warring states careerist

Chapter 6 Reeds have roots, mulberries and berries
Seeing the crowd still surrounded, Shi felt that this was an opportunity to understand this era.

What is done on paper is superficial, and I know that this matter has to be done. What kind of era is it now?The history books only record the life and conspiracies of the nobles, but after all, the general trend of the world is based on food, clothing and housing.

He is neither noble, but also has that bag of seeds, this kind of understanding must be done.

The people next to him are still praising him, or thanking him, or want to ask some ghosts and gods.

In a closed village, it is difficult to see such a character.

Sitting on the ground, he spread his legs and leaned against the tree that made the field boundary, and said: "The weather is hot now, and summer heat is common. At this time, noble sons are mostly relying on the ice in the winter cellar to cool off, everyone. They are all poor people but they have to work. Today I will talk about a way to prevent the heat, and if you have relatives, friends or neighbors after you go back, you will also let them know."

Everyone thanked again and again, these people can only resign themselves to their fate when they are sick.Just now, I saw Shi's weird methods like killing pigs and dogs, and saw that the fainted man was really on the verge of waking up, so they all sat down and heard about it.

Shi Shi then talked about boiling water and adding salt, and some simple ways to deal with heatstroke, not asking why, but hoping to save a few more lives.

At this time, there is no tea and no thermos. Drinking boiled water seems to be a tradition in Zhuxia since ancient times that has not yet been popularized.Drinking boiled water is to prevent people from getting typhoid and other infectious diseases at this time, and adding salt is really to prevent death from heatstroke.

He took a stick, drew a small figure on the ground at random, and said, "When it's hot, you will sweat. Sweat has a salty taste, of course there is salt in it. Adding salt can speed up sweating, and the heat will dissipate." Do not add too much salt, just add two fingers of salt to a pot of water."

"Another one, after going back, mix plant ash with water, clarify and dry out another kind of salt, and you can add less in the clay pot. Everyone lives close to each other, so you can come here in turn. Today my house clears grass ash, tomorrow his house, take turns. In turn, they benefit from each other without delaying the daily farm work."

Simple way to keep sodium potassium electrolyte balance, not a problem.It is not a big mistake to use this way of taking turns to help and roughly explain the mutual benefit.

But Shi was not satisfied. What he wanted was to learn more about Mohist theories, linking such things as Ming Gui and Tian Zhi with these scientific explanations.

Here he is not ashamed to say that he is a Mohist, but he is not worried.

Even though the Mohists represent the lower class, they still go too high after all. It is unlikely that Mohists will pay attention to this kind of Jingtian village, and they are not afraid of being exposed in a short time.

Seeing the method just now, the people next to him didn't ask any more questions, but kept the little tricks Shi said firmly in their hearts.

And I can't help but feel that I'm getting closer to the Mohist who was extremely far away in the past. It doesn't seem to be that far away, but very close.

The little girl who was crying just now listened for a while, looked at her father who was gradually waking up, felt grateful, and quickly expressed her thanks.

Even though he was poor and had to rely on his brother and sister-in-law for a living, he was ambitious, and of course he would not turn this gratitude into a few catties of corn, the only thank-you gift that the farmers in the village community could offer.

Pretending to be chic and magnanimous, he waved his hand and said: "I said, there is no need for thanking gifts. Others regard corn, precious jade, and square foot cloth as treasures, so when others thank others, they also thank them for their own treasures. This is very good." But my Mohist regards righteousness as treasure, and does not regard precious jade and money as treasure."

"Xingyi, to my Mohists, is like a person who likes to eat and drink eats mutton and drank fermented glutinous rice; it's like a king gets a city...You thank us with what you think are treasures, we don't like it, Then why bother?"

The little girl was stunned for a moment, but she quickly understood Shi's meaning.

Thinking of how I liked to eat sour berries when I was a child, but other children liked to eat sweet fruits. I thought this berry was a good thing, but I didn't like it when I gave it to others.

Those who like acidic vinegar will regard acidic vinegar as the most beautiful taste in the world.But if those who don't like sour secretly add vinegar to his corn and rice, it would be a tease instead.

Thinking about what he said just now and loving the world, he suddenly raised his head and said: "Little brother of the Mo family, can you teach me the method of curing the disease just now?"

Shi Shi looked at this undersized little girl and asked with a smile, "Do you want to learn?"

The little girl nodded heavily and said: "Since the little brother is only doing some righteousness, I don't know what righteousness it is, but I feel that if someone faints from the heat in the future, using your means to save people is also your righteousness. Someone If you love Fang Zubu, you must thank you with money; my little brother loves righteousness, and if I want to thank you, I can only do righteousness."

Hearing this, Shi looked at the little girl curiously, and thought that it was really rare to hear such words in the fields.

The people next to him smacked this sentence, and slowly tasted it, thinking that the people of the Mo family are really strange, but the reasoning is indeed such a reasoning.Humans eat corn, but dogs love shit. If you give a dog corn, he may not be willing to eat it.

Shi didn't know what everyone was thinking, so he just looked up at the little girl again.

The little girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and she hadn't grown up yet. She was wearing simple linen single clothes, her nails were full of black mud, and the tear stains on her face were still gray and black. Only her eyes were very clear. redness.

The hair is tied into two braids at the top of the head, exposing the forehead, and the braids are only tied up a few times with linen cloth, which is extremely simple.

Goodbye, this little girl is generous, flustered and not flustered just now, she can bear to cry until her relatives wake up, and there is no tweaking under the etiquette of later generations. She is really a living person and not a piece of wood that can be traded for goods. I can't help feeling a little bit I fell in love with this era.

To be able to say such things must be extremely intelligent, but he has never seen anything in the world in the village community all day long.

After pondering for a while, Shi asked, "What's your name?"

"Aloe."

The name is unusual.

But if you are proficient in poetry and prose, you are Jian Jia.

Thinking that I will often come here to understand the situation in the future, or to prepare for the Mohism to take root in the grassroots in the future, this is a good starting point.

After a little hesitation, he nodded and said: "What you said is also reasonable. I will teach you some superficial methods in a few days. If you really want to learn it, you can learn it quickly. Don't learn it today. You go to take care of your father first." After returning home, I dug some reed roots, boiled them in an earthen pot and drank them..."

After thinking about it for a long time, I don't know if I can buy plaster to remove heat in the city. I can only think of reed root, and I can only leave it to fate.

Lu Hua wrote down the instructions carefully, thanked her again, and went to take care of her father under the tree.

The surrounding farmers who watched the excitement did not leave either, perhaps because they were curious that those Mohist people who sounded out of reach were by their side, or perhaps because they occasionally saw such a young man who was proficient in witch doctor skills, they were not too busy Go to work in the field, sit down and chat.

Just because he wanted to know the general situation at this time, he first told a few jokes, and then said some things about his daily toil, so he got the hang of it.

Form a circle and sit in the middle comfortably. There are no patients inside, and you are not afraid of being airtight.The closer you sit, the easier it is to talk about things you want to know.

If you don't know these basic things, it is impossible to talk about wanting to take root in this era, let alone those ambitions.

Fortunately, it is a joke to sit back and wait for the rabbit and pull the seedlings to encourage growth. These farmers in the Song Dynasty are not so stupid.

The question was appropriate and not tricky, and after a short while he had a general idea.

As farmers, it is spring planting and autumn harvesting that touch their hearts the most.

When asked how the harvest was, the farmers shook their heads and sighed, obviously very dissatisfied.

"The harvest can only be said to be good. Last year, one acre of land was removed from the seeds, and one stone could be harvested. There are seven people in the family and a hundred and twenty acres of land. There has been no war in the past few years. The Qiujia tax is temporarily confiscated, and only a tithe is paid. Life is good. It's okay."

One stone is a capacity, Shi Shi recalled, at this time one stone is a hectoliter.

One liter at this time is about [-] milliliters in later generations.

After careful calculation, it is a very scary fact. Planting corn and removing the seeds can only yield [-] to [-] catties per mu of land, which is almost three for one planting.

Taking a closer look at the surrounding land, I probably have a measure in my mind, and I have assessed the difficulty and technical level of planting the land at this time.

Judging from the length of the land, ox farming has not yet been popularized in the Song Dynasty, or it has not been popularized among small farmers.

The reason for the judgment is very simple. Whether it is the earlier well field system or for the convenience of management, most of the land is square at the current geometric level, so that it is easy to calculate the area of ​​the land.

One mu of land is generally a thin strip one step wide and one hundred steps long.Under the well field system, Chinese peasants are awarded one hundred acres of land per household, which happens to be a square with a length of one hundred steps and a width of one hundred steps, which is easy to see.

A step at this time is a step with each foot on the left and right, and only one foot is called a half step, so a step is about 1.2 meters three, and one mu is [-] square meters, which is equivalent to one-third of the future generations. mu.

Specifically quantified, six feet is one step.

Zhou people's ancestors mainly ate the kind of rhubarb rice that later generations can make yellow buns and sticky bean buns, so one grain of rhubarb rice is one point, ten grains are one inch, and ten inches are one foot.At this time, the ruler is also short, and the steps are only that long.

If you think about it for a while, you will know that cattle farming has not yet been popularized, because if cattle farming is popularized, the cattle will have to turn at a distance of a hundred steps, which is a waste of time. Take a break.

The increase in mu means that cattle and horse farming has become popular, and the old unit of measurement is no longer suitable for the new farming methods.

It wasn't that Shang Yang, decades later, decided 240 paces as one mu with a slap on his head, but that the ox pulled the plowshare to reclaim 240 paces just to the limit, and he needed to take a breather.

Everything comes from labor, and the essence of many things is the level of productivity at that time, or the embodiment of basic necessities of life.

Such as feet, such as acres.

But even if the mu is small, the yield per mu is not high.

The tithes mentioned by the peasants should be the initial tax per mu learned from the state of Lu.

This initial word is very well used.

Originally, there was no tax on the acres cultivated by the common people, only labor taxes.

It is the first of its kind, so the word Chu is used, which has the same meaning as Chu Ye's Chu.

Thinking of this, Shi asked again: "Now that you have paid the tithe, do you still use it to work on the public land? How will it be distributed if you join the army? Do the soldiers who drive have a small piece of land? You need to cultivate the soldiers who drive His land? How are the horses and oxen of the chariot expropriated?"

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