Siheyuan: I decide the fate of the world with my medical skills

At dusk, under the guidance of Ren Xiong, Ziying's team camped next to a Yue tribe that relied on the power of the Qin Dynasty. The flashing lights of Yue people above the tents made him nervous. Ren Xiong was not worried about this. In this tribe, both the leaders and subordinates tried their best to show their favor to the Qin army. First, volunteers provided outer guards for the Qin army, and then even took out the only food, fearing that they would cause dissatisfaction among the Qin army.

As night fell, the camp was filled with laughter and joy from the soldiers and Yue women. After rejecting a young Yue woman who broke into his tent and sought intimacy, Ziying lit a dim balsam lamp and recorded his observations and thoughts. Ten months later, the newborns in this tribe were all descendants of the Qin people. In the makeshift camp next to the Qushui Changchi in Shanglinyuan, countless tents were lined up. "The Book of Rites: Monthly Orders" mentioned: In the last month of autumn, the emperor taught the people to participate in hunting to strengthen the army. Although the First Emperor had not personally held such activities for many years due to health reasons, his son Fusu loved it very much.

At this moment, Shanglinyuan is an ideal place.

In this lush forest, the Shaofu regularly organized professional hunters to patrol and drive away fierce beasts such as tigers, leopards, and bears, leaving only small animals such as muntjacs and wild boars. Therefore, the hunting initiated by Fusu helped to maintain the ecological balance of Shanglinyuan to a certain extent.

However, the main purpose of this trip was twofold: first, to demonstrate to the court officials the strength and deterrence of the Qin Dynasty's military power; at the same time, it also served as a warning to those with ulterior motives; secondly, it was to welcome the arrival of Li Xin, the governor of Longxi County.

According to Qin law, before going out to war, the commander-in-chief had to return to the capital Xianyang to complete a series of procedures before he could receive the seals, tokens, etc. to mobilize the troops.

In a tent with three Chen signs erected outside the camp gate, Fusu waited patiently for Li Xin to appear.

Ever since Li Xin led the Qin army to an unsuccessful expedition and returned, he was deprived of his military power and exiled to Longxi, and he has never seen Li Xin again.

Therefore, when Li Xin signed up as himself, Fusu looked him up and down carefully, and saw that he had a tiger-like body, full muscles, thick black beard, dark skin, and a slightly sad expression on his face... Well, it might be related to the fact that I punished him with ten military service a few days ago!

Recalling the legal provisions on the value of armor - a set of armor is worth 13,440 coins, and the penalty for ten military service is nearly 10,000 coins, while each bucket of millet only sells for 30 coins. This punishment has almost deprived him of three months' basic salary!

What a disturbing bunch of beasts!

So Fusu asked in a deep voice: "Please tell us about the incident of the Xianrong Qiang who invaded the border first."

Li Xin thought for a moment, clasped his hands together and said, "Understood. Please instruct me!"

"The invading team that night consisted of about 5,000 people. They broke through the defensive wall of Mayang Town under the cover of darkness and killed four village officials, 17 soldiers, 49 officials and civilians, a total of 173 people. They then took more than 70 hostages..."

After listening to Li Xin's description, Fusu unconsciously clenched his fists.

"The commander of Fuhan County, 'Zhuang', immediately learned the news and led one hundred county residents out of the city to deal with the enemy. He killed five Xianling Qiang leaders and ninety-six mercenaries in the battle. He continued the pursuit for more than two hundred kilometers and successfully recovered all the robbed wives, daughters and property. When he was dying, he was still shouting that he wanted to kill these thieves! Seventy-four county residents lost their lives in the war. The rest were seriously injured..." When I met everyone in Xianyang, I found that all the children of Qin officials and county soldiers did not survive.

"They are all brave people!" Fusu sighed and gently wiped away the tears from his eyes.

Li Xin clasped his hands together and said respectfully, "Your Majesty should not be so sad. This is the mission we should undertake."

"Take the children of our subordinates who died in the Qin Dynasty and in the war to Xianyang, and incorporate them into our Yulin team, so that they can make due contributions to our national defense." Fu Su sighed, and then said to an executor in the corner: "Convey the imperial edict to the relevant departments: This is a long-term standard procedure. All orphans of our Great Qin who died in battle, if they cannot bear the burden of inheriting their property, will be sent to Xianlai and uniformly incorporated into the Yulin team."

Li Xin frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, what is the Yulin Team?"

Fusu smiled and explained, "That's right. The criteria for evaluation are not fixed. If the evaluation is excellent, each person will be rewarded with one stone of grain per month as food supply. If the evaluation is in the middle, there will be no reward or punishment. If the evaluation is inferior, it will be punished according to military law."

Students who are judged as low-grade for the first time will be beaten three times, and ten times for the second time. If they are judged as low-grade for three consecutive times, they will be subject to the so-called "familiar flogging", which is a more severe punishment!

According to the assessment standards set by Fusu, most students can easily reach the intermediate level as long as they can learn thirty words a month and maintain progress of at least three words a day.

It is worth noting that the handwriting practiced by these Yulin soldiers was not the Qin's small seal script, but the "Lishu" created by the censor Cheng Miao.

As the Qin Dynasty gradually replaced carving knives with brushes and used cloth and bamboo slips instead of tortoise shells and metals, it was found that the "Da Zhuan" and "Xiao Zhuan" scripts on these traditional materials were no longer suitable for writing, because the former had complex strokes, and the latter was not easy to recognize when using a brush and its shape was not suitable for the needs of the brush writing style.

Although the small seal script was widely promoted to unify the writing style after Qin conquered the six kingdoms, it was more regarded as a political symbol rather than a strategic consideration aimed at deepening cultural integration and strengthening internal exchanges.

It is not difficult to find from Fusu's daily examination of papers that most official documents were not written in the traditional "small seal script", but in the "official script" font that is more suitable for brush writing.

After listening to Fusu's detailed explanation, Li Xin nodded to show his understanding, as if this teaching method had been demonstrated in a similar way around him before, just like the training method of the craftsmen at the Blue Sky construction site, where masters guide apprentices and veterans lead novices to make progress together.

After the discussion, Fusu asked Li Xin what he thought about setting up the "Jincheng County" in the Qiang area. Li Xin thought for a moment and replied:

"This problem is actually very difficult, but it is not impossible." His thoughts began to flow. "With the military power of the Qin army, it is not difficult to repel and evacuate the Qiang people. The real difficulty lies in how to establish a stable settlement in the area. The reason is simple. Compared with the vast grassland, the Qiang people value nomadic life and the supplies and livestock they have. This means that after being attacked, they may not insist on fighting for the territory." Then he continued to explain, "In addition to the various tools invented by your majesty, such as coking coal, concrete blocks and bricks and other building materials, there is not much difficulty in building residential facilities; and the use of pumps can also quickly drain the swamp.

The only big problem that needs to be solved is that Jincheng County may still need to rely on the supply of food and resources from Guanzhong to support its development in the first ten years, and it cannot be self-sufficient immediately! "

Then he asked Fusu: "Why do we need to transfer grain from Guanzhong if the swamps can be turned into fertile fields?" Li Xin responded with a gesture of courtesy and a little regret:

Your Majesty has lived in the palace for a long time and has not been exposed to the details of farming. Your understanding of some things may be limited."

"Reclaiming farmland is different from managing wasteland. To conquer thousands of acres of land with human power alone would probably exhaust thousands of people."

"In addition, before cultivating the fields, the land must be leveled and ditches must be built. Otherwise, if there is abundant rainfall in the summer, the water will flow rapidly along the highlands, which will inevitably cause great damage to the land. The crops that survive will not be able to grow well."

"Of course, it's not difficult to fertilize the crops and prevent wild animals from destroying them..."

After hearing Li Xin's words, Fusu gained confidence in reclaiming wasteland in Jincheng County. Although this was not said directly to him personally, the point was that Li Xin pointed out the core difficulty of reclaiming land - using oxen to plow the land and leveling the land.

As a master of online games, he had a basic understanding of farming tools, such as the various tillage machines currently manufactured on a large scale, including curved plows and harrows. The only bottleneck he couldn't solve was the problem of cattle.

Regarding this issue, because the Guanzhong area lacks draft animals for farming, transferring these animals to Jincheng County may face a "war of heroic old Qin to conquer Xianyang together". The cattle on the grassland and the animals living in groups of Qiang people are more suitable for pulling carts than for plowing fields. The farming techniques are learned from calves under the guidance of old cows and gradually trained. You can't just pick up an animal and use it as a plowing animal.

Therefore, when there were not enough livestock resources, Fusu thought about whether there was another way to solve the problem - using horses instead of cattle to plow the fields.

That is a horse-riding farming tool.

The troops in Longxi had no shortage of low-grade donkeys (a type of horse suitable for light tillage tasks). Such equipment was especially common among horse-herding peoples. As far as Fusu knew, a hoe designed for horses invented in Britain in the 20th century had the function of both turning the soil and loosening the soil after ploughing, called a sliding plow. The feature of its design was that it could not only plow the field, but also deep plow at the same time, but this goal could only be achieved by forging key parts, such as the plow tip, or making it completely out of iron.

This is one of the reasons why Fusu did not immediately replicate the sliding plow. Most wooden curved plows can be pulled by humans or oxen, but the iron sliding plow must be pulled by multiple animals in coordination, which may be dangerous if it is pulled by human power alone.

While listening to Li Xin's speech, he picked up a piece of rough draft paper and began to sketch on it, trying to come up with a new design blueprint: