Where the autumn wind passes, the grains are fragrant. The farming proverb says: The white dew sickle sounds, autumnal equinox chops sorghum . There is no field in the autumnal equinox, and the sword and sickle are used in the heat. However, in the vast Hebei Plain, more than 10 days have passed since the autumnal equinox, and the remaining heat is still wandering on the earth and reluctant to leave for a long time. Starting from the night before yesterday, the autumn rain came one day and two nights. This morning I felt much cooler. It seems that the summer heat cannot withstand the strong autumn wind and continuous autumn rain, and it has retreated. In this late autumn season, my hometown, Taihang Mountains, is already busy with autumn harvest in central Shanxi.
There is no autumn in the city, but the autumn in the countryside is thick. In my hometown with four distinct seasons, the fields are already colorful this season. Standing on a high place and looking around, the earth was covered with red and green, colorful, red sorghum, yellow millet, light green corn, dark ink potatoes... The autumn wind blew by, and the smell of ripe crops came to my face. For hard-working farmers, this is a season of harvest and a season of fatigue. They are not in the mood to appreciate these rich autumn colors. They just want to take advantage of the sunny weather, get up early and go to bed late, and grab the crops as soon as possible. From ancient times to the present, there are many poems about autumn, "The love of autumn is over, and the love of the suburbs is sad, and the chrysanthemums are still blooming in the lonely evening. The high wind is sparse and the leaves fall with frost, and the cold sound of a geese comes from the back of the water", "The autumn wind rises and the white clouds fly, the grass and trees fall and the geese return to the south", "The autumn wind is bleak and the weather is cool, and the grass and trees fall with dew is frost", etc., beautiful is beautiful, but compared with the agricultural proverbs summarized by the working people over the past thousands of years, I think the latter is more down-to-earth and more close. "Pick the peppercorns in the beginning of autumn, beat the walnuts in the white dew, pick the persimmons in the frost , beat the soft dates in the beginning of winter", "The white dew is white, and there is no quilt that cannot be put on the bed", "The beginning of autumn is clear, the autumn is clear; the beginning of autumn is rainy, the autumn rain is rainy", "The autumn is not cool, the seeds are not yellow", "I ate the Double Ninth Festival cake, and the summer clothes are packed", catchy and easy to understand.
Food is the most important thing for people. I always believe that if the times develop, society progresses, and technology develops, people always have to make a living. Therefore, the status of agriculture was established thousands of years ago. Especially for a country like our country with a history of farming for thousands of years and has just embarked on the road of industrialization, hunger has been with us for thousands of years. We have just solved the problem of food and clothing. Those hungry eras are not far away from us. Maybe I was born in the countryside, maybe I have experienced such years, so I hate the phenomenon of wasting food. I know that food is hard to come by. No problem can occur in any link in spring, summer weeding, autumn harvesting, and winter storage. It is really hard to do it!
Farmers have no idle moon, and the autumn harvest is even more busy. Often before dawn, people bring dry food to the field. During the harvest season, they don’t go home to eat at noon. They eat some food they bring in in the fields in a few bites, so they have to work quickly! It’s really a star to go, and a star to go back! Sometimes you have to catch it under the moonlight, because the autumn rain doesn’t care about you. It’s all the time, drizzling, endless! Not only can't be harvested on rainy days, but it can't be fought, and it can easily cause mature grain to rot and deteriorate. Even with the help of machines now, such a nervous rush to collect will last for more than a month. Therefore, for farmers, autumn is not as poetic and picturesque as the poet's writings, but means tension, busyness, sweat, and fatigue. For thousands of years, farmers who have been facing the loess and backs on the sky have no intention of appreciating and reciting those poems that reflect leisure and leisure!
The ancients said: The country is based on the people, and the people take food as the sky, and clothing is second. Food security is not only related to the life and death of a person, but also to the safety of the country. Since ancient times, food has not only been used to fill the stomach, but can also be used as a weapon for war between the two countries and a bargaining chip for negotiations. Guan Zhong from Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period was a master in this field. "Guanzi Qingzhongwu" records the cases of his repeated use of food to achieve a defeated army without fighting. The most typical example is that Guan Zhong defeated Lu and Liang with grain. He first asked Duke Huan of Qi to take the lead in wearing the clothes of the cotton party. As the saying goes, if there is something to like from the superiors, the subordinates will be prosperous.The people of Qi followed suit, which soon led to the rise in the price of this textile and strong demand. Guan Zhong ordered the people of Qi to not be allowed to produce this textile, and all the Mianjia had to rely on imports, so the prices rose further. The merchants of Lu and Liang were immediately moved when they saw the strong demand of Qi. Guan Zhong summoned merchants from Lu and Liang and told them that Qi State urgently needed this textile now. If the quantity is large, the price can be increased by 3 times and it will be purchased at the guaranteed minimum price of Qi State. The monarchs of Lu and Liang thought this was a good thing and could increase the income of the people, so they did not dissuade them but encouraged them to produce. The people of Shandong and Liang countries found that this was more profitable than growing grain, so they were too lazy to grow grain. They all started this business and quickly formed a complete industrial chain. Two years later, Duke Huan of Qi ordered that the whole country ban such textiles from top to bottom, and immediately closed the checkpoints between Qi and Luliang, and cut off trade.
Losing such a large market in Qi State, the price of the party naturally plummeted. The people of Lu and Liang, who had no source of economic resources, soon fell into bankruptcy, with a large number of party backlogs, while the prices of grain that concern the national economy and people's livelihood soared. The people could not afford the land tax or buy food. The economy of Lu and Liang suddenly fell into trouble. A large number of ordinary people went to Qi for their livelihood. Not long after, the two vassal states of Lu and Liang surrendered without fighting.
Guan Zhong used similar methods to deal with Lai, Ju, Chu, Dai and Hengshan countries. He made every effort and worked repeatedly. These countries quickly surrendered to Qi.
uses food as a weapon, which is not uncommon in ancient times. Today, with highly developed technology, food is still used as a weapon and is extremely powerful.
has surplus food, so I don’t feel panic. The Russian-Ukraine War is currently underway. As a major energy power, Russia is also a major agricultural power and a major food power. If it suspends grain exports from Europe, the European countries will have a difficult life. No matter how advanced the technology and powerful the weapons are, they cannot be eaten!
Following Chinese history, we often see that due to drought, flood, locust and other natural disasters, as well as wars, the words "cquiring crops are not harvested, and no harvest" often appear in historical books, resulting in the tragedy of "breaking bones and burning, changing children and eating" and "white bones are exposed in the wild, and no chickens crowing thousands of miles away". It can be said that hunger is a problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years. It has been a matter of over the past decade to completely solve the problem of food and clothing and eliminate absolute poverty. In this way, the autumn harvest is by no means a relaxing and relaxing job written by literati in the clear and refreshing autumn, but a heavy "big thing in the country".
