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

Relying on the abundant water resources in the country, Zhongshan Country mainly produces rice.As the lord of this place, Xia Anran naturally develops in the direction of rice.

Zhongshan Country is located in modern Hebei, which belongs to the mid-to-late rice area. Unlike direct-seeding wheat, seedlings need to be bred in seedling trays first, and then transplanted to paddy fields after they grow certain roots.

There is such a need because compared with wheat, rice has a natural enemy, and that is the rainy and windy southern weather.

The root system of direct-seeded rice is shallow, and due to the poor direction of sowing, its roots will develop horizontally, and it is easy to be uprooted if it encounters strong winds.In addition, there are two-crop and three-crop rice areas in the south, so the time for seed germination must be saved in order to rush to harvest and plant.

Of course, there is the most important point, that is, the germination rate of seeds is low at this time, and the rate of weak seedlings is high.

In the seedling tray, the weaker seedlings are carefully cared for. If it is cold in the late spring, the temperature in the house is easier to control, and it is not easy to miss the spring sowing.

At the same time, this action can also eliminate poorly performing seedlings, so that the seedlings that go to the ground are all good seedlings, and spare seedlings will be left when raising seedlings. If the situation is not good after transplanting and accidents occur, they can be replanted in time. Output can also be controlled.

But in fact, due to the quality control of seeds in place in modern times and the lack of rural labor force, many places have also adopted the method of direct seeding to grow rice.

More Great Plains areas and agri-food companies also use rice transplanters for various needs.

Nowadays, there are only a small number of large-scale machinery in China that cannot be used, or in order to reduce costs, artificial rice transplanting is still used in areas with a surplus of labor.Of course, with the development of small agricultural machinery by machinery companies, as well as the inclination of resources and structural optimization of the country's primary industry, artificial rice transplanting is likely to become a documentary or a folk activity in the future.

In the Guoduo Plain of Zhongshan, the most common paddy field transplanting technique is naturally used here. Even in the Western Han Dynasty, their planting method of first raising seedlings and then transplanting was still an advanced concept.

Xia Anran had already discovered a problem during the previous autumn harvest - the situation of one country with multiple systems in Zhongshan was serious.

This is mainly due to the splicing of many counties and counties in the Zhongshan Kingdom, but because each region has its own rules and technology points, there are naturally certain differences in the agricultural machinery and equipment used by farmers in various regions.

Not only the difference in tools, but also the difference in labor habits, all of which were reported by the officials before the winter, and they brought the most commonly used farm tools by farmers from all over the place.

The reform of agricultural tools is inevitable.

Xia Anran only took a few cursory glances and knew where the problem was.

To say that the most important classification of agricultural tools is soil preparation tools, however...

The little king looked around, but he didn't even find a rake. The land was repaired by shovels and hoes. Although there were plows, they were more traditional manual plows, or should this be called an advanced version of Leisi?

Why not use animal power?

The official told him with some embarrassment that horses are not good at plowing the land, and donkeys are too bad-tempered and easily damage the land.

"Why not scalpers?" The little king's eyes widened.Regarding his question, the clerk looked at him with complicated eyes, and murmured: "The ox... is more stubborn than the donkey, so it's not easy to pull."

The little king was stunned.

In the winter of this year, cattle nose ringing activities were fully carried out in various places in Zhongshan.

In fact, the existence of cow nose rings should have existed long ago. After all, cows have existed as the main animal force of human beings for thousands of years. Later generations also discovered copper bulls wearing nose rings, which proves that cows in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods already had nose rings.

Although considering that bronze wares are also regarded as ritual vessels, this cow should also be a cow in a nobleman's house, and may not be treated the same as ordinary people's cows, but at least some people have realized that a cow holding a nose is more docile. In areas where cattle are the main driving force, there must be many people who are willing to give it a try.

But it may be that the news of the long-term war is not smooth, and the second is that Zhongshan is one of the few areas that can grow rice in the north. The different farming methods of paddy fields and dry land also make it difficult for information to spread smoothly, or the successive wars during the Qin and Han Dynasties made civilization and tech points have gone backwards.In short, the current result is that the cattle in Zhongshan do not use nose rings.

But fortunately, after searching all over the country, there are still people who probably know how to wear nose rings. Xia Anran asked him to lead a team of people up and down to wear nose rings for each family, and there was no need to force orders. The farmers heard that this method can Let the cow become honest and come to ask naturally.

In fact, this operation is not difficult to say.

Nose piercing is to use an iron pick to pass through the cartilage between the cow's nose, and then stuff it into a circle to prevent the wound from closing.

Of course, in order to prevent wound inflammation, it is best to use inert metals in this circle. Gold and silver are impossible, and copper is also more valuable. Someone cleverly took a small piece of copper strip in the nose of the cow, and then connected the copper strip with vines. The ones exposed are naturally vines, which are inconspicuous and not prone to inflammation.

Now that the animal power is in place, the task of transforming agricultural equipment can only be done by Xia Anran.

Needless to say, the rake is an essential tool used to break the soil from large pieces to small pieces. Of course, the combat effectiveness is amazing at critical times. It can protect the home and go to the ground. It can be called the No. 1 agricultural weapon.

Today's plow will also be changed to the Quyuan plow, which mainly uses animal power. After drawing, he handed over the structure diagram to the carpenter.In order to achieve the best purpose, he asked the blacksmith to cooperate with the carpenter to try to configure the iron plowshare.

Even though he seemed to have lightened up the skill of painting with a brush, Xia Anran still planned to wait for the spring to have someone look for graphite, or try to see if he could rub the ink into small pieces.

He even had a whimsical idea of ​​using ink sticks as a pencil lead to make a "pencil" full of Chinese characteristics, but of course he gave up in the end.Obviously, he didn't light up this skill point.

Xia Anran felt a little regretful for a moment, then continued to invest in various transformations.

In addition to these things, Xia Anran also made special paddy field props called "Yangma".

This is what he once saw on a retro variety show.The overall shape of Yangma is like the rocking horse played by the worst children. It is made of wood in a crescent shape with a skateboard at the bottom. People sit in the middle and can store things front and back.

It is impossible to test when this kind of thing was invented, but it was promoted in the Northern Song Dynasty when rice was the main crop.

When transplanting rice seedlings, the soil is soft and muddy, and the round smooth bottom surface is easy to move, and people can slide backwards with one foot after planting a piece of rice seedlings on it.

In some modern rural areas, such tools have been simplified to a scooter + small stool.

In addition to transplanting rice seedlings, it can also be used when thinning seedlings or encountering accidents and needing to pull out rice seedlings. This tool can greatly reduce the physical exertion of farmers when transplanting rice seedlings, protect the body, and reduce lumbar strain.

But he didn't intend to officially promote this thing.When the time comes, the farmers will make it when they see someone using it. Not only will they be able to make it, but they will also improve it.Utensils made of pure wood can be knocked out by ordinary farmers.

What Xia Anran is trying to promote is the composting system.

People now have the concept that manure is good for plant growth, but they don't know how to treat manure at all, it's better to say... no treatment at all.

The little king was stunned after listening to the introductions of several farmers. He couldn't believe that these people sprinkled fresh manure directly on the field without fermentation or base manure.

Well, isn't that farmland...

Forget it, can't think about it!

He hastened to warn himself.

The academies in Zhongshan have been opened, and public toilets are used in the academies.Due to various considerations, the toilets in the dormitory use ancient Roman public toilets.

The main difference is that one is a squat toilet and the other is a sitting toilet.

After all, they are all scholars. It is really insulting to everyone to squat in a row, but it doesn't matter if you sit in the toilet. At least from a glimpse, you can't see the white butt.

Although it may be suspected that the seat is occupied for a long time because it is too comfortable.Cough, after all, the toilets in the school are designed as squat toilets to prevent students from occupying the pit for a long time.

But he believed that these students who had sharpened their heads and tried to find a way to squeeze themselves in still had some self-control. So far, he had never heard of any problems with the toilet.

Of course, due to the consideration of personal privacy, there are also half-length cubicles between people, which guarantees a certain degree of privacy.

The students in the dormitory have a certain share of toilet paper, and these papers are naturally made of relatively inferior materials. When making paper, Xia Anran asked the people in the paper workshop to experiment with the different effects of almost all non-toxic plant roots and leaves.And encourage artisans to mix and use a variety of plants to avoid the impact of using a single species on the ecology.

Although Liu Qi ordered that the private sale of paper is not allowed, it doesn't matter if he makes the paper himself and uses it for himself.

Of course, out of hygienic considerations, the toilet paper used by the students has been boiled and sterilized before being broken into pieces. The color is not very good-looking, but the water absorption is still very good.

But Xia Anran obviously didn't realize how unbearable it was for the students to get a batch of precious paper to wipe...to wipe that, and even a large-scale use of toilet paper happened.

Although everyone dare not write homework on it and hand it in, it doesn't matter to use toilet paper to practice calligraphy...

What should I do if the ink is rubbed on the buttocks?Heh, the men of the Han Dynasty don't care about this.

They don't care about Xia Anran, but they do.The main ingredients of the ink are smoke material plus some herbs and gummed paper. These things are naturally non-toxic, but if you wipe your butt for a long time... you are not afraid of hemorrhoids?

Although nine out of ten men have hemorrhoids, he doesn't want to hear that there will be a doctor who is famous for treating hemorrhoids in his fief one day!

In desperation, Xia Anran could only send someone to Gaoyang County in the lower reaches of Zhongshan Country to discuss the purchase of reeds.

Gaoyang County is located in Baiyangdian, a famous natural tourist attraction in the North China Plain in later generations.

The reeds in Baiyangdian Lake are very famous even in modern times. Groups of reeds can purify water quality and conserve water sources. The large wetland where it is located can regulate the ecological environment of an entire area.

At the same time, the reeds can also provide protection for wild animals, which is an important node when migratory birds go south.

Today's Gaoyang County, like later generations, is also famous for its reed products, especially the straw mats used by every family today are based on reed mats.

Reed mats have many advantages. In addition to being wear-resistant, they are cooler than straw mats, but not as cold as bamboo mats.

Of course, in addition to making mats, reeds are also very effective in shading.Moreover, reeds are aquatic plants after all, so they are not afraid of rain and mildew. In ancient times without air-conditioning fans, sunshade curtains were a very important way to avoid summer heat. The hollow setting can also store air and block the convection of hot and cold air. , High heat performance.

To process reeds, it is inevitable to produce waste products.

The small profiteer King Zhongshan set his sights on these waste products. He was eager to buy some waste products that the local people did not want before the papermaking technology was used by the local people.

After thinking about it for a long time, he felt that although he traveled thousands of miles to buy it, even if the freight was included, it was still more cost-effective than mobilizing the masses to cut reeds in winter.

Things went as he expected, and the magistrate of Gaoyang County was obviously surprised by this deal, especially after the Zhongshan side stated that the transportation was all up to them.The people who came back and forth gave Xia Anran a very low price. After discussing with the subordinates, the county magistrate of Gaoyang felt that it was free money. Although they didn't want to make a fortune, they were also afraid of it. The vassal king next door was angered, so he simply went elsewhere to buy it.

After all, there are not many reeds in this area with many rivers.

Gaoyang County is rich in reed resources, and the waste after manufacturing processed products has no other use except for burning fire.If it is sold, it will save them from setting fire to ashes, or digging pits to bury it.

As for the ashes needed for cleaning...then there are more intact reeds in the water, and it is also a fire, which can burn more.

Scattered items to be processed are laborious to carry, but they are better if they are complete - the country of origin is so rich and powerful.

As for the Zhongshan Kingdom's request, it should be crushed as much as possible so that they can carry it... What kind of thing is that, it's completely fine.

In winter, the common people have no income, so if they can get more, they can get more.

So Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan, went to other places to give benefits after giving benefits on his own land, and this time there were many unexpected gains.

The Gaoyang county magistrate, who is very good at coming, sent a lot of local specialties to thank Zhongshan King who came to send warmth.

Sending these things is to show closeness, and secondly, it is not eye-catching. Even if he is impeached, he has a reason. How do you value souvenirs?You say yours is as expensive as oil?Hey, I said he is as cheap as dirt with us, what can you do?

Unexpectedly, this gift opened another business route for him.

King Zhongshan placed an order for waterfowl, not just ducks, but also pelicans, cormorants, egrets, swans and so on.The locals are baffled, but these birds are relatively friendly, especially the pelicans and cormorants, who often follow the fishermen out of the boat and even accept the fishermen's feeding. It is not difficult to catch them.

It's just that it's a little troublesome to catch the work. Why does King Zhongshan want this?This is not tasty.

As for the ducks... Doesn't Zhongshan have ducks?

Of course there are ducks in Zhongshan, but the breed is different from the small breed that Xia Anran needs.The ducks in Zhongshan Country are large meat ducks, and because Xia Anran purchased items from the people many times before, the farmers in Zhongshan Country are much more abundant than in previous years. In winter, many more people eat meat than in previous years. The ducks have suffered a minor disaster, and it will take at least one spring for the number to recover.

But the time he needs ducks the most is spring.

In Gaoyang, most of the ducks are wild ducks, and there is also the white-browed duck that Xia Anran nods for. This is a small duck, even if it is an adult, it weighs less than a catty. The locals are too lazy to catch and eat. their eggs.

For white-browed ducks, their natural enemies are definitely not human beings. On the contrary, human beings are still their good friends, and many fisherman look down on throwing small fish that will become their delicious meal.

At this time, there are very few ways to prepare pesticides, and the cost of more effective drugs is high, so it is impossible to spray on a large scale.

Dealing with bacterial infections is worth mentioning, but the work of deworming can be done by ducks.

Ducks like to eat insects when they are young, but they don't like eating grass very much.

Put them in the rice field, the small fat legs can help to kill the weeds that emerge, and the mud in the water will be stirred when the flippers are waving. The dark environment can effectively prevent the weeds from sprouting.

At the same time, their poop can fertilize the fields, and can also eat the miscellaneous insects and screws in the fields that are not conducive to the growth of rice.It can be said that the paddy field duck is a good friend of the farmer's uncle until the rice heading.

After earing, they have to catch them all, otherwise the rice flowers will be their snacks.In addition to rice field ducks, he also heard that some places have the habit of raising rice field fish. Xia Anran's next plan is to buy some crucian carp and carp fry and throw them into the rice fields for a try.

Wait a minute, Xiao Xia Miao, a city resident, suddenly discovered a suspicious point—don't ducks eat fish?Or should we wait for the fish to grow up before releasing the ducks?

Xia Anran touched her chin, ready to give it a try.Anyway, ducks, rice, and fish will never be wiped out, and there will always be a batch of success, then he will not lose money.

As for the waterfowl beside him, heck, it's entirely his personal interest.

In the vast lake, driving a small boat through the reeds, you can see egrets flying by when you look up, cormorants enter the water in front of you, and pelicans open their mouths to absorb water, what an artistic conception!

At that time, you can try to grow some lotus, enjoy the flowers in spring and summer, eat lotus leaves, lotus pods, lotus seeds, eat lotus root in winter, and eat all kinds of pure natural aquatic products.

Build a palace?How can building a palace be so fun?He intends to build the entire Zhongshan country into a place that is livable everywhere and has different scenery everywhere, and encourages domestic people to travel around to stimulate the economy, so it is bound to create a selling point for each place.

It is simply a modern management game.

He learned this from Sakura Country.In modern Japan, natural resources are scarce. It is an island country with a small land area, and its development is gradually approaching the bottleneck.

Therefore, tourism must be used to stimulate the economy.

As a result, this country has achieved something that many other countries cannot do, that is, to suppress the desire of domestic people to travel abroad to an extremely low level, so low that they are not willing to apply for a passport.

Achieving this result is of course not a hard and fast rule.In fact, Japan has been vigorously promoting its own tourist attractions for many years and supporting various regions to shape their own tourism characteristics.Even in the same place, similar characteristics must have diversity to attract domestic tourists, and through services, infrastructure, and the introduction of special products from other countries, the Japanese people have formed the habit of traveling abroad rather than domestic travel.

Take Hokkaido as an example.

Do you think there is only snow in Hokkaido?Is it only available in winter?

No.

The sea of ​​cherry blossoms and product festivals in the star-shaped fortress in spring, the lavender fields and sea of ​​clouds in summer, and summer festivals. In autumn, the earliest maple sea in Japan will form a color block of colorful tree species. It is so beautiful that you don’t need to take pictures at a glance. Add filters.

Not to mention winter, in order to attract tourists, Hokkaido is committed to creating the style of each city, and its snow scenes have their own advantages and disadvantages. They use lights and local terrain to arrange completely different scenery, and encourage tourists to take pictures and upload them to social networks, and even Regular photographers are invited to come and post photos.

Except for a very small part of which are natural landscapes, most of them are deliberately caused by humans.

For example, the cherry blossom road, the lavender field, the introduction of various types of maple leaves, the lighting arrangement, the use of the terrain to build an overlooking platform, and so on.

Their move was very successful. Japan's tourism industry not only attracts local tourists, but also many tourists from all over the world who come here to support its fiscal revenue when the Japanese economy is declining year by year.

Now, this kind of planning and forward-looking scenic spots are gradually being rolled out in China.After planning and discussion, the adjacent areas will try to avoid the situation where the same elements collide with each other to compete for the market, but try to develop peacefully and attract tourists from each other.

They will even jointly issue city coupons, using big hot spots to drive small unpopular ones, and take the road of common prosperity.

Xia Anran's previous tourism plan for Zhongshan Country was to focus on hot spring vacations and artificial service tourism in the south, and focus on mountain forests and natural landscapes of lakes and rivers in the north.

The former is suitable for wealthy people to travel with their families, while the latter is suitable for literati and poets to play.

And flowers are always the target of people's pursuit. Cherry blossoms are Chinese flowers. A small row was planted in Weiyang Palace, but these are cherry blossoms. The purpose of planting is not for viewing flowers, but for eating fruits.

Every year when the season comes, the little princes will sit in rows and wait to eat cherries.

Excluding cherry blossoms, there are peach blossoms, pear blossoms, plum blossoms, peonies in spring... summer lotus and sky, autumn chrysanthemums and osmanthus, forget it in winter, and winter tourism is not very good at this time.

According to Xia Anran's experience, as long as the flowers become a sea, the viewing point will naturally come.

At that time, what kind of forest cabins will be provided, rural huts rented out for literati and poets, plus outdoor activities for them under high-quality living conditions, and the name of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely" The head is the favorite of scholars and rich people.

It's just that in his memory, lotus in the north was just a product of ponds in rich people's homes, and had not been cultivated on a large scale. He just happened to go to the south to buy lotus root seeds and plant them in enclosures.

Now these plants mainly eat fruits, Xia Anran calculated that he could hold a peach festival, pear festival or something, to enjoy flowers in spring and fruits in summer and autumn, which sounds very good too.

It's just that he has to settle the overall situation before Emperor Wu starts emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business and reaches the peak of centralization. Otherwise, he will try to find a way to ask his father for an order or a compliment, and even if Brother Pig is upset There is no way to control him.

Xia Anran was interrupted after wandering in fantasy for a little while, someone brought him good news——

The Zhifang weaves a silk painting.

Strictly speaking, this has a special term in later generations, called Kesi.

The little king quickly walked across the corridor, his feet fluttering and his heart was flying.

It was a whim to make Kesi, and the general principle of Kesi is similar to that of a loom, in that the weft threads are threaded across the warp threads and then pushed together to keep them tight.

The difference is that when weaving, the weft thread runs through all the warp threads from the beginning to the end, while in Kesi, the weft thread only penetrates a part of the warp thread, and is adjusted according to the outline and color of the pattern.

With the advancement of dyeing technology, silk threads can even be used to express the unique ink color smudges and shades of Chinese paintings. This special weaving method enables Kesi to handle all complex graphics.But it also means that its construction period is very long. Even in modern times, Kesi is still a skill that can only be done manually and cannot be replaced by machines.

The reason why Xia Anran chose A Ru to do this is that she can use silk threads of the same color to make the netting by hand, relying on imagination, and can bring a sense of three-dimensionality. This kind of spatial ability is extremely rare in his opinion.

The silk thread itself is fragile, and if you make a mistake once, there is no chance of it happening again, and the cost of saving it is extremely high. A Ru does not have this condition to do experiments back and forth, and it must be done in one go.

Of course, it doesn't matter if he guesses wrong.

Of course he wouldn't put all the pressure on the little girl. Apart from her, Xia Anran also found several local weavers, and the main research and development work was on the weavers.

The author has something to say:

The second special product is Kesi.

Kesi, silk, and satin were all made of silk in the early days.

At that time, there were few natural materials. There was cotton in the Han Dynasty, but it was a very rare imported product, and it was short fiber.

Silk and hemp are the main ones. Another piece of cold knowledge is that in ancient times when there was no synthetic fiber, silk and satin... In fact, the raw materials are the same, but the weaving method is different.Of course, in the later period when silk is used, cotton fiber and hemp fiber will be added, and even strange things such as gold thread and feathers will be added.

But in essence, they are, in fact, the same

Isn't it very shocking! !

The author was stunned when he researched.

I always thought it was different raw materials + different weaving methods to make completely different things!

Of course, it is basically completely different now, because there are chemical fibers.

So you can imagine... the silk production at that time.

Isn't it very scary, the muds have another point where they can shake their wits!

Well, yangma... It's hard for me to describe this one, ahem, anyway, the shape is quite strange.

However, there are still places in use in modern times, but it has been completely simplified into a small bench!

Later, there were seedling boats, which were only used for large-scale rice planting, and small-scale ones were unnecessary.

Regarding rice transplanting, the author only knew after he learned about it. In many places in modern times, rice is also live-streamed, especially in the north (hello) and the south must be transplanted for three crops a year. The land can’t wait, and the second crop or the first crop has already begun. With live broadcasting, especially after cultivating some varieties with particularly strong root systems, transplanting has become unnecessary.

Shock!

Feeling overturned my understanding!

As expected, writing is learning while writing! (hands folded)