Warring States Eagle

Manure has indeed played a great role in the farming of the people.And in order to collect manure, the people have already gone to the extreme.The "picking up cow dung" introduced earlier is one of them.

The second method is a bit scary, but also a bit more courageous and skillful.This method is to "steal" pig manure.

Why "steal"?

In places that lack wild animals, bears and wild boars are the most ferocious big animals.After all, the tigers and lions spread from the Ming Dynasty are all things described by others, and only those that can be seen and touched are ferocious beasts.In the local area, wild boar is the most common beast.

Don't confuse wild boars with our common domestic pigs.Not to mention this era, even in his previous life, Zheng Liang often heard reports about wild boars "gnawing" on people.In this era, the wild boar, the king of the wild, is even more vigorous.The locals even called the warrior who killed the wild boar a "pig-fighting hero", which is almost equivalent to the Chinese "tiger-fighting hero".

Not to mention, in this era, there are really many famous generals who became famous for killing wild boars when they were young.For example, Zhengliang is a typical example.When he first became the lord, he took a group of leaders to the forest to bring a litter of wild boars.It was through the reputation of killing wild boars that Zheng Liang quickly established an unquestionable prestige among the citizens.To this day, when the detectives of the territory promote Zhengliang inside and outside the Luo family's territory, the title of "pig-killing hero" still cannot escape.

Now, in order to collect manure, these leaders ran into the forest to find the wild boar's nest, and then stole the wild boar's excrement from the nest.This is really audacious.It really feels like touching a tiger's butt.

The last method is a bit of a headache for the village head and the cabinet.Inside the territory, where is the most manure?Needless to say?Naturally, it is someone else's dung cellar.Therefore, manure is often stolen from the homes of the leaders in the village (it is considered incredible. Even in the rural areas of China in the 80s, it is very common to buy and sell manure and steal manure).

Whenever this time.As the head of the village or town in charge of civil and agricultural affairs, it is the most troublesome time. Sometimes such things even cause troubles in the local cabinet (currently the cabinet of the Luo family only extends to the county, and has not yet been refined. to towns or even villages).

Although the locals made a lot of troubles in order to collect manure, in any case, in this era of lack of chemical fertilizers, these manures did greatly increase the yield of crops.

After inspecting the fields, Zheng Liang walked into the village instead.

Although the use of cement and bricks and tiles has been vigorously promoted in the Luo family's territory, these things above are mainly things that the rich and powerful and the retainers and warriors of the Luo family can afford (this is part of Zheng Liang's deliberate consumption of their wealth. In this way, lest they get more wealth, but produce more desires).In general rural areas, most of the houses are still grass-mud houses.

The so-called grass-mud house is to build a few wooden pillars on the selected ground to enclose the house, and then use these wooden pillars as the basis to pile up the soil foundation, build grass-mud board walls, and finally cover the roof with thatch.Most of the residents' residences are grass-mud houses like this. The only wooden boards are used as sliding doors, and the windows are made of wooden sticks cut from tree branches.Wealthier citizens will live in wooden houses.

The so-called plank house has a similar interior structure to that of a grass-mud house.However, the house is bigger, and there are a few more wooden boards laid on the ground.In the homes of some people with better conditions, a few tatami straw mats will be spread.

But whether it is a grass-mud house or a wooden house, they all have the same characteristics on the roof.That is to prevent many thick sticks and stones on the roof.

Why is this so?

It turns out that a house with such a structure is too weak, especially the roof.Once a typhoon blows, these roofs are likely to be blown away by the typhoon, so so many things are pressed on the roof.But Zheng Liang couldn't help thinking, what would the local people do if there was an earthquake?Such a house should easily collapse.However, now it seems that such a house is also beneficial, because even if it collapses, it will not cause too many casualties, unlike the tofu dregs projects in a certain country in the future, where a lot of people will die in one shock.The most ridiculous thing is that they are still deliberately promoting those stories of saving lives but deliberately ignoring how those tofu projects appeared in the first place.The reality of sacrificing oneself to save others must be publicized, but some culprits must not be let go.

In general, after several years of development, the Luo family has brought a lot of changes to the people of the territory. These changes include a stable living environment; field farming that only needs to pay taxes to the daimyo once; Eat well and dress warmly; children can raise and grow up healthily; the physical fitness of the residents has also improved; children can learn cultural knowledge for free; life has hope and hope.As for the next step, Zhengliang hopes to improve the living environment of the residents, so that at least a large number of people can live in wooden houses.

After entering the village, Zheng Liang randomly chose a courtyard and walked in.The layout of this courtyard is a bit like a courtyard house in the Ming Dynasty. There is a main room for living and two side rooms for storage. There is a small empty space in the middle of the three rooms. The house and the yard are surrounded by simple tree branch fences. .The purpose of these fences is not to keep out thieves, but to enclose the chickens in the yard.

These chickens are all gradually bred from the pheasants in the agricultural experiment manor in the backyard of the Hachiman Daibodhisattva Shrine at the foot of Yegao Mountain.After so many years of development, the small pheasant coop there at the beginning has grown into a huge chicken shed with hundreds of pheasants in it.And after these pheasants hatch more chicks, the Cabinet will wait until these chicks grow to a certain level, and then transport them to various parts of the territory for sale to the local people.So at this time, almost most of the people in the Hizen Kingdom will have a few domesticated chickens in their homes.This situation gradually began to expand to Chikugo and Higo countries.

As far as Masara knew, in other daimyo's territories, the common people didn't have any chickens at all, and some rich families might have two chickens laying eggs in their homes.There is also a rooster that serves as a territorial alarm clock.So just by raising chickens, one can see the living conditions of the people in the Luo family's territory.

But there is a situation here that makes Zheng Liang dumbfounded.Although the members of the Luo family's territory can raise one or two pheasants.However, due to the poisoning of temples and shrines in the past, many ordinary citizens are now reluctant to eat meat.So even if they are weak and have a few chickens at home, they will not take the initiative to kill chickens to make soup for food (it may also be that the locals regard these chickens as very important property and are not willing to eat them).

Randomly opened a room (should be the main room), and Zheng Liang found that the floor inside was made of mud floor.There is a wooden cabinet, a water tank, a grain tank, and a few broken clay pots in the room, but there is no other furniture.

And in the center of the room is a square pit, surrounded by wooden boards, this should be the firepit.

This firepit is the most important facility in the life of an ordinary household.The firepit is usually used for cooking, lighting at night, and heating in winter. The whole family lives around the firepit at night, and even sleeps on the wooden boards around the firepit (to avoid rheumatism from sleeping on the ground).

Don't think that you can use oil lamps instead of fire pits for lighting at night.Not to mention the extremely expensive kerosene lamps that ordinary citizens may not see once in a lifetime, even half of the rapeseed oil lamps are luxury items for ordinary citizens.Therefore, Zhengliang used kerosene to attack the enemy's formation or burn down the enemy's city gate, and what he burned was money.

At this time, after learning the identities of Zheng Liang and the others, the two owners of the yard knelt on the ground in fear.Zheng Liang took a closer look at the two people. The man looked to be only about 20 years old, and the woman was even younger, so I can't guess.It looks like this is a newly married couple.

"Huh!" Zheng Liang couldn't help being surprised when he looked at the couple again.

"Are you from the Ming Dynasty?" (To be continued...)