Chapter 1647： Kill the donkey

What are the benefits of a shepherd dog? A shepherd dog can easily watch hundreds of sheep. For human beings, if walking, it would be troublesome to see dozens of sheep. Because people's running ability is far inferior to dogs. If you are riding a horse, you can easily graze hundreds of sheep. After all, riding a horse to drive a sheep is still very easy.

However, the cost of raising horses, plus people's wages ... Compared with the shepherd dog, the cost difference is too big!

Shepherd dogs only need a little food to be able to feed you sheep faithfully and never betray. People are different, and people are not as capable of walking sheep as shepherd dogs. If you ride a horse and graze, the cost is much higher than that of a shepherd dog.

Therefore, hiring someone to graze is far less cost-effective than raising sheep. As I said before, New Zealand ’s 100,000-acre family ranch, 28,000 sheep and 26,000 head of cattle, can all be settled by 40 sheepdogs, without much labor.

Moreover, shepherds are very reproductive. For example, Bianmu, can have two births a year, and can have several puppies per birth. As long as there is a pair of shepherd dogs in the host family, it can be easily expanded to dozens of scales within a few years, and then tens of thousands of sheep can be grazed.

Of course, this depends on the place. If it is in a low-developed place such as the Americas, small and medium-sized dogs with poor combat strength, such as border collies, may be weak when facing North American wild wolves.

However, if you are in the Netherlands, you don't have to worry about this. The Netherlands area is mostly plains and depressions, and it has a large population and a high degree of development. There are basically no beasts. Raising sheep in such areas and having a strong working ability is enough. Moreover, the food intake of Bianmu is very small, and one meal a day is enough, which is far more cost-effective than people.

With 40 border grazing, you can control several large towns and pastures. How many people can be saved? The township where Marin lived in his last life. There are tens of thousands of people in a town ... If the entire Netherlands is changed to sheep, most of the Dutch people will be unemployed ... and this is what Marin wants ...

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In addition to the jobs that border collies can grab people, there is also a very powerful impact-the impact on the forest!

To raise sheep, there must be grass. Then, in order to expand the grassland area, the woods or something is a hindrance. Therefore, it is reasonable to cut grass. At most, grow apple trees and other fruit trees of economic value in front of the farmhouse.

Before Philip and the Dutch nobility left, Marin took them to visit a ranch outside Aurich. This ranch is full of green alfalfa grass. And around the ranch house, planted with apple trees. At this time in September, the apple tree was covered with apples, which was very tempting. If it weren't for the apples that weren't red, Marin would like to pick a few and try them.

It should be pointed out that the apples of later generations of China are all varieties passed on from Europe and America. As for the legendary native apple, it is actually a small sour apple called naphtha, which was later eliminated by the red apple of the western variety. In other words, the apples eaten by later generations of Huaxia people are actually foreign varieties of apples that came from modern times.

Of course, this is not surprising. With the exchange with the West, we have not only introduced sweet potatoes, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, etc., but also introduced Mexican upland cotton, which has brought the original Indian Asian cotton.

In this era, European apples can not only be eaten, but also an important raw material for making apple cider vinegar. The European apple cider vinegar is most famous for its Austrian apple cider vinegar.

On the farm, Marin warmly welcomed Prince Philip and his party. During the meal, Marin also asked the chef to use apple cider vinegar brewed from the apples on the farm to cook delicious sweet and sour pork ribs and sweet and sour fish for Prince Philip and his party.

After eating and drinking, Marin also introduced the superiority of alfalfa in detail. Marin told them that if alfalfa was used instead of ordinary weeds, then one acre of grass could raise more than 30 sheep ...

In fact, Marin said less. If fertilizing the alfalfa grassland, the forage grows better and can raise up to 60 sheep. But Marin does not provide forage for the Dutch, so there are not so many sheep that can feed them. However, alfalfa herbs are nitrogen-fixing crops, and no nitrogen fertilizer is needed. The grassland fertilizer provided by Marin is also mainly potassium fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer.

Moreover, the Dutch plains are fertile and humid, and it should be no problem to feed two or thirty sheep on one acre of alfalfa. This benefit is even higher than the extensive farming method they are currently using. Converted, the output of raising sheep on one acre of grassland can reach about one or two gold coins. The most important thing is that it saves manpower and does not need to feed so many serfs.

Even if the profit is only 1 gold coin and 10,000 acres of grassland, you can earn tens of thousands of gold coins. And for Prince Philip and the nobles of the Netherlands, who has hundreds of thousands of acres? If it occupies public land, not to mention Prince Philip, the largest landlord and monarch, and several other nobles, each with millions of acres is no problem. As for Prince Philip, the largest landowner in the Netherlands, it is okay to have a few million acres of land if you also participate in the circle.

If all British sheep are raised and high-quality alfalfa is grown, everyone will make a fortune ...

However, it is also very troublesome to replace all the original wild grasses with alfalfa. Because, planting alfalfa is almost as difficult as growing wheat. Cultivate the land first and then sow the seeds.

In order to kill the original weeds, it is best to turn the land upside down before the winter and turn the roots of the weeds out to expose the ground. In this way, after a winter, these wild grasses will all freeze to death.

Then, when spring comes, plowing it again, sprinkling alfalfa, you can get a forage that is very suitable for raising sheep.

However, if you drive away the farmers in advance, it seems that it will be very difficult to grow grass ... Because, arable land or whatever, even if you use horses, you will cultivate one acre of land a day ... And, a large number of farmers are needed ...

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin gave them a bad idea-don't drive away the extra farmers first, let them help plough the land before the winter after the autumn harvest, and then spread it the next spring Alfalfa seeds ... Wait until everything is done, and then drive away the extra farmers, "unload and kill donkeys" ...

Of course, things need to be done step by step. After the farmers have transformed the noble land of the Netherlands into alfalfa grasslands, they will be dismissed. Then, Marin acted as a good man to solicit ... one by one, linking the unlucky Dutch farmers between the palms ...

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To be honest, this kind of behavior of fooling Dutch farmers to help nobles transform the land into alfalfa grassland, and then abandoning them to "unload and kill donkeys" is very unethical. However, how many nobles do not lack ethics in this era? Therefore, Marin's suggestions are very suitable for their taste.

In order to help the Dutch nobles realize this intention, Marin agreed to lend tens of thousands of cattle after the autumn harvest and go to the Netherlands to help cultivate the land. Anyway, those cows do not need arable land in winter. In particular, the North Sea country does not grow winter wheat and lends all cattle to the Netherlands, which is completely okay. However, the re-cultivation in the spring of the next day, Marin could not lend cattle. After all, the Beihai country also uses cattle to cultivate land ...

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