Spring and Autumn I Am King

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Since the burglary of last October was pacified, Zhao Wuxi's forces had made a lot of money in the internal struggles of Lu State, and his reputation was indistinguishable, but then he had been dormant in a low-key manner for half a year. www.geiliwx.com

On the outside, Xibi of the State of Lu looks calm, but inside Sanyi, it has undergone tremendous changes.

The new policy called "Renewal" has been implemented in every township and small town in Sanyi, and a thousand fully-armed standing soldiers are the pressure to force the local forces in the township to submit. Wu Xian temporarily allowed each clan to own and control the land, and promoted young children from each clan into the main city as officials, which was the bond to ensure the cooperation of the three cities.

Under both the soft and the hard, the new policy was successfully implemented, and Wu Xie's control over the territory was greatly improved. The most intuitive evidence is the high efficiency of this year's spring planting and summer harvest, as well as the military exercise called "Spring Search for Summer Seedlings".

"As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. Similarly, for a farmer, there must be a scorpion, a scorpion, a sickle, a scorpion, a vertebra, and a scorpion, and then become a farmer. A woman. There will be a knife, a cone, a shovel, and a bowl, and then it will become a woman."

Facing the spring and autumn social economy in which men ploughing and women weaving, Zhao Wuxi outlined the outline and proposed that production tools should be improved.

As for women's weaving, he didn't pay any attention at all in his previous life, so he didn't know how to improve, so he could only find some lonely and weak women to concentrate on the weaving workshop and encourage them to find some ways to improve efficiency.

As for farming, this is a necessary pillar of any civilization, and it is also something that the unsympathetic forces have experience and foundation for, and it is natural to do it with ease.

Wei and Lu belong to the land of Yanzhou, and the terrain in the west is relatively low-lying and wet. Although the land is not particularly fertile, it is "the middle and the bottom of the earth, and the soil is only black graves", but the level of agriculture is at the forefront of the times.

After all, Houji, the ancestor of the Zhou people, was a tribe that started farming itself, and it was still the same after moving to the State of Lu, just as they boasted in the "Song of Lu", "The millet is heavy. There are millets and millets, and there are rice and rice plants.” In a word. This area has a very strong agricultural base.

Therefore, after Zhao Wuxi came here, he saw that the tools used by the people in the fields were no worse than those of the Jin people in the hegemonic country. Basically, everyone had a scorpion and a scorpion made of hardwood, and there were fewer metal tools for turning the soil.

Some types are even more advanced than those used by Jin people, such as he found. The people of Linqiu actually used iron plows...

This is not a new invention. As early as the Guan Zhong era more than a hundred years ago, Guan Yiwu of the Qi State had the idea of ​​"using US dollars to cast swords and halberds to test dogs and horses; using bad gold to cast bows, barbarians, and axes to test all kinds of things. loam". It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period, iron smelting has gradually developed in the Central Plains, but the smelted pig iron has a lot of impurities, and there are still technical bottlenecks that cannot be broken through in the production of iron weapons. Can be used to make farm tools, but it is possible.

It is a pity that the plough of the Linqiu farmers has no plough wall and can only loosen the soil and break the soil. It cannot turn the soil to make ridges, and the structure is relatively simple, which is far worse than the curved plough that Zhao Wuxi had seen when he was at a relative's house in the countryside in his previous life. Since he still remembered the style of the farm tool, it was trial-produced in the Jin state, so he naturally wouldn't hide it and not take it out.

Although Wu Xie can provide a mature tool style for later generations, he cannot make the smelting technology surpass that of a hundred years ago, so he still can only follow the old road of his predecessors, and plans to use ordinary-quality impurity iron to make rough iron farming tools.

Although the state of Lu was extremely short of copper and tin, the iron smelting industry gradually developed in the city of Lu. There are two large iron smelting areas. At the same time, within the frontier, there are several iron mountains, concentrated in the hilly area south of the Taiyi Mountains, and there is also a smaller one near Yuncheng. This kind of thing belongs to the mountains and rivers. Generally speaking, if it is not specially allocated to a certain noble, it is the public property of the state, and it is managed by the Dasikong Meng clan.

Regarding bronze, the Meng family was very strict, but he didn't care about the mountain of iron, and let the local town doctor dig it. The reason. There are too few examples of using iron to make weapons in this era to attract Meng's attention.

In this era, only major metallurgical countries such as Jin, Qi, and Wu paid attention to the management and ban of iron.

Wu Xie is a small Sikou and has a complicated relationship with Meng Shi. Although the two sides are vaguely defensive, they can sit down and discuss cooperation. What's more, the Meng family couldn't control so many scholar-bureaucrats in the state of Lu. As long as they had enough money and silk, they could transport the crude iron smelted locally to Yuncheng and Luqiu.

There, there are quite a few mountain forests that can provide firewood, and despite the swamps in Yuncheng, there are also several shallow stone mines (coal).

The raw material problem is solved, the next step is how to make it.

Because Wu Xie attached great importance to handicraft workshops, many craftsmen came from Lu City and Song State, and the metallurgical foundry industry with the same level of the times was established in Linqiu. There are dozens of skilled craftsmen who attack gold, as well as many captured pirates who have been punished as vassals.

Different from the general high officials, Zhao Wuxi did not let them cast ornate ritual vessels, such as Dinggui and other objects, but divided the craftsmen who attacked gold into two categories. One group is responsible for the smelting and casting of bronze weapons, and the other group is responsible for smelting iron, making agricultural tools on pottery molds, and studying how to improve iron smelting skills.

He had done something similar in Jin State. With the experience and lessons of becoming a township, the policy of improving farm implements without compassion was implemented in Lu State for several months, and it was very smooth.

When the spring flowers bloom, at least on the public fields around Sanyi that belong to Zhao Wuxi, the woody scorpions are basically eliminated. Before working in private fields, farmers who were hired and paid to help ploughing without mercy used hoes and shovels for cultivating, as well as iron shovels similar to rakes, which can be effectively used for weeding and loosening soil. , re-soiling and cultivating soil.

Another big problem is the number of cattle and horses. Sanyi is located in the Central Plains, so it is naturally inferior to Jin and Rong and Di, and there are many sources of livestock.

But Wu Xie also collected cattle from Sanyi, plus a lot of water buffalo bought by Zigong from Taoyi, and distributed them to each township pavilion for a fee to be used in conjunction with the curved plough.

He demonstrated a "coupling plow" method in the public field. The method of operation is to adjust the depth of the cultivated land by one person pulling the bull and the other holding the curved plough. The plough of the curved plough is V-shaped, and the plough wall is added. When in use, deep ploughing, soil turning and ridge cultivation can be carried out at one time, and the furrows with a depth of one foot and a width of one foot required by the field method can be ploughed. Township Pavilion followed suit.

After the inspection, Ji Qiao happily reported to Zhao Wuxi: "Two cattle and three people can manage the ploughing of three or four hundred acres of fields in the spring, and the ploughing speed is fast, so that the farming time will not be delayed."

What Wu Xie thought was that if the farm implements around the city could be renewed within a year, the original Lei Si would be completely replaced in Sanyi within three years. Coupled with the Daitian method, it can double the crop yield in Sanyi!

The development of productivity also means that more people can be fed and more soldiers can be fed!

He also attaches great importance to rice cultivation in the Yuncheng area, which is a warm period in the middle and late spring and autumn. There is plenty of rain, the temperature is much higher than in later generations, and Onoze is close at hand, so Yuncheng has been planting rice.

"Compared to millet, millet, and wheat, the food that can feed the population the most. In fact, it's still rice..."

It's just that if you eat rice alone, you will inevitably have insufficient protein in your body. Fortunately, the farmers of this era are still engaged in the subsidiary economy of fishing, hunting and gathering.

With the trial planting of winter wheat last year, the Daitian method has been accepted in some areas and put into practice in spring ploughing. During the spring ploughing, Wu Xie sent many children from mixed sources to the village pavilions as inspecting agricultural officials, urging the towns and village pavilions to sow seeds.

Under the management of the Shiwu system, this work was accomplished very smoothly. Nowadays, the green millet, rice and millet in the fields make the people happy. If there are no disasters this year, it will be a bumper harvest in autumn!

...

After the spring planting in February, it entered a two-month slack season, and people were not allowed to be idle without a shirt. Instead, they are preparing for a military training called "Spring Search".

"Agricultural work is well done, but it can't be pulled down militarily. You know, the most intuitive evidence that reflects the organization of a regime is the speed of conscription!"

Zhao Wuxi's remarks put a lot of pressure on the military officials who were in charge of recruiting soldiers from Xiangting.

The "Sima Law" once said: In all operations, orders issued to the entire army must be implemented within three days; orders issued to a small army of 100 people must be implemented within half a day; instructions to individual personnel must be implemented immediately.

Recruiting troops from the leading city is as far as the Zhao clan of the Jin state is concerned. A li can be recruited within a day, a township takes three days, a county takes ten days, and the entire Qing clan must be assembled in at least half a month. This is already extremely efficient. The national assembly of the state of Lu must be prepared at least several months in advance, and it will take another month.

This is also one of the reasons why the war in the Spring and Autumn Period was low in intensity and not long-lasting.

However, in the "Chunsou" exercise, it took only three days for the conscripted militiamen from Sanyi without shirts to assemble. Three or four thousand people were armed, ready to deal with foreign invasion or take the initiative to attack at any time.

There is also a difference between speed and slowness. It was originally positioned as a fortress of Qi's affairs, and Linqiu, who has been recruited to fight every year, is the fastest, two days. Zhen Di was recruited by Wu Xian twice last year, and it took them two and a half days to adjust to the martial arts experience. Only at the end of Yuncheng, it took three full days to reluctantly unite the soldiers, but they were also the ones who complained the least about Zhao Wuxi's recruitment. As long as they trained more, they would definitely be faster.

According to the provisional law of Sanyi, each of these potential military forces must have the experience of serving in the three cities of Yuncheng, Linqiu and Zhen twice a year during the slack season to ensure that the number of defenders of 500 people does not exceed shrink.

In addition, young and middle-aged people must also serve after Fu Ji at the age of seventeen, and they can choose to be a city soldier for a month, or to be a civilian husband for a month. The people's energy is limited, so they can only concentrate on building one public project each time they serve the labor service. Although Sanyi has a hundred wastes to be rebuilt, there must be a choice for Wuxi, so he chose to dredge the water conservancy project.

In this respect, Zhen and Linqiu were inferior to Yuncheng's earlier network of rivers and ditches, and Yuncheng's irrigation system only needed to be repaired before it could be used.

Therefore, after a spring slack repair, the Yuncheng waterway and the river network were dredged, the passage connecting the north and south of the city was unimpeded, and various ditches were able to function normally. It was even possible for Zhao Wuxi to choose Wu Jing to lead the "boatmen" for training. Many sailors were recruited to live near the water in Yuncheng, and many of them were fishermen with outstanding water quality.

This is the beginning of May, when the boat race on the Jishui River.

At this point, Zhao Wuxi had basically digested Sanyi, vacated his teeth, and was ready to continue searching for the next prey!

...

After watching the water battle drill, Wu Xie and his officials returned to the Wangjiang Tower in Yuncheng. He likes this place very much. He can see the Pushui River, which is like two jade belts, and the bright bronze mirror, where the wild ducks and water birds are all in sight. The flying Onozawa has quite a bit of artistic conception.

Every time he came here, he was quite proud.

"This is my fief! It belongs entirely to my territory!"

In front of the table here, there is also a map made of hemp paper, which is often spread out. Zhao Wuxi's complacency disappeared, and turned into a greater demand for territory.

"How can you allow others to sleep on the side of the couch!?" He said to Zhang Mengtan!

It is about where the forces that have deeply rooted in Lu will go in the future and where will they develop. The two also had a lot of plans.

Wu Xie pointed at the map and said: "Now we are in Sanyi, with a population of more than 60,000 and over 5,000 soldiers. In the north, Qinyi and Fanyi are separated from Qi, in the east there is the connection between Gaoyu and Yuncheng, in the west, The south is Wei. Among them, the Punan area has been sent to infiltrate. Around Daze, there are seven or eight thousand servants under the bandit Zhi, and the population is 40,000 to 50,000."

Zhang Mengtan, as Wu Xie's second-in-command, analyzed the situation well.

"Si Kou is now a vassal of Lu State after all, so it is possible to secretly make Zhongduzai serve Si Kou, but direct annexation is impossible. Qi State did not take advantage of the Yanghu Rebellion to attack Lu State, and although the relationship between the two countries has not yet been remedied, It has been eased, our strength is small, and taking the initiative to attack Qi is the way of self-destruction. It is impossible to do anything. Wei Guo has not yet rebelled against Jin, Wei Hou has always been patient, but I guess he deeply hates being humiliated. I can't wait until this fall to turn against Jin."

Zhang Mengtan’s plan for Wu Xing was more important to the interests of the lord than the interests of the state of Jin: “When the time comes, Jin and Qi will fight for defense again, and I hope that the Zhonghang clan, which is adjacent to the state of Qi, can attract the main force of the Qi army. Si Kou will be able to profit from it, and the chess pieces laid out in the area nearly a hundred miles south of the Wei Kingdom can also take effect one by one."

Wu Xie pondered: "So in the short term, I can still only stabilize the fief, and at the same time open up the Onozawa group of thieves!"

But Onozawa Robber Zhi, who is closest to Wu Xie. It is also a forager whose head is full of fangs and claws. After the summer, he is also hunting frantically. If he wants to bite down, it is not easy...

Wu Xie arranged a thousand standing soldiers in Yuncheng. They came specifically to prevent the robbers from robbery, but this year, the robbers seem to have changed their minds. In the beginning of the spring, they began to test the defense of Yuncheng. The military soldiers fought a battle with the thieves, and they were defeated by the thieves on land. But the military soldier watched the enemy flee with the wounded in the boat, but he could only watch.

That's why Zhao Wuxi thought of training the boat masters, but the performance of the boat soldiers was not very satisfactory, and they couldn't go deep in the pursuit of Onozawa, so Wu Xie was considering whether to find some other places to be good at water warfare. who will come?

The people of Wu, Chu, and Yue in the south are all good at this way. It’s good to send an envoy to inquire when you have time. It’s hard to say that you can connect with the upper-level nobles of Wu and Chu to see if you can dump some Sanyi products and buy them again. Into copper, tin.

On the other side, after robber Zhi hit a nail in the Pubei area and went back, he began to play a typical robbery mentality, deliberately avoiding Zhao Wuxi's territory, first taking Cao, Wei, and Lu in the west, east, and south of the lake into the townships. Grab it over and over. It is said that it has reached the level of "husbands in caves, driving cattle and horses, and taking women".

This time, the group of thieves also used new tactics. When a large number of soldiers came, they would retreat by boat. If a small number came, they would be surrounded and wiped out. If they did not come, they would loot along the river. This way of playing made the officials of each town helpless, so in the towns they passed, the big country defended the city, and the small country entered the security, and suddenly there was a lot of resentment.

However, because of the protection of the military soldiers, Zhao Wuxi's Sanyi had nothing to do.

It was midsummer at this time, and because of fear of looting and looting, the winter wheat was harvested extremely quickly, and it has now been put into storage. They will be ground into a delicious powder, popular throughout the Xibi region, and praised by Chinese families who can afford it.

Further east from Yuncheng, Zhongdu and Kancheng in the east of Dayeze Lake are protected by military soldiers. Zaiyu of Zhongdu and Zhao Wuxi are in the same spirit, as if he were the chief of the town, and many affairs of Zhongdu will be reported to Wuxi. decision. When the thief Zhi attacked, Zai Yu would immediately ask for help, but as soon as the soldiers came, the thieves retreated.

That time, the sound of the robber hit the east and the west, and took the boat to the west to retreat, and also tried to attack Yuncheng's idea, but it happened to meet the "Xia Miao" who was in the second conscript training in Sanyi. can succeed.

This obvious tactic of exhausting the enemy, Wu Xian naturally sees it, but the robbers are elusive, and they have learned to be smart. They never stay away from the main rivers. Every time they get on the boat, they run away, and there is no way to catch him and fight. decisive battle.

Therefore, this slippery loach may not be able to be caught, but Zhao Wuxi has always insisted on his previous point of view.

"The problem of the Onozawa group of thieves is ultimately an economic problem, not a military one."

If it weren't for the wealth and wealth of the surrounding countries, why would the people go to the barren swamp? Harsh government is fiercer than tigers!

If there are people who can afford to pay lightly, the people will naturally return to the flowing water. Therefore, Zhao Wuxi decided that since he could not be completely eliminated from the body, he would first dismantle Thief Zhi's limbs and limbs.

In the past six months, the Yuncheng pioneering policy organized by Zhang Mengtan and Ji Qiao has attracted nearly 1,000 wild people from Yeze to come and submit. I would like to live in no fixed place again and spend my days fishing, hunting, and foraging. But more people are still united around the robber, in a wait-and-see state, anyway, apart from the robber and Wu Xie helpless, against the other cities around Daze, basically every time they can grab a bowl full of bowls.

Those cities and towns in the state of Lu who suffered will also complain to Qufu for distress, and the Marquis of Lu and Sanhuan asked Zhao Wuxi, as a small Sikou, why he failed to protect the cities.

Zhao Wuxi's reason left them speechless.

"Pirates and bandits are cunning and often attack the east and attack the west. The subordinate ministers only have three cities, and the soldiers are only enough to protect the city of Kan. The rest of the cities are not taken into account by the lower ministers."

After the dangerous situation in October last year, Kancheng strengthened the defense of the mausoleum. The main task of Zhao Wuxi, a small Sikou, is to protect the nine tombs of Duke Lu. How can he let the robbers come to surround him again for the sake of other insignificant small towns. ?

Sanhuan was dumbfounded, and Zhao Wuxi's words were very clear: "If you don't give more power, don't want me to work harder."

But Sanhuan~www.wuxiahere.com~, especially the honorary ruling Ji clan, is no longer willing to make more concessions in the distribution of power. He is also a prince of Lu, and the inherent xenophobic nature of the clan makes Ji Sunsi not want Wu Xie continued to sit big in the West.

Therefore, this transaction, which was offered by Zhao Wuxi in the hope of making a profit without fighting, was put on hold. The robbery and robbery continued, Wu Xie continued to play hide and seek with him, while Ji Sunsi ate a vegetarian meal, and the surrounding cities of Daze continued to play hide and seek. The emergency slips are getting higher and higher.

In the middle of May, Wu Xie received a hemp paper letter, but it was a handwritten letter from Feng Rin, the eyeliner he stayed in Lucheng, and the content was about "Si Shi" Confucius.

After reading it, Wu Xie said to Zhang Mengtan: "Although Confucius was not a new official, he had to start three fires! Ji's miscalculation, the spoiler is here!" (To be continued.)

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