Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 455

However, it is very important to open a temple like Guo Tai and Guo Linzong to teach ancient classics, but they don't know the most urgent thing.

The most urgent thing now is to resume farming.

Yong'an is still a little better, but the young crops are damaged, so it only needs to be replanted. Here in Pingyang, besides plowing the soil, there is another very important and urgent matter, which is to restore the canal irrigation...

The water source closer to Pingyang County is Fenshui.

It is said to be relatively close, but in fact there are more than 20 miles away.

Fei Qian let Ma Yue continue to deal with Baibo's affairs, and took Jia Qu and Huang Cheng along the dilapidated canal all the way east.

The canal runs along one side of the pipeline, and it can be seen that it was originally paved with bricks and stones, and the structure is relatively complete, but in some places, people trampled on beasts, and some were damaged and collapsed. Overgrown grass.

A group of people followed the direction of the canal and slowly rode forward on the pipeline.This official road is relatively flat, of course, according to the standards of this era, or according to later generations, it is a gravel road without shell craters.

Fei Qian tapped with his fingers on the horseback, the road, the nearby field ridges with some traces, and the shrubs and stalks in the distance: "At this time, what will be compared with replanting?" Suitable?"

Jia Qu blushed a little, and said, "This...my lord, Qu Wei is not involved in farming..."

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

Huang Cheng smiled and shook his head.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, in the early Qin Dynasty, millet was the main land in the northern land, but later because of the yield per mu of wheat... well, it was because there were more fields, so it gradually changed to wheat..." Fei Qian said while thinking, "South of the big river In the Jingzhou and Yangzhou generations, due to the moist land and convenient irrigation, rice with higher yields was mainly used..."

Fei Qian remembered when he went south to Jingxiang, he talked with the old farmers in the fields, and also remembered the Zaozi Jing who liked green grass and other crops under the deer mountain...

Perhaps with such a large piece of land, let it be messed with, it is estimated that it will be very happy to run wild in the fields...

Inexplicably, Fei Qian suddenly remembered a husky that couldn't be pulled, and quickly shook his head to get this unreliable picture out of his mind.

"The five grains of the Han Dynasty, millet, bean, hemp, wheat, and rice, are the most planted now, and there are also millet and sorghum that are very suitable for planting on this piece of land... Therefore, our piece of land is still more suitable for planting Some crops that are resistant to cold and drought..." Fei Qian said slowly, now is not the age of nutrition, but the age of not being able to eat enough, so whatever has a high yield is suitable for planting...

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes…

Has it been passed on to Southeast Asia now?Probably not yet...

But if it is in the Americas, it is really too far away. Although the Little Ice Age is coming soon, and the Bering Strait is estimated to be frozen, but this cotton without warmth, only relying on animal fur and oil, maybe ordinary Han people are There is absolutely no way to adapt, maybe relying on Dongyi, the fishing and hunting people in the northeast, Xianbei or Wuheng?

If you go by water, it will be even more difficult. Only those gentry in Yangzhou who have some contacts with Nihong can build ocean-going ships...

In later generations, Fei Qian remembered that there was an idle guy who made a calculation that he didn't know what rules to follow. How many times the amount of information contained in an ordinary Times was that of the ancients?

forget.

In fact, this is the difference...

Fei Qian thought quietly, many ancient people may know that there is a problem with the system and the rules, but they have no direction to solve it, and they don't know if there is an answer, so they can only be affected by mountains, seas, deserts, and cold soils. Enclose this piece of land and desperately increase these limited things. When you see something, you will pull it a little bit. You will sit under your buttocks, staring at this piece of land under your nose, and you will not let go until you die...

It's no wonder that the Chinese people of later generations were so miserable by the house, and they were happy. In fact, this is an invisible gene that has been formed in the blood for thousands of years.

Now Fei Qian knows where the problem is. Although he is fully aware of the solution, at least his eyes are on the whole world, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America outside the continent...

Fei Qian got off his horse and walked a little towards the canal beside the road. He looked at the long canal not far away, extending from the Fenshui River. It was not deep, mostly muddy, with some depressions. Under the daily rain, the weeds in the canals still retain some moisture from below, which shows that at least the water-proof effect of stone bricks in these parts of the canals still exists.

Fei Qian looked at the land next to the official road, the ridges left by the former plowing fields, this piece of land should have been the fiefdom of the Marquis of Pingyang.

The government's water conservancy facilities are built to meet the irrigation needs of this field first...

"The water in Fenshui is sufficient, but if it is far away from this canal, the other fields..." Fei Qian narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, "Look, these lands are actually not very far from the water source, but... Lack of water."

"In fact, the amount of water in Fenshui is enough to support the irrigation of the entire land, but because the canal is on the old Pingyanghou's field, it must be irrigated by the Pingyanghou in order to receive some excess water, and can One hundred percent, not only here in Pingyang, most of the government-built canals in the world will not get too much water..."

"Liang Dao, do you know why?"

Jia Qu thought for a while and said, "...Because too much water has damaged the seedlings?"

"Everything close to the water source is mostly fiefdom or the land of a big family. These people's own fields are full of water. Who cares about 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 anyone borrow money, how can someone be unable to survive and sell their land, and how can they expand their land area year by year?” Fei Qian sneered.

Therefore, it will be found that although it is close to the water source, the country 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 carry water by themselves. The production of field plants decreases, and then they cannot pay the country's taxes, and then a vicious circle continues until the field is sold...

There is a shortage of water near the water source, which is actually the reason.

As for the whole world, who can be blamed for the failure to increase the output of the fields?

Those muddy legs who stick their feet in the mud every day will understand why the canals are always broken and why they are not repaired well?
The emperor sitting on the throne will understand why the water conservancy fee is allocated every year, but the reason is either flood here or drought there every year?
　In the Han Dynasty, the main crops and vegetables were all ready, but there was a lack of spices, oil crops, high-volume crops, and cotton...

　　It seems that at this time there is already cotton planting, because cotton still has seeds more or less in Asia, India, Arabia...

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

　　Mother Earth is actually very fair, isn’t it? If you give a little to a place, you can advance in technology anyway, but you don’t care about the specific progress...

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

　　Human beings, mixed blood and migration, are the development boosters of civilization...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)