Chapter 295: The Agricultural Revolution – The Continuous Cropping System
With the cooperation of the children of the clan and the inspector of the imperial history, they won many local heroes, and then raided their homes. Looking at the copper coins piled up in the yard, Wang Zhe had a deeper understanding of the wealth of these places.
In this currency war set off by Wang Ke, dozens of people were implicated, and millions of good coins were confiscated in the end.
This money can just be used to exchange the bad money in the hands of the people, and successfully prevent a large number of people from going bankrupt because of the bad money.
As for the bad money that is exchanged, the court will not lose, and only needs to add about 20% of the copper to these bad money, and it will become good money at that time.
Besides, this money was originally obtained by stealing the family, and a little more or less is an extra income.
Wang Ke's thunderbolt method made the nobles and heroes in the Great Qian Dynasty much more honest. The next county school to be implemented in the county is also logical.
In particular, after a large amount of money and materials were confiscated, the money used to establish the county school was also available. As a result, county schools in various states and counties began to be established.
In the Great Qianxue Palace, there is no requirement to teach only the study of Legalism, in fact, there are various schools, but some schools have developed and grown, and some schools have begun to decline.
Although the first emperor Luo didn't like Confucianism, he didn't let people ban Confucianism, but just deleted some things about Confucianism.
Of course, if you want to become an official in the Great Cadre, you must learn Legalism, and after learning Legalism, you can also study other schools of thought. As a result, these students interpret Legalism from different perspectives, and as a result, various commentaries appear.
For example, Zhang Liang, who is now patrolling the imperial history, has learned the learning of Huang Lao and the way of soldiers, and has admonished several times to wipe out several local heroes, which can be described as brave and strategic, and talented in slaughtering and assisting.
The establishment of the county school gave a large number of ordinary people hope to get ahead, and at the same time injected a lot of fresh blood into the school palace.
The Loop.
Since Li Mumengtian attacked the Xiongnu in the north, the land of Hetao was occupied by Daqian. Wang Luo established a military horse farm in Hetao.
The horse farm in Hetao can be said to be the most important horse farm in Daqian, because of the climate and terrain and good horses as stallions, the military horses here are more than a step higher than other horse farms in Daqian.
In order to protect these horse farms, starting from Wang Luo, Daqian built a city in Hetao and immigrated, and when Wang Ke was in power, he would also emigrate to Hetao every year.
Up to now, there are more than 200,000 people in Hetao.
The Huns were naturally unwilling to let Daqian occupy the Hetao, so they launched several counterattacks, but in the face of Daqian's cities and strong bows and crossbows, the Huns did not succeed once.
Even, after continuous supplementary support, Daqian has begun to try to rely on the Hetao to launch an attack on the Xiongnu.
Wang Ke has been accumulating strength and wants to defeat the Huns completely. But although Maudun was dead, the Huns were still strong. Daqian can only rely on the city walls to defend.
The Huns often took advantage of the winter when the rivers froze and then crossed the river to the south to plunder, and these Huns also learned wisely, no longer going south in large groups, but using small forces to disperse, which made it very difficult to defend the north.
The horse farms of the Hetao were also often harassed by the Huns.
Wang Ke had been accumulating the number of war horses, and he understood that if he wanted to deal with the Huns, he had to rely on war horses. As a consumable, the loss of war horses is very large, and there are no hundreds of thousands of war horses, don't want to compete with the Huns for the grassland.
It takes time to breed hundreds of thousands of war horses to supply you, and you also need a lot of grain and grass.
War horses are completely different from ordinary horses, ordinary horses eat grass, and better need to eat some beans, while war horses not only need to eat a lot of beans but also need eggs to supplement nutrition.
In order to breed enough good horses, a lot of food must be consumed.
Of course, Daqian also had cavalry weapons, saddles and horseshoes. When the time comes, it will definitely be able to give the Huns a big surprise.
"Father."
Wang Ke had just finished reading the servant's book when he heard his son Wang Ce asking to see him outside the room, and immediately said, "Ce'er come in!" ”
Gongzi pushed the door and walked in, and the child had grown into a beautiful young man, and his appearance was also outstanding and handsome.
It's just that he looks very embarrassed now, and his body is stained with a lot of mud, as if he has just come out of the farmland, but Gongzi Ce doesn't care about this, and his face is full of excitement.
Wang Ce walked into the house, first saluted Wang Ke, and then said with his eyebrows fluttering: "Father, just now the sons and the children of the peasant family were harvesting grain in the field, and they found that the grain yield per mu this season has been more than one stone and seven buckets!" If you add the grain from the previous season, the fields here in Luoyang can make about four stones of grain a year for one acre of land! ”
"The continuous cultivation we experimented with has been successful!"
Over the years, the Wang family has not given up improving farming skills, when Zijue invented the cattle farming system, so that farming from manual ploughing to cattle farming, but also invented manure technology, the use of rotation farming to make the rapid rise of Huaiguo.
Later, the success of iron smelting also allowed the cultivation tools to be renewed. The bronze plough was replaced by a new iron plough and an iron-clad wooden plough, which further accelerated the efficiency of farming. Since then, the Wang family has been working with the farmer to breed high-yielding, drought-tolerant varieties.
In that year, the Northern Expedition to the mountains obtained the Rongshu, which has a shorter growth cycle than the previous ones, has more fruits, is more drought-tolerant, and after cultivation, it has become more suitable for the environment here.
The yield of corn, the main grain of the Central Plains, has also increased compared with before, and it is also more drought tolerant.
During the Zijue period, the yield of corn per mu was only one stone and five buckets, but now, the yield of corn has reached about three stones per mu, which has been greatly improved. According to the current unit of measurement, one stone is one hundred and twenty catties, and three stones are about three hundred and six catties.
The use of manure, as well as the cultivation of improved seeds, and the improvement of cultivation techniques, have led to an increase in grain production.
Agriculture is the foundation of the world, so successive monarchs have attached great importance to agriculture, after all, once there is a problem in agriculture, it will starve people to death.
During the spring ploughing period every year, after the Qin Tianjian calculated the time, the Son of Heaven personally presided over the spring ploughing ceremony, and personally ploughed with the queen.
Every year, if the emperor is sick and unwell, he will be replaced by the crown prince, and if the prince is young, he will choose one person from the clan to replace him. The reason for this is the emphasis on farming.
Farming is the foundation of the country, only when agriculture is prosperous, the country can have the energy to do other things, there is enough food, commerce and trade will flourish, and the country will be rich and strong.
When he heard Wang Ce say that the method was successful, Wang Ke suddenly got up with excitement and asked, "Take me over, I want to check it out for myself!" ”
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