Chapter 84 New Year's Eve

"One grain of millet is planted in spring, and ten thousand grains are harvested in autumn."

"There is no idle land in the world, and the people still starve to death."

Liu Ye and Lu Su replied, their pupils trembling slightly, and they looked at Chu Feng with various expressions. The first three paragraphs were all about a harvest scene,
But the last paragraph is eye-catching!
What a mocking poem is this?In such a prosperous harvest, the common people who farmed the land were still starved to death. The ending is so bleak but very real.

Doesn't this just reflect the current relationship between the common people and the gentry?Natural disasters and man-made disasters make it difficult for the people to live, and even in a prosperous harvest, they need to save money on food and clothing.

Ugh!
The two sighed and bowed their heads, but there was nothing they could do.

"Let's find this poem, the poem's title is Compassionate Farmers!" Chu Feng's expression was a little dignified, and this may be where he needs to work hard.

No, no!

The two murmured the word sympathy for farmers, feeling in their hearts Chu Feng's talent, but they didn't want to or didn't dare to say more, because some people are bitter and others are sweet.

The more bitter the people are, the sweeter some are.

And these people are absorbing nutrients to strengthen their own family. Today's big man is controlled by these people, and no one can touch this group!
Without him, resources are in their hands.

"Let's start, spring, the third place to search, plant, No. 20 six places to search, one..." Chu Feng calmed down, he still had a long way to go, and he needed to work harder.

Both Liu Ye and Lu Su searched for the corresponding location according to what Chu Feng said. After looking around, they found it very quickly. The speed was very fast.

A whole poem, the search took only a moment.

Looking at the found characters, Liu Ye and Lu Su's eyes were full of horror, because Chu Feng must know a classification method that the world does not know, and it is an extremely powerful classification method!
"My lord, how did you do this?" Lu Su asked eagerly, itching in his heart. It was as if a good scholar suddenly discovered a piece of knowledge that he had never touched before.

Liu Ye also looked eagerly!

"I still remember that I told you before that there is something that can assist beginners to learn to read in half a month." Chu Feng looked at Lu Su and said.

"Really...really?" Lu Su was at a loss.

At the beginning, he only thought that Chu Feng was deceiving him. After all, it takes time and time to learn to read and write. He didn't expect it to be true, so he looked at Chu Feng with fiery eyes.

"This is a quick method of pinyin, and it will be passed on when you have time in the future!" Chu Feng sighed with deep eyes.

Liu Ye and Lu Su were in an urgent mood, wishing that Chu Feng would teach them now, but thinking of what Chu Feng showed today, the two called it awesome!
It is no longer enough to evaluate Chu Feng's talents with great talents and rich knowledge. Every single talent can be compared with the sages.

Cloth armor, Liannu, papermaking, printing, poetry, and the unresolved pinyin, each one is enough to make people ashamed, who would have thought that all of them came from one person?
The key point is that such a boss who is comparable to a saint, but he is respectful to the corporal, he is not ashamed to ask his subordinates, and he has studied the art of war and the way of governing the country, which really makes them feel ashamed.

At this moment, the two looked at each other.

He sighed in his heart, they were hailed as the talents of the second generation, but in front of Chu Feng, they were like stars compared to bright moons, and poor horses compared to good horses, they were simply unforgettable.

Assisting such heroes, why worry about the injustice of the world, why worry about the people not living and working in peace, why worry about them not being famous in history?
But at this moment, Chu Feng brushed the ink, and immediately pressed the white paper onto it, uncovered the white paper, the first column of spring seeds, arranged in order, and the last one was compassionate farmers, Chu Feng!
The handwriting is clear and becomes a chapter in a blink of an eye.

"My lord, this thing will surely be passed down through the ages, and the name of the lord will be passed down through the ages." The two clasped their fists with emotion.

Then, Chu Feng took a look at the construction of other items in each battalion, such as the continuous crossbow and cloth armor. The shortcoming of the continuous crossbow is that it cannot be equipped on a large scale.

And the workmanship is fine, so the number is limited. As for the cloth armor in Shouchun, there are about one or two thousand pairs, of which the third-level armor, that is, the kind with leather armor inside, has a total of [-] pairs.

It stands to reason that there should be more, but because of the drought in the Jianghuai River and the scarcity of raw materials, we can only rely on procurement, which curbs the development of cloth armor at once, and it should be relieved in the coming year.

As for the various types of farm tools, they have also been improved a lot with the help of Chu Feng. There are a wide variety of them, which greatly speeds up the farming.

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Thirty of the twelfth lunar month,

It is called "Sui Dan" in Chinese, also known as New Year's Eve. It is said that fierce beasts bring disasters to the world.

For ordinary people, today is a day of celebration, which means that the end of the year is about to usher in the beginning of the year, and they are looking forward to a bumper harvest in the New Year. For children, today is also the happiest day for them.

Xiaowang Village, inside a thatched cottage.

Early in the morning, just after dawn, Tie Dan, who had just turned seven years old, was shaken awake by his mother.

"Get up soon, today's New Year's Eve, your father said he would give you some meat to try!" The woman was in her early twenties, but her skin was wrinkled and her face was dark.
But that smile is the most beautiful!

"Yes, is there any meat to eat?" Tie Dan's eyes glowed golden, he was greedy, he couldn't remember whether he had ever eaten meat, only heard that it was delicious.

"Mother, our family doesn't have much food, why don't we eat meat after the autumn harvest?" Tie Dan's eyes were firm, but there was disappointment in it.

"Your father said that Duke Chu is a good man to save the country and help the people. I heard that Duke Chu bought pigs and sold them to the people at a loss in order to make the people eat meat and have a good year."

"And your father went out to chop firewood all winter, and he has two coins." The woman said this, her eyes were slightly moist, but she smiled.

Although life is hard, there are fewer exorbitant taxes, which are more than a hundred times stronger than Yuan Shu's tyranny, which gives them hope for poor people.

Tie Dan laughed like honey when he heard this.

"Mom, I want to wear the new dress I bought earlier!" Tie Dan said with a smile.

"That's too young, just wear this, and I'll definitely buy you a new dress for my mother when the Chinese New Year is next year!" The woman felt uncomfortable.

"Mom, I'll just wear that one!"

In the end, the woman couldn't resist, so she had to put on a small set of new clothes for him. Of course, the new clothes were relatively new, and there were only a few puddings.

"It's so comfortable," Tie Dan was strangled like a big meat dumpling, but the smile on his face was very sweet: "Mom, I went to the city to buy meat with my father!"

"Finish the porridge and leave!"

After a while, he followed his father and before leaving the village, he was so shy that he wanted to show off his small new clothes to everyone he saw.

It seems to say, look, look, handsome!

The father and son traveled not too slowly, and it took them more than half an hour to walk for about twenty miles, and finally arrived at the nearby county town, which is very lively today.

All kinds of vendors and shops are here,

In the middle of Fangshi, there are several pig butchers.

When he got here, Tie Dan looked at the pork, slurped his lips and sipped his mouth.

Seeing this, his father shouted, "How much is this pork belly?"

"Grandfather Chu Renen, today's pork is fifty yuan a catty, and the price of grain in other places may be more than this!" The butcher shop owner grinned and showed his yellow teeth.

"Fifty dollars," the man pursed his lips, his palms trembling slightly, how much firewood he had to chop to earn this money!You can see the eager eyes of my son,

He gritted his teeth, took out a piece of cloth from his bosom, untied it and said: "Cut, cut eight taels [approximately more than two taels today]"

"Just cut half a catty!"

"That's enough, let the children try something new, we as parents can eat or not." The man smiled innocently: "By the way, cut me the fat ones, and the skinny ones won't turn fat!"

"That won't work, unless fat meat and this kind of ribs are mixed!" The butcher immediately refused. Fat meat is the best, and ribs are the cheapest. He can't sell them randomly.

The man refused, and the butcher weighed a cut piece of pork belly. It was not bad, and he tied it with a straw rope and handed it over.

The man counted 25 coins with his rough and callused palm, and then counted it again, before handing it over with a grin.

There is reluctance in the eyes, but happiness.

"Let's go, son, come home tonight and dad will cook you some meat. Let me tell you, this stuff tastes old." The man grinned, his dark cheeks filled with joy.

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(End of this chapter)

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