A year ago, Li Shimin, in order to purge the rule of officials, had fallen into contemplation, and finally, he gave all the states and counties, formulated a very strict work process, which laid a foundation for the Zhenguan Dynasty officials to govern Qingming.

In addition, he has always put morality first, and people like Sun Xiangfu who are dedicated to seeking profit have always been in the second echelon in his heart, because in history, once people like this kind of interests first become bigger, they will generally bring trouble to the ruler.

However, this time Sun Xiangfu tried the medicine by himself, which made Li Shimin have a better opinion of him, greedy for profit but not virtuous, this is Li Shimin's new evaluation of him, a person with conscience and dedication, no matter how bad it is, it can't be bad.

After eating three pieces of locust steamed cakes in succession, Li Shimin felt how ridiculous the words of those officials of the family were ridiculous, if he hadn't used tricks to confuse Li Xiaochang, how could he have issued such a chaotic order as banning locusts.

There is much more to see than this temporary locust processing workshop in Happy Village, where the craftsmen have a high status, especially the first batch of R&D craftsmen who entered the Sun Mansion and were later allowed to wear the clothes printed with the word "Nong", and the various materials of the Happy Village are almost unrestricted.

A long time ago, Sun Xiangfu let the craftsmen learn to use molds to make pipes of low quality, but because there was no coking coal at that time, the efficiency was very poor, but now it is different, with coking coal, after the efficiency of molten iron becomes high, the molten iron can easily solidify into a thick and round iron pipe in the mold, as for the ploughshare with the same external shape, it is directly mass-produced, which is much faster than the original slow production.

Today, in the ironmaking workshop, craftsmen have moved out of two or three meters long iron pipes, at both ends of the iron pipe, will use a steel frame with a bite to twist out a circle of threads, the other end, is a sharp steel hook knife hook out of the corresponding lines, so that the two iron pipes can be connected through these threads, this technology was originally used to make copper telescope sleeves when researched, and later blacksmiths smelted a very tough carbon steel, used to twist the iron pipe is no problem.

"What are they doing here?"

Li Shimin asked in vain, and the ministers who came with him were also confused.

"Come on, go to Chang'an Prison and bring Sun Dali out, and in addition, summon Sun Erli from the Pastoral Supervision Office to come over."

The people of the whole village were busy with themselves, and none of them were knowledgeable to explain, Li Shimin couldn't understand it at all, and before the two brothers Sun Dali came over, Li Shimin saw a strange scene.

On an iron frame that is responsible for pulling the mud out of the ground from the hole, more than a dozen iron pipes are connected by the craftsmen one by one, and slowly descended to the small round hole in the ground, and then, a cylindrical thing that has been made long ago is installed at the tail of the last iron pipe, and there are two or three irregularly shaped round iron pieces in the cylindrical thing, which are worn by an iron bar, which is about the same length as the large cylinder, and uses a protruding place on the side of the cylinder as a support point, and is connected to a long, pressable handle.

Li Shimin doesn't understand the truth of the piston, naturally can't understand the beauty of these devices, this is actually a pressing well, because there is no better rubber sheet to make a piston, Sun Xiangfu thought of using three pieces of iron with different openings, so that water is pressed up from below, you can push up the movable thin iron sheet, from the opening into the press well, but the water wants to return to the ground, but it will be blocked by the three openings after the iron sheet is no longer overlapping in the same direction.

There was a round hole at the top of the big well, and after a bamboo pipe was finally inserted into this round hole by the craftsmen, Yu Jie, the big man who was mainly responsible for building the pressing well, beckoned to the public house, "Bring a basin of water to pour it down." ”

At this moment, a young man ran quickly into the kitchen of the communion, and in a short time he ran here with a large basin of water.

Cocking the piston iron sheet, the water was poured into the big cylinder, Yu Jie began to press it up and down, at first there were some strange sounds coming out of the cylinder, and after a few clicks, there was water coming out on the bamboo pipe connected to the cylinder wall.

"Oh, out of the water, out of the water······"

The onlookers saw that the press well came out of the water, happily clapped their palms and jumped and jumped, but the aborigines of the happy village were not surprised by this, the press well happiness village has played several times, the first use is the kitchen of the public house, and then the experimental field next to the reservoir also played a few wells, the well is drilled here at the entrance of the village, because there are too many victims, the original drinking water source can not be supplied.

"So, how did this thing get water?"

Yu Jie pressed continuously for a while, and after the water was stable, he handed the pressure handle to a young man who was a disaster victim, and at this time, Li Shimin, who had watched the whole process, found him and asked.

"Well, I don't know, I only know that the village chief called this device a pressing well, saying that it can take dozens of meters of groundwater to use, and later made it, it can indeed take water, and the well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, in summer, hold a handful to wash your face, and the whole person is refreshed."

After that, he also took a handful of cold water from the bamboo pipe and wiped it off his sweaty face, looking like he was enjoying it.

Li Shimin also followed his example, took a handful of water, and sure enough, the water that was pressed out of the ground was cold to the hand, and in this hot summer, it was very refreshing to wash his face with this cold water.

Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling and other ministers who came with him successively received water to wash their hands and faces, and Chang He even drank a few large sips of cold water, which was very enjoyable.

"Great, with this press well, we will no longer be short of water in Guanzhong."

Li Shimin smiled very happily, Fang Xuanling, who was familiar with him, knew that his next sentence should be to make this well-digging Yu Jie an official specializing in well-drilling, and hurriedly said, "Although this well is good, it is very expensive, I'm afraid that the people of Guanzhong can't afford it!" ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin remembered the iron pipes that were connected by the craftsmen one by one and put into the ground just now, and thought in his heart, this well, I am afraid that the iron consumption alone will not be less than hundreds of catties, not to mention the working hours required for the threaded mouth, if you want to put this kind of pressing well in all parts of Guanzhong, the imperial court really can't afford to play, thinking of this, Li Shimin walked to other places with a gloomy expression.

There are many houses in Happy Village to sprout beans, due to the large demand, Happy Village has not shied away from others to learn this technology of rapid sprouts, if it is not for the fact that most of the vegetation around Happy Village has been eaten by locusts, the village does not need to sprout beans on a hot day to eat.

Everyone was busy, no one explained anything to Li Shimin, he just looked around the rooms, and walked out of the room leisurely.

"It seems that there are always more ways than difficulties, we should put more energy into encouraging production, I want to set up a reward mechanism to encourage the people of the world to research efficient and productive tools and technologies, but where there are achievements, with gold and silver and even official rewards, how do you think a few Aiqing?"

In fact, the imperial court originally had such a mechanism, but this mechanism basically has no practical use, because there are too few rewards, and the bounty of a few dollars is the upper limit, and during this period, any secret recipe that can improve production efficiency or output can easily make this person earn so much money, who would be so stupid and dedicate their secret recipe technology to the imperial court?

Of course, only Happy Village is stupid in this regard, for a lot of new technologies, just control it at the very beginning, and then don't care, and will take the initiative to teach others to learn, which is a wonder.

However, Li Shimin's perspective is national, and he thinks that just by gathering the wisdom of the craftsmen of Happy Village, so many things can be made, what if the craftsmen of the whole country brainstorm?

You must know that the big and small affairs of Happy Village, especially the development model, are all reported to Li Shimin, and those good things are all produced by the craftsmen of Happy Village, and Sun Xiangfu himself just put forward some ideas of his own, or just told them what he wanted.

The craftsman of Happy Village, originally just the most ordinary craftsman in the Tang Dynasty, at best, he learned Sun's algebraic symbols or a science called geometry, as an emperor, there is a Ministry of Works, and there are generals as supervisors, and the number of craftsmen is not only a hundred times that of Happy Village, it is said that he should be able to make more novel things.

However, Xiao Yu's words made him recognize the reality again.

"If Your Majesty is obsessed with strange and obscene skills, he is afraid of the impeachment of the ministers, and if he uses a low-status craftsman as an official, it may cause a backlash from the entire scholar class, and I am afraid that this matter will have to be considered in the long run."

Li Shimin was dumbfounded when he heard this, Shinong Industry and Commerce had a very clear class division in this period, and the reason why Sun Xiangfu was able to become an official was because he had some poems handed down earlier, and there was a teacher handed down by Jia Sixian, a master of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who was a scholar, and it was difficult for the ministers to say anything.

Like Shi Bao and Sun Erli, who were born with mud legs and have no knowledge, even if they are a retainer to the top, if they become courtiers, they will suffer from the opposition of the scholar class as if Sun Xingfu did not expose his teacher's inheritance before, when they see it, being an official is the exclusive privilege of scholars, and it is a matter of principle that is resolutely not allowed to be shaken by other classes, Li Shimin wants to use craftsmen and peasants as officials in large numbers, it is impossible.

"Your Majesty, in fact, there is a solution to this matter." Fang Xuanling's best thing is to help Li Shimin solve problems, and when his eyes swept over a child passing by him, he suddenly had an idea in his heart, because he saw the big agricultural character on the child's chest.

"Aiqing, come quickly."

"Your Majesty can let these people who have not read books, but in farming, handmade craft have talent to join the farm, the Tang Dynasty is agriculture-oriented, before His Majesty set the "Qi Min Technique" as a must-read book for the main political officials, and no one in the court objected, that is to say, they recognized the identity of the farmer's scholar, after all, to learn the whole "Qi Min Technique", the cultural skills required are not low, Your Majesty can use the farmer as a springboard to break the birth restrictions of those farmers and craftsmen.

Moreover, has Your Majesty forgotten the set of Chinese pinyin that Yu Shinan presented? With this textbook, it is not difficult for those farmers and craftsmen to learn to read and write, and over time, it will ······"

Fang Xuanling said a lot, he is a wise man, the general behavior of the family gate lord, let him see the harm of letting them continue to exist, even if he himself is a member of the family, but he can't bear to see the Central Plains continue to live in misery, so he unreservedly offered Li Shimin a set of strategies to attack the family.

"However, in the decision-making and governance of the country, it is necessary to have far-sighted and virtuous people to serve as people, craftsmen and farmers, who can only be used as auxiliaries, so that the foundation of overthrowing their control of the government lies in the number of scholars, Your Majesty, please see."

Chatting all the way, several people actually walked to the side of the paper printing workshop, and when Fang Xuanling saw the full-page text come out for the first time, in his heart, he didn't know how many turns he had turned, it seemed that Sun Xiangfu had thought of it and did it in front of him.