"Of course I've heard of it, what's the matter?" asked the headmaster.
Zhao Cheng thought of the little stone licking the porridge bowl and felt that the leader might not quite understand what it meant to lead an army in war, so he said: "The reason why the emperor can conquer the world is because there are many people following him, right? "
The great master believes that everyone in the world follows the emperor, so he owns the whole world. This is true.
Zhao Cheng added: "There are many people following him because he can keep these people fed, right?"
The headmaster nodded again, thoughtfully.
"If the emperor can't keep the people who follow him well fed, will everyone still follow him? Can the emperor still win the world?"
The headmaster frowned: "Students are like dogs. They talk in a roundabout way. Just say no. Have you heard some guy complaining about not having enough to eat these days?"
Zhao Cheng said: "Master, I don't think there is any urgency in writing military strategies. The most urgent thing at the moment is actually farming."
"Farming?" The headmaster's brows knitted into a knot. These people only know how to hunt but not farm. Even if they knew how, no one would be willing to farm. The robbery was so quick. The money stolen could be used to buy grain and cloth. There was no need to do any farming.
"Yes, farming!" Zhao Cheng must use this "Book of Pansheng" to open a breakthrough, so persuading these gangsters to farm is the most direct method.
"You see, the top of this mountain is so fertile. The shit produced by more than three hundred people every day is a fortune. The methods of farming and harvesting are all in this book. As long as you follow what is written in the book, then at least everyone will be hungry. The matter is resolved."
"In addition, women, the elderly and children who cannot go out to hunt can farm, collect mulberry and raise pigs on the top of the mountain."
"A five-acre house with mulberry trees can be used to clothe the house if it is fifty years old."
"Chickens, dolphins, dogs, and pigs are animals that have not lost their season. Those who are seventy years old can eat meat."
"A place as big as Pingding Mountain..." Zhao Cheng stretched out his hand and gestured: "It's enough for these people to eat well and wear warm clothes without suffering from cold and exhaustion."
"What will happen when everyone is fed and warmed?"
The boss squeezed out three words from between his teeth: "Thinking about lust!"
Zhao Cheng couldn't laugh or cry: "Thinking about lust is something that comes later. After everyone is fed and clothed, they will definitely be grateful to the master."
"If I study military tactics at that time, not only will my men have strength during training, but they will also not be afraid of death when fighting. Otherwise, I will be so hungry that my front cavity will collapse and my back cavity will collapse. How can I have the strength to train?"
The headmaster didn't speak anymore, but fell into deep thought.
Two days later.
"Old Nineteen, do you think that book on victory will work? If we follow the book, can we really grow wheat?"
After the leader walked around the top of Pingding Mountain, he asked Zhao Cheng a question.
"It will be May in a few days, and the rainy season is about to begin. It will be too late to plant wheat, but there is no problem in planting rice." Zhao Cheng looked at the mountain springs gathering into streams and said, "This mountain spring water is just enough to irrigate rice."
As long as these bandits start farming and can get enough food from farming, they will naturally gradually switch from fishing and hunting to farming. There will be no problem at all in raising three hundred people in such a large place.
No one collects taxes or does corvee work in Pingdingshan. When food and clothing are sufficient, the number of robberies will naturally be reduced.
"Master, the elderly, women and children don't go hunting anyway, right? It's just right to let them farm and raise pigs!"
The headmaster scratched his disheveled hair: "Old Nineteen, I don't understand what you are talking about. Just stay on the top of the mountain and teach them how to farm, and I will make them all listen to you!"
Zhao Cheng didn't say anything. In fact, it was useless. Since the boss arranged for him to do this, he could only do this.
But fortunately, staying in the mountains and farming is less risky. You don't have to face dangerous wild animals, and you don't have to follow them out with a knife to harm others.
With the "Book of Pansheng" as a reference, and Zhao Cheng's knowledge of farming and planting, it is necessary to manage this land on the top of a mountain that is less than two square kilometers. If converted into hectares, it would be one hundred and sixty six. Seventy hectares of land.
If all of them were planted with rice, based on adult rations, there would be absolutely no problem in feeding six to seven thousand people, not to mention that there are only about three hundred people on the flat top of the mountain, which is more than enough.
Even if you don't grow rice, strictly according to the above records, if you plant millet, it should be possible to achieve a yield of 300 kilograms per mu.
What is even more outrageous about the record in this "Book of Pan Sheng" is that the yield per mu can reach one thousand kilograms!
"The difference in autumn harvest is three liters of millet, and one hundred dendrobiums per mu. A male and an eldest daughter manage ten acres. Ten acres harvest a thousand shi. The annual food is thirty-six shi, and the harvest is twenty-six years."
The meaning of this passage is: During the autumn harvest, one area can harvest three liters of millet, and one acre can harvest hundreds of dendrobium. If a pair of adult men and women farm ten acres of land, they can harvest over a thousand shi of millet from those ten acres, which can last for twenty-six years based on the consumption of 36 shi per year.
It is a bit exaggerated for Zhao Cheng to think that he is the author of this book. In later generations, the yield of millet planted per mu was 600 to 800 jin, still under the dual effects of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. And "The Book of Pan Sheng" was written in the Western Han Dynasty, and the yield per mu should be The yield per mu is less than 1,000 kilograms.
But give him a 30% discount. Anyway, the old men and women in these gangster dens have nothing to do. Let them cultivate the land carefully, and the yield of three hundred kilograms per mu should still be achieved.
Even a figure like three hundred kilograms is very astonishing. The land that can be cultivated on Pingding Mountain is 1,670 hectares. If the land is divided into half, there are still 80 hectares, or 8,000 acres of land. .
If a man and a woman farm ten acres, there are more than 300 people on this mountain. Even if they only farm two thousand acres, they can harvest 600,000 catties per year. Calculated at a rice yield of 70%, there are still more than 40 people. Thousands of catties of rice.
Adults eat hard and consume 500 kilograms of grain every year. This more than 400,000 kilograms of rice is enough to feed more than 800 people.
There was nothing to do on Pingding Mountain. After the head of the family handed over the farming matter to Zhao Cheng, he left with the hunters.
Xiao Shitou was assigned to Zhao Cheng, so the two began to inspect the land on Pingding Mountain to determine where it was suitable for farming.
In fact, most places are suitable for farming. Although there are some rocks and debris, with a little clearing and smoothing, it can be easily divided into fields.
Xiao Shitou carried a large bundle of branches on his back and followed Zhao Cheng, planting a branch on the ground every few steps.
"Brother Nineteen, you know so much." Xiao Shitou thinks that branches are very common, and it is very common to stick them on the ground, but why he follows Zhao Cheng and sticks a branch every few steps makes people feel mysterious. Woolen cloth?
Zhao Cheng is calculating the number of acres of land and preparing to divide the acres according to the field planting method recorded in the "Book of Pan Sheng".
