It's hot in June, and it's hard to cool down inside Zhilan Courtyard.
Shao Xun changed into a short coat of coarse linen and brown, and walked in the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and from time to time someone would bring him a pen and paper to take notes.
According to his records, Guangcheng Garden at this stage is roughly divided into several architectural groups.
One is the Guangcheng Palace group.
The Guangcheng Palace complex is divided into the Guangcheng Palace building complex on the mountain and the Cuibo building complex at the foot of the mountain.
The former is for residential use, with less than sixty rooms, a warehouse, and a small military camp.
The latter is a vegetable patch and orchard, surrounded by wooden fences, and has more than 30 residences, water mills, warehouses and other buildings.
The second is the soup pool group.
The hot spring complex is divided into hot spring building complex and winter garden building complex.
The former is divided into several courtyards, with a total of more than a hundred houses, and more than ten ancillary buildings such as pavilions and pavilions.
The latter is not big, and mainly relies on geothermal hot springs to grow vegetables. This is an old wisdom from the Han Dynasty, that is, the temperature is slightly higher near hot springs, so vegetables are grown for winter enjoyment.
Obviously, the Winter Garden plays this role, providing fresh fruits and vegetables in winter to the nobles taking a bath in the hot springs.
The third is the Yongjia Cangcheng group.
This group has jurisdiction over many building groups such as Yongjiacang, fodder warehouse, Shuidi, Muyuan, and military camps. It is the core area of ​​Guangchengze and a key construction project this year.
The fourth is the formation of the Zhilan Academy group.
This group has jurisdiction over the Zhilanyuan Building Complex and the Wharf Building Complex.
The former has seventy or eighty houses, while the latter has docks, warehouses, military camps and a workshop for building small boats.
Shao Xun is not interested in hedonic architecture, but still has a good impression of functional architecture.
And he took advantage of every opportunity and ordered the opening of fields and the preparation of ditches in the empty areas between various building groups.
At this moment he was walking near a field that was being leveled.
The ground is full of silt, and the silt is taken from the nearby swamp.
To put it simply, in a swamp, some places are shallow and some are deep.
During the development process, the idea is to dredge the deep areas, dig wide and deep, and then fill the shallow areas with silt to turn them into farmland. In this way, the farmland will be surrounded by rivers and lakes, which facilitates irrigation.
There is a large amount of nutrient-rich silt in farmland, which can be used for crop growth and increase yields.
This idea was proposed by Shao Xun and was inspired by "Duotian".
The Chinese ancestors did something like this when they developed Huainan.
Pieces of fields are surrounded by rivers and lakes, like small islands in the middle of the water. The islands are covered with crops and have high yields.
As time went by, more and more sediment was brought upstream, and many small islands slowly connected together to form land.
Swamps, rivers and lakes slowly disappeared, and the contiguous plains became larger and larger. By the 21st century, there are still such "small islands" and stacked fields in northern Jiangsu, which can be seen.
These fields in Guangchengze will be connected into land in the future. This is a rule and will happen sooner or later.
"Is this rice just planted?" Shao Xun asked, looking at the newly grown green seedlings.
"Yes, Empress Hui sent people to Xincheng, Luhun and other places to recruit, and some refugees who went south from Hanoi, totaling more than 400 households, cultivated more than 60 hectares -"
"Duotian."
"Yes, we have cultivated more than sixty hectares of fields," Yang Ming said.
Henan and Hanoi counties have famous rice (Xincheng rice, Hanoi green rice) since Cao Wei. There is a certain scale of rice cultivation in the local area. It is true that you can find many households who are good at growing rice, but——
"It's been almost a year. Queen Hui has spent a lot of money, and that's all she did?" Shao Xun sighed and asked.
The shirt field that the Nanyang Leshi team took over was originally developed by Yang Xianrong. General Yang Ming was responsible for managing a group of land reclamation servants from Nanyang County.
After the end of the year, the output was very low. After the slaves chewed it up, only a little was left, so the slaves were asked to take it home.
This year, people from Nanyang Leshi took over the entire business, but it has nothing to do with Yangshi.
Last year, Yang Xianrong began to look for people who were good at growing rice in Guangchengze. After so long, with the help of his servants, he was able to cultivate more than 60 hectares.
This efficiency is worse than burning wasteland.
The masters of the five counties built large houses, cut down many bamboos and trees, and freed up large areas of land.
In addition, there are many deserted meadows.
I don't know how enjoyable it would be to burn it once - well, I don't know how many fields it would burn.
"That's all, Queen Hui is also traveling for me." Shao Xun felt that Yang Xianrong should be encouraged, after all, she did not spend her own money.
Moreover, the swamp really needs to be cleaned in depth.
He mentioned Duopian once, and Yang Xianrong remembered it and put it into practice. Although it only produced a small number of pocket rice fields, it was not bad.
I'll leave these sixty hectares of land to her to do with as she pleases, and I don't care if she wants this.
"After Wang Mi's rebellion was over, Queen Hui sent people north to Hanoi to recruit people." Yang Ming continued: "The Xiongnu were raging, and the people in Hanoi were confused and uneasy. There were many people who were willing to abandon their homes and careers and go south to become villagers. Hui.
The queen plans to recruit 500 new households and continue to expand the number of fields next year."
This is combined with rice!
Shao Xun nodded and said: "Queen Hui acts very orderly, I admire her."
Yang Ming looked around and whispered: "Queen Hui said that if you march to Xiangyang in the future, you will need our own people."
When Shao Xun heard this, he became serious.
He has never been to Xiangyang.
But he knew that the level of development in the Jianghan area at this time was very low, and the area with dense water networks was not much worse than Huainan.
In fact, despite the fact that during the Three Kingdoms period, Xiangyang and Jingzhou were frequently mentioned in historical records and had frequent wars. However, until the Tang Dynasty, these two places were not densely populated areas and their level of development was not high.
Further south than Xiangyang, at the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were even a large number of barbarian tribes, and the Tang court specially appointed the Wuchang Army Jiedu Envoy to suppress them.
The Zhangchang Rebellion in Jingzhou a few years ago took two years to put down. And Zhang Chang was just a barbarian.
"Queen Hui is far-sighted and truly the best among women." Shao Xun praised.
"Empress Hui sent people to Mount Tai yesterday to explain her interests and harms. The elders in the clan will surely make a decision after hearing the name of the monarch." Yang Ming said again.
"The land of Qingyan..." Shao Xun shook his head, looked at Yang Ming seriously, and said: "It doesn't matter that Wang Mi is gone, but Gou Xi is not easy to get along with. His younger brother Gou Chun is extremely murderous and cruel.
Incomparable, he will definitely force Qingzhou father to rebel against him
Old. Furthermore, the war in Hebei is endless, and if it cannot be controlled, it will definitely spread to Qingyan. The Yang family is a hairpin family, and if they still stay in Qingyan, they will suffer heavy losses sooner or later. How does the Wang family in Langya manage it? The Yang family is really suitable.
Think carefully about it.”
Diversified investment is the specialty of the family, but Taiyang's investment style is too conservative, and there have been serious misjudgments in investment direction and share. If not corrected, decline is a high probability.
In today's social environment, all careerists are soliciting investment and sponsorship.
Liu Yuan was the most miserable, even worse than Shao Xun and Gou Xi, two warriors with lower backgrounds. The reason was simply that he was in the Xiongnu regime.
However, Liu Yuan’s “registered capital” is large and his “financing needs” are small, which are his advantages.
"What the Lord said is true." Yang Ming replied: "Gou Xi, Gou Chun's brother has many severe punishments and murders, which arouses people's resentment. Even the Taiyang family has been repeatedly coerced by him. This person,
It's not like we can hold Qingzhou for a long time. It's good that there are no external enemies. If someone attacks, Gou Xi will be defeated sooner or later."
Shao Xun nodded slightly.
Taiyangshi still has a lot of knowledge and can understand many things. But to understand, you must take action. I am just waiting for the rice to be cooked.
After leaving Zhilanyuan, Shao Xun went to visit his ranch again.
Two years have passed since the horses were snatched back.
After the Wang Mi Rebellion, the price of horses skyrocketed. In the past two days, people came to discuss buying horses, and they successively settled on seven or eight hundred horses, which could bring in about two to three hundred thousand grains. Considering that Yushanwu, Pan Yuan suffered from thieves
The disaster, Jinguyuan and Shaoyuan were also affected to a lesser extent, and due to the expenditure after the military expansion at the end of last year, these grains were only enough to make up for the losses.
Excluding these horses, as well as the number of horses that died of old age, illness, and war losses, the number of horses left in the wild at Guangchengze Ranch will drop to about 5,000.
Horses are purely consumables.
On the battlefield, thousands of arrows were fired.
During the charge, there were many swords and guns.
No matter how the timing is chosen, the loss of war horses is inevitable.
When marching in a hurry, riding horses and pack horses may also be lost.
When encountering a dangerous road section, the horse will stumble and the draft horse will suffer a lot of losses.
Without hematopoietic function, the number will inevitably gradually decrease.
Fortunately, after many searches, the number of mares has exceeded one hundred.
There are also dozens of foals in Guangcheng Garden, all of which have been born one after another in the past two years.
Well, they are different from the "eunuch horses" captured from the Xianbei people. They can continue to reproduce and slowly expand the population.
This is a good start.
When the number reaches a certain level in the future, you can try to engage in horse politics.
Horses must not be allowed to mate freely.
Genes such as size, speed, temperament, strength, endurance, and disease resistance must be gradually refined, and the horse's functions must also be gradually differentiated.
The horse charging into battle emphasizes impact and speed.
The galloping horse emphasizes endurance.
The horse pulling the cart emphasizes strength and resistance to rough feeding.
The horse for transportation - well, there is no requirement, just mediocre.
In short, this is a long-term, systematic project.
Differentiating uses and scientific breeding is what traversers should advocate, and it is also the correct direction for horse breeding.
Chapter completed!