The returnees were still talking about all kinds of things they had seen and heard about the two thousand miles away from the Nandu River, and some of the people in the house were a little stupid to hear it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A crocodile that can devour cows and horses with its mouth wide open, a strange and huge elephant, a huge python, and an edible grain of rice like broken jade......

This discrepancy caused by the distance of fifteen or six hundred miles gave them the first glimpse of the vastness of the world. Even if some of them followed Jian Chen to Dongyi, it was basically the same latitude, and there was no such big difference if it was slightly warmer. Anyway, there are no elephants or crocodiles near Onozawa.

As for the rice, some people have seen it, and the two ethnic groups have communicated before, but they have not carried much, only some people have tasted it once.

The biggest difference between cross-longitude and cross-latitude is that those unimaginable species, the physical objects that exist beyond people's imagination, are easier for people to know the vastness of the world than that kind of oral preaching.

The redistribution of species has also contributed to this oddity, such as the cotton of sub-shrubs that should not appear in theory, and it is difficult for them to understand how the seeds of a plant can be white flowers like clouds until they see the real thing.

Chen Jian thought for a moment and explained the crop with catkins or poplar hair.

"Starting next year, we will try to grow some of this cotton here. This cotton can be spun and weaved. ”

"Why would you choose to grow something like this? Some people may say that we already have linen and silk, but cotton is not the same. ”

"The hemp needs to be soaked in water, and after it is rotten, the woman has to tear it into silk little by little, and then it can be used to spin thread. Today, in addition to wool, the dyeers can also spin this twine. But the speed of weaving is too fast, and the speed of pulling hemp is too slow. ”

"If we start growing cotton, it's naturally a fluff that can be spun. All that is needed is to pick out the seeds of the cotton and bounce the cotton away, which can save more manpower than the linen. ”

"I estimated that if everyone is skilled, he can pick a pound to a pound and a half of cotton a day to spin thread; And if it's linen, you can't peel so much hemp skin even if you don't do anything in a day. ”

"If there are a thousand people who specialize in spinning and weaving, and the use of twine requires nine hundred men to go from soaking to stripping, but only a hundred are enough to spin and weave. But if we use cotton, we can play and peel half of the people, and the remaining half can be used to spin and weave. ”

"What we want is clothes and cloth, and this 1,000 people is equivalent to a five-fold increase in production compared to before. On average, we need fewer people per piece of cloth, but if we still sell the cloth for so much money, we can earn more and raise more soldiers. ”

"So next year, we will try to plant cotton in Yucheng and Xinhua, and the household department will prepare to set aside the best land next year. On the part of the Planning and Statistics Division, I will prepare in advance and make a spinning wheel and a simple wooden loom suitable for spinning cotton. ”

"It's going to be a big event next year, so you have to prepare in advance. The Department of Transport also had to prepare a caravan of donkeys and mules to cross the river south, carry iron tools in exchange for more cottonseeds, and buy some slaves who could grow and weave. By the way, I also want to invite some relatives and nobles to come here to have a look, and ask a lot of things about the ethnic group in the south. ”

The dozens of people in the room, whether or not they had nothing to do with the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Department of Planning and Statistics, nodded their heads to indicate that they were clear, but some people soon raised objections.

"Ji Xia, it's okay to try to grow this kind of cotton, but why plant it in Xinhua City? It will soon be learned by the Dongyi tribe, and if you want me to say, let's just plant it near Yucheng. ”

"That's right."

"What the hell are you going to do in Xinhua City? Isn't Ji Xia going to make all the Dongyi people Chinese? ”

Jian Chen smiled and waved his hand, "Don't worry, that's why I called you all here today." Now in addition to Dongyi, there is a large ethnic group with a radius of thousands of miles in the south, what should we do in the future? This needs to be prepared in advance, and it will take five or even ten years to prepare. ”

"Let's talk about cotton planting here."

"It may be a little cold near Xia County, and it may not be suitable for planting, and besides, E'e and Wei are raising more sheep now, so we have to leave some benefits for them, after all, we are still allies who have sworn an oath."

"As for Xinhua City, not only do we have to grow cotton, but we also have to grow more grain."

"It's okay if it doesn't reach Dongyi, it's better to spread it, our looms and spinning wheels are strictly forbidden to be private, only in the dyeing department, they grow it and weave cloth in their way It's actually similar to hemp."

"Again, it's like a goose that lays a lot of eggs, and you put them all in a wicker basket, and if you miss it, it's all gone."

"In the past few years, I have been protected by my ancestors, and the wind and rain have been smooth, but not long ago, there were major droughts, floods and the like. When the city was stricken the year before, I said that the tribes of the Great River needed a common leader. The sun rises in the east and there is rain in the west, and the abundant grain is distributed to the place where the calamity is afflicted. ”

"And now? The Great River tribes don't actually have a real leader. In terms of food, we must ensure enough food in the Xia country to prepare for the year of famine. Therefore, Xia County, Yucheng, and Xinhua must be reclaimed. Not only must it be cultivated, but it must also be cultivated by a lot of people. ”

"These three counties are hundreds or even thousands of miles apart, and if there is a famine in any of them, the food of the other two cities can be transported so that they will not starve. Now our iron, copper, weapons, etc. can be exchanged with others, because we have enough food to eat, and once we don't have enough food, they may not exchange it with us. ”

"This is back to the matter of how we treat the Dongyi people, because you also know that there are not too many of our people in Xinhua City, and it takes a lot of effort for Xia County to mobilize the clansmen to go to the east and west counties, let alone thousands of miles away?"

"Therefore, the most powerful reclamation people in Xinhua City should be the Dongyi people or the slaves of the Dongyi people. How to lure them to Xinhua City? If you come to Xinhua City and still be a slave, is there any difference between being in Xinhua City and being in Dongyi? If we now have 100,000 people, and do not care about our own gains and losses, and obey the king's orders and happily migrate to Xinhua City, then all problems will be solved...... These 100,000 people are enough to capture all the Dongyi people as slaves, and we don't have to worry about their resistance, but do we have them? ”

"Since there isn't, you can't take them all as slaves. One thing to keep in mind is that when we fight the Dongyi people in Xinhua City in the future, don't talk about taking all the Dongyi people as slaves, that will provoke all of them to resist. ”

"It's like a pair of chopsticks, all united, and it's hard for us to break them."

"For those cities that are close to Xinhua City, if they are close to us, we will not attack; If you do what is right with us, you must attack; When the slaves fled to Xinhua City, they could be allowed to cultivate the land and pay taxes, but the land was ours, and the tools were also ours, and the taxes we had to collect were very high; We can even shout the slogan that people are not born slaves, and let the slaves of Dongyi rebel against their masters in order to meet the king. ”

"The purpose is to turn this pair of chopsticks into one by one, to mess them up from within. Attracting slaves, agitating civilians, slaughtering samurai warriors, and forcing away chieftains and nobles, these people who mastered Dongyi rituals, language, etiquette, and customs. ”

"Dongyi and we share a big river, and in the end there can only be one text, one custom, one sacrifice, and those slaves understand? I don't understand at all. Their next generation can think that they are the people of the Xia Kingdom, that is, the people of the Great River Tribes, because those legends and sacrifices have nothing to do with them. They don't have a written or historical history, they just need to eat for a few years. ”

"But the ethnic group on the south side of the river is different. They are not more threatening than Dongyi, but it is hot and humid and not suitable for us to fight. But if they are allowed to develop, in a hundred years, all the ministries may be united, and even learn the writing and official system from us, so that their history will be transmitted. ”

"After dealing with the affairs of Dongyi, we will go on an expedition to the south to defeat their tribal leaders, so that it is impossible for them to unite and unite for more than a hundred years, and wait until our descendants have more people, and then slowly build a city there and migrate to the past."

"After all, it's not the same as the grassland, and it's also suitable for farming. As long as it is suitable for farming, it should be our land. ”

"This is probably what we are going to do in the next 10 or even 20 years."

"But no matter what, before we die, there are three things to accomplish. The tribes of the great rivers have a common king; Destroy all those who understand the etiquette, culture, and singing of the songs of the Dongyi, or banish them to a distant land of bitter cold; Conquer the south, defeat the great chieftains of the southern tribes at once, destroy their largest cities, and plunge them into battle. ”

"People always have to endure hardship, and if our generation suffers, future generations will not have to endure this hardship. Although the world is big, there will be an end after all, there are more and more children, and there is land suitable for farming. Nowadays, it seems that the land is not worth a copper coin, it is everywhere, and talent is the most valuable; But one day, man will be inferior to the land. It's like iron, it's just a pile of broken stones before we smelt it, and it may only take 10,000 catties of grain to exchange for a mine; But if iron ore is found in the rest of the cities now, how can it be exchanged for 10,000 catties? ”

"Among you here, there used to be my blood relatives, my old relatives in Xiacheng, and slaves who escaped to Onozawa...... But now that you are all from the Xia Kingdom and the people of the Great River Tribes, there is no need for all the contradictions and struggles we had before, and the only thing left to do is to prepare a land that can accommodate tens of millions of people for future generations. ”

"First the East and then the South, this is the general way for us to achieve all this, so everything in the future must be prepared on this basis."

"If you don't know what you're going to do in five years, you're not a qualified Xia official; If you don't know what you're going to do in ten years, you're not a qualified senior official of the Xia Kingdom. ”