Back Off, Let Me Come

  Chapter 357 Chapter 357: Planting a grain of millet in spring [seeking double monthly pass]

  The day before the autumnal equinox, the millet is ripe.

  Heyin County, Fugu City.

  People in the government office of the government came and went in a hurry, and some officials held bamboo slips that were half the height of a person and shouted all the way.

"Let Rang, Rang Rang—Who will help..." The clerk felt that the top slip book was about to slip off, and he hurriedly called for help. The passing colleague extended his hand to help so that no disaster would happen. He heaved a long sigh of relief. I don't know what year and month it will take to clean up. I was about to raise my head to express my thanks, when I saw the face of the person, I hurriedly crossed my hands and saluted, "I met Gu Duyou."

  Gu Chi has just returned from a business trip, he is covered in dust.

  He glanced at the large stack of bamboo slips.

   asked: "Why is the government office so busy?"

   Didn't he already have a lot of leisure before he went on a business trip?

The little official wiped his sweat, his face was tired but more joyful, he said excitedly: "The township official reported that the corn is ripening half a month earlier than usual, and all the counties and townships in the county are getting busy..." This is Shen Jun. The first autumn harvest after Lord He Yin!

   Everyone is following the autumn harvest experience of previous years. The plan should start to be really busy after half a month. Who knows that this year's corn will mature early, and every household is in short supply of manpower. The government office, which was finally idle, became busy again.

  Gu Chi: "..."

  He seems to have guessed the reason for the blue bird's urgent call.

  The co-author is to bring him back to farming busy.

  Shen Tang said that this is not to follow the principle of "one thing does not bother two masters". Who made Fugu and even other fields in Heyin be responsible for the measurement and statistics by Gu Chi? He knows how many acres of good fields and bad fields, and the approximate output of each acre.

  If you don’t arrest him at this time, when will you arrest him?

  Gu Chi almost laughed angrily when he heard Shen Tang's inner voice.

  He was dismissed by the lord as the postmaster of Heyin County. He was doing hard work with a small amount of money, and the conditions for business trips were hard to describe.

  Life is so hard that he wants to change the way of scribes with Qishan every day. Inspecting counties and townships, inspecting officials, inspecting prisons, inspecting illegal cases, and paying attention to taxes everywhere... If you walk, you will have to bear the burden, but if you lie down, you will not be covered. When the road conditions are good, you can ride a horse, an ox cart and a donkey cart , the road condition is not good, you can only have two legs, wherever you go, you will be able to cope with it...

The results of it?

  My lord didn't understand his hardships, and thought he had done too little work, so he abruptly called him back from a business trip.

  As long as it is capable, she will not do it.

   Facing Gu Chi's black face, Shen Tang smirked and tried to pass the test, but Gu Chi didn't like her at all.

  Shen Tang pursed his lips inwardly, expressing his feelings and reasoning—autumn harvest is one of the most important events in a county, how could Gu Chi be absent as his right-hand man? It's outrageous that Gu Chi wasn't there for the autumn harvest sacrifice.

  Gu Chi's expression softened.

  Shen Tang gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.

  Those who can do more work, Shen Tang raised his hand and threw this pile, this pile, this pile, and that pile...all to Gu Chi to deal with. Gu Chi had no choice but to accept his fate and ask someone to move a desk to work with him. In fact, Shen Tang was not in a hurry to call him, Gu Chi would come back in about half a month—that is, when the corn matured normally, and help Shen Tang host the autumn harvest sacrifice together.

   It's just that this year's precocity caught him off guard.

   Messed up all his original plans.

  As the government office became quiet again, occasionally subtle movements caused by bamboo slips or collisions or cover-ups could be heard.

  Busy until the time when the golden crow fell to the west and the tired bird returned to the forest, Gu Chi stopped his brush and raised his hand to rub his stiff shoulders.

   Turning his head, he saw that the lord fell asleep on the table at some point.

  Gu Chi stood up cautiously.

   For fear of making a big noise and disturbing Shen Tang.

   However, no matter how careful he was, Shen Tang was still awakened by the sound of the hem of the clothes rubbing against the mat, and forced himself to stand up with his forehead propped up. He stared out of the window in a daze, yawned and stretched his waist, and said, "Ah, what's the point? Why did I fall asleep..."

  Gu Chi sighed: "The Lord is too tired."

  Shen Tang: "The autumn harvest is important, and there should be no delay."

  He Yin is a poor place, there is a shortage of people everywhere, Shen Tang also chopped off several local snakes from head to toe, and there are very few candidates who are qualified to be county and township officials. In desperation, he had no choice but to promote some temporary officials and call the village officials to replace them.

  At the same time, seize the time to give people on-the-job training.

   Praying for good deeds is one person who shoulders many positions.

It is not difficult to deal with the matter, but it is too trivial and takes a lot of time. Even Shen Tang, the county guard, has to work part-time as the cashier of the Shaofu Shiguan's private wealth. Occasionally, if he wants to go out to let the wind go, he will go part-time. Catch the thieves.

When Shen Tang first became the master of He Yin, there were murders, robbery, and **** crimes everywhere. It took time to catch criminals. Shen Tang didn't have enough manpower, and sometimes he had to ask Gong Shuwu and the others to help. If you don't die, you will die.

   Recently, I have been staying up late every day.

  She stood up with a yawn, and called Gu Chi to go to the canteen of the official office for dinner. Well, she set up a canteen in the government office, where busy officials can have a meal. It can not only save the effort of going home to eat, but also save a sum of money.

  For officials, the latter is equivalent to a disguised salary increase, and the food in the canteen of the official office is still full. For Shen Tang, the former is the most important, increasing everyone's working hours_(:з)∠)_

   "Hey, I will find a way to purify the salt later..."

  The craftsmanship of the canteen chef is good.

  But the quality of the salt cannot be supported.

   The dishes made tasted bitter and astringent, but salt is an indispensable consumable in life.

  Every time at this time, I miss Chu Wuhui's craftsmanship more and more.

   Gu Chi adhered to the rule of eating without speaking, and cleaned up a grain of millet in the pottery bowl, then wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "Since the lord wants to, let Wuhui do a share?"

  Chu Yao's identity is a bit special than others.

  Shen Tang drank the last bit of rice soup.

   said: "Recently he has been concentrating on concentrating on Lingde's literary heart. I don't want him to be distracted by it."

   Gu Chi calculated the time.

  Knowing that it is important for Lin Feng to unite his literary heart: "Oh, so the matter of offering sacrifices to the autumn harvest has to fall into the pond?"

  Shen Tang smiled and said, "Those who are able do more work."

  Gu Chi: "..."

   Enrollment expansion is imperative.

  He took the tableware used by the lord to the recycling place, and when he came back, he saw a small official standing beside Shen Tang, whispering something. Shen Tang listened patiently, nodding from time to time.

   After a while, the little official withdrew.

  His leg is lame, and he walks with a limp.

  Gu Chi asked: "This face in life, newcomer?"

  He didn't remember any official in the government office with a disabled leg.

  Shen Tang: "Well, I just came here a while ago."

  Gu Chi didn't ask much.

   Firstly, he believes in his master's vision, and secondly, he also believes in his scribe's way. If there is a problem with this person, contacting him for a while will definitely reveal his true colors. Shen Tang knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't think too much."

  Gu Chi disagreed.

  In his opinion, when working in a government office, personal ability is second, and obedience, loyalty, and strictness are the most important.

   It will be bad if you meet someone who has great ideas but limited brains. If loyalty is insufficient, who knows when it will be bought by other forces? The news that He Yin's millet is ripe can't be hidden from the outside world. I'm afraid that someone will make trouble during the autumn harvest.

Shen Tang smiled and said: "Wang Chao, don't worry, this person has been checked again and again, and it works. A poor refugee who left his hometown, took a bag of wheat seeds with him when he left his hometown, and he was so hungry that he couldn't bear to eat it... It happened to be a reminder something happened to me."

   "What is it?"

"Corn is harvested once a year, and the yield is not high. It is better to find some crops that are cropped twice a year in rotation. No one knows what will happen in the future. If the common people do not have enough grain storage in their homes, once there is a natural disaster and food shortage, we have been operating for so long. He Yin is ruined."

  Shen Tang set his sights on wheat.

   Rice, millet, millet, wheat, and bean, these are the five grains.

  Corn is the "millet" among them. The popular understanding is millet, which is currently the most important crop in the Northwest Continent. Wheat, as one of the five grains, is not valued.

   It's not that I don't want to plant on a large scale, but that this thing is a little unaccustomed to the soil and water, so it's not easy to plant!

  Wheat is suitable for planting in areas with cold and humid winters and hot and dry summers, but the northwest of the mainland where He Yin is located is not the same as other people's planting environment. Rain is urgently needed for planting and emergence in spring, but the spring here is dry and rainless, making irrigation a problem.

   As a result, the scale of wheat cultivation is not large.

  The main crop in Heyin and even in the northwest of the mainland is still corn. Wheat is the younger brother, and it cannot shake its status at all. If the problem of water supply in spring can be solved, it may be able to be cultivated on a large scale and replace corn as the main food.

  Two kinds a year is a great temptation.

   Go back and improve the stone mill.

  Speaking of this, Shen Tang felt a little **** up.

  If it weren't for the frequent changes of state power, the common people would not have much time to settle down and recuperate. Perhaps agriculture could develop faster. The wooden plow used for cultivating land is still a heavy, straight-shaft wooden plow that is difficult to turn, and the farming efficiency is extremely low.

   Gu Chi said: "Then we have to find good wheat seeds."

   Less wheat is planted, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  Shen Tang said: "I have asked Xu Wenzhu to look for it before. Next time he comes over, there should be good news."

  In terms of contacts and connections, Shen Tang, the Sheriff of Heyin, is far inferior to Xu Jie, the Patriarch of the Xu family. Because of Shen Tang's kindness to Tianhai, and Wu Xian's conscientious discovery, as long as the difficulties on Shen Tang's side are not excessive, Tianhai will be satisfied.

  Of course, it's not that people don't work for nothing.

   Still have to give friendship price_(:з)∠)_

  Because of the sudden increase in the workload of the autumn harvest, everyone in the government office had to work overtime for an hour or two at night. Shen Tang ate and drank enough to keep his spirits up and continue working. This time, instead of dealing with government affairs, she went to see the workshop, which was precisely the cornerstone of her dream!

  When he was last year, Shen Tang was still talking about starting a side job.

   After all, she loves paintbrushes deeply.

  But there are too many problems in front of her, such as poor printing technology, copying by hand; papermaking efficiency is low, and there is little paper that can be used for writing and drawing, and it is not easy to preserve. Shen Tang will only come to appreciate Shen Tang's paintings if he solves these problems completely, and then the cost of construction is reduced, and the common people can afford it. Only when someone buys it can Shen Tang make money by doing a side job.

  However, a fat man cannot be made in one bite.

  The same thing—

  Problems also need to be solved slowly one by one.

  Shen Tang was the first to focus on the "paper".

  Wood, bamboo, reed, and even straw and wheat straw can all be used as raw materials for making paper. In the spring of this year, Shen Tang sent people to cut down and collect tender bamboo. At the same time, I also collected other materials to try which one is more suitable.

The whole process is complex and cumbersome, such as soaking to remove green, hammering and washing, then boiling, washing, secondary cooking, sewage removal and water fermentation, pounding with stone mortar, repeated washing and beating, and finally fishing with bamboo curtains Paper to dry.

  The whole process can be summed up in a few words.

  Chop the hemp, remove the green, sauce the ashes, boil with fire, wash with water, copy with curtains, and brush with green. Shen Tang only knew the general process, trying to find a way to get out the pulp and then fish the paper to dry. All kinds of processes can only be pondered by the craftsmen themselves and mastered one by one.

  Other materials are also processed in the same way to make pulp, and the process after that is not bad.

   The corner of Gu Chi's mouth twitched slightly.

   said: "My lord is really persevering."

  Last year's pictures of the secret drama that were lively and fragrant were made by Qi Yuanliang. He doesn't know how the protagonist's real painting skills are, but judging from Qi's expression, it seems that his singing skills are similar. Where does the protagonist get the confidence to rely on his painting skills for a living?

"Haha, don't expect praise from the tide." Shen Tang naturally thought that Gu Chi was praising himself, so he said politely and humbly, and then said enthusiastically, "I will give you a set for free when my picture album is published later. !"

  Gu Chi's face was expressionless.

  What is the main character's painting used for?

  As someone said, is it used to ward off evil spirits?

   Or is it used to attract evil?

  Gu Chi swallowed his heart silently.

   She couldn't bear to beat her own protagonist, and when her picture book came out but no one cared about it, she knew the cruel reality.

  The second day, the autumnal equinox.

  Happy harvest and good luck.

With the lessons learned from the Spring Plowing Sacrifice, Shen Tang kept the written note close to him, for fear of any accidents—Su Shang and his nine cubs had a strong backer of praying for goodness. The government offices come and go freely, "domineering", as if they have evolved from one meow bully to a violent group of ten meow bullies. Shen Tang didn't dare to offend these little ancestors.

   Offend them, who will catch the mice.

  The stupid dog of Chu Yao’s family is probably the one with the most embarrassment, being bullied by ten of them every day. Whether the Meowba gang is happy or not, they will provoke and bully it, and even use interspersed and coordinated tactics carefully trained by Qishan. If the stupid dog calls for other helpers, they will "surround the spot for help" and bully the dog so that it jumps up and down, whining endlessly.

  At that time, Chu Yao's face was so dark.

  Shen Tang feels that even if there are factions in his account, it is probably the feud between the cat faction and the dog faction.

  _(:з)∠)_

  With experience, Shen Tang is much calmer this time.

  Gather everyone before the auspicious time.

  It is similar to the process of spring plowing sacrifice. Shen Tang must first read his prayers, worship the heaven and the earth, thank the spring **** for his one-year gift, and then go to the ground to harvest a bunch of corn. After she finished these, the common people nearby could start the official autumn harvest.

  It usually lasts for half a month.

  Considering the lack of manpower in each household, Shen Tang will go out to build roads, and Zhao Feng and his team who don't know where they have been repaired will be caught. The ready-made strong men, don't be so sorry.

  He Yin's bumper harvest this year is inseparable from their hard work, and they should come and enjoy the fruits together.

  She tidied up her appearance: "The **** of spring is on the top, Shen Youli, the governor of Heyin County in Xiaguan, led the officials..."

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  (end of this chapter)