Chapter Thirteen: Supporting Facilities

  Perhaps a good relationship with Fu's family would inject momentum into the development of the ranch, but for Li Zhēn, this was not necessary.

  He is now completely unequal with Fu's family. If they get along well, is it in the name of allies or subordinates?

  He is not qualified to be Fu's ally, at least not yet.

  But being subordinate to Fu's family is absolutely out of the question!

  His path is destined to be at odds with the interests of wealthy and powerful families. If he becomes too entangled in their interests during his early development, it will be difficult for him to maintain the purity of his ideals!

  So although Zhao Wu's idea is quite good, Li Zhong will not adopt it at this stage.

  He absolutely won't befriend Fu's family as a weakling. If he really wants to befriend them, it must be with the demeanor of a strong person!

  Li Zheng bypassed this topic and gave Zhao Wu some instructions on agriculture.

  Although the agricultural part under the jurisdiction of the pasture is said to be fully cultivated, only 50 mu of land has been opened up so far. However, this does not mean that Li Zhong attaches no importance to the area.

  So while maintaining meticulous work, we also cannot put down pioneering endeavors.

  Vision should be long-term. Perhaps these 50 mu of land can meet the current needs of the pasture, but it is necessary to know that the pasture will develop and grow stronger. The cultivated area must also keep up with it at all times.

  In addition to grains, more vegetables and fruits should be planted, the more varieties the better.

  Secondly, there is another extremely important thing, which is medicine field!

  This concerns Li Zhēng's fundamental power - War Horse.

  The fusion of war riders is a major feature, but the cultivation of war riders is equally important. Don't look at the Qing Jia War Rider now, it seems that there is no one in the world who can match it, but in fact, it's just the most basic type of war rider.

  It still needs to be cultivated and strengthened in various aspects of its attributes.

  But cultivating a war steed requires a formula. Although Li Zhong doesn't have the formula yet, from the system, he roughly knows that the core content of the war steed cultivation formula is Chinese herbal medicine!

  This is the first one.

  Secondly, the medicinal materials are also related to another system function that is about to be completed - the Warhorse Food Research and Breeding Center. The special nature of warhorses means that they have special requirements for nutrient intake as well.

  Ordinary fodder is completely unable to meet the needs of warhorses. The current green armor warhorse seems to adapt to life on the grasslands, but the daily consumption of fodder is at least three times that of the Pton War Horse!

  This is just in peacetime; in wartime, its demand for food will be even greater!

  So food research and development was born.

  To study out food with more nutrients and more resistant to famine, also need formula, also need herbs.

  So, the importance of herbs is revealed.

  It is essential to make early preparations and ensure that a sufficient quantity and variety of herbs can be produced at the same time as the completion of the Food Research and Development Center, with medicinal fields being the top priority.

  Finally, there is one more thing of equal importance.

  War riders need to gallop freely, in addition to their own comprehensive quality, they also need fine equipment. The system's other function - Armor Research and Manufacturing Center was born for this purpose.

  However, in order to build high-quality equipment, a formula is also required, and the vast majority of materials in the formula are minerals!

  To ensure that these two important conditions related to Li Zhong's bottom card can be achieved in the shortest time, it is necessary to establish two relevant classification departments.

  Collecting and planting medicinal herbs; mining exploration, these are all very professional and must be done by professionals. If the pasture has such talents, it's fine, if not, they must be invited from all around.

  All these need Zhao Wu to handle.

  After handing over everything, Li Zhong again summoned a group of members from the hunting team without stopping.

  Capturing wildlife is something that can never be stopped. Like wild horses and Przewalski's gazelles, this kind of regular fusion is actually very common. It only concerns the most basic functions of the system.

  To know, the fusion of war and ride is ever-changing.

  Even an ant can be a foundation. Of course, this is just a metaphor.

  Moreover, due to the uncertainty of fusion, there is an extremely small probability that some very unusual warhorses will be created - perhaps such unusual warhorses are not suitable for charging into battle, but they must have great use!

  So the hunting team is not idle, and Li Zhong will expand the number of people in the hunting team later.

  Of course, Li Zhong would not treat them as non-human. Survival in the wilderness is harsh, so work and rest must be combined. After communicating with them, they set a rule of working for one month and resting for one month.

  At this time, the hunting team set out into the mountains to catch wild animals.

  After arranging the work of the hunting team, Li Zhēng called over the leader of the construction team again.

  The construction team is now fully engaged in the system function carrier building, with dozens of people working day and night.

  At this rate, all carrier buildings will be completed before the Spring Festival.

  However, in order to respond to the hunting team, it is necessary to build some rooms for holding domesticated animals of various kinds, and this task will fall on the construction team.

  Although this will slow down the progress of the carrier's construction, it can't be helped.

  After handing over all the things that needed to be handed over, it was noon.

  In this era, ordinary people generally had two meals a day. However, on the grasslands, Li Zhong continued his old habit and changed to three meals.

  Originally, the slaves in the grassland worked hard and if they couldn't eat enough, how could they work?

  After lunch, Li Zhong still hadn't relaxed.

  Although everything can be done by subordinates, matters concerning oneself cannot be delegated to others.

  Practice martial arts, train in horsemanship!

  Superb martial arts skills are essential for survival, especially in such an era!

  Li Zhēng had once studied martial arts. In that world, due to interest and some reasons, he had apprenticed with a famous master and obtained the true transmission of fist techniques.

  However, later on, due to various distractions, I inadvertently walked down this path and gradually abandoned it. The true transmission also became a mere facade, although it could deal with one or two small thugs, but against masters, it was not even in the same league.

  In that world, martial arts may be dispensable. But here, it's a matter of life and death. This point, Li Zhēng understood very clearly.

  He made up his mind to take the road to success, and inevitably had to go through battles. If his martial arts skills were not refined, he would die on the battlefield, and all his ambitions would be in vain, wouldn't that waste the opportunities given by heaven?

  What's more, galloping across the battlefield, wielding a spear and shield, what a great attraction that is!

  Just thinking about it makes me blood boil with excitement.

  But all of this is based on having a set of skills that can kill enemies and protect one's life!

  He began to pick up his fist technique again and restarted his training. Although he was busy during this period and didn't have much time to focus on practicing, perhaps it was because of the shuttle through time and space that made him rejuvenate, or perhaps it was because the system's strengthening of his body when it opened, which made his fist technique progress extremely quickly.

  Now, with all one's might, it can produce a crisp sound, and has fully entered the stage of clarity. A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a single sound, and this is also considered to be a great achievement.

  After dinner, I strolled around the grassland for a while to digest my food. Then I picked up a poor-quality wooden spear and went up to the mountain ridge. First, I walked through several rounds of fist roads and spear roads, practicing the basics of boxing and spear techniques. Only then did I start practicing shooting.

  Two hours later, feeling quite rewarding, he wiped his sweat and descended from the mountain ridge.

  Fist and spear techniques are very important, but horsemanship is also equally important.

  Fighting on the battlefield, if one's riding skills are not refined, then it's just a matter of fist fighting, and the chances of survival aren't great either.

  Li Zhēn's boxing skills were the Eight Extremes, which naturally included exquisite spear techniques. However, he was not very good at riding horses. As for using his spear techniques on horseback, he had never tried it before.

  So he came down from the mountain and waited for his breath to calm down, then pulled Qingyun and started practicing horseback riding skills, trying to wield spear techniques on horseback.

  The horse harness of this era was very simple, and the horse harness in the pasture was even simpler. The saddle was just a few pieces of hemp cloth stacked on the horse's back, as for the stirrup, the horses in the pasture were not equipped at all - although there were already simple single-sided stirrups at that time.

  This also caused greater difficulties for Li Zhuang.

  If it weren't for his enhanced physical reflexes and Zhang Shan's guidance, who knows how many times he would have been thrown off the horse by Qingyun!

  But a few hours of horse riding practice really brought Li Zhēng a lot of gains. Until the sky was completely dark, he reluctantly returned to the main house.

  It's lucky he has a strong body, otherwise he would have been exhausted to death long ago.

  Went home and had dinner, and a day's time just passed like this.

  In the following days, the work on the pasture was carried out in an orderly manner under the leadership of Zhao Wu and Zhang Shan. The supporting facilities related to the system function were also gradually built up.

  On the north side of the meadow, beside a small stream on the west side, there is a medicinal field of about two mu. This medicinal field is adjacent to water in the east, backed by mountains in the west, open in the north, and shaded in the south. Whether it's shade-loving or sun-loving, drought-tolerant or moisture-loving medicinal materials, they can all find their place here.

  After the medicine field was formed, there were people who were good at medicine from Lingzhou to take charge. They brought their favorite house slaves to work in this area, either to collect medicine in the mountains or to take care of the medicine fields.

  The mining and excavation team has also been formed. Because the research of armor does not require the refining of metals, it only needs to build a warehouse for storing various minerals. This warehouse was built next to the armor research and manufacturing center.

  In addition, the construction of buildings for taming various wild animals is also taking shape. Because the demand for integrating various wild animals is too large in terms of quantity and variety, this is also a major project, and now only a corner has been roughly built to facilitate the capture and detention of wild animals brought back by hunting teams.

  As time passed, thanks to the hard work of the hunting team, several more groups appeared in the pasture. Wild chickens, wild ducks and other wild birds, as well as wild goats, wild boars, and even wild cattle.

  With these herds, as long as they can maintain their smooth reproduction, not only can they provide the system with sufficient basic mothers and deputy bodies, but also support the demand for meat food from the people in the grasslands.