On the fifth day of the second lunar month, the first batch of displaced people from Bingzhou left Shaoyuan and Panyuan and went to Yiyang.

It will take them about three days to arrive at Yunzhongwu, and then accept military control and start spring sowing work one after another.

Shao Xun did not go with them, but returned to Yunzhongwu first.

After a few days, a wooden fence had been erected under the hillside on the south side of the terrace.

The owner of the building, Jin San, held a bow with a sword, majestic, and pointed.

The teenagers were already quite pretentious, and the Luoyang coolies, who were generally at least ten years older than him, were respectful, and after a while, they assigned a few people, with small flags, to hide in the trees next to them.

This is to set up dark posts and mobile posts, with small flags to communicate regularly, once lost, the silver spear sergeants immediately assembled, ready for battle.

If the thief is so big, the whole village hits the bell.

The men in the village immediately mobilized and went to the city to fight.

The healthy women acted as auxiliaries, carrying the wounded and all kinds of equipment for defending the city.

Children will not be idle, they will do what they can, such as bringing water and food, caring for the wounded, transporting medicine for arrow wounds, etc.

In short, the whole people go into battle, and no one will be idle.

Shao Xun dismounted from afar and walked quietly along the canal valley water, watching silently.

There are still flat fields on both sides of this Luoshui tributary, and there will already be people plowing in the spring. They are all the families of the original bandits, working hard and numbly to cultivate the farmland and live mechanically.

The bandits did not have an easy time. In this world, they can only rob the people or small caravans, and their income is limited, and they still have to rely on farming to support themselves after all.

"Master Shao." Jin San was quickly informed, and rushed over, followed by two honest and honest middle-aged people - they were all delusions, and thieves could not be honest.

"Who is this?" Shao Xun pointed to the person behind him.

"Li Yu, Qiu Da, the Li Xian I appointed, one person is in charge of fifty households." Kim San replied.

Yi and Li are all grassroots organizations, and they have been transplanted to Wubao as a whole.

That's what everybody did. When Yu Gon was in Yushanwu, he made "Yi push its long" and "Li pushed its sage", and divided the Wumin Fort household into a management unit, so "the order is not two, the top and bottom are polite, and the young are courteous."

"Have you ever farmed?" Shao Xun looked at the two Li Xian and asked.

"Planted."

Shao Xun nodded, and then led them along the canal valley water.

"You dug all these canals, right?" He asked, pointing to the twisting and twisting irrigation canals.

"Yes."

"Planted millet?"

"Exactly."

"Have you ever grown wheat?"

"I've only planted it twice."

"Spring or autumn?"

"One spring sowing, one autumn sowing."

"Why don't you plant it?"

"There aren't that many canals."

Shao Xun understood.

In fact, there is not so much food to support them to extend the existing irrigation canals, and to put it bluntly, they are still poor, and they cannot invest huge resources in one go to improve the infrastructure, even if the visible benefits in the future are higher.

"After the autumn sowing, the wheat will be harvested in May of the following year, what have you planted after the harvest?" Shao Xun asked again.

"I planted some miscellaneous grains, all kinds of them, and harvested them before the snow."

"That year was a lot more relaxed, wasn't it?"

"Yes."

Shao Xun looked at the canal valley water winding north, and made a decision in his heart.

If the planting area of wheat at this time was only one point, it gradually became two or three points in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, four or five points in the Tang Dynasty, and seven or eight points in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Why are people so fanatical about growing wheat?

One is that the yield per mu of wheat is higher than that of millet at this time, but this is only one reason.

What's more, an extra season of grain can be harvested.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the two-year three-cropping system was already quite mature in the dryland agricultural production in the north, and this planting tradition evolved from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The Wei and Jin dynasties traditionally harvested once a year, and only two crops of millet could be harvested within two years.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, millet was sown in the spring of the first year, wheat was planted after the autumn harvest, wheat was harvested in May of the following year, and a season of miscellaneous grains was planted after the harvest was completed, and the harvest was before the snow. Within two years, one crop of millet, one crop of wheat, and one crop of miscellaneous grains (mainly beans) can be harvested, and the land utilization rate has been greatly improved, and the output has also been greatly increased.

This planting pattern is so common that the government has changed the tax collection system, and there are summer taxes, autumn taxes, and two taxes a year.

Silk, cotton, wheat and cash are collected in the summer tax (250 wen per household), and rice, millet, beans and hay are taxed in autumn (generally 10 bunches).

From the object of tax collection, we can get a glimpse of the agricultural production model.

As the area under wheat acreage increases, the planting, processing, and cooking techniques around it will slowly emerge, and you don't need to worry about this.

At this time, there are many foods with wheat as raw materials in the aristocratic manors, and there are more than 30 districts in Jinguyuan, and each district has even built special roads to transport various grains, and the processing technology is very clear, but it is not spread.

This is also an important reason why Shao Xun wanted to take the Golden Valley Garden, the irrigation canals and processing equipment are ready-made, but the people are gone. The rebels were not interested in these things, and they wanted the goods in the Golden Valley Garden.

Something like flowering steamed buns can't only exist in the Shiclan manor forever.

"Spring sowing as soon as possible, don't delay, plant as much as possible, and plant millet." Shao Xun bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, looked at it carefully, and said, "After the spring sowing is completed, start digging ditches and sieving soil." ”

"No." Jin San, Li Yu, and Qiu Da responded together.

There are also some livestock on the banks of the river.

Among them, five horses, thirteen cows, and dozens of sheep were grazing leisurely on the left bank of the river, which should be the livestock originally raised by the thieves.

On the right bank of the river there were more than twenty horses, mules, and seven or eight oxen, which were the draft animals of the Silver Lance Army, and were managed by a few soldiers. In addition to grazing livestock, they are also collecting dry firewood and branches, which is very diligent.

"What do you do with livestock manure?" Shao Xun asked suddenly.

"Pick it up and pile it in the corner."

"Let's go, let's see."

Li Yu and Qiu Da were a little surprised, but they didn't dare to slack off, and led the way.

The court officials actually want to take the initiative to look at the dung, and they don't know what to say.

Shao Xun smiled at the corner of his mouth, what's wrong, I like this.

Wang Yan's wife, Guo Shi, also sent out the maidservants in the house to see if there was any dung on the road, and if there was, she quickly picked it up and went home.

This is called being a good family and a good business.

Cowsheds, horse sheds, and sheepfolds are located inside the cottage. This is understandable, livestock is an important property, and it hurts to die of illness, let alone be snatched away.

When he approached the cowshed, Shao Xun smelled a smell from a distance.

He didn't frown, and looked closely at the pile of cow dung.

It seems that it has been piled up for a while, and it is not very good outside, and I am afraid that it is already "cooked" inside.

When people pick up dung and go home, they basically throw it in a corner and pile it up, and then clean it up after a while.

Shao Xun didn't know if it was good or not, and he didn't feel good.

He entered the cowshed again, and the smell inside was even more touching, as if it had never been cleaned before.

He finally couldn't hold it anymore, frowned, and asked, "Why don't you clean the cowshed?" ”

"The dung has been shoveled......" Li Yu saw Shao Xun frowning and was a little scared.

"That's it......" Shao Xun pondered for a while, and said, "I'll say a few things, form words, and set regulations in the future." ”

He said this to Jin San, because he was literate and could write.

"No." Jin San immediately asked people to bring a few cases, wooden slips, and pen and ink.

"First, the manure within a year is not allowed."

"Second, when rivers and canals are desilted, the silt dug out is in the feces."

"Third, the stable is cleaned regularly, sprinkled with a layer of soil every half month, cleaned once, and then sprinkled on the compost pile."

"Master Shao, why is that?" Jin San wrote while still thinking about asking questions.

Shao Xun didn't particularly understand, so he could only say: "Manure mixed with soil lasts longer." ”

"Oh." Jin San responded.

"Also, in the future, I want to raise horses, and the stables will be like this, of course it won't work." Shao Xun added.

There are two ways to raise horses, one is to raise them on pastures; The second is the stablehorse horse, that is, the "stable" that "died between the stables".

To put it bluntly, it is to be kept in captivity, and it is beneficial to the physical and mental health of horses when they are released out for activities on a regular basis.

This method of raising horses is very popular in places where large areas of grassland are lacking, and is a helpless alternative.

This was the case in the later generations of the Southern Zhao Kingdom.

The horses of Dianchi Lake and Yongchang are wild, and they do not put stables.

Another selection of more than a foal (Tengchong horse) hundreds to Dali, within three years to feed rice porridge juice, four or five years slightly older, six or seven years to achieve. The horsetail under such a feeding method is high, and it is especially good at galloping.

Stables can be carefully managed, fed with grain, and the horses are of high quality.

When you charge head-on, you can rush the wild horses to pieces.

The cost is also really high, a horse eats at least three times as much food as a person, and Shao Xun is not so luxurious for the time being.

But horse breeding is a must.

Even if you don't form a cavalry unit, there are many other places to use horses.

A scout has to take several horses out.

When camping at night, a few horses should be prepared in the dark bunk that is released far away, so that when they see the enemy attacking at night, they can return to the camp in time - change horses and ride, so that they can have enough horsepower to gallop at high speed and send back the news.

The battlefield messenger asks for a horse.

A small group of rangers who harass the enemy.

Baggage troops are to pull horses or other draft animals.

Middle- and high-ranking officers should have several horses on hand. One is to rush and kill on the battlefield, when the horsepower is insufficient, directly straddle the back of another empty horse and continue to fight, and the other is to have a horse to change to ride when escaping to maintain high speed.

The high-ranking officer's personal soldiers also asked for horses, and there was more than one.

Pure infantry units are also equipped with a large number of horses.

"Fourth, it is convenient to build livestock pens near farmland. If a thief comes to attack, move again. ”

Shao Xun said several more in one breath, which was considered to have wiped out the small inventory in his stomach.

After Jin San finished recording, he showed it to Shao Xun again, and after making sure that it was correct, he put it away carefully.

"If you have a good idea, you can also come up with it, and after verifying that it works, you can give it a reward." Shao Xun said again.

After the text is formed, it can even be collected into a book, which can be copied and disseminated in the dock fort and manor under its own name, mainly for the owners of the dock fort and the farm that participate in the actual management.

If other docks and farms have unique agricultural techniques, they can also be exchanged with each other.

He never dared to underestimate the manors of those big families.

They have been managing for many years, some for several generations. In the long-term practice of agriculture, it is impossible not to sum up experience, and the key is that they cherish themselves and refuse to disclose them to outsiders.

This is similar to the so-called Jiangmen family.

The knowledge of marching and fighting is only circulated within the family, and there is even a military book compiled by itself, which is not secret.

The so-called family heritage lies in this.

If they were willing to share with each other, they would be able to speed up the spread of knowledge considerably, but no one wanted to do that.

When did flowering steamed buns become popular?

Shao Xun is not from a big family, but his background comes from later generations and is very profound. In some specific fields, he alone is equivalent to the accumulation of knowledge for generations of the manor of tens of thousands of people in the family.

His dock fort will not be worse than others, and can even run better.

This is his confidence.