In the suburbs of Jizhou, Xindu, next to a walled house-style military farm settlement, Li Li stood by the fish pond and listened to the residents' experience of raising fish.

"In winter, the water surface of the fish pond here will freeze and be very cold, so the water depth must be at least 1,300 feet or 4 feet before the fish can spend the winter safely at the bottom of the water."

A middle-aged man with a lack of half of his left ear explained to Li Li how to survive the winter with turtles in the pond.

"And, you have to break the ice every now and then, and open a few holes, otherwise the water surface will freeze and the fish will die if they are stuffed in the water for a long time."

"When the weather is good, especially when the sun comes out, the fish sometimes float up and throw some forage. They will eat some, but they can't throw too much. If the fish eat too much, it will easily lead to accidents."

Li Li listened carefully for a while and from the various details of ensuring that the pond fish survived the winter, he heard that the veteran was really attentive to raising fish.

The veteran was named Ma Le. During the Chu State's battle to attack Hebei, Ma Le was missing his left ear and made military achievements. He divided the territory in Hebei, so he turned into a military force and took charge of the settlement.

Just like the original Xuzhou military farmland settlement, there are also fish ponds next to the "wedding houses" here, where horned fish are raised.

The threshold for raising turtles is low, the cost is relatively low (the turtles eat grass), and the feed is easy to obtain.

Moreover, carp, crucian carp and thornfish are also raised in the fish pond.

Fish pond confinement technology is very common in later generations, and now it has been gradually promoted. Especially in the turtle pond, as long as an appropriate amount of carp, crucian carp and turtlefish are added, it can form a complete "water ecological chain".

Ma Le introduced: "The main fish in the fish pond is turtlefish. Just feed the forage. The excrement of turtlefish is disposable from carp, carp, carp's excrement, and crucian carp."

"And fish are like sweeping people, which can ensure the clean water quality of the fish pond."

"In this way, this kind of condom-raising fish pond only needs to be fed on weekdays, and the breeding cost is low. Because there are ditches that irrigate farmland nearby, the fish pond can have live water and fish can be well maintained."

Of course Li Li understood the truth, and was the "inventor" of this theory. Ma Le didn't know, so Li Li didn't say it out loud and listened carefully to the introduction.

"There are several fish ponds next to each walled house. The main purpose is to act as a barrier to prevent people from easily approaching the walled house. On weekdays, it is also used as a reservoir. When there is a drought, it can be rescued."

"So, raising fish is a bystander. Although sheep and sheep also need to prepare for fodder, raising fish is more convenient than raising sheep."

When Li Li heard this, he asked knowingly: "Where is the fish fry? How to solve it?"

"Your Majesty, the fish fry was bought from Yecheng. Because we have many garages and houses, we are raising fish, so the trading company regularly transports a large number of fish fry, just order in advance."

Li Li asked again: "Although you can take water from Yecheng to transport fish fry here, land transportation is indispensable. When transporting fish fry, there will always be losses. What is the price?"

"Your Majesty, the price of fish fry in the past two years is okay, but it is slightly higher than that in Henan."

Of course, Li Li knew the price of fish fry. He asked this to confirm.

In this era, it is impossible to breed squids manually, so they can only rely on fishing fry and small fish in the wild, and then put them in the pond for breeding. Therefore, the fry produced in the south is in Fengcheng, a middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

But, he can do it.

The military farms and settlements in various parts of Hebei use ponds as defense facilities and reservoirs, and fish are raised at the same time to ensure the supply of residents' meat, even if it is fish rather than mutton.

Raising sheep requires a large amount of pasture, and raising fish requires a fish pond. For military settlements that combine military and civilians, fish ponds can still be used as an effective obstacle in wartime. Protecting the safety of fortresses is much better than grasslands.

Therefore, Li Li set up the "fish fry hatching base" on the west side of Yecheng, the former imperial garden - Hualin Garden, to ensure that there is sufficient supply of fish fry in various parts of Hebei.

Most of the soldiers of the garrison settled in Hebei are from southern China, and eating fish is more in line with living habits. Of course, mutton is not something that cannot be eaten.

"Are you still used to eating mutton?" Li Li asked, and Ma Le and several neighbors laughed: "The mutton is so scented and can't be used to eating it. You have to use more seasonings. If you have that skill, you might as well cook fish."

Li Li asked again: "You have to use ginger to remove the fishy fish when cooking fish. Is it easy to get ginger here?"

"Convenient and convenient, the settlements divide the work and cooperate to plant economic crops, complement each other, such as ginger, which is sufficiently supplied and very convenient to get it."

Li Li looked around, looked at the endless plain, and asked again: "Do you miss home?"

"It's fake to say I don't want to." Ma Le smiled and showed his rotten teeth: "But here, we all have fields, our own fields. A few families of people live a good life, so we don't miss Wuxing so much."

The military settlement of the garrison is a military-civilian stronghold. Here, the backbone residents are meritorious soldiers, more than half of them are from Wuxing, Jiangnan. One next to them adds:

"Your Majesty, we have mailed to our hometown. The postal officers come to receive and deliver letters regularly. We communicate with Wuxing, and it is very convenient for more than two months."

"Every hometown knows what we are here, and in a while, many young people are going to come."

Li Li was curious: "Come here? Sanwu is opening up a large scale. They are not digging for land nearby in their hometowns. Come to Hebei?"

The man replied: "Marrying in my hometown, the betrothal gifts are now rising. After all, the land is being opened and farmed everywhere. Young people are waiting for marriage, and women are not worried about marriage..."

As he spoke, he smiled awkwardly: "It's different here. The military and civilians who farmed were well-off. Those local people were willing to marry their daughters and betrothal gifts were easy to say..."

So that's it. Li Li nodded, and he returned to the court, passed by Jizhou, and visited the local area to understand the people's conditions.

We not only understand the situation with the local people, but also hold discussions with the military and civilians in the military farming industry.

After the Chu State took over Hebei, it distributed land to the soldiers who made meritorious people. Among them, Jizhou is located in the geographical center and its location is very important, and a large number of soldiers and southern people settled here.

Li Li wanted to turn Jizhou into Hebei's "little Jiangnan", so that the military and civilians who settled on a large scale here became powerful assistants to the government's control of the local government.

The garage station system is the local public security maintenance system. Each garage station settlement is the foundation of the public security system, which is the "observation post" and the "police station".

If necessary, the settlement of large and small walled garrisons in Jizhou and neighboring areas is a large fortress group that provides strong support for the military operations of local garrisons.

Once a war breaks out somewhere in Hebei, the garrison in Jizhou can rely on this fortress group to deal with it calmly.

The location of Jizhou is very important, so Li Li appointed Liang Sen's younger brother Liang Miao as the governor of Jizhou and led his army to garrison the central part of Hebei.

Echoing Li Xin, who was stationed in Li Yang, staring at the Hebei region.

Li Li was very satisfied with the current situation of the military farm during this on-site inspection. Two years have passed, and these fortresses that have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain have replaced those local snakes who have been violently eradicated and assisted the government in maintaining grassroots order.

On the other side of the enclosed house, the gravel field had already been set up, and the governor of Jizhou, Liang Miao, who was accompanying the inspection, led Li Li to his seat.

The residents of the settlement, as well as several princes, and accompanying officials also took the seats one after another.

"I taught the Turks a few days ago a lesson in the west. They dared not come to harass Youzhou again. In the next few years, Hebei will be considered peaceful."

After saying that, Li Li raised his glass and looked at the people present: "When the Central Plains is unified, the world is really peaceful. I will come here again and have a drink with everyone!!"

Everyone raised their glasses, then "suffered" them. Li Li put down the wine glass and looked at the plate of fried squid in front of him, and was surprised: "Dried squid? Is there seafood here?"

Then he looked at Liang Miao: "Eunuch Liang, although this meal was paid by the state government, we can't bring the seafood for my show, right?"

Liang Miao quickly replied: "Your Majesty, now there are many merchants selling seafood in Xindu City, squid and dried oysters, which are not rare things."

"There are also overseas incense medicines for sale in the city. Although the price is relatively expensive, it can be bought in the end."

Other residents also nodded and said, "Your Majesty, now the letter not only communicates with the Southern Taiwan, but also has a large amount of seafood work brought by caravans. Although it is not cheap, it is okay to try it out."

"I heard that the sea ships from the south traveled north by the wind, went straight to the mouth of the Yellow River, unloaded goods nearby, and transported many overseas rare things to Hebei."

"There are many merchants who take a boat south at the mouth of the Yellow River and go to Jiangnan to do business. As long as the wind is good, it will only take more than ten days to arrive, which is much faster than taking the land."

Li Li suddenly realized: "Wow, I forgot, the sea trade is getting lively now..."

His mind was full of grassland and forgot about the sea.

Paying attention to the grassland and the Western Regions is the strategy of the traditional Central Plains dynasty, but as a "modern person", Li Li understood that the direction of the sea also had a bright future.

Not to mention the Age of Discovery, just to solve the Liaodong problem, to kill the "little domineering" Goguryeo, bypass Liaodong, and directly cross-sea expeditions to its capital, the tactics of rushing toward the capital will be effective and fatal.

But you can't be anxious. Li Li believes that each generation has what they should do. Being half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and being one step ahead is a madman.

While eating and chatting, Li Li talked about the grassland again: "The court is preparing to expand the scale of the border market. At that time, the fur goods from the north will go south in large quantities."

"There will be more and more minks, deer skin, or even tiger skin. The price of sheepskin coats will continue to fall. Everyone should keep calm and don't spend money in vain."

Now, the residents were inspired: "Your Majesty, will the tribes on the grassland do business honestly?"

"No, for them, it is the most cost-effective to grab it directly, after all, it is a business without a lot."

After Li Li finished speaking, he smiled: "But they can't rob it, so they can only exchange it for honestly."

"It's hard to live on the grassland, and everything is short. Therefore, there is no need to worry about selling goods in the Central Plains. The valuable things that the tribes can take out are except fur goods."

"The grassland is a big ranch, of course there are many horses. It is good to have two horses in battle between the official cavalry and the Turkic cavalry. It is better to be able to have two horses on one person, but the opponent can do three horses on one person, and run very quickly."

"So, it is very cost-effective to change horses from them, and to change horses or mares."

Speaking of horses, Li Li became more and more excited: "When the overall situation is decided, Jizhou will also hold a Jockey Club!"

"Make Jizhou lively and let your descendants live a safe and good life!"

If someone else said this, perhaps the residents present would think it was "empty", but no one questioned Li Li's words.

Because they all saw that the situation was changing, and the emperor, who had fought for more than 20 years, was unifying the world.

When the world is unified and the chaotic times end in nearly three hundred years, there will be no more wars in the Central Plains. At that time, good days will really come.
Chapter completed!