Time entered the month of Layue, in the palace of Qin Shi Huang in Jimo City, Jiaodong, the ministers were still discussing the establishment of "engineering" and "agriculture" in Xianyang. Thousands of miles away in Anlu County, Nanjun, the county Tian Sifu Wei Zhen had already gotten up early in the morning and took his subordinates to inspect the granary.

According to the law, as a peasant official, this month he should "order the people to come out with five kinds, order the peasants to plan and plough, repair the ploughing (lěisì), and have field tools, in short, to prepare for spring ploughing early."

I really know that I can have this status today, thanks to my younger brother, even the family's clan is earned by the black husband. He is honest by nature, except for farming, he doesn't understand anything else, he just wants to do his duty well, don't make trouble for his middle brother.

Endured the sleepiness, poured some ice water on his face, restrained the urge to yawn, sat down in the official office, pointed to the map of the public field near the county seat, and began to arrange work for his subordinates.

"This land needs to be cultivated in the spring, rice and millet are planted, and these are planted with millet and soybean, and the rest of the land needs to be fallowed."

"The officials of the field should gather the fields of each li, and let them compile the field registers, and the land that was recovered due to the violation of the law should be counted as public land, and the land given due to the increase of the title should also be re-recorded in the field register, so as to avoid mistakes and omissions in the collection of rent......"

He glanced at his subordinates and said solemnly: "According to the law, those who collect bribes, hide people's fields, and falsify their land records are the same as thieves!" Do you know? ”

Everyone solemnly agreed, nodded and continued to talk about other things. He is also a well-known figure in the county, but he has a lot of responsibilities.

As a peasant official, Wei Xin not only had to manage the households' land grants, collect land rents and manuscript taxes, but also had three main tasks on weekdays:

First, organize production. When he saw people in the fields who were idle and drinking in groups, he went up and scolded them, and ordered this group of young men to go down to the fields, and if they did not comply, they would be detained and sentenced.

"Wine is a waste of food, so the people ban alcohol, in the countryside, can only be brewed by the line, every festival sacrifice, give a little to each family, drink less, if you are drunk every day, pick quarrels and provoke trouble, how can you still go to the field to cultivate intensively?"

The imperial court also stipulated that even the "debtors" who worked as coolies for the government were allowed to go home for 20 days to work during the sowing and ploughing seasons, and they had to send people to keep an eye on these people and not let them run away.

Second, the management of cattle, farm tools and other means of production, Qin's agriculture is the most of the six countries, relying on ox ploughing and iron farming tools, when other countries give priority to iron tools to cast blades, only Qin, almost all iron is used for farm tools......

Iron farming tools are harder, sharper and lighter than wood and stone farming tools, which can not only improve the quality of land ploughing, but also accelerate the frequency of land ploughing and expand the area of farmland, which is a sharp tool for farming.

Ploughing and ploughing, ploughing and ploughing, the status of ploughing is still above the battle, anyway, the Qin pawns are ruthless, they dare to charge naked, they want iron soldiers, and they will win the battle and capture it!

However, on weekdays, the field officials who manage iron farming tools are very generous to the people who come to borrow them!

"Fake iron tools, those who destroy them because they can't be sold, don't be blamed for using books."

It was probably the hundredth time that Wei Zhen emphasized this point to his subordinates, and if the farmer could not buy iron farm tools, he borrowed them from the government, and if the tools were naturally damaged, he did not need to compensate, and the government could write an explanation for the record.

"If the farmer who borrowed the iron tool did not dare to use his force for fear of damaging the iron hoe, how would its effect be different from that of wood and stone?"

He has been a farmer for 30 years, and he is very clear about the hardships of Qianshou, so he has been a farmer for a few years, and he has also treated the people very kindly, and has been respected by the county as an "elder" level person.

However, the same thing that could be lent to the people, the ploughing ox could not be used at will, and if the whipping was too heavy and the skin was broken, or if the weight was too thin, the farmer and the cowherd were punished.

"The number of cultivated cattle in each township and village should be reported, distributed in advance, and given priority to those who have lords, as for those who can't get ploughing cattle to help farming, Tian Dian will teach them the art of coupling ploughing again."

This brings us to the third important task of Wei Zhen: to guide the peasants' production in terms of technology.

In addition to coupling tillage, even how many seeds are sown per acre, agricultural officials have to popularize science for those young people who have little farming experience.

"For rice and hemp, sow seeds with two buckets and six liters per mu, sow one bucket of millet and wheat per mu, and sow half a bucket of beans per mu...... Sowing seeds in this way is not sparse or dense, which is beneficial to the fields. ”

In addition, there is an extremely important compost and manure technology, which has to be publicized and promoted by the farmers, thanks to the creation of Heifu eight or nine years ago, every township in Anlu County has popularized public toilets, and also arranged a person in charge of public toilets, under Heifu's proposal, called "director", the level is equivalent to the "cow chief" who specializes in cattle raising, and he is also a public servant without establishment.

The director took two subordinates to take care of the composting business, and in the spring and summer, he picked up the public field.

Seeing that the crops in the public fields are moistened by fertilizer, and the harvest is almost every year, many civilians think: Why does my family's fertilizer water flow into the fields of outsiders? Therefore, in Anlu, some wealthy families with conditions also began to repair toilets in front of their homes, and outsiders were not allowed to use them......

A similar situation has also occurred in the metropolis of Xianyang, where the public toilet industry is in the ascendant.

But in other counties, compost and manure are still in the ascendant, even in Guanzhong, the long-standing habit cannot be changed in three or two years. Not to mention Jiangnan and other places, even cattle farming has not been popularized, the local Yue people are still playing slash and fire rake, and the advanced production technology of the Central Plains will not be transmitted for a while......

Wei Zhen, director of the Anlu Agricultural Bureau, doesn't have to worry about this, just manage one acre and three points of land in the county, but in the palace in Jiaodong, this problem has become an important reason for hundreds of officials to support the establishment of "agriculture"!

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Qin Shi Huang's patrol is not a pure tour, although the people and horses are constantly moving, but along the way, the government affairs that should be done in Xianyang are not pulled down - the emperor is staying up late every night to work overtime to review and review, how dare his subordinates be lazy?

According to Qin Shi Huang's habit, most of the suggestions put forward by the courtiers were not agreed to on the spot, but let the ministers discuss them, and finally summarize their opinions, and then make their own decisions.

So, from November to December, in Jimo Palace, Jiaodong, the ministers discussed Heifu's proposal to set up "engineering" and "agriculture".

Tingwei Ye Teng strongly supported this idea, and he traced the history of Qin and said that when Shang Ying changed the law, the first important "No. 1 document" issued was called "Reclamation Order"!

The general content of this decree is to rectify all folk customs and bad habits that hinder agricultural work, economically suppress intellectuals, idle people and merchants, restrict migration, and let the people have only one way out of farming.

Not only in the central government, but in order to implement the "Grass Reclamation Order" in the localities, many agricultural officials were also set up, and at the national level, there were "Zhisu Neishi", there were "Tsuda Sifu" in the county, "Tian Sifu" in the county, "Tian Zuo Official" in the township, and "Tian Dian" in the village.

According to Heifu's understanding, it is equivalent to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture, the County Agricultural Bureau, the production brigade, and the squad in later generations.

Sincerely plotting his own government, but he is ignorant of the deep reasons for these things, and Heifu understands it all too well.

Since the establishment of political power, the government has directly or indirectly intervened in the social economy, and according to the intensity of intervention, there is a market economy and a planned economy in later generations.

However, the precedent for controlling the economy was none other than Shang Ying's "Reclamation Order".

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the state and the laborers were separated by feudal doctors, mining estates, clans and other organizations, which made it impossible for the state to intervene in the agricultural activities of the greatest number of laborers.

However, Qin eliminated or weakened all of these intermediate organizations, and after the Shang Dynasty's reform, Qin's control over laborers reached an unprecedented level. From the work of agricultural officials, we know that the imperial court is eager to guide and manage every aspect of agricultural affairs.

The only problem is that among the vast number of peasant officials, there are also quite a few people who are half-hearted, or who come from humble backgrounds and have a narrow vision, and they will not be able to grasp the advantages of new things such as compost and manure and wead.

Although the agricultural official system is good, it lacks the guidance of professionals.

Therefore, Heifu dared to propose the establishment of "agronomy", not because of a whim, but because he felt that on the basis of the Qin Dynasty's heavy agriculture and agricultural official system, it would be a matter of course to further develop agricultural universities, the government would provide financial resources, and farmers would provide technology, and train agricultural scientists, so that they could go to various places to take up posts, so that agricultural officials at all levels could play an additional role as an "agricultural technology station"!

Heifu was right, there were still some differences among the ministers about "engineering", but "agriculture" was unanimously approved by almost all ministers.

In the end, Qin Shi Huang also approved the matter: "The reason why Cangqiao is real is the foundation of farming, Qin established the country with agriculture, and set up agriculture!" It will make the officials and leaders all be able to serve Shennong and Houji! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The ministers were silent, and bowed down and praised.

Heifu secretly calculated in his heart: "There are forty counties in the world, nearly a thousand counties, at least a thousand agricultural scientists are needed. ”

If they can still accept Heifu and Zhang Cang's private goods of "understanding nature, using nature, and transforming nature" and spread them to the whole country, the prospects are really limitless.

With this base, even if there is no such thing as a black man in this world in the future, who can know that China will not have an ancient Yuan Longping?

This is the "lifelong plan" that Heifu planned for this country and nation.

"It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish!"

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Qin Shi Huang stayed in Jiaodong for more than a month, not for cabbage and tofu, and did more than one thing.

Just when the ministers of Jimo Xinggong discussed and decided to set up "agriculture", so that practical learning would flourish in this cold winter, the Jisutian mansion outside the city was gloomy.

As soon as the wind and snow stopped, the servants of the Sumida clan, as usual, opened the gate, but were stunned to find that a group of black-pressed Qin troops had surrounded here! The strong bow and crossbow aimed at the lintel, and he was so frightened that he threw the door panel and ran to the yard to report.

Cao Shen, the official of the county soldier Cao, together with a team of Lang Weijun directly under the emperor, with more than 1,000 people, besieged the mansion of the Jisumida clan and read out the edict of Qin Shi Huang:

"That is, the Sumida clan, the family moved to the big plateau of Beidi County, and the real side was stopped!"