Chapter Fifty-Six: The Worries of the World

After the passion, there is endless melancholy, and men always have two or three minutes in passion, but when this passion subsides, it is a kind of loneliness.

Meicheng, to put it mildly, is an ordinary city, and it is not so easy to work hard to govern it.

The speech has been over for three hours, and Mei Xiaohan is still holding a horn in his hand, but he is in a daze at the moment.

He spoke his words, which seemed to be his dream, and it didn't seem to be his dream.

In a word... He felt like he had to do something. So he found Zhang Liang again and asked him face to face.

"If this city were yours, how would you govern it?"

Zhang Liang's face was full of doubts, he suspected that this was a trap, so he didn't dare to speak, no matter what he said, there would be a handle to be caught.

But he couldn't help but say it, so he said: "Please also ask Master Mei for advice." ”

In this way, I can't help but say that it is very tactful, and Zhang Liang threw the problem back again.

"The name is the food." This is an eternal truth, and it is also an eternal philosophy.

"I think... First of all, the farmers should be fed, which is very critical and very important. ”

Ancient China was dominated by agriculture, and Chinese agriculture has a long history.

Chinese agriculture originated in ancient times, which are not well documented, and it took place in the matrix of the primitive hunter-gatherer economy.

There is a so-called "Shennong's" in ancient history and legends.

"Before Shennong's, people ate reptiles, animals, fruits, vegetables, snails, mussels, and then the population gradually increased, and there was a shortage of food, so there was an urgent need to open up new food sources."

This style of painting is unimaginable, it's like a person who stuffs everything in his mouth when he sees it, which is no different from a savage.

"Shennong's later tasted all kinds of herbs for this, prepared for hardships, poisoned many times, and found a way to detoxify, and finally chose grains that can be eaten by people."

Then he observed the right time and place, created axes, and taught people to grow grain. So agriculture came into being, and medicine came into being.

At the same time, people also mastered the techniques of pottery and weaving. This legend is a legacy of the era in which agriculture was established and established.

There are three main centers of agricultural origin: West Asia, Central and South America, and East Asia.

The center of origin in East Asia is mainly China. China's primitive agriculture has obvious characteristics.

In terms of crop farming, a pattern of millet in the north and rice in the south was formed very early, which is different from West Asia, which is dominated by wheat and barley, and is also different from Central and South America, which is dominated by potato, gourd and corn.

China's primitive agricultural tools, such as the in-line plow used for turning the soil, and the stone knife used for harvesting to pinch the ears of grain, also show characteristics that are different from those of other regions.

In terms of animal husbandry, the earliest domestic animals raised in China were dogs, pigs, chickens and buffaloes, which later increased to the so-called "six animals" (horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens), which is different from West Asia, which mainly raised sheep and goats for a long time, and is different from Central and South America, which only knows how to raise alpacas.

China is one of the world's largest centers of origin for crops, livestock and poultry.

Primitive agriculture in most areas of China is directly from the economy of gathering, fishing and hunting, with planting at the core and livestock breeding as a sideline, which develops with the development of planting, and at the same time takes gathering and hunting as a supplementary source of means of livelihood, forming a structure of coexistence of agriculture, animal husbandry and hunting.

This structure led to a more stable sedentary life, which was compatible with sedentary agriculture, where pigs have always been the main domestic animals, and a combination of captivity and grazing appeared earlier.

Nomadic tribes were formed later. At the same time, China is the first country in the world to raise silkworm reeling silk.

China's agriculture originated independently and was self-contained. Chinese civilization is built on the basis of its own agricultural development, and the so-called "Chinese civilization in the West" that was once circulated does not conform to historical reality.

From the perspective of China's own scope, agriculture did not spread from a central origin to the surrounding areas, but was formed by the convergence of several sources. Millet agriculture in the Yellow River basin and rice farming in the Yangtze River basin have different origins.

Agriculture in southern China may have started with the cultivation of potato root and tuber crops. Even agriculture in the same crop area may have different origins.

On the basis of polycentric origin, in the process of its development, China's agriculture has gradually formed different types of agriculture through differentiation and reorganization based on the differences in natural conditions and social traditions in various places.

These different types of agricultural culture became the basis for the formation of different ethnic groups.

Ancient Chinese agriculture was formed by the fusion of these different regions, different nationalities, and different types of agriculture, and developed in their mutual exchanges and collisions.

Further intensive cultivation and development. Many crops from the New World were introduced to China, which had a significant impact on China's crop structure. Diversification and multi-cropping have become the main modes of agricultural production.

Agriculture pays attention to the seasonal temperament, spring planting and summer growth, autumn harvest, and winter storage.

However, due to the lack of production tools, it is very difficult for the people of Meicheng to farm.

Zhang Liang believes that the first thing that needs to be changed is the means of production.

It is against common sense that years of war have caused the southern region, which should be rich, to become very poor, but such a thing has happened.

"What do you think about changing the means of production?"

"This... Zhang Liang doesn't know yet! ”

Although Zhang Liang said this, it was still very admirable. Because he can think of the peasants, it is not simple, it is not easy.

A person who can speak for the peasants must love the people. Although it cannot be said that he loves the people like a son, he must be able to care for the people.

Mei Xiaohan was ready to send Zhang Liang to do a survey to count the agricultural production tools of the people in the city, so as to do the next step.

And Mei Xiaohan himself decided to personally visit the countryside to investigate, and the big leader was on the front line, in order to see the truth and understand the people's feelings. After all, it's your own territory, and it's better to do everything yourself.

Zhang Yun, Liu Sihao, Li Sinian and several others have no experience in governing a city, just like Zhao Kuangyin, who has no experience as an emperor. There is a first time for everything.

As the saying goes, "Fertile water does not flow into outsiders' fields." ”

Naturally, important work cannot be handed over to outsiders.

After delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech, Mei Xiaohan felt that her task was even heavier.

Giving everyone food and every child being able to read is easy to say, but it's actually very hard to do.

But the big words have already been said, and if you can't do it, it will be equivalent to a slap in the face.

The ancient land of China nurtured countless sons and daughters of China, and the ancestors used their wisdom to create one brilliance and miracle after another.

Countless failures, coupled with countless efforts, every bit of progress is not easy.

"What is the difference between a person who has no goals and ideals and a salted fish?"

It is not difficult for a person to be able to eat well.

It was a bit difficult for the family to be able to eat well.

It is not easy for the people of a city to have enough to eat.

When the power is in hand, the fate of these beings is closely related to that of those in power.

So Mei Xiaohan shouted out the sentence:

"The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy."

"Mr. Fan Zhongyan, I'm sorry, I said this earlier than you said."