On the muddy road, the footprints of wild beasts are clearly visible.
Ye Lao stood in front of the newly built firewood gate. Even though he was frightened, he still stood there firmly.
A team was marching not far away.
Under the big tree next to the post road, a soldier wearing a bright red military uniform was looking at him with a smile.
Ye Lao turned his eyes and stopped looking at the military man.
This person has a kind face and is not fierce at all. But when he sits down, he has a clear demeanor and gives orders, and no one refuses to obey.
The eight halberdmen around him looked like wood carvings and clay sculptures, but if anyone dared to get too close, they would immediately cross their halberds. The surrounding sergeants also held the hilts of their knives, as if they would chop them down if something went wrong.
The shepherd boy drove a dozen sheep over cautiously.
Ye Lao breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward with a cane, and welcomed the shepherd boy back home.
The firewood door was gently closed, and the sounds of goats came from inside.
After resting enough, Shao Shude got up and mounted his horse. It was getting late, so he would stay in the village tonight.
This place is located between Weiyuan and Xiangwu, on the north bank of the Wei River. There has just been an autumn rain, and there is a moist and fresh atmosphere in the mountains and forests.
The Wei River, which originates from Niaoshu Mountain, is the river of life for tens of thousands of people in Weizhou. It is also the main reason why Qin, Wei and other states are more prosperous than He and Lan.
There was a large Li family in the village, originally from Banan, and a member of Zhuge Zhongbao's party. After the fall of Tongzhou's power, the whole family was forcibly moved and settled in Xiangwu County in Weizhou.
The Li family has a large population, with a population of over 400. They are very active in reclaiming wasteland along the river and planting mulberries. For this purpose, they even received a Jie Sheep reward from the state government.
Shao Shude will stay in Li's courtyard tonight.
After all, the Li family is a wealthy family, and they have quite a lot of ideas. There is a stream flowing under the nearby mountains, and they dug a medium-sized pond. Yegu Mountain Spring flows into it, and then there is a ditch leading to the nearby fields. Although only one ditch was dug.
In this small section, the area that can be irrigated is limited, but more than ten acres of rice are still planted, and the harvest is more than two huks of dendrobium per mu.
Shao Shude went to take a look. There was mist in the valley in the distance, and a gurgling spring flowed down and merged into the pond. There were trees beside the pond, the wind was blowing in the forest, and tired birds were nesting inside, chirping.
To the west, you can vaguely see the quietly flowing Wei River.
The river bank was overgrown with weeds, and the hens kept rummaging for food, while the cormorants quickly pounced on the water and grabbed a small fish.
A simple bridge made of wooden boards leads to the other side of the river. A farmer is returning from the field with a hoe on his shoulder. A woman is sitting in front of the door, using the last rays of light on the horizon to sew clothes. It is a critical period for the growth of beans, and the farmers in the field are very busy.
Don't open the door. After hoeing, you still have to remove the vegetable patch. Many of the clothes are damaged and need to be mended.
There was the sound of pounding rice in the backyard.
When the marshal moved in, Li was naturally busy and trying to flatter him.
This year's newly harvested japonica rice was cooked into porridge, the duck eggs just picked up from the river bank, the melons picked from the sunny slopes, and some seasonal fruits and vegetables all looked quite good.
More than ten people who were good at shooting with silver spears went into the mountains, hunted some game and brought it back to the cook to stew together tonight.
Shao Shude was chatting with the elders of the Li family while drinking tea.
"Weizhou is pretty good among the Longyou prefectures, and it's not much worse than Tongzhou." Shao Shude looked at the blooming gardenias in the courtyard and said, "It has only been a year since the Li family moved here.
It’s impressive to be so diligent and diligent.”
"The state government has also helped a lot." The clan elder replied.
Do you hate that the whole family was forcibly moved here like criminals? Maybe. But does Li have the qualifications to hate the Lingwu County Prince who has hundreds of thousands of soldiers? The big family has its own philosophy of doing things. At any time, survival is the first priority.
One person.
Shao Shude remembered the incident of immigrating to Shibian.
In the newly restored land of Longyou, the situation is turbulent and people's hearts are unstable. The most suitable place for this kind of place is the large families who have moved from the mainland. They have sufficient manpower and strong cohesion, and can deal with emergencies.
They are more suitable to develop in border areas than ordinary people.
In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the powerful clansmen and powerful people who were running rampant in the countryside. Shao Shude wanted to send them to the Longyou states, especially the newly restored Shan and Kuo states.
This area in the northeastern part of Qinghai is very suitable for farming, and of course it is also suitable for animal husbandry.
In the future, the enemy's large clans that were defeated in the war could be forced to move to the border, mix with the Qiang people, and enrich the local household registration. A large clan with hundreds or thousands of people is much better than a piecemeal group of common people and prisoners.
The Tongzhou Li family has done a good job in Weizhou, and it seems that this example can be followed and promoted in Shanzhou.
Another major source of population in the border areas is the surrendered soldiers.
Of course, there are three, six or nine levels of surrender. Those who surrender without fighting will receive preferential treatment. Those who surrender after failing in the field battle do not need to move. But those who surrender after the city is broken will be severely punished. It is inevitable that the whole family will move to Qinghai and Hexi.
thing.
Shao Shude is actually very kind. Since ancient times, in battles, the defenders of a city can often cause huge losses to the attackers. After the old city is broken, they are often massacred. Not killing them, just moving to the border, is already a very good ending.
"More than four million Qiang Hu cattle, sheep, horses and camels were seized this year. The price of cattle and sheep in Shuofang and Longyou will definitely drop sharply. The elders may wish to send people to collect more, and just exchange them with grain. If they keep raising them slowly, they will see great profits sooner or later.
Shao Shude picked up the tea bowl and said.
"I will obey all the commander-in-chief's orders."
Shao Shude shook his head and laughed. Forget it, let’s not mention it, so as not to make others think that he forcibly ordered the sheep to be herded.
In a place with a large number of people and a small amount of land, it is impossible not to learn how to raise animals. During the Tianbao period, more than one million people crowded in Weizhou, with 153 people living per square kilometer. In the Helong area, the number was generally in single digits, with four states
Even less than one person. Even if the environment is not as good as Hebei, it is not so different.
Correspondingly, the prosperity of the people in the Helong land is quite famous. Because there are too many land resources per capita, even if there is grass growing on the ground and cannot be cultivated, as long as you can graze livestock, you can turn that grass into real crops.
wealth.
After staying one night at Li's residence, we continued eastward the next day and walked along the Weishui River.
Weizhou Duzuoyuan has been very busy recently. They are all craftsmen who moved from Ganzhou. There are not many blacksmiths, but there are many carpenters who build palaces. So Shao Shude ordered that he first help the Longyou shogunate to make agricultural equipment and develop local production.
Before the imperial dynasty, people used traditional tools such as hù buckets, windlass, and tangerines to collect water. The efficiency was very low. The imperial dynasty attached great importance to water conservancy. There were dedicated doctors in the Ministry of Water to manage water conservancy, and they also developed efficient methods.
Higher water-drawing tools, namely bucket waterwheels and keel waterwheels.
On both sides of the Yellow River in Lingzhou, these two types of waterwheels are used in areas that are not artesian canals.
At this time, several barrel carts had been erected on both sides of the Wei River. This cart was invented in the Sui Dynasty and flourished in the imperial dynasty. After receiving the order, the Xiangwu Branch of Weizhou Duzuoyuan rushed to make several carts. This thing can be used
The momentum of the water flow draws water and irrigates the fields, which is what is called "connecting tubes to irrigate small gardens".
The barrel cart can be large or small, and can be used in streams in valleys or on large rivers.
It is relatively rare in this era for military industrial enterprises to make tools for civilian agricultural production. However, they are all stolen craftsmen. Marshal Shao is very tempted, so he just pretends that they have not been snatched and lets them serve civilian production first.
It’s really impossible not to do this. When a technology was invented in ancient times, the biggest problem was its promotion. Some inventions have been around for hundreds of years, but most people in the country may have never seen them or even know about them.
Shun Dou existed in the Shang Dynasty, and also existed in the late Spring and Autumn Period, but it was rare in the Guo Dynasty. Even in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi still popularized science in books, and people in many places even went to the river by themselves.
While carrying water, there is no water-drawing tool available.
The place where the most popular water-drawing tools in the imperial dynasty was actually the fields of military camps. They were rarely used by civilians, and there were even fewer craftsmen who could make them. After the military camps were abandoned, there were naturally fewer barrel carts and the like. Especially
In the north, there have been years of fighting, the place is dilapidated, the irrigation system is increasingly desolate, and equipment is scarce.
In addition, once something is produced, maintenance and repair must not be left behind. To a certain extent, follow-up maintenance may be more important than production and manufacturing.
This matter involves the cultivation and construction of the talent system.
In the decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were a large number of agricultural machinery maintenance departments supporting water lifting stations throughout various ministries. Without these maintenance organizations, high-efficiency agricultural machinery would be completely scrap metal and could not be promoted at all.
It is impossible for a time traveler to invent something and immediately benefit the world! You must have a production and manufacturing department, a follow-up R&D and improvement department, a promotion department, and a maintenance department. In short, it must be a system. And the establishment of this system
, is the most difficult, time-consuming and costly.
But without this system, what you invent will be completely scrappy, with no possibility of promotion.
The manufacturing of the bobbin carts can be temporarily carried out by the Metropolitan Engineering Institute, but subsequent maintenance must be done by someone.
Not every village has a carpenter, and carpenters are usually very busy and may not be willing to take on these jobs.
Perhaps a special organization can be established to promote this matter with government force. The maintenance of bobbin carts is a trivial matter, and the subsequent domestication of farm cattle, the promotion of iron farm tools, the promotion of improved seeds, etc. can all be packaged together.
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Not to mention that ordinary people are not stupid, they will use good things when they see them. Facts have proved that due to various factors, good things are not popular yet, and ordinary people really do not use them, and continue to produce them inefficiently.
After this expedition to the west, we made a lot of money. After the training, a new round of organizational reorganization should be put on the agenda.
Confucian classics at the state and county levels should vigorously recruit doctors, teaching assistants, and lecturers to accelerate the transformation of Hu into Xia.
Medicine also needs to expand and recruit more students. It is not required to be able to play a big role. We must first compile statistics on local customary diseases (frequent diseases) and tentatively propose solutions.
In addition to economics and engineering, agronomy at the state and county levels can also be established. The requirements are not high. First, select high-yielding crop seeds and forage, and discuss which planting model is better. The three-crop rotation system can also be adapted to local conditions in other states and counties.
Develop some variants and study how to design the types of crops cultivated every year.
These all require real money investment, and there is no visible effect in the short term. It seems that it is better to raise an army.
But something must be done.
Sow a seed in spring and reap the harvest in autumn.
The war with the Guandong princes could not be ended in a short time. The pattern of separatist vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty was broken to an outrageous degree. Throughout history, there is no second one.
Therefore, be prepared for a long-term struggle.
How to get stronger in the later stage depends on what you did in the early stage.
(The end of this volume, the next volume is "The horse is soaring like the wind, and the whip is coming out of the Wei Bridge".)