When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately smiled and felt that he had found a like-minded person.
I have a lot of women, so look at this big ranch. At a casual glance, there are more than 20 people there. Then look at the children who are looking over curiously. They are a big group, and they are both curious and scared.
Take a closer look at these children. Some of them have blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and pointed noses. Some of them are of mixed Chinese and Western descent, just like some of my own children.
"Not many, not many, just over thirty."
Lai Ermao smiled and replied: "A dozen of them have given birth to children for me, and they are considered concubines. There are more than twenty who have not given birth to children for me, so they will always be considered slaves."
"Where do these slaves come from?"
Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and looked at the women around Lai Ermao. Lai Ermao was not tall, and could even be said to be short, but many of the women around him were taller.
If you look more carefully, you can still see some differences.
"This one comes from Tianzhu. It used to be said that it was a Brahmin. It cost me more than a hundred taels of silver to buy it back."
"This one is from Persia, and it cost a lot of money. This one is from the Middle East, this one is from the Ottoman Empire, and these are Slavs and Poles from Eastern Europe."
"These are Italians~"
"I couldn't understand the language they spoke, so I felt the same. It took me some time to figure it out."
Lai Ermao smiled and called over a dozen of his concubines, asking them to salute Zhu Houzhao, and at the same time, he also introduced the places where they came from.
"But they can all speak our Ming dialect now, so I don't need to worry about anything."
"You can do that, these are from all over the world."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
"Oh, they are all slaves, not us Han people."
"What I want most now is to marry a Han Chinese wife, but I am already over thirty, and it is difficult to marry a Han Chinese wife."
When Lai Ermao heard this, he sighed helplessly.
Although there were more than thirty women, none of them were Han. This was Lai Ermao's biggest failure.
When he was in Shaanxi, he couldn't get a wife, and his family was extremely poor. Later, he heard that after immigrating here, there would be a share of women, so he immigrated here.
This woman is a woman, but she is not Han.
It is really difficult to marry a Han man as a wife, especially since he is old and not very good-looking.
"It doesn't matter whether we are Han or not."
"Look at me, my dozen or so wives are not Han Chinese."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and pointed to the dozen beauties around him and said.
"That's what I said~"
"But look at my children, none of them look like us Han people, especially the ones with blond hair, yellow hair, and eyes. They all have blue eyes, and very few have black ones."
Lai Ermao nodded helplessly, and then called all his children over. More than a dozen children stood in a row and all saluted and said hello to Zhu Houzhao.
Although many of them do not look like Han people, they are all authentically Han Chinese in terms of dressing, speaking, and etiquette.
"Just be content~"
"How come there are so many women and more than a dozen children, and it's hard to live a happy life?"
Zhu Houzhao looked at Lai Ermao. When he first arrived, he seemed to be enjoying the sunshine with his legs crossed, while all his women were busy non-stop.
It can be said that the huge pasture is supported by the women under him. As for him, it seems that he is just a breeding pig, eating and drinking every day and only responsible for sowing seeds.
"It's so cool~"
When Lai Ermao heard this, he immediately smiled and nodded.
To be honest, he never dreamed that he would be able to live such a small life one day.
His ranch is large in scale and covers a very large area. Coupled with the business model of a large ranch, it breeds a relatively large number of cattle, sheep and horses.
Railways have been opened in the Western Regions again, and railways are being built to Hezhong, Central Asia, and the three northwest provinces. Once the railways are connected, the cattle, sheep and horses here can be transported directly to the customs, so the prices are much higher than before.
This has increased Lai Ermao's income a lot. Calculating this, his annual income from this large ranch can reach several thousand taels of silver.
This year's income of several thousand taels of silver is a very considerable income.
You must know that the annual income of a worker in the Beijing-Tianjin area is less than 100 taels of silver, but his ranch brings in income of several thousand taels of silver a year.
Such a considerable income also allowed Lai Ermao to become rich quickly. He bought more and more slaves, and he also specialized in buying beautiful slaves.
When he was in Shaanxi, he was a bachelor who couldn't even marry a wife. Not to mention earning thousands of taels of silver a year, he couldn't even eat enough by farming for others, and he couldn't even eat much in a year.
Well done.
Look now, I have bought more than 30 female slaves, I have a big ranch, and I am earning thousands of taels of silver a year. I am living a small life with my legs crossed. How happy it is.
This is something I never dreamed of before.
However, people’s hearts are not enough, so he still wants to marry a Han official wife if he can, but even with a large ranch and thousands of taels of silver a year, it is still too difficult to marry a Han official wife.
Because the Han people who migrated here are basically similar to him. They all live a prosperous life and live a very comfortable life. No one would even think of marrying an old man in his thirties like Lai Ermao.
, the key is that the person is not very tall.
"That's right~"
"When you have good days, just live them slowly and don't mess around."
“What is your main grazing stock on this ranch?”
Zhu Houzhao smiled and then asked about the situation of the ranch.
"I mainly graze cattle and sheep here. Now that the prices of cattle and sheep are rising, they are easier to sell. I also raise some horses, but the breed is very average. I am going to replace them with some good quality horses."
"The government asked us to raise a kind of cotton sheep from Europe. I don't know if it will be beneficial or not. You are a noble person from the capital. Can you help me analyze it? Analyze it?"
When Lai Ermao heard this, he stood up and pointed at the livestock grazing in his pasture.
"Sheep should still be good, but they need to be sheared frequently. Textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area have a huge demand for wool. There are many herdsmen on the northern grasslands who specialize in raising sheep and selling wool."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and wanted to reply.
At the same time, I silently made a note in my heart.
The government of Central Asia Province is very effective. They are definitely indispensable for the rapid development of the large ranch economy in Central Asia Province. Without the help of the government, these immigrants probably would not be able to adapt to the status of herdsmen all of a sudden.
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But with the help from the government, they not only received guidance, but also various technologies and seeds, which shows that the government can play a big role in production.
Promoting good production methods, cultivating excellent varieties, and then promoting them. Animal husbandry is actually similar to farming. Cultivating good varieties and promoting good farming methods can bring about earth-shaking changes.
This Central Asia province is the best example. Without the vigorous promotion and help of the government, the current Central Asia animal husbandry industry would never be possible.
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