Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Li You suddenly asked again: "By the way, don't you have farming cattle? But farming cattle are not affected by smallpox?"

Originally, the use of livestock was a method used by farming civilizations to solve the problem of insufficient manpower. It can even be said that cattle are the main force in farming, and people are the auxiliary.

Hong Man's face was full of bitterness when he heard the words: "Your Highness, this involves the issue of the cold and the ground that I mentioned earlier... When it is as cold as today, the fields are frozen hard, and the cattle want to pull the The straight-plow plough takes several times more effort than usual, so it can't plough much land in one day!"

"In addition, cattle are always scarce, and there is no way to solve this problem by buying a few more cattle. If it was fine in the past, in these few months, manpower can be used to make up for the lack of farming in winter, but now There's not even anyone who can make up for this shortfall!"

Li You finally realized that this smallpox epidemic was the last straw that broke the camel's back. As a result, Youzhou directly lost the manpower to fill the shortage of cattle when the weather was cold, and finally the farmland in Youzhou was largely abandoned!

But this is also something that can't be helped. After all, cattle in the Tang Dynasty were indeed rare things.The imperial court even ordered that cattle are not allowed to be killed and eaten, simply to ensure the number of cattle in accordance with the momentum of the state's protection of animals in later generations.

But even so, Datang still has a serious shortage of cattle, just like a serious shortage of people.

"In that case, I haven't eaten beef for a long time..."

Thinking of this, Li You couldn't help but swallow.

For someone like him who often ate beef in his previous life, it was a torment that he had not touched beef for so long.

And in the Tang Dynasty, even pork was called cheap meat, and the royal chef would never use it when cooking, so Li You could only eat mutton hard all the time!

"Eh? Are cattle very scarce?" At this moment, Cheng Chumo suddenly said curiously, "It seems that cattle often fall to their death in my family?"

Chapter 193 No less than the cure for smallpox!

Li You and Ma Zhou were suffocated when they heard the words, and looked at Cheng Chumo together.

This Cheng Chumo looked inexplicable, scratched his head and said, "Why... what's wrong?"

Seeing Cheng Chumo's dazed appearance, Li You was very angry.

Surprisingly, I don't know happiness in the midst of happiness!

Where did those cows fall to their death?It was clear that he was beaten to death by Cheng Yaojin.

Although this reason sounds stupid at first, but Cheng Yaojin is a big thorn, and people around him can't provoke him for this kind of thing.

Only Cheng Chumo, who is in the same vein as Cheng Yaojin, would really think that it was a cow that fell to his death.

"Damn! This is treatment that even the prince does not have!"

For a time, Li You only felt extremely sad and indignant, this is really too enviable... Oh no, it is too outrageous!

Niu Niu is so cute, how can you eat cow?

"Why don't I try to kill a few cows next time? Anyway, with my internal power level that is stronger than that of a first-class master, it's probably no problem to kill a few cows with my bare hands..."

Li You's heart was full of longings for steak, beef skewers, beef hot pot, etc. At this time, Cheng Chumo continued to die, showing the beautiful expression of memories.

"Speaking of which, why do those cows fall to their death? I have to eat the cows all the time, otherwise it's a waste, but to be honest, it's quite delicious..."

Ma Zhou's face twitched, and Li You also stepped forward and hugged Cheng Chumo's shoulders.

"Chumo, come come... Let's go to a far place to discuss why your cow keeps falling to death."

"Huh?" Cheng Chumo still didn't know the disaster was coming, "His Royal Highness, why do you have to go to a far place to discuss..."

In the sound of Cheng Chumo's questioning, the two walked further and further, Ma Zhou covered his forehead, as if he was watching Cheng Chumo step by step towards the background of the guillotine.

"what!"

"Oh!"

"Ow!"

Sure enough, after a while, Cheng Chumo had several bruises on his face, and came back behind Li You wanting to cry without tears.

Cheng Chumo just feels like he wants to cry now, he is so wronged!

Why was he beaten again?What did he do wrong? !

"It can't go on like this... The most important thing in governing Youzhou is to fill everyone's stomach first, otherwise everything will be in vain."

After returning, Li You also pondered.

If he insisted on saying it, it would not have reached the point of food shortage now. Otherwise, the scene that Li You saw today would never be so peaceful.

It is estimated that the common people are only to the point where there is no surplus of food, but it is still possible to barely survive.

But does this mean that Li You can sit back and relax?

Quite the contrary!

The hunger in front of me is not the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is seeing that the food cannot be grown, and the fields are largely deserted. It is foreseeable that there is a sense of despair with no harvest, and the countdown to death waiting for the arrival of the famine without food to eat!

After thinking for a while, Li You said cautiously, "Hong Man, take this official to the fields to see."

"This……"

Hong Man and the surrounding people were stunned, they didn't expect Li You to make this request.

No high-level officials have been here before, but basically they just left after passing the scene. No one would really want to go to a field full of muddy water, not to mention that now the muddy water is frozen into dirty ice, which makes it even more difficult. Oops.

Moreover, even if it is really over, how can those high-ranking people understand the farming of the people at the bottom?

But even if it passed, it was useless, Hong Man still felt that he could not refuse Li You's kindness. At least he was more willing to let go of his body than other higher-ranking officials.

"I understand, Your Highness, please come with me."