Where is it good to farm, where can mining, where roads should be built that are not prone to collapse, and how to combine slag and road construction...... There are also measures to build water conservancy facilities that can discharge floods and irrigate, and to bring things under control and "develop" the Shangdang and Yewang areas.

King Qin kept nodding his head and wrote some words on the wooden tablet that Zhu Xiang couldn't understand.

This should be a shorthand mark invented by King Qin himself, and it is estimated that only Fan Xiangguo can understand it.

The King of Qin became more and more kind towards Zhu Xiang, in addition to Zhu Xiang's own character, the most important thing was that Zhu Xiang was dying and no longer hid the knowledge he brought from the afterlife.

Sooner or later, the Qin State will unify the world, and he wants to do more for his cubs.

He didn't understand the things about fighting, and there was no shortage of people in the Qin State to fight. What the Qin State lacked was someone who told the Qin kings what they should do after unifying the world.

Zhu Xiang took Shangdang County as an example, and unashamedly taught the King of Qin how to take this piece of land that was robbed by the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Han, and the Li people did not manage the highlands surrounded by mountains to which any country belonged, so that this land and the Li people on this land could be completely integrated into the Qin State.

Although the construction of roads was crucial, the heavy conscription made the Li people have no way to live, and they will rebel against the Qin state. Therefore, building roads should be combined with getting rich, so that the people of Li can see that after the road is built, it will also be beneficial to them, and they will voluntarily build the road.

Farmland, water conservancy, mineral ...... The construction of roads in these places that would bring benefits to the Li people, the more the Li people built the roads, the richer they became, and the fuller their stomachs were, and they would not oppose the conscription of the Qin state.

Zhu Xiang had just come to Shangdang, but he knew the topography and geography of Shangdang well, and such a miraculous thing made King Qin and Bai Qi very surprised.

Zhu Xiang only said that he had seen the map from Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, and had visited the displaced people from Shangdang. But that doesn't explain why he knows so much.

Zhu Xiang knew that these could not be explained, but he didn't care.

Exposing one's knowledge and making people think that they have gods and spirits to teach knowledge may attract fear and jealousy from others, but in the end it will be death.

Is he still afraid of death?

King Qin guessed Zhu Xiang's psychology and was in a very strange mood.

He wondered if Zhu Xiang would regret what he was doing now when he survived this catastrophe.

King Qin couldn't help but laugh at the thought of such a possibility, and on the second day, he wrote down his happy things to Fan Ju.

Fan Ju unfolded King Qin's letter and smiled heartily for the first time in many days.

He is now completely free of psychological burden, and only thinks about how to repay his king. Naturally, he would not be jealous of Zhu Xiang's favor and miraculousness.

But even he didn't do it before. Zhu Xiang is the younger generation of King Qin, and is the in-law and friend of the son Chu. He will only cultivate Zhu Xiang carefully.

"No wonder people like Lin Xiangru and Lian Po are so doting on Zhu Xiang, Zhu Xiang is talented and simple-minded, as an elder, he will definitely worry about him." Fan Ju sighed.

There are such juniors, and the elders are both proud and worried. The more emotions you invest, the more you value it.

King Qin probably felt this as well.

Fan Ju remembered that King Qin had complained that both his son and grandson trembled when facing him. Only he can have a good chat with King Qin, and he will not be honestly afraid.

Now King Qin has finally found a junior who will not be afraid of him.

It's just that I don't know if Zhu Xiang is not afraid of King Qin because he is dying, or if he dares to do this after surviving this catastrophe.

Fan Ju really wanted to go to Changping to see this Zhu Xiang, who may be quite miraculous, but he is so naïve and stupid that it makes people headaches.

He thought about it and asked people to call Gongzi Chu.

He can directly ask Gongzi Chu to come to his house to visit him, which shows his status in the Qin State and in the heart of the King of Qin.

Zi Chu Cheng came to Fan Ju's mansion in fear, and Fan Ju handed the letter written by King Qin this time to Zi Chu and asked, "Zhu Xiang doesn't seem to be afraid of the king at all. ”

Zichu began to have a headache when he heard this.

He hurriedly glanced at the letter written by King Qin, and his head hurt even more.

Zi Chu explained: "Zhu Xiang does have some ...... It's a little too casual. Can Xiangguo send me to deliver a letter to your lord? ”

Zi Chu didn't care whether he would be beaten by Zhu Xiang if he took off his vest, he wanted to go to Changping now and begged King Qin not to kill Zhu Xiang.

"The king will bring Zhu Xiang back to Xianyang, and you can meet him again then." Fan Ju understands his bad taste very well. Obviously, the king is very much looking forward to the scene when Gongzi Chu tells Zhu Xiang the truth. So he won't spoil the pleasure of the king.

Zi Chu worried: "But Zhu Xiang is ...... like this"

Fan Ju interrupted: "Your Excellency doesn't mind, what are you worried about?" I am looking for Gongzi now to inquire in detail about Zhu Xiang's affairs in Zhao State. The talent shown by Zhu Xiang is by no means something that Lian Po and Lin Xiangru can cultivate. As soon as he came to the party, he knew everything about the party. It's like being taught by a god. ”

Zi Chu hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know much. Zhu Xiang was worried that he would arouse the jealousy of others, so he hid many of his talents. However, Zhu Xiang does say some knowledge that ordinary people don't know. He once said that the earth under our feet is spherical and revolves around the sun, which is also spherical. However, he said it when he was drunk, and when he woke up, he insisted on refusing to admit it. ”

Fan Ju said: "He actually knows about the things in the sky, is it really the gods who descended to earth?" ”

Zi Chu said: "Throughout the ages, there have been many records of gods descending to help the Ming monarch and the virtuous lord, and it is not surprising that Zhu Xiang is one of them. But I think Zhu Xiang may have just gotten the god professor in a dream. ”

Zichu once inquired about Zhu Xiang's experience. Zhu Xiang was also very smart when he was a child, but he was only slightly more powerful than his peers, and it was not eye-catching. But after Zhu Xiang's parents died and almost died of illness, he suddenly opened his wisdom and learned a lot of knowledge that ordinary people don't know.

Lin Xiangru also knew about it. They all speculated that Zhu Xiang may have received help and gifts from the gods during his near-death experience.

The people of this era believe in ghosts and worship ghosts and gods. Even Confucianism only says that he doesn't say anything about strange forces and gods, but he should be in awe of it. Receiving help from the gods in desperate situations is common in history books and folklore. They accepted Zhu Xiang's adventure very calmly.

Fan Ju thought for a long time. Zichu waited for a long time, and he didn't dare to complain.

"Which god does Zhu Xiang usually admire the most?" After a while, Fan Ju asked.

Zi Chu shook his head: "This is the strangest thing. Zhu Xiang respects ghosts and gods, but does not believe in ghosts and gods. I originally thought that he was being mentioned by the Shennong clan, but when he mentioned the Shennong clan, he only admired what he had done, and did not have much awe. I have tried many times, and he does not have a particularly high faith in any deity. ”

Fan Ju frowned: "He always worships the gods every year. ”

Zi Chu said: "Zhu Xiang doesn't take the initiative to worship gods every year, and whatever gods his family worships, he follows to worship any gods." ”

Fan Ju was stunned.

Didn't Zhu Xiang know which god he was rescuing and reminding? But even if you don't know, how can anyone have no fear and belief in the gods at all?

Chapter 28: Bolognese Rice with Meat Sauce

In fact, it doesn't matter which god Zhu Xiang accepts. Those who are said to have been taught by the gods to incarnate as virtuous ministers to assist the Ming Emperor have not said anything about their mentorship - there is no way to prove that they are not lying.

As long as Zhu Xiang was used by the Qin State, the Qin State would be happy to promote him and use his reputation to establish the legitimacy and rationality of the Qin State's domination of the world; If he can't be used by the Qin State, he is a demon who needs to be killed.

During the Warring States period, many ghosts and gods were revered and believed, but the kings of various countries often did things such as cutting down mountains and destroying temples.

Fan Ju asked Zichu just out of curiosity. He knew that his lord must be very curious. Who wouldn't be curious about the gods?

Changping.

After Zhu Xiang obtained the permission of the King of Qin, he built a handicraft workshop with a blower and forged farm tools with the confiscated weapons of the Zhao soldiers.

The bronze casting technology of the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty laid a solid foundation for iron-smelting technology.

Starting from the "block refining method", as early as the late Spring and Autumn Period, China has invented the cast iron smelting method. During the Warring States period, cast iron smelting technology was already very mature. It was not until the fourteenth century that hydraulic blowers were used in the West, and cast iron smelting was used.

Iron hoes were unearthed in the Chu tombs of the late Spring and Autumn period. Iron tools can be used as agricultural tools, which shows that iron smelting has developed to the stage of civil use in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Today's soldiers naturally have iron weapons, and the Mo family's technology of forging iron tools is also very proficient, and there is no need for Zhu Xiang to point fingers on the side.

However, the monarch and some noble-born generals still used bronze swords.

Bronze has been oxidized for many years before it is cyan, and when it is cast, it is shining golden, more dazzling than gold. So the bronze sword is not only a weapon, but also a symbol of power and status.

Although bronze is slightly less flexible and the yield rate is not as good as that of iron, it is very hard. The weapons of the Warring States period followed the appearance of the Bronze Age, and they were basically broadswords. In the form of a sword, iron has little advantage over bronze. Therefore, the use of bronze swords by generals on the battlefield will not affect their combat effectiveness.

When the King of Qin agreed to smelt the weapons of Zhao's soldiers into farming tools, he confiscated Bofu's iron knife that cut Zhao Kuo.

He is old, and he touches the very simple-looking iron knife every day, waving it in the east and dancing in the west, which is really like that.

Zhu Xiang guessed that King Qin was estimated to be relatively capable of fighting when he was young.

Xianghe and the disciples of the Mo family quickly cast a batch of iron hoes and iron plowshares.

The people brought by Xu Ming are not inferior to the Mohists in the manufacture of agricultural tools. They cut down the wood to make the wooden part of the farm implement, combined it with an iron hoe and an iron plowshare, and made the wide hoe and curved plough that Zhu Xiang had told them.

Although there were no ploughing cattle, Zhao Jun still had a lot of horses left. Some of the wounded lame horses could no longer fight and were used for farming.

Perhaps after the horse can feel that he has no value in fighting, he can only be a "ploughing horse" if he wants to live. In the past, they had a bad temper, and when they encountered soldiers who were not their masters, they would bite other people's clothes. Now they are honest, and the pace of ploughing is very steady.

When the first batch of iron farming tools were built, the potatoes brought by Zhu Xiang had already been bred and could be sown.

They dug up clods of earth from the ground and piled them up into high ridges. A group of Zhao soldiers were still wearing their tattered clothes, which had not been changed in months, and were diligently ploughing the ground in the field with iron hoes.

Turning over and turning over, they turned out the bones of a man with a piece of cloth.

Before the arrival of Qin, this piece of land was a strategic point for Wei, Zhao, and Korea to compete for. If you dig a little deeper, you can dig up the bones of people who don't know what age they are.

Zhao Bing has become accustomed to it.

They flipped the bones out of the ground and continued to turn over the ground.

When they had turned over the ground, they broke the bones and placed a layer of dead grass on the ground and set it on fire.

When the dead grass burned out, the bones were also burned. They turned over the ground again, burying the ashes of the ground and the fragments of human bones into the earth, just as the ground was fertilized.

This wilderness is soaked in the corpses of soldiers and outcasts, and it is very fertile, but there are also many germs. Burning the land before planting can reduce the spread of some of the pathogens and fungi that are not conducive to the growth of potatoes.

This is the first layer of disinfection.

When the potatoes were first planted, quicklime was sprinkled in the seed pit.

When Zhu Xiang led people to dig coal all over the mountains, he also dug a lot of lime mines and fired a lot of quicklime. Although no cement is produced, quicklime can still be used for farming, and it has the functions of "pesticide" and "fertilizer".

It is very particular about how much quicklime is sprinkled in the field, less will have no effect, and more will "burn" the seeds. Although there is no instrumental analysis of soil composition, observe the color of the soil and the soil that melts in the water, observe the vegetation growing on the soil, and taste it again...... Zhu Xiang can roughly grasp the composition of these soils and judge how much quicklime should be sprinkled.

Zhu Xiang not only told Zhao Bing, who was cultivating the field, how much quicklime he needed to sprinkle, but also taught Zhao Bing his own experience in judging the soil.

The generals in the Zhao soldiers who were not dead were very helpless. They thought that what Zhu Xiang said was too profound, how could an ignorant soldier understand it?

King Qin, who was still pretending to be a white staff, also thought so.

A few days later, an older Zhao Bing judged on his own the amount of quicklime needed, and then asked Zhu Xiang. After Zhu Xiang approved it a few times, he sent these veterans out and let them share the work of spreading quicklime.

Zhao Bing died several thousand more during this time.

There are still about 150,000 people left who have died of illness and injuries. The agricultural season is tight, and the three-month time limit is also tight. Even if Zhu Xiang believed that the King of Qin would definitely postpone the time and wait until the day of the potato harvest to make a decision, he had to hurry up when he farmed. Zhu Xiang alone has to guide 150,000 people, and his energy and time are not enough.

Analyzing soil should have been complicated. King Qin was very surprised to see that someone had learned Zhu Xiang's "unique skill" so quickly.

Zhu Xiang explained with a smile: "Who else knows the land better than the old farmer who has dealt with the land all his life? They already have experience in judging the composition of soils, but those experiences are fragmented and fragmented. I just helped them sort it out and turn their experience into knowledge. It's like someone who already knows how to read a text and starts reading it, of course, very quickly. ”

King Qin glanced at Zhu Xiang deeply, his expression inexplicable.

Zhu Xiang didn't care what King Qin was thinking, and asked King Qin if he wanted to send some Qin soldiers to accept his guidance.

"Potato yields are high, but I don't recommend that you grow potatoes on your own farmland. I also brought some good winter wheat seeds, and now is the time to plant winter wheat. Would you like to try my seeds? Zhu Xiang asked hopelessly. He thought that the Qin people would not trust him.

The King of Qin did not make a decision, and he asked Bai Qi to inform the Qin soldiers who would be cultivating the fields here about this matter, and let them decide for themselves.

Bai Qi replied: "They all want to plant the seeds brought by Zhu Xiang. Because the seeds brought by Zhu Xiang were limited, they still fought and were punished by me with a military order. ”

Because Fan Ju traveled thousands of miles to bring wine, meat, and sauces, King Qin's diet greatly improved.