Zhao Yan then held a meeting with Tang Zhengze and the following garrison leader, and decided to increase agricultural production policies.

The most important thing is livestock breeding. Try to raise more chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and cattle. At the same time, horses can be placed in each town and raised by farmers. This policy of raising a farmer was implemented in the Ming Dynasty.

However, because of the high cost of raising horses, farmers often force bankruptcy. At the same time, the quality of horses raised by farmers is not good enough.

Therefore, Zhao Yan absorbed the experience of the failure of the Ming court's politics and asked Tang Zhengze to ask more people who were good at raising horses, compile the experience into a booklet, and then let someone go to the countryside to teach farmers to raise them.

At the same time, subsidies are increased so that farmers will not go bankrupt. They will also reward farmers who raise high-quality horses. They will be rewarded with two taels of horses and one tael of horses.

On horse breeding, Tang Zhengze also needs to take the horse herds below to cultivate. At present, Zhao Quanzheng sent people to find excellent breeds and horses in horse markets in various places.

...

Before we knew it, it was the end of February, and most of Zhao Yan was practicing troops during this period.

The method of training is mainly the queue of descendants, plus Qi Jiguang's method of training.

Although the types of troops in later generations were complex, compared with ancient times, the methods of training were much simpler, and in some places they were too complicated.

In this alternating stage of the cold weapon era and the black gunpowder era, it cannot be completely followed in the training methods of later generations.

Zhao Yan trained the soldiers separately and fucked them every three days according to Qi Jiguang's method.

The spearmen mainly attack the queue and spear technique. When the musketeers do not have muskets, they practice the queue first. The longbow soldiers practice the queue, plus archery. The cavalry practices riding techniques and queues.

The cavalry ranks are difficult to train, so it is indeed difficult to keep the cavalry at a dense distance.

Zhao Yan did not intend to form heavy cavalry. History has proved that the era of heavy cavalry has passed. For example, the Tiefutu of the Jin Kingdom was slaughtered by Yue Fei, which was simply vulnerable.

The heavy cavalry in the West have also declined at this moment.

Although heavy cavalry can be called human tanks, the problem is that they are clumsy. They cannot maneuver from a long distance and cannot attack the infantry phalanx that is ready for battle. They are prone to rear-end collisions when charging. Traps are definitely the nightmare of heavy cavalry. Horse legs are undoubtedly the biggest weakness. The same is true for tanks in later generations, which often cause the enemy to unload tracks.

The only function of heavy cavalry is to disrupt the opponent's formation and put the opponent in chaos, but this will not be effective for elite infantry phalanxes. Generally, they can only charge for those troops with low morale and lax defense.

At the same time, the cost of building heavy cavalry is too high. The construction, maintenance of armor, and the servants required for heavy cavalry are simply money-burning machines.

Establishing a fat cavalry is undoubtedly the best choice. The fat cavalry is the light cavalry. It requires strict discipline, a spirit of fearlessness and long-term training.

Every three days of training, a cooperative drill will be conducted.

During these three days, there are often night attack prevention training. The soldiers in the battalion are often called by the alarm sounding in the middle of the night. Those who cannot come out to make a team within three minutes will be in trouble the next day. They will be able to practice more, run away and other means.

There are also frequent training for off-road, long-distance raids, and camping in the wild.

The newly recruited recruits were complaining, and only the original servants were used to this hard training.

Many new recruits were inspired to retreat, but were all inspired by Zhang Buyun, who had just started working.

Zhang Buyun also brought several "apprentices" around him, running in the army all day long, brainwashing soldiers and people based on the written textbooks and methods.

After all, the political commissar is just confirmed and has no experience in his work. Zhang Buyun is constantly accumulating experience in this process.

Zhao Yan has also joined the army. Although he is only a conscript, he is still familiar with the working methods of these education commissions.

In general, the core thing the Education Commission does is to "combinate speaking and doing", that is, to say and do. If you only do it, the soldiers will not understand why. If you only say it but don't do it, the soldiers will think, why do you want us to do this, but you don't do it yourself?

After practicing this for half a month, in early February, the spring sowing had already begun, because the climate was recovering too slowly.

It is the Little Ice Age, and the spring sowing time has been delayed by nearly half a month. The abnormal climate has brought many inconveniences to production, which makes people feel very helpless.

The scenes in the Zhaojia Sanbao and surrounding areas are different from those in other areas. Other areas are extremely depressed, but in this hilly area in the mountains, it is a different and busy scene.

In each village, the villagers sowed the spring wheat with hope, waiting for the autumn harvest. The village land is different from the surrounding villages, and only half of the land is sown.

The other half were ready to keep the sweet potatoes.

When Zhao Yan arrived in the field, he used fermentation to increase the temperature, built a simple greenhouse, and carefully planted the sweet potatoes.

The earlier the sweet potatoes are, the better the seedlings are, because sweet potatoes do not have a significant harvest period as much as wheat. There is a farmer saying that wheat is: It is better to harvest it properly than to plant it well.

The longer the sweet potatoes are planted, the higher the yield, but the temperature must be grasped when harvesting and must be dug out before frost. In the current cold climate, the high yield of sweet potatoes will still be affected to a certain extent, planting later and harvesting earlier.

Zhao Yan told Tang Zhengze again what he needed to pay attention to in sweet potatoes. He had to explore the specific planting methods. Zhao Yan was not a standard farmer. The way he knew sweet potato planting methods was just vaguely remembering that this was what his family did when he was a child.

Farmers are too lazy to plant sweet potatoes and don’t care. Hardworking farmers will cultivate sweet potatoes carefully to get higher yields.

...

At this moment, the Military Weapons Bureau came to report that the first musket had been built.

Zhao Yan quickly left the matter in the field and rushed to the Military Weapons Bureau. Zhou Tieming and a group of craftsmen who built firearms in the army were gathered together. When he saw Zhao Yan coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

Zhao Yan waved his hand and asked, "Has the musket been built?"

"Built." Zhou Tieming quickly asked someone to take up a musket that was more than one meter long.

Zhao Yan took the musket and looked at it carefully. The barrel of the musket was made of cooked iron rolls, and then drilled it with a drill bit driven by a turbine.

Muskets and guns are different, and the caliber of guns is larger. If they are called according to the standards of later generations, the guns widely used in the Ming Dynasty should be called hand cannons.

"Have you tested the test?" Zhao Yan looked over and over again, and asked Zhou Tieming again.

"After the test shot, it can hit more than 200 meters! I have never seen such a powerful musket." Zhou Tieming said happily. The rice he mentioned was the measurement standard used by the Military Weapon Bureau stipulated by Zhao Yan.

"More than two hundred meters?" Zhao Yan raised his eyebrows.

"Well, I just brought someone to fire more than ten shots!" Zhou Tieming nodded with certainty.

More than 200 meters? How is this possible! Isn’t the effective range only 120 meters? Look at this musket that is no different from what I made in my later generations!

"That's the longest range, right? Is it that far that can really hurt people?" Zhao Yan felt relieved. The longest range and the effective range are naturally different. It is estimated that Zhou Tieming tested the longest range.

"This has never been tested." Zhou Tieming said, scratching his head.

"Try it now and see how many meters can kill those without armor, how many meters can kill those who are pierced armor, how many meters can kill those who are pierced armor. There are also how many muskets can be continuously beaten to break, and how many guns can be shot intermittently to break. All these need to be measured." Zhao Yan said.

After hearing the order, Zhou Tieming hurriedly took people to test.

These days were always afraid of attracting the attention of the official army, so the army was pulled out of the mountain.

When Zhao Yan saw that the musket was made, he felt confident.

Although hand-to-hand combat is still the main method of killing in this era, long-range strikes cannot be ignored.

It can not only attack the opponent's long-range troops, but also make the opponent defeat directly!

Zhao Yan laughed in his heart, in this Ming Dynasty, which rich man is more unrestrained than him?

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I read a novel that I had been reading all night yesterday, so I updated it less than 2,000 words yesterday. There is still another chapter today!

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Chapter completed!