Destiny Only Han

The severe cold of winter has long since disappeared, the snow has melted, the biting cold wind has become warmer, the khaki earth has grown new green, flowers poke their heads out from the leaves, peach blossoms, cherry blossoms, and magnolia flowers are scattered. The fragrance.

Spring has come.

Chang'an City.

Ji Temple faces west.

According to the rules of Zuozu Youshe, various ceremonial places such as the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth were built here for worship.

The plowing ceremony in the ninth year of the Great Sage began with a gentle drizzle of water.

There are sounds of chimes and drums.

Under the Xiannong Altar, 64 dancers danced gracefully holding Xian (instrument) in their left hand and Zhai (feather) in their right hand.

In the distance, on the left are the Dukes of the Manchu Dynasty, and on the right are all the meritorious kings living in Chang'an City.

"The emperor first performed agricultural work, and he said that Meng Chun was the first to do it. He carried out the work of Lei and Sichuan, and Xin and Nan Mu. He used cloth to plant seeds. The emperor bowed three times, and the soil plaster was thunderous. Hundreds of workers were compared to combs, and their plowing was swampy. Years old It has been about a year since the emperor's virtues have been restored. I am good at my millet, and I am gathering my rice. I am making wine and cheese, and I am considering the auspicious rituals. When the auspicious rituals come, the gods only come to visit. Yan and his ancestors test, and all nations rest. Bless Kong Rang, It's shameful to express shame. What else can you ask for with correct speech?" (Note [-])

The ceremony officer held the edict covered in yellow silk and recited the document in a cadence to pay tribute to the ancestors and look forward to a good harvest.

Liu Ying stood on the Xiannong Altar, her face was wet from the drizzle, but her expression was meticulous.

The major events of the country are sacrificed to Rong.

Although he was very impatient with these vain etiquette, as the emperor of the Han Empire, this was his job.

Unless, wait until Liu Yan grows a few years older...

In this way, just like Liu Bang who left the trivial matters to himself, he could also leave all the sacrificial matters to Liu Yan, so that he could keep up with the pace of the retired elderly people and start the health regimen.

For example, hiding in the temple, drinking wine and eating meat...

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the clouds cleared away the rain, and the sun reconnected, emitting light and heat.

The entire sacrificial activity entered the penultimate stage.

Pro farming.

Liu Ying led the team to leave Xiannongtan and go to the tent set up on the other side to change clothes so that they could go to the fields and farm in person.

At this time, Liu Bang led Lu Wan, Xia Houying and others from Ji Temple to Yutian.

After all, he is the emperor of the Han Dynasty. In the previous sacrificial sessions, he could "ask his son to do his work if he has something to do", but he had to be present in person to do the farming to show that the royal family attached great importance to agriculture.

Anyway, what he has to do is actually very simple.

But the old man came running over, not because of 'professional ethics', but because the conspicuous bag found a new way to show off.

After a moment.

Yutian.

This is a piece of farmland covering an area of ​​about ninety acres. It was cultivated by the emperor and ministers. Later, Zhi Su Nei Shi Fu and Feng Chang Fu would send special personnel to take care of it. The grain produced was used to sacrifice the columns of Ji Temple. Ancestors, as well as many gods such as Xian Nong and Xian Silkworm.

In the early Han Dynasty, although men were encouraged to farm and women to weave at the national level, they did not know how to define the powers of the queen and the emperor.

Therefore, when performing the plowing ceremony, two powerful princes and kings should be selected to lead the oxen. The emperor holds a whip in his right hand and supports the green grass in his left hand. There are two princes behind him to hold the plow, and finally the queen leads the way. The concubine, who is wrapped in a "woman", sows the seeds behind.

Well, this is the latest revised version of etiquette in the past year or two.

The emperor changed from pushing the plow three times to pushing the plowshare back and forth three times in the field.

The three princes and princes also changed from five times to five times, and the Jiuqing Gonghou changed from nine times to nine times...

The workload has increased dramatically!
But in fact, this amount of labor only completed half of the [-]-acre farmland. In the future, the Changfu will need to send special personnel to plow and sow the remaining acres.

Because Lu Pheasant is the Supreme Queen, she wants to follow Liu Bang to sow the seeds.

And when she arrives, a certain short guy who likes to join in the fun will naturally not be absent...

At this moment, Liu Le led a Shamat bull covered with long golden-red hair and appeared arrogantly among a group of Chang'an ladies.

This is exactly the Scottish Highland cow Liu Ying promised to give her.

Since today is plowing, it is natural that cattle are indispensable. For this reason, Liu Le used this conspicuous cow as a plowing cow to pull the plowshare for several laps in the field.

For no other reason than to show off that I have something you don’t have...

It's a pity that she misjudged Liu Bang's conspicuousness.

In the distance, there was a chugging sound.

Wearing short clothes and wearing straw sandals, Cao Shenwang Ling and others looked back and were all dumbfounded.

There, Liu Bang was driving a crawler-type walking tractor and was slowly coming to Jitian, his body swaying and his face looking very happy.But that's not all that made them dumbfounded.

Behind Liu Bang, there was another huge creature that was spitting out billowing white smoke.

That's a tractor, too.

Liu Ying held the steering wheel with one hand, raised her right hand high, and greeted the public opinion representatives and the soldiers holding shining halberds in the distance.

It's just that the tractor he drives is different from Liu Bang's walk-behind tractor.

This is a steam powered tractor.

It is huge, not fast, and has low horsepower, but it is better because it burns coal instead of diesel. After all, the crude oil from the Anman Protectorate has not yet been transported to Dahan, so steam power will inevitably be the first choice in the next ten years.

This is mainly Liu Ying's little thought.

Leeks need to be cut one crop after another!
After steam tractors become popular, we will vigorously promote tractors driven by internal combustion engines, and then upgrade them every ten years or so, and finally launch a fully equipped tractor that can cooperate with satellites for autonomous driving...

This is the way he left behind for future generations to make money.

I may not be a good person, but I must be a good father... Liu Ying shook her body, immersed in herself.

After a while, he and Liu Bang had arrived at the designated location.

Hundreds of engineers came in a hurry to connect the latest plowshare adapted to this violent machine to the tractor.

Liu Ying looked at Zhang Cang, the history of millet management, who came over, and said with a smile: "This is what I said, the machine that will make the world free of difficult fields. The latest plowshare can plow to a depth of 1.5 meters, which can effectively reduce soil compaction. question!"

Zhang Cang said with a smile: "With such a magical weapon, our state-owned farms in Liaodong can be saved!"

Liu Bang came over from the side and asked, "What happened there?"

Zhang Cang explained:
"Liaodong and Liaoxi counties have vast land, sparsely populated areas, and insufficient labor. When the farm scale becomes too large, it is impossible to plow the land deeply with animal power alone. We can only plow the land lightly and seize the time to plant seeds."

"More importantly, the land there is largely clay soil with strong swelling and disturbance characteristics."

"If it rains or is flooded with water, it will easily clog the soil pores and cause the soil surface to agglomerate. When the water is almost lost, drying and cracking will occur."

"The combination of various factors has resulted in the annual grain output being unsatisfactory, far from the large granary originally envisioned by the imperial court!"

“Therefore, if this tireless and powerful machine uses a heavy-duty plowshare to plow the soil deeply once every three to five years, it can effectively increase yields by [-] to [-]%!”

Liu Bang nodded: "Yes, yes, food is the most important thing for the people! The Han Dynasty can't rely entirely on food shipped from overseas, right? Self-sufficiency is the way to go!"

"What the Supreme Emperor said is absolutely true." Cao Shen said from the side: "Nowadays, Guanzhong is overcrowded and consumes tens of thousands of grains every day. Therefore, I feel that it may be time to change some national policies!"

Liu Bang asked curiously: "What national policy?"

Cao Shen secretly looked at Liu Ying and said tentatively: "Encourage childbirth."

It was a national policy promulgated in the early Han Dynasty, which provided tax exemptions and exemptions for families who gave birth to children, and exempted them from the head tax until the newborns reached adulthood, that is, until they reached 1.6 meters.

For this reason, the common people are in trouble.

Most families have five children, and there are even heroic mothers who have given birth to more than a dozen children in the past 30 years!
After all, not collecting money is equivalent to giving money, and the country’s advantages will not be taken for nothing!
The important thing is that in the early Han Dynasty, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the land granting policy under the twenty-level military merit system was implemented. Therefore, the more children in the family, the more land they would occupy in the future!
In the vast countryside, the law of the jungle is followed.

A family with three or four boys may be bullied by fellow villagers, but no one dares to bully a family with seven or eight boys!
Without him, the Han pursues great revanchism.

Whoever bullies someone now will wait ten years later, when their seven or eight children grow up, and they will kill their enemies in a matter of minutes without leaving any chickens or dogs behind!

Moreover, when people from all over the country mentioned this incident, they would praise it loudly and say it was a good killing...

For example, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhao E's father and three brothers were killed by bullies. Then Zhao E killed the bullies. When she surrendered, the county magistrate did not sentence her to death, but praised her as a "filial daughter". "A martyr woman", for this reason she did not hesitate to resign and go back, but she would never sentence Zhao E...

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, having more children was more beneficial than harmful.

But the key to the problem is that the advancement of science and technology has brought about substantial improvements in food output and production efficiency, and the onset of industrialization has provided countless jobs for the large population.

Therefore, as times progressed, the policies introduced in the early Han Dynasty to encourage childbearing became somewhat outdated.

After all, from a national perspective, hundreds of millions of tax dollars will be lost every year.

For a centralized dynasty, this is something that can be endured in special times, but unbearable most of the time!

After Cao Shen finished speaking, he remained silent.

He had vaguely mentioned it to Liu Ying once before, but Liu Ying just left the memorial silent and did not say yes or no. Therefore, he chose to test Liu Bang's tone on this occasion in order to express his feelings to Liu Ying. Pressure test……

Liu Bang secretly looked at Liu Ying and found that he was silent with a wooden face.

So, he put his hands behind his back and said to the distance: "I am the Supreme Emperor. Do you know what the Supreme Emperor is? You can't tell me these things..."

Note [-]: This is "Sacrifice to the Ancient Farmers" by Li Xin, a poet of the Song Dynasty. Of course, in the book of Han Dynasty, this is an insignificant chapter in "Jinshang Poetry Collection" ()