Chapter 357: Plant a grain of millet in spring [seek double monthly tickets]


    The day before the autumnal equinox, the millet is ripe.


    Heyin County, Fugu City.


    There were people coming and going in a hurry in the office, and some officials even shouted along the way with half a person-high bamboo slips.


    "Give me, give me, give me, who will help..." The little official felt that Jian Shu was about to slide down at the top, so he hurriedly asked for help. The passing colleague reached out to help to prevent the disaster from happening. He breathed a sigh of relief. If this pile of things fell down, he didn''t know when to clean up. He was about to look up and thank him, and saw the appearance of the visitor clearly, and hurriedly crossed his hands to salute, "I have seen Superintendent Gu."


    Gu Chi just came back from a business trip and was covered in dust.


    He glanced at the stack of bamboo slips.


    Asked: "Why are the government office still so busy?"


    Isn’t he quite leisurely before his business trip?


    The little official wiped his sweat, and his face was tired, but he was still more happy. He said excitedly: "The township official reported that the corn was ripe half a month earlier than in previous years, and all counties and townships in the county started to be busy..." This was the first autumn harvest since Shen Jun took over Heyin!


    Everyone follows the experience of autumn harvest in previous years. They plan to start being really busy in half a month. Who knows that corn is precocious this year and every household is in a hurry to lack manpower. The government office, which had finally been idle, was so busy that it was flying again.


    Gu Chi: “…”


    He seemed to guess the reason why the Blue Bird was urgently summoned.


    Combinedly, he was taken back to the busy farming industry.


    Shen Tang said that this is not to follow the principle of "not bothering the two masters in one matter". Who made Fu Gu and even He Yin measure the fields in other areas by Gu Chi? He knew how many acres of good and bad land were roughly produced by each acre.


    If he is not arrested at this time, when will he be arrested?


    Gu Chi was so angry that he heard Shen Tang''s voice.


    He was thrown away by his lord as the supervisor of Heyin County and worked hard with a small amount of money. His business trip conditions were hard to describe.


    Life is so hard that he wants to exchange the literati with Qi Shan in daily life. Inspection of counties and townships, inspecting officials, case inspection and prisons, and inspection of illegal inspections, and have to focus on tax revenues everywhere... If you walk, you will be burdened, and if you lie down, you will be free. When the road conditions are good, you can ride a horse or a ox cart. If the road conditions are bad, you can only have two legs. You can calculate wherever you go, and you will be able to deal with the bedding rolls...


    What is the result?


    My lord did not understand his hardships and thought he had done too little work, so he recalled him on a business trip.


    As long as it is someone who can do it, she will not do anything.


    Facing Gu Chi''s black face, Shen Tang giggled foolishly and tried to get through cuteness, but Gu Chi didn''t even take her tricks.


    Shen Tang curled his lips in his heart, moved him to understand his reason with emotion - Autumn harvest is one of the most important things in a county. How could Gu Chi be absent as his right-hand man? The autumn harvest sacrifice is unreasonable. Gu Chi is not present.


    Gu Chi''s face then calmed down.


    Shen Tang gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.


    The capable ones work harder. Shen Tang raised his hand and threw all the stacks, these stacks, these stacks, and those stacks... to Gu Chi to solve the problem. Gu Chi had no choice but to accept his orders and let someone bring a table to work with him. In fact, Shen Tang was not in a hurry to summon himself, and Gu Chi would come back half a month later, that is, the time when corn was normal ripening, and help Shen Tang preside over the autumn harvest sacrifice together.


    But this year he was caught off guard by premature maturity.


    Marke up all his original plans.


    As the office of the district became quiet again, you could occasionally hear subtle movements caused by bamboo slips or collisions or closing scrolls.


    It was busy until the golden crow fell and the tired birds returned to the forest. Gu Chi stopped the brush and raised his hand to rub his stiff shoulders.


    When I turned my head, I saw that my lord was sleeping on the table.


    Gu Chi stood up carefully.


    Afraid of causing a big noise to disturb Shen Tang.


    However, no matter how careful he was, Shen Tang was still awakened by the sound of the hem of his clothes and the mat, and he barely stood up with his forehead. His eyes were glaring outside the window, and he yawned and stretched, "Ah, this is the point? Why am I asleep..."


    Gu Chi sighed, "It''s the lord who is too tired."


    Shen Tang: "Autumn harvest is important, it cannot be delayed."


    Heyin is a poor place with poor mountains and rivers, and there are shortages of people everywhere. Shen Tang also cut off several local snakes from beginning to end. There are very few candidates who can be competent for county and township officials. He had no choice but to promote some temporary officials and summoned the main officials from all villages to replace him.


    At the same time, seize the time to provide on-the-job training for people.


    Qi Shan and others are all responsible for many positions.


    The matter is not difficult to handle, but it is too trivial and takes a lot of time. Even Shen Tang, the county magistrate, has to work part-time as a job as a private cashier in charge of the Shaofu Shishi. Occasionally, he wants to go out and let go, so he travels part-time to catch thieves.


    When Shen Tang first entered Heyin, there were crimes of murder, robbing money and **** everywhere. It took time to arrest the criminals. Shen Tang did not have enough staff, and sometimes he had to ask Gong Shuwu and others to help him. In short, if you can''t do it, you will die.


    Recently, I have been staying up all night every day.


    She yawned up and asked Gu Chi to go to the official canteen for dinner. Well, she set up a canteen in the official office, and the busy officials in the official office could have a meal here. It can not only save time to go home for dinner, but also save a lot of expenses.


    For officials, the latter is equivalent to a disguised salary increase, and the food in the official canteen is still full. For Shen Tang, the former is the most important thing, which is to increase everyone''s working hours_(:з)∠)_


    "Oh, I have to find a way to purify the salt..."


    The canteen chef’s skills are good.


    But the quality of salt cannot be maintained.


    The dishes I made had a bitter taste, but salt is an indispensable consumable in life.


    Every time I miss Chu Wuhui''s skills more and more.


    Gu Chi adhered to the rule of not saying anything about food and swept all the millet in the pottery bowl, then wiped his mouth and smiled, "My lord wants to let Wuhui make one, right?"


    Chu Yao''s identity is more special than others.


    Chen Tang finished drinking the last little rice soup.


    He said: "He has been focusing on helping De gather his literary mind recently. I don''t want him to be distracted by it."


    Gu Chi calculates the time.


    I know that Lin Feng is important to gather literary heart: "Alas, in this way, the autumn harvest and sacrifice will still fall on the pond?"


    Chen Tang smiled and said, "Those who are capable work harder."


    Gu Chi: “…”


    The expansion of enrollment is imperative.


    He took the tableware used by the lord to the recycling area. As soon as he came back, he saw a small official standing beside Shen Tang, whispering something. Chen Tang listened patiently and nodded from time to time.


    After a while, the clerk withdrew.


    His legs are lame, and he walks with a turn.


    Gu Chi asked: "This life face is new?"


    He doesn''t remember any clerk in the official office who had a disability in his legs.


    Chen Tang: "Well, I came here a while ago."


    Gu Chi didn''t ask much.


    First, he believed in his lord''s vision, and second, he also believed in his own way of scholars. If there is a problem with this person, he would be able to reveal his true colors after contacting him for a while. Chen Tang knew what he was thinking and smiled and said, "Don''t think too much."


    But Gu Chi disagreed.


    In his opinion, when working in the office of the capital, personal ability is second, obedience, loyalty and strict speech are the most important. If you encounter something that is very thoughtful but has limited brains, it will be bad. If you are not loyal enough, who knows when you will be bribed by other forces? The news that Heyin''s corn is ripe cannot be concealed from the outside world. I am afraid that someone will cause trouble at the critical moment of autumn harvest.


    Chen Tang smiled and said, "Don''t worry, Wangchao, this person has been checked repeatedly, it can be used. A poor refugee who left his hometown took away a bag of wheat seeds when he left his hometown. He was so hungry that he couldn''t bear to eat it... He happened to remind me something."


    "What''s the matter?"


    "The corn is ripe every year, and the yield is not high. It is better to find some ripe ones a year and take turns to farm. No one knows what will happen in the future. If the common people do not have enough grain storage in their homes, once they encounter natural disasters and food shortages, the Heyin we have been operating for so long will be destroyed."


    Chen Tang then set his sights on Xiaomai.


    Rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and beans are the grains.


    Corrican is the "rice" among them. In layman''s terms, it is millet and is currently the most important crop in the Northwest Continent. Wheat, as one of the grains, is not valued.


    It’s not that I don’t want to plant it on a large scale, but that this thing is a little bit unacceptable and difficult to plant!


    Wheat is suitable for planting in cold and humid winters and hot and dry summers, but the northwest of Heyin is located in the mainland is different from the planting environment of others. Rain is urgently needed for planting and emergence in spring, but here is dry and rainy in spring, and irrigation has become a problem.


    In this way, the scale of wheat cultivation is not large.


    The main crop in Heyin and even the northwest of the mainland is still corn, and wheat is the younger brother, which cannot shake its status at all. If the problem of spring water supply can be solved, it may be able to cultivate on a large scale and targeted basis and replace corn as the main food.


    Two types a year are a great temptation.


    Revise the stone mill again.


    Speaking of this, Chen Tang felt a little fucked.


    If the state power had not changed frequently, the common people would not have much time to settle down and recuperate, and perhaps agriculture would have developed faster. The wooden plows used for farming are not as bulky and difficult to rotate, and the farming efficiency is extremely low.


    Gu Chi said, "Then you have to find good wheat seeds."


    There is little wheat planted, but it does not mean there is no.


    Chen Tang said: "I have asked Xu Wenzhu to look for it before. He will come over next time and there should be good news."


    In terms of connections and connections, Chen Tang, the governor of Heyin County, is far inferior to Xu Jie, the head of the Xu family. Because Chen Tang was kind to Tianhai, and Wu Xian found out with conscience that Tianhai would be satisfied as long as Chen Tang''s difficulties were not excessive.


    Of course, it’s not something that people don’t work for nothing.


    Still have to give friendship price_(:з)∠)_


    Because the workload of autumn harvest has increased sharply, everyone in the official office has to work overtime for one or two hours at night. Chen Tang has enough food and drink, and keeps up his spirit and continues to work. This time, she was not dealing with government affairs, but going to see the workshop. To be precise, it was the cornerstone of her dream!


    Last year, Chen Tang was still talking about doing side jobs.


    After all, she loves brushes deeply.


    But there are too many problems before her, such as the printing technology is simple and copying is done by hand; the papermaking efficiency is low, and there is less paper used to write and draw, and it is not easy to preserve. Only when Chen Tang completely solved these problems and then reduced the cost of construction, so that the common people could afford paper, would they come to appreciate Chen Tang''s paintings. Only when someone buys Chen Tang’s side job can he make money.


    However, fat people cannot be eaten in one bite.


    Similarly—


    Problems also need to be solved slowly one by one.


    Chen Tang was the first to focus on "paper".


    Wood, bamboo, reeds, straw and wheat straw can all be used as raw materials for making paper. In the spring of this year, Chen Tang asked people to cut down and collect tender bamboo. At the same time, I also collected other materials to try which one is more suitable.


    The entire process is complicated and cumbersome, such as soaking and removing green, breaking and washing, then boiling, washing, steaming, removing sewage, then fermenting with water, pounding with stone mortars, repeatedly washing and beating, and finally using bamboo curtain to pick up paper and dry.


    The whole process is summarized in just a few words.


    Cut the hemp, remove the green, soak the ash, boil it over heat, wash it with water, brush it with curtains, and brush it with green. Chen Tang only knew the general process, and found a way to make pulp and then drain paper and dry it. All kinds of processes can only be solved by the craftsmen themselves and grasped one by one.


    Other materials are also processed in similar ways to produce pulp, and the process will be very different afterwards.


    Gu Chi twitched slightly.


    He said, "My lord is really compelling."


    The vivid and fragrant secret plays last year were written by Qi Yuanliang. He didn’t know how good the lord’s painting skills were, but judging from Qi’s expression, it seemed to be similar to his singing skills. Where did the lord get the confidence that he can make a living by relying on painting skills?


    "Haha, don''t be praised." Chen Tang naturally thought Gu Chi was praising him, so he said politely and humblely, and then said enthusiastically, "Let''s go back and wait for my album to be published, I''ll give you a free set!"


    Gu Chi had no expression on his face.


    What is the lord’s painting used for?


    As someone said, can you use it to ward off evil spirits?


    Or use it as a trick?


    Gu Chi silently swallowed his heart.


    She couldn''t bear to attack her lord, and when her album came out but no one cared about it, she knew that reality was cruel.


    The second day, the autumnal equinox.


    Great harvest and great luck.


    With the lessons of the spring farming sacrifice, Chen Tang collected the small notes written in person, for fear of another accident - Su Shang and its nine cubs had the powerful backer of Qi Shan. The cat relied on its power and came and went freely in the office of the government office on weekdays and "dominantly", as if it had evolved from one cat bull to ten cat bull violent groups. Chen Tang didn''t dare to offend these little ancestors.


    If you offend them, who will catch the mice?


    The stupid dog of Chu Yao''s family is probably the one who is most disgusted, and he is bullied by ten of them every day. The Meow Ba gang will provoke and bully it if they are happy or not, and even use Qishan''s carefully trained interlude and coordinated tactics. If the stupid dog calls on other helpers, they will also "surround the point and attack the help", bullying the dog so hard that it will jump up and down, and keep whining.


    At that time, Chu Yao''s face was so dark.


    Chen Tang felt that even if there were factions in his tent, it was probably a irreconcilable feud between the Cats and the Dogs.


    _(:з)∠)_


    With experience, Chen Tang was much calmer this time.


    Gather everyone before the auspicious time.


    The process of spring plowing and sacrifice is similar. Chen Tang must first recite the prayer, worship the heaven and earth, thank the Spring God for the gifts of a year, and then go to the ground to harvest a bunch of corn. After she finishes these, the common people nearby can start the official autumn harvest.


    Generally, it lasts for less than half a month.


    Considering that each household lacks manpower, Chen Tang will run out to build the road. Zhao Feng and his group, who don’t know where to build it, will be a pity for the ready-made strong men.


    He Yin’s harvest this year is inseparable from their hard work, and they should come and enjoy the fruits together.


    She sorted out her appearance: "The **** of spring is on the top, and Chen Youli, the governor of Yin County of Xiaguanhe, led the officials to rule the next..."


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    ??Today, the top chrysanthemums were exposed twice, oh, oh, tomorrow is the last day of March. If the monthly ticket expires, it will be invalid. It’s a pity to waste. Let’s see if there are still monthly tickets, so vote for mushrooms.


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    ??PPS: Currently, the monthly ticket is 8418, and I feel that 10,000 yuan is expected, come on.


    PPPS: There is another update in the early morning. Everyone goes to bed early and you will see it when you wake up tomorrow.


    ??(This chapter ends)