Emperor Qin

The early autumn morning was already a bit cold, and the sun was rising. The villagers in the locust trees picked up their farm tools and walked to the fields in twos and threes.

The old lady tied her gray hair with thatch, looked at the empty pot of the cold stove, and sighed. A ten-year-old girl wrapped in burlap walked up to her mother-in-law carefully, and said in a low voice, "I thought about it last night. Go to pick up some firewood, let the Limen supervisor meet me, I am not allowed to go..."

"Forget it, let's collect some corn first, and you can go to the next door to borrow some wheat rice." Hua Pozi felt a little guilty in her heart, "I'll go to the field to watch first, there are many thieves recently, so be careful when you come to deliver food."

There is still half an hour's journey away from my home. If I delay for a long time, the sun will be strong at noon, and I will suffer more.

The girl answered yes, and the old woman raised the lei, put her back on her back, and the moment she opened the door, the sun was a bit glaring, and she raised her hand to block it.

Her family is the servants of the Li family in Longxi, not just her, the whole locust tree is full of servants and concubines of the Li family, and the hundreds of hectares of land around are also the fields of the Li family. Just as I was thinking, I heard Li Zheng's familiar loud voice, and mentioning the credit of their Li family, she would recite it.

"Mr. Xin, this is the fief that Li Taishou got when he helped King Zhaoxian take down Nanjun. It covers more than 600 hectares. Most of the land in our locust trees is under the field. The soil is poor and the water is scarce, so we grow wheat. Now it's autumn harvest, what you want to plant, I'm afraid you will have to wait until next year." Today, Lizheng's voice is very careful, although he is habitually loud, but with a vibrato, Hua Pozi looked over curiously.

But he saw a tall and mighty young man dressed in fancy clothes, and said displeasedly: "Zhuzi is bold, why is he going to the field? He must be helping me. Isn't this intentional to embarrass me in front of Brother Jiang? Hurry up and change me to the field." Come!"

Lizheng was sweating profusely: "Mr. Xin, this is an order from the owner of the house. You don't know. According to the "Field Law", these wheat fields are nothing. Improving the fields without authorization is a felony and should be punished as a Jia or Cheng Dan. If you are a repeat offender , is to be punished as a concubine! Even you have to seize the title to pay for it."

As soon as Qin Lv came out, Mr. Xin felt a little resentful immediately, and said to his friend in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry, I was negligent." At the same time, he explained to him that a punishment of one armor is a pair of armor, and it is about a family of ordinary people. Half a year's income; Chengdan is to build the city wall until it is completed; Lichen and concubines are slaves.Qin Fali committed a crime, and his family's military titles can be used to offset the punishment.

"No problem, I always like to eat wheat rice, this place is just what I like." The young master next to him smiled.

Hua Pozi spat lightly, couldn't take it any longer, and walked away quickly, only the lowest servants and servants and concubines like them could eat it, and they would talk nonsense.

Although the mountain road is not easy to walk, she is familiar with the place, and soon came to her own cultivated land. A sparse wheat field was illuminated by the sun into a golden color. She picked up the Lei Si, and she dug out the wheat grass in clumps. After a while, he was sweating profusely.

She misses the copper knife at home a little bit. The wheat grass is flexible and precious weapons can be cut. It is a pity that her two sons participated in the war against Korea a few years ago and took the copper knife with them. Since then, they have never returned. Wife Bringing the grandson to remarry, leaving only one granddaughter, they have no choice but to grow wheat.

Although wheat is unpalatable, it is far easier to manage than corn and yields more. Wheat straw is a favorite pasture for cattle and horses, and it can be used as a tax deduction, but even this wheat grass is too difficult to harvest.

After a while, the granddaughter came over quickly and gave her mother-in-law a bowl of barley rice, and asked her to rest on the side. She picked up the Leisi and helped her mother-in-law to clean up the wheat straw. Roll it down and put it skillfully into the cloth pocket.

After eating the wheat rice, she lowered her head and continued to dig grass with the Leisi. At this moment, she suddenly heard a cry from her granddaughter.

Turning around suddenly, she saw her granddaughter struggling and screaming, being held on the shoulder by a man, and ran quickly into the mountain.

A surge of hot blood rushed to his head, Hua Pozi picked up the Leisi and rushed up, slapping the man on the forehead forcefully: "The plague thief!! Put down my grandson!"

But she was old and frail after all, the man skillfully dodged the leash, kicked the old woman in the stomach, and fled quickly into the forest, leaving the old woman crying heart-piercingly in the field.

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Li Xin's family is rich, and he seldom goes to the fields. He is panting from being tossed by the mountain road. Yan Jiang persuaded him several times to go back to the land he can see alone, but he insisted on not leaving. If you can't watch, how will these managers deal with it? Brother Jiang walks so easily, if he shows weakness, where will he save face.

Li Zheng was sweating profusely on the side: "Mr. Xin, the mountain roads here are difficult, and there are many bandits coming in and out. You are a noble person, so you should go back first, I promise..."

"Bandits? There are still bandits under my Longxi Army?" Li Xin's sluggish body was injected with chicken blood instantly, "I remember that according to the law, there is a reward of ten gold for capturing bandits, but no one caught them?"

Li Zheng helplessly explained that Longxi is the border, and it has always been the place where prisoners in Guanzhong were exiled. It is normal for those few to escape and enter the mountains. It is difficult for the army to enter the forest to find people, and the small team cannot find anyone.

Just as I was talking, I heard a woman lying down in the field and trying to crawl towards the mountain, crying hoarsely. When she saw someone coming, she didn't know where she got the strength to get up: "Please save my granddaughter, she has been captured by thieves." , There is no food in the mountains, those thieves have lost their conscience and arrested people, they want to eat!"

Yan Jiang raised his eyebrows slightly: "My lord, wait for me for a while, and I'll come back as soon as I go."

"I'll go with you..." With such excitement, how could Young Master Li let it go.

Yan Jiang didn't refuse, just smiled slightly, and after distinguishing between the bushes and weeds in the mountains, he entered the forest.

Before crossing, he was an excellent photographer who could track wild animals proficiently. After coming here, he traveled all the way from the Iranian plateau to return to China. Knowing the size and direction of the opponent's race, this kind of bandit really has no technical content in front of him.

Even if the thief treacherously walked against the mountain stream, the distribution of sediment in the water could reveal his whereabouts. When Yan Jiang caught up with him, the other party only ran less than a few hundred meters.

"Boy, if you dare to meddle in your own business, just stay with your life—" The man's beard and hair were disheveled, and he couldn't see his face clearly. He just took out a sharp wooden spear and stabbed at him suddenly.

Then, I saw a white light, as dazzling as the morning sun, and as cold as an autumn stream.

"...Come." When he said the last word, he felt himself getting higher and higher, and vaguely saw a headless corpse fall to the ground.

Yan Jiang took back the Uzi knife skillfully, then carefully half-kneeled in front of the girl, and asked softly, "Did you get hurt?"

The girl whose neck was strangled was unable to speak, and could only shake her head vigorously, with tears in her eyes.

At this time, there was a heavy hiss from the side, and Li Xin gasped: "Brother Jiang, your combat skills are so amazing."

"It's too good to be true. It's really a journey back east, and there are more beast bandits." Yan Jiang smiled slightly, "Practice makes perfect."

After all, he didn't come here by plane for the journey of ten thousand miles.

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After a day of surveying and returning to the guest house, Yan Jiang took out his notebook, calculated the area of ​​the field he saw today, and thought about how much alfalfa seeds to use. It is already September, and it is best to harvest as soon as possible...

He put down his pen again, thinking about what he saw today.

Not to mention bandits, Leisi is just a thin stone tied under the branch, which is a stone shovel, and the efficiency of harvesting with this kind of thing can be imagined.

If there is a scythe...

He took the pen and twirled it around his fingertips, drew an egg-like pattern, and added two more strokes. Soon, an ugly stove with a hollow compartment appeared on the paper.

On one side, the awakened owl walked casually with strides and posture, and sat down skillfully beside him. After looking at it for a while, he couldn't understand, so he pushed him with his wings. Seeing that he ignored him, he tilted his head skillfully to look he.

Yan Jiang was impressed, and explained happily: "This is called a local steelmaking furnace. It is a relatively outdated garbage steelmaking method. It is faster to produce molten iron. It can produce one or two hundred catties at a time."

The owl's eyes widened instantly.

This cute expression pleased Yan Jiang, and he couldn't help but take another bite of the bird.

Although the soil blast furnace is a kind of funny farce that has been sprayed out by later generations, it can only produce some low-quality pig iron, but it is also iron.

In addition, its advantages are still obvious. The structure of the furnace body is simple, and it is not much more difficult than building an earthen stove. If necessary, it can be erected all over the country overnight. Occasionally, I can also see that Yan Jiang's hometown has a leaking furnace standing on the back mountain, which became a valuable background for his childhood hide-and-seek.

And after he grew up and stepped into the photography industry where three generations of poverty ruined his life, he would occasionally see this kind of thing in the remote Middle East, which often brought him a strange sense of homesickness. It is not as good as forged and matured high-quality bronze weapons, but it can be made into castings by directly pouring molten iron into a clay mold, and it is a good farm tool for the villagers to grind.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the Uzis steel we passed by the Maurya?" Yan Jiang touched the love bird and said with a chuckle, "It may be that the iron is too heavy, we didn't bring much, if we can trade Uzis steel with the Maurya , that's a good thing."

Big Bird narrowed his eyes slightly. Before seeing Di Daoguan, it only regarded it as a big dream that lasted for two or three years, but now that he thinks about it carefully, the iron knife is really a treasure. It's a pity that it has to go to the court to discuss government affairs during the day, so it didn't see how he studied the refining method of Utz steel, but——it glanced at Yan Jiang, with a bird's face that was inscrutable.

Yan Jiang liked his spiritual expression, and couldn't help but hugged his chest and sucked a few times before continuing to draw pictures.

His Majesty stood beside him, looking at the composition carefully, with a more serious expression, as if he was looking at major events in the world.

Yan Jiang smiled and said: "Your Majesty is worried that I will be detained again? Don't worry, I will slip away before the King of Qin finds out that I am wrong. We have already experienced this kind of thing, haven't we?"