Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 484

[Chapter 484]

for Yan City.

While Beidi was brewing a vicious plan, Zhao Xu, Liu Fu and a group of officials were inspecting the horse administration and Guanzhuang in Yanzhou.

“Your Highness, the horses in this horse farm are said to be the strongest among the captured horses, and the mares are all well-built and have shiny fur. During this period, this horse farm alone has bred 800 foals.” The officials were introduced by Zhao Xu.

He is Shen Shixing, the head of the Agriculture Department of the government office.

While Liu Fu and other officials listened to his lectures in the Administration School, they were also using what they learned from the school to reform the government.

For example, the Department of Agriculture is a newly established institution.

Officers in the Department of Agriculture have many responsibilities.

In addition to being in charge of horse administration, officials are also responsible for going to the countryside to pass on the planting methods they learned from the school to the common people, so as to increase the yield per mu.

At the same time, there is also the responsibility of coordinating all the fields in Yanzhou and planning the planting of crops.

At present, the people of Yanzhou are generally still a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy in which men farm and women weave.

The land distributed to each family not only grows part of the grain, but also grows mulberry and so on.

After all, in food, clothing, housing and transportation, food and clothing are the most important. Wheat and rice fill the stomach, and mulberry and hemp provide silk and linen.

However, Zhao Xu hasn’t let the agricultural department change the people’s traditional production methods.

The Department of Agriculture mainly plans the acres of land cultivated by the official villages and production camps.

“Eight hundred? It’s not bad, but we need to ensure their survival rate.” Zhao Xu said.

In ancient times, it belonged to a state of vast land and sparse population.

So it is not very difficult to find a place in Yanzhou that is not suitable for farming but suitable for grazing.

“Don’t worry, Your Highness, the stable will be sprinkled with quicklime every half a month, and the fodder will be mixed with allicin from time to time. The foal is growing up very well.” Shen Shixing said, pointing to a frisky foal in the stable.

Zhao Xu stopped to watch and smiled.

The quicklime disinfection, feeding garlic and other methods are mastered by officials from the administrative school.

In addition to these methods, the current students of the School of Administration are still studying some of the local methods he provided to promote the agricultural development of Yanzhou.

Toured the horse farm.

Zhao Xu and the officials went to Guanzhuang again.

Different horse farms have large pastures, while the official farms directly under the Wangfu are more crowded.

When he arrived, the shepherd boy in Xiangguanzhuang was driving a large number of cattle and sheep into the pen.

Most of these cattle and sheep were snatched from the black iron king’s tent during this battle, and Bai Shang and others snatched them when they attacked Ning Jindusi.

Today, these cattle and sheep have become the foundation of Yanzhou’s animal husbandry.

He will teach officials professional animal husbandry technology, so that Yanzhou’s animal husbandry industry will develop and grow.

“Your Highness, Guanzhuang is currently undergoing renovation to realize the ecological cycle agriculture that His Highness said.” Shen Shixing said.

The other officials were not surprised by this unfamiliar vocabulary.

Because King Yan explained it to them when he lectured.

Zhao Xu nodded, this is what he focused on when inspecting Guanzhuang.

The ancient agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishing obviously all belonged to extensive management.

Without change, large-scale agricultural production cannot be achieved.

Seriously speaking, agriculture can provide many raw materials for industry, rice can be used to make wine, cotton can be used to weave cloth, and meat oil can be used to make soap.

Therefore, it is impossible for industry to flourish without the prosperity of agriculture.

Make bricks without straw.

Therefore, his emphasis on agriculture is no less than that of industry, which complement each other.

Therefore, in order to scale up Yanzhou’s agriculture, he started from Guanzhuang and launched ecological cycle agriculture.

Among them, this concept has long been rotten in the contemporary era.

It is just a rational use of the waste produced by animals and plants.

For example, the pig marsh mode.

First, build a biogas digester to let pig manure and urine flow into the pigsty, so that the biogas manure can be used to grow vegetables, and the biogas slurry can be sprayed on the vegetable leaves to prevent pests.

In addition to the pig marsh vegetable mode, there is also the fish and mulberry chicken mode, where chickens are raised in mulberry fields, and chicken manure and silkworm manure are fed to fish.

Of course, there are other models. Guanzhuang is based on these different models, dividing Guanzhuang into different regions, establishing circular agriculture, and expanding production.

Walking around Guanzhuang, Zhao Xu saw some newly built biogas digesters.

The principle of a biogas digester is very simple. It is to dig a hole, build a pond with blue bricks and cement, and leave a vent hole to discharge the biogas.

In addition, there are chicken coops beside the mulberry fields, and cow coops next to the ponds.

These are newly remodeled in Guanzhuang.

“From now on, the meat that the soldiers eat will be handed over to you. If they don’t have meat to eat, I don’t care if they trouble you.” Zhao Xu said to Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing knew that King Yan was joking, but he was talking about serious business, so he said: “I will definitely increase the official output every year.”

“Well, it’s good if you have this determination.” Zhao Xu laughed with Liu Fu and the others.

After a morning of shopping, Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng.

Then he went straight to the granary.

Ever since he received the letter from Dong An and Mi Yan, he decided to plan ahead and nip hidden dangers in the bud when the powerful clan hadn’t completely strangled him on issues such as commerce, food, and minerals.

Strive to ensure that the land is completely isolated, and it can last for two or three years.

In terms of food, agricultural production in the four north counties has basically resumed.

Among the four counties, Yan County and Shanggu County recovered the best. After all, he was the first to accept these two counties.

In addition to self-sufficiency, the people of the two counties have basically sold surplus grain in the two seasons of this year.

He let Liu Fu buy it at the market price.

In addition, when fighting Jinzhou, he asked Xie’s family to exchange food for artillery, asking for a year’s ration for the population at that time.

Some time ago, Chang Wei went south to sweep the three southern counties and seized a large amount of food and grass from the Yuan family and the Hao family.

These grains are now stored in the granary in Yan County.

According to Liu Fu’s statistics, these grains are enough for Yanzhou to run out of food for a year.

Now, all of Yanzhou is under his command, and winter will soon turn to spring, and farming in the seven counties will resume. There is basically a big problem for Yanzhou to be self-sufficient in food.

But even so, he always checks the granary from time to time.

This is the cornerstone of Yanzhou’s stability, so don’t be careless.

After inspecting the granary, Zhao Xu, Liu Fu and other officials went to the government office.

Although Beidi is eyeing it covetously, the development of Yanzhou cannot be delayed because of this. What should be done must be done.

After all the officials sat down, he said: “Today’s inspection, in general, the major infrastructure construction has achieved some results, but it is far from enough. In addition, we should develop differently according to the advantages of different counties, such as those with more water networks. There are many counties that raise fish, where there are many fertile lands, there are many kinds of food, and the counties that are close to the seaside can catch fish and dry salt…”

Zhao Xu said while Liu Fu and others memorized it, for fear of missing a word.

They had to admit that King Yan was far superior to them.

Acting according to Yan Wang’s words is sometimes more useful than what they tried their best to come up with.

An hour later, Zhao Xu talked about agriculture in the big infrastructure construction.

Then he wanted to ask about Liu Fu’s farming in the production camp, but suddenly there was a “boom”, which startled everyone.

Thanks to the leader who is no longer a childlike boy for the reward, today the snail is impotent again, I don’t talk about it, and my face is gone, but writing it can be regarded as a spur to myself, to work harder and more.

Next, let’s look at the performance of the snail.

(end of this chapter)