Is this a godsend?

Therefore, Zishou's decision now is not only not to believe that the palace is really "full of people" like those little whites whose brains are not as big as walnuts, but also to complete the conquest by the Su family earlier, and complete the conversion of slaves to civilians, at least some of them.

Under the rule of Ji Chang, an academic genius and political waste, Xiqi completed the training of slave soldiers ahead of schedule, so he didn't care too much about whether he would leave hidden dangers like Mamluk for future generations.

That's the matter of his son and even his grandson being bald. He's dead. As an atheist, he's dead. Why bother?Anyway, I don't even have a big white-haired raccoon to masturbate, so why think so much.

Chapter 6

There are countless innovations in agriculture in this era, such as crop rotation, intercropping and intercropping, as well as changes in the shape of the plow made of wood, and even a lot of improvement in the method of tying cattle. In modern times, it is just a social animal. Things like Quyuanli and columbine carts have only heard of their names, and they don't know anything about their actual structure.

However, some things can be changed. For example, the popularity of cattle, cattle farming began in the Shang Dynasty, and people even learned to wear nose rings for cattle. Unfortunately, due to the difficulty of catching and domesticating cattle, it has not been widely used. It is used in agricultural production, and is more used as aristocratic riding and transportation.

This is also understandable. With the productivity of this era, raising and capturing cattle is not something that slaves and savages can do at all, and slaves can do what cattle can do. Therefore, except in a few places, it is rare to see cattle farming It's not that there is no such thing, but that it is not popularized.

But to popularize cattle farming, one has to raise cattle and artificially inseminate cattle. Although Zishou is not clear about the specific methods, but in this era, no one would use the laws of ancestors and corrupt morals to prevent him from developing in agriculture and animal husbandry. Mess around in business.

And Zishou also felt that it was too easy for this theocratic slavery empire to carry out technological reforms. As long as everything was pushed to Xuannv Tuomeng, those nobles would have nothing to say, and anyone who tried to refute him would be attacked by those priests.

And then again, before the Han Dynasty dominated Confucianism, China had a strong atmosphere of pragmatism in academics—no matter what ideas or concepts can strengthen the country and enrich the people, you can try it.

In the outskirts of Modu, groups of temple-raised slaves were driven into the fields, and warriors armed with weapons watched behind them. These slaves were required to thin and transplant the seedlings here according to the order of the King of Shang To put it simply, it is to rearrange the seedlings neatly, from a mess to a horizontal and vertical state.

At the same time, remove too weak seedlings and keep all the seedlings at equal distances. This work is very manpower-intensive. Unfortunately, for King Shang, the most important thing he lacks is manpower. There are too many people, and there are too many people. We need to find a way to kill some of them, otherwise they will all starve to death.

Zishou discovered that many of the ideas and ideas of later generations are seeking their own death in this era, not from any opposition attack, but literally seeking their own death.

For example, everyone is equal. With the current output, if everyone is equal, or even 3 steps back, if everyone is relatively equal, and everyone has a bite to eat, in less than [-] months, all the food in Modu will be eaten. Light, and then everyone starved to death at home together.

This is still a relatively ideal ending, but what is not ideal is that they cannot afford enough soldiers and chariots, and the surrounding tribes break through Modu, and then they are all turned into slaves and sacrificed or directly hacked to death on the battlefield.

Therefore, use the flesh and blood of wild men and slaves to feed the people, squeeze out the last bit of output from the people, feed the nobles, and finally use the army of nobles and nobles to plunder and hunt regularly to obtain additional food and slaves, which in turn supplement The number of savages and slaves is the law of survival in this era.

Since the king of Shang was doing things in his own king's field, no one objected at all, they were all watching, and at the same time prevented those slaves from stuffing the seedlings into their mouths.

There are too many slaves, and everyone doesn't know what thinning is. It needs to be commanded or guided by the King of Shang on the spot. Under the scorching sun, slaves who are too thin will fall down from time to time, and then they will be grabbed by the hair by the soldiers. Drag it to the edge of the field to deal with it with a knife, and throw it into the prepared pit.

When the seedlings of Wangtian were rearranged neatly, Zishou inspected it with a parasol made of feathers, and then nodded slightly. The next step was to supplement the fertilizer and treat the abandoned fields, fertilize them with plant ash and manure, and then replant them. The thorns that grow up are disposed of.

At this time, the two-field system was similar to that of Europe in the Middle Ages. One field was planted and the other field was completely left uncultivated. As a result, every round of planting was almost raw land, and the yield was quite pathetic. Even if the Shang Dynasty had manure and plant ash fertilizer technology, it was Same.

Zishou plans to change to a crop rotation system. One piece of land is planted with millet and millet, and the other is planted with black beans and soybeans. The planting is staggered. It is not a complete wasteland, but regular weeding and fertilization to restore soil fertility.

Not only that, but he also plans to bring in interplanting and furrow planting to maximize the use of time and limited land, plant crops that like dryness and ventilation on the ridges, and then plant plants that like moisture and shade in the furrows , such a field can grow two kinds of crops.

If you coordinate the planting time and use the two fields of the two-bed system, transplanting alternately in time to avoid competition for nutrients, coupled with the nitrogen fixation of leguminous nodules, topdressing and supplementing with manure, the yield can be very effectively increased.

In other words, Zishou directly and simply forced the planting planning part of the agricultural planting technology to the level of the Yuan Dynasty by himself.

Too much technology that spans the ages naturally has its price, that is, the slaves don’t even think about having any rest time during the slack farming, and they have directly evolved to the heavy workload of the farmers in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no metal farm tools and rich resources of that era. tools are available.

Relying purely on manpower, bone farm tools and wooden farm tools, the end of the workload of this level of intensive cultivation is just the start time, and half of the surplus slaves in Modu have been successfully consumed, which makes many nobles feel that the King of Shang is Isn't it simply consuming the population of slaves?

In Zishou's view, instead of sending these slaves to the temple and offering sacrifices to the ethereal gods, it is better to make the most of their lives.

I don't know if it was because of the time-traveling relationship that he died once, or maybe it was the original owner's memory that was affecting him. He was almost untouched by the death of these slaves, and even felt that they died too fast and their work efficiency was too low.

"They call it cruel, I call it efficient." Behind the efficient utilization rate brought about by the planting across the ages is the efficient slave consumption rate, and there is another very important factor in it.

That is, although Zishou didn't know the specific crops, Queen Jiang beside her knew which crops liked drought and which ones liked dampness. She was born in the Lieshan clan, a descendant of Shennong. This knowledge was a secret passed down by her class.

And Zishou only needs to arrange the crops according to these characteristics. As for how to distinguish, there are naturally those priests of the Lieshan clan who are responsible for correcting and solving the problem. They can work.

"Come on, have you found the foundry craftsman I want? And have they sent the black fire I asked Xiqi to provide?" Zishou realized what it was when he heard about Xiqi's black fire—— coal!

However, he did not know how to make steel in modern times, but he knew how to make coke. Coke making mainly requires three parts: a coking kiln, a coal-fired furnace, and a coke quenching ditch. The coke is pulled out, poured into the coke quenching ditch, and then watered to extinguish it.

The process is quite primitive, very polluting, and the output is pathetic, unfortunately in this day and age...

Um, Zishou doesn't even know if this group of people can build a coking kiln, or try using high-quality charcoal?There are charcoal kilns now, and charcoal is also used in large quantities to smelt and cast bronze. However, compared with bronze, Zishou still prefers to point out iron and steel technology in advance.

"My lord, why do you want those black stones?" Coal can be burned, and Xiqi also relied on this to survive the Little Ice Age, but because Chinese coal generally contains excessive sulfides, and it is not clean coal but peat It's the same thing, so it doesn't burn completely, so people at this time generally think that this kind of thing is not easy to use, there is a curse, and only Xiqi, who is too poor to use it, uses it.

"Evil gold" refers to bronze, which is flexible and full of texture because of its silvery color and gold; while iron, because it is difficult to smelt and cannot discharge sulfur and other substances inside, is extremely brittle and quickly covered with red rust, so It's called evil gold.

"My lord, why are you refining that thing?" It's difficult to fix, brittle and not easy to use, and after being injured by evil gold, even the best witch doctor can't save people.

"..." Zishou didn't know how to explain tetanus to him, and it was difficult to explain the meaning of steel. Although even if it was refined, it would probably only be a very small amount of luxury, but it was better than the obsidian sword. He feels safe.

You know, judging by the consumption rate of this slave and the expressions of those nobles, he knew that he had to pick a lucky one for a car, and if he wanted to go to the battlefield to kill people, he would naturally have to take good protection. With a body of inhuman strength and endurance, what could be more secure than a set of steel scale armor?

As for output?He didn't plan to popularize the steel weapons of the whole army, but only used them for himself, so even if he only produced twenty or thirty catties a year, it would be enough.

"Xiqi's tribute team will arrive in a few days. Majesty, do you really want to refine evil gold? Have you discussed it with the queen?" Elai always felt that the majesty must be at the time of offering sacrifices, and he was deceived by God, or else Cursed by Wu Gong, why do some weird things these days.

It is understandable to set fire to the mountain. After all, water beetles are something that everyone is afraid of. Once they are possessed by water beetles, people will gradually lose their senses, their eyes will be bloodshot, and they will frantically attack anyone without water beetles. Normal people usually encounter an outbreak of water beetle infection, and the merchant army has to organize personnel to evacuate and eliminate them.

But the water beetle can't be eradicated at all. The priests have tried everything, live sacrifices, large-scale sacrificial dances, taking witchcraft, and throwing slaves to feed the water beetles. There will be small outbreaks from time to time every year.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that this kind of thing will only cause trouble if you drink water containing water beetles, and water containing water beetles will be safe after a period of time, but those safe water sources may be mysterious after a period of time. Water beetles appeared.

But then, no matter whether it was pulling seedlings randomly in Wangtian (at that time, thinning seedlings was pulling seedlings randomly) or letting slaves plant the land that should have been left to rest, and turning the land into strange Planting crops with several times the density is not like what a normal person can do.

Of course, except for the close aristocrats like Elai, the others have no intention of admonishing them. They just waited to see the joke of the King of Shang's crop failure in Xia Harvest. This is not a bad thing, after all, starting from Emperor Yi, The authority of the King of Shang is growing day by day, and these close relatives and nobles also feel a little bit of uneasiness.

"No, she doesn't know alchemy either." Zi Shou had no intention of discussing this issue with Empress Jiang, "..." But she is the high priest, so it's not easy for you to offend the gods?

The weather is getting hotter day by day, and the crops in Wangtian are growing well, as if you can hear the sound of the jointing of the plants at night, and those who are waiting to see the joke shut up, because none of the crops died because of being too dense - appropriate Close planting is also a solution to increase yield.

As the weather gets hotter, the royal palace also becomes extremely hot. Not only that, the population of Modu becomes less crowded after tons of slaves are consumed. Therefore, building a new city on the plains Song" project was discontinued.

The original plan of Emperor Xin was to use the construction of a new city, Chaoge, to consume the surplus slaves and liberate the hands of the Shang army. By the way, the expanded city can accommodate more slaves and citizens, and it can also demonstrate the power of the merchants. Let the Quartet The princes are peaceful.

However, the current Zishou thinks that instead of creating a spectacle and dying and hacking to sacrifice, it is better to use it for farming, and throw it into the fermentation tank after exhaustion, and turn it into fertilizer to fertilize the field. Although the former solved the population problem in a short time, it only Indicators - and his idea of ​​increasing agricultural output is the root cause. Killing people now is for the sake of not needing to push slaves to the altar to kill in the future.

"Your Majesty, the black fire you want is here." Xiqi is used to the Shang king's making things difficult, and strictly speaking, the Zhou tribe is not the legal vassal of Shang at all, they migrated from other places, talking to themselves Occupied Xiqi generation.

It's just because when I first came here, I couldn't say that I was poor and had no pants. This sentence is realistic. I was bullied by the tribes in the south of the river. Comes complete with armor and clothing.

After receiving the protection of Shang, he established a firm foothold in Xiqi, and now it is considered to be carrying out production activities normally-but the poor are still poor, and that place is not a good place to engage in agriculture, especially in this era of the Little Ice Age.

Therefore, the distrust between the two sides was foreshadowed from the very beginning, and Shang also needed Zhou to fight against Sidi, as a bridgehead, and a guy like this who can see the rebellion behind his head at a glance, find something for them to do every day , Letting them live uneasy lives is regarded as the political correctness of the Shang Dynasty at this time.

Of course, don’t get me wrong, Dashang isn’t just trolling Xiqi, they’re not targeting anyone, they’re just trolling everyone equally, if anyone can’t hold back, they’ll be the next one to be busted.

There is no etiquette for envoys to enter the door. Zishou and the others do not talk about such things as Zhou etiquette. Of course, it is not completely unmannered. device.

And after the meeting, the sake that was filtered with baomao was offered first, followed by a pile of lacquerware, and finally the offerings were offered respectfully on the ground lying down on the ground.

"Do you need a reward?" Zi Shou began to feel uncomfortable again. Without this part of the memory fragments, do you want to reward something?According to common sense, it should be some gift in return, and even the gift should be more expensive than the tribute, but he was reluctant to part with the money.

This era is already poor enough, and the royal family of Shang has little spare money. There is no joy in taking other people's things, because you can't get any good things by snatching them, let alone take them out yourself.

Others are not surprised by Zishou's silence at all - I, Dashang, take your things because I think highly of you, and I want to give you back, you are thinking about shit! ——If the person who came to pay tribute is a vassal with a strong blood relationship in Kinki, as the head of the clan, he should be rewarded.

But you, Ji Zhou, have a fart relationship with our Xuanniao clan, who the hell doesn't give meat to their relatives, but to outsiders!

Of course, Ji Zhou's envoy was not surprised at all. If the king of Shang rewarded him with something, he would have wondered if this guy was planning to poison or do something inappropriate.

If you want to know how Zhou Hou died before, didn't you just meet with several other princes privately, who spread the rumor that he was going to be king, so he went to Di Yi directly and hiccupped.

However, in this day and age, Ji Zhou's behavior is indeed a death.

To put it bluntly, it's like in a company, when a certain HR manager starts connecting with other employees, it's no wonder the boss doesn't suspect that he's a double-headed person or that he's planning to start his own business.

Chapter 7: Wang has six divisions

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The envoy left after offering the things, and Zishou ignored it, staring at the things on the chopping board, "Bronze?"

"This is the black fire that the king wants."

"Hei Huo?" Zi Shou rubbed his eyes. The chopping board was a piece of metal, blue-black, and made of metal. He scratched the table with a corner, leaving a dent.

"Can this thing be burned? Isn't what I want a black stone with scales that can be burned?"

"Ah, what you want, my lord, is black flint?" There is no word for coal in this era, or rather, the word does not seem to correspond to this thing.

"So, this is fine coal jade?" Zi Shou squinted his eyes and played with the so-called "black fire" in his hand. Of course he knew that coal fines, a kind of gemstone, might be produced in coal mines, and they were indeed used as decorations by some people.

"So, can this thing burn?" Zi Shou, a geology major like ore, knows nothing about it. To be honest, if peat, charcoal, and clean coal are placed in front of him, the probability of being able to distinguish which is which is which They are all a bit low, let alone iron ore and copper ore.

"Forget it, don't get entangled, let's wait until the coal is delivered over there, and..." And there are not no small open-pit coal mines in Shang's territory. This era is ancient, and human beings' exploitation of nature is simply small. Terrible.

It can even be said that there are tigers and wild boars in the woods less than 30 miles away from human cities, so that Zishou is about to start the famous emperor-level recreational activity in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties-field hunting!

It’s impossible not to hunt, the weather is getting warmer, and many hungry beasts are running out to find food to eat. Just yesterday, an unlucky egg was taken away by a tiger in his yard in Modu. This is not murder or a joke. Until the Spring and Autumn Period, it was not uncommon for a person living in the city to be snatched away by a tiger or something.

[Even after modern environmental protection comes up, it is normal to find tigers in your own cowshed.jpg]

In addition to the preparations for field hunting, Zishou has also done something in the past few days. Taking advantage of the extremely developed winemaking industry of businessmen, he successfully systematically produced fermentation technology, and then ordered the prohibition of using sorghum and other grains to make wine. Switch to making wine from fruit.

This order almost led to a large-scale rebellion. For Shang, wine was not only a daily drinking requirement, but also an important sacrificial tool. Even Zhou inherited this after defeating Shang. It's almost the same behavior as banning alcohol in Russia and banning guns in the United States.

At that time, the roars of those relatives almost knocked off the roof, until Zishou used his strength that grew to be almost inhuman after time travel, and threw the two loudest ones from the palace to the gate of the palace, and fell to death on the spot. One, and the rest are quiet.

Until they figured out that Zishou is not allowed to use staple grains to make wine, but black beans and black rice are allowed to make wine, the theocratic nobles touched their noses and sat down quietly under the murderous gaze of Queen Jiang, looking around, a picture that is none of my business appearance.

Because the sweet wine brewed from black beans and black rice is used by the nobles for drinking and offering sacrifices in temples, that is to say, it does not harm their interests, but only the interests of the countrymen and gentry. However, since the king decided to develop fruit wine technology, then Not unacceptable.

Fruit wine was once thought to have become popular in China only after grapes were introduced into China in the Han Dynasty, but later it was discovered that fruit wine had already been produced in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and vanilla was added to the fruit wine, and the aroma can still be smelled after more than 2700 years.

And this kind of wine still exists at this time, just because of the trouble of brewing, mainly the yeast problem of fruit wine, and the fact that fruit wine is easy to rot or turn into vinegar in China where the temperature is high, so it is not as good as grain brewing. universal.

The reason for this is also easy to understand. In Europe where fruit wine is popular, let’s not talk about whether the tragic food production is enough to play this. The latitude of Paris is actually almost the same as that of the Northeast. If you want to play fruit wine in China...

Anyway, after looking at the bronze wine vessels, Zishou decided to urge him to get out the iron pot.

Otherwise, the fuel consumption is simply fatal!

In modern times, he made simple apple brandy himself, so he just needs to tell the nobles how to make this high-alcohol wine. By the way, apples are still easy to find in the Central Plains at this time, not only It is easy to find, and it is still the main planting object.

The reason why he had this idea was that after he saw that the army rations prepared for field hunting contained a lot of dried apples, he realized that there were already apples in this era.

After inquiring about Queen Jiang, the queen looked at him like a fool for a long time——"My lord, isn't Zi Nai...... Is Xia Houshi eating it?"

"Ah!?" Not only are they eating, but they are also planting, and the planting technology is also very superb. "In the middle of the first month and February, turn the ax and mottle the vertebrae, and then you will be spared"-meaning the circumcision and peeling technique, forcing the apple trees to grow more apple trees. Knot.

"Besides, Xiqi survives the famine by eating this stuff?" Every family harvests it and cuts it into candied food, which is called "frequent mother's grain."

In other words, there is almost no difference between brewing cider in China and brewing wine directly from grains. However, it is worth noting that the Zinai and apples here were introduced to China in the Qing Dynasty. Modern people eat completely two things, and they can even be eaten Call it two species.

At this time, the apples are soft and tasteless, surprisingly sour. According to people's feeling at this time, the sugar content is not enough, so it is not suitable for wine making. However, in Zishou's view, it means too much malic acid and citric acid, just like lemons are also very powerful. Fruit for winemaking - it's super high in sugar, just too much citric acid to eat.

However, to make cider, he has to get the wheat koji out first, and to get out the wheat koji, he has to plant and improve wheat. At this time, people don’t know how to grow wheat at all, and the yield is too low, and people will starve to death , and only a few are planted some.

Not only did he have to make wheat koji, but he also had to make a stone mill to break and grind the wheat before it could be used as wheat koji. Moreover, Zishou was also planning to reform the food—making fermented dough, that is, steamed buns and the like Get things out.

Of course, these foods cannot be popularized downwards. He is only going to supply them to the nobles and warriors. Fermented foods are easier to digest, less burdensome to the body, and more suitable for absorption. It can provide more nutrition, so that these things can eat two bites less.

This is not a joke. It is meaningless to deduct the food of those slaves and sluts. Let alone eating enough, it is a question of whether the food is enough for the soul. It is these nobles and warriors who really eat the most. With one less bite, Modu can save tons of food.

It is impossible to directly let them eat less, so it is an inevitable way to reduce food consumption by using fermentation technology to make food more delicious and easier to digest.

And Zishou not only prepared to make cider, but also prepared to distill it to obtain high-grade liquor. Don't get me wrong, it is not for drinking or offering sacrifices to gods, but to carry this thing with you to disinfect wounds.

Injured in this era, whether it is the tetanus bacillus on the enemy's weapon or other miscellaneous bacteria, it is a deadly thing. Zishou can only improve his chances of survival as much as possible. odds of survival.

It is worth mentioning here that there is no record of Queen Jiang on the tortoise shells and bronzes unearthed until the 4th year of Emperor Xin. From the beginning of the ninth year, in terms of bronze wares and tortoise shell inscriptions, he was already Daji.

Compared with the historical archaeology and the reality of the era I live in now, it is obviously impossible for the world to be wrong. Then, the high probability is that Empress Jiang died of dystocia or postpartum when she gave birth to a child this winter. Infected, after that, a few years later, Dixin conquered the Yousu tribe and plundered a large number of female slaves, one of whom was established as the queen of Shang, that is, Daji.

For dystocia, he has nothing to do, but postpartum infection can be disinfected with alcohol to a certain extent... as far as human affairs are concerned, so the distilling of cider must be put on the daily routine, and it must be completed before the winter labor.

At worst, he had to arrange things well before he set off to fight with Su.

In this era, Zishou knows that nepotism is not a derogatory term anymore. Around him, only those with the same surname are the most reliable, followed by those from the wives, then the people of the country, and then the vassals. The more people live, the more troops they will have when fighting against the Zhou Dynasty in the future.

There are many things going on, and the progress has not improved, which is Zishou's current state.

Just doing something, he found that it was a huge project covering dozens of industries. It required thousands of manpower, and it lasted for a long time. He counted the fruit wine, and he had to solve it first: coal, iron , Sealing, bamboo, strip weaving, papermaking, porcelain firing, koji making, wheat planting, milling and a series of technical problems.

He reckoned that if he didn't die, even if he died in the second generation, there would probably be a new virtuous emperor like the Yellow Emperor in the history books of later generations-look at the above technological innovations, comparable to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, If the new textile technology is improved, it will probably be a mixture of the Yellow Emperor and Luozu. Of course, he can only think about it. He really doesn't understand how to do ancient textiles.

For modern people, brewing cider is almost not difficult. Buy apples, buy yeast in the supermarket, then steam the fruit puree, mix it with the juice that has been boiled for 10 minutes, and start fermentation. After fermentation, it goes directly to the still and filter. It's over.

Even in the next few dynasties, you can barely try it. After all, the Han Dynasty had spinning technology as thin as a cicada's wing, which can be used as a filter net, but now... Come on, those who can wear linen clothes are the upper class .

When the king of Shang was going mad again, no one had beaten the king of Shang who was possessed by the Great Yi, and he jumped off the ground with no way to persuade him. The day of field hunting finally came, and when the old ministers of the great merchant were relieved, At any rate, the king of Shang didn't continue to go crazy, and he saved a little face for everyone in front of the princes.

Field hunting is not simply organized hunting, but also a kind of military exercise. In addition to the troops directly under the king of Shang, the troops of the surrounding princes will also be present, which is almost the same as the alliance of princes. In Zhou's words to describe the Shang army, it is: on-site "The journey of Yin and Shang, it will be like a forest!" Groups of strong men and flags full of wild atmosphere are as dense as forests.