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Chapter 128 Half-Year-Old Fleeing Disadvantages

chapter 128
Hearing that Shi interrupted the previous conversation and talked about the expectations of everyone in the village, Wei, who had already drunk a little wine, started talking.

"Shi, Mo Zhe took us from Shangqiu to Peiyi, and cultivated fields in the mulberry tree. It's very good. To be honest, I'm not dissatisfied, but I'm looking forward to two things."

Shi picked up the wine bowl to pay respects, and became interested, and asked: "Tell me, why don't you just talk about anything?"

Wei shook his head and said, "Our village is different from other villages. We have already experienced wheat harvest once, and we have heard too many legends about the paradise, so what we think may not be what other villages think."

Shi laughed loudly, took a sip of the wine and said, "In the end, you all think about the same thing. Which two things do you think about?"

Wei put down the chopsticks, pointed to one of them and said, "Iron."

Then he pointed to the other one and said, "Although the field is open now, there is no bamboo deed to write down the number of acres of each family's field. We have spent a lot of effort to open our own field, but this field If there is no deed, I will feel uneasy after all."

"Only these two things are what everyone in the village is looking forward to the most."

Shi smacked his lips, licked his upper lip unconsciously with the tip of his tongue, and said: "The matter of the ironware...may have to wait for a while. But soon, after the wheat is harvested and the summer seeds are planted, it should be possible to explain the benefits to everyone. .I thought you wanted seeds..."

Wei waved his hands in a gesture unique to drunk people: "We all do farming work for those new rice seeds. How can we not know? It will take a few years to plant them. There is no rush."

"It's ironware, we really want to have it. How much can we open in a day when we open the fields with bones and wood? You showed us the copperware before and said that the ironware is better than the copperware, and it's cheaper. Still strong...everyone is looking forward to this thing now."

"Since you can do it, why don't you tell everyone about the benefits of it now? How can everyone not go for the benefit?"

"I don't know about other villages, but if we really want to make ironware, people in our village will definitely bring dry food to do it."

Speaking of this, Wei thought of the plows used for plowing cattle and horses today.

To say that it is easy to use, it is really easy to use, and it is much more convenient than the previous tools, especially the kind of plow with a curved body, which can be pulled by a cow, and it is also very convenient to control.

It is much more convenient than the ones he has seen that require two oxen and a single shaft of a four-horse chariot to pull.

But the plowshares are made of hard wood or stone. I heard that there are more iron plows, and I can't help comparing with this imaginary object in my heart.

The people in the village community were all familiar with Shi, they had known each other two years ago, and they had heard the most from him, so they were all looking forward to those farm tools made of iron.

Although the clam shells, bones, and wood farming tools have always been like this, who wouldn't think of better ones when they think of those tools made by Shihe Mozhe?

When I was in Shangqiu, the wheat seeds were still shaken with stone hammers.

When we came here, the few columbine carts were first used by the village where Wei lived. They were really fast, but the small plow horns buried under the soil were made of wood and could easily break.

It was fine at the beginning, but after being soaked by the damp soil for a long time, it was far less sharp than before, and the ox and horse moved much slower.

Different from other villages, other villages are already satisfied with using some tools made by the Mozhe and starting to plant Sumai.

But Wei and the others had heard Shi said about more mysterious things. This kind of imagination-based idea of ​​wanting to be better made them attach great importance to the legendary iron farm tools.

After talking indistinctly with the strength of wine, Shi frowned and said, "I'm also anxious about this matter. I just have to wait until after planting this summer. How many people do you have in your village? How can it be possible? Let this matter become a The major events in Pei County can only be achieved if everyone cares about them."

"What we can rely on is you. With this amount of ink, this thing is impossible to do. Don't worry, it will be done soon. By the way, the village will open land this year. Is the planting okay?"

Speaking of this, Wei was a little elated.

Their village moved here from Shangqiu and divided a piece of wasteland in Niesang.

If corn is planted in spring as usual, the grass in those wastelands must be cleared, otherwise there will be no good harvest.

However, I chose to plant winter wheat, which is much simpler.

In autumn, most of the grass has finished its own life, and it is burnt clean and planted with wheat. In winter, when the wheat is tillering, the weeds will not grow again.

This year the weather was fine, and when the weeds began to turn green again in the heat of spring, the wheat had already grown so high that it covered the rest of the grass.

The mulberry fields are all high-quality fertile land, and there is a way to accumulate fermented manure. The manure is used intensively. It is estimated that one mu of land can produce three stones in the best piece of land in the village.

Mu is the Xiaozhou mu at this time, and the stone is also the Xiaozhou stone at this time, but the yield per mu has increased a lot compared to the previous planting technology.

Originally, wheat was only coarse grains, and even most of them were military rations or used to feed cattle and horses.

Before there was a mill, the bran of wheat made wheat far less attractive than corn and other crops. This is unimaginable for people who are used to eating pasta. For older people, it has always been like this.

In the past, Ji Ran set the price of grain in the official market for Goujian, and we can see some clues.

For A, millet, seventy shi; for B, millet, sixty shi; for C, red beans, fifty shi; for D, rice millet, forty shi;

For Vietnam alone, the best food is millet, yellow rice, and red beans.

The most inferior are wheat and soybeans.

At this time, there is also a saying that wheat, rice and bean soup are the food of sluts.

Lowly people eat wheat and soybeans, while rich people and nobles eat millet and rhubarb rice as the best food. If Zhou Tianzi entertained his officials, he would be ridiculed if he sold rice, but millet rice was in line with Zhou etiquette.

But as Shihe Mozhe promoted food such as mills, soy milk, tofu, and soybean oil, in places like Pei County, it was completely reversed.

Millet and yellow rice are already behind wheat and soybeans, not that they are expensive and wheat beans are cheap.

Although the land reclaimed last year has not yet been harvested, the wheat is ripe and firm, and someone has tried to bite the wheat grains.

It can be seen that if there is no rain this year, there will be a good harvest.Even if it rains, with the scientific method of stacking wheat stacks to prevent rain, as long as it doesn't rain for a month, the harvest will not be bad.

Wei and the others had tasted the taste of wheat flour food earlier. Although they were reluctant to part with the bran, it was better than millet and rhubarb rice mixed in, not to mention those weird eating methods.

The wheat will be harvested immediately, this year's wheat will be enough to last until next year, and with the addition of another season of soybeans, life will be much easier than before.

The fly in the ointment is that the seeds of black corn are not enough, otherwise, it would be best to plant black corn after wheat, and save the time of mowing grass outside to feed cows and horses in autumn.

Seeing Wei's eyebrows beaming, he asked, "What does the village community think about the Mohist asking everyone to grow soybeans?"

Wei spread his hands and said with a smile: "How else can I look at it? The head of the pavilion and the township have already said that it may not be able to catch up with the harvest. If anyone does not fear that the harvest will not be harvested, who will dare to plant? Besides, there is nothing wrong with planting beans. Alright, let’s not talk about buying it, but keep it to extract the oil and exchange it for tofu.”

Nowadays, there is no iron in Peidi, let alone an iron pot, which is a standard item for farming peoples. The way to eat soybean oil is really lacklustre, but it is also delicious when boiled and poured on various cooked and pickled vegetables.

Then I heard a sentence that seemed normal to Wei, but extremely mysterious to him.

"The best food that everyone is looking forward to these days is wheat cakes served with solidified, salted lard and mutton fat. With that kind of rice, I can eat two liters."

"The next thing is to heat up the soybean oil and fry the wheat flour food."

"I remember that when you were in the village, you liked to go to the river to catch crabs... In fact, the family with the least money and land only ate crabs, fish, and shellfish. They didn't have any oil, so they didn't taste good."

Holding up the wine bowl and laughing, he also understood the meaning of this.

Fat is the food with the highest calories, and things like crabs... really don't have much fat.From the perspective of energy output ratio, whether the energy consumed by catching crabs and eating crabs and the energy replenished is a problem is a problem.

Today's people can't eat any fat for a year. The best food is wheat flour cake with salted lard and mutton...

Wei put down the wine bowl he took a sip of and said with a smile: "Or someone in the village community said, you are a nobleman, otherwise how can you be willing to eat those things? You don't like a can of lard, but you take it with you. Liuzhi and the others went to catch crabs... and eat with mustard."

Talking about what happened a year and a half ago, both of them laughed.

Shi said: "So, there is no complaint about planting beans?"

Wei patted his chest and said, "Nothing! I originally thought that the best meal Mr. Song could eat would be corn rice with meat and fat. Later I realized that just tofu and wheat cakes fried in soybean oil would be enough. Comparable."

After answering his doubts, he finally couldn't help but said: "But now that the field has been opened, who owns this field? It's fine if you mohists are in charge of the distribution, but just in case...in case someone else's seal is acquired in the future Tian, ​​what shall we do?"

"Although no one has said anything about this, I know that if the production capacity of this field is fixed, everyone will work harder. We don't want to close the land if someone else does."

Shi Shi is still clear-headed, and he thought that this matter is coming soon, as long as the news of Chu people going north is certain, the Mohists will dare to do this, but it is not convenient to say it now.

After thinking about it for a while, he asked: "If now, the tax from the public land is allocated to the acres of each family's land, and then the public land is divided, and the original tax remains unchanged, will everyone oppose it? I just asked you, if you don't listen to me now, and don't consider your closeness to us, would everyone in the village have any objection?"

Wei glanced at Shi, couldn't help laughing and said: "Shi, although we don't know nine numbers as well as you, don't you always think that we are stupid? Can we not distinguish between such pros and cons? But if you don't do it, none of us will dare to do it." Do it? When the appointment was made in autumn last year, everyone was not familiar with Mohists, but now they can do it! No one is so stupid that they can’t tell the difference between good and bad. We don’t know nine numbers, but we are really not stupid.”

 For the matter of setting the price of grain, see "Wu Yue Chunqiu", "Yue Jue Shu" and so on.Ji Ran, based on the years of activity, should be Jin Qinggong's brothers of the same clan, but not from the same clan.His branch should be a son who fled during the 70-year civil strife in the Jin Kingdom. The nobles are sure, otherwise there would be no such culture.Later, when he traveled to Yue State, he accepted Fan Li as his disciple and passed on seven strategies for governing the country. Fan Li used five of them to destroy Wu.The matter of Ji Ran is also enough to prove that the millstone has not yet been used for grinding flour at this time, otherwise the price of wheat would not be so low, and four catties of wheat can be exchanged for one catty of millet...

  
 
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