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Chapter 173 Breeding Kaienke(1/2)

"It's great to win the Hetao area. Su Hu did a great job."

Su He saw Su Hu's report that they had recovered the Hetao area.

"Let the newspapers focus on reporting this matter. The Hetao area, which has been separated from the Central Plains for hundreds of years, has been recovered by us.

This is a great thing to enhance the nation's self-confidence. We can bring people's awareness back to the era when one Han was the five barbarians.

As soon as we attacked the Mongols, many people became afraid.

I understand that this situation occurs now, but it will not be good if it occurs again later.

The Hetao has been captured, and we must defend the Hetao area, which is our forward base for attacking the grassland.

The Northern Governor's Office was established in Hetao, responsible for the defense of the entire Great Wall defense line and the Hetao area.

Bring back the Guards and continue to be responsible for guarding Hanzhong.

The Sichuan Governor's Office was changed to the Southern Governor's Office, responsible for guarding the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas."

In Suhe's plan, five governor's offices will be formed to guard five directions and unify the military power of a region.

Combined with the governor's offices in key areas, a vertical command system from the governor's office to the local governor's offices is formed.

Li Fengming immediately wrote down Suhe's arrangements, and said in surprise: "By taking the Hetao area, our power will go deep into the grassland.

We have huge grasslands to raise horses, and this time we purchased tens of thousands of horses from Mongolia.

We should build several large horse farms and rely on horse farms to breed horses.

Raising horses costs a lot of money, so please approve the use of special military expenditures by His Highness the King of Qin."

Li Fengming believes that the most important thing in winning the Hetao area is to win a large piece of grassland.

Grassland can raise horses and cattle at low cost.

If they want to control the grasslands, they must have their own cavalry troops.

The cost of raising horses in the Central Plains is too high, and it is impossible to raise large-scale cavalry.

Su He ordered: "There is no need to spend special military expenditures.

There will be no large-scale war during this period, and military expenditures for this year and next are sufficient.

The cavalry regiment was sent to the Hetao area to absorb the Mongols and expand it into a cavalry division to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

A government-owned ranch was established to breed not only horses, but also cattle and sheep.

Breeding centers will be set up to breed improved horses, and cattle and sheep will also be bred.

Li Dajiang’s disciple Ma Fu is very skilled, so let him go to the grassland to be responsible for establishing a breeding center.”

Li Fengming asked doubtfully: "Your Highness King Qin, Ma Fu is not a wheat farmer.

Can he breed? The gap between the two fields is too big."

Su He said to Xiang: "The difference is not big, they have similar ideas.

Ma Fu is responsible for the planning of the scientific breeding system, and there is a dedicated person responsible for the specific work of raising horses."

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Su He decided to let Ma Fu go to the Hetao area to establish a breeding center.

Responsible for breeding horses, cattle and sheep, relying on new scientific knowledge to cultivate better breeds.

The new breeding process crushes the old breeding process.

Su He rushed to the Institute of Agriculture of the Academy of Sciences to chat with Li Dajiang and others.

It is now late autumn, and many crops are blooming in the glass greenhouse built by the Academy of Agriculture.

Li Dajiang leads researchers to pollinate peas.

When he was cultivating winter wheat, he was already conducting pea hybridization experiments.

Now, the Institute of Agriculture of the Academy of Sciences has a clear understanding of hybridization.

Su He found Li Dajiang and Ma Fu, informed Ma Fu of his arrangements, and asked for his opinion.

Ma Fu said excitedly: "Your Highness, King Qin, I am qualified for this job.

We have all done pea hybridization experiments.

Know homozygotes and heterozygotes.

Through long-term experiments, we also know that heterozygotes have no way to stably inherit their excellent characteristics.

In order to obtain excellent heterozygotes, the ancestral homozygotes must be kept stable.

I work at the Agricultural Institute and am responsible for the selection and breeding of fine domestic pig breeds.

Take pigs as an example. Find pigs that are not picky eaters, pigs that produce a lot of meat, pigs that are disease-resistant, and pigs that gain weight quickly.

It is necessary to ensure that the populations of these four pigs are not polluted, continue to be bred, and select the best from the best.

At the same time, pigs that are not picky eaters breed with pigs that produce more meat.

As long as the female parent breed is suitable, you will get pigs that are not picky eaters and produce a lot of meat.

Similarly, if disease-resistant pigs breed with pigs that gain weight quickly, you will get pigs that are disease-resistant and gain weight quickly.

This serves as the father of the target pig, and they continue to reproduce as the female parent.

You will get an excellent pig breed, which has all the excellent characteristics of its ancestors.

Pigs bred using this method are not picky about food, produce a lot of meat, are disease-resistant and grow quickly.

Such good traits cannot be inherited.

As long as it is ensured that all the maternal genes of the ancestors are not leaked, this kind of pig is not afraid of other forces stealing it.

This breeding method is also more difficult than traditional breeding methods.

It is not too difficult to find pigs of a single excellent breed.

It is really difficult to find pigs that have all the good traits and are genetically stable.

Now, the Institute of Agriculture of the Academy of Sciences has conducted separate experiments on wheat and pigs, proving that this scientific research idea is correct.

This breeding idea can also be extended to horses, cattle and sheep, and it will take tens or hundreds of years to breed excellent breeds.

But to breed some varieties that are better than before, with this systematic breeding idea, results can be produced in about ten years.

His Highness the King of Qin has asked me to be responsible for horse breeding. I am confident that I can breed better war horses within ten years.

The ultimate goal is to breed horses that are better than BMWs with blood.

At the same time, the breeding of cattle and sheep will also be carried out simultaneously.

Our big oxen are already very good at cultivating the land.

I will breed beef and dairy cattle, meat sheep and wool sheep."

Su He looked at the extremely confident Ma Fu, and he was ready to hand over this work to Ma Fu.

This person is very stable and knows that breeding will not yield results in a short time. This is a project that requires long-term persistence.

Su He also asked Li Dajiang about the situation of winter wheat.

Now the Institute of Agriculture has mastered the technology of hybrid wheat.

They have obtained a large amount of winter wheat seeds this year and are preparing to promote winter wheat on a large scale.

The yield and disease and cold resistance of new hybrid winter wheat have been further improved.

Winter wheat can now be grown further north.

Inspired by this technology, Li Dajiang is now researching cold-resistant spring wheat.

If this research is successful, spring wheat will be planted in the area north of Liaodong in the future.

When Su He heard the news, he provided a large amount of scientific research funding to the Institute of Agriculture.

In later generations, the Northeast was a big granary.

Now the Northeast is not a granary, Houjin is very short of food, which is why they often invade the Ming Dynasty.

Without cold-resistant rice and wheat varieties, they cannot be grown in cold areas.

Planting rice in the Northeast requires mulch film and cold-resistant rice. There are too many agricultural technologies to break through, and this era is too far away.

To grow spring wheat in the Northeast, wheat varieties only need to be cold-resistant.

This technology requires decades of research.

Su He predicted that by the time he conquered the Northeast region, even cold-resistant spring wheat might not be successful.

But this kind of technology is beneficial to the future and must be studied. The sooner it is studied, the better.

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At the Lingyun Palace meeting, Prime Minister Wang Zhongce reported: "His Royal Highness King Qin, during this period we have negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty through Sun Chengzong.

Ming Dynasty completely rejected our conditions and the peace talks failed."

When Su He heard the news, he was not surprised at all.

The Ming Dynasty is now sunset, and bureaucratic corruption is serious.

But Ming Dynasty never compromised on its integrity.

No territory will be ceded, no marriage will be made, no compensation will be paid. The emperor will guard the country, and the king will die in the country.

Su He was afraid of irritating Daming, so he proposed very loose conditions.

In name, it is not a peace negotiation, but a truce.
To be continued...
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