Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

horses!

After hearing that horse raising was involved, everyone in the Manna Hall suddenly became more attentive.

If you think about it carefully, it has only been thirteen years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

Among those present, even the most junior Chu Suiliang, who was silently copying texts, was the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty, Xue Ju, who followed his father first.

After Xue Ju's defeat, the father and son named Chu were recruited to the Prince of Qin's Mansion.

In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, those who could make a name for themselves had good cavalry, and those who could finally control the elite cavalry to overwhelm the heroes were the ones who succeeded in standing here and taking charge of the lifeline of the empire.

It is almost impossible for anyone involved in this process to avoid dealing with horses.

Nowadays, those who can stand in the Manlu Palace may be good at literature and strategy, or good at military strategy, but they all know horses regardless of whether they are civil or military.

For this reason, Li Shimin also paid unprecedented attention to the few words he received about horse breeding and horse administration. He personally wrote to Zhang Wansui and sent an envoy to express his condolences, which made the servant Shaoqing inexplicably grateful.

But he didn't think too much about it. After all, it was well known to everyone in the Qin Palace that His Majesty missed his old love.

As for those scattered words about horse breeding, they may be collected from letters written by people who are good at raising horses all over the world.

Standing here at this moment, without copying what the light screen said, Du Ruhui understood the simple relationship after thinking for a while.

As the population in the Ming Dynasty increased and the climate turned colder, only by focusing on agriculture could we support the world. In this process, soybeans, which both fertilized the fields and were suitable for crop rotation, were naturally favored.

As a result, more and more soybeans were planted. Even though soybeans had to be eaten, some people continued their research and finally made tofu more beautiful.

Looking back again, the reason why the Tang Dynasty didn't like tofu couldn't be simpler - the climate was just right, and the rice and wheat produced in the fields were enough for the people. Who would go through the thankless work of studying tofu?

Du Ruhui chuckled and whispered the thoughts he had sorted out to Fang Xuanling.

Fang Xuanling raised her eyebrows in approval and whispered:

It seems that this arithmetic has the effect of clarifying principles. Keming and my classmate are less than one year old, and they are very talented in analysis.

Thinking of those complicated numbers and particularly ancient questions, Du Ruhui suddenly wanted to smile bitterly.

Learning classics and other classics can be regarded as learning one less book, but this is a journey of learning, which really made Du Ruhui understand Zhuang Zhou's words there is no limit, and there is no limit.

If what this junior named Wen Mang said is not a joke, it can be regarded as a top-notch science that touches the people's livelihood. He, Du Ruhui, will be fifty years old in four years. I wonder if I can see this arithmetic style.

However, Du Ruhui's sad thoughts were instantly wiped away by Li Shimin.

I ordered the Minister of Agriculture to discuss the bean affairs and plan to establish a bean office to handle the rotation of soybean meal in fertile fields.

Instruct the Guanbu Department and the Cangbu Department to trial-produce soybean meal, and cooperate with the Dianhu Department to test its efficacy.

I ordered the Taiguan Department of Fine Food and Food Department to modify the bean curd to make it fit the appearance of future generations, so that the people of Feng Xingtian would be willing to grow beans.

This is indeed the style of a young emperor. For Li Shimin, those previous bits and pieces about horse breeding were too broad, and should only be studied carefully by a good horse person like Zhang Wansui.

But the functions of soybeans can be said to be quite straightforward. They are pressed to make oil, ground to make tofu, and the rest of the soybean meal is used to fatten the horse. It can be said that one bean is eaten three times.

If we also take into account the effect of soybeans on fertilizing fields with tumor bacteria, it can be said to be a boon without any harm.

The younger generation is right about this. It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand. He just needs to know that the soybeans have the effect of fertilizing the fields.

It’s no secret that horses get fatter when they eat beans. The practice of feeding horses bean cakes has been around since the Han Dynasty, but they are made from whole, high-quality beans, so the cost is different.

And Li Shimin was also very clear. He would not talk about letting every household have a horse. As long as the soybeans could bring three or five more horses to each village, then he believed that the style of the Tang Dynasty would be completely different from what it was now.

…

Liu Bei beamed with joy:

Although this thing is easy, it will benefit the people infinitely.

Of course what he was talking about was the iron-toothed rake flashing past in the light curtain.

In fact, this thing is not unfamiliar to him. After all, leveling the land is a hard requirement for farming in the north.

People in Guanzhong also have rakes for farming, but they are all made of wood or bamboo, and there are no iron rakes.

The making of this iron rake is also quite simple. You don't even need to drag the blacksmith to make gestures. You just need to take a bamboo rake and let the blacksmith compare it to make one.

The greater significance of seeing this thing with his own eyes made Liu Bei suddenly enlightened.

After arriving in Guanzhong and farming with the people in the past few months, Liu Bei's biggest emotion was that the previous farming methods were not suitable for Guanzhong.

The curved plow, which works well in the south where there are many hills, has little effect in Guanzhong where the ground is flat.

The paddy field farming method is also difficult to achieve on the hundreds of miles of dry fields in Guanzhong.

But at this moment, looking at the iron rake, which was just a piece of paper away from the bamboo rake, Liu Bei suddenly realized his limitations:

Bamboo rake and iron rake seem to only have a difference in cost, but in fact, the effect may be completely different due to the difference in weight and hardness.

Since the curved plow is not easy to use in Guanzhong, why not ask Kong Ming to try out a new curved plow suitable for the north?

After all, even this curved plow, which is extremely useful in the south, was originally made by people according to local conditions.

In this case, it was time for him, Kong Ming, and others to try their hand at trial-producing new engineering creations.

After all, just as I thought at the beginning, as an ancestor, why bother the descendants with everything?

[In fact, the role of soybean meal is of course not limited to being used as horse rations.

For example, soybean meal is a high-quality nitrogen fertilizer, plant ash is the lowest-cost potassium fertilizer, and then mixed with bone fragments rich in phosphate fertilizer, it becomes the original compound fertilizer after being matured by technology.

In addition, due to the severe cold climate in the north during the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to mature fertilizers at high temperatures, so transporting soybean meal from the north to the south for sale by sea was a hot business at that time.

Even if compound fertilizer is not produced, soybean meal is still an extremely high-quality feed for chickens, ducks, fish and geese raised in the south.

In addition, since the Song Dynasty, soybean oil, together with sesame oil, rapeseed oil, camellia oil, etc., have brought down the price of oil in ancient times.

Coupled with the world's leading iron smelting technology at that time, iron pots began to become popular, and stir-fry dishes that everyone is familiar with began to become popular to this day. It goes without saying how delicious the eight major cuisines are.

The Chinese cuisine, brought about by stir-fry, has in turn developed soybean derivatives to the extreme.

Nowadays, the list of soy products is really difficult to count. From the common soy milk, bean curd and dried tofu, to the more complicated fermented tofu and stinky tofu, to the dozens of soy dishes derived from frying and stir-frying, you can In terms of eating alone, China can be said to be unparalleled in the world.

Among them, soybeans firmly occupy a C position, and their presence is indispensable even during the Chinese New Year.

Grinding tofu before the Chinese New Year seems to be well-deserved.

After all, even now, the food war over soybeans between us and our opponents across the Pacific has never stopped. 】