Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 274

In fact, everyone underestimated Yi Nan's determination to make every effort to govern. He started his inspection of Shanyang City early the next morning. If it was in later generations, it could be defined by the four words of state visit.

In cold weather, Sun Xiangfu did not have the habit of getting up early, so he did not accompany Yi Nan. Sun Xiangfu had already confessed to all the departments in the city, except the treasury of the cabinet and the top-secret production technology of the major workshops. Well, Yi Nan can let him see whatever he wants to see. Of course, even if Yi Nan has seen the top-secret production technology, he may not understand it.

His first stop is the off-site livestock trading market, which is also the largest greenhouse breeding area in Shanyang.

Nomads are no strangers to captive breeding. Every winter, they have to find a place to shelter their cattle and sheep from the wind. It is something they do every year to build a shed with grass in the col. However, the shed they made is as good as the good. In Yangjiu City, compared with the basically airtight brick and tile structure shed, the gap is simply too big.

As people who have spent half their lives in the herd of cattle and sheep, they will not dislike the smell of cattle and sheep. When Yi Nan led his subordinates into the cowshed, the first thing he felt was a sense of warmth. Moreover, there is no pungent smell.

"The cowshed is so clean, did you clean it up on purpose?"

Yi Nan turned his head and asked a Han steward who led him over.

The manager pointed to a worker who was patrolling outside the cowshed with a cart and said, "Yes, we have a special person who cleans up the cow dung in the cowshed in three hours a day."

"You have so many cattle and sheep, how many people do you need to clean them up!" Yi Nan asked in surprise.

"In this old city alone, there are nearly a thousand people who are responsible for taking care of these tens of thousands of livestock. Of course, there are only a few hundred people who clean up the manure. "

"Growing mushrooms?"

Yi Nan heard another new word. In fact, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han people mastered the method of growing mushrooms. Wang Chong recorded the method of growing mushrooms in his book "Lunheng". During the Three Kingdoms period, mushroom cultivation began to rise among the people. , but the output is not very high.

As a postgraduate student of the University of Agricultural Sciences who instructs farmers to plant land in the countryside, Sun Xiangfu can easily master the simple technique of growing mushrooms.

High-yield mushrooms can be grown by fermenting cow dung mixed with forage as a substrate. Of course, this is a technique that barbarian men want to learn, but it is also difficult to learn. For the control of room temperature, it is necessary to calculate the heating fuel and heat supply. The size of the space, when you sprinkle water, you need to calculate the amount of water, the thickness of the covering soil layer, sunlight disinfection, etc. If you want a barbarian to understand, it is too difficult.

Those who are in charge of growing mushrooms are just doing some regular work under the command of a few people arranged by Sun Xiangfu. They have been planting for two or three months. They don't know why they do this, and no one can remember. Down all the bullet points.

Seeing Yi Nan questioning himself, the steward replied, "Yes, the fresh mushrooms that are eaten in Shanyang City are all grown in our greenhouses, and the mushrooms are mainly grown with cow dung."

Thinking carefully about the dishes eaten in Wangjiang Tower yesterday, there are indeed several kinds of mushrooms, and they are very delicious. Yi Nan immediately became interested in this mushroom. However, he is the same as those workers who work here. I don't understand this thing at all, but I just think it's too extravagant for Han people to grow vegetables in a warm house.

There are many things he can't understand. As a later generation, Sun Xiangfu knows the importance of cluster farming and disease prevention. Although the ecological environment in this period is very good, the probability of disease occurrence in the cold northern land is not high. But Sun Xiangfu has worked hard on epidemic prevention.

Keeping the cowshed and sheep pens clean is a must. Regular cleaning and parasite removal have never stopped. As long as these tasks are done, under the excellent ecological environment without chemical pollution sources, the chance of plague is extremely low.

What Yi Nan saw was not only these, he wished to grab a handful of the alcohol-smelling feed and taste it in his mouth, because the cows that ate this food were covered in meat, and those that were specially used for milking One cow can squeeze out half a bucket of milk.

When did the Han people know how to feed cattle and sheep better than us nomads?
This question has been lingering in Yi Nan's mind for a whole day.

After watching the ones in the city, Yi Nan looked outside the city again. This method of digging holes in the ground for cattle and sheep to survive the winter can only be done by the Han people. They have enough iron and digging tools. With enough manpower, a big hole can be dug out very quickly, but it is very difficult for Xue Yantuo's department to do so.

There is no need to burn any coal for heating in the burrow, it is warm. Although someone cleans up the excrement, the smell is slightly stronger than those of the greenhouses on the ground, but it is within the tolerance range of the cattle and sheep. Generally, a burrow will not The digging is too big, hundreds of them are kept separately, and the herdsmen who are responsible for taking care of the cattle and sheep in the caves are also responsible for taking care of the vegetables grown in the low walls. Also, a very small number of Han people are in charge of technical management, the herdsmen Just do what you're told.

Almost all of the earliest tenants in Sun Xiangfu Shiyi have taken up various management positions now. With them maintaining the scene, these aspects of Shanyang will not be chaotic.

In just one day, Yi Nan was sure that Sun Xiangfu had the ability to protect the cattle and sheep through the winter. Shanyang had only been managed by him for more than a year, and he had the current situation. Those burrows are not needed, and those clean and tidy breeding greenhouses are directly built on the ground.

The next day, Yi Nan got up early and saw how cattle and sheep were raised, and he also wanted to see how Shanyang City solved the livelihood problems of the herdsmen.

The industrial area of ​​Shanyang City occupies almost a quarter of the entire city. Beside the southern city wall is a row of tall brick and tile workshops.

For Yi Nan's arrival, the manager here seems to have expected it, and started to introduce the situation of the workshop to him without asking Yi Nan. Of course, he was afraid that Yi Nan would not understand these things and would not be able to get the point. .

The first thing he entered was the leather workshop, and then he witnessed the whole process of a piece of sheepskin, from being placed on the table to turning into a sheepskin jacket, it was very fast and the finished product was exquisite.

From those round faces with traces of grassland wind and frost, Yi Nan recognized at a glance that these women were originally herdsmen on the grassland. They may be good at killing and skinning sheep, but they definitely can't make the kind of clothes that they wear. Afterwards, the sheepskin jacket looks very slim and warm. The most important thing is that they could not put lining cloth inside the sheepskin jacket in the past, let alone embroider on the sheepskin.

"Hu people like this jacket very much, and we Han people also like it. Since the Hu people bought all our stocks, orders from merchants from all over the world have been squeezed here. In the Guanzhong area alone, there are 20 orders. , our workshop only produces [-] pieces a day, and it will take several months to finish it!"

Showing off his achievements in a complaining tone, the steward in charge of the leather workshop is very talented, and his words made Yi Nan very sad.

After leaving the leather workshop, he went to the wood workshop with the largest number of people to take a look, and then he was dumbfounded.

Is there such a big gap between my own Xue Yantuo tribe and the Turks?
There are over ten thousand craftsmen here, and all of them look familiar, and their appearance can be seen as Turkic people at a glance!
When did Turkic people have so many craftsmen who can make Han farm tools and furniture?
Yi Nan looked here for a long time with doubts, and finally saw some tricks, that is, all the workers seemed to do the same thing, and then, after going through their process, they would enter the next process, and finally the finished product , Exquisite, good-looking, and firm and easy to use.

Yi Nan felt that he had found some characteristics of the Han people. Perhaps he could also open such a workshop to make boxes, chairs, plows and other daily utensils for the people of Xue Yantuo's tribe. However, he thought of another One question, if you don’t build a city and learn the way of life of the Han people, it seems that these things don’t need to be built. In the past, he never sat on a chair, but spread a blanket on the ground. Now, after only two or three days, I’m used to He sat down on the chair, which would make him more comfortable.

Melancholy walked out of the wood workshop again, and entered the iron workshop. This place should not be open to outsiders like him, but no one stopped him from coming in. There was even a steward waiting at the door early in the morning, as if waiting for him Came here to ask questions.

The ironware workshop in the city is only for making ironware for civilian use, and it does not involve relatively high-end smelting knowledge, but even so, Yi Nan watched it here all afternoon.

He did not miss the process of turning molten iron into plowshares, iron pots, kitchen knives, etc., and asked his subordinates to follow him to record, so that when he was so hungry and had to go back to eat, The steward's words almost made him fall on the spot.

"My Metropolitan Governor said that if the leader of Yinan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the Metropolitan Governor will open an iron workshop in the city that he helped you build. Not only will he do foreign trade, but he will also send someone to teach you these crafting techniques. Until you meet."

It is not a secret at all to make ironware. As early as the Han Dynasty, the Huns produced iron weapons by themselves. By this time, they have improved a lot. The production mode of Shanyang Ironware Workshop is just to increase the number of civilian weapons. The efficiency of iron production is just, in Sun Xiangfu's view, not of much value, after all, what is lacking on the grassland is iron.

The real high-end smelting technology is in the workshops of the military camps. What is produced there is not iron, but steel. If you use iron to fight steel, you can see what the outcome will be.

In the next few days, Yi Nan continued to look down. He went to see the production workshops of spirits, perfume, antifreeze, and coal and coal stoves. He basically didn’t understand the same, because he had no basic knowledge. I don't know why these scattered processes do this, let alone those special combinations.

The reason why Sun Xiangfu let him read it at ease is that when he has learned all this knowledge and understood the principles, he will almost die of old age. It's not a problem anymore, a tortoise that crawls hard can never catch up with a horse that runs hard, not to mention, what Sun Xiangfu wants is just a time difference of one or two years.

(End of this chapter)