Chapter 1219: The Unchanged Plot, Su Mingzhe's Layout
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars broke out frequently.

The original one-year ploughing technology gradually failed to keep up with the war requirements of various countries.

With the emergence of iron farm tools and ox-drawn plowing technology, the North China Plain changed from the original once-a-year ploughing to three-a-year ploughing.

The so-called two-year three-cultivation policy means that the "grain, wheat and bean" rotation planting technology is carried out continuously under the conditions of rushing to plant and harvest.

All of this information is mentioned in "Lüshi Chunqiu".

The core technology of three tillages in two years is also known as 'moisture conservation and drought resistance'!
'Maintaining soil moisture and preventing drought' refers to solving the problems of waterlogging and drought.

This technology lasted for five or six hundred years until the Sui and Tang dynasties, when more advanced tools and farming techniques such as "fermentation" and curved plows appeared, which enabled the practice of three ploughings in two years to be developed into two ploughings in one year.

Su Mingzhe was familiar with the techniques of composting, curved plow, waterwheel, etc., and now he could use them easily.

The step of composting is rather troublesome.

However, even in the cold winter, it only takes one month to complete. In the summer, it will take even less time, only about twenty days.

With advanced composting technology, the nutritional problem in the fields has been solved.

Su Mingzhe found a few more Mohists and asked them to make new farm tools such as water wheels and curved plows.

With these inventions, Su Mingzhe planted more than 500,000 acres of winter wheat in his own fiefdom of Sishui Township and official fields in Pei County for experiments.

Before I knew it, it was October.

It's freezing cold.

Su Mingzhe took advantage of the dry season of the river and began to lead the people to develop water conservancy projects, build roads, repair cities, etc.

In this busy work.

Before I knew it, half a year had passed.

In the blink of an eye, it is March of the following year, and the winter wheat planted last year has begun to ear.

Su Mingzhe called all the officials of the county to come for an "inspection".

Due to the addition of fermented fertilizer, the yield of these 500,000 acres of winter wheat is expected to grow much stronger than the spring wheat in previous years.

In May, winter wheat is harvested.

The yield per mu is close to five stones, which is the yield of fertile land.

Su Mingzhe had these data sorted out and reported to Prince Fusu.

After Fusu learned about this, he reported to the First Emperor according to the technology provided by Su Mingzhe.

When the First Emperor heard the news, he immediately sent people to Sacheon County to investigate the truth of the news.

After confirming the accuracy of the news, the First Emperor promoted Su Mingzhe to the position of "Right Minister" in accordance with old practice, and then ordered Zheng Guo, the Internal History of Grain, to send people to Sacheon County to learn, and then promote this technology to all counties in the world.

When Su Mingzhe met the envoy from Xianyang, he called over the young men he had trained over the past few years.

"Congratulations, sir, congratulations, sir!"

More than a hundred young people congratulated in unison.

"No need to be polite!"

Su Mingzhe took out the silk book he had written long ago:
"His Majesty the First Emperor ordered people to come and learn the 'two cultivations a year' technology of our Sacheon County. This silk book has recorded all the details in detail. You can take a copy and follow the envoys from Xianyang to promote it in various places... When you arrive in various places, the first thing you should do is to record the terrain and population of each place..."

These teenagers were still young and did not understand what Su Mingzhe was going to do, but they completed Su Mingzhe's orders without compromise.

In the blink of an eye, spring goes and autumn comes, and another year has passed.

Su Mingzhe has been the governor of Sacheon County for nearly two years.

On this day, Zhou Bo, who was sent by Su Mingzhe to Xianyang to deliver a letter to Fusu, came back with a heavy face:

"Master, Prince Fusu...has been sent by His Majesty to guard the Great Wall at the border!"

"Prince Fusu is going to guard the Great Wall?"

Su Mingzhe was slightly stunned when he heard the news, and said hurriedly:
"Tell me everything you've heard!"

"Here!"

As Su Mingzhe's close confidant, Zhou Bo already knew what Su Mingzhe was going to do. Every time he went on a long trip, he would do his best to gather information from all sources.

Now, he told everything he had seen and heard along the way, as well as the news he had heard.

That year, not long after Su Mingzhe was appointed as the governor of Sacheon County, a favored eunuch named Gao Yao appeared in the palace. The story of Gao Yao, like Yi Xiaochuan, is the same as the story in the TV series.

He was originally a cook in Prince Hu Hai's palace. Because he cooked for Concubine Li, he was able to reunite with his "good brother" General Meng Yi (Yi Xiaochuan).

With the help of the "two brothers", Gao Yao gradually gained favor in front of the First Emperor, and even by accident, he became the new Minister of the Imperial Chariots and was given the name "Zhao Gao".

After Zhao Gao gained favor in front of the First Emperor, he suddenly fell out with Meng Yi (Yi Xiaochuan) and Concubine Li (Princess Lian), and took the opportunity to "defect" to the camp of Prime Minister Li Si.

Speaking of the camps in the Qin court, they are mainly divided into three factions.

The first faction was headed by princes and nobles. These people wanted to be enfeoffed as princes, so they relied on their ancestors' military merits and gathered a large number of civil and military officials, creating a huge momentum.

The second faction is the outsider faction headed by Li Si. The main characteristic of these people is that their ancestral homes belong to other six countries and they have no foundation in Qin. They mainly support the county system.

The third faction was the "moderate faction" headed by Prince Fusu. The moderate faction also supported the county system, but also proposed enfeoffment of princes in parallel with the county system.

In order to mediate the conflict, Emperor Qin Shi Huang allowed Prince Fusu to marry the daughter of Prime Minister Li Si.

Unfortunately, the political ideas of the father-in-law and son-in-law are basically opposite, and the contradiction cannot be reconciled at all.

This time, Li Si and Zhao Gao joined forces, gained the upper hand, and "demoted" Fusu to the border.

"...After Prince Fusu went to guard the border, General Meng Yi was also sent to Mount Li to build the imperial mausoleum for His Majesty!"

When Zhou Bo said this, he began to sigh.

The Qin Dynasty's court is now in chaos.

Su Mingzhe couldn't help but sigh after hearing about the many changes in Xianyang City:

"After my involvement, Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao still went back to their old ways. This shows that under the laws of heaven, the big trends cannot be changed, only the small trends can be reversed!"

"This also shows that the boss behind the scenes is at least a Heavenly Saint, or even a Great Saint! Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to manipulate current events so easily!"

Thought for a moment.

Su Mingzhe called Cao Wushang and asked him to take a group of people who were efficient, smart and steady to Xianyang to go undercover and gather information from all sides.

After Cao Wushang left, Su Mingzhe called Yan Feng, the leader of his retainers who was given to him by Prince Fusu.

Yan Feng came from the Mohist school.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although there was a "hundred schools of thought" for hundreds of years, there were only two most important official schools of thought - Confucianism and Mohism!
In the process of Qin's unification of the world, both Confucianism and Mohism provided a lot of help.

For example, Prime Minister Li Si was once a student of the great Confucian scholar Xunzi. After serving the Qin Dynasty, he recruited many Confucian disciples to help the Qin Dynasty handle logistical affairs.

There is no need to say more about the Mohist school.

The Qin military industry ranked first among the seven major powers in the Warring States Period.

Among them, assembly line operations were two thousand years ahead of the Western world.

For the Qin Dynasty, both Confucianism and Mohism made great contributions.

And Yan Feng is the best among the Mohist school.

In the one and a half years since following Su Mingzhe to Sacheon County, Yan Feng has participated in the design and development of various agricultural tools and implements under Su Mingzhe's leadership.

Upon learning that Su Mingzhe had summoned him, Yan Feng thought that Su Mingzhe had some new and brilliant ideas, so he hurried over to meet him.

When Su Mingzhe waited for Yan Feng to arrive, he picked up a silk book on his desk:
"Yan Feng, I want to promote this "Agriculture Book" throughout the county!"

"Your Excellency is kind-hearted, and I, Yan, also have such plans!"

Yan Feng took the silk book handed to him by Su Mingzhe, and looked at the words "Book of Agriculture" written on the cover of the silk book, his eyes full of joy.

This "Agricultural Book" is an agricultural and animal husbandry technology book that Su Mingzhe compiled after spending nearly two years combining the twenty-four solar terms and conducting countless experiments in Pei County.

As a participant, Yan Feng naturally knew that the value of this "Agricultural Book" was immeasurable.

Seeing Yan Feng agreed, Su Mingzhe bowed to Yan Feng in return and said:

"The implementation of this plan will be entrusted to you Mozhe!"

Yan Feng immediately prostrated himself:

"Mozhe will definitely live up to your trust!"

(End of this chapter)