The war was fought not only at the front, but also in the rear, on the land.

At the beginning of July, standing on the Baqiao Bridge, watching another batch of ships full of grain go east along Weishui, Xiao He and Zhang Cang, the two members of the town guarding the court, breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at each other, and said happily:

"Thanks to last year's regent's order that all the public and private fields in Guanzhong were planted with wheat, but now it is life-saving!"

After the beginning of spring, Heifudong sent a letter to the valley, and the anti-Wang Haojie of the Kanto only knew how to eat the old grain of Qincang, but did not produce, many of the West were affected by the war, and the fields were deserted, so Guanzhong, known as the "country of abundance", undertook the main supply of military food, and hundreds of thousands of stone grains went east every month, so that after entering the middle of summer, the Xianyang warehouse gradually emptied.

Seeing that the millet was not yet ripe, the barnsmen were inevitably anxious to get on fire, but fortunately, in May and June, the large wheat fields in Zhengguoqu and Shanglin were already golden......

Wheat was planted by the Central Plains people very early, but in the beginning, the cultivation season of wheat was the same as the original crops such as millet and millet, that is, spring planting and autumn harvesting.

But gradually, the Zhou farmers, who were good at growing crops, found that wheat was more resistant to cold than millet but less resistant to drought, and the most suitable for wheat sowing and growing was not spring but autumn. So, when an unknown Zhou farmer tried to save a handful of wheat seeds until early autumn before sowing them, winter wheat, or "Sumai", came into being.

Because most of the grain crops in the north are planted in spring and harvested in autumn, there is often a shortage of green and yellow crops in summer every year, causing a food crisis, and the emergence of wheat has given the Central Plains of dryland agriculture a solution in addition to hoarding old grain, planting soybeans, fishing, hunting and gathering: it is harvested in summer, which can continue to be scarce and alleviate food shortage.

In addition, with the same acre of land, the yield of wheat per mu is far better than that of millet, so Sumai has been valued and successfully ranked among the five grains.

At least in the Zhou Dynasty, it was the custom of sacrificing ancestors to include wheat in the five grains: "In the fourth year of Mengxia, Wang Chu prayed in the temple and tasted wheat in Taizu." ”

Tasting new wheat in June has also become a grand day, and Jin Jinggong went to the toilet with bloating on the day he tasted wheat, and fell into it and drowned......

But even with so many benefits, Sumai is just a spare tire for millet, and the eating habits are the most stubborn.

Eating wheat is also wheat rice, but this thing is steamed and cooked, and the taste of the rice is particularly poor.

After entering Guanzhong last year, Xiao He explained this status quo to Heifu:

"In the Kanto region, wheat rice is the food for the funeral of parents when they are buried, and some officials are called honest officials because they eat wheat rice instead of new rice."

What's more, in Chudi, where rice is the staple food, wheat rice is not even as good as broken rice for pigs and dogs. The Chu people are accustomed to eating rice and rice all year round, and they are disgusted with cheap wheat rice, thinking that it is coarse, and they refuse to eat it, so they refuse to plant, and their grandfather has never planted it, and their descendants have never known it. ”

Even with the mill and mill later, the situation did not change much.

Ten years ago, Nesten listened to Heifu's advice and fed on wheat flour for the Kanto resettlers. Although the pasta is delicious, there are not many people who can accept it, and it is not a joke to say that in the common grain food, suddenly making pasta is a typical crooked way, and it is the same nature as "etiquette and happiness".

Because there have always been rumors that "wheat is poisonous", the hundreds of thousands of Guandong relocated captives, at first thought that the Qin people were going to poison themselves, and almost rebelled, but later although they barely ate it, they still felt that their lives were short, and some people even cried while munching on crispy wheat cakes......

It wasn't until a few years later, when they were still alive and well, that the immigrants gradually accepted this food, and pasta even became a unique snack in their group.

But people who are speechless, as long as they have the opportunity, they still plant millet in the field instead of wheat......

This is still the case for relocation, not to mention the Qin people, so throughout the Qin Shi Huang era, it has been difficult to increase the wheat planting area in Guanzhong, until Heifu became the master, and it is still "Guanzhong is not good for growing wheat".

But the world was in turmoil, and Heifu asked Xiao He and Zhang Cang to calculate the grain stockpile, and it was expected that in the summer of the following year, there would be a famine, and a large amount of summer ripe wheat was needed to save the emergency.

There is no way but to rely on coercive executive orders.

So Heifu asked Lu Jia to plant wheat, and mentioned the extent of the upper platform:

"In ancient times, there was a history of post-millet, it was not written in the grain, and the wheat was not written, so as to see the sage in the five grains, the most important wheat and the he. It is not good to plant wheat in today's customs, which is the weight of the land of the emperor and the queen of heaven, and the tools that damage the people. Today, the regent edict ruled the history of Su, so that the people of Guanzhong benefited from planting wheat, so that there would be no later time. ”

In order to encourage the people to grow wheat, the black man who was originally a rice party even moved the food made of wheat noodles into the official canteen of Xianyang Palace.

As a result, what made people laugh and cry was that the imperial doctor Ling Xia Wuhe tried his best to dissuade this, and told Heifu:

"This poison is also very poisonous, and the regent is trying to poison himself, does he want to abandon the world and ignore it!?"

Hef: ???

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Being admonished in this way, Heifu was a black man with a question mark face at the time.

Xia Wu and there are words: "Sumai is planted in autumn and ripe in summer, and it is full of air at four o'clock, naturally with both cold and temperature, and it is appropriate to have hot bran and cold grains." Therefore, the wheat soup is used, the skin is not allowed, the cloud is warm, the bright side can not dissipate heat and stop the annoyance, and there is also the poison of Danshi! ”

This means that whole wheat should be cooked in water and eaten with soup and water, that is, grains, and cannot be processed into flour. Otherwise, you will be poisoned, "crazy", and even die!

This statement is obviously ridiculous, and Heifu has never heard of eating steamed buns and bread in later generations, which will poison people.

It's not that Lao Xia is stupid, even if it is a few hundred years later, in the Tang Dynasty, when Chang'an people ate Hu cakes every day, Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, still felt that the wheat was poisonous, and scared many people to abandon pasta and millet.

Heifu had to engage in an academic campaign, and Chen Wuyi wrote many easy-to-understand articles to refute the rumors.

Because the fool's understanding of "wheat is poisonous" is deep-rooted, he can't even spread rumors: "Eating pasta and drinking noodle soup can detoxify micro-poison." ”

As a result, there is the custom of "turning the original soup into the original food......

While fighting against the accumulated customs, Heifu also distributed free seeds to the poor who did not have wheat seeds, so that the farmers vigorously studied the art of increasing the yield of wheat per acre.

The farmers are still very good at planting, they thought that soaking the seeds with sorrel and silkworm arrows before sowing can make the wheat seeds absorb a considerable amount of water before sowing, and the silkworm arrows also absorb enough water, and when the dew is the most out of the ground, the wheat seeds can get the water needed for germination.

"When the spring freezes and thaws, hoe again, and when it comes to the elm pods, the rain stops, and the soil is white-backed and hoeed, so that the harvest will be doubled."

After intensive cultivation, by the time of wheat maturity in May and June, the public wheat fields by Zhengguo Canal had a bumper harvest, and the yield was higher than that of the millet in the upper fields, twice that of the millet in the middle fields, nearly four times that of the millet in the lower fields, and much higher than that of the beans.

Relying on the policy of forcibly purchasing surplus grain implemented by the internal history of the Su Dynasty, the Xianyang warehouse, which had already bottomed out, was once again full.

A scene that made people cry and laugh appeared, the farmers in Guanzhong were reluctant to sell millet, and now they are selling wheat to the government, but they are all scrambling.

Good guys, they still prefer to eat millet rather than noodles, and Heifu has insisted on pasta for more than half a year by example, and it is considered to be for nothing......

The mouth and stomach are indeed the most conservative organs in the human body, and coupled with the rigidity of thought, it is impossible to change it at all in just a few years.

"Diao people, they are all Diao people!" When the southerner Heifu learned of this, he had to scold while secretly eating white rice.

But now there is no other way, the wheat or grinding, or milling, one after another loaded to the ship, just like many years ago in the "boating battle", by the endless stream of grain ships transported to Maojin, Shaanxi County, and then ashore with thousands of Luoyang Shi Shi Shi Thousands of cars loaded, transported to the east waiting to be fed.

But this time the wheat is transported eastward, and the moth is not small.

The new counselor, named "Yellowstone," admonished Heff with one thing:

"In the past, Wei and Chu fought, the Wei army was lacking, and King Wei Hui made people use wheat as food to serve as military food, but the soldiers were sleepy and demoralized, and Wu Qi of Chu State urgently transferred a batch of southern rice and corn into the camp to supply the soldiers with lotus leaf rice, and as a result, the morale of the Chu army was greatly boosted, and the Wei army was defeated and retreated all the way."

Eating wheat and eating rice and millet will actually lead to a decline in the morale of the army and a great boost in morale, which is indeed very fantastical, and even if Heifu takes the lead in eating it on the surface, it is difficult to reverse.

In order to prevent the army from "greatly demoralizing", it had to let the army continue to eat millet, and wheat was given priority to the victims.

So, more than ten years ago, Shandong moved to "the Qin people want to poison us with wheat", and the scene of saying goodbye to relatives while biting on steamed bread and wheat cakes appeared again.

In the end, it was the devil called "Hunger" who finally triumphed over customs and rumors.

Especially in the Yingchuan and Dangjun areas, as Zhang Liang said, Qin and Chu fought here, the people lost their jobs, and the great famine, in some places, there were 5,000 rice stones, cannibalism, and nearly half of the dead.

Many places have reached the level of eating Guanyin soil and tree bark, so why don't you care if the wheat is poisonous or not? As long as it is eaten, it is joyfully stuffed into the mouth, and then comfort yourself:

"I'd rather be fed with the dead."

And Hefu believed that after they ate the wheat cake with tears in their eyes, the end result would surely be: "It smells so good!" ”

Accompanied by 300,000 stone wheat into Yingchuan, a ballad, also under the instruction of Heifu, was sung in Weidi, South Korea:

"Xiang Ji slaughtered my city, and Xia Gong saved my people."

"Xiang Ji takes my food, and Xia Gong gives me wheat."

"Xiang Ji killed my son, Xia Gong gave peace ......"

Throughout the summer, Heifu did not rush past Han Wei to attack Chudi, but took control of the Han Wei region little by little, allowing the army to advance slowly but resolutely eastward.

He also worked propaganda, throwing all the disasters and all the pain and messiness in the Han Wei region on Xiang Ji.

It is determined that Xiang Ji will become the public enemy of the Central Plains and become the murderous demon king nailed to the history books!

This time, no one in the future will regret his defeat, let alone lament: "I think of Xiang Yu so far!" ”

So, in early July, when Heifu and his rear army arrived in Xiangyi, Dangjun, to mourn the victims of Xiang Ji's massacre here a year ago, that propaganda slogan was also spread throughout Han and Wei:

"In the world, the bitter thief has been a thief for a long time!"

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PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon.