Destiny Only Han

Chapter 491 Liu Ying: Crossing the River by Touching the Eagle Sauce...

Yuzhang County Mansion.

Mei Yan obeyed the call and hurried over from Luling County. After washing his face at the gate and wiping off the sweat on his neck, he trotted all the way to the entrance of the main hall. , knelt down on one knee and cupped his fists and shouted loudly:

"Chen Tai Hou Mei Yan, please meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

This is the style that a fake Huang Yue should have in command of the power of life and death.

After a while, Liu Ying's somewhat listless voice came from the room: "Come in."

Mei Yan got up, took off his sword, took off his shoes and rushed in. The first thing that caught his eye was Liu Ying, who was wearing a waistcoat and shorts and sitting cross-legged on a bamboo platform. Then, a buzzing sound attracted his attention.

It was about three or four feet high, exuding a metallic luster. At the top of the front end, there seemed to be metal pieces like fan blades spinning rapidly. Therefore, standing in the room, one could feel the slight wind blowing. (Note 1)

Liu Ying followed his gaze and said with a smile: "The new mechanical fan, if you like it, I will give you one if you win Zhao Tuo this time."

This was the inspiration he got when he was making clocks and watches. The mainspring provides power to drive the fan blades to rotate, and then makes a mechanical fan that does not use manpower.

It's just that the time it can be used is not long, it will stop in about a quarter of an hour, and it needs to shake the crank to curl the mainspring to get power.

The mechanical fan was originally planned by Liu Ying to be launched later as a luxury to collect money, but she didn't expect to use it first.

Although the noble and wealthy merchants of this period would have servants and maids fanning them all night, no matter during the day or when they fell asleep at night, it seemed that they didn't need this kind of thing.

But luxury, what you want is to pretend to be a force in a seemingly useless place...

There are many child servants and maids. You can buy one from a human trafficker for only four to five thousand dollars, and then use it for two to thirty years. Unless you are a maid at the level of Red Buddha and Green Pearl, there is no possibility of showing off at all.

But the mechanical fan is different, the royal style is the same, the perfect combination of machinery and fashion, not one or two million, not three or four million, only 200...

So when Mei Yan heard Liu Ying's words, he was instinctively happy, and quickly bowed his hands to thank him, and at the same time swore that he would chop off Zhao Tuo's head and dedicate it to Liu Bang...

After chatting with Mei Yan for a few words, Liu Ying and Mei Yan got straight to the point, handed over a stick figure drawn by herself, and asked:

"Have you seen this kind of cow?"

Although he is not good at drawing, the distinctive feature that distinguishes buffaloes from zebues, yellow cattle, etc. is the pair of thick and large horns that bend backwards.

So after grasping this feature, the others can be ignored.

Well, the buffalo in Liu Ying's painting is a kind of cattle that came from Southeast Asia around 1000 BC. In fact, there are buffaloes in China, but they have disappeared before that and are almost extinct.

For example, the buffalo bones excavated from the Hemudu site are not of the same species as the common buffalo in later generations.

According to some research that Liu Ying saw when she was a keyboard warrior, the native Chinese buffalo was once called Si in the early years, that is, it was misrepresented as a rhinoceros.

After all, in the oracle bone inscriptions dug out, it was described that the king of Shang was hunting in the fields, and shot and killed as many as forty pigs with a bow and arrow at one time.

The rhinoceros hide is as thick as armor, and it is extremely difficult to hunt with bows and arrows. The most important thing is that rhinoceros is not a herd animal. It is almost impossible to shoot forty in one day, and wild buffaloes, no matter where the population is , are social animals.

Moreover, the water network in Anyang was criss-crossed in ancient times, which is also suitable for wild buffaloes to thrive.

In the later Zhou Dynasty, for example, there are such words in "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Auspicious Day", that is, I stretch my bow and hold my arrow.Send that little pig and kill this big one.To keep the guests, and to drink wine.

This shows that Xi and deer were the prey of the Zhou royal family, and the bones of buffalo were unearthed in the Zhou Dynasty site, but no trace of rhinoceros was found. (Note 2)

As for the extinction of the native buffalo, it is very close to the extinction of the wild horses by the Indians. When the Indians exterminated the wild horses, they did not have the skills to make wheels. After the technology of wheels was invented, only alpacas could be used...

In an analogy, when the southern ancestors domesticated buffaloes, they did not master the skills of cattle farming. To be precise, they did not know how to smelt steel to make plows. , and then put water to drown the weeds...

The occasional buffalo appearing in the paddy field is also used to trample to death or eat the weeds in the paddy field, and then fertilize it by the way. There is no saying that the Hemudu people domesticated the buffalo for farming.

After all, if the plow is made of bronze or stone, it can only be pulled by humans. The strength of the ox is too great, and it is easy to hit the stone with the plow, directly scrapping this valuable agricultural tool.

Therefore, without suitable plows and cattle, agricultural development has almost stagnated. This is another reason why the south of the Yangtze River could not develop before the Tang Dynasty.

When Liu Ying stared at Mei Yan with piercing eyes, Mei Yan smiled, put down the stick figure in his hand and said, "Is this why Your Highness called me back from the front army?"

Liu Ying nodded up and down: "Exactly. This matter is related to the lifeblood of the country and deserves attention."

Mei Yan was silent for a while, and then said:

"I've seen this kind of cattle. My tribe has raised this kind of cattle before, but it's similar to how the northern prairie people herd sheep. We pick a valley with streams and pools and wipe out the tigers, leopards and wolves there. , Drive the cattle into free range.”

"In this way, every year during the festival, people will be sent into the mountains to hunt a head or two and come back to eat..."

"Your Highness said that the lifeblood of the country? Could it be that you want to use it as a farming ox? Your Highness, let me put the ugly words up front. This kind of cow has a bad temper, and I'm afraid it won't work to pull the plow..."

He had been with Lu Ze before, so he was no stranger to Niu Geng. He had vaguely understood Liu Ying's thoughts from Guan Ying before, so he expressed his concerns.

After listening to what he said, Liu Ying shook her head lightly, thinking that this guy is really just a warrior with a brain full of muscles.

Is the buffalo still grumpy?

Then he really has never had close contact with the scalpers in the north.

In many paintings, the shepherd boy playing the flute is riding a buffalo. It is because the buffalo has matured a batch of honest ones. Try replacing it with a scalper?

Scalpers are crazy, and sometimes they kick their owners if they don't like it...

"There's something called a bull nose ring. I wonder if you've heard of it?" Liu Ying circled her two fingers together, a sense of superiority overwhelmed by IQ could not help appearing on her face.

The northerners were the first to master the skills of ox farming. The way to make the grumpy and stubborn ox obedient is to punch a metal ring or hemp rope through the nose of the ox.

Although some are inhumane and cruel, this is the price paid for the cattle as a species to survive and not be extinct by the biggest natural enemy, that is, human beings...

Liu Ying waved her hand without waiting for Mei Yan to say more, and said, "Find me all the buffaloes you can find, and I will make them obedient and become good helpers for farmers!"

"Well, give me the money, I want as much as I have!"

Mei Yan scratched his head, then quickly walked out with his hands clapped.

Although he still didn't understand why Liu Ying dared to say that, he would still complete the task without compromise.

This is not only the trust in Liu Ying, but also Liu Ying still has Baiyan Huangyue in her hand...

The most important thing is the last sentence Liu Ying said, give money!
Mei Yan and his subordinates are considered locals, and they have many relatives and friends in the Yue tribes around Yuzhang County.

The so-called fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields. Since Liu Ying gives money, there will be plenty of cattle. Anyway, they raise cattle for meat or to exchange supplies. Selling them to Liu Ying, who always bids fair prices, is naturally an excellent choice. .

Well, although Mei Yan is from Yue people, Yue people are known as Baiyue, and many of them have a sworn feud with their tribe. Therefore, killing and enslaving other Yue people tribes before is not a big deal. It will make him psychologically burdened.

Looking at Mei Yun's figure in the distance, Liu Ying stood up and turned the crank to power up the mechanical fan, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

With the cow, many things will be easier to handle.

He went south this time to improve the technology of the South Yue people and the surrounding Yue people, selling ironware wantonly, teaching them the skills of cattle farming and composting, so as to facilitate the realization of the three crops a year that Liu Ying hoped for.

The human mine is different from other minerals in that the human mine has the property of breeding and reproduction. There are fertile fields and advanced farming skills. It is only a matter of time before the population explodes.

And only when the population of Yue people increases, can the peasants in the north become farmers. As for the nationalist separatist forces arising from this?

Well, that's why he called out the flintlock technology.

Moreover, compared with the tenderness of reforming the land and returning to the country, the way the Yankees conquered the New World was simpler and rougher. This is why Liu Ying also brought many outstanding graduates of the Han Public School with her when she went south this time.

Destroy the temples and ancestral tombs of the local Yue people, ban their language and festivals, and then run schools, brainwash children, and tell those children that their ancestors are actually Han people who migrated from the north...

In this way, within ten or twenty years, the Yue people will become a minority, and then they will disappear in people's memory.

So this is also the real reason why Han Xin proposed to seal Nanyue, but was rejected by Liu Ying.

Otherwise, on the border of the empire, there are dozens of vassal states with a population of several million, administrative power and law enforcement power that can legally mobilize soldiers. Would Liu Ying still sleep?
Note 1: For mechanical fans, search for the keyword '1910 Swiss purely mechanical wind-up fan'.

Note 2: Questions about China's native buffalo and the statement about the species of Si come from "A Preliminary Study on the Origin of Domestic Buffalo in China".

(End of this chapter)