Chapter 58: Self-sufficiency

Now Duan Ke is thirty-seven years old, which is logically the age at which his career rises, but his career is constantly declining, and the death of his family has caused him serious sorrow, but since Duan Ke has chosen to continue to live in this world, then he must still have a little hope in his heart.

The local clans in Bianyun County don't seem to welcome Duan Ke very much, and Duan Ke can't integrate into them, let alone be at the mercy of them, so Cao Xing expected that Duan Ke and these nobles would definitely have irreconcilable contradictions, and today's application for Cao Xing is exactly in line with this.

Why didn't Duan Ke approve Cao Xing's application at once, the reason is very simple, he just wanted to tell Cao Xing that he would not completely help Cao Xing, nor would he completely abandon Cao Xing, he wanted to use Cao Xing's family to make a good deal, so that the two could fight, and he Duan Ke just took advantage of the fisherman, this is Duan Ke's means.

After thinking about all this, Cao Xuan smiled and shook his head, this Ke idea is not bad, no wonder he didn't completely beat Wu Zhong and Zhu Lian to death that day, in order to give You Tie a step, and didn't want Cao Xuan to be in power alone.

However, Cao Xuan thinks that this is not bad, at least it gives him room to play, as for the title deed, Cao Xuan can only smile, although it seems that it is only 300 acres, but Cao Xuan through the mathematical calculations of later generations, cleverly calculated that the land is not only 300 acres, there are as many as 400 acres, and now Duan Ke only approved 200 acres for Cao Xing, if it is really calculated according to the proportion, the land that Cao Xuan can actually own is still about 300, so Cao Xing did not lose.

After returning home, Cao Xuan immediately asked Fengyun to transfer all the remaining guys, plus those guys who have now stopped the production of cold spirits, Cao Sex only gave them one task, that is, to farm all the land.

Although in the eyes of later generations, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business seems to have average performance, but in ancient times, when the productive forces were not developed, grain was the foundation of a country, and only with grain could there be the strength to fight wars.

Therefore, Cao Xing believes that this policy of Shang Ying's emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce was absolutely not wrong at that time, although it is now four or five hundred years since the previous Qin Dynasty, but in any case, in these four or five hundred years, the productivity has not been significantly improved, so self-sufficiency is not a bad thing.

The next day in Bianyun County, the direction of the east, west, north and south gates began to start a unified construction, this time the construction was paid by Cao Xuan independently, so no one intervened, Cao Xuan called what he brought out as a public toilet.

Cao Xing sent his men to publicize to the people passing by, anyway, if you suddenly feel anxious when you are walking on the road, you can come here to solve it conveniently, and you don't charge any fees.

Therefore, when the public toilet came out, it was immediately recognized by many people, after all, it is a free thing, so why not?

However, when these people pulled their excrement in the public toilets, Cao Xing would send someone to collect it every night and use it as fertilizer.

Although it has been less than half a year now, there are some things that have matured, such as the huge cabbage, which has grown big and strong compared to the cabbage harvested before, and it tastes very chewy. And the yield is also gradually increasing, originally thought that after the composting method, the yield should be doubled, but I never expected that the final yield was more than double, and it was almost doubled.

For this result, Cao Xing and others are extremely happy, with composting technology, I am afraid that they will not starve again in the future.

Cao Xing put his newly hired men into the use of new farmland, allowing them to grow wheat, believing that the wheat would be ripe by the end of this year at the latest, and then there would be endless food, and sometimes self-sufficiency was also a good method.

As Cao Xing heard in his previous life, the wise borrow from within, and the unwise borrow from without, although this sentence has certain limitations, but Cao Xing believes that it is suitable for his current self.

A person is in a high position, or has a wealth of countless knowledge, you can consider the latter sentence, that is, borrowing strength, but a person is currently only in a state of self-development, there is no need to go around diplomacy, because once you are diplomatic, once you have a request for others, you may owe a lover, this thing is very cool when it is owed, but it is very bitter when it is still up.

Now is the time to work hard to tap your own potential, because your own potential is also very considerable, once it breaks out, it cannot be underestimated. And Cao Xing felt that he was at this stage right now.

Just when Cao Xuan had finished arranging all this and was just about to take a break, Feng Yun suddenly ran over like crazy, and while running, he shouted loudly to Cao Xuan: "Big brother, give birth, give birth to ......."

Whether it was Chen Hu, Chewu, or Ma Bo and others, when they heard this, they all looked at Cao Xuan with a look of surprise, what was wrong, and Cao Xuan was also very embarrassed, when Feng Yun ran in, he immediately went up and held down Feng Yun's mouth.

"What nonsense are you kid talking about there, don't tell me, you have found a concubine outside now, and then give birth to all the children!"

When Feng Yun pulled Cao Xuan away with difficulty, he gasped for two breaths, and then looked at everyone with a look of surprise and shouted, "The chicken is born!" ”

Cao Xing only felt that Feng Yun was now crazy and delirious, and he couldn't care so much, so he beckoned everyone to walk to a room under the leadership of Feng Yun, although it was still a cold winter moon day at the moment, but this room was extraordinarily warm, because next to it was Ma Bo's iron house.

Cao Xing looked inside, only to see a small furry head poking out of the eggshell in a huge square box, blinking his eyes at everyone.

Many people were amazed when they saw this scene, and even looked around and found that there were no hens that hatched chicks here, but why these chicks would automatically come out of the eggshells was simply amazing to them.

And Cao Xuan finally reacted when he saw this scene, he almost forgot that almost a month ago, he gave Feng Yun a task to find a way to hatch the chicks, at first Feng Yun felt that Cao Xing's ideas were also a little incredible, and even impossible to complete, but since Cao Xuan asked him to do it, he also did it, and found a few guys to set a good time for them, and then he went back by himself.

However, unexpectedly, after a month of following the rules, those guys really hatched the chicks.

Hearing this, everyone opened their mouths wide, and it seemed that they were still a little incredulous, but Cao Xing looked back at everyone and smiled and said: "Brothers, since we have successfully hatched the chicks today, then I can tell you very clearly that from now on, we will not only have endless food, but also endless meat, and everyone can live a good life!" ”

In the ancient era of low labor, it was a very good thing to be able to eat, especially in the era of the Three Kingdoms, which regarded human life as a mustard, if there was a big bowl of rice in front of everyone's eyes every day, everyone felt that it was a great gift, let alone eating meat. So when they heard Cao Xing's words, everyone's eyes lit up, although there were some unrealistic, but what Cao Xuan said, when did he break his promise, so most people chose to believe Cao Xing unconditionally.

In ancient times, many people died at a young age, which is also related to malnutrition, and now that Cao Xing has successfully hatched chicks, it is time to manage large-scale farms.

The definition of farm in ancient times, is not particularly clear, but Cao Xing this time is thoroughly proposed, he first proposed to raise chickens, raising chickens does not need too much preparation, in the mountains around Bianyun County, just find a piece of flat land, circle a chicken pen, these flat land is natural fertilizer, there are countless weeds and insects and ants, can be used as nourishment for these chickens, so it will naturally rise.

So Cao Xing took everyone to the mountain in person, chose a flat land that looked more abundant in water and grass, and sent five men to guard it here in turn, and the daily task was to raise these chickens.

Cao Xing's industry is thriving, so the family's blockade of Cao Xing does not seem to have had a big impact on Cao Xing, Cao Xing still does what he should do, and two days later he completely returned to the yamen and continued his own work.

And Zhou Cang's daily task is also the most leisurely, that is, he constantly scolds everywhere with an iron rod, and whoever dares to talk back will be beaten indiscriminately. Therefore, many people in the government are trembling against Cao Xing, and Cao Xing's prestige has been completely established.

However, Zhou Cang looked at Cao Xing's review of official documents every day, all of which were unusually hard, and he looked at Cao Xuan with some puzzlement and asked: "Lord, I see that you have cleaned up the following people in the past dozens of days, but why do you have to do everything yourself, I see that you are very busy every day from morning to night, why not leave all these things to them!" ”

However, Cao Xuan looked at Zhou Cang and replied with a smile: "I did this just for self-discipline!" ”

Regardless of the past and present lives, those people who can be self-disciplined that Cao Xing has seen, I dare not say that they will definitely become big shots, but those who can be self-disciplined will be very scary, they know how to restrain themselves, and they will not let themselves make the slightest mistake. I won't let myself be attacked by others for no reason.

These people are like a strong fortress, others can't break it, but whether he can break others or not, that's two words, Cao Xing seems to be safe in Bianyun County, but in fact it is full of dangers, so Cao Xing's requirement for himself is that he must learn to be self-disciplined.