Chapter 74: The Earth's Strength Will Not Decline for Thousands of Years]
Chapter 74: The power of the earth will last for thousands of years
After hearing Wu Tong's emotion, Yao Yun naturally would not be complacent and accepted it carelessly.
In fact, the second elder and Wu Tong are both extremely smart people, and they can tell the truth at once. The reason why they didn't think of it at the beginning was entirely due to the limitations of their vision.
After all, the mainstream thinking in this era is that the king loves the people and implements benevolent government. When there is food, everyone eats it together, and when there is clothing, everyone wears it together. The previous generations of emperors in the Xia Dynasty are all examples of this.
The people had no food and were suffering from cold and hunger. As a monarch, it was natural for them to provide relief. According to descriptions in ancient books, kings would personally deliver food to the people, greet them by the way, and understand the difficulties in their lives.
In the primitive era, when there were few people, it was natural for everyone to help each other and tide over difficulties. However, as society develops, from tribes to capitals, and the population expands, many problems have become complicated, and the wise sayings of the past no longer apply.
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Yao Yun has the memory of the previous life. Although he is physically young, in terms of experience, he has more experience than Wu Tong and Bald Dragon who have lived for many years, and he has more say in the evolution and development of many things.
As for Wu Tong and Bald Dragon, although they have lived for decades or hundreds of years, the environment they live in changes slowly and remains unchanged for decades, and their accumulated experience is relatively shallow. Many principles that people in the previous life could understand at a glance,
Everyone in this world will be shocked.
"Second Elder, whatever you said, I just thought of it at the right time."
Yao Yun said it very sincerely. How could he be so powerful? It was a historical wealth from his previous life.
Wu Tong smiled happily and continued to ask:
"What do you intend to do, the prince? There is no work in the winter. The craftsmen's workshops involve many secrets. They cannot be allowed to work in the mines at will. The mines are too hard and dangerous. If the people are allowed to go to the mines, people will think that the king is forcing them to do so.
Capturing them to serve as slaves is not a good idea!"
Yao Yun nodded. What the second elder said made sense. After hearing this, the thoughts that had flashed through his mind resurfaced.
"I am going to hire people to build latrines. We will build fifty, no, sixty public latrines. From now on, people will not be allowed to urinate and defecate anywhere. They will have to go to the latrines to urinate and defecate."
puff!
Wu Tong was drinking hot water calmly, but when he heard his king's weird plan, he spit out half of the water he drank, splashing it all over the bald dragon's face.
The bald-headed dragon originally wanted to scold Wu Laoer, but he was stunned at this moment and looked at his eldest son with a strange expression. He had heard the eldest son talk eloquently before and proposed to work for relief, but the bald-headed dragon didn't say anything.
I still agreed with it in my heart, but in the blink of an eye, that ridiculous prince came back again.
Why not build huts? If you really can't find anything, you can strengthen city walls, build roads, and dig ditches. After all, these are tasks that benefit the people, and the people will not complain much, but will shed tears of gratitude.
Build a hut, Your Majesty, your brain has been kicked by a donkey!
The bald dragon snorted coldly: "Nonsense, Wu Laoer just praised you, and you became ridiculous again."
Wu Tong was also shocked and asked Yao Yun blankly: "Your Majesty, you don't really hire people to build huts, do you?"
Yao Yun nodded seriously: "That's right, we are not building latrines, we are building public latrines. After the latrines are built, the Gu Council will issue a decree that you must go to the latrines to urinate and defecate. You are not allowed to urinate in public. We must establish a civilized and clean environment."
Xidu."
Wu Tong and the bald dragon were dumbfounded. Clean, civilized... what the hell is this?
Wu Tong asked in surprise: "Just to be clean and tidy?"
The second elder felt like crying. What could he do with so much hard work, just for the sake of being clean and tidy? It would be such a waste of manpower.
Yao Yun nodded: "This is one reason. In any big capital city, sanitation is a must. You don't understand sanitation, and you don't understand the importance of sanitation. If I don't go into details, you will understand it later. Another one builds a hut.
The reason is what matters!”
Hearing this, Wu Tong and Bald Dragon calmed down their inner shock, and began to listen carefully. They wanted to hear what the king had in mind, and mobilized troops to build huts. Unfortunately, the prince could not think of it.
"Your Majesty, please come and listen to me?"
Yao Yun smiled: "The purpose of building a hut is to collect urine and feces."
Hearing this, Bald Dragon and Wu Tong's expressions became even uglier. Building a hut in front of them already seemed unbelievable to them, and now it's even more outrageous.
Wu Tong couldn't laugh or cry: "Your Majesty, why do you collect filthy things like urine and feces?"
The bald dragon's face was livid. He was obviously very angry. He thought that the prince had really grown up, but in the end he was still fooling around and collecting feces. If it were placed in the imperial capital, the nobles would probably laugh to death. There is a direct descendant of the Xi family and the imperial family.
The god descendant actually did such a filthy and ridiculous thing.
Yao Yun smiled: "Feces is a precious treasure. It is filthy to people, but it is like nectar to vegetation and crops. Have you ever noticed that the vegetation grows lusher in places where human and animal excrement accumulates than in other places?
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The bald dragon really didn't pay attention to this, so he didn't realize it and kept silent. However, the second elder Wu Tong hesitated and said: "This... the old man seems... seems to have some memory, but I am not sure, Your Majesty.
Does it mean that human and animal excrement can fertilize fields?"
Yao Yun was categorical: "Yes, our ancestors cultivated slash-and-burn crops and burned the forests into ashes to fertilize the land. However, this method soon required off-site farming. Even now, our farmland still needs to be cultivated in rotation to ensure that
The crops are good, but manure can change everything!"
Wu Tong and the bald dragon were initially slightly surprised, thinking they had found something as fertile as "vegetation ash", but after the king finished speaking, their pupils shrank and their eyes were full of shock.
"Your Majesty, what you mean is that after using manure, the cultivated land does not need to be rested?"
When he said this, Wu Tong's face turned red and his eyes radiated with excitement.
Yao Yun nodded heavily: "Yes, manure can keep the soil's strength for thousands of years and keep it new!"
The soil's power will last for thousands of years, and its power will always be new...
Wu Tong stood stunned like a demon, with the king's words echoing in his mind, his eyes full of disbelief.
Yao Yun was not done yet and continued: "Not only that, applying manure can also turn ordinary cultivated fields into fertile fields and increase grain production. Fields that originally yielded more than one stone per mu can be turned into fertile fields with a yield of two or three stones per mu!"
Boom!
It was as if a roaring bell struck Wu Tong's ears, leaving him speechless for a long time.
"Your Majesty, are you serious about this?"
Faced with the second elder's doubts and disbelief, Yao Yun expressed his understanding. After all, there is no model of intensive farming in this era, and the ancient farming techniques of flower growers are definitely very advanced in this world.
Yao Yun smiled: "Of course I won't fool you, otherwise I wouldn't go to such trouble to build huts. Not only human excrement, but livestock excrement is also a treasure. Whether the people can have enough to eat in the coming year depends entirely on them.