Chapter 385 Accumulation and Accumulation

Xiang Zhuang rode a black horse, slowly marched on the Triumph Avenue, the mood was surprised and happy, more than three months ago when the expedition was just an ordinary gallop road, how to Qidi, Huainan turned around and came back, there is such a wide more than 100 steps, the weather is thousands, like the glorious avenue of the emperor is coming?

Behind Xiang Zhuang, there are tower-like Jin Xiang and Hu Yan, the two of them are half a horse's head behind Xiang Zhuang, originally they didn't want to get too close to Xiang Zhuang at this time, but there are so many people on both sides of Triumph Avenue, among them, there will be assassins sent by various countries, although the king is strong in martial arts, but the open gun is easy to dodge, and the hidden arrow is difficult to defend, so be careful. Keep in mind

Behind Jin Xiang and Hu Yan, there are Baili Xian, You Yuan, and Baili Mao generals, and Ying Zhen is also among them, but Ying Zhen's mood is quite unhappy, because she wants to go side by side with Xiang Zhuang and accept the cheers of the people on both sides of the avenue, but Xiang Zhuang refused her without hesitation, obviously, Xiang Zhuang thinks she is not qualified.

The cheers on both sides of the Triumph Avenue were higher and higher, and Xiang Zhuang's mood was also aroused, and he suddenly felt that building such an avenue was actually a good idea, and through the almost military parade on the avenue, it could not only maximize the prestige of the monarch, but also stimulate the pride and sense of belonging of the people.

With the development of industry and commerce in Chu, the income of the people is getting higher and higher, and their lives are getting richer and richer, the vast majority of the people have been lifted out of poverty, and the families with men serving as soldiers have even lived a superior life, and the taverns, chess houses, piano workshops, brothels and other facilities in Ziling City have become more and more unable to meet their needs.

The Colosseum, yes, is the Colosseum, and it's time to build a large Colosseum.

Before crossing over, Xiang Zhuang had watched an American drama called "Spartacus Blood and Sand", and the bloody scenes in it didn't touch him much, as a veteran, he had seen more cruel, real, and bloody scenes, but the excitement of the Romans in front of the blood in it touched him a little.

There is no doubt that the gladiatorial arena can greatly enhance the citizens' sense of belonging to the country, and more importantly, can greatly enhance the blood of the citizens, making them aggressive and bloodthirsty, why did Rome in the West finally expand from a small city-state to a huge empire that dominated the entire Mediterranean, and lasted for thousands of years?

For no other reason, the Romans were aggressive, bloodthirsty, and aggressive!

Xiang Zhuang has changed history, so he does not want the Chinese people to take the old path again, become a gentle, humble, tolerant and introverted nation, Xiang Zhuang hopes that the Chinese people will become a combative, bloodthirsty, and expansive nation, so it is necessary to introduce bloody entertainment such as the gladiatorial arena and arena, so that the Confucian way of moderation and benevolence will lose the soil for survival.

After a march along the Triumph Avenue and a tsunami of cheers from the citizens of Ziling, Xiang Zhuang made an impromptu speech on the Wuwei Gate, which provoked a lot of cheers from the soldiers and ministers of the Chu army, and the people, of course, the vast majority of them just followed the coaxing, and only a small part heard Xiang Zhuang's speech.

In the end, the cavalry was disbanded, and the nobles with no higher titles were given a long vacation to return home to their families, while those who did not have higher titles were dispersed to the barracks and continued to receive the most brutal training! After Xiang Zhuang returned to the palace, he naturally had to share the joy of family with many concubines, princes, and princesses.

However, it was only the next day, and Xiang Zhuang dragged him to Ziling Taicang. ..., Xiang Zhuang was surprised to find that the originally empty cellars and grain hoards in Taicang would all be filled, not only that, but a large number of cellars and grain hoards were additionally built on the vacant land in the original northwest corner, that is to say, the grain hoarded in Taicang in Ziling is far more than one million stones!

"Ziji." Xiang Zhuang said in a loud voice, "How much grain is here?" ”

Xiang He stretched out two fingers and said with a slight smugness: "Two million stones!" ”

"Two million stones?!" Xiang Zhuang was a little incredulous, "Where did you get so much grain?" "Xiang Zhuang can't help but be surprised, although there is Mrs. Qin, a red-capped businessman, who is buying grain at a high price for the imperial court, but it also has to have so much surplus grain in Chudi, you must know that when the law was first changed more than ten years ago, the grain in Chudi was not enough to eat.

Xiang He smiled slightly and said, "King, you can go and have a look with your ministers." ”

When Xiang led the way, he took Xiang Zhuang and many civil and military ministers to a village on the outskirts of Ziling.

This is just a small village, in the wilderness at the foot of the river at the foot of the mountain carved out about a few hundred acres (now the city of acres) of paddy fields, the rice in this paddy field has been harvested, but it is full of a green plant, Xiang Zhuang knows this plant, seedlings can be eaten as sparse vegetables, and when they grow into a high-quality livestock feed.

What particularly eye-catches Xiang Zhuang is the several waterwheels built by the river.

Obviously, these waterwheels are used to draw water from the river to irrigate these hundreds of acres of paddy fields, as a traverser, Xiang Zhuang certainly knows the waterwheel, but he can swear that he has never mentioned the waterwheel to anyone, before, his energy was more focused on the improvement of ordnance and winemaking, papermaking, and not much attention to agricultural machinery.

Xiang Zhuang vaguely remembered that the waterwheel seemed to be called Kongming car, which did not appear until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but now, the Chu State used the waterwheel four hundred years earlier, who invented this waterwheel?

When Xiang Zhuang asked him, "Ziyi, who invented this waterwheel?" ”

Looking in the direction of Xiang Zhuang's finger, Xiang He smiled and said: "The king is saying that this water wheel is made by a student of Taixue, this student was originally a farmer's child, and he likes to learn organs. ”

Xiang Zhuang sighed a little, it seems that his changes have really had a profound impact on all aspects of the Chu State, not to mention the military and cultural influences, and now even agriculture has been greatly affected, not only the production tools have been greatly improved, but the production technology has also developed by leaps and bounds, as evidenced by the waterwheel in front of him.

"Now this water wheel has spread all over Jiangdong." Xiang He smiled slightly, and said, "King, go this way." ”

At the next time, Xiang Zhuang led Xiang Zhuang and a group of ministers of civil and military affairs to continue to walk forward, in a vacant land in the middle of hundreds of acres of paddy fields, dozens of thatched huts were built, several of them were smoking outside, and before everyone approached, several big yellow dogs rushed out of the village, barking wildly at this side, dozens of hens were frightened, and immediately flew around.

The barking of the dog immediately alarmed the villagers, and the small village Lizheng hurriedly greeted him.

Although Xiang Zhuang Junchen and his entourage were wearing civilian clothes, Li Zheng still saw at a glance that it was a group of big people who were either rich or noble, and welcomed Xiang Zhuang and his party into their own yard at the moment, and took out the liquor and braised pig's head meat that had just been sold from the market town to entertain guests, while also arranging for a grandmother to kill chickens and ducks.

Xiang Zhuang was a little stunned, this liquor and braised pig's head meat are not like specially prepared, but like this small Li is buying and preparing to enjoy himself, it seems that the small life here is good.

"Old man, how is this year's harvest?" Xiang Zhuang sat down on the stone bench and asked casually. ..., Li Zheng said busily: "This year's harvest is okay, I have harvested more than 50 stone of grain, and I can almost grind 30 stone of rice." ”

Xiang Zhuang was a little surprised, thirty stone polished rice is three thousand six hundred catties (Qin Jin), converted into the city of the next generation is also nearly two thousand catties, just now looked at the population of the Li Zheng family, it seems that the old couple, daughter-in-law plus one and a half children, a year at most eat seven or eight hundred catties, that is a big surplus.

Looking back at Xiang He, Xiang Zhuang said again: "All families are similar? ”

Li Zheng scratched his head and replied: "There are more big heads and more families, and they have collected nearly 100 stone grains, and the other families are almost the same." ”

Xiang Zhuang sighed, and said, "Old man, why don't you see your son?" ”

"Be a soldier." Speaking of his son, Li Zheng's face immediately showed pride, and said, "My son has just been selected as a soldier, and this will be training in the Danyang camp. ”

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly, being a soldier is still the first choice of the Chu people.

After having a meal at Lizheng's house, Xiang Zhuang went to the village again, and found that Lizheng did not lie, the grain hoards of each family were full, and there were a lot of chickens, ducks, geese and dogs.

On the way back to the city, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but ask Xiang He: "Ziyi, could it be that you deliberately arranged it?" ”

When Xiang heard this, he shook his head and smiled: "If the king doesn't believe it, won't he know if he goes out another day?" ”

Xiang Zhuang actually said that, in this kind of big matter related to major policies, Xiang He would not deliberately whitewash the Taiping to ask for credit to himself, and immediately asked: "But it's not right, since every family in Chudi has so much surplus grain, where did their surplus grain go in the past few years?" ”

"In the past few years, the surplus grain was basically sold to the winery to make liquor." Xiang said this, and said, "However, the harvest of previous years cannot be compared with the present, let's just say that three years ago, it was a good year with good wind and rain, and this year there were several wind disasters, but the harvest is still better than three years ago." ”

"Why is that?" Without waiting for Xiang Zhuang to ask, Wu Shi couldn't help but ask first.

Xiang He said: "The main thing is that the yield per mu has increased a lot, with the accumulation of the previous few years, now every household basically has a ploughing ox or pack horse, as well as an iron ploughshare rake, which can turn the ground deeper and thinner, and the water wheel is a good thing, as long as there is no major drought, the harvest will basically not be affected too much." ”

Xiang Zhuang has some understanding, this is called accumulation, ten years of change, the first seven or eight years in the humanities, science and technology, agriculture, military and other aspects of the completion of the accumulation, the last two or three years began to show the results of the change, agriculture, yield greatly improved, science and technology, all kinds of inventions emerge in endlessly, humanities, the values of the Chu people have been very different, not to mention the military aspect.