nownovels Chapter 870: The Ming Dynasty Is Very Happy Planting Grass In The Northern Xinjiang Grasslands [Plea
Chapter 870: The Ming Dynasty Is Very Happy Planting Grass In The Northern Xinjiang Grasslands [Plea
In the twenty-third year of Hongwu's reign (1390), the first year of Shengping (1390), Emperor Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne.
Then Emperor Zhu Biao held the first imperial meeting in the first year of his prime year, and discussed with a group of civil and military officials, noble marquises, and formulated the "Mid-Ming 3-5 Medium and Long-term Development Plan".
It is also the first five-year plan of the Sheng Ping Dynasty, which is mainly divided into two major aspects: domestic and foreign:
foreign:
One is the matter of vassal kings establishing states in overseas continents.
Within five years, basically all the five vassal kings will go to North Asia and other overseas continents to establish kingdoms. For this purpose, the court needs to prepare related daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
This point was mentioned by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was in power two years ago, but now it is just further implemented.
The second is to further explore the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.
In recent years, through the implementation of the "sheep eating grass" policy, the Ming Dynasty has actually annexed many small and medium-sized grassland tribes without any blood.
After all, the amount of wool purchased by Ming Dynasty doubled or tripled every one or two years.
Facing the increasing demand for wool, except for those large grassland tribes that occupy vast areas and raise a large number of sheep and horses.
By further reducing the number of horses and cattle raised, increasing the number of sheep raised, and thereby increasing the output of wool, it can meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it is difficult for most small and medium-sized grassland tribes to meet the increasing demand for wool in the Ming Dynasty.
But if the wool demand of Ming Dynasty cannot be met, Ming Dynasty will think that they have no strength and cut off transactions with them.
Faced with such a situation, these small and medium-sized grassland tribes are certainly unwilling.
After all, as long as they have good business deals with Daming, and the deal is that they look down on it and use H's "waste" wool.
The Ming Dynasty would sell them salt, tea, rice, flour and other daily necessities, as well as seafood, colored glaze, etc., which were rare and luxury goods for them to enjoy.
Under such circumstances, the leaders, nobles and low-level herdsmen of the grassland tribes were not stupid. They could obtain these materials through peaceful transactions, and they did not want to fight the Ming Dynasty with their heads hanging on their waists.
And the most important thing is that even if they all unite, they can't defeat the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, in order to maintain the trading qualifications of the grassland tribes such as themselves, they could only choose to sell all the women, old and young, of their tribe to the Ming Dynasty at a discount.
However, women and young children can be said to be the future and hope of a tribe. The decrease of women and young children is equivalent to the decrease of the new population of the grassland tribe in the future.
Therefore, even if they can sell off the young and old women of their tribe at a discount in exchange for temporary prosperity and prosperity, the future of the grassland tribe is almost destined to decline.
As for this, not all people in the grassland tribe are fools. Naturally, there are corresponding wise men who have seen this problem.
But being able to see this problem does not mean that they can solve it.
Because one, even if they join forces, they can't defeat the Ming Dynasty.
So even if they knew that the candy given by Ming contained arsenic enough to poison them, they had no right to resist.
This is the most important!
Second, even some prairie wise men saw the problems behind the wool trade and wanted to resist.
But other people on the grassland tribe may not necessarily want to resist.
For example, the leaders and nobles of the grassland tribes.
Now through the wool trade with Ming Dynasty, they, the leaders and nobles of the grassland tribes, do not need to fight with Ming Dynasty in person.
As long as the tribes, herdsmen and people below are allowed to raise sheep and shear sheep in peace, they can live a luxurious life of wealth and wealth.
In addition, Ming Dynasty would also send some luxury goods to these grassland tribe leaders and nobles from time to time, in order to further anesthetize them and dispel their idea of actively resisting.
After all, not all leaders and nobles of the grassland tribes have the ambition to reunify the grasslands and regain control of the Central Plains.
Moreover, it is not the wives, concubines, and children of grassland tribe leaders and nobles who will be sold off at a discount. The children of the grassland tribe herdsmen and common people at the bottom will not be affected by their lives if they are sold off at a discount.
Therefore, the leaders of the original tribe and the nobles would not have much idea of resistance.
In fact, the largest number of grassland herdsmen and common people do not have much idea of resistance.
Even for the grassland herdsmen at the bottom, they still wish they could be sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount.
Because every time the Ming Dynasty traded with those grassland tribes, it would always bring back some of the good people from the original grassland tribes who lived in the Liaodong Plain.
Let the people of the original grassland tribes who were sold at a discount to the Ming Dynasty tell the current grassland tribe herders how good their lives were in the Ming Dynasty.
In order to dispel the resistance and fear of the Ming Dynasty in the hearts of the grassland tribes and herdsmen.
And this method is indeed very effective. It turns out that the herdsmen and people of the grassland tribes thought that after being sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount, they would be ruined and abused to death by the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, those grassland herdsmen and common people who were sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount came back and told them that they were not mistreated in the Ming Dynasty.
Even in the Ming Dynasty, they had enough food, warm clothes, and solid houses for them to live in in the winter. There were also magical briquettes to keep them warm, and there were also very warm fire pits!
In the middle of winter, the snow outside was falling several feet deep, but they didn't have to worry about their house collapsing or wild wolves coming to snatch away their cattle and sheep. They could sit peacefully on the fire bed. He slept until dawn.
Even after waking up, they may not be excited about it!
Although they basically live in the cold Liaodong Plain now, as long as they perform well, the Ming Dynasty will assign them to live in less cold places in the future.
And as long as their children perform well, they can even let their children study, read, read, and participate in imperial examinations, etc. like the noble Ming people.
After hearing these words, those grassland tribes, herders and common people who still live on the grassland were filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred beyond recognition.
Originally, the herdsmen and common people of the grassland tribes thought that if they were sold at a discount and brought to the Ming Dynasty, they would be tortured to death, but in the end, they were clearly going to the Ming Dynasty to enjoy the blessings!
hateful!
hateful!
Are they young and strong not better than those old and young women?!!
Why not sell them at a discount?!!
It seems that they were sold off at a discount and went to the Ming Dynasty to enjoy their happiness!!!
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All of this simply makes the herdsmen and people who still live on the grassland become jealous and jealous until their eyes turn red.
You must know that no matter which country or society you are in, the people living at the bottom are always the most difficult and miserable.
Just like the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the living standards of the ordinary people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty were not very good.
But if compared with the lowest herdsmen and common people on the grassland tribes, it is much better.
At least the living standards of ordinary people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty have reached a level where everyone can have enough to eat, be clothed and clothed, and have a meal of salted fish and meat.
As for the living supplies of the grassland tribe, if they are distributed evenly, not only the herdsmen and common people of the entire grassland tribe will live a very good life, but at least they can still have basic food and clothing.
After all, the Ming Dynasty did trade a lot of tea, salt, clothes, quilts and other daily necessities with the grassland tribes.
However, most of these daily necessities are still owned by the leader of the grassland tribe, the nobles, and the grassland herdsmen at the lowest level can still get very little.
Therefore, under such circumstances, for the ordinary herdsmen at the bottom of the grassland tribes, they did not resist being sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount.
Anyway, if they were sold off to the Ming Dynasty at a discount, they would not be subjected to any harshness or torture, but would instead enjoy happiness.
Therefore, some grassland herdsmen and common people even deliberately raised sheep to death in order to be sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount, so that the tribe could not collect enough wool to be traded to the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, because of the insufficient quantity of wool, they could be sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount by the tribe and go to the Ming Dynasty to enjoy the blessings.
Although such things were discovered by the leaders and nobles of the prairie tribes, they were shot dead by the leaders and nobles of the prairie tribes, hoping to achieve the effect of killing others.
But as a result, more sheep were silently raised to death by the lowest herdsmen and common people. Faced with this situation, even the leaders and nobles of the grassland tribes could not execute all the herdsmen and common people who raised dead sheep.
First, the law does not blame everyone.
Second, these herdsmen and common people at the lowest level are also valuable. If these rebellious herdsmen and common people are directly executed, they will not gain any benefits.
On the contrary, these rebellious herdsmen and common people were sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount, and they could also get some benefits from it.
So in the end, some prairie tribes developed into a situation where the leaders and nobles of the prairie tribes promised that whichever prairie herdsman could raise the best sheep and produce the most wool would be sold to the Ming Dynasty at a discount!
This command sounds outrageous, but it is very realistic and even extremely effective!
Therefore, if there is no support from the upper levels and no resistance from the lower levels, even if a few prairie wise men see the problem, they will not be able to solve it.
Therefore, through this method, in less than ten years, the combined population of all the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland has been reduced by millions.
In the Liaodong Plain of the Ming Dynasty, millions more people were gradually added to the population. The people who originally belonged to the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang could be used to develop the black land of the Liaodong Plain.
Under this situation, dozens of small and medium-sized grassland tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland were almost cannibalized and annexed by the Ming Dynasty.
The decrease in the number and population of the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes also means a reduction in the grassland area that the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes can occupy!
In addition, the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands now rely on the wool trade with the Ming Dynasty, and they are even less willing to offend the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, this time is a good time for the Ming Dynasty to further expand into the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.
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The way of expansion is also very simple, that is, to continuously build water conservancy projects, build city walls, and open state-owned ranches on the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.
The overall water resources in the northern Xinjiang grassland are not as rich as those in the Central Plains, but it does not mean that the northern Xinjiang grassland really lacks water resources.
In addition, the Chinese nation lacks everything, but what it lacks most is the experience and ability to transform nature.
If there is a shortage of water, dig a well!
If you can’t dig a well to produce water, then dig a river channel to bring water from other places!
If it rains less, then dig various large, medium and small reservoirs to store water!
In short, in one sentence, if there are no conditions for planting, then create conditions for planting!
Therefore, the original nomadic lifestyle of the grassland tribes living in pursuit of water and grass was transformed into the hands of the Ming Dynasty court and the people.
I directly dug wells, rivers, and reservoirs, and then specially planted pasture to raise sheep!
For example, alfalfa, known as the "King of Forage", is also known as golden cauliflower.
It was introduced to the Central Plains when Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty was on his mission to the Western Regions.
Alfalfa has good drought and cold tolerance. When the temperature and rainfall are suitable, alfalfa grows extremely actively, with green leaves and lush branches.
At the fastest, it only takes about 25 days from sowing to harvesting alfalfa. It can be harvested as little as seven or eight times a year, and as many as a dozen times!
Of course, this is alfalfa that was cultivated and improved by Yan Changqing in his previous life.
The current alfalfa growth cycle is not as outrageous as Yan Changqing's previous life, but under normal circumstances, it only takes about forty to sixty days from seed germination to harvest.
In other words, even the current alfalfa can be harvested at least five or six times a year, and at most eight or nine times!
This kind of growth rate almost outperforms all other pastures!
In addition, as a pasture, alfalfa has very good palatability, its stems and leaves are soft and tastes good. Whether it is silage or processed hay and feed, it is favored by various industries.
Love of poultry and livestock.
Moreover, alfalfa has high nutritional value and is rich in nutrients such as protein, minerals and vitamins.
Especially the leaves have the highest content, and its digestibility is very high. After being eaten by livestock, it can promote digestion and absorption, allowing them to grow faster and better, and the benefits generated are also very high.
big.
This is why alfalfa is known as the “King of Forage”.
Just divide three or four livestock cultivation areas and ensure that the grass in each livestock cultivation area is enough for a certain number of cattle and sheep to eat for ten days to half a month.
So every time the cattle and sheep finish eating the grass in a livestock planting area, they will be driven to the livestock planting area next door to continue eating grass [and then replant new alfalfa seeds in the same place.
After the cattle and sheep have eaten the grass in the third or fourth livestock planting area, the grass in the first livestock planting area that was originally replanted has basically completed its growth.
Similarly, after the pasture in the first livestock cultivation area that was originally replanted has been eaten up again, the growth of the second livestock cultivation area that was replanted has basically been completed.
This is the advantage brought by scientific grass planting!!!
So the grass has been eaten by the sheep and we need to chase the water?!!
No! No! No!
No need to be so tired at all!
After eating this piece of grass, I still plant many pieces of grass!
And growing grass is much easier than growing food crops.
To grow food crops, you have to look at the weather, location, diseases, and insect pests... I don’t know how many things you have to look at before you can get a bite of food crops.
Good harvest.
But growing pasture is much simpler. Wherever the pasture is gone, just sow a handful of pasture seeds to keep providing moisture and some bio-organic fertilizers for the pasture.
It's very long.
Even if the grass is planted to death, I won’t feel bad. After all, to put it harshly, it is grass!
There's nothing to feel bad about when the grass dies. Just sow a handful of grass seeds again and plant them.
So recently, the Ming Dynasty court and the people actually planted grass in the northern Xinjiang grassland, and they were quite happy.
And now there are also students from Wanmin Agricultural College who are studying how to make alfalfa grow in a shorter growth cycle and produce greater yields.
Once new results are obtained, the advantages brought by scientific grass planting will be further increased!
In addition, the Ming Dynasty compiled the animal husbandry experience of millions of grassland herders on the Liaodong Great Plains and the local breeding experience of the Ming Dynasty to compile a book "Scientific Animal Husbandry and Planting".
manual"!
After absorbing the cattle and sheep husbandry experience package of the grassland tribes, to put it bluntly, the Ming court and people are now better at raising cattle than the grassland tribes on the grassland.
sheep!
After all, the herdsmen of the grassland tribes basically collect their animal husbandry experience as family heirlooms and will not tell others, let alone other grassland tribes.
clan.
If you want to unify and organize the livestock husbandry experience of hundreds of grassland tribes like the Ming Dynasty, unless there is another Mongol-Yuan Empire like the past on the grassland!
However, it is basically impossible.
The Ming Dynasty would not sit back and watch the emergence of another Mongolian and Yuan Empire!.