Although the title of King Wen made Ji Chang a little uncomfortable, he still responded: "Yes, although this Quyuan plow can also be driven by manpower, it is too laborious, it is better to use an old ox to drive, and if it is in a paddy field, it must be pulled by an old ox in front to plow the ground." ”

"It's not proper!" Zishou suddenly sighed: "King Wen knows, why didn't anyone think of replacing manpower with old cattle before?"

When the quilt was asked like this, Ji Chang was also stunned.

yes, why?

Zishou looked at Ji Chang stunned, but he smiled in his heart.

Look, even Ji Chang was fooled.

This time it was still the opposite, the primitive cattle farming behavior first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was only carried forward in the Warring States Period.

Or Shang Ying, in the farming and warfare system implemented by the Qin State Reform Law, ploughing is mainly to vigorously encourage and promote cattle ploughing.

One of the most famous of these laws is "Horse thieves die, cattle thieves are added."

Stealing horses is a capital offense, and stealing cattle is added to one degree.

The importance of cattle farming is self-evident.

Zishou grabbed Ji Chang's hand, which was like an old tree trunk, which made him very disgusted.

He flickered earnestly and said: "Now that my big business has leveled the Beidi, but all the tribes of the Beidi have moved inward, and the pastures outside the Great Wall are cheaper for the Qiang people, if you want to implement the quyuan plough and ox ploughing, you must need a large number of old cattle, but my big merchant has no place to herd cattle at all!"

Hearing this, Ji Chang also understood.

As it turned out, although the Great Shang leveled the various tribes of Beidi, collected a lot of cattle and sheep, and had the best cattle raising method in the West Garden Cowhouse, the problem was that, as before, there was no pasture suitable for cattle grazing.

There is no pasture, even if there are people who are good at herding cattle and have the best breeding methods, they can't raise a large number of cattle!

Without oxen, the effect of the curved plough would be greatly reduced.

Zishou continued: "In the midst of civil strife, the world is all enemies, and the pastures of the great merchants must raise horses for military use to guard against invasions, and they also need to raise sheep for wool, and weave woolen clothes to reduce the bitter cold of the people, where will the land come from to raise cattle?"

Chonghou Hu immediately surrendered his hand and asked Xiang Ji Chang: "Cattle farming is naturally good, what if there are no cattle?"

"Woolen clothes and princes who are not subordinate are destined to be mainly horses and sheep raising, and now is not the time when people will die without a zigzag plow, do you want to risk being beaten to promote cattle farming?"

"If we vigorously promote cattle farming, there will naturally be fewer horses and sheep, there will be a shortage of cavalry, and the people will freeze to death in winter, Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zishou was silent for a while, although Chonghou Hu was patting on the back, he was right.

This makes sense, and it can indeed stop the promotion of the curved plough and ox ploughing.

Today's big businessmen don't have the conditions to raise cattle.

Moreover, let the nobles raise sheep in order to weave more winter clothes, and it is very intuitive for the people to freeze to death.

Only when the aristocracy saw the benefits of woolen clothes could they continue to expand breeding, and then began to eat people.

This hand can also cooperate with what he just came up with, collecting private land for public land, and even after Zishou felt that he could also collect the private land of the nobles, he issued a decree that the nobles' newly reclaimed wasteland could be regarded as private land, so that the nobles would swarm to open up the wasteland, and finally take advantage of the sheep to eat people.

This kind of domineering behavior is definitely a wicked person in the eyes of the nobles.

As for the people ....

They don't understand the pastures and don't understand the pros and cons, and the imperial court hinders the promotion of convenient cattle farming, which obviously has a certain mediocrity.

Ji Chang was silent for a while, and the king of Xuan had some woman's kindness.

What winter will not freeze to death? With woolen clothing, fewer people can freeze to death, but cattle farming cannot be promoted.

And once cattle farming is promoted, how far will the grain grow?

Anyway, the current woolen clothes are enough to equip the army in the south of the Great Shang, and the rest are just ordinary people, so let these people freeze and exchange their lives for more food and grass, why not?

Ji Chang smiled secretly in his heart, this is the weakness of the King of Xu.

pacified Beidi, chose to contain rather than kill them all, and the head of the family secretly made small moves, chose to raid the family and punish the evil, and released the female dependents and the old and the young, instead of punishing the nine clans.

The king was too merciful in matters involving human life, and did not have the courage of a king.

How stupid!

Ji Chang squinted slightly, but the reason why King Su did not promote cattle farming was probably not the only one.

The most suitable people in the world to use this curved plough and oxen to plow are the tribes of Xirong.

The Xirong tribe implements half-farming and half-pasture, both pasture and good at raising cattle and horses, and can also cultivate.

The same is true of Xiqi, which is adjacent to Xirong.

Ji Chang sighed secretly in his heart, the king of the Zhou is worthy of being the king of the Zhou, even if it is the benevolence of a woman, he has not suffered a loss, and he is placed here together, it seems that the king of the Zhou is really still on guard against himself, and regards Xiqi and Xirong as the biggest enemies.

So, Ji Chang persuaded: "Your Majesty, since you can increase the yield of the field, why not promote it?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the peasants around him with his eyes, these people had no foresight, what pastures and what people froze to death, they didn't know at all, and they didn't understand.

Zishou also saw the expressions of these peasants, felt that it was a little difficult, thought about it, and said, "Since the number of old cattle is not enough to plough the fields, I think, why can't I use horses to plow?"

It not only perfunctory the peasants, gave them a wrong direction, but also successfully fixed the bug that the cavalry was too powerful in the Chaoge Horse Farm.

Ji Chang smiled, isn't this a cover-up?

While continuing to expand the breeding of horses and sheep, and reducing the freezing of death with strong armaments, do you also want to promote the Quyuan plough to increase the grain growth?

Where are so many good things!

Ji Chang has not tried to replace old cattle with horses, but horse farming is actually not suitable for large-scale promotion.

Because Ma is too smart.

Taming the Malay plough and taming the old ox ploughing are two different things altogether.

And the curved plough suitable for oxen and the curved plough suitable for horses are also two different things.

It's not that changing livestock will solve the problem.

Of course, Ji Chang would not tell King Xuan about these things.

I'm a thief!

The king is the enemy, and it is in his own interests if he fails!

So Ji Chang put on an honest look and said, "Ma Geng... Maybe it's okay, Your Majesty can give it a try, after all, this new system of Quyuan plow, there are still many unknowns, Your Majesty wants to promote Quyuan plough for the well-being of the people of the world, it is also a good thing. ”

Ji Chang's heart blossomed.

It's a good thing, but it's a good thing for Xiqi and Xiqi's ally Xirong.

Horse ploughing with curved plough has a certain effect, but it is definitely not as effective as ox ploughing!

After Xiqi and Xirong learned about it, as long as they explored a little, they could know how much stronger ox ploughing was than horse ploughing, and then use ox ploughing and Quyuan ploughing.

And even if the big merchants tried to figure out which was better or worse than horse ploughing and ox ploughing, they could not change anything.

After all, according to the benevolence of the woman of the king, there is no suitable pasture for raising cattle in the big merchants!

I am afraid that when the time comes, when the courtiers and the people criticize the king, the king shall not have the kindness of a woman!