Binh Duong City.

Today's Pingyang City seems to have become a torch held high in the north of the Fen Plain, whether it is the red Pingyang city wall, or its torches and lanterns lit at night, attracting countless merchants, homeless people, poor families, and even the children of the scholars, like moths to fight fires, gathered here.

With the surrounding irrigation is still good old Binh Duong canals are dredged one by one, the potential of agriculture in this area has been rapidly tapped and developed, although the output of each field is still to pay taxes and tenant rent, but because on the one hand, there are horses or retired war horses and other accumulation for deep ploughing, on the other hand, plus the continuous improvement of agricultural technology in these times, the yield per mu is much higher than that of other places.

Agriculture in the Han Dynasty was extremely backward, and the degree of backwardness was far beyond Fei Qian's imagination.

The yield per mu of the Han Dynasty is generally about three stones per mu, and the fertile land can reach four to six stones, and of course there are also inferior fields, which can not even reach one stone per mu.

Han mu is much smaller than the mu of later generations. The mu of later generations was 666 square meters, while the Han mu was only about 465 square meters, and the area was less than 70% of the mu of later generations.

It seems to be good, some of the bricks in later generations who do not seek to understand the beast even said that the yield per mu in the Han Dynasty can have two or three hundred catties, although it is clear that I have seen a lot of ancient documents that record the grain in Hu, or bucket, or rise as a unit, but still subconsciously use the weight unit of the later generations to convert, so there is a feeling that the yield per mu of the Han Dynasty is similar to that of the end of the Republic of China.

So where did the evolution of agriculture go in the past 1,000 or 2,000 years?

But in reality?

Han stone has two uses. One is used in weight, which is divided into baht, two, jin, jun, and stone. Twenty-four baht is two, sixteen taels are catties, thirty catties are jun, and four jun are stones. The Han Jin is probably less than half of the Jin of the later generations, almost more than 240 grams.

The other is used in capacity, Gong, He, Sheng, Dou, Hu, a Hu is also equal to a stone. One is equal to two, and the rest are decimal.

When used for food, most of the time it is calculated in capacity units.

This habit has been maintained until later generations, even during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it is still used to count the capacity, saying that the harvest year has been overcharged by three or five buckets, not that it has been overcharged by three or five catties......

As a result, productivity in the Han Dynasty was actually quite low.

An acre of Hantian, if it must be converted into the weight unit of later generations to calculate, under normal circumstances, it is only about 120 catties per mu, like the area near Pingyang, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, it has been a good land, and it is also recorded in the historical records, "through the canal to lead Fen, irrigate Pishi, Fenyin, lead the river to irrigate Fenyin, Pubanxia, the degree can get 5,000 hectares." Five thousand acres of land need to be abandoned by the river, and the people are herded in it. Today's irrigated fields, the degree can get more than 2 million stones", coupled with the efforts of Zaoyi in agriculture and mulberry, the farmland near Pingyang can basically receive about 180 catties per acre for future generations.

Because of this, although for later generations, the output of more than a few dozen catties can be regarded as nothing, but for the farmers of the Han Dynasty now, it means that they can have more than a dozen catties, or even just a few catties of extra grain balance, with wild vegetables and bran, and they can eat for an extra month or two......

Therefore, the identity of jujube in Pingyang, especially in the minds of the surrounding farmers, is even louder and nobler than Feiqian.

However, this is naturally what Zao Yi deserves, especially when those farmers come to Pingyang Mansion with a woven straw basket, some fruit or a little millet and other things, just to give these things to Zao, to express their gratitude to Zao, which is enough to prove Zaoyi's reputation in Pingbei.

In Binh Duong, not only agriculture is developed, but also commercial trade is promoted.

With the increasing number of trade transactions, the markets originally located in the city for trading were overwhelmed, so they moved directly to the east and west of the city, and established a huge east and west cities outside the two city gates.

Pingyang East City, because it faces the direction of Hedong, is also close to the original municipal, restaurant and other areas in the city, so in Pingyang East City, the general business is biased towards Han items, such as a wide variety of cloth, lacquerware, pottery, etc., in addition to some luxury goods for sale, even if it is the high-quality green salt in Qingzhou, the best tea bricks in Yangzhou Wujun, and the brocade as expensive as gold in Sichuan, you can see it......

In addition to cattle, sheep, furs and other things, there are also some daily necessities such as clothes, candles, cakes, medicines, etc., and it is also the market where ordinary people most often go to purchase replacement items.

With the continuous development of trade, a few hours during the day has been completely unable to meet the increasingly large business system, as a result, in Binh Duong's east and west two cities, the earliest appeared two shifts of trade mode, during the day is a scattered transaction, but also the caravan bulk goods to negotiate, bargaining to reach an agreed time, and at night, is the time for loading and unloading goods inventory delivery, because it is outside the city, so it does not disturb the people much, but thus promotes the development of some lighting equipment.

It is precisely because of business and trade that the city of Binh Duong always wakes up very early. It seems that when the hustle and bustle of last night has not yet dissipated and is still lingering in my ears, a new day has come again, and a new busyness has begun.

Normally, the Han Dynasty people had a morning meal from 7 to 9 a.m., but due to the development of commerce and trade in Pingyang County, there were caravans ready to set off as early as Mao, so even the first wisps of cooking smoke in Pingyang came earlier than other local cities.

Spring has quietly passed, summer is coming one after another, and on the streets of Binh Duong, it is also like entering a rising summer, a thriving appearance.

As the first rays of the morning sun shine down, the streets gradually increase in the flow of people, and at the main neighborhood intersections, there are crowds of people with colorful sleeves. The shops along the street opened their curtains, and Xiao Er or his buddies stood outside and greeted him attentively, soliciting business; The farmer and woodcutter outside the city carried their own things, and they didn't know how to greet them, but just squatted on the side of the road, smiling innocently and waiting for the customers to come; Fat or thin businessmen, but they all have the same expression, smiling and arching their hands at each other, politely, cautiously and keenly probing each other's words......

For the scholars, things are even more so. Seeing that the temperature is getting higher and higher day by day, the winter clothes should be put away, and the silk and silk clothes that were originally collected should be taken out to blow the wind and smoke incense; Some of the ice from last winter's cellar should have been dug up, and it would have been a long time to wait for the temporary use of the province; The sun is gradually extended, so all kinds of summer banquet invitations in the summer afternoon are gradually arranged, and at the same time, it is necessary to consider the distance between each other, and choose to abandon or make some friends according to the changes in the government and the opposition......

In a few restaurants in the city, it is more lively, the first floor is basically a little more generous on hand, the residents of the city wearing kudzu clothes, around the long case, sitting on a pu mat, drinking a bowl of thin wine, eating two pieces of pickled cabbage, talking nonsense, just to have a good time, but also comfortable.

Those court political disputes, those swords, guns and swords, seemed to be far, far away from them, and all they thought about was a bowl of wine in front of them, as well as a few Jiaozi in their belts. Most of the inhabitants of these cities were the first to move to Binh Duong, and some of them were even people who were carried by Bai Bo back then, and for these people, the life in front of them was like the heavenly realm, beautiful and dreamy.

However, on the second floor of the restaurant, it is much cleaner, large and small merchants are scattered and sitting, if someone wants to sell goods, they will carry some small samples, put them on the table, interested businessmen will naturally come forward, two people whispered and cooing negotiations, or success or not, are a kind face, there will be very few people jumping feet angry scene.

On the third floor of the restaurant, talking about each other is completely different, when the temperature gradually rises in summer, one thing finally spreads, originally in Pingyang, this Hun Zhonglang will Fei Qian, once again won the emperor's grace, and now he is the general of Zhengxi, Pingyang!

Although it is only a pavilion marquis, it is a genuine Pingyang hero!

The earliest Marquis of Pingyang was Cao Shen, who inherited Xiao He's phase and was one of the famous Marquis of the early Han Dynasty.

The marquis of the Han Dynasty is roughly divided into four categories: the marquis of meritorious heroes, the marquis of princes, the marquis of Enze, and the marquis of the clan. Among them, the prince marquis and the clan marquis are divided by the same surname, that is, the bloodline of the Liu family, but the clan marquis generally made mistakes for what reason, and they were demoted from the king to the marquis, so they are in the lowest Hou Ye series.

The meritorious marquis and the foreign relative Enzehou are both different surnames, but the status of the meritorious marquis is higher than that of the foreign relative Enzehou, and even more noble than the prince and the marquis.

This kind of dignity is not only reflected in the people who are enshrined in the world, but can even extend the heirs, just like Cao Shen, the title of Pingyang Marquis has even been extinct, and it is still necessary to find a person of adjacent bloodline to inherit, and then after the heir again, it is finally stopped, which shows the special feature of the meritorious marquis.

Therefore, when Fei Qian was sealed to conquer the west, after the news of Pingyang Tinghou gradually spread, these from Hedong, Xihe, Shangdang, Taiyuan, and even some of the children of the scholar clan in Guanzhong, the rural heroes, could not sit still, and got together to discuss each other, and now Fei Qian's army has returned from Guanzhong and is about to arrive in Pingyang, so at present, as the children of the scholar clan who are relatively close to the court, how should they now face the newly appointed and hot Pingyang Pavilion Hou, It became a very real problem in front of them.

This question is also extremely troublesome for Wang Chen......

Taiyuan Wang family since the mainstay Wang Yun falls, has plummeted, in Taiyuan control the entire Wang family Wang old lady grief and grief, after all, can not bear the invasion of aging, bedridden.

And Wang Yun's two sons, the eldest son followed Wang Yun and was buried in Chang'an together. The second son, Wang Jing, was not in very good health, but after this sudden change, he couldn't afford to be sick......

The Taiyuan Wang family, such a huge family that has been operating in the north for more than 100 years, of course, will not be without an heir, but this heir is Wang Hei, who is now studying in the Xue Palace, and Wang Yun's eldest grandson. Wang Hei is currently young, so he asked Wang Yun's nephew Wang Chen to accompany him, but the pillars of the Wang family's direct line fell again and again, which also gave Wang Chen an excellent opportunity.

Now, it's time to prove yourself.

Wang Chen looked at the thumb-sized clay jar on the table, his eyes drifted a little, even if what he did before was discovered, he could turn back to some extent, but this step in front of him was about to go out, and there was no turning back!

Wang Chen silently stretched out his hand and pinched the thumb-sized pottery bottle in the palm of his hand, he also knew that what he was about to do might not be very glorious, but since he had the opportunity, he couldn't just give up like this!

Just as Wang Chen made up his mind, suddenly there was a commotion outside the courtyard, and he only heard someone shouting loudly: "I'm back!" It's back! ”

Wang Chen was so frightened that he let go of his hand, and the clay bottle in his palm fell to the table, and he rolled to the edge with a grunt. Wang Chen hurriedly pounced before he grabbed the clay bottle in his hand and almost fell to the ground.

"What's coming back?" An excited voice came from the backyard, and Wang Hei ran out on his feet, dancing and shouting, "Is General Zhengxi back?" ”

The subordinates outside happened to come to report that it was indeed the general of the expedition to the west, Fei Qian, who was about to arrive, and even the soldiers in the school field in the north of the city had already been lined up, and a team of troops had been set aside to maintain order in the city and outside the city......

"Uncle!" Wang Hei is now at the age of blood and strength, and it is the time to worship a hero like Fei Qian on the battlefield, and when he heard that Fei Qian's class teacher was back, he immediately turned his head to look at Wang Chen, and his expression of wanting to go out to see was overflowing.

Wang Chen pretended to be casual and hid the small clay vase in his arms, pulled out a little smile, and said, "Okay...... Well, look, look and see......"

Wang Hei suddenly jumped up with joy, and ran out in small steps, and several servants of the Wang family hurriedly followed him in a panic.

By the time Wang Hei arrived at the city gate, it was already overcrowded, but after all, the children of the scholar clan still had some privileges, and an area outside the city gate was encircled, and the guards brought by the children of the scholar clan were guarding it. Several students in the circle recognized Wang Hei, hurriedly beckoned, and gave up a place in the circle, so that Wang Hei didn't have to squeeze in one place with the mud legs.

Before Wang Hei could thank him, he heard another commotion around him!

I saw layers of smoke and dust rising in the distance, and I saw that Feiqian's troops were about to arrive!

Everyone suddenly fell silent in the blink of an eye, and everyone stood solemnly waiting, waiting......

When a tricolor flag rose in the smoke and dust rising in the distance, when the figure of Fei Qian appeared under the tricolor flag, outside Pingyang City, on both sides of the road, the people who came to wait for the welcome finally broke out into bursts of high-pitched cheers, this sound is like a layer of waves, surging, surging, rushing through Pingyang, rushing through and north, along the vast sky and earth, spreading to all directions, as if it will continue like this, until the end of heaven and earth!