For Yang Chuan, one of the best laws of the Han Empire was that the imperial court allowed and even encouraged the free buying and selling of land.

Of course, this can also be the worst, you know, when people evaluate the history of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty two thousand years later, one of them is 'serious land annexation' that has been criticized.

But for Yang Chuan at the moment, he needs more land too much.

Under the nose of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, what kind of talent is the safest? Originally, Yang Chuan had never thought about this issue clearly, but the moment he saw Cui Jiu's old thief just now, he suddenly realized.

Farming.

Farm well and become the most skilled farmer in the Han Empire, and he will definitely be a figure that even Emperor Liu Che is unwilling to offend easily, and naturally he will become the safest person in the Han Empire.

The people of the country and the society are nothing more than 'farming' and 'fighting', and if you have to add one, there should be another 'reading'.

However, this is all after Dong Zhongshu proposed to 'depose the hundred schools and respect Confucianism', so there is no need to consider it for the time being.

Yang Chuan wants to protect himself to the greatest extent, what can compare to the status of 'the best farmer in the Han Empire'? This is the proper 'cornerstone of the Han Society'.

This reason is actually very simple, but whoever made Yang Chuan born a chef, no matter what happens, he is always accustomed to thinking about problems with the thinking logic of a chef, and there will naturally be some strange deviation......

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Cao Xiang cared a lot about this bet, so he wanted to hatch a few chicks for Yang Chuan to see who was the most powerful.

As for the bet of a thousand acres of land, he didn't care at all, and even, as long as Yang Chuan was willing to bow his head and beg, it didn't matter if he gave him one or two thousand acres of land.

Who made Yang Chuan his Cao Xiang's savior.

However, Yang Chuan is very strange, he is obviously a small money fan, but he is arrogant, and he will not bow his head for a mere 1,000 acres of thin fields, which makes Cao Xiang also very uncomfortable, and he always feels that he owes too much to others.

As a result, more than a dozen servants who served him could be regarded as unlucky, not only serving all day and night to eat and drink, but also squatting on a pile of eggs to hatch chicks when Cao Xiang got up to and pee.

Yang Chuan's approach is very simple.

He thought about it carefully, and made a kang in a big house, spread a layer of soft wheat straw on the kang surface, and casually put hundreds of chicken, duck and goose eggs into the wheat straw, and then ignored it.

The fire is burning sheep dung, cow dung, etc., the fire will not be too strong, but it is stable and long-lasting, fill the kang every two days, as long as the temperature of the kang is not too high.

Although there is no thermometer, Yang Chuan is very confident in his incubation methods, and if conditions allow, he can even make a decent "hatching room......

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The hatching of the chicks takes about twenty-one days, and Yang Chuan just settled his cousin and ignored it.

Recently, he had been mingling with Huo Quzhi and Cui Jiu all day long, pouring seven or eight "ingredients" such as alfalfa, bean cake, wheat bran, green salt, and bone meal, changing several flavors, and finally concocted three kinds of forage for war horses.

Among them, the most satisfactory formula, with alfalfa, bean dregs, wheat bran, barley and other main materials, green salt, bone meal, eggshell powder, vegetable leaves, yeast granules, etc. as auxiliary materials, not only war horses love to eat, and, according to the judgment of Cui Jiu old thief, this forage can also greatly reduce the possibility of war horses getting sick.

In fact, as far as Yang Chuan knows, some minerals such as calcium, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium should be added to the forage of the war horse, but unfortunately, at the moment, he can't do it too finely, so he can only make do it for the time being.

Even so, Huo Quzhi and Cui Jiu were already overjoyed.

Especially Cui Jiu, the old thief, for the first time, showed a normal smile, gently patted Yang Chuan's shoulder, and sighed very happily: "Yang Chuan, as long as you want, I can castrate you tonight, lie down and rest for a month, and then you can enter Weiyang Palace......"

Yang Chuan silently clamped his legs and said with a dry smile: "I am good at farming, cooking, and preparing forage. ”

Cui Jiu looked disappointed at Yang Chuan's refusal, but the old thief soon became happy again.

Because, Yang Chuan put forward a new idea: "When I was a slave to the Qiang people in the Western Regions, I found that some old shepherds would gather some grass before the autumn frost fell, and then find a way to make it into dry material, so that the horses could have good forage in winter......

went around in a big circle, what he actually wanted to say was the 'Qingchu Feed Drying Method', but this kind of proposal was too demonic two thousand years ago, and he had to hide it, and it was best to let Cui Jiu and Huo Quzhi find a way to complete it.

is the only way, no matter how big the military feats, he can receive them very safely.

After all, he's only a fourteen-year-old now......

Sure enough, when these two people heard Yang Chuan's statement, their eyes lit up, and they immediately began to think of a way to turn upside down.

Under Yang Chuan's careless sentence or two, Huo Quzhi and Cui Jiu's brains were opened, and they quickly thought of the idea of drying hay with hot air.

Anyway, there were not many other things in Yang Chuan's fiefdom, there were many raw materials such as wood, alfalfa, wheat bran and green salt, and with the help of fifty Yulin soldiers, a decent 'drying furnace' was quickly built.

The alfalfa is crushed and mixed with soybean flour, wheat bran, green salt, bone meal, yeast powder, etc., and then the 'ingredients' are ground in a rough stone mill before being formed into granules and dried by hot air.

This is the basic method of making new forage.

I have to admit that Cui Jiu's old thief is really well-informed and versatile, whether it is carpenter work or mason work, as long as this old thief touches his hands, he can quickly do it well.

This made Yang Chuan couldn't help but guess in his heart, the origin of the old thief was the famous Mo family in history?

Seven or eight days and nights later, the first batch of dried horse feed was made.

"I don't know if war horses like to eat?"

"Will the dried forage lose some nutrients, and will it make the war horse lose fat?"

Grabbing two handfuls of 'fried beans' general war horse forage, Huo Quzhi looked nervous, and even his breathing became a little tight, and he couldn't help but stuff more than a dozen pieces into his mouth, and chewed it in a big gulp.

"Uh-huh, it seems to taste okay, but it's a little bitter......"

Looking at the saliva flowing from the corner of Huo Quai's mouth, mixed with pale green feed powder, Yang Chuan and Cui Jiu laughed.

Cui Jiu's old thief's teeth are good, he even grabbed half a handful of horse feed, threw it into his mouth and chewed it slowly, smacking it carefully, and a very satisfied smile appeared on his face: "If you fry it more, even people like to eat it, let alone war horses." ”

Yang Chuan naturally won't taste it.

This kind of dried war horse feed will definitely not taste very bad, but there is no need for him to taste it himself, anyway, with Huo Quzhi and Cui Jiu, the two 'horse idiots', there are many things that have been rushed to finish......

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"Treading clouds, come, take a bite."

"Come on, just one bite."

Finally it was time to witness the miracle, Huo Quzhi looked nervous, he poured a dustpan of 'fried beans' into the manger, squatted in front of the horse's head and looked at it, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Yes, yes, baby, just take a small bite."

'Treading Cloud Horse' is a good horse given by Liu Che to Huo Quai, with a red body, half a head taller than ordinary war horses, but the waist is very slender, and the four hooves and wrists are very thin, looking proud and messy.

It lowered its head, glanced at the pale green 'small beans' in the manger, put its nose up, sniffed it lightly, opened its mouth, took a few grains in confusion, and chewed it 'boom'......