Under the warm sun, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army worked diligently. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A beautiful picture of the countryside made people's hearts clear for a while, but in the blink of an eye, Xiao Ming's eyes were covered with another layer of haze.

In such a barbaric era, for the sake of this rare serenity, he could only defend it with blood and fire.

This time, the seeds sent by the king of Chu filled the cabins of five merchant ships, and he only used half a cannon to buy the cotton seeds of these five ships, in addition to cotton, thirty cannons also made the king of Chu pay the price of more than 500,000 taels of silver.

The astonishing trade surplus between industrial products and agricultural products made Xiao Ming realize the huge profits brought by industrial products, which made him even more determined to dump industrial products in exchange for various raw materials in Dayu.

Leaving some of the seeds behind, Xiao Ming asked the soldiers to transport the remaining seeds to other slave plantations.

At the same time, he and Niu Ben went to a vacant lot outside the official village, where a long shed was being built, and under the shed was a red brick fence, each of which formed a four-meter-long and wide lattice.

"Your Highness, this is the pig farm of the Qingzhou Army." Niu Ben introduced to Xiao Ming, his face was even more bitter than when he planted cotton just now.

After letting the Qingzhou army grow food, now the Qingzhou army has once again taken on some other important tasks - pig raising.

Pang Yukun suddenly laughed when he saw Niu Ben's appearance, "Your Highness, look at Niu Dudu, how long is this face, he is probably very aggrieved thinking about his soldiers now." ”

"Isn't this a grievance?" Niu Ben said: "This kind of grain will understand, how can this pig breeding fall on our heads, and there are no pig soldiers in Dayu Country." ”

Xiao Ming said with a straight face: "Old general, it's not right for you to think like this, is it enough for soldiers to eat a full stomach?" Next, we have to let the soldiers eat meat, and the soldiers will have more strength to train if they eat meat, why let the army raise pigs? It's very simple, the current Qingzhou Army is not an ordinary army of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, our Qingzhou Army has logistics soldiers, and the logistics soldiers are responsible for raising pigs for the soldiers to eat, otherwise what do you want this logistics soldiers to do? Isn't it okay to recruit people for war? ”

Niu Ben was speechless by Xiao Ming's series of rhetorical questions.

Now that the Qingzhou Army is recruiting, some soldiers are directly classified into the logistics corps, which is a group of soldiers who do not fight and are only responsible for army food, procurement, and transportation.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "Moreover, the Qingzhou Army is about to be equipped with flintlock pistols, and the Qingzhou Army will also embark on a different path, and the regularization and division of labor of this army must be done." ”

"Flintlock pistol?"

Niu Ben was shocked when he heard this, he had already heard the rumor that the military workshop was producing a brand new weapon.

But Xiao Ming hasn't told him about it until now, and now that Xiao Ming has said it, naturally the time has come.

"Let the old general come today to talk about this logistics matter, in the future, farming and raising pigs are the business of the logistics army, and the main body of the Qingzhou Army will only be responsible for training in the future, and the second is the matter of this flintlock pistol, which is also to let the Qingzhou Army have a preparation in advance."

Niu Ben asked, "So what is this flintlock pistol?" ”

"It's a powerful ranged weapon." Xiao Ming then told Niu Ben the specific appearance, power, and use of the flintlock pistol.

Niu Ben was stunned when he heard this, "Your Highness means that the sword and shield men, archers, and pikemen will all be eliminated, and only musketeers and cavalry will be left in the entire Qingzhou army?" ”

Slowly nodded, Xiao Ming said: "That's right, when the flintlock pistol is installed, there is no need for these arms to exist. ”

"Your Highness, this is absolutely not allowed, abandon melee combat, only keep long-range shooting, this is in the grassland, in case the cavalry breaks through the formation, the remaining soldiers are only slaughtered, Your Highness must be three or four." Niu Ben said hurriedly, he couldn't understand Xiao Ming's decision at all now.

Pang Yukun also thought the same thing, he frowned, and stopped talking.

When a new thing appears, it will inevitably be hindered by the old thing, Xiao Ming already has a plan in his heart, he said: "This king doesn't like to say, he only likes to do, and when the flintlock pistol is installed in the Qingzhou army, you will understand." ”

Niu Ben and Pang Yukun stopped talking, since Xiao Ming was so confident, they could only load the flintlock pistol in his mouth.

With a slight mention of a flintlock pistol to give Niu Ben some air, he continued to talk about the pig farm.

There is no such thing as professional breeding in Dayu, and now Xiao Ming wants to popularize modern agriculture in the fiefdom.

"Pang Changshi, how are the piglets on this pig farm?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, we bought a thousand piglets from the people, and we also bought fifty adult sows and fifty adult boars, so that the piglets produced by this sow are estimated to be enough for the pig farm."

Xiao Ming looked at a general behind Niu Ben, this general was the captain of the logistics battalion, his name was Chen Feng.

Waving his hand to let Chen Feng come over, Xiao Ming said: "Captain Chen, these piglets and adult pigs will be handed over to you, you can't raise this king to death." ”

In this era, the people have no experience in large-scale breeding at all, and Xiao Ming explained the essentials of pig raising to Chen Feng in detail while walking.

Modern pigs are most afraid of swine fever, and when they encounter this disease, the pigs of the entire pig farm will soon be infected and die from each other, and the same is true for poultry plague.

So what he and Chen Feng talked about was the way to prevent swine fever and how to tell if a pig has swine fever.

"This pig house must be cleaned every day, and if a pig has swine fever, it will be burned and buried immediately......"

One by one, the scientific knowledge of pig raising came in, Chen Feng nodded frequently, and he quickly understood a complete set of pig raising procedures.

After all, he used to farm and feed chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs.

"As for the manure of the pig house, it is unified to the septic tank next to the pig house, which becomes the fertilizer of the official house, of course, some chickens and ducks can be raised next to the pig house, chickens and ducks sometimes feed on pig manure, and they can also be put into the official village to remove insects, after all, the official village is now planted with cotton, and chickens and ducks do not eat cotton."

Xiao Ming's set of theories made Chen Feng stunned, if it weren't for Niu Ben calling Xiao Ming His Royal Highness, he really suspected that the person in front of him was King Qi, and that prince would understand this.

Pang Yukun and Niu Ben smiled bitterly on the side.

They also completely lost their temper, this King Qi is knowledgeable in astronomy and geography, and now he even knows this kind of thing clearly, and it seems to be more proficient.

This teaching gave Chen Feng a basic understanding of modern farming, so that Xiao Ming was at ease.

Pig farm is a key to open the breeding industry in Qingzhou, in the future, these logistics soldiers will retire from the army, and go home one by one are also pig experts, at that time with their experience, the experience of modern pig breeding can be spread among the people.

After staying in Guanzhuang for a while, Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun left together, and Pang Yukun kept bowing his head and pondering on the way.

Xiao Ming couldn't help but ask, "Are you still wondering why this king knows how to raise pigs?" ”

(To be continued.) )