The Great Song Dynasty of the Golden Age 392_The Golden Age of the Great Song Dynasty Full Text Free Reading_Chapter 392 The Grassland Culture Comes from ()

Ningxia Autonomous Province has very good animal husbandry resources, all kinds of high-quality pasture is very much, the famous Hetao horse production area is here, so it is very convenient to find a pasture to experiment with this new machine, Cao according to quickly arranged this experiment, in a grass valley with slopes on both sides, to carry out machine grazing experiments. 【Baidu Search Member Login】

When Xiao Ming rushed over, several craftsmen of the Mo family were making final preparations, and the object of the experiment was two hundred sheep! The owner of the ranch prepared the sheep and horses in advance, and this experiment required the sheep to be driven into a specific sheepfold, and of course, there was a way to compare, that is, the owner himself took two sheepdogs to participate in the experiment.

After everything was ready, the craftsman of the Mo family signaled that it was time to start, and Cao Yi and his subordinates nodded, signaling that the herd master could drive the sheep out to graze first! And the craftsmen of the Mo family can start the engine, the machine has been preheated before, and now it starts with some black smoke.

After the machine started, several of his wide wheels suddenly moved quickly, and the chassis of the machine with special shock absorbers and balance shafts was very flexible, able to speed forward quickly, and maintain a good balance on the slopes, and everyone watched with great interest the performance of the machine.

But as soon as the machine got close to the sheep, the accident happened, and when the sheep suddenly saw such a behemoth driving over, they were immediately frightened crazy! More than 200 sheep scattered and fled, divided into several piles, and many of them ran away, and the driver of the machine suddenly panicked.

But after he settled down, he began to operate the machine, only to see two short metal rods on the machine suddenly and quickly retracted, in the blink of an eye like a sleeve rod, the machine drove towards a few scattered sheep, and then the driver pulled the manipulator buckle, and shot a net from the front of the sleeve rod, and the head covered the sheep.

The sheep was caught in the net and dragged back by the telescopic sleeve rod, which was supposed to be one of its functions, and then the upper body of the machine turned again, and a few more sheep were caught, and then it went around the back of the flock, and made a few screams, as if to drive the flock, but these screeches and the extremely large body frightened the sheep away again.

Xiao Ming was a little helpless to watch the machine hurriedly drive and catch the sheep, he knew that this way to graze is definitely not good, this experiment is undoubtedly a failure, so he stopped the action of the machine, signaled the owner of the ranch to drive the sheep in person, the owner of the herdsman rode a fast horse, held a leather whip, with the cooperation of the two sheepdogs, quickly drove the sheep together and smoothly drove into the sheepfold.

After that, everyone watched how the machine sheared the wool, although it was not bad, but they didn't dare to let it milk the cow, otherwise it would be difficult for the cow to go crazy! Generally speaking, this experiment ended in failure, looking at a few gray-faced Mo craftsmen, Xiao Ming was silent.

Cao Yu persuaded: "Taishi don't be disappointed, these craftsmen are far away in Jiangnan and other places, and they are not familiar with the actual conditions of the entire pasture grassland and herd, and it is already very good to be able to design such a thing!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Otherwise, it is not right for the craftsmen to be divorced from reality, but there are a few good inventions, the sheep shearing device is very good, it can be promoted, and the speed of this machine is also very fast, which gives me some ideas" He thought of the off-road vehicles of later generations.

Who knew that the owner of the ranch stepped forward and said, "I wonder if the telescopic metal rod can be removed and given to him?" That thing seems to be pretty good at catching lost sheep, horses, and cows! ”

His words immediately made several craftsmen glare, this thing is integrated with the machine, how can it be dismantled and used alone? But Xiao Ming's eyes lit up, he stepped forward to carefully observe the metal sleeve rod, tested its flexibility with his hands, and then nodded, with a plan in his heart.

He said to the craftsmen, "This metal sleeve is made entirely of internal mechanisms, and it should be able to be miniaturized!" If you make it miniaturized and the herdsmen can carry it and use it, it will be a very good invention! ”

A craftsman stepped forward and bowed down and said, "It is true that this thing can be taken off and used on its own, as long as you make a wooden handle to control the mechanism to the handle, but our machine as a whole ......!" He didn't say the rest, which meant that we had worked hard to make such a huge machine as a whole, and in the end we could only use a small sleeve rod in front of it, which was really a bit too much to say, so the machine still failed.

Xiao Ming said: "In fact, this machine has three major characteristics, one is the fast movement speed of complex terrain, which has a greater use, and the other is that the machine takes into account the automatic shearing of sheep, which is also an invention, which can be fixed for special use and promotion, of course, it also needs to be improved, and the most important point is this small sleeve pole!" ”

He looked around at the crowd: "Don't underestimate this small set of rods, he is the master of the Mo family's entire mechanism, although small but exquisite, the telescopic device and the net spreading device are controlled in such a small metal rod, this is not such a simple thing, so I think this is the most practical thing!" So the owner of the ranch took a fancy to this thing at a glance! ”

Cao Ji was not at a loss for the old fox, and immediately heard the key to Xiao Ming's words, and he stepped forward and asked, "You mean to get it separately?" This is still within the realm of machines, right? ”

"That's right!" Xiao Ming nodded and said: "Separating it is to make the best use of things, not only to solve the problem of manufacturing but also to solve the problem of promotion, and it is best to produce and manufacture it locally!" ”

Xiao Ming's consideration is not unreasonable, the overall level of nomadism and animal husbandry is not high, if you use such a large machine to graze, the cost is very high, but not as high as the work efficiency of a horse and two dogs, animal husbandry is bound to replace the development of nomadic herding, then the entire ranch needs to be fixed, just imagine how a tribe that often has to wander on its own can always bring such a huge guy?

In order to fix the entire nomadic people on the land, it is necessary to establish pastures on a large scale, and fixed-point animal husbandry, and at the same time supporting industries also need to keep up, such as the purchase of furs, etc., but at this stage, the area of the northern grassland owned by the Great Song Dynasty is too huge, in order to permanently eliminate the impact of the northern nomads on the agricultural civilization in the south, this is a long-term problem to be solved.

In the land of China, the land of the Great Song Dynasty is so vast now! And after Xiao Ming used all the methods, the population obtained was also limited, when the Great Song Dynasty Gaozong Kangning was five years old, the household department of the imperial court did a national census, the national population was about 17.89 million households, and the actual population should be about 30 million!

In fact, this number does not go up to the entire Liaodong region, the original Liaojing residents, not to mention the current several autonomous provinces in the northwest and the Dali Yunnan Autonomous Province, if you add the population of Goryeo, Japan and Nanyang that Xiao Ming has annexed over the years, it is estimated that there are more than 50 million people!

Of course, this figure can only be estimated, after all, many primitive nomadic tribes in the grasslands and ice fields of Hanmang in the north are not counted, plus the original Tibetan Qiang and Tibetan population, no matter how you count it, it will not exceed 60 million people, and the population of more than 60 million people in such a vast land is really not much.

Moreover, in the densely populated areas of the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, the population engaged in pure agricultural production is also getting smaller and smaller, and the number of cultivated land is declining in the case of more and more cultivated land, which is a problem that Xiao Ming has been considering.

However, compared to the agricultural population, not counting the industrial population, the largest proportion of the population of the Great Song Dynasty belonged to the nomadic people, these people wandered around, the productivity was low, and they would want to invade the south like locusts when they encountered a disaster year, which was really a big problem for the Central Plains Dynasty in China for thousands of years.

If we want to solve this problem, we must thoroughly understand the culture of the entire grassland, the nomadic and nomadic peoples of the grassland are basically more advocating nature, and they look forward to the realm of harmony between man and nature, which can be seen in the worship of wolves by several major peoples.

The steppe wolf is a peculiar creature, they are the most important part of balancing the grassland ecology, if a tribe is overdeveloped, after a large area of grazing, the grassland on the ground will be degraded, at this time the wolf is needed to regulate, they eat the over-breeding herd so that the grassland can be preserved, so that the herders can always live on the grassland.

But wolves are greedy, their life is good, but they will also overbreed, which will cause a large reduction in the herd, the herdsmen's life will be difficult, then they will begin to hunt wolves, so that the number of wolves will decrease, so as to ensure the basic life of the herdsmen, this love and hate for wolves affects the cultural attributes of the entire grassland.

Xiao Ming has read "Wolf Totem" of course knows the cultural characteristics of the grassland nomads, but he believes that human nature is unavoidable, yes, as long as people will seek good fortune and avoid evil, will be attracted by interests, in the vast northern grassland to form a large number of independent pastures, through scientific methods to ensure that the entire pasture of the pasture to avoid destruction of pests and diseases, to ensure that the population of this area of affordability, and constantly improve the price and benefits of animal husbandry products, that will make many nomads settle down.

The price positioning of animal husbandry products can completely solve all kinds of problems that may occur in the future, because this kind of regulation is in the central court, and the government needs to slowly turn into a government, and there will be a special economic management agency, which is the key thing that Xiao Ming wants to do when he returns to Nanjing this time!

Although Xiao Ming has fully considered the various resettlement methods of nomads, he also wants to wait and say that now the Mo family's machine for grazing has given him some very important technical support as soon as it comes out.

This kind of idea naturally needs to be discussed with Cao Zhi, Xiao Ming wants to now Ningxia Autonomous Province and Liaodong Autonomous Province two places as a pilot, if the pilot can be successful, then the following large-scale promotion will not be a problem, but Cao Zhi mentioned the newly rising Mongolian tribes in the Mobei grassland, he means that he hopes that Xiao Ming can first solve the survival problem of the primitive tribes, and then consider the plan of technology promotion and fixed pastures.

Originally, Xiao Ming was very strange why Cao Ju would think like this, but later after Cao Ju told the truth, he also understood, in addition to the last incident of robbing military horses, the Mongolian tribes robbed farmers and herdsmen in Ningxia Dao from time to time, so he said this, Xiao Ming laughed at this question, and he told Cao Juke to properly help a large Mongolian tribe called the Naiyan tribe, and let them sell it to solve those small and medium-sized tribes that often robbed.

"Does the Taishi have a favor with that Naiyan Department?" Cao asked.

Xiao Ming smiled: "They have gained a lot of benefits from me, don't worry, they will definitely help you!" ”

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