Three Kingdoms

However, it is very important to open monasteries like Guo Tai and Guo Linzong to teach ancient classics, but they do not know the most urgent thing.

The most urgent thing now is to resume farming.

Yong'an is slightly better, but the green seedlings are damaged, so it only needs to be replanted. But here in Pingyang, in addition to plowing the soil, there is also a very important and urgent matter, which is to restore canal irrigation...

The water source relatively close to Pingyang County is Fenshui.

It is said to be relatively close, but in fact it is more than twenty miles away.

Fei Qian asked Ma Yue to continue dealing with matters related to Bai Bo, and he took Jia Qu and Huang Cheng eastward along the dilapidated canal.

The water channel runs along one side of the pipe. It can be seen that it was originally paved with bricks and stones, and the structure is relatively complete. However, in some places, people have trampled on animals, causing some damage and collapse. In addition, there is no one to look after it, and the silt is seriously blocked. Overgrown grass.

The group of people followed the direction of the canal and rode their horses slowly on the pipeline. This official road is relatively flat. Of course, this flatness is based on the standards of this era. Perhaps according to later generations, it is just a gravel dirt road without shell craters.

Fei Qian leaned on his horse and pointed with his fingers, the road surface, the vaguely traced field ridges nearby, and the shrubs and grasses further away: "At this time, what will be better for replanting?" suitable?"

Jia Qu blushed and said: "This... Lord, Qu is not engaged in farming..."

Fei Qian nodded and said: "It's okay, I didn't know it before, but I just got a little bit of it when I was studying in Jingxiang... Uncle Ye, do you know?"

Huang Cheng chuckled and shook his head.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, the northern land of the Qin Dynasty was dominated by millet. Later, due to the wheat yield per acre... well, there was more field output, it gradually changed to wheat..." Fei Qian said while thinking, "South of the river In the Jingzhou and Yangzhou generations, because the land was moist and irrigation was convenient, they mostly used rice with higher yields..."

Fei Qian recalled talking to the old farmers in the fields when he went south to Jingxiang, and also recalled the Zaozi Jing who liked grass and other crops under Lu Mountain...

Maybe with such a large piece of land left to be messed with, I would probably be happy to run wild in the fields...

Inexplicably, Fei Qian suddenly thought of a husky that he couldn't hold back, and quickly shook his head to get this unreliable image out of his mind.

“The five grains of the Han Dynasty, millet, bean, hemp, wheat, and rice, are the most cultivated now. There are also broomcorn millet and sorghum that are very suitable for planting on this land... Therefore, our land is still more suitable for planting. Some cold-resistant and drought-resistant crops..." Fei Qian said slowly, now is not the era of nutritional matching, but the era of not having enough to eat. Therefore, whatever has high yield is suitable for planting...

Potatoes and sweet potatoes…

Has it spread to Southeast Asia now? Probably not yet...

But if it's in the Americas, it's really too far away. Although the Little Ice Age is coming soon, the Bering Strait is expected to freeze, but there is no cotton to keep warm, and they only rely on animal skins and oils. Maybe ordinary Han people are There is absolutely no way to adapt. It is possible to rely on Dongyi, the fishing and hunting people in the Northeast, Xianbei or Wuheng?

If we go by water, it will be even more difficult. Only the nobles in Yangzhou who have some contacts with Ni Hong can build ocean-going ships...

In later generations, Fei Qian remembered that there was once an idle guy who made a calculation based on unknown rules. How many times the amount of information contained in an ordinary Times newspaper was that of ancient people?

forget.

In fact, this is the difference...

Fei Qian thought quietly that many ancient people may have known that there were problems with the system and faults in the rules, but they had no way to solve it and did not know if there was an answer. Therefore, they could only be surrounded by mountains, seas, deserts, and cold soil. They tried their best to increase the limited number of these things on this piece of land. They would pull out the little things they saw. They would sit under their buttocks and stare at the land under their eyes. They would not let go until they died...

No wonder the Chinese people of later generations were so miserable and happy with being cheated by houses. In fact, this is an invisible gene flowing in the blood that has been formed over thousands of years.

Now Fei Qian knows where the problem is. Although he is fully aware of the solution, at least his vision is the whole world, including Asia, Europe, Africa, and beyond the continent, there is the Americas...

Fei Qian got off his horse and walked a little further to the ditch beside the road. He looked at the long ditch not far away, which extended from Fenshui River. It was not deep and was mostly silt. There were some depressions in the first few rows. Under the daily rain, the weeds still in the ditches retained some moisture from below, indicating that at least the water-proofing effect of the stone bricks in these parts of the ditches still existed.

Fei Qian looked at the land next to the official road, the remaining ridges of the former cultivated fields. This piece of land should once have been the fiefdom of Pingyang Marquis.

When the government's water conservancy facilities are built, they first meet the irrigation needs of this field...

"The Fenshui River has sufficient water, but if we are far away from this canal, other fields..." Fei Qian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, "Look, these fields are actually not very far from the water source, but... Lack of water.”

"In fact, the amount of Fenshui water is enough to irrigate the entire land, but because the canal is on the old Pingyanghou's field, it must be irrigated by Pingyanghou in order to receive the excess water flow, and it can To be 100% sure, not just here in Pingyang, but in most government-built canals in the world, no more water will enter..."

"Liang Dao, do you know why?"

Jia Qu thought for a moment and said, "...because too much water damaged the seedlings?"

"Everything close to water sources is mostly either fiefdom or land owned by large households. These people's own fields are full of water. Who has the mind to care about the fields that are not theirs? How much water can the fields of ordinary Guizhou leaders have? For For them, if ordinary farmers don't reduce their production, how can people come to borrow money, how can some people sell their fields if they can't afford it, and how can they expand their land scope year by year?" Fei Qian sneered.

Therefore, you will find that there is obviously a water source nearby, and the country obviously allocates money to build canals every year, but there is no water, and the fields are short of water, and then the farmers are forced to fetch water themselves. If they really can't survive, they can only let it go. The production of field plants decreases, and then the state's taxes cannot be paid, and then a vicious cycle begins until the fields are sold...

This is actually the reason why there is a shortage of water despite being close to a water source.

As for the whole world, if the field output cannot be increased, who can be blamed?

Those mud-legged people who stick their feet in the mud every day, will they understand why the drains are getting old and broken and why they cannot be repaired?

Will the emperor sitting on the throne understand why water conservancy fees are allocated every year, but there is always flooding here or drought there?

During the Han Dynasty, the main crops and vegetables were all ready, but there was a lack of spices, oil crops, high-yield crops, and cotton...

It seems that cotton was already being planted at this time, because cotton seeds still exist in Asia, India, Arabia...

Long-staple cotton seems to be also in America...

Mother Earth is actually very fair, isn't it? If you give a little bit of space to a place, you can advance in science and technology anyway, but you don't really care about the specific success...

Africa seems to have been used to store humans during the Great Ice Age, and then the migration path began after the glaciers receded...

Human beings, mixing and migrating, are the boosters of the development of civilization...