Guanzhong, right Fufeng.
Meiyang.
"Class Chief..." Another young man walked to the patriarch with some timidity.
The old man is the patriarch of the Meiyang Su family.
Something has caused a headache recently, especially when he saw another young man coming to him, "You want to join the army too?"
"Yes, right..." The young man nodded repeatedly, with a look of expectation in his eyes.
"I remember there are only two brothers in your family? Your father is not very convenient. If you go to the army, your family's land will have to work. Will you be busy?" asked the patriarch.
The young man said with some restraint: "Busy, I can get busy... My father said that if it really doesn't work, I will ask for a labor service to help..."
Because of the existence of Qinling labor camps, some labor camps that have been in service for a long time and perform well and are about to expire will obtain the right to choose this short-term work. On the one hand, these labor camps can provide them with early contact with the outside world society, and on the other hand, they can also let these labor camps know where they should go to earn money to support themselves after leaving the camp.
This method is very common in later generations.
This method may not be all labor or criminals. For example, some normal occupations, such as college students, or migrant households, have similar intentions. Before letting these people leave their originally familiar environment and move to a strange world, there is a familiar process, but in the actual implementation process, due to various reasons, it is often impossible to implement.
The patriarch sighed. There were no less than twenty young people coming to him to apply for the recruitment in the past two days. In addition to the young apprentices recruited by the Agricultural and Engineering Society, the number of young workers in his village has decreased by no less than 30. If this continues, let alone the problem of spring farming in front of him, the impact of these labor shortages may be more...
Now the treatment of being a soldier is very good!
The patriarch thought a little depressedly.
There is actually a settlement fee...
Five stone millet can also be exchanged for the corresponding money.
Not only does the settlement fee, but the military pay is also paid in full term. You can keep it for yourself, and you can also let the Qingyin Shop under the cavalry go home. If you have won merits on the battlefield, you can use it for your land. In addition, you can also include all the food and clothing in the army. It is no wonder that these young people have to join the army.
"If you have to endure hardships when you are a soldier, your life is still in danger. You have to think about it..." the old patriarch reminded.
The young man obviously didn't understand the meaning of death very much, or he knew it but didn't care too much, "It's okay, if it's really true, that's what... I'll give all the pensions to my father, and I'll marry my brother..."
"Okay, I'll give you a note..." The patriarch said helplessly and shook his head. Although he was not very willing to all young people to join the army, this is indeed a good way now, and he has no reason to stop these young people from chasing their dreams.
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Fei Qian is currently in the agricultural society located in Youfufeng.
Originally, it was just a test field base for Zaozhi, but later it expanded and occupied more and more land. Later, even the training of bachelor's agriculture was placed here, and it became a comprehensive emerging town integrating academic and scientific research practice.
After Fei Qian and Cao Cao reached an armistice agreement, Fei Qian realized that such a short peaceful construction time between the two sides would not last long.
As time goes by, this short-lived peace agreement will become increasingly unstable. As the differences between Shandong and Shanxi become increasingly greater, conflicts will naturally increase.
This kind of politically irreconcilable differences and conflicts will ultimately lead to war.
Whether in Shandong or Shanxi, they are accumulating strength, and at some point, they will solve the problem in a violent way or solve the people who have the problem. After all, this is a fine tradition of China. Starting from the ancient Yanhuang beating Man You, the means to resolve differences include but are not limited to physically eliminating opponents.
Even if we ignore the contradictions between Shandong and Shanxi, in the long run, no matter what political system or feudal dynasty, we must maintain a certain military force, otherwise the surrounding "good neighbors" will happily come to China for purchases of zero yuan.
To support a strong enough military force, a good economic foundation is required.
Regarding why Feiqian can use less land, less manpower, but can support more soldiers and conduct more commercial activities, most people in Shandong think that it is the economic benefits brought by Feiqian in business, but in fact, many Shandong people have been deceived by Feiqian...
Many people in Shandong think that Feiqian is mercantilism, but in fact, Feiqian still emphasizes agriculture in its bones, but it has evolved from simple agriculture to agriculturalism that emphasizes science and technology.
Every spring, Fei Qian would come to Zao Zhi to check the relevant improvements and developments in agriculture accompanied by Zao Zhi, and discuss the next agricultural direction together.
Compared with later generations, the agriculture of the Han Dynasty was very rough.
Fei Qian is very clear about this, but for Fei Qian, he knew that the gap between modern agriculture and Han agriculture was very big. At the same time, it was not difficult for Fei Qian to tell the decisive factors of the gap, it was nothing more than pesticides, fertilizers, good varieties, water conservancy, genetically modified, soil chemistry, etc.
That's right, that's it.
But it is not easy to change these "just" ones.
In the present of the Han Dynasty, many things in agriculture in later generations cannot be copied.
Nothing else, the conditions are too poor.
In the Han Dynasty, there were only two ways to increase grain output in "immediately", one was farmland water conservancy, and the other was to promote good varieties. Basic organic fertilizers could only be auxiliary, because the standards of fertilizers could not be unified and the situations in different places were different, so fertilizers were not a decisive and important factor. As for those general phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers in later generations, they didn't even think about it. It was impossible for the Han Dynasty to do it at this moment.
Fei Qian was also very glad that he had abducted a Zao Zhi as an assistant in agriculture, so that Fei Qian's sporadic agricultural knowledge could be localized through Zao Zhi.
Fei Qian was a person who grew up in the environment of large division of labor in later society. Under the system of large division of labor in socialization, Fei Qian's agricultural knowledge and even other aspects of knowledge are actually a bit one-sided and discontinuous.
In later generations, Fei Qian had to plant a few vegetables, and just buy seeds to plant. At most, you could learn how to distinguish the quality of the seeds and the precautions for planting. The rest of the parts, such as how the seeds are produced, how many processes are required, Fei Qian didn’t need to know, nor did he need to know. However, in the Han Dynasty, without the assistance of Zao Zhi and others, Fei Qian could not convert the things he knew into real productivity...
If the original agricultural system of the Han Dynasty was regarded as an ordinary iron chain, then Fei Qian's later knowledge was one by one gold bead, but the problem was that Fei Qian's golden beads were all separate and incompatible with the original agricultural system of the Han Dynasty.
And the person who acts as a bridge in the middle to transform is Zao Zhi.
Zaozhi provided Fei Qian with potential military confidence, and the Southern Huns who also laid some foundation under Fei Qian's throne.
In fact, Emperor Wu of Han had already touched the peak form of the feudal dynasty back then, but unfortunately, Emperor Wu of Han did not insist on exploring or solidifying it, and did not solve the problems caused in it in time. So soon, four legs turned into two legs, and the feudal dynasty even cut off their legs, nailing them tightly into the manor. User registration and strict laws made the grassroots people always have to go from birth to death in a limited area, one generation after another.
Although the Southern Huns also have the word "Huns", they are already completely different from the Huns they encountered in the early Han Dynasty. The Southern Huns, who prefer a stable life, chose to get close to the Han people. The Han people originally gave these Southern Huns not good attitudes. On the one hand, they did not give these Southern Huns more opportunities to integrate. On the other hand, they tried to suppress and bully these people, and they did not give them money and food after hiring them...
Fei Qian has now used various means to differentiate and absorb these Southern Xiongnu people. Although these Southern Xiongnu people are not as useful as the Han people in farming, their abilities in animal husbandry are indeed remarkable, especially in pig breeding, which has greatly helped Fei Qian.
After all, Fei Qian later knew how to buy pork in a vegetable market and supermarket, and did not know how many vaccines a pig in a modern pig farm would need to be given from birth to slaughter, how many medicines it takes, and what daily disinfection in the pig pen is like, how many medicines it needs to be used, etc. Even if pigs are raised in later generations, if one accidentally causes swine fever, a large number of people will die.
Therefore, with the Southern Xiongnu people who were very skilled in animal husbandry, the large-scale, semi-free and semi-pig farm-type animal husbandry industry in Feiqian Shangjun and other places was also provided with a high-fat and high-calorie food source for these people and soldiers in the northeast of Sanfu River in Chang'an.
Only by doing the right things by the right people can ensure that the entire team operates normally.
As the person in charge of agriculture, Zaozhi is undoubtedly the most suitable one. Agriculture is not made by sitting in the temple, writing plans and making articles, but by every agricultural technician down-to-earth in the land, fish ponds and fruit trees.
For an agricultural technician, he must live near the farmland.
The entire agricultural society is built with the latest blue bricks produced by the brick kiln, and the neat buildings exude a calm temperament.
Among these buildings, glass greenhouses are obviously the most conspicuous building. This product was originally just for Fei Qian to solve the problem of eating vegetables in winter, but now it has become an important place for breeding and seed selection because it can maintain a suitable temperature all year round.
The water drawn from the Wei River flows through the canals between the farmlands.
This place not only has crops such as Zhuanghe, but also has vegetable cultivation, as well as some economical plants, such as cotton cultivation.
There are relatively few fruit trees, which is not surprising. After all, the cultivation and selection of fruit trees has only been carried out in recent times.
Among the farmland, there are fish ponds that are dug up and farmed like carp and grass carp. The scale is not large, but it is also a new beginning.
Even in the open space around the building of the Agricultural Society, there is no waste. Alfalfa is planted on both sides of the road, and grape trellis is built in the middle of the patio...
While introducing Fei Qian, Zao Zhi complained to Fei Qian that there is too little labor force. There are some jobs with strong repetitiveness and less technicality that are not suitable for bachelor of agriculture. After all, bachelor of agriculture needs to improve himself in agricultural technology, rather than spending a lot of time in the agriculture club to master field weeding.
Regarding this question, Fei Qian could only smile bitterly. After agreeing to Zaozhi to send some labor services, he turned the content of the conversation to Zhuanghe.
Labor is always a scarce resource. The so-called surplus labor is nothing more than a place to use these labor, or it is intentional oversupply.
Just like the so-called unemployment rate, it is actually capitalism deliberately ignores it in order to ensure that there is cheap labor for a long time, and to maintain that human goods are always in a state of oversupply. Every capitalist is very happy to shout at employees at all times, "If you don't work hard today, you will work hard tomorrow." "If you like to do it, don't get out of here, some people will do it"...
There is basically no surplus labor here in Feiqian. Because Feiqian needs people, there is even a shortage of labor, which has restricted the pace of rapid development.
This time Fei Qian came to find Zao Zhi, mainly to see the development of bean crops and other Zhuanghe rotary farming techniques.
Douhe rotary farming was not Feiqian's first, but using this rotary farming as a technology to study and record and develop it specifically is indeed a path pointed out by Feiqian to increase the total yield per mu to Dahan Agriculture.
Huaxia is a traditional agricultural society, and farming technology is the core of maintaining the development of the entire Chinese society. As early as ancient times, rotary farming technology appeared, but it was still very extensive at that time. When arable land in a region has been cultivated, the mainland power cannot be restored in a short period of time, people have to migrate with their clans and reclaim farmland in other places.
The so-called reclamation at that time was to set a fire, then use a wooden stick to dig a few holes, throw down the seeds, water some water, and don’t even water the water. This farming system is also called the abandoned system or the trekking system, which is a predatory agricultural operation method. This farming model has a long cycle, generally twenty or thirty years or even longer, and has low land utilization rate and weak ability to raise land manually.
The irrigation technology and well-field system that emerged later, coupled with the great improvement of agricultural production tools, led to the new stage of tillage and hoeing during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Iron tools and ox plowing also allowed the three-year cycle of "南-Xin-She" in the Zhou Dynasty and the rotational farming model of "南-文" or "南-Yitian system" in the Spring and Autumn Period to be realized and developed.
The development of agricultural technologies such as fertilization, irrigation, weeding, and insect control has greatly improved agricultural productivity. Grain output brought about an increase in population, and the increase in population also had higher requirements for per mu yields. Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the "Tianlai system" or "Yitian system" gradually could not meet people's needs, and the rotation of famine eventually became a real rotation of farming.
Continuous planting of similar crops, on the one hand, the same Zhuanghe means that the same kind of nutrients will be absorbed every year, causing one-sided consumption of nutrients in the soil, resulting in an imbalance in the soil nutrient condition; on the other hand, if Zhuanghe does not obtain sufficient nutrients, it is easy to cause overgrowth of weeds, and the spread of diseases and pests and diseases will worsen, which will eventually lead to crop yield reduction.
Therefore, during the Western Han Dynasty, the field method and the field method were popular.
Although the district field method has higher yields, it is not only suitable for flat land and mature fields, but also applied to slope land and wasteland, which is conducive to expanding the scope of land use and increasing the yield of grain per mu, etc., but because this farming method has high technical requirements and requires a lot of manpower and material resources, the final result of the Han Dynasty was mainly used in the field method, while the district field method was only used in small-scale experimental fields...
But now, Fei Qian asked Zao Zhi to use the Qutian method again.
The land of Zhuanghe in front of Fei Qian is the method of using the field. In the field of the field in front of him, some buds of Zhuanghe are exposed, and many agricultural scholars and laborers are busy in the fields. There are two types of field arrangements in the field method, digging on-demand and pitting on-demand. This time both are useful, and the manpower and material resources used are recorded, etc., which will eventually be used as a standard for measuring whether to adopt or not.
Among the other acres in the distance, the replanting and rotation model was adopted by Fei Qian's suggestion. That's right, it depends on whether the harvest of the district field method is higher or the new replanting and rotation model is better.
Single-type rotation is a planting method in which different crops or multiple combinations are planted in sequence between seasons or interannual areas on the same field, including single crop rotations during interannual areas and rotation cultivation methods under more than one year of maturity.
Re-planting and rotation are planting crops in the same field within a year, and rotate according to the year. The advantage of this model is that the cultivation of Zhuanghe is more dense, and the sowing area is increased without increasing the area of ​​the field. Especially for areas with a large population and a small land area, such as areas like Guanzhong Sanfu, it has great significance.
This model of complex planting and rotation was relatively mature in the Song Dynasty and was widely promoted, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, which became an inevitable choice for almost all farmers.
Feiqian applied this model to the present hundreds of years in advance. In theory, it should be suitable for the current productivity level of the Han Dynasty. After all, Feiqian has developed many relevant agricultural pre-technology, such as deep cultivation methods, green fertilizer cultivation, tilling tools, etc.
It is precisely with these pre-installed agricultural technologies that the current experimental conditions for the re-planting and rotation farming system can be found.
Otherwise, it would be a process such as sifting soil and gravel, deep plowing soil, mixing fertilizers, etc. If there is no corresponding tool to support the reduction of labor intensity, it would be a mere manpower to do so, and it would not last long and would not be conducive to promotion.
However, the actual performance of this complex planting rotation method is still verified by practical results.
Fei Qian and Zao Zhi walked slowly in the field, watching the tender seedlings in the fields budding from the soil, and were very happy, suddenly a noisy sound came from the farm in the distance, which made Fei Qian and others look sideways...
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Chapter completed!