Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 43 Child Labor
In the second year of Xingping, since last year, there have been severe droughts in Guanzhong, Henan and other places. Until July this year, the disaster has affected nearly tens of millions of people. Millions of people died of famine and plague or became refugees.

Compared with the Kanto and Kansai regions, the Jingzhou region in the south is relatively smooth. It is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with abundant rainfall, and the drought has not extended here for the time being.

Therefore, a large number of disaster victims from Guanzhong and Henan flocked to the Nanyang area, and those who had the conditions migrated to the Yangtze River Basin further south, and those who did not have the conditions to settle down in the Nanyang Basin, which has greatly replenished the current population of the Nanyang Basin.

Liu Biao adopted Shen Chen's suggestion, and the government provided food, grass and supplies to feed the hungry people temporarily, and then recruited the refugees to start farming in Nanyang. For a while, the whole Nanyang area became full of enthusiasm.

Naturally, this also includes the elder Huangmenting who has moved to Xinye.

It turned out that they only had 1000 people, but according to Shen Chen's instructions, Deng Mao, Deng Zhao and others continued to recruit new refugees for farming. The model they adopted was the manor system. expansion.

From the time Shen Chen left Huangmenting in May to July, they had recruited more than 160 households, a total of more than 800 people, opened up more than 4000 acres of land, and built more than 80 new huts.

Although it is a bit difficult to say something about building thatched huts, it cannot be denied that this new type of composting technology can indeed greatly increase food production, so it is constantly expanding.

This day Deng Hong brought some cold food to visit Shen Chen, Song Zhong gave him half a day off, Shen Chen took his uncle to the back mountain, there is a gazebo and clear spring in the back mountain, the greenery is dense, and the clear spring water flows from the mountain Come down and flow through the pavilion.

The grandfather and grandson sat cross-legged in the gazebo. While watching Deng Hong unwrap the cold food he brought, Shen Chen asked about the current situation of the clan. Deng Hong went back once before and told him about the current progress.

When Deng Hong took out all the cold food he had brought and put it on a plate, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a small wooden utensil in Shen Chen's hand, and asked curiously, "Ah Chen, what is this?"

Shen Chen raised the wooden vessel and said, "Uncle forgot? This is a keel waterwheel."

Taking advantage of his spare time, he borrowed carpenter's tools from his servants and built it himself, because the keel waterwheel is essentially a tool that connects a few planks and a large number of wood chips together, and then uses rollers to pump water, so it is relatively simple to make.

Deng Hong said speechlessly: "You really made me famous in the village?"

"Uncle will do as I say."

Shen Chen handed over the small model, and began to eat with chopsticks.

Deng Hong took the model and looked at it carefully, and found that it was really exquisitely made. The keel wood pieces on it could even be rotated, driven by the axle, and it seemed that it could really draw water up.

"This thing is interesting, but it draws too little water."

He turned it around a few times, put the keel waterwheel model in the stream next to it, and started to run it by hand. He found that it was indeed possible to draw water, but the amount of water was very small. Even if it was scaled up, the water flow was not much.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "In fact, there is also a water wheel that uses water power to rotate naturally. It will rotate and draw water by itself when placed in the water, but that kind of thing is not suitable for promotion at the moment."

"why?"

Deng Hong wondered, why don't you take out some good things?

Shen Chen said: "To prevent it from being learned by the enemy in the future, as well as the composting technology of our village, we must also protect it. It would be bad if it was learned by others."

This is to create technical barriers, not only composting technology and waterwheel technology, but also stirrup technology, horseshoe technology, smelting technology, construction technology, manufacturing technology and so on.

When I was studying architectural design, I traveled to many places to visit ancient crafts and learned a lot of useful things by accident.

Many of them only appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and were widely promoted in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Although it is also ancient, the craftsmanship and prosperity of the Ming and Qing Dynasties far surpassed those of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The most typical example is steel production.

According to the later archaeologist Professor Li Jinghua's analysis of the iron smelting industry in the Western Han Dynasty, it is believed that the total output of iron and steel in the 210-year history of the Western Han Dynasty was 17855 tons.

In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the total output of government-run steel reached 9235 tons. In the ten years of Jiajing in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the annual output in Guangdong alone was 13500 tons.

Therefore, even if some technologies from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are put into the Han Dynasty, the level is also a dimensionality reduction blow, and the technical content is not the same.

These technologies will also need to be promoted by a huge force in the future. If they are learned by others now, they will be almost no different from the enemy. After all, Cao Cao occupied the north and has more than tens of thousands of cavalry?
If he has learned both stirrups and horseshoes, I am afraid that even Jiangdong, who has the natural danger of the Yangtze River, will not be able to resist the sharpness of his iron hooves.

Deng Hong put the keel waterwheel model aside and asked, "Ah Chen, how is your academic progress?"

"Okay"

Shen Chen hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's just that the teacher has not officially started teaching, and now he has almost learned the big seal script and the small seal script."

Deng Hong nodded and said: "The big seal script and the small seal script are the foundation. The books handed down by our clan are all written in clerical script, but many ancient books are written in Qin seal script, so you did a good job. When I was studying abroad, I also saw Better than others to learn seal script every day."

"That's it."

Shen Chen felt relieved, Zhuge Liang and Deng Hong both said that, so it should be right.

He had never been a teacher of the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty before, and he didn't understand why Song Zhong only taught him calligraphy but not texts. Now it seems that they still have their intentions.

The two chatted for a while, and Shen Chen told Deng Hong that when he returned to the clan next time, he must remember to let the clan build the manor as soon as possible, and at the same time, according to his arrangement, train more soldiers and horses, smelt more steel, and make more porcelain.

According to what Zhou Lin told him last year, if all goes well, he will go to Jiangdong again this year.At that time, the two parties agreed that if they passed through Xiangyang, he would send someone to Nanyang to find Shen Chen.

At that time, in addition to selling the ship technology to Zhou Lin, Shen Chen also needs to sell him the exquisite porcelain made by Huang Menting in the blast furnace cave.

The white porcelain of the Han Dynasty is indeed good, but it is still inferior to the Tang Sancai, and it must be favored by the dignitaries everywhere.

In the afternoon, after Deng Hong left, Shen Chen went to the place where Song Zhong often stayed in the atrium.

It rained a few days ago, Song Zhong did not post the books, but taught Shen Chen wholeheartedly for the first time, but not to teach him to read, but to teach him to know the bamboo slips first.

After teaching him big and small seal script before, now he has recognized the characters on the bamboo slips and can read them out, but he doesn't understand what the words mean.

But Song Zhong understood, so every time he read a sentence, Song Zhong told him which book and which volume it was, and asked him to remember it clearly in the future, so as not to forget it.

After such a few days, Shen Chen remembered many books, many of which were famous works lost to later generations, and any volume would be invaluable after 2000 years.

When he came to the courtyard, he saw Song Zhong was tossing books again.

The weather has turned sunny again since yesterday, the sun dispelled the dark clouds and brought intense heat to the land.

After all, it is only July, and it is said that it is autumn, but the temperature is actually very high. The drought in the north is still there, and the high temperature in the south is also constant.

"Master."

After Shen Chen came over, he saluted Song Zhong first.

Seeing him coming, Song Zhong smiled and said, "Ah Chen, it's just in time, go and get that volume of "Taigong·Mou Pian·Shu Juan"."

The direction of the finger is a relatively distant scroll of bamboo slips, but only the general orientation.

Shen Chen carefully walked through the sea of ​​bamboo slips, came to that direction, searched around in the sea of ​​books, and finally found the volume of "Tai Gong".

The so-called "Taigong" is "Six Secret Teachings", and its full name is "Taigong Art of War".

Among the cultural relics unearthed in later generations, people only found 61 pieces of "Taigong", with a total of [-] characters.

However, "Taigong Art of War" was not lost in the Han Dynasty. There are a total of 237 articles, and each article has one to several volumes, with a total of more than [-] words.

So why was it so difficult to publish books in the Han Dynasty?

It is not only that the classics of a hundred schools of thought handed down in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods have not been lost, but also in the annotations of each school. From the Western Han Dynasty to the present 400 years, countless famous articles written by countless great Confucians.

In the age when there was no paper, doing so resulted in the publication of a large number of classics and tons of bamboo slips.

Each roll of bamboo slips does not occupy a large area when rolled up, but it takes up a large area when spread out, and they have to be turned over frequently, so it is very troublesome.

Shen Chen has helped Song Zhong publish the books in the past one and a half months, and the progress is close to completion. He has published tens of thousands of books in total, but this is only less than one-thousandth of the current classics.

It is said that during the heyday of Taixue and Hongdumen School, there were millions of volumes of books collected. The book publishing conference held every few years had to send thousands of Confucian scholars to participate in editing, inspection, and publishing of books. Books are reworked.

It is a pity that in the end Dong Zhuo caught fire, and except for Cai Yong and a few great scholars who took away some of them, most of the books were submerged in the flames of Luoyang.

"Master, we have been publishing books for more than a month. I already know the big and small seal characters. When will we teach?"

While helping Song Zhong with work, Shen Chen couldn't help asking.

Song Zhong said with a smile: "No hurry, no hurry, the basis of teaching is that you have to know which books these books are, so that you can read them well. After these books are finished, we can start the class."

"Oh."

Shen Chen responded, and then asked: "Then how many boxes of books do we have?"

Song Zhong said with a smile again: "It's coming soon."

"That's good."

Shen Chen felt relieved, and suddenly asked strangely: "Master, where is Mr. Zhongxuan? Why haven't you seen him these two days?"

Song Zhong said: "He went down the mountain."

"Did you go down the mountain?"

"Yeah, people have to visit relatives and friends."

"Oh, that's true, but didn't he help us post the books before?"

"Yes, now that someone has replaced him, we don't need him."

"Someone replaced him?"

Shen Chen suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter, raised his head from the sea of ​​books, widened his eyes, pointed at himself and said, "Sir, the person who will replace him may not be me."

Song Zhong nodded earnestly: "That's right, it's you. Wang Can is short in stature, so he can help lay out the books, and then turn them over after drying them. You are shorter than him, and you can walk in the cracks, so naturally you are more suitable than him." gone."

Shen Chen was numb at that time.

Who told him that Song Zhong was testing him?

Child labor is child labor, and it sounds so grandiose.

No wonder Song Zhong didn't teach him at all these days, he was using him like an animal.

(End of this chapter)