Please pk, please stamp the ticket) "So many horses and cattle on the grassland are not well utilized and are wasted. Our agricultural areas are short of cattle and horses. We should open up a good trade route," Liu Tianling explain.

"I think Mongolian cattle are very strong. It would be very suitable for training calves to plow the fields," Ye Feng said.

Liu Tianling nodded: "We are not experts in this area. You can call the Agriculture Department and ask them to go to the headquarters. I will go back in a while."

"OK,"

When Liu Tianling drove back to the headquarters in the city, several senior executives from the Agriculture Department were already waiting. Everyone was familiar with Liu Tianling and they were all old friends.

"I called you here today to ask a question: do you think it's feasible?" Liu Tianling said.

"Commander-in-Chief, please speak,"

"In the northern Mongolian grassland, the annual production of Mongolian horses and Mongolian cattle is very large. They usually graze there, but once it snows in winter due to lack of forage, a large number of livestock will die. A piece of land under our jurisdiction on the grassland can provide 100,000 head Cattle, 100,000 horses, one solves the sales problem of herdsmen on the grasslands, and the other solves the problem of insufficient large livestock for the people in our agricultural areas. Mongolian horses can be used to pull carts, but Mongolian oxen are used to cultivate the land and the people do not respond. It depends on how to solve this problem,”

The person in charge of the Agriculture Department said: "Mongolian horses are small in size, have strong disease resistance, and are tolerant of roughage. They can be used to pull carts and ride on farmland in agricultural areas without any problems. They have been promoted in the past two years, but the number is not large. Mongolian cattle are excellent cattle." , very strong, able to adapt to a variety of harsh conditions, the corn stalks produced in agricultural areas are good feed, and the cultivated land is also very good, but you need to start training when you are one or two years old. If you are too old, it will definitely not work. , and it is best to breed bulls separately, and use steers and cows for farming. Since cattle in agricultural areas are not allowed to be killed casually, there is very little beef. You can transport Mongolian cattle over, kill some for meat, and eat some For planting purposes, calves can be slowly trained into good cattle for plowing." Another executive said: "Shandong is a major agricultural province, and the land in the plains is flat, which is actually more suitable for horse plowing. The efficiency of horses in plowing is not lower than that of cattle. If Shandong had more than 100,000 horses, it would create at least 230,000 more laborers."

Liu Tianling asked: "Then why is it that cattle farming is more common, but horse farming is less common?"

"Haha, the commander-in-chief is right. Although horse farming has always existed, it has not been popularized in the past dynasties. There are many reasons. I will mention a few of the most important ones. First of all, horses are mostly abundant in grasslands. Without railways, Horse transactions are slowly transferred to the mainland through the market. A horse worth ten yuan on the grassland, after arriving in the mainland, has changed hands several times, and the price has risen to thirty or fifty yuan. Such an outrageous price Ordinary people will not buy farmland, and only some wealthy people can buy it. Secondly, because horses are most needed in wars, cavalry will be used as elite soldiers in wars of all ages. Horses raised in agricultural areas can easily be requisitioned. In comparison, cattle require more insurance. Thirdly, this is a matter of publicity. Many people do not know the advantages of horse farming. Similarly, if we want to develop horse farming, we must also solve these three problems."

Liu Tianling nodded: "The analysis is correct. The circulation problem cannot be solved in a short time, but the price will not increase during transportation. Our goal is to sell without losing money. We will not regard cattle and horse trading as a way to make money. The purpose is to improve agriculture." Production efficiency will free up more labor force. The second question is no longer necessary to worry about. We already have a source of horses. Besides, in the future, the world will be mechanized and cavalry will become an ordinary force. The third question is the propaganda of horse farming. It’s up to you. Now, while the wheat fields are plowing after the autumn harvest, you can promote horse farming.”

The heads of the agricultural departments have expressed their opinions: "It is okay to promote horse farming. We will soon formulate an effective method."

"Well, I have recently arranged for people to start transporting cattle and horses to the south. Veterinarians must be fully prepared to check cattle with infectious diseases at any time. In addition, we will open a few more cattle trading markets. We must strictly implement the trading rules. Absolutely Stolen cattle cannot be allowed to be traded in the market again, and once discovered, report them to the Public Security Bureau immediately," Liu Tianling said.

People from the Agriculture Department also took immediate action and organized hundreds of horses to promote horse farming.

Outside Zhangqiu County, south of the city is a piece of harvested peanut land, about 20 acres. The owner of the land, Lao Ma Tou Guan, will be planting wheat in a few days. He is worried that no one will plow the land. Suddenly, someone came today and said that he was going to plant wheat. The land was plowed without charging a penny, which made Lao Ma Tou extremely happy.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, a lot of people came nearby because people from the agricultural department said that horses were used to plow the fields today. Everyone was surprised to see a plow with two horses, controlled by a skilled plowing veteran, and a whip. Yang, the horses quickly began to plow the land, the plowshares turned up the land, and the air was filled with the fragrance of soil.

The old horse head said: "It's strange that horses plow the land faster than oxen."

"No, these two horses can plow ten acres of land in one morning. It would take more than half a month to dig the land manually. You will know when you see it."

The people were also chattering non-stop. Some people who had seen horses plowing said that there was no problem with horses plowing, but those who had never used horses to plow said that horses had no endurance. But as time went by, after two hours, the two horses After plowing three acres of land, the horses were a little tired. They ate and rested for a while, and then plowed another two acres of land. Five acres of land were plowed this morning. No one was gossiping. After all, the power of a horse is much greater than that of a donkey, so it is still very cost-effective to use it for plowing.

"Do you think this horse plowing is very good?" the promoter asked.

"It's very good. It's almost the same as an ox, or even faster than an ox." Seeing is believing, everyone said one after another.

"That's not all. If you have a cow at home, if you want to pull a cart of grain to take out food fifty miles away, it may take a whole morning. But if you have a horse, you can hitch the carriage and drive there, and you will arrive in more than an hour. This speed is as fast as a car. How good is it? Besides, if one goes directly on horseback, it will be faster."

"Yes, that's right. Let alone horses, donkeys and mules are very fast. Oxen plow the land and plow slowly," everyone said one after another.

Some people also said: "We all understand what you said, but a horse is very expensive, not to mention there are so few horses. How can it be the turn of ordinary people like us to buy them?"
Chapter completed!