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Li An objected to Guo Xuji's view, this steam cultivator was invented by him, and he had already calculated the speed of the machine and how many times it needed to be cultivated per acre, so he could accurately know how long it would take to plough 20 acres of land, but Guo Xuji could only speculate on his subjective feelings, and the data obtained was naturally inaccurate.

"Twenty acres of land can be cultivated in one hour, so that in five hours a day, can you cultivate a hundred acres of land."

Guo Xuji was very shocked, this efficiency was already twenty times that of the best ploughing cattle, and the ploughing efficiency was too powerful.

"Guo Shilang, it will take a long time to plough these fields, let's sit down and rest, and after all the ploughing, we will go and check it out."

Li An said and asked his entourage to take down the Mazha chair on the horse's back, and gently open it and put it on the edge of the field.

"Li Shilang, what is this?"

Guo Xuji naturally has never seen Maza, and it is still a Mazha chair with a backrest, this kind of thing can be retracted and placed, which is very convenient to carry, and because the position of the butt is soft, it is very comfortable to sit on it.

"Guo Shilang, this is the Mazha chair I just invented, it is very comfortable to sit on, Guo Shilang, please sit down!"

Li An asked his subordinates to bring a lot of Mazha chairs, let Guo Xuji sit down, he himself sat down, and sat next to Guo Xuji, among the R&D talents, some of the older ones also sat on Maza, of course, they sat behind Li An.

Guo Xuji sat lightly on the Mazha chair, and suddenly felt a different kind of comfort, and smiled sideways: "The Mazha chair invented by Li Shilang is really comfortable, haha!" ”

This tone is both a compliment and a joke, and the comparison is inferior, only reading is high, and inventing a chair is nothing.

"It's been a few months, and it's rare to see Guo Shilang smile, so it's worth it for the official to invent the Mazha chair."

Ang Lee replied with a smile.

Since the imperial court decided to set up a railway bureau and dug a lot of talents from the Ministry of Industry, Guo Xuji's face has not been very good, after all, the affairs of the Ministry of Industry are handled by him, and now, a large number of talents have been transferred to the R&D center and the Railway Bureau.

Li An also hung up the position of a waiter in the Ministry of Works, but it was just a name, and he didn't ask about a large number of affairs in the Ministry of Works, and he was not interested in these affairs, so he naturally didn't feel anything.

"Li Shilang, most of the talents in my Ministry of Industry have been transferred to the R&D center and the Railway Bureau, and now the talents are withering! Li Shilang must not fight my Ministry of Industry again. ”

Guo Xuji looked at Li An in a panic, for the loss of talents in the Ministry of Industry, Li An can't get rid of it, after all, whether it is the R&D center or the Railway Bureau, it is all done by Li An, if there is no Li An, the Ministry of Industry will not lose most of the talents, let alone lose some power.

Of course, because these things made by Ang Lee are all for the benefit of the country and the people, although Guo Xuji is not comfortable in his heart, he does not blame Ang Lee, he is still a relatively upright person.

But the Ministry of Industry has withered talents, as the Ministry of Labor, of course, in his position to seek his own government, so, I heard that Li An has made a ploughing machinery again, he hurriedly ran over to watch, to determine whether the ploughing machinery needs the talents of the Ministry of Industry.

"Guo Shilang is too worried, it is not terrible to wither talents, just train more, and this official will invent a lot of practical things in the future, which will greatly facilitate the work of the Ministry of Industry, so that it will be easier and easier for the Ministry of Industry to do things."

Li An opened his mouth to comfort.

"Li Shilang, this official has a few proposals, I don't know if it's appropriate?"

Guo asked tentatively.

"What proposal? Guo Shilang is at the same level as this official, what else can't be said. ”

Li An hurriedly asked.

"Li Shilang, our Ministry of Industry has to levy labor every year to build water conservancy and dredge rivers, but dredging requires a lot of manpower, laborious and time-consuming, if you can invent a kind of machinery to help manpower dredging, can not greatly improve the efficiency of dredging."

Guo Xuji opened his mouth to suggest.

When Li An heard this, his head suddenly became bigger, Li Longji had just put forward a request for harvesting machinery to him, and he had not yet begun to study it now, and now, Guo Xuji proposed dredging machinery again, which simply regarded him as a god!

And dredging machinery, there are just so many kinds, there are excavators, dredgers, the most powerful is of course cutter suction dredgers.

Later, a certain type of cutter suction dredger used a very short time to clear a large area of sea area and create an island, which is known as an island-building artifact.

After thinking for a long time, Li An felt that the cutter suction dredger was the most suitable for research and development, first of all, now, the steam ship has been successfully developed, and there is a platform for building dredgers, and secondly, the pumping machinery is being developed, as long as it is successful, and slightly improved, it can be used to pump mud, so that the cutter suction equipment is left, and the cutter suction equipment does not seem to be difficult to develop, with the power of the steam engine, are you afraid that you can't develop the cutter suction equipment?

"Guo Shilang, it is not difficult to develop dredging machinery, but at present, the R&D center lacks talents and needs the support of talents from the Ministry of Industry."

Ang Lee laughed and played.

"No, no, no, Li Shilang, there are not many talents left in my Ministry of Industry, you must not have the idea of the Ministry of Labor, if the talents are not enough, wait for the research and development later!"

Guo Xuji's expression was very exaggerated, and he was almost crying in a hurry, indeed, a lot of skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry were transferred, and if he transferred manpower again, Guo Xuji would become the commander of the light pole.

"Hahaha! Guo Shilang don't be nervous, the official just made a little joke with you, the dredging machinery, the official will definitely invent it, and the efficiency must be much stronger than the manual, not only can work during the bitter water period, dredging activities can be carried out all year round, as long as it is built, the Grand Canal will not sound again in the future, and the ships will run aground. ”

Li An opened his mouth to comfort.

"Li Shilang is serious, can he really invent an effective dredging machine?"

Guo Xuji was overjoyed when he heard this.

In recent years, during the dry season, the Ministry of Industry had to organize a large number of laborers to desilt the shallow sections of the Grand Canal, and county officials had to organize their own laborers to clean up the silt in the county's irrigation canals.

But the Grand Canal and the major irrigation canals, the need for dredging is too much, only by manpower dredging, the effect is really not very good, therefore, there will be dredging every year, but every year there will be the Grand Canal boat stranding accident, the riverbed of the irrigation canal is also improving year by year, especially the Zhengguo Canal in Guanzhong, the riverbed increase is the most obvious, the irrigation efficiency has been less than a quarter of the Qin and Han dynasties, which seriously restricts the development of agriculture in Guanzhong, so that the capital must rely on the grain in the south of the Yangtze River.

Whenever there was an incident in which the ship fell into the mud and affected the progress of the water transport, Li Longji would glared at the officials of the Ministry of Industry angrily, and even complained a few words, accusing them of being ineffective.

In order to desilt this work, the Ministry of Industry is really worried about it, but the dredging work is not as simple as it sounds, and with the various resources currently at the disposal of the officials of the Ministry of Industry, they can only maintain the status quo, but cannot fundamentally change the fact that the water transportation has been stranded and the riverbed of the irrigation canal has been raised.

After a large number of skilled talents of the Ministry of Industry were transferred to the R&D center and the Railway Bureau, it was even more difficult for the Ministry of Industry to do things, and without new help, the problems encountered in the transportation and irrigation canals in the future may be more serious.

At this moment, Li An said that he could invent dredging machinery, which is naturally a great thing for Guo Xuji, as long as there is mechanical dredging equipment, he believes that the future dredging work will become much easier.

"Next year! At this time next year, the dredging machinery should be invented, and when the time comes, Guo Shilang should smile every day. ”

Li An patted Guo Xuji's shoulder and said with a smile.

"In this way, thank you Li Shilang, thank you, thank you."

Guo Xuji was very excited, this is the only reliance on the Ministry of Industry to create brilliance.

In the construction of the black powder workshop, the construction of the R&D center, and the laying of railroad tracks, the Ministry of Industry has been in the limelight, and has been rewarded and rewarded by Li Longji.

But immediately after the brilliance, it was a large number of talents who were transferred out of the Ministry of Industry, and the original stable railway operation system was also classified into the Ministry of Internal Service.

This is like a person who climbs the highest mountain in the world, but suddenly falls under the basin, and will inevitably fall with a blue nose and swollen face, which is called the so-called drop.

Once the dredging machinery is successfully developed and the relevant departments of the Ministry of Industry are equipped, the Ministry of Industry will inevitably be able to completely solve the silt problem of the Grand Canal and all the canals.

When Li An and Guo Xuji were talking about dredging machinery, twenty acres of fertile land had been ploughed by all the cultivated machinery.

"Li Shilang, this is the end of ploughing, this is twenty acres of land! It only took an hour. ”

Guo Xuji looked at the twenty acres of cultivated fertile land in front of him in surprise, his eyes were full of incredulity.

The crowd of onlookers, including a large number of ordinary people, were also very surprised, of course, more surprises.

Li An smiled slightly, and ordered: "It's not enough to finish ploughing, but also to see how the quality of the cultivated land is, this is the most important thing, do you say it!" ”

"Li Shilang, my subordinates have already checked, the effect of plowing land is better than plowing cattle, this ploughing machinery is really a good thing!"

One of his subordinates hurriedly replied.

Li An stood up, walked to the ploughed field, glanced at it casually, and nodded with satisfaction.

He saw not only twenty acres of cultivated fields, but also a large number of admiring eyes, many ordinary people walked into the fields, personally checked the quality of the cultivated land, and after confirming that the effect was better than that of ploughing cattle, they looked up at Li An with admiration, and even some people knelt directly in the farmland and kowtowed to Li An.

"Li Shilang, the efficiency of this ploughing machinery is at least twenty times higher than that of ploughing cattle, I don't know how much it costs?"

Guo Xuji also stood up, walked to Li An's side, and asked softly.

"How much?"

Li An himself didn't know, and asked the R&D personnel who operated the machinery.

"Back to Li Shilang, it cost a total of five hundred taels of coal."

The R&D staff replied softly.

"Only five hundred taels of coal? To have such a high efficiency, it costs five hundred taels of coal, which is really not high! ”

Guo Xuji looked very excited.

Li An frowned and calculated, nodded and said: "Five hundred taels of charcoal, twenty acres of cultivated land, an average of twenty-five taels of charcoal per acre, it is indeed not very high, and it does not necessarily have to be used with charcoal, if you use firewood, it needs three times the weight, and one acre of land needs about seventy-five taels of dry firewood, and it is the most cost-effective to use charcoal." ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Such a good thing must be told to Your Majesty as soon as possible, so Li Shilang might as well go into the palace with me and personally inform Your Majesty of the good news. ”

Guo Xuji said excitedly.

"No, the official has to go back and think about how to mass-produce these cultivators, in short, there is still a lot of work to be done, so I bother Guo Shilang to tell His Majesty the whole good news."

Li An opened his mouth to refuse.

With the successful invention of ploughing machinery, if Li An wants large-scale production, of course, he must get Li Longji's consent, but the production process, the design of the assembly line, and the demand for personnel and sites and other issues need to be considered clearly before he can accurately put forward specific requirements to Li Longji.

Now that he has just made a cultivator, he can't wait to go to Li Longji, except for inviting credit and explaining the research and development process, and talking about the next plan, he can't put forward specific needs, so Li An plans to take a good look at the drawings after going back, first determine the assembly line, predict the needs of personnel and funds, and then meet Li Longji again to put forward these needs. Let Li Longji support himself.

Guo Xuji did not insist on it, and immediately rode back to the capital, and quickly entered the palace to meet Li Longji, and truthfully informed Li Longji of the successful invention of the cultivated machinery and the fact that he had just returned from the test site.

Lao Guo said in great detail, the shape, size, and performance of the ploughing machinery, 20 acres of ploughing land in one hour, the effect of ploughing land is better than that of cattle, and only 25 taels of charcoal is consumed per acre, etc., all of which were said, and he almost picked up a brush and drew the ploughing machinery on paper.

As soon as Li Longji heard that the ploughing machinery was so powerful, and the efficiency was at least 20 times that of the ploughing cattle, he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately said that he wanted to reward Li An, and proposed to summon Li An.

Since the ploughing machinery has been invented, the work of determining the assembly line and calculating the cost, of course, is not a difficult task, after Ang Lee returned to the R&D center, it only took two days to complete all these tasks, and plan to produce 1,000 ploughing machinery within the next three months.