Northern Dynasties

Chapter 23 Prosperity
In the field in the morning, the dew is fresh, rustic and fragrant.

When Li Tai stretched out and walked out of the tent, he saw that the tribal artists were already busy in groups of three or four, scattered among the mountains and fields, picking or mowing, making this pastoral area full of vitality.

"My lord, there are a lot of wild vegetables in the field! I only harvested two hectares of land, and I got dozens of catties. This is wild Polygonum, used as medicine to squeeze the seeds to dye cloth, and this is shepherd's purse..."

Liu Sanzhuo returned to the camp with a rattan basket full of wild vegetables on his back, greeted Li Tai cheerfully, and enthusiastically explained the types of wild vegetables collected.

Li Tai listened with a smile, looking at this man's hearty smile, he couldn't help but sigh that he is indeed full of confidence when doing what he is good at.

Before, Liu Sanzhu was taciturn in the series because he didn't know how to ride a horse. Li Tai thought he was introverted by nature, but today he saw his cheerful side.

The rising sun came into Liu Sanzhao's eyes, and he looked at Li Tai expectantly and said, "Master, farming is busy in spring and summer, and the villagers don't have time to collect. If the fields are more than enough, I want to take the two of them to cover the surrounding fields. Harvest once more. The finished scallops are more than enough for my own use, and can be sold in the city for cloth. My family’s scallop making method is also well-known in the village, and I can support my family with it..."

"It's good to just collect your own farmland, and you don't have to fight for food from the villagers. From now on, Sanzhuo, you will be an ambassador at home. When your family master strives to be high-ranking, you can not only support your family, but also be an official. !"

Li Tai patted the young man on the shoulder and encouraged him with a smile.

Hearing Li Tai's smile, several other people nearby also smiled and bowed to Liu Sanzhuo and shouted "See Ambassador", and a servant woman who was in charge of the cooking also came over and said with a smile: "Ambassador Sanzhuo, do you want a wife or not? My family There is a little lady..."

Liu Sanzhuo blushed from being teased by everyone, emptied the wild vegetables in the basket and ran out of the camp. After running a few feet, he turned around and shouted at the woman in charge of cooking: "Ms. Deng, I don't want your little girl, you If you want to find a partner, can you see me? I work hard to save the dowry for the little lady..."

"Thief, dare to play tricks on your mother!"

Lady Deng was so ashamed when she heard the words, she picked up the clod and threw it at Liu Sanzhu who was running away, and then waved a spoon to hit the noisy people around her, very aggressive.But when he returned to guard the stove, his face was still red like rouge, and his eyes drifted to Liu Sanzhuo who was collecting wild vegetables in the distance from time to time.

Li Tai saw these dramas in his eyes, and was also thinking about them in his heart.

There is no need to hide the lust of men and women.It is also one of the duties of the head of the family to arrange marriages and families for the trilogy.However, if these things are not handled properly, it is easy to breed chaos.

At breakfast, when everyone was returning from work, Li Tai said with a straight face, "The state owns the state laws, and the family has family rules. Since I settled here, I will first make a few family instructions, and you must keep them in mind! This first The point is that you must not bully women and children, and if you dare to violate the law, once the report is verified, you will no longer be a member of our sect, and you will be sent to the official for questioning!"

Seeing the seriousness of what the Lord Lang said, everyone nodded in agreement.Although life is poor now, but the atmosphere of getting along is good, many parts gradually have a sense of belonging in their hearts, and they are reluctant to lose this harmony.

"The country rewards meritorious service with honor and salary, and the family naturally has a system to reward hard work. From then on, one meritorious service will be accumulated every day, and those who have more family merits will have their own rewards. There are men and women who are lonely and want to choose a mate. The relationship is harmonious, and the family contributes money for you to start a family."

When everyone heard this, they subconsciously looked at the twenty women who came with the team this time, and suddenly felt a sense of urgency in their hearts that there were more wolves than meat.

Then Liu Sanzhao finished a bowl of vegetable soup in two or three sips, wiped his mouth and said, "Does the master have any orders? If there are no orders, the servant must hurry up to collect the vegetables. The sun will be exposed, I am afraid that the quality is not good." it is good!"

"There are only so many for now, let's go!"

Li Tai laughed again after hearing the words, waved his hands and said.

All the parts suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and each of them was several times more active than before.

The few women who stayed in the camp were not all happy, after a moment of hesitation, an older woman was pushed out, lowered her head and said in a low voice: "Master Lang loves Shiwu, he is a rare good master in the world. We foolish women dare to ask the lord, if we can, can we also..."

"Are you worried about mismatching wicked people and suffering all your life? Don't worry, the family will not make a marriage book. If you are willing to be married, you can register. If you don't want to, don't force it. If you have accumulated a lot of merit, those clumsy men will also It's up to you to choose!"

In ancient times, in order to increase the population, it was a sin for men and women to marry late or not.However, Li Tai now has less than [-] people in all parts, so he doesn't mind spending more energy to give these men and women a little room for freedom in marriage.Donkey's lips and horse's mouth are bumped into all kinds of bumps, and it is also a kind of torture after a long time.

Women are usually more emotional, and when they heard Li Tai say that, they couldn't help but have red eyes.

The woman who spoke first wiped her tears and bowed again and again: "Thank you, sir, thank you... my dead man went to Lingzhou the year before last, and there was no news as soon as he went there. The clan was greedy for me and wanted to marry my uncle. I took my two children and ran away." But he was captured by the government, and the youngest was lost, leaving a mother and son as slaves. Whether that man lives or dies, I just want to support his flesh and blood. I must work hard and never live in vain..."

In troubled times, the most indispensable thing is human tragedy.

Li Tai didn't know how to comfort him, but he just said, "Miss Xu, don't worry, no one is forcing you. I know that you are good at weaving and can cut, and your family's clothes and hats will be made by you. When the situation is calm in the future, I will design The whole family learns to educate children, and when your husband returns home and sees that the child has become a bachelor, he will definitely appreciate your education skills!"

When Miss Xu heard this, she was so excited that she burst into tears: "I must, I must make a beautiful official robe for the Lord! The Lord bestows such a gift on his servants, and if he does not become a high-ranking official, he has no conscience..."

"Then I'll take your auspicious words and work hard! Well, get busy. I'll go around and give my family more homework!"

Li Tai drank two large bowls of vegetable soup, stood up patted his buttocks, and walked up the mountain with the two of them.

Nowadays, flat land and open fields are the basis for producing rations, but Li Tai knows his own affairs, and when it comes to intensive farming, after all, the ancients are the real experts.

It's really hard for him to come up with any constructive planning suggestions because he knows what's going on but doesn't know why. So he doesn't make random arrangements for the cultivation of open fields.At most, improve the farm tools, such as building a curved plow.

His greatest advantage as a traverser should be his advanced knowledge of various production tools and techniques.

There is no need to think about the big iron and steel smelting now.Even if he has a little bit of knowledge, he doesn't have any practical experience at all. Even if he studies it, he has to go through a lot of trial and error, which is obviously not what his current family can support.

Li Tai's first thought was to transform the spinning wheel and loom.After all, Guanzhong market transactions, including the collection of taxes by the imperial court, are mainly cloth and silk.Therefore, the spinning wheel and loom are money printing machines in this era.

The gold and iron horses of the post-Three Kingdoms may be magnificent, but the foundation that really maintains the progress and development of this era is spun by women with their hands and feet.

To what extent the textile level of the Northern Dynasties had reached, Li Tai really didn't know very well.Asking about the weaving tools used by Shiwu maids, they are also vague, and they seem to have hand and foot pedals.

After all, in the era of war and chaos, the confrontation between regions has greatly restricted the exchange and development of technology and tools.

But even if he doesn't understand the textile level of this era, it will not hinder Li Tai's improvement and creation of the spinning wheel and loom.

As a hardcore ancient style UP master, the textual research on ancient textile tools is also one of the basic homework.He's not one of those flirtatious people who follow Hanfu girls to take pictures to earn traffic, and he even restored some ancient weaving tools by himself.

Although most of the ancient textile tools that can be seen in later generations were in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, due to the introduction of cotton, the textile environment and technology have greatly changed compared with the Middle Ages.But cotton fiber is shorter than silk and hemp, and some improved technologies can also be used in silk and hemp weaving, and the technical requirements are even lower.

On the way out of the city yesterday, Li Tai saw many pools of retting pools in the countryside, and got a lot of inspiration in his mind.

The first thing he thought of was to build a large water spinning wheel, which was a large textile tool invented in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was driven by water to process hemp strands into hemp yarn. With sufficient power, it could spin more than one hundred catties of hemp a day If converted into the Northern Dynasty's measurement system, it would be nearly three hundred catties.

Li Tai also asked how much hemp the women in Buqu could spin in a day, hand-spun yarn was only five or six catties, and spinning wheels with three spindles could only spin a little over ten catties.

In such a comparison, the advantages of technological development are reflected, a full [-] times increase in productivity!Others print one yuan and fifty cents, but he pays thirty or fifty cents. It is not a dream to buy all the products in Guanzhong like this!
The structure of the water-turning spinning wheel is relatively complicated, and later generations of Li Tai only scaled it down and restored it after overturning the wheel countless times, so they have a deep memory of its scale and structure.This big spinning wheel is mainly made of wood, so Li Tai went up the mountain after breakfast to find suitable wood, and tried to print money as soon as possible to show off.

When Li Tai came to the hillside, Yang Heili, who was leading a team looking for qualified pottery clay, strode up to meet him. Li Tailue asked them how they had harvested, and waved his hand to signal them to go at their own pace. He then walked into the woods with two followers.

The soil layer on the hillside is thick and the vegetation is dense. All kinds of vegetation that Li Tai knows or doesn't know grow vigorously.However, there are few large logs with large diameters, and there are quite a lot of large and rotten tree stumps. It is obvious that the villagers of Zuojin have been going up the mountain to cut down.

Seeing a thick layer of elm money spread under several elm trees on the southern slope, Li Tai ordered: "Go down the mountain and call a few idlers from the camp to come over and pick up elm money. Take some of the acacias as well."

With a thin family and poor food and clothing, he has already integrated into the environment very well, and he is not willing to waste even these wild animals in the mountains and forests.

After giving these instructions, Li Tai turned his head and looked down the mountain, his expression suddenly changed.In the distant fields, there were dark crowds waving sticks, wading through the ditches, and coming towards his hometown.

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