At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 11, Disappointment and Cruel Corvee

Although the wild boar was killed and eaten, the vigil did not stop. The autumn harvest was only a few days away. The villagers in the Chen family did not dare to take any risks. Fortunately, no major accidents occurred in the fields in the next few days.

However, Xu Fan's micro farm has a lot of happy events. First, the female rabbit she raised gave birth to 6 little rabbits in a litter, and all of them survived. The teenagers like Ah Sheng were so happy that they cut the grass every day before dawn to feed the rabbits, and the 30 eggs later came. Twenty-four chicks were hatched, and Xu Fan asked each student to adopt one. Even Chen Xiu, who helped the kitchen, also adopted one.

Now the rural area of ​​Chenjia Primary School is extremely large. There are 6 small wild boars, 8 rabbits, and 28 chickens. These animals are a big fortune in this era. According to Xu Fan's estimation, in half a year at most, the output of the countryside will increase. The output is enough to satisfy the consumption of three meals per person for all students.

Although the villagers were envious of the rapid development of the farm, they did not follow Xu Fan's example in expanding the number of poultry. After all, food was too scarce in this era and people could not feed them. Naturally, it was impossible to raise too many poultry. The Chen family The villagers still follow the previous habit of raising one or two old hens for laying eggs per household, and dare not raise more.

Xu Fan can also understand this. The villagers' ability to resist risks is too poor. They dare not take any risks. When their farms expand and the villagers see the benefits, they will naturally change their minds.

September 34, the 9th year of the First Emperor's reign

Big Hammer came to Xu Fan and wanted to denounce him. It turned out that after Big Hammer presented the Quyuan plow to the magistrate of Yang County, after the county magistrate experimented, the farming effect was indeed better than the straight plow, and the county magistrate reported the Quyuan plow as auspiciousness. When they arrived at the Sheriff of Chen County, the Sheriff of Chen County also believed that the Qu Yuan Li was a powerful weapon for the military and the state and reported it to the police. After reporting the matter at various levels, the Qu Yuan Li arrived in Xianyang City.

In the end, the memorial and Quyuan Li came to the First Emperor, but at this time, the First Emperor had just ascended the throne and wanted to prove himself as the King of Qin. He was now the First Emperor who unified the six kingdoms and established countless achievements.

Now the First Emperor was most concerned about the overseas immortals and the elixir of life. A Qu Yuan plow that could save energy was not taken into consideration by the First Emperor at all.

He asked Prime Minister Li Si to reward the officials who reported the matter, so he didn't care about Qu Yuuli. Li Si understood the First Emperor's intentions and rewarded the officials who reported the matter at will.

The higher-ups didn't pay attention to it, so the rewards below naturally couldn't be too generous. When it was the turn of a commoner like Big Iron Hammer, he only got a one-year reduction in salary and a promotion to the rank of first-class sergeant.

This reward would have been considered an extremely generous reward in the Qin Dynasty more than ten years ago, because the public servants could get 100 acres of land. However, in the Central Plains region, since Shitian, there was no free land at all. The scholar had only one empty title, and the real profit was only a deduction of 100 yuan from the calculation, but he paid for two plowshares worth a thousand yuan. It can be said that this transaction was a big loss.

"Only promoted to the first level of sergeant?" Xu Fan couldn't believe it when he knew this.

Even if the First Emperor was blind, the Qin Dynasty’s bureaucrats could not all be blind. The importance of the Quyu plow to farming was even more than that of Zheng Guoqu. As long as the Quyu plow is fully popularized, a lot of land that could not be cultivated can be turned into fertile land. , This has greatly improved Qin’s national power. Can’t they see it?
  After learning about the reward of the big hammer, Xu Fan was even more disappointed. He originally wanted to use the Quyuan Li to test how much the Qin Dynasty valued inventions. If it was extremely important, he could get a three-piece cavalry suit or papermaking technology. If he gets a high title, he won't have to endure the hardships in Chen's family.

But now that I have seen the reward of Big Iron Hammer, the so-called Da Qin attaches great importance to practical inventions is empty talk. Too! The inventor of two of China's four great inventions is unknown. Bi Sheng, who invented movable type printing, did not seem to have received any reward. There is even a novel saying that he was said to have offended the engraving machine because he invented movable type printing. The printing officer, was arrested.

Only Cai Lun, who figured out the art of papermaking, could get a marquis, but this was most likely because he was someone close to the emperor, so he could get a marquis. Ordinary people who figured out how to make paper would probably not take it seriously. There is also history. The curved shaft plow and the textile loom made by Huang Daopo were also not taken seriously by the imperial court at that time. It can be seen that for thousands of years, there have been few officials in Chinese dynasties who valued technology.

In the end, the sledgehammer failed to hit Xu Fan. Although he only had an empty title, the county magistrate promoted him to the position of county engineer, and he was considered to be enjoying the royal food.

September 34, the 9th year of the First Emperor's reign

This day can be described as a day of sorrow and joy for the Chen family. Fortunately, the 26 young men who built the Binhai Chi Road in Donghai County have returned, which makes the whole Chen family lively. But the sad thing is that the three A young man died on the construction site of a coastal road.

The mourning of three young families moved the world. One more widowed family was added to the Chen family. A son died in two families. All the villagers were covered with sadness. Serving as a corvee has become the most feared thing for the entire Chen family. Something happened.

Only then did Xu Fan understand the horror of the Great Qin's corvee. One-tenth of the young people died in the corvee for just a few hundred miles. If he went to the frontier fortress thousands of miles away, or to build the Mausoleum of the First Emperor in Guanzhong, It is unimaginable for people to die.

Xu Fan asked these young men about the conditions during their corvee service. These young men cursed the guards and officials. The tasks on the construction site were heavy and the time was tight. Every day they were exhausted and half-dead. The food was poor. The treatment of the animals on the construction site was worse than They were better off, but the three young men who died were because they didn't have enough to eat and had to perform high-intensity labor, and finally died of exhaustion.

Xu Fan knows a little bit about it. He is the only educated person in the Chen family. He reads the family letters of young people to the villagers, so he also understands the contents of these family letters. These young people in the Chen family wrote family letters at the Binhai Chidao construction site. They all ask their families to send money. It's not that they don't care about their relatives, but that they don't have enough to eat on the construction site, and if they don't have enough to eat, they can't survive.

At this time, Xu Fan realized that there was no income from doing corvee work in the Qin Dynasty. The Qin slips said that prisoners could earn 6-8 yuan a day, which was not true at all. Even the rations of these young men were deducted from the authorities, and they had no family support. , it is difficult for the people of Daqin to come out alive from the construction site.

"Sure enough, the law is well-written, but it's just for a look." Xu Fan was a little disappointed to learn about these insider income, but it was not surprising. In the future, the separation of powers and natural human rights were well said, but when things really happened, they My favorite thing to do is empty the magazine.

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