Chapter 426: A Winter's Change
Datang Time and Space, Fuso, Honshu Island......
As the cold winter fades, the stamens are fragrant. The long-awaited spring of the people of Fuso has finally arrived. Warming air, ice-breaking water; The greenish willow branches and budding buds dispel the last wisp of cold wind that lingers and send a warm breath.
After a winter of recuperation and training, the entire Tachibana family, from the head of the family, to the servants of Tachibana, all glowed with extraordinary (passion) and fighting spirit, and even their faces became ruddy and healthy because of adequate food and nutrition.
Although from beginning to end, the Tachibana family is just used as cannon fodder to release the wind and rain to make trouble, and it will not be a pity to sacrifice the whole when necessary, but it is not a bad thing that the cannon fodder can be stronger and can be used for a longer period of time, it is better than being exchanged.
This winter, the Tachibana family is different from the previous busy. In addition to large-scale recruitment, procurement of grain and grass, and making allies, he also made great efforts in the training of opponents' soldiers and horses, and even spared no expense.
In fact, Japan fought wars in ancient times, and the lowest soldiers were actually peasants, to put it bluntly. When there is no war, you can farm for your own "boss", and when there is a war, you can directly take a weapon and put on an armor to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
In a way, the soldiers of Fuso are a bit like the militia of later generations. In fact, a similar situation occurred in the ancient times of the Celestial Empire, such as the ancient military hoarding system, which was also a farmer growing food on weekdays, and when there was a war, he could cut people with weapons.
It's just that the cost of helping and folding this kind of peasant soldier is scaryly low in terms of use cost. It seems that as long as you can eat enough. There will be a large number of people who are willing to serve as soldiers and fight. Of course, it would be nice to have some valuable items when you break down the city.
As for the military heroes, except for those regular troops and retainers who can enjoy it, as the lowest soldiers, don't even think about it. Don't exaggerate, in ancient times, it wasn't just Fuso, in fact, it was like this in many places.
After all, it is rare to see an empire as powerful as the Tang Dynasty, but even so, in the early Tang Dynasty, because of the existence of the government military system, those grassroots soldiers also had no military resonance to take. Even weapons and horses had to be brought.
The only good thing is: When there was no war, these soldiers had military land to cultivate. It was not until the middle of the Tang Dynasty that it was found that the government military system was no longer usable, so it was changed to a recruitment system. Those grassroots soldiers finally have a sound silver to take.
Even the Celestial Empire, which is considered powerful in history, cannot avoid such a situation. Not to mention Fuso, whether in ancient times or in modern times. There are countries that are starved of resources.
For those people in Fuso, being a soldier can eat rice at every meal, and from time to time they can taste "luxury" eating methods such as chazuke and grilled rice balls. And being able to eat enough at every meal is enough to make yourself die.
It's just that this time, in order to better fulfill the mission given by God, and at the same time, to be able to get greater benefits for oneself. After getting a large amount of supplies as supplies, Tachibana Sadazong was no longer as stingy as those "peers".
In addition to three meals a day, meals can keep the soldiers full, and you can also see some meat every day to supplement the consumption during training. The military voice was also set according to the different positions. Although there are not many ringing silver among the low-level soldiers, no matter how little it is, it is better than nothing.
As the saying goes, people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away.
In the past, when everyone didn't have a military sound, naturally there was no comparison. But now that the Tachibana family has bloomed Xiangyin, in this case, even if the amount of Xiangyin is small, compared with those peers who still look like Xiangyin, the gap is naturally large.
As a result, as this kind of "high-level" treatment spread, whether it was the people under the original jurisdiction of the Tachibana family, or the people in other surrounding daimyo territories, the strength of the Tachibana family swelled in a short period of time.
Although Li Anran did not give the Tachibana family a copy of the military training skills that were given to Li Shimin at the beginning, he still compiled a set of military books suitable for the Fuso people. In addition to some methods of using and training soldiers, it is also equipped with knife skills, spear skills and bow skills.
Not to mention that this is to raise tigers, the content in this set of military books is actually in Fusang. It's just that after sorting and optimization, the content in the war book is stronger. Even so, it is not as good as the one given to Datang at the beginning.
What's more, for Li Anran, Fusang is really not qualified to raise tigers. If someone dares to mess around, the identity of the god of war Luo Yu is not an ornament, and when the time comes, whether it is to punish the evil or destroy a country, it will not be a difficult matter.
With this book of war, after a winter of training, training and training, the strength of the Tachibana family is no longer limited to the great increase in troops, and the strength of the army has also skyrocketed a lot. In this era, Fu is definitely a strong general.
After the beginning of spring, the Tachibana family also planted new crops sent by the Zheng family's merchant ship. It is said that these crops called corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., not only have an amazing yield, but also have a very good taste.
The most important thing is that these new crops are growing very fast. The fastest can be harvested in a little more than a month, so that even if you can't plant in winter, you can plant at least five or six crops in spring, summer and autumn.
Not to mention that the original yield of these new crops is amazing, even if the yield is limited, five or six crops are planted a year, and the combined yield is scary enough. Not to mention that in addition to grain, these new crops also include melons, fruits and vegetables.
As for meat, Li Anran was too lazy to be as dedicated as he was to Datang. It's just that a kind of meat rabbit was cultivated through genetic technology and thrown to the Tachibana family to raise, and the remaining cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. were handed over to Zheng Chenggong to solve.
Anyway, the Zheng family and Xiaoyao Villa already had business dealings, and through Zheng Chenggong's hand, they borrowed the Zheng family's channels to get some poultry and livestock to be raised in Fusang.
After all, Zheng Chenggong has decided to set up another door, even if he has not been able to completely cut off the relationship with the Zheng family at the moment due to various reasons, but the opportunity to pit the Zheng family has been sent to his eyes, and naturally there is no reason to miss it.
And this kind of meat rabbit cultivated by genetic technology has a terrifying reproductive ability.
In fact, rabbits are originally very fecund, otherwise there would be no "rabbits and pigeons, a litter a month." At the same time, there will be no embarrassment that just a few rabbits will almost completely destroy Australia's ecological environment.
It's just that, after the cultivation of genetic technology, this body size is fatter than ordinary meat rabbits, the heaviest single body can reach 30 kilograms, and the body size can grow to 1.5 meters exaggerated meat rabbits, and the ability to reproduce is more powerful.
Of course, if you want to raise a rabbit to be 1.5 meters long and weigh 30 kilograms, the cost of investment is not small. Fortunately, under normal circumstances, a rabbit weighs ten to twenty kilograms, and it is relatively easy to grow to about one meter.
But this kind of meat rabbit grows fast and has strong fecundity, and this appetite is naturally scary. If it is not bred in captivity but thrown into the wild, the harm is much greater than that of the pet rabbits that were brought to the Australian continent.
Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth breeding of this meat rabbit and further control Fusang, Li Anran also specially made a fast-growing forage grass with super adaptability and even ice and snow as feed for this meat rabbit.
By the end of this winter, the number of more than 100 pairs of adult meat rabbits had exceeded 10,000 under the careful breeding of the Tachibana family. There is no way, ordinary meat rabbits can breed offspring in three months, and this new type of meat rabbit can be in two months.
Set of sentences in a well-known ancient text, in the case of children and grandchildren, grandchildren and children, and there is no artificial consumption and natural enemy hunting, plus the adaptability and disease resistance of this meat rabbit are quite strong, the number does not grow so fast that there is a problem.
Don't look at the individual weight of these rabbits, let alone compare with large animals like cattle, even dogs and sheep can't compare. But it can't stand this thing, so it can be reduced, reproduce quickly, and have a large base. Even if it is calculated as 10 kilograms, 10,000 is 100,000 kilograms.
The most important thing is that this is just a winter breeding effect...... (To be continued......)