Let these people who have nothing to think about except survival think about other things that have nothing to do with survival, let them have more fantasies, and get a trace of happiness in utopia, this is Zhu Xiang's purpose.

Although there are many levels of human needs, it is not necessary to satisfy the lower level in order to reach the upper level.

Even in the most difficult times, you can listen to some stories, sing some songs, and play some games, so that the soul that is tired from survival can get some comfort.

Zhu Xiang let because he created a legend again, and the families who flocked to him changed their careers to become storytellers, and this is just the picture.

I don't know if I was shocked by Zhu Xiang's slightly indifferent sacrifice to the sky, God gave face during the summer harvest this year, and only gave a few light rains at the end to express his dissatisfaction with Zhu Xiang's lack of respect.

The straw is ready, and the moist rice is dried in a kiln that has been repaired with little loss.

This year is still a year of praise and harvest.

When the summer harvest is successful, these light rains are just right for the farmers.

The rice seeds they planted immediately needed such a small rain to emerge better.

Before the joy of the harvest could be tasted, Zhu Xiang led the farmers to carry out the busy summer planting.

The seeds are planted on dry land and then the seedlings are planted. New tools for planting rice should also be used.

The original rice transplanting machine developed by Zhu Xiang and the Mo family and the peasant disciples together is called the rice horse.

Yangma was widely used in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the name first appeared in Su Shi's poems. Because the literati did not know much about the specific details of farming, the role of the seedling horse was unknown, and by the 80s of the 20th century, the agricultural community thought that the seedling horse was only used for pulling seedlings.

Later, with more archaeological discoveries, the agricultural community corrected its cognition and determined that the seedling horse was used for both planting and pulling seedlings.

Although Zhu Xiang has seen the restoration of the Yangma, his memory is not very deep.

He studied with his students for a long time before he came up with a low-cost and popularized seedling horse. As for whether this seedling horse was a popular seedling horse in the Northern Song Dynasty in his previous life, Zhu Xiang didn't know. Anyway, it's easy to use.

The shape of the rice horse is like a small boat, and the farmer sits on the rice horse, slides the "small boat" with his feet, takes the seedlings from the bow of the boat and transplants the seedlings, or pulls the seedlings and places them in the back cabin of the boat, which can save a lot of effort.

Seeing this, Chen Qi couldn't help but make a song of Chu Ge.

With a dinging sound of the system, Zhu Xiang watched Chen Qi's avatar pop up, and gave a handful of shallots with a heart's favorability, and couldn't help laughing.

Chapter 201: Two Chu Saves Civil

This continuous light rain did not bring much trouble to Guangling County, which had been incorporated into Wu County, but it brought great trouble to Chudi.

After the end of the civil war in Chu, before he could breathe, the Southern Chu Jun sent troops to attack the city on the north bank of the Yangtze River occupied by the Qin State. The king of Chu lent Xiang Yan as the commander-in-chief, and also coordinated some soldiers.

Even if he fights on his own turf, at least three civilians can provide the logistics of one soldier. The number of cultivators in Chu land has been greatly reduced.

The early and evening rice rotation technology promoted by Zhu Xiang in Southern Qin has been smuggled to Chu by the Chu people. The state of Chu also planted early and late rice.

After the Qin State launched the Qin Cotton Trade War against the Chu State, the Chu State fell into famine and then fell into civil strife.

The terrible famine and war finally passed, and the lazy Chu people became diligent and stole the Southern Qin wheel to plant early and late rice.

If they can harvest rice twice a year, even if the yield is not as good as that of Nanqin, it will be enough for them to feed for a year, right?

Chu people thought humbly.

Last year, when the King of Chu and the Southern Chu Jun recruited men to join the army, the early rice in Chu was almost yellow.

The Chudi woman carried the child on her back, held the farm tools tightly in her hands, and together with the old people in the family, she got up before dawn every day, and if there was moonlight when it was dark, she also ran around in the fields.

The strength of a woman is not as good as that of a man, and the man can do the farm work in an hour, and the woman needs to do it longer. If the woman is a little weaker, it may take two or three times as long.

But it doesn't matter.

There are twelve hours in a day. She built a thatched house next to the field, ate and lived next to the ridge, except for being so tired that she couldn't move, or slept a little more when there was no moonlight at night, and gritted her teeth to work day and night, and the work in the field could always be done.

In order to make the soldiers sell their lives, the soldiers and men of various countries will also give some food. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.

When she was so tired that she was about to give up, the woman held the child who was crying and falling asleep with her fingers in her mouth and imagined the future.

The men of the family returned with their food, and their fields were harvested, so that the family could have a full meal with an open stomach.

Then, they paid the tax and hid the surplus food, so that they could drink porridge every day. When the autumn rice is harvested again, you can also eat enough food during the New Year, and you can exchange the surplus grain for some fish and meat.

If you can eat meat once a year, it will be a happy year.

Thinking about it, a smile appeared on the woman's sad face, and the exhaustion and pain in her body seemed to be relieved.

Although the embers of the military disaster have not been extinguished, the wind and rain in Chudi have been very smooth in the past six months.

The people of Chu were terrified and waited until the rice was headed, filled, and turned yellow.

There was a cautious smile of joy on their faces, as if the gold in the field was not rice, but gold.

Maybe when you're hungry, rice is more precious than gold.

At this time, Xiang Yan was defeated.

What does the nearly 100,000 rout represent?

Represents nearly 100,000 bandits.

The Qin soldiers didn't seem to be interested in the rice of the Chu people, and chased the Chu army to the Huaishui and hurried back, except for stepping on some rice during the rapid march, which did not cause much loss to the Chu people, so that the Chu people, who were used to hearing the tyrannical legends of the Qin soldiers, were not used to it.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhu Xiang urging Ying Xiaozheng to hurry back, Qin Bing's military discipline would not be so good. But the prince is in a hurry, who dares to stop and loot halfway?

But the defeated Chu soldiers were different.

Maybe it's fear, maybe it's knowing that there is no food and military merits to get and want to get a handful, or maybe it's simply that you have weapons in your hands and other soldiers around you to be brave. In addition to Xiang Yan's quick collection of his subordinates, Minfu and the remnants of the Southern Chu army quickly turned into bandits who did all kinds of evil.

Not only did they commit adultery and plunder, but they even did bad things that harmed others and themselves, such as burning fields and destroying houses.

The generals even personally commanded their own soldiers to do so.

Because they understood that the defeat had deprived their soldiers of any benefit, and that if they wanted them to continue to die for themselves, and they did not want to give the money, they could only let the soldiers plunder.

Moreover, having just experienced the fear of defeat, the soldiers also need to use the blood of innocent civilians to strengthen their courage and restore their morale.

The territory of Chu is not bad. After Xiang Yan gathered his subordinates, he immediately led his own troops to suppress the bandits, stabilized the domestic order of the Chu State, and did not let the bandits expand.

However, the Southern Chu Jun was completely unable to restrain the remnants of the army, and the Chu people who moved inward also rebelled. Many of the Chu people who migrated inward fled south and returned to their burned hometowns, spontaneously wanting to rebuild the city.

The nascent Southern Chu State suffered a serious man-made disaster.

What's even more miserable is that the rent still has to be paid.

Desperate old men walk into the mountains and forests by themselves in the middle of the night and early in the morning; The weeping woman cuts her fingers and makes the starving child suck the blood to feed her stomach; The fugitive found that his hometown had been scorched, and the man who did it was his comrade.

But even then, civilians are insensitive, and rarely resist.

After half a year of starvation, grazing grass and eating soil, the autumn harvest allowed them to breathe, pay the rent of the loan, feed the people who had not starved to death, and began to look forward to the next year's early rice harvest.

This time, neither the Southern Chu State nor the Chu State was conscripted for military service, and there were many people who worked hard in the fields. The old people who are not dead and the women and children who grit their teeth to hold on are finally more relaxed, and the whole family is looking forward to a good harvest.

Just like last year, the rice is yellow again, and the faces of the Chu people have a look of anticipation again.

Then the rain came.

Officials and feudal lords from all over the country built altars and offered precious tributes, praying that the heavens would quickly collect the supernatural powers and not harm the people.

They mean it.

They prayed and prayed, fell on the muddy ground and wept bitterly, and their hearts of concern for the country and the people were overflowing.

"But no one is like Zhu Xiang, who led the family Ding Qin soldiers to help the farmers harvest." Chun Shenjun Huang Xie sneered, "The altar is gorgeous and sturdy, but the farmers have no harvesting tools in their hands; The wine and meat on the altar were abundant, and even the chaff was less than the sand and gravel in the relief grain; Every day they wept before God on the altar, raising a high flame and asking God for mercy, but there was no one to help the peasants burn a kiln and bake grain. ”

Huang Xie threw the wine glass on the ground: "General Xiang, do you borrow this soldier or not!" ”

Xiang Yan looked at the bronze wine glass rolling off the ground and was silent.

Huang Xie said: "I will use the five small cities in the fief to borrow troops from you. ”

Xiang Yan's brows twitched, and she said helplessly: "Chun Shenjun, why are you suffering?" ”

Huang Xie said: "It's not me who suffers, it's Chu Min." ”

Xiang Yan said: "You weren't such a person before. Could it be that becoming Zhu Xiang's friend has changed so much? ”

Huang Xie asked rhetorically: "Why wasn't I such a person, but Zhu Xiang made me see myself clearly." ”

He took a deep breath, stood up and pointed to his chest and said, "Although I am rich and rich, I can also see the hardships of the common people!" ”

He put his hands flat and bowed to the ground: "General Xiang!" Rest and use five small cities to borrow General Xiang's soldiers! ”

Xiang Yan sighed again, got up and helped Chun Shenjun up, and said, "It's not that I don't want to lend you soldiers, it's that I was defeated last time, and the King of Chu has a lot of dissatisfaction with me." I don't dare to act rashly. ”

Xiang Yan was snubbed by the King of Chu.

It is not because of the burning of the city and the relocation of the people, nor because of the rout of the army into banditry.

This kind of thing is very common, and no king will be angry about such a trivial matter.

Although some scholars pity the suffering of the Chu people, and some people write articles to criticize Xiang Yan, but in the more than 500 years of war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there are too many sufferings of the common people, and most people are accustomed to it.

If it weren't for the fact that there is now a person who sympathizes with civilians and Zhu Xianggong, who is also born in commoners, he would not even have a voice to criticize Xiang Yan.

The king of Chu snubbed Xiang Yan only because Xiang Yan was defeated.

In fact, although Xiang Yan did not capture Guangling City, he uprooted all the cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River except for Guangling City, and his merits outweighed his faults.

But the King of Chu had long been afraid that Xiang Yan was too powerful, so this time he just used the topic to play.

Xiang Yan was criticized for cruelty by the scholars on the one hand, and as a Chu person, he actually brutalized the Chu people, and on the other hand, he faced the deliberate suppression of the King of Chu. So after returning to Chendu, he closed his door and avoided trouble in a low-key manner.

However, Xiang Yan still held the military power tightly, and the elite soldiers of the Xiang family were still the strongest in the Chu State, and even the King of Chu did not dare to take it.

In order to support the king of Chu, Chun Shenjun changed his fiefdom to a county, only managed administrative and financial powers, and handed over his military power.

The king of Chu was unwilling to move troops to help with the harvest, and Chun Shenjun could only come to ask Xiang Yan.

But even though Chun Shenjun promised to give a part of the fief to Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan still refused.

Chun Shenjun hid his face with his sleeves and got into the carriage crying.

Xiang Yan sent Chun Shenjun away, his expression a little embarrassed.

The clansmen around Xiang Yan were all dissatisfied, saying that Chun Shenjun had learned from the kindness of the common people Zhu Xiang, and actually let the scholars go to the fields to help the farmers harvest, which was a shame on the face of the feudal monarch.

But Xiang Yan's heart was shaken.

He remembered Changping-kun, who was staggering and embarrassed on the chariot.

The world praised Changping Jun, and even the Chu people in Guangling City were willing to die for Changping Jun. Can he really deny Changping Jun's behaviors that have no aristocratic dignity at all?