Chapter Fifty-Seven: Fishing with All Your Might

Li Zhengfang has already established the title of Cao Ying's first divine doctor, and it can even be said that it is not impossible to say that he is the first divine doctor of the righteous army, although it is said that Luo Yujiao followed Zhang Xuan, and even the craftsman battalion also followed Zhang Xuan to come over a part, but Li Zhengfang is Luo Rucai, who can never let go.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan could only bring the licorice from one of Li Zhengfang's two disciples.

Zhang Xuan didn't wait for the Wu brothers to come, he first called the licorice over and said, "The grass and trees in the wilderness, those are poisonous and those are not, you know it." ”

Licorice still remembered how Zhang Xuan persecuted their master and apprentice in Xiangyang, so he looked a little trembling in front of Zhang Xuan, and said: "The little one, although he often goes up the mountain to collect medicine, he is only familiar with medicinal materials, and he can't remember clearly what can and can't be eaten. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he frowned.

If Zhang Xuan wants to dig wild vegetables, he will not simply dig a little, but a large area and a large scale. But with such a big move, it would not be good to get food poisoning, so Zhang Xuan was the first to call licorice over. It's just that licorice doesn't know much about it either.

""Saving the Famine", "Saving the Famine". Seeing Zhang Xuan's frown, Licorice was so frightened that he was covered in a cold sweat, and suddenly remembered something and said loudly: "King Zhou Ding of this dynasty compiled a "Saving the Famine Materia Medica", which contains wild vegetables that can be eaten in the famine year. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "King Zhou Ding? "Just the Wild Materia Medica"? ”

Licorice squirted out what he knew like a machine gun, and said: "King Zhou Ding, the fifth son of the great grandfather, is now the ancestor of the Zhou clan in Kaifeng. His compilation of "Materia Medica" is dedicated to remembering wild vegetables, and according to the master, there are more than 400 kinds of wild vegetables. Most of them are native wild vegetables in Henan. ”

Zhang Xuan didn't care about anything else, and said loudly: "Books? Where is it? ”

"Isn't there a small one here?" Licorice said almost bitterly.

Zhang Xuan also knew that he didn't have it in his hands. Since Xiangyang, he began to carry some books with him, but during the march, the books he could carry were limited, Zhang Xuan brought more history books, and some internal information of the government. This is to make him more aware of the world. But this "Wild Materia Medica" really doesn't have it.

If he knew there was such a book, he would take it with him.

Fortunately, in the Ming Dynasty, Linying County still belonged to the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the King of Zhou was sealed to Kaifeng, and his influence was very great. At least in the Kaifeng jurisdiction, this "Saving Waste Materia Medica" is not difficult to find, and even better, what Zhou Dingwang wrote, most of them are local wild vegetables in Kaifeng, and Linying is far away from Kaifeng, but hundreds of miles, and the style of the two places is not much different, so if you look for wild vegetables in this book in Jiangnan, you may have little harvest, but it is easy to find in Linying.

And this book is still full of pictures and texts, although there is no punctuation on it, and it is in traditional Chinese, Zhang Xuan has a little difficulty reading, but it does not affect his importance to this book.

"Let the old king of the craftsman's camp come over." Zhang Xuan said: "Engrave all the pictures in this book and print me a thousand points." ”

Zhang Xuan quickly swallowed his big words, first of all, Linying County is not a place of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, there are no ready-made engravings at all, and there is no matching ink, which must be recreated. Linying generally buys books from Runing Mansion. Simply print it yourself.

However, these are all minor issues.

After Zhang Xuan discussed with the Wu brothers, he left Cao Zongyu to guard the city, and everyone else went out to dig wild vegetables.

A large number of people dig wild vegetables by hand, and the efficiency is really good, but the effect is not very good, because tens of thousands of people in Linying have long relied on wild vegetables to survive, and there are not many wild vegetables left from spring to now, and more are some poisonous things that must be processed before they can be eaten.

However, King Zhou Ding's "Saving the Famine Materia Medica" is quite complete. Everything is well documented.

Zhang Xuan looked at the county government street, paved with wild vegetables, of course, not only the appearance of wild vegetables in Zhang Xuan's heart, some things are the roots of certain things, some have to be the fruits of certain plants, and the rest is the appearance of wild vegetables in Zhang Xuan's mind, that is, herbaceous plants, among which there are more rhizomes, after all, all the wild vegetables that are easy to pick have been picked, and even the bark in some places has been picked, what Zhang Xuan is doing now is just sweeping the tail. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and secretly said in my heart: "With these wild vegetables, 30,000 people in the county can support it for a while." ”

"General, you're doing this with all your might." Licorice said with a little tremor in his voice: "Just today, within a few miles outside the county, there are no wild vegetables. It won't take a few days at all. ”

"That's true." Zhang Xuan said: "However, it is already October, and the wild vegetables in the field can live for a few days. ”

It is now the period of Xiaoice River, and the temperature has cooled down very early, in fact, Zhang Xuan is already feeling very cold now. The grass and trees wither quickly. Even if Zhang Xuan doesn't pick it, it won't last long. Zhang Xuan was a little worried, wild vegetables can be picked for a few days at most, after all, thousands of people work together, and the place where they pass is cleaner than sweeping the floor. But all the plants with a little green were brought over, and even some wild wheat would have been picked if they hadn't been greeted by Zhang Xuan in advance.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Zhang Xuan's head, and he grabbed the licorice and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

Licorice said cautiously, "I said, 'This wild vegetable won't be picked for a few days.'" ’”

"Nope." Zhang Xuan said: "It's the previous sentence. ”

"'It's a fishing.' Licorice said cautiously.

"Yes, do your best." Zhang Xuan said: "Why didn't I think of it. ”

In fact, in itself, he is just talking about a method of fishing, draining all the water in a body of water, and using it for fishing.

"There's a place where there's bound to be something to eat." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "That is the river, in the area of Linying, there is no shortage of rivers. But not many people have the organizational skills to drain the river, but I can. ”

There are many people who have the illusion that the drought is the cracking of the earth, the drying up of rivers, and even the interruption of the Yellow River. Not really, at least not in ancient times. As long as the rain does not fall according to the season, such as when the crops need water, it is already a drought. It hasn't rained for more than 100 days, even more so.

A severe drought in a certain place does not mean that there is no water at all in a certain place, but that water cannot be poured into the ground, which affects grain production. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that machine wells are used to water the ground now, the north is generally relatively dry.

There is never a shortage of rivers in Linying, and Yingshui flows through the south of the county, and the moat leads to Yingshui. There are large and small rivers near every village, and many small rivers have been cut off due to the drought, but a big river like Yingshui will not be broken.

After Zhang Xuan had this idea, he couldn't start it immediately. It is necessary to prepare for a period of time, and it is more necessary to intercept the river and let a section of the river be empty for fishing, which is actually a large water conservancy project, which requires careful planning.

Zhang Xuan immediately summoned the craftsman camp and the Zhang brothers to plan carefully.

Zhang Zhen listened and said: "Now there are countless large and small rivers in the county, and there are several rivers in the south that have not been cut off. If the general wants to do this, he must attack Yingshui, this is not a small project. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "If it is not difficult, can it be our turn to shoot?" ”

Although he said this, Zhang Xuan already looked solemn, you must know that Yingshui has to be cautious, Yingshui is more than 100 meters wide, to drain such a big river, it is really not a small project, although because of the drought, the water level has dropped, not 100 meters wide, but at least 50 or 60 meters wide, and the weather is getting colder and colder. If we don't start construction as soon as possible, it will be difficult to do it in the winter.

Zhang Xuan was holding the wild vegetable rice with the inexplicable fruits of the grass roots, enduring the bitter, more bitter, super bitter, astringent, more astringent, super astringent taste, and secretly said in his heart: "People came to eat fragrant and spicy food in ancient times, I can only eat grass, even for myself, I have to dig dry water, I want to eat fish." ”