Spring and Autumn I Am King

Chapter 85: Central Plains

"To be honest with my cousin, my ambition is to make the entire Chengyi, the entire Zhao clan, and even the entire Jin Kingdom have fun with me!"

The words of Zhao Wu Xie made Zhao Guangde fascinated. After getting along for two days, his cousin took good care of him. He admired Wu Xie, and unconsciously put himself in the role of the younger brother. He has also heard about the dispute between the sons of the Zhao clan. His father, Doctor Wen, Zhao Luo, is afraid of things, so he has a neutral wait-and-see attitude, but Zhao Guangde is inclined to Zhao Wuxi's ascendance.

He wasn't as stupid as he looked on the surface, so he bowed his hands very politely and said, "Cousin has great ambitions, I don't know what my brother can do?"

Zhao Wuxi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Cousin, would you like to help me so that your warm land can also have fun with me?"

Zhao Guangde swallowed: "I... my Wendi?"

He has always been unpopular with the sect, always worried that after his father, his fief will be taken back by the tyrannical Patriarch Zhao Yang, and he has nowhere to go in the future. Today, Zhao Wuxi's words are almost equivalent to a promise in the future: If I am the head of the family, Wendi will still be yours. Zhao Guangde was immediately moved by this statement.

The cousin's territory has ancient folk customs, and the cousin's soldiers are like tigers and wolves. Looking at the high-spirited Zhao Wuxi, Zhao Guangde's heart also turned into outright worship.

He lowered his head and said in a low voice, "My brother is willing to serve my cousin!"

Zhao Wuxi, who made an empty mouth to draw a cake, saw that the little fat man entered the urn smoothly as planned, he smiled and said: "Good, great! Poetry, Chang Dizhihua, Ebuweiwei, no one like this today. Brother. Cousin and I will go to Xiangsi Temple, there are still delicious and novel foods waiting for you to taste!"

While they were talking, Mu Xia and Jing, who were sweating profusely, also came up to greet Zhao Wuxiu. In this Cuju match, the two ended up in a draw.

Tian Ben, who was itching to the side, was a little indignant. He pointed at Mu Xia and said, "You fellow, didn't you promise to win against him this time and avenge me?"

Mu Xia smiled honestly, knowing that Tian Ben had a stinky mouth, and didn't think it was embarrassing.

"If you lose a game yourself, go and win it back yourself. What's your ability to count on others? Is it because you're afraid that you'll lose a few more games and you'll have to take your soldiers to pick more people's feces?" Yu Xi said and covered it up. The mouth and nose snickered, as if Tian Ben smelled something.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, except for the drowning buckets in private rooms, the general toilets were called "mixed". Mix (hun) is also the name of the pigsty. It can be seen that the pigsty and the toilet are adjacent to each other, so when the scholar-officials go to the toilet at home, there will always be a group of black-headed pigs beside them.

The natives and savages are even more casual, and often solve them on the spot.

Therefore, in order to improve the living environment in the village and prevent the pollution of water sources and breeding of epidemic diseases, Zhao Wuxi dug several "minton villages" by the roadside of each mile for the use of the people of the country. The people were surrounded by walls, eight feet high, to prevent people from peeping and doing wrong things.

And the waste generated by the cattle and horses was also found in a remote corner to be piled up for high-temperature composting and composting. After the first half of the month, its fertilizer efficiency far exceeded the dry manure and straw green manure that had been randomly spread before.

And two rooms each played Cuju, because they were not allowed to gamble on coins and silk, the two Sima privately changed it to the loser who would be punished, and the one who lost by a big score had to take his soldiers to pick manure fields. Tian Ben's one or two often failed miserably, so he became a frequent visitor to Minzu. After being scolded by Yu Xi like this, his face suddenly turned red, and he complained that the villagers under his command could not play Cuju, which was a drag on the highly skilled people. Own.

As soon as these words came out, he was scolded by Zhao Wuxi on the spot.

Wu Xie reprimanded: "There is a saying that one general is incompetent, and the three armies are affected! Think about it, why your Cuju skills are the best in the whole town, but your two have been defeated many times?"

Tian Ben lowered his head and was speechless. Seeing that, he couldn't understand anything.

Zhao Wuxi knew that he had to be scolded frequently to be effective, so he continued to say earnestly: "The reason is that you are more than brave, but you are too harsh and harsh to your soldiers, and you are loose and undisciplined, so you don't cooperate well. Now that you lose in the Cuju arena, you only need to go to the cesspool to pick up a few loads of filth, but if you lose in the battle in the future, you will lose your head and the lives of your soldiers!"

The evil boy was a little surprised, he didn't expect such serious consequences.

"You usually learn a lot from Jing. One or two of him are just more pawns selected from the savages and scoundrels. They have a humble status and are not known for their bravery, but because of their proper cooperation, they can often win!"

Tian Ben was embarrassed and complied, but Jing was praised, but he didn't show any pride, he just bowed his head and humbled himself.

Yang Tongrong, Mu Xia, Yu Xi and others also handed over to be taught.

Wang Sunqi silently listened to Wu Xie's remarks, and could not help but nodded secretly.

After a while, Li Xu, who was watching Cuju, and the people of the country also gathered around. Because they were returning home without a shirt, they all said that the beans were ripe in the past two days and they were going to be picked and presented to the gentleman and invited him to taste.

As the Book of Songs says: "The Central Plains are Shushu, and the common people pick them." Shu, also known as soybeans of later generations, is one of the five grains throughout the summers.

The current way of eating shu, one is to steam it into shu rice, which can make your mouth sore; the other is to mash it and boil it into a soup; the third is to pound it finely, knead it with water into a cake shape, and bake it by the stove. .

Although this thing is nutritious, no matter how it is processed, it is always rough and hard to swallow. Soybeans are called Shushu, bean sprouts are called Huoji, Shushui Chenopodium, and sipping Shushu are considered to be very frugal and impoverished lives. At present, most savages in Chengyi, and even some Chinese people are still living such a life.

The people of the country said happily: "Although I don't know why the gentleman asked us to mix bean sprouts in the wheat fields, the effect is excellent and the growth is amazing!"

Zhao Wuxi smiled and said nothing, just let them continue to do so in the future. The reason why he asked people to mix bean and wheat is because bean plants have a unique nitrogen-fixing effect, which is common knowledge in junior high school biology. After interbreeding, the field is equivalent to having more nitrogen fixers. Later generations of wheat and soybean intercropping are also a good way to increase crop yield.

But Wu Xie is not satisfied with this. He believes that the output of Shun bean can be further improved. Because he had seen such a sentence in the history of reading: "Qi Huan Gong's Northern Expedition to the Mountain Rong ~ www.wuxiahere.com ~ out the winter onion and Rong Shu, cloth the world".

More than a hundred years ago, Duke Huan of Qi crossed the state of Yan, and when he went north to conquer Shanrong, he brought back a kind of Rongdi Shushu beans. The grains are large and round, very delicious, and the yield per mu is two to three times that of Xia Shu. Guan Zhong, the minister of Duke Huan, attached great importance to it, and for this reason, he solemnly sent someone to the state of Lu and presented it to the temple of Duke Zhou as a testimony of the friendship between the two countries.

Shanrong is located in the east of Jieshi and in the area of ​​eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning, so that Rongshu may be the soybean of the Northeast in later generations?

However, the statement of "the world of cloth" in that record is obviously unreliable, because Zhao Wuxi specially asked about it in Xinjiang and Xia Gong, but there is no such fine variety, which shows the slow spread of crops and technology in this era. . He decided that when he went to Xinjiangbei City again, he would find some Qi and Lu merchants and entrust them to buy some Rongshu seeds.

Even if this thing is not used for eating, it is very good for oil extraction.

Looking at the people of the country who looked at him earnestly, Zhao Wuxi naturally bowed his hands to thank them for their kindness, but declined the kind.

"If the second and third sons are willing, they will bring some shucked and washed Shudou beans to the temple in the morning. Wu Xie also has a big gift to give to you."

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, but they were also very curious about the "great gift" that Wu Xie said. Smart people have already guessed it.

"Could it be that the gentleman asked the craftsmen to quarry the objects before he left a few days ago? I don't know what magical effect they have?"

After arousing everyone's interest, Wu Xie did not break it, and took Zhao Guangde and others back to the Xiangsi.

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