In order to meet the huge demand for reclaiming the black soil in Northeast China, Li Zhi needed to produce a large number of practical seed drills. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The seed drill was invented in the eighteenth century in later history, and the structure is not complicated. However, because the seed drill is deep ploughing the land while sowing, there are certain requirements for the structural strength of the machinery, and at the same time, various pipeline channels are staggered, and the smelting level needs to reach a certain level. In East Asia in this era, only a large factory in Fanjiazhuang, such as Li Zhi, which manufactures steel forgings, castings and welding rooms in large quantities, can produce seed drills on a large scale.

In the dry fields south of Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi's first seeder was put on four strong oxen and began to sow seeds in the field.

As the wheel of the seeder turns, the furrow opener opens a groove in front of the seeder. Grain after grain of wheat seed slipped out of the seed box, underneath the chute seeder in the seed pipe, and fell into the trough in the field. The mulch then pushes the loose soil on both sides of the channel back into the channel from behind. Finally, the pressure wheel is pressed over the channel and compacts the soil.

Li Zhi stood aside and estimated the time, and finally found that it only took half an hour for this kind of seed driller to sow five acres of land.

At this rate, two people and four cows can sow 400 acres of land in three days.

Li Xing was stunned as he watched the seeder continue to advance in the field, quickly completing a series of sowing tasks in the field.

"Big brother, this is too godly!"

Li Xing was a little excited, grabbed Li Zhi's hand and said, "Big brother, with this machine, these two people can do the farm work of twenty people!" ”

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "God or not?" ”

Before Li Xing could speak, Zhong Feng hurriedly said loudly: "God, it's too godly, you are even more powerful than Lu Ban, military commander!" ”

The two farmers who operated the seed drill also admired Li Zhi immensely. After they finished sowing five acres of land, they returned to Li Zhi's side, and knelt in front of Li Zhi with respect, so pious that they seemed to see a fairy.

Li Zhi asked the two peasants to stand up, waved his hand and said, "The northeast is vast, the land is fertile, and the land is sparsely populated. With this seeder, and after a while, we can build a harvester, and we can plant wheat in the vast northeast and turn the northeast into our big granary. ”

Zheng Kaicheng thought for a while and asked: "Guogong, if the entire Liaodong is planted with wheat, Tianjin and Shandong are afraid that they will not be able to eat it all!" ”

When they heard this, they laughed.

In fact, what Zheng Kaicheng said was not bad. In later generations, the three northeastern provinces had an area of 390 million mu of cultivated land and more grasslands. Even according to the yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty, it was enough to feed 100 million people. If Li Zhi planted all the arable land in the entire northeast with wheat, the people of Tianjin and Shandong would not be able to eat it all.

Li Zhi said with a smile: "If you can't finish eating, you will sell it to Henan and Shaanxi, so that the hungry people in Henan and Shaanxi can also eat, and no one will follow Li Zicheng to make trouble." ”

Zheng Kaicheng patted his ass and said: "The prince of the country is wise. I don't think this broadcast machine is a mortal thing, as soon as this thing comes out, the whole Liaodong is a big granary. When the time comes, truckloads of grain will be shipped out, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and the thieves will be wiped out. This broadcaster is better than 100,000 soldiers! ”

The crowd laughed again.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou stood behind several division commanders, some speechless.

Compared with these division commanders who can speak freely and express their opinions freely, staff officer Hong Chengchou and regiment commander Zu Dashou have lower positions and do not have the right to speak at will.

But they were actually shocked by this broadcaster, and they really couldn't say anything for a while.

With this machine, one person can do the farm work of ten people, and if it is applied to Liaodong, where the land is vast, how much grain will be produced in the future?

Could it be that the lack of food in the Ming Dynasty will be changed by this machine?

Tianjin and Shandong under the rule of the Duke of Tianjin were politically clear and orderly, the people were full of vigor and vigor, and the economy was thriving. And Jin Guogong is like Lu Ban constantly coming out with new machines, so under the stimulation of this, to what extent will the society of Tianjin and Shandong develop?

Nowadays, there are more and more businessmen who come to Fanjiazhuang to do business, and the main street of Fanjiazhuang is no less prosperous than the capital. And Fanjiazhuang is constantly emerging new things, what flush toilets, what clock towers, are all practical and novel things. It can be said that now the people of Fanjiazhuang can call the people of the capital as the old man who has never seen the world.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou glanced at each other, and felt more and more that it was a wise decision for the two of them to defect to Li Zhi. The future of this Jin Guogong will never stop here.

Li Laosi stood next to the seed drill and watched it for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "It's so godly!" ”

He quickly ran back to Li Zhi's side and said, "Boss, these two farmers plant 400 acres of land? How rich is this peasant? Isn't there anyone who wants to be a soldier and a worker? ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "I have also considered this problem, after conquering Liaodong, farmers who use seed drills and harvest and plant a large number of fields will become rich overnight, of course we can't simply send precious fields to ordinary farmers." We want to build a merit system within our system to give points to every worker, soldier and administrator who follows us. According to the score, the size of the field will be decided, and the field we will lay down in Liaodong will be distributed to them. ”

Zheng Kaicheng's eyes lit up and asked, "Guogong, how do you play this point?" ”

Li Zhi said: "The first is the length of service, that is, the length of time that follows us. The sooner you join our system, the higher your score. For example, some of the first batch of soap workshop workers and the first batch of family members have not been able to lead, and we give them higher scores, so that they can get a lot of black soil in the northeast. ”

"The second is contribution, which should take into account the contribution of personnel. Diligence is considered a contribution, and special achievements are of course considered contributions. The soldiers charged into battle and contributed a little more than the workers. The secrecy department has not leaked secrets in recent years, and its contribution is greater than that of ordinary departments. ”

Zheng Kaicheng said with a smile: "What does Guogong mean is to give all the land that Liaodong has beaten down to the people who have followed us over the years?" ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "Let's divide it in half first." The other half is set aside for future meritorious personnel to be rewarded. ”

Everyone took a breath, and they were all a little fascinated. With such a vast land in Liaodong, even if it is only half divided, it is an astronomical amount. The land outside the Northeast Pass is fertile, and if some water conservancy facilities are built, it will be all fertile land. If this half of the land is fully distributed to the more than 100,000 people in Li Zhi's system, wouldn't these 100,000 people become rich overnight?

All these people will become big landlords.

When Li Zhi recruits all kinds of personnel, he selects honest and responsible personnel, and most of these personnel in Li Zhi's system are people who abide by the rules. Those who are ambitious and rebellious are not in Li Zhi's system. If Li Zhi's subordinates all become rich and large landowners, these people will be very grateful to Li Zhi and will do their best to defend Li Zhi's regime in the future.

If there were officials with public morality who defended Li Zhi's new regime from the top, these future big landowners were the cornerstone of Li Zhi's regime at the grassroots level. Tens of thousands of elite Tiger Army soldiers have become landlords, and in the future, they will reproduce and become a grassroots force like the Prussian Junker landlords.

Everyone thought about Li Zhi's big plan, and they were silent for a while.

In the end, Zhong Feng broke the silence and asked Li Zhi with a smile, "Commander, how much land do you think I can share?" ”