Three Kingdoms

The first month of the ninth year of Taixing.

Although the spring was cold and it was not possible to cultivate immediately, some preparations were quietly carried out under the din of war.

Zao Zhi got up very early. He didn't have many things to do today, but his trip was not short.

He planned to start from Chang'an City, go around the Jingshui River to Zhengguo Canal, and then go to Bai Canal to have a look.

This journey is not short.

The water conservancy projects in Guanzhong generally started with the Zhengguo Canal built in the Qin Dynasty, which diverted Jing water to irrigate the farmland in northern Guanzhong. After that, the water conservancy network was gradually improved in successive dynasties.

During the Han Dynasty, the farmland water conservancy in the Guanzhong area was fully developed. The Jing, Wei, Luo and other water systems were developed, and large-scale water conservancy network systems such as Longshou Canal, Bai Canal, and Liupu Canal were built successively, which solved the problems in the agricultural development of the Guanzhong area. Problems such as drought and soil salinization have greatly promoted the development of agriculture in Guanzhong.

It is these water conservancies that have made Guanzhong, which originally had relatively dry land, become rich and can "feed, clothe, and feed the capital, with a mouth of hundreds of millions." However, due to the engineering technology of the Han Dynasty, it could not be achieved once and for all. From time to time there would be problems here and collapse there, requiring frequent inspections and maintenance.

Moreover, due to the sediment problem in the Jingwei River, water conservancy facilities such as the Zhengguo Canal will inevitably have silt accumulation. If it cannot be cleaned up in time, it will cause congestion in the waterways...

When Zaozhi had just crossed the Weishui Stone Bridge, a red sun had just risen, dispersing the morning fog on the land of Sanfu.

The red sun shines on the water, making it sparkle with golden light.

Zao Zhi stayed on the bridge for a while, looked east for a while, sighed slightly, and continued to move forward with his agricultural officials.

Zao Zhi hardly participated in any military operations, and did not care about the specific trivial government affairs. Since he came under the Hussar, all the matters under his jurisdiction were related to farming and mulberry. Perhaps others think that dealing with soil and crops all day long has no future. , dirty and tired, but Zao Zhi enjoyed it very much.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with doing this, or how despicable it was to engage in farming.

For Zao Zhi, Mudlegzi may be the most glorious title.

But since when did a country that has attached great importance to mulberry farming and praised farming for thousands of years use "mud-legged" as a derogatory term?

Everyone has his own value in life, especially his own value positioning.

When a person does something, he often has a reason that he can convince himself of.

How to live and how to die?

What is the most valuable thing?

Where is your butt?

Different cultures, different origins, and different growing environments will inevitably lead to different people.

People who only live in their own world of lust are definitely different from those who are willing to raise their heads and look out.

This results in the fact that in most cases, people cannot empathize or gain empathy with each other, just like the Shandong and Guanzhong of the Han Dynasty.

What Shandong insisted on was worthless in Zao Zhi's opinion.

Similarly, what Zao Zhi recognizes and values, many others think is nothing more than that.

Now it seems that the time has come when we must distinguish between right and wrong, and what is the standard used to distinguish right from wrong?

Zao Zhi was thinking, trusting the horse to rein in the horse.

After inspecting a section of Jingshui River, he turned to the Zhengguo Canal and walked along the canal. Suddenly, he found a group of people watching something noisily beside the shack in the distance...

"What are they doing?" ” asked Zao Zhi.

A clerk quickly led people to check, and came back after a while, with a strange expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile.

"whats the matter? 』Zao Zhi was a little curious.

The clerk was a little embarrassed and didn't seem to know what to say, but Zao Zhi asked but couldn't help but answer, so he took a step forward and muttered a few words in front of Zao Zhi.

"What? Male and female seducing each other and making love? 』

Zao Zhi didn't feel any embarrassment at all. He flicked his sleeves and said, "Let's take a look." 』

As he got closer, Zao Zhi saw that among the crowd of onlookers, there were Han people and some barbarians. However, the Han people and the barbarians did not separate and stand on their own sides. Instead, they were mixed together, and there were many barbarians. They just retain some characteristics of the Hu people, and their clothes and speech are very similar to those of the Han people.

In Guanzhong, many Hu people have already settled. These Hu people have basically integrated into the Han Dynasty. Of course, most of the things they do are still their old professions, mainly animal husbandry.

Are you watching the fun? Of course, no one is exempt. It is also a crowd of people watching the male and female. A group of people are marveling at it. No one even noticed that Zao Zhi came...

The clerk helped Zao Zhi clear the crowd and saw a bull and a cow exercising selflessly under the hay shed.

The surrounding crowd was chattering, seemingly providing background music to the bulls and cows.

"This cow is well raised..."

"Isn't it too early? 』

“Isn’t it something that happened in April or May? 』

"It's amazing, it's amazing..."

"..."

"Ah, Zao Sinong... you also... ah, this..." Someone discovered Zao Zhi and wanted to say hello, but at the moment he didn't know how to say hello.

You came in person too?

Did you still eat it?

Zao Zhi waved his hand and looked at the two cows in heat, "Who is in charge of this shed?" 』

Soon, a sultry-looking foreigner from the crowd came out and saluted Zaozhi, "The little one is..."

Proudness is obvious.

This is a public shed, and farmers who do not have cattle at home can come here to rent cattle. Plow at sunrise and return at sunset. If there is any damage, you will be fined and compensated. Therefore, the cattle in this public shed can be said to be the source of livelihood for the herdsmen who guard the public shed. If you raise your family well, you will of course have more income. If you raise your family poorly, you will also need to be held accountable.

Normally, the estrus period of cattle is at the turn of spring and summer, or the turn of autumn and winter, but in fact, cows, like some animals, can actually be in estrus for many years, as long as the material conditions are sufficient and no danger is perceived. The two periods between spring and summer and autumn and winter are only caused by natural factors such as cattle migration and water plants.

Zao Zhi made people record it and praised the herdsmen who kept the cattle sheds.

"Moo..."

The bull was finished, shaking its legs, and was led away.

The cow didn't care about this and had no nostalgia for the tool cow.

The people around him were still pointing at the bull and talking non-stop.

"This cow has a strong physique, broad shoulders and strong legs, so its offspring must also be healthy." 』

"This is an authentic Qinchuan cow!" Look at that coat color! Just like maroon, not a single hair! 』

"But the color of this cow's coat..."

"This is Nanyang cattle, which is considered to be of the highest quality. Its coat color is mainly yellow..."

The Han Dynasty's livestock breeding, breeding, breed improvement and breeding technologies are actually quite mature.

China is uniquely blessed with both cattle and horses. Cattle are the most common large livestock in the Central Plains of China. They are also the most widely distributed and versatile breed of cattle. They are mostly used in dry fields in the north, while buffaloes are mostly used in the south. Both oxen and buffalo can be used to plow the fields.

As for yaks, they mainly provide meat, milk and hair, and are not suitable for farming.

Zao Zhi also tried to cross yak and oxen, and the resulting cows were either long-haired like yaks or short-haired like oxen. Their milk production would be more than that of yaks, and they could also be used for labor. But the strange thing is that These crossbred cattle cannot give birth to the next generation...

This made Zao Zhi a little confused, and he set up a special document for research.

In fact, during each period of stable dynasty in China, a number of agricultural technologies must have developed and matured. However, they were interrupted every once in a while, and some agricultural tools and books were lost. In the years when book preservation technology was low, and in the minds of scholars who did not have a strong understanding of workers' and peasants' knowledge, the importance of technical books on agriculture and workers was often not as important as the classics and history collections.

If China's agricultural development can be uninterrupted, then does it mean that there is no need to continue to accumulate and work repeatedly, and can qualitative changes be achieved earlier?

After all, only with the agricultural foundation can we have industrial development, and only with industrial development can we talk about other things.

Food is the most important thing for the people.

Agriculture is the foundation of a country.

Industry is the iron fist of a powerful nation.

Although Fei Qian was not very knowledgeable in later generations, after all, he had nine years of compulsory education and understood some basic concepts, such as farming tools, land fertilizer rotation technology, ecological planting mentioned in newspapers and TV, and improved livestock breeds. Increase production...

Some Fei Qian knew these concepts relatively well, while others only had a general idea, and then all of them were passed on to Zao Zhi.

Zao Zhi was like a duck that had been stuffed with food, quacking, and then trying its best to digest this knowledge.

The group watched the cows and then went to see the ditch.

Zao Zhi squatted on the edge of the ditch, using a long wooden pole to measure the depth of the mud in the ditch, checking whether there was any damage or leakage around the ditch, and walked along the ditch.

The little official who was recording the matters explained by Zao Zhi also walked and wrote down a wooden slip. He quickly confessed his crime, then walked a few steps quickly, took a new wooden slip, and continued to write down. …

Today, there are many water canal problems in Chang'an, but the main contradictions focus on two aspects. One is the water supply of Chang'an City and various tombs, and the other is the irrigation of cultivated land.

There was no running water in the Han Dynasty. Once the water source was polluted, people downstream would definitely suffer.

Fei Qian had caught the issue of pollution in water sources and inlet canals very early on. However, people are lazy. Some people just like to secretly pour sewage into the inlet canals and discharge waste. Just like in later generations, even if there are cameras, it is not possible to completely prohibit high-altitude throwing objects. What's more, it is impossible for the big man to keep an eye on the water inlet at all times twelve hours a day.

As for water wells, the quality of the water wells in Chang'an is average, many of them are alkaline water, and there are very few sweet water wells. In the past, the population was small and the problem was not big. But now that the population is gradually increasing, the drinking water problem must be solved.

Zao Zhi had a plan to solve this problem. He planned to transform all the water inlets in Chang'an City and Lingyi, change all open channels into undercover canals, and then use a similar closed-pipe supply method to supply water to the city and Lingyi, and then renovate it. Sewers to reduce pollution infiltration...

This is of course a huge project that cannot be completed in a day or two, and it also requires advance planning and preparation.

Before Feiqian established the Bachelor of Agriculture and the Bachelor of Engineering, many gentry children claimed that farming and mulberry cultivation were the foundation of the country, but in fact they were often asked to do farming and mulberry farming, and they often pretended to do so. I don't like it, and I don't want to. On the contrary, some children from poor families are interested in farming and mulberry farming, and because they have no hope of promotion, they turn to the mountains and rivers of Qianmo. However, some of the experience books written by these people have not received mainstream attention and recognition.

Looking at the articles, poems, classics, and literary collections left over from history, we can understand whether there are more books on agriculture and industry, or whether there are more books on Willows, Spring Flowers, and Flowing East.

Nowadays, because Zao Zhi concentrates on farming and mulberry farming, and then becomes a senior agricultural official, these poor people and rural people who like farming mulberry trees feel that they have an upward path, so more and more people gradually come together. , and the number of fantastic ideas, inventions and creations gradually increased.

These people are like a stream of clear water, washing away the originally turbid officialdom of the Han Dynasty, causing the silt in the canals to be lifted up, flowing, and dredged, and then bringing a healthier and more comfortable living environment to the people of the Han Dynasty... …

From the time he left home in the morning, Zao Zhi was busy until the sun began to turn westward, then he finally finished checking and returned home.

Wang Shu is also busy at this time.

Unlike Zao Zhi, who only focused on farming and mulberry farming, Wang Shu's people were much more complicated, and they were all kinds of people, including Taoist priests, literati, and farmers, old, female, and young. There seemed to be no one at all. Laws, but in fact these people all have the same identity - the remnants of the Mohist family.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties fought for hegemony, the Mohist family basically declined, but after all, the Mohist family was the largest society in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, after Wang Shu showed his own value and loyalty, he also began to take over part of the Mohist family's reorganization work. Of course, the Mo family now has a new identity...

Foreign editor of Youwen Division.

When Zao Zhi saw Wang Shu picking at the table, half-smiling but not smiling, he couldn't help but ask, "What's going on again?" 』

When Wang Shu saw Zao Zhi coming back, he quickly got up and stepped forward to help Zao Zhi change into his outer robe. Then he whispered: "There are many people in Chang'an who are inquiring about the whereabouts of Qiao Qi..."

"Huh? ” Zao Zhi was stunned for a moment, “Again? 』

Wang Shu nodded, "There was a scene some time ago..."

"Some time ago? "Zao Zhi pinched his beard and frowned, "Could it be..."

Some time ago, something happened to Shangdang. When the news reached Chang'an, there was an uproar. Many people were inquiring about the whereabouts of Qiusi...

Of course, it is not necessarily that they are intentionally inquiring. They are just being led by certain people to intentionally create an anxious state of mind and uneasiness among ordinary people, in order to achieve their ulterior motives. These people will pretend that they care about Hussar and are worried about the war, and then intentionally or unintentionally say that Hussar is not in Chang'an and has not returned to Sanfu yet. What should we do? What should we do if anything happens? etc.

Some farmers with relatively simple minds were led away by these caring people and walked all the way to the pit. As a result, the news that Fei Qian had quelled the rebellion in the Western Regions finally brought these simple-minded people back. , allowing their attention to shift to the victory in the Western Region.

The result is here again?

Wang Shu smiled softly, "These people, don't they want to destroy their nine clans?" 』

"Don't talk nonsense. ”Zao Zhi shivered and pulled off a piece of his beard.

My mother-in-law is good at everything, but she likes to fight and kill a little bit.

The key is that I still can't beat it...

"These guys are so brave..." Wang Shu said softly, "Do you really think it's useful to pretend to care about the hussar and worry about the third assistant? Does Mr. Wang know which type of people there are the most? 』

Zao Zhi shook his head and said, "I don't know." 』

Wang Shu smiled and said, "Those young people in Shandong who failed the imperial examination... are crazy about becoming officials... I don't have the ability, but they always want to take shortcuts... but they don't know this shortcut. Haha, it's not the case." It’s so easy to leave... I was not prepared before, so I let these people hide in the dark, that’s all, and now they have resurfaced..."

Wang Shu bit his lip, as if he had seen a cat that had caught prey. He squinted and flipped through the document on his hand, "Let's see where these guys are hiding this time..."

Zao Zhi shook his head slightly and clicked his tongue. Seeing that Wang Shu was concentrating on the document summary again, he stood up, put his hands behind his back, and staggered to the backyard.

Wang Shu didn't care either. When the sun set and the light gradually dimmed, I was about to ask someone to light the candles, but I smelled a scent. I suddenly smiled, put away the neat documents, then got up and walked to the backyard.

The farther back you go, the stronger the fragrance becomes.

"Lang Jun, what delicious food did you cook today?" Wang Shu stepped forward and washed his hands to help, "Wow, lamb soup!" 』

Zao Zhi smiled and said, "I got half a new lamb chop yesterday. While it's fresh...well, there's cumin-fried pork in the pot..."

"Very good! ” Wang Shu laughed so hard that his saliva almost dripped, “My husband is unparalleled in the world! 』

"It's better not to talk about this..." Zao Zhi coughed, "Come, eat, eat... the most important thing in the world, eating is the most important..."

Human fireworks.

The aroma of the food wafted among the pots and pans of each household, gathering together and shrouding the sky over Chang'an, forming a faint smoke, filled with an aura of happiness and tranquility, which almost made people forget that they were hundreds of miles away. , and there is a fierce war going on...

Chang'an Sanfu is gradually growing and expanding in this atmosphere of fireworks. Although the current population of Chang'an Sanfu is not as large as that of Jizhou and Yuzhou, one is going up and the other is going down. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, the two curves They will meet together and then go in different directions.