Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1058 Promotion of the Agricultural System

  Outside Pingyang City, Zaozhi slowly led the horse, along with some attendants and guards, and walked along the rice paddies in the fields. After riding a horse for a long time, both thighs look like they don't grow like me. Getting off the horse and stepping on the ground can be regarded as a recovery.

Overall, the Pingyang Canal has been completely restored, and some improvements have been made on the basis of the original ones. The farmlands on both sides of the Pingyang Canal have basically escaped the threat of drought.

  The reform of the agricultural tax is a relatively big step forward for Fei Qian, and the main person in charge is Zaoyi, after all, he has always been in charge of farming in this area.

To be honest, this is not bad in the Han Dynasty. The preferential treatment policy for farmers was respected from top to bottom. Even during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's war against the Huns, the treasury dried up several times, and there was no random tax increase. , That is to say, selling officials and nobles is criticized by people, but it is not said that he cleverly set up more taxes to blackmail ordinary people.

  So this time Fei Qian said that he would be exempted from the oral tax and the change of service, which is naturally a big deal for ordinary people. In order to ensure that this kind of good governance can be implemented and that the grassroots officials will not take advantage of it, Zaozhi has been running back and forth around the surrounding area for a period of time.

Ordinary people are illiterate, so the so-called government orders can only be passed on by word of mouth. When they arrive at a village gathering point, they will gather people, give a unified lecture, and then answer questions. It's a little thinner.

On the whole, there are problems, but it seems to be OK at present. The oral tax and the change of labor are exempted. Although there is a slight increase in the land tax, these old farmers still make a profit, so they are very happy , happy to accept. For the officials at the grassroots level, after all, Pingyang has only recently been built, and many officials have not been in office for a long time, and some of them have to retire from the army because of injuries, so the order of General Zhengxi is executed. There are very few phenomena where the yang is obeying the yin and the yin is violating.

  In fact, the most important reason is that during this period of time, Fei Qian fought several battles with Xianbei one after another, and captured a lot of Xianbei population, and these population became the best substitute for those farmers who were forced to work hard. Of course, Han Chinese will still be recruited to complete some important projects, but since they are recruited, they will be paid, not free labor.

Many things have changed with the changes of the times. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the country was not considered too big, whether it was more military service or military service, even if it was from the inside of the country to the border, it was not too far away. Now that the territory of the Han Dynasty is vast, such a system of changing military service is naturally very problematic, so Fei Qian ordered it to be abolished, and did not receive much help.

  But Fei Qian still dare not touch the field system easily.

  Even if Fei Qian clearly knows that land annexation is a time bomb in feudal society. It will explode once it develops to a certain state and after a certain time, but it still cannot be touched.

Why is it possible for later generations? It is a specific practice in a specific period, and the productivity has also developed to a certain level. The closed small-scale peasant economy has been almost smashed under the semi-feudal and semi-colonial situation, so it has been integrated again and adopted a new model. …

  Now, whoever violates the private ownership of the land is the enemy of the world!

   Even the so-called enemies are not only other princes, but also their own people.

   Fighting on the battlefield, soldiers shrouded in horse leather, what is the purpose of life and death? Is it for Fei Qian to be able to subdue the local tyrants and divide the land, so that everyone in the world can have the world's land? Hey, what a joke, but for myself to become a new local tyrant! If Fei Qian deprived these people of their power source, how many people would be full of fearless proletarian spirit to follow Fei Qian to carry out revolution?

   What's more, after these people have become new local tyrants, land annexation is still an unstoppable historical torrent.

   It's just that Feiqian's stepped land tax system can more or less restrain the snowball-like development and spread of land mergers to a certain extent.

  Whether this stepped land tax system can be implemented smoothly depends on this year's autumn harvest...

  Zaozhi was walking, and suddenly stopped, and greeted a farmer who was busy in the field: "Old man! Old man!"

The farmer who was weeding barefoot between the fields slowly straightened up when he heard the sound, saw Ke Zaoyi and his party, and hurriedly said: "I dare not call you that, I don't know what's wrong with you...Ah, isn't this Zao Cong Cao? Ah, the little old man saluted Zao Congcao!"

   After finishing speaking, the old man in the field dropped his hoe, clasped his hands together, and bowed deeply to Zaozhi.

   "Please hurry up, old man!" Zaozhi said hastily, "...I just got thirsty after walking and wanted to ask for a bowl of water. If my old man is so polite, I wouldn't dare to chatter..."

"Hey..." The old farmer was a little flustered when he heard the words, and he was afraid that Zaoyi would just turn around and leave, so he said hastily, "...Zao Cong Cao Mo blame, don't blame it! It's the little old man who doesn't know how to speak! The little old man just poured water go!"

Although Zaozhi is young, because he used to be in charge of farming and mulberry near Pingyang, he spent almost every day in the fields, and in addition to the several experimental fields of Zaozhi in the south of the city, the growth is better than that of ordinary farmers. Therefore, the farmers near Pingyang don't know much about the so-called fertilization, plowing depth, spacing, etc. They basically think that Zaozhi is the **** of agriculture sent by heaven, and they wish to enshrine Zaozhi in their own homes. on the land, so that their Zhuanghe can flourish like a test field...

  The old farmer rubbed Tao Wan on again and again, then carefully poured a bowl of water and handed it to Zaozhi.

  Zaozhi didn't dislike it either, took Tao Wan, drank a couple of sips, pointed to the field and said, "Look at this Zhuanghe growing well, I guess it can harvest four or five stones in autumn!"

  The old farmer grinned, laughed, and said, "Trust the jujube from Cao Jiyan! Last year, I collected nearly four stones, and this year should not be bad..."

  Zaozhi chatted for a few more words, mainly to understand the extent of the old farmer's grasp of the agricultural tax, and then nodded, said goodbye to the old farmer, and left for Pingyang.

The old farmer looked at the back of Zaozhi leaving, and then held Tao Wan in his hand. Suddenly, he was shocked, and quickly put Tao Wan into his arms, looked around, afraid that others would see it, and the farm work was no longer busy, so he rushed home .

  This Tao Wan was used by Zao Cong Cao!

   Why do you have to find a good place at home, and if you don’t know for sure, you can also share some of Zao Congcao’s supernatural power, so that your own farmland grows better...

  ………………

   "What? Raising pigs?" Zaozhi raised his eyebrows and said to Fei Qian in disbelief.

Fei Qian looked at Zaozhi, laughed and said, "That's right, Zijing, this matter must be dealt with quickly... Not only pigs, but also Baishiqiang will send some sheep after a while, so we went to the south of Pingyang City to find a The venue... by the way, how about in Baibo Valley?"

"Baibo Valley?" Zaozhi thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "... If it is used to raise livestock, it is a good place, just build some fences at the entrance and exit..." Baibo Valley is really good, with mountain springs and aquatic plants. Then seal the exit, so you don't have to worry about the loss of livestock, and you don't have to worry about the intrusion of wild animals around. It is indeed a good place.

   "However, my lord, why do you raise hogs?" Zaozhi said, "... hogs are prone to fishy smell, and they eat a lot of diseases, so they are cheap meat... This time I have kept so many... this..."

  China has indeed started raising pigs very early, and it seems that the pig species was only found in Eurasia at the earliest time. In the pre-Qin period of ancient times, there were different distinctions between pigs, and specific words such as pigs for boars and pigs for sows came into being. The manure produced by pigs was also valued by farmers as an important source of farm manure.

Nomads don’t like raising pigs because even after domestication, pigs still have some sense of territory, so they are not naturally suitable for population migration like cattle and sheep, but it is different for farming peoples. With the development of settled agriculture With the development, the breeding of pigs has gradually been promoted to an important position.

   It's just because the gentry didn't like it, so the scale of pig breeding was still small in the Han Dynasty. The gentry in the Han Dynasty mainly didn't like pigs because pigs were prone to fishy smell...

  If Fei Qian didn't understand it carefully, maybe he really didn't know the mystery.

Fishy, ​​in the Han Dynasty, it doesn’t mean fishy. Although pork does have a strong taste, but the smell of mutton, people in the Han Dynasty can accept boiled mutton in white water without any spices. ?

"Zhou Li·Tianguan Zhongzai" has a sentence "... the fishy smell, the smell can't be eaten..." This is the meaning of the smelly smell in the Han Dynasty, that is to say, the smelly meat does not mean that the meat tastes bad, but according to the literal meaning Meaning, there are stars in the meat...

   That is pork tapeworm.

   This most common parasitic disease in pigs did not receive enough attention in the Han Dynasty, and they didn’t even know why it happened or how it really developed. They just knew that if there was such a “fishy smell” on the meat, it could not be eaten.

  And "smell", in simple terms, means that the meat is stinky and cannot be eaten.

As the gentry of the Han Dynasty, it was common to eat barbecue or something, and when the barbecue was cooked, it was not easy to kill all the pork tapeworms, so these gentry children often suffered from parasitic diseases. In the Han Dynasty of insect medicine, this disease was often fatal...

Although Fei Qian is not a medical student, he has seen some pig houses or some farms on movies and TV. The key point is the damp and dirty environment, and the interaction between animal and human feces. Infect.

  圂, in Chinese characters, means a place where pigs are raised, and it also means a toilet, that is to say, in the early stages of the development of the entire pig breeding industry, pigs were raised directly in the toilet...

"That's right, Xu Zijing, please take more care..." Fei Qian said, "The fishy smell is the plague of the hog, and the smell is the fault of the existence, not the fault of the house hog... Besides, the house hog is easy to breed and multiplies. If you get it right, you can continuously supply blood food. If this method is written down and passed on to future generations, it will be no less than Shennong's work..."

  Zaoyi cupped his hands and said: "How dare you compare it with Shennong...Since the king has been determined, a certain obedience is..."

   Feiqian laughed and said: "Zijing must not be too modest, Pingyang is near, it is said that there are also those who set up Rusheng Temple..."

  When Fei Qian said this, it was mostly for fun, not for any other meaning. But the speaker had no intention, but the listener had intention, Zaozhi couldn't help jumping in his heart, bowed down quickly, and said: "...Please forgive me, my lord, I really don't know about this..."

"Ah?" Only then did Fei Qian come to his senses, pondered for a while, and did not directly say anything to make Zaoyi flattened, but stood up, walked up to Zaoyi, lifted Zaoyi up with his own hands, and held Zaozhi's arm said, "Zijing, this is a slip of the tongue, and this should not be used to make fun of Zijing... The attack on Xianbei and the recovery of Yinshan Mountain is a short-term achievement. Although it is glorious at this moment, it may be wiped out in a hundred years. Zijing's merits are beneficial to agriculture and mulberry, and the common people in the world can benefit from them for hundreds of years! Although such merits are not great, they are beneficial to the world, so what's wrong with receiving some incense from the shrine?"

"But...but," Zaoyi argued, "...this is not the work of one person! Take Zhuanghe as an example, the deep plowing, top dressing, turning the soil, cultivating seedlings, and even selecting seeds, although the king said in the copybook There are many people, fighting in the south and north, but they have also asked many times, and they have also solved their doubts... If it wasn't for the advice of the king, how could he be able to do it? But there is no place for a king in this life temple... How can I enjoy it with the audacity! Never!"

Fei Qian patted Zaozhi's shoulder with a smile, and said: "Haha, it's not you, do I still have the reputation of farming fat, raising pigs and sheep?" Can’t be a general? For this matter, I should thank Zijing for bearing the notoriety for me... Hahaha, that’s all for now, don’t bring it up again..."

   "How is this notoriety..." Zaozhi sighed, knowing that what Fei Qian said had some truth, so he didn't continue this topic.

The gentry of the Han Dynasty has come to the present, and some of the problems of the Wei and Jin Dynasties have also been exposed. What is talkative is just a little habit, maybe the problem is not a big one, alchemy and medicine have become a kind of elegance, maybe it is just poisoning one's body, why? It can be regarded as these people's own affairs, but some speeches and thoughts are harming the entire society.

  Chen Fan's sweeping the world seems to have become the motto of some people. It's like people often say that they want to pay attention to Nongsang, but in fact, when it's his turn to do farm work, he will put on a face of "how can I do such a frivolous thing"...

"...In addition, this year's autumn harvest is the first collection of land tax reform..." Fei Qian put away his smile and said, "...Zijing, I have something to tell you...the number of cultivated fields near Pingyang, etc. Zijing is the clearest, if someone is corrupt and conceals them during the Autumn Fu, and they use their hands...someone will definitely be severely punished!" Fei Qian is almost certain that among these middle- and lower-level officials, it cannot be said that they are all bad people, but they are definitely There are so few mice with a bright surface but a dirty heart.

   During this period of time, the war between the South and the North has not been properly rectified. It is just to take this opportunity to implement the new agricultural and mulberry tax system, and to rectify the administration of officials...

  (end of this chapter)