Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

A few days later.

The Chinese New Year is almost here and the weather is getting warmer.

The weather has been fine for many days in a row, and the snow on the roadsides and in the fields has melted away.

Common village roads became muddy.

However, both state and county roads were cement roads, and the horse-drawn carriages were still traveling at a high speed without being affected at all.

Pavilion roads in towns and villages were also changed to rammed earth roads. There were some wealthy pavilions. People raised funds and sprinkled gravel on the road. After the snow melted, the road was still unaffected. Carriages, trolleys, and pedestrians could walk as usual.

Wu Shu, Chai Jin and others, accompanied by Duan Jingzhu, Lin Chong, Wu Er, Lu Da and others, came to Yuncheng together.

There are scenes of prosperity everywhere on the roadside.

There is a small market at the entrance of every village.

There are people selling couplets, firecrackers, fireworks, and all kinds of needles, threads, brains, groceries, etc. The sellers have a lot to choose from, and they set up stalls to form small markets.

Not only Wu Shu, a foreign boy, but even Chai Jin found it strange when he saw it.

Not to mention the villages in Gaotang Prefecture, even the market towns are not so lively.

Only in Zhoucheng, this is more or less the case.

However, the petty officials are rampant, the scoundrels are overbearing, the gentry and landlords are majestic, and the ordinary people are timid and don't have much money in their hands. It's a blessing to be able to barely prepare some New Year's goods.

Wherever you go, like here in Liangshan, the longer you go, the more Liangshan occupies the place, with Jeju and Yunzhou being the most prosperous.

Many towns couldn't wait to invite opera troupes to come and start singing operas. Those people knew that the people here were rich, so the troupe leaders were very energetic and urged the little actors under their command to perform hard.

Breathing fire, turning somersaults, stacking arhats, all kinds of juggling tricks appeared in endlessly, arousing waves of applause.

That was the case last year.

At the end of this year, if there are technicians in workshops, management personnel, or people working in various companies in Liangshan, or someone in the family is serving in the army, most of them will have dozens or hundreds of dollars in their homes.

At least I have more than a dozen coins in cash.

Then I have clothes and robes, so I don’t have to worry about seeing a doctor or going to school.

Land is available, houses are available, and food is available.

At the very least, each family built a grain farm in a side compartment, which had a brick and stone foundation and was surrounded by mats. No threshed millet or wheat was placed in it.

With this method, as long as you pay attention to the sun-dried food and pay attention to preventing rats, it will not go bad after a few years.

Concentrated grains are not good and cannot be kept for too long.

With food, you will naturally have the confidence to raise chickens, and you will be able to raise a group of them.

You can lay eggs or kill one every once in a while to make a tooth sacrifice.

In addition to chickens, more people will choose to raise pigs.

It's not about leftovers to feed them. Even people who are living a better life these days don't have any leftovers. They exchange refined grains for coarse grains, add pig grass and wild vegetables, and cook them for the pigs to eat.

If ordinary people raise pigs, even if they don't have enough to eat, they still have to feed the pigs.

When the pigs are full, they can be sold to the butcher even if their own family cannot afford to eat them. If they are fattened, they will still make a profit. If they are fattened and cannot be sold at a high price, then they will naturally lose money.

In the past few years, there were many pig-raising families, and there were many black pigs that were raised like dogs.

There are not many people who herd ducks and geese. It is mainly done by the Liangshan Fish and Animal Husbandry Department, which is very large. Duck and goose meat are not expensive, and eggs are cheap. Most people will buy them if they want to eat them, but not many people buy them. many.

People still eat ducks, but not many goose these days.

There are not many dogs in Liangshan.

The main reason is that the public security is good and there is no need for housekeeping or home care.

If you have a dog, you have to cook extra meals and feed the dog leftovers.

Feed at the beginning of the year and slaughter at the end of the year.

These days, if any family wants to raise a dog as a son or a pet, they may alert the government to see if they are infected by evil spirits.

If you are a strong laborer and have a high income, you may still have a cow or a donkey at home.

There are also those who buy mules, which are from richer families. After all, mules can be used for riding, pulling carts, and going to the fields.

But mules cannot breed, and most farmers are unwilling to buy them.

There are also many horse breeders, mainly ponies from the southwest.

Southwest horses are shorter than Mongolian horses, and they are even less able to sprint, making them completely unusable as war horses.

But the advantage is that it is cheap, has a small appetite, and is easy to maintain.

And he can pull a cart and plow the land.

It is quite suitable for use as a draft horse.

When Wu Shu and others came along, they saw such a scene of blooming flowers.

In the village, the cooking smoke contains the unique aroma of meat and fish.

Chickens, pigs, cows, horses, sheep, the cries of these livestock come and go.

It is obvious that these villages are quite prosperous and have sufficient livestock.

Whether you eat it yourself or sell it, first of all, it means you have surplus food, otherwise you will be powerless.

It will be difficult for people in future generations to imagine what it feels like to not be able to raise chickens.

What free-range chicken?

How can there be so many bugs and grass that a chicken can eat as much as it wants and still grow up and grow meat?

They all have to be fed with food.

Running pheasants is nothing more than letting them run. The muscles are firmer and more fragrant. They eat grass and insects plus grain. This is the most primitive way of raising them.

Instant chicken, chicken cooked with industrial feed, is really not tasty, and the meat is not fragrant.

These days, it is difficult for ordinary people to raise chickens and pigs if it were not for the rule of Liangshan. They have to feed themselves half a year of coarse grains and half a year of wild vegetables. How can they raise these if there is no food?

You know it’s good to raise it, so why don’t you raise it?

It’s true that you can’t afford it.

Now... the whole village is full of big livestock, which can be seen on the official road. There is a pig pen in front of every house, and flocks of chickens are wandering in front of the door.

There are cows mooing and horses bleating.

Wu Shu could hardly turn his eyes away.

Are the Han people really that wealthy?

Not to mention the poor mountains and rivers where the Jin people started, there are basically horses in the tribe, because horses are production tools and cannot be separated. The territory was vast and sparsely populated, and a tribe of tens of thousands could occupy tens of thousands of square kilometers. Without horses, even spreading the news would break one's legs.

Plus, it’s about hunting.

Horses are also the most important production tool when hunting.

Of course, the demand for horses among fishing and hunting peoples is not as high as that among nomadic peoples, but they are basically considered horseback people.

But apart from horses, there are very few other livestock.

Food is also insufficient.

Everyone basically makes a living by picking, hunting, and shooting.

The survival mode of the fishing and hunting people is not as good as nomadic people. The nomadic people have herds at least. The herds are like the herdsmen's land and can be harvested regularly.

Not necessarily for fishing and hunting.

Shooting is too risky and uncertain, as is picking.

Only fishing is basically a sure profit.

After all, there is less land but more people, and Liaodong has many rivers and rivers.

With a land of several million square kilometers, there were hundreds of millions of people in later generations, and the products were still very abundant. The current total population is estimated to be around one million at most, and it will not exceed two million people. It is the population of a prefecture-level city in later generations, but now it is Northeast , the outer northeast, all the way to the Arctic Ocean, totaling more than three million square kilometers, with just a few people.

What concept?

In later generations, the population of a county ranged from two to three hundred thousand to as many as one million.

The most populous county, with more than 2 million people living in an area of ​​more than 2,000 square kilometers.

Enlarge the land area fifteen hundred times.

The population will continue to decrease.

The population of a village will be placed in a city in later generations.

That's the concept.

There are too many people, too many rivers, and too many fish.

Later generations, with a population of one million, traveled to Guandong, but they still beat roe deer with sticks and gourds to scoop fish. Compared with the people who came to Liaodong from the"familiar land" in Guan, Liaodong's products were really abundant.

Just a cold one.

What's that?

As long as you have something to eat, you are not afraid.

Cold won't kill you, but hunger will kill you.

Many people died of cold and hunger.

Wu Shu heard from the elders that decades or hundreds of years ago, Liaodong was not as warm as it is now.

The tribes are all desperately poor.

People huddle in their houses and dare not go out in winter. They need hundreds of kilograms of dried fish to survive the long winter.

Now, with luxuriant water and grass and abundant wild animals, the number of babies in the tribe is increasing day by day, and the cries of babies being born can be heard every day.

If it were a lean year, and we couldn't hunt big game, couldn't collect enough dried fruits, and didn't have enough calories, how could we have the energy to have children?

If there was an even worse famine, with ice and snow, all the stored supplies were gone, the prey disappeared, and the river was still freezing... people would die in the tribe all day long, old men and children, then women, and finally mature men.

For such a large territory, the population base has never been able to grow, and a decent civilization has not developed. This is also for its own reasons.

In Wushu's eyes, any tribe with a family of several hundred kilograms of dried fish and wearing animal skin robes instead of fish skin was considered a fairly wealthy tribe.

After conquering the prefectures and counties of the Liao people, they were shocked to find that there were thousands of people living in one city!

There are also a large number of brick and tile houses instead of low-rise huts.

At that time, most of the Jurchens lived in underground houses, that is, half of the houses were dug below the horizon.

It is covered with beams and pillars and covered with thatch. It has no windows and only a low door.

This can reduce exposure to wind and snow. Building a small bonfire indoors can keep you warm for a long time in winter. (If you want to read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novels.com!)

People who live in such a rustic home are already eye-opening when they see a decent tile-roofed house.

In the tribe, there are dried fish, dried fruits, and cured meat, which means it is a good year.

Only horses are considered expensive livestock.

After conquering more than a dozen military states of the Liao Kingdom, the nobles of the Jin Kingdom changed their guns for cannons, lived in big houses, and gradually became rich in various supplies.

Before that, they traded with Liangshan, using furs, ginseng, Dongzhu, and a small number of horses.

In exchange for salt and grain.

I don’t have the confidence to change for more.

Now at least several grassland military states have been captured, and the number of horses has increased greatly.

It is enough for your own use, and there is still a lot that can be traded.

Wu Shu was originally very confident.

Now looking at the prosperity everywhere, there are people raising horses in every village, and his confidence is melting rapidly like ice and snow under the sun.

Alas, this errand is difficult.

But seeing such a grand scene, Wu Shu's inner ambition and desire grew rapidly like spring grass.

The wealth of a village here is equal to that of a large tribe.

The wealth of one state has far exceeded that of the entire Golden Kingdom! []

The wealth of the Twelve Military States must exceed that of Daliao!

This gap is too big!

No wonder people say that people in the Song Dynasty are wealthy, but Wu Shu never expected that people in the Song Dynasty could be so wealthy!

People who are not under the rule of Liangshan cannot understand this.

The New Year is almost here, and the roads are still full of horse-drawn carriages delivering goods and carrying people.

There are small traders and salesmen on the road, and there is also an endless stream of pedestrians rushing home years ago.

There is a public carriage stop on the roadside. People stamp their feet, chat and wait for the carriage to come.

Market towns and villages are full of smiling people, stall owners and salesmen doing small business.

Everyone's face was filled with the satisfying smile that only affluent people can have. They were in a good mood and relaxed, and their conversations were about their hopes and expectations for the future.

The sounds of chickens and dogs are connected.

Riding on horseback.

Wealth and joy are the same for everyone.

The entire Twelve Military Prefectures under the rule of Liangshan were mostly like this wherever Wushu and the others passed through.

Rich, so rich.

Wu Shu's jealousy was beyond recognition.

At this time his ego and pride were gone.

What kind of prince of the Golden Kingdom...

Compared with the fashionable and exquisitely dressed ordinary people like Liangshan, this prince himself is like a beggar.

Not to mention ordinary Jin people.

In terms of wealth, the Jin people and the Song people were so far apart that they could not see the end of the road.

There was some unconcealable malice in Wu Shu's eyes.

After working hard on their own, even if they know how to do it, the nobles of Daikin are willing to hand over their land and live with slaves?

Forget it.

Don't say that you are just the fourth prince.

Even the future leader of the Kingdom of Jin cannot do this.

You know what to do is the right thing to do, but you have no way to do it... you might as well grab it. (Okay, okay) The people of Song Dynasty are so rich, it is better to beat them in the future.

Just grab it once every few years.

Countless grains, cattle and horses, gold and silver...

Wu Shu showed a smile on his lips.

Song people were good at production, so they were called the hunting grounds of the Jin Kingdom, and every Song person was the prey.

It would be good if Dajin came to harvest regularly.

Well, it’s like the farmland of the Song Dynasty……

……

The carriage drove quickly and steadily.

There is almost no bumpiness.

Yuncheng County has finally arrived.

Chai Jin and others got out of the car first. After stretching their muscles, Chai Jin smiled and said:"Instructor Lin, I also know that the body of this car is well made and has spring shock absorbers, but it is too stable. I heard people say that today’s carriages are much more stable than those before."

"Now castor oil is added to the springs and wheels, which can lubricate the wheels and absorb shocks, making the body more natural and stable."

Lin Chong knew everything.

Everyone who buys a car is told to oil the parts, springs, and wheels regularly.

This can keep the body in good condition for a long time.

"I see."

Chai Jin smiled.

At this moment, another long fleet of boats arrived at the mouth of the lake.

It was almost impossible to see the edge at a glance.

Lin Chong took a look and said with a smile:"It's a boat coming from Dengzhou. Team, the horses bought from the southwest have arrived."

Wu Shu also walked over at this time. After hearing Lin Chong's words, he quickly stared over.

The boat was indeed full of horses.

At a rough glance, there were probably more than a thousand.

Compared to Mongolian horses, these horses Much shorter.

But he still looks strong and quite docile.

Wushu and others were surprised by the numbers.

They bought thousands of horses at one time...

Wushu suddenly expressed his displeasure at the fact that he had exchanged 10,000 horses for fine iron this time. Task, I feel quite unconfident...

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