I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 161 Zhishi’s Center of Gravity Moves Eastward
In fact, Zhiyao received an apology from Zhao Wuxie when she returned to "Xintian", and Zhao Wuxie came directly to the door without sending a notification first.

There are two levels of understanding for this door-to-door visit without sending someone to notify first. The first is that Zhao Wuji is sincere, and the other is that Zhao Wuji has no sincerity.

It's not a charade on purpose, there have always been many explanations for the same thing, it depends on the mentality of the person involved, and there is follow-up understanding.

What Zhiyao knew was that Zhao Yang canceled some of Zhao Wuji's rights.

Combining with Zhao Wuji's knowledge that Zhiyao and Wei Ju returned to "Xintian" and immediately apologized, it is undoubtedly that Zhao Wuji was beaten by Zhao Yang, and Zhao Wuji's subsequent apologies to Zhiyao and Wei Ju were with Sincerely.

If there is a mistake, it can be improved greatly.

Zhiyao and Wei Ju raised the stakes that time, are they willing to expose the matter after Zhao Wuxie apologizes? In addition, how outsiders view it is another matter. Zhao Wuxie’s apology is also for others to see .

This time, Zhishen and Zhiyao came to "Handan" mainly to inspect the agricultural situation, and then to see how much the use of new farm tools has helped agricultural production.

In the current state of Jin, most people pull plows in agriculture, and big families use animal power in large quantities, and they don't use animal power like cattle.

At present, the Central Plains is dominated by dry fields, and cattle are not the best animal power for pulling plows, but horses are.

Of course, it has a lot to do with the fact that there is no shortage of horses in the countries of the Central Plains. Under the current situation of lack of horses, even horses are more suitable for pulling plows. Without horses, only cattle can be used.

Because the plowing season has passed, there is no way to see the plowing in the field. What can be seen is that various crops have grown up, and there is a lot of green everywhere.

After summer, the farmland in the plains will be green as well, the difference is that the various fruits will become huge.

At present, there is no large amount of rice cultivated in the Central Plains. Most of them are millet, millet, and bean, and a small amount of wheat or barley.

In terms of the eating habits of the Central Plains in the Spring and Autumn Period, no matter whether wheat or barley, only the wealthy would eat it. The reason is that shelling is very troublesome. Ordinary people have no choice but to do other things by themselves and do the shelling work.

In the spring and autumn period, there were wheat and barley in Zhuxia?According to archaeological findings, the history of barley in the Central Plains can be traced back to 2000-1000 BC, and wheat was planted in the Yellow River Basin around 3000 BC.

The current crops, no matter what variety they are, have mediocre yields. One stone per acre is called high yield, and two or three stones is something that is unthinkable.Of course, due to the difference in the area occupied by "mu", it can also be related to the quality of seeds and fertilizers.

"This is the place for fertilization?" Zhishen had already learned what fertilization is from Zhiyao, and also heard the process of fertilization, and understood that it was a half-understand state.

Zhiyao has done too many things, most of them just mentioned it before asking people to study it, and a small number of them personally participated in the research.

Due to the relationship of being too salty, I will not describe in detail how Wenfei is.

What needs to be known is that untreated excrement and urine really cannot be directly used in farmland, otherwise it will be harmful rather than beneficial.

Zhiyao has not yet been fully implemented in Zhishi. The experimental field in "Handan" still benefits from the long-term presence of a large number of troops, which is convenient for unified collection and management.

In addition, in fact, animal manure can also be warmed and fertilized, and poultry is the best.

However, for the time being, Zhiyao has not recovered, so she was ignored.

Of course, even if the feces of poultry are more fertile than humans or other animals, it is still difficult to raise chickens, ducks, and geese in large quantities in the current era. A chicken plague or something can kill all eggs directly, even without the usual feeding of chicken plague. will be a big problem.

Raising pigs also faces the problem of feeding.Although pigs are omnivorous domestic animals, how to feed pigs when there is not enough food for humans?
So, it really depends on what era it is to engage in such things as breeding farms.

Zhishen made a round of inspection and found that the growth of crops with regular fertilization is much better than that of crops without fertilization.

"Why is it only implemented in this place?" Zhishen asked.

Zhiyao said: "If you haven't verified it, you can't promote it. Besides... you need to build toilets and educate them."

The military can also specify where they have to go to the bathroom, and they obey.

For the folks, using administrative orders to emphasize it may not necessarily make people abide by it. Even in modern times, there are still a large group of people who will defecate everywhere.

Another point is that although the construction of simple toilets does not seem to be difficult, the manpower and material resources used in mass production will not be less, and how to plan reasonably is another problem.

"If it's beneficial, it should be done!" Zhishen only cares about whether he can collect more than three or five buckets, and the rest is nothing.

There is no surprise in Zhiyao's reaction to Zhishen.

No matter in what age, food is a necessity.

As long as there is no problem of hunger, not only people's physical fitness will be strengthened, but also the population will increase, which in turn will improve the quality of life.

To put it bluntly, it means food and clothing and lust, there is no problem of eating, and the family can have surplus food. People know that increasing the population is equal to increasing the available labor force.

Don't worry about eating, people will start to understand the brains to study entertainment projects, in order to make life more colorful.

Having more children in a family will increase the labor force for the family, and will have more effects on the country, including increasing the source of soldiers.

They came to the area where the water conservancy was being built, and saw a large number of laborers, including subjects and more slaves.

The personal inspection from the head of the family is to show the family's importance. Don't look at it after a round of inspections, it seems to be a formality, and it is not generally effective to motivate people who are working.

"Why, the people of Chu are slaves, and the people of Zheng are Lishu?" Although Zhishen passed Zhiyao's operation, he still had a lot of doubts.

Zhiyao replied: "Chu is a strong country, and my family is hard to tame; Zheng is also a strong country. Zheng people are seldom proud. It is okay to live here and be born here."

The overall strength of Zheng State is not bad, especially the combat effectiveness of the army may be insufficient compared with Jin State or Chu State, and it will appear very strong against other countries.

Not only Zheng Guo is like that, but Qi is also like that.

For a long time, Qi State could not beat Jin State, but they could beat Lu State on the ground.

Therefore, whether a country is strong or not needs to be classified into grades. It depends on who it is fighting with, and it cannot be simply generalized.

Zhiyao said again: "If Chu Kingdom comes to redeem, you can exchange one out of three."

In Zhiyao's view, Chu State will definitely try to redeem the prisoners of war. The Zhi family will need more labor force. At that time, it will not be a conclusion based on money, but Chu State will be willing to ask Chu State to exchange people for the captured soldiers.

If Chu State is willing to exchange cattle and sheep for people, that's fine.It just so happens that the Zhi family has recently acquired a large uninhabited area, which will not be able to be transformed into an agricultural area for a while, and it is also possible to operate animal husbandry.

That piece of wilderness used to belong to Changdi, and they became victims in the confrontation between Jin and Qi, and a large amount of land was divided between Zhi and Zhao.This is the so-called quarrel between two people, and then beat up the third person who was watching.

Zhishen is most interested in agriculture, so that after being taken by Zhiyao to see various workshops, he re-invests in agricultural inspections.

Don’t blame Zhishen, he really doesn’t understand all kinds of stoves, and when he sees coal washing, he thinks it’s unnecessary. He swallowed it back by himself.

The Zhi family and the Zhongxing family merged again, and the Qi country was attacked continuously. The textile-related market share in the Central Plains exceeded [-]% and was taken by the Zhi family.

Because of Fan's situation, Zhao's and Wei's successively seized the pottery market, which made Wei's and Zhao's competition.

Zhiyao seldom focuses on the textile industry, mainly because there are too many people in the family who understand textiles, but too few people who understand other industries.

"It's not that I didn't pay attention at all. Didn't I ask to study a new spinning wheel? It's just that I really don't understand, and there are few related concepts, so I didn't interfere indiscriminately." Zhiyao knew why Zhishen hesitated to speak. , I thought helplessly.

Sometimes Zhiyao really wants to tell Zhishen some things directly. For example, Zhao, Wei and Han are all engaged in military affairs, while Xun and Fan are engaged in people's livelihood. The Han family finally became the winner of Jin's internal fighting field.

After Zhiyao started to work hard, what she did was to make up for the lack of Zhi's military field. In terms of people's livelihood, she didn't focus on textiles, but she was engaged in agriculture.

It is Zhiyao who strongly advocates the vigorous development of "Handan" and its surrounding areas. Although Zhishen has no long-term vision, he fully supports it.

This is also a matter decided by the current era. Others in a family only have the right to make suggestions, and have no right to veto at all. Whatever the head of the family wants to do, no matter whether it is beneficial or harmful, he will do it anyway.

Zhiyao, aware of this social rule, came to the conclusion that the current era is far more suitable for large-scale industry or large-scale agricultural projects than other feudal eras.

Just because the head of the family can make the final decision on everything, prosperity will be relatively simple, and whether it will decline or not will appear quite fast.

"Shi Boyang is still in my house?" Zhishen asked.

Laozi is now Zhishi's consultant, and has been helping to build water conservancy projects and make up for omissions in other projects.

Zhiyao looked at Zhishen incomprehensibly, wondering why she asked this suddenly.

Zhishen said: "The state of Chu sent people to 'Luoyi' to find the posthumous posthumous Boyang, and wanted to invite him to 'Ying'."

In the past, Zhiyao thought that Laozi was a theoretical talent. It was not until Laozi participated in the construction of Zhishi that she realized that Laozi is not only good at talking on paper, but also very good at real work.

With this understanding, Zhiyao couldn't help but guess that Chu State invited Lao Tzu back to build something.

Zhishen said: "So, the people of Chu will be 'Handan' in the future."

Zhiyao knew there was more to come.

Sure enough, Zhishen continued: "It is rumored that the Wu army is planning to go north, and the Chu army has returned to the country."

and then?
It was the third time that Zhao Yang sent people to urge Zhishen to return to "Xintian" as soon as possible. Based on the principle that the matter is only three, it would be deliberately uncooperative to delay it any longer.

Therefore, Zhishen was hesitating whether to wait for the envoy of Chu to come over, mainly because it would appear disrespectful to Chu State to let Zhiyao take full power to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)