Chapter 455 Near the water, but there is a shortage of water
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The most urgent thing now is to resume farming.
Vinh An is slightly better, but the seedlings are damaged, so they just need to be replanted, and here in Binh Duong, in addition to plowing the soil, there is also a very important and urgent matter, which is to restore the irrigation of the canals......
The water source relatively close to Pingyang County is Fenshui.
It is said to be relatively close, but in fact it is more than 20 miles away.
Fei Qian asked Ma Yue to continue to deal with Bai Bo's related matters, and he took Jia Qu and Huang Cheng along the dilapidated canal all the way to the east.
The canal is along the side of the pipe, and it can be seen that it was originally paved with bricks and stones, and the structure is still relatively complete, but in some places people trample on the beast line, some damage collapses, and the other is that no one takes care of it, and the silt is very seriously blocked and overgrown with weeds.
The group followed the direction of the canal and slowly rode their horses on the pipe. This official road is relatively smooth, of course, this level is according to the standards of this era, perhaps according to later generations, it is a gravel dirt road without shell craters.
Fei Xi pointed with his finger on the horse's back, pointed at the road surface, dotted the ridges with some traces nearby, and the shrubs and grass in the distance: "At this time, what would be more appropriate to replant?" ”
Jia Qu blushed and said, "This ...... Lord, Qu Wei's farming ......"
Fei Qian nodded and said, "Okay, I didn't know it before, but when I was studying in Jingxiang, I learned a little about it...... Shuye, do you know? ”
Huang Cheng smiled and shook his head.
"In the spring and autumn, the northern land of the first Qin was dominated by millet, and then the yield per mu of wheat was ...... Well, even if there is more land, it will gradually change to wheat-based......" Fei Qian said while thinking, "South of the big river, Jingzhou and Yangzhou generation, because the land is moist and irrigation is convenient, so most of them rely on rice with higher yields......"
Fei Qian remembered that when he went south to Jingxiang, he talked with the old farmers in the fields, and also remembered the jujube under Lushan who liked grass and other crops......
Perhaps with such a large piece of land to be manipulated, it is estimated that it will be very happy to spread wild in the fields......
Fei Qian inexplicably suddenly remembered a husky that couldn't be pulled, and hurriedly shook his head to throw this unreliable picture out of his mind.
"The five grains of the Han Dynasty, millet, soybean, hemp, wheat, and rice, which are the most planted now, and millet and sorghum are very suitable for planting in this land...... Therefore, our land is still more suitable for planting some cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops...... "Fei Qian said slowly, now is not the era of nutritional matching, but the era of not having enough to eat, therefore, what has a high yield is suitable for planting......
Potatoes and sweet potatoes......
Has it been passed to Southeast Asia now? Probably not yet......
But if it is in the Americas, it is really too far, now although the Xiaoice period is coming, the Bering Strait is estimated to be frozen, but this cotton without warmth, relying only on animal fur and oil, maybe ordinary Han people have absolutely no way to adapt, it is possible to rely on Dongyi, that is, the fishing and hunting people in the northeast, Xianbei or Wuheng?
If you take the waterway, it will be even more difficult, and only those scholars in Yangzhou who have some dealings with the mud bombardment can build ocean-going sea ships......
In later generations, Fei Qian remembered that there was once an idle guy who made a calculation that he didn't know according to what rules, and how many times the amount of information contained in an ordinary Times newspaper was that of an ancient person?
Forgot.
Actually, this is the gap......
Fei thought faintly, many ancient people may know that there are problems with the system and faulty rules, but there is no direction that can be solved, and they don't know if there is an answer, so they can only desperately increase the limited number of these things in the land surrounded by mountains, seas, deserts, and cold soils......
No wonder the Chinese people of later generations were so miserable by the house, but they were also willing to be happy, in fact, this is an invisible gene that has been formed in the blood for thousands of years.
Now Fidin knows where the problem is, although he is completely clear about the solution, but at least the vision is all over the world, Asia, Europe, Africa, and beyond the continent, there is also the America......
Fei Qian turned over and dismounted, walked a little to the canal next to the road, and looked at the long canal not far away, which extended from Fenshui, not deep, mostly silt, slightly depressed, under the rain of the previous days, the weeds in the canal still retained some moisture from below, indicating that these part of the canal at least the water insulation effect of stone bricks still exists.
Fei Qian looked at the land next to the official road, the ridges that were once cultivated and left, this piece of land that should have been the feudal field of the Marquis of Pingyang.
The government's water conservancy facilities were built to meet the irrigation needs of this field......
"Fenshui has plenty of water, but if it is far away from this canal, other fields ......" Fei Qian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, "Look, in fact, these fields are not very far from the water source, but ...... Lack of water. ”
"In fact, the amount of water in Fenshui is enough to support the irrigation of the entire land, but because the canal is the field of the old Pingyang Hou, it must be irrigated by the Pingyang Hou here in order to receive some excess water flow, and it can be said 100% that not only here in Pingyang, but also most of the government-built canals in the world will not enter more water......
"Liang Dao, do you know why?"
Jia Qu thought for a moment and said, "...... Because there is too much water to soak the seedlings? ”
"Anything close to a water source, most of them are either fiefdoms or the land of large households, these people's own fields are full of water, who has the heart to care if it is not theirs, how much water can the fields of those ordinary Qiantou have? For them, if ordinary farmers do not reduce their output, how can people come to borrow, how can some people not be able to sell their fields, and how can they expand the scope of their land year after year? Fei Qian sneered.
Therefore, it will be found that the state allocates money to build canals every year, but there is no water, and the fields are short of water, and then they are forced to carry water by themselves, and they can't hold on, so they can only let the yield of plants in the fields be reduced, and then they can't pay the taxes of the state, and then they will go in a vicious circle until the fields are sold......
There is actually such a reason for the lack of water near the water source.
As for the whole world, who can blame if the yield of the fields cannot be increased?
Those mud legs with their feet stuck in the mud every day will understand why the canal is old and bad, and the reason why the old repair is not good?
The emperor who sits on the throne will understand why the water conservancy is allocated every year, but every year it is either flooded here or the cause of drought there?