Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"That's right, so the grassland is very chaotic now, and all the tribes have migrated far away." So Wang Zuo is in a good mood.

"The migration is gone... what about those who haven't migrated away?" Ding Tian was not only worried: "If those people died of cold and starvation, then...,,

He has never experienced border wars, but he has inherited the memory of the original owner.

Although the tune of "a family of nations" was not popular in ancient times, what they insisted on was "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different".

If they can't survive, they have to come to the border to rob!

Every time they are like this, they come to the "neighbor"'s house to grab one if they can't make it through.

And they not only rob food and clothing, but also rob cattle, sheep, horses and women...

Every time it is a catastrophe for the border people, it makes people feel uncomfortable to think about it.

"Not moving?" Wang Zuo sneered, "If you don't move away, just wait to freeze to death!"

"Really?" If they can all migrate away, that's fine!

"You don't know, it's true that the grassland is endless outside, but there is not even a big mountain that can block the wind. It's flat, and when it snows heavily, and the curly wind blows, the tent can be overturned, let alone the cattle and sheep outside. It’s gone.” Wang Zuo said: “The herdsmen have long been looking for a good place to spend the winter, and those who haven’t found a good place have to move away quickly, otherwise they won’t be able to survive the winter, but the people over there are strong and strong, don’t worry. Seeing that life is not easy, but one by one is the best cavalry, and we can't catch up with this."

"Wouldn't they put up tents for cattle, horses and livestock?" Ding Tian felt that this was a bit incomprehensible. If it's cold in winter, you should put up a tent for the animals too. At least they wouldn't stay in the open air. In that case, they might not be frozen to death.

"You don't know, ordinary herdsmen, how can there be so many leathers? They still wear leathers on their bodies, otherwise people will die. What's the use of cattle and sheep? Besides, they don't have any building skills." Wang Zuole said: "Their tents are made of cowhide

I don't know how many layers there are to protect against wind and cold. In this way, the damaged cowhide has to be replaced every year. People will have no tents to live in, and they will be returned to cattle and sheep? "

Ding Tian choked. He traveled to Mongolia in later generations. In addition to tourism resources, cattle and sheep resources were also very rich there. At that time, the farmland was returned to forests, grasslands were maintained, large-scale cattle and sheep breeding centers, and rows of cattle and sheep fences ...Centralized breeding not only grows meat faster, saves trouble, but also does not easily lose cattle and sheep.

After all, free-range animals are left to graze freely on the grassland. Some cattle and sheep are either killed by wild animals, dragged away, or drowned in puddles and other accidents.

Moreover, centralized breeding can also collect cow dung and sheep dung. These two things are used as fuel after drying on the grassland.

At that time, he remembered, it seemed to be burning a kind of boiler?Is the biogas fermented from cow and sheep dung used or what?

Anyway, the ranch was built by others!

A very comprehensive modern ranch, which also takes into account tourism, and the annual tax alone costs tens of thousands!

If everyone on the grasslands became rich, wouldn't they be able to fight wars?

In the first 30 years of Ding Tian, ​​he was born under the red flag and grew up in the new society. He was educated since he was a child that "56 ethnic groups belong to one family". As well as the warm reception, he likes it.

The Mongolian side is even more generous, a bowl of kumiss, one respects the sky, the second respects the earth, and the third respects the ancestors, and then the guests take the first sip.

Roasted whole lamb is delicious, and beef is even more delicious.

The cashmere produced in Mongolia is not enough every year. He wears a sweater made of real cashmere, which is very thin, light, and moderately elastic. Although the price is a bit expensive, he has worn it for several years and the clothes are really very warm. , and wear a down jacket outside in winter, he dares to go out for a long time without getting cold.

"Then they don't know how to use wool blankets?" Ding Tian suggested.

"It's also leather." Wang Zuo said, "And the sheepskin is too small."

Ding Tian was taken aback for a moment, and then thought of the "wool blanket" he saw at Wang Zuo's place. It was a whole piece of sheepskin that was cooked and laid on the ground, not the kind he imagined.

"I'm talking about a blanket made of wool!" Ding Tian gestured.

"You mean the carpet, right? That thing can't be blown by the wind, and it will fall apart when it blows." Wang Zuo poured a bucket of cold water on Ding Tian: "You can only put it under your feet and step on it, and you don't even dare to wash it vigorously. "

Ding Tian wiped his face: "Okay."

In this era, there is no wool.

It also makes the wool useless.

Ding Tian remembered that in history, wool was introduced to the East in the late Qing Dynasty, after the Opium War.

In the earliest photos, people at that time, just like now, either wore leather gowns (the inside is all kinds of leather, and the outside is satin or cloth) or face gowns (the inside and outside are made of cotton in the middle of the cloth) in winter. The fat is big, especially for children, like round balls.

The first to knit sweaters were foreigners who came to China, and gradually many wealthy and fashionable women also began to learn to knit sweaters by hand.

After the two finished chatting on this topic, they shifted their eyes and started talking about Xue.

It was getting dark outside, Ding Tian was going to cook, but Wang Zuo stopped him: "Don't go, I have prepared a mutton pot, go and eat."

"Okay!" Ding Tian was also very happy to cook: "Why did you think of eating mutton pot?"

"It's cold, so I want to eat." Wang Zuo also came to him, and besides giving him something, he just took him back to eat pots: "It just so happens that after winter, the last batch of caravans from the grasslands have also arrived. At the border, although they exchanged cattle and sheep on the grassland, they would not bring them back. Instead, they would sell them locally and exchange them for gold, silver or silver tickets and specialties from the Northland. I let people keep [-] sheep. After a few days, they will be frozen, and then they will be slaughtered for meat."

Wang Zuo brought a lot of people, plus the garrison, even a hundred sheep a day would not be enough.

The mutton probably cannot be afforded, but the mutton soup must be provided, as well as a lot of pepper, otherwise there is nothing to keep the soldiers out of the cold in winter.

"So much?" Ding Tian was speechless.

"There are more left in the frontier army. I heard that there are [-] sheep and [-] cows, all of which will be slaughtered. If there is no large amount of meat in the winter, the soldiers will not be able to survive." Wang Zuo said: "Still There's a lot of paprika, pepper, peppercorns...."

It's all seasoning to fight the cold.

Standing guard in the winter of the Northland is hard work. Alcohol was originally forbidden in the army, but in the army in the Northland, it is standard for one person to burn a knife two by two.

There is no way, the weather is too cold, especially those who stand guard at night, suffer the most.

"Eating and drinking are the same thing, why don't you wear thicker clothes?" Ding Tian knew about the Northeast. In his first winter, he almost spent his first winter in the prison duty room in Niujiao County. ah!

He is fully armed every time he goes out, not to mention muffs and the like, he even wears hand masks!

In the house, I dared not stop the fire all night. I bought coal to burn it, but I didn't dare to cover it too tightly. I was afraid of gas poisoning, so I always woke up in the middle of the night.

"It can't be done. If you wear too thick clothes, you will have trouble moving. If you wear too thin clothes, you will be very cold. You can only wear thicker clothes." Wang Zuo took him to the flower hall of the back house, where there was a copper pot. The bottom is a charcoal stove, and the top is a pot of mutton gurgling with oil.

There are not only mutton in the pot, but also potatoes and radishes.

There is also a plate of scrambled leeks with eggs, and a plate of sweet and sour garlic.

Fried peanuts, cabbage with vinegar pepper and so on.

After the two sat down, they began to eat. Ding Tian continued the topic after eating a few mouthfuls: "Then it can't make people freeze, right? How about using a sheepskin jacket?"

"They already have two sheepskin jackets." Wang Zuo said, "It's too thick to be flexible enough. These sheepskin jackets are all big jackets, and they can resist the wind once they are wrapped."

Ding Tian began to think about his cashmere sweater again. Even if he didn’t have a cashmere sweater, a thick sweater would do. It would definitely be more flexible than a sheepskin jacket. A sheepskin jacket doesn’t have much elasticity, but a sweater does!

After dinner, the two of them chatted for a while, Ding Tian made an inquire about it, and there really was no sweater in this dynasty.

When he got home, he dreamed of famous brands of wool such as "Yangyangyang", "Erduo" and so on.

When I went to work the next day, I realized that the weather was really cold. There were already icicles outside, and the sky was overcast, with thick dark clouds, and the sun could not penetrate at all.

Although there are two meals here in the cell, Ding Tian ordered ten catties of furnace fruit and ten catties of jujube cake from Cui Jiu in the name of the cell, and left the kitchen alone with a big pot for daily cooking. The mutton soup that is boiled in the pot, whether it is mutton soup or haggis soup, can't stop the hot soup every day anyway.

The kitchen also specially steamed cornmeal hair cakes, which are called pastries.

There is no meal at noon, so this group of people only have a piece of pastry, or a few stove fruits, with a large bowl of hot soup, which can also make them half full.

The weather was gloomy, which made Ding Tian very sleepy. He drank a bowl of mutton soup at noon, and fell asleep leaning on the quilt in the bedroom when he came back.

He went to bed too late yesterday and got up early today, if he doesn't sleep now, he is afraid that he will have a headache later.

When you get off work, okay, it looks like a dark cloud is overwhelming outside, and it looks scary.

There was no one out on the street at all.

Old Uncle Zheng wrapped the old sheepskin jacket tightly: "The prisoner should go home early? It looks like it's going to snow heavily today!"

"That's right, Old Uncle Zheng, hurry up and leave for work!" Ding Tian said, "Don't go home late to catch up with the snow. If it snows heavily tomorrow, you should stay away and rest at home for a day."

It is really unbearable to let the old man run errands back and forth in the winter.

"Don't say that." Old Uncle Zheng smiled: "It's snowing, if it's snowing heavily, everyone in the whole house has to come out to sweep the snow!

There will definitely not be enough manpower. "

"Oh, then you have to be careful!" Ding Tian spent the winter here for the first time. When he came, it was already February, and it snowed at that time and he didn't survive.

Back home, Wang Zuo didn't prepare any meals this time, so Ding Tian cooked fried potato chips, dried cucumber soaked in the morning, mixed with chili oil, sesame oil and chopped green onion, and ate it as a side dish.

The steamed buns with Lianghe noodles, served with a plate of warm white sliced ​​meat, complete a meal.

"It's going to snow today, is it... cold in your room?" Wang Zuo looked at the room, no matter how he looked at it, he was not satisfied. Any guest room in his Governor's Mansion was ten times better than this place.

"It's not cold, I've asked, and in autumn, people were hired to repair the house, mend the holes, and the kang passed through." Ding Tian said: "I'm afraid of the cold at night, and I still burn coal!"

Only then did Wang Zuo feel a little more satisfied: "Let your servants watch the stove carefully. You have raised them for almost a year, and they are all fat and healthy. Now it's time to take care of you."

Ding Tian was happy: "Okay, haven't they been taking care of me all the time!"

He can now say that he stretches out his hands to eat and opens his mouth. Apart from making some food for the person in front of him, other people are serving him.

Except for Xiao Nei, who needs to be washed behind his back, his pajamas are all washed by Maliujia. Fortunately, there is always hot water at home because of the burning stove, otherwise his hands would be cracked with cold when doing laundry in winter.

The key is that Ding Tian is a person who loves cleanliness in the eyes of others. If the clothes are dirty, it will definitely not work.

"Then you are kind to them too." Wang Zuo also admires Ding Tian. Although he came from a humble background, Ding Tian's temper is really good. Brother, if he hadn't dealt with it ruthlessly, he would have almost killed someone.

Although it is said that the lives of servants are worthless, who is not charitable?Unless the slaves make mistakes, the master's family cannot casually beat, scold or kill them.

Even if there are many people who know that there are many people who say this, but few people do it, but that does not include the palace.