There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5474 The farming population has grown a hundred times
Chapter 5474 The farming population has grown a hundred times
The black robe nodded and said thoughtfully: "Yes, the reason why farming is better than nomadic herding is that you don't have to chase water and grass to live, and you can have a stable source of food. Once you settle down stably, the women's production will increase."
It will become easier. Nomadic tribes need women to participate in production activities such as herding horses and sheep. Once they want to migrate, the pregnant woman is likely to have an abortion.
If they give birth, they cannot give birth to children, and even their own lives are threatened. Therefore, for nomadic tribes, all things breed in spring, horses are fat and strong in summer, and women have completed giving birth at this time, which is the most suitable time for fighting and fighting.
During the migration, in the autumn they will graze in some places where the water and grass are rich and there is no need to move, and at the same time, they will get the women and the livestock pregnant in order to prepare for the birth of children next summer."
"So the population of nomadic tribes has never been able to increase in size. This is because they live in no fixed abode and are often attacked by external forces and forced to flee. Women and children who cannot escape often lose their lives, or even if they survive, they will not be able to survive.
They will be captured by hostile tribes and become other people's tribesmen. However, the farming people do not have this problem. They can live for one year.
The four seasons stay in place, and women can get pregnant and give birth at any time. There is no need to worry about the bumpy road, and there is no need to worry about difficult labor during the long journey. Relatively speaking, the increase in population will be less than
The nomadic tribes have grown much faster, which is the fundamental reason why the population of the Central Plains is ten times or dozens of times that of the grasslands."
Doupeng smiled and said: "Yes, and the quality of the population is also a big problem. Once farming is settled, you can intermarry and marry with different groups of people in distant villages, unlike nomadic tribes who live alone on the grassland.
To settle down, more than half of the time is spent migrating or even fighting. For nomadic tribes, there must be far more enemies than friends, because they are all strangers.
Human beings have to fight for the pastures and water sources of survival. In addition to fighting to steal women from other tribes, most of the time, they can only marry within the tribe. The gods in heaven have arranged the destiny for us humans between heaven and earth.
, that is, if close relatives get married, there is a high probability that they will give birth to various deformities and freaks. Only people who are very far away can avoid this problem."
"Even the nomadic tribes are gradually becoming aware of these problems, so while they are traveling around, they also want to use various methods to mate with other tribes whose bloodlines are far away from them, so as to produce offspring that will not be deformed or weird.
Future generations, whether it is for cattle, sheep, horses, or human beings,
It's the same, but nomadic tribes travel too far and are scattered, and they may not encounter other tribes that can marry and mate on a large scale. Even if they do meet, they will most likely be enemies rather than friends. They are fighting and killing all day long, and those who are more related to each other by blood
Women can be obtained from far away, which is the fundamental reason why the population on the grassland has not increased."
The ancestor laughed: "It's really not easy for you to understand this. Indeed, the population in ancient times was very small because of this kind of insecurity, and only the Zhou tribe, under the guidance of the gods, recognized the importance of grains.
, after starting farming, these nomadic tribes began to live a settled farming life. The establishment of the Zhou Dynasty had actually begun to take shape.
The Zhou tribe, which had large-scale farming, defeated the Shang Dynasty, which had been constantly migrating. Although the Shang Dynasty already knew about farming, they could not cure the floods, and they had to constantly hunt the populations of other tribes for sacrifices.
, in order to please the ancestors of heaven, so they are in a state of wandering farming and cannot form stable crop returns."
"So the Shang Dynasty we see changed at least a dozen capitals in a few hundred years. This is abnormal. From Xia to Shang, they were basically in this state of wandering farming because they could not control the floods.
The proliferation of tribes cannot solve the problem of famine. Once a natural disaster occurs, the whole family can only flee from famine. Although this is stronger than the nomadic tribes, it is only limited. It can be said that it was not until the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty that the problem of nomadic farming was initially solved.
problem."
Heipao said in a deep voice: "It's because since the Zhou Dynasty, everyone started farming, so they have to find ways to solve the water source problem, so they have to settle, cultivate and plant near big rivers, but this kind of land near big rivers
location, which often brings flooding, minor
The fields were flooded, the harvest for the year was wiped out, and even the people and cities were fed to the bastards. Therefore, all countries and princes in the world were forced to try their best to build water conservancy projects in order to control these
Rivers, floods, so that they don’t flood as often, right.”
The ancestor nodded: "That's right. In fact, when the Zhou Dynasty was established, most of the tribes in the world were still nomadic tribes or farming tribes. However, because the Zhou Dynasty was the emperor and the ruler, it was not very popular before.
The farming technology of the Zhou Dynasty gradually spread throughout the world with the expansion of the Ji tribe in the Zhou Dynasty. Once the princes were able to farm and settle down, they would develop rapidly and give birth to a population more than ten times greater than before. As long as there are
killed people
, then there will be labor force, which can be used to cultivate farmland, repair rivers and other things, especially various water conservancy projects. That is the war between mankind and the sky and the earth, which is to change the heaven and the earth in a living way and tame all roads.
The great rivers have made these rivers no longer a threat to mankind, but a weapon that provides irrigation and helps farming. In this regard, it has to be said that human beings' tenacity and tenacity have created things that even the gods are shocked by.
Miracle."
Doupeng frowned: "In fact, even in the era of Dayu's flood control, all the tribes in the world could unite and work together, and that time they relied on dredging rivers and digging mountains to dredge rivers.
Only after reaching the sea can the land be restored
, so this kind of water conservancy engineering practice has been spread since the Xia Dynasty. After the Zhou Dynasty, later generations just used the methods of their predecessors, strengthening the dams, dredging the rivers, and introducing the water of the river into the vast fields.
However, this requires huge manpower.”
The ancestor sneered and said: "Yes, so in the early days of the Zhou Dynasty, the various princes and states would face constant disasters. The built dams were constantly being washed away, and the cultivated fields were constantly being destroyed.
washed away, but it is in this process of constant repair, constant destruction, and non-stop repair
, the completed water conservancy project was slowly built, and the fertile fields on both sides of the river gradually took shape. Finally, most of the country and princes in the world no longer had to move around because of floods. The Central Plains on both sides of the Yellow River,
It became the core area of Middle-earth." (End of this chapter)