At the beginning of September, when the Western Regions are at its most beautiful, the poplar forests are completely yellow, the leaves of the broad-leaved forests are becoming more and more fiery red, the moisture of the grapes after picking has been dried by the scorching sun, curled up to the essence, and there are more sweet raisins in the porridge of Hu cake and millet rice.On this day, more than 2,000 Shanshan people near the mud gathered next to the Han army's tuntian in the east of the city, helping the old and the young, and came to observe the Han army's tuntian soldiers plowing the field.The plough is not new, although Shanshanguo has not yet begun to use the plow, but six months ago, these more than 50 Han soldiers under the leadership of Ren Hong arrived in the mud, and they cooperated with the two of them, without the need for oxen to "plough" the field.Ren Hong also personally went into battle at that time, bowed his head, hunched over and pulled the iron plough with a thick rope, leaving plow marks on the ground.He remembered hearing in his previous life that when the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps first came to this land, it also opened up its first field.Two thousand years before and after, the construction of Tuntian opened up fertile soil in the Gobi Desert, which may be the fate of Chinese soldiers in the Western Regions.Although it was bitter, it was only three days before they opened a full 500 acres of land by the canal to grow sesame seeds.And today is fresher, in order to plant winter wheat, the Han people have to plow the ground again, but instead of using pure manpower, they use oxen!
Under the onlookers of Shanshan, they saw several newborn calves being put on plows, or pulling huge ploughshares with a group of two oxen to turn over the hard and dry land, or one person and one ox ploughing the land with a small plow."
The Han people didn't deceive people, they really tamed cattle so that they could plough the land."
The Shanshan people let out a burst of exclamations, they had never seen ox ploughing, whether it was cattle ploughing in India or cattle ploughing in the Central Plains, under the barrier of the desert and snow-capped mountains, they had not reached here.Naturally, I don't know how much thought Song Litian and others put into teaching Loulan's local stupid cows to plow the fields.Ren Hong knew that they first asked King Shanshan for a group of oxen that were about to reach adulthood and pulled the cart to train them, and first put a shuttle head and skimmer rope on the calf, and drove them to plow the land slowly.Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, let alone people, these stubborn calves do not obey the command at all, first soft confrontation, no matter how you drive it, it does not take a step, and finally it is a hard confrontation, the bull's head rushes left and right, and the four hooves kick and jump.But the whip in Song Litian's hand is not vegetarian, once the calf refuses, it will be a merciless beating!
After a few days of recuperation, the calf is trained again, repeated several times, tempering its temperament, the cow is a very spiritual animal like the dog, and if the cashback is a little obedient, you can add food.Slowly, I learned to be obedient, and after a few months, I turned into a ploughing cow that bowed down to my ears.The ox is much stronger than a man, and it can stride forward with ease, but the iron plough behind it has been deeply rooted in the ground.The plough wall ruthlessly turns the dry and hard soil, the soil becomes soft, making the wheat seeds more suitable for growth, and the sesame stalks left over from the summer are turned up and buried in the soil, which will be the best green manure.Two oxen and three people ploughed 50 acres of land in one morning!
This is five times faster than Shanshanren's slow and leisurely slashing of the ground.Shanshan people talked a lot, they were suspicious and resistant, but looking at this appearance, it seemed to be a little interesting.They are a half-ploughing and half-pastoral people, every family is not short of cattle, even if they do not use cattle, the coupling of manpower is not bad, the Han people said that they are willing to lend the surplus iron plough to the king of Shanshan, and then the king of Shanshan will distribute it to the nobles and peasants.What's more, King Shanshan has already ordered: when planting winter wheat in autumn, twenty people will be selected as farmers to learn the method of plowing and ploughing from Song Litian.When the spring wheat is planted in the coming year, these 20 people will pass on the technology to hundreds of Shanshan farmers.If you don't learn and don't follow it, the amount of irrigation water you get from the canal in the coming year will be halved!
Water means everything in Shanshanguo, and the water to drink can still be fetched from the river, but many farmers' fields are far away from the river, and the irrigation water is unbearable to pick back and forth every day, and stealing water from the canal is at risk of being caught.And in order to let the people of Shanshan realize the importance that the eldest son of the Xianshan River God attaches to this matter, Tu Qi, the king of Shanshan, even came forward in person and came to this field to emulate the home field rites of the emperor and princes of the Han Dynasty.But he saw that Wei Tuqi took off a heavy fox fur fur, only wore a half-sleeved shirt, held the plow handle, and pushed five times and returned to the field, which was the standard for princes and princes.At this scene, the peasants of Shanshan were even more surprised than they saw the oxen obediently plowing the fields: in Loulan Shanshan, the nobles Hugh said that it was impossible to plow the fields with their feet, so they should enjoy the cool in the vineyard and hunt by the water on horseback.Several nobles who came here to watch were also whispering, and their faces were not very good-looking.They were nobles because of the canals and vineyards, and the herds of livestock, but they did not value the land, let alone the land themselves.But Wei Tuqi has decided to break this stereotype, he is very excited today, and he sweats in the cold weather.In the second year of the first century, he had just ascended the throne and was only 9 years old.In the sixth year of the first century, after being a little older, he worshiped the first Shennong in the ether, and went to the southern suburbs to plow three times and three returns, and the ministers were ploughed twice, so it was not lively.Licheng, Fang ordered the state and county of the world to spring ploughing in time.That scene impressed Yu Tuqi deeply, and today he tried to follow the footsteps of the Han Emperor at that time, pushing and returning five times, and telling himself in his heart: "This is the etiquette of the Han family, just look at it, I am not the king of Rong Dihu, but the princes of the Han Dynasty!"
”It's just that if he heard the whispers of the onlookers, he wouldn't be so happy: "Why didn't the king push it five times?"
”"Is the soil too hard?""
Tired, aren't you?""
The strength is too small, if I were to push, I should be able to push fifty steps in one breath without resting!"
There were even more idle men who looked at the Guo Gongren who were on the edge of the field, wiping their sweat for Wei Tuqi, and snickered: "When the king is sleeping with the queen, does he only push five times, and it won't work?"
”Shanshan people have the general temperament of the desert oasis people, that is, they are hospitable and like to be lively, and these whispers are hidden in the cheers, which makes Yu Tuqi feel very good about himself.Today's Jitian Ceremony, on the surface, was a great success, although the nobles had some protests in their hearts, they did not dare to attack.Ordinary farmers in Shanshan satisfied their curiosity to see the excitement, and even a few people were invited into the fields and tried coupling tillage, and found that it was really much faster than slash-and-knife ploughing.As for Song Litian to teach them things such as cultivating, accumulating fertilizer, hoeing and other things, when the time comes, they will plow twice in the ground, and pull the bubble arrow to deal with it, Shanshan people don't believe it at all, and King Shanshan will send someone to carefully inspect every acre of field.This is really a typical example of people coaxing the ground and the ground coaxing the belly.If Song Litian, who hates lazy people the most, knows their plans, he will definitely scold these people for being more difficult to teach than cattle.On the other hand, Yu Tuqi was not only proud, but also had doubts, and when he finished his hometown and returned to the mud city, he asked Ren Honglai."
Ren Shilang, Chang'an's Son of Heaven is from the first month, why does Ren Shilang want me to choose from the field after the autumn?"
Ren Hong responded to him: "Because there are still too few Shanshan people who grow wheat after the autumn, I only hope that Shanshan King can set an example and inspire Shanshan people to grow a variety of winter wheat." ”Shanshan is located in southern Xinjiang and has always been an area for spring and winter wheat hybrids, but after Ren Hong and Song Litian investigated the runoff in the four seasons, they thought that Shanshan was better to grow winter wheat."
In spring, the glaciers in the snow-capped mountains melt slowly, and the river runoff is too small, but ninety percent of the farmers concentrate on planting millet, wheat and millet at this time, and the canal water for irrigation is often insufficient.To make matters worse, the upstream oases divert water away for irrigation during this water-scarce season, while the downstream does run out of water, often leading to the shrinkage of the downstream oases and the abandonment of agriculture."
But in the fall, the runoff is two or three times larger than in the spring!
Sometimes it even floods, so why not use so much water to drain the irrigated fields?
”Spring drought and autumn flooding are unique water phenomena in the Western Regions and Hexi, so Ren Hong and Song Litian feel that a variety of winter wheat may be able to alleviate the water shortage in spring.After hearing this, Tu Qi, the king of Shanshan, suddenly realized, and at the same time was a little ashamed."
As the king of Shanshan, my understanding of local water and agricultural affairs is far inferior to that of Ren Shilang, which is really ashamed."
Looking back on more than three months after taking office, thanks to Ren Hong's help, he sat firmly on the throne in Shanshan.And the ideal "state of etiquette" has slowly taken shape under Ren Hong's guidelines of "Shuzhi, Wealth, and Teaching".Seeing Shanshan prospering day by day, he felt more and more that he couldn't do without Ren Shilang.So, at the banquet in the mud city that night, when Ren Hong introduced Zheng Ji to Wei Tu Qi, saying that this would be the Han official who succeeded him as the mud Sima, Wei Tu Qi's face changed greatly!"
What, Ren Shilang is leaving!"
Knowing that Ren Hong was about to leave Shanshan in the next day, in the following time, Yu Tuqi became in a trance, the banquet tasted the same as chewing wax, and the sweet raisins were also sour and bitter when eaten in his mouth.At the end of the song, when the Han army officials were about to say goodbye and leave, Wei Tuqi finally made up his mind and shouted Ren Hong alone."
Xiao Wang has something to discuss with Ren Shilang!"
Ren Hong was a little surprised, but he still asked Zheng Ji and the others to wait outside the hospital.Yu Tu Qi also sent Guo Gong people and slaves to the courtyard, and for a while, only he and Ren Hong were left in the vineyard, but Yu Tu Qi became hesitant and didn't know how to speak.After a while, he raised his head and said embarrassedly that the moonlight was so beautiful.This sentence frightened Ren Hong half to death, and quickly spit out the wine in his mouth, got up and said, "King Shanshan, what is the matter!?"
”Wei Tuqi gritted his teeth, although he knew that it was not a big deal, but he still bowed his hand to Ren Hong and said: "Ren Shilang, Xiao Wang plans to follow the official system of the kingdoms of the Han Dynasty and set up officials such as the prime minister of the kingdom, the internal history, the Lang Zhongling, and the Taifu, what do you think?"
”Ren Hong's head: "It is a good thing to imitate the Han system, but you must first write to the court to make it clear." ”In Ren Hong's plan, sooner or later, Shanshan State will change from an outer prince to an internal prince like Changyi State and Guangling State, and be completely unified in the central government.If the official system of the princes and kingdoms of the Han Dynasty could be adopted as soon as possible, the trouble would be saved at that time.But he didn't want to, Wei Tuqi actually bowed down to Ren Hong, and said: "I have a reluctant request, I want to worship Ren Jun as the minister of Shanshan!"
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