The seventh day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of Yongjia in the Jin Dynasty (313) was Ren's Day.
In fact, it is still the New Year holiday, and everyone is either partying or having fun, and it is far from the time to go straight. But there is one very important thing to do in the first ten days of the first month of this year——
There is Xuchang Palace in the southeast of Xuchang, which covers a vast area. It was once glorious but has been abandoned for decades, with only ruins remaining.
Liu Shan came to the old site of Xuchang Palace two days in advance.
He is now the commander-in-chief of the Xuchang shogunate and holds military power.
Shao Xun stuffed a group of relatives from the Shao clan and his uncle's family into the Xuchang army, serving as officers at all levels and commanding thousands of people who were still under the city of Xuchang.
Uncle Liu Shan is now the supreme commander of the Xuchang Shibing. In order to facilitate the management of the troops, he even selected some cronies from Yushan Wu and Yangguan Left and Right Wu to join the army and control this army that was both soldiers and farmers.
Shao Xun did not ask for the strong combat effectiveness of this group of soldiers who worked at home and farmed most of the year. As long as they could defend the city and suppress the place, the requirements were really not high.
Liu Shan mobilized a total of three thousand soldiers and occupied the old site of Xuchang Palace. They also cleaned up the weeds, sheep dung, rotten wood, broken bricks and the like inside.
On this day, Shao Xun arrived with his entire family, the family members of the shogunate generals, and officials from Yingchuan County and Xuchang County.
The mulberry seedlings cultivated last year can be transplanted today.
Transplanting mulberry trees is a technical job, but Shao Xun is not afraid. He now holds two peerless secret books: After the Wang family of Langya provided "Planting Pockmarks", Wang Huifeng privately copied a copy of "The Essential Techniques of Planting Mulberry Trees" and gave them to him as a gift.
To Shao Xun.
Haha, I have a selection of Langya Wang’s mulberry planting tips from past generations, and I’m afraid of a bird!
Yu Wenjun, Le Lanji, and Lu Xun got together and told the other female relatives the essence of "The Essential Art of Planting Mulberry." After today's work is over, they will each have a copy and go back to study it carefully.
Song Yi pitifully followed Shao Xun carrying the food box, water bag and wine bottle, just like a maid.
The servants brought by each of the female family members have already begun to dig holes.
Shao Xun was still quite interested and looked at it carefully.
According to the secret book, plant a tree about two feet apart. The depth and width of the tree pit are each seven feet. Fill the pit with broken bricks and tiles, cover the broken bricks and tiles with manure, and then transplant the tree.
As for why this is done, the secret book also says: "If there are tiles and rocks under the roots, they will be empty and sparse and no mud will be made; when feces falls into them, the roots will be guided to make it easy to move."
This is good, unlike some cheats that only tell you how to do it, but not why.
Without this book, he really didn't know the best effect of transplanting mulberry trees in this way. Anyway, when he asked other people, they didn't know much.
After a few months, the roots have almost penetrated deep into the ground. At this time, it is necessary to drill a dozen holes around the tree, about three to four feet deep, and then pour manure into the holes.
At the end of the book, there are technical points such as insect control, mulberry tree pruning, and mulberry leaf picking.
"There is knowledge everywhere." Shao Xun said with emotion.
The same is true for transplanting mulberry trees. Depending on whether you have experience and technical guidance, the effect will be very different. Over time, the silk yield will also be very different.
This is just a mulberry garden. If it were expanded to the whole of Henan, how big would the gap be?
Silk is money. More money can support more soldiers, which can make the soldiers live a better life without worries, which will eventually be reflected in combat effectiveness.
"There are indeed benefits to licking a woman. If you lick until the end, you will get everything you want." Shao Xun sighed silently in his heart, which further strengthened Huang Mao's Taoism.
And just when Shao Xun was filled with emotion, Wang Xuan, who came specially to deliver the letter, felt that something was wrong.
Isn’t this the unique skill of my Wang family?!
Mahler Gobi! What's going on?
He looked at Shao Xun.
Shao Xun looked a little unnatural and quietly stuffed the secret book into his arms.
After all, it was a "scientific research result" promoted by generations of the Wang family. As a result, the female president of the family business was transferred to the will-o'-the-wisp Huang Mao for free. How the hell can you bear this?
The old wall lamp probably wants to trade this with him...
Shao Xun's face turned red and he left Wang Xuan quickly, without even having time to receive the letter from the old wall lamp.
After he left, Wang Xuan was angry for a while, and then smiled.
Now that things have come to this, he feels that he should seize the opportunity to make a fuss.
Directly dedicating this book to Chen Gong may not have much good effect. But now that Chen Gong feels guilty for stealing something from the Wang family, things are interesting.
Haha, how wonderful! It depends on whether you are satisfied or not.
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"Husband, the seedlings raised last year are growing so strong." As soon as he walked into Jingfu Garden, Yu Wenjun took his hand and said with a look of surprise.
Le Lanji quietly retracted her half-stretched hand, smoothed her hair, and said: "Three branches per plant, it does grow well. Some old farmers said it can grow five to six feet."
"Maybe seven or eight feet." Lu Xun added.
Shao Xun silently estimated, it shouldn't be more than ten or twenty meters?
He remembered that when he was a child in his previous life, there was a mulberry tree by the river in the village. He didn't know who planted it.
I met a snake spitting out letters on a branch...
The mulberry tree is originally a large tree, but many times people prune it into a shrub.
This may be due to differences in needs.
In later generations, people mainly used mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, but at this time, they also needed trees.
Crutches made from mulberry trees can be sold for a few cents to dozens of cents.
In ten years, mulberry trees can be used to make staffs (military weapons), riding whips, and bedding.
The mulberry tree is very powerful when it is fifteen years old. It is a very good bow material and can also be used to make shoes, wooden awls and knife handles.
If it can grow to twenty years, it can make a chariot worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In other words, mulberry trees that are more than ten years old have many military uses, such as wooden staffs/horses, riding whips, knife handles, bow tips, chariots, etc.
Different eras have different needs. In this era, it is impossible to cut mulberry trees into shrubs for use.
This is farming war.
Planting mulberry and raising silkworms, reeling silk for weaving, using materials to make bows, and building chariots. The value of mulberry trees cannot be underestimated.
"Husband, will Jingfu Hall be our mulberry garden from now on?" Yu Wenjun asked happily, shaking his hand.
"Well. You must take good care of it and set an example for the world." Shao Xun said.
Destruction only takes a moment, but construction takes years.
When he does things, he not only considers whether it is simple or easy, he thinks the most important thing is to do the right thing.
Jingfu Hall is the main hall of Xuchang Palace. It once had a huge pavilion. It was a very luxurious and famous palace at that time, used for imperial gatherings.
There are verandahs around the palace, forming a huge palace garden. The courtyard is planted with locust trees, maple trees and "beautiful grass".
To the east of Jingfu Hall is the Chengguang Hall where Emperor Wei listened to his affairs.
To the west of Jingfu Hall is the place for worshiping and listening to music.
There are rivers and lakes in the Xuchang Palace, which can be used for boating. There is an artificial canal to the west of the Suiyang Canal that leads directly to the Xuchang Palace, transporting supplies from other places into the riverside warehouse.
As world affairs changed, Xuchang Palace was no longer repaired in the late Cao Wei Dynasty, and no one cared about it until the imperial dynasty, so it gradually fell into disuse.
Nowadays, the former palace gardens have been turned into mulberry gardens and fruit trees. Before that, it was even a place where people grazed cattle and sheep.
There is no immortal dynasty in the world. As long as the people get benefits, can harvest more grain, harvest more cloth, and live a better life, then the existence of this dynasty is meaningful.
Just have a clear conscience and work hard.
Shao Xun held Yu Wenjun with his left hand, stretched out his right hand, and pulled Le Lanji with him, and then glanced at Lu Xun.
Xunniang smiled and followed.
The four of them climbed up the remaining stone steps of Xuchang Palace and climbed to a high place, overlooking the earth.
"I can only do this after I drive away the Huns." Shao Xun pointed to the crowd below who were transplanting mulberry seedlings and said: "Plowing and plowing, only those who can plow can fight. When I finish plowing, I will destroy the Huns sooner or later.
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Yu Wenjun was convinced and held onto her husband's hand.
Lan Ji was still blushing and a little happy. It turned out that her husband just saw her embarrassment and took the initiative to hold her hand.
Even more sad, how beautiful would it be if I could marry him from the beginning?
Lu Xun is not that sentimental. She has a good impression of Shao Xun, otherwise she would not have followed him half-heartedly. But as for how much she loves him, I don't know. Anyway, she loves her children more now.
Shao Xun was wearing a purple robe today, and he looked quite imposing when walking around with his hands behind his back.
In fact, in this day and age, a twenty-six-year-old man is no longer a young man. He has a beard, looks mature, and is not angry and self-confident. He looks like a middle-aged man.
After the cold wind blew for a while, Lan Ji and Lu Xun went down.
Yu Wenjun held her husband's arm and was very clingy.
Shao Xun looked at the wheat seedlings in Xuchang Palace.
Yanzhou was harassed by Hu Qi, so they could only grow food for one season, and even this one season would be damaged to a considerable extent, making it miserable.
But with Yanzhou blocking the front, Yuzhou got a chance to breathe.
The transplanting of mulberry seedlings today is one, and the winter wheat planted last year is the second.
After the wheat harvest in May, you can still grow miscellaneous grains. People's lives will really be greatly improved by the end of this year.
I can’t say how much surplus food there is, but it’s definitely not the precarious situation it was before.
At this time, people will unconsciously wonder who brought all this to them.
The dividends of the Battle of Gaoping have been reaped to this day, and it is worthy of the fact that he slept in the open air, never slept, and chased Jin Zhun until he had no way to the sky and no way to the earth. He completely gave up the idea of ​​the Xiongnu going south to Yuzhou for military adventure.
The dividends of the Battle of Jamati will probably gradually appear.
Many benefits cannot be seen at the time, and profits cannot be settled immediately.
He felt that the strategic defense period was probably over.
This is undoubtedly a period of strategic stalemate.
If the Huns were a Han government, there would be no period of strategic stalemate and they would directly enter a period of strategic counterattack.
But the cavalry of the Hu regime were so annoying that they almost became their biggest talisman.
We'll see, I'll play with you slowly.
"Husband." Just as he was about to go down, Yu Wenjun suddenly grabbed him.
Shao Xun looked at his wife doubtfully.
Yu Wenjun lowered his head shyly and took out a ring from his arms.
Shao Xun took a closer look and saw that it was exactly the same as the one he gave to Yu Wenjun.
Yu Wenjun took his hand and put the ring on. He blushed and said, "Husband, I begged my mother to find someone to make it. I must wear it all the time in the future."
Shao Xun's heart trembled.
Is this still his dizzy little wife? Where did he learn this trick?
He took off the ring, held it in his hand and looked at it. There was also a poem written in it: "The bond between life and death is broad, and I said it to my son. Hold your hand and grow old together with me."
He stood in silence for a long time, then smiled and put on the ring.
The girl's fiery heart always made it difficult for him to resist.
In this round, Huang Mao was completely defeated.
"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, let's worship the Silkworm God and raise silkworms together, and we will make you a beautiful dress." Shao Xun took his wife's hand and said.
"Okay, okay." Yu Wenjun nodded repeatedly, his eyes curled into small crescents.
"Same as when you were six years old." Shao Xun smiled.
"So at that time you..." Yu Wenjun pretended to be surprised.
"Yes, I've fallen in love with you since I was six years old, and I still haven't tired of you when I'm sixty years old." Shao Xun said.
Yu Wenjun covered his mouth and chuckled, and with brisk steps, he pulled his husband off the high platform.
"Husband, who wrote "The Essential Art of Planting Mulberry"? The handwriting is so graceful." Yu Wenjun's voice came from the wind...
Chapter completed!