Niu Gui smiled and said: "It's not that we don't farm, I just think it's a pity that these pastures are left uncultivated here. Raising some cattle and sheep is also meat after all! It can reduce our food consumption.
Moreover, we have tens of thousands of horses and 12,000 cattle in our hands. Don’t we need people to raise these? Since they are all raised, we might as well raise more and make use of these pastures.”
In order to increase the marching speed, Xu Wei purchased a large number of oxen and horses. With these more than 20,000 oxen and carriages, plus hundreds of thousands of wheelbarrows, Xu Wei was able to carry 2 million shi of grain to Yanmen Pass.
Xu Weidao: "That's okay. There are many old people coming with us. They can do some light physical work like herding. I will send a few Karasuma coaches to teach everyone how to herd. Not only can it solve our food problem, but most importantly, it can improve a lot of people."
When we need to open up wasteland, these cattle can play a big role!"
The last time Xu Wei captured thousands of Gongsun Zan's cavalry, several hundred of them were Wuwan people. They were all recruited by Gongsun Zan. After Xu Wei captured them, he learned the modern prisoner system and did not mistreat them.
But what Xu Wei didn't think about was that Xu Wei just gave these Wuwan people the same treatment as the prisoners of the Han army, without any distinction, and actually made them feel grateful.
Later, Xu Wei investigated and found out that the Han Dynasty did not regard these barbarians as human beings at all. They recruited barbarians as soldiers without even giving them food. Gongsun Zhan was even more Han chauvinistic and often insulted and bullied these barbarian soldiers.
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So Xu Wei treated them as equals and treated their injuries, which made these Wuwan soldiers grateful. Dozens of lonely Wuwan soldiers simply went to Xu Wei.
It happened that Xu Wei captured Gongsun Zhan's 1,500 horses, which could form a cavalry team, so Xu Wei appointed these Wuwanren as cavalry instructors, hoping to cultivate a rare army. After all, on the grasslands of northern Xinjiang, there were no cavalry.
Able to be slaughtered by others.
At the same time, Xu Wei asked Wang Lei and others to learn riding skills, including himself.
He couldn't remember which Three Kingdoms novel it was written in. It said that Liu Bei's riding skills should be very superb, because he was defeated many times in his life, but he could escape from defeat. Even Guan Yu, a ten thousand enemy, was caught by Cao Cao.
experience, but Liu Bei did not, which shows Liu Bei's superb riding skills.
Xu Wei knew that the world was about to enter troubled times. Who knew he would be defeated that day? With superb riding skills, his chances of escaping would increase by several percent!
Wang Lei said with a smile: "What Niu Gui said makes sense. Raising some cattle and sheep can also reduce food consumption. It's already July, where is the time to grow food, and we are not short of food. Two million stones of food is enough for us."
It's been two years.
Now that we have money, we are not afraid of not being able to sell grain. If we want to eat better, we can go to the Huns to buy cattle and sheep. If we don't have enough grain, we can go to Taiyuan to buy grain.
We can make carriages, wheelbarrows and other iron tools just like we did in the valley. These are needed by the Huns and us Han people. If we exchange these goods with them for cattle, sheep and grain, we will definitely get more grain than we can get from farming.
, the manpower saved in this way cannot be used to build Mayi."
"Besides, as heroes of the forest who uphold justice for heaven, we shouldn't eat meat and drink alcohol to make ourselves happy."
Xu Wei was blamed for this because he often told martial arts stories when he was in the valley. The hero of Liangshan changed his background and became a hero of the green forest.
And the actions of these heroes are obviously very suitable for the ideas of young people like Wang Lei.
"A prodigal son, you only know how to live in vain, and you don't know how high the sky is after just a few full meals. Although we have a lot of money and food, we can't sustain food and drink for 200,000 people for a long time. You still want to eat meat and drink wine. Why don't you go to heaven so quickly?
I have forgotten the days when I suffered from hunger! Moreover, at this time of year, there is a shortage of food everywhere. If you want to exchange, it doesn’t depend on others’ willingness!” Old Wang chased Wang Lei angrily, and he caught Wang Lei’s words.
The main point is to eat meat and drink wine!
Xu Wei was a little embarrassed. After such discussion, several routes were actually found. Some wanted to farm, some wanted to herd, and some wanted to take trade routes.
It seems that Xu Wei is not a stubborn person, and Old Man Wang also reminded Xu Wei that troubled times are coming and food is the most important thing in this world.
So he said: "I shouldn't think about reaching the sky in one fell swoop. We should stay the same as before, divided into several production teams to build our new home! But it can't exceed 50,000 people. The remaining 150,000 people will be used to open up wasteland. This year in
We need to cultivate 1 million acres of land before winter!"
Old man Wang and old man Niu nodded with satisfaction after hearing Xu Wei's words. In their opinion, the production team in Shanggu was very good, especially when Xu Wei arranged most of the people to open up wasteland, which made them even more satisfied.
Satisfied.
Xu Wei continued: "We have to make plans now!"
"First of all, we need to build a lumberyard. Whether we are building houses or burning charcoal, we need wood. This is indispensable. Secondly, we need to build a coal mine. Whether we are making iron or burning bricks, we cannot sweep away the coal mine. We also need to find clay mines.
Used to make bricks, find iron ore, and use it to smelt iron to make various tools! Limestone ore is used to build city walls. I leave it to Old Man Wang to find these minerals."
These are all buildings. Without them, other technologies cannot be developed at a rapid pace.
Old Man Wang smiled and said: "Captain, don't worry, most of these are found in Mayi itself, especially coal mines. It is said that you can dig a coal mine just by digging down a foot deep from a hilltop in Mayi!"
Xu Wei continued, "Uncle, I leave the transportation of various minerals to you."
Old Man Wang said: "This is all covered by the old man!"
Then Hypocrisy said to Old Man Niu: "After the bricks are successfully made, the old man and I will build a new type of small blast furnace. This kind of blast furnace can make tens of thousands of kilograms of iron once it comes out. With this iron, no matter what we do,
Whether you are mining or clearing land, you need enough farm tools, and these all depend on you, Old Man Niu."
Old Man Niu patted his chest and promised: "Old man, I will go all out and strive to let everyone have a set of farm tools!"
"Niu Gui, our foreign trade will be left to you from now on. You can find a way to transport more cattle and horses to the Huns. Whether it is transportation or land reclamation, these big animals are indispensable!"
Niu Gui smiled and said: "I have these on my body!"
This may be the only good thing about Bingzhou. There are coal mines everywhere, and you can dig out coal mines just by digging on any mountain.
If you want to build an industrial center in this era, there is obviously no more suitable place than Bingzhou.