Chapter 63 The Dilemma of Agrarian Reform
In a team, there are always all kinds of people, with different personalities, different hobbies, and different behavioral habits.
A person's strength is very small, which Mei Xiaohan has long been aware of. As a leader, you may not need to be an all-rounder, but at least you need to have the courage to lead.
Leaders can make the best use of their talents, and the person Mei Xiaohan admires the most is Liu Yun, although Liu Yun's own ability is not very strong, but the ability of the person who works for Liu Yun is very strong.
Since ancient times, a strong leader has a team that can gather strength, and they will not be knocked down because of small winds and waves. However, this cohesion is not achieved overnight, what he needs is time.
This is a very effective way to start by buying people's hearts.
Mei Xiaohan looked at the young man in front of her and said, "It seems that you are a bit literate!" ”
"It's just... I don't believe in the book. ”
"I want something real!"
Since ancient times, officials and officials have protected each other, and if they have a little bit of power, they like to show off their might in front of the people.
Mei Xiaohan looked at the young man and said, "Do you think you have the ability to be an official?" ”
Mei Xiaohan's sudden question made the young man stunned, because he had never seen an official ask such a question.
"I'm just a cloth cloth, and I have no political experience, I'm afraid it's hard to be competent!"
"You're pretty realistic!"
Mei Xiaohan said: "You go and help me do one thing first, help me find ten people who can write!" ”
"It's not that hard!"
So the young man complied, and soon ten men were found.
When these ten people came, Mei Xiaohan shook her head again and again: "No... None of them are qualified! ”
"We've all been to school, huh? How is it not qualified! ”
"Master Mei, you can't look good!"
Everyone talked and expressed their dissatisfaction. The young man said: "Please also ask Master Mei to make it clear!" ”
"They're all too old, they're already stubborn, and it's hard to take in new things!"
"Humph! How unreasonable! ”
"That's too contemptible!"
Everyone threw up their sleeves and left, leaving the young man standing awkwardly.
"Mei-sama... What's next... What to do? ”
"Go and keep looking for me!"
The young man said: "Don't hide what Master Mei said, the situation here in Meicheng is special, because of years of war... Food and clothing for the people is a problem, and trying to find a teenager who can read and read is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack! ”
"Won't you find a way to solve this problem?"
The young man was stunned for a few seconds and said, "I understand, so I turned around and left!" ”
Zhang Yun said: "Master Mei, why are you doing this?" ”
Mei Xiaohan said: "I'm just testing him, testing his patience, this person is impetuous but arrogant, a little talented but self-contained." ”
"Will he be able to find ten teenagers who have both read and written?"
Mei Xiaohan replied affirmatively: "Of course! It's just going to be hard..."
The vast majority of the educational resources of the ancients were distributed among the famous families, who were the children of rich families or the descendants of official eunuchs, and rarely had access to knowledge.
If the young people want to find these people, they have to change their direction, and the target is directly these rich children or the descendants of official eunuchs.
So the young man turned his head to leave, but was stopped by Mei Xiaohan and said, "I heard that your horse is dead, I will give you another one, and use it as your means of transportation, and there will be another reward after completing the task." ”
When the young man heard this, he was moved to tears and said, "The students must live up to their mission!" ”
After sending the young man away, Mei Xiaohan has been nervous, not because he is worried that the young man will never return, but because he is thinking about another issue.
Everything in the city is chaotic, and most of the people have a very low level of education, and it is very difficult to govern the city.
So he turned back to agriculture, and the first task was that the people could have enough to eat, and how many people would go to study if they didn't have enough to eat!
Although there is a saying in modern times that "no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education", this sentence is not applicable in ancient times.
It has been a few days since Zhang Liang was sent to the countryside to visit and investigate and count the agricultural production tools of the people in the city, and now Mei Xiaohan is waiting for the preliminary results of the investigation.
"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools", with good tools, you can do things with half the effort.
Farming tools shorten the working time of farmers and improve labor efficiency, so agricultural tools have become one of the important components of agriculture.
During the primitive agricultural period, agricultural production was extensive, and the materials of agricultural tools were mainly stone, bone, mussel and wood; There are three types of types: farming, harvesting, and processing. Farming generally includes shovels, rakes, hoes, etc.;
Harvesting includes knives, sickles, etc.; The most common types of processing are stone grinding discs and stone grinding rods. In addition, there are agricultural tools made from deer antlers. Pottery was invented and used very early, mainly for drawing water, storing food and cooking food.
After the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty, since the Han Dynasty, due to the great development of the iron smelting industry, not only iron farm tools have become more popular and become "the great use of the people", but also with the needs of the development of agricultural production, the types of farm tools have increased, and the quality has also been greatly improved.
Before the invention of the plough wall, the role of the plough was to break the soil and make a ditch, which was called a plough. After ploughing, it is also used to build soil and ridges.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the mu system increased, with 240 steps as one mu. However, Zhao Guo's implementation of "one acre and three" on behalf of the field still refers to making three ditches and two ridges between one step. It is used as a strip plough to send soil from both sides, which is the first process of ridge formation. By the late Western Han Dynasty, a more progressive theory of farming was proposed.
"The Book of Victory" says: "The spring land is ventilated, and the hard and strong black soil can be cultivated, and the blocks can be flattened to grow grass." Grass is recultivated. There is light rain in the sky, and the cultivation is restored, and do not let there be a piece of time. "Here, it is not only required to repeatedly plough the soil and soil, but also to cultivate the grass in the ground before ploughing, which includes the intention of pressing green manure. But a plow is not up to the task.
In order to achieve this purpose, the Western Han Dynasty invented the plough wall, which is formed by the continuous curved surface of the ploughshare and the plough wall, which can break up the ploughed soil and turn it over.
The invention of the curved plough was a great step forward, and the curved plow had several major improvements compared to the previous plough. First of all, the straight wheel, the long wheel is changed to the curved wheel, the short wheel, and the plow disc that can rotate freely is installed at the head of the wheel, so that not only the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, but also is convenient to turn around and turn, the operation is flexible, and the manpower and livestock are saved.
When Zhang Liang came back, Mei Xiaohan was shocked by the report presented. Not to mention the improved curved plough, even the plough wall is in short supply.
Years of war have led to a shortage of iron tools, farmers are unable to complete even basic agricultural production, the land is barren and overgrown, farmers are displaced, and many fields have become barren.