Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1386 Rooted
On June [-]th, Shao Shude continued to stay in Xiazhou to inspect the local agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.

During this period, news came that Fu Cun tried Ke Ao Dongcheng and beheaded more than 3000 people.The main force went north to attack Huzhou, and defeated Bohai in the mountains and forests of Huhan Haixi, killing [-] people-this time it was the Tielin Army who made the contribution.

Faced with the situation of Lien Zhan and Lian Jie, Fu Cunshen also showed a little excitement, and faintly suggested in the victory report: In July, the sage can go to Longquan Mansion to escape the summer heat, take a leisurely tour in the mountains and forests, and comment on the beauty of Bohai.

When the news reached Xiazhou, Shao Shude remained calm and said nothing.But those who are familiar with him know that the saint is very satisfied with Fu Cunshen.As long as you continue to make new achievements, you will be able to fly to the top just around the corner.

"Where do you come from?" Shao Shude asked a farmer with a smile while sitting on a wooden stake without caring about his appearance.

"Cao...Jiyin County, Caozhou." The farmer was a little nervous and stammered back.

"Don't be nervous, come, sit down and have a bowl of tea." Shao Shude pointed and ordered.

Yelv Zhigu was stunned for a moment, then realized that the saint was telling him to go forward immediately and poured a bowl of tea for the farmer.

She felt a little depressed.

My aunt Bodhisattva is pregnant, and my cousin Xiao Chonggun is also pregnant. Among the women, she has the lowest status, and she does all the work.If I had known this, I might as well step into the saint's tent and recommend myself as a pillow.

But when she thought of her mother's cold eyes, she was a little scared.

"It's not easy to come all the way from Caozhou, isn't it? How do you feel?" Shao Shude asked at the end, and added: "Tell the truth."

The farmer took the tea bowl, took a sip, felt a little relieved, and replied: "My family came here in April this year, and it's not cold. There are not many acres of land in Caozhou, and the children are hungry. I had to yell, my mother-in-law scolded me all day long, it was useless. I heard that there were so many fields here, so in a fit of rage, I simply sold my property and moved my family to Xianzhou."

"This is Xiazhou, not Xianzhou." Shao Shude smiled.

"Ah?" The farmer was a little surprised. He always thought that the place where he lived was Xianzhou.But it doesn't matter, it's just a place name, and it's true that the whole family has enough to eat.

"What's your ranking in the family?"

"Ranking boss."

"Oh? The eldest son also moved away from home?" Shao Shude asked in surprise.

He has immigrated across the country for many years, and learned of a very special phenomenon: those who immigrated from the Guanbei area are mostly the second, third, and fourth in their families...

Perhaps there is the factor of not allowing family separation that he mentioned before, and the customs of the eldest son inheriting everything in the Guanbei area is very strong.

After the death of the old father, if the eldest son had a kind heart, he would not have driven the younger brothers out of the house, but would have taken them in, helped them with work, and had a living.

It is common for brothers to be kicked out of the house if the relationship between brothers is not good.These second and third sons either went to other families to help, or went to the city to find a job, or simply emigrated to obtain their own land and homes.

But there is no such atmosphere in the Kanto area, and it is not even common in Guanzhong. Family divisions abound. The eldest son usually gets the largest share of the family property, and the urge to emigrate is not very strong.

"The whole family only has five or six acres of land, and they can barely eat in good years. If there is a bad year, or if they are conscripted to fight, the family will be hungry." The farmer said: "Instead of suffering like this, it is better to go far away, maybe It's time to turn around."

"Are there many things that make your family hungry because of conscription and war?" Shao Shude asked.

The farmer glanced at him, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know about other places. Caozhou has a lot of people and little land, and a family doesn't have a few acres of land. There are still a lot of hungry people."

Shao Shude was silent.

If you don't get in touch with these low-level farmers, you will never know the real situation below.The per capita land in Guanbei and Guanzhong is relatively rich, and their lives are relatively affluent. The impact of conscription and war is not that great.

But places like Caozhou and Songzhou had a great impact.

If you keep using the experience of Kansai and Guanbei to apply Caozhou and Songzhou, problems will inevitably arise.Therefore, it is very important to visit the bottom layer and obtain first-hand information.At least the bureaucrats never reported to him that the people of Caozhou delayed farming and made their families hungry because of conscription and war.

"I still have to emigrate!" Shao Shude sighed; "This is the best solution."

Changing the existing bureaucratic system requires an improvement in productivity and a more advanced level of technology, which is impossible.Then simply emigrate abroad to alleviate the conflict between people and land. This is the lowest cost and most realistic approach at this stage.

There are large tracts of virgin land in the Northeast, the soil is very fertile, the harvest is very high, and the loss is lower than that of immigrants in the south-opening up in relatively cold areas will always lead to fewer people dying than improving the environment in hot and humid areas.

Historically, the Liao Kingdom attached great importance to agriculture.

"Liao's agricultural valleys are extremely prosperous. In Tokyo, there are more than [-] cities such as Xian, Xin, Ji, Fu, Chen, Hai, Tong, Yin, Wu, Sui, Chun, Tai, etc., and the border states have their own harmony. Cang, according to the law of the ancestors, came out of Chen Yixin."

"Where there is no worry about two or three hundred thousand masters, although the army is exhausted, it is not exhausted."

The Liao State has institutions in the Northeast that specialize in the research and manufacture of agricultural tools and training in farming methods, "still sending envoys to share the crops."

The jurisdiction of Tokyo in the Liao Kingdom includes the borders of western Liaoning and the Bohai Sea. Among them, Taizhou is located at the junction of Jilin, Inner Mongolia, and Heilongjiang provinces, that is, Baicheng, which is higher in latitude than Harbin, but it is an important farming town in the Liao Kingdom.

The Liao country has been able to fight the Northern Song Dynasty for so long, and the economy has not collapsed. The great development of the farming industry in the Liaodong region is indispensable. The official warehouses in each prefecture in Tokyo have 30 million shi of grain storage. New grain is collected, old grain is sold, and loans can also be borrowed For the common people, the interest rate is two cents, which shows that the management is very perfect.

How stupid to think of Liao as a nomadic regime!

"How many lands are there now?" Shao Shude asked.

"Sixty acres." The farmer replied, "All the land allocated by the government is raw land. The stones in the field have just been picked up, the roots of the shrubs have been dug up, and the weeds have been removed. There is no time to cultivate this year, and the court has to distribute it to you." Rations."

"Is there anything missing?"

"There is a shortage of farm tools, and there is also a shortage of cattle."

"It can only be solved slowly. After I conquer the Bohai Sea, I will collect all the weapons in the Bohai Sea, reopen the iron mines, and smelt agricultural tools. There will be some." Shao Shude said: "I also know that horse farming is not feasible, but if there is a lack of cattle, It can only be done reluctantly. There is nothing to do, so be patient, at least sixty acres of land is real."

The farmer also laughed after hearing this, and said: "The land is good, and it can be planted every year."

From the perspective of agricultural production, farmers have a natural impulse to plant one crop after another.But the mainstream in northern Daxia is the two-year three-crop system, that is, only two crops of staple crops can be harvested within two years, plus one crop of miscellaneous crops with a very low harvest.If the land is very thin, sometimes the miscellaneous grains of this season are also saved, and the fields fall fallow.

Farmers are not ignorant of the role of human and animal manure.In fact, children in rural areas often go out to pick up dung, and sometimes even fight over it.But in the absence of chemical fertilizers, this amount of human and animal manure is far from enough to restore the land—to put it simply, the amount is too small.

That's why he was so happy after seeing the black land in the northeast.Whether the land is fertile or not, needless to say, they have planted the land for so many years, and they will know when they grab it and look at it.

"What do you think about the matter of sangma?" Shao Shude asked again.

"There is a Korean family in the village who knows how to grow hemp. There is also a Khitan family who can grow mulberry and raise silkworms." The farmer replied: "Their silkworms are different from those in Caozhou. They have a bit of knowledge, so they have more time to look at them." .”

Shao Shude nodded, and said: "The Koreans are really good at planting mulberry and silkworms, and you can learn from them."

In fact, the Khitan people also learned the silkworm weaving technology from the Goguryeo people.

"(Yelü) Shilu is the teaching of arboriculture, mulberry, and organization." It is said that Yelu Shilu's credit is actually the technology brought by the captured farmers of Bohai State.

When Shao Shude visited Yingzhou last year and visited the foot of Yiwulu Mountain, he saw a large number of mulberry fields.After inquiring, it was all planted by people sent by Abaoji, and it was obvious that they developed it as a sangma base.

"Besides mulberry and hemp, there are some wild goods in the mountains. They can be collected during the slack season and sold to merchants, which is also an income." Shao Shude said: "Caozhou is flat and there are no mountains. You can also ask people to inquire about it."

Caozhou is more than "no mountains", it is a pure plain.

In fact, even if there are mountains, resources such as wild animals and wild goods have been greatly reduced after thousands of years of development.

Of course, this reduction is also relative. Compared with the later 21st century, the mountain resources in the Central Plains at this time are still rich, but compared to virgin land, they are not worth mentioning.

Shao Shude had already seen the scene where groups of wild deer and gazelle wandered around, and they were not very afraid of people.

When later generations developed the Great Northern Wilderness, the roe deer was not even afraid of people at all, and was directly beaten to death with a stick after being approached.

Per capita resources are abundant, which is also an advantage, which can increase farmers' sideline income and improve their lives.

"Your Majesty really thinks of us everywhere." Hearing that Shao Shude had been giving him advice, the farmer was also moved, and said.

"I moved you here, not to let you fend for yourself." Shao Shude said with a smile: "The better your life is, the happier I will be. Take root, give birth to a bunch of children, and take over all of this land .”

The women beside Shao Shude all blushed.The saint has given birth to a lot of children, and he especially likes to let other people's wives give birth to him.

"One side supports one side of people." Shao Shude seemed to suddenly think of something, and said again: "This place is different from Caozhou. Your living habits may have to be changed. But, hehe, this is not a problem."

The farmer was at a loss, not knowing what the saint was talking about.

Shao Shude smiled without explaining.

The natural environment is different, how can the living customs be the same?Historically, the Khitan captured many Han people from the Central Plains and resettled them in the Northeast. Over time, they began to learn fishing and hunting in addition to farming.

The level of governance of the Liao government is still good, and the timely "restriction of Tokyo Dao Yuluo" has greatly increased the production of fish, shellfish, and crabs in Tokyo, and the lives of immigrants have become more relaxed.

Shao Shude felt that if one day the martial arts in the Central Plains weakened, Liaodong Road, which could accommodate a large population, might be able to provide a large number of qualified soldiers with certain skills due to factors such as environment, climate, and geography.

He stood up, walked slowly up a hillside, and looked down at the mountains and rivers.

The golden sun shines on the ancient city.The flags on the city head fluttered and fluttered in the wind, which symbolized the establishment of the Great Xia regime here.

On the field around the ancient city, there are dots of cottages.Farmers carried pickaxes and shovels, walked among the wild grass, tried their best to remove weeds and tree roots in the field, and prepared to open up wasteland.

Some of them are from Caozhou, some from Songzhou, some from Suizhou, and some from Taiyuan Prefecture...

They have complex identities, including government soldiers, tribes, common people, and even exiled prisoners...

People from all over the world gathered here, speaking Mandarin from all over the Central Plains, facing the unfamiliar environment, huddling together to keep warm.

In the distant forest, bears and tigers appeared occasionally, scaring the farmers who were logging.

The warriors guarding them put down the ginseng, mushrooms, pine nuts, poria cocos and other medicinal materials in their hands, grabbed the walking bow and long sword, and followed them excitedly.

On the creek, there are still simple birch bark boats dangling, and the fishermen cast a net to harvest fish and shrimp in their pockets.

The wind blows gently, the pines burst, and there is no cloud in the sky.

Shao Shude burst into laughter suddenly: "I really did it!"

I changed history, changed the world, and changed the direction of this nation.

30 years of ups and downs, in retrospect, almost like a dream.At this point, I can't tell if this is a dream.

He turned around and looked at the Yingying and Yanyan who were following him, especially Yue Liduo who exuded the brilliance of motherhood, and he was convinced that all this was true.

"What did Your Majesty do?" Yue Liduo asked curiously.

Shao Shude walked up to her with a smile without saying a word, and said in a low voice, "I am most proud of making your stomach bigger."

Yue Liduo smiled lightly, not believing it.She had just clearly seen a hero looking down on the world, in his eyes, women were probably just objects of lust.

(End of this chapter)