Chapter 3 Farming

Qin King Li Shiming Xuanwumen coup d'état, ascended the throne as the emperor, the Tang Dynasty is about to kick off, the Li Shiming regime that has just ascended the throne is actually still in a turbulent situation, there are sporadic rebels everywhere to sweep up, the Xiongnu Jieli Khan is eyeing the tiger, and even Goryeo, Nanban and many other neighboring regimes have taken advantage of the situation to attack the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty from the beginning of Li Shiming's accession to the throne is indeed full of disasters, from the first year of Zhenguan's drought, to the invasion of Jieli Khan to force Li Er to sign the alliance under the city of Weishui, to the locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan, thousands of miles of red land, are all major events that can shake the foundation of Li Er's regime, and the subsequent drought in Shandong, the floods in Jiangnan Province are not worth mentioning, even today's people, it is difficult to imagine how Li Er created a prosperous Tang Dynasty in such a harsh environment.

"Guanyin, am I really wrong?" Li Er looked at the performance of the disaster report by officials from all over the country and was speechless for a long time, this kind of moment on the verge of anger is only the queen's eldest grandson.

"How can natural disasters vary from person to person, His Majesty is not that kind of layman, the sky will not change because of one person, however, if a person has a great talent, he can make the sky look sideways, and His Majesty is not afraid of this small drought." The reason why Li Shimin was able to achieve the unprecedented imperial cause has a lot to do with his perseverance and perseverance, and behind his tenacity, there has always been a catalyst, which is the eldest grandson.

"That's right, how can I be afraid of the sky." After a moment of decadence, there was a sense of arrogance, Li Er thought about it for a while, and began to write and approve the chapters, the requisition and distribution of various materials, orderly in chaos, one of which was that the villagers around the Qinling Mountains immediately entered the mountains and collected a large number of medicinal materials for the imperial court to provide disaster relief.

Yanglin has been coming to Wangjia Village for ten days, in addition to seeing the most beautiful Erla girl in Wang Erniu's mouth, he also has a general understanding of the living habits of the Tang people, the Tang Dynasty in history is a new stable regime after the war between the two Jin Dynasty, before Li Shimin took over, the life of the common people has been bitter to almost the lowest point in history, and the situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when the Yellow Turban Uprising was almost the same, the common people have no grain to save, eat bran vegetables, that is the life of a well-off family, perhaps, The reason why people commemorate the good of Tang Taizong so much is because he brought the long-stranded Chinese people from the trough into a period of vigorous development!

Erla is a little village girl who is dirty to the scum, Yanglin didn't find that she was beautiful from various angles, but after looking at the skinny girls in the same village, Erla is the girl who looks most like a girl, and it also makes Yanglin no longer doubt Wang Erniu's aesthetics, at this time he only hates himself for being cheap, in order to compensate Wang Erniu for returning to the village on his back, he didn't find what kind of yellow trumpet flower Erla wanted, Yanglin took out a pack of compressed biscuits that would not be hungry for a day as long as he ate a piece to Wang Erniu, I heard that it was made by the fairy master of Yanglin, Wang Erniu naturally gave it to Erla to enjoy as if offering treasure, Yanglin dared to swear, although this compressed biscuit is a high-end product bought by Yanglin Tuo people in Europe, but the taste can only be regarded as average, but after the greedy Erla girl ate it once, she suddenly felt that life was tasteless, and she was thinking about getting some immortal food from Yanglin all day long, so that she could get fairy energy and make herself more beautiful.

The shameless Wang Erniu didn't remember what he had oath in front of Erla, and instantly told Erla that Yanglin was a child of an immortal, and then the whole village knew about it, so Yanglin is now living a life of a god, and after Yanglin solved the wild wolf who stole into the village at night to find food at night with a shot a hundred steps away, he confirmed his reputation as a little fairy, and each family dedicated the best things in their homes to the little fairy, in fact, it is pickle pimples, dog tails, even so, Yanglin also wanted to return the gift, so the compressed biscuits that could be eaten for him for a month were eaten by the whole village of 100 people, and the harmful Yanglin could only eat pickles with them, which made Yanglin, who was used to living a noble life, how could he bear it.

"Erla, don't worry about my cookies anymore, I don't have them anymore." Yang Lin patted the empty back basket and gestured.

"I know, but these two lumps and those yellow sticks look better." Erla stared at the two large sweet potatoes and a few corn cobs in the back basket.

"Well, these two lumps are called sweet potatoes, and the yellow cobs are called corn, which are really delicious, but I plan to seed them and plant them in the ground, and there will be a lot of sweet potatoes and corn cobs in the second half of the year, and I will share a few of them with you to taste later." Yang Lin was speechless and explained to this foodie Erla, in fact, Erla is also surnamed Wang, and Wang Erniu is still a relative of four or five generations, the reason why there is a two-word in the middle of the name is because they are the second-character generation in this generation, Wang Erla sold himself to Wang Erniu as a daughter-in-law with a biscuit, so just wait for Erla to be sixteen years old, the village chief will hold a wedding for them, of course, from the perspective of the twenty-first century, this is an extremely ** behavior.

"What's the use of farming, I took it away without waiting for the mature officials and soldiers to come, it's better to give me a cost-effective meal, you tell me quickly, how to eat this thing!" Wang Erla heard Yang Lin say that this thing was really delicious, and he was even more convinced of his judgment, these few inconspicuous things were really better than biscuits.

"Eat, eat, you know how to eat, wait for the village chief to buy new salt, I will invite you to eat Dunyang's barbecue in the evening, and I will tell you to eat all the roots of your tongue, now, you gather all the dolls in the village, and I will command them to farm."

Wang Erla was Yang Lin's Dao Yang's barbecue **, he knew that last night the little fairy killed a one-meter-high big bad wolf, and now the wolf skin has been pulled down by the village chief to go to the town to change salt, and the wolf meat is hanging at the entrance of the village, ready to give everyone a tooth sacrifice at night, after all, there are no good hunting tools and means, even the villagers who rely on the mountain rarely eat meat, this piece of wolf meat was still left under the strong request of the little fairy and was not taken to the town by the village chief to exchange chestnut rice, Wang Erla got the order and immediately ran towards the village, After a while, the doll women and children in the village all ran over to Wang Erya Xiangyanglin's location.

The concept of male ploughing and female weaving in the Tang Dynasty is still relatively heavy, the men go into the mountains to collect firewood in broad daylight, and those who know some ways can pick some simple medicinal materials and sell them to the government and the pharmacy for some food, as for farming, in fact, they are the least concerned, because the cultivation technology at this time is only in the four steps of turning the soil, sowing, weeding, and harvesting, not to mention the barren land of the mountain, that is, the plain fertile land near the city, can not harvest a few catties of grain a year, an acre of land is allocated 30 catties of planting, and 300 catties of grain are harvested, even if it is a bumper harvest, in the future generations, The fart is also a thousand catties to catch up, the gap is as much as four or five times, so come, most of them are women and children, I heard that the little fairy is yelling at them to farm, the love is even lower, because farming does not belong to the category of women's occupation, and can not grow anything, it is better for a man to carry a steel fork on his back to the mountain to beat the head of the wild boar back, that can be exchanged for hundreds of catties of food at once.

"Listen to me, what we want to plant today is called sweet potatoes and corn, these two plants do not pick the ground, on the rocks and mud, as long as it can be planted in the place, it can grow, and the yield of an acre of land is as high as thousands of catties, this sweet potato, it is more likely to be tens of thousands of catties, as long as we plant this seed field this spring, we will never be hungry again next year." The tone of Yang Lin's speech can not be described as high-pitched and sultry, but first, it was not exchanged for warm applause, and second, it was not exchanged for envious and adoring eyes, but only in exchange for doubts, puzzles, and the sound of various children snorting.

"Little fairy, I have never seen a crop with a yield of tens of thousands of catties per mu in my life, unless it is a lump of mud, but you can plant it, but there is no land in our village! It's a crime to go to Tuntian without permission, if you are found out by the lieutenant, it will be a matter of going to prison, little fairy, you can't hurt everyone! "It is the mother-in-law of the village chief Wang Shouren, who lives with the village chief who can write two words all day long, and this mother-in-law also learned several laws issued by the imperial court, one of which is that farmers are prohibited from opening up wasteland without permission, and a qiē must be reported and approved by the imperial court before it can be carried out, and weeding and plowing the ground is also a heavy work, without men, it is difficult for these women to do it without leaving home.

"What Aunt Wang said is, so when the village chief went out this morning, I asked him to report to the chief, saying that our village is a disaster relief plan for the imperial court, and we want to plant some medicinal herbs, but we don't want to occupy the land for growing food, so I am willing to ask the imperial court to allow our village to open up some wasteland to plant medicinal herbs, and the village chief said that the problem should not be big, and we can do it first now." Yang Lin explained that today's Tang people's thinking is not so civilized, and they still pay more attention to the king's order, and this kind of loyal monarch is patriotic thinking is useless here in Yanglin, so it is inevitable that there will be some ideological generation gaps, and Yang Lin can only explain to them slowly.

Planting medicinal materials is generally a family pharmacy to master a little high-end technology, in the small Qingfeng Town can have people who can master the cultivation of medicinal materials, naturally will enjoy a very high treatment, in fact, the village head Wang Shouren's words just said it in the chief, and it was immediately transmitted to the county government of Lantian County, Wang Shouren, who had never entered the county government for several lifetimes, was received by Lantian County Hu Ziyu with a high standard, and gave him approval on the spot, Wangjia Village within a radius of 30 miles of wasteland can be taken, as long as it can exceed the quota of the drug collection of His Majesty, Hu Ziyu has the possibility of being promoted every minute in this county order, after all, Lantian County is under the nose of the imperial capital Chang'an City, and those who can serve as parents and officials here have some background in the court.

"Village Chief Wang, Chief Heli, as long as you can hand over 800 catties after the autumn, no, 500 catties of various medicinal materials, this county can be the master to exempt your village from this year's autumn tax." You must know that in the early Tang Dynasty, an era of frequent wars and disasters, one pound of medicine could almost top ten catties of grain, and the value of five hundred catties of medicinal materials was equivalent to five thousand catties of grain, and it was almost impossible for a village to supply five thousand catties of grain, and the total output was not so much, but this is how the little fairy said to Wang Shouren, "Give me a mountain, and give you ten thousand catties of medicinal materials" Even if you make a discount, there are five thousand catties! The county order only needs 500 catties, only one-tenth of it, Wang Shouren is still relatively confident, Wangjia Village is thirty miles away, but there is more than a small hill.

Speaking of Wangjia Village, under Yanglin's mobilization and explanation, everyone finally agreed to do it, but after seeing the farm tools that the women took out, Yanglin completely knew why the women thought that they could not grow the fields well, and hoped that these farm tools could open up the wasteland and plow the land, I am afraid that it would take several times the labor of the farmers in the 21st century, and finally Yanglin had to give an order to set fire to the mountain.