did the Northern Song Dynasty not, have you all thought about it?" ”

"Also, it's been so long since the Lingzhou Peace Conference, and we have also brought a batch of more than 50,000 real war horses, as well as some other thousand-mile horses, do you know why the Privy Council didn't ask me?"

This question jumped a little too much, directly from the immediate problem, jumped to the military, there are not many people here who have had experience in the Privy Council, let alone such a military matter, including those who are neutral, there are also some people who look at each other.

Seeing that he didn't know everyone, Han Qi sighed, and finally said helplessly: "You always think about taking these cattle and horses, have you thought about it, how do you want to take them, and how much grain and grass do you have to prepare!" ”

At this point, the final result suddenly became clear, yes, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, these large animals are not more troublesome than the army, but more troublesome than the army.

Zhou Heju's face turned blue, to put it bluntly, this was also what he ignored, he just thought of using the method of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle to take Han Qi's army, but he didn't expect that this army would not be on Han Qi's body, but on all of them.

When Zhou Heju first entered the career, he used to work in the Privy Council, although he was only a petty official, but he also came into contact with some work related to cattle and horses.

The Northern Song Dynasty lacked horses, but in the military, in general, there were a lot of horses, and among the elite forbidden army, there were still more than 500 cavalry, and in the military transfer, when the elite forbidden army of three or four armies was mobilized, the number of horses was still quite a lot.

The simple cavalry battalion, adding up to more than 2,000 people, plus the guards, messengers, and the general's horses, 10,000 people, there must always be two or three thousand horses, such a force, every time it goes out, the cost is several times higher than that of the ordinary forbidden army, at that time he was still very strange, when he was young, he thought that corruption was really discovered.

Corruption, this was not his job at that time, corruption is also a method of meritorious service, once discovered, when the corrupt people are taken down, it is not his opportunity.

He was ambitious, of course, he would not give up this opportunity, and even went on a special performance to report this matter to the Yushi Observatory.

As a result, there was a big turmoil, and the imperial history platform was directly transferred to the Privy Council, and then under the layers of pressure, he was reprimanded by the official, who was still very unconvinced at the time, but only said that the officials protected each other, maybe this corrupt backstage is this official.

If he did this at that time, I'm afraid his career would end here, he still has some small relationship, at that time, a division commander who knew the situation, specifically pointed out, he understood the mistake he made, that's right, there is no corruption, the consumption of cavalry, compared to ordinary infantry, at least 5 times, a person may be able to eat more than a person, it is already terrible to be more than double, then the remaining 3 times is what the horse eats.

Horses in normal times, it is impossible to eat grain, but on the battlefield, it is necessary to replenish grain, soybeans and forage, so as to maintain horsepower and let the horse exert the maximum effect, a 3,000 horse, has been terrible to this extent, how much is it now?

8 million cattle, 5 million horses, and more than 13 million sheep, how much food will these medium-sized and large animals consume, and what kind of results will they achieve if they are not properly prepared?