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Father Lu got up and read the book.

He went straight to the collection, especially the Nine Essentials for New Land Reclamation, which was what he needed most.

But after watching it, he was a little speechless.

Because when Xin Qu wrote this volume of Nine Essentials for Opening Up the Countryside, the first sentence was: "This book is a must-read for civil and military garrisons in local areas. It only conforms to the system of the State of Yan. If other departments want to learn it, they must follow the three laws."

The meaning is very clear. You can learn, but you cannot copy.

Father Lu didn't want to read it anymore, but when he thought about his current predicament, he quickly flipped through it.

“Nine essentials for land reclamation: water, mountains, forests, roads, animals, workers, neighbors, fields, and laws.

The first is water, where there is water, people live. Fishing and hunting by water, flourishing all kinds of skills; friendly relations with neighbors, settlements and reclamation, all start from water.

Secondly, mountains and valleys make a country strong. Building in the mountains makes it difficult for enemies to invade; being high above, ten enemies cannot enter.

The third is the forests, and there is no worry in the suburbs. Build a house with wood, and you will not be afraid of cold or heat; open the house with firewood, and you will not get sick if you cook food.

The four roads are open to the public, so the troops can march quickly. If there are roads, the troops can travel quickly; they can also be used for trade, so that customs duties can be prosperous.

As for the five animals, hunting and herding them strengthens people. Eating their blood and flesh strengthens people's bodies; obtaining their hides warms the bodies of children and grandchildren.

The sixth is that a hundred skills can eliminate troubles. If you use your strength, you can reduce your labor; if you use your skills, you can prosper your family business.

Among the seven neighbors, business will flourish if they are friendly. If they are good, we should love them and have exchanges with them; if they are bad, we should eliminate them and kill them with one blow.

The eight fields can be stabilized by cultivating the land. They can be cultivated and raised according to local conditions. They can deal with drought and flood by regulating the land.

The nine laws are all in place when the people are prosperous. When the granaries are full, people’s hearts will be aroused; when people are arrogant, extravagant and licentious, the three laws must be strictly enforced.

The above nine essentials are listed below one by one: standing on water, being strong in the city, having neat houses, and wide roads.

Hunting and animal hunting are pacified, and the people are not disturbed; industry and business are developed, and the people can make a living; good neighborly relations are also necessary, and thunder and lightning are needed; with the above, the country is just beginning to be established, and agriculture can be developed, adapted to local conditions, and the roots and rhizomes can be removed, and the dung paste can be used with the help of the solar terms and stars, and the agricultural classics can be developed in hundreds of categories.

The sowing is done at the appointed time, and oxen and horses are used for plowing. If there is no plowing, hoes and shovels are used. The king plows the land himself, first determining the area of ​​​​acreage, and then cultivating ridges, so there is no worry about floods and droughts.

Before planting, sieve the seeds, soak them in salt water overnight, remove all the floating seeds, put them in the ground, cover them with cultivated soil, water them when the weather is fertile, and weed them every three to five days.

When the flowers bloom, use bees and butterflies to lure them. If there are no bees, then make them yourself. The stamens have male and female, so you need to distinguish them carefully. Choose the male pollen and apply it to the female pistil.

In autumn, the king would come down in person to pray for the harvest of grain and the beginning of the sickle. He would take the newly made wine to offer to the ancestors, open temples to pray, and sweep the winter away for the people.

In this way, the country and the people will be safe and secure, and the people will be able to settle down in their native land and live there for generations using the old laws to resolve conflicts. Therefore, we will implement the three key laws again.

What are the three laws? The family law is called the clan law, the state law is called the law, and the world law is called the ritual law.

Therefore, if one cannot clean up one's own family, how can one clean up the country? If one cannot clean up one's own country, how can one clean up the world?

If everyone from top to bottom follows this, order will be maintained and the world will be at peace."

After reading it, Mr. Lu recalled the other books Xinqu had written to him before, and suddenly he understood what this book Xinqu had written was about.

It's just the fool-proof teaching in feudal places.

From the very beginning of establishing fiefdoms and states, one needs to focus on water, mountains, and forests. The first point is the most important, as water is necessary for living. As for mountains and forests, they are just an added bonus, as mountains can provide strategic locations, and forests can be used to build fortifications.

Then we consider roads, animals, and workers. Opening roads can communicate with the outside world and with the inside world, so as to obtain the flow of internal and external resources. Hunting wild animals or grazing and fishing can obtain fur and meat to strengthen oneself and keep warm in winter. As for workers, it refers to the ability to transform, not a simple technological development. Lu's father knew very well that the technology Xin Qu brought played a crucial role in the rapid growth of Yan State.

Then comes the consideration of neighbors. Good neighbors should be repaired, and bad neighbors should be eliminated. This represents the two directions of expansion, alliance annexation and foreign war.

After doing all this and the surrounding environment has stabilized, we can start to consider farming, and specifically farming, not grazing.

In this era, herding is actually one of the key strategies of animal husbandry. Nomadism allows for fast movement and makes it convenient to escape when the environment does not allow.

And only after the fields are cultivated and the granaries are filled can one consider the application of the Three Laws, because at this time people are more or less full, and only when they are full will they have other thoughts. The Three Laws are the clan law, the legal law, and the ritual law, which respectively represent family, country, and the world.

After reading it, Father Lu also had some insights. Although this thing is a little stupid, but step by step, when thinking about the situation around him, Father Lu also roughly understood that he had fallen into the fixed trap of agricultural development.

It is believed that farming is necessary to feed more people.

But Xinqu's nine rules for land reclamation had clearly told him not to think too much, but to survive first. Fishing, hunting, gathering, and grazing could all be used for transition. When the environment was stable and suitable, he could expand and engage in farming. When the size reached a certain size, he would naturally need to use the three methods to constrain the upper and lower parts.

Only in this way can there be a future for our family, country and the world.

And Xin Qu's ambitions are also hidden here.

That is to create global recognition from a young age.

"We'll have to ask our retainers to copy this book and read it later. The selection of officials must start with understanding this book." Father Lu's eyes were firm.

Although many strategies are simple, having this thing can save a lot of trial and error costs.

The cost of trial and error is completely different for those who are educated and those who are not.

Especially the current living environment near Yiyi.

The key points about the word "neighbor" touched Mr. Lu the most.

There are mostly enemies around and few good people, so it is difficult to make peace. Zi Ping has come and told him that he can take action against nobles who are not surnamed Zi, which means that Zi Xun is dissatisfied with the fact that he has been doing his own thing behind closed doors for some time.

He had to come into conflict with Hu Fang.

Then follow it.

At least for now, Zixun is still a friendly neighbor and does not dare to attack him openly. After all, he has the support of Yan State behind him.

If Zixun really wanted to attack him, he would run away without saying anything. Anyway, he had already found a passage directly to the Yangtze River, so if it didn't work, he could run to the Yangtze River, or even to a place further south.

As long as the State of Yan remains strong, he will always come back.

But we still have to get some good stuff from them.

But how should I deal with them?
After thinking for a while, he looked at the rows of history books.

Xin Qu once told him that the reason why witches prospered was because they mastered history and mystery, and behind the secrets were the beginning and end of the power struggle.

In addition to force, intelligence is also a magic weapon for humans to win, and sometimes it is even more useful than force.

Because except for absolute force, no one can withstand the crushing of hundreds of people, but intelligence can be used to provoke power.

Use power to suppress force.

All the roots of power can be verified in history.

Reading history is not about reading stories, but about looking at what our predecessors did and applying that to others.

If it were you, what would you do?

Father Lu picked up the "Yan State Poetry Book" and flipped through it. It turned out to be full of poems from the tribes within the Yan State. Many of them were classics, and even the origins of the poems and the stories behind the poems were arranged in chronological order.

Is this considered history?
Father Lu put it down silently and picked up "Eighteen Families" again, which recorded the ancestors, origins, development process, and why the eighteen major clans that merged into the Yan State finally chose to integrate into the Yan State. There were even fragments at the end of each chapter of Eighteen Families, which obviously meant it was not finished.

Father Lu read it for a while and found it quite interesting, as it was full of major and minor events that happened in various noble families. However, it was too literary and required translation bit by bit, which was a bit tiring.

He picked up the last few volumes of "You Yu Shi" again.

"This volume is in the country-specific style. The Eighteen Family Histories is in the chronicle style, and the Yan State Poetry Book is in the chronological style. To read this book, you must supplement the previous two volumes and sort them out to verify each other."

Father Lu just spread out a few scrolls and was immediately stunned.

After thinking carefully about the above records and flipping through the records of the Eighteen Family Histories about the You Yu period, I immediately understood what Xin Qu was doing!
"This is too detailed!" (End of this chapter)