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Xue Lang sheepishly smiles and makes a default. With a smile, the sage said, ”Xue Qing's family, a farm, is enough for 5000 elite soldiers?”

Xue Lang: ”the sage, the farm is not responsible for the military food, only for the supply of non-staple food. Military grain is still allocated from military rates, while meat, vegetables, poultry and eggs are supplied by farms. At present, there is a slight surplus. ”

This time, not only Li Yuan, but also the king of Qi was shocked. The father and son of this family are not all straw bags. They are both military and political figures. Naturally, they know the cost of training an elite soldier.

The king of Qi directly exclaimed, ”the output of a farm can supply the cost of training 5000 elite soldiers, and even a little surplus. Is this really true?”

Xue Lang said: ”every sentence is true, because of the abundant non-staple food supply in the farms, the military grain consumption is even lower than in previous years.”

When meat and vegetables are rich, the consumption of natural staple food will decrease, which is a normal thing.

The king of Qin said: ”before returning to the imperial court, I sent a horse to weizeguan to visit my elder sister. At that time, Xuejun was responsible for preparing for the construction of the farm. I had seen the planning drawings of Xue Jun Gong. The planning of the farm is closely linked. I think it is the unique selection of breeding products.”

The last sentence is to look at Xue Lang to say, should be to him to verify.

Xue Lang nodded. Seeing this, the sage asked, ”what kind of livestock are raised in the farm?”Xue Lang said: ”the sage, the main breeding is pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fish ”

Xue Lang gave a general account of the farm.

After hearing this, the crown prince Jiancheng said: ”if you can cultivate a pig in half a year, the meat produced by the pig is much more cost-effective than raising sheep, so it can also supply the training needs.”

The reason why Tang people eat mutton more than pork is that sheep produce faster than pigs. Before there was no feed, it took Yang at least a year to get out of the market, which was the result of feeding a lot of roughage. With no corn, no sweet potato and other coarse grains, it takes enough time to develop a fat pig to raise several batches of sheep. No wonder there are more sheep and fewer pigs.

The sage asked, ”can farms be promoted?”

Xue Lang said: ”the sage, such a large-scale centralized breeding needs the supervision of experienced people. Otherwise, as long as there is an epidemic, it is almost foreseeable that the whole farm will be wiped out. In addition, there is the problem of earthworm degradation, which makes it difficult to popularize

The sage nodded and sighed: ”the Qing family is only one person.”

Xue Lang laughed and said, ”the sage, the Minister of the lack of skills, naturally unable to promote. However, the overall mode of the farm can not be promoted, and some excellent breeding methods can be promoted. For example, the technology of pig breeding and fish culture in lotus pond and so on. However, it takes time and time to popularize these techniques. ”

”Are you willing to teach these methods?”

”There is nothing strange about these methods, but they are a summary of experience. As a matter of fact, he has borrowed some agricultural books from his royal highness, especially in the book ”Qi Min Yao Shu”, which has been described by animal husbandry and forestry farmers. If we can promote this book, it will be good for our country and our people.

Qimin Yaoshu is a useful and practical book. There are not only records of how to farm, but also records of farming, and even processing methods, such as wine making.

The sage said, ”this proposal is good. However, in today's world, there are few people who can read and read. It is easy to print books, but difficult to promote. In the final analysis, we need to do our best to make the country rich and the people strong, and open up the wisdom of the people. It is easy to get the world, but hard to keep it. Taro, Erlang and Wulang need to remember. ”

Three people all should say: ”obey father's instructions.”