Rebirth of Shuangshu

Chapter 199 Doing things
Qin Wangzheng ten years.

News came from South Korea that Zheng Guo, who had been working for Qin for ten years, was a South Korean spy.

Zheng Guo is a top-notch water conservancy expert in South Korea. He was sent to Qin by King Huanhui of Han ten years ago.King Han Henghui intends to guide Qin State to invest manpower, material resources, and financial resources in digging canals, which is called "the strategy of exhausting Qin".

From the first year of Qin Wangzheng, Lu Buwei appointed Zheng Guo as the chief engineer of the canal construction, and mobilized tens of millions of people to start building this world-class project.Starting from the north bank of Jinghe River, 25 kilometers northwest of Jingyang County, a large canal of more than [-] miles was excavated to divert Jingshui to the east and inject Luoshui.

It's been ten years now and the canal has not been built, but it's nearing completion.

Under the old locust tree in Kunlun.

Ying Zheng is playing chess with Hu Zigui.Lin Xiaoxiao sat on the sidelines and watched the battle.Hu Zigui and Lin Xiaoxiao are not courtiers, and only at this time can they discuss state affairs with Ying Zheng.

"Today, all the ministers have asked me to issue an 'Exit Order'. What do you think, sir?"

Zheng Guo was exposed as a South Korean spy, and Zheng Guo was arrested.After a rigorous investigation, many spies from other countries were found.

Therefore, some ministers worried that there would be problems with the guest officials from other countries, and asked the king of Qin to expel all the guest officials from other countries.

"I heard that the guest Qing Li Si issued the 'Admonishment and Expulsion Order', and I thought Li Si's words were true."

"I talked with Zheng Guo. He admitted that he was a spy sent by the King of Han at the beginning, but he also said that the construction of this canal will make Qin Guo fertile and help Qin to rule the world and make great achievements forever. It's just two more years."

Lin Xiaoxiao said: "Zheng Guo is right. King Han's 'Strategy to Tired Qin' is too clumsy, so South Korea was able to survive, but Qin State got time to recuperate. It's just about repairing the canal, I have a little suggestion."

Both Ying Zheng and Hu Zigui looked at Lin Xiaoxiao, waiting for her next words.

Lin Xiaoxiao said: "I once told you that there should be no unpaid corvee in the world. It is God's fair deal for the people to harvest the land. What should the court give them when they conscript the people to build water canals?"

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Ying Zheng.Ying Zheng blushed slightly.

"Well, building the canal itself costs a lot of money. If you have to distribute money to the people, I'm afraid the treasury will be consumed even faster. I don't know when we will be able to raise enough money to attack the Six Kingdoms."

"If you don't have enough money, you can make an IOU first."

Lin Xiaoxiao was very disgusted with the free corvee in ancient times.She also knows that abolishing the corvee system is unrealistic at this stage, but she can slowly experiment and find a way.

At this time, Lin Ya happened to bring the freshly steamed corn over.

Lin Xiaoxiao stopped talking and motioned everyone to taste the corn first.

"This thing is called maize. Each person gnaws on a piece, and we'll talk after eating."

The corn seeds were naturally exchanged by Lin Xiaoxiao from the system.Today, a small portion of her system space is used to grow cucumbers and tomatoes, and the remaining land is divided into two sections, half for sweet potatoes and half for corn.

She once took corn to Laiqi Mountain to try to plant it, and the yield was comparable to that of sweet potatoes.

Lin Xiaoxiao has been growing corn for eight years, and has saved quite a lot of seeds.

"After eating, tell me what you think."

"This corn is quite interesting. It has a slightly sweet taste, and it tastes glutinous, and it seems to be chewy."

"I like its sweet taste, not greasy, and it has a delicate fragrance."

"That's not bad. Let me tell you, corn can not only fill people's stomachs, but can also be used as feed, and it can even be used to treat diseases. It also has a more important advantage, that is, it has a large yield. The production capacity can reach more than [-] kilograms."

Ying Zheng and Hu Zigui gasped, but they frowned again.

"Have you thought of sweet potatoes?"

Ying Zheng and Hu Zigui nodded together.

"Corn and sweet potatoes are both high-yield crops. With them, people all over the world will not go hungry. These two crops have one thing in common, that is, they are very easy to grow.

I have already had the idea of ​​promoting these two crops, but the world has not yet been unified, and food still has strategic value, so I have never dared to let too many people know of their existence. "

Speaking of which, so far, except for the large-scale planting of sweet potatoes and corns on Laiqi Mountain, Lin Xiaoxiao has only given the old slippery Cancheng sweet potatoes, and even hinted at letting them plant them.

It's just that the old skate was soon wiped out by South Korea.Lin Xiaoxiao also asked someone specifically, and heard that Cannes was almost destroyed in order to fight against South Korea.In recent years, Lin Xiaoxiao also asked Kong Ci and A Wu to investigate the old site, but found no trace of sweet potato planting.Presumably Koreans have not discovered the value of sweet potatoes.

"I have two ideas, let me tell you for your reference. I heard that the canal is about to be completed, so why don't I take out this later part of the project as an experiment"

What Lin Xiaoxiao used was the experience of hitting IOUs in later generations.

For example, instead of sending money to migrant workers, the imperial court gave them IOUs.There are three types of IOUs: those that can be exchanged for food, those that can be exchanged for cloth, and those that can be exchanged for money.The three kinds of IOUs are chosen by the migrant workers themselves.The time for cashing out IOUs is extended to three or five years.

Ying Zheng was thoughtful: "For three years or five years, it is better to divide the exchange into several batches, and the time is different, so as not to cause a run on."

Lin Xiaoxiao said: "The number of items exchanged for a short time is less, and the number of items exchanged for a long time is more. On the one hand, everyone does not want long-term IOUs."

Hu Zigui said: "But I heard that there are nearly ten million migrant workers involved in this canal. Such a large number of people need a lot of supplies. Even if they receive them in batches, the quantity is very considerable."

Lin Xiaoxiao continued: "So I want to build a farm around Xianyang, specializing in planting sweet potatoes and corn. With the output of these two crops, as long as there is no major disaster, at least the grain can be enough. If there is excess production , and can also be exchanged with other countries for cloth and other supplies.”

Hu Zigui pondered: "A farm dedicated to planting sweet potatoes and corn? Do we need to send troops to guard it? And where do the people in charge of planting come from? The land around Xianyang is fertile, and we can requisition existing ones or reclaim new ones."

In this era, there were officials responsible for collecting agricultural taxes and managing farmland, but there were no officials instructing farmers on how to farm.

Lin Xiaoxiao said: "Food is the most important thing for the people. At any time, the imperial court must give top priority to feeding the people. I suggest setting up an agricultural science department to guide the people all over the world on how to farm."

Agriculture these days is still relatively backward, but it is still in the initial stage of development.For example, Zheng Guoxiu's canal, such as the 24 solar terms.

The 24 solar terms had their embryonic form in the Xia Dynasty, but they have not yet become a system, nor have they been paid special attention to.

"I am willing to temporarily lead the Department of Agricultural Sciences, just to promote the improvement of the Department of Agricultural Sciences through the development of the farm"

Thus, in this world, my country's first department specializing in agriculture was born in Qin State.And the first minister of the Ministry of Agricultural Sciences was a fairy - Yu Jingzi, a girl from Kunlun Mountains.

Let me talk about Zheng Guo's repair of the canal and the result of the expulsion order discussed earlier. Ying Zheng released Zheng Guo and asked him to continue to lead people to repair the canal.

As for the deportation order, Ying Zheng delivered a touching speech in the court hall, telling the stories of "the monarch and his ministers get each other" and "bole knows the horse".He also declared that the goal of Qin State was to unify the world, and that the so-called spies from other countries would also be the subjects of Qin State.

Yingzheng's words made all the officials in the court burst into tears, wishing to die for King Qin.

With his magnanimity, Yingzheng abolished the expulsion order, and promoted the guest Qing Li Si to the rank of school lieutenant.

In addition, because of Zheng Guo's construction of the canal, Ying Zheng personally inspected the canal construction site.After returning, he lamented the suffering of the migrant workers and decided to change the migrant workers who repaired the canal from unpaid labor to paid labor.

At that time in the court hall, Ying Zheng's words caused an uproar among the ministers and workers, who shouted "no way".Unsurprisingly, everyone's concern is where the paid money will come from.

Therefore, Ying Zheng took out the "IOU" that he had discussed with Lin Xiaoxiao and Hu Zigui.

Most of the ministers didn't react when they first heard about this practice.A small group of people thought it was unreliable, and another small group thought the idea was very good at the time.

This matter is very important and complicated, and it certainly cannot be decided by Ying Zheng with a single sentence.

Ying Zheng asked every minister and worker to think about it after returning home, and then write a note and submit it if he has an idea.The monarch and his ministers have to discuss many times before deciding whether to "play the white note" and how to play the white note.

Although this matter has not yet been decided, it has already spread in Xianyang City, and even the surrounding areas of Xianyang have heard of it.

Some people have also realized that whether it is three years or five years, IOUs must always be cashed, so will these materials and money come from the treasury?

In and out of the city, the gentry talked about this matter when they got together, and even ordinary people would get together to chat about "Iao Tiao".

One day later, the King of Qin designated a place and named it the Province of Agricultural Sciences, and awarded the Province of Agricultural Sciences to Kunlun Mountain Girl as a fief.

Before Lin Xiaoxiao discussed with Ying Zheng and Hu Zigui, Lin Xiaoxiao had to establish the manor of the Ministry of Agricultural Sciences first, and cultivate some talents in agricultural sciences before proposing the official establishment of the Ministry of Agricultural Sciences in the court.

Because once the Agricultural Science Department is in the imperial city, the people in the court will definitely intervene, and it will be difficult to guarantee that the Agricultural Science Department will still be what Lin Xiaoxiao wants.Then it is better to put up the framework first, and then rectify the name.

Put the Ministry of Agricultural Science and Technology under Lin Xiaoxiao's name first, and basically no one will die to make trouble.

Since Lu Buwei became a wooden man in Kunlun Temple, people in Xianyang City have turned their attention to the previously neglected Kunlun Mountain Girl.When the accident happened, famous posts were stuffed into the Kunlun Temple like snowflakes, but of course Lin Xiaoxiao refused them all.

Later, people discovered that the King of Qin would occasionally come to Kunlun to watch, so people made many speculations about the Kunlun Mountain Girl, but they dared not mess with her.

After Yingzheng's edict was issued, Lin Xiaoxiao went back to Mount Laiqi.

Now Laiqi Mountain has reached a bottleneck in its development.Because of the increasing population, the land on the mountain is not enough to live in.And from the perspective of population genetic optimization, the village cannot rest on its laurels, and needs to communicate more with the outside world.

Lin Xiaoxiao has now changed her development strategy.

Put the place where people live outside the small city walls.The inside of the small city wall was changed into a place for people to "work" and entertain.Workshops, canteens, baths, conference halls, etc. are all within the small city walls.The houses where people used to live were kept and turned into warehouses.

In peacetime, everyone develops outside the small city walls.In case of war, move back to the small city wall to avoid disaster temporarily.

In the past few years, the state of Qin has continued to grow stronger, while the state of Wei on the other side has continued to decline.The border between the two countries has repeatedly extended to the territory of the old Song Dynasty, which is already far away from Ruicheng.Ruicheng is currently in a very stable and safe state.

Lin Xiaoxiao held an assessment in the village school, which was open to everyone, and both people in the village and people outside the village could participate.

This assessment is divided into two sessions, one is a written test and the other is an interview.The content of the assessment involves many issues related to people's livelihood, most of which are related to agriculture.No way, some people know how to farm but may not be able to read and write.

In the end, Lin Xiaoxiao chose eighteen people as his disciples.Among them, there are not only high marks in the written test, but also excellent marks in the interview.

In addition, Lin Xiaoxiao also brought Cui Panpan and Cui An with her.

Cui An is already 13 years old, he can't stay in the small mountain village all the time, it's time to go out and meet the market.

And Lin Xiaoxiao discovered that Cui An likes farming.He is not as keen on making money as Cui Panpan, and prefers to keep his feet on the ground.

Lin Xiaoxiao took the twenty people on the road to the province of Agricultural Science and Technology.

On the way, they walked for a long time and rested for a long time.It is already autumn and they missed this year's planting season, so they are not in a hurry.

The so-called half-day rest is not really a rest, but Lin Xiaoxiao took them to the farmland where they rested to do a field trip.

In addition, Lin Xiaoxiao is also teaching those illiterate disciples to read and write while studying.As for the disciples who have already read and write, they will hand in an investigation report every time they go to a place.

Compared to playing tricks, Lin Xiaoxiao prefers the feeling of going into the ground with everyone to do research and consideration.

Back then, she was still a low-level civil servant in a small town on the [-]th tier, and she often went to the mountains and went to the countryside, walking in the fields with fellow villagers.

Lin Xiaoxiao sometimes thinks about what kind of reputation she will leave in history.

If she was just a mountain girl, she might only exist in folklore and not be mentioned in history books.Or maybe he got caught up in Ying Zheng's favor and was swept away by such a stroke.

If she hadn't met Ying Zheng, she might just be a Kunlun Mountain girl in her life.

But now she is standing at the juncture of history, a history that is destined to be recorded in the annals of history, an event that will not be drowned by the long river of history.

Why not do something about it?Why not leave something for posterity?

Lin Xiaoxiao thought about it, and the only thing left in her mind was the phrase "Food is the paramount necessity of the people".Then let's do farming.

A group of people walked for almost a month and finally arrived at the province of agricultural science and technology.

The land around Xianyang is really fertile in this era.

Taking advantage of the winter, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately organized his disciples to conduct a detailed survey of the land in the Agricultural Science and Technology Province.

She personally took everyone on the land, visited every corner of the province of Agricultural Science and Technology, and drew detailed topographic and geological maps.

This map is confidential.The symbols marked on it can only be understood by Lin Xiaoxiao.And usually placed in the warehouse of the system.

(End of this chapter)