Chapter 506: Ready to Start (Part 2)
Of course, the reason why He Modu's tribe can reach this point is because of the current situation of the Han Dynasty. First of all, the number of sheep in the Han Dynasty has exceeded 10 million, and about one-third of them belongs to state-owned farms.
The reason why the flocks did not continue to increase is because the state is artificially controlling the number of flocks, and the same is true for the people. Although the flocks of the people are increasing, the people will not allow the flocks to increase at will.
When the flock reaches a certain number, the people will slaughter the flock every year for consumption. Secondly, most of the people in the Han Dynasty will raise pigs, chickens, ducks, fish and other livestock and poultry, and there is even more shortage of all meat.
When there is no shortage of meat, there is naturally no shortage of oil. So now these meats, oils, etc. have begun to be stable and stable supply to various cities and construction sites in Dahan.
Therefore, the meat consumed by the big man is still very much, and there is also grain. The big man's grain is still mainly wheat, with a planting area of about 7.8 million to 8 million mu. There is no big change in maintaining this number.
The reason for maintaining this number is that at present, the Han Dynasty no longer lacks food. After the Tang Dynasty survived the previous food disaster, although the annual grain import volume has not decreased, it is actually because many of the land in the Tang Dynasty have been replaced by cotton and other economic crops.
Otherwise, the import of grain from the Tang Dynasty would actually decrease. However, part of the reason is that the population of the Tang Dynasty was also increasing. At the same time, the agricultural tax in the Tang Dynasty also underwent considerable reforms. Therefore, after the people were not sure that there was less food, the people's food consumption also increased.
Because people are like this, when your stomach is not full, you will mix wheat bran and so on directly into the flour to eat it. However, when the price of wheat is very low and you have enough food to eat, then you will start to pursue eating white flour.
Things like bran can be ground separately and fed directly to poultry and livestock. Not only the Han Dynasty, but the number of poultry and livestock breeding in the Tang Dynasty is also increasing. However, the Tang Dynasty does not have the official unified statistics and unified professors of the Han Dynasty, so this speed is not as fast as the Han Dynasty.
However, although the wheat planting area of Dahan did not increase, it does not mean that other things in Dahan did not increase. For example, soybeans, that is, soybeans in later generations are of course called soybeans in some places, and Dahan also called soybeans.
The planting area of soybeans has expanded to about 800,000 mu. Not only soybeans, but also the planting area of potatoes has reached nearly one million mu. The reason why potatoes are not planted on a large scale is that the yield of potatoes is completely sufficient, and most of the potatoes are grown by ordinary people at their own homes and can be eaten in winter.
The large-scale planting is almost sold to cities as a whole. Of course, Han Grain Trading Company also reserves potatoes, mainly selling them to people living in cities for consumption in winter.
Soybeans are mainly used to squeeze oil, and animal oil is not very popular, while soybeans are much simpler, and soybeans can be used for breeding.
In addition, rice has been introduced to the Dahan, but because rice requires a large amount of water source and the Spirit of Yumen, although a complete water system has been formed in the Tarim River and Huoci River basins, the water flow is mainly rainfall and the Jiangnan area of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the rice planting area is about 200,000 to 300,000 mu, mainly targeting high-end people.
In addition to the official collective planting, all kinds of spices have become popular among the people. Anyway, people grow and eat at their own homes, and of course they will buy some. The official is growing and selling them on a large scale.
The gold from Persia, the two countries in the West, and many countries in the West, continued to flow into the Han Dynasty through these spices, silk, wool cloth and other cloths.
The amount of gold inflows in recent years alone is enough for Dahan's currency to be issued again to hundreds of millions of yuan.
However, the issuance of currencies is regular, and Huo Gang does not need to pay attention to it at present.
With so much land occupation, Huo Gang has added three places for the spiritual spring water that can be integrated into the river. In other words, Huo Gang can now turn the three rivers into rivers that can be integrated into the spiritual spring water.
At present, Huo Gang is kept for these three rivers. First of all, the river he is preparing to integrate into is the Ganges basin in later generations. Although the Indus River is not short, Huo Gang is not ready to integrate into the Lingquan water.
Because there are not many places for Lingquan Water, Huo Gang must consider all areas of the entire Han Dynasty in the future. Lingquan Water cannot be concentrated in one place, because this will easily lead to population concentration.
Moreover, although the Tarim Basin is safe enough to be used as a rear, it is not very convenient if it is expanded to the outside world, so Huo Gang, the Indian Peninsula, must be taken down.
In addition, he also planned to give a quota to the east side of the Ural Mountains, which later called the Ob River and Huo Gang the Beiyang River.
Another reason for choosing this is that Huo Gang has undergone experiments. For example, seeds improved by Lingquan water can be retained. However, if Lingquan water is not watered and just watered by ordinary water sources, about 70% of the yield can be retained.
Of course, the fertility of the land must also keep up, and it cannot be ordinary barren land.
However, these are not important. Fertilizers can be increased in the later stage, but the improvement of genetic yield of grain is the most important.
Moreover, this gene can be passed on, which is the most critical point. Therefore, if these rivers are distributed in different directions, it means that the range of influence these rivers can be too large.
At least food is the most critical thing in this era.
As for the remaining river quota, Huo Gang may be placed on the land of Europe in the future. Anyway, in his lifetime, because of the powerful weapon like a train, Huo Gang will definitely take the army to Europe! At that time, Europe will be its own back garden. There are so many languages in such a big place. First, destroy the entire European language.
In addition, the Arabian Peninsula and others naturally have to take it down, but in Africa... Huo Gang hesitated a little. That place... is a huge pit, and it's okay to have it or not. Anyway, the black uncles there... forget it, let them develop themselves.
Anyway, after Huo Gang unified the language of all the mainstream civilizations in the world, the last language of the remaining incompetent civilizations would definitely not be changed. They could only use this language and civilization. Huo Gang was very sure of this.
It is precisely because the great man has such a rich foundation that the great man is only supporting more than 700,000 Turkic people, so it doesn’t matter.
"Do you think they may succeed?" Huo Gang thought about it and asked. To be honest... Huo Gang had no idea whether He Moduo's tribe could succeed. The main reason is that the number of people between the two sides is a bit large... The population of the entire He Moduo's tribe is 750,000, but the current population of the entire Jieji Dynasty is about 15 million.
That's right, there are more than 10 million people!
"We analyzed and calculated with the strategic department of the military headquarters, and we felt that the possibility of success was about 60%. "Mingyue said seriously, "Although the population gap between the two sides is huge, the total population of Hemodu's troops is more than 750,000, and less than half of them are only 300,000. Putting aside the elderly and children, according to Turkic men aged 15 to 40, it is about 220,000."
The reason why this population ratio is 220,000 is because the Turks themselves are over 45 years old... the proportion is really low, not many. This is not later generations. In this era, even the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty was not high, let alone the Turks.
"Almost all 220,000 people can be regarded as troops, while the elite troops of the Jiji Dynasty were less than 200,000, while the servant troops were about 500,000, and their troops exceeded 700,000, but the combat power of these 700,000 is hard to describe."
"The main reason is that their servants are more like slave troops in the slave era, and they use almost no weapons. Their elite troops are also very low."
"The most important thing is that I investigated the combat effectiveness of their elite troops... It's okay to win a battle... If you defeat a battle, it's better to say who can run faster than who can run!"
"If He Modu and the others implement some strategy, it is very easy to drive them away."
"However, if we are willing to provide He Modu and the others with weapons and equipment, their chances of success can reach 80% or even 90%." Mingyue said seriously.
Huo Gang's expression was a bit strange. Although he knew that the Indian Peninsula in later generations had actually been occupied by the Turks driven away by the Tang Dynasty, this combat power was too weak, right? More than 10 million people...
"Of course we provide them with weapons and armor. Aren't these strategies we have formulated long ago? How much armor has been prepared for them?" Huo Gang said directly.
"One hundred thousand sets, the weapons are also matched, but the war horses we provided for them were only about 30,000, which had been transported to the near Putuo River. We can also provide some other large siege equipment directly, and we have also developed some special weapons for the elephant soldiers of the Jieji Dynasty, etc.." Mingyue said directly.
Chapter completed!