The Tian family has few idle months, and people are busy in May. The south wind rose at night, and the wheat was covered with yellow.

The woman and aunt eat lotus, and the child carries the pot pulp. He went with Yutian, and Ding Zhuang was in Nangang.

The feet are steaming in the summer and the sun is burning in the back. I don't know the heat, but I regret the long summer.

And there was a poor woman, with her arms beside her. The right hand holds the relic, and the left arm hangs the basket.

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The Tang Dynasty poet's "Guankarima" is also applicable to this era. From January to May, in the vast areas of the Guanzhong Plain and the Central Plains, the peasant households will start to busy the summer harvest and work diligently for the grain in their mouths.

In Liaodi, the busiest is the spring sowing season in March. Because Yan is located in the north of the Central Plains, due to the influence of climate and geographical location, the grain can only be ripened once a year, and it cannot be twice a year in other countries in the Central Plains such as Qin.

Therefore, after Ji Kang came to Liaodi, he paid more attention to food. If you can't double cropping a year, you can supplement it by expanding the yield per mu and increasing the grain yield per mu!

The spring sowing season in March every year seems to be the most sacred in the eyes of the people of Yan Country in this era. From the king to the farmers, they must put down everything they have at hand and pay attention to the spring sowing of the Yan Kingdom.

Xiangping College is naturally no exception, as a base for training future officials and heads of various departments and industries in Liaoning. Spring sowing, autumn harvest, and other agricultural and mulberry disciplines must be studied and familiar to all students, and in order to improve grain varieties, they must also go to the forefront of this era. To this end, 3,000 acres of experimental fields have also been allocated around Xiangping College.

As the most outstanding agronomist of this era, Dean Zou Yan attaches more importance to this.

Standing on the edge of the experimental field assigned to Xiangping Academy, Ji Kang and the gentlemen such as Ju Xin, Zou Yan, and Lu Zhonglian who followed behind him, like the officials of various counties and counties in Liaodi, wore thick opera costumes, danced the "Scattering Five Grains" Wu opera dance, and prayed to the heavens.

Ji Kang held the quyuan plow in his hand, personally went to the field, and started spring sowing in the experimental field of Xiangping College. Then Zou Yan, the dean of the college, shouted, and all the gentlemen and students of the college poured into the fields, holding the quyuan plow, and began the spring sowing of the Liao land in the eighth year of King Wucheng.

Since last year, the Prince's Mansion has decreed that during the autumn harvest season, all peasant households with the highest yield per mu in each county will be rewarded. The first place with the highest yield per mu in each county will be rewarded with a gold, and then so on, and the tenth household can also get a reward of a hundred knives.

Seeing Ji Kang's sweaty appearance, Tian Guang went to the edge of the field and took his wooden kettle and handed it to Ji Kang. Ji Kang took two sips and gave it back to Tian Guang. Tian Guang immediately gave Shi Kang, who was also sweating next to him, and Shi Kang also poured two mouthfuls. Tian Guang raised his neck, poured all the remaining water in the kettle into his mouth, and shouted: "Happy".

Spring sowing was very fast, and the more than 3,000 acres of land of the college were all spring sown in less than a few days.

According to the latest weights and measures in Liaodi, when Zou Yan and Lu Zhonglian learned that the average yield per mu of these fields of the college reached nearly 480 catties last year, nearly 500 catties, their faces showed childlike happy smiles.

At the end of March, the entire spring sowing was completed in the two counties of Liaodi. In the end, when the statistics came out, the spring sowing area of the entire Liaodi was further expanded, and the per capita area had reached about 10 mu.

And the people who were discussing in the prince's mansion were full of laughter after hearing this.

Ji Xin, Zou Yan and Lu Zhong even the three old men laughed so much that their brows and wrinkles unfolded.

Ji Xin smiled and said: "Son, two old friends, we can get a bumper harvest of autumn grain again this year!" The per capita yield per mu of the people of our Liao region has reached 10 mu, and it is safe to say that the grain output of our Liao land this year will definitely be much higher than that of other places in Yan country. ”

Zou Yan laughed: "Drama, the land of my Liao Land itself is very fertile, and most of the farmland we are cultivating now is also watered and fertile land, how can it not be a bumper harvest!" ”

Ji Kang hurriedly turned his head and looked at Zou Yan with a smile: "Especially when we promoted Mr. Zou Yan, the manure cultivation method used in Yandi during the period of my Taizu is impossible to make the grain yield per mu not increase!" ”

Looking at Zou Yan's happy face, Lu Zhong teased: "Kang'er, don't slap him on the back." This old man has been chattering all over the world, watching the sky and the earth. Nothing else works, but there is still a set of ways to cultivate grain seeds. ”

When everyone heard this, they burst out laughing.

In March, King Qin Yingji was not idle. Just when Ji Kang and others in Liaodi were celebrating the expansion of spring sowing fields, in the palace of King Qin in Xianyang, the capital of Qin, King Yingji of Qin was looking at a map hanging on the wall.

Qin Wang Yingji stared at the map, the mountains and rivers of Korea in the east of Qin, touched the beard that had turned white under his chin, and did not make a sound for a long time.

And Qin Xiang Fan Sui was also standing behind King Qin, like Yingji, looking at the mountains and rivers of South Korea on the map, frowning slightly, thinking about something.

Judging from the map, the terrain of South Korea is like the "dumbbell" of Ji Kang's previous life. The Shangdang area in the north is one end of the "dumbbell", the southern capital Xinzheng area is like the other end of the "dumbbell", and the cities of Shancheng, Nanyang, Yewang and other cities are like "dumbbells", connecting the two regions of Shangdang and Xinzheng in South Korea.

King Qin looked at the map, turned around in the middle of a ring, and said to Qin Xiang Fan Sui: "Xiangguo said that if you want to unify the six countries, you must first destroy Han, and the widow thinks so.

According to Xiangguo's previous policy, now that our Qin State has formed an alliance with Qi State, and reached an alliance with Zhao State to send protons to each other, can it be said that the conditions are ripe? ”

Fan Sui bowed down and said: "Great King, among the seven countries of the Central Plains, Korea is surrounded by the four kingdoms of Qin, Chu, Wei, and Zhao, and its development is greatly restricted, so it is also the smallest one in area.

And in his lifetime, if the king wants to unify the world, he must eliminate Korea in front of Qin. For this reason, for more than 40 years after the king's ascension to the throne, he continued to send troops to attack Korea, but most of his actions suffered setbacks.

The king also told his subordinates that he was often worried about this matter. I also asked my ministers, obviously my Qin country's population, land, economy, and military armor are the first of the seven countries, why can't I take this small Korea in front of me? ”

King Yingji of Qin nodded and said: "Before Xiangguo, the widow often asked other ministers, but they all had no good solution. ”

Fan Sui then continued: "Your Majesty thinks that the reason is that South Korea can always get the support of neighboring powers such as Zhao and Chu. Weichen presented the national policy of "distant friendship and close attack" to the king, if our Qin State wants to unify the world, it must first destroy Han, and if you want to destroy Han, you must first let the surrounding countries of Han dare not or cannot send troops to help South Korea.

And the people who worry the most about my Qin State are the three kingdoms of Zhao, Qi, and Chu. Last year, befriending Yan State and attacking Zhao State was part of the minister's strategy of "distant friendship and close attack". Although I did not succeed in capturing Zhao, I used Korea to attack Zhao through the passage of Korea, which made Yan and Han hostile to Zhao, and further weakened Korea.

This year, our Qin State has formed an alliance with the Qi State, and has made friends with the Zhao State and sent protons to each other, and has now sent my Qin prince Yiren to Handan. And because of the frailty of the king of Chu, the prince of Chu who was hostage in my Qin State was stranded by my Qin State and could not return to China, and now Chu can no longer take care of South Korea. It's time to attack South Korea. ”

As he spoke, Fan Sui stepped forward, came to the front of the map, pointed to the Shangdang region of South Korea, and said to King Yingji of Qin: "King, if you want to unify the six countries, you will destroy Korea; And if you want to destroy South Korea, you must first take over the party. ”

Then he slid his hand down, pointed to South Korea's Shancheng and other places, and said again: "King, if you want to occupy Shangdang, you must first occupy Shancheng, Nanyang, Yewang and other places, and cut off the connection between Shangdang and Xinzheng and other places in South Korea." ”

King Yingji of Qin also walked in front of the map, his eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the places such as Shencheng and Yewang that Fan Sui was referring to.

After pondering for a long time, he laughed at Fan Sui and said, "Xiangguo's words are in line with the meaning of the widow. ”

Then he shouted: "Come on, give an order." ”

To the attendant who wrote the will next to him, he said in an unquestionable tone: "Spread the will of the widow, and the general of Guguan will be ready now." After the summer harvest, he went out of the customs in June, led an army of 200,000, attacked Korea, and must occupy Chengcheng and other places. ”

At the end of June of the eighth year of King Wucheng, shortly after the end of the summer harvest of Qin, King Yingji of Qin sent the general Bai Qi to lead an army of 200,000 troops out of Hangu and launched a fierce attack on Korea.

The Korean court did not expect that the Qin State would send a large army to attack Korea. I didn't expect that Qin Guo, who only curried favor with Qin State last year and borrowed the way for the Qin army to attack Zhao, aimed at himself again this year.

Han Ran, the king of Han, panicked, and on the one hand, he asked for help from the surrounding countries; On the other hand, they sent people to Qin to sue for peace.