That's right, Wang Shouzhe doesn't understand animal husbandry.
But he knows that the foundation of animal husbandry is to convert plants into meat, milk, wool, leather, draft horses, war horses, etc. Therefore, he only needs to grasp the root, increase the quality of food and reduce the cost of food.
The rest will naturally be managed by the tribesmen and old herdsmen.
For Wang Shouzhe, he began to suspect that the disaster that year was caused by a family of gods ten years ago.
Therefore, while he was investigating, he had already begun to study the industrial characteristics and weaknesses of the Tianren Huangfu family and the Tianren Lei family.
The best way to deal with the Huangfu family is to start from the bottom of the animal husbandry industry, which is the most critical grass in the animal husbandry industry - alfalfa and purple grass. This thing does not increase the yield by 10%, but it has a huge impact on the animal husbandry industry.
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What's more, Wang Shouzhe has been continuously cultivating alfalfa and purple grass in his spare time over the years, and has gradually increased the unit yield by 70%, and its palatability is better.
If you are dealing with the Lei family, you will naturally have a way to deal with the Lei family. But now that the truth has been revealed, the incident that happened had nothing to do with the Lei family, so naturally the methods used against the Lei family can only be retained.
"Zongwei, don't be too happy too soon." Wang Luotong said sternly, "The centipede insect is dead but not stiff. What's more, the Huangfu family is currently just the ancestor of Hua Ye who was restrained by injuries. They have accumulated wealth in the past five hundred years.
Still here, this battle is bound to be a protracted one."
"The current head of the Huangfu family, Huangfu Jinhuan, is not very capable, but he has a lot of tricks." Wang Luotong said with some disdain, but also with a solemn expression, "Recently, there are some small actions in the past few ranches.
Quite a few.”
"Fourth Aunt is right." When Wang Zongwei mentioned this, he was also quite confused. "After the beginning of spring, the growth of our new alfalfa has been extremely strong, and it has also attracted many jackals. They are all a group of rogue cultivators. They
It was all a scattered operation, and a powdered medicine called paraquat was sprinkled on our fields. This powdered medicine is extremely vicious. Once it is sprinkled, the grass will wither, and not a single blade of grass will grow for many years."
Wang Shouzhe is already aware of this matter.
The geographical location of Qianma Town is very good. It is the main transportation road between Changningwei and Anyuanwei. There is Anyuanguan in the north and Qianmabao in the south. Over a mountain range in the east is the territory of Donghaiwei.
Only the west side is bordered by the Huangfu family's Huangfu Ranch, and there is no barrier between them. Moreover, the border line is twenty to thirty miles long, and there is no way to prevent penetration from that side.
In this world, casual cultivators are the least valuable, and they can take risks at will for a small gain. As long as the Huangfu family is willing to spare the money, there are countless desperadoes that can be hired.
Those people acted secretly and ran away every time after spreading paraquat. By the time Wang Luotong and other experts heard the news and rushed there, they had no idea where they had gone.
Guangtianhong Ranch has a total of 30,000 acres of grassland. How can it be prevented?
The loss of dozens of acres of pasture fields every now and then is undoubtedly a very disgusting thing. If this continues over the years, it will not only cause huge losses to the Wang family, but also make the ranchers panic and fall into a depression.
The Wang family also dispatched tribal patrol teams to patrol the edges of the pasture. Each patrol team consisted of ten people, all of whom were fully armed and equipped with crossbows.
However, most casual cultivators are very slippery, and those who dare to take risks are experienced veterans with good physical skills. The strength of the patrol team is very low, and their reflexes cannot keep up with their dazzling physical skills, and their crossbows often miss people.
To deal with them, the only way to deal with them is to have strong generals and tribesmen, or to hire a large number of casual cultivators. Wang Shouzhe has always had a bad impression of casual cultivators, which can easily lead to a situation where it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away.
However, the manpower of the generals and clan members is already insufficient. If Qianma Town is fully mobilized, other places will be short of manpower.
"Fourth Uncle~" Wang Zongwei suggested cautiously, "I have also thought about this problem. There are only two options at present. One is to second the generals and clan members from other families. However, this will face a long-term confrontation process, maybe two years in ten years.
Ten years is not a long-term solution after all.”
"Second, is it possible to recruit some casual cultivators appropriately? I know that once you were bitten by a snake, Fourth Uncle, you lack trust in the casual cultivators. However, as long as we have an interest in them, it will be fine."
"Fourth brother, Zong Wei is right." Wang Ruotong also admonished, "It is true that most casual cultivators are old oilmen who adapt to the wind. But given the price and opportunity, they are still willing to take risks and fight hard.
.In addition, we can also recruit a large number of casual cultivators to conduct long-term observation and assessment of them. If there are those with excellent character, they can be gradually incorporated into the family general or guest minister system."
Wang Shouzhe pondered over it while drinking tea. Ruotong and Zongwei's suggestions were all based on reality. The Wang family is currently facing a situation where their territory and wealth are expanding rapidly, but their clan and family will not be able to keep up.
Due to his past experiences with the Liu family and the Zhao family, Wang Shouzhe was very distrustful of casual cultivators. However, it was okay to hire casual cultivators on a large scale and select some high-quality people to serve as guests.
"Ruotong, then I will leave it to you to try to operate it now." Wang Shouzhe said after thinking for a moment, "For casual cultivators, even if it is a cooperation of interests, we cannot bring in cats and dogs. The Wang family has a way to solve the current crisis.
Look, this is a new weapon developed a while ago in our Science and Technology Innovation Research Laboratory - a shotgun!"
As Wang Shouzhe spoke, he touched the storage ring, and a long, strange-looking thing appeared in his hand. Its structure was somewhat like a blunderbuss, but the mouth of the tube had a trumpet-shaped opening.
"Fourth Uncle~What kind of weapon is this?" Wang Zongwei perked up. He knew that Fourth Uncle's attacks were always extraordinary.
"Just go to the yard and test it." Wang Shouzhe took Zongwei and Ruotong to the yard and asked his generals to find some wooden stakes and place them.
Then he raised the shotgun and fired in that direction without even aiming.
"boom!"
Like the sound of lightning and thunder, countless fine steel balls were sprayed out in the shape of a diffuse trumpet, covering the wooden piles several feet away. Several wooden piles were blown backwards, and there were many craters on them.
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"This..." Wang Luotong's eyes tightened, and she was shocked by this scene. Her cultivation has now reached the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm, and she can be regarded as a little master.
But she discovered that if she were closer, it would be difficult to escape the shotgun's attack range in an instant even if she used the catkin body skills to the extreme.
"I have brought a total of one hundred shotguns." Wang Shouzhe said, "I have also brought ten trained tribesmen, and asked them to lead the patrol team to train and defend against enemies. They will have a great impact on those casual cultivators.
A big deterrent.”
"Fourth Uncle, isn't this weapon too scary?" Wang Zongwei said while wiping away cold sweat, "If a group of patrolling tribesmen fire a volley, I'm afraid even the advanced Qi Refining Realm will definitely die."
"It can't be said to be too scary." Wang Shouzhe shook his head and said, "This shotgun has good power at close range. Ordinary clan soldiers can get started quickly, and it can pose a great threat to ordinary Qi Refining Realm monks. But it also has many shortcomings.
Every time you fire it, you have to refill it with black powder, steel balls, etc."
As a time traveler, how could Wang Shouzhe not think about firearms? However, it is not easy to make firearms. The first thing is gunpowder. This is good, after all, alchemists in this world are prosperous and have already invented gunpowder.
However, gunpowder is usually used in alchemy furnaces and mining. It is said that some refiners tried to make it into firecrackers, but they gave up soon, mainly because it was too weak.
Wang Shouzhe also wanted to develop weapons such as ultra-long-range sniper rifles at once, but any high-tech equipment requires too much pre-processing technology. Good firearms must use more sophisticated lathes, and Wang's scientific innovation
In the research laboratory, we are currently only beginning to develop primary hydraulic lathes.
Therefore, we can only simply get a shotgun sprayer for clan soldiers to use to improve the combat effectiveness of the bottom layer.
As for technologies such as steam engines, Wang Shouzhe has long wanted to develop them. The principle seems very simple, and the craftsmen in the scientific research room also understand its principles. However, in the actual research and development process, every step is bumpy.
It is estimated that it will be difficult to come up with a rudimentary steam engine within a few decades.
In terms of scientific research, many things require a lot of time to think about and accumulate.
Even if it is a small steel ball, it is very difficult to mass produce it.
The only iron balls used in shotgun sprayers are not only easy to rust, but also have strange shapes and sizes. The production process is very simple, and the iron is melted into a slurry and then sprayed out, and is cooled by air and water.
To quickly produce iron beads, it’s a shame if the overall quality is good.
Only those of the right size can be selected and then finely polished by craftsmen before they can be used in ball bearings.
Most of the remaining steel balls can only be used to make spray bullets.
Moreover, in the absence of a large number of basic industries, even a hundred crude shotgun sprayers cost craftsmen a lot of time and money because of the need to develop flintlock technology.
On average, each one costs more than ten dry gold.
This price can buy a high-quality war horse, or two pretty girls as maids.
The only two advantages are that it can make up for the shortcomings of Wang's low-level combat force and solidify basic technical knowledge for subsequent guns.
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Soon, the tribal soldiers brought by Wang Shouzhe were integrated into the ranch patrol team. The remaining patrol team members quickly mastered the shotgun spray after simple training.
This thing is simpler than a crossbow. You just need to pull the trigger in a general direction. However, after firing one round, it is very troublesome to reload it.
Time has passed in a hurry for more than ten days.
As spring gets stronger, the two spring rains fall.
The 30,000 acres of pasture in Tianhong Ranch are already full of fragrance and growing very gratifyingly. It is like an "endless" pasture, contrasting with the blue sky, which makes people feel refreshed and relaxed.
Wang Feng!
As a seventeen-year-old girl general, her ancestors have been loyal members of the Wang family for generations. In addition, she has a low-grade C-level qualification since she was a child, so she has been carefully trained by the Wang family since she was a child.
Her training and treatment standards were almost based on those of Wang's direct disciples, and she was also allowed to practice Wang's Xuanyuan Jue and other ancestral techniques.
And she has been working hard since she was a child. Not only does she practice quickly, but she also has very good results in family studies.
At this time, she was wearing a suit of soft but defensive beast leather armor, riding a maroon horse with a hunting cloak on her back, and she looked quite heroic.
Behind her were eight carefully selected clan soldiers, all of whom were fully armed and had the recently issued shotgun spray slung on their backs.
This day was as sunny and sunny as usual.
The ranch patrol team led by Wang Feng is performing a security inspection mission, and its main target targets are casual cultivators coming from the direction of Huangfu Ranch.
It stands to reason that those casual cultivators who come to cause trouble usually come at night and return at night. Unless they have special support in broad daylight, they would definitely not dare to come here to seek death.
Brother Murong.
They are a pair of famous brothers among the casual cultivators.
They are less than forty years old, but they have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining Realm. They are already the best among casual cultivators. The most important thing is that this pair of brothers had a special opportunity and practiced a special body method called
Sunda wind flashes.
Once the Standing Technique is used, it is as fast as the Xunfeng Flash. Not to mention the casual cultivators of the same level, even those one or two levels higher cannot catch up with them. Just a few months ago, they came to Tianhong Ranch to cause trouble.
Pass.
He also played tricks on Wang Luotong, who had a higher level of cultivation.
Although Wang Luotong's cultivation has reached the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm, and he has mastered the ancestral body technique "Catkin Body Technique", the Catkin Body Technique is more about being elusive and unpredictable, which is quite effective in face-to-face combat.
However, if used in a chase, its speed is far inferior to Xunfeng Flash.
On this day, they blatantly crossed the border, and intelligence showed that Wang Shouzhe had left. Wang Xiaohan, the ancestor of the Lingtai realm who was guarding Qianma Town, would also be restrained by the casual cultivators of the Lingtai realm that Huangfu invited at a great cost.
Their goal was not as simple as destroying dozens of acres of fields, but to injure a group of herdsmen who had already begun to cut the first stubble, creating panic in Tianhong Ranch and leaving the herdsmen in panic and unmotivated from their work.
Working at the same time as them, there were six or seven batches of casual cultivators. However, Brother Murong was regarded as the main force in completing the mission.
Just on the edge of tens of thousands of acres of pasture, the Murong brothers and Wang Feng's patrol met unexpectedly.
"Hehehe, it turns out to be that pretty little lady." Brother Murong faced the patrol, but instead of retreating, he advanced, preparing to play a trick with his powerful body skills.
They are extremely fast, and it is very difficult for ordinary crossbows to hit them, and they have always been able to advance and retreat freely.
The two of them used their movements, like a gust of wind blowing in the field, and the speed exploded faster than a galloping horse. At the same time, they were accompanied by evil smiles: "Miss Wang Feng, we meet again. Come on, come on.
, play with your Murong brother~"
"Brother Murong!"
Wang Feng's expression condensed and she said angrily, "You are really so bold. You have offended my Wang family in this way. Aren't you afraid of my Wang family's revenge?"
"Hey, revenge?" Brother Murong approached quickly and stopped blatantly a few feet in front of the patrol. He kept laughing and said, "No matter how strong you Wang family is, you are just a small overlord of Changning Guard. This mission,
Our brothers can get two thousand gold. Afterwards, the world is so big, where can’t we go?"
This is one of the reasons why Wang Shouzhe has always disliked casual cultivators. They have no roots and foundation, and all they think about is that I will go to other places to live in other places. How can you believe it?
