After the harsh winter, the calendar turned a new page, and it was the year of the fourteenth year of Yuanshuo.
When spring comes, there will only be snow in very few places in the south, and when spring comes, it won't be long before there is a spring bloom everywhere.
In most places in the north, spring is only when the snow and ice begin to melt, and it is precisely because of the melting of the snow that in many places not only will there be temporary formation of multiple streams, but the ground will also become unusually wet.
Wet ground will undoubtedly become muddy if repeatedly trampled on, and as the climate gets warmer, all kinds of plants will grow wildly on the muddy ground, especially weeds, which grow the fastest.
Guanzhong is calculated according to the region, perhaps it should be calculated that this place in the northwest needs to be completely melted in the middle of spring, if the season does not change much, there will be a rainy season in the middle of spring, so the spring ploughing in Guanzhong is basically around the end of the year.
In fact, the further north you go, the later the spring ploughing time period, and the farther south you go, the earlier the spring ploughing time.
On the land of the Han Empire, the south at this moment has entered the busiest moment for farmers, and the figures of labor can be seen everywhere in the fields, and the first thing they do is to turn over the ridges.
The ridge is the boundary used by each family to divide the acres of the field, and they maintain the water transmission channel while tidying up the ridge.
"Cattle prices are too cheap right now."
"Isn't it?"
"This is the benefit of laying the grassland."
"With ploughing cattle, farm work that used to take a month to complete can now be done in three to five days."
Cultivating grasslands is of course beneficial, and the direct manifestation is the provision of a large number of livestock, especially cattle and horses, which are very important to the farming people.
In the current era, the south basically uses oxen to plow the fields, and the north does not choose oxen when there are horses.
It is determined by the soil quality and appearance of the two regions, and it is also the need for growing crops in different regions.
To put it bluntly, most of the cultivated fields in the south are paddy fields, while the north is dominated by dry fields.
The hooves of cows and horses are not the same, and then there is the difference in tension and endurance.
Generally speaking, it is best to use oxen as animal power in muddy land, and horses are better than oxen if they are used to pull plows in dry fields.
If you look at the history of agriculture in the world, you will find that where horse-drawn plows are used, the speed of farming is definitely much faster than that of oxen.
And most countries and nations in the world actually use horse-drawn plows far more than ox-drawn plows.
"Even if you can't afford to buy a cow, you can rent it from the township."
"In such a year, how good you must be to squander, so that you don't have enough money to buy cattle" To say the most intuitive data, when the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ruled, the price of cattle suitable for farming would not be less than 50,000 yuan; Nowadays, the price of cattle for farming is only 5,000 yuan.
It is equivalent to a cliff-like fluctuation in the price of cattle.
Five thousand yuan is actually a large amount for ordinary people, but don't forget that the people who had farmland in the Han Empire, except for those who originally owned the land, were all rewarded for their merits.
It must be understood that in the two Jin Dynasty periods, those who originally owned land would never be too poor to the point of exaggeration.
At the same time as they were rewarded with land for their merits, since they were able to obtain the title, at least they had participated in a war, and the Han army was fighting with the soldiers who could also get forty percent of the capture, and the whole army still had a share of the overall spoils after the war, and how could they get no less than a thousand dollars in a war.
Only a very small number of people can get a knighthood in a war, and most people actually need to go through more than a dozen wars to get a knighthood, so as long as they are willing to save money, waiting to retire from the army, who will have less than 10,000 yuan in their package 10,000 yuan, 5,000 spent on buying a ploughing ox, the land is earned by military merit, if there is a knighthood to settle down, the local government also needs to build a house for him, that is, in addition to some daily necessities, such as furniture and scattered bowls, chopsticks, scoops, basins and other small things, unless you want to buy some non-daily necessities, otherwise there is actually no other cost.
"The plan of the year lies in the spring, and now there is no such saying."
"Spring ploughing is still extremely important.
It's just that there are many ways to get money now. ” He looks like a simple man, but he may be a warrior with blood on his hands, he has won military merits for his bravery, and in addition to hundreds of acres of fertile land and a lot of cash, he must have more than one slave.
There are busy figures in the fields, and at least seven out of ten are slaves.
Most of the slaves in the south came from Indochina, and while they looked dark-skinned, their body bones tended to be thin.
If there is a quality of slaves, in fact, the slaves of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla were the most excellent in agricultural work, and they were all farming people, and they were not lazy even if they were familiar with agricultural work.
Slaves from the steppes basically had to be taught from scratch if they wanted to be allowed to farm.
There is something to be praised about the fact that the slaves from the steppes are not lazy.
In recent years, many slaves have been brought back from the Western Regions, that is, the slaves south of the Yangtze River rarely come from the three countries, the grasslands and the Western Regions of the peninsula, and even if there are, they are brought by demobilized people who personally participated in the war.
If the Indochina Peninsula is divided by civilization, it will also belong to the agricultural ethnic region, but in fact, whether it is now or in the future, as long as they are local indigenous men, they are definitely not good farmers.
"Those monkeys are experts at climbing trees and sleeping lazy, so that they know how to work well in the fields, but they are not less educated with whips."
"yes" "I heard that the monkeys of Nanyang will be replaced by Ah San soon" "It can also be changed" "I also heard from the military robe who came to my house as a guest."
"What a change?"
I have to admit that the male slaves in Indochina are really unusable, even if they are urged with whips, those monkeys will not let go when they can be lazy.
The slaves in the family were monkeys from Indochina, and they were a bad thing to everyone, and they kept complaining, and since the complainers were not really mud-legged, they had titles, and the government did not dare to ignore those complaints.
The government reacted to the center, and the center could not ignore the grievances of the meritorious class, considering that the Gupta Empire had obtained a large number of slaves, and Ah San was better than the Nanyang monkey to some extent, so he proposed the policy of replacing Ah San with the Nanyang monkey to the government.
"When is it?"
"Listen to Pao Ze, the fastest is this autumn" "It's the autumn harvest."
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"Ah San slave, none of us have used it here, I don't know if it's good or not."
"No matter how bad it is, it can still be worse than those monkeys" "That's what I said" In the fields, the "moo" of the cows rose and fell with each other, and they were harnessed to the plough and pulled the plough through the mud.
As an agrarian nation, the plough has always been the most important tool and not one of them, what is the style of the plow before the ancient pre-Qin, most people actually can't say, to the pre-Han Dynasty plough has undergone a reform, and gradually unified the use of the straight plow.
The so-called straight plough, as the name suggests, is a plough that takes on a straight line, and it also has a triangular propulsion plowshare, as well as a grip and associated torso, which makes it difficult to turn around, and then ploughing the land will be laborious.
Liu Yan did not bring much technology to this era, fortunately he was not a person who had not done farm work, he actually needed to participate in work when he was a child, and he had been exposed to paddy field work, but he did not have too much observation at that time, just a vague impression.
As the Son of Heaven of the Central Plains Dynasty, no matter how ridiculous the method is, the Son of Heaven must have the patience to put on a necessary show, that is, to conduct a farming show at a specific time.
Liu Yan became the Son of Heaven, and in fact he did not exclude farming himself, but rather than farming himself, it was more correct to focus on his position as an "operator" and "arbiter".
When participating in the farming show, Liu Yan saw the straight plow, in fact, he didn't find anything for the first time, it was he who felt that something was wrong when he operated it, and found the characteristics of difficult turning.
Liu Yan took a moment to observe the plow, and it took a long time to figure out that something was wrong, but he only put forward some opinions, but he didn't do anything designer.
Shaofu received an order, and the Son of Heaven asked them to develop a more advanced plough, especially when it came to improving the rotation and structure, and repeatedly studied and improved, and when they came up with the finished product, it was very close to the curved plow.
It's just a style close to the Quyuan plow, not the real Quyuan plow, to blame Liu Yan's memory is too poor, unlike his peers who can remember all the poems and songs, and can also remember all the things related to farming, and exaggerated to master all the modern scientific and technological knowledge.
"The male monkey must be replaced by Ah San.
No matter how bad Ah San is, he is definitely better than a male monkey.
It's just pure curiosity, where will they be sent to the monkeys we replaced?"
"I don't know about that."
Slaves from Indochina, men are unusable in terms of physique and character, thin bodies cannot do heavy work, lazy characters cannot do fine work, and no Han Chinese will object to the worst slaves.
The center of the Han Empire actually didn't think about what arrangements should be made to "recover" the male slaves in Indochina, maybe they would be sent to build roads, or more likely to be sent to mines everywhere, there was always a place to play a role, just because these monkeys were unusable, probably they wouldn't have any idea of cherishing them, and the monkeys would definitely be consumed very quickly.
"You're talking about Ah San" "Ah, yes."
"I've seen Ah San, and it's not much different from the monkeys in Indochina in terms of appearance."
"No, what's the difference between changing and not changing?"
"The appearance is very similar, Ah San should be more diligent than the monkey."
Of the people gathered together, five or six of the ten people had retired from the army and returned home, and they were not actually so worried.
The collected wishes and demands have the ability to be transmitted to the local government, and the local government does not dare to ignore and cover them up, and the center will certainly not ignore the demands of their group.
This is their greatest confidence.
Only the absolutely disadvantaged will be insecure, and it is a matter of course that they are insecure.
After all, if there is no response to the request, no one will take them seriously, so where is the sense of security?
In the Han Empire, people who have no right to speak are usually people who have no service experience, if they have served in the past, even if they have not made military merits to obtain the title, who does not have a robe in the army, there is always a robe that you know to get the title, The ruling circles, including Liu Yan, regarded the lords as the foundation of the empire, and they also counted on the lords to play a role in stabilizing the region.
It is the moment when the national war is met and it is necessary to recruit soldiers, and that group of knights is also the best source of soldiers, after all, no matter how they are, they are some groups who have had a military life, and they can quickly form combat effectiveness when they are recruited again, and they can be used immediately on the battlefield.
It's not that there is no title in the Han Empire will be completely ignored, but just like the sentence "take responsibility, have obligations, and enjoy treatment", don't be angry when you encounter something, you have to think about what you have done for the country, and then be embarrassed to ask the country what it can do for you Individuals and individuals pay attention to giving and receiving, and individuals and countries should be the same, it is normal to enjoy equal rights and interests as much as you pay, and it is the biggest abnormality to ask for more than anyone who has not done.
"When will I be selected to go on the expedition?"
"It's not that we don't work hard and don't pay attention, we really don't have that opportunity."
"Earlier, the county soldiers had the opportunity to be transferred, and I heard that only the standing army was dispatched to fight the grassland this time."
"I don't know if it will become the norm, if you go out to fight and don't transfer the county soldiers, there are only a few people who can enter the standing army."
"It's long overdue to fight for it, but now it's getting harder and harder."
If you don't have a title and don't have the opportunity to participate in the national war, it will indeed be a bad thing.
When some people hear others complaining, they just choose to keep their mouths shut no matter how proud they are, and they are glad that they have caught up with the good time.
Since the twelfth year of Yuan Shuo, the Han Empire has had large-scale military operations in this grassland battle.
Before the actual start of the war, I don't know how many people were looking forward to participating, first the standing armies continued to ask for battle, and the soldiers of the counties and counties in the north also hoped to be selected as auxiliaries to go together.
When it really came time for the war, most people were doomed to be disappointed, what they didn't expect was that the number of troops mobilized would be so small, and what they didn't expect was that this group of steppe coalition troops would be so useless.
Compared with the previous steppe nomads, some of the new generation of grasslands, such as Rouran and Gaoche, are indeed quite useless, especially the Han army they faced in their heyday.
Hundreds of thousands of steppe coalition troops were repeatedly routed and annihilated by the Han army, which was less than 40,000, which was really extremely disappointing to those who wanted to join the war in the form of reinforcements.
"You don't have to go to war, do you?"
"Then you say, what other way to get a knighthood?"
It seems, it seems, maybe there is no easier way for ordinary people: