Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 198 Livestock
Meng Tian rubbed the chives with his hands and said: "Your Majesty, this chives is really called aptly, the leaves are yellow, and it also has the fragrance of chives. Could it be that they are really chives?"

Hmm, how can I explain to the ancients how to explain the yellowing due to the lack of chlorophyll... Fu Su frowned slightly and nodded: "It's just leeks, but they turned yellow after being covered in a clay pot, just like bean sprouts made by water. A little change has taken place, but the leek is still the same leek..."

Leeks... Fusu smiled silently, and watched Tian Wei approaching on horseback in the distance. This was the man who was in charge of forging the knife for him to harvest leeks.

"Meet Your Majesty, servant!" Tian Wei rushed forward to salute after being searched by several Lang officials.

Fusu waved his hand to him, looked at the chives being harvested and said, "You can take two handfuls back to eat later. Well, by the way, how many five baht coins can you mint this month?"

Tian Wei took out a two-foot wooden tablet from his belt and said: "As of now, the total new coins are 24 baht. It is not difficult to complete the task of casting 30 new coins this month!"

"According to my estimate, there will be an extra [-] and a half taels after completing the task."

Fu Su patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'm at ease when you handle things..."

In fact, it is not the lack of copper material that restricts the casting speed of five baht coins, but mainly the need to polish the edges after the copper coins are cast.

The specific method is to use a square wooden stick to pass through a string of copper coins, and then polish it by hand.

This is why copper coins are square inside and round outside.

As for the tactful way of life, the integrity of the heart and so on, they are just private goods that later generations of literati will pick up.

Well, this is like trying to analyze the meaning of 'one is a jujube tree and the other is also a jujube tree'...

Fusu looked at a high-walled courtyard heavily guarded in the distance. That was the mint under the jurisdiction of Captain Shuiheng. Truckloads of half taels were transported in, and it wouldn't be long before they would turn into coins. A golden five baht coin.

The five baht coins with small denominations are mainly used for domestic circulation. When the time is right, silver coins of higher value will be promoted... Well, if I remember correctly, the Hellenistic countries at this time should use silver coins. At that time, the newly minted silver coins could just be used for international trade... Fusu thought of the days when he drove a boat all over the Greek world in later generations, and felt a dull pain in his liver.

"Since the task of minting coins can be completed on time, you have to take on more of your own work!" Fusu looked at Tian Wei who was a little confused and said, "Do you still remember why I asked you to come to Shanglinyuan in the first place?"

Tian Wei scratched his head, and replied with some uncertainty: "Keeping a dog?"

Fu Su nodded heavily: "To be precise, it is to breed dogs!"

Meng Tian interjected and said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the hounds raised in Shanglin Garden are good enough, besides, Your Majesty is a herdsman and shouldn't indulge in field hunting..."

Fusu waved his hand to stop him from continuing his long speech: "What I want is not a better hunting dog, but a shepherd dog! Well, it is the kind used to help the shepherd herd the flock..."

Tian Wei and Meng Tian looked at each other in bewilderment, one of them was born in the general family, and only came into contact with dogs when hunting; the other was from a poor family, and the dogs kept at home were mainly used as food reserves...

What Fusu wants is to help the herdsmen manage the herds, well, the most important thing is the shepherd dogs of the sheep. They don't need to have too strong fighting power, they just need to hold the wolves back when the wolves come, Then just wait for the herdsmen with weapons to come and finish the kill.

Well, it's like Fusu's hunting dogs in Shanglin Garden. Their function is to drive the prey to the owner, that is, Fusu, and let him take away the other's animal head.

To conquer the bitter cold in the north, in addition to food and enough fuel, you also need a lot of warm clothes.

An important reason for the development of the Northeast region in later generations is the rapid development of the cotton textile industry. Only when people have enough warm clothes can they survive for a long time in the place where the temperature is often ten or twenty degrees below zero.

Based on the current national conditions, what Fusu has to do is:

[-]. Promote the Asian cotton obtained from Nanhai County, but this kind of cotton is of poor quality and is not suitable for weaving. Therefore, the upland cotton passed from America is grown in large quantities in later generations.

However, any plaster that can pull out pus is a good plaster. Asian cotton is not suitable for weaving, but it can be used as a filling for winter clothes, and it can also be used to make cotton-padded jackets.

Second, engage in the wool textile industry, which is used to control the nomads in the north.

But asking for others is better than asking for yourself. Now Shangjun, Longxi County, Beidi County, and Jincheng County in Qin State all have large pastures suitable for grazing sheep, which can just be used.

But this creates another problem.

Those pastures suitable for grazing sheep are full of jackals, tigers and leopards, and creatures like sheep, unless they come from the sheep village, are just lumps of food for walking.

Therefore, it is necessary to improve the original shepherd dog of the Qin State, which is extremely primitive in breed, so that it can become a helper for herdsmen.

Moreover, sheep have another advantage, that is, sheep have a strong sense of herd. Several flocks of sheep can be grazed by one person, and then at night, the flocks will automatically return to their respective pens.

This is just right for those grasslands with vast land and few people.

After Fusu expressed his idea, Meng Tian thought of the fact that after he captured Yanchi, Fusu used his internal funds to redeem the captured sheep and placed them on the official pasture in Shangjun.

I thought His Majesty did it for the sake of appetite, but I didn't expect His Majesty to think so long since then... Meng Tian looked sideways slightly, feeling very complicated in his heart.

I am a dignified Captain of Shui Heng, I never thought I would have to raise a dog, who could be more miserable than me... Although Tian Wei was a little reluctant in his heart, he could only agree.

Well, after a while, after the first batch of wool was sheared, Qin State's wool textile industry officially started... Fusu was thinking about how to deal with the wool, and fell into deep thought for a while.

clatter!clatter!clatter!
A series of crisp hooves sounded, breaking the silence between the three of them.

Han Rang jumped off the horse, ran to Fusu and whispered in a low voice.

"Huh? Say it again!" Fusu frowned slightly, with a very complicated expression on his face.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Mrs. Tian Ji has been confirmed to be pregnant!" Han Rang took a step back and bowed to the ground.

"What? My sister is pregnant? So I'm going to be an uncle!" Tian Wei jumped three feet high, and the ecstasy in his heart made him ignore the etiquette before the king. Whether the Tian family can completely turn around depends on his stupid , No, my beautiful sister!
"Congratulations, Your Majesty!" Meng Tian clasped his hands together and bowed to the ground.

Uh, what expression should I make now?After all, this is the first time that I want to be someone else's father no matter before or after time-traveling... Fu Su was a little dazed, with a foolish smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)