Chapter 506: Preparing to Start (Part II)
Of course, the reason why He Modu's department can reach such a point is also because of the current situation of the Han Dynasty, first of all, the number of sheep in the Han Dynasty has exceeded more than 10 million, and more than one-third of them are sheep belonging to state-owned farms.
The reason why the flock does not continue to increase is because the state is artificially controlling the number of flocks, and the same is true of the people, although the flock of the people is increasing, but the people will not let the flock increase at will.
When the sheep reach a certain number, the people themselves will slaughter the sheep for food every year, followed by the vast majority of the people of the Han Dynasty will raise pigs, chickens, ducks, fish and other livestock and poultry, and all meat is not lacking.
When there is no shortage of meat, there is naturally no shortage of fat, so now these meats and fats have begun to be stably supplied to various cities and construction sites in Dahan.
Therefore, there is still a lot of meat consumed by Dahan every day, and the other is grain, Dahan's grain is still mainly wheat, and the planting area is about 7.8 million to 8 million mu, and there is not much change in maintaining this number.
The reason why this figure is maintained is that at present, Dahan is no longer short of grain, and after Datang has survived the previous food disaster, although the annual grain import volume has not decreased, it is actually because a lot of land in Datang has been converted to cotton and other cash crops.
Otherwise, Datang's grain imports will actually decrease, but part of the reason is that the number of people in Datang is also increasing, and at the same time, Datang's agricultural tax has also been reformed, so after the people do not have enough food, the people's food consumption has also increased.
Because people are like this, when you can't eat enough, such as wheat bran and so on, you will mix it directly into the flour and eat it, but when the price of wheat is very low, and you have enough food to eat, then you start to pursue eating white flour.
And things like bran can be ground separately and fed directly to poultry and livestock, not only Dahan, in fact, the number of poultry and livestock breeding in Datang is also increasing, but Datang does not have such a scale of official unified statistics and unified professors, so this speed is not as fast as Dahan.
However, although the wheat planting area of Dahan has not increased, it does not mean that other things in Dahan have not increased, such as soybeans, that is, soybeans in later generations, of course, are called soybeans in some places, and Dahan also calls soybeans.
The planting area of soybeans has expanded to an area of about 800,000 mu, not only soybeans, but also potatoes have also reached nearly one million mu, and the reason why potatoes are not planted on a large scale is because the output of potatoes is completely sufficient, and most of the potatoes are planted by ordinary people themselves, which can be eaten in winter.
Large-scale cultivation is almost always sold to the city as a whole, of course, the Han grain trading house also has a reserve of potatoes, mainly to sell to the people living in various cities in winter to eat.
Soybeans are mainly used to extract oil, and the complete popularity of animal oil is not very shown, while soybeans are much simpler, and soybeans can be used for breeding.
In addition, rice has also been introduced into the Han Dynasty, but because rice needs a large amount of water, because of the spirit of Yumen, although the Tarim River and the Huoci River basin have formed a complete water system, but the water flow is mainly rainfall and the Jiangnan region of the Tang Dynasty is still not comparable.
Therefore, the rice planting area is about 200,000 mu, mainly for high-end people.
In addition, for example, all kinds of spices, in addition to the official collective planting, others have been popularized to the people, anyway, the people are growing their own homes to eat, of course, they will buy some, and the officials are planting and selling them on a large scale.
Persia, as well as the Byzantine Empire further west, as well as many countries further west, continued to flow gold into the Han Dynasty through these spices, silk and wool cloth.
The amount of gold inflow in the past few years alone is enough for the Han currency to issue hundreds of millions of yuan again.
However, the issuance of currency is regular, and there is no need for Huo Gang to pay attention to it at present.
With so much land occupied, the quota of spiritual spring water that can be integrated into rivers in Huo Gang's hands has increased by three, that is to say, now Huo Gang can turn three rivers into rivers that can be integrated into spiritual spring water.
At present, Huo Gang has reserved the quota of these three rivers, first of all, the river he is ready to integrate into is the Ganges River basin in the future, although the Indus River is not short, but Huo Gang is not ready to integrate into the spiritual spring water.
Because the number of places for Lingquan Water is not much, Huo Gang must consider all the regions of the entire Han Dynasty in the future, and Lingquan Water cannot be concentrated in one place, because in this case, it will easily lead to the concentration of population.
Moreover, although this area of the Tarim Basin is safe enough to be used as a large rear, it is not very convenient if it is expanded externally, so it is like Huo Gang in the Indian Peninsula must be taken.
In addition, he also prepared to give a place to the eastern side of the Urals, which was later called the Ob River and Huo Gang named the Beiyang River.
Another reason for this choice is that Huo Gang has already undergone experiments, such as seeds improved by spiritual spring water, the characteristics of high seed yield can be retained, but if you don't water spiritual spring water, just ordinary water sources, you can probably retain 70% of the yield.
Of course, the fertility of the land must also keep up, and it cannot be ordinary barren land.
However, these are not important, fertilizers can be increased later, but the improvement of grain yield in terms of genes is the most important.
And the fact that this gene can be passed on is the most important thing. So having these rivers in different directions means that the range of influence of these rivers is too large.
At least food is the most critical thing in this era.
As for the remaining river quota, Huo Gang may put it on the land of Europe in the future, anyway, in his lifetime, because there is a sharp weapon like a train, Huo Gang will definitely go to Europe with the army! At that time, Europe will be its own backyard, and such a big place is making so many languages, so let's destroy the languages of the whole of Europe first.
In addition, the Arabian Peninsula and other countries naturally have to be won, but it is Africa...... Huo Gang hesitated a little, that place ...... It's a huge pit, you can do it or not, anyway, the black uncles there...... Forget it, it's okay to let them develop on their own.
Anyway, after Huo Gang unified the languages of all the mainstream civilizations in the world, there is absolutely no way to change the last language of the remaining civilizations, and they can only use this one language and civilization, Huo Gang is very sure of this.
It is precisely because the Han has such a rich foundation that the Han is only feeding the more than 700,000 Turks at present, and it doesn't matter.
"Do you think they might succeed?" Huo Gang thought about it and asked, to be honest...... Huo Gang didn't have any idea about whether He Modu's troops could succeed, mainly because the gap between the numbers of the two sides was a little big...... The population of the entire Hemolu tribe was 750,000, but the current population of the entire Ring Sun Dynasty was about 15 million.
That's right, more than 10 million people!
"We analyzed and calculated with the strategic department of the military department, and we felt that the probability of success was about 60 percent." Mingyue said seriously, "Although the population gap between the two sides is huge, the total population of the Hemo tribe is more than 750,000 people, and less than half of them are men, which is only 300,000, excluding the elderly and children, according to the calculation of Turkic men between the ages of 15 and 40, it is about 220,000. ”
The reason for this population ratio of 220,000 is that the Turks themselves are over 45 years old...... The proportion is really low, it's really not much, and this is not the afterlife. In this era, even the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty is not high, let alone the Turks.
"220,000 people can almost all be used as troops, and the elite army of the Jieri Dynasty has less than 200,000 people, and the servant army is about 500,000 people, and their army is more than 700,000 people, but the combat strength of these 700,000 is ...... It's hard to put into words. ”
"The main thing is that their servant army is more like a slave army in the slave era, and the weapons used are almost only wooden spears, wooden shields, and battle armor. And the equipment of their elite troops is also low. ”
"The most critical thing is that I investigated the combat effectiveness of their elite troops...... It's okay to win battles...... If you lose the battle, it's better to run faster than anyone! ”
"If Hemodua and them execute a little strategy, it's easy to drive them away."
"However, if we are willing to provide them with weapons and equipment, the chances of their success are eighty or even ninety percent." Mingyue said seriously.
Huo Gang's expression was a little strange, although he knew that the Indian Peninsula in later generations had actually been occupied by the Turks driven away by the Tang Dynasty, but this combat power was too weak, right? More than 10 million people .......
"Of course, weapons and armor are provided to them, aren't these strategies that we have long worked out? How much armor is already in store for them? Huo Gang said directly.
"100,000 sets, the weapons are also matched, but the war horses we have provided them are only about 30,000, which have been transported to the vicinity of the Putuo River, and we can also directly provide some large siege equipment, as well as elephant soldiers for the Jieri Dynasty, etc., we have also developed some special weapons." Mingyue said directly.
"Very good, send it to them directly." Huo Gang said very simply, "Anyway, these armors don't pose any threat to us anymore. "Now the Han can develop all the Mauser rifles, and although the cannon cannot reach the modern artillery of later generations, it is similar to the shells of the Second World War era.