"Wedding horses and planting trees? This... what the principal said is the farming horses and farming?"

After listening to the Party’s patriotism task arrangement, Han Sui hesitated for a moment and asked carefully.

It would be nothing if it was just herding horses - there was always a practice in the north that local areas would pay horses instead of taxes, and farming would be difficult.

Although Xiliang is the famous granary in Gansu - the "Hexi Corridor", and it is very possible to develop oasis agriculture by relying on the ice and snow melting water of the Qilian Mountains, before General Huo Qubing fought twice and drove the Huns out, this place was always a water grassland where the Huns herd horses and sheep.

Although the Han people have controlled this area in the past three hundred years, there are few honest farmers who are willing to come here. The importance of this area is that it is the key to the throat of eastern China to the Western Regions. Foreign merchants who have been traveling for many years on the Silk Road, as well as Chinese merchants who intend to "export" or "import" certain commodities, will gather here.

Although it doesn't matter if these merchants go further, they will make more profits than letting the "second-domain dealers" take the initiative to "pull a single water", every 100 kilometers of journey, the transportation cost will rise in a U-shaped curve. Therefore, foreign merchants traveled eastward to Chang'an as far as the eastward—after the Eastern Han Dynasty moved the capital, they changed to the farthest to Luoyang, while Chinese merchants traveled westward at the farthest to the Pamir Mountains.

The Pamir is a place name in the Han Dynasty. It is the location of "Shan Hai Jing·The Great Wilderness West Classic". In the Tang Dynasty, this area was called "Pamir" and in modern times, it is called the Pamir Plateau. It is located in the southeast of Central Asia and is mostly Tajikistan's territory.

Therefore, Xiliang has flourished by import and export trade and service industry. At least half of the people basically do not know how to farm - especially those who are used to riding a horse and getting knives. Letting them farm well or not is a small matter, but if the harvest makes the gods in black dissatisfied with it, it will be a big matter.

"Of course you have to farm, but you don't need to farm - and I guess you guys who are used to fighting wars can at most be able to herd horses and sheep, right?"

Dang Aiguo answered Han Sui, who seemed a little too cautious in his answer in a joke. Then he continued to explain:

"In terms of farming, I will recruit people without land or less land from the Central Plains to Xiliang after General Zhongying cleared all the restless alien tribes around this nearby. There are some specialties in farming in Xiliang, so I will send some officials to guide the people to use new farming methods to farm - the same is true for you, you herd horses and sheep. I will talk to you later on."

For farming, the Party and patriotism certainly do not expect these locals, nor do they expect the people of the Central Plains to come and reclaim this "virgin land".

Just look at the Jiangnan area, the Hexi Corridor, the Hetao Plain and the Northeast Plain, the excellent farmlands located in "wild lands" were developed until when, and we know that those guys in China who can only see such a small territory in front of us would rather fight each other to eliminate their opponents for resources than take the risk of reclaiming new land.

Although this is not incomprehensible, after all, before it was developed, no one knew that this place was actually excellent arable land. But no matter what, the pioneering and enterprising spirit of the farming nation has become a conclusion in history.

However, since the Party has traveled through patriotism, he will definitely develop these rare and good places in the north. And he also wants to accept the vast territory further south of the Yangtze River - the entire Southeast Asia.

Although according to "historical", he should now start preparing to develop the Jiangnan area, after all, it has the reputation of "huguang is familiar and the world is full". To be honest, developing Jiangnan has no use except that it can make the population conflict less intense than making it less intense.

Therefore, the Party Patriotic intends to give Jiangnan and even the entire Southeast Asia to his students - or to the aristocratic families represented by his students. He first needs to develop the Hexi Corridor, then recapture the Hetao Plain, and then perhaps control the Western Regions, the Middle East and Asia Minor all the way west.

Indigenous civilizations that are too far south or too north are developing too slowly. If those aristocratic families cannot even rectify those backward indigenous people, it is better to find a belt to hang it on your own. The party’s patriotic development of the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao Plain is to use them as two major bases to control the northwest and the north. In addition, these two places are also very close to the Luoyang area and are territories that his hands can obtain.

Of course, his greatest ideal is to turn the whole world into China's land. At least the territory that has not developed very well in civilizations such as Asia, America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, etc. must be taken into account, so that Westerners can stay in Europe honestly. I hope that within 1,000 years after his death, future generations can achieve this ambition, and even Antarctica will not let it go.

The development plan in the Party’s patriotism mind naturally does not need to be shared with everyone, so he just emphasized to Han Sui seriously: "In addition to herding horses, you also need to plant trees. It is not farming but planting trees."

"Plant, plant trees?"

Now it’s not only Han Sui, but everyone is confused. Planting trees on this grassland and Gobi desert? Isn’t it because the gods are afraid that the newly moved people will not burn enough firewood? People do not need firewood in this place. Not only ordinary herdsmen pick up cattle and sheep manure and dried it for firewood, but even the nobles of foreign tribes are the same. Only some Han powerful families and powerful people will use firewood or charcoal to make fire.

"It's just planting trees! And not only planting trees in Xiliang, but after I take the Western Regions into my hands in the future, I will plant trees throughout the Western Regions."

Dang Paiguo nodded with certainty, and then briefly explained the benefits of planting trees to them:

"Why are there many deserts here in the Western Regions? It is mainly because it is located in the center of the land and lacks water vapor sources. In this way, it will be particularly drought-free and rainy in summer, and only a few drought-tolerant plants can survive. The fewer plants that survive, the less water vapor sources will be lacking, so the desert will continue to expand.

When a large number of trees are planted, the trees absorb the water from the ground and steam out every day. There is more water vapor rising to the sky, and more rainfalls. With more rainfall, more plants can survive. Then there is more water vapor and more rainfall. Although the environment here determines that no matter how you plant trees, it will not be possible to have particularly dense tropical rainforests, but it can gradually reduce the desert."

Although planting trees also has various functions such as preventing wind and sand, maintaining water and soil, and improving soil, the Party Patriotic Republic of China did not explain it in detail to them. However, even so, almost everyone present was straightened and their eyes were confused.

These second-rate and third-rate generals with intelligence value of over 70 cannot be compared with those famous generals recruited by the Party and Patriotic National University. Although the generals and students of the Party and Patriotic National University are not very interested in this knowledge, they at least do not understand them at all. There are not many professional terms in what the Party and Patriotic National says, and whether they can understand them is a question of understanding.

"Zhuo Zhisun Li Ru once said in his letter that the principal taught the astronomy, geography, and arithmetics of the astronomy, geography, and mechanisms, are all profound and profound, and they must spend their entire life studying. Even if they only get one or two out of a hundred, they can be used as a family-borne learning. I can only know it after hearing it today."

After a while, Dong Zhuo was the first to react and flatter the Party Patriotic. Although he said it very well, it was actually hard to know whether he understood the Party Patriotic explanation just now. In the eyes of Party Patriotic, who has been teaching experience for half a year, Dong Zhuo's eyes were not clear at all, and he just pretended to understand.

"I have also heard that gods and immortals have Feng Shui techniques, which can control the five elements to generate and restrain, change the weather, disrupt yin and yang, and reverse the numerology. Now I hear this, I have to be amazed."

Immediately after Dong Zhuo, Han Sui also reacted and flattered him - but he slapped the horse's legs.

After hearing Han Sui's words, Dang Aiguo immediately turned into a embarrassed face. He just talked about the correct natural science, but Han Sui thought it was Feng Shui to understand it. Although Feng Shui does hide some correct natural laws, it would be a big mistake to just treat it as a magic spell "outside human power".

Compared to Dong Zhuo who didn't know how to understand and other military generals who didn't understand at all, Han Sui, a famous Western Liang scholar, used the wrong knowledge he learned in the past to make random tricks, but he basically understood what was going on.

Although Dang Paiguo was not satisfied with the understanding of the generals present, he did not explain any more and reluctantly nodded and said:

"Although Wenyou's understanding is wrong, that's probably the case. I'll just emphasize one thing, you all listened to it:

Whoever cuts down my tree, I will cut down whose head.”

This is a famous saying by Feng Yuxiang, a famous patriotic general. The Party and the country borrowed it directly at this time. It is said that General Feng Yuxiang led his troops, whether in marching or training, required officers and soldiers to take care of trees, and plant trees when the army was stationed. When he was stationed in Xuzhou, he wrote a forest protection poem to show the public: Old Feng was stationed in Xuzhou, and the big trees were green. Whoever cuts down my tree, I will cut down whose head.

After Dang Aiguo emphasized, he stared at everyone with a stern look, and made sure that they had all taken this sentence to heart. Then he calmed down and added:

"Actually, the woods can be cut down, but I have to plant more than I have.

In addition, in order to prevent the desert from expanding, protecting grasslands is even more important than planting trees - after all, the most plants on the grasslands are grass.
Chapter completed!