After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 114 Montessori Farming Book
After Meng Di returned to Feiyi, he began to take charge of farming. The reason is very simple. Since it is a troubled time, food is the most important thing. The most important thing is to feed the people who live now.

With such a large population, if there is not enough food, it will be a big problem in the future. Mengdi is no stranger to farming, and he knows when and what to plant more than people now.

We must know that farmers these days are better off if they are ordinary people, but as time goes by, land annexation has become more and more serious, but in this era, the so-called land annexation is different from that of later generations.

It just means that those relatively good fields have fallen into the hands of nobles, and many places are still barren. This is an obvious underutilization, and people are not very motivated to open up wasteland now.

Because ordinary people opened up the wasteland and worked hard for several years, but in the end they were forced to be taken away by those nobles. Otherwise, they would not have much enthusiasm, and they even had to watch the sky for food.

After all, it was caused by man-made disasters. Mengdi found out hundreds of experienced farmers, gathered them together, asked them what they knew, and then he had a bottom line.

After going back, Meng Di locked himself in the study with a few civil servants. After a few days of tinkering, a freshly baked agricultural book was completed, and then he ordered these civil servants to memorize the contents of the agricultural book. .

Then go to various places, according to the content of the agricultural book, first distinguish the quality and quality of the land, and then decide what to plant, followed by a set of intensive farming methods, but what is lacking now is the farm tools.

Meng Di sent someone to send a message back, ordering Mo Xie and the others to bring a few people and let them make farm tools full-time.

At this moment, Ji Ran approached him and said in a low voice.

"My lord, the Qi Guotian clan sent someone here, saying that they intend to buy a chariot, and the price they offered is quite good."

After hearing this, Mengdi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked up at Ji Ran.

"Mr. Ji thought of something, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't come here specially for such a thing."

Ji Ran showed worry on his face, and after a long sigh, he said helplessly.

"Exactly, what I'm thinking is that if we sell all these chariots to Qi, I'm afraid the loss will outweigh the gains. Since the main attack is here, I don't want to train the chariot soldiers and want to make a move. However, under the current situation, it is better to It's better to be cautious."

In the final analysis, it was because of lack of strength, Yanghu inside, and Tian clan outside, they all regarded Mengdi as a fish on the chopping board, and they were always eyeing him. Hearing what Ji Ran said, he understood.

"You mean Yang Hu's side, I'm afraid they will become suspicious?"

But Ji Ran nodded without hesitation, with a serious look on his face.

"That's for sure. Yang Hu has always been worried about you, my lord. Now the whole country of Lu knows the great victory we won in Ju. Since they don't know the specific situation of the battle and the capture, they can roughly guess it." .”

Ji Ran's words reminded Meng Di that Tian's coming here to buy the chariot with great fanfare this time must be testing himself. After thinking about it, he came up with an idea.

"Before we gave Yang Hu fifty chariots. Now that Mrs. Tian wants to buy it, and Tian Chang didn't show up in person, it seems that he wants to see if I will train the chariot next. If so, then sell it. Give them dozens of times."

"If Yang Hu wants chariots in the future, it's easy to handle. We can reason that there are not enough craftsmen in hand, and those chariots with light damage cannot be repaired. Let him send some craftsmen over, and then we will take those chariots Repair the car and sell it to him."

"In this way, we will not only gain a group of craftsmen, but also to a certain extent, dispel the suspicions of both parties. The most important thing is Tian's side. This time we don't need money, but all of them need food. Prepare to turn around."

Originally, Mengdi wanted to take it step by step, but the current situation has left him no more choice. Once Qi and Zheng join forces, and then pull Wei, the situation of Lu will take a turn for the worse.

At that time, it is very likely that Tian will cut off all contacts, so as not to arouse Gao Zhang's suspicion, but thinking of this, his heart suddenly moved, and he asked.

"Is there anyone from Guoyuan? I wrote him a letter last time, and there has been no movement until now. I feel that there is always something strange, but I can't tell what went wrong."

Hearing the question, Ji Ran frowned and pondered for a while, then he spoke.

"It's probably inconvenient for the Guo family to contact us right now. There is only one possibility for this to happen, and that is that there may already be some kind of tacit understanding between Qi and Zheng, so now they are planning the next move."

"That's why Guoyuan didn't contact the lord."

Meng Di nodded slowly. He could understand the current situation of Guoyuan. If he said something, it would definitely not be in the interest of Qi State.

"It's too early for Qi State to make wishful thinking. Although Fan Yang is very unpopular in Jin State now, he is a centipede. He is dead but not stiff. Jin State is still powerful today, and Qi State cannot compete with it. They Should have waited a while longer."

After thinking about this, Ji Ran asked.

"Your Majesty, you mean to wait until Zhibi becomes the general of the Jin State?"

Meng Di showed a helpless look on his face, recalling his straight trip to the state of Jin, and said with emotion.

"That's what it means. Zhibi has the temper of a good-natured person. After so many years, he basically can't offend anyone. A person like this can't subdue Zhao Yang at all. When the time comes, there will be chaos in Jin."

There is a bit of nostalgia in these words. The huge state of Jin has been reduced to such a point. It really makes people sigh. Liuqing still puts the fat boy in the office aside and puts all his energy on the internal struggle. .

There is only one Zhao Yang, who seems to be a promising person, but he is too young, and there is no possibility of obtaining a certificate in a short period of time, which is doomed to a period of chaos for the Jin Dynasty.

Naturally, Ji Ran could hear it, and said with some helplessness in his tone.

"Before Fan Yang, the six ministers of the Jin State often had people with a heart in their hearts, so the Jin State's hegemony could last for a hundred years, but now it is really weak to succeed, but this is also the way of heaven."

(End of this chapter)