Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Li Ke originally wanted to ask, but he held back.The main thing is to ask others, how do other people praise themselves, this seems... a bit wrong.Although he is shameless enough, he is not so shameless. In the past few years, his face has grown back a lot.

"Well, yes, everyone can say the truth, but we still have to consider the actual situation. In fact, if everyone takes a step back, there are no unreasonable contradictions. To put it bluntly, these contradictions are very small things." Li Ke smiled. He nodded and said.

"Come on, let's go and have a look inside your house." Putting this matter behind for the time being, Li Ke went on with his own business first.

Entering Hammer's village, it is not the same as the village in the Hehuang Valley before. Although the distance between each household is relatively close, it is relatively speaking. In fact, each household has a very close The large livestock pen can hold all kinds of livestock inside, so it occupies a large area.

Moreover, these livestock pens have also taken into account issues such as retting and fertilization, and have reserved roads, and the location where they are kept is relatively low.

A faint smell of livestock manure can be smelled in the village, but it is very faint, because the ventilation here is good, so these smells will dissipate soon.

The houses in the village are not small in size. Basically, there is one main house and two side houses. The side houses are built relatively low, and there are no large windows reserved, only a small window for lighting.

"Why are these side houses built like this?" Li Ke asked curiously, if he didn't understand, he didn't feel embarrassed to ask, and he wasn't omnipotent about these things.

"This is improved according to the local conditions. The local environment is relatively dry. Although there are only small windows and thickened walls, it will not be humid. On the contrary, such a low side room will be cooler in summer and store some things. , for example, dairy products are not easy to spoil."

"Your Highness, in fact, this side room looks relatively short from the outside, but it actually goes down about a foot deep, so it looks short, and the space inside is not small." Iron Hammer introduced.

"Go in and have a look." Li Ke was very interested. This is an improved method based on local experience.

Pushing open the door of the side room and entering inside, Li Ke felt that it was much warmer than the outside world. It was the coldest time of winter, but the temperature here was much warmer than the outside world.

Hammer and the others lit an oil lamp next to it. Li Ke looked at the environment here. The side house was also built with stone foundations, and then it was built with adobe. Just like what Hammer said, the actual ground of the side house was one foot lower than the ground outside. , so the height of the inner space is sufficient.

The threshold is specially raised to prevent rainwater from entering when it rains.

There is also a stove in the side room, but there is no kang here. In addition, there is a separate granary in the back of the side room.

There is about a foot distance between the four walls of the granary and the walls around the side room, and the bottom of the granary is also raised with stone foundations, which is suspended in the air. Li Ke also saw that the way to design the granary in this way is to prevent rats .

In this case, it is almost impossible for mice to enter the granary from anywhere.

And the wall of this granary is not very thick, and its bottom is also suspended, so if there is a robbery hole, it can be easily found.

There is already grain in the granary, and there are many tools in the side room, as well as various pottery pots and pottery urns.

Li Ke lifted the lid of a pottery urn, and saw some frozen meat and dairy products inside, obviously prepared for the Chinese New Year. At this temperature, this place is a natural refrigerator.

"Have you learned Datang's way of pickling vegetables?" Li Ke remembered something and asked with a smile.

"Understood, Your Highness is here." The owner of this family hurried to a large tank next to it, and took off the lid on it.

Li Ke walked over and took a look, good guy, the pickled cabbage is inside.

Wash the whole Chinese cabbage, press it into the tank, and sprinkle salt, which can still be seen in Northeast China more than 1000 years later.Now Li Ke is just advancing it. Of course, the reason why this can be done here is also a geographical advantage. After all, it is next to Chaka Salt Lake.

The salt here is naturally very cheap, compared to the interior of Datang, it is naturally very cheap.

The salt used to pickle vegetables is naturally the cheapest salt they buy, but this kind of salt used to be the first-class good salt.

For sauerkraut like this, they pickled two large vats. In addition, there was a large vat of pickled vegetables, which were directly pickled together with white radish, turnip, cabbage, garlic, etc. For them, this It is the most important meal in winter.

It seems that these herders have learned to dig a small part of their own farmland and use it to grow vegetables.

"Very good. Seeing this, I feel relieved. In this way, even in winter, you can still eat some pickles. These pickles can relieve your greasy, and it can be regarded as enriching your food."

"Did you grow these vegetables yourself?" Li Ke asked with a smile and nodded.

"Returning to His Highness, some of them were planted by us. Our place is okay and can be grown. Some places cannot grow vegetables. They bought them directly."

"It's like Chinese cabbage. In the Hehuang Valley, after the wheat is harvested, the wheat field is plowed, and then the seeds of Chinese cabbage are sown. In late autumn, they can be harvested just in time. In late autumn, wait in Chihai City. There are bazaars in several places, and everyone comes from one village to buy more than a dozen carts of Chinese cabbage to go back, or directly replace it with some dairy products and mutton.”

"So we can take what we need. Now that the cattle and sheep are our own, in fact, the cattle and sheep harvested every year are enough to eat." Iron Hammer explained seriously.

"That's right, but you still have to be careful. I know that on the grasslands, people are used to using the number of cattle and sheep to show their wealth. Many people like to have a lot of cattle and sheep."

"But one is to consider the carrying capacity of the individual pasture, that is, how many cattle and sheep can be accommodated by each person's pasture. You must know it well. The second is the risk of too many cattle and sheep."

"You are all herdsmen. You should know better than me. There is a saying in the Central Plains that if a family is rich and rich, those with hair are not counted. It is because the risk of livestock is too great."

"If there are too many livestock, sometimes a natural disaster or a disease among cattle and sheep will cause a large number of cattle and sheep to die."

"So it is enough to maintain a certain amount of cattle and sheep, not the more the better."

"Excess cattle and sheep can be sold and turned into some fixed property, etc. In this regard, in the future, the imperial court will definitely introduce some tools suitable for use on the grassland." Li Ke nodded and said.