In "The Book of Pan Sheng", this is called the Okuta Method.
The specific method is to artificially divide the land into pieces according to the different crops to be planted.
According to the records in the book, it is about 18 feet across and divided into fifteen borders. There are fourteen trails between the borders, about one foot wide. Then a ditch was dug every half a foot on the border, one foot wide and one foot deep, and millet was planted in the ditch.
What Zhao Cheng has to do now is to first divide the land that is expected to be used for farming, then divide it according to the land area law, and finally select different crops for planting according to needs.
In the process of surveying the terrain, Zhao Cheng walked around Pingding Mountain for a long time. Except for a few intersections where people were guarding him and not allowing him to get close, the rest of the place was basically filled with cliffs.
The more Zhao Cheng looked at it, the more frightened he became. This Pingding Mountain was really an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place. Not to mention the few troops in Qinghe County, even if all the regular officers and soldiers from Yulin Prefecture were mobilized, they would not be able to conquer this Pingding Mountain. He could only look at the mountain and sigh. .
If a city is built on a mountain, it will be virtually impregnable.
But Zhao Cheng is neither the governor of Yulin Prefecture nor the magistrate of Qinghe County. It is not his turn to worry about suppressing bandits. For the current plan, as long as he can escape safely from this bandit den , even if it is lucky.
If you don't participate in the robbery, just looking at the lives of these people on the top of the mountain, they are no different from ordinary villagers.
Every morning the men would go down the mountain carrying bows and arrows and weapons, hunting animals when they encountered them, and robbing lone people when they encountered them. The old men repaired their houses at home, tanned leather, and chopped firewood to feed their horses.
The women feed the chickens and prepare the meals.
Zhao Cheng noticed that there is one special thing. There is only one granary on Pingding Mountain. Everyone who takes food from the granary must obtain the consent of the master. Judging from the matter of drinking porridge from a small stone, the master's control over food is relatively strict. .
In fact, it's normal when you think about it. After all, there are more than 300 people in this mountain. If public warehouses are not implemented, there will inevitably be a situation where some people have food to eat and some people have no food to eat.
Once there is no food to eat, there will be population loss and flight. The boss must have put a lot of effort into maintaining this small village.
"Do you often go hungry?" Zhao Cheng asked Xiao Shitou who was following him as he walked.
Little Stone inserted a branch into the soil and corrected: "It's us."
Zhao Cheng followed the good advice: "Are we often hungry?"
Xiao Shitou tilted his head and thought for a while: "It's not that often. I'm hungry about four or five days out of ten."
Zhao Cheng was speechless. Isn't it common to be hungry four or five days out of ten?
"During the severe drought the year before last, I was often hungry. I had to work hard every day. If I was really hungry, I would drink some water. At that time, there was not enough water to drink, and the springs on the top of the mountain were almost dry."
“Originally, there was farming in the mountains, but unfortunately, those who knew how to farm all starved to death.”
This is really a tragedy. Those who know how to farm starve to death, but those who cannot farm but only rob survive.
Zhao Cheng asked: "Then why don't you go to Qinghe County for help?"
Xiao Shitou cleared a stone that was half buried in the soil: "The boss of the family, his father, went to the county to ask the officials for help, and then he was arrested and said to be a runaway. According to " "The Law of Arrest and Death" must be punished."
"Then the boss died in prison, and no one dared to go to the county to ask for help."
"Brother Nineteen, you have studied a lot. If you are caught running away from home, will you beheaded?"
Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said: "Fugitives will be tortured, which means they will be beaten in the city. Fugitive slaves will be flogged. Only deserters will be cut in half."
In fact, no matter which one of these three punishments, most of them will not be able to survive. Once the city is pounded, it is built. Every year, the city must be repaired, and the damaged areas must be repaired.
Even if there is no city repair task, there are still dam control, road construction, landscape reconstruction, etc., and this kind of work lasts for a year or two. Normal strong laborers can't bear it, let alone the old and the weak. It is normal to die on the city wall. But that's it.
"No wonder the boss is the boss. It turns out that his father used to be the boss." Zhao Cheng said.
Xiao Shitou shook his head: "No, because the master led a dozen people to rob the prison and rescued many people, so he became the master."
"I am ranked 19th. Did all the previous 18 heroes participate in the prison robbery?" Zhao Cheng asked.
Xiao Shitou grinned and said: "Brother Nineteen is really amazing, you can hit the right guess!"
Zhao Cheng looked back at the branches he had inserted along the way. They had formed a winding line, about a hundred meters long, so he turned ninety degrees and continued walking forward.
"Are you also a runaway?" Zhao Cheng asked Xiao Shitou.
"I don't know what running away from home is." Xiao Shitou continued to follow Zhao Cheng and plant branches: "My parents are dead and I couldn't survive, so I begged all the way. I wanted to go to Yulin Mansion to beg for food. Later I met a pack of wolves in the mountains. , almost ate me."
Xiao Shitou pulled up his sleeves, revealing two arms with uneven scars: "Brother Nineteen, look, these two arms were almost useless. Fortunately, the boss saved me."
"If you insert this branch a little further, just end it here."
Zhao Cheng stopped. Not far in front of him, there was a huge gallows, or in other words, a huge pulley block. The whole thing was forged from an iron frame and interlocked with each other like mortise and tenon joints.
There are four winches on both sides of the iron frame. The handles of the winches are polished, obviously from frequent use.
The chain in the middle of the iron frame is coiled around the iron pillar. It can be seen that the chain is very long.
Xiao Shitou saw Zhao Cheng's eyes falling on the iron frame, and said proudly: "This is the Panlong Pillar. The day Brother Nineteen came, he came up from the Panlong Pillar."
Of course Zhao Cheng remembered it. In fact, he spent the whole morning searching just to see how he was pulled up from the cliff that day. It turned out that there was such a big institution here.
The iron frame is overall black and red, and there is obviously some rust, but it is not serious and does not affect the performance of the iron frame at all.
"Did you make this iron frame?"
"You mean Panlong Pillar?" Xiao Shitou grinned and said, "How did we build this thing? It was here when we climbed to the top of this mountain."
"Panlong Zhu, this name is quite appropriate." Zhao Cheng looked at the iron frame in trance.
What kind of financial resources, how much labor, and how much space are needed to build such a tall iron frame, then transport it to the top of the mountain to assemble it, and the place where the iron frame is placed must have been surveyed. The rock must be very strong and not easy to loosen.
The most important thing is, who is it and why did they spend so much effort to install a set of pulleys on the top of this mountain?
What was their purpose, and why were they wasted?
