Because in ancient times, gentlemen had to repay the merits of things they used.
The ghost of the cat is welcomed because it will eat the field mice that damage crops on behalf of farmers.
The ghost of the tiger will eat wild boars that damage crops on behalf of farmers, so they must be welcomed and sacrificed.
As for sacrificial embankments and ditches, they also contribute to farming.
After that, Da Sitian read a congratulatory speech, which roughly read: "Earth will return to its home (earth embankments and earth ridges can stabilize and consolidate). Water will return to its gullies (water will return to its own gully and not flood everywhere)."
"Insects should not get up (insects should not rise up to harm crops). Grass and trees should return to their own marshes (vegetations and trees should return to their marshes and should not grow randomly in the fields)." Waiting on, the content was so lengthy that Ye Feng dozed off after listening to it.
After that, the wizard prayed for good weather. The wizard first recited the words, which sounded like singing.
Originally, the distance was so far that most people couldn't hear what he said. But Ye Feng listened attentively and vaguely heard a passage: "With me, we will be wise, and we will sacrifice sheep with me, and with society, we will be square."
"When our fields are harvested, it is the farmer's celebration. The harp, harp and drums are used to control the ancestors of the fields, to pray for sweet rain, to introduce our crops and millet, and to make love to our ladies."
The general meaning is that they serve exquisite food and sacrifice cattle and sheep to the gods of society. They use musical instruments to welcome Shen Nong, so that the crops will grow with good weather and good weather.
Afterwards, the wizard changed his clothes and danced a dance called Huang Wu or Meng Yu Dance. The wizard wore a feather cap on his head and his body was covered with emerald feathers.
As for the dancing, it is far from the young ladies in the live broadcast studios of later generations.
Regarding these sacrificial activities, Ye Feng is just a curious baby who wants to see the excitement.
In fact, they are all very boring things, and they are boring after watching them.
Only the sacrificial animals made Ye Feng's mouth water. After being washed with bean soup for several months, Ye Feng's stomach no longer knew the smell of meat.
Ye Feng was drooling and watching the sacrifice with relish. Suddenly he heard the craftsmen in charge of the design quarreling.
One of the craftsmen shouted: "If you add more, it will collapse."
Ye Feng suddenly came back to his senses and asked: "What? Jia Beng? Have you eaten?"
Ye Feng's Jiahui City is not far from Chaoshan. In Chaoshan dialect, Jia Beng means eating. Ye Feng doesn't know other Chaoshan dialects, but he can only understand eating.
It turned out that several craftsmen had a dispute over the increase in tower construction.
The craftsman responsible for designing the city tower building wanted to add a layer of building. He thought that this way the city gate would look more imposing.
The craftsman responsible for the construction of the city gate believed that if more were added, the city gate might collapse. And just now it was the carpenter who said, "If you add more, it will collapse."
Because there was a lack of spiritual civilization construction during this period, there were no entertainment projects. So Ye Feng watched them quarreling as a pastime, and did not say anything about how to solve these problems even if he knew how to solve them.
Ye Feng stood aside and whispered to himself: "Hey hey hey, I know how to solve it but I won't tell you, just to see you arguing."
At this time, a small official in charge of supervising the work behind him slapped Ye Feng on the back of the head and said, "You're still laughing here if you don't work."
When Ye Feng didn't react, the clerk slapped Ye Feng on the back of the head again and continued: "You know how to solve it? You are so capable, why don't you go to heaven?"
The clerk's voice attracted the attention of the craftsman responsible for the design, and also attracted the attention of the people next to him.
A young man who came from the same pavilion as Ye Feng said: "Edo, please stop bragging. You know a lot about Bai Gong."
"My father said that these are the truths that only the great masters from heaven and Wenquxing come down to earth understand. Don't show off here, lest you hurt your father."
"That's right, stop talking nonsense. It will delay the construction schedule and bury us all." Another young man agreed.
"That's right, little brat, don't brag."
"Sir, don't listen to this child. He doesn't recognize any words. What can he understand? Don't be on the same level with him." An older man who had a good relationship with Jiang Chuan said to Ye Feng to help Ye Feng.
Everyone was talking to each other.
The clerk who oversaw the work said, "Sir, please ignore him. He is just a fool with brute force. He talks nonsense."
The craftsman responsible for the design was a little disappointed when he heard what everyone said and was about to leave.
At this time Jiang Chuan ran over and secretly asked Ye Feng about the situation.
He believed in Ye Feng, so he stopped the craftsman in charge of the design and said, "Sir, my son can understand all your questions."
"Uh, no, my son can solve such a simple problem. Uh, not really. I'm a little nervous, tell me, son." After that, he looked at Ye Feng.
Ye Feng's heart was filled with thousands of horses galloping. He rolled his eyes at Jiangchuan and said softly: "Beams are used above the city gate for support, and wooden beams do have a limited load-bearing capacity. Increasing the load is indeed risky."
"Oh, load is the external force that actively acts on a building in architectural mechanics. In a building, the part that bears and transmits the load and plays the role of the skeleton is called the structure."
"The structure is divided into rod structure, plate and shell structure and solid structure based on geometric characteristics. Both beams and arches belong to rod structures. It is better to use wooden beams to bear the weight of the city gate than to use a vault."
"Because the axis of the arch is a curve, its mechanical characteristic is that there is a horizontal support reaction force under the action of vertical load."
"Simply speaking, it can distribute the load part to the horizontal support, thereby increasing the load."
The tomb chambers of the Han Dynasty used vaults. It is said that the arch technology was first introduced to ancient Greece from the ancient Wa country, and then spread from ancient Greece to Rome.
After Ye Feng finished speaking, he found that not only these civilians were confused, but also the craftsmen responsible for the design were confused.
Ye Feng slapped his forehead and said to himself: "I just said the words that came to my mind directly, forgetting that people in this era don't understand things like architectural mechanics and structural mechanics at all."
Ye Feng had no choice but to say again: "To put it simply, the gravity that the beam bears, uh, heavy objects, how much weight it can bear depends on the hardness of the beam."
"The arch will distribute the load-bearing to both sides. The arch is made of multiple inverted trapezoids, with large stones at the top and small stones at the bottom. When the upper part bears the weight, the force will be distributed to both sides."
"So the arch can bear more weight." Ye Feng looked at the confused people again.
Ye Feng had no choice but to find some wooden blocks to make an arched bridge, and then put pressure on it to demonstrate the arch's load-bearing stress analysis.
Although the craftsmen who assisted in the design did not understand Ye Feng's so-called force analysis and other terms, as craftsmen they saw the practicality of Ye Feng's design based on their experience.
This arch design can indeed bear more weight, and it is also very convenient to change to an arch design.
After thinking about this clearly, the craftsman immediately left Ye Feng and others and ran back to study the arch plan.
The crowd was dispersed by the overseer, who ordered everyone to continue working. However, the overseer couldn't help but look at Ye Feng a few more times, wondering what was going on in his mind.
Ye Feng didn't care that he didn't receive any reward for proposing a design plan to help solve the city gate's load-bearing problem.
What Ye Feng is concerned about now is the sudden increase in strength, and he often feels a heat in his dantian recently, making him unbearably hot.
This reminded him of the internal heat he had when he was a child. Ye Feng had previously figured out a set of luck techniques to dissipate this "heat".
At this time, Ye Feng felt that the heat in his Dantian was similar to the previous situation, so Ye Feng tried his luck to "dissipate the heat".
Ye Feng's luck path basically coincided with the Du Vein, but after Baihui it switched to some unknown acupuncture points in his brain.
The reason why they are said to be unknown acupoints is because the ancients did not name these acupoints, or in other words, no ancients recognized the existence of these acupoints.
The purpose of bringing luck to the brain is to stimulate the brain to increase activity, making people smarter.
Ye Feng feels that as long as the activity of the brain is increased and the brain usage rate is higher, the brain will be smarter and the brain's control ability will be stronger.
This stronger control ability then reacts on the body, making the body younger, smarter and more agile, etc. It can even evolve through quantitative changes to qualitative changes.
During the several months when Ye Feng was building the city wall, he studied Qigong every day besides working. As a result, he lost ten pounds, but the problem was that he could still eat.
In addition, the good side is that people become more energetic. Even the dull Jiang Chuan feels that Ye Feng's spirit has become different.
But what others are more concerned about is that Ye Feng eats so much every day, but he is getting thinner and thinner. Where does all this food go?
Even some Yongcheng scholars knew about this and came to see this strange man.
What made Ye Feng even more depressed was that there was actually a scholar who wrote a book called "Where Did the Bean Soup Gone?" written on bamboo slips in three volumes, with more than 30,000 words.
What makes Ye Feng even more angry is that these three bamboo slips were sold in Yongcheng, and many scholars bought them back to discuss the matter.
Fortunately, the spring plowing season has arrived in a blink of an eye. The project is over and everyone goes back to prepare for spring plowing. Farming is a top priority for a country.
Others carry big bags of grain when they go home, but Ye Feng only has a few buckets left.
Ye Feng has a happy-go-lucky personality and doesn't think about these things. Jiang Chuan went to Zhao Kuangyin to talk about what to do when Ye Feng goes back.
Jiang Chuan asked: "Cousin, if Ye Feng asks him to go back with us, how should we arrange for him?"
Zhao Kuangyin was also very troubled by this. Ye Feng's food intake in a year was almost equivalent to the output of two hundred acres of land at that time.
It is equivalent to the rations of a family of ten. It is so edible that even a noble family can go bankrupt eating it.
Zhao Kuangyin thought for a while and said: "I can't finish the 300 acres of land, so I will give him 100 acres to plant. The rest will be done doing odd jobs, and I will be able to build the city wall next year."
Jiang Chuan shook his head and said, "If he didn't have such a big appetite and earn so much food, he would be able to build a rich family within a few years."
Zhao Kuangyin said: "His wealth is the strength generated by his food intake. Think about what would happen if he went to the battlefield?"
Jiang Chuan said in surprise: "You want him to serve in the military?"
Jiangchuan thought for a while and said, "It would be great if he could be allowed to serve in the military for our family. But he can only go under the false name of my family, and if he gets the credit, it will only be in my family's name. This is a bit wrong.
He's unfair."
Zhao Kuangyin said: "Let's talk about it later. Your family has not yet reached the age of military service. Why are you so anxious?"
One hundred acres during this period was equivalent to thirty-three acres in modern times. One hundred acres at that time could support a family of five.
At that time, the per capita ration was between half a bushel and two-thirds of a bushel a day. If the yield of good fields was higher, the yield of poorer fields would be lower.
In fact, most of the land owned by ordinary people is not fertile land. Fertile land is controlled by big clans or dignitaries. Ordinary families have relatively low-yield poor land and can barely make a living.
On average, each person only eats half a bucket of grain. Use this to estimate the output.
