"I didn't try it, but it is definitely suitable for pigs to eat mulberry leaves occasionally. But mulberry leaves are very expensive. In peace, mulberry leaves are a must for silkworm farmers. I told him that he can and let him cultivate more mulberry seedlings."

The protein content of mulberry leaves is very high, comparable to corn, and is a very good rough feed. It can also raise pigs, sheep, silkworms, etc.

In Teng Country, Zhu Bin is experimenting.

If the experiment is successful, some mulberry tree planting can be appropriately promoted as street trees and as greening trees. It is better to promote the mountainous areas, after all, there are more places to plant trees in the mountainous areas.

"Mulberry trees are the first to raise silkworms, followed by pigs and sheep. After all, silk is the best fabric. Men farming and women weaving is the traditional farming economy."

In the next few days, Lu Bu spent every day working on military training and farming.

The pig farming in Xuzhou is not as good as that of Teng Guo. Lu Bu came to the pig farm every day these days, improved the feeding method, and also used cement to pinch some automatic feeders.

Whenever it was time to slay pigs, Hua Tuo brought students to get started and trained their courage and skills.

Under the leadership of Lu Bu, Xuzhou paid more attention to pig raising from the governor's office, to the prime minister, to the county, and to the village.

After printing some precautions and techniques, the effect can be played in slightest. Rural people are more stubborn and stubbornly think that their pig farming methods are good and it will be difficult to change in the short term.

The first thing Lu Bu changed was the military's breeding farm and the breeding farms responsible for Tun Ding, especially the large breeding farms responsible for Tun Ding. Each breeding farm is as large as thousands of pigs.

These happy pigs run around and play every day, eat wild grass and wild vegetables, and only eat food and scraps and cornmeal after returning to the pig house at night, and their growth rate is still considerable.

According to expectations, it is estimated that which batch of pigs will be killed and enter the fattening pen three months in advance. Although the fattening pigs can run and jump, the area of ​​the pen is much smaller. The weeds and vegetables eaten are cut and thrown in, and they are mainly made of grain and corn flour. Two meals a day. In the words of Tun Ding, it is better than people eat every day.

"Three key points of pig farming: First, exercise appropriately, pigs and goats are different. The mileage of grazing every day should be as short as possible, and the round trip should not exceed six or seven miles. If it exceeds ten miles a day, it is basically consumed. Second, the feed should be kept up, and bran, rice bran, sorghum, corn flour or sweet potato noodles are all good things. Third, the pen should be cleaned and you must clean it frequently, especially if you find a dead pig, deal with it as soon as possible and sprinkle lime to disinfect it." Lu Bu was discussing pig farming with these supervisors of the pig farm.

Chen Gong came, without interruption, and waited for Lu Bu to finish his speech.

Lu Bu came out and said: "Public station, what's the matter?"

"Mi Hong is back and brought five hundred Xiongnu horses from Youzhou. The horse farm at the gate of the south city is placed. I saw that the horse is too short, small and ugly. I don't know if it is useful, so I came here to ask my lord."

"Why didn't you say such an important thing earlier? Let's go quickly."

Lu Bufei flew on the red rabbit horse and disappeared.

Chen Gong had just climbed onto the horse and followed slowly behind him on a big white horse.

Lu Bu walked to the place and looked back. Where is Chen Gong? It turned out that Chen Gong hadn't followed.

This horse farm was built by the ring-eyed thief Zhang Fei. Later, Qin Yilu reclaimed all the nearby wastelands, and this place became a temporary gathering place for foreign horses. Because raw horses had to be isolated first when they entered the group, the ancients attached great importance to various diseases of horses, because medicine was underdeveloped, so prevention must be paid attention to.

Hundreds of horses were gnawing on corn stalks, and they were eating very vigorously.

The biggest feature of these horses is that they are short, generally with shoulders of one meter two to one meter three, with large heads and thick necks and thick limbs, long manes and hard hooves. They weigh only 1,400 knots.

The coat color is also quite strange, with chrysanthemum green, mainly horse-bearing, and the hair is rough and there is no sign of trimming and combing.

Mi Hong was waiting anxiously, and when he saw Lu Bu coming, he quickly bowed.

"See Lord Governor."

"Honor Mi, don't be polite. When will he come back?"

"I just arrived this morning. I've been out for almost two months. It's so far to Youzhou." Mi Hong sighed.

Lu Bu turned over and went into the horse farm and found a green horse. The green horse was relatively taller and his shoulder height was more than 1.3 meters tall.

These horses are not raw horses, and have undergone first training, but they ride very few times and are still very wild.

However, the black horse dared not act in front of Lu Bu anymore, and stood there obediently. Lu Bu turned over the horse, the black horse raised its four hooves and ran in the circle. It ran strongly and calmly, and its strength was still good.

If you add heavy armor and weapons, it will probably be a big deal.

"What is the price of this horse? How much can it be obtained."

"I dare not deceive adults. If this horse is bought from the Wuhuan people, the price is extremely low, with an iron pot and a horse. But I bought it from a local tribe in Youzhou, and the price is two iron pots. Yuan Shao collected taxes, plus some labor, fodder along the way, and the compensation for eating other people's crops occasionally. A horse has to be at least eight jin of money to make money." Mi Hong calculated with his fingers.

Lu Bu looked at this group of horses. Most of them were mares, a small number of horses and a small number of ponies. Eight-chan horses were still very cost-effective. The Hun horses were not popular in this era and were not famous yet. Except for the grassland people, few other countries chose this kind of horse as war horses because they were too small and did not look tall and mighty. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty more than a thousand years later, the Mongols rode this kind of horse to fight everywhere.

"Okay, then that's it, the deal is completed. Get the next batch back as soon as possible. Only 500 of them were collected in two months. This is a bit slow."

"This is not sure that adults can like this horse. If you know that adults can like this horse, you will divide the manpower into multiple batches, prepare saddles from Youzhou, and ride three to four horses per person, and ride them back directly. This will be much faster."

"Okay, then do it like that. Next time I bring some mares over, and the price of those with better looks can be the same as the horse, but the price of a pony over one year old will be lower. Wang Heng will settle the bill with the head of the Mi family."

Wang Heng felt a little painful. This horse was like a donkey. It was sold for eight guan per horse, which was not cheap. And Mi Hong also asked to settle the bill with an iron pot, and a horse had twenty-five iron pots.

Although it sounds very unprofitable, Lu Bu believes that it is worth it and you have to buy as much as you want. In the plains, cavalry is much stronger than infantry, with superb mobility and extremely strong charge. Cavalry is the king of this era. Although everyone does not understand the characteristics of the Hun horses, Lu Bu believes that everyone will understand it soon.

There is another thing that Lu Bu didn't say, that is, cultivating mules.

Taking the Hun mare as its mother and the huge black-headed donkey as its father, mules were cultivated. Mules were larger than Hun horses and had stronger endurance. Although they could not run fast, pulling carts, plowing land, and carrying things was versatile. What was more important was that they were gentle and had a better temper than horses.

When Chen Gong arrived, Wang Heng had already taken Mi Hong to settle the bill.

Chen Gong said: "Lord, this is too fast. These horses are a bit ugly, and I still want to kill the price."
Chapter completed!