Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 338

On the muddy road, the footprints of wild beasts were clearly visible.

Yelao stood in front of the newly built firewood gate, even though he was frightened, he still stood there firmly.

Not far away, a team was marching.

Under the big tree next to the post road, a soldier in a bright red military uniform was looking at him with a smile.

Ye Lao turned his eyes away and stopped looking at Jun Han.

This person's face is kind, not fierce at all.But when people sit there, they have a demeanor, giving orders, and no one will obey.

The eight halberd soldiers around him looked like wooden sculptures of clay, but if anyone dared to get too close, they would immediately cross their halberds, and the surrounding sergeants also held the hilts of their swords, as if they would chop them off if something went wrong.

The shepherd boy walked over carefully with a dozen sheep.

Ye Lao breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward leaning on a cane, and welcomed the shepherd boy back home.

The chai gate was gently closed, and there were goats crying one after another inside.

After resting enough, Shao Shude got up and got on his horse.It's getting late, so I will sleep in the village tonight.

This place is located between Weiyuan and Xiangwu, on the north bank of the Wei River.Just after an autumn rain, there is a moist and fresh breath in the mountains and forests.

The Wei River originating from Niaoshu Mountain is the river of life for tens of thousands of people in Weizhou, and it is also the main reason why Qin, Wei and other prefectures are richer than He and Lan.

In the village, there is a large family of Li, Ben Banan, who is a member of Zhuge Zhongbao's party.After the collapse of Tongzhou forces, the whole family was forcibly relocated and settled in Xiangwu County of Weizhou.

There are many people in the Li family, almost four hundred people.He was very active in reclaiming wasteland along the river and planting mulberries. For this, he was rewarded by the state government.

Shao Shude is staying in Li's courtyard tonight.

After all, the Li family is a big family, so he has a lot of ideas.There is a stream flowing under the nearby mountain. They dug a pond of a small size, and the Yegu Mountain Spring flowed into it, and then there were ditches leading to the nearby fields.Although only a short section of the ditch has been dug and the area that can be irrigated is limited, more than ten mu of rice has been planted, and the harvest per mu is more than two dendrobium.

Shao Shude went to have a look.The fog in the valley in the distance is dense, and the gurgling spring flows down and merges into the pond.There are trees by the pool, the wind blows the forest, and tired birds build their nests inside, chirping.

To the west, we can vaguely see the quietly flowing Weihe River.

Weeds were overgrown on the river bank, the hen kept rummaging for food, and the cormorant rushed to the surface of the water quickly, catching a small fish.

A simple bridge made of wooden boards leads to the other side of the river.A farmer came back from the field with a hoe on his back, and a woman sat in front of the door, mending clothes with the last ray of light from the horizon.It is the critical period for the growth of beans, and the farmers in Tianjia are very busy. After weeding, they have to go to the vegetable patch. Most of the clothes are damaged and need to be mended.

There was the sound of pounding rice in the backyard.

The general moved in, so Li was naturally busy and flattering.

This year's newly harvested round-grained rice is boiled into porridge, the duck eggs just picked up on the river bank, the melons picked on the sunny slope, and some seasonal fruits and vegetables all look pretty good.

More than a dozen people who are good at shooting with silver spears went into the mountain, hunted some wild game, and brought it to the chef to stew together tonight.

Shao Shude sipped tea with the Li clan while gossiping.

"Weizhou is not bad among the Longyou prefectures, and it's not much worse than Tongzhou." Shao Shude looked at the gardenias in full bloom in the courtyard and said, "It's only been a year since Mrs. Li moved here. It is impressive to be so diligent.”

"The state government also helped a lot." The clan elder replied.

The whole family was forcibly moved here like criminals, do you hate it?maybe.But does Mrs. Li have the qualifications to hate the king of Lingwu County who has hundreds of thousands of soldiers?The big family has its own philosophy of doing things, no matter when, survival is the first.

Shao Shude remembered the matter of immigrating to the real side.

In the newly restored land of Longyou, the situation is turbulent and people's hearts are unstable.This kind of place is most suitable for the big families with a large number of people who moved from the inland.They have sufficient manpower, strong cohesion, and can deal with emergencies. They are more suitable for developing in the frontier than ordinary people.

In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the strong Zong Haoyou in the rampant village, and Shao Shude wanted to send them to the Longyou prefectures, especially the newly restored Shan and Kuo prefectures.

The northeastern part of Qinghai is very suitable for farming, and of course it is also very suitable for animal husbandry.

In future battles, the defeated enemy clans can completely move to the frontier forcibly, mix with the Qiang people, and enrich the local household registration.A big clan with hundreds or thousands of people is much better than the piecemeal civilians and prisoners.

The Li family of Tongzhou has done a good job in Weizhou, and it seems that this example can be followed and promoted in Shanzhou.

Another major source of population in the frontier is the surrender of troops.

Of course, the soldiers are also divided into grades and grades.Those who surrendered without a fight were given preferential treatment, and those who surrendered after losing a field battle did not need to relocate, but those who surrendered after the city was destroyed would be severely punished. It was inevitable for the whole family to move to Qinghai and Hexi.

Shao Shude is already very kind.Since ancient times, in battles, the defending side can often cause huge losses to the attacking side, and the old city is often slaughtered after it is broken.Not killing you and others, but only moving to the frontier, is already a very good ending.

"More than four million Qianghu cattle, sheep, horses and camels have been seized this year. The price of cattle and sheep in Shuofang and Longyou will definitely drop sharply. The elders of the clan might as well send people to collect more and exchange them for grain. Slowly raise them and see great benefits sooner or later. "Shao Shude picked up the tea bowl and said.

"The commander-in-chief ordered everything to be done."

Shao Shude shook his head and laughed.Forget it, don't mention it, so as not to make people think that he is forcing the sheep to be herded.

Where there is a lot of land and little land, it is impossible not to learn how to raise animals.During the Tianbao period, Weizhou had a population of more than 100 million people, 153 people per square kilometer. In the land of Helong, there were generally only single digits, and four states even had less than one person.Even if the environment is not as good as Hebei, it is not so much different.

Correspondingly, the wealth of the people in the land of Helong is quite famous.Because there are too many land resources per capita, even if the grass grows on the ground and cannot be cultivated, as long as you can graze livestock, you can turn that grass into real wealth.

After staying in Li's house for one night, he continued eastward the next day, walking along the Weishui River.

Weizhou Metropolitan Academy has been very busy recently.They were all craftsmen who moved from Ganzhou. There were not many blacksmiths, but many carpenters who built palaces. So Shao Shude ordered to help the Longyou shogunate make agricultural equipment and develop local production.

Before the Kingdom of China, traditional tools such as buckets, potter's wheels, and oranges were mostly used for water collection and irrigation among the people, and the efficiency was very low.Guochao attached great importance to water conservancy. There was a special doctor of the Ministry of Water to manage the Tianxiapitang ditches, and also developed more efficient water-drawing tools, namely bucket waterwheels and keel waterwheels.

On both sides of the Yellow River in Lingzhou, where there are no artesian canals, these two waterwheels are used.

At this time, several bobbins had already been erected on both sides of the Weishui River.This car was invented in the Sui Dynasty and flourished in the Guo Dynasty.After receiving the order, the Xiangwu Branch of the Weizhou Metropolitan Academy rushed to make a few.This thing can use the momentum of the water to draw water and irrigate the fields, just like the so-called "irrigating a small garden with a tube".

The bobbins can be large or small, and can be used not only in the streams in the valley, but also on the big rivers.

It is relatively rare in this era for military industrial enterprises to make utensils for private agricultural production.However, they were all robbed craftsmen, Shao Dashuai thought about it very much, so he just pretended that they hadn't been robbed, and let them serve the private production first.

It really doesn't work otherwise.Inventing a technology in ancient times, the biggest problem is promotion.Some inventions have been invented for hundreds of years, but most people in the country may not have seen them or know about them.

It existed in the Shang Dynasty, and it also existed in the late Spring and Autumn Period, but it was rare in the Guo Dynasty.Even in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi still had to teach people such things as popular science in his books. In many places, the people still went to the river to fetch water by themselves, and there were no tools for fetching water.

The place where water-drawing tools were most popularized during the Guo Dynasty was actually the army's farmland, and the folks rarely used them, and there were even fewer craftsmen who could make them.After the military settlement was abandoned, there were naturally fewer bobbins and the like.Especially in the north, years of melee, dilapidated places, increasingly dilapidated irrigation systems, lack of equipment.

In addition, after things are produced, maintenance and repairs cannot be left behind.To some extent, follow-up maintenance may be more important than manufacturing.

This matter involves the cultivation and construction of the talent system.

In the decades since the founding of New China, a large number of agricultural machinery maintenance departments have been matched with water lifting stations all over the country.Without these maintenance institutions, high-efficiency agricultural machinery will be completely useless and cannot be promoted at all.

It is impossible for a traveler to invent something and immediately benefit the world!You must have a manufacturing department, a follow-up R&D and improvement department, a promotion department, and a maintenance department. In short, you must form a system.The establishment of this system is the most difficult, time-consuming, and costly.

But without this system, what you invent is completely useless, with no possibility of generalization.

The production of the bobbins can be done temporarily by the Metropolitan Institute, but the follow-up maintenance must be done by someone.

Not every village has carpenters, and carpenters are usually very busy and may not be willing to take on these jobs.

Perhaps a special agency can be set up to promote this matter by government forces.The maintenance of the bobbin car is a trivial matter, and the follow-up will include the domestication of cattle, the promotion of iron farm tools, the promotion of improved seeds, etc., all of which can be packaged and done together.

Don't say that ordinary people are not stupid, they will use good things when they see them.Facts have proved that due to various factors, good things are really not popularized, and ordinary people really don't use them, and continue to produce them inefficiently.

This expedition to the west has earned a lot of money. After the class teacher, a new round of organizational reorganization should be put on the agenda.

Confucian classics at the state and county levels should vigorously expand the recruitment of doctors, teaching assistants, and teaching instructors, and accelerate the transformation of Hu into Xia.

Medicine also needs to be expanded, and more students are recruited. It is not required to be able to play a big role. First, the statistics of local customary diseases (multiple diseases) are sorted out, and tentative solutions are proposed.

In addition to economics and engineering, agronomy at the state and county levels can also be established.The requirements are not high, first select high-yield crop seeds and forage grass, and discuss which planting mode is better. The three-crop rotation system can also develop some variants according to local conditions in other states and counties. How to design the types of crops cultivated every year can be studied .

These all require real money to be invested, and the effect will not be seen in the short term. It seems that it is better to raise an army.

But something has to be done.

Sow a seed in the spring and it will reap in the fall.

The war with the Kanto princes will not end in a short time.The pattern of separatist regimes in the late Tang Dynasty was broken to a heinous degree. Counting history, there is no second one.

So be prepared for a long fight.

How to get stronger and stronger in the later stage depends on what you did in the early stage.

(The end of this volume, the next volume "A Horse Riding Like the Wind, Cracking the Whip Out of the Wei Bridge".)
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