Chapter 192: The Cornerstone of Strength

Looking from afar, that piece is the cows, sheep, mules and horses that can't be seen, and a lake in the middle I don't know if it's wrong, the blue lake seems to be more than twice as large, glowing with blue light, it looks very beautiful, like a fairyland on earth.

Under the clear blue sky, the herd of cattle was wandering by the river, and from time to time a carp jumped up in the water, and a carp came to fight.

The horses on the side were already galloping on the grassland, and the horses, which were originally very expensive to cultivate, stimulated the powerful function of the livestock factory, and the circular system established by the agriculture and animal husbandry itself, which made it easier to train horses and cattle.

Of course, the cultivation of war horses is another matter, just like the northern horse farm for future generations, those horses from the south are for children to play, and horses that can fight and ordinary horses are two different things.

Then there was the issue of arable land for cattle and horses, and these bred horses and cattle had already been distributed to the villages.

Approaching the pasture, there were orchards, groups of animals, and the stench of animal feces, and the dirt under your feet was very soft.

Approaching the place where the war horses were kept, every war horse here looked like a very strong and tall war horse, snorting one by one.

These are basically bought back for a lot of money, and the money spent can be imagined, I really don't know how he used those horses to make such a herd out in a short period of time, maybe he has any domestication skills.

The busy farmer and herdsman saw Xiaochuan, walked slowly, and said, "Meet the lord"

"How about that Sharma I gave you?" asked Ogawa, who was just given to him a few days ago, and the good things that were drawn by lottery.

"This is a little difficult" This farmer and herdsman showed a difficult face, and took Xiaochuan over, and the war horse in front of him looked very tall, more than two meters tall.

Ordinary horses are like a cow standing next to a horse, and the tall horses are a little daunting from a distance.

Sharma, once the strongest horse in Europe, could pull five tons of cargo, and in later generations there were many places that would rather use him to haul goods, let alone plough the land, but if you fight...

"Lord, I tried it, this kind of war horse really can't go to the battlefield! They are too easily frightened," the farmer wiped the cold sweat from his head.

Xiangyi on the side still stopped in shock, covered her red lips, looked at the horse, and walked over gently.

Xiaochuan shook his head, a pity, alas, it would be great if this kind of horse could go to the battlefield, but it would be good if it was used as a horse to cultivate, the logistical pressure became smaller in an instant, and a horse pulled five tons of grain, terrifying.

"Is there no other way?" Ogawa is still a little pity, if this kind of horse goes to the battlefield, it can be described as a tank.

"Well, I'll try again," said the farmer, shaking his head and smiling bitterly, "but the cultivation of ploughing cattle and pulling horses is already good." He pointed to the herds of cattle and sheep outside.

"That's enough for the whole lord's command, and the horses have been distributed to the nearby farms," he said.

Horse ploughing is fast, cattle are more fine, depending on the quality of the land, if the field is not good, the horse ploughing is good, this is the need for a large number of cattle and horses, as well as mules to pull goods, which all need to be cultivated.

There is also a need for a large amount of grain feeding, and only in this way can the people's power be completely liberated and this group of Tuntian troops have more time to train.

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Leaving the farm, the two of them traveled westward, a farm attracted the attention of Xiao Chuan, on one side was a small river, the water was crystal clear, a waterwheel by the river, several farmers were staring at the wheels, the waterwheel turntable was turned like a cup, the water was transported to the top behind a bamboo pipe, and then the water went down the bamboo pipe to the field.

On the top of the field, there are horses, or oxen, and they drag long climbing plows behind them, and behind them is a girl or an old man, who only needs to walk around the field and pull these cows and horses to work.

The poplar tree on the side has already produced new branches, and it looks so beautiful and beautiful, and several old men under the tree are wearing shuttles and sitting under the tree, their faces are full of smiles.

Approaching the countryside with this Xiangyi, the muddy land made Xiangyi's snow-white shoes embroidered with plum blossoms with a trace of stains, she didn't care, quietly followed behind the young man, looked at the farm in the distance, and said: "The changes here are really big, I remember when we first came, this place was a wasteland, only a few acres of land, the village is also extremely poor, and there are no cattle and horses."

"Yes, agriculture is the foundation, followed by reading" Xiaochuan walked further, and heard the sound of babbling reading, under the ancient locust tree, more than a dozen children were reading, and an old man in the distance was holding a book of Analects in his hand, explaining the true meaning of it.

Culture, this is the most important thing, throughout the ages, countless countries, countless dynasties have survived on this beautiful blue planet, why some nations are strong and prosperous, and some nations have not even established a country, is the reason for culture, a strong culture can make a nation strong and prosperous, and culture determines the national quality of a country.

This is a kind of national identity that has been passed down through books and language, and the real national blood, the rigor of the Germans, and the seriousness of the Japanese are all things hidden in the culture.

Just like the enduring of China, it is the culture that makes Confucian culture, his strength lies in his cohesion, his pursuit of righteousness, people's pursuit from the interests to another kind of etiquette, benevolence and righteousness, he is a kind of culture that engraves patriotic feelings into people's hearts.

Then there are Zhou Yi classics, which was used as a fortune-telling thing during the Qing Dynasty, only Taiwan is still studying its philosophical value, such as the Ming Dynasty, countless people are enshrined as classics, just like Yu Dayou, whose teacher is from which to study the art of war, to later generations, but was unscrupulous fortune-telling metaphysics covered his own light, which of the study of yin and yang, so that China compared to Europe to understand the concept of positive and negative numbers in advance, to later generations, many European scholars still can not understand, why some numbers will be smaller than zero.

This kind of simple school was formed, and it took money to find the talents in the village.

There are more than a dozen young children learning martial arts on the side, and the man led by him is seven feet tall, thin, dressed in a strong suit, and has a handsome face, and said: "Practicing martial arts is a breath, and punching must be dismissed, and this breath must not be dispersed!" ”

The children, are all following the practice of martial arts, Xiao Chuan's eyes are hot, this man is good at a glance, each village is to let the children practice martial arts in the village, but most of them are looking for Orion to teach martial arts, or first follow the veterans in the fortress to come to some training cheats, most of them are to let the children hold small wooden guns, or wooden knives, for training, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is somewhat similar.

However, unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty began training at the age of ten, and most of them found some veterans to teach, how could they train from a younger age like this, and the training was more scientific and orderly, this is the difference between civilization and barbarism, but the same system will have completely different efficiency.

This policy of training soldiers since childhood inevitably reminded Xiaochuan of the Chinese table tennis system in later generations, but it is somewhat similar, a policy of free martial arts practice by the whole people, which is a kind of fighting for the population and fighting for the heritage.

The man who practiced martial arts saw Xiao Chuan and the two, especially Na Xiangyi's eyes were hot, and he immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's stop here today." ”

The children left happily, he immediately touched his cheeks, straightened his hairstyle and walked up, staring at Xiangyi with his eyes, and said: "This little lady, what are you here for" He looked at Xiaochuan's ordinary appearance, and thought that I must be a subordinate or something.

"The slave family is following the husband," he said, snuggling in Xiao Chuan's arms, with a hint of pink on his snow-white cheeks.

The man looked at it with pity for a while, and said, "Hmph, it's a pity" He became more and more jealous of Xiaochuan.

"Call Wang Yuan over" Xiao Chuan said directly, looking forward to this scholar in his heart, and he was more and more optimistic about him.

"Oh, my cousin's name is what you can shout too!" The strong man immediately said with disdain on his face, obviously not wanting to run errands for Xiao Chuan, a seemingly ordinary person, especially when he was still jealous.

"Oh" Xiao Chuan smiled, there are people who have no eyesight in all dynasties and generations, hehe, Xiangyi on the side smiled and said: "This little brother, hurry up, otherwise your cousin won't be able to afford it for a while."

"Hmph, you think too much, this man" The strong man was even more angry, this high-minded tone made him dislike, and said: "And your little lady is really, how did you follow such a man"

Xiang Yi's brows furrowed, his graceful body seemed to turn into a red rainbow, and the golden lotus wearing red plum blossom cloth shoes kicked over with a sound of breaking the sky.

The strong man immediately raised his hand to block it, and the random man looked like his right arm blocked Xiangyi's calf, and his face was flushed.

Xiangyi retracted her legs, smiled slightly, and said, "This son, if you say bad things about my father-in-law, be careful of your life."

The strong man's face turned pale for a while, how could there be such a powerful girl in his heart, looking at Xiangyi's smiling face, his heart was cold, he didn't doubt the truth of the other party's words, that kind of murderous aura, he might really kill himself in the next second, he snorted coldly.

"I'm Qin Xiaochuan, take me to see your cousin," Xiaochuan said.

"You are Qin Xiaochuan, Qin Qianhu!" The strong man's face immediately changed greatly, and he said: "It's rude, it's rude" He said that he made a series, and his face was solemn.

"It's okay" Xiaochuan waved his hand, just followed him forward, chatting all the way, but this time he understood, this person's name is Wang Huaiming, it turns out that this Wang Yuanzu is in the same vein as Wang Yanchen, the general of Liaodong at this moment, and this Wang Yuan has a prominent family background.

Wang Huaiming is a self-familiar character, just now he was unhappy, but at the moment he is familiar with Xiaochuan again, introduced the village, and said: "Look at the waterwheel, my cousin specially found a blacksmith to make it, when I did it, the old stubborn in the village was not less ridiculed, and now I see the role of this waterwheel is happy on my face, hehe"

Along the way, I have come to a clearing in the village, and from a distance you can see a village, most of which have been replaced with blue brick houses, and there are several old earthen houses in the east of the village.

There was a shout of killing from the side.

That Wang Yuan was wearing a piece of iron-inlaid cotton armor at the moment, an iron armor flashing in the sun, brushed with red paint, holding a long sword in his hand, and more than thirty young people in front of him.

Lined up in an array, two people in front of them held wooden shields and long knives, bamboo spears in the back, and two others with bird guns in the back, constantly training the speed of loading gunpowder.

Among them, there are only three people wearing armor, and the armor rate is still too low, and the trained mandarin duck array still reveals a kind of strangeness.

"Brother, the lord is here" Wang Huaiming shouted loudly, a group of militia members stopped training and came over, some of them had some tattered clothes, this is a refugee, the refugees who fled from the north are not like ordinary people looking for an empty space to make a shed to make porridge, so it is not only troublesome, but also easy to mess up, and this part of the people is the easiest to be a traitor when they break into the army.

Xiao Chuan scattered these people in more than 100 of his villages, so that he easily digested this group of refugees, and others could not do this, because they did not have this absolute control, or they could no longer say that they were in control, but these villages were part of their own forces.

"See the lord" Everyone knelt down and said respectfully, Wang Yuan's eyes were warm.

"See, the house over there is a refugee taken in by my cousin," Wang Huaiming said.

"Don't be rude, brother" Wang Yuan immediately glared at his cousin, but he came back and half-knelt down and said: "My cousin has been learning martial arts with Fang Shi since he was a child, and I only wrote to him back in the last few days, so I don't understand the rules, don't be surprised."

"It's okay, you and I are both Chinese, where did you get so much etiquette, don't bow down next time" Xiaochuan said, and all the villagers stood up, their eyes eager.

"Etiquette cannot be abolished" Wang Yuandao, and a group of people went to the village again, and many families in the village raised chickens and sheep.

This time in this farmhouse, but to eat an unusual lunch, the theory of this ecological farm has been moved to these villages, fish ponds, fruit trees, chickens and ducks, mulberries, put things together, it will have an extraordinary effect, now every village is a fish pond, meat is more, the food crisis has been greatly alleviated, these ecological farms have solved nearly four-tenths of the food problem.

"Lord, you don't know, what is this called an ecological farm, it's amazing, it's just to let those chickens and ducks help raise fish, and fish help grow fruit trees" Wang Huaiming on the side kept talking, and Wang Yuan on the side kept frowning, for fear that his form would cause the lord to be angry.

"There are also cattle and sheep, your lord, you are really a good person, so many cattle and sheep come, the village immediately has labor, and there is less work in the field, the original words are we squeeze out a maximum of two afternoons a week and one and a half hours of training in each afternoon, and now there are two and a half hours of training time every afternoon."

I also understood when I heard him talk about it this time, looking at Xiangyi's specific responsibilities on the side, she calculated them, but she didn't expect these ecological farms to be promoted.

A table of fish and meat in the past was unbelievable, this time to entertain Xiaochuan, all the people in the village were not distressed at all, and all the village elders knelt down when they saw Xiaochuan, and even the village had its own ancestral hall.

This is the ancients, the kindest Chinese people since ancient times, who repay grievances with virtue, but they are often raised by others as butcher knives.

This small Wangjiabao represents hundreds of villages under its command, a large number of farm tools, hydraulic machinery, and the construction of ecological farms, which has made these villages change something different, among which the children of the village are the same, education, organization and training, in ten or twenty years, these children will become tens of thousands of elites.

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