Chapter 455: Near water but lack of water


    ??However, it is very important to open monasteries like Guo Tai and Guo Linzong to teach ancient classics, but they do not know the most urgent thing.


    The most urgent thing now is to resume farming.


    Yong''an is slightly better, but the green seedlings are damaged, so it only needs to be replanted. But here in Pingyang, in addition to plowing the soil, there is a very important and urgent matter, which is to restore canal irrigation...


    The water source relatively close to Pingyang County is Fenshui.


    It is said to be relatively close, but in fact it is more than twenty miles away.


    ?Fei Qian asked Ma Yue to continue dealing with matters related to Bai Bo, while he took Jia Qu and Huang Cheng eastward along the dilapidated canal.


    The water channel runs along one side of the pipe. It can be seen that it was originally paved with bricks and stones, and the structure is relatively complete. However, in some places, people have trampled on animals, causing some damage and collapse. In addition, there is no one to look after it, and the silt is seriously blocked. Overgrown grass.


    ?The group of people followed the direction of the canal and rode their horses slowly on the pipe. This official road is relatively flat. Of course, this flatness is based on the standards of this era. Perhaps according to later generations, it is just a gravel dirt road without shell craters.


    Fei Qian leaned on his horse and pointed with his fingers, the road surface, the vaguely traced field ridges nearby, and the shrubs and grasses further away: "At this time, what would be better for replanting?" suitable?"


    Jia Qu blushed and said: "This... my lord, Qu is not engaged in farming..."


    Fei Qian nodded and said, "It''s okay. I didn''t know about it before. I just learned a little about it when I was studying in Jingxiang... Uncle Ye, do you know?"


    ?Huang Cheng chuckled and shook his head.


    "In the Spring and Autumn Period, the northern land of the Qin Dynasty was dominated by millet. Later, due to the wheat yield per mu... well, there was more field output, it gradually changed to wheat..." Fei Qian said while thinking, "South of the river, Jingzhou , Yangzhou generation, because the land is moist and irrigation is convenient, they mostly focus on rice with higher yield..."


    ??Fei Qian recalled talking to old farmers in the fields when he went south to Jingxiang, and also recalled the Zao Zi Jing who liked grass and other crops under Lu Mountain...


    ?Perhaps with such a large piece of land to let others mess with, they will probably be very happy to run wild in the fields...


    ?Fei Qian suddenly thought of a husky that he couldn''t hold back for no apparent reason, and quickly shook his head to get this unreliable image out of his mind.


    "The five grains of the Han Dynasty, millet, bean, hemp, wheat and rice, are the most cultivated now. There are also broomcorn millet and sorghum that are very suitable for planting on this land... Therefore, our land is more suitable for planting. Cold-resistant and drought-resistant crops..." Fei Qian said slowly, now is not the era of nutritional matching, but the era of not having enough to eat. Therefore, whatever has high yield is suitable for planting...


    ? Potatoes and sweet potatoes…


    Has it been spread to Southeast Asia now? Probably not yet…


    But if it''s in the Americas, it''s really too far away. Although the Little Ice Age is coming soon, the Bering Strait is expected to freeze, but there is no cotton to keep warm, and they only rely on animal skins and oils. Maybe ordinary Han people are There is absolutely no way to adapt. It is possible to rely on Dongyi, the fishing and hunting people in the Northeast, Xianbei or Wuheng?


    ??If we take the water route, it will be even more difficult. Only the nobles in Yangzhou who have some contacts with Nihong can build ocean-going ships...


    In later generations, Fei Qian remembered that there was once an idle guy who made a calculation based on unknown rules. How many times the amount of information contained in an ordinary Times newspaper was that of ancient people?


    Forgot. Actually, this is the gap...


    Fei Qian thought quietly that many ancient people may have known that there were problems with the system and faults in the rules, but they had no way to solve it and did not know if there was an answer. Therefore, they could only be surrounded by mountains, seas, deserts, and cold soil. They tried their best to increase the limited number of these things in this enclosed piece of land. They would pull out the little things they saw and sit on their buttocks, staring at the piece of land under their eyes. They would not let go until they died...


    Don''t blame the Chinese people of later generations who were so miserable by the house but were happy with it. In fact, this is an invisible gene flowing in the blood that has been formed over thousands of years.


    ?Now Fei Qian knows where the problem is. Although he is fully aware of the solution, at least his vision is the whole world, including Asia, Europe, Africa, and beyond the continent, there is the Americas...


    Fei Qian got off his horse and walked a little further to the ditch beside the road. He looked at the long ditch not far away, which extended from Fenshui River. It was not deep and was mostly silt. There were some depressions in the first few rows. Under the daily rain, the weeds still in the ditches retained some moisture from below, indicating that at least the water-proofing effect of the stone bricks in these parts of the ditches still existed.


    Fei Qian looked at the land next to the official road, the remaining ridges of the former cultivated fields. This piece of land should once have been the fiefdom of Pingyang Marquis.


    When government water conservancy facilities are built, they first meet the irrigation needs of this field...


    "The water in Fenshui is sufficient, but if we are far away from this canal, other fields..." Fei Qian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, "Look, in fact, these fields are not very far from the water source, but... they are short of water. ”


    "In fact, the amount of Fenshui water is enough to irrigate the entire land, but because the canal is on the old Pingyanghou''s field, it must be irrigated by Pingyanghou in order to receive the excess water flow, and it can I can say 100% that not just here in Pingyang, but in most government-built canals in the world, no more water will enter..."


    “Liang Dao, do you know why?”


    Jia Qu thought for a moment and said, "...because too much water damaged the seedlings?"


    "Anything close to water sources is mostly either fiefdom or land owned by large households. These people''s own fields are full of water. Who has the mind to care about the fields that are not theirs? How much water can the fields of ordinary Guizhou leaders have? For For them, if ordinary farmers don''t reduce their production, how can they ask for loans? How can they sell their fields if they can''t afford it? How can they expand their land area year by year?" Fei Qian sneered.


    Therefore, you will find that there is obviously a water source nearby, and the country obviously allocates money to build canals every year, but there is no water, and the fields are short of water, and then the farmers are forced to fetch water themselves. If they really can''t survive, they can only let it go. The yields of the field plants decrease, and then the taxes cannot be paid to the state, and then a vicious cycle begins until the fields are sold...


    There is actually a reason why there is a shortage of water despite being close to a water source.


    As for the whole world, the yield of the fields cannot be increased, who can be blamed?


    ?Those mud-legged people who have their feet stuck in the mud every day, will they understand why the ditches keep breaking down and why they cannot be repaired?


    ??Which emperor sitting on the throne will understand why water conservancy fees are allocated every year, but every year there is flooding here or drought there?


    During the Han Dynasty, the main crops and vegetables were all ready, but there was a lack of spices, oil crops, high-yield crops, and cotton...


    It seems that cotton was already being planted at this time, because cotton still has seeds in Asia, India, Arabia...


    Long-staple cotton seems to be also in America...


    Mother Earth is actually very fair, right? If you give a little bit to a place, you can still improve technology, but you don’t care much about the specific achievements...


    Africa seems to have been used to store humans during the Great Ice Age, and then the migration path began after the ice receded...


    Human beings, mixing and migrating, are the promoters of the development of civilization...


    (End of this chapter)