After seeing the smelting base camp, Bai Gui prepared to go to the Qin State via the deer park. Take this new road and take a field trip to the road.

Head southwest from Linquan Castle to the deer park. From Deer Park, head west around the mountains and further south. In fact, it does not completely bypass the mountains that block the south, but passes through a large canyon.

The canyon is long, treacherous, and there are no roads, all through their own paths.

After passing the canyon, it leaves the mountain range further east, and further south is the territory of the Qin state.

When I arrived at the territory of Qin, I walked a long and uninhabited road before I reached the northwest of Xianyang.

It is possible to open up trade routes. But! There are no lanes, so you can only use horses.

"Can the soil here grow crops?"

On the way, Bai Gui squatted down, grabbed a handful of loess and pinched it in his hand, looked at it seriously, and asked the guards who followed him.

Knowing that Bai Gui was going to Qin State, and that he was going to Qin State from Linquan through Deer Park and then detour, the guards were very worried and wanted to protect the safety of Bai Guanren.

So! When I went back to Qin this time, there were many guards who followed.

Unicorns, one-eyed beasts, and one-clawed beasts followed. Not only did they not worry about the white officials, but they also wanted to go back to Wei through Qin. Their families are all in Wei.

Before! The family members live semi-communically. Afterward! Under the influence of the spies of the Qi State, they were all exposed. I had no choice but to live in seclusion. In order not to attract the attention of others, they usually do not dare to go home.

This is the Loess Plateau, the loess after the rain, very muddy. Semi-dry loess is cohesive, and the dried loess coagulates together. The dry loess, if you pinch it hard, it will be kneaded into powder.

Bai Gui also noticed that the uncultivated loess, that is, the underground loess, the kind that was accumulated together, was very strong.

"This is probably northern Shaanxi, right?" Looking at the loess and then at the surrounding terrain, Bai Gui suddenly suspected: it seemed that he had come to the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi.

But he couldn't remember it at all: how did he get from Linquan Castle to northern Shaanxi?

Where is Linquan Castle on a modern map?

Ningxia? Or in Gansu? Or? Is it Inner Mongolia?

The general direction is in this area, right?

It would be nice to be able to bring a map with you when you were reborn, so that you can roughly know the specific location of Linquan Castle.

"Northern Shaanxi? Where is northern Shaanxi? The one-clawed beast Wei Zhongyi asked.

"Northern Shaanxi! It is the holy land of revolution and the cradle of New China! Hehe! Bai Gyu laughed. Instead, he asked, "What do you say?" Can this loess grow crops? ”

The unicorn White Horn said very seriously: "As long as the soil can be dispersed, as long as there is water, you can grow crops!" I paid attention! There are many low-lying places, and there are grass and trees growing on them! In some places, the trees grow very tall. So! There are nutrients and can grow crops. ”

The one-eyed beast Bai Shun also replied, "I heard from my ancestors that the land of Qin can also be used to grow crops. They grow crops that have short seasons and can survive as long as there is one or two rains. Crops that grow for a long time will be harvested because of lack of water. So! Only one or two seasons can be planted. Reputedly! When there is a lot of rain, you can grow the same crops for all seasons of the year! ”

"The same crop? Four seasons all year round? Baekyu couldn't believe it.

"It's a good year, and when you catch up, you can plant the four seasons. In a normal year, there are two to three seasons a year. Two seasons, it's normal. Three seasons, depending on the situation......"

"What kind of crop is this?" Bai Gyu asked with interest.

"I don't know!" Bai Shun replied honestly: "It seems to be very bitter and has a bad taste." But the people of the Qin State eat this! ”

"It can't be buckwheat, right?"

"Where is there a crop that grows four crops a year?" A guard asked in disbelief.

Bai Gui said with a smile: "Bai Shun means: not planting four or three crops of the same crop in a year on a piece of land, it is interplanting. It means that this crop can be planted from the beginning of spring until autumn, and can be seen all year round. ”

"Oh?"

"I heard!" Bai Gui then explained: "When the Son of Heaven and the king are ready to fight, they will call on the farmers to grow more of these crops and not let the land sit idle. Produce plenty of food for war. ”

"Oh?" When everyone heard this, they all nodded in admiration.

"If you can grow crops, why not grow crops?" Bai Gyu said, looking around again.

One of the guards replied, "There is no population in the Qin State!" White officials! You see! How many days have we been gone? Since entering the Qin Kingdom, I have not seen a single village or family. If there is no one, who will farm the land? ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! White officials! I've heard! The land area of the Qin State is very large, but it has no population. People who don't know think that the land of Qin is barren and does not grow crops. Not really! It was the Qin State that had no population. ”

"The population of the Qin State was okay before, but later! Under the alliance of Wei, Zhao and Korea, the country was almost destroyed. Afterward! When the population was so scattered, the king ordered that all the scattered people be moved together and planted fertile land. So! In the remote and barren land, there is no one. ”

"Oh?"

"The Qin State was not only attacked by the Three Jin and other countries, but also had a small population. There had been civil strife in the Qin State before, with sons fighting for power, and harem chaotic governance. Outcome! If the people's taxes increase, the population will not be able to go up. The people themselves can't live, where can they still have the ability to give birth to babies? ”

"Yes! Internal and external troubles will only cause the country to regress and the people to suffer. ”

I walked for two more days before I saw the village. The village is not large and the population is not large.

Walking further in the direction of Xianyang, the population gradually became denser. Fertile land, with a large population. There is still not much population in the barren land.

In the vicinity of Xianyang, the density of the population was normal, as was that of the other vassal states of Zhou.

Most of the houses in the Qin State are thatched houses, which are very simple.

Some houses, very special, are bevel-shaped. The south-facing, north-facing, side is a high wall, leeward. The roof is very unruly, and if it rains, the rainwater quickly flows from the roof to the ground.

The town bazaars of the Qin State were very small, and there were many thatched houses on the streets of the bazaars, and few good houses with stone and wood structures.

The bazaar is the kind of morning market where there are many people in the morning and there are no people around noon. Afternoon! Most of the shops in the bazaar are closed, and most of the shopkeepers have gone home to farm.

In the bazaar, there are generally no young men, either mom-and-pop shops or old and young people. When the family is the shopkeeper, the other family members are buddies.

"This, this, this? There's nothing in this warehouse? This? The guards who investigated the market came back and reported.

In the warehouses of the Qin State, there were absolutely no foreign goods. Even domestic goods are rare. Most of the products sold in the warehouse are local handicrafts and the like. The most common goods are: agricultural tools and so on.

In terms of food, it is all locally produced.

(End of chapter)