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Chapter 6 Reeds with Roots and Mulberries (Part 1)

Seeing that everyone was still surrounded, I felt that this was an opportunity to understand this era.

The knowledge on paper is shallow, and one must practice it in one's own knowledge. What kind of era is it now? Historical books only record the life of aristocratic people and conspiracies, but in the end, the general trend of the world is based on food, clothing, housing and behavior.

He was neither aristocrat nor had that bag of seeds, so this understanding had to be done.

The people next to him were still praising him, thanking him, or asking some questions about ghosts and gods.

It is difficult to see such a person in a closed village community.

He sat on the ground with his legs spread apart and leaned against the tree in the field. He said, "Just like today's heat, the symptoms of heat are common. Most of the nobles and young men are relying on the coldness of the winter cellar at this time. You are all poor people but you cannot work. Today I will tell you a way to prevent heat. If you have relatives, friends and neighbors after you go back, you will also know."

Everyone thanked again, and these people were sick and could only leave their fate. Just now, they saw those strange methods that seemed to kill pigs and dogs, and when they saw that the man fainted, they really had a tendency to wake up, they sat down and heard about it.

I immediately talked about boiling water and salt, and talked about simple treatments after heatstroke. I didn’t want to know the reason, but I wanted to live a few more lives.

There was no tea and no thermos at this time. Drinking boiled water seems to be a tradition in Zhuxia since ancient times. Drinking boiled water is for fear that people will suffer from infectious diseases such as typhoid fever at this time. Adding salt is the real way to prevent death from heatstroke.

He took a stick and drew a little man on the ground, saying, "When it's hot, you'll sweat. Sweat is salty, and of course there is salt in it. Add salt to speed up sweating, and the heat will dissipate. Don't add too much salt to a can of water and two fingers of salt."

"One more, after going back, mix the wood ash and then clear it and then spread out another kind of salt. You can add less in the clay pot. Everyone lives close to each other, so you can take turns to come. Today, my family will be cleared from grass ash, and tomorrow their family will take turns to make profits, without delaying the daily farm work."

It is not a problem to ensure the balance of sodium and potassium electrolytes in a simple way. It is not a big mistake to explain the advantages of the combination in a crude way by using this method of taking turns to help.

But he was not satisfied with the situation. He wanted to learn more about the Mohist theory, linking things like Ming Gui and Tian Zhi with these scientific explanations.

He was not worried about saying that he was a Mozhe here.

Even though the Mohist school represents the bottom, it is still too high after all. It is unlikely that Mohists will pay attention to this kind of Jingtian village community, and they are not afraid of anyone exposing it in a short period of time.

The people next to him did not ask much when they saw the methods just now, but just kept the tips he said in his heart.

I couldn't help but feel that the ink master, who had heard very far away, was much closer. It seemed that it was not that far away, very close.

The little girl who was crying just now listened for a while, looked at her father who was gradually awakening, and was grateful and hurriedly thanked him.

Although I was poor at this time, I had to rely on my brother and sister-in-law to live, I was ambitious and of course I would not turn this gratitude into the only gift that a few kilograms of corn could bring out by the farmers in the village.

He waved his hand in a handsome and generous manner and said, "I said, there is no need to give me a gift. Others use corn, jade, and square cloth as treasures, so others also use the treasures they think are thanks. This is very good. But my Mohist family regards acting as treasures, but they do not use treasures or money as treasures."

"For my Mo family, Xingyi is like a person who likes to eat and drink mutton and fermented glutinous rice; it is like a king who gets a city... You thank you with the treasures you think, but we don't like it, so why bother?"

The little girl was stunned for a moment, but she quickly understood the meaning of the right thing.

I thought of myself as a child who liked to eat sour berries, but other children liked to eat sweet fruits. I thought these sour berries were good things, but others didn’t like them.

People who like vinegar will use vinegar as the most beautiful taste in the world. But if those who don’t like sourness quietly add vinegar to their corn rice, it will be teasing.

Thinking of what Shi said just now, he suddenly raised his head and said, "My little brother, can you teach me the treatment methods just now?"

Shi looked at the under-sized girl, and without thinking much, she asked with a smile: "Do you want to learn?"

The little girl said with a heavy emphasis: "Since the little brother is just doing something good, I don't know what good is good, but I think if someone is so angry in the future, and using your means to save people, it will be considered your righteousness. If someone loves the little brother, I will thank you for it and ask for money; if you love the good, I want to thank you, but you can only do it."

After hearing this, Shi looked at the little girl with curiosity, thinking that it was rare to hear such words in the fields.

The people next to him sucked this sentence and slowly tasted it. They thought that the people from the Mo family were really strange, but the truth was indeed so. People eat corn, and dogs like to eat shit. If you give them corn, they may not be willing to eat it.

Shi didn't know what everyone was thinking, so he just looked up at the little girl again.

The little girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old and has not yet grown up. She is wearing a simple linen dress, her nails are covered with black mud, and the tears on her face are still gray and black. Only her eyes are very clear and slightly red at this time.

The hair was tied with two total braids on the top of the head, revealing its forehead. The braids were tied casually with linen, which was extremely simple.

Goodbye, this little girl was generous and panicked just now. She could bear to cry after her relatives woke up. She didn't have any disgust under the ethics of later generations. She was really a living person rather than a piece of wood that could be bought and sold as goods. She couldn't help but fall in love with this era.

If you can say such words, you must be extremely smart, but you have never seen any world in the villages and communities all day long.

After thinking for a while, Shi asked, "What's your name?"

"Reed Flower."

The name is very ordinary.

But if you are familiar with poetry, you will be a reed.

Thinking that I will often come here to understand the situation in the future, or prepare for the Mohist family to take root at the grassroots level in the future, this is a good starting point.

After hesitating a little, he nodded and said, "What you said makes sense. I will teach you in a few days. They are all superficial means. If you really want to learn, it will be fast. Don't learn it today. You should take care of your father first. After you go back, dig some reed roots and cook them in a clay pot and drink..."

After thinking for a long time, I didn’t know if I could buy heat-removing plaster in the city now. I could only think of the reed roots. Whether it could be better can only be left to fate.

Luhua carefully wrote down the advice, thanked her again, and went under the tree to take care of her father.

The farmers watching the fun around did not leave, perhaps because they were curious about the fact that the Mo family members who sounded out of reach were right beside them, or perhaps because they occasionally saw such a young man who was familiar with the art of witch doctors, and they were not busy with the matters in the fields and sat down to chat.

Just when I wanted to know the general situation at this time, I first told a few jokes, and then told some hard work in daily life, which made me think about it.

Just sit in the middle and sit in the middle without any patients, and you won’t be afraid of being airtight. Only when you sit close can you talk about something you want to know.

If you can't ask these basic things clearly, you can't talk about wanting to take root in this era, let alone those ambitions.

Fortunately, it is a joke to wait for the rabbit to grow and pull out the seedlings to encourage growth. These farmers in the Song Kingdom are not that stupid.

I was not tricky when asked, so I soon got a rough idea.

It is not only the farmers who can make their hearts the most exciting, but also the spring and autumn harvest.

When asked what the harvest was, the farmers shook their heads and sighed, obviously very dissatisfied.

"The harvest can only be said to be fine. Last year, one acre of seeds can be harvested by one stone. There are seven people in the family and one hundred and twenty acres of land. There have been no wars in recent years. The treasury tax is confiscated, and there are only tithes, and life is still fine."

One stone is a capacity. I recalled it. At this time, one stone is 100 liters.

At this time, one liter will be about 200 milliliters in later generations.

After careful calculation, it is a very scary fact. If you plant corn, you can only harvest thirty or forty kilograms per mu of land, which is almost three or three.

After carefully looking at the surrounding land, Shi probably felt a sense of responsibility and evaluated the difficulty and technical level of planting land at this time.

Judging from the length of the land, ox plowing has not been popularized in the Song Dynasty, or in other words, it has not been popularized by small farmers.

The reason for judgment is very simple. Whether it is the earlier well-field system or for the sake of convenience of management, most of the land is square based on the current geometric level to facilitate the calculation of the land area.

A mu of land is usually a thin strip of one step wide and a hundred steps long. Under the well-field system, a Chinese farmer who grants a hundred acres of land is exactly a square of one step long and a hundred steps wide, which is easy to see.

At this time, one step is to take one step at each of the left and right feet, and only one foot is called a half step, so one step is about one meter, two or three, and one acre is 140 or fifty square meters, equivalent to one third of the acre of later generations.

For specific quantification, six feet is one step.

The ancestors of the Zhou people mainly ate the kind of yellow rice that could be made in later generations and bean-sticked rice, so they took one grain of yellow rice as one minute, ten grains as one inch, and ten inches as one foot. At this time, the ruler was short and the steps were only so long.

If you think about it a little bit, you will know that ox plowing has not been popular yet. If ox plowing is popular, the ox will turn around at a distance of 100 steps, which is very efficient to waste time. And relying on people to cultivate, one acre of 100 steps can be just enough to go to the ground for a little rest.

The increase in acres means that cattle and horse farming has begun to become popular, and the old units of measurement are no longer suitable for the new farming methods.

It was not that Shang Yang, decades later, decided to set 240 steps to one acre, but that the cow pulled the plowshare and cultivated the 240 steps to reach the limit and needed to take a breath.

Everything comes from labor. The essence of many things after they are opened is the level of productivity at that time, or the reflection of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

For example, ruler, like a mu.

However, even if the acre is small, the yield per stone is not high.

The tithe mentioned by the farmer should be the first tax acre learned from the country of Lu.

This word "first" is very well used.

Originally, the acres that common people cultivated were not taxed, only labor taxes.

It was a precedent, so I used the word "Zhu", which means the same as the "Zhu" in "Zhuye".

Thinking of this, Shi asked again: "Do you still have to work in public fields now? How do you allocate it if you join the army? Do you have a small fief of land for the driver? Do you need to cultivate his land for the driver? How do you collect the cattle and horses of the chariot?"
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