Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2

Zhao Feng patrolled around with the long sword on his shoulder, and now patrolling three times a day in the morning, noon and evening is already one of his main tasks.How many things can there be in ancient rural areas? Being a pavilion chief is nothing more than supervising spring plowing and autumn harvest, and maintaining local law and order.

Zhao Feng has been familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" since he was a child, and he also read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when he was in college.But he knows that the things in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cannot be fully believed. After meeting Liu Bei, he has a more intuitive understanding of the characteristics of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that are "seven parts true and three parts false".

There is no other reason, it's just that Zhang Fei is not like the leopard head with round eyes and bearded face as in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".On the contrary, Lao Zhang is actually a fair-skinned, very gentle-looking scholar, but his voice is relatively loud.What's even more amazing is that this Mr. Zhang's calligraphy and paintings of beautiful women are also very good.Now there is a shortage of manpower in the county, and most of the time it is he who volunteers to keep accounts and write documents.

"Old Luo, you fooled me so miserable!" Zhao Feng sighed while looking at the busy crowd in the field. Now it's the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it's about to plant wheat.Pingyuan County is located in what is now Dezhou, Shandong, and most of the crops are wheat.However, agricultural technology was not very developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the yield per mu was very low.Zhao Feng is from the 21st century. Although he has never farmed before, he still knows how to farm, so he thinks to make some contributions in this regard.After all, in this troubled world, more food would allow more people to survive.

"Old Man Wang, did everyone farm like this before?" Zhao Feng asked, stopping Old Man Wang who was working at the edge of the field.

"Yes, Mr. Zhao, what's wrong?" Old man Wang replied truthfully.He is Zhao Feng's landlord, and after getting along for a while, he also knows that this young pavilion chief is approachable and has no airs, so he answered honestly.

Zhao Feng pursed his lips and remained silent, but his heart was a little heavy: In the Eastern Han Dynasty, everyone's farming method was too simple: just turn the field a little before planting, then sprinkle the seeds in, and then just watch the sky for food.Few people do weeding, catching insects, watering, and fertilizing. In this way, the yield of wheat per mu is only about two to three hundred catties.

Zhao Feng had learned about the weights and measures of the Han Dynasty, and knew that a catty at this time was about 247 grams, which was less than half of the 500 grams of the later generations.In this way, even if the yield of wheat per mu is 75 kilograms, it is less than 1000 kilograms.Zhao Feng remembered that Fatty Zhang from the countryside once said that his family has about one and a half mu of land, and he can harvest about 4,5 catties of wheat every year. The yield per mu is about [-] or [-] times higher than that of old man Wang now.

"It's too exaggerated!" Zhao Feng exclaimed, even if there is no organic fertilizer and scientific farming, the difference should not be so far, and he should improve within the scope of his ability.

"Old man Wang, this kind of farming is a bit inappropriate. When I traveled around the world in the past, I saw an old farmer there farming in Xuzhou, and his yield was much higher than yours. How about this, I will teach you how to grow. As long as You do what I say, and I guarantee that the yield will increase a lot." Zhao Feng decided to go to the battle himself, even if he is not an expert in farming, it is still possible to improve.

"But according to your lord's orders." Old man Wang hurriedly cupped his hands.Just kidding, which farmer doesn't want to charge more food.

So in the next month or so, Zhao Feng taught dozens of households in his jurisdiction how to get rid of insects, how to weed, how to water.As for deep plowing, since this year's seeds have already been planted, we can only wait for next year.

Some problems were encountered during the implementation process. Everyone could understand Zhao Feng's weeding, watering, and catching insects, but they were a little unclear about his fertilization. The main reason was that Zhao Feng called them to use manure to make them difficult to understand. "Isn't this too dirty?" Old man Wang had a bitter face. Even if the rural people don't pay attention to hygiene, they don't like to pour feces on food.

"Everyone doesn't know this. In fact, this food, like us, is reincarnated. From rice flour to dung, it is the end of his life, so if he can return to the field, it will be of great benefit to the next year's planting. Yes." Zhao Feng didn't care whether the reasoning made sense, he just used Sun Monkey's theory in Journey to the West to fool everyone.

"Okay!" These honest bumpkins didn't know what to do, and finally decided to trust Zhao Feng for the time being.With this, it will be easier for everyone to accept Zhao Feng's appeal to everyone to use plant ash to fertilize the land.There is no other reason, it is also reincarnation.

In this way, autumn and winter come, and spring comes again, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.Zhao Feng knew that if there were no accidents, Lao Liu would be promoted to be Prime Minister Ping Yuan this year.The wheat is about to be harvested right now. I don't know if Liu Bei will bring himself with him when he becomes Prime Minister of Pingyuan.

In fact, Zhao Feng had carefully thought about how he would develop in troubled times. Now that he was serving as the head of a small pavilion under Liu Bei, Liu Bei still had a good image of him. As long as he followed him, he could always get ahead step by step. This is true of Yong and Sun Qian.But Zhao Feng also knows that Liu Bei's experience is really too bumpy. Now he is only in his 30s, and there are still more than 63 years before he dies at the age of 20. In the past 20 years, he has spent almost all of his life in displacement. To avenge his brother and fight Soochow Rush.Zhao Feng felt that if he followed Liu Bei's routine, it would be looking for abuse.

But if he didn't mix with Liu Bei, he would spend the rest of his life in Pingyuan County, and Zhao Feng would be a little unwilling. This would be a waste of his innate advantages as a time traveler.As for hegemony, Zhao Feng still has some self-aware reputation. Now that he is unknown and has no support from aristocratic families, and at the same time, the power of several major princes has initially formed, it is almost impossible to stand on his own.

It seems that we can only follow Liu Bei first. Through the observation of the past year, Zhao Feng found that this Liu Bei is more imaginary than the Liu Bei recorded in history. At least he is really good to the common people.Maybe this is nothing in the eyes of others, but Zhao Feng, who came from later generations, undoubtedly still attaches great importance to it, and the thought of putting people first has been deeply rooted in his mind.

"My lord, it's really useful. I've harvested 600 catties of wheat per acre now!" Zhao Feng, who was meditating, was interrupted by Old Man Wang's excited voice. When he recovered, it was Old Man Wang who had just weighed After finishing the wheat just harvested this year, I found that the yield had doubled compared to previous years, and I was immediately excited.

"Oh, hehe, that's great!" Zhao Feng was also quite excited. At this time, after weighing the other people, they also found that the grain production had indeed increased greatly, and they all came to express their gratitude.

Food is the most precious thing in troubled times, and news of a bumper harvest under Zhao Feng's rule quickly spread.Pingyuan County is not big, so the news reached Liu Bei, the deputy county magistrate, in a short time.

(End of this chapter)