A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 346 Agricultural Revolution—Continuous Cropping System
With the cooperation of the clan's descendants and the patrol censor, many local powerful men were captured and their homes were confiscated.Looking at the copper coins piled up in the yard, Wang Zhe had a deeper understanding of the powerful and wealthy people in these places.

The currency war started by Wang Ke involved dozens of companies, and millions of good coins were finally confiscated.

This money can just be used to exchange bad money in the hands of the people, successfully preventing a large number of people from going bankrupt due to bad money.

As for the bad money exchanged back, the court will not lose money. It only needs to add about [-]% of the bad money to recast it, and then it will become good money.

Besides, all this money was originally obtained by ransacking homes. Any more or less is just extra income.

Wang Ke's thunderbolt methods made the nobles and powerful men in the Daqian Dynasty much more honest.The next implementation of county school in counties is also a matter of course.

Especially after a large amount of money and materials were confiscated, the money used to establish the county school also became available.As a result, county schools in various states and counties also began to be established.

In the Daqian Academy, there is no requirement to only teach Legalism. In fact, there are various schools of thought, but some schools have developed and grown, while others have begun to decline.

Although the former emperor Luo did not like Confucianism, he did not ban Confucianism, but only deleted some things from Confucianism.

Of course, if you want to be an official in Daqian, you must study Legalism. After studying Legalism, you can also study other schools.Therefore, this also caused these students to interpret Legalism from different perspectives, and therefore various annotations appeared.

For example, Zhang Liang, who is currently inspecting the imperial censor, has learned Huang Lao's teachings and military strategism, and has repeatedly advised him to kill all the local powerful in one fell swoop. It can be said that he is brave, strategic, and talented.

The establishment of the county school gave a large number of ordinary people hope to get ahead, and at the same time it also introduced a lot of fresh blood into the school.

Loop.

Since Li Mu and Mengtian attacked the Xiongnu from the north, the land of Hetao was occupied by Daqian.Wang Luo established a military horse farm in Hetao.

The horse farm in Hetao can be said to be the most important horse farm in Daqian. Because of the climate and terrain and the good horses as stallions, the military horses here are much higher than other horse farms in Daqian.

In order to protect these horse farms, starting from Wang Luo, Daqian built a city and immigrated to Hetao. When Wang Ke came to power, they also immigrated to Hetao every year.

Now there are more than 20 people living in Hetao.

The Huns were naturally unwilling to let Dagan occupy the Hetao, so they launched several counterattacks. However, facing Dagan's city and powerful bows and crossbows, the Huns never succeeded.

Even after continuous supplementary support, Daqian has begun to try to launch an attack on the Xiongnu relying on Hetao.

Wang Ke has been accumulating strength and wants to completely defeat the Huns.But although Mao Dun died, the Huns were still very powerful.Daqian could only rely on city walls and pools for defense.

The Huns often took advantage of the rivers to freeze in winter, and then crossed the rivers to go south to plunder. These Huns also learned to be smart and no longer went south in large groups, but dispersed in small groups, which made it very difficult to defend the north.

The horse farm in Hetao was also often harassed by the Huns.

Wang Ke has been accumulating the number of war horses. He understands that if he wants to deal with the Huns, he must rely on war horses.As consumables, war horses suffered a lot of losses. Without hundreds of thousands of war horses, there would be no hope of competing for the grassland with the Huns.

It takes time to breed hundreds of thousands of war horses to supply you, and you also need a lot of food and fodder.War horses are completely different from ordinary horses. Ordinary horses eat grass and need to eat some beans to be better, but war horses not only need to eat a lot of beans but even eggs to supplement nutrition.

If you want to breed enough good horses, you must consume a lot of food.

Of course, Daqian also has cavalry weapons, saddles and horseshoes.The Huns will surely be given a big surprise by then.

"Father."

Wang Ke had just finished reading the letter from the servant when he heard his son Wang Ce asking for an audience outside the room, and immediately said: "Cer, come in!"

Young Master Ce opened the door and walked in. The child at that time had grown into a handsome young man. His appearance was also outstanding and handsome.

But now he looked very embarrassed, with a lot of dirt on his body, as if he had just come out of the farmland, but Gongzice didn't care about this, and his face was full of excitement.

Wang Ce walked into the house, first saluted Wang Ke, and then said with joy: "Father, just now my son and the farmer's children were harvesting grain in the fields, and they found that the grain yield this season has been more than one stone and seven buckets per mu! If we add last season’s grain, the fields here in Luoyang can produce about four shi of grain per acre per year!”

“The continuous planting method we tried to implement was successful!”

Over the years, the Wang family has never given up on improving their farming techniques. Back then, Zijue first invented the oxen plowing system, which advanced farming from human plowing to oxen plowing. He also invented manure technology and adopted rotational farming, which enabled the rapid rise of the Huai State. .

Later, iron smelting was successful, and farming tools were updated.New iron plows and iron-clad wooden plows replaced the bronze plows, further speeding up farming efficiency.Since then, the Wang family has been cooperating with farmers to cultivate high-yielding, drought-tolerant varieties.

During the northern expedition to Shanrong, Rong Shu was obtained. This kind of Shu has a shorter growth cycle than the previous Shu, has more fruits, and is more resistant to drought. After being cultivated, it has become more suitable for the environment here.

The yield of corn, the main food in the Central Plains, has also increased than before, and it is also more resistant to drought.

During the Zijuan period, the yield of corn was only one stone and five bushels per mu, but now, the yield of corn has reached about three stones per mu, which has been greatly improved.According to the current unit of measurement, one stone is 120 kilograms, and three stones is about [-] kilograms.

The use of manure, the cultivation of improved seeds, and the improvement of farming techniques have continued to increase food production.

Agriculture is the foundation of the world, so monarchs of all dynasties attach great importance to agriculture. After all, once there is a problem with agriculture, people will starve to death.

During the spring plowing period in Daqian every year, after the Qin Tianjian calculated the time, the emperor personally presided over the spring plowing ceremony, and personally led the cattle to cultivate with the queen.

This is the case every year. If the emperor is sick and unwell, he will be replaced by the prince. If the prince is young, then someone from the clan will be chosen to replace him.The reason for this is the emphasis on farming.

Farming is the foundation of the country. Only when farming is flourishing can the country have the energy to do other things. Only when food is sufficient can trade prosper and the country become rich and strong.

When Wang Ce said that the continuous planting method was successful, Wang Ke suddenly stood up with the same excitement and asked: "Take me over, I want to check it myself!"

(End of this chapter)