I am not in the position of Zen [Three Kingdoms]

The yield of soybeans is not high, but it has strong adaptability to the land and saves labor and land fertility.Therefore, in places where the land is barren, the common people plant more soybeans, which are widely harvested and thin, while in fertile places, they grow staple foods with high yields - millet, wheat and rice.

Soy has a fishy smell, and eating too much will cause abdominal distension, which makes people not want to eat more.Fortunately, more than 300 years ago, during the period of King Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, tofu and soy milk were invented.Shallots mixed with tofu, tofu boiled amaranth, are very delicious food.Soymilk is also a good thing because it is "flat in nature, sweet in taste, nourishing yin and moistening dryness".And at this time stone mills have been widely popular among the people, and there are rotating stone mills in every big village.This stone mill has been improved by craftsmen, and has criss-crossed helical teeth, which greatly improves the grinding efficiency. People who are not afraid of trouble can also make tofu by themselves, instead of going to the tofu shop to buy it.

After listening to Bu Yiwei from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Liu Xie felt that the development of beans could be more thorough.Since beans are not suitable as a staple food, and it is troublesome to make tofu and soy milk, then they can be taken to the oil factory opened by the imperial court to press soybean oil, and the remaining bean cakes can be used not only as feed for livestock, but also as fertilizer for planting crops .

The northwest is vast and sparsely populated, and there are large areas of wasteland that no one has cultivated. Most of these lands are barren and not suitable for growing wheat, but they can be used to grow soybeans.Liu Xie only regrets that the great navigation technology in this era is not good enough to bring high-yield crops such as corn, peanuts and sweet potatoes directly from South America, and he has to order people to do experiments on hybrid beans, hybrid rice and hybrid wheat, which will take years of exploration and practice Try to increase food production.

As for the shortage of manpower, Liu Xie has an idea, and can adopt the farming system that Cao Cao once implemented in another time and space.

Tuntian is not something that ordinary princes can do.To farm on a large scale, first of all, there must be a large number of farmers and enough farm tools.At that time, Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban of Yuzhou and seized a batch of farm tools and cattle, so that he had the capital to farm.Fortunately, the young emperor has national credit as an endorsement, so he can recruit refugees to garrison fields for "civilian garrison", and soldiers stationed on the frontier can "army garrison".As for farm tools, don't worry.After Liu Xie improved the smelting technology, the efficiency of several smelting plants in Luoyang and its surrounding areas has been greatly improved, and it is not difficult to make batches of high-quality sickles and hoes.

Since Liu Xie came to the throne, the imperial government has never paid credit to the institutions that recruit people to work and the projects they implement. These smelters, garment factories, and projects to build outer cities pay a lot of money and good food. The prestige of the imperial court has been fully established in Luoyang ,unbreakable.The reputation of the new emperor's virtuousness and love for the people like a son also gradually spread to all parts of Sili Prefecture, and even wider areas, along with the recruitment of soldiers and workers.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there have been many refugees in the Han Dynasty.The land conflict in the Central Plains was sharp, and there was not so much land for them for the time being, so Liu Xie thought it would be better to lure them to the frontier area first.Before that, Liu Xie issued an imperial edict to recruit people to relocate to Dingxiang County, reward land reclamation, and gave many benefits such as house allocation, tax-free land allocation, and free use of official cattle for the first year.This time Liu Xie stepped up his efforts and issued an edict saying that the villagers who went to Bingzhou would be exempted from all corvee.Villagers can get tax-free land, their own set of farm tools, and free cattle for the first year.

Such lenient conditions are unprecedented, and more and more landless poor and farm laborers have moved their minds.But Bingzhou was far away, and they were afraid that they would starve to death on the road before reaching it, or be reduced to rations for wild animals.

At this time, in a remote town in Sili Prefecture, everyone gathered under the newly posted imperial list.Some people couldn't help feeling: "If we go here, the family will live a very nourishing life! It's a pity that as long as I don't find work for a day, the whole family will go hungry. There is no food left on the road to eat. How can I get to Bingzhou?"

Some people disagreed: "There are so many barbarians in Bingzhou, so what if you grow food, you will be snatched away!"

The heads of Xiongnu soldiers are also valuable things. Someone said: "Isn't there a military camp next to the Mintun? What are so many Han people afraid of gathering together? Besides, it would be better if the Huns came. If we can get the heads of the Huns, It can be exchanged for a lot of silver!"

Mintun's recruiting target is the poor who can't read a basket, so the recruitment is done after the emperor's list is posted, and when people come to watch, the soldiers beat gongs and drums to explain.

Hearing their concerns, the leader in charge of this area immediately said: "Don't worry, the place you are going to is not at the far end, but in the middle of Bingzhou! Next to Mintun is the next military village, a Mintun There are at least 100 people, and there are more than [-] soldiers in the nearby military camp. They also have to farm, and they have the responsibility to guard the place. The food that comes out must not be snatched by the barbarians."

The emperor evaluates the performance of recruiters based on the number of recruits, and pays salaries.Therefore, the leader was very motivated, and he shouted loudly to those who were worried about starving to death on the road: "You don't have to be afraid of starving to death on the road, just take your family and pack your things and go with us. Let's go to Luoyang City to get farm tools and seeds first. Gather together with other people, hundreds of people will go on the road together, and there will be someone to take care of the food on the road, so no one will go hungry!"

Someone asked suspiciously: "Is there such a good thing as a pie in the sky?"

Zhaotou immediately said: "It can't be more true. You don't know the emperor is kind. When we were in Luoyang, the emperor asked a medical clinic to give free porridge on the street every day, and asked the medical officer in the palace to give free porridge to all People go to the doctor and see a doctor! This is all because the emperor wants to find a place to settle down for those who can't live!"

Someone from a family who was already in trouble asked, "Is it really in charge of the meal? If you go with the military master now, will you take care of the meal tomorrow?"

He waved his head and patted his chest and said, "I don't care, I can do it now! As long as you sign up and get your fingerprints, from now on, I won't let you starve to death."

The man said happily: "Then I will carry my old lady on my back!"

There was someone who knew this person nearby, and couldn't help whispering to others: "His old lady is 70 years old and can't even walk. Can Lord Jun raise a mouthful to eat for nothing?"

Everyone talked a lot, and everyone didn't leave for a while, waiting for the man to come back.

The person who signed up just now felt the wind on his feet, and he came over in a while carrying his mother on his back.Everyone thought that the military master would have an attack, but he didn't expect Zhaotou to react at all, he just said: "The journey is long, your mother has to carry it all the way by yourself, if you can't walk and slow down everyone's speed, both of you have to be dealt with according to military law." Yes, understand?"

The man nodded quickly: "Master Jun, I know. I'm used to carrying my old lady on my back, and I will never walk slower than ordinary people, I promise!"

The leader agreed, turned around and said to the side: "Please give me two copies of the deed."

Another soldier, who was dressed and looked different, took out two blank sheets of paper and a box of red ink pads from his pocket.

Zhaotou told the man about the items recorded on the paper without any impatience, and then asked him and the old lady to press their fingerprints on the paper respectively.

After pressing, he beckoned to take one and gave the other to that person.

"My lord, is this done?"

He nodded his head, pointed to a soldier and said, "That's it, you follow him to our temporary camp, don't worry about eating, you will have two meals a day with us, and you will eat the same millet and rice. Wait three days for the place, and leave when everyone gathers."

When the surrounding onlookers saw it, the hearts of those desolate people were all moved.

Such things happened in various places in Sili Prefecture and Yongzhou, and the number of people recruited even moved Liu Xie: "The ancient people settled down and relocated, especially the people from the Central Plains. If it wasn't that they couldn't survive, who would leave their hometown to open up wasteland? It seems that this world is more chaotic than I imagined."

This further strengthened Liu Xie's determination to improve the lives of the people.It may take many years to use hybrid rice to greatly increase rice production. Now the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries under the rule of Bu Yiwei has not yet planted the first batch of hybrid rice.However, in this era, the grain yields from land with fertile land and convenient irrigation were already relatively high.The top priority is to build water conservancy and reclaim wasteland to increase fertile land.

So the imperial court began to recruit workers on a large scale in the thirteen states of the world.During this period, Liu Xie had already discussed with Zhang Qiaoshou how to extract the oil.The wisdom of the ancients should never be underestimated. Liu Xie only briefly described what he saw from the documentary: "The method I got in my dream is to put the oil cake to be squeezed into the trough first, and use it from narrow to wide. A wide and long wooden wedge is driven in, and the oil is squeezed out and embedded in the groove. The wooden wedge can be pushed, but not directly with the strength of the arm, but is hung in the air by a stick like a swing, so that people can stand Pulling a huge log to keep hitting it. This design makes it easier for the arm to exert force, and it is less labor-intensive to push and hit the log.”

The wisdom and hands-on ability of the ancients should never be underestimated.Through such a rough and unprofessional description, Zhang Qiaoshou combined with the Mohists and several of his apprentices to find out the world's first oil-pressing equipment.It has been verified that it is ten times more efficient than squeezing out the oil by applying pressure on the crushed oil with the strength of the arm.

With this kind of oil pressing equipment that uses leverage and inertia, five or six people can simultaneously drag the log and hit the wooden wedge, which saves a lot of effort in the inertial momentum.Relying on low labor costs, the "Luoyang No. [-] Oil Factory" began to suppress the price of oil, leaving nowhere for those aristocratic families that originally operated the high-profit industry of oil extraction, and soon monopolized the flax oil in the Luoyang market.

Whoever lives in Luoyang does not know that behind XX factory is the royal family.These aristocratic families would not directly compete with the royal family, so they thought of another way to make huge profits.They began to buy low-priced oil from Luoyang No. [-] Oil Factory, and then sold it to all parts of the country through their own caravans.

At this time, rapeseed, also known as mustard, can also be used to extract rapeseed oil. Unfortunately, there are no large areas of mustard, and it is difficult to purchase raw materials.Although the oil yield of soybean is much lower than that of flax and rapeseed, its cost is low, and the market price is only one-third of that of flax oil.After the first bottle of soybean oil was produced, this kind of oil, which is much cheaper than flax oil, quickly entered the small families and small officials who could not afford flax oil, and it will grow on the dining table of my big foodie country for more than 1000 years in the future. Prosperous.

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