Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 51 Xiao Yuchi Vaccination Against Smallpox
Sun Xin was busy planting vaccinia for more than ten days at a stretch. After planting vaccinia for all the people who needed to grow beans here in Dengzhou City and Shili Pai, Sun Xin came to Dulonggang to Sanzhuang at the request of Taigong Hu. Those who were willing to be vaccinated were also inoculated with vaccinia, and some who were unwilling to be vaccinated had no choice.

After 20 days, almost all the people who wanted to be vaccinated in Dengzhou City or Dulonggang had been vaccinated, and there were only three or five people who came to him every day on Shili Pai to get vaccinated.

In the past 20 days, he has been vaccinated more than 2000 times, and the dried vaccinia powder to be used during the period was not enough, so Sun Xin had to plant vaccinia on the cow to other cattle in the village as a culture medium. These inoculations were completed only after a lot of vaccinia strains were obtained.

As for what Sun Xin is most worried about: These vaccinia strains that have not been inactivated at all will cause some people to have an overly strong immune response. Finally, after more than 2000 vaccinations, the statistics show that the most serious inoculation is just a fever. It took more than five days and he recovered. Sun Xin was glad that he really felt the greatness of the invention of Niu Dou. The vaccine with such a low lethality rate can be obtained from natural organisms, and the effect of epidemic prevention is the same. It’s so good, no wonder it was able to spread rapidly in Europe back then.

This round of smallpox in Denglai Second Mansion and Yishui is still slowly spreading, but no one has come to vaccinate. Sun Xin knows that at this time, people's ideas still need a process of acceptance for vaccinia, and there will be no use in promoting it by force. More people are willing to be vaccinated, and he has done his best for this round of smallpox, so he can only go back to Zhuangzi and continue to busy himself with his own affairs.

Everyone in Sunjiazhuang was inoculated with vaccinia, so although there was a lot of smallpox outside, there was not a single person in the village who was infected, and all production and life were still going on in an orderly manner.

Now is the slack season, the whole Dengzhou is covered with heavy snow, the wheat has also entered a dormant period, and there is not much farm work that can be done. Sun Xin took this opportunity to organize all the farmers to start repairing the fortifications in the entire village, leveling the land, and digging. canal.This is also thanks to the policy issued by Dengzhou City that the newly developed land does not have to pay taxes within three years, and the farmers Sun Xin recruited did not give them household registration. In addition, Sun Li helped manage the land in the city. So this year the city didn't ask these farmers to work in corvée, but next year Sun Xin estimated that his farm would not have so many laborers.

According to the rules, the government's annual corvee is estimated to take away half of the people I installed during the slack time. The only way is to build up my own village as much as possible. After my strength expands, I will bully others. Sometimes they don't dare to say anything if they have less money.

Sun Xin asked Hu Sanniang how corvée was served in Hu's Village on Dulonggang, and learned that although Hu's Village has tens of thousands of household registrations, the number of people who actually need to serve corvee each year is actually less than a thousand, accounting for one tenth of the village's labor force. Sun Xin was a little surprised when the remaining [-]% of the people could continue various production and life during the slack time.

This ratio is too low.

If you think about it carefully, rich local tyrants like Hu Taigong use various methods to avoid corvee, which is actually digging the foundation of the entire imperial court, because the corvee that is less in Dulonggang is not non-existent, but will be assigned to Jeju and Yuncheng counties Other small landowners and ordinary yeoman farmers.Reducing the burden of local tyrants has increased the pressure on these small farmers to serve.

Coming and going will only expand the power of those tyrants.But even though he knows the harm of this kind of behavior, Sun Xin also knows that this vicious cycle has formed in this time and space, and he has to join this camp. It will also be assigned to his Sun Family Village.

In any case, Sunjiazhuang, which was temporarily exempted from corvee, is still in full swing this winter. The farmers in the village ring the bell to go to work every day, and the women are organized to cook for the farmers who go out to work.

Sister Gu, who was helping Hu Sanniang prepare food in the kitchen early in the morning, watched Sun Xin running in and out arranging various tasks outside, and said curiously to Hu Sanniang: "How is Sun Xin's ability to manage the village better than your Hu family in Dulonggang?" ?
Hu Sanniang said not without complacency: "Sun Xin is much better than my brother, my brother doesn't do things so clearly."

"If you don't see my father, he will look at Sun Xin differently."

In the past few days, Taigong Hu has indeed sent people to Sun Family Village to contact him from time to time. Hu Sanniang has seen this matter, and she knows that although Taigong Hu of her family intends to pull Sun Xin out, the main reason is because she saw Sun Xin. human potential.

Hu Sanniang is also used to chatting with Elder Sister Gu in the Sun Family Manor these days, she thinks this girl is pretty good, she knows martial arts, and her personality suits her quite well, so she suddenly said:

"Why don't you just stay at our village, and see which farmer you like in our village, even the head of the village, I'll tell you one. interesting"

Sister Gu lowered her head while peeling the corn sticks, and said for a long time, "I don't like any of these men."

She changed the subject and said: "Is it true that Sun Xindao will receive more than three stones per mu of wheat in the coming year? I sound like bragging. It's just that no one has grown corn and peanuts before and the yield is high. , I have never heard of wheat harvesting three stones per mu."

This was heard by Sun Xin who came in, "Believe it or not, you will know after a few months when the grain is harvested."

"Bragging." Sister Gu said.

Hu Sanniang, who was busy in front of the stove, glanced at Sun Xin and asked, "Should we make some preparations in advance for your apprenticeship in two days?"

"There is nothing to prepare, just kowtow and toast a cup of tea."

Sister Gu couldn't help it, and said from the side: "Speaking of being so comfortable asking someone to kowtow to you, you really picked up a master's score."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "They want to learn skills from me. They came here sincerely. I accept them as apprentices and accept a few heads. This is a matter of etiquette and I don't want to take advantage of them. There is nothing uncomfortable about it. "

Originally, he only wanted to take Zou Yuan as an apprentice, but he didn't expect that the news spread for a few days, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao also approached Sun Xin and expressed that they also wanted to become Sun Xin's apprentice.

Sun Xin knew that these people were not necessarily following his subordinates specifically to learn some skills, but more importantly, he had a fancy to a person like himself, and he could use these people at ease by accepting them as apprentices under the current etiquette.

It happened that his subordinates were also in urgent need of help, so Sun Xin simply took the three apprentices in at once.

After a heavy snowfall, New Year's Day has passed in a blink of an eye. There is no new calendar in this era, and New Year's Day is the Spring Festival.

Everyone stayed at home on the first day of junior high school, and Sun Xin went to Dengzhou City to buy some firecrackers for the children in the village. After New Year’s Day, he went around to give gifts. As a matter of fact, it was difficult for the dealers to go to work during the Chinese New Year, so Sun Xin simply decided to accept apprentices on this day.

(End of this chapter)