Seeing An Sanxi, thirty centurions dismounted collectively, ran over, ran three steps in front of An Sanxi, knelt down on one leg uniformly, put their right hands on their chests, bowed their heads and said respectfully: "I'm attending the farewell ceremony."
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"Get up, all of you, you are all my good brothers," An Sanxi also said with red eyes. "I never thought we would see each other again on the grassland one day."
"Farewell Zhe, we are following your footsteps non-stop with our tribe and ponies. Please lead us to attack those who betrayed the prince and make them pay the price for their treachery." Mu Qinglu said loudly.
"My brother, don't worry. The princess is here. We will recruit troops first, and then go one by one to settle accounts with those who killed the prince. None of them can escape. I swear to Changshengtian here that I will chase them to the end of the sky.
, and asked them to capture them one by one and sacrifice them before the souls of the prince and princess."
"It turned out to be Zhebiexu's death."
"Se Lengge, kill the cows, slaughter the sheep, bring out the pear blossom liquor, I want to have a good drink with my brothers to comfort myself after ten years of separation."
On that day, the tribe had a wild carnival, jars of strong wine were opened, roasted sheep were sizzling with oil, and countless roasted naan cakes were brought up.
His brothers were all very drunk. Everyone was very happy. The princess also came out to accept everyone's visit and drank the kumiss offered by everyone.
An Sanxi didn't feel bad about killing the sheep at all, even though he was not rich now, with many people and few livestock.
Yang Fan has promised to provide enough food. Don't worry about food. He has relaxed the recruitment of troops, surrenders and rebels.
Yang Fan also plans to replace all cattle and sheep livestock to increase productivity and improve the lives of herdsmen. This is more important than anything else. It is more convincing than anything else.
The sheep need to be replaced by fine-wool sheep. This fine wool can develop the textile industry. The current local wool is too hard, making clothes prick the skin and is uncomfortable. It can only be used to make felts.
The cows need to be replaced by Sanhe Friesian cows, which produce a lot of milk. Far more than local cows. They produce more than four tons of milk a year. They can also be used as beef cattle after retirement.
In addition to local horses, Don horses and Arabian horses should be added to breed cross breeds and gradually develop excellent horses suitable for the local environment.
In the future, wells will be drilled around the castle, highly nutritious pastures will be planted, and long-term stored green fodder will be produced to ensure that livestock can be settled and raised all year round.
There were hundreds of captured prairie horse thieves working hard at the quarry. The coolies used steel drills to drill holes, and the soldiers filled the holes with chemical fertilizers and explosives, then blew up the mountains and used the quarried stones to build houses so that the herdsmen could settle down.
In this way, the livestock capacity of the same piece of pasture will be greatly increased, and more people can be fed in a smaller area.
The current method on the grassland requires 3,000 acres of grassland to support a family, which is about two square kilometers of land. Moreover, the nomads must be transferred throughout the year to avoid destroying the grass roots and turning the area into a desert next year.
It seems that at least ten square kilometers are enough for a family to nomadically require. Therefore, there are very few people on the grassland and development has never been possible.
If the animal husbandry industry wants to develop greatly, it needs a large number of experienced herdsmen. Yang Fan needs to lure the herdsmen from Taiji and the herdsmen to herd sheep for him.
Yang Fan has begun to prepare to solve the problem of grassland invasion of the Central Plains for thousands of years.
That is to settle down, combine agriculture and animal husbandry, and develop a collective economy. Instead, raise new breeds of cattle and sheep, and develop the woolen textile industry. In this way, the mainland will become a trading partner of the grassland, rather than an object of plunder.
Herdsmen are accustomed to relying on trade rather than war to obtain winter food, so that they can truly extinguish the flames of war along the Great Wall.
These three thousand herdsmen families belong to An Sanxi's subordinates.
They also brought many Torgut tribesmen. They heard about Jebe's deeds and yearned for Jebe's ideas and stance.
The pits and valleys were filled with herders and slaves who were willing to come and seek refuge, but they just had no chance to escape.
They had already had enough of those fat-headed Taijis. They heard that Jebie distributed cattle, sheep, and grazing land to everyone. Everyone was distributed according to their work. Countless people came after them.
An Sanxi was so happy that he brought over 10,000 herdsmen at once.
The Torhut Tribe and the Ordos Tribe suffered heavy losses. Ansanxi planned to push further west, destroy several tribes between it and the Torhut Tribe, and annex them.
In this way, the population can be expanded to 100,000 people. 100,000 people will be a proper large tribe.
The total population of Lin Dan Khan's Chahar tribe will not exceed 600,000. With 100,000 cavalry, they are already the most powerful force on the grassland.
According to Yang Fan's plan, in the future, the grasslands here will combine agriculture and animal husbandry. Light industries such as wool textiles, leather, and meat processing will also be developed.
The pastures in this area are actually good, but they are too close to the Great Wall and the Mongolian tribes are not willing to stay here any longer. They feel unsafe.
The weather has become colder and drier in recent years. If we use underground water for irrigation, plant high-quality alfalfa and sweet stalks, and then make silage fodder in the autumn, it will be enough for livestock to eat for a whole winter.
In winter, animals can be packed into stone houses so that they can spend the winter safely indoors even if there is no heating.
After all, the stone house blocks the cold wind. The silage feed provides sufficient nutrition. Even livestock born in winter can survive.
Besides, there is no shortage of coal mines in Inner Mongolia. Small open-pit coal mines are everywhere. Zunhua has no shortage of iron and can provide hundreds of thousands of iron stoves. No matter whether it is heating people or livestock, it is not a problem.
The next day, An Sanxi distributed the first batch of completed tube buildings to these three thousand herdsmen households. These tube buildings surrounded the periphery of his military camp.
Those who can live here are military officers and some administrative staff, including some kind of commercial organization where Yang Fan is stationed here.
He planned to ask Yang Fan for instructions from these old troops to form a separate cavalry regiment. From now on, these people will be used as a cavalry regiment directly under the cavalry regiment and used as his personal soldiers. In the future, no matter how big the cavalry unit develops, these people will be used as personal soldiers.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! I heard that I would be assigned a house as soon as I arrived, and everyone was excited. After all, they all fled here and threw away their felt bags and everything. Now they lack everything.
An Sanxi directly followed the standards for guarding Qianhu Station and provided all the supplies.
Thirty centurions followed their leader to look at the house. They didn't expect the conditions here to be so good. They didn't live in felt bungalows, but could live in houses like those in Han Dynasty.
This earth building is so tall and scary that it looks like it is a big stone. It is very strong. It feels like it can be lived in for hundreds of years without being damaged.
This earth building is also built of cement and stone. It is across the river from the Bastille. It is on the west side of the river.
The centurions were all assigned houses. Each apartment had three bedrooms and one living room. The Mongolians had never seen a building before. They were dumbfounded by the walkways and stairs.
The tallest building in the earth building is the water tower, which is also a watchtower. The water well is manually pressed to pump the water from the well to a high place step by step, and then flows down by itself through iron pipes. It becomes tap water.
Every household has installed running water, flush toilets, and sewers. There are garbage shafts on every floor. Life is so comfortable.
Mu Qinglu and others were stunned when they saw the running water. When they saw the cast iron stove that burned coal, they were almost moved to tears.
Zhebie was so kind to the old brothers. Iron was so precious that Zhebie was willing to give each of the old brothers an iron stove. This thing is much heavier than an iron pot.
Mu Qinglu returned to his new home drunk that night. His wife quickly helped him in, and the three children also stared at him with their little eyes.
"The head of the house, Zhebie is still the same Zhebie he was back then. He was so kind to us." She wiped away her tears.
Mu Qinglu saw that the furniture in his house was all made of elm wood. Although there was no paint, the purple-red color of the yellow elm wood was just as beautiful.
The floor is paved, and you have to take off your shoes at the door when entering the house. There are beds and quilts in the house, as well as plenty of pots and pans.
"In the afternoon, when you go to Zhebie's place, people will come and move it here. Now we don't need anything. I heard that the children can still go to school."
Mu Qinglu didn't say anything. What he saw today shocked him too much.
"From now on, our family will follow Zhe and not go anywhere. Uh,"
Seeing that he was about to vomit, his wife quickly brought the wooden trash can over and let him hang her back.
After vomiting for a while, Mu Qinglu felt a surge of alcoholism. This lotus liquor was too strong, but he liked it too much. Zhebie was right, this is what men drink.
"I won't go there, so I'll follow Zhebie. I'm so happy, and I won't go there either."
The voice gradually died down, and Muqing Donkey fell down on the solid elm bed with a roar like an iron tower, making a loud sound that shook the earth and the mountains.
Snoring sounded.
She silently took off his robe and boots, put him down, and covered him with a quilt. She wiped her tears and went to the kitchen to look at the casserole on the iron stove, where rice porridge was cooking.
Food is very precious on the grassland, because food can be stored for many years, but meat cannot be stored. A bag of food can even save the lives of a family when food is cut off in winter.
Coarse grains are at a sky-high price. Today, Zhebie actually gave every centurion a full load of rice. It was white rice. She thought she was dazzled and grabbed several handfuls before she was sure it was white rice.
She had never eaten white rice more than once in her life. She was reluctant to make dry rice, so she cooked a casserole of white rice porridge for her three children.
I watched my eldest daughter Haas (Yu Shi) and her two younger brothers clawing at the door frame, staring intently at the white rice porridge churning in the casserole, with longing expressions on their little faces.
"It will be ready soon. Haas, please bring the stainless steel basins to the two brothers. I will serve you porridge now."
After saying that, I filled a large bowl for Hass and put it aside to let it cool down. The two little boys had to use that kind of steel basin, and they broke the porcelain bowl.
Porcelain on the grassland is a good thing that only gentlemen can afford.
After thinking about it, she gritted her teeth again, took out a piece of pickle from the jar, carefully cut some, and put a little in the bowls for the three children.
Salt is even more rare on the grassland than in the mainland. Unexpectedly, a jar of twenty kilograms of pickles was delivered in the afternoon.
Seeing the three children wolfing down porridge and eating pickles, she couldn't help but shed tears again.
Since these soldiers and horses were divided up by Taiji, their lives have plummeted. Taiji not only coveted these elite soldiers, but also distrusted them. When distributing supplies, they treated them like stepmothers and were ostracized.
It had been a long time since the children had had enough to eat. Now they are fine. Zhebie has returned to the grassland. They have support again and no longer need to rely on others.