Chapter 425: Steady Development
The most intuitive embodiment of the developed industry and strong economic strength is that after the 100,000 troops arrived at the 300,000 mu experimental fields located in Lantian County and half of Wannian County, the imperial court could immediately equip them with thousands of ploughing cattle and more than 10,000 plough rakes.
Sun Xiangfu made such a big scene, in fact, he wanted to gradually promote intensive cultivation to the whole country, these government soldiers, but the people from all parts of the Tang Dynasty, when they were not fighting, they also needed to cultivate the land at home, and taught them, which is equivalent to the implementation of cultivation technology in the local area, sprinkling seeds, I believe that after seeing the harvest of the new planting method, they will never be satisfied with the previous harvest of one or two stones per acre.
In the past, the army's food, lack of salt and meat was more common, so that their physical fitness was even inferior to that of neighboring countries, but now it has been greatly improved.
The food in the Longshouyuan training camp is very good, there are often chickens and ducks, fish, all kinds of eggs, and even pork and mutton, not only the oil and water are enough, but the salt is also enough to taste, these soldiers are now afraid that they will eat in the barracks, and they will not be able to live after they go back.
After several months of training since October last year, most of the soldiers have grown pieces of tendon flesh, especially with a sense of strength, take off the heavy armor, carry a rake on the body, it seems very easy, perhaps, in the case of a better ecological environment, after their food is abundant, their physical conditions will be relatively better!
For the 100,000 army, 300,000 acres of land is not much, however, it is Sun Xiangfu's teaching land, not after ploughing, so, on the first day, the average task of each person, only need to follow the regulations, with ploughing, raking, the whole acre of land is good, there is Sun Xiangfu himself and happy village, adapted to the new farming method of skilled farmers to teach on the spot, this link is not difficult to do, the soldiers have the foundation of farming, after seeing a few times, you can try to get started, and soon master some control of the depth of the plowshare, The essentials of the fine density of the crushed soil with a nail rake.
The next day, they want to learn fertilization, Sun Xiangfu also explained to them how to drain organic fertilizer, in the big fertilizer field outside Chang'an City to get enough organic fertilizer, they according to the requirements, to the previous day out of the 100,000 acres of field to apply the bottom fertilizer, but not in a hurry to sow seeds, first cool the ground.
On the third day, the whole field was lively, the main political officials of Guanzhong, the village head, Li Zheng, and tens of thousands of surrounding farmers came to the experimental field to study, Li Shimin, also brought the courtiers, and an agricultural teaching of hundreds of thousands of people was started here.
300,000 acres of experimental fields, 100,000 acres of good ones, the remaining 200,000 acres, Sun Xiangfu asked the sergeants to divide into two days, the whole to the people, and even, you can give the oxen and plough rakes to those farmers who are sure to try their hands, Li Shimin also personally went down, according to Sun Xiangfu's requirements, to many farmers and people to demonstrate, and even, personally picked up a manure bucket full of organic fertilizer, followed Sun Xiangfu to learn to fertilize.
With the emperor personally demonstrating, the impression of local officials and ordinary people will be more profound, because after three days, ordinary people can complete the whole field and fertilization in a similar way, at least not too much.
Sun Xiangfu has been telling them the amount of fertilizer, and also sent people to the fertilizer field to distribute to them according to the amount, and let people explain to them the truth of scientific fertilization, don't think that this thing is good, just sprinkle it into the field, if it is excessive, it may be counterproductive, as long as it is in accordance with the specified amount, sprinkle evenly.
On the seventh day, the imperial court no longer provided food to all the people who came to watch and learn to cultivate, and told them to hurry home and prepare the fields, go to the manure field of the government to pull fertilizer, and after fertilizing the prepared fields, dry them for a few days, and then the imperial court would send people to the fields to teach sowing, and the seeds were selected grain seeds that the imperial court had prepared for a long time.
This so-called selected grain species, is Sun Xiangfu using the "three years of three nursery system", after three years of targeted breeding, combined with Luoyang winter wheat and Shuozhou spring wheat some characteristics, cultivated a kind of early maturing spring wheat, and the yield of the later generations of improved varieties of Yu wheat may still have a little bit of a slight gap, but than the traditional wheat of this period, plant height, ear setting rate, grain fullness, have some improvement, the specific yield can be to what extent, Sun Xiangfu is not easy to say, but also depends on the planting level of each family, as well as unpredictable weather conditions.
The biggest feature of this variety is that its maturity period has been shortened by more than half a month, although it has not reached the extent that the spring wheat in the later generations can be harvested in more than three months, but at the end of the first month, the beginning of February is sown, and by the middle and late May, it can be harvested completely, and the grain produced can just supply the army to go out.
With the current temperature of about 0 to 3 degrees in Guanzhong, it is just right for these wheat seeds to complete enough vernalization and cold storage stage, combined with the fertility of the field, Sun Xiangfu has enough confidence in the wheat yield in the experimental field, and after the field is cool, he began to organize soldiers to sow seeds.
If the collective production encounters a soldier brother who has an upright personality and does everything according to orders, the efficiency will increase a lot, and the army of 100,000 will be scattered to sow 300,000 acres of fields, with an average of only three acres per person, and the entire sowing will be completed in less than one morning.
Seeing the fruits of this labor, Sun Xiangfu applied to Li Shimin, and asked the army with sowing experience to help the people of Guanzhong sow seeds, especially the fields of the newly relocated Goguryeo and ethnic minority people.
The whole Guanzhong has entered a scene of big farming, which lasted for more than half a month, except for the Xingfu Village that is still transplanting cotton and melons in a scattered manner, and teaching some related households to grow various vegetables in private fields, the spring plowing in the whole Guanzhong is basically completed by the middle of February.
At this time, the imperial court also entered a critical moment of pre-war preparations, and Li Shimin led the entire courtier team to Weinan to work and urge the production of military equipment.
Only Du Zhenglun of the Ministry of Commerce was an exception, the state-owned enterprise plan he mentioned in the court was finally passed, and he asked Li Shimin for the identity of a messenger, and went to Shannan Road, Sun Xiangfu allocated all the new ships that were completed in the last batch of the old shipyard to him, and after these ships arrived in Jingzhou, they would be handed over to Wu Shitong for distribution, there were more than a dozen waterway ships of 10,000 stones, eight large ships of 20,000 stones, and five super-large ships of 30,000 stones. After Zhang Yun and the others operate these boats, they will return to Guanzhong again.
The ship also brought with it a large number of steel tools made in the smelting workshop, with which the efficiency of the workers would be much higher, whether it was to build a wharf or a field.
After the first workshop of the smelting workshop began to run at full capacity, the output was very amazing, 100,000 catties of steel a day, enough to make thousands of weapons, as for those arrows that were poured into the mold and pressed directly by the gravity bed to form things and the like, it was even faster, at the beginning of February, the new weapons and equipment of more than 200,000 troops were basically completed, and after the second half of the year, all of them were produced civilian products.
A workshop is three times higher than the country's steel production in the past, it is very scary, the latter part, is the matter of the forging workshop, they will use smelted steel materials, produce some high-tech steel armor, Ma Kai, and axles and the like, hundreds of pieces a day, Ma Lin, who was appointed as the chief engineer, are afraid that these things will be made too much in the future, and there will be a squeeze situation.
Also worried about this is Wang Fu, the chief engineer of the carpentry factory, who was in charge of the carpentry factory that began production almost at the same time as the smelter, recruiting 100,000 people in one breath.
This is the benefit of standing on the technical shoulders of Shanyang Workshop, everyone according to the standard, only do a simple thing, it will be very easy to get started, and the final assembled things are all a standard, damaged, need to be replaced, and it is simple, after adding the steel parts, 10,000 chariots, as long as the raw materials are enough, it will not take two months to get it.
As for the commonly used bow and arrow shaft, crossbow shaft, bed crossbow shaft and other things, it is faster, now the wood factory has produced dozens of lathes, only need the workers to constantly shake the handle, there is constantly a straight standard arrow shaft by the lathe car, an hour can produce thousands of arrows, two months down, has already accumulated millions of branches, hit the iron arrow, inserted into the feathers sent by the farm, the finished arrow, the sergeant trial response is very good, than the original Ministry of hand-cut arrows more stable, I don't have to say anything about the quasi-head.
The new shipyard began to operate as early as before the Shangyuan Festival, the number of people reached 120,000, one after another, there are many factories that can be opened as long as there is a house, what winery, all kinds of food factories, textile factories, garment factories, etc., which have been put into construction in advance, will open this year, so all kinds of recruitment advertisements have thickened the layout of Datang Daily a lot, and the paper mill and printing factory in Xingfu Village have to quickly relocate to Weinan to recruit people to start the large production line.
"Your Majesty, you now see the necessity of a waterway transfer company! When the huge manufacturing machine in Weinan is running, it will require a huge amount of raw materials, which must be transported by ship and collected from many local states and counties, and at the same time, this kind of frequent communication is also needed to sell the shops produced in Weinan. ”
"So, you're here to ask me for money?"
"Well, without money, there is no way to buy raw materials for making hydroships, and there is no way to pay the workers in the shipyard, so naturally, the entire supply and marketing chain in Weinan will be unsustainable."
In the feudal society, Sun Xiangfu is the first person who dares to ask the emperor to collect debts, and he is not asking for a little money, Du Zhenglun brought more than 20 ships to Jingzhou, worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, these money are made by the shipyard in advance, and in the future, if you want to revitalize the entire Yangtze River waterway operation company, even if you transfer ten times the ship over, it may not be enough, such a big hole, Sun Xiangfu's family can not afford to fill it.
Fang Xuanling's family sent 200,000 yuan, Sun Xiangfu regarded it as his one-component share capital, Li Shimin's seventy-percent component, how to do it, he had to get 1.4 million yuan, and he added another 400,000 yuan, a total of two million yuan, almost to run the early stage, and the follow-up investment can be directly from the profit, the profit is more, the construction is fast, the profit is less, and the construction is slow, until the entire water transportation demand is met.
"This, there are too many investment projects in the inner government, and now there is really no money, I believe that Zhengming will definitely be able to think of a way to solve this problem."
I knew early on that Li Shimin's accounts were not so easy to collect, and he loved to use the monarch's identity to play tricks for himself, but fortunately, Sun Xiangfu on the smelting workshop thought of selling minerals to obtain ores, otherwise, even the smelting workshop would not be able to operate, and all the rest of the industries would be stuck.
"Your Majesty, our money is spent, naturally someone earns our money, now, only find a way, let the people who earn our money, spend the money, let us earn, in order to maintain the situation, those who only earn and do not spend, are the people who hinder economic development, so, Your Majesty, the next minister's operation methods, the action may be a little big, you must give full support."
Who earns the money they invested? In addition to various raw material suppliers, it is hundreds of thousands of workers in Weinan, they started at the beginning of last year, to this year or so, everyone has earned at least a dozen wages, these money combined, at least millions of yuan, these workers are the poor class, earned money, have saved, if they are put on the market circulation, in fact, can pry tens of millions of plates.