I rebelled in the Song Dynasty

Yelu Yanxi still wanted to hold on, but her stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

The steward smiled and pushed Yelu Yanxi and said, "Eat first, eat first, and then talk after you finish eating."

Everyone washes their hands and face cleanly when eating.

It seems that you can't get food without washing your face and hands.

Everyone lined up around a big pot, waiting to make porridge.

Take a bowl of porridge and cake as you like, eat until full, don't waste it.

Yelu Yanxi was also very curious. He followed the queue to the front, and a woman gave him a bowl of porridge with a little pickles sprinkled on it.

She smiled at him and said, "Thank you for your hard work today."

Yelu Yanxi was suddenly stunned and didn't know what to say.

But the steward was urging, "Those who have received the porridge, go get the bread and eat while you're at it. Don't delay others' meal preparation."

Only then did Yelu Yanxi react. He nodded to the other party, smiled and walked away with the porridge. Then he found that the woman who was cooking would say to everyone, "Thank you for your hard work today."

The person who cooks will respond: "For our better tomorrow, the hard work is worth it, thank you."

Yelu Yanxi was stunned. What is this?

The pancakes are piled aside and you can grab as many as you want.

Yelu Yanxi took two and thought they were not enough.

Xiao Feng first took eight of them and put them in his arms. He looked at Yelu Yanxi mysteriously and asked for credit: "Your Majesty, look, this way we will have pancakes to eat when we are hungry tomorrow."

Yelu Yanxi frowned. Everyone took as much as they could eat. Maybe some kept it privately, but this person must not be Xiao Fengxian. As the dignity of the emperor, he did not allow his subordinates to have such surreptitious behavior, and then scolded him: : "Rules are rules, and setting rules means making people abide by them. If everyone breaks the rules, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"

Xiao Fengxian was a little unhappy. For whom did he say this, but he did not dare to show it and said: "Your Majesty, I can finish all the food. I will never waste any of it. I will starve to death today."

The biscuits that he had scorned and discarded at noon were very sweet in his mouth now, and he could take three bites each.

Yelu Yanxi was quietly observing the reservoir.

There are so many oxcarts and horsedrawn carriages at this construction site, and there is an endless stream of them. Even though the work has stopped now, there is still a steady stream of oxcarts and horsedrawn carriages loading soil in the distance.

At this time, a carriage seemed to be overloaded and the ruts broke.

The broken ruts pierced directly into the frozen soil, and the horse dragged it for several steps before stopping.

A golden light flashed in Yelu Yanxi's mind. The only thing that was difficult to dig was the frozen soil. If the frozen soil could be plowed, wouldn't the excavation below be much faster?

The frozen soil dug up today will freeze again the next day after one night.

The efficiency of repeating this method was too low, so I immediately approached the manager and told him about the idea of ​​using animals to plow the fields.

Khitan's agricultural industry is underdeveloped, not because the people don't know how to farm, but because they can't do it.

The quality of the iron they refine themselves is not up to standard, and the iron imported from the Song Dynasty will definitely be used by them to make weapons and armor.

There are very few good materials that can be allocated to farming.

But because their iron quality is not up to it.

The Quyuan plow has become popular throughout the Song Dynasty. Although Yelu Yanxi did not pay attention to farming, he also knew that there was such a thing.

The person in charge never thought that the frozen soil that was difficult to plow could be plowed by animals.

In the past, people used livestock to cultivate land and haul goods, but they never thought they could be used to dig frozen soil.

Some were eager to try, while others were worried: "The frozen soil is so thick, can the animals pull it?"

Even though they say this, they still let people try the effect. If it works, the construction of the reservoir will be accelerated several times, and their house can be built earlier.

There was no curved shaft plow, so the steward simply found an ox and tied it to its body with a rope.

The other section is tied to the pickaxe, and the pickaxe is inserted into the ground to drive the animal forward. The result is that it can really turn over the frozen soil, but it is a bit labor-intensive to control the pickaxe. Even so, the efficiency cannot be compared with human power.

Not only the frozen soil, but also the soil below can be plowed by livestock. In this way, the turned soil can be loaded directly into the truck, which saves a lot of effort.

If it is replaced with a curved shaft plow, it will definitely save more effort, and the news will be reported immediately.

The manager knew that Liu Sheng attached great importance to farming, and had already built a lot of curved plows for spring plowing, waiting to be distributed to various households after the spring began.

Nowadays, these curved shaft plows are not used on cultivated land, but they are first used to cultivate frozen soil and dig reservoirs.

He gave Yelu Yanxi a thumbs up and praised him: "You are a great talent. This is also your contribution. I will definitely report it to the general."

Yelu Yanxi had been flattered countless times in his life, but this time he was really happy and satisfied as never before.

He finally did something for the people.

But it also made Yelu Yanxi dumbfounded. Is this considered a great talent? It's just that he has a little more knowledge than the common people.

By this time, everyone had finished eating and the sky was getting dark.

Yelu Yanxi thought they were going to rest, but unexpectedly everyone lined up in a square formation of a hundred people to sit down.

Yelu Yanxi didn't know what they meant? Then a sergeant came over escorting a large group of carriages.

Yelu Yanxi was overjoyed. He thought it was Liu Sheng's conscience and wanted to take him back, but it turned out that it was not the case.

This group of sergeants escorted carriages into the construction site, and all the people seemed to be looking forward to it.

Scholar-looking people stepped out of the carriage.

Immediately he was enthusiastically encouraged and cheered by the people.

It turns out that this is the storyteller invited by Liu Sheng to entertain the working people.

Yelu Yanxi was also very curious and joined the crowd to hear what stories the storyteller could tell, but after listening for a while, her face turned dark.

What kind of storytelling is this? It’s obviously a story about Song Dynasty and Khitan.

Under the oppression of the nobles, the people of the Song Dynasty lived like pigs and dogs. The nobles threw away the food and did not give it to the people.

And how could the people of Khitan be abandoned by the government in such a snowy day, forced to serve in the military and sent to the battlefield, with their wives, children, and young children looking forward to their husband's return?

A popular saying is that except for Liu Sheng's place, other places are raging with war and the people are in dire straits.

They either starved to death, froze to death or were killed.

There were many incidents of being oppressed by the nobles. The people below gritted their teeth and wanted to go forward and kill the nobles.

Is this Liu Sheng's method? What a heart-breaking strategy.

After the storyteller finished telling the story, everyone did not rest, but formed a circle spontaneously.

They began to talk about their respective sufferings, thinking that when they were under Khitan administration, they only had endless taxes to pay.

A man said: "The harvest was not good that year, and our family was reluctant to eat the grain we had left. As a result, the government did not reduce taxes and received more than in previous years.