One of the purposes of Liu Pei's rush back was to arrange spring ploughing. Now he has thousands of family members and homeless people under his hands, and food is already a heavy pressure on him! Hundreds of family members can say that the output of several surrounding villages is enough. But the outcasts can't. They just opened up the raw land last year and planted beans, and this year they started to grow grain, and the harvest is like planting one grain and harvesting three grains! So this year, they still want Liu Pei to borrow money to survive. Although Liu Pei will not exploit them, he needs those displaced people to have production as soon as possible so that they can feed themselves and Liu Pei's family.

At the same time, Liu Pei, as one of the big landlords in Jiao, that is, the two counties, is the backbone of the farmers, and he must appear during spring ploughing. Otherwise, you will be poked in the backbone by the villagers and scolded as a lazy. No one wants to follow such a master. Even the homeless people think so! Whenever they have the opportunity, they will change their home. Because the farmers all think that such a lazy man, neither God nor the Lord of the Land will bless him. So he had to keep showing up.

And he had to go back to modern times to buy a batch of farm tools. His blacksmith is still under construction and can't produce anything. The blacksmiths who used to be hired could only produce a small amount of agricultural implements, which was not sufficient at all.

When Liu Pei appeared in Fushan Village and took out a large number of farm tools to distribute to everyone, the entire village chief was thunderous. After everyone tried these farm tools, they all praised the farm tools for being easy to use, they are all made of fine iron, and I am afraid that they can be used for many years!

And everyone was also very satisfied with the seeds distributed by Liu Pei. These seeds are distinctly full-grained, glossy in color, and are excellent seeds. In particular, I heard the villagers of Fushan Village say that after they used Liu Pei's seeds to get a bumper harvest last year, everyone was very determined to protect the seeds of their breakup, which will be the hope of the year.

After Liu Pei completed the preparations for spring ploughing, the county also announced the time for the spring ploughing ceremony. Since Fushan Village is under the jurisdiction of Jimo County, a large number of villagers have flocked to the county seat.

In ancient times, agriculture was mostly practiced slash-and-burn farming, so the year's farming began with the burning of the wasteland, and the people were nervous about the labor, excited by the longing, and regarded the burning of the wasteland as a prelude to a good harvest, and held a cheerful and solemn ceremony. "The Book of Rites: Suburban Special Sacrifice" said: "Ji Chun is on fire, and it is burned." "It's about the ancient ritual of burning the wasteland. The fire is bringing the fire that has been well preserved for the winter to the field and lighting the first fire of the wilderness! In autumn, after the fire is gone, a ceremony is held to collect the fire.

The Son of Heaven of all dynasties attached great importance to agricultural production. Welcoming spring on the beginning of spring and praying for a good harvest is an activity that everyone from the Son of Heaven to the common people must participate in. After welcoming the spring, the ancient kings would lead hundreds of officials out of the palace and personally go to his "one acre and three points of land" to cultivate the land and loosen the soil, in order to show the importance of agriculture and persuade the crops, and pray for a good year. The emperor's spring ploughing is called "pro-ploughing".

According to the "Miscellaneous Records of the Wan Department", the emperor of the Ming Dynasty once "cultivated the fields in the altar of the earth". At that time, after receiving the emperor's order to plough on a certain day of a certain month, the two counties of Wanping and Daxing under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu began to prepare for various matters one month before the ceremony.

First of all, we first went to find dozens of respected and experienced old farmers for etiquette training, and at the same time prepared ploughing cattle and related farm tools.

At the same time, in order to show grandeur and formality, on the day of the official celebration, the "excellent people" of the Teaching Department had to dress up as the gods of wind, thunder, rain and land, and some children dressed up as farmers and peasant women, singing odes to celebrate the peace of the world. Others lined up on both sides with farm tools in hand, waiting for the holy car to arrive. When the emperor holds the yellow dragon velvet whip in his left hand and the golden dragon plough in his right hand to plough the field himself, there will be two "guide officers" in front of him, and two old farmers to assist in supporting the plow.

Old peasants and children who were honored to assist the emperor in completing his own ploughing work would all be beneficial. For example, the people present will each receive two steamed buns and two catties of meat as rewarded by the emperor. When the emperor drove back to the palace, everyone gathered around him with farm tools, and when they reached the noon gate, the old peasants could each get two pieces of cloth, and the others could wait for one. Officials of the Shuntian Prefecture recorded that the emperor spent a total of 89.5 taels of silver on spring ploughing, which was spent by the two counties of Wanping and Daxing.

Liu Pei personally participated in the spring ploughing ceremony. Jimo's county order had already sent a messenger to build a thatched "official factory" on the wasteland next to the Chenghuang Temple in the county seat. On the day of the spring sowing ceremony, the gong and drum team opened the way, blowing and beating all the way forward. The prefectural order followed. The servants carried paper-tied oxen and plows and marched directly from the county government to the "official factory". The gentry and landlords followed. Liu Pei is in this group of people.

Villagers waiting along the road set off firecrackers and threw corn and soybeans at the ploughing oxen in their hands, hoping to pray for a good harvest this year. All the people along the way looked very religious, that is, the children were all serious when throwing soybeans, and no one frolicked. Everyone pinned their hopes on the paper-tied ploughing ox.

After arriving at the official factory, the county order personally burned incense to worship the emperor Tianhou soil, and led the gentry and people to pay a big respect. Liu Pei also knelt down. He saw that everyone who knelt down was so religious. The solemn atmosphere suppressed all superfluous sounds to a minimum. There was silence around the entire officialdom. Even Liu Pei, a person who does not believe in ghosts and gods, was infected and became religious!

After the prefectural order had been prayed three times, a scribe began to recite the sacrificial texts of the heavens and the earth, and burned the watch to worship the heavens. Then everyone gathered around the prefectural order and came to the nearest field. In that field, the ploughing oxen and ploughs were ready. The prefectural order must personally support the plough and follow the ploughing oxen, and plow the land with a plow, indicating that spring ploughing has begun.

At the moment when the county order ploughed the land, the loud cheers of the surrounding people resounded in the sky! Everyone is looking forward to a good year.

After that, it's time for the most lively. After the prefectural order was raised, the officers would lift the paper-tied ploughing oxen and parade through the streets, and they would tour every street in the county. People who see the cattle in the village will cheer loudly and pray for a good harvest this year! Remind people that at the beginning of the new year, the five grains are to be planted, and all industries are to be prosperous, everyone should be lazy, to meet the arrival of the first day of spring ploughing production, and return to the county yamen after traveling through the streets and alleys, and the cattle will be temporarily collected. After the spring is beaten, burn the spring cattle tied with paper.

Liu Pei, who has experienced all this firsthand, can't help but sigh in her heart the importance of land to farmers. This is also one of the reasons why Liu Pei is determined to buy land by himself. Liu Pei's plan is to build a near-modern country, then he needs enough industrial workers. China's peasants are the most industrious, and at the same time the most guarded. If Liu Pei really divided the land for each of their families, then things would be in trouble! These peasants will honestly tending to those few acres of land at home. I won't leave the village unless I have to.

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