After staying in Jingkou for five days, Shen Zhezi went on the road with his father. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A team of more than 1,000 people started in Jingkou, in addition to the hundreds of soldiers brought by my father, there were nearly 1,000 people, men, women and children. On the one hand, they helped transport grain, and on the other hand, they went to Wuxing with the team to settle down, laying a good foundation for Xu Mao to settle down in Wuxing in the future, and reserving a way out.

Shen Zhezi has seen how the heroes and powerful people play in this era, Xu Mao, as the supervisor of the Jingkou River, has both the responsibility of patrolling and the responsibility of reassuring the people. With a big stroke, there are 200 fewer households on the white family of the displaced people!

If these people can be registered and settled, they will be able to pay taxes to the imperial court in a few years. But now, it has become Xu Mao's personal property, and it is no longer subject to the laws of the imperial court. Looking at these people, they are not depressed because of the loss of their free and self-reliant status, but they are secretly excited.

After all, it is long before you have to wait for resettlement in Jingkou, a place where displaced people gather, and even if you get the land, you will have to work hard to reclaim the famine, and you will not have enough to eat. But once you arrive in the hinterland of Sanwu, you will not hesitate to make a good start.

Dad was a little dissatisfied with this, and there was no lack of resentment in the cabin who complained to Shen Zhezi: "This Xu Diran is also treacherous, he gave me less than 30,000 grains in total, and it cost nearly 10,000 yuan to settle the Yin Hu tribe for him." 20,000 grains are not of much use. ”

Regarding his father's complaints, Shen Zhezi also has a kinship. 20,000 grains seems to be a lot of money, but for the huge population under their control, it is not even enough to support a month's consumption.

Nowadays, the unit of measurement in later generations is too confusing, and now the next grain can be converted into weight, which can be regarded as about one stone. Thirty catties are jun, and four jun are stones. But this so-called Jin is Han Jin, and two Jin Han Jin is not enough for a city Jin in later generations.

Perhaps a more intuitive measurement can be used to calculate the current per capita grain consumption, the Three Kingdoms said that Sima Yi heard that Zhuge Liang's solar eclipse rice was only three liters, and predicted that he would die. "Book of Liang" Zhenbei general Jiang Ge was captured by the Northern Wei Dynasty, "three liters of Su were given a day, and only his life remained".

From these points of view, without considering the messy nutrient intake and calorie intake in later generations, it can be seen that the eclipse of three liters can only sustain people from starvation. If you still have to bear labor, then an adult must have at least five liters of staple food a day to meet the consumption of survival and labor.

20,000 grains, 200,000 buckets, 2 million liters, per capita, it is really not a big amount, no wonder my father is a little dissatisfied. It must be known that in addition to maintaining the consumption of their own population, the Shen family also has to help those small landlords and scholars who are attached to the Shen family. Thanks to the father's premeditated rebellion, these families were also involved, and the harvest failed.

In order to maintain the new rice harvest next year, there will be at least a shortage of nearly 100,000 grains! If it is a normal year, a mere 100,000 grains is not enough to crush the Shen family, and the annual output of acres of land is not enough to exceed 100,000 hundred.

But this year, the war disaster has spread, the price of grain is already high, and the Shen family has accumulated it for many years, and it is almost exhausted. Although it is not yet the moment when the food is exhausted, the future is worrying about taking precautions.

In the past few days, Shen Zhezi has also been thinking about the experience of saving famine in ancient times, and when he saw that his father was worried, he said tentatively: "Father, my son occasionally asked Ge Hong and Immortal Master Ge for advice in Master Ji's mansion, and he once said several ways to relieve hunger......

As he spoke, he introduced some of the hunger relief recipes he barely remembered to his father in the name of Ge Hong. For example, soybeans are ground into sesame seeds and kneaded into balls, and Jiangmi sesame seeds are ground into pills. Although Shen Zhezi has never eaten it, he is brainstorming at the moment, and he can try it if it is useful or not.

Hearing that it was taught by Ge Hong, Shen Chong listened carefully, but after listening to it, he was a little disappointed, and said: "This kind of method of relieving hunger is just a kind of qi accumulation in the stomach, so that people do not feel hungry, but the qi is weak and weak. The government's relief may be used for a while, and my family still has to work and produce, which is not of much benefit. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard his father's words, he understood the disadvantages of these hunger remedies, and filled his stomach with some indigestible food, just so that his stomach would not be empty, but in fact, the nutrients needed by the human body were still missing.

"Qingque, you don't have to worry, your father has his own way to deal with it."

Shen Chong saw that Shen Zhezi was a little lost, and comforted him with a smile: "This is not the year of the Great Famine, although it has been affected by the war, but each family also has grain savings. As long as you think about it, you can always buy food to relieve emergencies. ”

Shen Zhezi nodded, but he also knew that what Dad said was easy, but in fact, the difficulty was that he couldn't buy food. It should not be a secret that the Shen family's acres of land have failed. Such a large food shortage, not one or two can be satisfied, if all the families are holding the attitude of falling into the well, the situation will definitely be even worse.

When the boat travels to Wu County, it is necessary to turn around into Taihu Lake by car. After walking for more than half a day, Shen Chong asked the team to stop and said to Shen Zhezi: "There is my deceased relative Zhu in the county near the left, and it is still early in the sky, Qingque, you go to pay a visit." ”

Hearing his father's words, Shen Zhezi was slightly stunned, so he hurried home, why did his father suddenly let him go to visit his relatives? With what he knows about his father, there must be something inside.

Sure enough, the father then explained the reason: "The county magistrate Zhu Gong here is your uncle-in-law, and I sent a letter to ask for food a few days ago." This miser wants to exchange 30,000 grains for my Panxi and two villages, it's really disgusting! ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he also understood. This cheap uncle named Zhu Gong is one of the people who wants to take advantage of the fire to rob.

The two granges in Panxi, not counting the ridge swamps, there are nearly 100 hectares of cultivated paddy fields alone, according to the yield of three stones per mu, the yield of rice in one season is also 30,000 stones, and the cost of artificial grain planting and green manure is deducted, there is also a surplus of nearly 20,000 stones. Not to mention the output of orchards and nurseries, it is definitely more than the value of 30,000 grains!

This Zhu Gong saw that his family was in trouble, so he wanted to use this to blackmail, and wanted to plot his own property. No wonder Dad was indignant when he mentioned this person, and let himself go to the meeting, probably with the intention of asking him to tell the other party the news that he had already bought food, bluffing, and then going around.

Understanding his father's intentions, Shen Zhezi smiled tacitly, and then took more than a dozen servants to escort him to the Zhu family manor in his hometown. Not far away, Shen Zhezi saw a group of people, under the command of his father, began to dig and load the truck, covering it with grain. Looking at this posture, Daddy is also playing a lot of tricks on the empty city plan.

As soon as he entered the county, Shen Zhezi was told that he had entered the scope of Zhujiatian's property. During the journey, Captain Liu Meng introduced the situation of the Zhu Gong family to Shen Zhezi.

This Zhu Gong is a branch of the Zhu clan in Wu County, and like the Shen family, they are all local tyrants, and they started when Chen Min was in turmoil, and they wantonly enclosed land. Nowadays, nearly half of the land in Guyan County is its land property, and there are more than 1,000 people in the door, and it can already be called one of the new rising townsmen in Wudi. And the in-law relationship with the Shen family is also quite close, and his wife is the cousin of his father Shen Chong and Shen Zhezi's cousin.

However, in times of crisis, the closer the person, the more ruthless the knife in the back.

changed to someone else, on the surface, the Shen family has a big business, but I don't know much about the predicament that the Shen family is facing below. However, this Zhu Gong was originally a relative, and he had been following his father's ass for a long time earlier, and he knew a lot about the inside of the Shen family, so he was more aware of the problems faced by the Shen family at the moment.

It was precisely because of this person's resolute attitude that he embarrassed his father, so he let other families see a little clue, which made it even more difficult for the Shen family to raise food in Wu for the winter.

After walking for more than half an hour, he met the tenants of the Zhu family, Shen Zhezi made his intentions clear, and a few people from the tenants led Shen Zhezi and his party to the location of the Zhu family's manor.

Now that the autumn harvest is over, there is still no shortage of toiling in the vast fields. Turning over the soil and cultivating ridges, it seems that crops are still being planted. Shen Zhezi was quite curious about this, could it be that Wu Di has begun to plant wheat and other crops on a large scale to survive the winter?

He stopped and invited an old farmer, and asked with a smile, "May I ask my husband, what are you sowing seeds?" ”

The old man faced Shen Zhezi, his expression was slightly cramped, and he couldn't speak. Shen Zhezi waved his hand for Liu Meng and the others to push away, and he lifted his shirt and took the old man's hand into the field, only to see that the old man had sown a lot of seeds, including wheat, but the grains were slightly smaller than those in later generations. But there are more seeds, which he can't recognize.

The old man seemed to rarely see the children of nobles go down to the field, and carefully guarded Shen Zhezi's side, and then he spoke carefully.

Shen Zhezi listened patiently, and if he didn't understand, he asked his uncle to explain again, and it took a while to understand a little. Originally, wheat was not cultivated for harvest, but as green manure to protect moisture.

The rest also have the seeds, the winter sun, etc., are the green manure materials for raising the land, the grass can not only raise the land, but also can be used as feed to raise livestock, the winter sunflower is known as the long of a hundred vegetables, is one of the most important vegetables nowadays, does not need to overwinter, can be harvested a wave before the year.

After listening to his father-in-law's explanation, Shen Zhezi realized that he was making a fuss. He is really not very proficient in the common sense of these fields, and nowadays people have a very deep understanding and mature experience of green manure and soil recuperation.

Walking back to the ox cart to dust off the dirt on his body, Shen Zhezi asked the old man to present a gift, and then continued on the road, rushing to the Zhu family's manor on the slope of the ridge.