Fei Qian's dream of taking a good rest was once again delayed, but Zao Yi and Du Yuan, who rushed to help, brought new problems, first of all, Du Yuan said about Tai Shiming's workshop.

First of all, there is the problem of bamboo paper.

There is a shortage of raw materials for the manufacture of bamboo paper.

Because the entire Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, and even Jingzhou and Yanzhou have fallen into a chaotic situation, the princes of all walks of life have conquest each other, resulting in a sharp increase in the cost of the vendors who originally transported the bamboo rafts......

Then there was also a problem with the use of bamboo paper.

Fei Qian's master Cai Yong, because he likes this bamboo paper, so the papermaking workshop over there is also a lot of supply to Cai Yong, but Cai Yong often sends the bamboo paper out at will, and then comes to the workshop to ask for it, resulting in the original reduction of the production of bamboo paper is even more scarce......

If this is still not a big problem, then what Tai Shiming said next made Fei Qian frown.

Near the workshop, there were many peepers.

Because Fei Qian transferred most of Pingyang's troops to attack Yinshan, relatively speaking, the guard force near the workshop was weakened a lot, so some people thought that this was naturally an excellent opportunity......

These so-called disciples of the surrounding Xiaoshi clan did not like the crafts in these workshops in Pingyang or were interested in studying these production and life techniques, but they were looking at the money they could obtain. In this era, a craft can feed a family, and an exclusive technology can support the inheritance of a family.

“…… Wen Zheng," Fei Qian thought for a moment and said, "...... The matter of bamboo paper, let's reduce it...... Cai Zhonglang's side, let me explain...... As for the people who peep into the workshop, you can inform Zijian, and then transfer a hundred horsemen to you and Zijian, and set up a boundary monument near the workshop first...... Then, if you dare to cross the line, cut it! ”

Du Yuan made a gesture with a slight suspicion, meaning to ask if he was really caught, he would be killed on the spot?

Fei Qian nodded heavily, these children of the scholar clan who came to peep at the craft technology are generally not people from a big family, most of them are just some side branches, in this era when there is not much justice, killing a group of small minions to those who are hiding behind is the simplest and most effective way to deal with it.

Du Yuan saw that Fei Qian had decided, so he didn't say anything more, so he took the order and left, but Fei Qian couldn't find a better solution to the problem on Zaoyi's side for a while......

This year's weather is even colder, and the spring rains either do not fall for a long time, or it is a short period of heavy rain, this bad weather has caused many fields to either drought or waterlogging, and some wheat seedlings have not been able to sprout in time......

Although I rushed to replant some time, it is estimated that this year's harvest may not be as ideal as last year.

Although Fei Qian knew a silhouette of the greenhouse technology, and in order for the emperor to eat some vegetables in winter, the Han Dynasty also ordered a lot of scientific and technological highlights of agricultural technology, resulting in the technology of creating out-of-season vegetables in two ways: heating by the earth dragon and heating by the stove......

But the problem is that Feiqian is not a piece of land or an area of one or two acres now, but such a vast area, even if the glazed tiles do not need labor and cost, but there is no way to achieve full coverage.

On the one hand, a large amount of farmland was destroyed in the war, and on the other hand, the princes everywhere continued to recruit troops, and even began to arrest strong men, and at the same time, in order to attack the strength of the other party, they even did not hesitate to carry out massacres......

This serious destruction of the agricultural economy also led to a sharp decline in the entire grain production, resulting in famine, which caused a large number of people to die, and these large numbers of displaced people also produced the occurrence of plague, which aggravated this vicious circle.

Therefore, starting from this year, it has become almost impossible for Fei Qian to transfer grain and grass from the outside world here, and the princes from all walks of life are not even able to supply their own, how can it be possible to allow the grain and grass under their jurisdiction to flow out?

Then developing its own agriculture to resist the approaching natural disasters has become another livelihood problem that needs to be solved urgently.

Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period, the small peasant economy in the Han Dynasty was much more than that of the Spring and Autumn Period because of the increasingly powerful centralized feudal system, and the labor and other affairs assigned to each household were much more than those in the Spring and Autumn Period, so the number of people in a household was correspondingly less than that in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Han Dynasty, a household was basically based on a rough estimate of five people, in which such a family was an average of two strong laborers, so generally speaking, under the current production technology conditions, the field that a family can cultivate is limited, beyond the scope of manpower, even if more land is given, extensive cultivation will not bring better production benefits.

Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to expand the number of cultivated fields, on the other hand, it is also necessary to increase the agricultural population, fortunately, the land of Yinshan can provide Feiqian with the best place to increase its strength, in the area of the north of Bingzhou, there are only three pieces of land suitable for cultivation that are relatively flat, one is the fertile Hetao Houyuan in the south of Yinshan, one is the area from Pingyang to Hedong, and another is the basin from Shangdang to Taiyuan.

"The population matter ......," Fei Qian said to Zaoyi, "...... I can't rush for the time being, and I still need to wait for the right time...... Also, what is the matter of the preferred seed test plot that you talked about last time? ”

Zao only shook his head, sighed slightly and said: "It's still a bit of a problem, although it is the same batch of excellent seeds, but the field is still good and bad, planted for two seasons, and the usual fine field does not have much advantage......"

"That's right...... Fei Qian muttered, "...... Or continue to farm and sift through more...... If you can't see it in one or two seasons, it may be clearer in the follow-up of several seasons......"

After Zao only took over the matter of Pingyang's agriculture, under Fei Qian's suggestion, he began to select seeds for experimental farming, but this thing was more difficult than Fei Qian's imagination, and the genes of crops such as wheat millet were far more complicated than Fei Qian's simple biological knowledge of "AABB" and "aabb......

So Fei Qian can only keep a correct direction to do it now, but I don't know when the desired result will appear, and it may take a long time.

So in the current period of time when agricultural technology cannot be greatly improved, there is only one way to solve the problem, that is, how to obtain more people to survive the upcoming national famine?