Time flies, time flies.

Before you know it, a few months have passed.

Summer has quietly left, autumn has begun to descend on the world, and the harvest season has arrived.

On this day, in the palace garden of Zhao Kingdom, a lively harvesting activity is underway.

The participants in this harvesting activity were led by Zhao Dan, the monarch of Zhao State, including many princes and princesses such as Han Wan, the queen of Zhao, and Zhao Heng, the crown prince, as well as seven important ministers of Zhao State, such as Zhao Sheng, Zhao Bao, and Lian Po, which can be said to cover the highest level of the entire Zhao State.

What they needed to harvest was the three acres of grass planted in the back garden of Zhao Guo's palace city.

The word 稷 is often associated with the community as "社稷".

Society, the field, the land god, that is, the land of the later generations.

Ji, from the grass from the grain, the god of grains, is the length of the five grains.

Later generations often use Sheji to refer to the country, this Sheji actually refers to the land and the grain, the previous monarch of the Qin State even took the name of "Ji", which shows the importance of the valley in this society.

In the "Book of Songs", there is a very famous "Huang Li" that also mentions Jigu, the original text is as follows:

He is separated, and he is the seedling.

The line is vigorous, and the center is shaky.

Those who know me say that I am worried.

Those who do not know me say what I want.

……

Zhao Dan was dressed in very simple clothes, holding a sickle in his hand, wearing a hat on his head, and bent down to harvest the grain in front of him.

At this moment, Zhao Dan does not look like a monarch at all, but an ordinary farmer working on the ground.

The sun was gradually rising, although it was not a hot summer, but after more than an hour of labor, Zhao Dan also felt a little sweaty.

After harvesting the last grain in front of him, Zhao Dan finally couldn't help but let out a long breath and walked onto the ridge.

"Alright, let's rest for a while."

Under Zhao Dan's order, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to the ridge, and rested in the shade.

After all, they are all nobles who don't come into contact with farm work at all on weekdays, if it weren't for Zhao Dan's order, who guy would appear in the farmland at this time?

"King, drink some soup to relieve the heat." Handan, the queen on the side, brought sour plum soup.

Zhao Dan took the sour plum soup, raised his head and drank it directly.

The sour and cool feeling suddenly filled Zhao Dan's body, cool!

With a bit of pleasure brought by this sour plum soup, Zhao Dan smiled at Han Wan and said: "Queen, from now on, this three-acre field will be the palace field, and every year in the autumn harvest season, all the sons and wives in the palace need to go down to the field to harvest, this is the rule." ”

"Whoa." Han Wan replied softly, some of her round face was flushed from the long hours of work, like a ripe apple, revealing a hint of mature woman's style, making people feel the urge to take a bite.

Neishi Yuxin on the side walked over happily, still holding a handful of grain in his hand: "King, king, please see." ”

Zhao Dan looked at it, and his face couldn't help but show a little puzzled: "Yu Qing, what's so unusual about this Jigu?" ”

Yu Xin Zhengse said: "Doesn't the king think that there are a lot of grains in this grain? ”

Zhao Dan looked at it for a while, and then slowly shook his head: "This ...... Not much. ”

As a traverser, Zhao Dan has seen the kind of rice that can bend the grain stalks in later generations, and the density of those grains is not only much higher than that in Yu Xin's hands, but also very full.

If those grains in later generations are thirty-year-old biao-shaped men, then the one in Yu Xin's hands is simply a sixteen-year-old boy who has not yet completed his development.

"Not much?" Yu Xin's face was excited, and he suddenly took out another ear of grain from his arms: "King, please take a look at this." ”

Zhao Dan took a closer look and found that there were more than a dozen grains sparsely growing on this ear of grain, which could be counted clearly with the naked eye.

To make matters worse, the grains on this ear of grain look like malnourished five or six-year-old children......

Zhao Dan suddenly remembered something: "This is ......"

"That's right." Yu Xin nodded very affirmatively and said, "This is the grain planted and harvested by ordinary people. ”

After a pause, Yu Xin continued: "The ear of grain in the minister's hand was obtained from the minister's family on an acre of land. ”

"Ueda?" Zhao Dan's eyes widened immediately.

That's what happened in Ueda?

No wonder a hundred acres of land can only barely be used by a family, and this productivity really needs to be improved.

Yu Xin said to Zhao Dan with an excited face: "Dare to ask the king, who planted this valley, and ask the king to order it to come out, and the minister wants to ask him for a lesson or two to see if any special seeds are used." ”

You must know that many of Zhao's taxes are paid in the form of millet, and the increase in millet production actually represents an increase in national taxes.

Therefore, seeing this kind of grain that is fuller and more grainy than other grains, Yu Xin immediately fell into his heart.

Yu Xin was afraid that Zhao Dan would not care about this, so he immediately said: "King, if you can get such seeds, then you can increase the yield by at least half a stone to one stone per mu, which is definitely a great thing for Zhao Guo." ”

Zhao Dan shrugged his shoulders and said, "This thing actually doesn't use any special seeds, just use the widow's Quyuan plow to cultivate it first, and then apply an appropriate amount of manure in the process of growth." ”

Yu Xin's eyes straightened: "It's so simple? ”

Zhao Dan nodded and said, "Yes, it's that simple." ”

Xiangbang Zhao Sheng on the side came over at this time, and interjected with a smile: "Didn't Yu Qing find out that the taxes paid near Handan have increased a lot in the past two years?" This is the effect of the plough and manure. ”

Yu Xin suddenly realized, and said suddenly: "The minister didn't know about this, but it made the king laugh." ”

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said, "Yu Qing is not in charge of the farmland, and it is normal to know something, how can a widow blame Yu Qing?" However, speaking of which, the widow does still have one thing to tell Zhu Qing. ”

Zhao Dan raised his head as he spoke, and said to the several important ministers of Zhao State who had already gathered around: "Presumably, all of you have also seen that this quyuan plow and manure can increase the harvest of the field after application, and the cultivation in the past few years is enough to prove the stability of this method." ”

"Zhu Qing is a person who has a lot of land in his family, and he hopes that Zhu Qing can set an example for the people, and through Zhu Qing's influence, this way can spread to the entire Zhao State as soon as possible."

Although it is said that Quyuan plough and manure have been pounded out by Zhao Dan for several years, Zhao's treasury is quite tight after all, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on state subsidies to popularize it.

And according to the situation reported by the inspectors, even though Zhao Dan ordered local officials to explain the benefits of quyuan ploughs and manure many times, the people at the bottom still have a cautious attitude towards this.

Several years have passed, and only Handan and some places near Handan have slowly accepted this way of farming, and other places in Zhao still maintain the original and backward way before.

This is something that Zhao Dan cannot tolerate.

Food is so important in these years, not only to eat, but also to be considered a kind of currency, and even a vital armament.

Anything that can make Zhao's grain production go to the next level, it must be fully promoted.

These people present were all top ministers of the Zhao State, and many of them were the heads of some big families, and the family's land was all over the country.

As long as we have their support and support, it will obviously spread faster.

As long as the nobles were allowed to grow rice all over the country, the peasants all over the country, after seeing the benefits of this method, would naturally follow suit.

And for these important ministers of Zhao State who were present, it was actually not a loss, after all, if this advanced method was applied, they themselves were the earliest beneficiaries.

So soon Zhao Dan heard the answer he wanted.

"Please rest assured, the king will order the ministers to go down after they go back, and starting next year, this curved plow and manure will definitely be spread in the land of the ministers!"