[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

When Xia Anran was a little anxious these days, it was Pang Tong who reminded him that although corn cannot be planted, it can be planted with beans.

Shu is soybeans, and there is indeed a custom of planting soybeans in this area of ​​Henan. The soybeans here are exactly the soybeans that Xia Anran used to germinate soybeans. Soybeans have a long history of planting and are one of the five grains. The problem of easy flatulence is generally not used as a staple food.

Since it is not a staple food, the planting area is very small, which is considered a small luxury in this era.

He silently glanced at his field, and suddenly realized that I had misremembered. Soybeans are used in rotation with wheat. Indeed, soybeans can fix nitrogen, and nitrogen is needed by wheat. The trace elements needed for the growth of the two are also They are not the same, but crop rotation is indeed complementary.

Although farmers are reluctant to grow soybeans alone and give up millet, what if a field can harvest soybeans and wheat at the same time?Its income will be much higher than growing corn alone.

In fact, there is another reason why people do not grow soybeans, because there is no demand.

Soybeans are now just ground soymilk as a fresh drink, or boiled and salted as a snack.Although it is rumored that there was a method of making tofu in the Western Han Dynasty, because people at that time did not know how to cook tofu after heating the soy milk, but ordered tofu with cold soy milk, the output and taste were not high, so it was not It has not been promoted, just as a fresh food.

Without a market, there would be no demand, and the cultivation of soybeans has never been popularized.

But Xia Anran knew that soybean would be a very good economic crop in the future.

It can be used to squeeze oil, make soy products to supplement protein, some soy products can be stored for a long time, and can be used to make soy sauce...

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Because it is the farming season, although there will be wars at this time in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, this is now a recognized truce period.

There were no major battles throughout April to May. For the Cao army stationed in the east of Luoyang, this was a time for them to repair and practice. Both Cao Chun and Cao Ren went out to "recruit troops" and "raise food". It is recruiting troops. Most of the people who can be recruited by them during the busy farming season are landless people or bandits. These people are not many in peacetime, but the Yellow Turban Rebellion is still sporadic, and the mountains that take advantage of the chaos There are not many bandits.

The two went all the way to the valley in the forest, and the harvest was not small.

As for raising food, this is also out of helplessness.

After setting Cao Jun's course of action, there are many advantages, but the biggest disadvantage is that the source of military rations has become a problem.

The source of military rations in this era basically depended on looting. After occupying a city, they searched for civilian rations and the previous military rations. Therefore, once the war started, it could not be stopped. If it stopped, it would be easy to run out of food.

Although Cheng Gao and Xingyang sponsored some grain, and Zhongmu provided money for Cao Jun to buy grain, but if this continues, it will be the result of sitting on the mountain, and it is imperative to find new grain.

You can't grab people's food. Cao Cao doesn't have his own territory and no taxes. Farming is only a small area. The area is not enough and the output can't keep up with it. So we still need to open source.

In this regard, Xun Yu's solution is to...be a benevolent army.

To explain, Xing is a verb, and Jun is also a verb. During the meeting, only Cao Chun showed a clear expression, while the other generals looked at him inexplicably, wondering why their military advisor repeated this point.

This kind of thing, you can just understand it, it can't be said.

After Cao Chun's explanation, they realized that what Xun Wenruo meant was to let them find the bandit villages in the village to rob the rich and help the poor.

Food and money can be dragged back, and people can also be snatched back. Wouldn't it be beautiful to sweep and add people along the way.

Cao Jun, who has been training for so long, is afraid that his weapons will rust if he doesn't move anymore.

After hearing Cao Chun's explanation, Cao Ren and the other Xiahou family brothers all looked at each other in blank dismay.

In the end, I can only sigh in my heart, those who have read the book... the heart is... um.

But Xia Anran didn't participate in all this, he was busy with the summer harvest.

Soybean seeds have been bought, just waiting for the wheat to be harvested.

Taking advantage of this free time, he found a craftsman to toss out the threshing machine again. The first time he was raw and the second time he was familiar with it. This time he made it much faster than in Yongchun, but after the threshing machine was made, because Cheng Gao now There is no grain waiting to be threshed, and it is impossible to verify whether this is useful. The villagers just watched it lively.

They didn't know how powerful this machine was until after the wheat was harvested.

The wheat harvesting was done with the help of the villagers. Xia Anran didn't look like he knew how to do farm work. When he saw him cutting the wheat with a scythe, the villagers immediately dragged him down and put him on the farm. went aside.

Xia Anran, who had been stabbed several times with just a few cuts, was truly aggrieved.

He had never felt that he was so thick-handed before, but Maimang was really hard to hide, especially for a novice like him in agriculture.

Seeing that the wheat harvester could not help, he ran to roll out the threshing machine and threshed the grains on the spot.

But soon another villager moved him away with good voice and anger.

They kept saying that they wanted to try this threshing machine, but in fact they disliked his clumsiness, the grains were often beaten into the air, and they were all cheap for birds that came to steal food.

In the end, others were in a hurry in his field, but Xia Anran was pushed aside and sat in a row with Pang Tong, holding a rabbit in his arms.

...Isn't this my field?

Don't you think this is a bit inappropriate?

Xia Anran rubbed the rabbit for a while, but after thinking about it, she still felt that something was wrong, so she simply got up and went to the back kitchen to order the chef to prepare some meals, and after the collection was over, she would invite everyone to have some light meals.

However, three fields, which are only three or four small acres (about 1.6 acres), can be harvested in half a day for a skilled worker.

Afterwards, when the grains were threshing, everyone gathered around to watch, and some people specially took the scales and weighed the wheat.

The data that comes out is not bad, even better than everyone expected.

Three small acres of land produced nearly five stones, which is not bad in this era of three stones per mu, let alone a complete layman tending the field.

What's more, this is winter wheat. In the eyes of people nowadays, it is very good that winter wheat does not reduce production, and it is basically impossible to increase production. Because Cheng Gao has no habit of growing wheat, so everyone actually does not know the normal yield of wheat. How much is produced.

But if it is this number, it is almost the same as the output of corn.

The people at the scene were a little moved. If the winter wheat can be harvested in April, then there will be another half a year to plant another crop in the second half of the year.It's just that because it is not yet sure whether this value is the highest value or the lowest value, more experiments are needed.

Although this figure is still not satisfactory to Xia Anran, he also knows in his heart that in addition to the land factor, the wheat production of the offspring is also due to the wheat selected after countless times of hybridization, selection, and breeding.

Xia Anran knew something about this.

At that time, when hybrid rice was being promoted, he had seen an introduction. In hybrid rice, the stamens of the A variety and the pistil of the B variety are pollinated and set up. Pollination planting, generation after generation selection of stable, high-yielding, or disease-resistant varieties.

Wheat went the other way.

It has been said before that wheat is an alien species. The ancestral home of wheat should be in the Middle East. Unlike the current bulging ears of wheat, the earliest wheat has only one grain, and later encountered a kind of pasture during the change. It happened that the flowering period was approaching, and the same pollinated plant was encountered again, and because of a natural distant hybridization, the yield doubled and became emmer wheat.

The emmer wheat lived locally and interacted with the pasture, and gradually the ears of wheat became more and more.

In other words, wheat is naturally a hybrid.

And this technology was later applied to the disease resistance of wheat. Xia Anran spent a lot of effort to prevent wheat diseases before planting the wheat. of bacterial diseases.But New China has encountered many large-scale outbreaks of bacterial diseases in wheat.

It was a scientist named Li Zhensheng who conquered the stripe rust called "wheat cancer". He spent more than 20 years cultivating a new variety that became the female parent of modern wheat.Many subsequent wheat hybrids and breedings have used this female parent.

He is a scientific research worker who won the highest science and technology award as an agronomist, and the other is Yuan Longping.

In addition to them, there is also a farmer inventor named Li Denghai, who has bred hybrid corn from him.

And it was these three agronomists who appeared almost at the same time that Huaxia could develop smoothly and smoothly like God, and get rid of the shackles of imported grain.

They share the title of South Yuan and North Li, and they can be called unparalleled national scholars.

In 1995, a writer named Rebs Brown used the agricultural development of Japan and South Korea as a template, referring to China’s agricultural development data from the 50s to 95, and wrote a book claiming that China will encounter insufficient production capacity in 2030. The world supports the food dilemma.

Ten years later, Academician Li Zhensheng countered this statement with iron-like data at the Boao Forum.

The Chinese can feed their own people with their own land.

At that time, Xia Anran saw this report.

He became interested in agriculture when he was proud and elated, but later, he failed to study in this field deeply.

He squatted on the edge of the field, picked up a fallen ear of wheat, and squeezed the grain that was not full.

I feel a little sad in my heart, the road to farming is still far away.

He asked the farmers to stay for a light meal, and after seeing them off, he called Pang Tong to rest, but he couldn't sleep when he was alone. After tossing and turning for a long time, he got up and ran to the grain drying field outside his house.

He picked up a handful of wheat casually, and the thresher naturally couldn't completely remove the outermost layer of bran from the wheat. Although a few of them fell off during the impact, most of them still kept the appearance of whole wheat .

The bran is very hard, and it is difficult for humans to digest the existence of this part. It must be reprocessed, but the wheat that is left behind does not need it. Wheat bran can protect the seeds from microorganisms and bacteria.And because the peeling technology is too troublesome, and the bran is not inedible, people now can't peel it, but choose to eat it together.

The wheat that has just been harvested and has not been dried is almost shriveled, as if it is malnourished. This is already under the condition of Xia Anran's fattening.

This kind of wheat may only be used as derivative products in modern times, but it can already be eaten as a good staple food here.

It has to be said that he was still somewhat hit.

But there is still good news. Some Chenggao people have decided to set aside a small piece of land to try growing wheat this winter, and some people have agreed with Xia Anran to exchange some wheat seeds at that time. The harvested wheat seeds are at their most vigorous, and it is best to be a seed.

On this day, his fields became bare, but the sun-drying field was full of yellow.

After turning the wheat several times in the sun, the field has been rested, and the fire dung made of wheat stalks goes to the field, and after a few days of exposure to the sun, the soybeans go to the field.

This time he planted all the fields with soybeans. Apart from the land on the Zhuangzi, the Xia family also has other fields in Chenggao, which are rented out. He has already made an agreement with the farmers there that this winter They will all plant winter wheat, and next summer they will all plant soybeans.

Making soy sauce was originally his decision to satisfy his appetite, but after talking about it with Xun Yu inadvertently, it became a must.

Because Cao Jun has no money.

Most of Cao Jun’s current military expenditures are provided by the Cao brothers, while the small ones are provided by various counties, or from “robbing the rich and helping the poor”. They are short of money and food now. Although the brewing cycle of soy sauce is very long, in the future I don't know what will happen, but if Xia Anran can really brew this delicious sauce, he can make deals with other counties in exchange for money.

At the same time, in order to brew soy sauce, the demand for soybeans will increase. In order to grow soybeans without conflicting with growing food, farmers will naturally choose to use winter wheat and soybeans in rotation, and give up the traditional mode of only growing corn .

This way of enticing the people to change is far softer than forcing it, and it is less likely to be rebounded.

The premise is that soy sauce can be successfully brewed, so in early April, Xia Anran tried to brew soy sauce from a jar.

Soy sauce brewing requires concentrated brine, soybeans, wheat, and wheat bran.He has all of them, but the price of soybeans is a little expensive now, so he just made a few small jars as experimental products-he doesn't remember the ratio.

If modern self-brewed soy sauce can directly buy Aspergillus oryzae and put it in directly, now he can only try to cultivate Aspergillus by raising the room temperature.As long as one case is successful, it can be introduced.

Thanks to a Japanese variety show he once followed, which let him know how to cultivate strains. He made a total of ten base materials, stayed for three days and three nights, and only one was successful. The only successful one was Aspergillus oryzae. They are planted in a larger base, and he does not start to process soybeans and wheat until a sufficient number is cultivated. The soybeans are soaked and steamed, and the wheat bran is fried. This is for the convenience of fermentation and to remove the impurities on the raw materials. strains.

After mixing Aspergillus oryzae and raw materials, they were put on wooden boards and fermented in the greenhouse. In order to avoid failure, Xia Anran specially asked Pang Tong to help record the process. Records of failure and success can be used for subsequent technological improvements. accumulated experience.

The first stage comes to an end until the base material is covered with mycelium and poured into salt water to seal the altar.

In order to make soy sauce before summer, which is the most suitable time for fermentation, Xia Anran boiled it for nearly two weeks, fell down as soon as the jar was opened, and slept for two full days.

Then he heard a news-Cao Cao and Sun Jian got on the line.

What... what! ?

Xia Anran was stirring the jar of soy sauce when he heard the news. This was to allow air to enter to promote fermentation. The news was brought by Guo Jia. When he heard the news, he shook the base material inside vigorously. It was all spread out on the ground, which made Xia Anran feel bad.

But he didn't have time to take care of this, so he hurriedly threw away the things and invited Guo Jia to come in and talk about it.

It was a coincidence that Sun Jian was in Jingzhou at this time in history, and he had just killed Jingzhou governor Wang Rui, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he was.

He was the prefect of Changsha at this time, and went north in response to the proclamation of defeating Dong. As a result, Cao Yin, the prefect of Wuling, gave him a false edict, which he believed to have forced Wang Rui to death.Killing an official, or a superior, is a proper crime of treason.He was worried when he heard a report that a small group was cruising in the nearby mountains for some reason.

At this time, Sun Jian was in a guilty conscience, he was not good at strategy, otherwise he would not be easily deceived by others, so he did this foolishly, and now his mind was in chaos. In the tent, I decided to fight first, and after the fight, I could think carefully.

He didn't bring any more troops, so a group of Qingqi rushed straight at those suspicious people. The people on the opposite side were obviously startled by their sudden rush out, but the formation was not chaotic at all. Sun Jian didn't know the word military flag, but the military uniform he saw through was not a regular army. Could it be that the Yellow Turban Army had a new leader?

This thought flashed through his mind, he didn't think deeply, he put his gun on his horse's belly and went up, "He Fangxiao is young, hurry up and catch him in front of Sun Wentai." Having said that, Sun Jian, who was in urgent need of venting, stabbed at the leader. Faced with people, the leader was also stunned when he saw them rushing out. After hearing his name, he was even more eager to speak, but Sun Jian's thunderous blow was really amazing. The young man could only shut up and resist, and the two left in an instant. He practiced eight or nine moves, and seeing that he was good at martial arts, Sun Jian became more and more excited.

He reined in the reins, and laughed, "You guys are good at it, report your name quickly, I don't want to kill an unknown person."

The leader got off his horse and clasped his fists to the frowning Sun Jian, saying, "Mr. Sun, Cao Chun is in Xiaqiao County. I'm here to seek an alliance with Mr. Sun."

"Alliance?" Sun Jian's eyebrows twitched, and when he mentioned Qiao County, he immediately thought of someone, "Your lord...is Cao Mengde?"

"Exactly."

"Oh?" Sun Jian had an impression of this man. He was also a member of the coalition against Dong, and he was in good condition. Seeing that the fight was impossible, he put down his gun a little disappointed, "The alliance you mentioned just now... the alliance between Cao Mengde and me? "

He was quite disapproving at this moment.

At this time, Sun Jian was the prefect of Changsha (although he had just done something stupid), and he had tens of thousands of soldiers under him, while Cao Cao had no rank, and he was only a false general who was appointed by Yuan Shao. , Cao Cao has no qualifications to form an alliance with him at all.

It's just that this young man is good at martial arts, Sun Jian is now thirty-five, and the eldest son has just passed fifteen, which is the prime of life.

Men in this age group usually cherish talents. Seeing that Cao Chun is good at martial arts, although he thinks the alliance is a bit ridiculous, he is willing to give the young man a face and listen to what he has to say.

Cao Chun leaned back to step aside, revealing a colorful tiger tied up behind him, and said to Sun Jian who opened his eyes wide in an instant, "Be careful, please accept it."

...With this tiger, Cao Chun had the opportunity to enter the camp for a detailed discussion.

In the end, although Sun Jian did not seriously form an alliance with Cao Cao, he also agreed that the two armies would be complementary to each other when they attacked, and both of them had agreed on the time to march. At that time, it would be a good idea to form a two-sided attack with Dong Zhuo's troops. .

Although Sun Jian was somewhat baffled why Cao Cao's subordinates came to him, and even more strange was why he was found here, but this was just a verbal promise, and of course he didn't need to refuse.

After agreeing with Cao Chun on the time to raise troops, Cao Chun left and said he was going back. Although Sun Jian was puzzled by his move, it did remind Sun Jian that he could find an ally.

Taking advantage of his own murderous oolong incident has not caused a big deal.

About half a month later, Sun Jian joined Yuan Shu's alliance.

Almost at the same time, Yuan Shao seized Han Fu's military power and took charge of Jizhou.

The power of the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu is unprecedentedly great.

Sun Jian and Cao Chun negotiated that the time to raise troops was after the autumn harvest.But in fact, they did not wait until after the autumn harvest, because a war broke out during this period.

Wang Kuang from Hanoi in the north went south to attack Dong. Although his move was reckless and was quickly repelled by Dong Zhuo's army, it was like a signal, and the allied forces against Dong quickly responded.

Cao Cao, who had been expanded to more than [-], led his army eastward. Sun Jian relied on Yuan Shu's supply of food and grass to go northward at the same time. Returning, Cao Cao, who was placed here, met his old enemy Xu Rong. This time, the two armies were evenly matched, and the fight was evenly matched.

Cao Cao has a slight advantage.

Because Dong Zhuo took away a large number of Luoyang people when he moved the capital, but now the number of people staying in Luoyang is too small to keep up with farming, and the people in Chang'an have just settled, and Dong Zhuo's food and grass have problems.

He is also smart, since there is a problem with food and grass, he can no longer grab it for his own reputation, if he can't grab it, then buy it.

He melted the bronze wares from Luoyang and Chang'an, and minted coins by himself, but he lacked knowledge of coins, the coins he minted had no seals, and the weight was far from the standard, which caused inflation for a while, resulting in As a result, its food prices have risen more than a hundredfold.

This state can also show that Dong Zhuo has encountered a shortage of supplies.

Although he controlled the Han court, the Han court was short of money at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He even engaged in such a waste of money as moving the capital. Later, he robbed rich households in Luoyang for money, opened the Luoyang imperial mausoleum, and stole the funeral. That's right, in the situation of war on all sides, the daily food of hundreds of thousands of soldiers is not a small amount. The soldiers under him can't be hungry. If they are hungry, they will mutiny. The productivity has not yet recovered. Most of the supplies of the defenders are supplied to Dong Zhuo. , Xu Rong naturally doesn't have many people here.

Behind Cao Cao, Xun Yu and Xia Anran tried their best to deliver food and grass. Because he sent troops to attack Dong, the people spontaneously donated food. His rear was stable, and the balance of victory gradually shifted to his side.

At this time, Yuan Shao was also leading the army to the south, Lu Bu was sent to resist Yuan Shao, and the three forces forced Dong Zhuo together. At the same time, fighting on three fronts was also a huge challenge for Dong Zhuo's food and grass. Obviously, he could not sustain this loss.

He withdrew.

This was the first real victory of the Allied Forces against Dong.

When Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Sun Jian actually stepped into the dilapidated city of Luoyang, they were all deeply moved.

This is where they started, but now it has become a ghost city.

The three armies were unable to pursue Dong Zhuo, and the autumn harvest was coming soon, and their food and grass were not abundant, and Chang'an was Dong Zhuo's stronghold, although it was a pity...it could only stop here.

When the three armies stand together, the difference is obvious. Yuan Shao's soldiers are the richest, and their food and grass are all good. Sun Jian's soldiers are next. In contrast, Cao Cao is very pitiful. The corn in the car, he sent... There are dried fish, dried meat, corn, and beans.

There are everything, and the quantity is not much. It can be seen that this is already out of pocket.

It can be said to be very poor.