Chapter 536 Ranch
Xu Zi nodded and smiled first, not wanting to go into this kind of problem. After all, this kind of thing can be derived from the wisdom and experience of the Chinese people. The result mainly depends on what you want. For example, when someone gives birth to seven or eight sons and wants a daughter, many people can infer from the details, such as whether it can eat sour or spicy food, or the shape of the belly. Of course, there is always half- and half chance of giving birth. If it is accurate, this experience will be highly praised. In fact, 50% of the possibility can be met several times no matter how you guess.
Such things can be controlled in later generations, and at this time it depends entirely on God's will.
Xu Zixian didn't take Wang Xinyuan's words too seriously, but just thought it was the good news for the Chinese New Year. He just smiled slightly and rushed towards the Huaxi under the crowd of many armored soldiers.
Along the way, Xu Zixian deliberately detoured the hilly area and saw that there were many people picking tea near the Tea Mountain. Originally, these hilly areas were covered with shrubs, and even the weeds grew taller than people. After the land was reclaimed, they would also have to burn the weeds and shrubs to remove them, then fertilize them and plant tea trees. At this time, it was the season when it was finally harvested.
Moreover, more hilly areas have been developed into tea mountains. These places have been burned out earlier and are quite easy to reclaim. As long as there are sufficient agricultural tools and human resources, it is a matter of time to open tea mountains with a scale of hundreds of thousands of acres or millions of acres.
The horse team rushed past, and all the people who heard the movement stood up to watch. When they saw the Qin King's flag, many people were quite surprised. Many people immediately smiled. Most of them bowed and waved to the horse team to say hello. The women couldn't help but cheer. Everyone looked respectful and loving on their faces, and their smiles were all from the heart. Everyone was introduced from refugees and poor people to the East Vanguard. Before that, they had few food and clothing and were humiliated and bullied by clerks. Life was quite unsatisfactory. Many people were shaken in their teeth and had white hair in their thirties. This was because of insufficient salt intake and general lack of nutrition. Coupled with the heavy pressure of life, they aging before they were old. Many people were almost old in their forties, and the average life expectancy of the poor class should be less than forty.
Many children die early, and the youthful and middle-aged days of men and women pass by, and most of them live less than fifty years.
The hunger and cold are not mentioned, and they can only survive if they are sick. They have no money to cure the disease. They watch the children cry and die in their arms. The Wei Dynasty had a period of wealth and the daily life of the people was very passed. In the past 30 years, the imperial court's aggregation and exploitation of the people has reached its limit. Even so, the imperial court's finances are still close to bankruptcy.
Most of the people who moved here were extremely poor. Xu Zixian knew all the miserable situations, and Xu Zixian didn't know who to blame, but the people in front of him changed their destiny because of him. The love and loyalty of everyone for him was obviously from sincerity. Many people kept saying hello on the side of the Tao, muttering words.
When we arrived at Huaxi Villa, many people were waiting outside the villa.
As the navy gradually became stronger, the threat might be cleared hundreds of nautical miles away. Dongfan only retained a large area of military camps, and these barracks would be filled after the next round of enlistment. All the army armies have been moved away, and the cavalry have been killed.
We also went to Fujian Road for daily garrisoning and training. The ranch was still there, just northeast of the upper reaches of Huaxi. The horse herd was continuing to expand, but it would take at least ten years for those Tianfang horses to expand to satisfy the cavalry of tens of thousands of people, or even more than ten years.
If you no longer continue to buy war horses and expand the grazing land, it is impossible to grow the horse herd to a certain base even after ten years of hard work.
Looking at the ranch in the Dongfan in front of him, Xu Zixian had made up his mind to acquire the Hokkien horse farmland in Japan. The land of more than 100,000 square kilometers is much colder than the Dongfan climate, but the place is large. If forests and mountains are removed, there will be at least a plain area larger than the Dongfan area. There are more than 100,000 people living there. Japan has only built a city and sent a flag book to it. It would be a pity not to take advantage of such an opportunity to take it down.
Taking down the Hokkien land, moving the current war horses to the Hokkien land, opening up a large horse farm of over 10,000 square kilometers, and then buying Tianfang horses and the best Hetang horses one after another. It is estimated that the horse herd will reach a scale of 30,000 to 40,000 within five years, but the war horses will grow, train, and then deliver cavalry. The five-year period is calculated as less. It is expected that in ten years, the horse herd will reach a scale of 200,000 horses. At that time, a strong cavalry team with a scale of more than 100,000 people will be formed, and this goal can be almost completed.
Xu Zixian also sighed a little. It was too difficult for farming and people to raise horses. The horses in the Han Dynasty were easy because they controlled the Hetao area. These places were now all the territory of the Beilu. By the Tang Dynasty, they also controlled the Shuofang, Longyou, not only Hetao area, but also the Protectorate Offices such as Beiting and Anxi were built in nomadic areas. The Tang army not only had its own large-scale horse farm, but also had hundreds of thousands or millions of affiliated tribes. Whether it was the naturalized Turks, Tiel people, Tuyuhun, or Uighurs, they were all used by the Tang army, and of course, the war horses of their tribes were continuously provided for the Tang army to use.
For countries formed by farming nations, war horses are actually related to life and death. The rulers of the Great Wei Dynasty ignored this point. It may be caused by the mentality of facing strong neighbors from all directions since its founding, lack of enterprising spirit, and only willing to defend themselves as a defensive mentality.
The ranch was originally directly responsible for Li Yi, Kong He and others, which also demonstrated the importance that Nan'an Hou Mansion attached to the Hermitage Supervisory at that time. Even now, it was still handed over to several very mature and polite officials, and at the same time, some capable officials were selected as assistants.
In addition, the First Cavalry Battalion, which is now the First Cavalry Army, has a large number of left-behind personnel, responsible for receiving war horses and transporting newly arrived war horses to the herdsmen.
Many people among the natives were recruited, and they were responsible for taking action, grazing, washing, and guarding the periphery of the ranch.
When Xu Zixian and others passed by, many people on the outside of the ranch were cheering, including indigenous people with no hair tattoos. After more than a year, the originally unruly natives had already gone down the mountain in large numbers, farming tenants, chasing drivers, small workers who started various technical projects, and indigenous people who worked in ranches, shipyards, and iron farms.
Especially in the central area, more than a thousand indigenous people have been absorbed in the iron farm of mines. These indigenous people do not know how to farm and hunt, but it is actually difficult to eat and spend money. The life of slash-and-burn farming is guaranteed.
No, after finding work here among the Han people, these indigenous people and their families could at least ensure full food and clothing. This is a very significant change. Perhaps more than ten or twenty years later, after all the indigenous elderly people passed away, the indigenous people of the mountains may speak fluent Chinese. In addition to their clothes and hair accessories and dark skin, they will not be much different from the Wei people.
Below the villa, there were left-behind personnel from the First Army Army. These were elite soldiers and generals specially selected by Qin Dongyang. There was a battalion of people. Cooperating with the peripheral guards and defense facilities, even if more than 10,000 natives attacked, the safety of the villa can be guaranteed.
The defense facilities and security forces are sufficient, and everything is to ensure the safety of the two princesses.
There is a simple port at the estuary downstream of Huaxi. A warship is parked in shifts at any time. It is less than ten miles away from the other courtyard. There is really any warning message. People in the other courtyard can board the boat and leave in the shortest time.
When Xu Zixian arrived, the soldiers and officials who were left behind had already heard that Xun was waiting outside the villa. Everyone was very sensible and left one after another after seeing the ceremony.
Lin Shaozong led all the security personnel to take precautions one after another. Only Xu Zi walked into the gate first, bypassed the screen wall carved with exquisite patterns, walked past the threshold of the second door, and walked into the wet corridor paved with blue bricks.
Chen Wenjun and Xiuniang were both tall and straight, standing in front of the hall with a smile, while the little girl was standing on the side of the eaves, her eyes slightly red, looking at everything in front of her.
Xu Zixian felt his eyes sore that he almost couldn't control his emotions.
"Brother is back." The younger sister stepped forward at the right time and said, "Do you have to stay for a while this time, or leave in a few days?"
"Stay for a while." Xu Zixian calmed down his emotions. He almost lost his composure just now. But he would not feel embarrassed. The three women in front of him were his wife and the other was his closest sister who was connected with blood. It would be nothing even if they were disobeying their composure.
The little girl showed a look of confusion on her face, but Chen Wenjun and Xiuniang both showed a look of surprise on her face.
"There is no change, everything is normal on Fujian Road and Dongfan." Xu Zi first walked into the hall, drank the drink that Xiuniang brought to him personally, and said to her younger sister: "There will be a big change in the north. The matter of asking me to reduce taxes caused an uproar. Someone in Fuzhou City will definitely jump out. It's okay to ask them to quarrel for a while and vent their resentment. I am in the city of the city, so people dare not speak out. It's okay to call them twice, so as not to hold back their breath and get poison. It's not good to put it into practice. In addition, I also hid the imperial envoys from the court. Now a few days later, the imperial envoys from the court came to Fuzhou, urging me to cooperate with the Transport Authority to quickly urge the collection and payment of the arrears of taxes and also impose spring taxes... If I collect taxes based on my previous share, it would be like I would send my face to the countryside. Now I can only hide in the Dongfan. Without me, the envoys from the court would not find the boat to the Dongfan, and ask them to trouble Li Gong and Lin Douyao in Fuzhou. If not, Kong Xuanping could also go up and push it..."
Chapter completed!