Chapter 208: The Moro Fruit Festival

"My lord, I think our craftsmen in the city will definitely make a steam carriage this time." When he returned to the City Lord's Mansion, An Zhongzhi said with an optimistic attitude.

"Looks like you have a lot of faith in them." North Lim Road.

"Not confidence in them, but confidence in adults, who said so about this tracked type, right? The subordinates who value this kind of tracked wheels are in their eyes, and although their subordinates don't know how to build cars, they feel that this kind of wheels are really practical, and they feel like the ground is filled in when the wheels are running. An Zhongzhi used a description.

Lin Bei smiled, An Zhongzhi almost summed up the benefits of crawler wheels, crawler wheels have a strong ability to grasp the ground, because there are many grooves on the wheels, and at the same time, the elasticity and contraction of the track are excellent, when the track touches the ground, it is indeed equivalent to the track filling the gap in the ground, so it can cross the ravines and some hilly ground, isn't there a word: such as walking on the ground.

The most used tracked wheels must be the tank, the original tank is too heavy, and the power is insufficient, so the requirements for the road surface are actually quite high, in addition, the swampy terrain they are not passable, but with the progress of science and technology, the tank is more and more adapted to various terrains, and even developed an amphibious tank.

Lin Bei now asked the craftsmen to build not a tank, but a tracked steam carriage, the body of the tank is made of iron, but the carriage is made of wood, and the weight is countless times lighter, so as long as it is built, this kind of steam carriage is definitely much more adaptable to the terrain than the tank, and the speed is also higher than that of the early tank, after all, it is very light, Lin Bei thinks that this is enough.

"When the steam carriage is built, we can ride it around Jiuzhen and Nichinan County." Lin Bei said with a smile.

"Then can you go back to Xishan Township then?" An Zhong asked directly.

"Absolutely. With this kind of carriage, it is not a problem to rush at all, everyone can comfortably ride the carriage back to Xishan Township, if you still feel that it is not enjoyable, you can even drive to the Central Plains. ”

"My lord, then we must go to the Central Plains then. I haven't been to the Central Plains once, and I want to go into Luoyang City to have a look. ”

"Okay, no problem, you can do it anywhere, so you have to supervise the craftsmen to build the steam carriage as much as possible, and when the time comes, Lord Ben will take you around the world."

"The world?"

"Yes, don't be surprised to tell you something, we're all standing on the same ball now."

"Balls?" An Zhong looked straight at the ground: "The adults are confused, right?" How could this be a ball? ”

Lin Bei laughed: "So you don't understand yet." The place where we live is called the earth, it is a spherical body, the whole earth floats in the air, I divide the earth into seven continents, the Han Dynasty is on the map of Asia, and the world I am talking about also includes six other continents, so ah, the Han Dynasty is very small. Be upright and look ahead."

Of course An Zhongzhi didn't understand. However, Lin Bei didn't explain in detail, this kind of thing can be slowly known after the level of science and technology improves, if you can't get out, then it is useless to know these things

After returning from Fountain Island, Lin Bei rested for two days, and then was originally preparing to start the war. But one thing disrupted the rhythm of the war, and that was the mango, that is, the Moro fruit ripened.

Lin Bei doesn't know when other types of mangoes ripen very early, but the mangoes here ripen very early, and in ancient times. The harvest was a great joy, and both Bian Ji and An Zhongzhi thought that they should not go to war when Wanghai City first harvested the fruit, so Lin Bei naturally agreed.

Calculating the time, this day is just after June, which is the modern Children's Day, but there is definitely no Children's Day in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Since this harvest is the first harvest for everyone to come to Wanghai City, Bian Ji and An Zhong attach great importance to it, thinking that they should pray for heaven and bless the wind and rain in the future, and the task of praying for heaven obviously has to be done by Lin Bei.

"Let me go and pray for blessings?" Lin Bei couldn't laugh or cry.

"Yes, sir." Bian Ji said very seriously: "And the blessing has to be prayed by the adult in person, the adult is the dragon god in the sky, and he will be able to communicate with the gods in the sky." ”

"Then let them pray to me," Lin Bei said weakly.

"My lord, this matter must not be a child's play, this is related to the future livelihood of my Wanghai City." An Zhongzhi is also strict sΓΉ.

The so-called prayer is to worship the gods with various sacrifices, pray for the blessing of the gods, or make wishes for these, anyway, and so on, and later, there are more and more ways to pray for blessings, and modern people pray for blessings to go to the temple to burn incense and paper, and later it has developed to spend a lot of money, and the comparison is generous, and the blessing has lost its original meaning.

And the blessing of this era is quite strict, there must be three animals, namely suckling pig, suckling sheep and dairy cow, and then all kinds of melons and fruits, if the evil prayer ceremony, even have to offer virgins and girls.

The ritual of praying for blessing is on a small hill outside the city by the sea, the hill has been bulldozed, and a platform should be built on it, called the prayer platform, when the time comes, Lin Bei will lead the people of Wanghai City to pray for blessings here, and none of the people of Wanghai can be pulled, all of them have to come, and it is definitely a rejuvenation of the people.

It took two hours just to pray for the blessing, and after the blessing was completed, An Zhongzhi asked the sergeant to order him to go down, and tomorrow the people of Wanghai City would pick the Moro fruit, so that the common people would dress more festively.

Early the next morning, An Zhongzhi and Bian Ji rushed to the landlord's mansion and instructed the sergeant to put a big red cloth on Lin Bei's head, which was really a big red cloth, woven into the shape of a hydrangea and tied to Lin Bei's head.

Subsequently, Lin Bei had to walk around the city, accept the kneeling of the common people, and then be the first to go out of the city, Lin Bei didn't dare to swing his head during the whole process, for fear that the big red hydrangea on his head would roll down to the ground, and his neck would be stiff.

And outside the city gate, there are two children, a little girl and a little boy, only four or five years old, white and clean, dressed up beautifully, these two children followed Lin Bei into the mango forest, the sergeant went up the tree to pick two mangoes, the two children took it, and said crisply: "Please replace the gods to enjoy the fruit, I hope the gods bless me Wanghai City with smooth wind and rain, melons and fruits are fragrant." ”

Of course, Lin Bei had to swallow it, because swallowing it was over, and then, An Zhong waved his hand, and the common people who followed each entered the forest happily with baskets and began to pick mangoes.

"I'm really tired" Lin Bei naturally didn't have to pick fruits, and Bian Ji'an Zhongzhi stood by the forest to watch.

Bian Ji and An Zhongzhi pretended not to see Lin Bei's complaints, and Bian Ji said happily: "My lord, there should be a lot of Moro fruits this year. ”

Lin Bei didn't speak.

An Zhong echoed: "Indeed, it's a pity that we came late, if only we came early." ”

"Then the coconut must be almost ripe, right? Some time ago, I saw a sergeant knocking down the coconut, saying that the juice was only slightly astringent, but now that a long time has passed, it must be about the same. ”

"When the time comes, every household in the city will be able to share some, or the adults will be wise, and they will transplant all the fruit trees around my Wanghai City, and the fruits will be fragrant, which is really a grand scene."

The two of them are talking about it, they don't care about Lin Bei at all, Lin Bei thought about it after he sulked, who made him the spiritual leader of these people, he felt guilty with the big red flower, but others still had to kneel, why not say that those people were sinned, there are some gray-haired old men among these people, where is Lin Beicai.

"There will be things like this in the future, right?" Lin Bei asked.

Bian Ji and An Zhongzhi nodded in unison, of course there will be, what the leader does, he has to do these things, in fact, Lin Bei has done a lot of things, at least one thing Bian Ji and An Zhongzhi have not said about Lin Bei, that is, the matter of reproducing the next generation.

In ancient times, whether a lord has descendants is a big thing, and even related to the sense of belonging of the forces under it, if the lord can't give birth to a son, then wait for the power to fall apart, and sometimes there are fewer sons and it's not good, in some dynasties, there is no shortage of emperors who are forced by their courtiers to choose concubines, and they can't give birth to princes? Then let's go as a breeder/horse every day, so it's fortunate that Lin Bei was not forced to be a snake breeder by An Zhongzhi and Bian Ji.

The mangoes were picked one by one and sent to Linbei, and then the sergeant put them away, and these mangoes will be distributed to the Wanghai people today and tomorrow, although because there is no care for this year's mangoes, so the yield is a little low, but there is still one person and one person, and the rest is naturally Linbei's.

Lin Bei looked at the mangoes of different sizes and said straight to An Zhong: "The field has already begun to be measured, right?" ”

"Yes, my lord, I have already begun to measure the fields, this year's grain is collected uniformly, and the fields will be distributed after the beginning of spring next year, so that the farmers can plant themselves, as for how much tax to collect, it will be up to the adults to decide."

Lin Bei nodded: "When the time comes, you will make the tax more detailed, but you have to let everyone understand, understand?" ”

"Now that everyone in Wanghai has books, and the number of literate and reasonable people is gradually increasing, this problem should not be big."

Lin Bei stopped talking.

In fact, at the beginning, Lin Bei had a plan to let everyone eat a big pot of rice, but then he vetoed it, this distribution method will only make people lazy, and the end is too big, so Lin Bei has to use the method of distribution according to work.

After the field property is divided, it has to rely on the common people to operate and produce, the more the brain is flexible and works diligently, the more you get, if you are lazy, you will naturally harvest less, and if you don't work, you will starve it, this is more work, less work, no work, this distribution method Lin Bei believes that it is still very fair, the more clear the person in power, the more just this distribution method is, if the person in power is corrupt, then no matter what system is almost the same. (To be continued......)

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