Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

"You don't want to go out these few days, otherwise Cao Bing will come again." Gan Ji instructed.

Early the next morning, officials from Xiaopei City came to the village again, beating gongs and drums to let the living gather at the entrance of the village. Gan Ji once again asked Gan Qian and Lan Tian not to go out, and he walked out with his hands in his sleeves go.

As the saying goes: The poor do not fight with the rich, and the rich do not fight with officials.

No matter how big or small the officials came from Xiao Pei, the common people couldn't afford to offend them. Ganji had no choice but to do so. When he came to Anmin to collect the corpse, his name had already been recorded in the book.

"Brother Tian, ​​will Dad be okay when he goes out?" Gan Qian asked worriedly.

After getting along for a few days, Lan Tian's unintentional speech and behavior made Gan Qian feel that this younger brother was not simple.

"It should be fine, sister Qian, don't worry, I'll sneak out and have a look?" Lan Tian said.

"Daddy told us not to go out, why don't you follow him secretly?" Gan Ji had been out for a while, and Gan Qian was really worried.

"Well, then don't go out." Lan Tian said.

"Be careful." Gan Qian instructed.

"I can save it."

Lan Tian closed the door of the room, and quietly walked towards the entrance of the village, and saw dozens of black spots in the distance.

When he got a little closer, the group of people suddenly cheered, and then scattered and walked towards Wangjiazhuang.

What do you mean?

Lan Tian hid in the distance and didn't know the situation, but judging from the expressions of these people, it seemed that everyone was very happy. Could it be that they wanted to give relief to everyone?

Thinking of this, Lan Tian shook his head secretly. In this era, it is too late to sweep the snow in front of the door. How can officials care about the lives of the people.

After everyone left, Lan Tian shook off the snow on his body. He didn't go home directly, but walked to the small river in the east of the village, thinking to see if there was any prey in the trap.

Yesterday he put five trap baskets, and when he picked them up, there were actually two fish. Although they didn't look very big, a pot of fish soup would be delicious.

After Lan Tian picked up the fish, he changed the traps a few times. He likes the fishing method of sitting on the sidelines and waiting for rabbits. He has a sense of anticipation of opening a blind box.

As soon as the guy walked to the door with two fish, he heard Ganji talking in the room, "Why hasn't he come back yet? The child must have been scared away, right? It's a pity that we ate so much corn for nothing..."

"Father, Brother Tian went out to find you, why don't I go out to find him again?" Gan Qian argued.

"It's windy and snowy outside, that's all, let him go..."

Dong dong dong, Lan Tian knocked on the door.

Although Ganji's words sound harsh, they are not hateful in this era of food shortages and disasters. After all, he helped a stranger when he was not full.

"You're back? This is..." Gan Qian was overjoyed when she saw Lantian when she opened the door, and even more overjoyed when she saw the two fish in her hand.

"Two harvests." Lan Tian said with a smile, as if he didn't hear Ganji's words just now.

Ganji also saw the fish in his hand, and said in surprise, "Did you catch fish just now?"

"Yes."

"Are the pants wet?" Ganji asked, looking at him.

"No, the shoes are a little bit, just bake them by the stove later." Lan Tian said with a smile.

Although Ganji's words just now were very philistine, his care for Lantian is also from the bottom of his heart. He is a typical kind and calculating ordinary farmer.

"There will be a bumper year after the heavy snowfall, and our family's livelihood is hopeful next year. Tian'er, you caught live fish today, and Qian'er took it to cook a pot of soup. Our family hasn't eaten meat for a long time." Ganji said with a smile.

Gan Qian took the two fish from Lan Tian, ​​and then went into the back kitchen to process them.

"Father, did someone from Xiao Pei say something?" Lan Tian asked suspiciously.

Gan Ji said solemnly: "The army that passed by yesterday belonged to Liu Xuande. Mr. Tao Fu asked him to station in Xiaopei. I heard that this man has a reputation for benevolence and righteousness. Just now, the people from Xiaopei city were recruiting for him. .”

In that chaotic era, soldiers privately recruited by local tyrants were called "buqu". Most of them were serfs without land. These 'parts' belong to the private property of local tyrants and can be inherited and gifted as goods.

The work of the trilogy is also divided into three categories. The young and middle-aged are private soldiers who fight for the lord. The old ones either work in the workshop or serve as handymen for transporting grain, grass and luggage. The family members basically farm the land and pay for the boss.

Liu Bei started from scratch and tasted the taste of not having military power, so he developed the habit of secretly recruiting soldiers during the Pinghuangjin period and serving as Prime Minister of Pingyuan. Even when he defected to Yuan Shao, he secretly recruited parts.

Ganji was used to holding a hoe all his life, and he didn't have the blood to go to the battlefield with a knife and gun, so he took the initiative to choose to farm land and pay for Liu Bei.

Anyway, the left and right are farming, nothing more than Boss Wang has become Boss Liu. Now that there is a new master, there will be no problem with the grain seeds to be plowed next year.

When Liu Bei came to Xiaopei, Tao Qian not only gave him four thousand Danyang soldiers, but also allocated a lot of money and food at the same time.

"Xiaotian, you are fifteen years old. Do you want to farm with me in the village, or go to serve as a soldier with General Liu to eat food? Although you are thinner, you should be accepted there." Ganji asked.

Serve as a soldier for Liu Daer?I don't like him at all.

Lan Tian shook his head resolutely. He, a postgraduate student of the Agricultural University, is still close to the land.

"I'd better farm with you." Lan Tian replied affirmatively.

Ganji nodded with satisfaction, "Well, it's easier to be a soldier and eat food, but it's easy to die if you don't have eyes with a sword. Farming is hard work, but at least you can survive."

Gan Ji looked forward to the future for a while, and it didn't take long for Gan Qian to bring a pot of fish soup to the table.

In this era of food shortage, it is not easy to be able to eat meat, but due to insufficient seasoning, Gan Qian's cooking skills are very rough, and the taste can only be done.

In this way, there was an occasional meal of fish, and Lan Tian stayed at Gan's house for two months.

The spring is warm and flowers are blooming, the ice and snow are melting, and the spring plowing in Wangjiazhuang begins.

Lan Tian stood in the ground, he rolled up his sleeves, and finally got to my major, and this time he wanted to show his skills.

Three Kingdoms, let's start with farming.

Chapter 3 Scientific Planting

In the early spring, it was drizzling.

Lan Tian wore a straw hat and was busy planting seeds with Ganji in the field. Although he often went to the fields with his mentor, most of the time he was doing research, and he basically didn’t wield a hoe. It’s really tiring to roll up his sleeves now .

Even though it was raining lightly, the backs of the two father and son were soaked in sweat.

Due to the military disaster last year, there are fewer people in Wangjiazhuang and more land. Ganji wanted to have [-] acres to plant with the help of Lantian.

During the Three Kingdoms period, wars were frequent, and corn was planted twice a year in all parts of the north. In the absence of drought and locust plagues, the average yield per mu was around three stones.

That is to say, the Gan family is responsible for the 240 mu. The normal corn output per season should be 480 shi, and the output in two seasons a year should be about [-] shi.

Liu Bei's field officials stipulated that they should hand over two hundred shi every season. If there was any leftover food, it was up to the farmer.

Three stones of corn in the Han Dynasty is equivalent to 281 catties in today's city. If God favors them, they should have no problem eating.

The two went out to work early in the morning. Lan Tian was yellow and thin and working hard. Ganji couldn't bear to see it, but when he thought about paying rent and tax on the 80 mu of land, he could only hope that God would reward him with food.

After paying the rent and tax, it would be nice to have some surplus food, at least to raise some meat for Lantian.

Around Chen, Gan Qian sent her breakfast to the field. The busy spring farming and the slow speed of planting, she didn't care about going home to rest.

At this time, due to the lack of food, the system of two meals in the morning and evening was still implemented in various places. The grain storage of the Gan family was now exhausted. In addition to borrowing millet seeds from Liu Bei on credit, they also paid a small amount of rations in advance.

There are many Yellow Turbans in the Qingxu area, and Cao Cao plundered Xuzhou wantonly last year. One can imagine the tension of Liu Bei's food.

Ganji is very strict about the rations, because what is borrowed will always be returned. If there is any disaster, the hole will get bigger and bigger.

Fortunately, now that the land is recovering, Gan Qian can pick some wild vegetables in the wild, but it is still difficult for Lantian to eat enough.

Gan Qian looked at Lantian wolfing down, and smiled, "Why are you eating so fast? Are you in a hurry to continue working?"

"The land hasn't been sown yet, so I have to hurry up and do more work, otherwise the sown seeds won't be able to get water after the spring rain ends." Lan Tian is unfamiliar with farming, but has profound theoretical knowledge.

When Ganji heard this, he looked at the adoptive son with admiration, "I thought you knew nothing about farming, but I didn't expect you to know how to nourish seedlings with spring rain."

"It's all from what others say..."

After breakfast, the two of them continued to sow until they returned home in the evening. It took seven or eight days of hard work to sow the [-] mu of land.

The next time is to wait for the spring rain to moisten the earth. During the short rest time of the busy farming, Ganji still needs to prepare fertilizer for the millet seedlings. Grass manure.

Grass manure is the green grass that grows naturally in the field. Before sowing, the grass is covered in the ground as fertilizer to increase the fertility of the land.

It is recorded in "The Book of Fansheng": "When it can be cultivated, it will be plowed when it rains, the soil will be close to each other, the seedlings will be alone, and the grass will be dirty and rotten, all of which will become good fields."

In addition, farmers also burn soil as manure, which is spread during the growth of seedlings to promote the growth of crops.

More than ten days after the end of the spring rain, the young millet seedlings slowly broke through the soil, and the fields in Wangjiazhuang were full of green. At this time, Lan Tian did an incredible thing. He happily came to the field to thin the millet seedlings.

Thinning is also called thinning, because at this time, farmers do not plant scientifically, and the amount of sowing greatly exceeds the amount of remaining seedlings, resulting in crowded seedlings. This not only grabs the fertility of the land, but also makes each seedling absorb insufficient nutrients. Can't saturate either.

Seeing that this guy pulled out the germinated seedlings, Ganji immediately went to the ground to stop him, "Xiao Tian, ​​what are you doing? You pulled out these seedlings, what will happen to our harvest in summer?"

"This is called thinning. We pull out the excess seedlings, so that the rest of millet will grow better and have higher yields," Lan Tian explained.

"Nonsense, I've been planting for more than 20 years, and this is the first time I hear such absurd words, why don't you stop?" Ganji pointed at him and said angrily when he saw that this guy was not going to stop at all.

It's true that you are my adopted son, but if you want to smash my job, even if my father comes.

"Father, my method is really effective." Lan Tian fought hard.

Lan Tian didn't continue to talk about "scientific planting" with Ganji, and the other party couldn't understand it with his current knowledge base, so now he can only rely on the emotional card.

"No matter where you learned it from, I have to be responsible for the survival of this family." Ganji said angrily.

"Father, just let me try." Lan Tian begged.

"Lan Tian, ​​don't be lazy, I have more experience in farming than you." Ganji said earnestly.

"Why don't you give me [-] acres to try?" Lan Tian took a step back and said.

"If I say no, I won't. What's wrong with you today?" Ganji looked puzzled.

"Father, brother Tian, ​​what are you arguing about?" Gan Qian happened to come to deliver food at this time, and saw the two of them fighting in the field, their faces flushed.

Gan Ji was so angry that he didn't want to talk, Lan Tian explained the situation to her just now, Gan Qian persuaded after hearing this: "Father, why don't you give Brother Tian ten acres of land to try? You have to try He will die if he tries it."

When Gan Qian said this, firstly, she didn't want the relationship between the two to become stale, and secondly, she always believed that Lantian was not ordinary, and should be a person with great wisdom.

"Okay, ten acres is ten acres." Seeing his daughter begging for mercy, Ganji finally compromised.

Ganji gave Lantian a relatively barren [-] mu of land, and asked this guy to do some "scientific planting" by himself. From then on, Lantian thinned out and cleared the trees within his jurisdiction, and his adoptive father Ganji didn't say much.

At the beginning, Ganji tried to persuade him that the ancestors' experience in farming for thousands of years could be faked?But as time went by, this guy realized something was wrong.

Although the millets that Lantian took care of were sparse, those plants had thick roots and were much taller than those he took care of.

Could it be that the so-called 'scientific planting' played a role?

My old farmer Ganji is not as good as a child in farming?

When the millet seedlings hang on the ears, Ganji, who has always regarded himself as a farming expert, has to be convinced, because every ear of corn in the blue field has bent branches. As long as there are no pests and droughts, the harvest should be very good .

The past few months have also exhausted Lan Tian. In order to have enough to eat, such a thin body insisted on throwing himself in the fields every day, serving his ten acres of land like his own mother.

insect?There is no pesticide, I caught it for you by hand, and I am still determined to eat this full meal.

This is truly a dream come true with both hands.

Although he was very tired every day, Lan Tian felt extremely fulfilled, as if he was participating in social practice or doing a graduate project.

At this time, the more Ganji looked at Lantian, the more pleasing to his eyes, thinking in his heart whether to promise his daughter Ganqian to him?Anyway, the age difference between their siblings was only one year, but they shook their heads immediately.

Gan Ji vaguely remembered the words of Gan Qian's face-to-face teacher in the village when she was young: This girl has the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix, and she will definitely be very expensive in the future.

Chapter 4 Jian Yong is hired, Liu Bei takes a concubine

In summer, when Cao Jun came back to Xuzhou, Liu Bei led his troops to rescue Tancheng. The people of Xiaopei were like frightened birds.

Looking around, the villages outside Xiaopei City are all covered in green and golden colors.

Harvesting food is more tiring than planting. At that time, there was no mechanical equipment, and everything had to be done manually. It can be said that although the harvest season is joyful, the sweat is several times that of ordinary people.

First of all, the harvested millet seedlings must be manually threshed, and then gathered in a spacious place on the farm to dry, and finally the shells are packed into Dendrobium before they can be eaten.

The remaining millet stalks cannot be discarded either. They need to be bundled or stacked together, some of which are turned over to the horses for battle, some are used to make fire for cooking, and some are returned to the field as fertilizer.

Ganji's whole family went to battle and began to harvest millet. The ten acres of land in Lantian had indeed grown to a new height, and the ears of millet were huge and full of grains.

During the harvest season, Liu Bei also returned from Tancheng. He put down his military affairs and Guan Yu and came to the surrounding area of ​​Xiaopei. The ancient Ming emperors would personally go to the fields to cheer up the farmers.

Liu Bei will also care about the harvest situation at this time for the land cultivated by his own trilogy like Wangjiazhuang. Grain and grass supplies are the guarantee for enclosing land in wars.

"There has been a severe drought in Guanzhong this year, and the local people have been displaced. Fortunately, the weather in Xuzhou is good. In addition, Cao Cao left in a hurry and did not have time to grab food. It seems that our food problem can be alleviated." Liu Bei looked at the endless millet seedlings and sighed.

"Most of the military settlements near Xiaopei are new recruits. I don't think the corn production may be huge. It's too early to say whether we can pay the rent and tax according to the amount..." Guan Yu was a little worried.

Liu Bei nodded, "It is still necessary to ensure the food rations of the people in Buqu, but I can only have the audacity to ask Mr. Tao for food..."