"Really not?" Zhao Zhen couldn't help but be angry.

"Not really. ”

"Actually, there are. ”

When the horse keeper replied, the same voice said.

"It's you again. ”

The horse keeper apparently knew the comer. "Okay, you Cui Sheng, the family of raising horses is in the middle of the road. It was I who took pity on you and took you in. How can you mess around. ”

"Okay, okay! I don't care. The horse keeper left him and left.

Cui Sheng, named Ming, is a showman, but he is a good horse, so he raised a horse. Of course, if you say that you are a little taller, you can say that you want to do things, and you can do it.

It's just that the show does things, and there are not many real things. Cui Ming too.

Angry with the horse breeder, he immediately explained: "It's not that I haven't seen herdsmen raising horses before, and I think it's easy, putting horses in the pasture, unless it's bad weather, I don't care about anything else, where do you know that there is so much work to do." It was because of this unpredictable reason that Shen Ming continued to invest in raising horses, and his daily management was not as fine as before. In the past few years, in order to raise horses, he has grown from the original 1,000 acres of land to the current 80 acres.

He became a famous loser. It's normal to be disliked.

"You said there was a good horse, where is the horse?" Zhao Zhen asked. Now Zhao Zhen is a mind - win.

"Ahh Everybody come with me. ”

On the way there, Zhao Zhen was bent on looking for horses. Shen Shi chatted with Cui Ming. Until he said that he went to Xinjiang and found a kind of grass that horses love to eat.

Shen Shi was immediately surprised: "Alfalfa." ”

"Huh, you also know alfalfa?" Cui Ming said happily when he saw Shen Shi call out his name.

Know, how can you not know the famous alfalfa.

Alfalfa is known as the "king of forage" in later generations, not only high yield, but also excellent grass quality, all kinds of livestock and poultry like to eat.

And newly planted alfalfa can tolerate severe summer droughts. Alfalfa stems are harvested to produce a large number of new stems quickly, so hay can be harvested 1 to 13 times per growing season. The number of harvests and the total yield per growing season are mainly determined by the length of the growing season, soil adaptability, sufficient sunlight and, above all, the amount and distribution of rainfall and irrigation during the growing season. Green leafy alfalfa hay is highly nutritious and popular with livestock, containing about 16% protein and 8% minerals, and rich in vitamins A, E, D and K.

Alfalfa contains a lot of crude protein, rich in carbohydrates and B vitamins, vitamins C, E and iron and other micronutrients, not only for livestock breeding, but also one of the oldest foods for humans. Alfalfa sprouts are high in nutrients, rich in dietary fiber, and only have very little sugar, very low in calories, and are a good high-fiber and low-calorie food.

Cui Ming has not only been to Xinjiang, but also discovered alfalfa. Shen Shi immediately asked, "Have you brought back the seeds?" ”

"Yes, I brought it back. ”

"Can you divide some of me? I can pay for it. Shen Shi said happily.

If you want to raise a good horse, alfalfa is indispensable. It's just that this forage used in all horse farms and breeding farms in later generations was not easy to find in ancient times. With alfalfa, some eggs and meat can be saved.

"No, no, this grass is good, but it is poisonous. Cui Ming said gloomily. This is another failure of his investment.

Although alfalfa sprouts are very nutritious, they contain natural toxic ingredients, which are concanavala amino acids, that is, toxic alkaline amino acids, which may cause autoimmune diseases in mammals, so that the immune system loses its regulatory function, mistakenly treats the cells in its own body as antigens, and produces antibodies to fight, destroying its own body and producing diseases. Moreover, after ingesting a large amount of alfalfa sprouts, it may destroy various blood cells and reduce the number of various blood cells, such as anemia or scarcity of autohemocytes and platelets. As a result, patients are susceptible to infections and bleeding. Some may have joint pain and photosensitivity reactions.

But this has been perfectly solved in modern times, and the silage method will do. The silage method can make the forage cells continue to respire, decompose organic matter, at the same time, the naturally attached yeast, mold, spoilage bacteria and acetic acid bacteria and other aerobic microorganisms use the nutrients such as soluble carbide water compounds exuded by forage to grow and reproduce, plus the sugar, water and a certain humidity in the forage, create a suitable environment for the growth and reproduction of lactic acid bacteria, when the lactic acid bacteria multiply in large quantities, gradually occupy an absolute advantage in quantity, and produce a large amount of lactic acid, when the PH value decreases, thereby inhibiting other microbial activities. When the pH value drops below 4.2, the poison is not only gone, but also easier for livestock to eat.

"Thank you Cui Gongzi, but I have a way to do this. Shen Shi didn't flinch, but wanted it more.

Seeing that Shen Shi wanted it so much, Cui Ming was also very happy. However, he still kindly reminded: "To be honest, the most sorry thing after I like to raise horses is my family, and my ancestors' family business has ruined me." The remaining 80 acres of land also allowed me to plant poisonous weeds. ”

The big landlords who owned thousands of acres of fertile land now have nothing but to beg for food. Cui Ming couldn't help but feel melancholy.

"What? You've planted 80 acres of alfalfa? Okay! Sell me, I want it. ”

Shen Shi was overjoyed.

In fact, alfalfa has been introduced in the Central Plains in history, but there has been no effective means of detoxification, so it has not succeeded.

Otherwise, if there is a success. The Central Plains did not dare to say that it would not be invaded by nomads, but there would not be such a shortage of horses.

After all, it is both eggs and meat, even if it is rich in the Central Plains, there is no way to raise too many war horses. The cost is simply too high.

To put it more broadly, why Asian horses continue to degenerate, Mongolian horses are popular, that is, Mongolian horses are not picky eaters, and the cost of breeding is low.

In other words, the discovery and application of alfalfa is a revolution that can change the state of Asian horses. It is an exaggeration to say that the merit is immeasurable, but the merit is definitely there.

"You want to buy it?" Cui Ming looked at Shen Shi seriously at this time, thinking: Is this a high-roller found by his family?

He knew that his family had been helping him quit horses, but he couldn't help it, he just liked to watch horses gallop and watch his horses run happily on the pasture, and this hobby basically couldn't be quit.

But it seems that the time has come to rein in the precipice.

"If you are a true lover of horses, I am willing to give you my horse. Cui Ming said seriously.

He couldn't hold on anymore. 80 acres of alfalfa is his last big gamble. How did he know that the herdsman who seemed so enthusiastic helped him collect the grass seeds and sell them to him, without telling him that the grass was poisonous?

He was penniless, and the grass that grew in the ground, he just wanted to hire someone to remove it, but he didn't have the money.

As for himself......

Let's put it this way. He didn't get rid of alfalfa as fast as it grew on its own.