In the second year of Xingping, since last year, there was a major drought in Guanzhong, Henan, and other places, and until July this year, the disaster affected nearly 10 million people, and millions of people died or migrated due to famine and plague.

Compared with the Kanto and Kansai regions, the Jingzhou region in the south is still smooth, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with abundant rainfall, and the drought has not extended here for the time being.

Therefore, a large number of people from Guanzhong and Henan flocked to the Nanyang area, and those who had the conditions migrated to the Yangtze River basin further south, and those who did not have the conditions settled in the Nanyang Basin, so that the population of the Nanyang Basin was greatly replenished.

Liu Biao adopted Shen Chen's suggestion, and the government provided grain and grass to feed the hungry people temporarily, and then recruited the displaced people to start tuntian in Nanyang, and for a time the entire Nanyang area became in full swing.

This naturally also includes the Huangmenting villagers who have moved to Xinye.

Originally, there were only 1,000 of them, but Deng Mao, Deng Zhao and others continued to recruit new displaced people for farming according to Shen Chen's explanation, and adopted the model of the manor system, which forbade large areas of land for intensive cultivation, and used the manor dock as a unit to rapidly expand.

From Shen Chen's departure from Huangmen Pavilion in May to July, they had recruited more than 160 households, totaling more than 800 people, and opened up more than 4,000 acres of land and built more than 80 new thatched houses.

Although it is a bit difficult to talk about the construction of thatched houses, it cannot be denied that this new type of manure technology can greatly increase grain production, so it is constantly expanding.

On this day, Deng Hong brought some cold food to visit Shen Chen, Song Zhong gave him a half-day vacation, and Shen Chen took his uncle to the back mountain, there is a pavilion and a clear spring in the back mountain, and the clear spring water flows down from the mountain and flows through the pavilion.

The two ancestors and grandsons sat cross-legged in the pavilion, Shen Chen watched Deng Hong open the cold food he brought, and asked about the current situation of the clan, Deng Hong went back once before and told him about the current progress.

When Deng Hong took out all the cold food he brought and put it on a plate, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Shen Chen really holding a small wooden utensil in his hand, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Ah Chen, what is this?" ”

Shen Chen raised the wooden artifact and said, "Uncle forgot? This is the keel waterwheel. ”

Taking advantage of his spare time, he borrowed carpenter's tools from his servants and built them himself, because the keel waterwheel is essentially a tool for several planks and a large number of wood chips to be connected together, and then use rollers to pump water, so it is relatively simple to do.

Deng Hong was speechless and said, "You really make me famous in the township?" ”

"Uncle will listen to me."

Shen Chen handed over the small model, and began to eat it with chopsticks.

Deng Hong took the model and looked at it carefully, and found that this thing was indeed exquisitely made, and by dialing the keel wood chips on it, it could even be rotated, and it seemed that it could really draw up water by using the wheel axle to drive.

"It's funny, but there's too little water."

He turned around a few times, put the model of the keel waterwheel in the stream next to him, and began to crank it by hand, and found that it was indeed possible to draw water, but the amount of water was very small, and even if it was enlarged in proportion, the flow was not very large.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "In fact, there is a kind of waterwheel that uses water power to rotate naturally, and when you put it in the water, it will rotate to draw water, but that kind of thing is not suitable for promotion for the time being." ”

"Why?"

Deng Hong wondered, why don't you take out something good?

Shen Chen said: "To prevent it from being learned by the enemy in the future, as well as the manure technology in our township, it must also be protected, and it is not good to be learned." ”

This is the intention to engage in technical barriers, not only manure technology and waterwheel technology, but also stirrup technology, horseshoe technology, smelting technology, construction technology, manufacturing technology and so on.

When I was studying architectural design, I traveled a lot to visit ancient crafts and learned a lot of useful things.

Many of them appeared in the Tang and Song dynasties, and were promoted on a large scale during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Although it is also ancient, the Ming and Qing dynasties far surpassed the Han and Tang dynasties in terms of craftsmanship and prosperity.

The most typical example is steel production.

According to the analysis of the iron smelting industry in the Western Han Dynasty by Professor Li Jinghua, a later archaeologist, it is believed that the total output of iron and steel in the entire 210-year history of the Western Han Dynasty was 17,855 tons.

In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the total output of government-run iron and steel reached 9,235 tons, and in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the annual output in Guangdong was 13,500 tons.

Therefore, even if some technologies in the Ming and Qing dynasties are put into the Han Dynasty, the level is also a dimensionality reduction attack, and the technical content is not the same.

These technologies also need a huge force to promote in the future, if they are learned by others now, they are almost no different from the enemy, after all, Cao Cao occupies the north, and there are more than 10,000 cavalry?

If they all learned stirrups and horseshoes, I am afraid that even Jiangdong, which has the natural danger of the Yangtze River, will be difficult to resist his iron hooves.

Deng Hong put aside the keel waterwheel model and asked, "Ah Chen, how is your academic progress?" ”

"It's okay......"

Shen Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "It's just that Mr. hasn't officially started teaching yet, and now he has learned the big seal and the small seal almost enough." ”

Deng Hong nodded and said: "The big seal and the small seal are the foundation, the books handed down by our clan are all written in Li, but many ancient books are written by Qin Seal, so Mr. did it right, when I was on a study tour, I also saw others learn seal books every day." ”

"That's right."

Shen Chen put his mind at ease, Zhuge Liang and Deng Hong both said so, that should be right.

He had never worshipped the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty as a teacher before, and he didn't understand why Song Zhong only taught him calligraphy and not texts, but now it seems that they still have their intentions.

The two chatted for a while, and Shen Chen instructed Deng Hong that the next time he returned to the clan, he must remember to let the clansmen build the manor as soon as possible, and at the same time, according to his arrangement, train more soldiers and horses, smelt more steel, and make more porcelain.

According to what Zhou Lin told him last year, if it goes well, he will go to Jiangdong again this year. At that time, the two parties agreed that if they passed through Xiangyang, he would send someone to Nanyang to find Shen Chen.

At that time, in addition to selling the ship technology to Zhou Lin, Shen Chen also needed to sell him the fine porcelain refined by Huangmen Pavilion using the blast furnace cave.

The white porcelain of the Han Dynasty is really good, but it is still worse than Tang Sancai, and it must be favored by the magnates from all over the world.

In the afternoon, after Deng Hong left, Shen Chen went to the place where Song Zhong often stayed in the atrium.

When it rained a few days ago, Song Zhong did not dry his books, but taught Shen Chen wholeheartedly for the first time, but instead of teaching him to read, he first taught him to know bamboo slips.

After teaching him the big and small seals before, now he knows the characters on the bamboo slips and can read them, but he doesn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

However, Song Zhong understood, so every time he read a sentence, Song Zhong told him which volume of which book it was, and asked him to remember it clearly in the future and not forget it.

After a few days, Shen Chen remembered a lot of books, many of which were famous articles that had been lost in later generations, and any volume would be priceless after two thousand years of acquisition.

After coming to the courtyard, he saw Song Zhong pouring books again.

Since yesterday, the weather has begun to clear again, and the sun has dispelled the dark clouds and brought heat to the earth.

After all, it is only July, and it is said that it is autumn, but in fact the temperature is very high, the drought in the north is still there, and the south is also constantly hot.

"Master."

After Shen Chen came over, he saluted Song Zhong first.

Seeing him coming, Song Zhong smiled and said, "Ah Chen, it's just in time, go and bring the volume of "Taigong, Strategy, Technique." ”

The direction of the finger is a roll of bamboo slips that is relatively far away, but only in general direction.

Shen Chen cautiously walked through the sea of bamboo slips, came to that direction, searched around in the sea of books, and finally found the volume of "Taigong".

The so-called "Taigong" is "Liutao", the full name of which is "Taigong's Art of War".

Among the cultural relics unearthed in later generations, people only found 61 articles of "Taigong", totaling about 20,000 words.

However, in the Han Dynasty, the "Art of War" was not lost, with a total of 237 articles, each of which ranged from one volume to several volumes, with a total number of more than 100,000 words.

So why was it so difficult to publish books in the Han Dynasty?

Not only the hundred classics circulated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have not been lost, but also in the annotations of each family, from the Western Han Dynasty to the present four hundred years, countless famous articles written by countless Confucians.

In the days when there was no paper, this led to the emergence of a large number of classics and tons of bamboo slips.

Each roll of bamboo slips covers a small area, but it can be spread out and occupies a large area, and they have to be turned over frequently, so it is very troublesome.

Shen Chen's one-and-a-half-moonlight helped Song Zhong publish books, and the current progress is close to completion, and he has posted tens of thousands of books in total, but this is only less than one thousandth of the current classics.

It is said that at the peak of Taixue and Hongdu Menxue, there were millions of books collected, and every few years the book exhibition was held, and the Son of Heaven had to send thousands of Confucian students to participate in the proofreading, inspection, and book publishing work, so that those books could be re-perfected.

It's a pity that in the end, Dong Zhuo caught fire, except for Cai Yong and other Confucians who took away some of them, most of the books were drowned in the flames of Luoyang.

"Master, we've been drying books for more than a month, and I already know both the big and small seals, when will we teach?"

While Shen Chen was helping Song Zhong with his work, he couldn't help but ask.

Song Zhong said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, the basis of teaching is that you have to know which books these books are so that you can read them well." When these books are finished, we can start the class. ”

"Oh."

Shen Chen replied and asked, "Then how many boxes of books do we have?" ”

Song Zhong smiled again and said, "It's almost there." ”

"That's good."

Shen Chen calmed down, and suddenly said strangely: "Master, where is Mr. Zhongxuan?" Why haven't you seen him for the past two days? ”

Song Zhong said: "He went down the mountain. ”

"Went down the mountain?"

"Yes, people have to visit relatives and friends."

"Oh, that's true, but didn't he help us dry the book before?"

"Yes, now that someone has replaced him, he is not needed."

"Someone took his place?"

Shen Chen suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter, raised his head from the sea of books, his eyes widened, and pointed at himself: "Sir, the person who replaced him can't be me." ”

Song Zhong nodded seriously: "Yes, it's you." Wang Cang is short in stature, so he can help lay out the books and turn them over when he has had enough sun. You are shorter than him, and you can walk well in the gaps, so you are naturally more suitable than him. ”

Shen Chen was numb at that time.

Who told him that this was Song Zhong testing him?

Pulling child labor is pulling child labor, and it is said so high-sounding.

No wonder Song Zhong didn't teach him at all these days, he was calling him as an animal.