So this thing can only be done slowly. Zhu Ao's principle of doing things is that he will never owe anything to someone who is good to him, and he will keep Lan Youcheng's affairs in mind.

Zhu Ao didn't face Lan Youcheng in public, picked up the wine glass and took a sip. This meal was very comfortable, Lan Youcheng was very honest, and before she knew it, she drank high, Zhu Ao asked her mother to take her back, and stayed at Dainu's at night.

Dai Nu knew that the mother and daughter of the Lan family had made great contributions to the prince's big ranch plan, and she was afraid that her status in the prince's heart would be overtaken, so she waited for Zhu Ao to work hard at night. Tonight was another great night.

In mid-August, Li Anyi's uncle moved his family to Hexi. To be honest, they were a little surprised when they received Li Anyi's letter, but after a short period of weighing, they still decided to come to Hexi to follow Zhu Aogan, after all, it was not an easy task to get the appreciation of a vassal king, it was enough for them to blow for several years.

Zhu Ao personally met with Li Anyi's uncle at the residence of King Su and said: "Mr. is willing to contribute to the construction of my Su Domain, and this king is really pleased." Mr. has worked hard all the way. ”

Although Li Anyi's uncle is from a family of animal husbandry and has a certain amount of savings, the biggest official he usually sees, that is, their county lord, still stands from the sidelines and watches, and today he actually saw the vassal king of the lower rank of the Son of Heaven, how can he not be excited? After being praised by Zhu Ao, Li Anyi's uncle felt that he was about to fly, so he quickly knelt down, kowtowed, and said, "Xiaomin Zhang Bao knocks to see the prince." The prince is really loved, and it is a blessing for the people to be able to contribute to the prince. ”

Zhu Ao nodded with great satisfaction, and said: "Mr. Zhang is too modest, this king heard Li Anyi say your ability, this king does lack animal husbandry talents here, I hope Mr. Zhang will help more." ”

Zhang Bao is a rough man, he can't think of words when he speaks, and said: "Where does the prince say, other villains dare not say it, if it is about feeding livestock, the villain dares to call the second in Bashu, no one dares to call the first, if the prince doesn't believe it, you can ask my niece." ”

Zhu Ao laughed, he likes to be cheerful, not to mention that people with ability are arrogant, and people without ability can't be crazy if they want to, as long as this person is loyal, talented, and can help himself, what's the big deal if he is crazy, and said with a smile: "If this king doesn't believe it, he won't invite you all the way away." This king has now appointed you as the director of animal husbandry affairs of the Su Domain, and he will give grazing to this king, hoping that you will live up to your mission. ”

Although I don't know how many officials this director is, the one appointed by the prince must be valuable, Zhang Bao immediately kowtowed and said: "Thank you for the prince's love, the villain must live up to his mission." ”

Solving this heart disease, Zhu Ao should breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, if nothing else, the food shortage in the future can be temporarily replaced with meat products.

It's really "why not eat minced meat".

The people up and down the Su clan are still busy in full swing, and the time has come to the beginning of September. This is the time when winter wheat is sown.

The reclamation of the wasteland has been temporarily completed, and the dredging and reconstruction of the canals has been completed. The head of the carpenter led the craftsmen to build a lot of large waterwheels, and all of them were already in place. Land farther away from the river is also equipped with wells and hand presses.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. The next thing is to see how Zhu Ao sows the seeds. Because after several months of desperate efforts, the top and bottom of the Su clan have reclaimed 5 million acres of fertile land. These fields would never be able to be planted by manpower alone.

Many people sweated for Zhu Ao, worried that he would fall on his head. Geng Bingwen watched all this with a cold sidestander attitude, because he knew that this Zhu Ao was not simple, and he was waiting to see Zhu Ao's next move.

Zhu Ao knew that these 5 million acres of land would definitely not be able to be planted by these hundreds of thousands of people alone, so he planned to rely on mechanized production from the beginning.

Of course, there were no tractors in ancient times, and no matter how mechanized they were, they could only rely on manpower and animal power. Zhu Ao had studied ancient agriculture before, and knew that during the Han Dynasty, he had found a sharp tool for sowing seeds - the three-legged cocoon car. There are three furrowers under this kind of cocoon car, when sowing, the cocoon cart is pulled by oxen or horses, and the cocoon is ditched and sown on the leveled land, and at the same time it is covered and suppressed, and it is counted in one fell swoop, saving time and effort, so its efficiency can reach "one day of planting". That's a hundred acres.

This method of sowing can be regarded as more than ten times more efficient than manual sowing, and more than thirty times more than the amount of harvest in the city.

However, this farming method is also limited, first of all, this set of equipment is very valuable, whether it is a horse or a cow, it requires at least a dozen taels of silver, which is definitely not something that a small family can afford.

Second, to work in this way, it is necessary to have a large and level land.

These two conditions are met by Zhu Ao, and they are uniquely blessed. A few months earlier, he had ordered craftsmen to make a number of three-legged carts, as well as yoke pulls and stud horseshoes. The yoke frees the horse's neck and allows it to drag heavy loads. Stud horseshoes can improve the horse's grip.

That's right, Zhu Hao just wanted to rely mainly on horses to pull the chariot. Although the construction of the Shandan Military Horse Farm has not yet begun, Lao Zhu also gave Zhu Hao some horses. According to the records of the "Ming Huidian", the number of horses in the Gansu town guarded by Zhu Ao should be more than 29,000, and the total number of horses in the nine-sided towns of the Ming Dynasty was more than 360,000. But in fact, Zhu Hao didn't have so many war horses. Because the "Ming Huidian" was written in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, after more than 100 years of governance and accumulation of the kings of the Ming Dynasty, the number of war horses in the Ming Dynasty was much more than in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In the thirtieth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang once warned Zhu Li, the king of Jin: From Liaodong to Gansu, more than 6,000 miles from east to west, there are only 100,000 horses that can be warned. There is a police force, and the number of horses outside Beipingkou is only 20,000, and if there are 100,000 horses, although the ancient famous generals, it is difficult to fight in the field. Therefore I will want to know myself, and I will count my horses. Even if there is an infantry army, but you can clamp the horse to help the momentum, if you want to chase the north and capture the thief, you can't carry it.

From this passage, we can see that the life of Zhu Yuanzhang, a generation of male masters, is also quite tense.

The scarcity of horses in the early Ming Dynasty can be seen from this. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", in the twenty-third year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty counted the number of soldiers and horses in the country, counting 1,24,923 officers and soldiers, and only 45,000 and 80 horses. Due to the "defeat in the battle with the captives", the Ming army could only "gather troops to defend the fortress" and defend the first line of the Great Wall with infantry and fortresses.

PS: It's a collection of more than three hundred, not three thousand, and I wrote it wrong in a moment of excitement.