If the milk, wool, skin, bones, tendons, meat and other by-products produced by livestock are further processed, and then the products are transported to the Central Plains to be sold, then they can create much more value than the original only meat. ∷，

The processing plant under the "Military Merit Department" is doing this. Milk is goat's, cow's milk and mare's milk, and every day, the milking workers on the farm express the milk of these three animals and quickly send it to the processing plant.

The benefits of large ranches are evident at this time. Every large farm has a dairy processing plant, and the livestock on the large farm are grazing in a relatively concentrated area, which is not too far from the milk processing plant.

After milking, the milker loads the cow into a horse-drawn cart and sends it to the processing plant for processing within an hour or two. Milk is highly nutritious and a favorite of bacteria, so it can spoil easily, and in this era of no antibiotics and no refrigerators, you can only use your brain in time.

Therefore, the milk processing plant can only be set up close to the pasture, and within one or two hours, it can still be guaranteed to be fresh. There is no such technology for processing liquid milk into milk powder, but it is still possible to add some sugar, rice cereal and other auxiliary materials, and then evaporate the water to make something similar to the milk tablets and milk shells of later generations.

After this thing is fully dried, put it into a clean, sterilized jar, and it is no problem to keep it for a year and a half without deterioration, and there is enough time to transport it to the Central Plains for sale.

Another type of milk product is liquid milk, which is made by putting milk in clay pots and heating it sufficiently. Now that Shu Han's canning technology has matured, there is naturally no big problem in making this kind of milk canning.

Of course, because the processing technology of this era is still not comparable to that of later generations, it is inevitable that some nutrients will be lost in processed dairy products. However, even so, these dairy products are still rich in calcium and protein, which is still a nutritious food, and is even considered a rare supplement by many people.

It is no wonder that people in this era, except after drinking breast milk as an infant, basically have no chance to drink milk again in the course of their later lives, even if it is cow's milk or goat's milk. Only those who are sick and need to be nourished and who are financially able to do so will have the opportunity to drink some milk.

With these dairy processing plants, a large amount of solid milk and liquid milk poured into the Central Plains ~ into the Central Plains, and the physique of the Han people will get a qualitative leap. Of course, this process is not a one-time process, the processing plant is built slowly, at the beginning of one, two, ten, dozens of such construction, and then more and more are built, this process will last for years or even decades.

In the early days, dairy was definitely a rare commodity in short supply, and the price was also very high, and only high-ranking officials and nobles could enjoy it, and if these things were to fly into the homes of ordinary people and become the daily food of ordinary people, I am afraid that it would take the imperial court to operate the grassland for decades.

The most important thing in this so-called business is to conquer, conquer, and take the entire steppe from the hands of foreign races. Only those who become the masters of the grassland have the qualifications to operate, otherwise all business activities are ridiculous.

In addition to fighting for land and resources, a lot of investment is also needed. Milk, meat, hair, skin, tendons, and bones need to be processed by different processing plants, and the funds required to establish so many processing plants are huge.

The funds of the imperial court are basically used for war, where is there so much money for these economic construction, what should I do? Liu Hou set his sights on private capital. Capitalism in this era was still very underdeveloped, but there were always rich people.

Most of the wealthy people in this era put their money into land, and buying land and buying a house is the main theme of investment in this era. What Liu Hou has to do is to direct a part of the private funds to these processing industries.

Ordinary people generally feel unreliable about investing money in the grasslands far away from the Saiwai, but it doesn't matter, Liu Hou uses official institutions such as the "Military Merit Department" to provide guarantees and confidence to the people.

All of these processing plants are public-private partnerships, funded and managed by private and government agencies, in short, everyone makes a fortune together. Compared with the landlord Lao Cai in the Central Plains, the Xianbei cavalry can be described as close to the water.

With such a good investment project, they have a lot of funds in their hands, so they naturally become a new force in investment. Especially Su Li and other Xianbei nobles, they have accumulated a huge amount of wealth, as a high-ranking in the army, they also know the whole thing about these processing plants, and know that these are hens that can lay golden eggs, so they all went crazy and invested almost all their family funds into it.

With the drive of these aristocratic lords, the Xianbei people who have a few surplus money have also stimulated an investment boom and rushed to invest their money in these industries. As a result, the economy of the entire grassland has been revitalized, forming a virtuous circle.

With these economic stimuli, the combat enthusiasm of the Xianbei cavalry was unprecedentedly high, and they raised their scimitars in their hands and screamed and slaughtered into the depths of the grassland, just to grab more resources and earn more money.

With the horseshoe of the Xianbei cavalry stepping into the depths of the grassland, more land will inevitably be included in the Han's pocket, and a steady stream of grassland products will be imported into the Central Plains, from which the people of the Han will obtain rich nutrition, exquisite daily necessities processed from various furs, and military supplies.

And all of these can make the Han people stronger and stronger, and the Han Dynasty is also growing, whether it is economic strength, military strength, and territory, they are all growing rapidly.

However, the war is still only burning to the Hetao, the place is still too small, the resources are still too few, and there are still vast grasslands waiting for everyone to conquer, and this process is destined to be long. However, unlike the previous army in the Central Plains that fought on the grassland, after Liu Hou established this system, the future war against the grassland will not be a loss-making thing, but a good thing with great benefits.

The imperial court will no longer need to spend huge sums of money, resources, or even the strength of the country to fight against these alien races, but will be able to collect a large amount of goods and obtain huge benefits from it. Even the human lives required for the conquest had nothing to do with the Han people, and it became a reality here to defeat the people.

Now it is the Xianbei people who are fighting, and in the process of their conquest, they will obtain a large number of prisoners, and among these captives or submissive tribes, there are equivalent to some young and middle-aged people who can be transformed into warriors and join the ranks of the conquest, and continue to expand the territory for the Han Dynasty.

These steppe tribes have a very weak concept of family hatred and national hatred, as long as there is enough profit to drive, they never mind serving the conquerors, they can change from the vanquished to the accomplices of the conquerors in a very short time.

That is to say, the team of the Xianbei cavalry will fight more and more people, and the more battles will be fought, and the strength will not only not be weakened, but will be like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, but this is a later story, if you want to know how to do it in the future, please see the next decomposition.