"What the lord said is that when you are afraid of locust plagues, a large-scale locust plague cannot be resisted by human forces. Fortunately, the appearance of potatoes, even if the leaves are plagued, the potatoes under them are intact. There is another flood, these two major disasters are a headache. The Xiaguan is preparing to repair the Yellow River embankment as soon as the New Year is over. The embankment will be repaired every year and every year, and it will not be better. It is really a headache. I hope the lord can arrange some more racks, and the wooden wheel trucks made by the carpenter are far less useful than the lord's arrangement."

"This is OK. You can arrange the repairs. Just don't delay the farming season. As for the racks and cars that you can get back to Xuzhou, you will be able to transfer 1,000 vehicles. The Yellow River management project is huge and the population is too small now, so it is really difficult to manage."

Zhuge Jin was very pleased, and Lu Bu still understood the difficulties of managing the Yellow River very well. The Yellow River is not a problem in normal times, and he is very obedient.

But during the flood season, the surging river water was really scary. Once the river bank collapsed, hundreds of miles would become a lake. Fortunately, the water volume of the Yellow River was not too strong, and most people could have time to escape.

The next morning, Lu Bu arranged for Huaji to lead the army back to Xuzhou to recuperate, leaving only the 500 guards led by Xu Shitou.

I visited the official breeding farm in Jinan, especially the pig farms that are related to people's livelihood.

The pig farm in Jinan County is well-known by Zhu Bin. It is a big sports field. When you have enough food, you can go back and forth on the sports field and have fun and fight.

In winter, you can eat less in the wild. Use a long mouth to find some grass roots, seeds, tuber and other foods.

There are also some offspring of wild boars and domestic pigs, and their patterns are all covered with wild boars, which look very fierce.

"These pigs are a generation of hybrid pigs. They are fierce in nature and are only used for planting and never grazing." The pig farm manager introduced to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu nodded: "Yes, it's okay to do some research properly. Now, besides the local black pig, what breeds are there?"

"There are flower pigs transported from Langya, black and white pigs, which are not big. They usually take more than 100 kilograms, but they grow very quickly, have a gentle personality, and are fat and thin, and have a better taste. There are Guangling black pigs in the country of Teng, which produce more children than our local black pigs."

"Collection of more varieties does not necessarily mean to make a profit. The official pig farm must play a role in protecting seeds, and this is the only way to drive the people to breed."

Lu Bu inspected the pig farm. Raising pigs these days is not just about eating meat, but also about the bumper grain harvest, farmland cultivation, and fertilizer for arable land.

Even tenants who rent a few acres of land will raise two pigs as long as conditions permit. Because they need fertilizer to farm, where the fertilizer comes from, they naturally raise pigs. Horses, cows, mules, and family conditions are big animals. They cannot afford to raise them. Governments without land generally will not sell them to you for credit, but pigs are different. Pigs are cheap and grow fast. They raise pigs in spring and autumn and can be slaughtered in winter. Eat more grass and grains when they come in spring, summer and autumn, and feed more feed when they come in winter. It is easy to spend more than 200 kilograms.

The supervisor has introduced a lot. Now a complete pig disease prevention system has been formed, first of all, parasite prevention. All rural farmers must separate the pen and the toilet of humans. Small pigs, medium pigs, and large pigs deworm them three times.

Whether it is a pig eaten by farmers or a pig sold in the market, there will be a check, mainly to check common rice and pork. Once it is found, it will be destroyed immediately, preventing the spread of the disease.

Secondly, the feed configuration is more rational. In addition to wild grass and wild vegetables, soybean meal, corn, sweet potato, rice bran, pumpkin, carrots and other things need to be fed together, which completely changes the previous feeding methods of farmers for single feed, allowing farmers to understand some basic nutritional knowledge.

In fact, farmers are not that stupid. Why didn’t they know about nutritional matching before? It was because there was no feed. Rice bran, soybean meal, and carrots were not enough. Now they know about nutritional matching. The more the reason is that the newly promoted crops have a bumper harvest and a large amount of surplus. In addition to paying taxes, rents are also available for pigs to eat.

High-yield sweet potatoes, pumpkins and corn have become the key feed for feeding pigs. These feeds are very suitable for pig farming, which has promoted pig farming.

Lu Bu led his army to the east and drove to Donglai County along the official road. It was only more than 300 miles away, and the speed was very fast. He arrived in two days.

When Sun Gan received the notice, Lu Bu had already arrived at the city gate.

It is definitely necessary to welcome it, but Lu Bu doesn't like to be too arrogant.

Sun Gan only brought a few officials from the government office to greet him at the west gate.

But there are many people, and thousands of people spontaneously greet the city gate.

Thanks from the heart, Lu Bu gave them clothes, quilts, seeds and tools, which were meticulous.

"The lord has lost weight."

"Gongyou has also lost weight."

Sun Gan is not young anymore, a man in his fifties, his hair has begun to turn gray and there are more folds on his face.

"Go back to Xuzhou when you go to Wuhuan to see what is the difficulty in Donglai?"

Sun Gan gave a deep gift: "Thank you for your concern. Donglai is better this year than in previous years. Grain production has increased a lot. I dare not say anything else, 99% of the people will not go hungry. A very special situation cannot be avoided."

"Thank you for your hard work."

The army entered the city, and Sun Gan welcomed Lu Bu into the city. When he arrived at the government office, the officials from all the offices met.

Sun Gan held a welcome banquet to welcome Lu Bu's arrival.

After the banquet, Sun Gan reported: "This year, the three crops of potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins have the largest yield. However, due to the lack of relevant knowledge and the people do not know how to process potatoes, they can only waste it for a long time, or they can only be used as seeds.

The same is true for sweet potatoes. People here are relatively poor and backward, and they can’t afford to buy slice processing machinery, so they can only use kitchen knives to slice and dry them.”

"You can promote some slicers to process dried sweet potatoes through credit sales. Gongyou communicates with the caravan. This type of thing is not expensive, such as using dried sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes for exchange."

"What the lord said is that this is what the people do now. Next year, sweet potatoes will be widely promoted and the processing method will naturally spread. The important work in the spring is to continue to promote sweet potatoes and potatoes. With these two magical grain crops, it is difficult to starve people to death."

Lu Bu deeply agreed that Donglai County has a sparse population, with several counties having a total population of only more than 100,000. The most important thing is naturally to increase the population.

Sun Gan’s ability is unquestionable. He has paid out fertility subsidies very well, and any family that has given birth can receive the subsidies.

Milk powder was distributed to families who were unable to raise their abilities. With these two measures alone, they could produce thousands more children a year, which was very beneficial to population growth.

Organize land reclamation and distribute ration fields to poor and landless people.
Chapter completed!