First Minister of Ming Dynasty

First Minister Section 553

When Lao Zhu heard this, he was stunned, "It's really a waste of grain concentrate to feed the sheep."

Zhang Ximeng had no choice but to hehe.

This kind of behavior is indeed excessive in other provinces.

In fact, from very early on, Zhang Ximeng encouraged the people to raise poultry and livestock to increase meat production.

However, limited by the problem of feed, farmers still use grain and wild vegetables to raise pigs and sheep.

Many people have never seen that kind of big pot where wild vegetables are cooked underneath, and hard pancakes are pasted on the side of the pan. For pigs.

Human pigs came out in one pot.

Although this seems a bit foolish, it can save firewood, and it is convenient and quick, and many people like to do it.Only during the holidays, will I cook some dishes and rice to treat myself well.

In addition, rice is still pounded in the countryside. At this time, some broken rice is stained with grass sticks and stones. People can't eat it, and they also use it to feed chickens and ducks.

Hogweed, millet, wheat bran, broken rice, these are the best things that livestock and poultry can eat. If you think about better things, then no matter what, you won't be willing to give them up.

In fact, in the Yuan Dynasty, these things were eaten by people.When Zhu Yuanzhang recalled his childhood, he almost had only one thought, and that was hunger!

Whatever I see, I want to stuff it in my stomach.

Loach, cicada, dragonfly, stuffed into the mouth is a piece of meat.

In a disaster year, at the worst time, I don't even have these things, I can only eat grass roots, tree bark, and gnaw Guanyin soil...

Zhu Yuanzhang is aware of all this, so he also strictly prohibits the use of grain as feed to feed livestock.

It's just that the situation in Beiping is a bit special.

At this moment, Beiping is still vast and sparsely populated, extending from Yanshan Mountain to Liaodong, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, vast land, and a lot of land that can be cultivated.

Earlier, Zhang Ximeng proposed to establish large grain companies and give them enough power to farm, produce grain, resist risks, and meet national needs.

By now, there has been a season of harvest.

Very fortunately, this season's grain harvest has been bumper, and several reclamation companies have made a fortune.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood when he heard the news, but he felt that it was too much to feed the sheep with grain.

"Why not save it? This is the first season's harvest, and they just waste it? Is this a good business?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled helplessly: "Master, they don't have so many warehouses to store food now!"

"No warehouse? Then ship it out! Aren't those provinces short of food?"

Zhang Ximeng shook his head again, "Then we need to build roads! There are not so many roads now,"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, "Then, then use it to raise sheep?"

Zhang Ximeng said: "Without enough infrastructure, the food will only rot. Therefore, the Tuntian Company purchased lambs from some Mongolian tribes, fattened them in their own hands, and then transported them to Peiping." Zhang Ximeng explained: "Peking's The price of meat is very high, and the sheep after fattening are also convenient to transport, at least more convenient than grain. Those farming companies have made money this year, and they can build roads and granaries when they go back to store grain.”

Having said this, Zhang Ximeng said to Old Zhu, "Actually, according to my observation, it's not the best choice for them to sell sheep. It would be great if the imperial court allowed them to sell cattle."

"Cow?" Lao Zhu raised his voice, "Did you mean cattle?"

Zhang Ximeng said helplessly, "It's beef cattle! Eat it!"

"no!"

Lao Zhu was anxious and immediately refused. The power he gave Beiping was not unlimited.

Behaviors such as killing cattle and eating meat are absolutely unacceptable.

In any agricultural society, cattle are regarded as very important. Although it is not as good as the third brother who regards it as a god, but killing cattle and eating meat casually will have to bear the consequences, and it may even be a serious crime of beheading.

However, this does not mean that there is no beef on the market.

For example, cows that fell to death, died of dystocia, or were killed by lightning, such cows cannot be thrown away, as long as they are reported to the government and confirmed, they can still be eaten.

Of course, if there are enough cattle in a certain place to breed enough that the arable land is no longer needed, and you are secretly pushed down the mountain, reported to have fallen to your death, and slaughtered to eat meat, no one will insist on beheading you.

All in all, the principles of nature, state laws and human conditions need to be handled carefully.

However, for Daming, which has been established for ten years, it is far from being overrun with cattle and horses. It is absolutely impossible to kill cattle and eat meat casually.

Even if it is the nobles of the court, if someone really catches the handle and the evidence is solid, they will have to pay a price if they encounter bad luck.

Zhu Yuanzhang is very persistent on this point. I really doubt that he was an old cow in his previous life!

But everything is not set in stone.

First of all, beef must be an excellent source of protein. Eat more meat, egg and milk to strengthen Ming people.If some beef can be provided appropriately, Zhang Ximeng still agrees.

Secondly, there is another problem here, that is, five catties of grain can be converted into one catty of beef... In other words, after proper conversion, it will be much more convenient to transport live cattle.

Of course, this does not mean that you can let go of the restrictions on killing cattle and do whatever you want.

But this is Peking!

Next to Monan and Liaodong, a group of farming companies have been established. In the long run, food is very abundant.

Now Zhang Ximeng had a new idea.

"My lord, think about it, if we let the Mongolian tribes raise more cattle and sheep, then we can buy them for fattening, consume the excess grain, and then transport the fattened cattle and sheep to the south for the children of Daming." People, wouldn’t it be profitable and let our common people eat better in this way?”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, he is not so easy to fool now.

"Sir, there are still many places in the provinces of the Central Plains where there is a shortage of cattle. Secondly, there is not so much food in Beiping. Moreover, even if there are such good cattle and sheep, if they are sent to Yingtian, they will be eaten by rich people. The common people still need food, especially cheap food, we cannot agree to your proposition."

Zhang Ximeng said helplessly, "Is there no discussion at all?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sullenly said, "No!"

"That's just research? It's not enough to study what kind of cattle has a high meat yield, grows fast, is not easy to get disease, and what kind of cattle is suitable for farming?" Zhang Ximeng asked rhetorically.

Old Zhu was stunned. He thought about it again and again, "This matter can be discussed, but it is not allowed to buy or sell casually!"

Zhang Ximeng smiled, "Anyway, breeding high-quality cattle is not a matter of a day or two... By the way, my lord, you said that cattle can be bred, but how about horses? We need fast horses now, and we also need heavy-duty horses. Ma, planning to build a horse breeding farm, the lord will not object?"

Old Zhu's face was dark, he knew very well now that as long as this hole is opened, the day of raising cattle for meat will not be far away.

This guy Zhang Ximeng has always done things like this.

The layout is small, and then a little bit will follow, and you can't stop it if you want to stop it.

But having said that, if some people can eat beef and live better and better, it is naturally his credit.

"Mr. Zhang, let me ask you, is there really a day when our people will not only be able to eat meat, but also beef?"

Zhang Ximeng pondered for a while, and then said: "I believe there will be such a day. It's just that there will indeed be a bumper harvest in Beiping, which cannot be digested. It is logical to let go of the cattle and sheep. As for the next step, it is natural to take more The land produces more grain, eats more beef, and feeds our common people to be strong and strong!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered again and again, "We can let go of this matter appropriately, but we absolutely don't allow nonsense. It is also not allowed that someone here is too hungry to eat, but there are big fish and meat over there. This is absolutely not allowed."

Zhang Ximeng nodded, "Actually, my lord doesn't have to worry that much. I'm just thinking wildly for a while, and I'm still far away from this step! There will be another ten or twenty years, and I won't be able to develop it."

Lao Zhu thought for a while, and finally nodded, "Well, I hope we can live to see that day."

Zhang Ximeng breathed a sigh of relief, trying to persuade Lao Zhu was not easy.In fact, from his son's letter, Zhang Ximeng has already clearly realized that the population is expanding and must be transferred to industry and commerce. Not surprisingly, cities everywhere will expand in the future, and more and more people will be concentrated in the cities.

With so many citizens, they naturally need corresponding food, meat, and animal husbandry are also on the agenda.

Moreover, the development of animal husbandry can also absorb a large number of working people.

Of course, with the current output of the land, it is absolutely impossible for everyone to eat meat... So what can we do?Naturally, it develops outwards!

Zhang Ximeng is careful, step by step, from all aspects, directing the huge population and many young laborers overseas to solve the biggest crisis in Ming Dynasty.

It's just that everything still needs a proper opportunity to completely open up the situation... Just as Zhang Ximeng was planning these things, Zhu Di suddenly rushed over excitedly.

He still had a good news in his hand.

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang! Mr. Lan has won a big victory!"

Zhang Ximeng was taken aback, Lan Yu won?So fast?

He hurriedly took it over, and after seeing it, he couldn't help laughing.

Sapphire's strategy was simple but effective. He didn't assist Goryeo, and let the Japanese soldiers drive straight in, approaching Seoul. Then Sapphire mobilized the navy and landed behind the Japanese pirates, cutting off the Japanese pirates' return.

About 5 people fell into the encirclement of Sapphire, a big dumpling, just wrapped like this!

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Facing the terrain of Koryo, if he can't land from the rear, cut off supplies, intersperse and encircle, he doesn't seem to be considered a famous general.

Sapphire's playing is at best considered standard and standard, and if he chooses from Daming, there are too many people who are better than him.

There is no need for Xu Da's level of action, at best, he is a marquis, and he can settle it.

Therefore, when the news reached Beiping, Zhang Ximeng was not surprised, and Zhu Yuanzhang also expressed his emotional stability, but Zhu Di seemed a little emotional as he was thinking about how much money he could make.

Generally speaking, it's all normal.

In the future, using troops abroad, this kind of victory must be commonplace, it's just a trivial matter...

It's just that the news spread to the south and reached Yingtian.

Now something is not normal along the way.

Sun Yan was also to blame for this matter, he insisted on mobilizing newspapers, mobilizing Daming from top to bottom.

As a result, there was a lot of effort in propaganda, and everyone felt that sending troops to punish the Japanese country this time was very important, and it was even comparable to recovering Yanyun.

In particular, the common people who suffered from the scourge of the Japanese country stood up and spoke out, which made the use of troops this time very important.

Therefore, when they learned that as many as [-] Japanese pirates had been surrounded, the people were all excited.

here you go!

General Blue!

Great Master!

To vent your anger on behalf of the common people, all these Japanese pirates must be chopped off.

They burned, killed and looted along the coast, and killed tens of thousands of Ming people. This time, the Wa country will have to pay ten times the price.

Kill them all, leave no one behind!

Someone soon stood up. At Baijiangkou, the Tang Dynasty chopped down more than 2 Japanese pirates and sent their ears away, in exchange for hundreds of years of peace.

In such a useless Song Dynasty, there were Japanese women who came to borrow seeds.

So in the face of the Wa country, as long as it is strong enough, it can be killed hard enough.Just don't be afraid they'll hold a grudge.These things only fear the strong, as long as you are strong enough and ruthless enough to them, they will be well-behaved enough.

This is the nature of the Japanese people, so General Lan, don't show mercy!

kill!

The sentiment among the people was boiling and in full swing, which caught the princes of the sky by surprise for a while.Didn't it mean that the common people don't like wars?

Didn't it mean that fighting wastes people's money and money, and will arouse public resentment?

Sun Yan immediately understood the truth.

"I know very well that when we first decided to use troops against the Japanese kingdom, some people said that the Japanese kingdom was isolated on the sea and the distance was too far away. They also said that the war might not be able to win. Once the people and money were wasted, like the Yuan Dynasty, the loss of soldiers and generals would damage the majesty of the kingdom... In short, It is against the use of troops. After all, it means timidity, humbleness, and no appearance of a country!"

Good guy, Sun Yan finally got the chance, so he was reprimanded.

The majesty of the prime minister has been found!

"Have you seen it? As long as you employ the right people and have a superior military strategy, you can win quickly without wasting much force. General Lan played well. He can be called my Ming Flying General, a little hussar who is famous in foreign lands..."

Lan Yu's evaluation was getting higher and higher. From Li Guang to Xiao Huo Qubing, within a few days, the Martial Saint was alive and the god general was reborn.

Anyway, Sun Yan doesn't care about these things, the harder he blows, the better he treats himself.

Regardless of the fact that Lan Yu was not appointed by him, it was not even his decision to use troops against Goryeo.

But people like Li Shanchang in front always opposed the use of troops.

After Sun Yan took over as prime minister, he strongly advocated sending troops, and spared no effort to provide support.Looking at it this way, he is indeed entitled to share the victory.

Anyway, in this battle, Lan Yu accidentally helped Sun Yan and stabilized his position.

This prime minister, whom no one could look down on, unexpectedly sat crookedly on the throne.

Compared with the DPRK and China, the reaction of the people was more intense.

Including Fudan School, which is known for its strict management, there are also people who continue to spread the reputation of Sapphire... Of course, as the top school in Ming Dynasty, Fudan's discussion here is deeper.

They thought that Lanyu fought very beautifully in this battle. At the same time, it shocked the Japanese country, saved Goryeo, and even beat the Mongolian Jurchen tribes.

The entire situation in the north has fallen into Daming's control.