The land issue has always been a very important core issue in feudal society, and its importance is reflected in the fact that it can directly affect the stability and sustainable development of the feudal court. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the most important means of production for the people, the land feeds them and allows them to survive well in this world, so the land is very important to the people.

And for the vast majority of people, the loss of land can mean the loss of life, so what else do they dare not do? In the face of survival, the emperor is a fart.

Therefore, although the development of industry requires a large amount of manpower from agriculture, Li Ang does not dare to do too much, otherwise, there will be a lot of chaos.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has three restrictions, first, the area where land trading is allowed should be the plain area, that is, the area that is convenient for large-scale cultivation by machinery, and the land purchase and sale is prohibited in mountainous areas, because it is difficult for machinery to play much role in mountainous areas, second, the people who sell land must join the ranks of craftsmen, have a craftsman certificate, and be able to use the work of craftsmen to support a family, otherwise, this person is not allowed to sell land, in addition, since he joins the craftsman, he is not allowed to own a large amount of land, and at most three or five acres of vegetable fields are reserved, Let the women of the house plow. Third, to crack down on forced buying and selling, both parties must agree to buy and sell land, and the nobles who buy land must understand that the people who sell land have joined the ranks of craftsmen, otherwise they will be severely punished. ”

Ang Lee thought about it for a long time and gave his own suggestions.

Hearing this, Li Longji nodded with satisfaction, feeling that the idea that Li An came up with was very good, so that the one-to-one conversion between farmers and craftsmen could be realized, of course, as the income of craftsmen gradually exceeded that of farming, many people would definitely abandon the land and join the ranks of craftsmen.

"Your Majesty, Weichen still has a suggestion."

"Li Shilang has any suggestions, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Li An thought for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, with the gradual investment of various machinery in agriculture, I Datang will no longer have a shortage of grain and grass, there will be a great surplus of grain, and it is becoming more and more surplus, but there will still be a very small number of people, there will be no food, some because the men in the family died, some because of illness, and some because they went out on the wrong road, or were stolen, Weichen felt that soup kitchens could be set up in all county towns, and give these people who need to eat a bowl of porridge to drink, so that they can tide over the difficulties. This is also a merit that the heavens will see. ”

"As long as there is no shortage of food, it is of course the best to set up soup kitchens in each county, and I very much agree with it, and in the future, I will arrange for county officials to handle it."

Li Longji very much recognized the social security system proposed by Li An, anyway, it was just a few bowls of porridge, and it was not a waste of many resources, as long as the imperial court was rich enough, it could do so, so as to further reduce the occurrence of petty theft and promote the establishment of a beautiful society in the Tang Empire.

Subsequently, Li Longji said more than a dozen invention plans in one breath, and they were all good things that could be used by the Tang Empire, and Li Longji was stunned for a moment, and he was even more determined to fully support Li Ang to make inventions in order to obtain these powerful inventions.

There are mountains and rivers around Luoyang City, the scenery is very beautiful, and taking the opportunity of inspection, Li An enjoyed the beautiful scenery here, and it felt that it was naturally worth the trip.

The three-day tour was soon over, and that night, Li Longji returned to the capital with his team.

Although there is a certain danger in driving the train at night, as long as the speed is slowed down as much as possible, there is no danger, and besides, there are soft shops on the train, and it feels good to sleep while returning to the capital.

During the day, trains travel at a speed of 100 miles per hour, while at night, for safety, the speed of the train is set at 30 miles an hour, which is already quite slow, and even if you run faster, you can catch up with the train.

After getting into the car, Li Longji directly hugged Yang Yuhuan and fell asleep, while Li An sat by the window with several ministers and chatted, while enjoying the hazy snow scene outside.

In the morning, the train slowly accelerated, and most of the people woke up, and at this time, the train had only traveled 200 miles from Luoyang City, which was a whole night!

Of course, the train has now accelerated and will soon return to its normal speed, so it is inevitable that it will be able to reach Chang'an City before sunset.

On the way back, in addition to enjoying the scenery along the way, Ang Lee was summoned by Li Longji to talk about some things about black technology.

Through Ang Lee's continuous explanations, Li Longji's curiosity became bigger and bigger, and his ambition became more and more inflated, and he even wished to immediately invest in the power of the whole country, so that Ang Lee could quickly invent all the things he thought of.

Whenever this time, Li An always has to spend time to persuade Li Longji, so that he should not be too anxious, can not do more than the national strength to bear, research and development of things to step by step, first solve the problem of agricultural machinery, let the excess manpower into the industrial field, and gradually enrich the industrial population, and then, in order to expand the production progress of machinery as planned, and accelerate the research and development of more things.

Before sunset, the train arrived at Chang'an City Railway Station, Li Longji returned to the palace, and Li An went to the R&D center first, stayed for more than an hour, and did not return to the courtyard until after dark.

The winter days are bitterly cold, but the R&D center is full of hot scenes, and all the craftsmen are busy.

In order to reflect humane management and prevent frostbite of the craftsmen, all dormitories have thickened walls, and even installed a fireplace inside, and when they work, these craftsmen are also prepared with warm gloves.

In terms of eating and drinking, all craftsmen can not only eat enough, but also have a reasonable food combination, and can eat meat slices almost every day, which makes many craftsmen excited and motivated.

For R&D talents with particularly good technology, the treatment is even higher, almost every meal has meat, and the room is more warm and comfortable.

The cost of taking care of craftsmen in this way is naturally larger, but these costs are eventually passed on to the nobles who buy the machinery, and the court does not lose the slightest in the end, and even makes a lot of money.

A large number of steam machine tools have been gradually put into production and R&D, which has accelerated the progress of R&D, increased the production efficiency of machinery, and allowed more machinery to enter the market of Datang.

In this cold season, the research and development of harvesters has made great progress, however, because there are no crops to test, what the performance is, it is impossible to judge at all, only when the spring ploughing, a small amount of wheat planted is mature, in order to carry out performance tests, but Li An is confident in his scientific research results, thinking that the products he has developed will be successful.

In these days, coke and steelmaking technology have made great breakthroughs, the construction of rails is more and more advanced, and there are more and more of them, and in several warehouses of the R&D center, a large number of built rails have been piled up, which are used to lay railways, and after spring ploughing, they can be used.

Due to the commissioning and gradual use of steam machine tools, the production of cultivators and pumps has entered an accelerated stage, originally thought that the second batch of cultivated land opportunities were created after spring ploughing, but did not expect that before spring ploughing, it has been produced, and was immediately snapped up by the aristocratic wealth.

Half of the pumping machines were sold to the aristocracy, while the remaining half was invested in the counties of Guanzhong to replace the waterwheels in some important areas, of course, there were some places without waterwheels.

Winter turns to spring, and in the season full of flowers, the wheat planted during the autumn harvest has already been scion and yellow, which is a good time to harvest.

In order to test the performance of the harvester, Li An included 1,000 acres of wheat land near the capital, and the people were not allowed to harvest the wheat by themselves, leaving everything to the harvester.

In order to better expand his influence, Ang Lee built three harvesters this time, which can be tested at the same time.

As the harvesting test was about to begin, there were thousands of onlookers at the location of the test, in addition to the three harvesters.

The court officials who were concerned about the efficiency of the harvester also included the younger generation of the major aristocratic families, as well as housekeepers and minions, and of course, more common people in the vicinity.

"Li Shilang, the three harvesters are ready to start."

R&D craftsman reminded.

Li An nodded and ordered, "Let's start harvesting!" ”

"Boom ......"

With a screeching noise, the three harvesters slowly started and immediately began harvesting the wheat.

The crowd of onlookers, all looked at these three steel monsters intently, they were very much looking forward to the results of the test, after the cultivator test became a sensation, many people felt that the harvester must be very powerful, who made it invented by the famous Ang Lee?

The progress of the test made Li An very satisfied, all three harvesters did not fail, and the speed of harvesting is very gratifying, much faster than manpower, the crops harvested by manpower can only be bundled on the side of the road, while the harvester can directly put the fruit into a fixed wooden box, and the wheat straw is directly thrown away, which can save the step of threshing, further save manpower, and improve the efficiency of harvesting grain.

Seeing a large amount of wheat straw being thrown behind the machine, the onlookers all widened their eyes in surprise, because there was no wheat ear on the wheat straw that was thrown away, and where did this wheat ear go, which aroused everyone's curiosity.

In fact, before the start of the experiment, the onlookers had always thought that the harvester was cutting the wheat into bundles and placing them on the side of the road, but the situation was completely different from what they thought, the harvester threw the wheat straw directly behind them, and there were no ears of wheat on the wheat straw that was thrown on.

This is people's fixed thinking, the onlookers have seen bundles of wheat, and naturally think that the harvester is also this function, but the speed is faster, but the performance of the harvester is more advanced than they imagined, and the wheat can be directly put into the stomach.

Of course, there are also some fools who think that the harvester threw the ears of wheat into the dirt and laugh at the harvester as useless guys.

The masses who figured out the truth were all full of praise for the harvester, feeling that the performance of the harvester was more powerful than that of the cultivator, and arguing with people who misunderstood the performance of the harvester.

An hour passed, and the results of the test were about to come out.

"Li Shilang, three harvesters have cut a total of eighteen acres of wheat, and an average of six acres have been cut by one harvester."

Li An nodded with great satisfaction, and said loudly: "Not bad, not bad, six acres in one hour, and thirty acres in five hours a day, which is very good." ”

"A person can harvest up to one acre of land a day, and a harvester can harvest thirty acres a day, dozens of times faster than a person, which is amazing!"

"It's nothing, the important thing is that the ears of wheat are stripped away, which is very rare."

"Ears of wheat, by the way, why didn't you see ears of wheat, will they be smashed into the dirt?"

"What nonsense, this is a good thing invented by Li Shilang, how could he smash the ears of wheat into the dirt? It's definitely in the machine. ”

The crowd of onlookers, you talked about it word by word.

"Li Shilang, where is the wheat ear, is it really in the machine?"

An officer stepped forward and asked loudly.

"Ears of wheat, where did the ears of wheat come from?"

Li An shook his head, walked to the side of the harvester, and ordered, "Open the wooden box and see how much you have collected." ”

"Yes, Li Shilang."

Several craftsmen first pushed over the prepared wagon, which was pulled by a horse, and the back carriage was a fully enclosed groove that could be used to store grain.

"...... Uproar"

The moment the small opening at the bottom of the wooden box of the harvester was opened, a large number of wheat grains were ejected and fell steadily into the groove of the carriage of the baggage wagon.

The onlookers were all stunned when they saw this scene, the performance of this harvester was too advanced, not only harvested the ripe wheat, but also took out all the wheat grains, which was so convenient.

"Look, how many catties does this car have?"

Li An looked at one of his subordinates beside him.

"Li Shilang, this car is more than 1,000 catties, and the most is no more than 1,500 catties."

The subordinate hurriedly replied.

"It's so powerful, I actually took out the wheat grains directly, it's amazing."

"This machine can top at least 50 people, according to the harvest of 30 acres a day, it can harvest 300 acres in 10 days, if it is ten, 100 vehicles, it will be even more powerful."

"My family has 3,000 acres of land, and there are nearly 200 tenant farmers, and when it comes to harvesting, they are still too busy, and if they use harvesters, only ten are enough."

The crowd of onlookers once again became enthusiastic, especially the housekeepers and servants of the aristocratic family, who were very concerned about the harvester.

Everyone says that a merchant is unprofitable, but in fact, this is true for anyone, and the great nobles are certainly no exception.

After possessing a large amount of land resources, the great nobles had to take in a considerable number of tenant farmers, and then their massive land could generate value, otherwise, it would be useless wasteland.

The tenant farmers all need these lands to support them, so after the big nobles get the land harvest, they have to take out a large part of it to feed these tenant farmers.