Chapter 6 Reeds Have Roots and Mulberry Leaves (I)
Seeing that everyone was still around, I felt that this was an opportunity to understand this era.
On paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that this matter has to be done, what kind of era is it now? The history books only record the life and intrigues of the aristocracy, but after all, the world is bound to be based on food, clothing, and housing.
He was neither a nobleman, but he had that bag of seeds, and this understanding had to be done.
The people next to him were still praising him, or thanking him, or trying to ask some ghosts and gods.
In a closed village community, it is difficult to see such a character.
He sat on the ground generously, leaned on the edge of the tree where he was making the field, and said, "The weather is hot now, and there are often symptoms of summer heat. At this time, most of the noble sons relied on the ice of the winter cellar to cool down, and you were all poor people but could not help but work. Today, I will talk about a way to prevent the heat, and if you have relatives, friends and neighbors when you go back, you will also let them know. ”
Everyone thanked them again and again, these people were sick and could only resign themselves to fate. Just now, I saw those strange methods like killing pigs and dogs, and I saw that the person who fainted really had a tendency to wake up, so I sat down and heard about it.
Shi talked about some boiling water and salt, and said some simple ways to deal with heat stroke, not seeking to know why, but to live a few more lives.
At this time, there was no tea, and there was no thermos, and drinking boiled water seems to have been a tradition in Zhuxia since ancient times. Drinking boiled water is for fear that people at this time will get infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, and adding salt is really to prevent death from heat stroke.
He took a stick, drew a random figure on the ground, and said, "When it's hot, you have to sweat." Sweat has a salty taste, and of course there is salt in it, and only by adding salt can sweat faster, and the heat will be dissipated. Don't add too much salt, just add two fingers of salt to a jar of water. ”
"Another one, after going back, mix the plant ash with water, clarify it and dry it out another salt, and you can also add less in the clay pot. Everyone lives close, you can take turns, today my family is clear, tomorrow his family, take turns in turn, mutual benefit, and do not delay the daily farm work. ”
The simple way to ensure the balance of sodium and potassium electrolytes is not a problem. It is not a big mistake to use this way of taking turns to help, and to explain the mutual benefits crudely.
But Shi was not satisfied, he wanted to learn more from the doctrines of Mohist, and associate things such as Ming ghosts and Tianzhi with these scientific explanations.
Here he is ashamed to say that he is an ink man, and he is not worried.
Even though the Mo family represents the bottom, it is still too high after all, and it is unlikely that there will be any attention from the Mo people in this kind of Jingtian Village Community, and they are not afraid of being exposed in a short time.
When the person next to him saw the method just now, he didn't ask much, but just kept these tips in mind.
I can't help but feel that I am much closer to the ink who sounded very distant in the past, and it doesn't seem to be so far, it's very close.
The little girl who was crying just now listened to it for a while, looked at her father who was gradually waking up, was grateful, and hurriedly thanked her.
Although the poor have to rely on their brothers and sisters-in-law to live at this time, they are ambitious, and of course they will not turn this gratitude into a few catties of corn, the only thank you gift that the village farmers can come up with.
Pretending to be chic and generous, he waved his hand and said, "I said, there is no need for a thank you gift or something." Others regard corn, precious jade, and square foot cloth as treasures, so others thank others with their own treasures, which is very good. But my Mo family regards righteousness as a treasure, and does not regard Baoyu and Qianbei as treasures. ”
"Doing righteousness, for my Mo family, is like a person who likes to eat and drink eats mutton and drinks mash; It's like the king gets a city...... You thank you with what you think is a treasure, and we don't like it, so why bother? ”
The little girl was stunned for a moment, but she quickly understood what she meant.
Thinking that when I was a child, I liked to eat sour berries, but other children liked to eat sweet fruits, and I thought that these sour berries were a good thing, but I gave them to others but others didn't like them.
People who like vinegar will use it as the most beautiful taste in the world. But if those who don't like sour quietly add vinegar to his corn, it will be a joke.
Thinking about what Shi said just now, he suddenly raised his head and said, "Little brother of the Mo family, can you teach me the means of curing the disease just now?" ”
Shi looked at this undersized little girl, didn't think much about it, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to learn?" ”
The little girl nodded heavily and said, "Since the little brother is only doing some righteousness, I don't know what righteousness is, but I feel that if someone faints from heat in the future, it will be considered your righteousness to save people by your means." Some people love square foot cloth, and if you are grateful, you will be grateful for money; Little brother loves righteousness, I want to thank you for being righteous. ”
Hearing this, Shi glanced at the little girl with some curiosity, and said in his heart that it was rare to hear such words in the field.
The person next to him smacked this sentence, and slowly tasted the taste, thinking that it was really strange for the people of the Mo family, but Danli was indeed so reasonable. People eat corn, dogs love to eat, and he may not be willing to eat corn if you give it to dogs.
Shi didn't know what everyone was thinking, just looked up at the little girl again.
The little girl was fourteen or fifteen years old, not yet grown, wearing a simple linen dress, her nails were full of black mud, and the tears on her face were still gray and black, but a pair of eyes were very clear, and they were slightly red at this time.
The hair is tied into two general horn braids on the top of the head, revealing the forehead, and the braids are only tied with linen cloth casually a few times, which is extremely simple.
Goodbye this little girl is generous, just panicked but not confused, can endure until the relatives wake up and then cry, there is no twist under the etiquette of later generations, when she is really a living person and not a piece of wood that can be bought and sold as goods, I can't help but feel a little like this era.
To be able to say such a thing must be extremely intelligent, but he has never seen much of the world in the village community all day.
After pondering for a while, Shi asked, "What's your name?" ”
"Luhua."
The name is commonplace.
But if you know poetry, you are a pupa.
Thinking that he would often come here in the future to understand the situation, or to prepare for the Mo family to take root at the grassroots level in the future, this is a good starting point.
After a little hesitation, he nodded and said: "What you said also makes sense, I will teach you in a few days, it is all some superficial means, if you really want to learn, you can learn quickly." Don't study today, you go and take care of your father. When I got back, I dug up some reed roots, boiled them in a crockpot, and drank them......"
After thinking about it for a long time, I don't know if I can buy gypsum to be hot in the city now, I can only think of reed roots, and whether it can be good can only be left to fate.
Lu Hua carefully wrote down the advice, thanked him again, and went to take care of his father under the tree.
The peasants who watched the bustle around did not leave, perhaps curious that the people of the Mo family who sounded unreachable were beside them, and perhaps occasionally saw such a young man who was familiar with the art of witch doctors, and he was not busy with the things in the field, sitting down and chatting.
Shi just wanted to know the general situation at this time, so he first told a few jokes, and then said some things about his daily labor, and hooked up the words.
In a circle, sit in the middle, there are no patients inside, and there is no fear of impermeability. When you sit closer, you can talk about something you want to know.
If you don't know these basic things, you can't talk about wanting to take root in this era, let alone those ambitions.
Fortunately, it is a joke to wait for the rabbit and pull out the seedlings to help them grow, and these farmers of the Song Kingdom are not so stupid.
The appropriate questions are not tricky, and it doesn't take long to come up with a rough idea.
As farmers, the most tugging at their heartstrings is spring planting and autumn harvesting.
When asked how the harvest was, the farmers shook their heads and sighed, obviously dissatisfied.
"The harvest can only be said to be good, last year, one acre of land was removed from the seeds, and one stone could be harvested. There are a total of seven people in the family, 120 acres of land, and there has been no war in the past few years. ”
One stone is a capacity, and Shi recalled that one stone at this time was 100 liters.
At this time, one liter is about 200 milliliters in the afterlife.
If you calculate carefully, it is a very scary fact, planting corn to remove seeds, one mu of land can only harvest thirty or forty catties, which is almost one planting and three harvests.
After taking a closer look at the surrounding land, I probably had a sense of proportion, and assessed the difficulty and technical level of planting land at this time.
Judging from the length of the land, cattle farming has not yet been popularized in the Song Kingdom, or it has not been popularized among small farmers.
The reason for the judgment is very simple, whether it is an earlier well field system or for the convenience of management, at the current level of geometry, most of the land is square, so as to facilitate the calculation of the area of the land.
An acre of land is generally a thin strip one step wide and a hundred steps long. Under the well-field system, the Chinese peasants were granted 100 acres of land per household, which happened to be a square with a length of 100 steps and a width of 100 steps, which was easy to see.
At this time, one step is one step for each of the left and right feet, and only one foot is called half a step, so one step is about one meter two or three, and one acre is one hundred and forty or fifty square meters, which is equivalent to one-third of the acres of later generations.
Specific quantification, six feet is a step.
The ancestors of the Zhou people mainly ate the kind of rhubarb rice that could be made into yellow buns and sticky bean buns in later generations, so they took one grain of rhubarb rice for one point, ten grains for one inch, and ten inches for one foot. At this time, the ruler is also short, and the step is so long.
If you think about it a little, you can know that ox farming has not yet become popular, because if cattle farming is popular, the cattle will have to turn around at a distance of 100 steps, and the waste of time is very inefficient; And relying on people to cultivate, a distance of 100 steps and an acre, you can just go to the ground to rest a little.
The increase in the number of acres means that cattle and horse farming has begun to become popular, and the old unit of measurement is no longer suitable for the new farming methods.
It was not that decades later, Shang Ying patted his head and set 240 steps as one acre, but the ox pulled the ploughshare to reclaim 240 steps just to the limit, and he needed to take a breath.
Everything comes from labor, and the essence of many things after dissecting is the level of productivity at that time, or the embodiment of clothing, food, housing and transportation.
For example, rulers, such as acres.
However, even if the mu is small, the yield per mu is not high.
The tithes that the farmer said should be the initial tax per mu learned from Lu Guo.
This first word is very well used.
Originally, there was no tax on the acres cultivated by the Shu people, only the tax on labor.
It was a precedent, so the word "Chu" was used, which has the same meaning as the beginning of the night.
Thinking of this, Shi asked again: "Then now that you have paid the tithes, do you still need to go to work on the public land?" How are you assigned to the army? Does the cabochon who drives the car have a small fief? Do you need to cultivate the land for the chauffeur? And how were the oxen and horses of the chariot levied? ”
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