In the warmth of the bed, Chen Ma was humming nursery rhymes on the couch, coaxing her daughter and son to sleep. Yuwen Wen sat next to the couch, watching the two little guys fall asleep gradually, stretched out his hand to pull the quilt, covering his hands and feet.

Time spent with his family is always happy and short. Yuwen Wen has a lot of wives, concubines, children, and his responsibilities and obligations as husbands and fathers have also increased many times. As long as he has time, he must fulfill his duties and obligations.

It's time for Chen to take a "rotate" tonight, but the day happened to be wrong. Chen's health was unwell. Yuwen Wen did not "swap" because of this, but instead played with Chen's children with her children. Before he knew it, it was time to rest.

Chen Yao went to bed with her children, but Yuwen Wen looked at the sleeveless wool sweater that Chen Yao took off.

This wool sweater is made of wool from fine wool. It is of good quality, soft and warm, but Yuwen Wen's focus is not on the wool sweater but on the wool, and the fine wool sheep that produces wool.

Picking up the wool sweater, Yu Wenwen groped gently, but he felt a little melancholy in his heart.

In order to solve the grassland problem, Yuwen Wen racked his brains and thought of many solutions, and he spent a lot of money to introduce fine wool sheep, trying to make the grassland a "right asset" of the court in a way that promotes the development of the wool textile industry.

With the wool with good wool quality and high yield, and the alkali that is large enough for degreasing, as well as improved wool textile technology and machinery, the planned new wool textile industry can flourish.

Yuwen Wen felt that he had laid a foundation, sowed the seeds, and kept watering and fertilizing them, waiting for the seeds to sprout, and then grow into towering trees and bear fruit.

However, ideals are beautiful, reality is cruel. The fine wool sheep he had worked hard to get finally reproduced and began to promote it everywhere, but the promotion effect was not satisfactory.

The Longyou area, which was first promoted to breed, is better. The scale of fine-wool sheep is growing larger and larger. In the area of ​​Gansuo, although the scale of breeding has also been established, the herdsmen do not want to raise such sheep very much and are not very motivated.

In Youyan, the promotion of fine wool sheep was not very smooth and the scale of feeding did not increase. Of course, this is also related to the short promotion time.

As for Yingzhou, let alone, most of the goods sold by Beiyang Trading Company sold well, and the fine wool sheep sold alone were neglected. No matter Hu Han herders, they didn't want to raise such fine wool sheep.

What's the problem?

Yuwen Wen was puzzled at first, but now, with the delivery of the latest investigation report, he probably understood the reason.

The conclusions given by the investigation report are simple to summarize: the herdsmen are unwilling to raise sheep with more hair, meat, and less milk.

Such a simple conclusion made Yuwen Wen want to say something but couldn't say it. His carefully planned layout seemed to end in a bleak way at the beginning.

The herdsmen are unwilling to raise sheep with more hair, less meat, less milk, and sheep are unwilling to raise them. It is obvious that Yuwen Wen's conception is significantly different from the actual needs of the people.

He hopes that herders will use sheep to raise wool, exchange the income from selling wool for daily necessities and food, and improve their lives. However, the demands of herders are more direct, that is, according to tradition, there is no need to do anything extra.

When raising sheep, you can shear wool and make felt, so with a felt tent, there is a moving home.

Ewe produces milk, while dairy products and wild vegetables are the daily diet of ordinary herders. It is impossible for them to kill sheep and eat meat every day.

If the sheep dies or if necessary, then kill the sheep and eat meat, and make the sheepskin into clothes.

This is the "traditional" practice of raising sheep. Herders do not need to have one more link to let "middlemen make a difference".

Therefore, herders only need to use sheep for meat, not for wool. If they replace all the sheep they raise with fine wool, they cannot kill them, and this kind of sheep will only grow hair, not much meat or milk (relatively speaking), how to solve the food problem?

It is not impossible to solve the problem. The government can provide additional food to allow these herdsmen to "get out of production" and specialize in raising sheep (fine wool sheep).

But the problem is that sheep must live with water and grass, constantly "transfer". How should the government find these herdsmen on different pastures and then transport food?

Or are the herdsmen walking slowly with a large amount of food when they drove the sheep into a "transfer"?

Otherwise, let the herdsmen "put the overall situation first" and use sheep for raising wool for the court, and they don't need to eat any dairy products, just dig wild vegetables and stew them every day.

Yuwen Wen thought about it and fell into deep thought.

The envisioned wool textile industry has developed greatly, and now it seems that appropriate agricultural support is needed. However, long-term food support is required to be provided for the areas at the junction of pastoral and farming areas. With the current transportation capacity, this burden is very heavy and not a joke.

A new problem arose, Yu Wenwen was a little depressed. He vaguely remembered the "land encirclement movement" and "sheep eat people" in the textbook. The booming wool textile industry behind it was said to have laid the foundation for the British industrial revolution.

Now he follows the example, but the effect is not good.

Or, if he has to force out a "sheep eaters" to succeed?

The problem is that Britain is an island country, and the farmers are forced to survive, and the uprising is suppressed, and there is no place to run away, so they can only accept exploitation honestly.

Now this prairie is boundless. If the Zhou State dares to create "sheep eating people" and force the herdsmen to raise fine wool sheep with more hair, meat, and less milk, then the herdsmen will have to roll up their tents and take their whole family west, north, and join the Turks, and become the front pawns of the Khans.

Yuwen Wen thought about it and had an idea: If it’s hard, then it’s soft.

If you run away, there will be no iron pots, no various daily necessities that are affordable and cheap, and no tea!

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen was in a much better mood. He had always criticized the way he sold iron pots to tribes on the border. In recent years, it was not that there were no ministers who wrote letters to advise him, but Yuwen Wen refused to go back.

In fact, those people’s worries are not unreasonable. The British people on the border bought iron pots from Zhou State and returned, melted them to build iron weapons and armor, and then invaded and robbed them. This is the so-called “going the pot and returning the arrow”.

But Yuwen Wen felt that this was a troublesome person. First of all, the iron pot he sold was a cast iron pot. It would be impossible to melt it and craft iron, but those small tribes do not have this ability.

As for the Turkic tribes, they were originally Rouran's iron-smelting slaves. They had the skills of smelting and forging iron weapons and armor without buying iron pots.

Secondly, the Zhou army had thunder and was equipped with artillery, and the important cities on the border of the Zhou Kingdom were also equipped with artillery. In this case, if you are still afraid of the enemy's iron arrows, how cowardly would you be?

Now, Yuwen Wen does not intend to retreat, and the wool textile industry must develop. The court does not have much excess grain to support herders to "go out of production" to raise wool, but there are "first demands" like iron pots that stimulate the leaders of various tribes.

It doesn't matter whether the other party buys an iron pot or cooks things or melts them to make weapons and armor.

Yuwen Wen is not afraid of "the pot is gone and the arrows come". He thinks that when promoting the promotion of fine wool raising, there are two ways to consider. One is that local tyrants hire people to raise fine wool. Then the food of these people is naturally the responsibility of the tyrants, and it has nothing to do with the court.

The second method is to raise fine wool sheep by a nomadic tribe, and then sell wool for the required materials. As for how to make the tribes willing to raise wool and use sheep, it is the affairs of the leaders of each tribe, and it has nothing to do with the Zhou Kingdom.

The court does not have to directly ask the herdsmen to raise any sheep, but only needs to "tempt it for profit". Naturally, someone will organize the herdsmen to raise fine wool sheep.

What is the benefit? Handicraft products such as iron pots, cloth, etc., as well as tea, the "fast consumer goods".

Also, it is better to implement a wool exchange system. Want iron pots and tea? Use fine wool wool to exchange.

As he thought about it, Yu Wenwen's thoughts became more and more smooth. He was excited and stood up and turned to the desk to sit down, writing quickly, and writing good ideas.

I don't know how long it took, but the warmth on my shoulders came to a warmth. Yu Wen Wen turned around and saw that it was Chen Yu who put on a piece of clothing for him so that he wouldn't catch a cold unknowingly.

"Don't sleep? It's so late." Yuwen Wen took Chen Yao's hand and let the other party sit beside him.

When asked about her husband's question, Chen Ying shook her head. She saw Yuwen Wen's writing quickly, but she had no intention of avoiding her, so she proposed to be the "secretary" and polish the ink for Yuwen Wen.

Yuwen Wen enjoys this kind of corrupt life.

However, Chen Meng was not in good health tonight, so he would not force anyone to do anything. He opened the notepad to see the beauty who polished the ink for him and continued to write quickly.

He must promote the breeding of fine wool sheep, and must sell iron pots. If any tribe really dares to "get the pot and get the arrow back"...
Chapter completed!