"In other words, for these elephants, you can only follow them, not go against them, otherwise these gentle guys will suddenly give you a few kicks!"

Li Jia was quite embarrassed. It was not good to be too smart. It would be great if you were a horse and breed and cross it selectively.

At that time, those big-sized and brave and not afraid of fire will definitely be weapons of war when they come out. It is no exaggeration to say that the size of the elephant can scare people when it looks, and running will definitely scare people's souls.

"Haha!" Li Jia coughed, relieved her embarrassment, and said, "How many elephants have now?"

"Report to Your Majesty, from the previous dynasty to the present contributions of Annan, Chameng, Dali and other people, the court had 569 elephants, including 490 adult elephants, 60 young elephants, and 19 old elephants!"

The breeding officer hurriedly said: "Changsha City is too hot and the elephant herd is uncomfortable, so we migrated it to this lake and let the elephant herd play here and grow up."

"So many!" Li Jia was quite surprised. Looking at the huge monster, his momentum was indeed magnificent and scary.

"Taipu Temple told me that the elephant group has too much appetite and is useless to raise it, and it also consumes a lot of money to persuade me to dismiss it!"

"Your Majesty must not!" The breeding officer hurriedly bowed and begged: "These elephants are very well-behaved in daily life. Although they have no contribution during the Taiping period, if they are wartime, they are powerful weapons of war. How can they be abandoned because of choking!"

"I can't help it!" Li Jia sighed and said, "I can't afford to eat a few thousand guan a month!"

"Your Majesty, when the capital was moved to Changsha, the elephant group had transported a lot of things, which was also a contribution to the court!"

"What else?" Li Jia continued to ask.

"Those prefectures and state roads are built, so we elephants can run past and compact them!"

"Not enough!" Li Jia shook her head and said, "The elephant group eats and drinks on weekdays and does nothing, so it attracts criticism. You still have to find something to do on weekdays!"

"The emperor is ignorant, I hope your majesty will give you advice!" The breeding officer knelt down helplessly and begged with a look of mercy.

It can be seen that he has lived with these smart animals for many years and has cultivated deep feelings. This is normal. Elephants are too smart and are very likely to develop feelings.

“For example, farming and deforesting—”

The emperor was condescending, watching the groups of elephants in three or five, hundreds of servants traveling through them, without fear, either touching their noses or feeding food. The elephants were always very cooperative and very gentle and recognized for long-term meal tickets.

The young elephants played in the water and occasionally fought, but under the education of old elephants and breeders, they could only bow their heads and stagger them. Hundreds of elephants formed more than a dozen elephants. Under the comfort of the elephants and breeders, some were orderly and even more obedient than humans.

You said that such an obedient elephant is equivalent to a tractor in later generations. It costs 100 kilograms of fruit to reclaim acre of land, which is simply too cost-effective.

An elephant, with an iron plow floating on her body, as if it were air. Cultivating wasteland was like walking. At least ten acres of land a day must be reclaimed. All elephants are five or six thousand acres a day, and in a month, they are more than ten thousand acres.

A mu of newly reclaimed land, even if it is only worth five jin of coins, is hundreds of thousands of coins per month.

Oh my god, it was still buried.

This huge Changsha Prefecture has a vast land and sparse population. If it continues to be cultivated, there will naturally be more people with more arable land.

Labor forces like the Elephant Group have been transferred to Shaofu Temple, which is great!

"Have you tried it?" Li Jia asked.

“Never tried!”

"feasible?"

"It should be possible!" The breeding officer nodded with difficulty and said, "It is a difficult thing for us. For elephants, it is as easy as walking. They just work like this every day and eat hundreds of kilograms of fruits and vegetables on weekdays, and there will probably be more afterwards!"

"Compared with the fields, what are these?" Li Jia was quite happy and was very proud of his genius mind. After the Song army captured him, he finally had alternative tools to reclaim wasteland.

"Ordinary tree bark, tender leaves, melons and fruits are not strong enough for elephants. In this way, let Shaofu Temple send some sugarcane every day to replenish the elephants' physical strength, so that they can work better!"

"Next, you don't have to worry. The elephant herd will be raised by Shaofu Temple in the future. There are a lot of fruits and vegetables in the imperial village, so the elephant will not go hungry."

The emperor glanced at the squinting officials in a daze, smiled in his heart, and said, "Of course, you have worked hard too, your monthly salary will double. Each elephant only needs to reclaim ten acres of land every day, and rest, combining work and rest!"

"Your Majesty's Virtue-" Everyone knelt down and was grateful.

After seeing these giants for some time, Li Jia lost interest and did not dare to touch and observe them closely. This was a joke about life. After wasting more than an hour, Li Jia set out to return to the palace.

He was in a pretty good mood, adding another labor force to the royal family, and he would have more monthly income, so he felt that he would have more money and food.

As for the memorial to impeach Taipu Temple, she took a look and threw it away casually. It was nutritious. It was a cliché. He didn't want to read these open and secret advices.

However, the Taipu Temple Minister also knew that he had accidentally induced the emperor to leave the palace and made a mistake. He quickly wrote a letter to ask for me and put a gold on the face of Taipu Temple.

Taipu Temple is in charge of the livestock in the world, and Ma Zheng is one of them. However, after being taken over by the emperor, he was well supported on Jeju Island. Taipu Temple has nothing to do, so he turned his attention to Niu.

Horses are powerful weapons in war and have a high status.

However, cattle are not bad. In the eyes of civil officials, cattle have a higher status than horses. After all, cattle is the highest productivity of this era. For farmers, there is a huge difference between having cattle and not having cattle. They are even willing to sell their children for a cattle.

Not to mention anything else, even if you cherish the power of a cow, you can plow two or three acres every day, while a family of five can only count the fields by working hard, and you can plow it as deep as the cow.

The land that the ox has plowed has yielded more than that which is plowed by manpower.

Not to mention, cow horns can be used as horns, cow leather can be used as tents, leather armor, cow tendons can be used as bowstrings, and cows are treasures.

Therefore, all dynasties have taken good care of cattle.

In layman's terms, the more cattle, the higher the grain production.

Over the years, Taipu Temple has continuously imported buffaloes from all over the country, such as Annan, Dali, Wuyue and other places, and then carried out large-scale raising like raising horses. Now, the buffaloes reserved by the imperial court have exceeded 3,000.

Therefore, Taipu Temple proudly raised it and took credit for it.

"Huh?" Li Jia glanced at it, and instantly became interested, and she sighed: "This is what it takes to do!

"But, folk oxen are scarce, and three thousand are not too many. A ox is about ten guan, but only about 30,000 guan. If you remove the cost, you don't make much money. You have to continue to cultivate it!"
Chapter completed!