"If you want to plant mulberry trees, you need to choose beautiful mulberry trees." Under the warm sunshine, a group of female relatives dressed in red and green gathered around Yu Wenjun and listened carefully to what she said.
Yu Wenjun was slightly nervous.
She has been memorizing it for a long time these days to ensure that nothing will go wrong, but when things happen, she will inevitably become nervous.
Mrs. Yin quietly handed over a mulberry branch and paused for a moment.
Yu Wenjun calmed down and continued: "Put off both ends of this branch, and only take the middle section. If you plant it with larger seeds, the trunk will be strong and the leaves will be thick. After taking out the seeds and planting them, wait for them to emerge."
After that, he took the women to an abandoned garden that had just been cleared and said, "The seeds are ready, just plant them like this."
Two older women took the mulberry seeds from Yu Wenjun's hand, demonstrated how to plant them, and let everyone watch.
Actually, Shao Xun, the shogunate, is not that down-to-earth.
The families of many military officers with grassroots backgrounds have planted mulberry trees to some extent and are quite familiar with this.
But the mistress is demonstrating, and no matter how understanding you are, you still have to hold it in, and you can't make trouble in front of her.
Of course, the majority are still those who don’t understand.
Especially the wives and daughters of the nobles and generals stood there talking and laughing without taking it seriously.
It’s a joke! Planting mulberry and raising silkworms is something that the court talks about every year, and even the queen bows to silkworms, but who really takes it seriously? Naturally, women from Zhuang and Hakka families can do this kind of common work, so how can they get involved?
However, Mrs. Yu seems to be serious?
"Quiet." Ms. Xun stood up, with a stern expression on her little face. She said, "Madam just talked about how to select good seeds, and then she talked about how to sow seeds. Please watch carefully.
Listen, don't make any noise. After you go back, each of you will plant a garden and take care of it from time to time."
As soon as these words came out, everyone finally became quiet. As for what they were thinking in their hearts, no one knew.
Yu Wenjun glanced at the little sisters gratefully and continued: "After the seedlings emerge, pick up all the seedlings and cut off the stems, leaving only the roots. Every three roots are combined into one plant, with the word "pin", tied tightly under a bamboo tube and planted.
After a long time, the bamboo tube will rot, and the three roots will become one, which will grow easily. This is called seedling cultivation."
"First plant the mulberry seeds, then raise the seedlings, and then transplant them to the fields in the middle of the first month of the next year..."
The intermittent "lectures" continued until noon, and the female relatives collected the mulberry seeds and left one after another.
After a few days, they would come over and have a look inside the Jamsil.
"Are you tired?" Shao Xun asked after just finishing tidying up the silkworm room.
"Planting mulberry trees is so troublesome." Yu Wenjun sighed.
"If you want to blame it, blame God." Shao Xun said while wiping the statue: "First there was a severe drought, which destroyed the mulberry forest. Then the next year there was a locust plague, which also wiped out the remaining mulberry trees. So far,
Henan, where mulberry forests were once popular, was flooded with silks and silks from other places. It was a pity that not even one out of ten local mulberry trees were left. As my husband paid rewards to the sergeants, I felt that the silks and silks were quite insufficient, so I often had to use grain to make up for it."
Previously, when Zhou Fu was in Shouchun, he reported to the emperor that each of the four prefectures of Yang, Jiang, Hunan, and Jing would make 140,000 pieces of silk, totaling 560,000, as the first batch of expenses for the emperor to move the capital to Shouchun.
Regardless of whether Zhou Fu has the ability to bleed these four states, his memorial alone shows that the sericulture industry in Jiangnan has not suffered heavy losses in the two consecutive years of Genesis disasters, and its scale has been maintained very well.
Compared with them, Henan and Hebei are too miserable, let alone Guanzhong.
Shao Xun wanted to restore the sericulture industry in Yuzhou, but he had to start from planting and raising seedlings. It was really difficult.
But if you don’t do these things this year, you will have to do them next year. If you don’t do them next year, you won’t be able to escape them later.
Some things have to be started, and some results take time to accumulate.
This is a place where a year ago there were bones covering the fields, famine was everywhere, even the hair of cattle and horses was eaten away, and an unknown number of people starved to death. However, it is not that easy to recover.
"I will take them to do it well." Yu Wenjun threw himself directly into Shao Xun's arms and said, "We have done this, and the people in all counties and villages should follow suit, right?"
"Of course." Shao Xun kissed her forehead and said, "Okay, let's sit there and rest for a while."
The little girl is so clingy.
Wherever you go, hold his hand and hold him wherever there is no one around.
Every time I go out and come back, I throw myself into his arms from afar.
After only two months of marriage, the childish look on her face gradually faded away, and she actually gained a bit of womanly charm.
I like this clingy guy more and more.
However, the other two concubines in the family seemed to have objections.
Can a doctor monopolize the milk source?
"What are you doing, husband?" Yu Wenjun asked curiously after sitting down.
"This is the god of silkworms. He is placed in the silkworm room and worshiped at all times. I heard that it can increase the number of silkworms a hundred times." Shao Xun said.
"A hundred times as many?" Yu Wenjun said with a smile.
"If you believe it, there will be something. If you don't believe it, there will be nothing." Shao Xun said: "After reeling the silk, we can weave a few pieces of cloth and make a new dress for my wife. If there are leftover materials, maybe we can make another dress for our child."
Yu Wenjun lowered his head in shame.
The reason why she dominated her husband was because she wanted to give birth to a boy and a girl as soon as possible? But her husband was always worried about her body, and in the end...
"Okay, the statue has been installed." Shao Xun clapped his hands and said: "Encouraging farmers to cultivate mulberry trees, this is the foundation of a king. If you don't do this well, everything will be over."
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Relatively peaceful life lasted until the end of March.
On this day, Sima Chen Yougen from the left and Yangchen from the right came one after another to report.
"There are two matters discussed in the court today." Yang Chen said: "The first is to attack Wang Mi of Xin'an, and the second is to defend Mengjin and Sanzhu."
After Shao Xun heard this, he looked at Chen Yougen again.
"Ming Gong, these two places make Luoyang very uncomfortable." Chen Yougen said: "Xin'an occupies the position of Hanhan Valley Pass. It is too close to Luoyang and can be reached in a short time. If we don't demolish the Bird City, it will be very uncomfortable."
"The Forbidden Army only has 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, how can it defeat Xin'an?" Shao Xun said: "The siege battle is the most brutal. Even if we kill all the elite soldiers and generals, we may not be able to win."
Xin'an City is actually a legacy from the last time the Huns invaded.
Shao Xun broke through many obstacles and returned to Xingyang from the Luoyang Basin. He was in a hurry and many enemy troops were strategically ignored by him, such as Wang Mi, who marched alone.
Shan Zheng later withdrew, but Wang Mi kept building the city in Xin'an and did not leave in the end.
According to the latest news, the Liu Han court should have handed over the northern half of Hongnong to Wang Mi.
Thirty thousand soldiers have been stationed in the four counties of Hu, Shaanxi, Hongnong and Xin'an.
This year, Huayin County was also handed over to him. So far, Wang Mi has territory in five counties.
Thirty thousand people were both farmers and soldiers, equivalent to the auxiliary troops of the field army under Shao Xun's rule.
Just a few other counties, Xin'an City is really too close to Luoyang, and it occupies a favorable location, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Just outside the mountains is the flat Yiluo Basin, which poses a great threat to Luoyang.
It is understandable that the imperial court wanted to drive Wang Mi away from Xin'an.
Mengjin Sanzhu is actually a critical place.
The so-called Sanzhu are Gaozhu, Mazhu and Taozhu.
Zhu is a sandbank in the water.
Ma Zhu is in the west of Mengjin. There is another small ferry to the west of Ma Zhu, called "Xia Shijin" or "Heqing Ferry". Because the water is relatively fast, it is less used and is not as important as Mengjin.
When Er Zhurong was attacking Yuan Hao in the south, he ordered Er Zhu Zhao and He to build a raft with timber and cross the river southward.
Gaozhu is near Ma Zhu.
Taozhu is more important, has a larger area and is very close to Mengjin.
During the Cao Wei Dynasty, Du Ji "received the imperial order to build an imperial ship and tried the ship on the Tao River, but was destroyed by the wind."
Tao River is the nickname of this section of the Yellow River separated by Tao Zhu.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Du Yu built a pontoon bridge here, spanning the north and south. It has been destroyed by the war.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, cities were built on the north and south banks of the Yellow River and on Taozhu, pontoon bridges were built, and General Zhonglang was placed to guard the city.
In the Tang Dynasty, the area of ​​sandbanks in the river was larger. In the Jin Dynasty, Hezhu may have been connected into one area, so the Jiedu Envoys from the three cities of Heyang were appointed to guard the northern gate of Luoyang.
"The imperial court does not want to sit still and wait for death." Shao Xun said: "It is still actively saving itself."
Chen Yougen chuckled.
Yang Chen smiled bitterly, "That's right! Anyone who has a knife pressed against his neck must find a way to struggle."
"How is the court meeting?" Shao Xun asked again: "It is impossible for Xin'an and Sanzhu to happen at the same time."
"The imperial court has decided to station troops and build a city on Zhuhu to prevent the Xiongnu from crossing south." Yang Chen said: "Hezhu and the south bank are connected by a pontoon bridge."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"The imperial court used Governor Situ Fuzhi to build cities and bridges. However, the Xiongnu were powerful and ferocious, so they needed a large number of soldiers to guard them." Yang Chen said: "The imperial court wanted Duke Ming to escort them."
"If you catch me, I will use it to death." Shao Xun said with a smile: "However, I really appreciate the fact that the court did this. Finally, I no longer wait to die."
Chen Yougen couldn't help laughing.
Yang Chen looked at Shao Xun quietly.
"Actually, I'm also quite interested in this matter." Shao Xun said, "In the future, if we are going to conquer the Huns from the north, it would be a good idea to cross the river here. Can the imperial court give me this bridge?"
"I'm afraid the imperial court won't get what it wants," Yang Chen said.
"Reply to the imperial court." Shao Xun thought for a while and said: "Heyang County was established on Hezhu. The county was guarded by a general, and the craftsmen were assigned to repair the boats, and the people were assigned to plant fruits and vegetables, and to herd horses, cattle and sheep. We must do this.
, a little more ambitious. North Bank of the River
Cities were also built in the Zhamati area. Together with the Zhongcheng on the Hezhu River and the Nancheng at the Mengjin ferry on the south bank of the river, they were called the "Three Cities of Heyang". The three cities were connected by pontoon bridges. They accumulated more supplies and garrisoned soldiers.
Meng Jin is firmly in his hands."
Chen Yougen and Yang Chen looked at each other. If they do this, it will be inconvenient for the Xiongnu to go south from Hanoi unless they wait until the Yellow River freezes in winter.
But how can I put it, if the three cities of Heyang are successfully built, they will be a thorn in the flesh of the Xiongnu, and they will definitely send a large army to attack.
In a sense, the imperial court finally took some initiative and grasped the weakness of the Huns. As the saying goes, if you attack them, you will save them.
"When will the city be built?" Shao Xun asked again.
"After the first batch of grain arrives in Beijing in May, we will have enough energy," Yang Chen said.
"Okay, I'll wait for the order." Shao Xun said.
At the time of great chaos in Guanzhong, it was indeed a good opportunity to build the three cities of Heyang.
After passing this village, there may not be this store.
By the time the Huns withdraw from Guanzhong, the three cities of Heyang will have been completed, and the situation will be completely new.
However - this court is really capable of tossing people around!
Don't let it turn into an all-out war with the Huns again, I don't want to fight this year.
Chapter completed!