Chapter 261: The Butterfly Effect
Perhaps God calmed down the anger, in the middle of March of the first year of Hongwu, the weather began to gradually warm, and the thick snow began to melt, although the melting snow made the roads muddy and difficult to walk, but fortunately, the human beings living in this land came to the hope of living with the arrival of spring.
Three days after the first southeast wind blew, the thick ice had melted, and everything in the earth had been revived in spring.
The country of Qi also regained its due vitality in this spring breeze.
The ice and snow have not completely melted, and the people of Lao Qi have begun to get busy in the sky.
Spending a small amount of money to buy guano from the imperial court and piling it up in their own fields is no stranger to how to make dung for the peasants of Qi country.
Last year's bumper grain harvest made them understand that something smelly is a good thing.
Although the official government of Qi has made it clear this year that this guano is not supplied for free, the people are only slightly unhappy, and the price charged by the government is not too expensive.
If you don't buy these bird droppings, the manure produced by your own latrines and livestock will not be enough to irrigate your own farmland.
Farmers are busy making manure, and those who have migrated to villages and towns are left behind to continue building roads.
Yang Hao asked people to take a part of these people and cultivate farmland in the area where they lived, and dig wells for drinking water.
Since most of these villages and towns are located along the tributaries of the ancient Yellow River and Jishui, there is no need to worry too much about flooding.
All you need to do is build a simple embankment along the coast.
However, the farmland of Chang'an and Qicheng is different, these two places are next to Jishui, and the heavy snowfall in winter makes Yang Hao very worried about flooding in summer.
Therefore, from the beginning of spring in the first year of Hongwu, Yang Hao organized a large number of people to continue to strengthen these two places.
Qicheng and Chang'an are the most important production areas in Qi, as for Gucheng in the north, Yang Hao regarded it as a half-agricultural and half-pastoral area, and half of the horses, cattle and sheep were near Gucheng.
Therefore, the construction of these two sections of the embankment is particularly important, and this time for reinforcement, Yang Hao intends to use a large amount of stone to ensure that it can effectively resist the impact of the catastrophic flood.
The population of 70,000 or 80,000 people in this Qi country, from top to bottom, from old to young, are all busy nervously.
In the textile workshop built on the edge of Chang'an City, the female workers live a life of sunrise and sunset, and the assembly line generally produces all the fabrics that Daqi needs.
Although the life of the women workers was somewhat boring, the weaving workshops were not too harsh in their food, and even more abundant than they were in the former tribe.
Especially in winter, they can still eat vegetables, which they would never have imagined before.
Although Qi Guo's eating habits are very strange, they must use two small wooden sticks to eat, and they have to clean their own utensils after use, but when they have no worries about food and clothing, their mental outlook has improved too much after a winter.
The face is also deprived of the once malnourished dishes, and the personal hygiene enforced by the textile workshop, although the clothes are still tattered, but the charm of these women is much better than that of those dirty women.
The bachelors among the citizens of Qi will peep in the direction of the textile factory, hoping to bring out a beautiful daughter-in-law from it.
The women here are all serious women, and if someone is found to have the audacity to use force on these women, the laws of the Qi State will not be biased because the man who committed the crime is a citizen of his own country.
Although the female workers make the men itch, they can only use their own methods to coax them.
As for this kind of behavior of both sides, the official government of Qi State is too opposed to the wall and watch.
Yang Hao is not interested in the things of men and women caused by female textile workers, all he cares about is the production efficiency of these women.
In addition to the textile workshop weaving hemp to produce coarse linen clothes, the weaving of wool has also begun to make progress, but the amount of wool is scarce, and the woven cloth cannot reach the level of popularity.
The production of these tweed cloths is only slightly inferior to the production of silk, and the price of these scarce cloths is also extremely expensive.
Therefore, these precious fabrics will be sent to the palace after they are made, and of course, Yang Hao does not use these things to enjoy by himself.
Although there was some silky silk in his palace, Yang Hao only wore it on major festivals, and he wore coarse linen clothes on weekdays.
It's not that Yang Hao wants to be thrifty, but his dressing habits feel that silk is only tempting when it is made into women's pajamas, and men are really a little nondescript in dressing.
Compared with silk, Yang Hao attaches more importance to tweed cloth, which has good warmth and is a good gift for rewarding meritorious people, and in general, it is low-key luxury and connotation.
In an atmosphere of production by the whole people in the territory of Qi State, several teams of members of the Prospecting Division, protected by the military, crossed Jishui and searched south.
In order to avoid causing misunderstanding of the Youxin clan, Yang Hao did not let these people enter the Youzhen clan, but chose his enemy Youxin clan.
In the battle of Qixia last year, the Xin clan was sacked by the Youyi clan, which can be described as a heavy loss, coupled with the impact of the northern refugees not long ago, the strength was weakened again, it can be said that the war potential of the Xin clan is not as good as before, although it will not be reduced to a scum force, but the successive blows have made them only shrink into their own sphere of influence, and be careful to watch out for the enemies around them.
As for the Shang tribe in the southwest of the Xin clan, due to its southerly location, the previous white plague did not have much impact on it.
The displaced people who fell to the Shang tribe became an important source of people and livestock for the Shang tribe.
The priests of the Shang tribe wantonly slaughtered human animals and asked about ghosts and gods, and the entire clan was in a very excited state.
On a full moon night, the priests brutally killed ninety-nine human animals on the altar.
Ox shoulder blades carved with divination were thrown into the fire, and the merchants knelt on the ground in a strange dance and singing.
When the priest pulled the calcined bone stick out of the fire, revealing an expression as if he had overdosed, he knelt down in front of the Shang chief.
"Chief, the statue is out!"
The leader of Shang, who wore a ghost face, took the burned bones and looked at them, and said in a loud voice: "Shang Xing! ”
When the merchants who knelt down immediately cheered, the cowhide drums beat, and countless merchants with strange patterns painted on their faces excitedly carnivaled, combined with the corpses on the altar to form a savage and bloody picture.
The power of butterfly wings is incomparably huge, Xia is declining because of Qi, however, the hundred tribes have risen, the trend of the world has been chaotic, there are poor, Xia, Qi, Shang, and the Zhou people who have just come out of the wilderness, all the ethnic groups are lined up, so where should the fate of ancient China go?