Chapter 441 Jingfu Garden

Chapter 441 Jingfu Garden

Chapter 441 Jingfu Garden

The seventh day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of the Yongjia reign of the Jin Dynasty (313 AD) was Human Day.

In fact, it is still the New Year holiday, and everyone is either partying or having fun, and it is far from the time to go to school. But there is a very important thing to do in the early part of the first lunar month this year:

To the southeast of Xuchang lies the Xuchang Palace, which covers a vast area and was once glorious. However, it has been abandoned for decades and only remains of broken walls and ruins.

Liu Shan arrived at the former site of Xuchang Palace two days in advance.

He is now a governor under the Xuchang Shogunate and holds military power.

Shao Xun stuffed the Shao clan and a group of relatives from his uncle's side into the Xuchang hereditary army, and appointed them as officers at all levels, commanding the tens of thousands of people who still remained under the city of Xuchang.

My uncle Liu Shan is now the supreme commander of the Xuchang hereditary soldiers. In order to facilitate the management of the troops, he even selected some of his confidants from Yushanwu and Yangguan Zuoyouwu to join the troops and control this army that is both soldiers and farmers.

Shao Xun did not ask for the strong combat effectiveness of these soldiers who spent most of the year at home farming. As long as they could defend the city and suppress the local forces, it would be enough. His requirements were really not high.

Liu Shan mobilized a total of 3,000 soldiers to occupy the old site of Xuchang Palace, and cleared out the weeds, sheep dung, rotten wood, broken bricks and tiles.

On the day of Renri, Shao Xun arrived with his entire family, as well as the families of the shogunate's generals and officials from Yingchuan County and Xuchang County.

The mulberry seedlings cultivated last year can be transplanted today.

Transplanting mulberry trees is a technical job, but Shao Xun is not afraid, because he now has two unique secret books in his hands: after Wang of Langya provided "Growing Sesame Seeds", Wang Huifeng privately copied "Essentials of Planting Mulberry Trees" and gave it to Shao Xun.

Haha, I have a collection of tips on mulberry planting from the Wang family of Langya throughout the ages, so I’m not afraid of anything!
Yu Wenjun, Le Lanji, and Lu Xun gathered together to tell the other female relatives the essence of "Essentials of Planting Mulberry Trees". After today's work is over, they will ask everyone to copy a copy and go back to study it carefully.

Song Yi followed Shao Xun pitifully, carrying a food box, a water bag and a wine jug, like a maid.

The servants brought by the female members of the family have already started the action: digging the pit.

Shao Xun was quite interested and looked at it carefully.

According to the secret manual, one tree should be planted every two meters, and the depth and width of the pit should be seven feet each. The pit should be filled with broken bricks and tiles, covered with manure, and then the trees can be transplanted.

As for why they did this, the secret manual also said: "If there are tiles and stones under the roots, they will be loose and not muddy; if manure is dropped in, it will attract the roots and make it easier to move."

This is good, unlike some cheats that only tell you how to do it but don’t explain why.

Without this book, he really wouldn't know which method of transplanting mulberry trees was the best. Anyway, when he asked other people, they didn't know either.

After a few months, the roots have almost penetrated deep into the ground. At this time, you need to drill a dozen holes around the tree, about three or four feet deep, and then pour manure water into the holes.

At the end of the book, there are technical points on insect prevention, mulberry tree pruning, and mulberry leaf picking.

"There is knowledge everywhere." Shao Xun said with emotion.

Even if it is the same transplanting of mulberry trees, the results will be very different if there is experience and technical guidance. Over time, the silk production will also be very different.

This is just one mulberry orchard. If it were expanded to the whole of Henan, how big would the difference be?

Silk is money. More money can support more soldiers, allowing them to live better and without worries, which will ultimately be reflected in combat effectiveness.

"Licking a woman really has its benefits. If you lick her to the end, you will get everything you want." Shao Xun sighed silently in his heart, and his determination to be a Taoist priest became even stronger.

Just when Shao Xun was sighing with emotion, Wang Xuan, who had come specially to deliver the letter, felt something was wrong.

Isn't this the unique skill of my Wang family? !

Holy shit! What's going on?

He looked at Shao Xun.

Shao Xun looked a little unnatural and quietly put the secret book into his arms.

After all, it was the "scientific research result" promoted by several generations of the Wang family. As a result, the female president of the family business transferred it to the yellow-haired guy who drove the will-o'-the-wild fire for free. How could they tolerate this?
The old wall lamp probably wants to trade this with him...

Shao Xun's old face turned red, and he quickly left Wang Xuan without even having time to receive the letter from Old Wall Lamp.

After he left, Wang Xuan was angry for a while, then laughed.

Now that things have come to this, he feels that he should seize the opportunity to do something.

Directly presenting this book to Mr. Chen may not have much effect. But now, Mr. Chen feels guilty for stealing things from the Wang family, and things become interesting.

Haha, that's wonderful! It depends on whether you are into it or not.

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"My dear, the seedlings we raised last year are growing so well." As soon as they entered Jingfu Garden, Yu Wenjun grabbed his hand and said with surprise.

Le Lanji quietly retracted her half-extended hand, smoothed her hair, and said, "Three branches per plant, it is indeed growing well. An old farmer said it can grow five or six meters."

"Maybe about 70 or 80 feet." Lu Xun added.

Shao Xun estimated silently, that would have to be more than ten or twenty meters?

He remembered that when he was a child in his previous life, there was a mulberry tree by the river at the entrance of the village. He didn't know who planted it, but the tree crown was very large, at least ten meters high. It was full of purple mulberries, and he often climbed up to pick them to eat, until one day he encountered a snake spitting out its tongue on a branch...

The mulberry tree is originally a large tree, but people often prune it into a shrub.

This may be due to different needs.

In later generations, people mainly used mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, but at this time, even trees were needed.

The price of a walking stick made of mulberry trees ranges from a few cents to dozens of cents.

Ten-year-old mulberry trees can be made into staffs (military weapons), horse whips, and Hu beds.

Mulberry trees become very useful after fifteen years and can be used to make excellent bow materials. They can also be made into shoes, wooden awls, and knife handles.

If it can grow to twenty years old, it can make chariots, and one chariot is worth ten thousand coins.

In other words, mulberry trees over ten years old have many uses in the military, such as wooden sticks/whips, horse whips, sword handles, bow tips, chariots, etc.

Different eras have different needs. It is impossible to cut mulberry trees into shrubs in this era.

This is farming and warfare.

The value of mulberry trees cannot be underestimated for growing mulberry trees and raising silkworms, reeling silk and weaving cloth, making bows and chariots.

"My husband, will Jingfu Palace be our mulberry garden from now on?" Yu Wenjun asked happily, shaking his hand.

"Well. You must take good care of it and set an example for the world." Shao Xun said.

Destruction only takes a moment, but construction takes years. When he does things, he does not only consider whether it is simple or easy, he thinks the most important thing is to do the right thing.

Jingfu Hall is the main hall of Xuchang Palace. It once had huge terraces and was a famous and very luxurious palace at that time, used for grand court meetings.

There are corridors around the palace, forming a huge palace garden, with locust trees, maple trees and "beautiful grass" planted throughout the courtyard.

To the east of Jingfu Hall is Chengguang Hall where the Emperor of Wei held court.

To the west of Gyeongbokgung Palace is the Jushi Room and the place for listening to music.

There are many rivers and lakes in Xuchang Palace, where you can go boating. To the west of Suiyang Canal, there is an artificial canal that leads directly to Xuchang Palace, which transports grain from other places to the riverside warehouse.

As time went by, the Xuchang Palace was no longer repaired in the late Cao Wei Dynasty, and no one paid attention to it until the Ming Dynasty, so it gradually fell into disrepair.

Today, the former palace garden has become a mulberry garden and fruit forest. Before that, it was even a place where people grazed cattle and sheep.

There is no dynasty that will last forever in the world. As long as the people benefit, can produce more food, collect more cloth, and live a better life, then the existence of this dynasty is meaningful.

Have a clear conscience and do your best.

Shao Xun held Yu Wenjun with his left hand, stretched out his right hand, pulled Le Lanji up as well, and then glanced at Lu Xun.

Xunniang smiled and followed.

The four of them climbed up the remaining stone steps of the Xuchang Palace, reached a high place, and overlooked the earth.

"I can do this only after I drive the Xiongnu away." Shao Xun pointed to the people below who were transplanting mulberry seedlings and said, "Farm and fight, farm and fight. Only when you can farm can you fight. When I finish farming, I will defeat the Xiongnu sooner or later."

Yu Wenjun believed it without a doubt and held her husband's hand tightly.

Lan Ji was still blushing, but also a little happy. It turned out that her husband had seen her embarrassment just now, so he took the initiative to hold her hand.

I feel even more sad. How wonderful it would be if I could marry him from the beginning?
Lu Xun is not that sentimental. She has a good impression of Shao Xun, otherwise she would not have followed him so reluctantly. But as to how much she loves him, it is not known. Anyway, she loves children more now.

Shao Xun was wearing a purple robe today, and he looked quite imposing as he walked around with his hands behind his back.

In fact, in this era, a 26-year-old is no longer a young man. With a beard, a mature face, and a majestic aura, he looks like a middle-aged man.

After being blown by the cold wind for a while, Lan Ji and Lu Xun went downstairs.

Yu Wenjun held her husband's arm and was very clingy.

Shao Xun was looking at the wheat seedlings in the Xuchang Palace.

Because of the harassment by the Hu cavalry, Yanzhou had only grown one crop per year. Even this one crop would suffer considerable damage, causing great suffering to the people.

But with Yanzhou standing in front, Yuzhou got a chance to catch its breath.

Today's transplanted mulberry seedlings are one of them, and the winter wheat planted last year is the other.

After the wheat harvest in May, we can also grow miscellaneous grains. People’s lives will be greatly improved by the end of this year.

I dare not say how much surplus food we have, but it is definitely not the precarious situation we were in before.

At this time, people will unconsciously wonder who brought all this to them.

The dividends of the Battle of Gaoping are still being reaped today. It was worth it that he slept in the open air and worked day and night to chase Jin Zhun to the point where he had no way out, and completely destroyed the Xiongnu's idea of ​​going south to Yuzhou for a military adventure.

The benefits of the Battle of Zhamati will probably gradually become apparent.

Many benefits cannot be seen at the time, and profits cannot be settled immediately.

He felt that the strategic defense period was probably over.

This is undoubtedly a period of strategic stalemate.

If the Xiongnu were a Han regime, they would not even have a strategic stalemate period but would have directly entered a strategic counterattack period.

But the cavalry of the Hu regime was so annoying that it almost became their biggest amulet.

Just wait and see, I’ll play with you slowly.

"Husband." Just as he was about to go down, Yu Wenjun suddenly grabbed him.

Shao Xun looked at his wife in confusion.

Yu Wenjun lowered her head shyly and took out a ring from her bosom.

Shao Xun took a closer look and found that it was exactly the same as the one he gave to Yu Wenjun.

Yu Wenjun held his hand, put the ring on, and said with a blushing face, "Husband, I begged my mother to have someone make it for me. You must wear it all the time."

Shao Xun shuddered in his heart.

Is this still his dizzy little wife? Where did he learn this trick?

He took off the ring and held it in his hand. Inside it was a poem: "We will be together through life and death. I will hold your hand and grow old with you."

He stood in silence for a long time, then smiled and put on the ring.

The girl's ardent love always made it difficult for him to resist.

In this round, Huangmao was defeated miserably.

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we will worship the Silkworm God and raise silkworms together. I will make you a beautiful dress." Shao Xun said, holding his wife's hand.

"Okay, okay." Yu Wenjun nodded repeatedly, her eyes curved into little crescents.

"Same as when you were six years old." Shao Xun said with a smile.

"So you were at that time..." Yu Wenjun pretended to be surprised.

"Yes, I've been attracted to you since I was six years old, and I still can't get tired of you even at the age of sixty," Shao Xun said.

Yu Wenjun covered her mouth and chuckled, then took brisk steps and pulled her husband down from the platform.

"Husband, who wrote "Essentials of Planting Mulberry Trees"? The handwriting is so beautiful." Yu Wenjun's voice came from the wind...

(End of this chapter)