Chao Tian, who guards the horse farm day and night, talks eloquently when it comes to his profession: "Compared with those disadvantages, the advantages of horses are also very prominent, and horses far surpass cattle in speed." ”

Lu Xionghu said suspiciously: "According to what you mean, could it be that after the promotion of horse farming, the farmers can also experience the feeling of galloping horses in addition to farming?"

"Hahaha!" Chao Tian was amused by Lu Xiong: "It's not impossible, maybe you can still participate in the horse race at the racecourse and compete for a place in your spare time!"

He paused, and said: "Speed is the specialty of horses, and horses do three or even four times as much work in a day as cattle do. ”

"The six animals are horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, horses are in the first place, there are cow houses, sheep houses, pig houses, dog houses, poultry houses in the west garden, but there is no horse room. ”

"And instead of the stable, there is a horse farm that covers an area larger than the entire West Garden, why is that?"

"Just because horses are the most important and have a wide range of uses, camels, rides, pulls, etc. ”

Lu Xionghu doubted: "This is true, but it has a wide range of uses, can it replace the old ox to plow the field?"

Chao Tian nodded: "Naturally, but it is not a single horse farming, but it is necessary to combine many aspects." ”

"Combined?"

"In addition to the promotion of horse farming, His Majesty also forced peasants to perform military service. ”

"Yes, I've been struggling with military service before, what's the matter, military service still has something to do with horse farming?"

"This is natural, Your Majesty has already made a reminder, Your Majesty originally wanted to force the peasants to perform military service when the farming was busy, but we dissuaded it. ”

"How can you do military service when you are busy farming, it will only make the already difficult grievances of the people more difficult. ”

"No, Lu Shangshu still remembers the Juntun proposed by the anti-thief Xiao Yin?"

"Yes. ”

"There is a military tun naturally there is a mintun, your majesty is to this mintun, with the imperial court as the core, mobilize the people, let the people organize the tuntian farming, in this way, the cost of feeding horses will also be reduced, since the cost of feeding a horse is three or four times that of a cow, and the cultivation speed of a horse is three or four times that of a cow, if three or four farmers share a horse, the cost will not be reduced, and the speed is the same as that of cattle farming?"

Lu Xiong was dumbfounded under Chao Tian's analysis, the cost of a single farmer raising horses is naturally greatly increased, but the cost of raising horses by multiple farmers is lower, and the speed of horses is faster than that of oxen, which does not affect the efficiency of ploughing.

After Lu Xiong completely digested these words, he kept nodding his head before saying: "Sure enough, this is what Your Majesty meant, let the people serve when the farming is busy, and let the people accept the management of the imperial court as the center through military service, and use horse farming, so that the cost will be greatly reduced, and once the new technology about horse farming is developed, it can also be quickly and uniformly promoted, and even, the farmers who serve because of this, everyone is a cavalry!"

Chao Tian's words are too reasonable, all along, the king of Xuan has given people the impression that he is strategizing and calculating no last resort, how could he fall into the hands of just Ji Chang.

Ji Chang wants to use horse farming to calculate the king?

"Wait..."Lu Xiong suddenly thought of a question: "Don't deceive me, horse ploughing is faster than ox ploughing, put in different places, the effect is not the same, the curved plow needs people and livestock to cooperate with each other, from the speed point of view, horses are indeed faster than oxen, but, when plowing the land, the pace of the horse needs to be coordinated with the pace of the farmer, if the pace of the horse is too fast, the farmer holding the curved plough can not adapt, and ultimately can not guarantee the efficiency of the cultivated land." ”

In addition, there are various factors that will affect the speed of cultivated land, such as land flatness, ploughing on flat land is faster than plowing on slopes, and the technical level of farmers ploughing and the quality of the curved plough will also affect the ploughing speed, not that the horse is faster than the ox, and the ploughing speed will be faster. ”

After saying this, Lu Xiong was very surprised.

Is this still the one who only knows how to march and set up formations, fight, kill and kill? How can he even know so much about plowing the land?

After thinking about it again, he understood the good intentions of the king, wasn't this brought by the princess when he went to the countryside?

All this is the experience he personally went down to the countryside and dug it out in the field.

Chao Tian smiled and said, "Like Lu Shangshu, I have both gone down to the fields to assist the peasants in farming, so how can I not understand these truths? This land issue involves the last decree proposed by His Majesty, which is to collect the private land of the nobles into public land. ”

"Once this private land becomes public land, it can be disposed of by the imperial court at will, whether it is cultivated by peasants in military service or by nobles, it is only a matter of one sentence. ”

Most of the nobles' private fields were fertile soil, which was extremely flat, and it was the most suitable land for horse farming. ”

"It's just..."Lu Xiong frowned slightly: "The change of private land to public land has not yet been decided, and it is difficult to guarantee that the nobles will not be dissatisfied and rebel..."

Chao Tian flipped through the song in his hand and handed it to Lu Xiong, and said: "No, no, no, there are more fields in the hands of the nobles than the peasants in the military, and this law is only slowly implemented step by step, and Your Majesty has also said in advance, the nobles can open up the wasteland on their own, and the land after the development is all private land, which can alleviate the complaints of the nobles." ”

"What's more, those peasants who cultivate the land of the nobility are not simply farming, they are still soldiers in military service, isn't this also a deterrent for the nobility?"

"Shhhh

So, the three policies hurriedly promulgated by the king have formed a closed loop?

Layers are interlocking and echo each other....

That is, the horse ploughing was completed, and the soldiers were obtained, and the private land was also collected as public land.

"But why didn't Your Majesty say it clearly in His Palace?"

Lu Xiong couldn't help but have another question in his heart, if it was all the plan of the King of Xu, why didn't he say it directly, but instead he had to cover it up like this, if it wasn't for Chao Tian suddenly communicating with him, he really couldn't think of the connection between the three decrees.

However, as soon as he had this question, Lu Xiong gave the answer himself.

What did he think before he figured it all out?

Ji Chang took advantage of the character shortcomings of the king and the benevolence of the woman to calculate the king.

This is what the king wants to show the world!

Show the enemy weakness, paralyze the enemy, and expose your weakness that is not a weakness to others!

This is the exercise of the king of the king to the courtiers under his command, after all, you can't let the king come forward in everything, and when the future crusade is against the princes, do you still have to count on the king to take action in person?

One person's energy is limited!

Moreover, this is also a kind of trust that the king has in his courtiers.

Lu Xiong sighed for a long time, and then said: "Okay, I am responsible for this military service, and you are responsible for horse farming, as for changing private land to public land, it is responsible for the Criminal Department, and the people in the Criminal Department are all resting, and when they are over, they can start, don't spread it for the time being, Your Majesty shows weakness to the enemy, this is all calculation." ”

Chao Tian agreed: "Yes, this is Your Majesty's plan, not to give up vested interests in order to kill Ji Chang, but to show that the enemy will plan to be weak!"

"I'm afraid that Your Majesty has already begun to lay out for Xiqi and the princes from all walks of life, as a courtier, we can't slack off!"