It is now the end of September when the farming is slack, so many agricultural affairs have been all in Wancheng, and on the acres of the Lin clan's land, farmers of all ages are holding wooden pestles, plows and other agricultural tools to tidy up the land.

The next day, Lin Yuyan, who was familiar with the territory of the Lin clan, saw this kind of scene, and also knew that this time the Central Plains had just appeared cattle farming, and Nanqin was located in a remote area, how could he come into contact with cattle farming, except for cattle farming, there were no advanced farming tools in Nanqin.

Farm tools such as wooden pestles and pestles, Lin Yuyan also wiped a handful of sweat when he saw it, and using this farm tool to pick up the land is too much to do.

At the moment, some patterns of farm tools appeared in my mind, and I went back to the 100 workshops of foil tin, ready to create a batch of useful farm tools.

There are bronze craftsmen, clay masons, carpenters, stonemasons, etc., many and miscellaneous, Lin Yuyan feels that if he wants to do a good job as an internal ruler, he must use these craftsmen.

Because yesterday after Lin Yuyan promised them citizenship, they were also in full swing, but their casting was all for the supply of Wancheng, especially in the palace, all kinds of jade ornaments, bronze utensils, metal and ironware, all of which were extravagant shapes, involving agricultural production, and there was no one.

At the moment, Lin Yuyan ordered the department of the Hundred Workshops to let go of the creation of luxury goods and instead create various agricultural tools.

Foil tin is the truth of the truth, these craftsmen are all good craftsmen selected from all over the country, in order to serve the needs of the Lin family's own Qin old clan, and now the production has suddenly stopped, resulting in the supply of various utensils, I am afraid it will be regarded as a dereliction of duty of the internal ruler.

In the end, Lin Yuyan also understood that the Dare to Love Hundred Workshop was a private processing factory that served the old clan surnamed Lin and his own Qin State, so it was indeed inappropriate to stop like this, and he had to try it slowly.

At the moment, it was decided to sacrifice the Lin clan's local garrison soldiers for a period of time to build weapons, so he transferred some of the major craftsmen of the hundred workshops to start the development and construction of agricultural tools.

Lin Yuyan had just drawn the rough drawings and handed them over to the masters, but he didn't expect the problem to come again.

However, the different things of these guys also give Lin Yuyan a headache, for example, to create the simplest farm tool hoe, these craftsmen often like to complete a whole stick alone, from choosing wooden sticks, cutting and smoothing, to building hoes, connecting them, and not letting others interfere at all.

But the simplest hoe took several days, and at such a speed, would it take months to build a finished spear or something.

Lin Yuyan was unacceptable, and then wanted to choose the assembly line method for casting, but found that a more serious problem came.

Great Qin actually doesn't have a unified weights and measures!

This caused the hoe cast by one craftsman to be on top of another craftsman's stick, loose or small, and could not be connected at all.

Lin Yuyan had a gloomy face, looked at the hundreds of craftsmen in front of him, and asked sharply, "How long is a foot?" ”

Suddenly, these people chattered and quarreled.

"Stretch out your arm, to the elbow joint, almost a foot ......."

"No, no, this foot is too long, it should be with your hand open, and the thumb and little finger are stretched out to the maximum, this is one foot."

"You're not right......

Seeing this, Lin Yuyan also shouted at them: "Enough! ”

There is no unified weights and measures assembly line production, there is no way to apply it to practice, so unified weights and measures have become a top priority!

As a result, these craftsmen changed positions with Lin Yuyan and began to set the so-called weights and measures.

Nowadays, what is commonly used in life is nothing more than length, capacity, weight, and area.

Lin Yuyan is used to using the decimal system.

And the first one is to determine the length.

Lin Yuyan abolished the original chaotic quadruple system, heparchal system, octal system, decimal system, and hexadecimal system.

Lin Yuyan clearly stipulates that one zhang is equal to ten feet, one foot is equal to ten inches, and one inch is equal to ten.

Thinking that he came up with it, Lin Yuyan used inches to determine the length.

"Fetch some fragile sticks!" Lin Yuyan commanded the two craftsmen.

Immediately, the two craftsmen brought back a thin wooden stick.

"You, you,......, you, you, come forward for me!" After getting the thin wooden stick, Lin Yuyan casually pointed out ten people and walked out.

The ten people also walked out when they heard the words, and then Lin Yuyan handed over a few more people, distributed the thin wooden sticks in their hands, and said, "Measure their middle knuckles, how long the bottom section is, and break the stick into how long." ”

"Whoa!" The craftsmen with thin wooden sticks in their hands also responded, and then according to Lin Yuyan's request, they went to measure the length of the lowest joint of the middle fingers of the ten people.

It didn't take long for Lin Yuyan to get back ten inch-long wooden sticks with a slight difference in length.

Lin Yuyan picked out the shortest and longest of the two, and then asked people to bring over the silk thread and measure the total length of the remaining eight inch-long wooden sticks.

Fold the thread in half three more times, and obtain one-eighth of the length, before he said to the crowd: "This is the length of an inch!" ”

Someone brought out another wooden stick and drew it to a foot in length.

Lin Yuyan held a one-foot thin wooden stick in his hand, looked at the craftsmen and asked, "Is there a bronze craftsman?!" ”

There are now only a few craftsmen here, but there are enough craftsmen in the area.

There were several bronze craftsmen who came out.

Lin Yuyan handed them a few determined ruler wooden sticks and said, "You build a bronze ruler for all craftsmen, one foot long, with a scale on it, and the name of the craftsman engraved on the back, and each craftsman carries it with him to prove his identity!" ”

"Yes!" These bronze craftsmen took the road with them.

Now that the unit of length has been determined, the rest is easy to do.

The weight unit is easy, but there is no need to make it as fine as the length unit, Lin Yuyan selected a few weight units commonly used in the martial arts, such as liters, buckets, and stones.

You must know that in Southern Qin, the Central Plains are the same weight unit and capacity unit, a liter of grain is a pound of grain, but the conversion unit of bucket and stone is different, Lin Yuyan used the decimal system, that is, the bucket was set into ten catties, and the stone was set into a hundred catties.

Lin Yuyan asked several people to find different rice buckets to come back, removing the largest and smallest, that is, to get a more pertinent wooden bucket capacity, and also set the capacity and weight of the rising bucket stone.

As for the area unit, but when applied to the acres of land, Lin Yuyan also used three units nearby: cents, mu, and hectares, one hectare is equal to ten mu, and one mu is equal to ten.

A field is four zhang long and two zhang wide, and each mu is twenty zhang long and four zhang wide, which is not much different from the mu system prevailing in Daqin today.

So it took a whole day to establish weights and measures, Lin Yuyan was also quite complacent, and then began to give these craftsmen the identity of a craftsman, that is, to accept workers as officials, originally these craftsmen belonged to the people, and now Lin Yuyan gave him the identity of the people, and then use the previous casual rice to feed some rice, and then give the craftsman the moon.

The director of the Hundred Workshops also felt that His Highness's idea was whimsical.

Giving craftsmen citizenship is a promise that they can own land, and they actually "recruit workers into officials", when will the officials controlled by the scholars be able to let the craftsmen get involved?

The most unacceptable thing is that this highness actually wants to use iron tools to make agricultural tools, this is an iron tool, how can the iron tools used to cast swords and armor be used by farmers as agricultural tools!

I knew that the farming tools for casting these iron ores were transported from the iron mines in Miyang, which was really not worth it, and listening to the meaning of this highness, it was not a small amount of iron materials, so it was really a little difficult to accept.

But this highness is stubborn, and he is easy to talk about from the side, but he didn't say anything to move this highness to change his mind.

Foil Xi thought that this Royal Highness was messing around, and during the period, he made it clear to Lu Lian that Lu Lian was also anxious, and the senior attendant repeatedly emphasized that he had to assist His Royal Highness Gongzi Yan to manage the affairs of the internal slaughter, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness would actually make trouble with these ridiculous things.

Finally, I couldn't help it, the land of the Lin clan is an important source of money and food for the Qin royal family, if there is nothing but a mistake, I am afraid that His Royal Highness will pat his ass and leave, and he will suffer himself.

Therefore, he found an opportunity, which was to clarify his meaning to His Royal Highness Gongzi Yan.

"Lu Qing thinks that iron casting farm tools is a waste?!"

Lin Yuyan is also tired of hearing this point of view in the past few days, whether it is the officials of the Lu Lian, the foil and the tin, or even those craftsmen think so.

The use of iron farming tools and the promotion of cattle ploughing can clearly improve productivity on a large scale.

However, Lin Yuyan didn't dare to be very sure that it was just as he thought, after all, he was trying to make money. When I developed a blank paper and improved a brush, I wanted to make a lot of money, but I found that there were few literate people in this era!

He said: "Your Highness, don't say anything else, this iron material alone is not easy to obtain, it is a sharp weapon for warriors to protect their families and defend the country, and it is really a pity to use it for agricultural purposes!" ”

Hearing this, Lin Yuyan knew where the tangled point was, and immediately said: "Luqing, give me ten days, after ten days, if I can't convince Luqing, the use of iron tools for farming, just give up!" ”

Hearing this, Lu Lian wanted to immediately stop the production of iron tools for farming, but it was not easy for His Royal Highness Gongzi Yan to retreat to this step, so he simply waited for ten days to work hard, and when the time came, the loss was not big in the abolition of iron tools.

PS: One inch is about 2.5 centimeters, one stone is about 100 catties now, one mu is about 500 square meters, and the rest of the weights and measures units are used as a reference.