Emperor Qin

In the ninth year of Qin Wangzheng, not long after the monarch came to power, the lives of the high-ranking nobles in Xianyang began to change a little.

First of all, a seasoning called pepper cumin, which was passed down from the Western Regions, became popular in Xianyang. When the guests come, they will open it and take out a little to entertain them.

It is said that this delicious spice is also planted in Longxi, but unfortunately the water and soil are not acclimatized, and the growth is very poor. The stock in the Western Regions has been withdrawn by the Li family in Longxi. Next time I want to buy it, I don’t know when I will have to wait.

In addition, there is a change in diet. Yan Qing used stone-milled wheat to make flour, and the old noodles that had been stored for a long time were used as "fermentation" to make delicious food. Qin Wangzheng's back kitchen has replaced it with cooking cakes and noodle steamed buns. His usual yellow rice.For a while, this food, like King Qin’s love to shave his beard on the grounds that he wanted to atone for his unfilial mother’s sin, led the trend of the times and became popular in Xianyang.

Even the criminal law has deleted "enduring punishment (shaving off the prisoner's beard)" from the criminal law.

There is also the appearance of paper, which makes the lords of the families very happy. In the past few months, Yan Shangqing has carved dozens of scriptures on the wall of the outer wall of the city. These precious scrolls greatly increased the collection of books in Xianyang City, and there were even students who came from thousands of miles away to ask for books. Unfortunately, Lu Buwei has been very cautious recently and no longer accepts customers, so many poor students can only work as servants. As for paper, They can only watch.

Yan Jiang didn't feel anything about these things. He and Chen Meng had already wandered in the clan land outside the city. There were more than a dozen huge pits built here, all of which were three meters long, two meters wide, and two meters deep. According to the requirements of the history, all the filth of Xianyang City should not be poured into the Weishui River, but should be dumped here.

According to Chen Meng's records, when the composting time is two months, the seedlings will not be burned, and they will grow best. Fifteen days is also fine, but the effect of fifteen days is far inferior to that of composting for two months. She left These days, the records in the field are replaced by the child named "Dog". He has learned very well, and has a very sensitive nose, which can tell the accumulation time of fertilizers. In the past six months, he has also learned a lot. Less words.

Corn is planted in the land of the clan, and the growth of corn without fertilizer is not very good. He looked at it and found that it is the time for jointing and earing of corn. This is the time when fertilizers are most needed.

He ordered where the surrounding land needed to be fertilized, and then carefully inspected the land, trying to recall the details of the planting country that could be applied. However, he only pretended to go back to his hometown during the winter and summer vacations, and he couldn't even remember the seasons of the species.

Forget it, anyway, a little groping will always find a pattern, and he is not in a hurry for the past two years.

The land here is relatively barren, and half of the land is fallow with weeds. Yan Jiang thinks that weeds can be pulled out and alfalfa can be planted, but it will take a year before a large amount of seeds can arrive.

Especially pepper, which grows in hot and rainy places.

"Fusu, what are you doing?" Yan Jiang asked suddenly.

The big tiger Huahua walked over with the children, Fusu patted the second senior brother happily, Huahua lazily spit out a fat field mouse, stretched out his claws and pushed towards the master.

Both raised their heads together, as if asking for praise.

Yan Jiang looked at the mouse, lost in thought.

……

He toured the experimental field assigned to him by the King of Qin, and told His Majesty the bad news at night.

"Your Majesty, you haven't been flying much since you came to Xianyang!" Yan Jiang shook Ai Niao's shoulders, and rubbed against its domineering face, before firmly saying, "Look, even Huahua can catch mice Yes, I don’t ask you to do it, you have to fly in the sky for at least a few days, right? It’s not enough to muddle along like this, you will suffer from three highs, high blood pressure, high blood fat, high blood sugar, and hair loss, let’s go out and train.”

His Majesty struggled to escape from the clutches of the devil, but failed, and was forced to fly for an hour by his servants, and was also deprived of food.

Yan Jiang couldn't take it anymore as the days went on like this.

He needed a life with some twists and turns, so he went to Li Xin.

Li Xin is still an official, responsible for the safety of the palace, but he usually takes Yan Jiang to meet up with his friends every now and then. As the King of Qin's staff, Yan Jiang's status does not humiliate them. Yan Jiang took the time to go to the martial arts field in the army.

He made a game, prepared to replace the arrowhead with rubber, and then led a group of second-generation soldiers to play a real-life shooting game.

"What is rubber?" Li Xin and Meng Tian were very confused.

So Yan Jiang pulled up a very common small yellow wild flower on the side of the road, pointed to the grass roots and said lightly: "This is rubber."

Rubber grass, which is a relative of dandelion, often grows together. There is milk in the root, but the content is very low. Many poor people he met in war-torn areas would collect this grass root and grind out the glue to repair broken shoe soles. When he was young, he heard from his elders that materials were in short supply when TG was founded. In order to obtain rubber, he searched for almost all rubber-containing plants, but it was useless. Facts have proved that the only natural rubber that can be used commercially is Hevea trifoliata, and others It's all scum, don't even think about commercial use.

This kind of grass root squeezed out juice and boiled with sulfur can harden and have resilience, but unfortunately there are too few.

With this kind of arrows that can be played, the second generation of the army is boiling, as if they have been injected with chicken blood, they can play for a whole day - it is not that they have never used real people as targets before, but the opportunities are too few, and most of them are fugitives Criminals have extremely low combat effectiveness. Now that they have this opportunity to fight each other, those who don't play are fools.

But the result was very touching. The Meng family brothers were placed at the bottom and were pressed and rubbed on the ground by Li Xin and Yang Xiong. As for Yan Jiang, after the first two games, no one played with him anymore. It's too boring to confront their army head-on.

Everyone thought it was not fun to have too few people, so they began to train some elite soldiers to form a team and lead the team to pinch each other in the mountains and plains. Yan Jiang wanted to join, but was rejected and was only invited to be a referee, which made him very upset.

Fusu chased him several times and wanted to play with him, but he had different identities. When he came, everyone would act like birds and beasts, and no one was willing to bring a trumpet. So he got angry and used a big move to find his uncle, Mr. Changping, and asked him to find some children of the same age. , to play with him—no, to exercise together.

So the sons of Meng Yi, Meng Tian, ​​Yang Xiong, Wang Ben, and teenagers under the age of ten from famous families in Xianyang were all sent to choose the concubine. After three and four were selected, the remaining eighteen were given to the son Fusu He invited his comrades in arms, and brought them to see Master Yan Qing one by one.

Yan Jiang just took another look at one of the boys named Zhang Han.

These children are very fond of Yan Jiang—the comic strips he draws, and they also like listening to stories, so much so that Yan Jiang feels that he has taken a preschool class, but fortunately, children in ancient times matured early, and these are the heirs he has cultivated with all his strength. He is well-behaved and sensible, and there is no one who is aggressive. One of them just made a fuss not to listen to this when he was talking, I want to listen to Journey to the West, and was chased away by Fusu the next day.

Very regal.

As for Qin Wangzheng, I don't know if it's an illusion, since Yan Jiang started taming the birds every night, he didn't see him very much.

"I don't know where to offend him. He is really a narrow-minded emperor." Yan Jiang said to His Majesty, and then saw His Majesty turning his head displeased, full of domineering air, so cute that he quickly poked love Pet, "Don't leave your majesty, take off!"

His Majesty glanced angrily, unable to bear the harassment, he spread his wings and flew to the eaves and remained still.

Yan Jiang happily climbed to the eaves: "Your Majesty, fly quickly after resting."

His Majesty flew down angrily and landed on the railing without moving.

Yan Jiang climbed down the wall again, and continued to poke: "Your Majesty, today's steps are not enough, hurry up and fly..."

His Majesty was so angry that he flew up and grabbed him, but he quickly dodged and praised: "Yes, that's it, hurry up and use more force."

His Majesty was mad, and flew to the Qin Palace.

Yan Jiangxin said it's okay, the Qin Palace is so far away, it's considered exercise, and then went to Qin Wang to ask for a bird the next day.

Qin Wangzheng condemned his bird abuse: "You should know the principle of benevolence and kindness. Everything is permanent. How can you treat the birds and beasts that have been with you for many years so harshly? Isn't it heartless and unjust?"

"Your Majesty doesn't know, it's sad that the animals lose their nature, and if it rises again, I'm afraid it will make my tiger salivate." Yan Jiang casually found a reason.

"It's about driving that tiger out of Xianyang." King Qin said resolutely.

"Also." Yan Jiang deserved it.

so easy?King Qin returned the bird with a happy expression, and told Yan Qing to follow it more and not to make it angry.

Yan Jiang nodded superficially, and then moved out of Xianyang City with Hua Hua, and went to live in Linjiang Palace by the experimental field outside the city.

His Majesty who woke up was stunned, and was chased by Huahua for almost an hour, and then the next day, King Qin also went to live in Linjiang Palace on the grounds of escaping the summer heat.

The days passed slowly like this, and by the beginning of October, most of the crops in Longxi had matured.

The sugar cane was brought in, and the top tip was cut off to be used as a seed, and the remaining juice was pressed out with stones, boiled and stirred into brown sugar—this sweetness is much higher than caramel sugar, and just one piece has already conquered Zhang Cang. So much so that this promising young man had to take away a lot of cane sprouts for planting.

The King of Qin even collected most of them, and occasionally used them to bestow meritorious ministers.

The whole of Xianyang was a sensation. Sugar is the best thing that can give people a sense of happiness, especially for an ancient person who has never been able to eat sweets. Having a brown sugar bun is a proof of status, and children are even more so. Sugar can be used to appease, but the mistresses are only willing to scrape a little bit of sugar for the child to eat each time, and even Fusu has to eat sparingly.

Yan Jiang didn't care much about these things. He was at a loss for a large pile of cotton now.

The cotton gin was seeded, but how, he had no memory of it.

King Qin didn't think it was a problem at all. He ordered people to pick out the cotton seeds by hand, and felt the softness of the cotton. He was very satisfied and rewarded Yan Qing with a good cotton coat and cotton boots.

Yan Jiang took the cotton coat and thanked the King of Qin, had a good drink with him, pointed out the country with him, wrote passionately, and thousands of households from six kingdoms waited for dung.

Then I ran away with bags——

"We don't have anything to do in winter. I'm bored after staying in Xianyang for more than half a year. Your Majesty, let's go abroad for a while..." Yan Jiang hugged His Majesty who had just woke up and was a little dazed with his left hand, and led the horse from King Qin's stable with his right hand. Li Ahuang, the horse snorted happily, and his whole body seemed to be radiating light.

"..." His Majesty was silent, without even struggling.

"It's impossible to love only one place~" Yan Jiang whistled lightly, holding white thatch in his mouth: "It's impossible in this life~"

Huahua groaned, as if in response.

"This time, you don't need to bring hundreds of catties of seeds, it's much more convenient." Yan Jiang felt relaxed, rubbing the owl's cute face, "Let's go to Korea first."

Zhang Liang should be still very young now, it would be a pity not to see him. Han Fei hasn't entered the Qin Dynasty yet, and when he enters the Qin Dynasty, he will only see the grave.

There is also the original style of the Six Kingdoms. After Qin's army is wiped out, there will be nothing left to see, and we must hurry up; there is also Li Mu, a famous general who has not lived for a few years; the three heroes of Pei County should all be young, There is also Jixia Academy of Qi State... the task is heavy.

As for the King of Qin, he has already seen it, and after he becomes Qin Shihuang, go hook up again.