The fierce cattle grassland in the middle of summer night has lost the hustle and bustle of the day, and has become cool and quiet, where the soldiers are talking and laughing around the campfire, and the sound of the horse-head fiddle is melodious and beautiful.

This year's midsummer is generally a bumper harvest year for Heilong Island, with crops growing vigorously in the south and central regions, while there is more precipitation in the Fierce Cattle Grassland and the area around Heilong City, and the pasture is excellent. In the raptor grasslands alone, 30,000 or 40,000 calves and ponies are produced in the spring. The most famous cattle in the rappel grassland are still cattle, the cattle are tall and strong, the adult strong cattle can grow to more than 1,500 catties, and the smaller ones can also grow to 1,000 catties.

Of course, the reason why animal husbandry developed so well was inseparable from the new policy of Heilong Island, Wang Lun and Liu Tang formulated a new order of the fierce cattle grassland, exterminated the horse thieves, and let the robbers completely disappear from the fierce cattle grassland. The tribes re-divided the grasslands, and if there was a dispute over the ownership of the pastures and wild animals, the elders composed of the tribes of the Fierce Cattle Grassland would be adjusted, and the Fierce Cattle Grassland would obtain rare public security and stability.

Only when they settled down could they be happy, and various low-cost subsidies were given to various tribes, and salt bricks for livestock and medicinal materials for the treatment of cattle and horse diseases were distributed. Large convoys of goods often roamed the steppes to sell cheap grain, porcelain, ironware, clothes, shoes, and all kinds of furs. As for the sale price of large animals such as horses and cattle, it is also higher than before, and no matter how many you have, you can sell them fairly and justly when you go to the horse market set up by the government.

These tribes of semi-primitive societies on the grassland changed too quickly, and soon used white porcelain bowls and thick iron pots, drank cheap tea, and used as much salt as they wanted, and other shoes, clothes, food, and even various spices had to be sold, and they no longer had to break their heads and blood for an iron pot as before.

The quality of life of the grassland people has improved, and the enthusiasm for grazing has also increased, so the production of cattle and horses has changed greatly, and the survival rate is much higher than in previous years.

Next to the fire, Liu Tang gnawed on a roast leg of lamb, eating with a mouth full of oil, Liu Tang has matured a lot recently, and he has lost some weight.

Yuan Lang next to him said: "It seems that the situation is more tense this time, it is speculated that the old thief wants to deal with us, whether our 6,000 cavalry wants to drive south and settle in Anping Port, if it can be used in winter, it is better to transfer troops and take a boat." ”

Liu Tang also said: "It's true, the weather in the north is too cold, and the seaside freezes in winter, and big ships can't dock." When the summer is almost over, the troops will be transferred to Anping Port. ”

Gongsun Shengdao: "Jeju has changed a lot recently, many new people have arrived, Qin Ming, the general soldier of Qingzhou, is the one known as Thunderbolt, and his apprentice Huang Xin is now leading a battalion of 300 cavalry in Jeju. In addition, Dong Ping of Dongping Mansion rebelled, and went to Qingfeng Mountain to fall into the grass, and it happened that Brother Chao Gai helped lead the troops to quell the rebellion, and transferred the Wu Song brothers to Dongping Mansion as the soldiers and horses, and controlled more than 3,000 soldiers in Dongping Mansion. Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoer's naval army has also increased a lot, and it is conservatively estimated that there are still 2,000 people. The military horses of Jeju Prefecture plus the military horses of Dongpyeong Province are almost nearly 10,000 people, not to mention that there are more than 10,000 soldiers stationed on Jeju Island, which is enough for my brother to deal with golf. ”

Lu Fang said: "With our Jeju elite soldiers, 10,000 can lower the official army of 50,000, and we don't have to worry about what tricks the high ball will play." On the contrary, I feel that there is something abnormal in Jinguo, last year we robbed them of thousands of good horses and hit them in the sore spot, why there is no reaction until now. ”

Gongsun Sheng shook the dust of the Buddha and said, "Half a month ago, I sent Xizuo to check the situation in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River on the other side, so I guess I should be back soon." ”

As he was talking, the soldier came to report, saying that he had returned and had something to report.

Immediately, Liu Tang, Gongsun Sheng, and Yuan Lang came to the Chinese army, and they also sold a lot of people in the past half a month, and they were obviously very tired to rush back.

Gongsun Sheng said: "I see that you are not feeling well, let the military doctor check it and report it." ”

"It's okay, it's just that I'm a little too tired." This time, we searched along the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and found that the Jin people had raised five or six thousand heavy horses in that prairie. ”

Liu Tang was also a little surprised, and said, "Can you really see it?" But it's the same as the horses used by our heavy cavalry? ”

"The herdsmen of the Jin Kingdom are quite vigilant, we took a lot of effort to get close to observe, and the adult horses are about 1,000 catties and the horses used by our heavy cavalry, and they want to be strong." ”

He handed the drawing to Liu Tang and others to watch, and Liu Tang arranged for him to go down to recuperate.

Yuan Lang asked: "What does Gongsun Junshi think, should we rob him again." ”

Gongsun Sheng shook the dust of the Buddha and said: "The power of the Jin people is strong, the huge Liao State is defeated and retreated, the military is strong and there are capable people in the country at the same time, with the IQ of the horse farm people, they will definitely not make a second mistake, this should be the trap of the Jin State, and they want to deliberately attract us to go over and grab the horse." ”

Liu Tang thought so, and said: "The reason why the people of the Jin Kingdom did not fight is because their main force is fighting in Liaodong and Liao, and the melee between the two sides is very fierce, and the second is because the people of the Jin Kingdom are not good at shipbuilding, and the boat they built is okay to catch fish and shrimp, and it is impossible to really cross the sea to fight, so they did not fight, but they must have made corresponding arrangements around the horse farm." ”

Gongsun Sheng opened the map and said, "It's worth the loss to grab horses in the past, but we have an important place to develop, countless small islands in the south, where the Ainu live by animal husbandry and fishing. ”

Gongsun Sheng pointed to several larger islands in the southern part of Heilong Island and said, "According to the reports of Chao Xiong and Hao Siwen, these islands are very large, and each island is almost the size of Jeju Prefecture. Among them, a large island was found in the east of the island of Bird, and there were only 5,000 indigenous tribes and 5,000 people on the island, but the number of cattle raised was amazing, as many as 100,000, and countless wild reindeer, mink, and so on. The island doesn't have a name yet, but it's home to cattle, so it's tentatively named the Cow Islands. Hao Siwen and Chao Xiong were short of manpower, and the communication with the indigenous tribes was not very good, so Poor Dao planned to go to the Niu Islands, first, to put the island under the rule of Heilongfu, and secondly, to communicate with the locals, to buy tens of thousands of cattle, plus the cattle produced in the fierce cattle grassland and near the Black Dragon City, 100,000 cattle could be supplied to the outside every year, so as to speed up the agricultural development of New Jeju and Shandong. ”

Liu Tang said: "When the military division goes south, the heavy responsibility of the north falls on me and Yuan Lang, and this burden is not light." ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "Jin Bing has no ability to come over for the time being, even if it is 35,000 I am afraid that there will be no return, Brother Chao Gai's agricultural development plan cannot be delayed, ploughing cattle is the top priority, I want to go over as soon as possible." ”

After the discussion was properly discussed, Gongsun Sheng immediately led 200 light cavalry, mainly composed of fierce bull and steppe people, to the south of Anping Port, and Liu Tang led a cadre of generals to garrison the north of Heilong Island to ensure that the north was foolproof.

Gongsun Sheng led the cavalry team to Baiyu Port, from Baiyu Port to take a steam express boat for a day's work to Anping Port, the first time the men on the grassland took a boat, strange or quite a lot, some asked: "Military Division, I see that the speed of this ship is also the ordinary speed of horses, why take a horse for five or six days, take a boat for a day." ”

Gongsun Sheng explained: "It is about 500 miles from Baiyu Port to Anping Port, and it takes five days to walk 100 miles a day on horseback. Because although the horse can run fast in a short time, the horse's endurance is limited after all, and it is impossible for him to run all the time. But the steamship is different, he can run all the time. ”

Some soldiers asked again: "What is he eating when the steamboat runs so fast, and why is he so vigorous, pulling so many people to run, and he doesn't have to rest." ”

Like a good teacher, Gongsun Sheng took a piece of jet-black coal and said, "That's what the steamship eats." ”

The soldier took it, bit it with his teeth, almost knocked it out, and said, "No wonder this steamship is so strong and eats stones." ”

The steamship arrived at the port of Anping, Chao Xiong boarded the ship to greet Gongsun Sheng, as soon as Gongsun Sheng came up, he said: "You are here, the Ainu people on the island of the bird and I tossed for a long time before it was settled, and there is a big island in the east, good guy, the east and west are two hundred miles long, and the width is dozens of miles, and the grassland of Pingchuan is full of cattle." It's just that the natives above are not very friendly, and it is not easy to conquer them. ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "It's wrong, we are not conquering them, we are here to help them get rid of ignorance and primitiveness, and enter a new life, we want to build hospitals and schools for them, so that they can be fed and warmly clothed, so we are helping, not conquering." What's more, these islands were all our territory during the Tang Dynasty. ”

Chao Xiong said: "Understood, military advisor." Rest for a few days, and we'll go to the Cow Islands in a few days, where there's still a company of musketeers. ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "Don't rest, Poor Dao's body is better than yours, and I'll set off tomorrow." ”

Gongsun Sheng is really capable, just got off the boat and didn't rest, took a few entourages and went straight to the new village of immigrants, went to the village to check the situation, each family has sapling difficulties, as long as Gongsun Sheng can solve the problem of definitely help, who has a headache and brain fever Gongsun Sheng is also a good doctor, and he will treat the disease casually, of course, there are doctors in the new village, and ordinary people don't have to worry about medicine. Gongsun Sheng did not stop, visited three new villages, and found that all kinds of conditions are good, the black soil in the mountains is also unusually fertile, the rainfall is abundant, and the growth of rice is very good. In addition to rice, the Tianwang rice planted in the dry land has grown more than one person tall, and it is about to bear ears, and the sorghum is growing well, and the strong men in the new village of the farm have to work overtime to patrol at night to prevent wild boars from destroying it.

Gongsun Sheng sighed: "This Wang Lunzhen still has two brushes, and he is doing a good job, and Black Dragon Island will become a big granary just around the corner." ”

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