Chapter 40: Qu Yuan Li
A closed-door meeting of Yun's high-level leaders ended, at which Yunyi proposed that planting higher-yield food was the best way to solve Yun's crisis, but it was not a simple matter to find higher-yield food, and even Yunyi didn't know if there were high-yield crops like corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the world.
After the meeting, Yun Yuankai began to issue various instructions to prevent possible crises, promote farmland fertilization, build more granaries to buy more grain from the outside world to store, and cultivate more arable land.
Leaving Yun Yuankai's Mansion, Yun Yi quickly returned to Yun Mansion, walked into the study, and then Yun Yi took out a blank piece of paper and spread it on the desk, swaying pen and ink.
Yun Yi is painting?
Yes and no, Yun Yi is indeed painting, but the thing he painted is related to this closed-door meeting of the Yun family's high-level management, because what Yun Yi drew on the white paper is a "plow".
Since the beginning of the farming period, it didn't take long for farmers to invent the most primitive plow, the appearance of the plough improved the efficiency of people's ploughing, with the passage of time, the plough was improved step by step, and both the Mo family and the farmer invented a variety of strange plows.
Nowadays, the most widely used plough in Yunhua County and even the entire Dali Empire is called Sun Da plow, which was invented by a Mo disciple named Sun Da, which is a straight plow, which is divided into double and single ploughs, which is basically two oxen carrying type, especially suitable for use in plain areas, which can ensure that the field is ploughed straight, easier to control, and more efficient.
There are also many shortcomings of Sun Dali, when ploughing the land, turning back is not flexible enough, the soil is laborious, the efficiency is not very high, and it is also very cumbersome, it takes two ploughing cattle to use, ploughing cattle are scarce livestock, plus the farmers are poor, basically there is not much money, and there is no ploughing cattle, how to use the plow, and only the middle and upper class people have ploughing oxen and ploughs, but although the farmers do not have oxen and ploughs, they can spend money to rent from others, in Yunhua County, the price of cattle and ploughs in the concession Yun's is extremely cheap.
The plough that Yunyi wants to draw is very different from Sun Dali, named Qu Yuan Plow, and it can be seen from the name that Sun Dali is very different from this straight plow.
Qu Yuan plough will be the straight wheel of the straight wheel plow, the long wheel changed to the curved wheel, the short wheel, and the plow disc that can be rotated freely is installed at the head of the wheel, so that not only the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, but also is convenient to turn around and turn, the operation is flexible, and the manpower and livestock are saved.
Quyuan plough is composed of eleven parts, respectively, ploughshare, plough wall, plough bottom, pressure plate, strategy, plow arrow, plough wheel, plough tip, plough evaluation, plough building and plough plate, Yunyi will Qu Yuan plough as a whole after drawing, will also be one by one Qu Yuan plough of each component of the drawing, convenient for craftsmen to build it, the size has been clearly marked on the drawing.
Yunyi has been in contact with the Quyuan plow many times in his previous life, the kind of plough that is mostly wooden, at that time Yunyi was a rural child, there is a lot of farmland at home, and when Yunyi grows up to a certain age, he will follow the adults to go to the field to farm, and when it comes to the busy farming season, the school will even give students a holiday, so that students can help their families, Yunyi witnessed how the ox pulled the Quyuan plough to plough the land, and also personally touched the Qu Yuan plow, Qu Yuan Li is a more profound thing in Yunyi's impression.
Yunyi's Quyuan plough is slightly different from the Qu Yuan plough in his impression, Yunyi needs to make the Qu Yuan plough simpler, which is conducive to promotion, and even does not need animal power, manpower can pull the Qu Yuan plow.
Yun Yi was busy for most of the afternoon, and it was almost dark to finish all the drawings, the dinner in Yunfu was ready, and Shangguan Yuling had already walked towards the study.
The next morning, Yun Yi sent someone to take Qu Yuanli's drawings to the manor outside the city and hand them over to Tian Hao, the manor steward, and asked Tian Hao to arrange craftsmen to create Qu Yuanli drawn by Yun Yi.
Yunyi recruited craftsmen not only blacksmiths, but also carpenters, stonemasons, etc., Qu Yuan Li's whole body is mostly wood, a small amount of iron, most of the processes of Qu Yuan Li need carpenters to complete.
On the morning of the third day, Tian Hao personally came to Yunfu with three built Qu Yuanli, Yun Yi just glanced at Qu Yuanli a few times, and asked Tian Hao to send Qu Yuanli and drawings to Yun Yuankai's mansion, Yun Yi knew that as long as Yun Yuankai saw this Qu Yuanli, which was very different from Sun Dali, he would understand what was going on.
When Yun Yuankai returned home and saw the three Qu Yuan Li, and then learned the origin of Qu Yuan Li, Yun Yuankai was a little crying and laughing, Yun Yuankai already understood in his heart that this Qu Yuan Li was made by his nephew Yun Yi.
The Mo family likes to do some strange and obscene skills, and they are disliked by literati and scholars.
Yun Yuankai didn't think that Yun Yi was not doing his job, after all, Yun Yi could solve the food crisis faced by the Yun clan by doing this, and he didn't need Tian Hao to speak, Yun Yuankai knew that the plow sent by Yun Yi was better than Sun Da's plow, but Yun Yi was the patriarch of the Yun clan, and he was destined to take over the entire family and Yunhua County in the future, and he should try his best to avoid these strange and obscene skills, otherwise he would be easily rejected by other families.
Yun Yuankai decided to find time to talk to Yun Yi and let Yun Yi no longer fix these things, but Yun Yuankai also looked at Qu Yuanli seriously, and then asked his subordinates to try Qu Yuanli, and after the subordinates tried Qu Yuanli, they thought that Qu Yuanli was many times better than Sun Dali.
Yun Yuankai knew this, so he ordered the craftsmen of the Yun clan to build more Qu Yuan according to the drawings.
Qu Yuanli's name is still Qu Yuanli, and there is no need to become Yunyi Lili or Yun's Li, if Qu Yuanli is named after these two names, then the Yun family will only be teased by the family.
Qu Yuan plough is light, you can directly use people to pull, this is definitely a good news for farmers, the price of ploughing cattle is too expensive, farmers can't afford it, but most of the whole body is wooden Qu Yuan plough price is relatively cheap, and Yun wants to promote Qu Yuan plow, the price is naturally not too high, even lower than the price of Sun Da plow, after a simple trial of Qu Yuan plow, some farmers gritted their teeth, turned out the old bottom of the family, ready to buy Qu Yuan plow.
For farmers, if they have more manpower to pull the Quyuan plow, it means that they can reclaim more land, even if there is a lot of poor land in Yunhua County, the quantity can be overwhelming.
All farmers who can afford to buy Qu Yuan Plough gritted their teeth to buy Qu Yuan Plow, some farmers really don't have much money and can't afford Qu Yuan Plow, and they are also looking for others to partner and buy a Qu Yuan Plough together.
Farming season is coming.