Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 28

To be honest, if it was a family of a big man, Li Tai still had a little fear, but already in the Tang Dynasty, Li Tai really didn't take it seriously.

Don't look at the current aristocratic family full of flowers, even Li Tang's royal family doesn't like it.

But in fact, it has come back to life, because after the imperial examinations appeared, the family was doomed to perish.

Because the number of family members is too small, but they have too many resources, relying on the background of the older generation can support them for a while, but facing the mighty poor family, and even ordinary people, they will one day be overwhelmed by crowd tactics.

From the perspective of class changes, the decline of the family is almost a foregone conclusion, but from Li Tai's point of view, although the family is decayed and backward, Li Tai really does not want the family to fall like this.

One of the most important reasons is that with the fall of the aristocratic family, the most suitable to succeed the aristocratic family in power in China, under the historical choice, finally chose the civil official group with the relationship between teachers and students and the township party as the link.

And this kind of civil official group almost reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, but it degenerated into a mess by the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

To be honest, no matter how decadent or degenerate the family is, at least there is no civil or military enemy, at least no bowing to the power, and even the Li Tang royal family has barbarian blood, they also look down on them, at least they are strong.

But the civil official group, since the Song Dynasty asked them to stand, they stood, and the Qing Dynasty asked the civil official group to kneel, and they knelt obediently.

Even if there are a few strong bones in the civil official group, as long as they are in this system, they will fall into the vicious circle of fighting insiders and outsiders.

So if there is a chance, Li Tai really wants to help the family.

After all, the aristocratic family is still there, so there is more or less a buffer zone between civil and military, but with the demise of the aristocratic family, the buffer zone between the two sides is gone.

The longer the civil and military parties work together, the more conflicts will accumulate, just like the two parties in the United States, they will definitely fall into the vicious circle of life and death.

However, Li Tai wanted to study a plow similar to the eight ox plow, not for the family, but for the convenience of intensive production.

Increase the input of production factors and capital such as material, capital, technology, management and labor in a unit of land, thereby increasing production capacity and improving farming efficiency.

Of course, this thing is definitely not suitable for ordinary people, because only if there is enough land, the cost of plowing can be shared equally.

"In addition to researching large-scale plows, how is the progress of the bobbin?" Li Tai asked Du Chuke.

"I'm using the keel cart to modify it, and it's still in the test. Is Yue Wang worried about this?" Du Chuke couldn't help frowning when he heard Li Tai's words, "But now the spring plowing, I think the plow should be the main thing."

Li Taidao: "Last year, some locust eggs chose to spend the winter instead of hatching, and they will definitely hatch again as the weather gets warmer.

If it popped up in the wild, it would be fine. I will continue to release ducks. I also raised some chickens this year. It should not be difficult to deal with locusts.

On the contrary, if they hatch from the reclaimed crops, naturally the chickens and ducks cannot be allowed to eat them, and they may eat the wheat seedlings.

So it's better to water more, keep the land moist, and delay the hatching of locusts!

Winter wheat can be harvested in April and May, and locusts will come out after April and May, and it will be good to let ducks eat them. "

"High opinion, King Yue!" Du Chuke suddenly realized when he heard Li Tai's words, stroked his beard and said, "I'm going to ask people to step up their research on the bobbin car, and we can't reproduce the scene like last year!"

To be honest, the drought and locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan was basically on the verge of destruction in a slightly unreliable court, and it was Li Shimin and his group of virtuous ministers who made it through.

But at this moment, Du Chuke quickly researched the bobbin car, which was more or less a tail for his locust control.

However, although the reclamation started in March, all kinds of tools must be prepared in February.

At this time, Ma Zhou became the busiest person, he either went to the Department of Animal Husbandry to borrow cattle, or went to the Si Nong Temple to get some tools, and the most important thing was to go to Jiangzuo Shaofu to get some iron to make farm tools.

Compared to last year when almost the entire imperial court was assembled to appease these refugees, now they can only rely on the face of the Yue Palace.

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Husbandry received [-] ducks in one transfer last year, and the Si Nong Temple succeeded in controlling the locust plague. The two sides had some kind of favor with Li Tai, and they were definitely willing to help with such a small matter.

After all, even if an upright official like Dou Jing might not accept bribes, he would be more or less willing to help in such trivial matters as repaying favors.

So it was just a few more trips to Zuo Shaofu Ma Zhou, but in the end it was within his constitution, as long as there was no faction between them, he could basically do business as usual, and enough ironware was approved in a short time.

Li Tai has enough coal and craftsmen to make ironware into agricultural tools. Li Tai has the mind to accumulate talents, so he doesn't wait for Jiang Zuo to build them himself.

Because the spring plowing was just around the corner, when it was my turn, I feared that there was still a team to line up, so I registered and transported away the amount of iron ore according to the regulations.

He wanted to confirm that Li Tai hadn't used the iron ore for other purposes, or sold it directly to Hu merchants for second-hand business.

All in all, there must be some who want to smuggle iron ore in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but most of them have iron ore in private hands and trade directly with barbarians. It is not impossible to use official iron ore to smuggle, just need to get through There are too many links.

Of course, as time entered mid-February, Li Tai's agricultural college officially started.

The arrival of a group of people surprised Li Tai, that is, when the locusts were being dealt with, didn't Li Tai pick two or three people from the villages near Chang'an, and asked them to raise [-] to [-] ducks, mainly to deal with the locusts .

After the locusts were dealt with, these people became the stewards of the ducks, and Li Tai recovered half of the ducks.

The remaining half is reserved for them to breed ducks, and tell them how many ducks they need to collect every month. The interest is duck eggs.

At the same time, after paying enough ducks, the subsidy will be cancelled, but the remaining ducks will be considered your property, and you don’t have to worry about selling them in the future. From now on, you can buy adult ducks or [-] duck eggs for [-] yuan a month. This price is higher than the market price. A little lower, but more stable.

Therefore, these people discussed it for a while, and felt that they had mastered the technology of raising ducks, so they agreed.

After the winter passed, they watched their ducks successfully survive the winter, and returned half of the ducks that needed to be returned. After all, the old duck soup in winter must be quite delicious. Relying on the market in Chang'an, the consumption of ducks must be enough.

They found that their assets were getting more and more under the care of Li Tai, and their lives were getting better and better. With the simplicity and cunning of rural people, they wanted to repay their kindness, but also felt that they had a chance to follow the king of Yue, so they chose to continue to support the king of Yue. .

Although [-] Wen is very expensive, but the school includes board and lodging, it is considered to be learning characters and mathematics inside, and it is handed over after gritting your teeth!

Of course, they may not be their own sons, but their brothers, their nieces, their nephews...

All in all, under their propaganda, the people of Chang'an heard that the head of the locust demon had been cut off with a single knife, and the locusts had disappeared since then. Under the persuasion of his brothers, as long as he could pay five hundred Wen, he would give it a try. In the mood, stuff a son in.

So Li Tai originally thought that he would be thankful for having 500 students, but in fact there are nearly a thousand students in this group.

"Ergou, if you can get five hundred characters, it means that there are not many opportunities to teach reading and literacy. You should study hard when you get there.

The elder brother was lucky enough to follow the king of Yue to get the job of managing ducks, but he was illiterate, so that was the end of it.

You study hard, and if you pass the imperial examination in the future, you will be able to become an official! "

Chen Da said seriously to his younger brother.

Chen Ergou nodded. Chen Da had brought him up since he was a child, so Chen Ergou always listened to Chen Da's words the most.

"Sanba, study hard when you get inside. The king of Yue can kill locust monsters. You are a man of gods. When you go inside, you must also learn the ability of the king of Yue to kill locusts. In the future, even if there are locusts in our fields, you can still kill them." Killed all of them!"

"Mmmmmm." Listening to her father's words, Sanwa immediately gestured with her hands.

"Daniu, I really don't have enough food at home. I asked my relatives to raise five hundred Wen. If you go to school and be obedient, then you can open your mouth to eat. Try your best to read and do math. If you can learn a few farming skills, You won’t have to worry about eating in the future!”

"I must be obedient and I must be full!" Daniel said to his mother naively.

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Well, although the people who entered the academy may not really come in because of the profession of farmers, Li Tai needs to let them know that he didn't build this academy for them to come in and dawdle.

It's time to let them know the school motto.

In order to carry out rescue plagiarism of the future Northern Song culture, Li Tai immediately copied the four sentences of Hengqu.

"Build a heart for the world, establish a life for the people, inherit the knowledge of the past, and create peace for all generations."

Now these four sentences are the school motto of my agricultural school, and I don’t ask anyone to memorize them, but I read them every day, and they will be subtly remembered in my heart.

However, this group of students was okay for the first half month, but in March, they also joined in the busy spring farming to help.

The students in the preschool class are actually quite simple to be responsible for, which is to remove the roots of weeds!

In fact, land reclamation is not an easy job. In ancient times, there were not a few people in their 40s and [-]s who vomited blood and died while driving, because land reclamation itself is a very labor-intensive task.

First of all, the land reclamation people basically have no shoes, even if Li Tai gave them shoes, they would not wear them to plow the fields.

The rubber rain boots of modern people can be cleaned after a little washing, but there were no such things in ancient times, so the ancient people often chose to go barefoot when farming.

Because if you wear shoes, you will get a layer of mud as soon as you work, and the ancient shoes are made of cloth paste and then rotted after a few times of brushing. The cost is too high.

Farmers barefoot is the lowest cost. In fact, the elderly in modern remote areas should still have this habit to some extent.

It wasn't until thumbtacks, nails, broken iron sheets, and glass shards appeared in the fields that I didn't know why, and then I gradually changed to wearing rubber rain boots.

Then the main purpose of reclamation is to eradicate weeds.

Don't take it for granted to set a fire and burn all these weeds.

In "Water Margin", the forage field inside the Fengxue Mountain Temple is full of forage and straw, which are collected by the common people and handed over to the imperial court for tax credit.

Not to mention that the fire is bigger. If the fire is ignited, it will be tantamount to cutting off the survival of the villages that depend on the mountains.

That's why methods like slash-and-burn farming will be gradually phased out, because this method is too inefficient for resource utilization, and no one will burn mountains unless there is a war.

So if you want to open up wasteland, you can only slowly reclaim arable acres one by one with one hoe.

Now the people who have experience in land reclamation are mainly responsible for cutting the grass, and then let the students in the preschool class do the root removal, and then let the students who enter the formal class rake the ground, gather up all kinds of roots, stalks, etc., or use them as firewood, or take them out. to feed.

In the process of land reclamation, these are valuable resources.

However, the land reclamation time of agricultural colleges is only spring and autumn. When they successively experience the process of root removal, raking and mowing, and even the process of soil preparation, field work, and water search, they will experience the whole process of land reclamation. Land reclamation is not easy.

In the future, when they plant ordinary fields, they will truly feel cherished.

In this process, because it is all physical work, it is quite exhausting, and nutrition must keep up, otherwise many people will die for land reclamation.

Fortunately, the duck farm has been built, and the chicken farm is slowly catching up, so there are duck eggs every two days, and a bowl of old duck soup with meat every week to ensure that they can eat well, so that they will not let them eat. Tired out while still growing.

Of course, from the preschool class to the first term of the official class, let them realize that it is not easy to open up wasteland, and Li Tai plans to spend two years slowly polishing them.

It's not like those aristocratic families who came out of their studies and kept saying that farming is not easy for the common people, but they never thought that the life of the common people would be more difficult than they imagined.

But Li Tai didn't really treat them as farmers who opened up wasteland.

In the third year, Li Tai will teach them how to use scientific methods to record the planting status, how to try grafting of different plants, how to cultivate better crops, and how to find a crop, and how to plant it in detail. Write a thesis.

After all, Li Tai didn't expect them to become great masters in agriculture, but it was enough for them to be great talents in agriculture.

After they graduate in four or five years, no matter which piece of land they go to, they can help local farmers improve crops and grow more lush crops.

If this is the case, then he can be regarded as living up to his purpose of establishing this agricultural school.

Still the same sentence, there is no rush in agriculture, if you really want to see the results, it will take four years to sow and four years to grow!

(End of this chapter)