Chapter 216: Dutian

Chapter 216: Dutian

Chapter 216: Dutian
It is hot in June and even in Zhilan Courtyard there is no coolness.

Shao Xun changed into a coarse linen short coat and walked in the mud, one step deep and one step shallow. From time to time, he asked someone to bring him paper and pen to record his thoughts.

According to his records, Guangchengyuan at this stage is roughly divided into several building groups.

One of them is the Guangcheng Palace group.

The Guangcheng Palace complex is divided into the Guangcheng Palace complex on the mountain and the Cuiyou complex at the foot of the mountain.

The former was for living, with less than sixty rooms, a warehouse, and a small military camp.

The latter was a vegetable patch and orchard surrounded by a wooden fence, with more than 30 buildings including residences, water mills, warehouses, etc.

The second is the Tangchi group.

The Tangchi Group is divided into hot spring building complex and winter garden building complex.

The former is divided into several courtyards, with a total of more than a hundred houses, and more than ten ancillary buildings such as pavilions, towers and pavilions.

The latter is not big, and it mainly grows vegetables based on geothermal hot springs. This is an old wisdom of the Han Dynasty, that is, the temperature near the hot springs is slightly higher, so vegetables are planted for winter enjoyment.

Obviously, this is the function of the Winter Garden, providing fresh fruits and vegetables in winter to the nobles who take a hot spring bath.

The third is the Yongjia Cangcheng group.

This group includes several building complexes such as Yongjia Warehouse, Forage Warehouse, Water Mill, Pasture Garden, and Military Camp. It is the core area of ​​Guangchengze and also a key construction project this year.

The fourth is the Zhilanyuan group.

This group includes the Zhilanyuan complex and the wharf complex.

The former has about seventy or eighty houses, while the latter has a dock, warehouses, military camps and a workshop for repairing and building small boats.

Shao Xun is not interested in hedonistic architecture, but has a favorable impression of functional architecture.

He also took advantage of every opportunity and ordered the development of fields and the repair of ditches in the empty areas between the various building groups.

At this moment he was walking near a field that was being leveled.

The ground was covered with mud, which was taken from the swamp nearby.

Simply put, in a swamp, some places are shallow and some places are deep.

During the development process, the idea is to dredge the deep areas, dig wider and deeper, and then use the silt to fill the shallow areas and turn them into farmland. In this way, the farmland is surrounded by rivers and lakes for easy irrigation, and there is a large amount of nutrient-rich silt in the farmland for crop growth and increased yields.

This idea was proposed by Shao Xun and was inspired by "Duotian".

The Chinese ancestors did this when they developed Huainan.

The fields are surrounded by rivers and lakes, like small islands in the middle of the water. Crops are planted on the islands and the yield is very high.

As time went by, more and more silt was brought in from upstream, and many small islands were slowly connected together to form land.

The swamps, rivers and lakes gradually disappeared, and the continuous plains became larger and larger. By the 21st century, there were actually still such "small islands" of terraced fields remaining in northern Jiangsu, which gives us a glimpse of this.

These terraced fields in Guangchengze will eventually be connected into land in the future. This is a law that will happen sooner or later.

"Has this rice just been planted?" Shao Xun asked, looking at the newly grown green seedlings.

"Yes, Queen Hui sent people to Xincheng, Luhun and other places to recruit them. There were also some refugees who moved south from Hanoi. There were more than 400 households in total, and they cultivated more than 60 hectares of land—"

"Duotian."

"Yes, we have cultivated more than 60 hectares of farmland." Yang Ming said.

Henan and Henei counties have had famous rice (Xincheng rice and Henei green rice) since the Cao Wei period. There is a certain scale of rice cultivation in the local area, and indeed many households that are good at growing rice can be found, but -

"It's been almost a year, and Queen Hui spent a lot of money, but this is all she got?" Shao Xun asked with a sigh.

The Xiutian that was taken over by the Nanyang Le family team was originally managed by Yang Xianrong, who was in charge of Yang Ming, who managed a group of land reclamation laborers from Nanyang County.

At the end of the year, the yield was very low. After the servants had eaten it all, only a little was left, so they were allowed to take it home.

This year, the business was taken over by the Nanyang Le family, but it has nothing to do with the Yang family anymore.

Last year, Yang Xianrong started looking for people who were good at growing rice to come to Guangchengze. After all this time, with the help of laborers, she has opened up more than 60 hectares of land.

This efficiency is not as good as burning the land.

The masters of the five counties and kingdoms built large houses, cut down a lot of bamboo and wood, and freed up large tracts of land.

In addition, there are also many wastelands.

It's so exciting to start a fire - uh, I don't know how many fields can be burned.

"Forget it, Queen Hui is just paving the way for me." Shao Xun felt that he should mainly encourage Yang Xianrong, after all, she didn't spend her own money.

Moreover, the swamp does need to be cleaned up thoroughly.

He mentioned the idea of ​​building terraced fields once, and Yang Xianrong remembered it and put it into practice. Although he only created this small pocket-sized rice field, it was still pretty good.

I'll leave this 60-odd hectare land to her to play with. Do whatever you want with it. I don't need this little thing from her. "After Wang Mi's rebellion was quelled, Queen Hui sent people north to Henei to recruit civilians." Yang Ming continued, "The Xiongnu were rampant, and the people in Henei were in a state of panic. Many people were willing to abandon their homes and businesses and go south to become farmhands. Queen Hui planned to recruit 500 new households and continue to expand the number of duotian next year."

This is a fight with rice!

Shao Xun nodded and said, "Empress Hui is very methodical in her actions. I admire her."

Yang Ming looked around and whispered, "Queen Hui said that if you want to march to Xiangyang in the future, we will need our own people."

When Shao Xun heard this, he became serious.

He has never been to Xiangyang.

But he knew that the Jianghan area was at a very low level of development at that time, and the dense water network was not much different from Huainan.

In fact, although Xiangyang and Jingzhou were frequently mentioned in historical records and wars were frequent during the Three Kingdoms period, these two places were not densely populated areas and the level of development was not high until the Tang Dynasty.

In areas further south than Xiangyang, there were even a large number of barbarian tribes at the turn of the Tang and Song dynasties, so the Tang court specially set up the Wuchang Military Jiedushi to suppress them.

The rebellion of Zhang Chang in Jingzhou a few years ago took two years to quell. And Zhang Chang was a barbarian.

"Empress Hui is far-sighted and truly a female Zhuge Liang," Shao Xun praised.

"Queen Hui sent people to Mount Tai yesterday to explain the pros and cons. The elders of the clan will surely make a decision after hearing your name," Yang Ming said again.

"The land of Qingyan..." Shao Xun shook his head, looked at Yang Ming seriously, and said: "Although Wang Mi is gone, Gou Xi is not someone who is easy to deal with. His brother Gou Chun is extremely murderous and cruel, and will definitely force the elders of Qingzhou to rebel. Moreover, Hebei is in constant war. Once it cannot be controlled, it will spread to Qingyan. The Yang family is a noble family. If they stay in Qingyan, they will suffer a heavy blow sooner or later. How did the Wang family of Langya manage? The Yang family should really think about it carefully."

Diversified investment is the family's forte, but Taiyang Yang's investment style is too conservative, and there have been serious misjudgments in investment direction and share. If it is not corrected, decline is likely to occur.

In today's social environment, all ambitious people are trying to attract investment and sponsorship.

Liu Yuan was the most miserable, even worse than Shao Xun and Gou Xi, two military men of lower origins, for the simple reason that he was from the Xiongnu regime.

But Liu Yuan has a large "registered capital" and a small "financing demand", which is his advantage.

"Your Excellency is right." Yang Ming replied, "The brothers Gou Xi and Gou Chun have harsh laws and are willing to kill people, causing public outrage. Even the Yang family of Taishan has been threatened by them. This man doesn't seem to be able to hold Qingzhou for long. It's good that there are no external enemies. If someone attacks, Gou Xi will be defeated sooner or later."

Shao Xun nodded slightly.

The Taiyang family still has a solid foundation and can see through many things. But seeing through things requires action. I am waiting for the rice to cook.

After leaving Zhilanyuan, Shao Xun went to take a look at his ranch again.

It has been two years since we snatched the horses back.

After Wang Mi's rebellion, the price of horses skyrocketed. In the past two days, some people came to discuss buying horses, and gradually finalized 700 to 800 horses, which can bring in about 200,000 to 300,000 hu of grain. Considering that Yushanwu and Panyuan were damaged by bandits, Jinguyuan and Shaoyuan were also affected to a lesser extent, as well as the expenses after the expansion of the army at the end of last year, these grains are only enough to make up for the losses.

Excluding these horses, as well as those that died of old age and illness and were lost in wars, the number of horses released into the wild in Guangchengze Ranch will drop to about 5,000.

A horse is purely a consumable.

On the battlefield, thousands of arrows were fired.

When charging, swords and guns were everywhere.

No matter how you choose the timing, the loss of war horses is inevitable.

During a forced march, riding horses and pack horses may also be lost.

If a horse stumbles when encountering a dangerous road section, the rescue horse will also suffer heavy losses.

Without hematopoietic function, the number will inevitably decrease gradually.

The good news is that after much searching, the number of mares has exceeded one hundred.

There are also dozens of foals in Guangcheng Garden, all of which were born in the past two years.

Well, unlike the "eunuch horses" seized from the Xianbei people, they can continue to reproduce and slowly expand their population.

This is a good beginning.

When the number reaches a certain level in the future, we can try to engage in horse politics.

Horses must not be allowed to mate freely.

Genes for body shape, speed, temperament, strength, endurance, disease resistance, etc. need to be slowly refined, and the functions of the horse also need to be slowly differentiated.

The charging horse emphasizes impact and speed.

The galloping horse emphasizes endurance.

The horses used to pull carts were emphasized to be strong and able to endure roughage.

A horse for transportation - well, no requirements, just a mediocre one will do.

In short, this is a long-term, systematic project.

Distinguishing between uses and scientific breeding are what time travelers should advocate, and are also the correct direction for horse breeding.

(End of this chapter)