Seven days later, in Zhongnan Academy, Li Wanping came from Chang'an to look for Bai Fan.

"Husband, isn't it just a prank on them? Why are you so frightened, you still hide in the academy and never go out again, look at what you have become? ”

As he spoke, Li Wanping took out a handkerchief and stepped forward to wipe the dirt on Bai Fan's face, at this time Bai Fan's face was covered with sweat and black soot, and his hair was messy, and he looked like he hadn't cleaned it up for several days.

Bai Fan took his handkerchief and wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "Where do you really want to hide from them?" Isn't it because I want to grow fairy food? Seeing that the time for planting is coming, it is necessary to urgently make an artifact, otherwise the breeding thing will not be easy. ”

"What kind of artifact? Isn't it just to find someone to come and give them the planting matters? How? Is there any special requirement for fairy food? Li Wanping was puzzled.

Bai Fan said with a smile: "In Chang'an County, which is 100,000 acres, how many people are you looking for to farm?" If there are too many people, there is no guarantee that there are no enemy spies in it, so in order to solve this problem, we can only find ways to reduce labor.

Peasants, we only find 3,000 reliable people of our own to cultivate, and if we want 3,000 people to cultivate 100,000 acres of land smoothly, we have to rely on our artifact. ”

"Oh? What artifact is so powerful? 3,000 people can cultivate 100,000 acres? ”

"Hehe, in fact, with this thing, let alone three thousand people, one person can take care of at least 100 acres of land, and 3,000 people are for the maintenance of intensive cultivation, after all, it is immortal grain breeding."

Yes???

Li Wanping was frightened and wanted to go to see what kind of treasure it was, but was told that the blacksmith's workshop was dirty and messy, and the artifact had not yet been made, and it would take three days.

It's no wonder that Li Wanping was surprised, although the farmers were also careful to serve the fields during the Tang Dynasty, but due to backward equipment and limited manpower, it is a great achievement for a strong worker to be able to be responsible for five to ten acres of fertile land, for example, Bai Fan's father Bai Da said that it was 200 acres of fertile land, but how much can he plant? Many fields are ploughed shallowly, sprinkled with seeds, and waited for the next year to make do with the recovery of costs, and the real rations were just a few acres of land.

This is still Bai Da has been rewarded with land, most of the ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty do not have much land at home, they are not rich, many fields are still in the hands of various nobles, although the people can open up the wasteland, but the new fields that have been opened up have no harvest in the first three years, and they can't open a few acres of land in a year, so on the whole, the life of the people of the Tang Dynasty is still relatively difficult.

"Madam, why do you have time to come to the academy? A few children in the family can point to you to discipline them. ”

Thinking of the four naughty boys in the family, Bai Fan and his wife laughed at the same time, these four children are only three years old now, and they are already lawless in Baifu, but Bai Fan still doesn't dare to discipline them harshly, the four boys are really the heart of Bai Fan's seventh uncle, as soon as he saw his father Bai Fan's face was not good, he hid from Zhang Qi, every time Bai Fan had to be reprimanded, and in the long run, the children actually took pleasure in tricking their father.

"It's the children's turn to be disciplined by Sister Ying'er, and I can't stand it when I come, so the two of us take turns to take care of it.

Actually, it's nothing to come to you, it's just that my father always comes to you, but you've been there, and I heard that it's for chili peppers. ”

Bai Fan was speechless, "Tell me about your father, you're too careful, won't I just fix him once?" As for complaining to you every day? ”

Li Wanping said with a smile: "Where is this, you are too, the son-in-law rectified the father-in-law, and now this matter has been spread all over Chang'an, and the father has no face to go out."

He came to you, and I heard that my mother learned about the delicacy of chili peppers from my second aunt, and pisted my father to ask you to make a meal, and it just so happened that the concubine also wanted to eat another meal of that oily noodles......"

"Gotta get it, I don't know you yet? In fact, my old father-in-law was greedy, and he wanted to take the opportunity to call me for revenge, go back and tell him, when I am busy with fairy grain breeding, serve him well for a few days, and be a chef for him for a month, don't hold on all day. ”

Bai Fan didn't know what Li Wanping said when he returned to his parents' house, anyway, the next day, Emperor Li Er and King Li Jiancheng of Jin came together and plunged into the secret casting workshop of Zhongnan Academy.

"Artifact? Where is the artifact? Before he entered the door, Li Er began to shout.

The people inside are busy beating iron and forging, who has the kung fu to pay attention to him?

The Li brothers looked at the foundry workshop that was already full of all kinds of iron tools, large and small, and were surprised to pick them up one by one and look at them.

"This, this is a thousand refined steel? It's all made of steel? ”

"This thing is a farming artifact?"

The Li brothers exclaimed, causing everyone in the foundry to burst into laughter.

Qin Qiong, who was in charge of pulling the bellows, said with a smile: "That's just a variety of parts, Jian Zhi said that in the end, it is necessary to form a huge trap beast, which has the strength of at least fifty horses, and the advantage is that there is no need to stop and rest." ”

"Really?"

"If there is such a thing, how many acres of land can be cultivated in that day? Virtuous son-in-law, seeing that you are so confident, you must make more, which can greatly alleviate the problem of the lack of Datang cattle, great joy, great joy! Li Jiancheng also nodded.

It is no wonder that the Li brothers hurriedly ran excitedly, you must know that the number of cattle and horses cultivated in ancient times was limited, and the war horses were not used for farming, and the people used to cultivate the fields were cattle, horses, mules, and donkeys, and these were also very expensive.

Even if it is a family of cattle, but a cow can plow two acres of land a day is a great achievement, because cattle are livestock, they have to rest and pant to eat grass, two acres a day down, the person who commands the ploughing is also a little unbearable, so this matter greatly restricts the development of agriculture.

It is conceivable how many people are needed to cultivate 100,000 acres of land? How many cattle are needed? How much investment is needed to solve the problem of ploughing and breeding fairy food?

And Bai Fan's requirements are higher, when the immortal grain is breeding, the field must be deeply cultivated, and the depth of cultivation must be doubled compared to the ordinary people's fields, because now the people of the Tang Dynasty plough the soil and eat the soil too shallowly, it is five fingers deep, but how can such a thing as doubling the depth of the soil be done? Isn't it going to exhaust the cows? So in the end, Bai Fan could only find a way to solve it by himself.

Bai Fan kept dropping the hammer in his hand, and explained: "Father-in-law, just spare me, this thing, there are thousands of large and small parts, originally I planned to wait until the Datang blast furnace is built and can smelt steel, and then use that mass production, but when I see that the blast furnace is still thirty percent unfinished, it will take at least three months."

So helpless, I had to use the ancient casting method to temporarily build a set of pure hand, ordinary blacksmiths to build, although the parts are also this shape, but the texture will be much, much worse, I'm afraid it will be bad as soon as it is used, I am this Ouyeel casting technology to build, the strength of each part can be comparable to those legendary gods.

No, it takes ten days to build, and on average, a few of us need to make hundreds of parts day and night, and we need to be exactly the same, this task, unless I have this eyesight, no one else can. ”

Bai Fan didn't say nonsense about this, because he has the ability to have the eye of the ruler, whether these parts are made up of specifications or not, whether they can be used or not, you can know at a glance that it is absolutely impossible to change people.

And for this thing, Bai Fan found a lot of helpers, all of whom were masters, Ziyang Zhenren, Li Yuanji, Qin Qiong, Li Yuanba, and Yu Chi Baolin, among which only Bai Fan and Li Yuanba were already proficient in hammer method, and Yu Chi Baolin threatened to inherit the ancestral business (Yu Chi Gong was born in iron), and wanted to learn casting from Master Bai Fan, Bai Fan saw that he was born with great strength, so he simply passed on his Ouyeel casting technique, as for the others, they all helped, after all, ten days of hard work, not ordinary people can bear.

Li Er nodded appreciatively and asked, "Well, the artifact is naturally not so easy to create, by the way, what is the name of this thing?" ”

Bai Fan said with a smile: "He has a simple name, called 'tractor', which means a machine specially used for dragging, and his nickname is Tie Niu." ”

Yes, you read that right, it's the tractor, the times are developing, the country is progressing, Datang is about to open a wave of black technology era, don't say that the starting point is too high to start with the steam engine, the tractor is nothing, the manpower, material and technology are complete, there is a library in hand, why not, so stay tuned~

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