Chapter 496: Research Farm Tools

In Suning County, don't look at Li Kuan's good disguise, but his reputation is extremely poor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The people felt that he was no different from themselves from Li Kuan's food and clothing, and even worse than themselves, but the people's life was the worst compared to other places in Hejian Province. What does this mean, at least it means that Li Kuan, the magistrate, is not qualified, right? Well, since you are not qualified, then why should we respect you? Why do you have a good reputation?

Although Li Kuan looks very cowardly on the surface, he is actually very authoritarian. In the affairs of Suning County, as long as there is oil and water to be fished, Li Kuan has never been polite. He had to intervene and never let anyone else get involved. is such a county magistrate who only recognizes interests and dictates because there are many thugs under him, but no one dares to provoke him.

Gurry is a local man, but he is younger than Li Kuan and started later. Although Gurry did not hold the real power of Suning County, he often went to the fields to inspect the people's conditions and guide the people in farming. often go deep into the people's homes and do some specific work for the people. Helping families in need survive disaster years and so on. For this reason, Gurry's reputation among the people is quite good, so much so that many people are looking forward to Gurry becoming the county governor of Suning.

With such a person who is close to the people and loves the people, Qin Li is naturally very happy. Of course, he only has the right to make Gurry a temporary prefect. The report recommending Gurry as a county magistrate still needs to be sent to the ministry, and only after receiving the instructions of the ministries can Gurry become a real magistrate.

Qin Li's father-in-law is Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the current cabinet, with such a big background, and Liu Ji, the secretary of the ministry, has a great relationship with Yang Tinghe. Therefore, after Qin Li's report was typed, Gurry, the prefect of the county, had ninety percent hope. After all, he is only a seventh-grade magistrate, and he is not a very big official.

After taking care of the affairs of Suning County, Qin Li led everyone back to the Hejian Mansion. Of course, Qin Li took most of the treasures in Li Kuan's underground treasure house, and handed over the rest to Gurry for Gurry to use on the construction of the county government and ordinary expenses. As for the poor people, it is not something that can make them rich in two strokes, nor can it be filled up by a few taels of silver. I had no choice but to give up. If the people want to get rich in their lives, they need a long-term stable environment, and they need the careful governance of the county.

Returning to Hejian Fuya is the Chinese New Year's Eve.

When Xu Wei saw so much silver and jewelry, he was overjoyed. As the master of the Hejian Mansion, many of the affairs of the Hejian Mansion were handled by Xu Wei himself. Xu Wei knows that Hejian Mansion is not a good family. The lives of the people are miserable. The local tyrants have divided the fields, but are the farm tools in the hands of the people enough? People need seeds to farm, right? Where did that kind of child come from?

Besides, there's still a long way to go until next year's harvest, right? It is true that the people have received some grain from the landlord Haoqiang, but it is absolutely impossible to support the harvest next year. And all of that and so on, all of which require silver? But where does the money come from? Xu Wei is not a machine that produces silver, how can he not be worried.

What makes Xu Wei happy is that although this prefect Qin Boss spends a lot of money, which can be described as a big spending, he also has a lot of means to earn silver, but he didn't expect that a small private visit to Weifu near the end of the year would have an income of no less than 100,000 taels of silver.

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Li feasted the brothers. Yu Dayou, Dahu, Zhou Fan, Matteo Ricci and others were all extremely excited. Everyone ate and drank the sea, elated, and had a lot of fun, and drank well. It's been a year, and it's been almost half a year since Boss Qin, and everyone has grown a lot and gained a lot in these six months. They have heartfelt reverence for Boss Qin, and they have strengthened their determination, so they will follow Boss Qin with all their hearts in the future.

Qin Li's principle of doing things is to have fun when he is playing, and he will never mix with those unpleasant and worrying things. But when it's time to do official business, you have to do your best. You must not be half-hearted and cope with errands.

Now the brothers are all errand servants in the government, and since they are errand servants, they have entered the Ming officialdom, so in many cases, they have to talk about some rules. Of course, Qin Li has been with the brothers for so long and knows them very well. These brothers are their own brothers, and they will definitely understand the depths and will not make themselves embarrassed.

There is no banquet in the world, and after three days of carnival, Qin Li's Hejian Mansion will start work normally. Of course, Qin Li still didn't have the habit of sitting down and being a prefect. In Qin Li's thoughts, since I have someone who can be qualified as the prefect, then why don't I use it? Being a prefect and an official is not based on one's own ability to do things in many cases, nor does it depend on one's own diligence. It is very important to use the right person, use the capable person, and be able to control him, this is the real ability of an official.

Many of the official affairs in the government were naturally handed over to Xu Wei. Xu Wei faced the boss's trust and reuse, and he was moved to tears. He vowed to do his best to do a good job for this master. Help Boss Qin govern this Hejian Mansion.

Qin Li naturally has his own things to do when he is idle. In the family of seven in Pangjiazhuang, Qin Li really saw the people's farm tools, and at that time, Qin Li had a strong idea, that is, to improve farm tools, or even make new farm tools.

Wooden shovels were still used in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the use of wooden shovels, it is also very easy to wear, and it is naturally not as good as the shovels of later generations.

In later generations, although Qin Li was born in a citizen family, the basic shovel could be clearly recalled.

Very simple things, Qin Li drew the figure of the shovel, the figure of the iron pickaxe, and the figure of the iron hoe based on the impression in his mind. The iron smelting of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly developed, especially Qin Li's rise in the study of physics, which has made the rapid development of iron smelting technology.

In fact, don't look at the development of this small physics, this discipline seemed unnecessary when it began to rise. But when everyone has studied for a long time, the study has been deepened, and the corresponding research has also been deepened, it will be found to be very effective. Especially in production and life, as long as you use your brain a little, a new invention will appear. Invented something new, not only enjoyed the right to the patent, but also made a lot of silver, so that at this time, there were many people in the Ming Dynasty who devoted themselves to research and discovery.

At this time, the iron products of the Ming Dynasty were no longer so expensive.

Give the graphics of these three basic farming tools to Zhou Fan, and let Zhou Fan quickly find a craftsman to build thousands of hoes, shovels, and pickaxes.

These are just simple agricultural tools that rely on manpower, and manpower is limited after all, so it is necessary to make tools that can be used by animal power. Qin Li has seen the iron plough of later generations, and it is not difficult to draw the graphics of the advanced iron plow.

The difficulty is that Qin Li knows that there is a kind of agricultural tool called "basket" used for sowing seeds in later generations. This kind of farm tool can make the speed of manual planting hundreds of times faster, but he only knows that there is this kind of farm tool from the textbook, and Qin Li doesn't know anything about what this farm tool looks like. So he collapsed and started experimental research. (To be continued.) )