Horses!

Hearing that horse breeding was involved, everyone in the manna hall suddenly became more concentrated.

Seriously calculated, it has only been thirteen years since Tang Kaiguo was founded.

Among those present, even Chu Suiliang, who was the least qualified and was silently copying words, was Xue Ju, the overlord of Western Qin, who followed his father first.

After Xue Ju was defeated, the father and son surnamed Chu were recruited to the Qin Palace.

In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, those who could become famous in the torrent had good cavalry, and those who could finally control the elite cavalry to dominate the heroes successfully stood here and took charge of the lifeblood of the empire.

It is almost always difficult for the participants in this process to avoid dealing with horses.

Now those who can stand in the Manna Hall are either fluent in literature or good at martial arts, but they are not skilled in martial arts, and they all know horses.

It is also because of this that Li Shimin also paid unprecedented attention to the words about horse raising and horse politics before, and personally wrote a letter to Zhang Wansui and sent condolences, which caused the servant Shaoqing to be grateful inexplicably.

But I didn't think too much about it, after all, the matter of His Majesty's nostalgia for the old love was well known to the old people of the Qin Palace.

As for the scattered words of those horse breeders, it may be collected from the books of the world's good horse breeders.

Standing here at this moment, without transcribing what the light curtain said, Du Ruhui thought about it and understood the simple relationship.

The Ming Dynasty had a larger population and a colder climate, and only by attaching importance to agriculture could it afford to feed the world, and soybeans, which could not only fertilize the fields but also be suitable for crop rotation, were naturally favored.

As a result, more and more soybeans were planted, and when soybeans had to be eaten, some people continued to do research to make tofu more beautiful.

And looking back in this way, the reason why Datang doesn't like tofu couldn't be simpler - it just so happens that the climate is just right, and the rice and wheat from the fields are enough for the people to eat, who would be thankless to study what tofu?

Du Ruhui smiled, and whispered his thoughts to Fang Xuanling.

Fang Xuanling raised his eyebrows in approval, and at the same time whispered:

"It seems that this arithmetic does have the effect of reasoning, Keming and my classmates are less than a year old, and they are good at discernment."

Thinking of those complicated numbers and strange ancient topics, Du Ruhui suddenly wanted to smile bitterly.

Classics and the like can be regarded as learning one less book, but this is considered a way of learning, which really made Du Ruhui understand Zhuang Zhou's words of "there is no end with no end".

If what this junior named Wen Mang said is not a joke, this is considered to be a science that touches the people's livelihood through the sky, and he Du Ruhui will be fifty years old in four years.

However, Du Ruhui's sad thoughts were wiped out by Li Shimin in an instant.

"I ordered the Secretary of Nong to discuss the bean matter, and planned to add the soybean soybean department to take charge of the rotation of soybean meal in the fertilizer field."

"I ordered the Director's Office and the Kurabe Division to try to produce soybean meal, and cooperate with the Pastoral Department to test its efficacy."

"I ordered the Taiguan Department to change the tofu to make it fit the appearance of later generations, and to make it popular all over the world so that the people are willing to plant beans."

This is indeed the style of a young emperor, and for Li Shimin, the previous bits and pieces about horse breeding are too broad, and only suitable for a good horse like Zhang Wansui to study carefully.

But the role of this soybean can be said to be quite straightforward, pressing to make oil, grinding pulp to make tofu, and the rest of the soybean meal and then fattening horses, it can be said that one bean and three eats.

If you count the effect of the soybean tumor fungus on the fertile field, it can be said that it is beneficial and harmless.

At this point, the junior is right, it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, he just needs to know that this soybean has the effect of fertilizing the field.

It is no secret that horses eat beans to get fatter, and there has been a practice of feeding horse beans since the Han Dynasty, but it is made from whole and fine beans, and the cost is different.

And Li Shimin is also quite clear, not to mention the dream of letting every family have horses, as long as this soybean can make each village have three or five more horses, then he believes that the style of this Tang Dynasty will be completely different from this time.

……

Liu Bei was overjoyed:

"Although this thing is easy, it is infinitely beneficial to the people."

Naturally, he was talking about an iron-toothed rake that flashed through the curtain of light.

In fact, this thing is not unfamiliar to him, after all, leveling the land is a hard need for farming in the north.

The people of Guanzhong also have rakes for farming, but they are all made of wood or bamboo, and there are no iron rakes.

And the construction of this iron rake is also quite simple, you don't even need to drag the blacksmith to compare, you only need to take a bamboo rake and let the blacksmith beat one against it.

The greater significance of seeing this thing with his own eyes still made Liu Bei suddenly enlightened.

After coming to Guanzhong, after farming with the people in the first few months, Liu Bei's biggest emotion was that he had previously practiced farming, and there were many people in Guanzhong who were not adapted.

The curved plough that is easy to use in the south with many hills has a flat effect when it comes to the flat ground.

The method of paddy field agriculture is also difficult to do in the 100-mile dry land in Guanzhong.

But at this time, looking at this iron rake, which can be called a paper away from the bamboo rake, Liu Bei suddenly discovered his limitations:

Bamboo and iron rakes seem to have only a difference in cost, but in fact, the effect of flat fields may be completely different due to the difference in weight and hardness.

Since the qu plough is not easy to use in Guanzhong, why not ask Kong Ming to try out a new qu plough suitable for the north?

After all, even this curved plow, which is very useful in the south, was originally only made by people according to local conditions.

In this case, it is time for him, Kong Ming and others to try to make new engineering creations by themselves.

After all, as I thought at the beginning, as an ancestor, why bother the younger generations in everything?

[In fact, the role of soybean meal is certainly not limited to horse rations.

For example, soybean meal is a high-quality nitrogen fertilizer, plant ash is the lowest-cost potassium fertilizer, and then mixed with phosphorus-rich crushed bones, after the process of aging, it becomes the most primitive compound fertilizer.

In addition, because of the severe cold climate in the north during the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for fertilizers to mature at high temperatures, so it was a hot business to transport soybean meal from the north to the south by sea at that time.

Even if compound fertilizer is not made, soybean meal is also an extremely high-quality feed for chickens, ducks, fish and geese farmed in the south.

In addition, since the Song Dynasty, soybean oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil, camellia oil, etc., have brought down the ancient oil prices.

Coupled with the iron-smelting technology that was at the forefront of the world at that time, the iron pot began to become popular, and the stir-fried dishes that everyone was familiar with began to become popular to this day.

The Chinese cuisine, which is brought up by stir-frying, has in turn developed the derivative products of soybeans to the extreme.

Nowadays, the list of soy products is really difficult to calculate for a while, from the common soybean milk tofu skin tofu to the more complex tofu milk stinky tofu, and then to the dozens of bean dishes that continue to be derived after frying and stir-frying.

Among them, soybeans firmly occupy a C position, and even in the New Year, it is completely indispensable.

Grinding tofu before the Chinese New Year seems to be well deserved.

After all, even now, the food war between us and our opponents on the other side of the Pacific over soybeans has never stopped. 】

(End of chapter)