The land is barren, and the Chu State really occupies the area north of Zhejiang (Qiantang River), and the south of Guling (now Xiaoshan), Yuji (also Xiaoshan), Huiji, Juzhang, Zhuji, Yin (now Ningbo), and Wusheng (now Yiwu) are still Yuedi, which is under the jurisdiction of Yue Junkai.

To the north of Zhejiang, there are only Wucheng (now Huzhou), the Great Wall (now Changxing), Changshui (now Jiaxing South), Yuhang, Qiantang, Yuqian (now Lin'an), Pingyuan (now Haiyan), Lili (now Tongxiang), Chaipi, Shan, Wuyuan, Fuchun (now Fuyang), and Gufu (now Longyou). There seem to be many cities, but the actual Dingkou is only 13 or 40,000, that is, the size of two small counties.

There are many mountains and few lands, but there are cultivated land in the first line of the Fuchun River in later generations, namely Fuyang, Tonglu, Jiande and Jinqu basins. Yin Sun Yu thought that the entire Yue Di could afford 150,000 immigrants (five people per household), and there would be no land to grant any more. To the south of the river and north of Zhenze, 200,000 to 300,000 households can be resettled, provided that the enclosure is a farm. It's just that these 300,000 households don't want to collect any land rent in one or two decades. Compared with the cooked land in Huaishang, the fields in Jiangdong are too thin, and the soil in many fields in Yuedi is all red.

The war involved immigrants, immigrants involved grain and shipping, and finally agriculture. If there is no land, there is no food, and if there is no food, there is no soldier. Early the next morning, in the official office of Yin Yin, Sun Yu, who had already sent people to Jiangdong to investigate, finished introducing the situation in Jiangdong, and the atmosphere became a little cold. Although Xiong Jing had some understanding of the situation in Jiangdong and had made up for it - Xizhou Sangu and overseas trade, it was too late at all.

The sailing ships had not yet been launched, the sailors had not yet been trained, and the two ships would not be able to sail until the end of the year at the earliest. Sailors don't have a one-to-two-year offshore acclimatization period, and Xiong Jing is afraid to let them cross the Pacific Ocean. After crossing the Pacific Ocean to reach the North American continent, it has to travel south along the entire continent – sweet potatoes are grown in Mexico, corn is in Central America, and potatoes go as far as South America. Without five or six years of hard work, if we don't send several batches one after another, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find these things.

In the same way as the three valleys, it will also take four or five years for the ocean-going trade to develop. Unlike the Americas, which can make a one-year round-trip, the route from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the Red Sea normally takes two round-trips. And there are many islands in the South Seas, and there is a great possibility of getting lost. Of course, there were no shortcuts – before the Polynesians conquered the Pacific Ocean in canoes, Malay sailors were already crisscrossing the Indian Ocean in the third century BC. They sailed boats tied to two canoes, ate bananas and coconuts, and took advantage of the monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean to peddle cinnamon bark along the coast of East Africa, known as cinnamon merchants.

If the merchant fleet of the Chu State could meet these people in the South Seas, or force them to submit by force or profit, it would be entirely possible to use their already formed shipping routes and the rudimentary trading posts established on the Indian subcontinent and the coast of East Africa to carry out ocean-going trade. This is not impossible, according to the documents that Xiong Jing has read, in the second century B.C., after the Yueshi were expelled by the Xiongnu to Central Asia (about 174 BC), India, which had lost its gold supply (Indian gold was produced in Siberia and transshipped from Central Asia), had to follow the Malay route into Southeast Asian waters in order to find a new 'golden land'.

It's just that no matter how much you try to find a shortcut, the ocean trade will take at least ten years, which is almost synchronized with the time of crossing the Pacific Ocean to find the three valleys. Trade is not just about getting huge quantities of gold and silver, but about buying grain from India or Egypt to end with these huge quantities of gold and silver. Even if there are no twists and turns in the trade—there will certainly be twists and turns, and maybe a few more battles will have to be fought—it will need to be supplied and supported by trading posts along the way, and the question of merchant ship construction and the volume of merchant ships will need to be considered.

Time! Time! Time!!

There is only one problem on Xiong Jing's mind: time. At this time, a few hens slipped in from the official office, and these chickens 'clucked' and clucked, and the chickens looked sideways at the officials outside the hall, and without waiting for Sun Yu's orders, the officials drove them out.

"This chicken is raised by the Yin Mansion?" Xiong Jing asked unconsciously. There were also chickens in the palace, but more often than not, birds and animals.

"Your Majesty, exactly." Sun Yu said: "This is a Lu chicken, the king once asked his ministers to raise chickens and ducks, thinking that they were meat. ”

"Lu Ji?" In order to let the soldiers eat meat, Xiong Jing's idea was to raise chickens, ducks, pigs and fish, but these have not yet come to fruition.

"Yes, yes." Sun Yudao. "Lu chickens are taller than more chickens, and they are good at incubating eggs, and the eggs can also be raised, and the more chickens can't."

"Hooves and chickens?" Xiong Jing seemed to remember something, but there was still a layer of paper.

"Yes, yes." Sun Yu said: "The chicken porridge in the first month, the chickens come out in more than 20 days, only once a year." Cranes are not good at eggs, so the eggs are mostly chickens. I thought it was ......"

"Wait, wait!" Xiong Jing hurriedly shouted to stop. "Sun Qing is saying that chickens only make eggs once a year?"

"The King?" Sun Yu looked at Xiong Jing in surprise, he was not a chicken man, he just heard people say this.

"Summoning chickens, summoning chickens." Xiong Jing couldn't sit still. ! Eggs are only eaten once a year, so it's no wonder there is no meat to eat.

Xiong Jing complained in his heart, in fact, this era has been until the Song Dynasty, chickens, ducks and geese are self-beaming, and the self-binding rate of ducks and geese is very low, so their eggs are mostly replaced by chickens. During the Song Dynasty, the artificial incubation method of 'using cow arrows (feces) to come out was invented. Cow dung will ferment, the heat of fermentation is enough to hatch young ducks, in addition to cow dung, there is the method of fire roasting, the method of soup and fire finding.

"Greetings to the king." There is a chicken man in the palace, and this guy looks like a chicken.

"Chickens only make porridge once a year?" Xiong Jing asked as soon as he opened his mouth.

"The king, maybe twice, but once more." The chicken man didn't know why the king didn't care about such a trivial matter.

"Mistakenly!" Xiong Jing said loudly. "As long as it's an egg, as long as it's ...... Yang, as long as the temperature is right, you can produce chicks and juveniles, why can you only do it once a year, and how many chicks can you have at one time? ...... you wait" Xiong Jing waved his hand at everyone, including Yin Sun Yu, and the others hurriedly saluted. "Go to the house to get a thermometer, put it in to measure the temperature when there are chicken eggs, and then find a big urn, according to this temperature in the big fire outside the fire to incubate the eggs, why do you need chickens?"

Mercury thermometers were made, but they were mainly used in medical and industrial production, and never in agriculture. As soon as Xiong Jing commanded, Sun Yu immediately nodded his head, and the rumors that the king was born to know had become a foregone conclusion at this time.

"There are many ponds in Jiangdong, and you can raise more cranes." Xiong Jing was interested. "Chickens can be eaten in half a year, and they don't cost corn."

"Respectfully obeyed." Sun Yu said deeply. "After the chickens are roasted by fire, the ministers should send people to sell them in the market."

"How's it going?" Xiong Jing, who inadvertently solved the problem of chicken and duck eggs, took advantage of the situation and asked the pig, "Sun Qing said that the land of Jiangdong is barren, why not raise pigs?" Pig manure can be used to fertilize the field. ”

"This," Sun Yu is the Minister of Agriculture, how to know how to raise pigs, he had to say: "Please ask the king to summon the dolphin Yin." ”

"Dolphin Yin?" Chickens have chickens, pigs have dolphins, Xiong Jing has never carefully considered the authority of the officials under his rule. "Summoning Dolphin Yin."

Dolphin Yin, like the chicken man, also ran out of the palace garden, and when he saw Xiong Jing, he was deeply moved, "The minister will see the king." ”

"I don't want to ask you, what is the difficulty of raising dolphins and pigs in the common people's homes?" Today, Xiong Jing is not in Da Sima Mansion, and after coming to Yin Mansion, he was going to go to the shipyard, but now he is only delayed because of the matter of raising chickens, ducks and pigs.

"......" The king asked like this, and the dolphin Yin really didn't know how to answer, so he only thought of two things, so he replied: "Your lord, the difficulty of raising pigs in the common people's homes is to produce dolphins, and then to eat pigs and man-eating arrows. There are not many arrows in a family of five, and it is difficult to raise many pigs. ”

"Arrows?" Xiong Jing was slightly stunned, isn't it a dog eating?

"Yes, yes." Dolphin Yin said. "Pigs are raised under the toilet, and they live by eating arrows. In the past, Shuo people offered King Yan Zhao a big pig and said to raise Xi Ruo. If this pig is not a big house, it is not precious if it is not a person. Therefore, no one is convenient, and pigs should not be raised. ”

"Don't pigs eat grass?" Xiong Jing was a little deflated when he heard this, he remembered that pigs eat feed, of course, there are also pigweed, why did pigs eat all human arrows two thousand years ago?

"There may be herbivorous pigs, but they should not be kept outside the enclosure." Dolphin Yin said, "If you enter the wild, you will be treated as a wild pig." ”

"Can't you come back from mowing the lawn?" Xiong Jing asked. In addition to the children in the countryside who eat grass, there are also guys who cut pigweed.

"I don't know." How does Dolphin Yin know what will happen two thousand years later, and the answer is a little blank.

"How's the dolphin production?" Xiong Jing thought that it was best to feed the pigs with sweet potato vines, but unfortunately there are no sweet potatoes now.

"Dolphins are born because mothers are difficult to conceive." Dolphin Yin's expression was a little embarrassed, the king was young and didn't understand the affairs of men and women, he didn't understand if he didn't explain, and it was rude to explain carefully. “…… Pigs, pigs are not good. ”

"I don't understand." Pigs are probably boars, pigs are castrated and fed, sows rely on boars for breeding, if there are too few boars, or boars are not strong, sows naturally do not give birth to piglets.

"Go, summon Ma Yin." Xiong Jing waved his hand, and asked the temple people who followed him to summon Ma Yin.

When the minister met the king ...... "summoned the chicken man and the dolphin Yin, the garden was already a chicken flying and a dog jumping. The temple people came to summon Ma Yin again, and the dog man and Taro Yin were already waiting in the garden.

"I don't want to ask you, what's going on with that?" Xiong Jing looked at Ma Yin, and his words were very vague.

"Your Majesty, it has been done." Ma Yin is a person who understands, and as soon as the king says that incident, he knows what he means.

"Is it possible?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, it's feasible." Ma Yin's expression was no longer solemn, and there was a smile on his face. "More than a dozen horses are pregnant."

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded. The two are talking about artificial insemination, the climate south of the Yellow River is hot and humid, the stallion has no intention of mating, the mare is rarely pregnant, even so, then the manual operation, there is an ice room in the palace, low temperature refrigeration can be stored for several days, there are these days of effort, a stallion can breed the mare within a radius of 100 miles.

"Is that so?" Xiong Jing asked.

How can a pig compare with a horse ......? Ma Yin glanced at Dolphin Yin angrily, and replied helplessly: "Maybe." ”

"Dolphin Yin said that it is difficult for the mother to get pregnant, so you try this method." Xiong Jing commanded.