Iron Dynasty

Under the warm sun, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army worked diligently.

A beautiful pastoral picture makes the soul clear for a while, but in a blink of an eye, another layer of haze clouded Xiao Ming's eyes.

In such a barbaric era, for this rare peace, he can only defend with blood and fire.

This time the seeds sent by the king of Chu filled the cabins of five merchant ships, and he only spent half of the artillery on the cotton seeds for these five ships. In addition to cotton, the 30 artillery also cost the king of Chu five. The price of more than one hundred thousand silver taels.

The amazing trade surplus of industrial products to agricultural products made Xiao Ming realize the huge profits brought by industrial products, which made him firm in his determination to dump industrial products in exchange for various raw materials in Great Chongqing.

After leaving some of the seeds, Xiao Ming asked the soldiers to transport the remaining seeds to other slave plantations.

At the same time, he and Niu Ben went to an open space outside the Guanzhuang. On this land, a long shed was being built. Below the shed is a red brick wall, and each wall forms a four-meter-long square. lattice.

"His Royal Highness, this is the pig farm of the Qingzhou Army." Niu Ben introduced to Xiao Ming, his face even more bitter than when he was growing cotton.

After letting the Qingzhou Army grow food, now the Qingzhou Army once again assumes another important task-raising pigs.

Pang Yukun suddenly laughed when he saw Niu Ben's appearance, "His Royal Highness, look at Niu Dudu, how long this face is, he now thinks that his soldiers are wronged."

"Is this not wronged?" Niu Ben said: "This kind of food will finally understand, why this pig raising has fallen on our heads, and Dayu has no soldiers to raise pigs."

Xiao Ming said sternly: "Old General, it's not right for you to think this way. Is it enough for soldiers to eat their stomachs? Next, let's let the soldiers eat meat, and the soldiers will have more strength to train. Why let the army Raising pigs? It’s very simple. The Qingzhou Army is not an ordinary Great Chongqing Army. Our Qingzhou Army has logistics soldiers. The logistics soldiers are responsible for raising pigs for the soldiers to eat. Otherwise, what do they do? Isn’t that all right?

Niu Ben was blocked by Xiao Ming's series of rhetorical questions and was speechless.

Now the Qingzhou Army is recruiting, and some of the soldiers are directly assigned to the logistics service. This is a group of soldiers who do not fight but are only responsible for the army's food, procurement, and transportation.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "Furthermore, the Qingzhou Army will soon be equipped with flintlocks, and the Qingzhou Army will also take a different path. The normalization and division of labor of this army must be done."

"Flintlock?"

Niu Ben was shocked when he heard this. He had heard the news that the military workshop was producing a brand new weapon.

But Xiao Ming hasn't told him about this until now. Now that Xiao Ming has said it, the time has come.

"Today, let the old general come here to talk about this logistics matter. In the future, farming and raising pigs will be the matter of the logistics army. The main body of the Qingzhou Army will only be responsible for training in the future. The second is the flintlock issue, which is also an advance. The Qingzhou Army has a preparation."

Niu Ben asked: "Then what is this flintlock?"

"This is a powerful long-range weapon." So Xiao Ming told Niu Ben about the specific appearance, power, and use of the flintlock.

Niu Ben was stunned when he heard this, "His Royal Highness means that swordsmen, archers, and pikemen are all eliminated. The Qingzhou Army is only left with musketeers and cavalry?"

Slowly, Xiao Ming said, "Yes, when the flintlocks are installed, these units are no longer necessary."

"His Royal Highness, this is absolutely not possible. Abandon melee combat and only retain long-range shooting. If the cavalry breaks through the formation on the grassland, the remaining soldiers will only be slaughtered. Your Royal Highness must be three or four." Niu Ben anxiously said. It is impossible to understand Xiao Ming's decision.

Pang Yukun felt the same way, his brows frowned, and he stopped talking.

When a new thing emerges, it will inevitably be obstructed by the old thing. Xiao Ming has already thought about it. He said: "This king doesn't like to talk, but only likes to do it. Waiting for the flintlocks to be installed in the Qingzhou army, you I will understand."

Niu Ben and Pang Yukun stopped talking. Since Xiao Ming was so confident, they could only install the flintlock in his mouth.

Slightly mentioning some flintlocks to let the cow run out of breath, he went on to talk about the pig farm.

There is no such thing as professional breeding in Da Yu. Now Xiao Ming wants to spread modern agriculture in the fief.

"Pang Changshi, what happened to the piglets on this pig farm?"

"Back to your Highness, we bought a thousand piglets from the private sector, and also bought fifty adult sows and fifty adult boars. In this way, the piglets produced by this sow are estimated to be enough to raise pigs. Used it."

Xiao Ming looked at a general behind Niu Ben. This general was the Lieutenant of the Logistics Camp, whose name was Chen Feng.

With a wave of his hand to let Chen Feng come over, Xiao Ming said, "School Wei Chen, these piglets and adult pigs will be handed over to you. You can't feed this king to death."

In this era, the people have no experience in large-scale breeding. Xiao Ming explained the essentials of raising pigs to Chen Feng in detail while walking.

The most feared thing in modern pig raising is swine fever. When encountering this disease, pigs in the entire pig farm will soon be infected with each other to death, as is the poultry plague.

So what he and Chen Feng talked about were the ways to prevent swine fever and how to distinguish swine fever.

"This pig house must be cleaned up every day. If any pigs get swine fever, burn them and bury them immediately..."

The scientific knowledge of pig raising was introduced one by one, and Chen Feng nodded frequently, and he quickly understood the whole set of pig raising procedures.

After all, he used to farm the land, feeding chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs.

"As for the manure of the pig house, it is uniformly passed to the septic tank next to the pig house. This becomes the fertilizer for the official farm. Of course, it is also possible to raise some chickens and ducks next to the pig house. Chickens and ducks sometimes feed on pig manure. It can be put into Guanzhuang to eliminate insects. After all, Guanzhuang grows cotton, and chickens and ducks don’t eat cotton. It wasn't that Niu Ben called Xiao Ming's Highness, he really suspected that the person in front of him was King Qi, and that prince would understand this.

Pang Yukun and Niu Ben smiled bitterly.

They also have completely lost their tempers. Without talking about the Qi Wang's knowledge of astronomy and geography, he even knows this kind of messy things clearly and seems to be more proficient.

This general teaching gave Chen Feng a basic understanding of modern farming, so Xiao Ming was relieved.

The pig farm is a key to the Qingzhou breeding industry. In the future, these logistics soldiers will be discharged from the army and they will be experts in raising pigs. At that time, with their experience, this modern pig raising experience can be spread among the people.

After staying in Guanzhuang for a while, Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun left together, and Pang Yukun kept bowing his head in thought.

Xiao Ming couldn't help asking: "You still wonder why this king knows how to raise pigs?"

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