Farming!

For any country with tens of millions of people, farming is the only major event that needs to spend more than seventy percent of its national strength to do every year!

Just after Yingcheng was sacrificed with the responsibility of supervising the state, this meant that the entire Qin State would begin to supervise agriculture with state decrees.

However.

For Yingcheng.

Even if he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to personally lead the subjects of the world to farm, he did not go to the countryside to lead the ploughing oxen to farm.

Opposite.

Yingcheng consciously became a person who 'doesn't need to wear a hat on the construction site'.

Yongcheng County.

Yingcheng rode a war horse and ran on the western road, one of the Qin Straight Roads that passed by Yingcheng.

After Yongcheng and Huang, we arrived in Longxi.

Yongcheng, to be described as a more specific landmark, is in Baoji, Shaanxi!

The area between the sky and the cool is in the Qishan Mountains, the lower half of the Loess Plateau is hilly and mountainous.

Because of the special status of Yongcheng, the newly established Yongcheng County Government was set up in Yongcheng, that is, the township where the Guannei Hou is located, and now it is the directly governed township and county government.

Far away.

Yingcheng saw a scene that made him sigh.

Wild Food!

Recently, Yingcheng has heard more than once such a shocking phrase as savage slashing.

Yingjie is talking, Feng Quji is also talking, Nei Shiteng is also talking, and Feng Shijie is also talking.

But seriously, he's really never seen this big.

But now.

He saw it.

Yongcheng can be said to be the richest township in the whole Xianyang.

This is basically composed of the children of the clan.

But the view of the field at this time.

But he couldn't let go of it for a long time.

Look around.

In the middle of the field, you can see a ploughing ox that can be counted on one hand.

These ploughing oxen only need one person to support the cocoon, and there is also a long whip in his hand to control the rope of the ploughing ox to advance, and one person can farm in the field.

There are only a dozen ploughing oxen, and only a dozen people are using ploughing oxen to sow seeds.

And the rest.

Someone with a hoe and shovel and other objects on the flat ridge.

But more.

It is the two strong men in front of him with slightly thicker clothes to cushion their shoulders, with ropes on them, and behind the ropes are connected to the cocoons, which slowly cut a hole in the soft soil under the action of the iron cocoon, and turned the moist granular soil out of the ground, as the cocoon crosses the ground, the hollow channel in the middle of the wood has a seed falling into the moist land and under the action of gravity inertia, the wet soil that has been turned up is gently backfilled in the ploughed out of the road.

The ground that passes through the clumper leaves two high ridges of earth on either side.

In this way, the seeds are very close to the surface, and after a little sun and wind, the seeds will be bare.

And because of this.

Later, a rectangular flat rake made of coarse wood is needed, and some stones are placed on top of the flat rake, and the soil ridges that have been cultivated are pulled and backfilled into the furrow.

In this way, the first cultivation is completed.

"The number of ploughing cattle is shocking!"

Yingcheng couldn't help but sigh.

One percent of the people are farming around the ploughing ox.

Ninety-nine percent of the people are still working by hand.

Manpower pulls the cocoon, and manpower pulls the flat rake.

Accustomed to tractors, and even has entered the way of cultivated with enhanced high-horsepower tractors from Dongfanghong.

At this time, seeing this kind of farming, it is honestly difficult to accept.

Just when Yingcheng stopped and looked around.

Yongcheng County Cheng hurriedly rushed over and said, "Xiaguan Yongcheng County Cheng Ying only visited the prison country!" ”

The county doesn't farm either, but he is inspecting the farming situation.

Seeing Yingcheng appear, he also hurriedly came to pay homage.

The children of the clan began to become officials, which was a very obvious change.

"How many ploughing cattle are there in Yongcheng?" Yingcheng raised his hand and asked.

"Fifteen ploughing oxen in total." Win to quickly reply.

"Far from enough!" Yingcheng shook his head and asked again, "How many acres of land are there?" ”

Winning only paused, and replied: "One hundred and fifty acres!" ”

"According to the requirements of the imperial court, Yongcheng merged Xiaotian into Fangtian, and some people are still flattening, and there are a lot of fields."

"According to the government's plan, the cultivation will be completed in fifteen days."

"Plant wheat first, the lord of Yongcheng will plant wheat, and there will be a thousand stone wheat seeds."

"Three hundred stone seedlings, five hundred stone corn, and one hundred stone millet."

"A total of 1,900 stone grains, originally these were prepared by Yongcheng, but this year, the county government gave 1,300 stone of grain, and used the grain price to buy back the 1,300 stone grain prepared by each family."

Saying that, Yingcai also seemed to notice Yingcheng's thoughts, and couldn't help sighing: "The problem of overlabor is inevitable, and it is inevitable. ”

"Unless the number of cultivated cattle increases, at least there must be a hundred cultivated cattle in the entire Yongcheng alone, so that there will not be the current situation of using manpower to pull seeds."

"There used to be, but it was relatively rare, because of the rent of every household...... Well, the cultivated cattle of the Hou Mansion in Guannai, lease this today, lease it tomorrow, and plant it by borrowing. ”

"But now, there are so many cattle, and everyone has to work together as a collective, and it is inevitable that the current situation will arise, and it will be pulled by manpower."

Just say that you won, and don't explain more.

Some things are not clear whether they are good or bad.

From the perspective of the county government, it is true that during the month of spring ploughing, there is a large number of idle laborers, and many people have not ploughed cattle day by day, so they can only pull seeds by manpower.

However, in collectivized farming, as in the present two situations of manual pulling and oxen farming, there must be a situation of labor injustice.

But.

Everyone is full of free fields.

Just because of this exemption from land, plus the 1,300 stone grains, no one will say that the distinction is unfair.

"The fields here in Yongcheng are relatively concentrated, and large-scale cultivation is okay, but you must pay attention to rotational cultivation, and you can't drive labor in the way of squeezing, you have to pay attention to this problem."

Yingcheng nodded, and did not step forward with great love to stop those who relied on human farming.

Spreading love needs to be done in the right place.

At this time, it is impossible to plant with love and strictly implement the system of livestock farming.

Besides.

Relatively speaking.

Whether it is collectivization or privatization, there is a shortage of cattle.

The value of a ploughing cow is too expensive.

Although the imperial court has been breeding cattle for a long time, it takes three years for a ploughing ox to reach adulthood, and it can only be used for five years, and then the ploughing ox is not good, and some ploughing cattle can live for twenty or thirty years, but it is the same as people who can't do heavy work when they are old.

The golden age is only eight to ten years, and then it will be the fate of being eliminated.

To know.

Once spring ploughing begins, a cow will work almost every day at sunrise and rest at sunset, and this state will last for a month.

That is to say, from five or six o'clock in the morning to seven or eight o'clock in the evening, there will be no day off for a month.

In addition, the world is too big, and in the twenty-seventh year of the first emperor, nearly 200,000 cultivated cattle were transferred to Jibei to develop the Jibei Plain, which led to the formation of the Jibei grain-producing area.

That's the case in Xianyang.

It is impossible to complete spring ploughing without manual pulling.

It can only be said.

Vigorously developing animal husbandry is the main solution to this problem.

As for now.

"Xia Guan understands!" Win nodded solemnly.

Yingcheng didn't ask again, but rode on a war horse and walked on the path in the township, and began to wander around.

The main problem is to inspect the spring ploughing.

It's not that he wants to find any problems, but to get the attention of various officials.

Only when officials pay attention to a certain issue can they better promote the progress of farming.

At this juncture.

If the county governor of any county seat sits in the government office and drinks a lot of wine, he promises to pull out a layer of his skin.

Never be spared.

In the Qin State, there is no saying that you can't punish a doctor.

The flat ground ridge thing is also very important.

Because of the privatization of the fields, the situation of each field is basically a scattered field, the upper half of the same plane is a canal, and below the canal is a field of one or two acres, and the fields are separated by ridges four or five feet wide and four or five feet high, and each recognizes its own field.

Between the upper and lower grounds, there is a whole flat canal, which goes around the end and then turns back, and flows back at the next ridge, back and forth, forming a large area of acres.

Now the level is mainly a field within a plane, and then the bottom of the ground is built more than a foot high.

This is naturally a preparation for watering after planting.

In this regard, it is not even necessary to build it by order of the imperial court.

As long as the farming people know the timely treatment of the problem of the ridge, and in a field, there is a water inlet can cut off the water in time, there is a water outlet in time to discharge the flood, the soil behind the embankment can not be taken, when building the embankment, it is necessary to plant some grass in the soil ridge soil, and the developed root system of the grass can effectively strengthen the ridge, which is the most basic common sense for the people who cultivate all year round.

Again!

This is not a field on a towering barren mountain, it needs to be made into a stepped shape.

This is the corner of the Guanzhong Plain, and there is a flat land that cannot be seen at a glance.

Since ancient times!

There are two prerequisites for people to choose their homes and to cultivate their land.

One water, two mountains!

Relying on the abundant water resources to choose fertile land, there is water to have fields, and water flows everywhere, no one is stupid enough to reclaim the fields on the high mountains, and no water grows a fart.

The residential area is built at the foot of the mountain, halfway up the mountain, and on a high place, which can effectively prevent flooding and effectively reclaim cultivated land.

"Plant a grain of millet in the spring, and harvest 10,000 seeds in the autumn. There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death. ”

"At noon on hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil. Who knows that Chinese food is hard work. ”

Seeing this situation, Yingcheng couldn't help but think of this extremely classic poem of compassion for nong.

Although for the state of Qin, for the state of Qin.

Compared with later generations, the yield per mu is far from that of wheat and rice.

But as long as it's a matter of farming.

There is an iron law.

In the absence of natural disasters, ten handfuls of grain are planted, just as the two heads of Minnong exaggerated, one grain of corn and ten thousand seeds.

As long as it is planted, the water system is developed in the Guanzhong Plain.

You can recover at least three million bells of grain.

As for the fact that there are still farmers who are still starving to death, it has nothing to do with food productivity.

I know it all!

"Stop!"

Yingcheng was walking on a horse, and was startled by a scene in the field, and took out the big horn and rebuked angrily.

The brows couldn't help but tighten.

Right in front of him.

A noble man dressed in silk and satin, with a whip in his hand, was whipping two men who were pulling seeds.

The man in the luxurious clothes chirped and scolded angrily, but he didn't hear it.

But the whip he could clearly see landed on the back of one of the men.

Yingcheng's voice.

Immediately attracted the attention of hundreds of laboring people around, and at the same time, the noble man also stared over.

"Bring someone here!" Yingcheng frowned and said in a deep voice.

Suddenly.

Several black-armored guards dismounted and walked towards the noble man who was beating people.

And the noble man didn't seem to be full of doubts, and at the same time took the initiative to walk towards Yingcheng.

"Xiaguan is attached to Yongli, and Zheng Yingfang is visiting the Great Law Order!" When the noble man walked in front of Yingcheng, he did not forget to bow and greet him.

Yingcheng was silent, waiting for the black-armored guard to bring the man and the man to the front.

Obviously, several men were very cramped, thinking that they had committed something, and they lowered their heads and did not know what to do.

Yingcheng frowned and asked, "The three of you are slave prisoners?" ”

The three men brought by the black armor guard were cramped and didn't know how to answer, but the noble man replied very firmly: "Back to the Great Law Order, these three people are not slaves, they are the people of the attached Yongli!" ”

Ying Cheng ignored Ying Fang, continued to stare at the three men and asked, "Talking back, do you know where you are in the fifth and ninth ranks?" ”

was forced to ask by Yingcheng like this, and one of the men named Zhang San replied crampedly: "Grass people, I don't know!" ”

Yingcheng questioned again: "No one told you that you are in the fifth-class and ninth-rate, third-class first-class people?" ”

"Answer me, what is a third-class first-class?"

Zhang San took a deep breath, finally raised his head, stared at Yingcheng suspiciously, shook his head, and said, "The grass people don't know what a third-class first-class is. ”

Ying Cheng looked at Ying Fang and asked, "As a Lizheng, do you know that you are a third-class first-class?" ”

It was only at this time that Ying Fang's mood gradually lowered, and he hesitated in his heart, saying: "Those who are not officials are all for the people, and this is for the people!" ”

"The third-class first-class is a good citizen!"

"Among them, according to the worker, business, agricultural, and military dependents."

Yingcheng nodded, and asked again, "What is a good citizen?" ”

Ying Fang hurriedly replied: "Those who have no criminal record, those who have been farmers for generations, those who keep to themselves, those who actively respond to the imperial court decrees, and those who are relatives of military status." ”

Yingcheng asked again: "What kind of power should the third-class first-class enjoy?" ”

Ying Fang gradually became uneasy, took a deep breath and said, "In the laws of Great Qin, all the powers except for the administrative law officials. ”

Ying Cheng stared at Ying Fang curiously and asked, "What contract did you sign with these three people?" ”

"No, no, no contract!" Ying Fang bowed his head and replied with a chill in his heart.

Yingcheng said in a deep voice: "The power of the imperial court decree exercised by Li Zheng, that is, stipulated in the official power in the administrative law, is to manage a mile of land on behalf of the imperial court. ”

"There is no employment relationship of any kind with the people of Yili, nor is it a slave management regulation, nor does it have anything to do with educational etiquette."

"The people should obey the decrees, and the officials should exercise the decrees."

"The criminal law applies to the fifth class and the ninth class, and the administrative law applies to officials, which is stipulated in the regulations governing slavery."

"The people are above the level, among which the good people can be slaved by one person, and three people can be razed, slaves can be enslaved, and those who can be razed can be killed!"

"In the Education Law, there is a provision in the Book of Rites that the teacher and father are respected, and His Holiness can lash and reprimand his children for violating the etiquette and law, and correct them."

"That is, except for the regulations on the administration of slavery, which stipulates that people of the rank and above may be beaten and enslaved, and have the right to live and kill barbarians, all other acts of beating fall within the scope of the criminal law."