"Second brother, look, there's a dwarf deer."
In the rolling mountains, two hunters, one big and one small, carrying bows and sabers, hid in the bushes, staring at the dwarf deer grazing not far away.
"Shh, I see it"
The second brother silently took out his bow and arrow. He drew the string to the full moon, and then aimed at the dwarf deer.
Swish~
The arrow cut through the air, pierced through the leaves along the way and nailed the dwarf deer hard. But who knows if it was because the arrow hit a bad spot or the deer's tenacious vitality. After being shot, it didn't fall to the ground, but ran away in the depths of the woods in a fright.
"Shit!"
Seeing this, the second brother immediately jumped out of the bushes and chased after the deer. While running, he continued to draw his bow and arrow to try and finish off the dwarf deer.
Swoosh~
Another arrow flew through the air and hit the dwarf deer's neck directly and blood spurted out like a fountain, spilling all over the ground.
Perhaps because of excessive blood loss, the dwarf deer's figure became more and more shaky as it ran away, and finally fell to the ground motionless.
Seeing this, the thin boy next to him shouted softly "Second brother, your really great at archery"
The second brother brother looked quite calm:
"Okay, we need to pick up the deer quickly. Be careful, there might be other wild animals in the forest that will smell the blood and come around."
"Okay."
The two happily walked towards the direction where the dwarf deer fell.This dwarf deer is a treasure. The bones and meat can be eaten, the blood can strengthen the body, and the fur can be made into clothes to keep warm, especially in recent years. The winter has been getting colder year by year, and the price of deer skin has also risen.
When he walked up to the dwarf deer, the second brothers suddenly found themselves in an open space, surrounded by bare tree stumps.
He walked up and touched it.It was smooth as a mirror! It didn't look like it was cut off at all. Something is wrong!
The second brother frowned slightly.
"Brother, come and look, there is a strange torch here."
The young hunter pointed at the torch stuck in the ground and said in surprise. Because he found that the torch is completely different from what they usually see.
Although it is also in the shape of a stick, with a flame burning on the top, he did not feel the burning heat of ordinary flames when he approached, but only felt a little warmth.
The young hunter stretched out his hand curiously "What are you doing? Don't want to burn your hand?"
The second brother stepped forward and slapped the young hunter's hand away.
The young hunter was not annoyed, but pointed at the torch happily "Brother, this fire is not hot at all, really, you can try it if you don't believe me"
The second brother brother stretched out his hand to the torch stuck in the ground doubtfully.
'Huh? Really not hot? What kind of torch is this!'
He grabbed the torch pole curiously and pulled it hard, but it didn't move.
"What the?"
Although he only used three-tenths of his strength, he was born with extraordinary power, and three-tenths of his strength is also greater than the full strength of ordinary people.
How could he not pull out a torch? The key is that this torch is not buried deep in the soil, but simply stuck in the ground. Could it be... a ghost?
The second brother looked up at the sky, because the trees around had been cut down, and the sunlight shone on his body without any obstruction, and he felt a little hot.
That's not right. It's noon now, don't ghosts only appear at night?
Suddenly. They heard menacing laughter in their ears, but they looked around and couldn't find the location and source of the laughter.
A shiver chilled up their spine.
They won't really encounter ghosts, right?
He had heard from his elders and fellow villagers since he was a child. Ghosts are ethereal and often command a blue ghost fire to chase people.
More than a year ago, two villagers were attacked by ghosts. They fell off a cliff and died. But he has always been very courageous. In this situation, not only did he not leave but he protected his younger brother behind him and carefully observed the surrounding environment.
Suddenly, a young man of about 20 years old jumped out of a two-square-meter pit in the corner of the open space.
The young man was more than 6 feet tall, had sun-kissed golden wheat hair, and had clean skin like he's never walked out in the sun.
He wore a silver-white armor and held a silver-white pickaxe in his hand.
But the strange thing was. This man had just come out of the ground, but his whole body was as clean as can be.
It was a little scary, but after seeing the shadow behind the young man, the second brother couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It's a human, not a ghost! The elders in the village once said that ghosts have no shadows.
Yun Yi, whose inventory was filled with various items, happily returned to the surface. As soon as he jumped out of the pit, he saw two men in linen clothes.
'I-it's people?! Hahaha, it seems that I didn't travel through the prehistoric era,' Yun Yi thought, smiling inwardly. He doesn't want to be with dinosaurs all day long.
He carefully observed the two young men in front of him. To be precise, it was a young man and a teenager.
The young man looked about 20 years old, 1.9 meters tall, a little shorter than him with an appearance with potential if cleaned up.
The boy looked much more ordinary, skinny, less than 1.6 meters tall, 13 or 14 years old, and looked like he had not fully grown.
However, both of them were wearing rough linen ancient costumes, holding swords and bows. Did I travel to ancient times?
Before Yun Yi asked, the second brother on the opposite side spoke first.
However, after a few words Yun Yi was confused. It seems the two sides don't speak the same language.
Yun Yi, who just thought he had traveled to ancient times, has begun to doubt himself.
Don't transmigration automatically speak the native tongue? Why doesn't the place he travels follow this rule?
However, Yun Yi felt vaguely familiar with the language on the other side. How to say it,
It's the kind of language that is between understandable and incomprehensible.
Thinking for a moment, Isn't what the other side said a mixture of Hakka, Minnan and Cantonese? And these three languages retain the syllables of ancient Huxia to a large extent.
So... is this really ancient?
It's just a long time away from modern times?
After discovering that this might really be ancient, Yun Yi's heart settled down. Although the language is not understandable, the cultural heritage of the Huxia nation mainly relies on ideographic characters. The local dialects may be different every ten miles, but the characters used by everyone are the same.
There may be some differences between simplified and traditional characters, but he still understands some simple traditional characters.
Yun Yi squatted down and slowly wrote the traditional Huxia character "国" on the ground.
The second brother's eyes lit up, realizing that they would be able to communicate to some extent, and hurriedly wrote the word "Han" on the ground.
Seeing this "Han" word, Yun Yi breathed a sigh of relief. If the other side wrote large and small seal characters or more ancient bronze characters.Then he might not be able to understand it.
But the official script is different. The official script was created in the Qin Dynasty and developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
There is a saying of "Han Li Tang Kai".The most important thing is.The font of the official script is actually not much different from the traditional Huxia characters of later generations.
At least Yun Yi can easily recognize the words written on the ground on the other side.
Han?
He actually traveled to the Han Dynasty? He wondered if it was the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty now.
Of course, Yun Yi didn't ask such a stupid question. After all, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty are just artificial distinctions made by later historians to distinguish the two periods of the Han Dynasty.
In the eyes of people in these two eras, there is no distinction between the East and the West in Han. There is only the name of the Great Han Dynasty.
However, the time can be judged by the year number. Yun Yi then wrote the traditional Huxia character "year" on the ground.The second brother also silently wrote the four characters "Guanghe Year 5" on the ground.
Guanghe Year 5...Yun Yi carefully searched for information about this year in his mind.
Suddenly he slapped his thigh. Isn't this the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty? The year after next, Zhang Jiao, the general who shouted "The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, the year is Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", will appear. I wonder if this great and wise teacher really knows magic.
Then came the Three Kingdoms era where heroes competed for supremacy and legends emerged.
Lu Bu the flying general, Zhao Zhilong of Changshan, veteran Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, the ancient evil, Ma Chao, Cao Aman, the wife lover, Guan Erye, the martial saint...
(Ps, idk if these title are accurate so just ignore them)
One after another, familiar characters made their own reputations in this era. Yun Yi still remembers eating noodles to collect Three Kingdoms cards when he was a child.
Many boxes of instant noodles were brought home. All the pocket money was exchanged for instant noodles.
But unfortunately, there were just a few cards missing and he never collected them all. Later, when he grew up, he suddenly realized it.
He didn't expect that he would travel back to the Three Kingdoms period. To Feel the grandeur of this era firsthand. The most important thing is that he has an invincible golden finger.
Yes, invincible. Unless there are gods in this world, who can beat Steve?Not to mention all kinds of enchanted weapons. If a fight really breaks out, Yun Yi only needs to build a fully enclosed hut with blocks in the shortest time to trap the world's generals to death.
It's useless no matter who comes.
No matter how strong Lu Bu is, can he break granite with his bare hands? No matter how fierce Guan Yu is, can he break basalt with one knife?
This is ancient times, not the mythological era.
Of course, if you travel back to the mythical version of the Three Kingdoms, then he might be cooked.
Then Yun Yi wrote "Yun Yi" on the ground, pointed to himself and wrote "Name".
The second brother understood, pointed at himself and wrote "Zhao Yun", then pointed at the young hunter and wrote "Zhao Yan".
Zhao Yun? Wait, it can't be the Zhao Zilong of Changshan that I know?
Yun Yi suppressed his excitement and wrote "Where" on the ground. Zhao Yun thought for a while and wrote "Eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, Zhending County, Changshan County".
Changshan Zhending... Zhao Yun?
Holy crap, did he just win the lottery?
Yun Yi observed Zhao Yun carefully and found that although he was good looking, his temperament was immature, not like the Zhao Zilong of Changshan who was both civil and military, loyal and righteous in Shu Han.
It was the fifth year of Guanghe (182 AD), the Yellow Turban Army had not yet revolted, and Zhao Yun was only 18 years old. How could he not be immature?
Moreover, ancient people usually took their names after the age of 20 and the ceremony of coming of age. He guessed that Zhao Yun does not have the name "Zilong" yet.
But it's okay, it's easier to fool people when they are young. If Zhao Yun had been tricked into serving under his own command earlier, he would not have had to serve under Liu Bei and thus never been valued in his life.
He was both civil and military, and unparalleled in loyalty and righteousness. He saved his young lord twice.
In the Battle of Han River, he defeated the enemy with a small force and saved the army from danger several times.
He made many military achievements.
As a result, Liu Bei gave him a general title of miscellaneous general during his lifetime.
He was also posthumously honored in the second batch.
Among the Five Tiger Generals, Zhao Yun was the only one in the second batch, with the posthumous title "Shunping". It means that his loyalty is commendable, but his achievements are average.
Isn't this just pitiful? In the final analysis, Zhao Yun had neither background nor background.
He only had bravery and strategy.
In this era dominated by the system of recommendation by the aristocratic families.
Not having background is the original sin.
To get involved, you need to have power and background.
Can you fight? What's the point of being able to fight! At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many heroes emerged, and there were so many people who could fight. Without a good family background, it was too difficult to get ahead.
Haven't you seen that Lu Bu, who was unparalleled in bravery, had to rely on his adoptive father to get ahead? This is the best era for aristocratic families, but it is the worst era for ordinary people.
Unless you have abilities far beyond ordinary people, there is almost no chance of getting ahead.
Just when Yun Yi and Zhao Yun were writing and chatting on the ground, the young man Zhao Yan suddenly shouted.
"Second brother, there are wolves!"
Zhao Yun was quick to react and immediately pulled out the hunting knife from his waist and looked around.
Although Yun Yi didn't understand what Zhao Yan said, he also inferred from Zhao Yun's actions.
He hurriedly looked around and in the bushes a few dozen meters away, more than a dozen skinny wolves came out one after another, looking at the corpse of the dwarf deer and Yun Yi and others on the ground with particularly creepy eyes.
Wolves, and they all looked like they were starving. If Yun Yi was just an ordinary person, he would be panicking now. But he has become Steve, plus he is wearing iron armor.A mere wolf pack, a piece of cake.
Zhao Yun didn't know that Yun Yi was special, but he still stepped forward silently, protecting Yun Yi and Zhao Yan behind him.
One person facing a wolf pack. There was no fear on his face, only endless fighting spirit. Unfortunately, Yun Yi didn't intend to give him a chance to show his bravery.
Since there were enough supplies in the inventory, why bother fighting the wolves with bare hands? It's not only inefficient, but it will increase the risk of injury.
This is ancient times, without modern medicines and medical utilities. Once a wound is infected, it is difficult to treat. So the best way is to nip the danger in the bud, and by the way, let these wolves in the late Eastern Han Dynasty see the righteous iron fist of Steve!
Then...In the stunned eyes of Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan, Yun Yi took out the workbench, quickly decomposed the iron blocks in the inventory into iron ingots, and synthesized these iron ingots into iron helmets, iron breastplates, iron leggings and iron boots.three iron swords were synthesized. Then these iron armor sets and iron swords were thrown to Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan.
? ? ?
stared at these items on the ground with their eyes wide open, looking at them in disbelief.
W-Where did such a big wooden platform come from? And how did this big wooden platform suddenly produce iron armor and iron swords?
Yun Yi would explain but unfortunately, the language barrier did not allow that. He could only use body language to write the word "穿" on the ground.
Because of the threat of the wolf pack, Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan did not think much and decisively picked up the iron armor on the ground.The iron armor was not heavy, but it did not seem to fit their body shapes. It was too small for Zhao Yun and too big for Zhao Yan.
Just when they were wondering how to wear it.
A magical scene happened.
These iron armors actually automatically integrated into their bodies and produced adaptive changes according to their body shapes.
"This... How is this possible?"
At this moment, Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan's worldview collapsed instantly. The two looked at each other, and the eyes they looked at Yun Yi were not as simple as they had been.
The two picked up the iron sword again.
Although Daxia had mastered iron smelting technology during the Qin and Han dynasties.
But the technology was still relatively crude.
Iron is soft and easy to rust. It not only needs frequent maintenance, but also needs to be sharpened again after cutting a few things.
But the iron sword produced by the workbench is different. Before the durability is exhausted, it does not need maintenance and its sharpness remains the same. Compared with the swords of this era, it is simply a magical weapon.
"Good sword!"
Zhao Yun was wearing silver-white iron armor and holding a sharp iron sword. He looked majestic and had a bit of the temperament of the future White Horse General.
At this time, the wolf pack had finally gathered.
Yun Yi looked over and counted nearly twenty wolves. It was quite a large wolf pack.
The wolf king at the head was strong and muscular, completely different from the other wolves who were skinny. The wolf king probably took all the food.
"Awoo!"
The wolf king roared, and the wolves received the order to attack. They rushed out collectively.
Zhao Yun was naturally not afraid. Although Zhao Yan was young, he dared to follow Zhao Yun to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests.
His strength and courage were not bad.
The two aimed at the wolves that rushed over and waved the iron swords in their hands.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The two were like gods of war, easily cutting the wolves that rushed over in half with iron swords.
Yun Yi also joined the battle. He had never practiced martial arts, but relying on his iron armor and MC characteristics, he repelled the wolves that pounced on him again and again.
However, the dead wolves not only did not scare off the wolves, but instead aroused their ferocity. Their eyes went red and their attacks became more fierce.
The wolf king lurked among the wolves, and when Zhao Yan attacked, it went for the neck directly.
"brother!"
Zhao Yun was furious, and his attack became more intense, and the wolves had no power to resist.
However, with a "bang", the wolf king's teeth were broken. The wolf king was stunned. Before it could react, it was split in half by Zhao Yun who rushed over.
"How are you? Are you injured?" Zhao Yun continued to kill the wolves, while asking with concern.
Zhao Yan touched his neck and shook his head. "Second brother, I'm fine, but my neck seems to hurt a little."
With the death of the wolf king, the wolves finally knew to be afraid and wanted to escape from here. Unfortunately, it was too late to run now. Zhao Yun chased after them and sent them all to the afterlife in a few seconds.
After dealing with the wolves, Zhao Yun hurried over to check on Zhao Yan and there was no injury on his neck. There were some bruises where the wolf king bit him, but he would be fine after a rest.
He knew how sharp the wolf king's teeth were. Zhao Yan's fragile neck could never block it, let alone break his teeth, it was very strange.
"Do you recall what happened?"
Zhao Yan nodded "the wolf king suddenly pounced on me. I thought I was going to die. But this armor suddenly emitted a faint light, which not only blocked the wolf king, but also broke its teeth."
Could this be the legendary artifact protecting the master! Zhao Yun's heart was pounding, and his eyes were full of shock when he looked at Yun Yi.
There was no materialism in this era, and the theory of ghosts and gods was still mainstream.
The uprising of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, also had to use the pretext of killing the white snake to prove his legitimacy.
After Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu revived the Han Dynasty with the meteorite technique, he gradually promoted the prophecy to the altar.
Zhao Yun suppressed his inner shock and slowly wrote a line of words on the ground.
"Are you a god?"
When the wolf king attacked Zhao Yan, Yun Yi was also surprised, however, when he saw that the iron armor formed a special shield to protect the exposed parts.
He was shocked.The armor of MC actually acts like armor in the game.
In other words, in the future, even if you only wear one piece of MC protective gear, the armor will protect your full body. However, this protective effect is not invincible. On the one hand, it depends on the material of the armor, such as leather armor, iron armor, gold armor, and diamond armor.
The rarer the material, the better the protective effect of the armor. On the other hand, it depends on the number of equipment.
If a helmet, chest armor, leggings, and boots are all used, the protective effect is definitely better than that of a single protective gear, Yun Yi silently contemplated.
Suddenly, he saw Zhao Yun squatting on the ground and slowly writing "Are you a god?" With an excited expression.
God? Me? Although MC Steve is absolutely powerful in various abilities, Yun Yi does not think he is a god.
In his mind, to be a god, you must be able to hold the sun and the moon and pluck stars from the sky and Steve's ability is far from that.
He shook his head, i am just an ordinary cube man, Steve. However, Zhao Yun did not believe it.
After all, in his belief. Besides gods, who else can take out various items from the void at will? Who else can give them the artifacts that protect their wearer at will?
He thinks that Yun Yi is something to hide. That's why he didn't admit it.
Then Zhao Yun wrote another line of words on the ground. Yun Yi took a look and found that there were several traditional Huxia characters that he didn't recognize.
However, he roughly guessed the meaning through the words "go" and "home". He guesses that it should be Zhao Yun wanting to invite him to his home.
This is good, he'll have a place to stay at and he was also curious about what the society was like in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
So he nodded and agreed. Seeing this, Zhao Yun was very excited. After sharing this joy with Zhao Yan, who was less literate, Zhao Yan also became excited.
The two of them carried the bodies of the dwarf deer and wolf king they had hunted before, pointed to the east and were about to take Yun Yi home But Yun Yi stopped them.
If you don't take what Mother Nature gives you then you are stupid, why would anyone throw away all the fresh wolf meat.
Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan would definitely not be able to move it but Yun Yi has a way.
It just so happens that he plans to test what the effect of the wooden chest in MC in reality is.
Yun Yi opened the workbench, put in eight wooden boards and took out a shit-yellow chest.
Although the chest is not big, it has 27 grids of space. If you put all MC blocks, you can put up to 1728 one-cubic-meter blocks.
However, after taking it to reality, the chest also showed some special changes.
For example, the lock that was just a blur in MC was actually clearer. When Yun Yi touched the chest, he found that he could actually lock the chest.
After locking it, no one can open it except Yun Yi himself or the person who got the password.
Forcibly destroying the chest will cause all the items in the chest to be exiled to the void.
Of course, the locking function is just icing on the cake. What he cares more about is whether the chest can hold items from the real world.
Yun Yi picked up a wolf corpse, opened the chest and tried to put it in. The next moment, a wolf corpse appeared in one of the 27 grids of the chest.It went in!
However, items in the real world cannot be stacked in 64 grids like MC blocks.
It can only be stored according to the grid space.
One grid space is 1 cubic meter. If the size of the real object placed is more than one cubic meter, the extra part will occupy one more grid for each extra cubic meter.
A wolf corpse is definitely not one cubic meter, and it is only so much when several are added together, so many wolf corpses can be placed in one grid space.
After a while, Yun Yi put all the wolf corpses and deer corpses on the field into the chest, which only occupied four grids of the chest.
After the items are placed in the chest, they will remain in the same state.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no electricity and no technological invention for preservation so the chest could be used as a refrigerator.
Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan watched Yun Yi put the wolf corpses on the ground into the chest.
Showing an expression of" I knew it"
Still insisting you are not a god?
Yun Yi didn't care about their thoughts, but called them over and asked them to try to move the chest.Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan looked like they were going all out, fortunately, the chest was lifted up easily.
It seems that the items put into the chest will not be added to the chest which was a great addition. If the weight is added, the chest will be useless. If there are too few items, it is better to let people take them directly. If there are too many items, they cannot be lifted.
Everything has been packed up, and the three are ready to leave.
Yun Yi looked at the empty land that he had plundered and only wooden stumps were left.
He was quite emotional, This is the place where he first crossed over. How about building a monument to commemorate it? It can also mark the location.
There is abundant coal and iron ore here, which will be useful in the future.
And without a mark, it is not easy to find this place in the mountains. By the way, it can also consume some of the extra and useless rock ore in the inventory. Kill two birds with one stone.
Yun Yi stopped Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan who were about to leave with the chest.
He ran to the entrance of the mine he had just dug. First, he blocked the opening with granite, and then frantically stuffed granite blocks under his feet on the original site.
Three blocks make up one layer, and a total of six stackss of granite blocks were piled up.
A total of 128 layers. Looking from a high place, the towering mountains are all within sight. He took out two torches from his inventory and inserted them on the top of the granite monument.
The torches emitted faint light. Even in the dark, the two lights can be clearly seen.
Cool! This would be considered a wonder in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, right?
Yun Yi sighed.
Finally, in order to get down from the monument, he knocked off the granite on the edge and went all the way back to the ground.
At this point, a monument consisting of two standard granite blocks per layer, with a total height of 128 layers, emitting light all the time like an eternal lighthouse, was completed.
Looking at Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan's incredible expressions, Yun Yi grinned.
If you don't flex your friends after making it big what good would striking gold be? It feels so good to show off in front of people!
The place where Yun Yi crossed was probably deep in the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains.He followed Zhao Yun and Zhao Yan and crossed several mountains in a row.
Finally, he found a familiar road, Halfway there
He wanted to ask why Zhao Yun took Zhao Yan so far to hunt but what he saw along the way told him all the answers.
Every time he crossed a mountain, The trees on the mountain became shorter and yellower visibly.
When they reached the outermost part of the Taihang Mountains there were almost no towering ancient trees, and even low shrubs could not be found.There were only scattered weeds and piles of yellow soil on the ground.
Occasionally, he saw a few other people who went into the mountains to hunt on the road.
They were all pale, thin, and hunger was written on their faces.
Those who knew what to do went into the mountains to hunt, and those who didn't went to feed the wild beasts.Seeing all this, Yun Yi's heart couldn't help but tighten.
He suddenly realized. The simple phrase "a year of great famine" in history books is like an extremely huge mountain for ordinary people of that era.
Walking out of the Taihang Mountains, the drought is even more serious.At a glance,
The land that should have been lush and green is all withered and yellow. The land is covered with cracks and the once turbulent rivers are now not as good as a trickling stream.
The old farmers on the ridges of the fields ran for several miles, carrying water from the river, and watering the farmland non-stop, But this is ultimately a drop in the bucket.
The crops wilt and fall to the ground. Looking at the crops that are about to die of drought, the old farmer did not cry because he couldn't squeeze out a few drops of water from his body.
He just knelt on the ground, his eyes were dry and full of despair. If the crops die of drought, there will be no harvest this year, so how could he survive?And how should they deal with the taxes and corvée assigned by the government?
Yun Yi's heart became heavier. If the drought continues for a few more years.The government will enforce heavy taxes causing Bandits to become rampant among the people.
With natural disasters and man-made disasters, what should the people do?
Perhaps this was the original reason for the Yellow Turban Rebellion.Anyway, they couldn't survive so Why not take the risk and give it a try?
…
Finally, under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Yun Yi came to a village.This is Zhaojiazhuang, As the name suggests.Most of the villagers in the village are surnamed Zhao.
More than a hundred years ago, the ancestors of Zhaojiazhuang fled here because of famine.
After coming here, they knew that only by sticking together can they keep warm.
They form a big family with blood ties as the bond. Reclaim wasteland together.
Many years have passed, As the ancestors of the Zhao family continued to branch out, the population of the Zhao family also increased, and slowly formed the current scale of Zhaojiazhuang.
There are hundreds of people and three thousand acres of land (one acre of land in the Han Dynasty was 465 square meters). Of course, this scale is far from being a family of aristocrats.
Even in the Zhending County of Changshan, they were not considered a local tyrant, they could only be said to be well off.
Well, in another way they see a wealthy family.
Poor in literature, rich in martial arts.
Ordinary farmers could not support Zhao Yun's study of literature and martial arts.
But it was the same as what I saw on the road before. The villagers of Zhaojiazhuang were also carrying water to irrigate the land.
When there was no drought before, Zhaojiazhuang took advantage of the convenience of being adjacent to the Hutuo River.
When farming, you only need to open the gate to release water. The water of the Hutuo River will continuously nourish the fields.
At most, you can find a few people to watch and prevent the river water from drowning the crops.
But now, times are different. Two consecutive years of drought have almost dried up the Hutuo River.
Now only a trickle of water remains at the riverbed, That little bit of river water. The water released by the gates will probably be sucked dry by the surrounding land before it reaches the fields.
For the sake of crops, they can only carry water to irrigate the fields one by one and do their best to save every crop.
Entering the village, It was quite different from outside the village. Zhaojiazhuang was terribly quiet, with a feeling of impending storm.
"Aunt San, where are my father and others?"
Zhao Yun asked an old lady who was weaving at the door.
"Oh Yun is back."
The old lady raised her hand and pointed to the big tree in the distance, "Your father and your uncle are discussing something. With the drought punishing us, life is almost unbearable."
"Thank you, Aunt San."
After saying thank you, Zhao Yun took Yun Yi all the way to the center of the village.
...…
Under the thick oak tree in the center of Zhaojiazhuang.
"Chief, the drought this year is too severe. The villagers dare not rest for a moment, but the crops cannot be saved."
"Even if we cannot save them, we have to save them. There is not much grain left in the village. If the crops die again this year, we will have to eat the crops we planted."
"Chief, didn't the village collect a lot of money to import from outside?"
Zhao An, the current chief of the Zhao family, sighed "I am afraid that this money can't buy much food."
"How is it possible? This is 100,000 coins, which used to buy more than 2,000 catty of grain."
Zhao An shook his head "Things are different now, The drought is not just a problem for one place. "
"We have the Hutuo River, so our situation is better. Do you know how bad the situation is in neighboring Julu County? I heard that some people even sell their children for food this year."
"Although the southern states are not affected by the drought, the grain dealers haired their merchandise to raise the price"
"One catty of grain costs more than 500 coins, 100,000 coins can't even buy 200 catty."
Everyone present said angrily "Two hundred catty? This amount of grain can only feed our village for half a month, right?"
In the Han Dynasty, a catty was only half a catty of later generations. Although a stone has 120 catties, it is actually only 60 catties of later generations.
The price of grain during the peaceful years of the Han Dynasty was only 30 coins per catty.
And now a catty is worth more than 500 coins. It has increased more than ten times.
In the good years, we finally saved some money, but it was enough to buy food for everyone for half a month. If the price of grain continues to rise, there will be even less grain to buy.
Damn it!
Everyone was silent.
"Chief, how about we organize a team to go to the south to buy grain?"
Zhao An shook his head helplessly "Let's talk about this later."
Do you think he has never thought about buying himself? But organizing a grain team is not so simple. Although there is no drought in the south, some places have suffered from floods.
So where is the cheapest grain price? How will they go back and forth? What if you encounter bandits? What if you encounter difficulties with government officials?
And the most important question, Why can other grain dealers do this? Of course, it is because they have cooperation with the government.
The grain is transported and sold for 500 coins. Seventy percent of it must be paid as tribute, and the remaining 30% is the income of each family.
Not paying tribute? It seems that you have never seen well-equipped and disciplined bandits.
They also want to cooperate with the government But with the size of Zhaojiazhuang, it is not even qualified to be on the table.
Although it is possible to buy grain secretly,
But the risk is also great.If you are not careful, you will lose everything. Zhaojiazhuang is too small to bear such losses.