The sun never sets in America

Chapter 153 Mobei and Livestock Improvement

Mobei Gaoguanping City...

Changping City is currently the largest city and the only city in the entire Mobei Province, although the cabinet has planned to establish two to three more cities to manage such a huge land. (later Las Vegas, Nevada)
However, the geographical environment of Mobei Province is too harsh. Most of the province is desert and sandbar. Changping City, where Changping City is located, is already one of the few oasis in the province. This is also why there is currently only one municipal level in Mobei Province. Administrative reasons.

The main reasons are two points, one is the natural environment, and the other is the population.

According to the latest census, the total population of Mobei Province is just over 40, many of whom have been forcibly distributed as immigrants and Indians.

Even the total population of Mobei Province is not as large as cities like Xijing and Jinshan...

It can be seen what the population of Mobei Province is like. Some people even predict pessimistically that the population of Mobei Province will never exceed 100 million. Although this is a bit sensational, this is also the current reality of Mobei Province.

What's more, as long as the immigrants heard that they were assigned to Mobei Province, they refused to go. Even the Japanese farmers who did not choose the place of immigration and would go as long as they were given land, when they heard that they were going to Mobei Province, they refused to go there. When I was in Mobei, I always looked sad, as if I was being tortured! !

Mobei Province is such an unpopular place.

In the eyes of many Han people, Mobei is a desert and barren mountain, a place full of bandits.

Although this is an exaggeration, it also reflects the status of Mobei Province in the hearts of many Han people.

Although barren mountains and deserts are real, the barren mountains in Mobei are actually very beautiful. There is a kind of ingenious beauty. In this era when tourism has not developed, barren mountains are barren mountains. If you insist on saying how good barren mountains are, then there will be no one at all. Just ignore it, maybe people still think you are a fool in their hearts...

But you are wrong to say that Mobei Province is of no use at all. Mobei Province still has some minerals, including gold and silver, and even coal mines with rich reserves.

Except for a few coal mines that are easy to mine, and a few gold and silver mines that are relatively easy to mine, there is only agriculture and animal husbandry left in the entire Mobei Province.

“In a place mostly deserted, planting is a dead end!!”

These are the exact words of Zhang Bing, the current governor of Mobei Province and the former mayor of Nanmen City.

Therefore, Zhang Bing relied on the oasis resources in Mobei Province to start animal husbandry. After all, no matter how bad the climate in Mobei Province was, it was still possible to learn from Mongolia in animal husbandry.

The animal husbandry industry will also drive the rise of the food industry including dairy products, meat products, and canned foods.

And those cow and sheep skins will also drive the rise of the leather industry and the leather shoes and hats industry.

In this way, the entire Mobei Province has formed four pillar industries: mining, animal husbandry, leather, and food.

Although these industries have little technological and industrial content, they are already the best outcome for Mobei Province, which is located inland and has a harsh climate.

Jiuyuan Province next door is actually following a similar path, but because of its good resource conditions, it can develop a metallurgical manufacturing industry through mining. It can even rely on a better climate than Mobei to engage in animal husbandry, and even a whole industry. Small part of planting industry.

This is something that the people of Mobei cannot envy. After all, God has given us this kind of terrain and climate. Living a good life honestly is more important than anything else.

It was precisely after realizing this that the governor of Mobei said this at the government meeting:

"We should not always pursue how many factories and roads have been built, but we should pay attention to whether the lives of our Mobei people are better. Everything we do today is for our 40 Mobei people, not Compared with other people and the speed of wealth accumulation, we are destined to be unable to compete with them. In this case, we might as well focus our competition on the living standards of the people. This is what is really important. In my opinion, compared with what buildings Railways are even more important..."

Zhang Bing's implication is that if we fight for industry and fiscal revenue in Mobei, we will never be able to outshine other places. In this case, it is better to focus development on the people.

In a word, if you are more productive, I am more happy! !

Exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses is the future of Mobei Province that can truly develop sustainably...

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Luoye Town and Santun Village are affiliated to Changping City.

Santun Village, a typical Mobei village, mainly makes a living by planting dates and grazing cattle. (Date palm is a jujube plant from the Middle East and is very suitable for the climate of Mobei)
Date palms are also one of the few fruits that can be grown in Mobei. Due to their high sweetness, dates are sold throughout the Han Dynasty.

Dates are added to many Han Chinese cakes and desserts to enhance the sweetness.

The locals in Mobei mainly like to dry dates in the sun to make dried dates and date cakes for breakfast.

Santun Village has thousands of acres of grassland and hills several times larger. These hills are very different from hills in other places. Most of them are bare rocks. Among the rocks, there are some tender grasses that look very much like those of later generations. Afghan grazing areas.

Because of this, many goats are raised locally, mainly to climb some rocks that are steep for sheep and eat the tender grass in the middle.

On those flat pastures, hundreds of sheep were raised, distinguishing them from the goats near the hills and rocks.

Although there were many goats that tried to cross the rocks and go to graze in the pasture that seemed to them like paradise on earth, they were quickly driven out by several shepherd dogs and shepherds on horses.

The population of the entire Santun Village does not exceed 100 people as of today. Even the population of the entire village, including men, women, old and young, is not as many as sheep.

This is also the norm in the entire Mobei Province. The desertified terrain and scattered oases make the population in each place very small. Once the population increases, the village's income will decrease.

Therefore, many villagers in Mobei Province, in addition to driving their cattle and sheep to sell cattle and sheep in exchange for money and buy daily necessities for the family, go to nearby towns, factories, and mines to do odd jobs in exchange for money.

This is also determined by the current industry of the entire Mobei Province. Unless one family occupies a large area of ​​grassland for grazing, otherwise as long as it is divided into one village, it is destined to be impossible to be rich, so find ways to increase income in other places. This is what the people of Mobei Province should do...

This is part of their survival! !
On the grassland, a half-grown child was lying on the grass slope with his eyes closed and drool dripping from the corner of his mouth. Around him were sheep grazing and three shepherd dogs patrolling everywhere.

What’s interesting is that these three shepherd dogs are very similar to later German shepherds, but there are certain differences in color and body shape.

This kind of shepherd dog is actually the ancestor of the later German shepherd dog, a breed that does not look as powerful and tall as the later generations.

But it retained the most primitive shepherding instinct that was not found in later generations.

This kind of dog was first brought by an Austrian businessman who immigrated to the Han Dynasty. Finally, for various reasons, it was favored by the shepherds and used as a shepherd dog.

In fact, the Han Dynasty had a special livestock improvement research institute.

The full name is the Animal Research Bureau, which is actually a place where various livestock are cross-bred. Animals are used just to sound good.

And this so-called Animal Research Bureau has actually improved Han's horses and chickens so far.

Eggs, which were regarded as commonplace by people in later generations, were actually very precious during this period. It might take a few days or even a long time for a chicken to lay an egg. In this era, eggs were still regarded as meat dishes.

In future generations, if anyone treats eggs as a non-vegetarian dish, isn’t that simply wrong? ?

With the improvement of material standards in Han Dynasty, the demand for eggs also increased sharply, and the price of eggs also rose accordingly.

When Xijing City was at its craziest, an egg could be sold for three copper yuan, which meant that one Chinese yuan could buy up to 33 eggs.

This was even published in Hanguo Daily at that time and became a hot news for a long time.

What follows is the hype from merchants. Egg production in Hanzhou Province has been reduced and chicken plague has appeared. If you don't buy it, you won't be able to buy it anymore. (Actually, a few chickens in a village on the outskirts of Xijing City got sick and died)
This also triggered a rush to buy eggs. At the craziest time, an egg cost five copper yuan. I wonder who would buy such an egg? ?
Although this matter was settled with the intervention of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, it also left the so-called egg curse in the hearts of Han people.So later, under Liu Peng's instructions, the plan to breed high-yielding chickens was put on the agenda.

In this era without artificial insemination, the answer to how to breed a chicken is hybridization and feed.

Regarding the breeding of chickens, the Han people generally used hens that laid eggs frequently and produced high yields as hens, and then bred them with various roosters.

But this is still not enough. In order for chickens to lay eggs, they must also eat well. Therefore, in China and even other parts of the world, rice that is reluctant to be eaten by chickens has been put on the agenda to popularize it. Worms such as mealworms are even used to dry rice. After drying, it is made into chicken feed and mixed with rice for the chickens to eat.

At first, the worms were used as chicken feed. Due to the construction of factories and even the cultivation of larvae, the price was still very expensive. However, with subsidies from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Han Dynasty, this epoch-making chicken feed was finally born, and it soon became popular in China. Factories have been built in many places in Han, and because of Han's annual population growth and the huge local demand for eggs, more and more people in Han are raising chickens.

What follows is the demand for chicken feed, and the price of chicken feed has also been falling, from one and a half Chinese yuan per pack at the earliest to half a Chinese yuan per pack now.

The main reason is that the cost of raising insects is too low, much lower than that of large livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, and the protein content is still high.

Some people in later generations have said that if everyone eats bugs, there will be less environmental pollution. But in fact, this is simply a false proposition, because it is impossible for humans to really use bugs as their staple food, because once humans use bugs as their staple food, then the survival of humans at that time will be You can imagine how bad the environment will be.

Bugs are the bottom line within the bottom line, not the norm.

After all, the reason why people are human is because they climbed to the top of the earth's food chain and worked hard to evolve to the top, not to eat bugs.

Besides chickens, the biggest improvement is horses.

In the Han Dynasty, horses had always been the most important means of transportation and even transportation in the Han Dynasty before bicycles were herded.

Even today, when bicycle production is rising rapidly, the number of horses bred in Han has not decreased.

According to statistics from the Animal Husbandry Bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Han Dynasty, one horse is raised every ten days in the Han Dynasty. Based on 500 million people, the number of horses in the Han Dynasty is 50.

This is a huge number, but in today's North America, it is a very normal number, because the United States opposite has more horses.

There are mainly several types of horses in the Han Dynasty. The first type is the war horses and draft horses needed by the Han army. The second type is the domestic horses used by ordinary people for herding and riding. The third type is very fun. It was basically done by a group of Han dignitaries.

Such as polo horses for polo, hunting horses, and even fast horses for racing.

These horses all have a problem, that is, they change jobs. For example, the biggest advantages of polo horses are agility and turning speed, which are very important in polo matches, so those horses with these advantages are retained, and After being cultivated, the so-called Han polo pony was formed.

Hunting horses are actually selected from military horses. This kind of horse is required to be immune to gunshots and not afraid of wild beasts, making it easier for hunters to shoot and, if necessary, to deal with wild beasts.

As for the fast horse at the end, that thing only has one requirement: long legs and fast sprinting. As for long-distance running, that thing is not its job, that is done by the military and civilians.

Because of the rise of horse racing, there were many horse racing competitions in many places in Han Dynasty, especially on grasslands and even plains, and then the so-called horse king was determined from a bunch of horses.

So far, the so-called horse kings in the Han Dynasty are actually very funny. There are such things as the horse kings of Changcun and the horse kings of Xiapingzhen. It seems that there are countless kings of horses at one time.

Although it is silly, it can also be seen from the side that the Han people love animals like horses.

Lin Yusheng, a Huizhou scholar who immigrated to Han Dynasty, wrote in his Han Journey:

"Han is a country on the west coast of Hainan... Most of its people have short hair, wear Western clothes, and also have Han and Tang Dynasty costumes, which are quite ancient. Many of its people are good at horses, hunting, and polo. They have built horse racing for thousands of people to watch. The place where the ball is chased is called the polo field.”

"When they were young, the men and women in the country studied foreign guns and military assassination skills in the academies. Every spring, when the flowers bloom, men and women ride on horseback to tour the rivers and mountains. Some men and women ride on the same horse without avoiding suspicion..."

“In the Han Kingdom, from the common people to the princes, there are many famous horses. There is a horse market in the country. There are English horses, French pinto horses, German horses, Arabian horses... There is also a horse called the Shire horse. They are similar in size to giant elephants and bulls, but they have a docile temperament and can be controlled by one person. The many types of horses in Han are like the stubborn rocks in the river..."

"The Han State claimed that its country inherited the traditions of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Although it did not respect the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, which is despicable, its country's love of martial arts and horses was in the same vein as the Han and Tang Dynasties. It has been strange and strange..."

Lin Yusheng started writing the Han Dynasty at the beginning of this year and is still writing it. It was not published in China until the 50s. It caused a sensation at the time.

Nowadays, the improvement of horses in Han Dynasty continues, the most important of which is military horses.

It turns out that the military horses of the Han Dynasty were actually Spanish, and the Mexicans even left Spanish horses behind. This kind of horse also has a unique term, Andalusian horse.

Also known as the king's horse, it is one of the best horses in Europe.

A large number of these horses were used in the Han Dynasty. The Dragon Cavalry Brigade alone was equipped with [-] Spanish horses for one man and three horses, which shows the popularity of this kind of horse in the Han Dynasty.

However, this kind of horse has a problem, that is, like most European horses, it cannot travel long distances. This is difficult for the Han Dynasty, which inherits the spirit of Eastern military tactics, to accept it.

You must know that in the history of China, some of the most famous tactics were accomplished by running thousands of miles.

For example, Huo Qubing drove away from Mobei, and Li Jing attacked the Turks with heavy snow.

This is a typical long-distance run! !

However, the Han Dynasty had mostly European horses, so it was difficult to complete an Eastern-style thousands-mile attack. This was completely sufficient when fighting a loser like the Republic of Mexico. After all, infantry was enough to defeat Mexico. The person was beaten to the point where he couldn't get up.

But attacking the United States, which has huge strategic depth in the central and western regions, is not something that can be solved by infantry.

Apart from anything else, once a tug-of-war breaks out with the United States, it will not be a good thing for the weaker Han State.

Even if the battle line is lengthened, it will be a huge disaster in the vast American land. If nothing else, just a logistics supply line will be an unavoidable problem once it is targeted by the American militia cowboys. .

And when fighting the United States, you can't advance step by step like you fought Mexico. You have to fight in leaps and bounds. If you fight like Mexico, let alone win the war, Han infantry will already be in the American cities along the way. Dry the blood.

Therefore, the best way to end the war is to fight a mobile war with the Americans, a frontal war, and bring the war to where Han is best at.

In a word, if we can avoid fighting urban war, we won’t fight urban war. Even if we fight, we must have the intention to completely destroy American cities, just like the British burning the White House.

It is precisely because of this that the Han Dynasty was so concerned about improving horses, and how to improve the European horses in the hands of the Han Dynasty into war horses that could run long distances and still retain their size.

Among them, the Russian Don horse caught the attention of the Han people. This kind of horse is a cross between a Mongolian horse and a European horse. It has the resistance to rough feeding and some endurance of the Mongolian horse, and the tallness of the European horse.

But with the sample, everything is easy.

In the words of the Han State Animal Bureau, there is no reason why the Russians can do it, but we, a bunch of serious Easterners, can't do it.

So after years of breeding and dozens of hundreds of screenings, a horse breed called the Mobei horse appeared on the land of Han.

The blood of this kind of horse is very mixed. It was originally made of Mongolian horses and British purebred horses, and later Spanish horses and even Don horses were added for improvement.

In the end, a war horse with an average shoulder height of 1.5 meters and a half, and individual heights exceeding 1.6 meters, which is a Mongolian horse, a European horse, and even more stable than a Don horse, appeared in this time and space that should not have appeared, a country called Han American countries.

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