Chapter 216 Duotian
It is hot in June, and it is not possible to cool down in Zhilan Courtyard.
Shao Xun changed into a short coat of coarse linen and brown, and walked in the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow. From time to time, someone would bring a pen and paper to take notes.
In his records, Guangcheng Garden at this stage is roughly divided into several architectural groups.
One is the Guangcheng Palace group.
The Guangcheng Palace complex is divided into the Guangcheng Palace building complex on the mountain and the Cuibo building complex at the foot of the mountain.
The former is for people to live in, with less than 60 palaces, a warehouse, and a small military camp.
The latter is a vegetable garden and orchard, surrounded by wooden fences, and there are more than 30 houses, water mills, warehouses and other buildings.
The second is the soup pool group.
The soup pool group is divided into hot spring building complex and winter garden building complex.
The former is divided into several courtyards, with a total of more than a hundred houses, and more than ten ancillary buildings such as pavilions and pavilions.
The latter is not big and mainly relies on geothermal hot springs to grow vegetables. This is an old wisdom from the Han Dynasty, that is, the temperature is slightly higher in places close to hot springs, so vegetables are grown for winter enjoyment.
Obviously, the Winter Garden plays this role, providing fresh fruits and vegetables in winter to the nobles soaking in hot springs.
The third is the Yongjia Cangcheng group.
This group has jurisdiction over many building groups such as Yongjiacang, Forage Barn, Shuidi, Muyuan, and Military Camp. It is the core area of Guangchengze and a key construction project this year.
The fourth is Zhilan Yuan’s group formation.
This group has jurisdiction over the Zhilan Yuan building complex and the wharf building complex.
The former has seventy or eighty houses, while the latter has docks, warehouses, military camps and a workshop for building small boats.
Shao Xun is not interested in hedonic architecture, but still has a good impression of functional architecture.
And he took advantage of every opportunity and ordered the opening of fields and the preparation of ditches in the blank areas between various building groups.
Now he was walking near a field that was being leveled.
The ground is full of silt, and the silt is taken from the swamp next to it.
To put it simply, in a swamp, some places are shallow and some are deep.
During the development process, the idea is to dredge the deep areas, dig wide and deep, and then fill the shallow areas with silt to turn them into farmland. As a result, farmland is surrounded by rivers and lakes for easy irrigation, and there is a large amount of nutrient-rich silt in the farmland for crop growth and increased yields.
This idea was proposed by Shao Xun and was inspired by "Duotian".
The Chinese ancestors did something like this when they developed Huainan.
Patches of fields are surrounded by rivers and lakes, like small islands in the middle of the water. Crops are grown on the islands with high yields.
As time went by, more and more sediment was brought upstream, and many small islands slowly connected together to form land.
Swamps, rivers and lakes are slowly disappearing, and the contiguous plains are getting larger and larger. By the 21st century, there are still such "small islands" and stacked fields in northern Jiangsu, which can be seen.
These fields in Guangchengze will be connected into land in the future. This is a rule, sooner or later.
"Is this rice just planted?" Shao Xun asked, looking at the newly grown green seedlings.
“Yes, Empress Hui sent people to Xincheng, Luhun and other places to recruit, and some refugees who went south from Hanoi, totaling more than 400 households, cultivated more than 60 hectares——”
“Duotian.”
“Yes, more than sixty hectares of Duotian have been cultivated.” Yang Ming said.
Henan and Hanoi counties have famous rice (Xincheng rice, Hanoi green rice) since the Cao Wei Dynasty. There is a certain scale of rice cultivation in the local area. It is true that you can find many households who are good at growing rice, but ——
“It’s been almost a year. Queen Hui has spent a lot of money, and that’s all she did?” Shao Xun sighed and asked.
The Shitian that the Nanyang Leshi team took over was originally developed by Yang Xianrong. General Yang Ming was responsible for managing a group of land reclamation servants from Nanyang County.
After the end of the year, the output was very low. The slaves chewed it up and only a little was left, so the slaves were asked to take it home.
This year, people from Nanyang Leshi took over the whole business, but it has nothing to do with Yangshi.
Last year, Yang Xianrong began to look for people who were good at growing rice and came to Guangchengze. After so long, with the help of servants, more than 60 hectares were opened.
This efficiency is worse than burning wasteland.
The masters of the five counties built large houses, cut down a lot of bamboo and wood, and freed up large areas of land.
In addition, there are many deserted meadows.
I don’t know how enjoyable it would be to burn a fire—well, I don’t know how many fields it can burn.
"That's all, Queen Hui is also traveling for me." Shao Xun felt that Yang Xianrong should be encouraged, after all, she did not spend her own money.
Moreover, the swamp really needs to be cleaned up in depth.
He mentioned Duotian once, and Yang Xianrong remembered it and put it into practice. Although he only created such a small number of pocket rice fields, it was not bad.
Leave these sixty hectares of land to her to do with as she pleases. I don’t care if she wants this. "After Wang Mi's rebellion was over, Queen Hui sent people north to Hanoi to recruit people." Yang Ming continued: "The Xiongnu were raging, and the people in Hanoi were confused and uneasy. There were many people who were willing to abandon their homes and careers and go south to work as villagers. Hui Ming continued. The queen plans to recruit 500 new households and continue to expand the number of fields next year."
This is about rice!
Shao Xun nodded and said: "Queen Hui is very organized in her actions, I admire her."
Yang Ming looked around and whispered: "Queen Hui said that if the monarch marches to Xiangyang in the future, he will need to We are on our own.”
Shao Xun became serious after hearing this.
He has never been to Xiangyang.
But he knew that the level of development in the Jianghan area at this time was very low, and the area with dense water networks was not much worse than Huainan.
In fact, despite the fact that Xiangyang and Jingzhou were frequently seen in historical records and had frequent wars during the Three Kingdoms period, these two places were not densely populated areas until the Tang Dynasty, and their level of development was not high.
Farther south than Xiangyang, at the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were even a large number of barbarian tribes. The Tang court specially appointed the Wuchang Army Jiedu Envoy to suppress them.
The Zhangchang Rebellion in Jingzhou a few years ago took two years to put down. And Zhang Chang is exactly a barbarian.
“Queen Hui is far-sighted and truly the best among women.” Shao Xun praised.
"Empress Hui sent people to Mount Tai yesterday to state her interests and harms. The elders in the clan will surely make a decision after hearing the name of the monarch." Yang Ming said again.
"The land of Qingyan..." Shao Xun shook his head, looked at Yang Ming seriously, and said: "Although Wang Mi is gone, Gou Xi is not easy to get along with. His younger brother Gou Chun is extremely murderous and cruel. Incomparable, the elders of Qingzhou will definitely be forced to rebel. Furthermore, the war in Hebei will continue to spread to Qingyan if it cannot be controlled. If the Yang family is still in Qingyan, how will the Langya Wang family run? Yang’s family should think carefully about it.”
Diversified investment is the specialty of the family, but Taiyang’s investment style is too conservative, and there have been serious misjudgments in investment direction and share. Correction, decline is a high probability.
In today’s social environment, all careerists are soliciting investment and sponsorship.
Liu Yuan was the most miserable, even worse than Shao Xun and Gou Xi, two warriors with lower backgrounds. The reason was simply that he was in the Xiongnu regime.
However, Liu Yuan’s “registered capital” is large and his “financing needs” are small, which is his advantage.
"What the Lord said is true." Yang Ming replied: "Brothers Gou Xi and Gou Chun were severely punished and practiced killings, which aroused public resentment. Even the Taiyang family was also punished repeatedly. It's coercion. This person doesn't seem to be able to hold Qingzhou for a long time. It's okay if there are no foreign enemies. If someone attacks, Gou Xi will be defeated sooner or later."
Shao Xun nodded slightly.
Tai Yangshi still has a lot of background and can understand many things. But it is clear that we need to take action. I am just waiting for the rice to be cooked.
After leaving Zhilan Yuan, Shao Xun went to visit his ranch again.
Two years have passed since the horses were snatched back.
After the Wang Mi Rebellion, horse prices skyrocketed. In the past two days, people came over to talk about buying horses, and one after another they settled on seven or eight hundred horses, which could bring in about two to three hundred thousand grains. Considering that Yushanwu and Panyuan were harmed by bandits, Jinguyuan and Shaoyuan were also affected to a lesser extent, and the expenditure after the military expansion at the end of last year, these grains were only enough to make up for the losses.
Excluding these horses, as well as those who died of old age, illness, and war losses, the number of horses left in the wild at Guangchengze Ranch will drop to about 5,000.
The horse is purely a consumable.
On the battlefield, thousands of arrows were fired.
When they rush to kill, there are many swords and guns.
No matter how you choose the time, the loss of war horses is inevitable.
During a rapid march, riding horses and pack horses may also be lost.
Encountering a dangerous road section, the horse will stumble, and the draft horse will suffer a lot of losses.
Without hematopoietic function, the number will inevitably gradually decrease.
The good news is that after many searches, the number of mares has exceeded one hundred.
There are also dozens of foals in Guangcheng Garden, all of which have been born one after another in the past two years.
Well, they are different from the "eunuch horses" captured from the Xianbei people. They can continue to reproduce and slowly expand the population.
This is a good start.
When the number reaches a certain level in the future, you can try to engage in horse politics.
Horses must not be allowed to mate freely.
Genes such as size, speed, temperament, strength, endurance, and disease resistance must be gradually refined, and the horse's functions must also be gradually differentiated.
The rushing horse emphasizes impact and speed.
The galloping horse emphasizes endurance.
The horse pulling the cart emphasizes strength and resistance to rough feeding.
The horse for transportation - well, there is no requirement, just mediocre.
In short, this is a long-term and systematic project.
Differentiating uses and scientific breeding are what travelers should advocate, and they are also the correct direction for horse breeding.
(End of this chapter)