In order to promote new agriculture, Liang Chuan even persuaded Minamoto Yoritomo to distribute free seeds to farmers to attract farmers. Because they missed this season, they could only wait until next year to experiment with new agriculture.
Yoritomo Minamoto did the math and spent a lot of money on the porridge and the city renovation. Would he still be stingy with these few seeds? He decisively and generously distributed the seeds to the farmers.
Although she doubts Liang Chuan's identity, she respects the knowledge in Liang Chuan's mind. This nation has a characteristic, which is respect for the strong, rather than being blindly arrogant and looking at everyone with colored glasses first. Again.
The farmers cried with gratitude. Never in history had they met such a good general who cared so much about people's livelihood. The effect was that when Genji implemented Liangchuan's new agriculture, there was no obstacle at all and he received full support from the people.
Liang Chuan's mood was complicated when he tried his best to promote this series of things. From the perspective of the nation, he even hoped that the nation would stagnate forever. However, from the perspective of these people who have failed, these suffering people are just trying to survive. That's all, the national will of the upper class is just a political hat imposed on their heads.
The torrent of history has already determined its direction. He is not even a pebble in the long river. If he was afraid before that his actions would cause a butterfly effect, he only knew after reading the push and back pictures. What happened will still happen, the Song Dynasty will still be wiped out by the Mongols. If you don't do these things yourself, there will be another Liangchuan to complete these things.
Just like the importance of maritime trade and the development of agriculture, the islanders will discover the importance of these sooner or later, and they will take advantage of them.
For a nation and one person who wants to destroy it, the best way is not to let them live a hard life, but to let them live a good life. Poverty will make people want to change, and comfort will make people indulge in enjoyment.
Maybe I have brought the advent of the shogunate era ahead of schedule, but the consequence of this is that it prolongs the life of the shogunate. For the history of the island country, this ending cannot escape hundreds of years of feudal rule.
All these things, Liang Chuan can no longer bear the psychological burden. The future of the world's nations has nothing to do with him. All he wants is to return to his old family and return to his artistic mother. This is his responsibility.
There are three elements in farming, land production tools and producers. The best way to increase yields is to start from these three aspects.
Producers are farmers, and farmers are everywhere. There is only a problem of less land and more people, but not a shortage of labor. Moreover, even the seeds for spring plowing this year were provided by Genji, so farmers were more motivated to produce.
Production tools Farmers use a lot of wooden tools, and even iron tools are very few.
Liang Chuan has no way to immediately popularize iron farm tools and use tools such as iron hoes and iron hoes for all the people. This is more unrealistic than paying wages to migrant workers, because the cost is too huge, and the iron ore raw materials of the island country are too high. They rely heavily on imports, which is also an important factor restricting their combat effectiveness.
Wooden tools are wooden tools. Liang Chuan drew the design of the curved shaft plow. This is one of the greatest inventions in the history of Chinese agriculture. A curved shaft plow only needs a small piece of iron as a plowshare. , the efficiency of farming can be increased by more than ten times.
Moreover, a plow can be reused. One cow and one plow in a village is enough. If it cannot be popularized by everyone, then it should be promoted on a village basis.
As an important figure in the Genji family, Liang Chuan went deep into the fields and set an example. Such a noble bloodline shared the joys and sorrows with the farmers. The reputation of Minamoto Yoshitsune was spread to the gods, and the myth of Minamoto Yoshitsune's emphasis on agriculture and benefiting farmers began to spread in the Kanto region.
The current image of Minamoto Yoshitsune is extremely tall. As the younger brother of Minamoto Yoritomo, the head of the Minamoto clan, he is tall and mighty and has great martial arts skills. More importantly, he has a heart for the people. This is what the common people like to see most, even his His prestige exceeds that of the clan leader, Minamoto Yoritomo.
If Minamoto Yoritomo hadn't led all this, she would have even begun to doubt that Minamoto Yoshitsune wanted to stand on his own behalf. Fortunately, all this was the people's heartfelt love for Minamoto Yoshitsune and could not threaten her own status.
The Quyu plow caused a huge sensation as soon as it came out, because the work was so labor-saving. Even if farmers did not have oxen or horses, they directly used human power instead of animal power to pull the Quyu plow. The Quyu plow pulled by human power was also extremely labor-intensive. It is easy and the efficiency of plowing the ground is several floors higher.
People finally believed that Minamoto Yoshitsune was a master who really knew how to farm, and no one doubted what he said.
Liang Chuan's influence grew, and under his leadership, people began to clean up the rivers in the fields.
The island country has a dense network of mountains and rivers, so there is no need to build dams and reservoirs. However, as rivers are an important way to divert water, if they are not repaired, they are likely to flood in summer and have no water in winter, which is extremely unfavorable for irrigation.
The cleared river can also be used for the development of the breeding industry, and many crops can be grown in the water. This is a job that is beneficial to the people. When farmers hear that it can increase production, they will dig the ditch if they have nothing to do. , clean up the silt in the river.
After the river channel was repaired, the next step was to build a waterwheel on it. Liangchuan had built several waterwheels, and he was already familiar with it. The island country also had a lot of wood resources, and the farmers were very good at making woodware. Most of them were learned and taught by the Tang Dynasty. After coming over, they learned and developed it and created a set of carpentry skills that were relatively equally practical.
Before Liang Chuan came, farmers would sow their seeds by scattering them into the soil. Liang Chuan taught them that seedling raising and transplanting should be separated, so that the survival rate of seeds would be higher, and when transplanting, they should pay attention to the spacing between crops. Crops, like people, also need a certain amount of growing space. Planting them sparsely will result in higher yields.
Such a reason is difficult for them to accept, but Minamoto Yoshitsune has created too many miracles, and people believe in his words. People can just do what he says. How dare they question and violate the will of the gods?
In order to spread agricultural technology, Liang Chuan personally demonstrated in many places, surrounded by a large group of farmers with admiring eyes. He tied his trousers and sleeves and had close contact with the farmers.
The problem finally broke out.
On this day, Liang Chuan was demonstrating the standard method of transplanting rice in the field. Without warning, a strong man suddenly emerged from the crowd, took out a dagger from his arms, and stabbed Liang Chuan violently.
Liang Chuan did not bring any weapons with him, but this did not mean that Liang Chuan had lost his combat effectiveness.
Liang Chuan spotted the strong man's wrist, reached out and grabbed his wrist, and used a control technique in the police skills to break the arm and break the wrist. He knocked the dagger out of the strong man's hand and subdued him with one move.
The simple and honest villagers were angry. Minamoto no Yoshitsune was of the emperor's blood, and he worked so hard for the people, yet there were some reckless people who wanted to assassinate him. Before Benkei arrived, this strong man was furious. The peasants surrounded Wuhua Da, beat him and tied him up.
Minamoto Yoritomo did not expect such a thing to happen, and ordered the samurai at the service station to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The strong man quickly confessed after being tortured several times. The fame of Minamoto Yoshitsune and Minamoto Yoritomo has spread to all parts of the island country, and people are spreading their righteous deeds and good stories.
The Taira family naturally also received the disappearance of a series of reforms by the Genji family. What disappointed him was that the reforms of the Genji family did not trigger a popular uprising. The common people surprisingly supported the actions of the Genji family. Even many samurai and common people under his own jurisdiction They all went to Genji's territory to work for him.
The masterminds who changed all this were naturally Genji's two brothers.
Minamoto Yoritomo had been huddled in the city all day and had no chance to make a move, but Minamoto Yoshitsune went to the fields to farm in a panic, which gave the Taira family a chance. The Ping family sent dead soldiers with murderous weapons to kill Liang Chuan unprepared while he was farming. Unexpectedly, Minamoto Yoshitsune was as skilled in martial arts as the legend said, and he subdued the murderous soldiers with bare hands.
Before the dead man could die, he was taken under control and later explained the whole process.
He didn't expect farming to be so risky. After some evaluation, Liang Chuan decided not to farm. Anyway, he was almost done with teaching. What he was thinking about now was that grandma's Ping family didn't provoke him, but they came to visit him. Okay, is this okay?
Liang Chuan told Minamoto Yoritomo a plan. Since they can use the method of sending dead soldiers to assassinate the top leaders of the Genji family, we can also do the same. It made sense to Minamoto Yoritomo, but the samurai under his command were not that capable after all. How could the Taira clan be killed by hiding in the castle all day like him?
After thinking about it, Liang Chuan said: "It's not safe for anyone else to go. If they are captured by the Ping clan, it will damage morale. Let him do it. If it starts from him, let him finish it." When things succeed, he can build up his reputation, but when things fail, Liang Chuan is confident and capable of escaping unscathed."
Minamoto Yoritomo really didn't want Liang Chuan to put himself in danger. But Liang Chuan was right. Although the Ping clan had many powerful generals, there were probably none who could truly compete with Liang Chuan, and none even with Benqing.
Benqing has been loyal to Liang Chuan since he became Liang Chuan's retainer. Being upright, he did not expect that the Ping clan would use such a despicable and despicable method. After Liang Chuan said his plan of retaliating with tooth, Benqing agreed without hesitation.
The only person who disagreed was Ah Gou. This action was too dangerous, and he would be buried in a foreign country if he was not careful. The Taira family was not a vegetarian, otherwise Genji would have planned so carefully and closely.
Liang Chuan comforted her for a long time and promised her thousands of times that he would come back safely, and Ah Gou reluctantly agreed.
At this point, Ah Gou was a replica of Yi Niang. He even suspected that there must be such a girl in another part of the world, with the same good character, so considerate of herself, and so gentle.
