In the fields in the early morning, the dew is fresh and earthy and fragrant.
When Li Tai stretched his body and walked out of the camp, he saw that the tribesmen were already busy in groups, scattered among the mountains and fields, picking or mowing, making the countryside full of vitality.
"Master Lang, there are so many wild vegetables in the field! We only harvested two hectares of land, and we got dozens of kilograms. This is wild polygonum, and its seeds are pressed for use in medicine and dyeing cloth. This is shepherd's purse..."
Liu Sanqi returned to the camp carrying a rattan basket filled with wild vegetables. He greeted Li Tai cheerfully and enthusiastically explained the types of wild vegetables he had collected.
Li Tai listened with a smile. Looking at the man's hearty smile, he couldn't help but sigh that people are indeed full of confidence when they do what they are good at.
Previously, Liu Sanqi was taciturn in the film because he could not ride a horse. Li Tai originally thought that he was introverted, but today he saw the cheerful side of this man.
The morning sun reflected in Liu Sanqi's eyes, and he looked at Li Tai with hope and said: "Master Lang, the farming work in spring and summer is busy, and the villagers have no time to collect. If there is more farmland, I would like to lead the two of them to collect all the surrounding fields."
Harvest it once. The prepared koji material is more than enough for our own use, and it can also be sold in the city in exchange for cloth. The method of making koji passed down by my family is also famous in the countryside, and I can support my family with this..."
"Just harvest your own farmland, and don't have to take food from the villagers. From now on, Sanzhuo, you will be the ambassador of the family, and when your husband strives to be high-ranking, with this method you can not only support the family, but also become an official."
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Li Tai patted the young man on the shoulder and encouraged him with a smile.
When several other people nearby heard Li Tai's smile, they all smiled and bowed to Liu Sanji and shouted "See you, Ambassador". A servant girl who was in charge of cooking also came over and said with a smile: "Ambassador Sanji, do you want my mother-in-law or not? My family
There is a little lady..."
Liu Sanzhen's face turned red after being teased by everyone. He emptied the basket of wild vegetables and ran out of the camp. After running a few feet, he turned around and shouted to the woman in charge of cooking: "Ms. Deng, I don't want your little girl. You
If you want to find a partner, would you like to see me? I work hard to save a dowry for the young lady..."
"You thief, how dare you make fun of your mother!"
Madam Deng was so ashamed when she heard this that she picked up a clod of earth and threw it at Liu Sanqi who ran away. She also waved a spoon and hit the noisy people around her. She was very aggressive. But when she returned to guard the stove, her face was still
The glow was as red as rouge, and from time to time his eyes drifted to Liu Sanzhi, who was collecting wild vegetables in the distance.
Li Tai saw these dramas in his eyes and was making calculations in his mind.
There is no need to hide the sexual desires between men and women. Arranging marriages and starting families for the tribesmen is also one of the obligations of the head of the family. However, if these things are not handled well, it can easily lead to chaos.
During breakfast, while everyone was returning from work, Li Tai said with a serious face: "The state has national laws, and every family has its own rules. Since we have settled here, I will make a few family precepts first, and you must keep them in mind! This is the first
The point is that you are not allowed to bully women and children. If you dare to violate the rules, once the report is verified, you will no longer be a member of our sect and will be sent to the official for questioning!"
Seeing the seriousness of what Master Lang said, everyone nodded in agreement. Although life is poor now, the atmosphere of getting along is good. Many people have gradually developed a sense of belonging in their hearts and are reluctant to lose this harmony.
"The state rewards merit with titles and salaries, and the family must also have a way to reward hard work. From then on, one merit is accumulated every day, and one review is made every season. Those who have more merit in the family will have their own rewards. There are men and women who are orphans and want to choose a mate, and they will be ranked according to their merit.
The relationship is harmonious, and the family will provide funds for you to start a family."
When everyone heard this, they subconsciously looked at the twenty women who came with the team this time, and suddenly felt a sense of urgency in their hearts that there were more wolves than meat.
Liu Sanzhen finished the bowl of vegetable soup in a few gulps, wiped his mouth and said, "Master, do you have any more instructions? If not, the servants must collect the vegetables quickly. The sun will show the food, and I'm afraid it won't taste good."
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"There's only so much for now, go ahead!"
After hearing this, Li Tai laughed again, waved his hand and said.
All the songs suddenly dispersed, and each one became several times more active than before.
The few women who stayed in the camp were not all happy. After hesitating for a long time, an older woman was pushed out. She lowered her head and whispered: "Master Lang cherishes his soldiers and is one of the few good masters in the world.
We foolish women, dare to ask the master, if we can do it ourselves when it comes to mating..."
"Are you worried about mismatching a bad person and suffering a lifetime of suffering? Don't worry, there will be a marriage register in the house. If you are willing to have a match in the house, just come and register. If you don't want to, don't force it. If you have accumulated a lot of merit, those stupid men will also
It’s up to you to choose!”
In ancient times, in order to increase the population, it was a sin for men and women to marry late and not to marry. However, Li Tai now has less than 300 people in his tribe, so he doesn't mind spending more energy to give these men and women a little room for freedom in marriage. Donkey
The bumps between lips and lips are a kind of torture after a long time.
Women are usually more emotional. When Li Tai said this, her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
The woman who spoke first wiped away her tears and bowed repeatedly: "Thank you, sir, thank you... The dead man of my family went to Lingzhou the year before last, and there was no news of him as soon as he left. The clan wanted to marry my uncle forcibly, so I took my two children to escape.
When he came out, he was arrested by the government, and the young ones were lost, leaving a mother and her son as slaves. Whether that man lives or lives, I just want to raise him as a flesh and blood, and I must work hard and never live in vain..."
In troubled times, the most indispensable thing is human tragedy.
Li Tai didn't know how to comfort him, so he just said: "Don't worry, Madam Xu, no one is forcing you to do this. I know you are good at weaving and tailoring, and your family will help you with your work. In the future, when the situation is calmer, I will also set up
Let's educate the children as a family. When your husband comes back and sees that the children have become bachelors, he will definitely be grateful for your ability to educate them!"
When Mrs. Xu heard this, she was even more excited and burst into tears: "I will definitely make a beautiful official robe for Master Lang! Master Lang is so kind to his servants. If he doesn't become a high official, he has no conscience..."
"Then I'll borrow your good words and work hard! Okay, let's get busy. I'll go around and give my family more homework!"
Li Tai drank two large bowls of vegetable soup, patted his butt, stood up, and walked up the mountain with the two of them.
Nowadays, plain land and open fields are the basis for producing food rations, but Li Tai knew his own business, and when it came to intensive farming, after all, the ancients were the real experts.
With his half-knowledge of what is happening and not knowing why, it is really difficult for him to put forward any constructive planning suggestions, so he does not arrange and direct the farming in the open fields randomly. At most, he can improve the farm tools, such as building a curved shaft plow.
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His greatest advantage as a time traveler should be his advanced knowledge of various production tools and processes.
There is no need to think about making steel now. Even if he has some knowledge, he has no practical experience at all. Even if he does research, he will have to go through a lot of trial and error, which is obviously not something that his current family background can support.
The first thing Li Tai thought of was the transformation of spinning wheels and looms. After all, Guanzhong market transactions, including taxes collected by the court, were mainly based on cloth. Therefore, spinning wheels and looms were money printing machines in this era.
The war of war and iron horses in the latter three kingdoms may have been magnificent, but the foundation that truly maintained the progress and development of this era was woven by women with their hands and feet, thread by thread.
Li Tai really didn't know how far the weaving level of the Northern Dynasties had reached. When he asked the servant girls about the weaving tools they used, they couldn't tell much about it. They seemed to have hand cranks and foot pedals.
After all, in the war years, the separation and confrontation between regions greatly restricted the exchange and development of technology and tools.
But even if he did not understand the textile level of this era, it did not hinder Li Tai's improvement and creation of spinning wheel looms.
As a hard-core ancient style up owner, research on ancient textile tools is also one of his basic tasks. He is not one of those glamorous people who chases Hanfu ladies to take photos to earn traffic. He has even restored some ancient textile tools himself.
Although most of the ancient textile tools that can be seen in later generations date from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, due to the introduction of cotton, the textile environment and technology have changed greatly compared with those in the Middle Ages. However, cotton fibers are shorter than silk and linen, and some improvements
The technology can also be used in silk and linen textiles, and the technical requirements are even lower.
On the way out of the city yesterday, Li Tai saw many ponds for retting hemp in the countryside, and he got a lot of inspiration in his mind.
The first thing he thought of was to build a large water-spun spinning wheel. This was a large-scale textile tool invented in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was driven by water to process hemp strands into hemp yarn. With sufficient power, more than a hundred kilograms of hemp could be spun in a day.
If converted into the Northern Dynasty system of measurement, it would be nearly three hundred kilograms.
Li Tai also asked Buqu how much flax the women could spin in a day. The hand-cranked spinning wheel could only spin between five and six kilograms, and the foot-operated spinning wheel with three spindles could only spin more than ten kilograms of flax.
In such a comparison, the advantages of technological development can be seen, with a thirty-fold increase in productivity! Others print money for one and a half cents, while he prints thirty-fifty cents. If this continues, buying Kongguanzhong Properties is no longer a dream!
The structure of the large water-spun spinning wheel is relatively complex. Later Li Tai also overturned the wheel countless times before shrinking it and restoring it, so he has a deep memory of its scale and structure. This large spinning wheel is mainly made of wood, so Li Tai started to use it after breakfast.
Go up the mountain to find suitable wood and try to print money as soon as possible to make money.
When Li Tai came to the hillside, Yang Heili, who was leading the team to search for qualified clay, strode up to meet them. Li Tailuo asked them what their harvest was, and waved to them to help themselves, while he walked into the woods with his two followers.
The soil on the hillside is thick and the vegetation is dense. Various plants and trees that Li Tai may or may not recognize are growing vigorously. However, there are few large and thick logs, and there are quite a lot of thick and rotten tree stumps. Apparently the people from Saojin were there before.
Keep going up the mountain to cut down trees.
Seeing a thick layer of elm coins spread under several elm trees on the south slope, Li Tai ordered: "Go down the mountain and call some idle people from the camp to come over and pick up some elm coins. Also collect some mountain fruits and honey locusts."
With a small family background and limited food and clothing, he has integrated well into the environment and is not willing to waste even these wild animals in the mountains and forests.
After giving these instructions, Li Tai turned his head and looked down the mountain, his expression suddenly changed. He saw a dark crowd in the distant fields waving their sticks, wading through the ditch, and heading toward his home field.