Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1607, Great Animal Husbandry in Central Asia
Daming Central Asia Province is a very large province established on the territory of the original Kazakh Khanate. To the south is Hezhong Province, and to the north is the vast Northwest Province (a province established on the territory of the Far Siberia Khanate).

To the east is the Western Regions Province, to the west is the Kazan Khanate, and to the South Cloud Province across the Caspian Sea.

Geographic location can be said to be very important, and it is the ultimate road to Europe on the land of the Ming Empire.

When the Kazakh Khanate took advantage of the war between the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire, they made small moves behind their backs. Unexpectedly, the Ottoman Empire suffered a crushing defeat and signed the Erzincan City Agreement that humiliated the country.

After the Ming Empire mobilized an army from the mainland, it began to sweep the Kazakh Khanate. Wherever it passed, blood flowed into rivers of Yuzi, big and small, and corpses littered the fields.

Large and small Kazakh tribes had to migrate westward with their families, and a large number of them migrated into the Kazan Khanate, and now they have become the vanguard of the Kazan Khanate to plunder the Principality of Moscow.

As for the vast grassland left behind, it was logical for the Ming Empire to set up a new province, Central Asia Province.

Since then, the Ming Empire has migrated a large number of people from Guannei to Central Asia every year, and established immigrant towns similar to those in the Hezhong area to develop agriculture and animal husbandry.

Up to now, the development of Central Asia Province is also extremely rapid, and the output of grain and livestock is growing rapidly, and there is even a tendency to surpass Hezhong Province faintly.

Especially in terms of animal husbandry, thanks to the unique natural environment here, a large number of high-quality grasslands, coupled with the importance that the Ming Empire attached to this place, it vigorously supported the development of Central Asia Province.

Therefore, the animal husbandry industry in Central Asia has already become the strongest animal husbandry industry in Ming Dynasty, and its scale even exceeds the traditional northern grassland province and Western Region province.

One of the biggest features is that the herdsmen in Central Asia are all Han Chinese.

The Han people are good at farming, and they are also good at raising livestock and grazing, and they are different from the nomadic way of the nomad tribes. The Han herdsmen are more likely to establish large pastures and establish a fixed pasture economic model.

At this very moment, Zhu Houzhao was riding his sweaty BMW on the grasslands of Central Asia Province.

The grasslands of Central Asia Province, especially the Dayuzi Grassland in Western Regions Province, because the water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean is blocked and uplifted by the Tianshan Mountains, a large amount of precipitation is formed.

The water tanks here are beautiful and the scenery is charming, especially at this moment in midsummer. The flowers everywhere, the blue sky and white clouds, and the endless grassland make people feel refreshed and amazed and admired.

"gorgeous!"

"My Ming Dynasty's great rivers and mountains, this should be taken for a walk and have a look, concubines, I will take you out every year for a walk, okay?"

Zhu Houzhao is a big pig's hoof, and while looking at the scenery, he didn't forget to pour honey to his concubines who came to the Western Regions.

Beside him, more than a dozen beauties from various tribes in the Western Regions followed closely on horseback.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, everyone was very happy. When they laughed, they were like the most beautiful flowers on the grassland. When they gathered together, the beautiful scenery on the grassland seemed to be overshadowed.

Walking, walking, Zhu Houzhao and his party came to a pasture here.

This pasture is located beside a river and has a large number of wooden sheds. At the same time, you can also see a large number of cattle and sheep grazing in the pastures separated by fences.

Looking at the distance, you can see large fields, but only a small part of these fields are for planting food, and all the others are for planting pasture.

Some people are constantly harvesting pastures, and then transporting them back with four-wheeled carriages, while on the ranch, some people are using steam-driven machines to chop up the pastures, and then transport the pastures to feed cattle and sheep.

"Hi~"

Zhu Houzhao was acquainted, and he waved his hands excitedly and shouted before reaching the pasture.

Lai Ermao, who was busy, heard the sound and hurriedly looked over.

Lai Ermao was originally from the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi. In order to protect the Loess Plateau, the imperial court almost moved out the people from the Loess Plateau.

Lai Ermao is also a member of the vast immigrant army. He migrated here from the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi. From a farmer to a rancher, a large area of ​​grassland around him belongs to Lai Ermao's family.

The ranch in front of him was also built by him in the past few years.

Lai Ermao came outside, and Zhu Houzhao and others had already walked over. Lai Ermao carefully looked at Zhu Houzhao in front of him. This guy in fresh clothes and angry horses, plus there are more than a dozen beauties around him, and there are many guards behind him. Man, there is no doubt that this must be a nobleman.

"Lai Ermao met the nobleman~"

Lai Ermao asked respectfully.

"My name is Zhu Shou. I happened to pass by your place. I came here to ask for a glass of water. Isn't it convenient?"

Zhu Houzhao got off his horse and said with a smile.

"Convenient, convenient~"

"Gentlemen, please ~ noblemen, please~"

When Lai Ermao heard this, he welcomed Zhu Houzhao into his ranch very enthusiastically.

"Hurry up and boil water to make tea~"

"Take out all the melons and fruits I bought from Xiaoyun Town. It's hard for a noble person to come, so I can't neglect it."

While greeting Zhu Houzhao and others, Lai Ermao also ordered his wife and slaves to do things.

"Where did you come from, sir, and where are you going?"

Lai Ermao warmly greeted Zhu Houzhao and his party, and also asked about Zhu Houzhao.

"To be honest, I'm from the capital, and I'm going to visit Winter City."

Zhu Houzhao replied while looking at the ranch carefully.

"Winter City!"

"That's a bit far away. It may take more than ten days to get there by riding a horse to the north. That is to say, it is midsummer now. If it is winter, the place will be terribly cold."

Speaking of Winter City, Lai Ermao also hurriedly said.

"I also heard that Winter City is very cold, so I wanted to go and see it. I heard that there are a lot of furs there, and the quality is very good. I want to see if I can bring a batch of furs back to the capital to sell."

"Where the fur is indeed the best. There are many types and good quality. They are all high-quality fur. It is very suitable to do fur business. It's just a nobleman. Winter City is the enemy of exiled prisoners. Where can I ask for a lot of fur?" Pay attention, especially if you bring a dozen beautiful beauties with you, it will be even more enviable."

"Yeah, then I'm going to have a look."

Zhu Houzhao drank tea, then looked at the pasture and said, "Your pasture is very different from the pastures I have seen before?"

"That is, my ancestors are from Shaanxi, and they are all Han Chinese, not those from nomadic tribes."

"We Han people are good at farming. Of course, the herding can't be the same as that of the grassland people. It has to be even better."

"My pasture is different from that of the prairie people."

"They are nomads. They drive cattle and sheep to graze everywhere in a nomadic way. The advantage of this way is that it is very simple. They live by water and grass, and do not require too much technology and skills."

"But the disadvantage is that it is difficult to raise a lot of cattle and sheep on a large pasture, and often a vast pasture is not enough for them to graze. In addition, they are constantly moving around, not fixed, and it is not convenient for children's education."

"We Han people are different. We don't like nomadism, we like to settle down."

"So I divided my pasture into many areas, and then grazing in turn. When one area is finished eating, I rush to another area to eat, and the grazing takes turns."

"At the same time, I am cultivating fields in places with abundant water sources. In addition to growing the food and vegetables I eat, the most important thing is to grow grass."

When Lai Ermao heard this, he became energetic immediately, and began to introduce the operation mode of his ranch to Zhu Houzhao in detail.

He took some pasture and said: "Look, sir, this is the pasture grown on our ranch. This is ryegrass, a high-quality pasture imported from Europe. The yield is very high, and cattle, sheep and horses like it very much." .”

"And this is the emperor bamboo grass, which is also a high-quality grass imported from overseas. It has a high yield, but it needs to be crushed with a steam grinder before feeding."

Zhu Houzhao took a closer look at the pasture grass. There are many varieties of pasture grass planted in Lai Ermao Ranch, not just one kind of pasture grass, but many of them are high-quality pasture grass imported from overseas.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​planting these high-quality pastures imported from overseas?"

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and asked.

"Ouch~"

"I'm just a big bastard. How can I know this? In fact, the government asked us to plant these pastures. These pastures are high-quality pastures specially introduced and collected from overseas by the government."

"We used to be farmers. How could we know how to herd animals? The government taught us how to do it. In addition, I bought a lot of slaves. Many of these slaves came from nomadic tribes in the Middle East, West Asia, and Western Europe. , They know more about herding than I do.”

"On my side, I just need to do what the government says. Cultivate the fields and plant grass, and then the slaves at home will do the rest."

When Lai Ermao heard this, he immediately replied with a smile.

"In this way, this model is also promoted by the government?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately asked.

"Yeah, it was promoted by the government. Without the guidance from the government, how would we know how to herd? That is, now, it has been a few years, so we understand it. When we first came, it was everything. don't know."

Lai Ermao nodded and replied.

"That's it~"

"Then these women are your slaves?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly, and then looked at the many slaves who were busy in the farm. These slaves were all women, and they were not Han Chinese at a glance.

"They are all my slaves. If you give birth to me, you will be considered a concubine."

When Lai Ermao heard this, he immediately replied with a big grin.

(End of this chapter)