Chapter Seventy-One: The Harvest Season
In July, the rice is ripe and it is harvest season again.
Daqian has two crops of rice, but planting two crops of rice is too hasty, and the rice in the field is harvested, and the seedlings that have already been raised must be planted immediately, otherwise after this time, the second season will not be able to ripen.
That's the so-called double grab.
Moreover, the time of the double grab happens to be the hottest time of the year.
The hottest time is the busiest, and it is easy to get heat stroke.
In the case of low per capita arable land in the mainland, one person can wait for a few acres of land, and the double cropping rice can be harvested, so many people plant double cropping rice.
However, in places like the Great and Small Golden Prefectures, where there are few people and a lot of land, and the productivity is very backward, it is absolutely impossible to plant double-cropping rice when one person is planting twenty or thirty acres of land.
So they only plant one crop, so that the time to harvest the rice is relatively less tight.
And the rice does not need to be planted so early, it can be delayed by another month, and it will mature in July, and from harvest in July to August, the weather will be relatively not so hot.
After harvesting rice, you can also plant a season of rape in the field, and the comprehensive benefits are okay.
It's just that after the bandits started stealing rice, when it was harvest time, the villagers were also quite troubled.
In some villages, people will patrol the land in the village at night, and dozens of people will walk together to inspect the land, and some people do not have so many people, and the martial arts are not so abundant, so they can only pray that the bandits will not look at their land.
In this year, many villagers in Gumu County had the same dream, that is, now there is a city god in Gumu County, who is a true god, who can not only protect the people in the county, but also protect the people outside the city.
As long as the people of Gumu County are protected, they will be protected by the city god of Gumu County.
As long as you are offering to this city god, if something happens, burn incense and pray sincerely, you will get help.
There is no doubt that this is what Liu Qing did using his dream-making technique.
However, this dream-making technique has been used in many villages, but not a single believer has been obtained, not even a single incense stick.
This one is not surprising either.
It's not that these villagers have a firm materialist mind, in fact, they still have some belief after knowing that many people have such dreams.
It's just that if they are asked to worship this city god, they don't know how to worship it.
There is no idol of the gods, and there is no incense.
Even if they were willing to travel dozens or hundreds of miles to the county town to burn incense for this city god, it would not work.
Because now the City God Temple has not been built.
Many villages have gone to the city to buy daily necessities, they know that the city is now building Taoist temples and city god temples, and even know that the name of the city god is called Liu Qing.
However, they also knew that the Taoist temple and the City God Temple had only begun to be built, and they had not been built.
- Actually, they are willing to burn a stick of incense for this city god to see if they can protect them.
Not to mention anything else, it is enough to protect their rice from being stolen by bandits, and to protect them from being threatened by bandits.
Of course, Liu Qing knew that they had no place to worship themselves, and doing these things was just planting such a seed in their hearts - the gods came to Gumu County, and the gods would protect them.
In order to gain their faith, you must first show your strength, and convince those people that you can protect them.
Liu Qing didn't have that kind of certainty before, but now that his divine power has improved a lot, he has such a certainty.
Now his divine power can roll up objects weighing more than 100 catties, which is a great improvement compared to before.
This is where his confidence comes from.
He is also flying much faster now, and he can even fly from Gumu County to Liuzhen in Bowu County in one night, and then fly back again.
There has also been a considerable increase in the coverage of the divine consciousness.
In one night, you can inspect all areas of Gumu County several times.
This night, a certain village.
Under the cover of night, a team of men and horses sneaked into the village.
It was a gang of bandits nesting in the mountains.
The year before last, the barbarians broke through the barrier, and in the siege of Gumu County, more than 2,000 people died, and some horses were lost, and this gang of thieves obtained more than a dozen war horses, which became their biggest capital.
With these war horses, they can fight if they can fight, and if they can't fight, they will run, and when they run, the officers and soldiers will not be able to catch up with them.
ββThe hundreds of officers and soldiers in Gumu County only have forty or fifty horses in total, and their equipment is not good.
Their greatest interest was to rob caravans on the road, and sometimes one group of men and horses would not work, and they would call several groups of men and horses to rob together, and divide the spoils equally afterwards.
When there is not enough food, they will also go to farmers' homes to grab food.
But after those farmers chose to live together, it became very risky for them to go into the farmers' homes to grab food.
Fences were built outside the farmer's houses, and the houses were next to each other, and everyone was desperate to grab food.
There are at least one or two hundred people in a village, and there are more than three or four hundred, and most of them are strong laborers.
They can't bear it even if they fight so hard.
If it is fought outside the village, relying on a dozen horses, even if all the people in a village are on it, they will not be able to withstand their charge.
However, in the village settlement, in the face of those houses and fences, their horses could not charge, and they lost this advantage, and fell into the hands of hundreds of villagers, with little chance of survival.
The number of bandits that started in the hands of the villagers increased, and no one dared to do that.
They are now secretly coming to harvest food at night.
A person harvests more than 100 catties of rice ears in one night, puts them on horseback at dawn, returns to the old nest, and beats down the grain, which is enough to eat for a while.
During the grain harvest season, this is done every night, and in more than half a month, a year's worth of grain is available.
Hard work is hard work, but it's much easier than planting land for a year.
As a family with horses, they are much bolder than those who don't have horses, and they are not so scared, even if they are discovered, they can get on their horses and escape.
If there are not many people patrolling the village, you don't even have to run away, just fight them.
Accustomed to moving in the darkness of the night, they came to a rice field, tied their horses to a tree by the roadside, and then took out their sickles and began to harvest the ears of rice, which they put directly into the cloth bags they had brought.
This scene happened right under Liu Qing's nose.
However, none of them knew about Liu Qing's existence.
It was a mile or two away from the village's settlement, there were no patrols in the village, and the villagers had been tired from a day's work, and all but two who were outside were already asleep.
And then they all had the same dream.
I dreamed that a dozen bandits on horseback had come to their village and were harvesting their rice.
- This is Liu Qing using dream-making techniques to broadcast them live.