Volume 1 Into the Tang Chapter 59 The Plough and the Stubborn Old Ox
It didn't take long for the group to arrive at Chengjia Zhuangzi, and Chitu was no longer afraid of Li Chengyang after these days of recuperation, but Li Chengyang looked a little weak when he stared at the four hooves of this BMW, and it seemed that he was hopeless.
When I arrived at Zhuangzi, I first went straight to Lao Lizheng's house, and the main purpose of coming today was to test the Quyuan plow, among their group of people, including the guards, one is counted as one, and they don't know anything about farming, and they can't say anything good or bad, this is not Li Chengyang's proposal, find someone who knows how to try it, it is much more reliable than their own blind thinking.
When he came to Lizheng's house, as expected, the men of the family went to the field, and it is said that the youngest boy in the family was now carrying a bag of freshly made dry food, and was about to bring breakfast to his grandfather, father and uncle.
There were a room of women and children, and it was inconvenient for their own group to go in, so they pulled the child to Xiao Cheng's horse and took him to the ground together.
Xiao'er poked her head out of the carriage, looked at the surrounding environment, and took a deep breath: "Young master, you said that I didn't find the scenery outside here so beautiful before, and it is happier to take a breath outside than in the palace."
Li Chengyang smiled: "You used to be not full of food and clothing, where do you still have the heart to see other things, if we saw such a place before, the first thing we thought of was to find an ownerless wasteland to have a good look, whether there are wild vegetables to eat or something, which is like now, do not worry about eating or drinking."
The guards who followed behind were silent for a while, the black history of King Qin, you can't listen to it, you can't pretend to hear it, and remember not to say it in the future, if this is spread out, I don't know what kind of punishment you will face.
Xiao'er seemed to think of something, her eyes were red and she retracted the carriage, it seemed that she remembered the sad things in the past, Li Chengyang was a little resentful that she came out to bring so many people this time, if it was just him and Xiao'er, wouldn't it be a good time to increase your feelings.
From a distance, I saw Lao Lizheng, who was fiddling with something in the field at this time.
"Grandpa, grandpa's brother who came last time came to see you, come out quickly" The child in Xiao Cheng's arms was the first to speak, the last time Xiao Cheng and Li Chengyang came to his house, he remembered it, and hurriedly reported to Li Zheng at this time.
Li Zheng hurriedly came out, took the child over, took out a cake and held it in his hand, and kicked the child's buttocks: "Go, send the rest to your father and them, the little rabbit cub is so blessed that it is not small, and it can also let the little grandfather hug all the way, and when you grow up in the future, you have to remember the good of the little grandfather, remember."
The child replied crisply and remembered, and walked away with the cloth bag on his back, four hundred acres of land, and the distance between people was not close.
Xiao Cheng grinned: "Cheng, don't wait for him to grow up, my younger brother Chu Bi is about the same age as him, and he is about to be educated, let him follow Chu Bi to be a scholar in the future, I like this child, and he looks smarter than our family."
Lao Li was about to buckle his head to express his gratitude, Xiao Cheng was slow to stop, this stopped the old man, I heard the purpose of everyone's coming, Lao Li was pointing to the land in front of him, try, try casually, today this field will be sent to the nobles to toss, he has no words, the family has money, there is no shortage of this field.
Of course, you can't spoil the good land that people have served, find a piece of wasteland, carry the Quyuan plow out, and explain the operation to Lizheng, and there are guards who take the Cheng family's warrant to go to the village to take the cow, this cow is still the Cheng family, but it is only lent to the people in the Zhuangzi to use, Xiao Cheng naturally has the right to transfer.
But the tools are here, and they can't look at it like this, so they picked a guard with a big waist and a round waist, and snorted at him, signaling him to pull up the plowstick, the guard scratched his head, and smiled at Li Chengyang, or the guard next to him secretly poked him and told him what His Royal Highness meant.
This person was not annoyed, he stepped forward and put the yoke that was originally used to set the cow on his back, signaling Li Zheng to start commanding, Li Zheng looked at Li Chengyang suspiciously, waved the whip in his hand and was about to whip the guard.
Li Chengyang saw that this was okay, and hurriedly stopped Li Zheng, you can smoke the cattle and plough the land, why do you still lift the whip when my people come up, and tell him directly to start.
Explain to Li Zheng that this farce can be regarded as a solution, Li Zheng thought that this was the prince punishing his subordinates, otherwise where would someone come to pull the plow, not to say whether it was suitable or not, just to say that this plow he was not able to pull the move, the original plow staff needed two oxen to pull the hard work, and now a person came up to pull the plow, no wonder people misunderstood Li Chengyang's meaning.
In fact, Li Chengyang really didn't have that idea, he had heard his classmates say in his previous life that in some places there were few cattle and horses, and machines could not enter, so they could only use manpower to plough the land.
The farce ended, the guards and Li Zheng also began to experiment, Li Zheng gave an order, and the plow arm began to silently accumulate strength to prepare for the next impact, and the previous plow also needed to follow a handle, controlling the direction and depth of the ox and ploughing, this is an absolutely wasteful work, he has already handed this matter to his sons to do, today this is a return to the old business, and he is also ready to perform in front of the little grandfather and the little prince.
The plough staff moved under the efforts of the guards, and there is a special mechanical structure under the plough stick, to put it bluntly, it is the shape of an oblique triangle, this shape can save a lot of effort, and it turned out to be with a wooden stick, all with the strength of the ox to forcibly turn over the structure of the soil I don't know how much.
The impact that Li Zheng expected did not come for a long time, and the guards became familiar after getting used to it, he only needed to pull hard in front of him, and keep walking in a straight line after finishing the work, and the rest of the things were naturally adjusted by Li Zheng.
After walking about a hundred meters, the two turned back and ploughed back, and when they reached the ground, Li Zheng was already crying and couldn't look at it, and his face was full of tears and sweat mixed with dirty dust, like a mud monkey.
But no one laughed, an old farmer crying with joy because of such a thing is not something worth laughing at, Li Chengyang also forcibly restrained the joy of success in his heart, and quietly waited for Li Zheng to finish crying.
It took a long time to come back to his senses, and he pulled Li Chengyang to thank him non-stop, and when he turned around, he must set up an immortal archway for King Qin, worship him day and night, and pray for him every day.
When Li Chengyang asked what Li Zheng thought, the old man wiped the tears on his face and returned categorically:
"Okay, it's a good thing, this ploughed field is deep and straight, and the speed is not to mention, a person can pull and move, let alone a cow, with this thing, the old man will grit his teeth next year, and one person will be responsible for forty acres of land, this is a great thing, Lord Wang, you are really a god in the sky."
Immortals don't need it, as long as the things are easy to use, looking at the appearance of Lizheng, he can think that next year, the male in his family will not want to sleep if he has a good night's sleep, and one person is responsible for forty acres of land, and he is panicked when he thinks about it, and if this spreads, Li Chengyang is convinced that every family will be like this, and he has never doubted the enthusiasm of the working people.
"Create evil, don't rely on me if you don't sleep well in the future, I'm making a contribution to Datang" muttered a few words in his heart, silently praying that he wouldn't meet people who gritted his teeth when they heard his name in the future.
It's just a joke, this thing can increase Datang's grain output by at least one-third, and the output of intensive cultivation and extensive cultivation is very different, even if the tax will not rise, but for the foundation of Datang, it is a rare benefit.
The guard who went to the cow also came back, put on the cow and tried it again, but the results surprised everyone, the efficiency of the cow was not as good as that of people, and let Li Zheng run again, staring at the cow carefully to see that the problem was all in the cow.
Li Zheng's whip was about to spark, and the fat and strong cow reluctantly walked a few steps, and in July, the ground was full of grass, and when he saw the proud grass, he stopped and gnawed twice, no matter how Li Zheng shouted and scared, people stood still, only caring about the little thing in their mouths.
And the cow is not walking in a straight line, in order to ensure that the plough is a good-looking straight line, it is from time to time to pull the tail of the ox, lift the plough and find a good position in the back, when the ground is about to turn, it can not be seen, as a cow, how to know how far to go, and even do not know to turn the head, the whole process relies on the control of the inside over and over again, and the speed can be fast before hell.
Touching my chin and thinking about it, no wonder I felt that something was wrong from the beginning, the bull's nose looked uncomfortable, it turned out that I forgot the nose ring, and installed the nose ring, don't care if you are the bull demon king or the little goblin, you have to obediently follow the nose ring, where to fight, and never dare to stab.
After thinking about the memories of his previous life, well, it's clean, he can't get along with the cow anyway, but I've seen the cow on TV, and everyone is wearing a nose ring.
Called the guards to put the cow down, and let the cow's nose open and look at it carefully, then I had some thoughts, there is a place in the cow's nose that has no meat, only a layer of fascia separated, in reference to the previous memory, almost this position, is also more suitable for hands.
Turning his head and looking at Xiao Cheng: "I want to do a test with your cow, but it may hurt your cow, and it is inconvenient for you to see it", if you are not sure, you should discuss it first, in case you kill the cow, it will be unclear, but this thing must be done, so I have no choice but to speak.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Cheng's eyes lit up: "Okay, just try, don't worry about trying boldly, I'll let people go to Chang'an County to make a report, and you will open the toss", Xiao Cheng has been hungry for beef for a long time, but in Datang Suicide Cow is to go to prison, although for the second generation of officials like him, this matter can not rise to that height, his father found from time to time that there were cows walking and falling to death, but he was strictly ordered to do so, and he must not be in trouble to cultivate cattle.
Now that King Qin has spoken, then this face must be given, just now I saw that Li Zheng was entangled with the cow, and he was already unhappy with this cow, Li Chengyang wanted to do it, although he tried, it must be the best to eat a bite of beef.
Li Zheng is a little reluctant, the current cow is more important than life, even if people don't have cows, how can they let this group of children toss by their temperament, but after thinking about it, this cow belongs to others, and he can't speak, and King Qin is not an unreliable person, since people said this kind of thing, it must be for a reason, maybe they can make the same artifact as this plow, and let them go.
When he returned to Lizheng's house, he instructed everyone to prepare, brought a brazier, put some firewood and burned it first, and went to find a suitable iron bar.
Qi Huo, the next thing is to be sorry for the cow.