A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 5 Development and Cattle Farming

The supplies needed for tens of thousands of people to eat, drink, and scatter are not a small amount. Coupled with the growing population, although there are still supplies in Huaiguo, they are not enough to support the next year's bumper harvest.

Zijue got the logistics card this time, so he took it out and used it.

[Using the logistics card, you can get supplies and food for [-] troops for seven months. 】

Seven months, although it did not reach the full value of one year, it was not bad.These seven months of grain and grass supplies, together with hunting and fishing and buying with Xu Guo or trading with other tribes in Huaiyi, can almost last until next year's grain harvest.

What's more, he still has three whiteboard prop cards in his hand, and these whiteboard prop cards can also be exchanged for food.

Zijue took out part of the grain and put it in the warehouse. In the next less than a year, he will hurry up to train the army, reclaim fertile land, and repair the city.

To re-establish the country in Huainan, everything has to start from scratch.Fortunately, Zijue now has a lot of talents under his command, who can help him share a lot of things.

In terms of military affairs, Zijue was handed over to Yi to deal with. As a soldier summoned with a reinforcement order, Yi's loyalty to him was as high as 90 and he would hardly betray him.Also familiar with battle formations, commanding the Huai country's army should not be too suitable.

Huai country now has an army of more than 1000 and [-] people. During this period of time, a large number of Yin and Shang survivors have come to defect, including some soldiers. Now in Huai country, the proportion of middle-aged men is very high, and there are almost no old people, women and children. Small number.

There is no way to do this, after all, most of the people who can escape are middle-aged men.Now Zijue has no good solution, so he can only do this for the time being, and he can only consider these things after he defeats the coalition forces of Bang and Zhou princes next year.

The current Huai country is not in their eyes at all, and even the Xu country next to them is not optimistic.Zijue intends to marry other Fang countries to gain support, but there are still many Fang countries in the land of Huaisi who are unwilling to surrender to Bang Zhou.

If Zijue can unite these Fangguo, he will have the capital to fight against Bangzhou.

If he can get married with Xu Guogong and get the support of Xu Guo, then Huai country will rise soon.You must know that Xu Guo's current strength can be ranked among the top three in the East, and he may even compete for the first place.

During this period, more than a dozen Fang countries from Huaiyi and Dongyi paid tribute to Xu State.Xu Guo is now regarded as the leader of the princes and alliance in the East.

Zijue handed over the military to Yi, the building of the city to Zhu, the workshops for making pottery and weapons to Li, the liaison tasks with other Huaiyi and Fang countries to Geng, the breeding of horses and livestock to Mu, and himself It is to control rewards, punishments, promotions and farming, and to have an overview of the overall situation.

Although this method is very crude and has many flaws, it is enough to manage a small city with [-] people.

Qi, Lu, Song, Tan, Ju and other vassal states did not take Zijue's self-established Fang Kingdom in Huainan.Tan Guo is busy trying to curry favor with Qi Guo, while Wei Ziqi of Song Guo is still tucking his tail, honestly daring not to go beyond the rules of etiquette.

Qi State and Lu State were busy digesting and destroying the harvest of Yan State and many other countries, but Ju State did not do anything.Interestingly, after Dazaidan and Taigongwang returned to Haojing, King Cheng made a marriage contract with Taigongwang's granddaughter.

The state of Qi suddenly became the state of the uncle. On the surface, Tai Gongwang seems to have overwhelmed Dazai Dan, but in fact it was the two of them trying to balance the power between the courts.This is also a political signal released by Dazai Dan, showing that he has no coveted heart for the throne.

King Cheng was young, but with Taigong Wang as his father-in-law, Dazai Dan could not abolish the king and stand on his own.This is also to stop the mouths of those secretly disobedient princes.After all, ever since Dazaidan was regent and acted on behalf of the king, there have been rumors that Dazaidan wanted to usurp the throne.

Now that Tai Gongwang has endorsed him, the pressure on Dazai Dan is much less.

Qi and Lu are digesting the spoils.Bangzhou's army has also returned. Without the deterrence of Bangzhou's army, only the army of the feudal princes is left, and the surrounding Fangguo is also a little bit ready to move.

Taigong Wang did not go to Qi State because he assisted King Cheng in Haojing, and the Lai Kingdom around Qi State felt that without Tai Gongwang, they could seize the land of Qi State and Yingqiu.This Yingqiu is the capital of the country established by Tai Gongwang, how could the Qi State give it up?Immediately led the army of Qi State to confront Lai State.

The soldiers of the State of Qi experienced the Battle of Muye and the second battle of destroying the Shang. All of them were elites. In addition, the generals commanded calmly. After a great battle, Qi won a big victory. Fled in a hurry.

Qi State began to build its capital in Yingqiu.

Time flies, in a blink of an eye, winter goes to spring, and a year has passed.

The city of Huai'an has also changed from its original humble appearance to a lot better. At least the original wooden fence has been replaced by a two-foot-high earthen wall.In the city, there are many houses row upon row. Over the past year, the survivors of the Shang Dynasty have been building houses on the city walls and reclaiming farmland.

In order to speed up the construction of the city, Zijue made a lot of simple machines himself. Lever and pulley blocks were widely used here, saving manpower and speeding up the progress of the project.

At the same time, in order to reclaim farmland, Zijue also exchanged a whiteboard prop card for [-] cattle.This era has begun to start from the original coupled farming method, which is usually a multi-person cooperation and uses human farming.

Zijue saw that the people of the country reclaimed farmland and used very simple tools such as Lei and Si. Lei and Si are tools for digging soil, similar to shovels, and a sharp bone or stone similar to a shovel is tied to the lower end of the wooden handle. There are also a few bronze products. There is a crossbar at the lower end of the stick as a foothold. This is Lei.

A semicircular sharp metal is installed at the lower end of the lei, which is the plow, which is equivalent to a plow.

One can imagine the efficiency of using this simple tool to reclaim and plant land.After reading it, Zijue immediately improved these tools, which should not be too simple for him.

As for ox plowing, although this era has not yet appeared, there are already ox carts. After some improvements, Zijue made a plow suitable for ox plowing, and then opened the era of ox plowing.The arrival of cattle farming and the improvement of bronze farm tools directly increased the efficiency of Huai country's farmland cultivation by ten times.As a result, Huaiguo reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of farmland with only a small amount of manpower.

After a year of development, Huai'an is now full of vitality, and at this time Huaiguo now has an army of 500 people.Except for the soldiers summoned by Zijue with a reinforcement order, most of the remaining soldiers were soldiers from the collapse of Yan Kingdom, and some were selected from among the people of the country.

Although an army of 500 is not many, it is already beyond the capacity of Huaiguo. If Zijue hadn't exchanged a lot of resources with whiteboard item cards, Huaiguo would not be able to sustain it at all.

As for the chariots, there are no more than a dozen in the entire Huai country.The waterways in Huaisi are not suitable for chariots, but chariots are also indispensable.

After being in power for nearly a year, Zijue has become more comfortable in handling government affairs, and because of the limited population and the well-organized government orders of the Huai Kingdom, the people and the army love him, and not many aristocrats have escaped because of the collapse of the Yin and Shang.Therefore, there are very few nobles in Huai country.

Over the past year, with more contact, the relationship between Huai State and Xu State has made great progress.Huai country can have such a big change this year, in addition to the hard work he led the people of the country, there is also a big reason for the support of Xu country.

Zijue bought a lot of tools, cloth, fur, salt, seeds and other materials from Xu Guo.

Because the city of Huai'an is close to Daze, although the surrounding farmland has only been reclaimed for the first year, but because of the abundant water source, the crop growth is still good.At the same time, Zijue taught Chinese people to compost. With the blessing of farmyard manure, this year's harvest is not bad.

After making friends with Xu Guo, Zijue sent people to Wu State in the south and Tan State and Qi State in the north.Let them collect information on Wu, Tan, Qi and other states.These states are the most threatening to the Huai Nation, and Zijue dare not be careless.

However, Zijue was a little surprised by the information he had collected, that the country of Wu was only enfeoffed as a viscount country.You must know that the founding king of Wu State was the two older brothers of Zhou Wenwang's father.

At that time, Ji Li's son, Ji Chang, was clever and early-witted, and he was very fond of Zhou Tai Wang. Zhou Tai Wang wanted to pass the throne to Ji Chang, but according to the tradition of the Zhou royal family, he could only pass the throne to his eldest son, and Zhou Tai Wang was depressed. , the eldest son Taibo and the second son Zhongyong fled to the south together after knowing what their father meant, and established the State of Wu.

Seriously speaking, the state of Wu is still kind to King Cheng, and it is also a state with the surname Ji.Even if he didn't give a Marquis, he should have been given the title of Earl, but in the end he was only given the title of Viscount, which is the same as that of Chu, which is regarded as a barbarian.This makes people have to think too much.

The relationship between the state of Wu and the royal family of Zhou is not as close as Zijue imagined.

In addition to Wu, Qi and Tan have decided to send troops to attack Huai after the autumn harvest.During this year, apart from farming, the Qi State was building the capital, Yingqiu, and building the Qi State. At the same time, it also contacted several other surrounding countries.

Because Qi has the right to conquer, it is now the head of the Eastern princes.Because Zijue defeated Zhou State by the Huai River, Qi State's first goal after gaining the right to conquer was Huai State.According to Qi State's idea, this so-called Huai State should be directly destroyed.

Qi State also knows something about Huai State. Although Tai Gongwang is not in Qi State, Qi State's current supervisor is not unskilled in military affairs.As early as a few months ago, he had come to investigate the reality of the Huai country. After knowing that there were only about ten thousand people in the Huai country, and only a thousand soldiers, he decided to fight a beautiful battle to destroy the country.

Qi State wanted to use the glorious victory of the demise of Huai State as a congratulatory gift for its leadership of the princes.Therefore, it attaches great importance to this crusade against the Huai country.

——The appearance of Niu Geng was a revolution in agriculture. It increased productivity, liberated the labor force, and promoted the progress of the times. It was a very critical step in human history, but it also intensified the struggle among human nations. "General History of the World·History of Asia·The Impact of Productivity on the Development of Human History"

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