Chapter 45: Peach Blossom Spring

For thousands of years, Tao Yuanming wrote a story about the Peach Blossom Spring, which immediately became popular. Zhou Nan In his time, there was a terrifying version of the Peach Blossom Spring, why didn't anyone from the Peach Blossom Land go outside to take a look? The answer is that they can't live without it; However, the entrance to the cave was completely free to enter and exit, so it can be seen that there was only one reason why they did not go out: because they had already died.

However, there is also a metaphorical version, saying that in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Peach Blossom Spring was everywhere, and it was precisely because of the existence of this social system that yearned for freedom and was not constrained by the government that it affected the economic foundation of the ruling court, and finally led to the stability of the entire society.

Zhou Nanke didn't care about the economic foundation of the ruling court, Sanssouci was his territory, he didn't recognize the Liao State as a Hu people, and he didn't recognize the Song Dynasty where a good hand of cards was still worn by foreign races. What he wants is a free and easy life, a society free from war and oppression.

With the announcement of the rules of the worry-free village, the matter of the public field and the public animal has spread in the village, and the people in the village have been talking about the public field and the public animal for the past few days, but no one pays attention to the matter of the owner of the village, not that they don't care, but they have already agreed with the two young people Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan in their hearts. There are enthusiastic people in the village, and they will also find Lao Zheng Tou and put forward some ideas, and Lao Zheng Tou will naturally put up notes and inform them carefully, and they will take them out for discussion in the next meeting. There are a lot of supporters, all go to Zhang Yi, who is in charge of the public field, sign up to plant the public field, Zhang Yi is serious, first write down the names one by one, and tell the people who come to do it, this public field and public animals, to take care of people over 50 years old to do. The people who listened also understood, and just told Zhang Yi that if he was too busy, he could just call him at any time and just do the work.

After several discussions, I went to the northwest corner of the wall to look at it, and finally in front of the northwest corner wall, east of the council hall, fifty acres of land was demarcated, as public land; On the rocks that could not be cultivated around the public field, many shacks were built according to the shape, and some livestock and young animals were bought and fed. In order to facilitate the irrigation of the fields and the drinking water of the livestock, a ditch was dug from the stream flowing south of the flag platform to bring water, and the canal was not wide, but only a shallow ditch about three feet wide, which was enough to irrigate the fields. Zhou Nan just reminded Zhang Yi to water the land and feed the livestock, and the others were built by Zhang Yi and Liu Zongwang. Zhang Yi can grow crops, Liu Zongwang is a stonemason, the two discussed, naturally knew how to save effort in order to work in the future, and how to build now, so Zhou Nan didn't ask much. It's just that after the completion of the project, Zhou Nan and Lao Zheng Tou were called over by Zhang Yi to see what else needed to be improved.

Gao Yuan was not interested in the affairs of Gongtian, so Zhou Nan and Lao Zheng Tou followed Zhang Yi to the northwest corner of the village. In the past, because it was located on the high part of the whole village and close to the cliff, no one lived and farmed here. Now near the location of the cliff, a section of the walled wall was built, guarding this high flat land, and the council hall and the mountain temple were built, although except for the soldiers on the arrow tower of the wall, there are still no people here, but it also seems to be more popular than before. But Zhou Nan really didn't expect that the desolate hills and flatlands in the past would be terraced by Zhang Yi and others. On the east side of the council hall, on the slopes of the hills, as long as there is a place that can be cultivated, they are surrounded by rocks, and at the same height, they are made into terraces one by one. Zhang Yi and others dug a hole from the nearest part of the mountain stream to the public field, dug out a shallow ditch three feet wide, and led it to various fields in a zigzag, and finally merged into a ditch, which led back to the mountain stream from the east side of the public field. In the areas where the terraces could not be cultivated, many huts of different heights were built according to the size of the terraces, which were used to feed the livestock. Curiously, there are even smaller earthen huts built next to the shacks. I don't know what it's for. Zhou Nan was strange, so he asked Zhang Yi next to him, Zhang Yi smiled and said: "Da Lang has a big thing in his chest, so he naturally doesn't know about such a small thing." The earthen house, which we call a dung house, has a thatched roof on it, and there is no need to open windows around it, and a pond is dug in the middle of the earthen house to make fertilizer. The animal manure cannot be used directly in the field, and it will burn the crops, so it must be placed in the dung house for a period of time before it can be used. I originally heard Dalang talk about fertilizing the fields with livestock filth, and thought that Dalang had planted the land, but it turned out that Dalang didn't know how to make fertilizer. ”

Zhou Nan couldn't help but smile and praised: "It seems that it is appropriate to let Uncle Zhang take on this matter." "A few people walked in the fields, and in addition to the narrow walkway, there were newly leveled plots everywhere; Although it looks irregular, from a distance, there are several large walkways in the middle of the field, which intersect from north to south, which is conducive to transportation and harvest in the future.

In the northwest of Gongtian, on the east side of the council hall, a storehouse was built that sat north to south, although it was a storehouse, but it was divided into three rooms, which were different from the construction of the wall, and were all built with neat stones. Three storerooms, three doorways, each with a lock on the door. Liu Zongwang is a stonemason, so naturally he led people to do it. Liu Zongwang said to Zhou Nan: "The little old man thought that all kinds of things in the warehouse would be difficult to collect, so he built three rooms, one for gold, silver, copper coins, cloth and other property, which is the smallest one in the west; In the middle, it is used to store swords, bows and arrows; The largest room on the east side is used to store grain and rice. ”

Zhou Nan praised again and again, he didn't think that this treasury would be built like this, what he originally wanted was to build a big stone house, and everything in the public treasury would be put into it.

A few people watched while walking, and Zhang Yi said to Zhou Nan: "Xiao Lao'er has already calculated, these lands, do some work on weekdays, only twenty people are enough, if it is busy, and then temporarily call people, it will not delay things." In this male animal, it is not heavy work, and it only uses some lonely widows, old and disabled, and ten people are enough. ”

Zhou Nan didn't ask in detail, just nodded in agreement and said, "Uncle Zhang worked hard. I didn't expect Uncle Zhang to be thoughtful and do it so meticulously. Zhang Yi waved his hand again and again and said, "Thanks to Dr. Zheng, he calculated for the old and young." It's such a good place. Who would have thought that in the past, this barren hill was actually a treasure land. ”

Zhou Nan couldn't help but look at Lao Zheng Tou, these days, Zhou Nan felt more and more that this old Zheng Tou was simply his treasure, fine writing, arithmetic, medical Taoism, and most importantly, Lao Zheng Tou had been running for many years, and finally found his own position in this mountain, he would inevitably be able to go on for a long time, and he would be happy.

Lao Zheng Tou was also pleased on the side, and said: "There was originally a field in the village, and each household could cultivate their own fields in the village, and now this huge piece of public land has been opened, and the male animals are fed, and there are mountain streams flowing through the village, there is grain and water, even if there are thieves besieged outside, I can also guarantee a year and a half of grain and water in the village." It also does not cost the manpower of each household, only served by the lonely and widowed people in the village, and the old people in the village are supported, which is really the desire of the people. ”

After a few people finished reading the public field, Zhang Yi saw that there was nothing to add, so he went back to prepare to call people to do things. Zhou Nan and Lao Zheng Tou walked down. Liu Zongwang has only been accompanying Zhang Yi to do things these days, but now that the public land and public animals have been built, Zhang Yi is free to take care of it, but he has no errands. Hurriedly caught up and said to Zhou Nan: "The master of the village, the old man is no worse than Zhang Yi and Gao Bingchang, please arrange the old man's errand, you must not give Zhang Yi a light down." ”

Zhou Nandao: "Uncle Liu, you will find Zhou Xing, register the eleven craftsmen and sixty-two farmers who were brought back from Wohu Mountain last time, record their names, years, hometowns, and specialties, and hand over the list to Dr. Zheng, and these eleven craftsmen will be under your control; After you have done this, you bring these craftsmen and have something to do. ”

Liu Zongwang said happily: "The old man was originally a stonemason in the village, and he can naturally do things with these craftsmen." ”