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After owning a large amount of land, if it was more profitable to cultivate it with machinery and a small number of slaves, they would surely eliminate the previous tenant farming system and drive out most of the tenant farmers under their command in order to get rid of the cost burden.

In this way, these dismissed tenant farmers can only join the ranks of craftsmen, so as to make a living for themselves.

This is the result that Li An is willing to see, and it is also what the great nobles must do, this is the progress of the times, and no force can reverse it.

After inquiring about the price, many of the nobles' servants hurriedly rode away, obviously going back to report the news, so that their Ah Lang could make a purchase decision as soon as possible.

"Who owns these eighteen acres of land?"

Ang Lee asked loudly.

"Back to Li Shilang, it is the villain's Yongye Tian."

An honest farmer hurriedly ran over, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Get up, get up."

Li An was very unaccustomed to letting the common people kneel in front of him, paused, and ordered: "Deliver all these wheat grains to this people's home, and lead the way!" ”

The whole three carriages of wheat grains, the preliminary estimate is about 4,000 catties, and they are all processed, so sent to the people's homes, which makes many onlookers surprised, they think, at least some handling fees or something, after all, the development and manufacture of such a harvester, must have spent a lot of money, at the same time, also sighed that the harvester capacity is strong, three harvesters, only one hour, harvested eighteen acres of wheat, moreover, the wheat grains to get rid of.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the cultivation of wheat is the seed allocated by the imperial court from the treasury, but the imperial court has made a commitment that the output of wheat is completely owned by the people, and these harvested wheat grains will naturally be handed over to the people, in addition, you have also seen that wheat can be planted in the winter in the Guanzhong area, so that you can plant two crops a year, and you will no longer have to worry about the lack of grain, and in the future, all fields in Guanzhong will be planted with grain in winter."

Li An shouted loudly, in fact, not only can Guanzhong grow wheat in winter, even in the cold northeast area, wheat can be grown in winter, and the Northeast Plain in later generations is still the main production area of winter wheat.

Of course, there is no need for Li An to instigate the planting of wheat, after seeing the bumper harvest of wheat planted during last autumn, the people of Guanzhong will definitely actively plant it, and this matter will definitely spread quickly, so that more northern areas choose to plant wheat in winter to further improve the utilization rate of land.

After some explanation, Ang Lee returned to the R&D center and asked the R&D personnel to operate three harvesters to continue harvesting wheat in the field until all the thousands of acres of wheat were harvested, and all the harvested wheat grains were sent to the home of the owner of the field, and there was no penny handling fee.

After the harvester showed its skills, it caused a huge sensation in the entire Luoyang City, and many big nobles who owned a lot of land all made the decision to buy, and immediately sent the housekeeper at home to order it with a deposit, in case it was a step too late and was ordered by others.

Of course, at this time, spring ploughing has only a few days to begin, and there is still half a year before the autumn harvest, according to the current efficiency of steam machine tools, it is inevitable that a very considerable number of harvesters, cultivators and pumps can be built before the autumn harvest, and of course the construction will not stop.

Orders once again flew like snowflakes, which made Li An overjoyed, and also made the entire R&D center boil, only if there is work, the treatment and remuneration of these craftsmen will be improved, and many craftsmen have been paid several times more than before, and life is more nourishing.

The processing and manufacture of all kinds of machinery are being carried out in an orderly manner, while Li An devotes more time to inspection, and when he has nothing to do, he takes a few guards to the suburbs of Luoyang City to inspect to see how the water conservancy facilities are doing, whether a large number of pumping machines have been installed in place, and whether they have begun to draw water.

"Li Shilang, there is a cultivator in front, it seems to be digging a ditch."

One of the guards rode back and reported loudly.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Ang Lee was a little curious, he invented that the cultivator was used to plough the land, how it was used to dig trenches.

Riding his horse to his eyes, Li An saw a deep ditch five miles long, the width of the ravine was the same as that of a cultivator, and the depth had reached three feet.

Near the ravine, hundreds of tenant farmers armed with shovels were pulling the soft soil out of the ravine.

"Huh! It turns out that the cultivator can also be used to dig trenches! These people are quite smart, and they actually know how to tap the potential of the machine themselves, so that the cultivator can take care of the function of digging trenches. ”

Li An just glanced at it lightly, and understood everything, it turned out that these people used the cultivator to shred the land where the trench needed to be dug, and used manpower to pick up the broken soil to both sides, and then, continued to use the cultivator to cut the hard soil below, and then used manpower to pick up the broken soil to both sides, so that the reciprocating cycle, a deep ravine, can be dug out soon, and taking such a method is much less labor-saving than direct excavation by manpower, and it is also much faster.

Just imagine, manpower with a shovel to dig hard soil, will be very eaten, the speed will be slowed down, and directly pick up the broken soil, saving the process of digging hard, naturally can save physical strength and time, so that the gully can be dug out faster.

"Who came up with this idea?"

Ang Lee asked loudly.

"Li Shilang, it was the villain who came up with it, since he bought the pump, Ah Lang felt that this deserted highland could also be reclaimed into farmland, in order to facilitate irrigation, Ah Lang asked the villain to reclaim a ditch in this location, and it was limited to be completed within five days, and the villain was in a hurry, so he thought of this method."

The housekeeper, who commanded everyone to work, replied with a smile.

"Yes, you are quite quick-witted, you are a talent, machines are always dead, but people are alive, and it is worth advocating to be able to give full play to the potential of machines."

Ang Lee never spared his praise and praised loudly.

"Li Shilang, the villain has a proposal, I don't know if I should talk about it."

The butler was praised and emboldened.

"You're welcome, if you have anything to say, say it boldly."

Ang Lee asked.

"Li Shilang, since the cultivator can move forward step by step, why not make a machine for transporting goods? Although the train was very good at transporting goods, it could only take a fixed route, and the carriage was flexible but not powerful. ”

Hearing this, Li An nodded and said: "Your proposal is very good, the machine for transporting goods is much simpler to study than the cultivator machine, but it is far less cost-effective than the cultivator and harvester. ”

Li An had already considered the idea of a steam wagon, but at this time, the development of horse-drawn carriages was already very mature, and it was relatively cheap to transport goods by horse-drawn carriages, plus the roads were not too good, and the practicality of the transportation machines was not too good, the main problem was that the cost was expensive, and the transportation volume was not as exaggerated as the train, and the availability was slightly lower.

As for the steam bus, Li Ang has already thought about it, which is even more inappropriate, because there is no rubber and tire processing technology now, and the steam car will be more bumpy than an ordinary horse-drawn car, and it will be very uncomfortable to sit in it, of course, it will not have the value of development.

By the time the trench was dug to a depth of five feet, the gully was completed, and the pumping machine on one side began to work, pumping a large amount of water from the lower part into the higher place, and gradually filling the newly dug gully.

Looking at the thousands of acres of wasteland in front of him turned into arable fields, Li An felt very happy, these are all his achievements, indicating that his scientific research achievements have begun to slowly change the development of the Tang Empire.

The time for spring ploughing soon came, and all areas of the Tang Empire were busy with spring ploughing, the common people were busy working in the fields, and the imperial court was busy organizing and coordinating, so that spring ploughing could be carried out in an orderly manner and without being disturbed.

Different from the previous spring ploughing, this spring ploughing adopts a certain mechanization, in the entire Guanzhong area, there are 3,000 cultivators put into the action of ploughing the land, of course, most of the fields of the nobility are using this kind of ploughing machine, and the common people still use ploughing cattle to plough the land.

The efficiency of the cultivator is dozens of times that of the ploughing cattle, and the efficiency of the cultivated land has been greatly increased.

These farmers, who had lost their qualifications as tenant farmers, also lost their dependence for survival, so they had to go to the capital to seek a living, and joining the ranks of craftsmen was undoubtedly the best destination.

Many farmers can only farm and don't know much about craftsmen, but later generations of workers don't know everything as soon as they enter the factory, just learn slowly.

Skilled craftsmen are paid a higher salary, and unskilled farmers are naturally treated worse when they first enter, but there is no problem in supporting themselves and their families.

At the time of spring ploughing, at least tens of thousands of tenant farmers have been transformed into craftsmen, which has greatly increased the manpower of the R&D center, so that the R&D center has 60,000 human resources at once, which greatly facilitates the process of R&D products and manufacturing machinery.

After there were more people, the 5,000 acres of land in the R&D center seemed a little crowded, and when the imperial court learned about it, it immediately expanded the R&D center, and it expanded four times at once, with an area of more than 20,000 mu.

With more land and manpower, Ang Lee's R&D and manufacturing progress has become smoother and smoother, and more products have sprung up.

Many people saw that they could earn more income than planting thirty or fifty acres of land, so at the suggestion of the great nobles, they sold the land, leaving only three or five acres of vegetable land for the women and children in the family to cultivate intensively.

In this way, the number of craftsmen slowly expanded, and the human resources became larger.

The railway track line leading to Yumen Pass and Zhongshou City has long been determined, and after spring ploughing, Li Longji personally issued an order to requisition all idle laborers in Guanzhong and began to lay railroad tracks in two ways.

Of course, the people along the railway were also requisitioned and responsible for building the roadbed of the railway along the way, so that the two strategic railways could be completed more quickly.

This time, the imperial court requisitioned more than one million laborers, the scale is far greater than any previous requisition, the loss of civil power must be great, but these two railways have extremely important strategic value, even if the national strength is lost, it must be completed as soon as possible, especially the railway to Yumen Pass is very important, which is related to the long-term stability of the Tang Empire, besides, after such a long period of development, the Tang Empire has the strength to engage in such a big project.

In addition to the huge amount of manpower, a lot of machinery and explosives were invested in the laying of the railway.

When encountering a small hill that needed to be leveled, it was directly blown up with gunpowder to save manpower, and in addition, bulldozers and freight steam cars were easily developed, and immediately mass-produced, and then put into use.

Due to the lack of high technology for millions of laborers, in addition to the railway bureau has invested most of the technical personnel, the R&D center has also transferred more than 10,000 technical personnel to join the work of laying railroad tracks.

The subgrade work is to start the whole line together, in order to save time to the greatest extent, and lay the sleepers and rails this work, then from Chang'an City and several important places in the middle of the way to start laying, especially some sections of the road are flat, there is no need to deal with the subgrade at all, directly lay on it, only the terrain is complex area, only need to deal with the subgrade, but also the whole laying process, the most labor-intensive place.

Due to the relevant talents of the Railway Bureau, they already have rich experience in laying the railway to Luoyang City, and for this reason, the laying of the two railways was completely handed over to them, and Li An did not leave the capital, nor did His Majesty personally go to know the laying work.

Of course, if there is an unsolvable problem in the process of laying, the people of the railway bureau can return to the capital to ask Li An for advice.

Li An stayed in the capital, mainly because there were too many things that needed to be developed, and he wanted to gain time, in the shortest possible time, develop the most products, and sell them overseas, so that Datang would become richer and richer.

At the beginning, Li Longji would be excited for most of the day every time Li An successfully developed a kind of machinery, but with the type of machinery that was successfully developed, there was a blowout, and Li Longji gradually lost the feeling of excitement, unless there was a particularly surprising machine, otherwise, he couldn't find the excitement.

The laying of the two railways will take a year at most to complete, during this time, Li An does not care about the laying of the railway, anyway, the technology in this area has been handed over to the talents of the Railway Bureau, and it is okay to let these talents take full responsibility, and they are only responsible for solving difficult problems.

While developing more machinery, Li An began to spend more time with Yan Ruyu, after all, at this moment, Yan Ruyu's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and the time to give birth is getting closer and closer, and he needs more care.