Is this a godsend?

Especially when Zishou mobilized a lot of manpower to fight. Of course, this is also thanks to his harm to the surrounding barbarians, which made it difficult for them to maintain their normal agricultural life, and they had to come to rob during spring plowing.

In addition to robbing, there were also some who came to grab water and fight. Therefore, when the black smoke billowed in Dongyi, the business situation was not much better. It can only be said that the other party has not learned to accept that kind of wicked way of fighting, resulting in the seemingly Miserable, in fact the situation is much better, after all, these barbarians dare not burn fields and food.

"Crush them!" Without being greeted, the merchant army who had just won the battle rushed over with a grinning grin, and the Dongyi barbarians who had been coerced back happily followed behind and buried their heads in the charge.

It only took about ten minutes, and the young and strong of this small tribe outside the village turned into corpses on the ground. This time, Zishou did not keep any captives, but chose to kill them all. If you are kind on the battlefield in this era, The surrounding barbarians will not be grateful, they will only think you are a bully.

As for women and children, in this era, they are just accessories, and they are directly distributed to those Dongyi people who came back with them, and then they find a place to settle down and order them to fish for a living and not to farm. Of course, there are no ready-made ones. They can't cultivate the land, and they might die of starvation if they open up wasteland.

On the contrary, paddling a canoe and fishing in the dam built by Shang is an ideal way of life, and fishing on King Shang’s territory also has a price. They need to pay a certain amount of fish maw and fish skin every year. , in addition, you also need to pay dried fish as a tribute.

All the way back to Modu, by the way, I also said hello to other merchants who were frantically driving people and cars back and forth on their own territory, ah, literally cars came and went, chariots rushed over, and rushed past.

Give them a share of the spoils that are inconvenient to continue to carry, and treat them as rewards. After that, the little nobles will take their own parts and continue to go to the barbarians who dared to run wild, and supervise the summer harvest by the way.

Now that the victory is back, after gradually completing the summer harvest and suppressing the barbarians who smuggle in while the army is out, it will be a time for happy sacrifices, and even more joyful Y grilling during the sacrifices.

And at this time, it is time to take out good products such as tofu. Someone asked, the soldiers of the whole division and their families need 100 stone mills to eat half a catty of tofu every day-although every 30 families share one Grinding is not difficult, but is it the fucking problem of grinding?

Not to mention how many catties of soybeans are needed for a catty of tofu, the fuel for cooking soy milk is also a worrying thing. Except for Shang Wang, who the hell can eat it every day, and eat half a catty a day like a meal, or the whole family People and women eat together!

You can stand it, but the beans in your field can't stand it!Of course, every now and then, I take out a dozen tooth offerings, especially when the military rations are tired, eat it as a side dish, and only the head of the family and the eldest son can eat it. Scum—half a catty or even a catty per person per day, what kind of life is this! ?

Since it is a happy celebration banquet, it is natural to take out all the good things obtained this time as sacrifices, and then share the sacrifices and eat them after the sacrifice.The people of the country eat all kinds of fish, and the internal organs are thrown to the savages in Modu and the attached barbarian chiefs, while the minor nobles eat pork, the princes eat mutton, and as for Zishou, he eats beef.

To be precise, it is the Shang Dynasty version of mapo tofu made with minced beef and tofu. Its extravagance, even with such a big victory and harvest, makes the corners of Jizi's eyes twitch. Tofu, which can improve food every now and then, is the cheapest ingredient.

Chudi’s tribute spices, Badi’s tribute seasonings, fresh dried kelp powder, dogwood and Qin pepper provided as spicy flavors, plus fresh beef, half-bean tallow (oil), and top-quality beef tenderloin , coupled with an iron pot, sifted N times of fine starch to thicken, and finally formed this dish of heavenly dishes that only Zishou can eat.

Even the queen can only eat the noodle cakes that are left over from the bottom of the pot after finishing. I can't smell it, I can only watch Zishou eat it.

Of course, this dish was made by Zi Shou, and he didn’t intend to promote it. It requires too much fat, so it cannot be promoted. Other than that, it is the normal deboned mutton, beef, stewed mutton and scorpion, plus Things like mutton bone soup can be eaten by the nobles of this era.

And Zishou also took this opportunity to observe what people in this era eat, it was difficult to notice this before, this time because there are many adherents and savages gathered, so he can take the opportunity to see what they eat .

What did ordinary farmers in the Shang Dynasty eat?food?Of course not, it's bean rice Huogeng, this is still a farmer who can go out with the King of Shang and bear some blame. In other words, he is not so much a savage as he is a townsman. To be precise, he is attached to a noble family and lives in Xiaoyi. people, not really outright savages.

Bean rice is a rice cooked with miscellaneous beans, that is, various semi-wild beans including black beans and peas (called Wei at the time, not fully domesticated), mixed with soybeans and millet, and this kind of rice can only be eaten by strong laborers , When they finish the dry ones, the remaining soup is the food for the female relatives.

As for Huo Geng, soybean leaves, messy wild vegetables, and soup are cooked together. The above two kinds are the diet of people at this time, and they are also the diet during the busy harvest season. They are relatively high-end things.

For seasoning, leeks and scallions (scallions, small garlic) are added to the Huo Geng, which are eaten during celebrations, but when Zishouguang saw it, he felt a green, sticky fishy smell on his face Come, but those farmers are eating very happily, this thing is usually not available.

Usually, it is mainly bran, grass seeds, bean leaves, weed (pea leaves), wild vegetables and some edible unknown tubers, which are sticky and sticky. For this kind of paste, men have to fish it out and dry it first. Women Eat leftovers.

[That’s why Xin Huidi bought two catties of grain to buy cloth~laugh, they may only eat the taste of decent grain during Chinese New Year and marriage in their whole life]

There is no way, millet can only be planted once a year, and at most it can not harvest 60 catties at a time. The average production capacity is only 70-[-] catties, and some can reach about [-] catties. Of course, the advantage of millet is that it grows for a short time, so , other times can be different.

For example, millet (millet), soybean (菽), pea (Wei) and wheat, etc., can be combined in this way and eaten together, so that you can hardly starve to death. No problem, the nobles didn't have to pay for work and transportation every day, so they could afford it.

Ah, those two who don’t eat Zhou’s millet are hiding in the mountains and eating them by picking them. Wei in this era refers to wild peas, the kind that can burst pods. Except for some vegetables to be grown in the open space behind the house, basically no one grows them on a large scale. 【Don't let Emperor Xin Hui ask why you can't plant pods anymore】

During the celebration, Zishou also presided over a formal wedding among the minor nobles. Unlike the savages who still had some walking marriage habits, the nobles and the Chinese class already had a more reliable family relationship and marriage etiquette process. Of course, the etiquette at this time is not as complicated as that of later generations.

The general process can be divided into three steps. When the ceremony is held, the first two steps have been completed. For example, the parents of both parties send envoys to exchange opinions. Now what everyone is waiting for.

This year, it is indeed a happy event for the children of the two families to live to adulthood and get married. Of course, it is usually not enough to disturb the king of Shang and a group of nobles, but this is not a celebration. When encountering such a thing, then Of course, we will be happy and happy together.

From Zishou's perspective, the wedding process was quite simple. Basically, a tent was set up with blue cloth in the outskirts. At dusk, the newlyweds arrived and received everyone's blessings inside the green reed.

The witch priest divination for good and bad luck, after the bride bathed with orchid soup, she sat in the tent, then everyone ate and drank in a cauldron, and finally when it got dark, the maid lit the torch.The guests continue to feast, while the maids of the bride raise the curtains, let the groom in, and when they're done, they send them home together the next day.

"It's a bit boring, not very interesting." Zishou said while holding a glass of wine, "It's impossible to hold a non-boring wedding now. This is already the standard of the nobility. Common people don't have such a thing as weddings. They don't even have rituals." "The meaning of being polite to the common people is this. They are unable to meet the basic material conditions of etiquette. Naturally, they are not polite to the common people, and it has nothing to do with them.

After counting, excluding the celebration expenses, the harvest of this expedition to Dongyi can last until the autumn harvest before the final grain reserve is not used. Now it depends on the situation in Xiqi.

Even if the wars in the Shang Dynasty were plundered all the way and provided food to the enemy, it was impossible to be without consumption, and the consumption was actually not reduced much. Therefore, now Modu really can’t fight anymore, and the rice warehouses of noble families are also empty. However, these slaves, furs, and property cannot be converted into food, so the large amount of dried fish, salted fish, and salt blocks obtained can be regarded as a solution to urgent needs.

He has wiped out the assets accumulated by his ancestors for several generations, and now he can only resume production as much as possible, live until the autumn harvest, and then save a little bit of family money, and he has to avoid natural disasters and man-made disasters. Of course, Dongyi is now a pot of porridge , it shouldn't be a big problem, it's hard to say whether Xiqi and Huaiyi will send troops.

If it was the former King of Shang, he could still look at this matter very optimistically, but Zishou couldn't. He knew that the weather would be abnormal soon. This is the last two years of stability. Reduced, the rainfall line moves southward, and some tributaries in the north will dry up.

Therefore, even with the help of some water conservancy projects, within a few years, it can only be done diligently in internal affairs. In addition, at the diplomatic level, it is necessary to use more political and political tactics, and it is absolutely impossible to send troops to flatten it.

Of course, even though he was well aware of this matter, Prince Shang did not skimp on his own consumption and enjoyment. Firstly, what is lacking is not such a small amount of expenses as Shang Wang, although it may lead to the luxury of the nobles. Secondly, , if he resumed the original life, he felt that it would be better to subjugate the country and die, so as to save himself from being tortured by this living hell.

But, then again, most of the enjoyment, in a sense, was made by King Shang himself. Therefore, other nobles have to follow suit and have to consider whether they have the ability, such as pottery water pipes and bare hands. The strange power of rolling iron plates.

Yu Fang sent a large number of butterfly immortals, but unfortunately, King Shang was taken away by Queen Jiang before he said anything, saying that he was going to pollinate fruit trees and berry bushes, and that he was using the slightly poisonous butterfly fairy Magic dust to create potions.

"I didn't even look carefully before I was taken away."

"So, how are you going to use it?" Xiao Lian sat on the table, his light golden hair slipped down the table and thighs like running water, and was extraordinarily charming, "Can you feed them soy milk?"

"Why are you so dirty! Can I only think about this kind of thing?" Zi Shou accused angrily.

"Otherwise?" The slender fingers picked up the light belt connecting the two, "No, your burning rate of yellow waste has increased by at least [-]%, what do you think you were thinking just now?"

"..."

"..." Zishou coughed, "Okay, let's talk about serious business. In the current situation, besides simply recuperating, is there anything else we can do?"

"I don't know." The high-quality answer, "My knowledge and superficial thinking come from you, and I can't think of things that you can't think of." Xiao Lian said calmly.

"So, you don't need to get advice from me. Of course, if you have something you can't remember, you can ask me. I remember better than you. You can understand that I keep those memories that you have forgotten or blurred .”

"architect mechanics?"

"Do you want to study for college courses?"

"I don't want to, thank you." He has finished the rough design of Lutai Garden that needs this part of knowledge.

Of course, in this era, the modern drawing version is not used, it is just a very rough rough construction drawing, and the rest can only be counted on those craftsmen to be reliable, otherwise?

Even if he marked the various specifications and produced a CAD version of the design drawing, those craftsmen don't even know numbers, and even if they do, they don't even have a ruler, so what a fart.

Not to mention the Shang Dynasty, on a modern construction site, there are famous scenes where five people took out five measuring tapes and couldn't match each other. [I don’t know if people run away or not. In this case, let’s carry the bucket right away]

"What about chemical knowledge?" "Do you know what these minerals look like, such as green scorpion?"

Not to mention medical technology, he can't even recognize a few herbs, and the improvement of medical technology is really not a good thing for this era. Although the death rate of children has decreased, the problem is that there is a baby boom , a large number of babies survived, what to eat?

This is not a year or two. It takes five years to raise them to be able to do the simplest work, five years!He had five years of surplus food, and he had already sent all the barbarians in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the surrounding area into the car.

"So, wash up and sleep, you have already used all the knowledge that can be used in this era, whether it is composting, fish ponds or water conservancy projects, even the clay bricks you burn are even more advanced. The architectural achievements of this era." Xiao Lian persuaded.

"The only thing you can do now is what the Shang kings did in the past, hunting, patrolling, and appeasing the people in the wild, oh, and one more thing, meet those strange people, discover the strange people in the wild, if you find strange magic weapons, you You also need to see, and most importantly, give yourself an heir."

"No, I've been irrigating for so long, and none of them have sprouted."

"Irrigation? You are irrigating in the dry season! You have to pick the right time to irrigate. Have you ever planted land?!"

"...Well, no." Zishou thought for a while and said, no matter what kind of conceptual farming, he had never done it before.

"In short, work harder, you don't think you will never get sick in this era, right? You are so wicked, do you still expect to have merits to protect you?"

"Do you really have merit?" Zi Shou's eyes lit up.

"There is a hammer! Even if you have one, ask yourself, are you worthy?"

"Unworthy" Zishou thought for a while about the things he did for just "smiling" for "ten years (merit) less". Sea of ​​Blood is almost in the same style.

"So, I should charge more from the harem now? But where can I find beautiful and alien beauties? And my waist can't bear it either."

"The waist problem is simple, but I can help you solve this problem."

"How to solve it? You become the hero's spare dagger?"

"Bang!" The big sword slammed down again, "Dear, your XP system has a big loophole, I'm helping you with the rollback~"

After making a fuss for a while, Xiao Lian said, "I mean, I can store your physical strength and energy in the form of a sword, or abstract life force, don't ask me how I did it, what is life force , I don’t know, it’s as if you know why you are alive and why you have thoughts?”

"I didn't want to ask this, I was asking, what would be the consequences of life force being extracted."

"Oh, you won't be so energetic. In normal daily life, you will get tired more easily, and if you draw further, you will have gray hair, muscle atrophy, etc." Xiao Lian said.

"The former kings of Shang used this method when they were unable to use my lowest function. They either used the vitality of slave blood sacrifices. The stronger the sacrifice, the better the effect. At one time, even the captive nobles were used as blood sacrifices. The sacrifices, and even the King of Shang himself was drained alive by me as a sacrifice."

"Then I..."

"Don't worry, there are more yellow waste in this world than your brain. I've never seen it before. Others are just pure and innocent, but you are not such a simple courtship problem." Xiao Lian showed disgust Eyes, of course, Zishou also knows that she can appear, not only because of the relationship between pornographic waste, but in fact what really supports her is the result of the information explosion of modern civilization.

"However, although you can't use this method to activate my battle mode, you can save your overflowing vitality and use it when you need it. Of course, you can also exchange the lives of others like the previous King Shang. ?”

"Well, people are dead, should I go to work?" Zishou shook his head, "Then extract the overflowing vitality of the daily life."

"That's not good~"

"Come on, I'm ready, don't take pity on me just because I'm a delicate flower!"

"..." Xiao Lian once again had a big sword in his hand, "My mother..."

[PS]

Dictionaries that don't seem to be fried clean:

Widow's disease:

The envoys of Chu sent court merchants to pay tribute to beauties, and persuaded them to reject them. The king said: "The widow has a disease, and the disease lies in lust. The king is like a lust. It is the same as the common people. What is the same with the king?"

Therefore, the widow's disease refers to lust, and its original meaning is a neutral word, and later it is derogatory. [This part is not fried, but the source is fried]

Chapter 41 Green with a Radius of Thirty Miles... Topaz Splash

The feeling of drawing life is a bit like drawing blood, even if Xiao Lian only took away the overflowing vitality from Zishou, he still felt a chill all over his body, and bursts of coldness and weakness emanated from his bone marrow.

"No wonder people say that it's cold after death?" Zi was hugged by the fur, and it took half an hour to recover.

"And you didn't say that this process is really the same as sucking blood!" The pale golden mist visible to the naked eye kept flying out from the five orifices and disappeared into Xiao Lian's small mouth. The process really resembled a ghost novel The process of the female ghosts and banshees sucking yang energy inside.

"Well, thank you for the hospitality." Xiao Lian wiped his mouth gracefully.

"Don't feel as if you just drank soy milk, I don't have that kind of energy at all now!" The whole person is empty, and it will take a while for the vitality of the body to recover, "I feel like an eunuch now Going to the brothel, sorrow flows like water!"

"Isn't that just right? From now on, you smoke once every three days. Of course, when you need to return it, remember to tell me in advance." A small pale golden crystal condensed in Xiao Lian's palm, "I will return this part of the vitality to the you."

"Wait, why do I feel that the portion is not right?"

"Hehe, I'll help you extract vitality, keep it, and fix it in a physical form for you. Don't you need a handling fee? Why do you think it is necessary to sacrifice thousands of slaves, or even thousands of cows, to guarantee the King of Shang's life? Use Xiao to practice swords when your own ability is insufficient?"

"So, when I usually use you, I actually skimp a lot, right?" Zishou suddenly remembered that Xiao Lian only had two forms at the beginning, and after using it more times, it gradually became what it is now. The second form at the beginning made people dizzy, but now it is much more relaxed.

"Nonsense, it's hard for you to find a chance to eat enough, you won't eat two extra bites to save some money?" Xiao Lian rolled his eyes, but when he thought that this guy would die in the future and would have to suffer from hunger, his expression changed. Not so pretty anymore.

"Anyway, this loss is really high. It's the result of my restraint as much as possible not to drain your life force."

"Understood." Zishou nodded, according to this statement, compared with the previous king of Shang, Xiao Lian was indeed quite restrained.

In the next few days, Zishou began to do what a normal Shang king should do, patrolling the land, instead of nesting in Modu, messing with things that no one could understand.In the field, the farmers were immersed in the cultivation. Zishou originally planned to improve the farm tools, but soon found that they were useless, could not be promoted, were too expensive, and the farmers could not afford to use them, and the yield was also very low.

Their tools are things made of stones, bone fragments and wooden sticks. The so-called rakes can only be seen in the fields of those Chinese and warrior classes. As for brooms, they are only found in ancestral temples. Why?Because it is made of chicken tail feathers and amaranth stems, the nobles can't afford it, so it can only be used when cleaning the altar of the Jongmyo.

On the road, a group of farmers chanted and dragged the retting hemp out of the foul-smelling pond with green waves.

However, these farmers seem to have no long noses. They hammer the retting hemp with stones, strip the fibers, and the women spin them into hemp thread with simple thread, and then weave it into hemp cloth with waist looms.

The efficiency of weaving is probably that it can complete a little more than one piece of cloth without stopping all year round. Therefore, the so-called spinning machine that can be made of sticks and branches can probably only spin a few inches before it rots. Farmers' hard work for at least a month was instantly ruined.

Weaving in this era does not support continuous transmission at all. Once the loom breaks down halfway, the piece of cloth will be completely ruined. "Fear and ask why."

If it were an ordinary farmer's family, the craftsmen who made this kind of tools might have to smash the heads of the craftsmen, right?

What, you are talking about the silk weaved by picking mulberry and raising silkworms. The loom broke down, the yarn broke, and the whole silk was blown up after only three inches of weaving... Then, maybe it wasn't the farmers who came to smash you The dog head, but the nobles are going to bring soldiers to kill your whole family.

It is precisely because these fabrics are expensive and difficult to manufacture, and the consequences of fabric scrapping due to tool damage are so serious, so tools such as looms must be made quite strong.

Choose a good wood, paint it, nail it, make a rope, and polish it smoothly to avoid that when you are weaving halfway, the branches or small sticks will be broken, the wooden thorns will be broken or the yarn will be cut, and then you can see a horse that can buy your whole family’s life. The thing ripped in two.

To be honest, the voice is pretty nice~——The person who did this last time was called Xia Jie, and everyone knows how it will end.

[PS: Judging from the story of Meng Mu's broken weaving, at least only the scholar or ordinary people who can read can afford it-the so-called looms are popularized in ordinary people's homes, and ordinary people can afford them. The product of modern people's literal meaning-the "common people" in that era were not common people at all, and common people had no surnames! 】

Although the loom is expensive (the silk loom is even more expensive), the spinning wheel and the spinning wheel are much simpler. Therefore, you can see the old woman spinning the simple handcart and spinning the hemp fiber into the hemp thread, and the young girl They spun silk into threads.

These raw silk threads are wound into rolls and used to exchange for food or cheap linen. In the Book of Songs: Chi Chi of the Mang, Baobu Maosi, this is the transaction process. This poem is about a man holding a linen to It is a story about exchanging hemp thread for weaving and raw silk for weaving silk with a woman, getting to know each other and becoming a husband and wife.

By the way, this man is described as a "scholar", and the delay of a scholar can still be removed. In this era, what kind of family environment can weave and have cloth, and it is obvious how ordinary people can obtain cloth.

After making a round of inspection, the frame stopped at the edge of the newly reclaimed wasteland, "I don't think it should be filled any more, and it will blow up." The fox made a confused voice.

"I think I can pour in a little more." Zi Shou said calmly, "But, it's all overflowing..."

"Oh, it's almost there." Zishou tightened the rope, and put down the bulging water bag sewn with cow bladder and leather. The bag was full of sake that had dissolved the crystallization of vitality.