This year, Guanzhong is still mainly planted with wheat, and the seeds used are also provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the growth is basically not bad compared with last year, and because there are more ethnic minority people who have moved out, the number of fields planted has also increased, reaching 15 million mu, and if the overall harvest is good, the grain output will go up to a higher level.

On the ridge of the experimental field, Sun Xiangfu led Li Tai and a cadre of the Ministry of Agriculture, each holding a harvesting sickle and a bundled straw rope, and began to divide the area for all the people who came to harvest, this year there is no army to help, all the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture plus the people who came to help from Xingfu Village, there are only more than 1,000 people, and the harvest of 300,000 mu of land, but they have to be busy for a while.

"Do you know why I have to bring officials to the fields to harvest wheat?"

Sun Xiangfu pushed the brim of the straw hat to the back of his head, pushed it slightly, and pushed the little fat man Li Taidao who followed his movements in the same way.

"Master Sun wants officials to experience the hard work of farmers and know that drinking and eating are not easy to come by."

Li Tai has read a lot of books, and he understands a lot of truths, for his answer, Sun Xiangfu is naturally satisfied, and when he bent down to start cutting wheat, the big straw hat just covered his head and shoulders, while cutting it neatly, he also said, "In this world, there is nothing bigger than eating, even eating can't be solved, everything else is in vain." Therefore, no matter what kind of high position the officials are in, they must not forget their roots, and most of them are from the scholar group, they cannot lift their hands, they cannot carry their shoulders, their limbs are not diligent, and they do not distinguish between grains and grains, and they are separated from the foundation of human existence in the world, how can they govern this country well! Therefore, this trend must be given to them. ”

"What Master Sun said is reasonable, how can a person who can't even solve the problem of eating by himself help all the people eat!"

Sun Xiangfu was very relieved when he heard Li Tai say this, but his next sentence was that Sun Xiangfu almost fell.

"Thailand knows today that it is not easy to drink and eat, so today's dinner, Tai is going to solve it by himself, so he will use the wheat I cut myself, cook a pot of batter soup, and eat everything left······

"Little Tai! You can't make batter soup with wheat, but you can cook it into wheat rice and eat it with the bran, and when you go to the toilet, you will never forget the feeling of going to the toilet. ”

When Li Tai heard this, his fat face was embarrassed, he grew up in the palace since he was a child, and he could barely distinguish the five grains, how to eat it, he really didn't know, just now he also spoke out in favor of Sun Xiangfu to criticize those officials and scholars, the limbs are not diligent, and the grains are not divided! Now it seems that he is no better than those people.

"Don't patronize in a daze, hurry up and cut, cut one acre of land, add a steamed bun for lunch, cut two acres, and add a steamed bun for dinner, with your physical strength, it is estimated that you can't cut three acres a day."

"I, I will definitely be able to cut three acres, cut three acres, can't I eat one more steamed bun?"

"No, if you eat more, your wheat will be harvested in vain this day, and you will consume more nutrients than you consume, but you will not lose fat."

"Hah! Then I'll only cut two acres! Li Tai had a bitter face and quickly began to harvest, he knew that if he didn't harvest in the morning when the sun was not too strong, the sun would be hot for a while, and the field would be too hot to stay.

However, eleven or twelve-year-old children, just a few minutes of wool strength, used up the stamina is insufficient, when Li Tai straightened up his sour waist, looked back, only to find that an acre of land is so big, his clothes are soaked with sweat, even half an acre of land has not been cut.

"What are your thoughts at this point?" After cutting the whole road, Sun Xiangfu, who approached Li Tai's position again, asked with a smile.

Li Tai replied, "It's really hard to be a farmer. ”

"It's a well-known thing, not an idea."

"So, what counts as an idea?"

"The idea of being able to make this kind of hard work simple and easy is a good idea."

Li Tai listened to Sun Xiangfu's words, and immediately thought of the lawn mower he had seen in Shanyang, with that thing there, wouldn't it be fast to cut this wheat?

"Master Sun, did you prepare a lot of lawn mowers early in the morning, but deliberately took the officials to cut wheat with sickles in the fields, so that they could experience the hard work of farming?"

Sun Xiangfu praised Li Tai in his heart for being really smart, if Li Chengqian was here, he might not be able to think of this, nodded and said, "Yes, but it's not just the reason you said."

As a ruler standing at the height of the country, you always have to consider the problems of the people, this year Weinan farm tool factory made more than 1,000 improved version of the lawn mower, more suitable for cutting wheat, however, my Ministry of Agriculture, but these can be easily and labor-saving cars, first lent to the people in Guanzhong, our own official land, but rely on manpower, with a sickle to slowly cut, guess what the people will think? ”

Li Tai's eyes lit up and he replied, "Of course, I am grateful to the imperial court." ”

"Yes, they will be grateful to the imperial court, and this is the political meaning of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In ordinary farms, half a young man like you is going to work in the field, their physical strength, maybe a little better than you, but it is also limited, in the hour or two before the sun is hot, they will cut about three acres of land at most, the whole family goes into battle, and they will cut ten acres a day, we have every household in Guanzhong, there are 80 acres of Yongye field alone, that is to say, they need about eight days to harvest, which is to pick up the car, pull back, hit, dry, warehousing and so on, all done, They are required to do heavy physical labor for at least half a month.

This is not counting those families who do not have enough labor to support, many of the men in the family go out to fight as soldiers, and some die on the battlefield and never come back, these families, generally by a widow, or one or two old people, with a few children in the field, they need a longer time to complete these labor, the harvest time is too slow, they have to worry that the wheat is too ripe, fall in the field and cannot be harvested, so, they may withstand the scorching sun and the heat wave in the field, continue to work, many people, He may not be able to hold on because of this, and he will fall into the field.

These are the problems faced by the peasants, and as the manager of the country, we should take into account their problems and help them solve them.

When you become an official, you should live for the people and become their food and clothing, and I asked the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture to harvest hard here, just to let them personally experience the hardships of the peasants and find ways to solve these problems of the peasants. ”

"Tai, I've been taught today."

Li Tai put down the sickle and wheat straw in his hand, and respectfully gave Sun Xiangfu a salute.

"Don't make this set of vain, if you are lazy, you won't be able to eat steamed buns at noon and night.

Moreover, you have to see not only the political significance of this matter, but also the benefits of industrial development for a country.

These rice cutting carts, driven by livestock, can cut 100 acres of fields in one day, which is dozens of times the labor force of an ordinary person, and Yigong only takes two or three thousand soldiers of Zuo Wuwei and drives more than 1,000 such carts, which can reach the role played by 100,000 young and strong laborers.

Therefore, you must not underestimate the energy of industry, if my Datang did not develop industry, it would be impossible to defeat Goguryeo within 20 years, and similarly, if there is a country with a more developed industry than Datang, they can easily defeat us like our Datang defeated Goguryeo. ”

Li Tai was stunned by Sun Xiangfu's words, and in his mind, what now appeared was the scene of the Tang Dynasty soldiers in iron armor, all kinds of chariots, and full of firepower during the Shanyang military parade, all of which were brought by the industry of the Tang Dynasty, without these things, how could the combat power of the Tang Army become so terrifying.

To a large extent, this shocked his cognition that he had only read the books of the sages in the past, after all, at the age of eleven or twelve, he had already begun to be sensible, and after reflection, he began to understand that what the sages said in the books could not help him govern the whole country.

Sun Xiangfu is to borrow this pile, one by one specific things, to teach by word and deed, and correct Li Tai's thoughts, lest he be stupid in reading and being used by those rotten Confucians.

The sun is getting hotter and hotter, and Li Tai's body is also hot, his fat is burning rapidly, and his physical strength is also declining, and in the end, he failed to earn the steamed bun at night, just cut more than an acre of land, and had to retreat to the village where the Ministry of Agriculture works in the experimental field area with everyone to rest.

He drank two large bowls of chilled sour plum soup, and he also ate two slices of watermelon sent from Xingfu Village, and when a bowl of rice covered with two stir-fried vegetables was served, how ugly and ugly his eating appearance was.

"How's it going, do you feel fragrant after labor?"

"Well, well, this meal is so fragrant, it's more fragrant than the imperial chef in the palace, by the way, Master Sun, what about the steamed buns I added!"

"Since you just ate two slices of watermelon, the fruit is overdosed, steamed buns, just save them for the evening and eat them together! If you can harvest the remaining half of the acre at dusk, you will have two steamed buns to eat at night. ”

Li Tai, who had finished pulling out a big bowl of rice, was obviously still unsatisfied, but remembering that he had eaten now and had nothing to eat at night, he decided to endure it and be half full, otherwise, the night time would be very difficult. Moreover, he was ready to cut the rest of the wheat at dusk, and although his back hurt and his buttocks hurt now, he would rather work than eat the horns of the quilt in his dreams when he was hungry.

After lunch, most of the tired officials looked around the village for a nap and rest, and Sun Xiangfu listened to Sun Dali and them talk about some of the harvest data of the previous two days in Happy Village.

"Most of these watermelons this year are not as big as last year, and they are not sweet enough, and the yield per mu of wheat is barely the same as last year.

After Sun Xiangfu listened, he looked at the watermelons piled up in the warehouse, but shook his head and said, "The seeds are still improving, but crops like wheat and watermelons are too hurtful, even if they will plant a season of soybeans later, the fertility in the field will not be replenished, after harvesting, let everyone find a way to make up for some fertilizer in the field!" Later, we will use more drainage methods to meet the fertility problem of the field. ”