Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 195
Shanglinyuan, Guanmachang.

A black stallion without a single hair was pawing its hooves anxiously. About ten meters away from it was a strong mare of almost the same size as it.

Staying alone in the vacant room, Fusu, who tossed and turned all night, inadvertently glanced under the stallion, and suddenly turned his eyes away in embarrassment.

Here is the proving ground where Fusu intends to breed large-scale draft horses, and that stallion is a stallion carefully selected from dozens of swallow horses.

The criteria used for selection are a very crude method, including whether there are any defects in appearance, height, body length and personality, plus one point, whether it has ever bred good offspring.

The last point is crucial, after all, Fusu's plan is to breed a large draft horse that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the Shire horses of later generations.

In this era without steam engines and internal combustion engines, excellent draft horses can not only improve the efficiency of transporting military supplies, but also greatly improve all aspects of society.

"Your Majesty, did you just start breeding?" Meng Tian asked with some doubts.

No, what else?Don't horses have to do foreplay before mating?But this is an arranged marriage for me...Fu Su frowned slightly and looked at Meng Tian: "What advice does the eunuch have?"

Meng Tian said: "I don't dare to take it for a high opinion, but the breeding of war horses in the army usually prepares two stallions, one of which is close to the first to test whether the mare agrees to mate, if the mare does not resist, then replace it with a real horse After all, the male horse needs to approach from behind the mare when mating, and once the mare kicks up..."

Fu Su nodded to agree with this. When he watched the video of "Pretty Derby" on station B in later generations, he was once recommended by AI mentally handicapped a strange video. The title was: Excited stallion kicked by jio of mare Back to the west.

Well, little penyus try not to search...

"Don't worry, I've been prepared!" Fusu said confidently. As a traverser, he is not fighting alone at this moment!
In the fence surrounded by wood, several little boys from the Habayashi Army took a basin of warm water, approached the stallion cautiously, dipped a sackcloth in the water, and began to clean it for the final time.

Meng Tian asked again full of doubts: "Why did Your Majesty do this?"

Fusu squinted at him: "Wipe off the dirty things to avoid infection, well, it's like the bath before..."

Meng Tian understood in seconds, and then looked at Fusu, and then he laughed.

Well, this is the tacit understanding between men!

In a short time, amidst the stallion's somewhat impatient snort, the simple cleaning was completed.

On the other side, the work of securing the mares has only just begun.

Four or five tall herdsmen swarmed up and fixed the mare in front of the wooden fence half-pull and half-drag. After all, this is a big animal weighing hundreds of kilograms. If it gets angry, these four or five people will be just right Get it under control.

After the mare was fixed, a stockman put a rope around one of the mare's front hooves and pulled it up.

Seeing this, the stallion was brought over.

Then there is the difficult climbing, and finishing the first, second, third, and fourth.

After the stallion walked away in a dispirited manner, the entire mating process ended without any risk.

"I feel that His Majesty's move can be widely promoted in various pastoral gardens!" Meng Tian was amazed.

"That's why I brought my servant here." Fusu responded with a smile.

After all, if a horse wants to kick backwards, it needs to use its front legs as a support, and only one leg is on the ground, so it can't be kicked even if it wants to!

Under the wooden stables, the mated mare is led away, and another mare waiting to be mated is brought over.

Compared with the freezing Yunzhong County, the Guanzhong area is much warmer at the moment. Coupled with the artificial captivity, the nutrition is sufficient, so these swallow horses from afar have entered the breeding state earlier than before.

So, the stud stallion once again entered the state, its huge front hooves paw anxiously on the ground, its lips turned up and barked, looking from Fusu's point of view, it looked very funny.

Seeing that the method he devised worked, Fusu's interest in watching horse movies immediately dissipated. He dragged Meng Tian, ​​who was somewhat reluctant to part with him, out, planning to go to other places to watch it again.

Looking at the crowd digging ditches, Fusu thought that the breeding of Champa rice should be put on the agenda.

The rice planting technology in this period was still in the stage of 'burning and watering [nòu]'.

That is to say, first burn the weeds in the field with fire, and then plant rice, which is called fire farming.

When the rice seedlings and weeds grow out at the same time, they are put into the water, because under the condition of flooding, the rice can still grow normally, but the weeds can hardly survive.

Although the method is primitive, it cleverly uses the property that rice is not afraid of flooding.

The technology of transplanting rice seedlings did not appear until after the Tang and Song Dynasties.

So it's time for the time traveler to show off his skills again!

Although Fusu has never grown rice, there have been countless documentaries and games in later generations, um, mainly games taught Fusu how to grow rice easily.

Most of the current state of Qin, especially the south of the Yangtze River Basin, is in the stage of sparsely populated land, which can just learn from the practice of large farms in the beautiful country in later generations.

It is the method of throwing rice seedlings.

The rice transplanting method of intensive cultivation is not very suitable for the current state of Qin.

In Fusu's view, in order to improve agricultural efficiency in the present state of Qin, the key is to repair water conservancy projects, dig more reservoirs and ditches, transform dry fields into paddy fields, and then promote iron farm tools and composting technology.

Especially after the last two points are realized, the yield per mu can be increased by at least half!
As for the improved wheat in his plan, it will be prepared for ten or twenty years later.

Fusu frowned slightly looking at a passing four-wheeled carriage in the distance. The black thing in the carriage should be the farmyard manure produced by the Habayashi Army of Shanglinyuan.

Just, why ship all this good stuff out?
Fusu turned his head and glanced at Li Cheng who was standing beside him: "Call Chunsheng here."

Suddenly, Chunsheng came running from a distance, and Fusu looked at this Tie Yingrui who had been with him for many years, and asked straight to the point: "Then what was transported away?"

Chunsheng glanced in the direction Fusu pointed, scratched his head and explained: "Those are piled up manure. The farmland in Shanglin Garden is scarce, so there is no need for that much manure, so I transported them outside and sold them to others. Farmers in Lantian County."

Fusu frowned slightly: "Sell to farmers?"

Chunsheng said proudly: "Your Majesty, it's like this! Last month, the Habayashi Army earned more than 1 yuan from selling manure! Well, it's all half a tael!"

Ah, this... Fusu and Meng Tian glanced at each other, a series of questions arose in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)