When there are not enough medical resources, it is purely uncomfortable to forcefully launch free medical care for all.

Fu Zonglong came to Jinzhou Academy. In the spacious classroom of Jinzhou Academy, he saw sixty or seventy children wearing neat and uniform Confucian shirts. They were sitting upright, holding books and shaking their little heads as they read along with the teacher: "Heaven and Earth"

Xuanhuang, the universe..."

I came to another class again and found that these children were shaking their heads and reciting: "Three three equals nine, three forty-two, three fifty-five, three sixty-eight..."

Originally, there were not many teachers in Jinzhou Academy. Since Xie Zongze became the dean of Jinzhou Academy and enjoyed the treatment of a ninth-rank official, he wrote letters to his classmates and friends, asking them to come to teach in Jinzhou Academy and study while doing so.

Without spending money and food at home, you still have the opportunity to take the entrance examination. How good is this treatment?

Soon, there were more teachers in Jinzhou Academy. The nearly one million books in Jinzhou Academy made a great contribution. These poor scholars were not looking for the salary offered to them by Cheng Shijie, nor were they paid for it.

treatment, but to give them the opportunity to write sincerely for free.

Fu Zonglong came outside the city and saw the cattle farm in Jinzhou City. The cattle farm at this time was located in a huge ravine, filled with mountains and plains, and there were cows grazing leisurely everywhere.

Fu Zonglong's eldest follower Fu An was stunned and said: "Oh my god, how many cows are there here?"

"So-so tiger, more than seven thousand!"

Fu Zonglong followed the reputation and saw Cheng Shijie and Sun Yuanhua coming hand in hand.

Ever since Fu Zonglong announced the decree to Cheng Shijie and Cheng Shijie accepted the plan, his official position has actually been higher than that of Fu Zonglong.

Although it is said that in the Ming Dynasty, the highest level of governor was generally held by the Minister of War, followed by the governor, who would be the governor of one or several provinces, but the official position of governor was where the military threat was the most serious.

When Sun Chengzong served as the economic and strategic envoy of Liaodong, he was in charge of controlling the military and political affairs of Liaodong and the wars with Hou Jin Dynasty.

Fu Zonglong's Minister of War was the third-rank official, and his highest official position was governor, which was only the second-rank official position. Cheng Shijie was the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Capital Envoy Division, the second-rank official, and the Liaodong Economic and Strategic Envoy was also the second-rank official, but Cheng Shijie was the golden seal

Purple ribbon.

This is the standard equipment of Doctor Guanglu. Of course, Cheng Shijie has not actually been awarded the first-class Guanglu Doctor, but he has been given the gold seal and purple ribbon of the first-class doctor.

This is equivalent to the deputy section chief in later generations, taking charge of the company, and righting it is just a matter of time and seniority.

"Cheng Jinglue!"

Fu Zonglong smiled and asked: "Where did Cheng Jinglue get so many cows?"

"Of course I bought it!"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "When Cheng first came to Liaonan, there were only more than 1,700 cows and more than 5 million acres of fertile land. What use could more than 1,700 cows do? So Cheng took out a

With the money, I bought more than 5,000 strong cattle from a cattle dealer."

At this point, Cheng Shijie grimaced, "The price of cattle is too high. It costs ten taels of silver per head. Five thousand cattle cost me fifty thousand taels of silver. It's simply a money grab!!"

Fu Zonglong could only smile bitterly. Over the years, the price of cattle has continued to rise, from 5 taels of silver per head in the Wanli period to 8 taels of silver per head.

Cattle are an indispensable aid for farming. As a large agricultural country, the Ming Dynasty never has enough cattle and there is no surplus. Therefore, the more you buy, the more expensive it becomes, because even the most resourceful cattle dealers want to get them all at once.

It is not easy to get hundreds of strong cattle.

Who would sell a strong cow unless absolutely necessary? He pointed to the two calves that were kneeling on their forelimbs and struggled to stand up, and said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, but after this point, it will be smooth. You

Look, two calves have just been born, and there are a few more calves over there. The herd will continue to give birth next year, and your herd will be more and more. In a few years, you will no longer have to worry about lack of cattle.

No more worries. The most important thing is, you don’t have to worry about lack of fertilizer.”

Speaking of this, Sun Yuanhua's face became even more bitter.

Cheng Shijie's first destination for buying cattle is Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province. Because Cheng Shijie's prices are high, and he does not pay for them separately, but also uses grain. Now the grain price in Shandong has exceeded

One tael of silver, or even one or two taels of silver per stone, but Cheng Shijie was lucky. He bought good quality rice from Jiangnan, and the cost of transporting it to Dengzhou was less than seven taels of silver per stone.

Those people who were too poor to live had no choice but to sell their cattle for food. After all, one cow could be exchanged for more than a thousand kilograms of good rice.

There are only a few sources of fertilizer these days. The first is silt with a lot of humus, such as pond mud, the second is plant ash, and the third is livestock manure.

Silt is free, but there must be a pond. If there is no pond, there are only ditches. Cheng Shijie overhauls the ditch. He can dig the silt, but he also needs to hire people, which also requires costs. If there is no money, he has to wait for the flood to wash away the silt.

If you come here, it will be a disaster.

Plant ashes are also free. Just burn the wheat straw and straw. The problem is that wheat straw and straw are firewood in farmers' homes. It depends on them for cooking and boiling water. It is impossible to burn them all at once. There are not many in Jinzhou now.

Plants and trees can be burned, and the fertility of plant ash is relatively poor, so it cannot be relied on entirely.

Poultry manure is the best farm fertilizer, with strong fertility and stable supply. With such good fertilizer, crops will naturally have good harvests, but raising a large number of poultry and livestock requires a large amount of food.

This leads to a strange cycle: if you want to get a good harvest, you must have enough manure; if you want to have enough manure, you must raise a large number of poultry and livestock; if you want to raise a large number of poultry and livestock, you must have a large amount of surplus grain; and if you want to have a large surplus of food,

Grain must have a good harvest...

This is an unavoidable circle. If any link goes wrong, it will form a vicious circle. But if one link can be solved, a virtuous circle can be formed.

It is very easy to see how ordinary people are living. You don’t have to read official articles. You can know everything by just taking a look at farmers’ chicken pens and cattle pens. Just like in later generations, you can know how ordinary people are by looking at their recipes.

How is the cost of living? Last year, Lao Cheng bought beef five times in total, because it was too expensive and he couldn't afford it. Lao Cheng is a fat man, but last year he lost more than 30 kilograms and successfully lost weight.

Because Cheng Shijie was rich, he successively purchased more than 4,000 cattle from Shandong, while Xie Jinglin purchased more than 1,000 cattle and more than 2,000 war horses from Jiannu.

Now Cheng Shijie has more than 5,000 horses and 8,000 cattle. However, as for the cultivated land in southern Liaoning, it is still not enough. On average, there is only one cattle on more than 600 acres of land.

, but also because Cheng Shijie had a large number of large animals such as mules, horses, and donkeys.

Especially donkeys. Although donkeys are not as fast as horses or as tall and majestic as horses, in fact donkeys have very strong endurance. They eat less and have good endurance. They are relatively easy to feed. In the entire southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie alone has

It has more than 23,000 donkeys, most of which serve major factories and are used as power for animal-drawn machinery.

In addition, there are also many donkeys among the people.

Because Cheng Shijie was rich, he had enough manpower to dredge the ditches and compost the silt in the ditches. Now he had enough grass and grain to feed a large number of cattle, donkeys, mules, war horses and other livestock. There were only more than 8,000 cattle, which could be used every day.

Produce 300,000 to 400,000 kilograms of cow dung.

In addition, Cheng Shijie also owns tens of thousands of pigs and hundreds of thousands of sheep. He has piles of manure outside the farm and has solved the irrigation problem. The foundation for a virtuous cycle has been laid.

In fact, many people think why Cheng Shijie didn't allocate the fields to the people. In fact, it would be useless. Ordinary people have no money, no ability to feed their livestock, and no ability to obtain enough fertilizer.

PS: Lao Cheng continues to write, if the twelve and a half has not been released, there is no need to wait.
Chapter completed!