The Rise of the European Emperor

After the plowing is over, it's time for the performance of the columbine chariot. The columbine cart is more efficient, and it can drill forty or fifty mu of land a day, and the efficiency is insanely high. Then, after the spring plowing and planting is over, it will start in April. In other countries, a small part of spring plowing has just been carried out.

Seeing that the whole country wanted to rest, Marin felt that it was a bit wasteful. Suddenly, he remembered - he can grow grass!

The so-called planting grass does not refer to planting grass for greening in future generations, but planting grass. Mainly alfalfa, but also ryegrass.

Ryegrass is not rye, the two are two different things. Rye, also known as triticale, is a food crop. The ryegrass, on the other hand, is pasture grass, which is something else.

The most powerful place for ryegrass is that it is more than one year old. That is, it can be harvested multiple times a year. Of course, you can also graze directly, letting the cattle and sheep graze on the ground. After eating, go elsewhere. After a month or so, the ryegrass grows back and the grass can be grazed again.

Therefore, in the pastures of later generations, ryegrass and alfalfa were generally used as a mixture. For example, in Australia, the technology of mixing alfalfa and ryegrass is widely used.

Why mix it with alfalfa? Because alfalfa is a legume crop that can fix nitrogen. It is full of alfalfa and can be used to fertilize the land. Ryegrass is a land-consuming crop. Growing ryegrass alone may even require fertilization.

And the alfalfa and ryegrass in the fertile land are mixed, so that the nitrogen-fixing effect of the alfalfa can be used, and the ryegrass can be "nurtured" at the same time. In this way, there is no need to fertilize the pasture. Moreover, alfalfa itself is a top-quality forage grass.

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It's just that most of the grasslands in Beihai country are native weeds, and the animal husbandry effect is not good. It is difficult for cattle and sheep to gain weight after eating them.

That's why Marin came up with the idea-why not use the opportunity of spring plowing to plant alfalfa and ryegrass on the land that has not been reclaimed as farmland as much as possible?

Alfalfa is a nitrogen-fixing fertilizer, and ryegrass provides multiple rounds of forage for livestock. As long as the pasture planting is done well, Beihai can raise more horses, cattle and sheep in the future.

Moreover, these professional pastures are rich in nutrition, and can also be used as feed, instead of grain, to raise horses...

In addition, Marin also plans to carry out crop rotation. Beihai has enough land, but it takes a lot of energy to grow food on one piece of land. Although there are fertilizer technologies with three complete types of fertilizers, they are not as fertile as the land itself.

Marin's plan is to use cultivated land and grassland for crop rotation. He plans to reclaim the same size or even larger grassland around the cultivated land, and plant alfalfa and ryegrass mixed.

With the nitrogen-fixing fertilizer function of alfalfa, the grassland will become fertile after one or two years.

The arable land on the edge becomes barren due to the consumption of fertility. But it doesn't matter. After one or two years, arable land and grassland are exchanged. The original meadows grew grain, while the original croplands grew alfalfa and ryegrass. In this way, soil force is maintained.

Moreover, grasslands planted with professional pastures can also allow farmers to raise horses, cattle and sheep on a large scale. Among other things, there is an adequate supply of horse feed for plowing the land.

You know, although Eastern European Mongolian horses eat a lot of grass. However, eating professional and nutritious pastures is different from eating ordinary weeds. If you eat too much weed, the horse will grow thin and boring. And eating pasture every day will make you fat and strong. When farming is busy, it is more powerful to pull the plow and pull the cart.

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Therefore, Marin ordered that the farmers who had finished spring plowing and spring planting continue to plow the land on the edge of the farmland to grow professional pasture.

Why plow the land? Because you want to kill the original weeds. If the soil is plowed, the roots of those weeds will be exposed to the air and endure the cold spring. Then, freeze to death.

There are no herbicides these days, so this is the only way to get rid of those weeds. After the weeds are frozen to death, the mixed sowing of alfalfa and ryegrass is carried out. In this way, the original, uh, weeds can be successfully replaced with professional pastures.

With an order, the farmers continued to move, and continued to cultivate the land on the edge of the cultivated land.

But after the land was plowed, Marin discovered an extremely embarrassing thing - he didn't have enough forage seeds...

This era is not the era of highly modernized animal husbandry in later generations. Europeans in this era did not pay much attention to the cultivation of professional forage grass. Only Beihai has cultivated a lot of alfalfa and has a lot of alfalfa seeds in reserve.

However, this little reserve is really insignificant compared to the huge Beihai country. You know, there are 12 million mu of arable land in Beihai. If the crop rotation system is followed, at least 12 million mu of pasture land needs to be planted.

However, the total amount of alfalfa seeds in Beihai is only enough to sow 1 million mu, which is less than one-tenth of the demand.

As for ryegrass seeds, there are quite a few in England. Because England raises sheep mainly by ryegrass. But Marin sent people to buy it, and they only got enough to plant 1.2 million mu. After all, there are only more wild ryegrass in England, and no ryegrass is deliberately planted and cultivated, so the number of seeds is limited.

Then, Marin was embarrassed - more than 10 million mu of grassland had been plowed in China, and as a result, only 2.2 million mu of seeds could be provided...

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to order to sow some grain seeds on the land that lacked seeds. Originally, he wanted to sow rye seeds. However, considering the needs of animal husbandry, on more than 9 million acres of grassland, Marin ordered half of the rye seeds to be sown and half of the oat seeds to be sown.

There are too many rye seeds in Beihai, and the warehouse is full of them. As for oat seeds, Malin specially sent people to other countries and regions to buy a lot of them for spreading.

Because it is sowing, not scientific and reasonable drilling. Therefore, Marin did not expect much yield from these plowed grasslands at all. Fortunately, whether it is rye or oats, the vitality is very tenacious. At that time, at any rate, there will be some gains to say...

Anyway, whether it is these extensively planted rye or oats, they are all used to feed livestock. It is best if there is output, if not, it is fine to chop up the straw and feed it to the livestock...

But because of this year's embarrassment, Marin made a special order to set up the Beihai Country Seed Cultivation Base and start large-scale cultivation of alfalfa and ryegrass seeds for the next year's needs.

In the future, Beihai will use the professional technology of mixing alfalfa and ryegrass to gradually transform most of the wasteland in Beihai into pasture.

In this way, farmers can also raise a lot of horses, cattle and sheep while farming the land. Even the harvested grass can be used to feed pigs.

If it is used to raise horses, combined with silage technology, the horses can be raised fat and strong. Once a war broke out, all the manors could pull out a group of fat and strong army horses for war.

Moreover, these meadows mixed with alfalfa and ryegrass can be exchanged with cultivated land to become fertile cultivated land. The two are rotated every two to three years, and both agriculture and animal husbandry are correct.

Even, after having enough pasture, Marin plans to make it mandatory to raise dairy cows or dairy sheep in all manors in the future. In this way, every child in the farm can drink high-nutrition milk or goat milk...

At that time, the North Sea country will be like the Netherlands with extremely developed agriculture and animal husbandry in later generations. Because the people have sufficient milk sources, everyone will be tall and strong. In this way, in the event of a war, the North Sea country can also pull out a large number of tall and strong soldiers. If it's a bayonet fight, height and long hands have an advantage after all. The devil soldiers of the later generations had such good military qualities and strong stabbing skills, but they still suffered a disadvantage when they encountered the Broadsword Team of the Northwest Army. Without him, it is not a problem of ability, but a problem of insufficient height and arm length. No matter how good the technique is, with a height of 1.5 meters, he still has to suffer in front of the tall and strong men of the Northwest Army. Only when shooting at each other, the devils have the upper hand...

Even in the face of the eight-way team who is not very professional in stabbing, the devils do not have the upper hand. At most, they can rely on powerful technology to bring great casualties to the Eighth Route Army. But in the final analysis, the devils still suffer. why? The veterans who have been trained for many years are not the same as the militia recruited randomly from the countryside by the Eight Route Army. The training cost is fundamentally different. Even if the casualties are the same, the devils have suffered a lot. There is no way, the height is not enough, the arm is too short, it is a disadvantage to fight the bayonet. Even if the skills are good, people can compete with you by relying on the length of their hands.

Therefore, after World War II, the devils became ruthless, and the whole people drank milk and ate beef. As a result, in the 21st century, the height of devils is almost the same as that of Chinese people, and even slightly surpassed them.

In World War II, the origin of devils could be judged based on their height. For example, seeing a group of devils who are relatively tall, the commander can conclude that these are not local devils, but maybe the second Korean devils. And a group of devils with a height of 1.5 meters or 1.6 meters... Well, the local devils are more difficult to deal with... Although the devils played by Mr. Pan are more stupid than the truth, but the height does not lie. Even, Mr. Pan's height was very standard among devils during World War II. Otherwise, devils would not be called "little devils" at that time...

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