Zhang Lixin did not reply directly, but had already prepared to ask a soldier not far away to bring a hoe that he used to dig the ground when he was also the most elite warrior sapper. Many parts of the hoe seem to have been painted black with ink, like iron, for the purpose of concealment in the night battle.

"Did anyone here try this hoe and get a feel for what it would be like to plow the ground with it? If it is convenient, we can choose someone at random to select two people from everyone to make a fair judgment, and use the hoe that everyone usually uses to simply dig the ground and compare? Zhang Lixin asked?

In this way, soon the two sixteen or seventeen-year-old brothers tried to dig with the hoe given by Zhang Lixin. The same pit is obviously about three or four percent faster.

"This... It's not iron! This turned out to be a hoe made of steel... A middle-aged veteran of Sage Village touched it carefully and said.

Zhang Lixin asked: "If there is no person who ploughs cattle and uses Jiangdong plows, which is slightly inferior to some good steel, can the same people be three or four percent faster?" Men are only three or four percent, but what about women? ”

Then Zhang Lixin said: "Jiangdong plough has not improved for about a thousand years since the Sui and Tang dynasties. I think there is actually a lot of room for improvement, and this is still a comparison with ordinary iron farming tools. But I see that in this village, it seems that there are still people who use stone and wood ploughs and rakes? As the saying goes, sharpening knives is not wrong for woodcutters, if you are more attentive to the tools and keep improving, how much time will be left? It doesn't have to be twice as much space, and let's be honest: who can work for six hours from morning to night without rest when the farm is busy? And that's just the northern generation, which doesn't seem to have many tricks up its sleeve. In the south, I heard that there were seedling horses in the Song Dynasty, and I heard the experience of some soldiers in the team who went to the south to beg, but I didn't see how many farm tools were available in the rice fields in the south. . . ”

Zhang Lixin continued to say solemnly: "Our Chinese ancestors had countless inventions and creations in ancient times, from the most backward barbarians who couldn't farm at all, they learned to use the supervisor to punch holes in the stone and make more sophisticated agricultural tools. Later, in the Han Dynasty, many of the basic agricultural tools used today were invented. I don't believe that if the ancestors of that time had been as diligent as we are now, there would have been these inventions and creations that would have brought civilized life to the world... ”

"The current spinning wheel didn't exist when Pangu opened the world, right? If the people at that time were as industrious, thrifty, and unenterprising as cattle and horses, how could they stand out from the barbarism and educate the Quartet? Compared with our ancestors, for thousands of years: because our descendants have not known why they have been doing cattle and horses, it has been stagnant for a long time! ”

In fact, the so-called diligent people in the world are the biggest obstacle to the continuous improvement and progress of agricultural work. Not only did he indulge all kinds of thieves who sucked the people's fat and ointment on the heads of craftsmen and peasants, but also made all the poor people in the world more and more tired, and the tools they used became worse and worse... ”

"From barbarians to China, different from our Chinese ancestors, they never did vain and diligent cattle and horses, in order to live like real people, the sages tried to exhaust their wisdom and minds to pursue more time-saving, more labor-saving, and less labor."

Zhang Lixin's unbridled rhetoric finally made some people unable to sit still anymore. At this moment, there is a person from the Yang family who doesn't like to listen to it: "People here don't depend on my family when they farm and ask about farming?" It's those iron-headed farming tools and ploughing cattle, many of which are also my family... ”

When he said this, many people woke up: "Yes! Farming is really inseparable from the people in the clan... ”

Zhang Lixin said with a smile: "Why can someone in this world send his children to study from the time of enlightenment, and they will not study until they are twelve or thirteen years old, and they will not be 'poor children' early in charge." Why do some people have the opportunity to buy pen, ink, paper, inkstone, books, and books to learn calendars and arithmetic, but the poor cannot? If the people of the world are as wealthy as Yang Erniang's family, they don't have to bear taxes, I don't know if it's okay? It is precisely because compared to the ancient sages that some people turned public into private, so that many people in the township were illiterate, or 'Dou Da only recognized a basket of characters'... ”

In fact, at this moment, Zhang Lixin is not just simply reasonable. If reasoning encounters sophistry or ignorance and cunning, and does not treat you as the protagonist, it will be as naïve as the future life plans to persuade the opponent on the Internet. It was some soldiers not far from Zhang Lixin who were eager to try out their appearances, which made some people understand that Zhang Lixin was a self-proclaimed thief, and he was definitely not a "foreign talent" to bully

Seeing the momentum of some people, they have even suppressed it with fright. Of course, Zhang Lixin's mission also changed direction, concluding: "The reason why the landlords let us use such tattered farm tools and pretend not to know the truth of sharpening knives and cutting firewood is because we can use various names such as rent, debt, miscellaneous labor, and apportionment to obtain benefits without bothering and laboring. I've heard that in the south, not all of the weaving workshops with hundreds of people and thousands of people use the most advanced spinning wheels, and it is said that if they do, many people will lose their livelihoods. I don't know: have they thought about working in shifts, only working three hours a day to feed more people. That's why as long as our Chinese descendants still regard themselves as industrious and don't want to change, sooner or later they will be regarded as the result of barbarism by those Western barbarians who are a little civilized and know some 'strange skills'... ”

Subsequently, Zhang Lixin interacted with some local people who had dealt with him before, and openly talked about it, revealing that even at the feet of the Son of Heaven, whose governance is often not too bad in this world, there are many drawbacks from the countryside to the temple.

"Someone asked before: If the world does not pay agricultural taxes, how can you raise troops to resist foreign invaders? In fact, when I was a child, I had a question when I rode a bamboo horse: when the eastern captives of Liaodong and the Mengyuan, Qianjin, Liao, and Xiongnu were prosperous in the past, there were not tens of millions of people, and there were not millions of acres of land under the whole world: what did they rely on to raise soldiers? Can their soldiers be trained year after year? Why is it that in the poor countryside outside the Great Wall, as long as there is a household registration of two or three hundred thousand households with a population of one million, a state capital, and a relatively unified Beidi Heavenly Family instead of going its own way, it can compete with our entire Huaxia and win more and lose less? Later, after I went to Dengzhou to join the army, I understood: it is precisely because our Chinese people pay too many taxes and support more soldiers and horses than outside the Great Wall, from young children to old women drink goat's milk, that many moths and rats can rest assured that they can be bold and wasteful, and do careless nonsense. Eating the money and food that can support one million or two million Qi Shaobao ordinary elite soldiers into two or three hundred thousand or even less, barely making do, relying on shoddy firearms and a little training of mediocre soldiers, coupled with a bunch of mediocre generals, has led to our repeated defeats in the face of only 100,000 households--- this is not the most important thing, it seems that no one in our current China has ever felt: it is a shame to win more with less than relying on the advantages of full training and the equipment that should be more sophisticated... ”

"I've heard some people privately criticize: We just want to change the dynasty and become relatives of the emperor. Then these people are wrong: if it is just like that, now I start to tell the truth that I will not pay for food, and eventually I will not pay unreasonable rent debts, instead of asking for trouble for myself in the future? If so, how many minions will there be in the future? ”

For the detailed construction of some things after the reform of the world, Zhang Lixin at this time also bluntly said: "After the reform of the world, there will be at least basic policies: first, the cultivator has his own land, according to the amount of land in the whole world. Second, exempt from all government levy taxes; Thirdly, all private debts involve peasant households and not merchants. No matter how long it takes, it should never be doubled. Fourth, salt and iron do not exceed the current home, and the profits of salt and iron and domestic and foreign government trade are used to support the army defending the country, and the combination of world soldiers and conscription... ”