Chapter 9 Ploughing the acres and being content
Thundered.
Thunder rolled and muffled in the sky.
This is not the thunder explosion in Ji Kao's heart, but the real thunder, and the sting has arrived.
The first month of the year is stinging, and the words are stinging. Everything is out of the earthquake, the earthquake is thunder, so it is said to be stung, it is the stinging insect that is frightened and runs away.
After hearing this thunder, Ji Kao opened his eyes leisurely and ended his practice for the time being.
With the spring thunder and everything recovering, it's time to start plowing the fields for planting.
He walked out of the hut, gathered the dozen or so people who had come with him, and began to assign tasks.
More than a dozen people, including himself, were assigned a field to be cultivated.
As a result, with their residences as the center, a mighty campaign to open up the wasteland began.
Three hundred steps is one mile, and everyone is responsible for a radius of about twenty miles, and the entire reclaimed land has a radius of three hundred miles.
Most of these lands are distributed in the areas where the water and its flow are located, and the water source is abundant and convenient for irrigation.
Ji Kao gave himself a point, which was naturally next to his residence.
Then he began to have everyone do the seed treatment, and the seeds on hand were hemp, millet, millet, wheat, shu (shu), which were popular, and of course rice.
Among the six main seeds, hemp seeds are the best, after all, the history of growing hemp in Shu is almost the same as raising silkworms.
At the beginning, Magu and the silkworm Cong clan entered Shu together, the former taught the people to plant hemp and called the god of Mai, and the latter taught the people to raise silkworms and called the god of Tsing Yi.
As for the four kinds of millet, millet, wheat, and mushroom, the seeds are worse, Ji Kao traveled all over Shu, and only then did he screen out some of the better grains to breed, plus when he came from Yin Shang, he was selected along the way, which was barely enough.
Millet is millet grain, which is what Ji Kao's ancestor Houji began to plant, known as the king of a hundred grains, and the most commonly eaten thing by the people of the Central Plains.
Millet is millet, soybean is beans, wheat is wheat, and they are all the mainstream of planting in the Central Plains.
The last rice is a grain that Zhou Yuan has never seen even among the Yin merchants.
This is Ji Kao in the later generations, the most familiar grain, he was born in the land of Wu Chu, although later because of hard study, every day, life is a little richer, but when he was a child, he often dealt with rice in the field.
The source of these grains, Ji Kao guessed, should have been planted by the Yue people further south of Shu. After all, among the people of Shu, there are many people from Luo Yue.
The so-called Luo Yue is a branch of the Yue people, which is closest to Shu.
He is no stranger to the various steps of rice planting, however, there is a problem with the rice in his hands.
At this time, the rice was far less abundant than the one he had seen in later generations, and it was not much bigger than the corn grain. He traveled all over Shu and didn't get much.
For three years, I planted silently, harvested silently, and I didn't know if I could plant it. Even if he can plant, he has to make another plan, and he can't hand it over to King Bai Guan at will.
This person is ambitious and virtuous, and he is not a person who can conspire to help the people of Shu live and work in peace and contentment.
Therefore, the matter of planting rice needs to be done by himself, and he cannot fake others in the slightest.
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Isn't it another kind of practice to say that it is cultivated here?
During the day, Ji Kao turned the method of cultivation into all kinds of farm work, such as reclamation, planting seeds, raising seedlings, weeding, diverting water, and even turning manure into fertilizer himself, and he did it without ambiguity.
Many of the people of the Baiguan clan who came with him saw him build a thatched pit in the tribe next to him, so that the people could carry out the reincarnation of the five internal organs in it, and later they personally picked out these fecal things and applied them to the fields.
Not only that, but he even had to collect the manure of the shepherd's flock and the manure of the beasts in the field, crush it into powder and sprinkle it in the field.
Ji Kao not only did it himself, but also asked others to do the same.
Those two cultivators, proud of their status, of course did not want to do this kind of work that ordinary people felt dirty, but when they were ordered to listen to Ji Kao's words and act, they could only give some benefits to others and let people do it for them.
Seeing this, Ji Kao just smiled and didn't speak.
He himself is willing to bow down, not ashamed of collecting manure and fertilizing, and he cannot force others to do the same.
These two people who came with him were not his heirs, nor were they people he could teach by word and deed.
Even the cultivation realm of the two of them is higher than him, and he has to ask the other party for advice.
During the day, he worked and practiced at the same time, and at night, he naturally guided and refined his qi, day and night, and did not stop for a day.
During this period, the lord of the Bai Guan clan also sent someone to investigate, and among the people who investigated, there were Zizhu and Ren Ji.
They were born in commercial land, and although they are not as familiar with the method of farming as Ji Kao, they can still see whether Ji Kao is dedicated to farming.
These people came in the middle of summer, and it was the hottest time, and when Zi Zhu and Ren Ji saw Ji Kao again, they were stunned.
The former graceful and outstanding son Ji Zhoujia is almost gone at this time.
In front of them, they saw only a black and thin young man, wearing a straw hat and a short coat of arrowroot, sweating profusely, clearing the weeds in the field, and after clearing the weeds, he scattered the foul-smelling manure into the field.
Zi Zhu's face showed a mocking expression, what about cultivators, in the Shu land, they are not familiar with life, and they are not doing what those inferior people do.
At the time of the Yin merchants, they were born in the clan, or joined the army to fight, or defended the land, and this kind of farming work was done by the lowest-ranking merchants.
But Ren Ji next to him, seeing Ji Kao's appearance, sighed leisurely, and saluted Ji Kao: "It is worthy of being Houji, Ji is not as far away." ”
Even from Ji Kao, he could feel how hard it must have been for his ancestor Houji to be the official of Si Nong and teach the people to farm before and after the flood.
A long time ago, Emperor Yan Shennong's clan separated the grain from the weeds and taught the people how hard it should be.
Ji Kao was in the field, and when he saw Ren Ji saluting him, he pointed to the bucket of manure under his feet and the tools in his hand to sort out the feces, smiled at Ren Ji, and signaled that it was inconvenient to return the salute.
Ren Ji nodded, and after looking at it for a while, he went to the other people sent by King Bai Guan to learn about the situation from the cultivators next to him, and then went back.
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"How is it, my agricultural officer of the Bai Guan clan is not lazy outside, is he?"
In fact, King Bai Guan had already learned from the clairvoyant Gao Ming that Ji Kao had worked extremely hard since the beginning of spring, and he had hardly stopped working.
However, he was worried that Ji Kao was young and might not know how to farm, so he still asked people to go over and take a look.
The man of the Bai Guan clan said: "According to the villain, the grain they grow is indeed much better than what I planted before. Even the grain grows in the same way as I have seen it in the past. ”
The others also nodded, they had all been out of Shu and had seen other places farming, so they were sent over to understand the situation.
"What do you two think?"
King Bai Guan looked at Zizhu and Ren Ji again.
"I look at the king, there is really the wind of his ancestors, tirelessly, ploughing the fields, presumably in three years, there will be success, teaching the people of the Bai Guan clan to cultivate, the problem should not be big. ”
Ren Ji can be said to have a lot of respect for Ji Kao now, and he feels that those ancient sages are probably doing this kind of thing.
Obviously, he is a person who refines qi, and he can already skip food and sleep, but he can still be like ordinary people, happily suffering in the fields.
"This kid is indeed very suitable for farming, and King Bai Guan doesn't have to worry too much. ”
Zizhu's words were not very polite, but they were almost the same.
King Bai Guan nodded with satisfaction, not only satisfied with what Ji Kao had done, but also satisfied with the fact that these businessmen were now willing to work for themselves.
That Liu Quan is in Wuxiantai, and has been subdued by the Taiwanese envoy Ran Yan, and is following the army of the Baiguan clan to gather the primitive tribes.
The two people in front of them, following themselves around and governing the people, both of them have quite insights, and they can often mention things they haven't thought of.
The last Qi Refiner is even more at ease farming, and he must have even been delayed in cultivating Qi Refining.
If the method of cultivation is successful, I still have to thank myself.
"Well, in that case, I don't have to worry about farming. Spread the order to speed up the collection of all tribes and incorporate them into my Bai Guan clan. ”
"In two years' time, we're going to strike at the great enemy in the west. ”
Hearing the words of King Bai Guan, everyone was amazed.
The great enemy to the west of the Bai Guan clan, everyone knows that it is the Yu Yu clan.
This tribe is a composite tribe of the descendants of the Silkworm Cong clan and the Shushan clan, and there are very few Qiang people. In addition to the Bai Guan clan, in the entire Shu region, the Yu Yu clan is the strongest.
Moreover, like the Bai Guan Clan, there are also many cultivators behind the Yu Yu Clan.
If you really start a war with the Yu Clan, it won't be like the previous petty fights.
"Your Majesty, do you really want to do anything with the Yu Clan?"
Hearing the questions of his subordinates, King Bai Guan's eyes widened: "Naturally, it is needed, the Yu Yu clan is behind us, and the rear is not quiet, how can we talk about Shu?"
For a long time, King Baiguan's goal has been outside of Shu. Although the Yu clan is not important to him, at least he must not let the other party have the strength to disrupt the rear.
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From spring to summer and then to autumn, it is the harvest season.
Or because the timing was not selected well, or the amount of fertilizer was not controlled, during the autumn harvest, except for the rice that Ji Kao paid special attention to, the other harvests were not very good.
Even if it wasn't very good, it made the people who came with him to work with him very happy.
This kind of harvest is far more than double that of previous years, when the people of Shu cultivated by themselves.
At the beginning, they were still very disdainful of Ji Kao, a young man, and felt that following Ji Kao was a waste of time and energy. But now, they looked at Ji Kao's gaze with a lot of reverence.
Ji Kao didn't care about their changes, and after the harvest, it wasn't that there was nothing else to do.
It is necessary to be prepared to burn straw for fertilizer, and to choose good grain for seed.
There was nothing to do in winter, but Ji Kao was difficult to come out, but he encountered a strange thing.
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