Qin Official

At the height of the fierce battle on the battlefield in Jizhou, Heifu, the regent of the Qin Dynasty who was praised by his subordinates as "wise, kind and caring for the world", only did one thing after the beginning of spring: supervised the farming work in Guanzhong for a month...

It has been half a year since Heifu took control of Guanzhong. Although there has been turmoil, the area in Guanzhong that suffered the greatest losses was Xihe, and the other areas were not affected. In the early spring, Heifu specifically did not fully mobilize the people of Guanzhong to enlist in the army, in order to ensure that Spring plowing matters.

The trust has been established, and the next step is to have enough food and enough soldiers, and enough food obviously comes before enough soldiers. Although he wants to quickly wipe out the world, he cannot be short-sighted and delay the spring plowing. Heifu hopes that when the war is over, at least there will be enough food in the world. There are good harvests in several places, so as to avoid the terrible famine that will follow the footsteps of war and sweep everywhere.

To this end, Heifu even resumed the long-interrupted "Jitian" ceremony.

In January, the ice and snow melt, everything revives, and farmers prepare to cultivate the fields. Before the spring plowing, the emperor of Zhou would lead the princes and ministers to plow the fields in person to express their importance to farming. At the same time, he informed the people that the plowing festival had arrived and production would begin. This was a field ceremony.

There is no emperor in the world, so Hei Fu, who takes charge of the emperor's affairs, can only do it for him.

The place where the farmland was planted was carefully selected, and it was chosen in the Zhengguo Canal area in the Jingyang area. This ditch was originally used by Korea to "tire the Qin Dynasty", but now it has become a fertile land. The Zhengguo Canal irrigates 40,000 people. Yuqing, the irrigated area is converted into city acres. In Qin Dynasty, one mu was equal to 0.69 city acres, which was converted into 2.8 million city acres in later generations...

Such a huge irrigated area is the biggest basis for Guanzhong to become the "Land of Abundance" and the food produced can feed Heifu's huge army.

After Fengchang had offered sacrifices to the ancestors, Heifu demonstrated a unique and extremely hard-core "field ceremony" to the officials and people in Guanzhong present.

Hei Fu seemed to have returned to the time when he was still a common man. He specially put on brown clothes, his bronze muscles supported the plow, and his rough thighs stepped on the yellow soil, driving the cattle forward. It looked simple, but under the influence of the farmer disciples and Zheng Guoqu For the old farmer with gray hair, he can see many different things from it.

To a farmer, the field is like a piece of white paper, spread flat in front of people, and plowing the field is like a scribe splashing ink. How to choose the entry point when plowing, and how to avoid hard clods of soil that are difficult to plow, depends on plowing the field. It’s human ability.

But I saw that the regent was confident and standing proudly at the head of the field, better than the general before the battle. He shouted loudly to calm down the cow's power. He personally pulled the cow's nose, put on the yoke, tied the cow rope, adjusted the plow, led the cow with his left hand, lifted the plow with the right hand, followed the cow's steps, and took aim, all in one go.

Immediately, one stroke at a time, one stroke at a time, one stroke at a time, one stroke at a time, one stroke at a time, one stroke at a time, and the plows were passing by, and the waves of mud were roaring, just like the flowers blooming with a wonderful pen, and the farmers couldn't stop scratching their heads:

"The regent deserves to have a humble beginning. The way he plows the fields is like an old farmer's!"

The regent also loved the cattle very much. Although he held the cattle whip, he held it high and put it down gently. The tamed old cow was also considerate and moved forward on its own without raising its whip.

When we finally came down, Heifu plowed the land smoothly and smoothly. There was a unique smell of newly plowed soil flowing in the thoroughly plowed land.

What's exaggerated is that the regent plowed an entire acre of land! This is completely different from the past Zhou and Qin Dynasty's perfunctory ceremony of lightly touching the plow handle and pushing the plow handle three times at most, without the ox even moving.

Even Hei Fu was like this, and the nine ministers and officials had to do more work than Ji Tianli helped the plow nine times before. He was so tired that his back and legs ached, but Hei Fu only got a rhetorical question.

"So you know how difficult farming is? But you still dare to delay and treat farmers harshly for various reasons?"

Of course, there are also people whose feet have never touched the ground and whose hands have never been touched by dirt. They secretly ridicule Hei Fu's show, which is too false.

But related to another incident, the people were eager for Heifu to make such a show more often.

Farmers who have always advocated that everyone, including the emperor, should cultivate the land themselves, without expecting to make a career out of it, and just want to know the hardships of farming. Seeing this scene, they were so moved that they all said:

"The regent knows that farming is difficult. Because of this, he can ask the young master to take the exam and improve the plow, so that it can benefit the people!"

The straight-shaft plow that was commonly used in Guanzhong in the past has been replaced by the curved-shaft plow that was first spread in Nanjun in the past two years. Although the fields beside the Zhengguo Canal are hundreds of acres connected together, they are different from the broken small fields in the south that are divided by hilly water networks. , the characteristic of the curved shaft plow that is easy to turn around is not shown, but apart from this, it is still more advanced than the straight shaft plow, saves effort in lifting soil, and is suitable for deep plowing.

After finishing the work and putting down the plow, Heifu asked about the distribution of Quyuan plows. When he learned that only the counties around Xianyang could use them, he couldn't help but sigh:

"I just hope that when we plow next spring, we can turn swords into plowshares so that more people can use the curved shaft plow."

And Shusun Tong also had people record this in the history books, along with the process of sowing millet seeds after Polu, the eldest son appointed by Xia Gong, and the grand scene of farm work in Guanzhong under the leadership of the regent. The ancient The song echoes on the yellow earth:

"Lead the farmers of the time, sow hundreds of grains. The horses will send you privately, and the end will be thirty miles. I will also serve you and cultivate, ten thousand dimensions of coupling!"

Zheng Guoqu's 40,000 hectares of land were plowed in ten days, and millet seeds were sown, waiting to be watered by the spring rain and tender green buds sprouting out!

By the beginning of February, the farming work has been completed, and the cultivators have few houses.

From this moment on, Heifu also began to receive news from the east one after another...

The first thing he learned was Nanjun's response to Xiang Ji and Runan's defeat.

"Lixian's decision is right. Shehu County is fortified and the country is cleared to save Nan County from greater losses, but in Runan..."

Heifu didn't speak for a long time, but looked at the map with a frown. It was said that one-third of the 20,000 men in total were killed or injured. He himself was also captured. When he was not sure whether he was alive or dead, Heifu could only roar: "Give me back my legion!"

Obviously, he was not satisfied with this battle, but after a while, he pretended to be relaxed and said:

"It seems that it is impossible to expect the younger generation to retreat from the enemy..."

The regent is planning to take action personally.

The news was mixed. In mid-February, Heifu welcomed Li Shiqi again. He met with Li Sheng privately. After Li Shiqi fully reported South Korea and Zhang Liang's plans and conditions, Heifu talked with him in secret for several hours. .

It wasn't until dawn that Li Shiqi left the hall with a smile. On the same day, he took the newly obtained title of "Da Xingren" and the title of "You Geng" and rushed to Kanto again, regardless of the aching pain in his old bones.

He wanted to bring Heifu's reply to Zhang Liang.

The effect of a good strategist is comparable to that of an army of tens of thousands.

At the end of February, Han Xin's victory in Shangdang finally came...

From the time when the generals devised plans and set up suspicious soldiers in Mouse Valley, supervisors have been reporting Han Xin's every move from the front to Heifu. Heifu resisted the urge to micro-manage from a distance and fulfilled his promise. From the beginning to the end, Han Xin was tolerated. To make decisions independently, at most, let the Wings Camp make suggestions and fill in the gaps.

"Hebei has been decided."

Heifu concluded this battle that with Han Xin here, there was basically no need to worry about Hebei's affairs.

"The next step is to win the decisive battle against the Central Plains!"

Heifu believed that the time had come, and it was time for him to personally send his troops eastward to end this troubled world in one fell swoop...

But before you go, there are still some things that need to be sorted out!

"There is a person staying in Guanzhong..."

Hei Fu summoned Ji Ying, and in the secret room, Hei Bingtai received the latest order:

"I'm worried!"

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ps: It’s a bit short, but you really don’t blame me. When I came to participate in the Master Salon, my roommate was Xiaorong, so the article unknowingly became shorter...

By the way, I would like to recommend Rong Xiaorong's two books, "The Happy Little Scholar" and "The Ruyi Little Man". There is no doubt that these are real py deals.