Shijing came to the Central Plains for four days, and Chongshi began to move back from the south bank of the river, and at this time, the farmer Ji Qi, who got the news, came to Chonghua in a hurry, saying that he wanted to see the woman from the south.

The reason why he wanted to see Shijing was naturally because of those agricultural problems, and it was not easy to catch a southerner, and he had to ask one of the questions carefully.

"You take her here to wander around, idle is idle, it is better to come to my land, the south has a new ploughing tool, and I have a new way of farming, you see, we are like a converging stream of water"

"I have also heard that there are some new grains in the south, and I want to know what they look like, which have grown in the heavens and the earth, like the rape flowers that were used to extract oil not long ago, which are the gifts of nature, but they have not yet been discovered by us. ”

Ji Qi is very tall and good-looking, at least in Shijing's eyes, of course, it is still a lot worse than Kun when he was young.

"I still have a lot more to ask you. ”

Whether it is the discovery of ox ploughing, the problem of compost and manure, or the invention of new forms of tillage tools such as ploughing tools, Ji Qi is like a sponge in this aspect, hoping to absorb this knowledge endlessly like absorbing the flow of water.

Shi Jing came to the field, Chonghua followed on the side, and Ji Qi vigorously showed her his results:

"If you look at this grain field, the ridge cultivation brought from the south, I have made improvements on it, and I call this new method of ridge cultivation from the ridge cultivation method, which is called the mu method. ”

"Change your ridge acres to acres, ridges were originally a place to walk, but now, you can also plow, go to the field and abandon the acres, you see, that hill is the fruit of my farming!"

"On the high-lying land, the grain is planted in the ridge, and in the low-lying land, the grain is planted on the ridge, the high field is planted, which can resist drought, and the low field is planted with the ridge, which can be drained, and the wind moves with the acre, up and down. ”

"As for the rakes and other crushed soil tools that you have brought from the south, after I tried it, I found that the land that has been made with a rake is softer than the land that has not been broken, and it is obvious that the water in the soil has not left. ”

Like a child who got a new toy, Ji Qi happily showed Shi Jing his improved "rake", and said: "Since there are oxen ploughing, I think that it is always very tiring to use people to make rakes, so I let the oxen pull the plow, and the plough is changed to a harrow, but it is not very useful, so I thought about it again, and I have this thing." ”

"I call it 'rake', and like a rake, it can be called a grinder!"

Ji Qi used wattle sticks and pointed sticks to weave something like a fence, which is a harrow, and pressed a round and heavy wood on top of this thing, and then pulled it in front with an ox, so that it became a cattle rake.

Shi Jing was a little surprised: "What Wu said, using a rake to break the soil can indeed make the grain grow better, but I haven't thought about the reason for this, because I have not been in the Chifang clan for a long time, and I just think this method is novel and easy to use." ”

Ji Qi sighed: "I hate to meet! In this world, how much grain there is is is related to people's rations, and the beasts in the mountains also have a cycle of life and death. ”

"In the period of the Three Emperors of the Ancient Times, people drank blood, and the era of the Three Emperors of the Ancient Ages finally gradually got rid of the ignorant days with the beasts, the flint people drilled the fire, there were nests and trees, and the Zhisheng clan taught people to 'accumulate more wages in summer, and Yang Zhi in winter', and the human race learned to produce"

"Hunting is not enough to satisfy people's appetites, hunger will kill many people, and the sheep on the earth are maintained by wolves, and if they are lost, the sheep will grow by devouring the grasslands with impunity. ”

"It takes years for life to grow, and it takes a long time for grain to grow, but it only takes one spring and autumn. ”

"Plant a grain of millet in the spring, harvest 10,000 seeds in the autumn, the sky does not pity the people, how can a hundred grains be born?"

Ji Qi smiled: "I am the son of Emperor Mi, and I also know what kind of disasters the world has received, natural disasters**, it is too difficult for weak tribes to survive, but even a worm has the instinct to eat." ”

"I invite you to come here and see what I have found, not to show you anything, but that if one day you go back to the South, you will tell the wizard what I have discovered, so that they may have more to eat. ”

"The farming technology brought by the south can make the Central Plains full of food, and when we are full, we will return the better methods we have figured out, and one day, I hope that all people in the world will no longer suffer from hunger. ”

The ideals of people are different, Shijing suddenly felt very small, and Chonghua was also shocked.

Everyone thinks that the farmer buries his head in the land every day, playing with those vegetable seedlings and grains, but no one knows, when other people are busy asking the ground for food, the farmer is thinking, how to make better use of the power of the earth, the earth gives birth to all things, but the earth will not take the initiative to grow those grains for the human race, so how to use the power of the earth to eat enough, this is what people have to do.

"You see, this is a new grain that I have discovered, and it is also edible, I call it a seedling, and this is also thanks to your inspiration! It turns out that there are so many grains to eat in this world. ”

"Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, the five grains are in the herbs, if you don't try to eat them, how can you know what it does?"

Shi Jing suddenly remembered and said, "Do you know this kind of grain?"

"Mai, of course you know!"

In this era, wheat has appeared in the history of mountains and seas, passed from the far West Wilderness, of course, the first to be planted is the West Queen Mother of the West Wilderness, which was brought to the Central Plains when paying tribute.

The oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty said that wheat was widely cultivated at that time, of course, I don't know if when it was planted in the Shang Dynasty, it was the same as the Zhou Dynasty, and it is estimated that wheat was regarded as something eaten by inferior talents.

By the end of the Warring States period, there were even some people in the east and south who believed that wheat was poisonous.

Shi Jing didn't have any special meaning when he asked this question, but said: "Wu used to say that wheat should be available in the Central Plains, saying that it can be eaten by making wheat noodles, and hemp and wheat husks are all good things."

In view of Shi Jing's curiosity about the appearance of the wheat, compared to the words that were occasionally scolded by Yu Zai, he thought that this thing should grow sharper, and then when he looked at it, it was indeed Manggu, as if there were needles on the rice.

"If you bring this back, Wu should be very happy, I don't know if this thing is good in the south. ”

But while they were looking at the land and the grain, messengers came from all over the world, and bad news came.

Some small nations have launched a war of plunder, attacking the lands and tribes belonging to the Central Plains.