Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 843 Another Battlefield (3)

  Fei Qian's dream of taking a good rest was delayed again, but Zaozhi and Du Yuan who came to help brought new problems. First of all, Du Yuan talked about Tai Shiming's workshop.

  First of all, the issue of bamboo paper,

  There is a shortage of raw materials for making bamboo paper.

  Because the entire Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, and even Jingzhou and Yanzhou fell into a chaotic situation, the princes from all walks of life conquered each other, which led to a sharp increase in the cost of the vendors who originally transported bamboo rafts...

   Then there were problems with the use of bamboo paper.

Cai Yong, Feiqian's master, liked this bamboo paper, so the paper-making workshop over there also supplied it to Cai Yong. Bamboo paper with reduced output is even more scarce...

  If this is not a big problem, what Tai Shiming said next made Fei Qian frown.

  Near the workshop, many peepers appeared.

Because Fei Qian mobilized most of Pingyang's troops to attack Yinshan, relatively speaking, the guards near the workshop were weakened a lot. Therefore, some people thought that this was an excellent opportunity. , the number of people cruising around the workshop with the excuse of outing, mountaineering, etc. gradually increased...

  The so-called disciples of the small gentry in the surrounding area did not like the craftsmanship in these workshops in Pingyang or were interested in studying these production and living technologies, but came here for money. In this era, one craft can support a family, and one exclusive technology can support a family's inheritance. The utensils that Feiqian continuously sends out in the workshop will naturally arouse the red eyes of some people.

"...Wenzheng," Fei Qian thought for a while, and said, "...about the bamboo paper, reduce the amount...Cai Zhonglang, let me explain...As for the person who peeped at the workshop, you can tell Zijian, and then adjust one hundred Riding for you and Zijian, first set up a boundary marker near the workshop...then, if anyone dares to cross the boundary and trespasses, behead!"

  Du Yuan made a gesture with suspicion, meaning to ask if he caught it and killed it on the spot?

Fei Qian nodded heavily. These gentry children who came to peek at the craftsmanship are generally not members of big families, but mostly offshoots. In this era where there is not much justice, killing a group of young people For those who hide behind, it is the simplest and most effective way to deal with it.

  Seeing that Fei Qian had already made a decision, Du Yuan didn't say anything more, and took his orders to leave, but Fei Qian couldn't find a better solution to Zaozhi's problem...

This year's weather is even colder, coupled with the fact that the spring rain either does not fall for a long time, or it pours in a short period of time. This bad weather has caused many fields to be either drought or waterlogged, and some wheat seedlings failed to germinate in time. …

  Although I rushed to replant some, it is estimated that this year's harvest may not be as ideal as last year. This matter, Fei Qian is really helpless.

Although Fei Qian knew the outline of the greenhouse technology, and in order for the emperor to eat some vegetables in winter in the Han Dynasty, he also pointed out a lot of technological tree highlights of agricultural technology, resulting in two ways of heating with earth dragons and heating with stoves. The technique of producing out-of-season vegetables...

   But the problem is that Feiqian is not a piece of land or an area of ​​one or two acres, but such a vast area. Even if the glazed tiles do not require labor and cost, there is no way to achieve full coverage.

The most important thing is that since this year, there have been continuous disputes in various places, and the demand for food and grass will be expanded to the extreme. On the one hand, a large number of farmlands have been destroyed in the war. Started to catch the strong men, and at the same time, in order to attack the strength of the opponent, he even did not hesitate to start a massacre...

This kind of behavior that seriously damaged the agricultural economy also led to a sharp drop in the overall food production, resulting in famine, a large number of people died as a result, and these large numbers of dead refugees caused the occurrence of plagues, which aggravated this situation. vicious cycle.

   Therefore, from this year onwards, it has become almost impossible for Fei Qian to obtain food and grass from the outside world. The princes from all walks of life can't even supply their own, so how could they allow the food and grass under their jurisdiction to leak out?

   Then developing its own agriculture to resist the approaching natural disasters has become another livelihood issue that Fiqian needs to solve urgently.

Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period, the small-scale peasant economy in the Han Dynasty, because of the increasingly powerful centralized feudal system, and the additional labor and other affairs assigned to each household were much more than the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, the number of people in a household, Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period, it is correspondingly less. In the Han Dynasty, a rough estimate was made based on five members of a family, and such a family had an average of two strong laborers. Therefore, under the current production technology conditions, a family The fields that can be cultivated are limited, beyond the scope limited by manpower. Even if more land is given, extensive cultivation will not bring better production benefits.

Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to expand the number of cultivated fields, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to increase the agricultural population. Fortunately, the Yinshan land that was conquered can provide Feiqian with the best place to increase his strength. In the area of ​​​​the northern land of Bingzhou, There are only three relatively flat land suitable for farming, one is the fertile Hetao Houyuan in the south of Yinshan Mountain, the other is the area from Pingyang to Hedong, and the third is the basin from Shangdang to Taiyuan.

   "The matter of population..." Fei Qian said to Zaozhi, "...I can't rush it for now, we need to wait for the right time... Besides, what happened to the selection of seed test fields that I told you last time?"

Zaozhi shook his head, sighed slightly and said: "There is still a problem. Although they are the same batch of excellent species, the field is still different. It has been planted for two seasons, and it does not have much advantage over the usual intensive cultivation field. ..."

   "That's it..." Fei Qian pondered for a moment, "...let's continue farming and filter more... If you can't see it in one or two seasons, maybe it will be clearer after a few more seasons..."

After Zaozhi took over the agriculture in Pingyang, under Fei Qian's suggestion, he began to select seeds for experimental cultivation, but this matter was more difficult than Fei Qian imagined, because the genes of crops such as wheat and millet were far away. It is more complicated than Feiqian's simple biological knowledge of "AABB" and "aabb"...

  So Feiqian can only maintain a correct direction to do it now, but he doesn't know when the ideal result will appear, and it may take a long time.

  So during this period of time when agricultural technology cannot be greatly improved, there is only one solution left, that is, how to get more people to survive the upcoming national famine?

  (end of this chapter)