From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Han Dynasty has attached great importance to agriculture, and the Han Emperor has repeatedly issued edicts emphasizing: "Agriculture, the foundation of the world, is a great matter!"
”Therefore, there are special officials in charge of agricultural affairs, in the court it is the big Si Nong, in the county is Tian Cao, persuade the agricultural Peng History, equivalent to the Department of Agriculture; The county is Tian Qifu, which is equivalent to the county agricultural bureau; In the end, it was implemented in the township, which was "Litian", which was equivalent to the production brigade.Jiyin County persuaded Nong Pengshi to not expect that one day he would go to great lengths to know the name of a certain Xiaolitian and search for his deeds, just to introduce him to the Marquis of Xi'an."
Dare to tell the prince, that Fan Shengzhi was only elected as Litian in the first year of Yuan Ting."
On the way to Fanshui Township, while resting in the pavilion, he persuaded Nong Pengshi to cautiously tell Ren Hong about what he had temporarily inquired about from below."
One of the families of this Fan Sheng has been farming for generations, and his grandfather and father have all worked as a power field, and they are well-known in the township of Yanshui, and the subordinates have also heard of his deeds of planting gourds."
Ren Hong's head, the gourd is the gourd, in addition to eating, it is also an important material for making the scoop, but this thing is neither drought tolerant nor waterlogging, it is not easy to plant well, and Jiyin's gourd is the most famous."
Fen Shengzhi came up with a method, planted a number of gourds together, and when the seeds germinated and the gourd vines grew to half a foot, he wrapped the multiple stems with ropes and sealed them with mud.After a few days, the stems have grown together, leaving the strongest ones and the rest pinched off.It is also strange to say, the gourd that bears out is very large, and the people are very happy, thinking that the victory is no less than his father, father, so although he is only more than 20 years old, he is elected as a force. ”"So young."
Ren Hong is clear, it seems that this victory is also a longevity species, but why is it a late bloomer in history, and it is not famous until Cheng and Ping?
Could it be because of the cumbersome and grinding of agricultural work and the slow results?
Accompanied by the history of persuading Nong Peng, he walked in the south of Dingtao, the capital of Jiyin County, beside a river called Yanshui, this place actually Ren Hong came once, and when he came to welcome Liu He on the order of Huo Guang last year, he left Changyi and passed through here.It's a pity, now that Changyi has been removed from the country and renamed "Shanyang County", Ah He also dragged his children and daughters to Shu County and put them under house arrest.Ren Hong remembers that he loves to eat copper pot shabu-shabu, and hopes to persevere, and may be regarded as his ancestor by the hot pot industry in the future!
Although at the moment, Shu Di likes sweetness.The last time I came and went in a hurry, I have time to take a closer look in the future, and now I come again, and it is the spring ploughing period, so that I can feel that Jiyin, the title of "in the world", is true.There is an endless stream of traders coming and going, soldiers serving in service, unkempt prisoners, and hurried officials, and sometimes when there are many people, they all have to stand on the left side of the road and let the car of the Marquis Ren go first.Overlooking both sides of the river, you can see that almost all the flat places have opened up farmland, and hundreds of farmers and subordinates scattered the fields and sowed millet seeds nearby.Ren Hong asked all the way about the history of persuading Nongpeng, such as how many people in Jiyin, how much arable land, and how much land rent can be collected every year?
Fang knew that there were more than 1.3 million people in the nine counties of the county, and on average, the population of one county was the highest in four Dunhuang counties!
In terms of population density, I am afraid that it is about the same as Chang'an and Wuling, and the per capita arable land is only a pitiful ten acres.Persuade Nong Peng Shi to say: "Most of the household registration is concentrated in the south of the county, there are few people in the north of the county, and there is little land. ”Because of this, Jiyin County has to buy grain from outside every year, in order to meet the needs of the people of the county, fortunately Dingtao is the commercial center of the Kanto region, and the bulk of grain from the Luliang Song and Wei dynasties is gathered here for trade.Only Jiyin County has a lot of people and little land, and it can still buy grain from outside, but if this is generally the case in Kanto, what should it be?
When Ren Hong was in Chang'an, he inquired from Dasi Nong, and now Dahan has 8 million hectares of registered land, but there are more than 50 million people, and it is still growing, on average, one hectare of land has to support 7 people.The farmer's harvest is one hundred acres per husband, nine people are eaten by the farmer, eight people are eaten last time, seven people are eaten in the middle time, six people are eaten in the middle time, and five people are eaten at the bottom.And the yield per mu of most land is only at the level of "medium", and the cultivated land of Dahan can barely feed so many people, and any more will overflow.Not to mention that after a hundred years of annexation, most of the arable land has been concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the livelihood of ordinary farmers is destined to be more difficult than average.According to later generations, the Han Dynasty was about to fall into the "Malthusian trap", that is, the farmland owned could not support such a large number of people, especially in the Kanto region, there were obvious signs: the trend of infant drowning was prevalent, the landless farmers were reduced to homeless slaves, and the balance of population and food was being broken little by little.The final result Ren Hong knew that Wang Mang tried to solve this problem with the Zen reform, but the result was a complete failure, and finally the strings of balance were completely broken, and a vigorous war of "recreating the Yan Han" made the population down, re-divide the cake, and start a new cycle.This is a trap that many dynasties can't jump out of since the Western Han Dynasty, especially the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they stepped into it solidly.The sinkhole is not far ahead, this is a more terrible and difficult enemy than the Huns, as a guide to know the future of the world, Ren Hong wants to lead the Han around the past, and throughout the ancient and modern times, the country that can avoid the Malthusian trap is nothing more than three axes: foreign trade, colonization and technological revolution.In a word, make the cake bigger.Although Jiyin County can supplement grain through the bulk grain trade of Dingtao, but foreign trade is not to think about, the Han Dynasty is surrounded by barbarian Rongdi, the Ming degree lags behind the Han, and even millet is not planted, this fork is off.Immigration and colonization is a good way, not to mention far away, in addition to the crowded population of Guanzhong and Kanto, just in the Department of the Thirteen Thorns of the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou, Yangzhou, southern Jingzhou, southern Yizhou, Liangzhou, and Youzhou are all vast and sparsely populated.The government-organized immigration has not stopped since the time of Xiaowu, but it is mainly concentrated in the four counties of Xinqinzhong and Hexi.The Western Regions of Hexi is a strategic place, but it can't feed too many people, and it is far away from the Kanto region, but it is the land of Jingyang in the south, which can accommodate a large number of people.It's just that the Han people have relocated to the soil, and immigration is not something that can be done overnight, and the people who move away are always a small part, and most people still have to live on the pitiful land passed down from their ancestors for generations."
So the best way is to make an agricultural revolution!"
In fact, the Han Dynasty had already had an agricultural revolution when he was in Xiaowu, Zhao Guo promoted the Daitian method and cattle farming, and also overhauled ditches in Guanzhong, so that the yield per mu in some places reached four stones.But Guanzhong is special, most places do not have such good water conservancy conditions, small farmers who can't afford to raise cattle, and the yield per mu is still hovering at one or two stones, compared with the Warring States period, there is no progress.Although the horizontal comparison between Dahan agriculture and the surrounding Western Regions and Southwest Yi is outstanding, it can be compared vertically in history and is extremely underdeveloped.This is the reason why Ren Hong took great pains to find the winner of the second round of the Han Dynasty's agricultural revolution in history, and wrote one of China's earliest agricultural monographs, the Book of Sheng.Although Ren Hong has some ideas, he has never planted land in his previous life, theory is not equal to practice, and only relying on patting his head to engage in agriculture is destined to make a big joke, and he needs the help of an agricultural expert with strong hands-on ability.Thinking so, they had entered the town of Fanshui, and persuaded Nong Pengshi to let the Marquis of Xi'an stay in the county government, and he sent someone to summon the Yansheng Zhi.But Ren Hong wanted to go to Fanshui Township to take a look in person, because he heard that Pansheng had been doing something recently.When I arrived at Fanshui Township and asked where Pansheng was, the villagers all gave a unanimous answer: "Follow the smell and go to the smelliest place, and you can find Fanli Field!"
”As the most basic agricultural official, Litian has two responsibilities, one is to exhort farmers; The second is to set an example and popularize advanced agricultural production technology.When Zhao Guo was promoting the iron plough ox ploughing and the method of replacing the field, the imperial court sent the commander of the 2,000 stones, the three elders, the Li Tian and the elders of the Li Father to receive field tools and learn to cultivate and raise seedlings.Therefore, unlike the county and county agricultural officials, Litian must be recognized as a model of good land, and often personally fight on the front line.From this point of view alone, Yan Shengzhi is undoubtedly a qualified force, and the place where Ren Hong and the others found this person was by the stinking big dung pond next to the township."
The villagers were asked to throw all the surplus manure, cattle and horse dung here, saying that they wanted to make cooked dung."
The old farmer who led the way did not pay attention to his words, and said with a smile: "Yan Litian said that people like to eat cooked food, and crops are the same, and raw manure is not as beautiful as cooked manure!"
”With this said, persuading Nong Pengshi and the county Tian Qifu to have green faces, they have just eaten the morning food, okay!
Ren Hong didn't think it was wrong.Beside him was Lu Guangsu, who was lame by the Xiongnu siege in the past in the robe of the broken Sui, and later Ren Hong took over his family and settled it in the Marquis of Xi'an, taking care of the manor in his spare time.Lu Guangsu is reluctant to eat rice, he is also an old cropper, and he is conscientious and runs the manor of Hou Guo for Ren Hong.It's a pity that the talent is a little worse after all, Ren Hong said that he would do one if he did, but he couldn't think of two.Now when he came to the edge of this manure pond, he saw that the manure and some plants were piled up in it, and Lu Guangsu was surprised: "It's exactly the same as the manure tank that the prince asked us to plane in Bailuyuan and Houguo Manor, so soon it came here?"
”In fact, he is the real inventor of manure, and the concept of cooked manure is only from him, which is the golden gold of the Han Dynasty!
This is Ren Hong's excuse: "I heard that there are also people in Jiyin County who make manure fields, so I came to take a look." ”But this is not the point of Ren Hong's visit today, because he heard from the county Tian Qifu that Yan Shengzhi is doing another thing, a thing that even if he is a traverser, if he does not bury his head in the ground for ten years, he will never be able to do it.At this time, Tian Qifu had already covered his nose and came over to call Fan Shengzhi, who was busy working in the field.Litian is generally older, and the old farmer can do it, but Yan Shengzhi is indeed very young, I am afraid that he is less than thirty, and he is tall, and when he came to meet the famous Xi'an Hou with some trepidation, Ren Hong also saw his appearance clearly.is a rough guy, thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing straw shoes on his feet that are convenient for work, and Ren Hong's first impression of him is "This is so good!"
”PS: Chapter 2 in the evening.