After being full of wine and food, all the merchants got the promise, and walked out of the door happily patting their bellies, and only Chang Mao and Ouyang Chen were left at the banquet to look at this Shen Yue, smiling and silent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Thank you for your help today, the younger brother is grateful, and he will do it first." Shen Yue knew that the two of them had something to say just now, and it seemed that they still had some heart-to-heart things to talk about.

"Your kid was bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and this time in order to help me break the siege, it was so troublesome, it's really hard for you." Chang Mao touched the wine glass and said silently, no longer the lazy appearance before, and Shen Yue have also lived and died together on the battlefield, giving birth to some brotherhood, he has been fighting alone all these years, and he is not less despised, but this little brother makes him feel some warmth.

Ouyang Chen knew that Chang Mao's words were also said to him, Shen Yue's actions were not for money, but for their brotherhood,

"Brother Shen also helped me this time, for my brother has been here for several years, I want to be able to make a career as soon as possible, and live up to the teachings of my teacher, but unfortunately, I am coldly looked at by those treacherous people in the DPRK and China, and when this mutual market trade is completed, I want to make the north rich over the south of the Yangtze River, and let them see who is incompetent."

Shen Yue saw that the two of them were obviously a little drunk, or that they were venting the pent-up bitterness in their hearts with the smell of wine, and he didn't want to be poured bitter water by them, so he hurriedly said,

"Actually, there is another thing that is inconvenient to say just now, it is a suggestion about getting along with the northern tribes, but it is just the younger brother's own opinion, if the two of you think it is ridiculous, let me vent my complaints after drinking."

Putting down the wine glass, Shen Yue picked up a piece of mutton, "The contradiction between the Han people and the nomads in the Central Plains has been around for a long time, and it will intensify in the future, maybe the solution lies in this sheep." Sheep are as important to the herdsmen as farmland is to the Han people, and every year of natural disasters, the herdsmen's sheep are dying of thirst and starvation, so they choose to go south to plunder, and it is difficult for the Han people to exterminate them, let alone cultivate them on the grassland. Although there is trade between the two tribes, it is not reliable, is there any way to change this situation? Bringing the two communities together. ”

Chang Mao and the others listened to Shen Yue's deep words, they hadn't thought about this question, so they became more concentrated,

"This time, I proposed to buy mutton from herders as a guide, looking for a bond that both communities can rely on. This time not only their mutton, but also their wool were to be purchased in large quantities, which they could rely on for a longer time than mutton. And when the wool is in the hands of the Han people, we can make sweaters, which are also necessary for life. ”

"Although I don't know much about the sweater you mentioned, but this is just a one-way connection, although they also have a demand for the tea and salt produced by our Han people, it doesn't matter too much." Ouyang Chen frowned and said.

"Lord Ouyang's analysis is good, for the two parties, only the bond that can contain each other's lifeblood is the bond that can be closely combined. The focus is still on the sheep, but we still need something from our Han people. ”

Shen Yue said, and asked someone to bring over a jar that looked like a wine jar, went to the mouth of the red cloth, and poured out some scum with a grassy smell.

"This is the feed I asked the brewer to experiment, it is made by mincing the stalks of auspicious corn and fermenting it, and it is also mixed with some salt and a small amount of dry food, if the compatibility is successful, it can be used as an excellent feed for cattle and sheep. And this is the lifeblood of the Han people to contain the shepherds. Let's not talk about disaster years, that is, every winter, the herdsmen's sheep will freeze to death and starve to death due to insufficient forage, just like the Han people's crops have no harvest. In this way, the Han people can grow crops and provide fodder for the herdsmen, and the shepherds can raise sheep and provide the wool and mutton that the Han people need, as long as it continues to operate for a long time, it will become a close cycle and indispensable. ”

After listening to Shen Yue's calm speech, Ouyang Chen was already nervous and sweating, his idea was really a bit incredible, the Han people and the nomads have always been opposite poles, Shen Yue's proposed method is to tie the two people together firmly, but this method can indeed solve the border troubles, and when the herdsmen's cattle and sheep eat the feed produced by the Han people, it is equivalent to handing over the lifeblood to the Han people, and the ideas that keep popping up in his mind make Ouyang Chen restless, the meaning of this matter is far beyond his ability, and he must report to the above, and through the channel of exaltation, directly to the Holy Hearing.

"What Brother Shen said about making auspicious corn stalks into feed is true?"

"This shouldn't be too difficult, these brewers are experienced, and it is estimated that they will soon be able to study these straw fermentation schemes, but corn has not been planted in large quantities, and it will take several years to promote it to herders, and this processing method needs to be improved, otherwise the feed made will be more expensive than what people eat."

Shen Yue knew that Ouyang Chen would report to the imperial court and explain the difficulties one by one, so as not to make it difficult for those who were officials to pat their heads and do things.

After Shen Yue's confirmation, Ouyang Chen couldn't talk anymore, and hurriedly rushed out of the door after carefully wrapping the feed.

Chang Mao smiled dumbly, "You kid is really a big ghost, just praised you twice, and used a handful of-like feed to fool the county magistrate." We can't look down on this, but you can do the wool harvesting you said, and our father didn't leave any industry, so he pointed to you. ”

Shen Yue didn't say it in public at the banquet just now, so he naturally wanted to leave Chang Mao with some benefits, but he wanted him to help with something.

"Brother Chang is not short of manpower in the army now, I want to ask you to recruit some young men from among them when dealing with those herdsmen, who are considered to be the guys of our firm, and entrust you to help practice in the army, in the future, we will have to go to the grassland, it will be much more convenient to have these clansmen to follow, the number is about five hundred to one thousand, there is no need to teach them military formations or firearms, they can practice daily and obey the rules. I will also send someone to the army to help you manage it. ”

This request was not difficult for Chang Mao, since the Yuan Dynasty, both Han and Mongols in the army trained and fought together, and even after the resistance to the Yuan, there were Mongols in the Ming army. In this way, it can also be used as a supplement to your own strength for the time being, and you can train casually and be a guard.

Shen Yue didn't just look for some guards in doing this, although he proposed a plan that sounded reasonable to Ouyang Chen, but it was really a farming people to get rid of the threat of nomads until thermal weapons became popular.

Wool mutton is secondary to themselves, the point is that there are many resources on the grassland that can give full play to their own technical advantages, this task needs the help of these herdsmen who can survive on the grassland for a long time, and communicate more with these people, they will also have a sense of identity with Chinese culture, after all, the Yellow Emperor is the nomadic people in the north who migrated and fused with the Yandi family who made a living from farming, which led to the so-called descendants of Yan and Huang.

Sent Chang Mao away, Shen Yue didn't care about his exhaustion, and walked towards the side courtyard, there are still two people here who need to see him, and he also sent them a hot pot just now, the so-called short hands and short mouths, I hope that after eating these delicacies, they can also help themselves do something.