Chapter 969: Clothed Beasts
The large-scale reclamation activities organized by the Great Wei court have been continuing.
After continuous snowstorms and later explosive vegetation growth, large areas of fertile land were occupied by all kinds of shrubs and weeds, and there was no way to plant real crops, so it was only necessary to mobilize manpower to clear out the pieces in order to lay the foundation for subsequent grain planting and harvesting.
It's a very hard undertaking.
Especially in the feudal era with such a low level of labor, without the addition of large-scale engineering and agricultural machinery, it is really a matter that requires a lot of labor to dig and reclaim and transport simply by manpower.
Even with the help of the golden-veined war bee, the useless plants on the surface can be eaten and cleaned up, but the rhizomes buried deep in the hard ground still need to be disposed of.
There is no way to burn it directly on a large scale.
Now that the vegetation outside the city is connected, if a fire is not controlled, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Only by opening up the firebreak in advance and harvesting the edible plants in it can we consider reclaiming the farmland by burning the wasteland.
In addition, both the imperial court and the farmers below knew that there could be no immediate harvest when clearing the wasteland, so it was necessary to prepare rations for a long time later, after all, when people worked hard and the amount of food would increase dramatically.
Usually shrinking and not moving, adult laborers eat one or two coarse noodles with wild vegetables at a meal, and they can also insist on living, but when they work every day, in the absence of oil and water, seven or eight nests are not of great use at all, but if they don't eat and don't have the strength to work, if they don't eat or drink, they will collapse in a short time.
This is also the main reason why the strong laborers who do heavy work like heavy oil and salt meals, but it is a pity that under today's conditions, they can eat a meal of lard bibimbap every three or five times, which is already a rare nutritional supplement.
Therefore, as the reclamation continued, more and more people fell ill due to overwhelm, which was a very headache for the imperial court, which was already lacking in manpower.
But it is not okay to ignore it like this, if you don't clear the land and plant staple food, what if you wait until the stock of food is exhausted, even if you can meet the needs of the moment by collecting wild vegetables and other things, it is not a long-term solution after all, and you still have to return to the right track, so that you can live forever.
Therefore, under the persecution of the severe situation, the Great Wei court, led by Emperor Xu Zhengyuan, started with a large area of imperial villages, and remeasured and divided the land belonging to the aristocratic scholar class with extraordinary force, and distributed seven out of ten to the peasant and military households as the main body of land reclamation, and turned it into their family property.
In order to mobilize their morale, it can be regarded as replenishing the blood of the bottom that has been hurt the most, pulling them up from the edge of life and death, and avoiding the collapse of the entire social foundation.
The dissatisfaction of the aristocratic families and scholars is certain, but almost no one will really come out and resist.
After all, although real estate is important, it is not so important compared to the life and death of the entire family.
If this matter is only promoted by Xu Zhengyuan, then it is inevitable that it will not be implemented, and if it is insisted on being implemented, it may cause huge turmoil in the current situation, and even whether the Xu family can sit firmly on the throne is an unknown that is difficult to clarify.
But beside Xu Zhengyuan, there is still such a huge and terrifying figure.
Although he didn't show his head directly, he just sent the chubby Chef Zhang and the idle ugly dog out of the house, and stood at the court meeting like a dog for a day, and let the golden-veined war bee intimately shade the sun and wind near the Qinzheng Palace, and everything suddenly became extremely lubricated and smooth.
After a period of exploration, the imperial court also found a relatively reasonable method, with the golden-veined war bee as the vanguard, the officials and military towns as the backbone, the requisitioned farmers as the main body, and the fields cleared out after the land reclamation as rewards.
In this era when cattle and horses are scarce, I don't know how many people are tired and tired to death for a while, but for the sake of that piece of land that can be planted, for the mouth of the family to have a bite to eat when the sky changes again, those farmers who live in the soil all day long still gritted their teeth and persevered.
As long as there is a harvest in a few months, all the hard work is worth it, even if it is only a few coarse grains and beans, which can be a treasure that can save life in a famine year. Wave
Chef Zhang and the ugly dog are very busy now, very, very busy, even so busy that they have no time to eat and sleep, and even go back to the house to serve the old lady.
But this Lingyi dog has lived quite a fulfilling life, especially the ugly dog, I feel that I have found a more important meaning of dog life than the blood pool, second only to serving the old lady and patting the old lady's ass, the most important thing in life.
It all started on that day, when he and Chef Zhang inexplicably circled around a group of well-dressed beasts, and then Chef Zhang opened his mouth and read a few paragraphs of the plan for land distribution from its page records, and the two of them had the official status of the Great Wei court in a daze, and also became a member of the well-dressed beasts.
And it's a second-grade member who is only one step away from being a great minister.
He became a big leader called the "Governor of the Governor of the Governor's Office for the Measurement and Distribution of Land in the Qincha", whether it was a prince or nobleman, or an official at all levels, or a wealthy family, all of them had to hand over the land accumulated by their families for generations, and then the two brothers would measure and distribute it uniformly.
The end is a fiery hand, a powerful minister, a traitorous minister.
Whoever dares not to hand it over, who dares to hide it, the master of the national teacher is merciful and purifies all sentient beings, naturally he will not raise the butcher's knife and kill, but there is a shortage of servants in the ancient mansion of the wife of the national teacher, since they don't want to be individuals, it is also excellent to be a ghost who has lost his sense of autonomy.
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Just when the Great Wei Imperial Court organized a great opening of the wasteland in full swing, Lan He, the great elder of the Yunhai Sect who was carrying a long sword, came to the vicinity of Weiyun Mountain.
He was first expelled and attacked by a swarm of golden-veined war bees, and had to retreat temporarily after a fierce battle, and then because he was worried about the safety of his disciples, he once again used his secret method to hide his body to avoid the detection of the war bee battle array, and came to the lava lake that had not yet solidified.
"What the hell is going on here!?"
"What about Long Ji and them?"
"Did you retreat ahead of schedule, or was it already annihilated?"
He stood silently by the lava lake, letting the heat bake his hair to the point of curling, and his heart was already in turmoil.
If all these disciples are not spared, it will be a heartbreaking blow to the entire sect, and if you add the previous batch of mysteriously missing monks, the backbone of the next generation that the sect has focused on cultivating has already suffered heavy losses, and it will take an unknown amount of time and price to restore the old view.
Isn't this the blessed land of chance for the beginning of the spirit element?
Why are there so many weird and terrifying things?
If it was said that when he traveled down the mountain, the alien creatures he encountered at the beginning were still within his control, then since the beginning of the numbing Nanli City in the scalp, to the current changes in Weiyun Mountain, what appeared in front of him was no longer the appearance of a blessed land of cultivation, but a place of great terror that had gone beyond control and was full of danger and weirdness.
In the next period of time, Lan He searched Weiyun Mountain again with some unwillingness, but after all, he didn't find anything, and all the disciples of the sect seemed to have completely disappeared between heaven and earth, leaving not even the slightest trace.
In the end, it was discovered by the golden-veined war bees patrolling and guarding, and it was immediately another hard battle.
After paying a certain price, he finally rushed out of the battle bee array, which was killing more and more, and was almost overwhelming, and tried his best to escape thousands of miles away from the danger of being surrounded and strangled.
Two days later.
Lan He emerged from the mountains and forests and came to the front of a city.