Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 65
Xun Yu returned the chess pieces to their positions, put them neatly into the wooden box, and put away the chessboard.

"My lord, it's summer, and it's raining in April. When it's time for the harvest, it's a canal."

Cao Cao nodded: "Last year was drought in Dongjun County. When the people sowed the cultivated land, they often dug deep ditches to divert water for irrigation. This year, there is plenty of rain in the wheat month. If we continue to experience last year's ditch and another rain, I am afraid it will be ruined." Harvest, not conducive to farming."

"I remember that Zhicai seemed to propose building dams and repairing canals?"

Cao Cao thought for a moment, then changed the topic.

Xi Zhicai was recommended by Xun Yu as a counselor to Cao Cao, and the two were very friendly in private.

Before Xi Zhicai proposed a strategy to Cao Cao, he would often visit Xun Yu with a jug of fine wine, and get drunk at the other party's house.

At this time, when Xi Zhicai had already proposed a solution to Cao Cao, Xun Yu once again raised the matter of "rainlogging is not good for farm harvest", and the deep meaning is worth considering.

Cao Cao knew the elegant meaning after hearing the strings, and knew that this was Xun Yu who wanted to hear if Zhong Ping could come up with any different opinions.

He was also very interested in this, so he didn't puncture Xun Yu's intentions. He just pretended to be annoyed, propped it on the table, and seemed to be talking to himself: "If the embankment is repaired... it's time for the busy farming, and I'm afraid there will be insufficient manpower. ah."

April in the lunar calendar is when the wheat is ripe.

"Book of Rites Yueling" said: "Mengxia's moon and wheat come in autumn." Cai Yong commented in "Yueling Zhangju": "Every valley is regarded as spring when it is first born, and autumn when it is ripe, so the wheat is autumn when it is Mengxia."

That's why April is also known as the wheat month. When Zhong Ping heard that there might be a flood, he became nervous all of a sudden when he was harvesting wheat.

At this time, he didn't care to distinguish whether the embarrassment in Cao Cao's tone was true or not, and he lowered his head and began to ponder.

In his previous life, he often went to play with his grandfather during the November holidays. At that time, his grandfather contracted a small paddy field, perhaps because of the frugality of the older generation.

Every year during the autumn harvest, my grandfather would go to the field to cut rice before dawn with a sickle on his shoulders. Chong Ping was not sensible when he was a child, and felt that harvesting and threshing rice was a very interesting "game".

Every time my grandfather finished his meal in the afternoon and wanted to go out to the fields again, Zhong Ping, who had just climbed out of bed, would be like a little follower, pestering his grandfather to harvest rice together.

The result...not to mention the scalding of the scalp in the afternoon sun, grandpa still went barefoot on the ground, and Zhong Ping learned to take off his shoes and step into the mud. The taste that flowed through was simply indescribable.

Zhong Ping just bowed his waist and persisted for more than ten minutes. He felt that his waist was going to be abolished, and he couldn't straighten up.

Later, when he came up from the muddy water, a pile of locusts and leeches were picked up on his legs. The first time Zhong Ping saw it, he was so frightened that he almost lost his mind.

Subconsciously, he wanted to pull it out with his hands. Waiting for his grandfather to use the soil method, he took a piece of hot charcoal close to the leech and burned it for a while. When the leech fell off naturally, Zhongping vowed that he would never go to the field again in his life.

It is so difficult to harvest rice by human in modern times, let alone in ancient times, let alone the problem of yield.

After the rice is harvested, it must be threshed and dried in time to ensure that the rice is dry and clean, and it can also effectively prevent germination and mildew.

This is all about competing with God for time.

Building dams now is indeed beneficial to future farming, but it also means giving up this season's harvest. The wheat is already ripe...

When Zhong Ping thought of the yellow wheat field, he couldn't help but see his grandfather's vicissitudes of life face, and the kind of cherishing of every grain of rice.

No, I have to think of a way to see if it can be saved, or improve the efficiency of building dams, shorten the time, and see if they can be repaired before the wheat is harvested.

Or directly improve the irrigation system... Wait, why should I consider these things when I study the Fa? I don't know how to do water conservancy either.

Kind of flat head pain.

In the end, it was the college entrance examination questions that saved Zhong Ping. He had never been so grateful to his high school for those messy questions.

"Uncle, there are usually two things to offer, which may solve the urgent need."

Zhong Ping recalled the history questions he had written, which mentioned that in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the wheat cage, wheat samarium, and wheat Chuo were combined into a complete set of fast wheat harvesters.

Among them, Mai Chuo is a kind of wheat copying device made of bamboo strips. It is shaped like a dustpan and slightly larger. It is equipped with a samarium blade on one side. When the blade is swung to cut wheat ears, the wheat ears will naturally fall into the bowl.

The wheat cage is installed on a wooden frame with four small wheels underneath, and is dragged around the waist with a rope.

The wheat harvester uses samarium to cut the ears of wheat, and the ears of wheat fall into the cage. At this time, he pours the wheat in the cage back into the cage, and when the cage is full, he pulls it directly to the threshing floor.

It is recorded in Wang Zhen's "Nongshu" that this method of harvesting wheat can harvest ten acres a day.

If such a set of tools is used, the wheat harvest can be completed in time for the rainy season.

And for this thing, except for Mai Samarium, which is time-consuming to build, everything else can be transformed with off-the-shelf farm tools.

Even if it is this samarium knife, it is really too late to make it, and it is actually not a big problem to replace it with the current sickle.

As for the other thing, it is the "Shuibu Shi" of the Tang Dynasty.

The relevant aspects of water conservancy construction and management have been explained relatively clearly, and the content is quite complete.

Although Zhong Ping didn't have the brains to memorize everything, he still knew the general steps.

Coupled with the five weather forecasts in his hand, it should not be a problem to rush to harvest wheat.

"Oh? Boheng thinks he has a plan in mind... Wen Ruo's affairs are complicated, so why don't my uncle and nephew go back to the house to discuss in detail, so as not to disturb Sima's business."

Cao Cao stood up and casually laughed at Xun Yu.

Zhong Ping glanced at Xun Yu subconsciously, but the other party just shook his head slightly, as if he was used to it.

It seems that Boss Cao's relationship with superiors and subordinates is still very good... No, what am I thinking, that's Xun Yu, Boss Cao's attitude is normal, okay?I'm thinking of eating peaches.

Xun Yu knew that Cao Cao deliberately avoided him, and it was also out of love for Zhongping.

In Cao Cao's view, Xi Zhicai proposed the strategy of building dams and rectifying waterways after discussing with Xun Yu.

No matter how talented Zhong Ping is, he should not be able to surpass the plan of these two people.

Therefore, I originally wanted to investigate Zhong Ping, but now I see him with a well-thought-out appearance.

On the contrary, Cao Cao was worried that if Zhong Ping said this, he would hurt Zhong Ping's self-esteem if he implemented Xi Zhicai's plan in the end.

So he changed his mind and planned to take Zhongping back to the mansion to discuss this matter with him in a joking manner, so as to avoid embarrassment for Zhongping.

Zhong Ping naturally didn't know that Cao Cao looked down on him before he heard what he had proposed.

Just doing enough etiquette, he also stood up, and couldn't help but be curious about the appearance of Cao Cao's mansion, when he heard a young man outside wailing repeatedly:
"Sir, save me! My father will kill me too!"

(Thanks to the so-called Yiren with a fat and long face and Mo Ke for the reward (òó))

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