Lu Ming

Embryo transfer is a long-term work.It takes ten years to develop a cattle population.

After more than 50 years of introduction and improvement in later generations, the number of Simmental cattle is only 2, and the remaining millions are all hybrid cattle, which shows how difficult it is to increase the number of native populations.

The only good news here is that the frozen embryos are very small, so Cao Chuan can bring a liquid nitrogen tank here from time to time.

As long as there is a sufficient number of pregnant cows here at any time, the magical technique of embryo transfer can continue until the number of cows increases to more than a thousand... At that time, Then you can consider setting up sub-bases in the north and south.

Now is the 17th century when the land is vast and the population is sparsely populated. Travelers can completely raise cattle in the enclosure of the Ming Dynasty, not afraid of insufficient land.

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After Huo Xiong finished working as a helper, he lived in the farm that day.The next day, he was going to the food company to make a fuss, but who knew that the racecourse called again and asked him to go there.So full of reluctance, Huo Xiong went to the racecourse again on his motorcycle.

When it comes to Ma Zheng, there are many contradictions in it, and we have to start from a long time ago.

First of all, the horse farm was not established by Huo Xiong and others in the livestock industry.It is actually the military...to be precise, the army who is pushing the construction of the racecourse.

Here again, strategic issues are involved.

From the perspective of the army personnel, in the next three to five years, at most seven or eight years later, the imperial army in the north of Ming Dynasty will inevitably go through a series of battles, with small-scale public security wars.

The obvious point is: there is no water system extending in all directions in the north of the Ming Dynasty, only the official road that can be called "funny" in the eyes of the crossing people.In this case, cavalry units can be very useful, especially in endless skirmishes.

That's why the army has been planning to form a cavalry unit a long time ago-everyone knows that the army horse population cannot be bred in a year or two.

However, the army's attempt was opposed by everyone.Others are fine, they just oppose for the sake of opposing... Every time you import a horse, I will have less equipment on my side.And the most ruthless stabbing knife in the back of the army is actually the navy.

Navy professionals quickly exposed the army's reputation: For cavalry with breech-loading carbines and indigenous battles, the mode of war has long been no longer a bloody assault saber.

Even if the Imperial Army has cavalry in the future, the combat mode will be very easy-get on the horse and trot... approach the target... dismount and shoot... leisurely catch up with the defeated enemy from behind and hack with a saber.

Yes, this is the procedure for shooting aborigines with a breech-loading gun.The enemy will be hit and collapsed by the rain of bullets at a distance of 400 meters, and there is no need for a horse to charge.

The so-called elite cavalry has been upgraded to "mountain infantry" with high-tech equipment, which has reduced the demand for expensive and good horses.

In this mode, the Army is making a lot of noise, and the military horses raised by spending huge resources are actually useless-whether it is a draft horse, a bad horse, or even a donkey or a mule, as long as it can carry people to trot, it can achieve tactical purposes. The advantages of military horses is greatly reduced here.

Therefore, forming an elite cavalry unit is a huge pit... The real purpose of the army is to pretend to be aggressive, and use the import quotas from other departments to go to the north to pretend to be aggressive.

... After being appraised by the navy in this way, the cross-border people of various departments suddenly realized that there was a wave of criticism of the army's liar gang.

Seeing that the situation is not good, the army group who encountered the knife-piercing sect in the 17th century could only calm down temporarily, and recorded all the bastards in the small ledger, and retaliated in the future.

It was supposed to be over.As a result, it was so hard to die. In the preparatory meeting before Emperor Cao's ascension to the throne, an idiot proposed the concept of "white horse clears the way".

This is a bad thing.When Emperor Cao heard the words, he stated on the spot that this could be possible... and the army commander Han Xiaobo who was present reacted quickly, and immediately added an advanced concept of enthronement to the emperor of "24 white Arabian horses and silver-armored knights to clear the way".

Although Han Xiaobo didn't succeed in the end...Xia Zhongtang took action himself, forcibly resisting the emperor's displeasure and reducing the number of horses to four.

But after going through this, the door that had been closed was forcefully opened a crack—the army's cavalry plan Xianyu turned over, and it was able to go on again~!

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After twists and turns, the military horse farm built by the army was built in such a flickering way, and the location is not far from the cattle farm.

Due to the lack of support from the administrative system, the operation of this racecourse has been very difficult since its establishment.Except for four purebred Arabian horses, the rest are some small Dian horses and draft horses, which are very small.

Although animal husbandry does not usually interfere with the operation of the horse farm, it still has the responsibility of "technical guidance", so Huo Xiong still has to go around if he is fine.

The person in charge of the horse farm is Huang Xu, a muscular black and strong man.This gentleman worked as a cowboy on a western farm before crossing, and also served in the National Guard. He is a compound talent of the Army, and he is also the foundation of the Army's establishment of a military horse farm.

Seeing Huo Xiong, Huang Xu, who was brushing the horse, threw the brush to the horse farm staff, and then he strode over.

After patting Huo Xiong on the shoulder vigorously, Huang Xu took out two punch cigars, one for each of them.

"Hey, not bad." Huo Xiong lit his cigar and took a deep breath: "How about those of you who have stayed in the United States, the enjoyment is different."

"I'm not used to domestic cigarettes. I have a lot of phlegm." After taking a sip of the cigar, Huang Xu didn't go around the bush, and went straight to the topic: "I heard that you had an embryo transfer yesterday?"

Huo Xiong nodded: "Well, I have planted more than 40 heads, and I don't know how the effect will be."

"Then it's time to try it on a horse, right?" Huang Xu said, staring at Huo Xiong with piercing eyes.

"Don't tell me about this." Huo Xiong raised Erlang's legs at this time, leaned on the motorcycle seat, and said to Huang Xu with a smile: "All consumables and labor need to go to the meeting. Can't be the master."

Huang Xu thought to himself, if I can handle the cabinet meeting, why should I ask you?However, he would be asking for something from others, so he naturally had to be more polite when speaking, so he could only chuckle: "You are the head of the animal husbandry company, why don't you help shout a few words at the meeting later?"

"Old Huang, to tell you the truth, don't rely on the Headquarters for this matter." Huo Xiong also opened the skylight to speak bluntly: "I even depend on Mr. Cao for the breed of cattle... The emperor's face is just for his convenience. Horse breeds are even more impossible. If you want to expand the breed, you have to pass the cabinet."

"Cows and horses have the same strategic value!" Huang Xu was indignant: "Sooner or later, those people in power will find out that they made a mistake!"

Huo Xiong laughed when he heard this: "Hehe, Lao Huang, I didn't say that. At present, the strategic value of horses is really not high."

Chapter 316 The Curve to Save the Nation

Regarding the strategic value of horses, this actually involves the strategic layout of the entire Crossover Group and the deduction of future social development.

In general, under the current situation of extreme demand for imported materials, the high-level empire will not invest much resources in horse breeds-are horses useful?have!Is it a necessity?no!

Huo Xiong's control of the policy is very accurate, so he clearly told Huang Xu that the Animal Husbandry Corporation will not get involved in this troubled water... Expanding the horse breed is not the cause that is most urgently needed by the empire, so if the army insists on doing this If you want to do it, then ask them to squeeze out internal resources. As for public resources, this will definitely not work.

Huang Xu understood what Huo Xiong meant.However, for a project like horse breeding that requires long-term blood transfusion, it is not cost-effective to use internal resources, so Huang Xu still tried his best to persuade Huo Xiong.

So the two started a round of discussions while sitting on the motorcycle.

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Regarding the utilization of livestock, it is usually divided into two directions: labor and food.

Forced labor includes plowing and riding.

The technologically prosperous world of later generations developed little by little, including horse farming with a history of thousands of years.

Horse plowing is the most efficient way of plowing land. Both European farmers and early North American pioneers used horse plowing. The efficiency of heavy-duty horses was the highest before the appearance of tractors.

However, horse farming can’t be played here in the Eastern Continent—Han is a mountainous country, and the area of ​​mountains, hills and plateaus accounts for 69% of the country’s total land area.In other words, the Han nationality has never been a nation suitable for raising and using horses.

This data also needs to cut down the grasslands in the north that are suitable for raising horses: Before the Qing Dynasty, Mongolia had always been the base area for nomads to attack the Central Plains, so it had to be included in the data for mountainous areas where horses could not be raised.

The ancient Han people, who only had about 20% of the plain terrain available, had no way of raising their horses to the level of daily plowing like Europeans or North Americans... The plains are full of people, and the continuous mountains can only survive Dwarf Yunnan horses, northerners use hoes and cattle, and southerners use buffaloes. People restricted by the environment do not have the content of raising horses in their genes.

Therefore, for thousands of years, the most important method of farming in the Eastern Continent is hoes and cattle. Therefore, for thousands of years, people can only exchange horses from Mongolia and Qinghai-Tibet with salt, iron and tea.

As for those cool cavalry stories in history, including Huo Qubing and Zhao Yun... In fact, from the Qin eradication of the Six Kingdoms to the million Red Army crossing the Yangtze River, in countless internal and external wars, the main way for the Han people to solve their opponents has always been massive Infantry and a few elite cavalry cannot conceal the lack of war horses in their bones.

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The matter is specific to the cross-travelers of the new plane.

As mentioned above, after the army generals came to the north, they could buy Mongolian horses and all kinds of bad horses on the spot, including donkeys and mules to form mounted infantry to kill the enemy. There is no need to spend a huge amount of money to cultivate the population.

In this way, the riding function of the horse is not urgently needed at present.You know, the war in this plane is not like the World War I and World War II in the later generations. The industrial countries fought in darkness, and the death rate of war horses was in the millions. The advantage is too great, and the war is usually one-sided, not so cruel at all, and less than a million horses are used.

After removing the function of riding, what remains is the function of farming... However, in this new era of drastic social changes, it is hard to say that farming horses can catch up.

The country established by the people across the world will go through the development process of the old world for thousands of years in just a few years or more than ten years.

In a sense, the newly-baked nobles of the empire are all prophets-knowing things three days ago and being rich for thousands of years, so the prophets will not choose backward production methods.

In the entire East Asia region, where is the best place to explode food?In addition to the Tainan Plain, there is no doubt that it belongs to the Chao Phraya Plain in Thailand.Regardless of climate or water and soil, the plain along the Chao Phraya River is a god-given rice producing area, ranking first in East Asia.

In later generations, the annual rice output of Thailand, which was desperately exported, was 2100 million tons.The vast majority of the rice in this figure comes from the land mentioned above.In addition, the land occupied by the huge amount of pineapple, banana and lychee fruits has not been counted.

According to Chuanzhong's plan, once the country's comprehensive industrial capacity reaches the minimum output requirements - gunboats, tractors, fertilizers, pesticides, then the immigrant fleet escorted by the fleet will prepare to land in the Gulf of Siam.

Using mechanized methods to explode cultivated land and rice in Thailand and the Tainan Plain is the most efficient mode of grain production in the late Ming Dynasty.

The above two pieces of heaven-sent land, together with gas tractors, soil chemical fertilizers, and pesticides, these big killers, even if there are two crops a year, the output of these two places is enough to feed all the disaster victims of the Ming Dynasty, and by the way, support the early days of the empire. colonial actions.

The so-called "dividing the land by the local tyrants", after the success, a group of farmers carrying hoes huddled in the village happily shouted the emperor's grace... The new plane does not allow such low-efficiency scenes.

All farmers must go to the New World... Instead of starving, dying of disease, and killing tens of millions of people in the Little Ice Age, it is better to send them out to colonize.

These people needed to carve out tropical plantations, and farms in North America and New Zealand, for their children and grandchildren, at the cost of a high mortality rate.In the mountainous land of the Ming Continent, except for the livable plains, the rest of the population will migrate away under the plan of the crossing crowd.

Under this kind of strategic deduction about the future, horse farming has been placed in a very low position again - concentrating resources on two plains to mechanize agriculture is the cabinet's established strategy, and if one day needs to use horses, it is also immigration The story after North America.

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Now that the two most important functions of horses, riding and plowing, have been offloaded and postponed, the remaining edible function horses are even less accessible.

It is also deprived of the function of service, but the creature of cattle is still the most well-deserved first domestic animal: beef steak, beef brisket stewed with milk and potatoes are the best food that can really change the national physique.

When Huo Xiong broke down and explained the issue about cattle and horses, Huang Xu had nothing to say... After all, the times are different, and the internal and external environments faced by the country are also different, so the attitude towards cattle and horses cannot be held in the old world. My experience is rote.

After clarifying the pros and cons, Huo Xiong finally gave Huang Xu some curvy ideas to save the country as a "technical consultant".

Considering the current situation in the racecourse, Huang Xu and the others are actually superfluous to discuss embryo transfer.Because apart from the few Arabian horses, there are no qualified surrogate mares with shoulder height, so how can we talk about embryo transfer?So Huo Xiong suggested that Huang Xu calm down first and collect the mare before talking.

Regarding mares, short southern horses are definitely not acceptable: the size gap is too large, and even if embryo transfer is done in the future, the height of the foal will be affected by the mare's pelvis.

Regarding this aspect, Huo Xiong pointed out: The Army actually has room for maneuver.Because the cabinet is concerned about import quotas, as for the army buying horses from the aborigines with money, the cabinet will not take care of such things.

So where to buy horses?Huo Xiong mentioned two places: Hangzhou and India.

Since Hangzhou is the terminus of the Grand Canal, cattle and horse dealers from the north will transport goods to the port every year.It is not new for rich people in Jiangnan to use horse-drawn carts well, so the army can entrust comrades at Hangzhou Station to buy some mares of qualified height. Of course, the price will not be cheap.

As for India, Europeans can be entrusted to organize the supply of mares.

Regarding the breed of horses, the Army actually does not have high requirements, because the ultimate goal of the military is very simple, which is to cultivate warm-blooded riding horses that can travel long distances at a constant speed.

This requirement is much lower than that of cultivating warm-blooded horses capable of sprinting. In fact, most warm-blooded crossbreeds can meet the requirements of the army.

So Huo Xiong revealed the information here: India not only has excellent breeds of Mawarima and Katiawama produced by itself, but also because of the needs of wars and sacrificial ceremonies, and the climate in South India is not suitable for horses. Therefore, the upper class often imports horses from Arabia and West Asia, and there are a large number of Arabian horses.

Hearing this, Huang Xu basically agreed with the routine pointed out by Huo Xiong.

In the end, Huo Xiong also made a promise: as long as the horse farm has enough basic mares population, the animal husbandry head office will provide technical support for free in terms of file establishment, hybrid breeding, and embryo transfer.

Of course, for the frozen horse embryos that need to be sold by the emperor, the army still has to figure out a way.

"The big deal is to use the private quota rewarded by the emperor. Anyway, the embryo tank is not big, and you guys like horses so much." Before leaving, Huo Xiong said with a smirk.

"Let's go!" Huang Xu threw another cigar to Huo Xiong, then waved him off with a smile and cursed.

As for everyone's private goods... The private quota of one cubic meter per person has long been hyped into sky-high prices.To let the army chiefs personally contribute a little volume to serve the public's great cause of raising horses... Huang Xu thought it was very unreal.

He judges others by himself, as he likes to smoke imported cigars, that little personal space will be used up sooner or later, and no one can let him contribute, not even sending beautiful women.

"There is a long way to go..." Huang Xu stood on the green grass, looked at the motorcycle going away, and sighed.

Comrade Huo Xiong, who had gone away, was in a good mood at the moment.After talking about some things, everyone found the crux of the problem.This also allowed the headquarter of the Animal Husbandry Corporation, which has been caught in the middle, to get out: the technology belongs to the technology, and the politics belongs to the politics. This is the correct attitude in handling affairs.

... After coming out of the racecourse, Huo Xiong ran wildly all the way. It didn't take long for him to return to the lively Chikan Avenue, and then plunged into the Chikan District Government compound.

The Chikan District Government is a three-story brick-concrete structure building in the shape of a "gate".After Huo Xiong parked the motorcycle in the compound, he went up from the podium by familiar ways.

After arriving on the third floor, he wiped his face with his hands, and put on a fierce face that his elder brother came to collect. Then he strode to the door of an office, opened the door fiercely and at the same time Shouted: "Tell your boss to come out! You turned against him? How dare you hide from me!"

Chapter 317 Forage

Due to the extreme scarcity of manpower, all of the more than 200 cross-country crews are now multi-tasking.

Take Huo Xiong as an example. He is not only the chairman and general manager of the animal husbandry corporation, he also holds a government position: the director of the animal husbandry department of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Huo Xiong's immediate boss is the Minister of Agriculture, Environment, Food and Agriculture Liang Letian.

The office where Huo Xiong went to make trouble today is the office of the Ministry of Agriculture in Chikan.The boss here is Mi Shuo, the chairman of the General Grain Corporation and the "first deputy minister" who actually presides over the work of the Ministry of Agriculture... The rabbit country is called the "executive deputy minister".

Seeing Huo Xiong, who was dressed in the look of a motorcycle gang and full of underworld expressions, rushed in, and all the male and female civil servants in the room were shocked.

Then a middle-aged man with the appearance of an office director stepped forward quickly: "Hi, Director Huo, are you here to see our Minister Mi?"

Huo Xiong squinted at the black and thin man, and while walking in, he asked in a heavy metal tone: "Where's the man?"

"Go down to inspect."

"Where did you go for inspection?" Huo Xiong pushed open the door of the small inner office at this moment, and poked his head in to have a look.

"I went to Madou to see the fields."

"Madou?" Hearing this, Huo Xiong took out his mobile phone and dialed: "There is really no signal, I said, you kid can't lie to me, right?"

"Don't dare! The minister said to go to Madou before he left."

"Let's go, you lead the way. I can't find your minister today, so I'll let you know what closing the cowshed is!" Huo Xiong said, pushing the poor man downstairs.

The poor man was no longer pitiful after he went downstairs: he happily sat on the back seat of the Harley motorcycle, and made a popular local "V" gesture to the window on the third floor.

Then Huo Xiong set off with this little transparent office director who had never ridden a motorcycle before.

Madou Township is next to the kiln area, separated by a Xingang River.The natives there were the first to be wiped out, and the present Madou Township has already become a grain production base.

Huo Xiong drove his motorcycle on the asphalt road all the way, and when he passed the kiln area, he turned to the factory to refuel on the way. Finally, after crossing the cable suspension bridge on Xingang Creek, the motorcycle started to run on the dirt road.So Huo Xiong, who was covered in dust, finally found Mi Shuo who was inspecting the fields at noon.