Chapter 428

Duan Yu, holding a whip, followed behind a few pigs and waved the whip slowly to drive them.

He looked just like a commoner driving pigs home from the fields.

If the generals in the army or the officials of Jixian saw this scene, they would surely be surprised and pop their eyes out.

A dignified tiger general of the age, Hanyang Commandery Prefect, Marquis of Guo, and Central Commander for Envoy to the Xiongnu was actually driving pigs!

However, Duan Yu's expression was very serious, and he tirelessly drove the pigs around the house in the courtyard.

【Ding!】

【Ding, "Tenfold Entry" effect produced, host completed one animal domestication, effect increased tenfold, congratulations to the host for gaining experience +1.】

【Ding, congratulations to the host for accumulating experience in "Domesticating Livestock" skill, gaining new entry "Breed Improvement - Blue 0/"】

【Breed Improvement: All livestock belonging to the host will have significant quality improvement in the next generation produced, growth cycle shortened by one-third, meat quality improved by 100%, resistance improved by 100%, yield improved by 100%. All next generations produced will inherit this quality, and the next generations bred will also inherit this quality, without needing the host.】

Hearing the system sound in his mind.

Duan Yu immediately threw the whip in his hand in excitement.

"Damn it, it finally worked!"

Duan Yu, whose legs were a bit numb from walking, retreated to the steps at the door of the house and sat down.

It's too hard.

It's really too hard.

Who would have thought that he, a dignified Central Commander, a dignified Commandery Prefect.

Staying at home for so many days, not handling official business, nor enjoying life.

Was actually grazing in this courtyard.

It's not grazing, either.

It's... let's call it animal husbandry.

Ever since he was splashed with cold water by Jia Xu that day.

He made up his mind to change his approach to governing Liang.

Just having a big stick is definitely not enough.

Wanting to govern Liang, wanting to govern the Qiang.

Wanting to expand the population of Liangzhou.

There is only one way.

Engage in commerce, engage in animal husbandry.

One hand with a big stick, one hand with a sweet date, both must be done simultaneously.

As for how to do it, after being locked in this small courtyard for five days, Duan Yu already had a clue.

Open the system.

Duan Yu introspected his system.

He looked at the results of these five days.

【Name: Duan Yu】

【Age: 25】

【Height: 191CM】

【Weight: 95KG】

【Entries: 【Tenfold Speed - Gold】, 【Arrows Like Pearls - Purple】, 【Strength of Nine Bulls - Purple】, 【Cutting Water with a Knife - Red】, 【Seed Improvement - Blue 0/】, 【An Inch of Time is an Inch of Gold - White 99/1000】, 【Force Like Bamboo - Blue 0】, 【Breed Improvement - Blue 0】, 【Tree Seed Improvement - Blue 0】】

These five days, besides driving pigs, chasing sheep, walking dogs, and feeding chickens in the small courtyard, he only did one thing.

Planting trees!

That's right, planting trees.

He had a rough understanding of how to activate the entries.

It is to repeat one thing over and over again.

Therefore, after deciding to govern Liang in two ways.

He thought of animal husbandry and planting.

Any era cannot be separated from four words.

Clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

In the ancient agricultural era, housing and transportation were a bit worse; these belong to the category of life improvement.

But clothing and food are necessities.

But he had already developed seed improvement before.

Now he just had to wait for the autumn harvest to get the improved seeds and then plant them.

According to Duan Yu's initial idea, it was to let the Qiang and Xiongnu, who were mainly nomadic, give up grazing and turn to farming.

In this way, centralized management could be achieved.

But after pondering, Duan Yu felt something was wrong.

If these Qiang and Xiongnu had food in their hands, and they got improved food varieties.

Without the food crisis, for example, the Qiang.

The number of people in Liangzhou was already higher than that of the Han people.

In this way, without the food crisis and with enough to eat, would these Qiang usher in a population explosion?

And without the food crisis, would these guys become professional soldiers?

Duan Yu's original intention was to use the improved food to increase production and then cultivate professional soldiers.

If he accidentally raised the Qiang, that would be trouble.

So Duan Yu decisively denied this method.

The seeds of this food must never flow out.

Otherwise, it will surely become a disaster in the future.

At the very least, at the very least, before he becomes a warlord, these seeds must never flow out.

One method doesn't work.

Then he had to change to another method.

It cannot increase the strength of the foreign tribes at the root, and it can weaken the strength of the foreign tribes, and it must be a method that makes them willing.

Therefore, Duan Yu thought of the method by which the Qin State destroyed the Han State.

Qin unified the six states, and the first one destroyed was Han.

The first battle of Qin's destruction of Han started with a trade war.

At that time, Ying Zheng ordered the massive acquisition of refined copper and iron, which led to the people of Han farming, but everywhere they were refining iron.

Because the price of iron was high, a laborer refining iron was far faster than farming.

And food could be bought with money.

This led to a large amount of farmland in Han being abandoned, and the people all ran to refine iron.

It was not that no one discovered the problem with this trade war.

But even if they discovered it, they couldn't stop it.

Because this is human nature.

People's greed made the public unable to realize this crisis at all.

You don't refine iron, you farm, but when the food you worked so hard to farm is sold away by others using the money they easily earned from refining iron.

Besides buying a large amount of iron, Qin also continuously sold low-priced food to Han.

This is a conspiracy.

A conspiracy against the people of a country.

Duan Yu was also inspired by Qin's use of a trade war to defeat Han.

Therefore, Duan Yu started planting trees.

Duan Yu remembered seeing a slogan in the village when he was young.

To get rich, first raise pigs, have fewer children, and plant more trees.

Animal husbandry can provide a large amount of meat and fur.

But planting trees...

It might work in later generations, but it certainly wouldn't work in the Eastern Han.

But Duan Yu didn't want other trees.