Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 155 The Moon Is Beautiful Tonight
At dusk (21:00~22:59), the representatives of the patriarchal family walked out of the palace with excitement on their faces, full of desire for merit and wealth.

They carried a bamboo basket of fried chicken in their hands, and a square of brown sugar bulging in their arms.

In Fusu's words, it is to let them eat in their mouths and hold them in their arms, and their hands must not be empty!

After all, whether it is Qin destroying the six kingdoms, or Chu and Han fighting for hegemony in later generations, Guanzhong needs food and food, and soldiers and soldiers!

At the gate of the palace, the clansmen handed the fried chicken to the attendants around them, took the sword they handed over, and carefully put it in their waist.

An older Meng family man turned around, looked at the palace in the moonlight, and couldn't help sighing: "Your Majesty, you are virtuous!"

Other clansmen echoed, they were explaining the facts, not praising the saints, so they would not violate the laws of Qin.

At the gate of the side hall, Fusu looked up at the sky, feeling speechless for a while.

If he remembered correctly, today is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

And as the saying goes, the moon on the fifteenth day is sixteen round...

So, what's wrong with the round moon in the sky like a plate?
Fusu sighed slightly, and decided to find someone to revise the calendar immediately after returning to Xianyang. Of course, the name of Zhuanxu Calendar, which represents the orthodox Qin State, must be retained!
It's not that he can't do it independently. After all, there are 365 days in a year in later generations, and there is a leap year every four years, 366 days. This is the simplest knowledge.

As long as you master the two time nodes of summer solstice and winter solstice, you can easily formulate a more accurate calendar.

However, in this agriculture-based era, the calendar is not only used to count the days, but more importantly, to guide the farming time.

For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, five days were regarded as one season, three seasons were one season, and the whole year was divided into 5 seasons and 3 solar terms. This is the calendar used to guide agricultural activities.

The problem that troubles Fusu is that the temperature in Qin State is much higher than that in later generations. Except for the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox, summer solstice, and winter solstice that divide the four seasons, the other [-] solar terms are all forbidden!

Why did Yin Shang and Zhou Chu have two seasons in spring and autumn?
Because the climate was warm at that time, the temperature in the Central Plains was like that of Yunnan in later generations, otherwise how could there be elephants in Henan!

Elephants of later generations go back to their hometown in winter to try, and they freeze into dogs!

Fusu thought of a memorial that he reviewed yesterday. It was a report sent by Nanjun Junwei about wild elephants hurting people, and they were recruiting garrison soldiers to kill elephant herds.

Nanjun is now southern Henan and most of northern Hubei.

What can Fusu say?They can only be approved and allowed to use bed crossbows.

In fact, most of the time it is not humans and animals competing for land, but the crops planted by humans, which has a fatal temptation for wild animals.

After all, people die for money and birds die for food.

The moonlight is so beautiful tonight... Fusu thought of this very graceful sentence, lowered his head, and saw Han Rang standing behind him with Zhanlu in his arms, and couldn't help sighing heavily.

On the other side of Fusu, Ziying who hadn't left all this time asked with a smile, "Your Majesty feels sorry for the brown sugar you gave out?"

Fusu was taken aback, smiled and shook his head: "Am I the kind of person who doesn't care about ministers and workers?"

Ziying wanted to say yes, you are!Ever since I returned to Guanzhong, I haven't gotten Xiumu!

But what he blurted out was a series of rainbow farts.

Fu Su waved his hands and said impatiently: "Okay, if you stay alone, you must have something to tell me. Now that they are all gone, just say what you want!"

Ziying grinned: "Your Majesty speaks quickly, so the minister will speak directly."

"Your Majesty's sudden expansion of plantations in the four counties is a move that benefits the country and the people, but in my view, it is indeed extremely difficult!"

Fu Su was taken aback. The natural conditions in Nanhai County are so harsh, and tens of thousands of acres of plantations have been developed. How come it is so difficult to reach places like Ba and Shu that have already been kings?

Ziying saw his doubts and explained directly: "The development of Nanhai County is the full cooperation of the county captain Ren Xiao. The land allocated is all the farmland that the Yue people have already developed."

"What I have to do is to pull out the weeds, cut down the trees, and then apply fertilizer, and the barren fields will become good fields again."

Fusu nodded, motioning for him to continue.

"The four prefectures have been kings for a long time, and the land that is flatter and closer to the city wall has long been developed, so the plantation area drawn by His Majesty is all forests and swamps that are closer to the river."

"The swamp is easy to say. I have already seen the new pedal waterwheel made by Jiangzuo Shaofu. Using it can drain the water in the swamp with less effort and quickly. Afterwards, ditches and dams will be built, and the swamp will become a fertile field!"

"The difficulty I want to talk about lies in the forest!"

"From what I saw in Nanhai County, even with the iron tools brought from Xianyang, it would take a day to fell a towering tree surrounded by three people, and ten people take turns to fight!"

"Now the land that His Majesty has drawn is full of such giant trees. If you want to cut it down, transport it away, dig out the roots, and level the land...you can imagine the difficulty in seeing the benefits in a short period of time!"

Hearing what Ziying said, Fusu thought that he had made an empirical mistake again. All he saw in the past were treated wood, so he could use a frame saw to get it done.

In later life, he often sees people using a chainsaw, which is a gasoline-powered saw, a tool used by some people to deal with road rage patients.

Well, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools... Fusu was silent, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. Since there is no power saw, then make a two-person tug-saw!

Now his mind is full of ideas for making the saw, and he no longer has the mind to chat with Ziying, so he waved his hand, indicating that Ziying can go.

The difficulty in making the saw is the quenching and sharpening of the saw teeth. The latter is easy to handle, just use a pedal-type grinding wheel for grinding weapons.

Nothing more than a little slower.

And quenching increases hardness?
After all, it is used to deal with giant trees, and its size must increase, but the quenching parts are limited to sawtooth.

Fusu thought that a semi-closed fire stove could be built with refractory bricks, leaving a gap two inches wide in the middle, so that the flames would concentrate on the gap and be used to heat the sawtooth.

Well, in this case, another production line needs to be opened outside the steelmaking area to produce hacksaws in a team-based assembly line.

It's like producing armor pieces, casting, forging, quenching, and polishing, and then leaving the craftsman's name on it to facilitate accountability.

Thinking of this, Fusu stretched out his hand, ready to save his idea into words.

Han Rang, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately handed over a brush filled with ink, a tall servant bent down, and another servant put the bamboo paper on his back.

Ah, this decadent feudal society... Fusu lowered her head and began to write under the bright moonlight.

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