Li Hui remembered that he had watched a documentary in later generations, which talked about how to pollinate rice to increase production. It introduced many methods. The purpose of adequate pollination is to increase the pollination rate and reduce the occurrence of flat rice and rice.
The purpose of increasing production.
When Li Hui asked the people in Juchao County what measures they had taken, these people who specialized in farming looked confused. Li Hui understood that they did not know this. They relied entirely on the harvest of heaven and the cultivation of rice by themselves.
It depends on the wind for natural pollination. They don't understand artificial intervention at all.
So Li Hui proposed to them a method of pulling a rope for artificial pollination. The method was very simple. When the rice was blooming at noon, he could pull a long rope and scrape it over the rice ears, and use manpower to move the rice ears to achieve a relatively complete flowering and pollination.
.This is what was done in the documentary Li Hui watched.
Unexpectedly, after Li Hui proposed it, the people immediately opposed it.
"Isn't this going to hurt the ears of rice? This is not allowed."
"I have lived for sixty years and farmed all my life, and I have never seen such an increase in production."
"County Magistrate Li, although you have good intentions, I'm afraid this method is useless."
Li Hui was not angry. This could not be blamed on the ignorance of the people. He did not want to explain more, but he just promised that doing so would not hurt the rice ears. Even if there were no benefits, there would be no harm. He asked the people to believe in him, and he would not
It will harm them.
Instead of spending time explaining the problem of pollination, it is better to use the people's trust in you to play the emotional card.
Sure enough, the people figured out one thing. It was impossible for Magistrate Li to harm himself. He had done so many difficult things for the people, even risking his own life, so how could he harm the people?
There is no need to consider anything, this reason alone is enough.
As a result, the people stopped talking and all expressed their unconditional obedience.
Of course, Li Hui would not mess around. He was also afraid that he would make mistakes. After all, he could not completely guarantee that the things in the later documentary would work. If it really hurt Daosui, it would be a big disaster.
Sinned.
So, Li Hui found a rice field and started experimenting. Pollination takes place during the hottest time from noon to afternoon, so this is why everyone gathered around the rice field under the scorching sun.
After the rope hung over the delicate rice ears, Li Hui immediately stepped into the paddy field barefoot and carefully inspected the rice ears. Several old farmers who were extremely concerned also went to the fields to check. In the end, everyone came to a conclusion, that is
The rice ears were not injured, only a few scattered rice ears were scratched and broken. But that didn't matter at all.
After this field test, Li Hui felt relieved. So he announced on the spot that during the few days of the flowering period, all rice fields would be artificially pollinated with ropes. Li Hui believed that this method would definitely increase the yield. At least.
It won't hurt.
Regardless of whether they believed that this move would increase production, the people of Juchao County took action one after another out of their complete trust in Magistrate Li. People from all over the country also took action, setting off a wave of pull in Juchao County.
The strange craze of rope pollination.
Of course, there were many stubborn guys who refused to do this, and they sneered at it. When the harvest season arrived more than a month later, they also paid a small price for their stubbornness.
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On the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, the three-day period has arrived.
In the past three days, in order to cooperate with Xie Xuan's tunnel excavation, Huan Wen ordered his troops to launch continuous attacks. However, the scale was reduced, and the attacks were mainly feints, which seemed to be weak.
Huan Wen adopted Xi Chao's suggestion and adopted a rotating attack method to tire out the defenders. This could not only maintain offensive pressure on the city, but also strain the opponent's nerves and focus on the Nancheng battlefield to avoid their lookout posts.
He Tingdi Shao discovered his own attempt to dig tunnels to attack the city.
Especially at night, the attack was more fierce than during the day. That was because the night was too quiet and it was easy to spot the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Therefore, unlike the previous two nights when the Jin soldiers and horses were all silent, the soldiers and horses not only launched an attack at night
, and used catapults that were not used during the day to carry out bombardments, creating the illusion of a large-scale attack and making a lot of noise to conceal the excavation of the tunnel.
The combat in this era was actually quite primitive. The method of digging tunnels to siege the city was not an innovation, and it was often used by people. Therefore, in the battle to defend the city, the defenders would send special personnel to guard against digging tunnels to siege the city.
means. This kind of soldier is called a ground sentinel.
The method is to drill a hole under the base of the city wall and insert a bamboo tube into the ground to listen. Or you can bury a water tank, cover it with rawhide and stick it on the cowhide to listen for sounds. If there is an enemy digging on a large scale underground, the sound will be lost to them.
Discover.
However, these methods are indeed effective in dealing with large-scale excavations, especially in terrains with rocks underground. But this time, Xie Xuan and his people used to dig single-person holes, and on the ground full of soil
Dig down, making it difficult for the ground whistle to detect.
Moreover, the noise of the siege troops and horses, the vibration and noisy sound of the stones thrown by the catapults hitting the ground well covered their actions.
During the past three days, Xie Xuan commanded 3,000 engineers to start digging in a forest more than 300 steps east of the city. They used the woods to block the opponent's sight and turned into ground rats in the noise of the army's siege.
Dig forward.
They first dug a three-foot-deep hole, and then began to dig horizontally toward the northeast corner of the east city of Shouyang City. The dug tunnel was only half a person high and three feet wide. It could only accommodate three people bending forward inside.
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Because what Xie Xuan needs is not a large-scale attack tunnel, he only needs to be able to enter a passage in the city. This can save time and reduce the chance of being discovered by the opponent. If it is not necessary for people to crawl inside,
And if the space for transporting the soil could be guaranteed, Xie Xuan even hoped to dig out only one tunnel for one person to enter and exit.
The three excavating soldiers excavated, using a stick of incense in rotation to ensure the physical strength of the excavation and thus the speed. All the excavated soil was loaded into bamboo baskets and was transported outside the cave through wooden tracks laid on the ground.
The soldiers pulled it out and dumped it in the woods.
Every ten feet of digging, wood was used to support it to prevent it from collapsing. All of this was done in an orderly manner.
The initial progress was extremely smooth. On the morning of the second day of excavation, the tunnel was excavated to a position eighty steps away from the city wall. At this time, the tunnel began to slope downward and was dug down until it was two feet above the ground.
Continue digging in parallel.
The more you get to this time, the more difficult it becomes. Because the space is small, if there are too many people in the tunnel, you will be out of breath. Sometimes you will feel suffocated due to lack of oxygen. Because the air is not smooth, if the lamp is lit deep in the tunnel, it will
It made people even more suffocated, so the soldiers who were digging had to dig in the dark. The progress can be imagined.
The frequency of rotations increased, but a lot of time was wasted in rotations. The soldiers who climbed to the front had to retreat before they had time to drink tea, and they could not advance quickly at all.
Fortunately, this problem was quickly solved. A soldier who had dug a tunnel came to offer advice. He told Henry Zhang that the problem of internal air tightness could be solved by connecting the air holes with bamboo tubes into the cave and using bellows from the outside to blow air in.
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Xie Xuan was overjoyed. He did as he said and connected them with bamboo tubes that penetrated through them, leading to the depths of the cave. The bellows used for iron smelting were used outside to continuously blow air into the cave. After fresh air continued to enter, the tunnel
The air inside has circulated, and the soldiers digging and moving soil inside can finally work as usual. A wind lamp that provides low light can also be lit inside.
In this way, after three days and three nights of arduous excavation, the tunnel was dug into the city wall without encountering dangers such as water leakage and landslides.
It is worth mentioning that the foundation of Shouyang City is indeed solid, probably because it was built on alluvial ground. The foundation is more than two feet deep. After the tunnel passed through the bottom of the moat and reached the foundation of the city wall, it did take a lot of time to dig through it.
foundation.
The foundation made of bluestone and rammed earth was difficult to dig through, so as a last resort, heavy hammers were used to ram iron drills to demolish it. In order to cooperate with the action of digging through the bottom of the city wall, Huan Wen ordered a strong attack and dispatched ten troops.
Multiple siege vehicles used the huge vibrations and roars from the vehicles to ram the city walls and gates to cover the powerful excavation in the tunnels.
For this reason, the lives of hundreds of soldiers and seven city assault vehicles were even lost.
The soldiers and horses in Shouyang City failed to notice that a tunnel had quietly led from outside the city to the northeast corner of Shouyang City, and led into the city on the ground of a remote forest.
Although they did find it a bit strange. The Jin soldiers and horses seemed to be attacking the city like fools. They did not show the strength of the attack at all, and they attacked tirelessly day and night.
They even used rams to ram the city gate that had completely blocked the city gate, exposing their soldiers to the rain of arrows from the top of the city, causing heavy casualties. They should have known that the city gate had been completely blocked, even if they knocked it open
They couldn't get in, but they still did it, which made people feel a little confused.
But these doubts did not let Yuan Zhen and others think deeper. Yuan Zhen even said to his soldiers at the top of the city: "Old traitor Huan Wen has lost his head. Soon, his troops will collapse. By then,
, the army went out of the city to attack, captured the old traitor Huan Wen alive, and hanged him alive on the flagpole of the city gate in public."
It can be seen that Yuan Zhen knew nothing about the coming danger.