Become a feudal king from today

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While Beidi was hatching a vicious plan, Zhao Xu, Liu Fu and a group of officials were inspecting the horse administration and Guanzhuang in Yanzhou.

"Your Highness, the horses in this horse farm are all the strongest among the captured war horses. The mares are also strong and have shiny coats. During this period, this horse farm alone has bred 800 foals." The official was introduced by Zhao Xu.

He is Shen Shixing, the head of the Agriculture Department of the government.

While Liu Fu and other officials were listening to his lectures in the administrative school, they were also using what they learned from the school to reform the government offices.

For example, the Department of Agriculture is a newly established institution.

The officials of the Agriculture Department have many responsibilities.

In addition to being responsible for horse administration, officials are also responsible for going to the countryside to teach the people the planting methods they learned in school, so as to increase the income per mu.

At the same time, he also has the responsibility of coordinating all the fields in Yanzhou and planning crop planting.

At present, the people of Yanzhou generally still have a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy where men farm and women weave.

In addition to part of the land allocated to each family for growing grain, they also need to grow mulberry, hemp, etc.

After all, in food, clothing, housing and transportation, food and clothing are the most important. Wheat and rice fill the stomach, and mulberry and linen provide silk and linen.

However, Zhao Xu has not yet let the agriculture department touch the traditional production methods of the people.

The Department of Agriculture mainly plans official villages and acres of land for production and camp farming.

"Eight hundred? It's indeed good, but their survival rate must be guaranteed." Zhao Xu said.

In ancient times, the land was vast and sparsely populated.

Therefore, it is not very difficult to find a piece of land in Yanzhou that is not suitable for farming but suitable for grazing.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, this stable will be sprinkled with quicklime every half month, and allicin will be added to the foal intermittently. The foals are growing very nicely." Shen Shixing pointed at a lively foal in the stable.

Zhao Xu stopped to watch and smiled.

Methods such as quicklime disinfection and allicin feeding were learned by officials from the administrative school.

In addition to these methods, the current students of the Administration School are still studying some of the local methods he provided to promote the agricultural development of Yanzhou.

Inspected the racecourse.

Zhao Xu and the officials went to Guanzhuang again.

Different racecourses have large areas of pasture, and the officialdom directly under the royal palace is more crowded.

When he arrived, the shepherd boy from Ligguanzhuang was driving a large number of cattle and sheep into the pen.

Most of these cattle and sheep were snatched from the Black Iron King's tent during this battle, and also from Bai Shang and others when they attacked Ningjin Dusi.

Today, these cattle and sheep have become the basis of Yanzhou’s livestock industry.

He will teach officials professional animal husbandry techniques to develop the animal husbandry industry in Yanzhou.

"Your Highness, Guanzhuang is currently being renovated to realize the ecological recycling agriculture mentioned by Your Highness." Shen Shixing said.

When the other officials heard this, they were not surprised by the unfamiliar vocabulary.

Because King Yan explained it to them when he was giving lectures.

Zhao Xu nodded, this was the focus of his inspection of Guanzhuang.

In ancient times, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and sideline fisheries were all under extensive management.

Without changes, large-scale agricultural production will not be possible.

Seriously speaking, agriculture can provide many raw materials for industry. Rice can be used to make wine, cotton can be used to weave cloth, and meat oil can be used to make soap.

Therefore, if agriculture is not prosperous, it is impossible for industry to prosper.

Make bricks without straw.

Therefore, he attaches no less importance to agriculture than to industry, which are complementary to each other.

Therefore, in order to scale up Yanzhou's agriculture, he started from Guanzhuang and launched ecological recycling agriculture.

This concept has long been out of date in contemporary times.

Just the rational use of waste generated by animals and plants.

For example, the pigweed mode.

First, build a biogas digester to allow the pig manure and urine to flow into the pig pen, so that the biogas manure can be used to grow vegetables. The biogas slurry can be sprayed on the vegetable leaves to prevent insect damage.

In addition to the pig marsh vegetable model, there is also the fish, mulberry and chicken model, where chickens are raised in mulberry fields and chicken excrement and silkworm excrement are fed to fish.

Of course, there are other models. Based on these different models, Guanzhuang is divided into different areas to establish circular agriculture and expand output.

After walking around Guanzhuang, Zhao Xu saw some newly built biogas pools.

The principle of the biogas digester is very simple. It is to dig a pit, build a pool with blue bricks and cement, and leave an exhaust hole to discharge the biogas.

In addition, there are chicken coops next to mulberry fields, cowsheds with ponds, etc.

These are all newly renovated in Guanzhuang.

"From now on, the meat that the soldiers eat will be left to you. If they have no meat to eat and cause trouble to you, I will not care about it." Zhao Xu said to Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing knew that King Yan was joking, but what he was talking about was serious business, so he said: "I will definitely increase the output of the officialdom every year."

"Well, as long as you have this determination." Zhao Xu laughed with Liu Fu and others.

After shopping around for a whole morning, Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng.

Then he went straight to the granary.

Since receiving the letters from Dong An and Mi Yan, he decided to take precautions and nip hidden dangers in the bud while the powerful clan did not completely strangle him on trade, food, minerals and other issues.

Strive to achieve a situation where the seal is completely isolated and can sustain itself for two or three years.

In terms of grain, agricultural production in the four northern counties has basically recovered.

Among the four counties, Yan County and Shanggu County have recovered the best. After all, he was the first to accept these two counties.

In addition to being self-sufficient, the people in the two counties basically have a surplus of food to sell in these two seasons this year.

He asked Liu Fu to buy them all at market prices.

In addition, when he attacked Jinzhou, he asked the Xie family to exchange grain for artillery, and asked for a year's rations for the population at that time.

Some time ago, Chang Wei went south and swept through the three southern counties and seized a large amount of grain and grass from the Yuan family and the wealthy clan.

Now these grains and grasses are stored in the Yanjun granary.

Liu Fu calculated that this food was enough to keep Yanzhou out of food for a year.

Now, all of Yanzhou is under his command. Winter is about to turn to spring, and farming in the seven counties has resumed. Yanzhou's food self-sufficiency is basically no problem.

But even so, he always had to check the granary from time to time.

This is the cornerstone of Yanzhou's stability and should not be taken carelessly.

After inspecting the granary, Zhao Xu, Liu Fu and other officials went to the government office.

Although Beidi is eyeing it, the development of Yanzhou cannot be delayed because of this. What needs to be done must still be done.

After all the officials sat down, he said: "Today's inspection, generally speaking, there have been some achievements in large-scale infrastructure construction during this period, but it is far from enough. In addition, different counties should develop differently according to their advantages, such as those with more water networks. There are many fish farms in the counties, and there are many kinds of food in the places with many fertile fields. The counties close to the sea can fish and dry salt..."

While Zhao Xu was talking, Liu Fu and others were taking notes, for fear of missing a word.

They had to admit that King Yan was much smarter than them.

Acting according to King Yan's words is sometimes more useful than what they tried their best to think of.

An hour passed, and Zhao Xu talked about agriculture in the major infrastructure construction.

Then he wanted to ask Liu Fu about the production camp and farming, but suddenly there was a "boom", which startled everyone.