"Da Si Nong, there are people outside asking to see you, claiming to be your old friend."

"Oh? Who? An old friend of the old man? At the age of the old man, there are not many old friends. Most of them went into the ground. ”

"That lowly man went to drive them away, and seeing that they were only about forty years old, he thought he was a lie."

Da Si Nong waved his hand and said: "No, the old man is a farmer official, and the people ask to see him at most for agricultural matters." Let people in, and it's okay to see you. ”

After a while, Xiao Rui and the others were brought in, and the four guards on both sides were very vigilant.

Da Si Nong looked at the two of them and shook his head: "The two claim to be old husbands and old friends, but they are entrusted by others? The old man doesn't know the two. ”

Xiao Rui stretched out his hand into his arms, as if taking something, and then approached Da Si Nong, and said loudly: "The two brothers in Xia were entrusted by someone to come to Da Si Nong's hand to learn the method of wearing a cow's nose. It's a token! ”

"Stop! Dasi Nong, beware of the assassination! ”

But how can they move as fast as Xiao Rui?

When he heard this voice, Da Si Nong felt familiar, and what is the way to wear a bull's nose, Da Si Nong, who was over the age of six, was shocked, looked down and saw the thing in his hand, the corners of his eyes shrank, and his excited hands were trembling.

"You, you ......"

Xiao Rui stepped forward and grabbed Da Si Nong's hand, and said with a smile: "It's me." Own! Don't make a statement. ”

Da Sinong nodded heavily, and waved his hand towards the guards and Yazhong's subordinate officials: "Stand down, it's your own people." ”

Everyone retreated in good spirits.

Da Si Nong said with tears in his eyes: "Not long ago, news came from Chang'an that something happened to you, and the old man cried for you. God is jealous of talents. If it weren't for the old age, I really wanted to go north to the grassland and avenge you. ”

Xiao Rui was moved to hold Da Si Nong's hand: "Blame me, I should have sent someone to deliver you a message, and it was helpless to fake your death and take refuge." This assassination, nine deaths, the younger generation's martial arts were all wasted, and he really became a powerless scholar. ”

Dasi Nong wiped away his tears and said movingly: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." How are scholars? With a talent like yours, you can't use martial arts at all, and if the court lets you charge into battle, it will be a bad talent. Strategize in the court, strategize, and win thousands of miles away. A scholar can also be a million soldiers. ”

"Don't praise me when you are old, since you say goodbye to Youzhou, it's been almost a year, Rui has been concerned about animal husbandry, you always sit in Luoyang in person, preside over the three major events of cattle, war horses, and good breeds, and you are even older." Xiao Rui looked at this big Si Nong and said with emotion.

Da Si Nong looked very open, and said freely: "This is nothing. The old man is already so old, sooner or later he will die. In my lifetime, I can do some practical things, especially looking at the future prosperity of my Datang agriculture, and I will be blind to death. Let's go, take you to see our livestock farm in Luoyang. ”

"By the way, slack, who is this?"

Li Junxian gave a military salute, "The last general, Li Junxian, has seen Dasi Nong." ”

"It turned out to be General Li, hard work. You look like this, but you don't recognize it at all. ”

Xiao Rui smiled, "I can't recognize you when I stand next to you, haha, then I'm not afraid of being recognized and assassinated." ”

The three of them chatted all the way, and soon came to Luoyang Livestock Farm.

Responsible for guarding this place is the general Hou Junji, who sent a founding prince and general to guard, which shows the importance of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Hou Junji was not only responsible for guarding the livestock farm, but also responsible for training an elite iron cavalry of 20,000 people.

The two sides met, said hello, Xiao Rui and the others left, and went straight to the cattle farm. Hou Junji looked at the three of them suspiciously, and always felt that something was not right, Da Sinong personally took the two juniors to visit the livestock farm? And the bearded man in it clearly has martial arts, who will it be?

"Youzhou has a good cooperation with the Khitan and other ethnic groups, and new cattle are sent every day. Our Luoyang Cattle Farm is now responsible for domestication and transit. After receiving the new cattle, they are domesticated here through their noses, and then the bison are trained to pull the plough and plow. Then it was distributed to various places and distributed to the people. Although the efficiency is slowing down, it is still getting more and more day by day. ”

"And the quality of these new cattle is very good, not old and weak. When it is sent to various places for distribution, it is basically distributed by male and female pairs, and when the time comes, one child is born a year, and it can slowly be separated from the imperial court. ”

Li Junxian asked curiously: "Dasi Nong, is the ploughing cattle distributed by the imperial court to the people free?" Can you really ensure that it is distributed to the common people, not the local gentry? ”

Da Si Nong nodded and said, "Yes, it's free." However, the first two cows were rented for free. He took care of the people, was in charge of farming when he was busy, and when he gave birth to calves after a year, he distributed them to the rest of the people. The calves of the calves are the ones that the people trade with each other. The original two cows, after giving birth to two litters, completely belonged to the farmers. ”

"As for who to send it to, we have a special supervision team to inspect all places, and there will generally be no problem."

Xiao Rui nodded: "At the beginning, the system is not perfect, and a little flaw is not a problem." Only when the external troubles subside in the future will we have the heart to rectify these drawbacks. For example, the aristocracy does not pay taxes and annexes acres, these are all problems. Sooner or later, it will be rectified. ”

Li Junxian didn't quite understand. But Da Sinong has been doing it all his life, he understands.

Stopped and looked at Xiao Rui in surprise, "You...... Alas! ”

"What? Do you have such eyes? Do you disagree? Xiao Rui asked quippedly.

Da Si Nong shook his head and said, "Definitely! The old man has been engaged in agriculture all his life, how can he not know the disadvantages of agricultural endowment. I always dream of having a reasonable farming system. It's a pity that it's too difficult to prevent the nobles from annexing land and collecting taxes from the nobles. Even His Majesty didn't dare, moving the interests of others, almost as enemies of all the nobles in the world. ”

"You kid is good, the old man didn't see the wrong person. But the old man really can't bear to see you the enemy of the world. Since ancient times, the fate of the law-changers has not been good. ”

"You are dedicated to the public, you have done enough for the world, and you deserve to be admired, but now you want to fake your death and get out...... This world is sad! ”

Xiao Rui hugged Da Sinong and said, "You are always distressed by the younger generation." It's okay, I'm still young, and I have time to fight with them. If a privileged person like us in a high position does not stand up and speak, pointing to the people and standing up for themselves, I am afraid that it will be the day of the peasant uprising and the fall of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Alright, I'm here to see you. Don't think about these unhappy people, even the Buddhism gate has been overturned by me, maybe there will be a good way in the future. ”

"Let's talk about any problems with this farm, maybe I can help."

Dasi Nong nodded, looked at the prosperous livestock farm, and thought for a while, the breeding has been on the right track, and there is no problem on the cattle side. However, there seems to be a problem on the side of the war horse.

"The old man is mostly responsible for plowing cattle on weekdays. A few days ago, I heard General Hou complain that out of 40,000 war horses, 20,000 were carefully selected and trained into iron horses. However, there is wear and tear when training war horses, and the hooves of the horses are extremely easy to crack and be injured, but it is a pity that a good horse has become an inferior horse for cultivation because of the damage of the horse's hooves. ”

Li Junxian next to him also agreed: "Yes, we were worried about this problem when we were fighting in the past. The horses are attrition too fast. 40,000 war horses can only form 20,000 iron horses, not because there are not enough people, but because there are not enough horses, and the other 20,000 war horses are mainly responsible for preparing for war and giving birth. Otherwise, there will be no reserve for 20,000 war horses, and after a few big battles, there will not be much left. ”

Horseshoe? Xiao Rui groaned, he knew the horseshoe, but should this thing come out?

Alas...... Another event that requires strict secrecy! The advent of this thing must play a key role. Otherwise, it is easy to be detected by the Gentiles, and if the steppe is equipped with this, it will be over.