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On the opening day, Prince Chengqian and Yue Wang Li Chao attended the opening ceremony in person, and cut the ribbon and unveiled the farm tool store, and local officials in Qinzhou came to congratulate them.

This ultra-standard opening ceremony also attracted countless people to watch.

This store is located in the west of Qinzhou, because the planned place of the three cities of Qinzhou is large enough, so this store directly encloses a large area, connects several stores into one, and adopts the front store and back warehouse model. The store is also relatively atmospheric, and you can see the Qinzhou branch of Li Ji Farm Tools Store that occupies a large area from a distance.

The big difference between this shop and ordinary stores is that this store is large, and when you enter, there are rows of shelves with racks of farm tools.

The most commonly used tools in the south, such as ploughs, harrows, and harrows, as well as tools with two ends cocked like small boats, were specially used for pulling and planting seedlings. In addition, there are waterwheels used to irrigate and lift water, windmills used to lift valleys, and in addition, sickles, hoes, shovels, pickaxes, shovels and other tools are available.

Firecrackers, fireworks, ribbon-cutting and unveiling, the farm tool shop is officially opened.

The merchants and landlords rushed into the store, and as soon as they stepped into the door, they were frightened by the zigzag plough formation arranged in a phalanx. The zigzag plough is much smaller and shorter than the plough used by the Lingnan people.

What shocked them even more was the plough shovels on those plows.

The plough shovel that shines with a blue glow is not a traditional plough tool or a small plow angle, but a large plow shovel.

"Oh my God, is that iron?"

"Such a large piece is made of iron? So how expensive is this plow? ”

A Han Chinese nobleman walked over and bent down, reaching out to touch the plowshare. After a moment, his face was full of horror, "This is really iron, and it is fine iron, it is steel!" ”

This man's words caused the others to exclaim.

"Impossible, such a large block, it is impossible to use iron, and still use steel?"

But when the others lowered their heads and carefully probed and touched, they finally confirmed that this plow was indeed a steel plow.

A young man dressed in gray greeted him with a smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the latest and most advanced Quyuan plough in the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty, this plough is pulled by an ox to exceed the plough of the past with two oxen to pull the plow, and the depth is arbitrary, it is very convenient, and an ox pulls the plough deeply, and it is also easy." At this, the man smiled and said, "And do you know who invented this plow?" ”

"I heard that it was invented by King Yue?" One humanity.

"That's right, there is a story here, when the king of Yue was still in Chang'an, he personally developed this plough and dedicated it to the court, and he was rewarded with a title."

The guy said that he simply brought a knife.

A horizontal knife, this is not the original steel Su iron knife, but the Tang knife directly made of the steel of Li Ji Iron and Steel Factory, with special steel, compared with the original steel method to create a knife, this new steel knife is sharper and tougher, can be called the best knife in this era.

The man took his knife and slashed at the plowshare.

The bell clanged, the sound was crisp, but the ploughshare was not damaged.

"You can't cut with a knife, and you're not afraid of stones."

A crowd of people nodded.

In the past, although the ploughshare was iron, it was just a small hollow plowshare, which was placed on the plough blade, which was relatively thin and brittle, and if it encountered stones when ploughing the field, it might break.

The ploughshare was broken once, and it had to be taken back and repaired, but it was a great loss.

And now this ploughshare is so strong.

"How much does this plow cost?" One of them had already had his eyes lit up.

The dude quoted a price.

Everyone was shocked.

But they were surprised not that the price was too high, but that it was too low. How can this price be cheaper than the plowshares of the past?

The guy smiled and said that this was a benefit from the imperial court and Li Ji to the people of Lingnan.

Everyone exclaimed.

However, Li Ji is not a voice without a foundation, although they sell farm tools in Lingnan, there will indeed be some government subsidies, but that subsidy is not much, and more because the government has tax exemptions and exemptions for them.

However, even if they are not tax-exempt, they do not lose money, and most of the plows in the past were produced by hand, small workshops. Nowadays, these plows of Li Ji are mass-produced by the assembly line of large factories, and the cost of materials and labor is greatly reduced.

A curved plough, the most valuable of which is this steel plowshare, the rest is wooden. Lee Kee adopts the standardized production of spare parts, so each part is mass-produced, and finally transported to the store for assembly.

Secondly, the Quyuan plough is a commodity in the store, which is placed at the front and is also used to attract customers. The prices of other agricultural tools are still not so cheap.

This kind of way of attracting customers is also a more clever marketing method.

Sure enough, after confirming that the price was correct, those people began to ask for orders, and instead of buying one or two, they were all dozens or even hundreds of them.

There was a slang chief who asked for 300 as soon as he opened his mouth.

There is a Han man who wants to order 1,000 directly.

The man no longer used it himself, but saw the advantages and low price of the plow, and was ready to buy it himself and sell it.

"Don't crowd everyone, we have enough stock here, everyone can buy it, each person is limited to one today, but you can place an order to order, order early, and supply early."

A large number of tools such as water wheels, overturned cars, cylinder cars, well cars, stone mills, stone mills, and even water mills, water mills, horse-drawn carriages, etc., have been snapped up.

It's really because those samples are so beautifully placed there, and they are very easy to use, but the price is unbelievably low.

Lingnan's Hanhao and Slang Chiefs are like picking up treasures, desperately placing orders, and even directly paying for the goods first, not paying the deposit but paying the full amount, cashing out, and directly waving a lot of treasure money to pay first.

Cheng Qian and Li Chao sat on the second floor of the farm tool store drinking tea.

"It seems that the farm tool store is very popular."

"That's nature, tools represent productivity, Lingnan this place, although not as vast as the Central Plains, but the advantage is that the climate is good, two crops a year can be three cropping, and the rain is abundant, the conditions for planting rice are superior. With the Champa rice cultivated and optimized by the imperial court today, coupled with the advanced cultivation technology of the Central Plains, and these excellent agricultural tools, the grain yield per mu in Lingnan is not doubled, it is at least four or five times more likely than in the past. Think about it, in Guangzhou, Jiaozhou and other ports, the merchants of the Central Plains have been buying a large amount of grain for a long time and shipping it to the Central Plains by ship. ”

"Food is a stable business, and when food production increases greatly, these people will of course earn more."

No profit can not afford to be early.

"In less than ten years, the Sanguang area of Lingnan will become the new granary of the imperial court, which will become a rice-producing area, which can provide countless grain supplies for the Central Plains every year. With these three grain areas, the imperial court will not have to worry about food problems for hundreds of years. ”

In fact, the new grain-producing areas of the imperial court are not only Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangnan, but also Hainan Island and Liuqiu, two large islands, which can also be developed into grain areas. There are also southern Liaoning, Hetao, and western Liaoning, all of which are places that can produce grain.

A river loop can be compared to the Shangguanzhong Plain.

The Tang Dynasty has a large population, but it has only a population of more than 50 million, and its territory is no less than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations. However, it is said that the population peaked at 200 million in the late Ming Dynasty and was as high as 400 million in the Qing Dynasty.

Even if these data are not so accurate, the population of the Ming and Qing dynasties did far exceed that of the Han and Tang dynasties. The territory has not grown, but the population has increased many times, what is used to feed these populations?

The development of Huguang and Lingnan can be regarded as the top priorities. In addition, it is the improvement of cultivation technology, double cropping, rotation planting, and intensive cultivation, which have greatly increased the yield of grain per mu.

Grain production is extremely important for a superpopulous country like China, and food security has also risen to the level of national security.

If the imperial court can have three years of grain storage, it will not be afraid of disasters. If the people have three years of food, then the world will be safe.

If the court and the people had nine years of grain storage, they would have really entered a peaceful and prosperous era.

The imperial court sells new agricultural tools at low prices, and the imperial court sends people to guide the advanced farming techniques of Lingnan people for free!

Li Chao's new decrees have caused a whirlwind in Lingnan.

Even many of the slang barbarians in the mountains were shocked.

"The imperial court is much better than the Feng Ning family in the past, they just want us to naturalize, pay taxes and serve as soldiers. But look at the Tang Dynasty, since they came, our life is much better than in the past. If you get something from the mountain down the mountain, you can sell it for a lot of money. And we can also use many exquisite goods of the Han people. ”

"That's right, even our land has risen several times, just take out some land and sell it to those Han people, and you can make a lot of money."

"No, the Han people's treasure money is also easy to use."

"I prefer their copper coins, which are also beautiful."

As he spoke, a group of people in this village couldn't help but deviate from the topic.

"It's better to follow Datang, life is better!" Everyone came to a unanimous conclusion.

The lord sat on the edge of the fire, frowning and pondering.

After a long time, he spoke, "But the Xian family sent people over and wanted us to send troops with them, the Xian family was very helpful to us in the past, and we owe them favors." ”

"Lord, one yard is one yard. The Xian family raised troops at this time, didn't this drag us to death? Then the Feng family has been attached to the imperial court, and Feng Ang is still doing the history of Qinzhou assassination, why didn't he see him. Before, the Feng family of the Ning family raised troops, and the Xian family came to contact us and asked us to send troops, and we have already sent troops to respond. ”

"Yes, we've already paid it back."

"We can't follow the Xian family to raise troops, we can't beat the Tang Dynasty."

"How good are the days now, what are you still tossing?"

Around the fire, the heads of the various families in the crowd expressed their opposition. Just because they live in the mountains doesn't mean they don't understand the stakes of the situation.

Everyone knows that the heaven of Lingnan now, that is the heaven of the Tang Dynasty, and the two families of Feng Xian are outdated.