Chapter 1,219 The unchanged plot, Su Mingzhes layout
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars occurred frequently.
The original one-a-year farming technology gradually failed to keep up with the war requirements of various countries.
With the emergence of iron farm tools and oxen plowing technology, the North China Plain shifted from the original plowing once a year to three plowings every two years.
The so-called three-year cultivation is a technique of continuously planting crops, wheat and beans in rotation while rushing to plant and harvest.
These materials are all mentioned in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu".
The core technology of three years of farming is also known as "protecting against drought"!
"Protecting and preventing drought" refers to solving the problems of waterlogging and drought.
This technology would last for five to six hundred years. It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that "retting" and more advanced tools and farming techniques such as the curved shaft plow appeared, which allowed the development of three plows in two years to two plows in a year.
Su Mingzhe knew all about retting, bending plow, waterwheel and other technologies, and now he could use them easily.
Among them, the step of retting is more troublesome.
However, even in the cold winter, it only takes one month to complete. If it is in summer, it will take even less time, only about twenty days.
With advanced retting technology, nutritional problems in the fields have been solved.
Su Mingzhe found several more Mohists and asked them to bring out new farm tools such as waterwheels and curved shaft plows.
With these inventions in hand, Su Mingzhe sown more than 500,000 acres of winter wheat in his hometown of Sishui Township and Guantian in Peixian County to conduct experiments.
Before I knew it, it was October.
It's freezing cold.
Su Mingzhe took advantage of the dry season of the river and began to lead the people to build water conservancy projects, build roads, repair cities, etc.
Under such busy work.
Before I knew it, half a year had passed.
In the blink of an eye, it was spring and March of the next year, and the winter wheat planted last year began to head.
Su Mingzhe called all the officials from the county to come and "investigate."
Due to the addition of retting fertilizer, the expected output of these 500,000 acres of winter wheat is much stronger than the growth of spring wheat in previous years.
In May, winter wheat is harvested.
The yield per mu is close to five stones, which is already the yield of fertile farmland.
Su Mingzhe had people sort out these data and report them to Young Master Fusu.
After Fusu learned about it, he reported it to the First Emperor according to the technology provided by Su Mingzhe.
After the First Emperor learned the news, he immediately sent people to Sichuan County to check whether the news was true or false.
After confirming that the information was accurate, the First Emperor followed the old practice and first promoted Su Mingzhe to the title of "right concubine chief", and then ordered Zheng Guo, the governor of Su Nei, to send people to Sichuan County to learn, and then promote this technology to all counties in the world.
After Su Mingzhe saw the envoy from Xianyang, he recruited the young man he had trained in the past few years.
"Congratulations, sir, congratulations, sir!"
More than a hundred young people congratulated in unison.
"No need to be polite!"
Su Mingzhe took out the silk book he had written long ago:
"His Majesty the First Emperor ordered people to come and learn our Sichuan County's 'Two Farming a Year' technique. This silk book has recorded all the details in detail. After you take it and copy one copy each, then follow the Xianyang envoys to promote it in various places...
When you arrive at various places, the first thing you should do is record the mountains, rivers, topography, and population..."
These young men were still young and did not understand what Su Mingzhe wanted to do, but they fulfilled Su Mingzhe's orders without compromise.
In the blink of an eye, spring passes and autumn comes, and another year comes.
Su Mingzhe has been serving as the magistrate of Sichuan County for nearly two years.
On this day, Zhou Bo, who was sent by Su Mingzhe to Xianyang to deliver a message to Fusu, came back with a heavy face:
"Master, Mr. Fusu...has been sent by His Majesty to guard the Great Wall at the border!"
"Fel Mr. Su to defend the Great Wall?"
When Su Mingzhe heard the news, he sighed slightly.
Stunned, he hurriedly said:
"Tell me everything you heard about me!"
"Here!"
As a close confidant of Su Mingzhe, Zhou Bo already knew what Su Mingzhe was going to do, and he tried his best to find out all the news every time he traveled far away.
Now, he told everything he had seen and heard along the way, as well as the news he had inquired about.
That year, not long after Su Mingzhe was appointed as the governor of Sichuan County, a favored eunuch named Gao Yao appeared in the palace.
This high-level plot is the same as that of Yi Xiaochuan, just like the plot in the TV series.
He was originally a cook in the palace of Prince Hu Hai. Because he cooked for Concubine Li, he reunited with his "good brother" General Meng Yi (Yi Xiaochuan).
With the "two brothers" helping each other, Gao Yao gradually gained favor in front of the First Emperor, and even by some mistake, he became the new official of the CRRC and was given the name "Zhao Gao".
After Zhao Gao gained favor in front of the First Emperor, he suddenly broke up with Meng Yi (Yi Xiaochuan) and Li Fei (Princess Li'an), and even took advantage of the opportunity to "seek refuge" in the camp of Prime Minister Li Si.
Speaking of the camps in the Great Qin Dynasty, they are mainly divided into three factions.
The first group was headed by the princes and nobles. Because these people wanted to be enfeoffed into princes, relying on their ancestors' military exploits, they gathered a large number of civil and military officials and became very powerful.
The second faction is the outside faction headed by Li Si. The main characteristic of these people is that their ancestry belongs to other six countries and has no roots in the Qin State. They mainly support the system of prefectures and counties.
The third faction is the "moderate faction" headed by Prince Fusu. The moderate faction also supports the system of prefectures and counties, but also proposes to enfeoff the princes in parallel with the system of prefectures and counties.
In order to mediate the conflict, the First Emperor asked Prince Fusu to marry the daughter of Prime Minister Li Si.
It is a pity that the political philosophies of the two father-in-laws are basically opposite, and the contradiction cannot be reconciled at all.
This time, Li Si and Zhao Gao joined forces and gained the upper hand, and "relegated" Fusu to the border.
"...After Mr. Su was sent to guard the border, General Meng Yi was also sent to Mount Li to build an imperial mausoleum for His Majesty!"
When Zhou Bo said this, he started to sigh.
Today's Great Qin court is almost full of smoke and chaos.
Su Mingzhe couldn't help but sigh to himself after hearing the many changes in Xianyang City:
"After my own participation, Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao still followed the old path. It can be seen that under the law of heaven, the general trend cannot be changed, only the small trend can be reversed!"
"It also shows that the big boss behind the scenes is at least a saint of heaven, or even a saint of the great road! Otherwise, he would not be able to control the changes in current events so easily!"
Thought for a moment.
Su Mingzhe called Cao Wushang and asked him to rush to Xianyang with a group of people who worked quickly, were smart and steady, and went undercover to inquire about all kinds of information.
After Cao Wushang left, Su Mingzhe called Yan Feng, the leader of his disciples who had given Master Fusu to him.
Yan Feng came from the Mohist family.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for hundreds of years, although it was known as "a hundred schools of thought contended", there were only two most important official schools of thought - Confucianism and Mohism!
In the process of Qin's unification of the world, Confucianism and Mohism also provided a lot of help.
For example, Prime Minister Li Si once studied under the great Confucian Xunzi. After serving in the Qin Dynasty, he recruited many Confucian disciples from Confucianism to help the Qin Dynasty handle the logistics and government affairs.
There is no need to say more about the Mohist family.
The military industry of the Qin Dynasty ranked first among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.
Among them, assembly line operations are two thousand years ahead of the Western world.
For Da Qin, both the Confucian and Mohist families worked hard and achieved great results.
And Yan Feng is the leader of the Moh family.
In the one and a half years since he came to Sachuan County with Su Mingzhe, Yan Feng, under the leadership of Su Mingzhe, has been involved in the design and development of various agricultural tools and tools.
When he learned that Su Mingzhe had summoned him, Yan Feng thought that Su Mingzhe had some strange ideas and hurriedly came to see him.
Su Mingzhe waited for Yan Feng to arrive, then picked up his
A silk book on the desk:
"Yan Feng, I want to promote this "Agricultural Book" throughout the county!"
"My lord is kind-hearted, and Yan also has such a plan!"
Yan Feng took the silk book from Su Mingzhe and looked at the words "Agricultural Book" written on the cover of the silk book, his eyes full of joy.
This "Agricultural Book" is an agricultural and animal husbandry technology book that Su Mingzhe spent nearly two years summarizing after conducting countless experiments in Peixian County based on the 24 solar terms.
As for the value of this "Agricultural Book", Yan Feng, as a participant, naturally knows that its price is immeasurable.
Seeing Yan Feng agree, Su Mingzhe in turn bowed to Yan Feng and said:
"The implementation of this plan must be entrusted to you, the Mohists!"
Yan Feng quickly bowed to him:
"The Mohist will definitely live up to your trust!"
