Grapes from Turpan, melons from Hami, apples from Aksu, and pears from Korla.

For the whole spring, Chen Ying ignored the ups and downs of Chang'an. He led the soldiers of the Anxi Army and the people of Xizhou Road to work hard to reclaim wasteland and store land.

After finishing the planting of 2.5 million mu of land, Chen Ying was not idle either. He led the people to build Xizhou Road into a fruit paradise for the Tang Dynasty.

As time goes by, in the bumpy vegetable fields, there are clusters of green and green, and the grapes are expanding their territory everywhere. Not only does it climb the grape trellis, but it also crawls around along the walls. It really makes people worry about whether it will climb to the roof. The vines and leaves of the grapes are stained with some blue and white powder, which are traces left after spraying Bordeaux liquid. This simplest pesticide protects the grapes from moldy leaf disease, and even pests dare not provoke it.

But what made Chen Ying very helpless was that there were no apples here yet, but Chen Ying planted tens of thousands of acres in one breath. If it was the harvest season, the entire Xizhou Road would be a paradise for melons and fruits.

In order to increase the meat on the dinner tables of the people in Xizhou, Chen Ying also encouraged the people to raise chickens and ducks. However, when this method was implemented, the people unanimously resisted.

There was no way. Although Chen Ying made sufficient preparations, as Tubo continued to see Han slaves rescued by Liu Tong and Xunxiang and others. By May of the fifth year of Wude, Xizhou Road successively accepted Han slaves from Tubo, with a total of 300,000.

Since the 300,000 mouths were added, the food prepared by Chen Ying was far from enough. Now the new people have missed the farming season, so Chen Ying had to take these people to work hard to make organic fertilizer. First, he collected the feces of horses, cattle and sheep, mixed them with the cut grass, and naturally fermented them. The fermented feces were filled with large water tanks, and then led flies to the tank to lay eggs.

As long as the flies lay eggs in a large jar, a large number of maggots can be obtained to feed chickens and ducks. In this way, not only can they save food, but they can also use eggs to supplement nutrition for these people who are almost in their bodies. Even the soldiers of the army can pick up an egg every now and then, boil egg soup and add vegetables, so that everyone can improve their lives.

What made Chen Ying the most helpless was that Princess Minavar of the Sassanian Empire seemed to have been on Chen Yingmao. She could have headed to Chang'an, but she was staying on Xizhou Road. Chen Ying stopped in Gaoche City, so she followed her to Gaoche City. Chen Ying went to Gaochang City, so he went to Gaochang City. Chen Ying ran to Jingjue City, and he also followed her to Jingjue City.

Chen Ying stayed in Yecheng, and for the next three days, Minaval also followed him to Yecheng.

It is a good habit to prepare for the future. During the busy farming period, Chen Ying also opened countless primary schools on Xizhou Road, and even counties must have at least one primary school.

Of course, the only thing that schools need to learn is Tang Yan. Whether it is white skin, red eyes, or yellow hair, blue eyes, children of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, as long as they are eight years old, these children must go to school, regardless of gender, all men and women must go to school for three years. If parents do not allow their children to go to school, each child will pay three times the tax. Under heavy punishment, all the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions have to bear the pain and let their children come to school.

These children are actually half-held laborers in the Western Regions, especially the nomadic peoples. Their seven or eight-year-old children can carry a few hunting dogs alone, looking at thousands of sheep, or dozens or hundreds of war horses. Although the people are small, they can be of great use. However, with Chen Ying's order, there are no children running naked on the Western Regions State Road.

Even Minavar, who was familiar with Tang Yan, was arrested by Chen Ying, including Asunasmo, Zhou Qing, Ma Mengming, and even Luo Shixin, who was less than a basket of literacy, was arrested by Chen Ying and became a primary school teacher.

Almost like the Datang University of Technology and Technology, the Xizhoudao Primary School here also does not study the Four Books and Five Classics. One article "Thousand Character Classic" and "Three Character Classic" and a hundred surnames have become the common enlightenment textbooks for all children in the Western Regions.

Chen Ying also gave Han surnames to all tribes of the Western Regions and changed the name of Han. For example, Kasul directly took the surname Su and Marva in their pronunciation, and changed it to Ma and Wen Su, and directly took the previous character and changed it to Wen.

Originally, the Wen clan in Taiyuan was not a big clan. In just one month, they had more than 20,000 Wen clan members on Xizhou Road.

Changes are often inadvertently. Under this method, Chen Ying took the Han surname, spoke Tang words, and acted in Han customs. At most, after three or two generations, who still remembers what ethnic group they are?

Assimilation starts from the doll.

Minaval likes her current job very much. She is now a teacher of more than 500 children in Yecheng Primary School. She needs to teach these children to learn to recognize at least ten Chinese characters and say a hundred Tang words every day.

Although she was tiring at work, she was very happy.

As for the Tang army generals such as Luo Shixin, the teachers they acted as simple and crude, especially Luo Shixin, who actually taught military laws in class, and the 17 ban was ordered to behead fifty-four.

However, Chen Ying did not pursue it. Now there are too few people who can use it, so he has to settle it.

As for Ma Mengming and Zhang Yan, the traditional literati, the spiritual key points of Confucianism still need to be discussed.

It is definitely not appropriate to ask them to teach children. Fortunately, some of the Han tyrants on Xizhou Road are Han tyrants, and most of their children in their families also learn Chinese and culture. Of course, they may not have much profound knowledge. After all, the Western Regions have been a place that only recognizes fists and is unreasonable since ancient times.

There are only five or six hundred people who can memorize the Analects of Confucius in the entire Xizhou Road. All of these people were gathered together, and they were taught by Ma Mengming, Zhang Yan and Zhang Shigui, who are both civil and military. The court has not sent officials from the court to Xizhou Road yet. I think everyone has prejudice in the Western Regions, which discourages them from the Western Regions.

It seems that for a long time, Xizhou Road could only govern itself by the people of Xizhou.

Therefore, Chen Ying was also very concerned about the seeds of Xizhou Road. According to Ma Mengming and Zhang Yan, after the understanding, Chen Ying interfered, when they taught students, they briefly said: "When reading the classics and history of the sages, they can be wise, they can cultivate their minds, they can govern the country, and they can govern politics. We studied in Xizhou, how could we find chapters and sentences? Family affairs, national affairs, and the world affairs, and everything."

As Minavar came back from school, she especially liked to eat chicken stewed by Chen Ying. I don’t know what happened. The chickens raised by Chen Ying were very fat, with bright and greasy feathers, and were particularly energetic.

There is no way to be fat. These chickens eat maggots every day, and they eat high protein. How can they not be fat? There are a large number of maggots as feed. Chen Ying's general manager has raised thousands of chickens and ducks but it is not difficult. If they don't have these things, it will be dead. There are thousands of mouths. I don't know how much food to eat every day. Now people are not full, so where can I get surplus grain to feed chickens and ducks?

Of course, this method of raising chickens and ducks cannot be told to Minavar. If she knew about it, she might not have the appetite to eat chicken.

Minaval smiled and said, "Prespect Chen, I can't understand you anymore. You are renovating land, farming, and raising chickens. If you raise some pigs, wouldn't that be the biggest landlord?"

"To be honest, I really want to raise pigs!" Chen Ying curled his lips and smiled: "I have already asked someone to collect breeding pigs. I want to set up a large pig farm, raise thousands of pigs, kill two at a time, eat one and throw one away."

Minaval was shocked: " Raise thousands of pigs! You have too much appetite!"

"What's this? I not only have to raise thousands of pigs, but also tens of thousands of goats, thousands of horses, and thousands of cows!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "Either don't do it, or you'll do it earth-shaking!"

Minaval shook her head. She was deeply influenced by the Sassanian peasant economy. She could not think of what it would be like to raise thousands of pigs together. It must be spectacular, right?

Minaval felt more and more incredible: "How can I feed them with so many livestock?"
Chapter completed!