Is this a godsend?

Yufang, as a country that is too close to the core area of ​​Shang, Yufang belongs to the loyal followers of Shang, especially in the construction of Lutai City in Mengjin, where thousands of soldiers were moved to become a city, and tens of thousands of After the savages and people from the northern Fangguo were forcibly moved here to become Zhulu (communities formed by every 25 households are called Lu, here is a home, not a household, pay attention to the distinction), Yu Fang became more loyal.

It's nothing, they are in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and Mengjin is above them. Excuse me, if you are not loyal enough, the King of Shang ordered that it take a few days for an army to go down the river and directly attack them?Xiangliu occupies the area south of the river and north of Jishui. There are many mountains here, which is the place where Xiangliu larvae like, and it is also the main land for agricultural production and grazing in Yufang.

It was about 20 to 30 days away from Modu, but because Zishou didn't bring too many troops, he arrived in Yufang's city a few days earlier with light travel.Zishou brought a total of about 1000 soldiers and 200 vehicles of various types. To deal with these monsters, the effect of using chariots is not very good, especially against things like Xiangliu who is hiding in the water.

It is entrenched in a small reservoir built by people from Yufang. The reservoir is connected to a tributary of Jishui. If there is a problem, it can quickly hide in Jishui and then go down the river.

Of course, this is indeed a good thing. After all, it doesn’t matter if you harm the Laiyi people, but Xiangliu’s thing holds grudges. Once he hides near the seaport and grows quickly through the return of fish and a large amount of water, then it will not be like this in the future. Something that can be easily disposed of.

The princes from various countries in Yufang came to meet in front of Zishou's chariot, gave gifts and tributes, and then began to cry about the Xiangliu's destruction of fields, villages and forests, and pollution of water sources. A patient of minor poisoning and acid burns.

Not only that, but it also destroyed a small city and devoured the people in the city. Just like the way it came, traces of being destroyed by the acid sprayed by Xiangliu could be seen from time to time along the way.

"Your Majesty!" Where the carriage passed by, groups of wounded soldiers bowed down one after another, with miserable expressions on their faces, and after seeing the number of people brought by Zishou, their expressions became even more sad stand up.

After entering the city, Zishou occupied the original patriarch's mansion, and a maid brought food. Because Xiang Liu destroyed several warehouses, the acid sprayed by him made the food impossible to eat, so even if he tried his best , and only one bean yellow rice and thinly sliced ​​bacon.

Well, it is already a very good food in this era, and most Chinese people can only eat this kind of food during the busy farming season.

Zishou is about to get used to the poor food of this era. However, to be honest, the sweetness of millet rice is indeed higher than that of rice. Regardless of the sad output, it does taste slightly better, but it is very delicious trouble.

Regardless of whether it is a peasant family or an aristocratic family, the head of the house needs to get up in the middle of the night to light the fire and cook. At the fourth watch, the rice is cooked (ceramic pots heat slowly). Put it into the container, pour wild vegetable soup, that is breakfast, and the farmers will go to work after eating at this time.

The freshly made millet rice will be very hot and highly viscous, so it must be cooled before it can be eaten. This is why in peasant families in the Qin and Han Dynasties, women generally had to get up in the middle of the night to cook.

Of course, after a large number of crops such as corn, rice, and wheat beans began to be planted in the later period, the situation improved. At least these things are not as difficult to cook as millet, nor are they so hot.

After finishing the one-bean rice in two strokes, another person brought a cooked and air-dried pork leg, cut it open with a knife, dipped it in leek sauce and ate it, and Zishou felt something in his stomach.

"Tell me, what did this Xiangliu do? And where is he hiding?" Zishou leaned on the sword, and the Xiaolian sword spirit did not appear. The main reason is that if the sword spirit mode is turned on, one's own defense ability will be improved. The same goes for Excalibur's body protection ability, so when he is away from home, he generally does not turn on the sword spirit mode.

Moreover, Xiaolian itself also needs to accumulate energy to deal with the upcoming battle. The sword spirit mode does not consume too much energy, but it will continue to occupy part of the mind and spirit, and Xiangliu is not an ordinary enemy. A small difference is enough to affect the entire battle situation.

"The monster called Xiangliu by the people of Chu came from Chu in autumn. It destroyed the embankment along the river, and then sprayed yellow water. The water was so pungent that the grass and trees it touched withered and even the land turned pale. It stinks unbearably." Yufang people began to tell about the monster intermittently.

"The monarch sent soldiers to destroy it, but many people died. They just drove it into the lake. The witch priest cast spells, but it didn't work. It couldn't trap it."

"Someone proposed to dig a hole, stabbed the monster with a spear, but was injured by the black water, and left after lying on the bed for a day." The nobles also talked about the things from autumn to the present one after another.

The speed of information transmission in this era is extremely slow. It was already winter when Zishou heard about this in Modu, and it was already January when he arrived here. The next has been struggling for four months.

And the current Xiangliu is also much bigger than the information. I heard that when he moves, his shoulder height is more than 10 feet (about 25 meters), and his tail is winding and dragging nearly fifty feet (110 meters). The tail is thin, and when the eight heads are put together, it looks like a gourd placed upside down. Each head is like a poisonous snake, without eyes, but it can spray acid and poisonous mist.

This monster hid in the reservoir outside the city, came out every now and then to attack human villages and towns, and plundered livestock. Like ulcers on the ground.

"Does this thing have any natural enemies? I mean, what can it do against it? Other than fire?"

"No..." Yu Fang's witch priest shook his head. He has never heard of any strange beasts or aliens that can restrain this kind of monster. Of course, the exception is the one that can breathe fire. After all, it is fire that restrains Xiangliu, not aliens. the beast itself.

"Well, is it just a weak fire?" Zishou thought for a while, "Well, anyway, it's better to force this thing out of the water first, and..."

"Is there any lime around here?"

"Yes." Lime is very common in the first generation of hills in the Yellow River Basin at this time.

"Get lime, and then build a dam upstream, cut off the running water, throw lime to boil it!" This was also the plan Dayu adopted at the beginning, using a large amount of lime to boil water, so Xiang Liu was forced to break through the dam and flee downwards. In the end, they fled to the Liangzhu area and were completely blocked and besieged.

"It's useless my lord, we've tried it, and Xiang Liu won't be fooled anymore."

"What I want is that it won't be fooled." After it senses human intentions, it will run away along the water, or directly crash into human dams and embankments, causing serious floods, but what I want is that it will take the initiative to come. hit.

Because I never thought about using a torch or something to dry this thing, but I was going to stab him to death with the maximum power of Xiao Lian. As for lying down for half a month, it doesn't matter, I didn't see how many soldiers he brought. , Modu's reliable aliens, or according to this era, "Witch Ji" brought a lot?

Witches are not necessarily aliens, but aliens are basically witches, except for wild ones.

Witchcraft also includes human beings who do not have any strange arts, but have mastered the rituals of sacrifice, and also include humans who have learned strange arts. The amazing thing is that some strange arts can be learned, which is the so-called witchcraft, and there are also people who use dance to seduce the gods. Although Zishou couldn't understand this kind of thing, it was a bit weird that it was really useful.

However, the sorcery and séance that can be learned are generally very weak. The former is at most the level of praying for rain. Note that it is praying for rain rather than clothing rain. That is to say, rain can only be obtained when the raining conditions are met , instead of a cloudless clear sky it started to rain.

The latter is slightly stronger, and can read the short-term memory of a piece of land. Since information can be infused into artifacts, it is normal that the memories left in the soil, rocks, and trees can be read by a witch who has mastered the spirit descending technique.

By reading this information, they can have the same ability as foretelling in the eyes of others, knowing where there are harmful beasts, where there are herbs, where there are ores, etc. At the same time, it seems that they can also use this method to a certain extent Get slight supernatural effects, such as clairvoyance, wind ears, etc.

It's a pity that only a real witch who has mastered spells can do it. Not to mention, it consumes a lot of money. Basically, it is not popular and practical. It is only used for divination to assist in large-scale sacrifices and national sacrifices. A witch I can't sustain such a spell two or three times in my life.

And the abilities of aliens and alien beasts are generally not very powerful. Of course, the powerful ones are still very strong. For example, Xiangliu can also be regarded as a kind of alien beast, but compared to the magic weapon in their hands. , it appears weak.

It's probably like the difference between Zishou and Xiaolian. Zishou is considered a monster among human beings, but if you really want to compare it with someone who can hold Xiaolian, it's probably to the extent that he will be gone with a single blow. It is also the reason why the Three Swords should be kept by one's side instead of enshrined in the ancestral temple in the name of disrespecting the ancestors.

As for how the magic weapon came from, why some aliens have it, some don't, and some alien beasts even have magic weapon, no one can give Zishou a definite answer.

As far as what he discovered, some were picked up, some were obtained in the caves of the predecessors, some ordinary utensils became magic weapons after a long time of use, some more nonsense grew from himself, and some were obtained from other people's caves. It grew out of a strange beast.

The power of magic weapons is far stronger than that of different spells, even the weakest magic weapons. For example, the five-color stone in Dumbledore's hand is the weakest level of magic weapons. Here comes Gatling's special effects.

And let's take another example of the magic weapon of the Great White Fox, her current ability is fully activated, and the nine-tailed posture is just to control ordinary beasts, even the slightly bigger ones can't control a few, and can only be induced to a certain extent.

However, if she holds the demon-calling banner of the Nvjiao empress, then all the strange beasts in the world can be summoned to come and go, and she can deprive her of her mind at any time and use it as a tool demon.

It is said that when Dayu dug mountains into rivers and diverted water to release floods, his wife used this method to summon all kinds of powerful beasts as slaves to complete the project.

Similarly, the large dams and cities on Liangzhu's side to deal with Xiangliu were completed in this way, and a large number of strange beasts were recruited to assist them. Unfortunately, with the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, this magic weapon was transferred from the Tushan clan to the Xiahou clan. hand.

When it came to Hou Yi (not the one who shot the sun, the king of the Xia Dynasty), he didn’t know where he went. It is said that he was hidden by loyal courtiers to avoid being found by rebels. Now it’s the end of the Shang Dynasty. This thing No one really knows where he went.

However, magic weapon follows three basic principles.

The first principle is that the stronger the power, the greater the consumption. Either the user is a powerful alien, or it can only be recharged in the way of sacrifice in the ancestral temple where it is enshrined;

The second principle is that the longer it is used, the power will gradually grow. Therefore, most of the time, the older the magic weapon, the greater its power;

The more the third principle is used by a powerful person with supernatural powers, the more the characteristics of the magic weapon are biased towards him.

The above is the experience of the three principles of magic weapons summarized by Zishou. This is also the reason why he believed that there are no strange powers and gods in this world at the beginning, because there are not many magic weapons, and everyone cherishes them. powerful.

Of course, another reason is that every time he fights, he brings the three swords to the scene. In fact, he has been bombed by many magic weapons, but they are all blocked by the magic sword. As a result, the whole battle process Very ordinary.

If he doesn't go, and there aren't many witch priests called in the army, and there are no other nobles who hold magic weapons or artifacts to lead troops, then the scene will be more inclined to the style of the Gods List.

It's still the two armies facing each other, or the general charging, but if you can't beat it, you will take out the magic weapon and throw it away. monster.

The only way for mortals to use the magic weapon is to sacrifice it at ordinary times, feed it with the life of slaves, and then use it in key battles. For example, the witch sacrifice nobles brought out by Zishou this time have an average of three people There is something that can barely be called a magic weapon on the frame of the car, because this battle is very critical.

But the magic weapon in the hands of Yiren is polarized, either there is no such thing as Su Bing, or there is a strong group of wealthy second generations like Guang Chengzi, in short, or they are so weak that they can only be with humans. Mixed, or strong enough to be enshrined.

The same is true for aliens and aliens in the wild, either they can’t realize how strong the things in their hands are at all, or they think that they can live well alone, so they don’t need to bow down to humans. There is no magic weapon, and the ability is also very weak. If you want to mix with humans, you don't want to mix with humans. If you want to mix with other strange beasts or aliens, you are afraid of being eaten.

For example...

"Die Xian, this is good!" Zishou pointed to the dancing Die Xian and praised him loudly, and the servants also praised loudly, and the soldiers and nobles in the team also stared intently, "Yu Fang has such a Good things, why not pay tribute?"

"This... the butterfly fairy is not cold-resistant, so it can only be found in the southern Wuyue land. Thanks to the king's coal stove, there is a butterfly fairy. This is auspicious and auspicious."

"Well, when you leave, pack a few for me."

"But... Your Majesty, this is not useful!" In this era, everyone is a pure man, and they can understand what the king of sex means when they hear it, but Diexian really can't be used.

"Oh?" Zishou stroked his chin.

These butterfly fairies seem to be morpho butterflies. To put it simply, their wings are gorgeous and shining. They are indeed southern butterfly species. There is almost only a thin layer of pink gauze on their bodies. Basically, they can be seen vaguely, and their skin is white and tender. , the violet eyes are very beautiful, and the figure is well-proportioned and slim, which is a standard normal girlish figure.

When dancing, wave your hands to bring up the sparkling crystal powder, which is so beautiful that it really deserves to be called "Butterfly Fairy" instead of "Butterfly Spirit".

But... they are generally only a little taller than an adult's forearm, and the ones with greener insides are even slightly bigger than Zishou's slap.

"Hey, when did I say that it's used that way? This kind of usage also has this kind of usage!" So the thinking of the nobles really went in a more perverted direction.

Yufang people looked at Zishou and the nobles around him who looked like they were taking it for granted, and at the laughing Die Xian who came down after dancing in eight rows (eight beautiful dances in the court, the emperor's enjoyment), and suddenly felt that they were sitting The inside of the palace of his own family is like being in someone else's house - because he is not perverted enough, he is incompatible with these Shangdu people.

However, Zishou really didn't think about it this time. Although this kind of monster girl also has a unique usage of this monster girl, what he really thinks about is the normal usage. Butterflies are also creatures that can weave silk and weave cocoons , and the butterfly fairy should also have this ability, or it is their larva or cub before transformation.

And the size of a butterfly fairy, the silk cocoon is probably as big as an adult's fist, one can hold dozens of silkworm cocoons, how many silks will it take to draw.Both silkworms and butterflies are of the order Lepidoptera, so they should be able to draw the same silk, right?

In this way, Zishou can get very good textiles, and he doesn’t have to endure the rough linen anymore. No matter how beautiful the beauties are, they need corresponding clothing to enhance their color~

[PS]

The allusion that it seems to be fried and not fried:

Eight beautiful dances in the court:

It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Qin ruled the country with the laws of the Shang Dynasty. He did not respect the rituals of Zhou, but openly enjoyed the etiquette of the emperor. He let eight dancers dance in the palace. Tolerable or unbearable? ——If you can bear this, what else can you not bear?

However, the Dukes of the Lu State did not take it seriously. Facts have proved that not only can they tolerate this, but even the king of Qin can tolerate it if he no longer courts Zhou, so Confucius resigned angrily and traveled around the world.

On the murals discovered in modern times, there is a very complete picture of the eight pretty dances in the court in the Qin Dynasty. The dancers are wearing beautiful silk clothes, with slender figures and exaggerated bows on their backs. Exaggerated processing for the feeling of floating, this kind of painting technique is very common in the tombs of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

While the body proportions of the dancing girl are complete, but the overall proportion is out of balance compared with the King Qin and others who are watching. This is also considered to highlight the greatness of the main King Qin and the ministers.

This kind of painting technique is often seen in ancient Egyptian murals, and it is an exaggerated expression technique commonly used by the ancients.

Chapter 31 Juppifari

Butterflies have many wonderful uses. In addition to that level of use, they can pollinate plants and collect pollen to make honey, just like bees. Can it be the same! (shock!)

And it only needs the nectar and sap of plants to live. Unfortunately, because of its size, it needs to eat a lot of tree sap.

And Diexian also spins silk to make silk cocoons to wrap the cubs and turn them into butterflies. However, did Zishou find that there are males or males in it, or that both males and females of Diexian look the same?At least on the outside, they all look like normal girls. They have everything they should have, and if they don't, they don't know if they have it.

And the process of abducting the butterfly fairy is also very simple, all you need to do is take out Qionghua's nectar, so before Xiangliu hits, there are more than a dozen chirping butterfly fairy in Zishou's frame, and the butterfly fairy's voice It's like a little girl with the same voice, with a milky smell, but her figure is like an adult. I haven't seen Luoli Zishou in this era, but I have seen it.

The personality is also very similar to that of a child, who likes sweets and chatters about whether Zishou is a black bear spirit. He also likes to fly around, dance, and sing. He doesn't like weapons and fighting very much. His combat power is basically 0, which leads to Generally unpopular in barbarian lands.

In the group of aliens, they basically belong to the kind that can’t get along. As for whether there is reproductive isolation, I don’t know. Zishou thinks there should be, because of that size, unless they don’t have internal organs or are as flexible as rubber. , otherwise, it would definitely not be possible to intermarry with humans.

The frame headed towards the reservoir where Xiang Liu was hiding. This reservoir was the so-called "Puyu", that is, fish farming in ponds. Historically, it was the privilege of nobles in the pre-Qin period. Afterwards, in the south where the water system is rich, large-scale pond enclosing began quickly, and Zishou also let people plow the pond to plant land, and quickly passed it to Chudi.

In the area of ​​Hebei and Henan, this technology is not popular, and its harm is also very low. After all, fertile soil is the most indispensable thing for flooding the plains. This technology mainly adds obstacles to Laiyi.

The main water source of Laiyi comes from the tributaries of Jishui and several tributaries. If you look carefully at the hydrology of the Shandong Peninsula at this time, you will find that the upper reaches are generally lakes and tributaries of Jishui.

And the polder pond technology is put here, destroying the lake and water storage capacity, guess who will pay for it?When there is a flood, it must not be washed upstream, right~

However, the problem is that there are many swampy and mountainous areas in Chu, and they must cultivate land in large-scale polders, and the destroyed wetlands and water and soil... Everyone knows what the end of wanton polder farming will be. When modern China pays the bill, But those who were dumbfounded at that astronomical figure, this is still a modern industrialized country, what would the barbarians of Chu land look like in this era~.

Although their destructive power is very low, their resistance to attack is also low. Therefore, after seeing Yu Fang as a southern barrier destroyed like this, Zi Shou basically didn't use his brain. The idea of ​​cursing for more than 1000 years came out—of course, the premise is that the scourge of the Chu barbarians still has descendants.

And among the initial beneficiaries of the Weitang technology, Shang is also. Shang can exchange various commodities and handmade products for rice in Chudi. Zishou even ordered Chudi to pay tribute to Jiahe (rice) The male members, all the way to the south, to the current Vietnamese generation, have only one order, and that is to collect all the seeds of rice plants that they see.

The technology of modern three-line hybrid rice is too difficult, at least in this era, it is basically not feasible. However, it is much easier to breed a relatively high-yield ancient version of hybrid rice. Typical examples are Champa and Champa The hybridization of Central Plains rice has been used for hundreds of years.

The starting point of crops in this era is low, and it is relatively easy to increase the yield. However, in a few thousand years, it will basically have to be done with serious agricultural science methods.

Because the crossbreeding in this era is really ordinary crossbreeding, and it has not yet reached the point where two-line breeding needs to be completed with sterile lines and restorer lines. Of course, even so, it is not impossible to complete in this era, because the work of crossbreeding is really It just consumes manpower and time.

What's more, in this era, there are still many unknown rice seeds that will become extinct in later generations. It is the easiest era to really engage in hybrid rice technology. However, only rice seeds are not enough, because it needs to be produced every year, and there are requirements for water and fertilizer. The height is terribly high, and sea rice, which needs genetic engineering, can't be done.

Therefore, the purpose of Zishou is only to improve the yield of rice in this era from the dog's tail level to the combat effectiveness of around the Song Dynasty. It can be done with primitive breeding and domestication methods, simple hybridization, and a little luck.

Rice can be double-cropped and triple-cropped in a year in Chu, and at the same time, it is intensive cultivation that consumes a lot of manpower, which is very helpful for consuming Chu's manpower and fattening them.

Perhaps other nobles at this time could not understand why the planting technology developed by the king "painstakingly" was rewarded to barbarians like Huaiyi and Chudi, but Zishou was understandable.

Will their power increase?meeting!However, if they don't get rich, what will the merchant army go south to grab?

Moreover, this technique requires a lot of water, fertilizer and manpower. As long as a policy of regular harvesting is formulated, Chu land will become a steady stream of financial resources.

Moreover, why would a farmer, who can get enough to eat by farming, lay down his fields and become a robber?At that time, it will be a great benefit to subdue Chu land as a source of income for big merchants!

As for the difficulty of developing the South, didn't some barbarians go there on their own initiative?

After they manage the swamps and forests into clean rice fields, the merchant army will run over them and reap the profits directly, wouldn't it?

The Puyu House is a straw shed, surrounded by grass-wrapped earth bricks on one side of the reservoir, and water is drawn in, presenting a structure like a terraced field, like fish scale ponds. This is why Puyu is the exclusive privilege of the nobles, because apart from the nobles, Ordinary people don't have the ability to organize manpower and material resources to build such an ancient wonder.

It is normal for Xiang Liu to hide here, he can get a lot of food, and for Yu Fang, this is the reason why he is so anxious, their fields have been almost destroyed, and a few granaries have been sent. Fish is the difference between whether they beg for food or eat next year.

On the edge of the pond, soldiers and savages held torches and lighted long sticks, uttered strange shouts, and waved them over the water to frighten Xiangliu and prevent him from climbing up.

However, sometimes manpower is exhausted, and Zi Shou saw that when they were exhausted, a black tentacle-like thing jumped out of the water and swept across the edge of the pond, not only destroying the pond, allowing fish to enter the reservoir, but also causing Several people entered the water, and soon a cloud of red smoke rose from the surface of the water. Obviously, all those who fell into the water died.

"Throw lime!" The little noble in charge of guarding the fish pond called his retainers to lead people to fill the gap with mud, and at the same time threw lime into the water. Lime can drive Xiangliu away. This is the experience passed down by Dayu, and Zishou listened to Xiaolian. In other words, salt or concentrated brine also has the same function, so Xiangliu will not enter the sea to live, but will rapidly shrink in size due to osmotic pressure, and become like a black reef.

However, Xiangliu, who is completely old, will follow the river to the east, destroying human cities, water villages, and dams along the way, and finally enter the sea, and slowly turn into a huge reef by the sea.

The savages of Dongyi called these reefs "Zhishi" because once the jiaoshi powder was put into a basin filled with clean water, an extremely spicy and weakly corrosive liquid would be obtained, which was used to punish sinners or as a processing tool.

Of course, Zishou knows why, because when some acids corrode metals, they will form an anti-oxidation film on the surface, preventing contact with oxygen and water vapor, thereby avoiding rust. For people living by the sea, this skill is almost a necessity .

"Then there is one more reason to conquer Dongyi. If it weren't for the fact that this thing is too fierce and cannot be raised..." Zishou wanted to raise Xiangliu very much. It is used to obtain acid to make stainless steel, so it is difficult to promote ironware. It went down a notch again.

"Continue to throw lime and stones, catch it up!" Zi was commanded by soldiers to join the ranks of throwing limes and stones. Lime blocks were thrown into the water, while Zishou stood on the dam that Xiangliu had to pass through, holding Xiaolian with one hand and Chengying with the other, looking like a two-swordsman.