The wax moon is followed by the New Year. [Full text reading]

Xie Hong did not make big waves in Jinzhou, and there were many people associated with it, but there were only a few people who were closely related.

When the Spring Festival came, Zhao Yu's house was still deserted, and the relationship between him and his neighbors was average, but after that turmoil, it became worse, except for Lengzi, even the second uncle who originally took care of him didn't come to the door.

In addition to being sad, his stubbornness also came up, and he insisted on not going to his second uncle's house to get rice and grain.

He collected all the coarse and fine grains left at home, cooked porridge to serve his mother every day, and got some wild vegetables and went to the sea to catch some fish, preparing to survive this cold winter and welcome the arrival of spring.

Of course, Zhao Poyu is trying to avoid suspicion, and the words of the commander have been put down, so of course he has to make a appearance.

Only Qi Cheng was the most calm, and the news he got from Liaoyang made him believe that Xie Hong must have come prepared. In addition, there is a precedent for those businessmen who cooperated with Zhenbaozhai in the capital, and he has no doubt that he must hurry up to join Xie Hong, and the sooner and more determined, the greater the benefits.

And Xie Hong, the initiator, is far less comfortable than a fat man this year.

Since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty, it has been three New Year's Eve, the first of which is that his body is still sick, and his family is also poor, except for a touch of bright color brought by the lovely Qing'er, there is nothing that can make him happy.

This New Year, like the previous one, was spent in a busy manner, and compared to the previous Spring Festival, it was better. At that time, except for the teaching and guidance at the beginning, the rest of the work was done by Zeng Zheng alone, and Xie Hong just occasionally made a few suggestions.

But this New Year, everything can only be done on his own, if it weren't for a fairly effective assistant, Xie Hong couldn't be sure if he would be able to complete the task on time.

"From the procedural division alone, farming is not complicated, generally is deep ploughing, sowing, watering, weeding, harvesting, threshing, warehousing, but after decomposition, each step contains a lot of knowledge...... "Wang Shouren's mental state is not very good, purely tired.

Although he has the spirit of hard work, he is just a scholar after all, and he really hasn't touched this kind of thing like farm work, these things are collected in a row, plus sorted out and summarized, and he has to learn and master the essentials by himself, and the energy and time he spends are not under Xie Hong.

"The tools used were plows, harrows, hoes, rolls, sickles...... The most important and most valuable for improvement in reclamation are the plough and harrow. ”

"The plough is mainly used to plough the farmland, and it is necessary to plough deeply...... The rake is mainly used to break the soil and prepare the land, and there are several kinds of vertical tooth harrow, felling harrow, wave harrow, standing harrow, stepping harrow, and nail harrow...... The structure of these two tools goes something like this...... According to the needs of farmers, the entries sorted out are these, Lord Xie, is there anything else you don't understand? ”

I don't understand a lot, my brother misses the tractor very much...... The two have been studying for several days, of course, it is mainly Wang Shouren who is speaking, and Xie Hong is listening.

In fact, Xie Hong has already drawn up an overall strategy, that is, according to the characteristics of the vast land and sparsely populated areas of eastern Liaodong, extensive cultivation is carried out, and the yield per mu is not required, and the number of fields alone wins.

Therefore, the new farm tools he envisioned were relatively large-scale, but most of the tools that Wang Shouren summed up were single-person and single-animal tools, so he couldn't find a finished product that could be used for reference.

It seems that not only the craftsmen did not cooperate, but even traditional agriculture did not have any concept of cooperation, Xie Hong sighed in his heart. But it's no wonder that manpower is just enough, livestock is very precious in the Central Plains, in ordinary people's homes, if there is a cow, it will definitely be regarded as a treasure, and if there are several or more, it can only be a rich family.

Therefore, these small tools do not meet Xie Hong's requirements, and the details and functions can be used for reference, but if you want to rely solely on improvement, you will not be able to achieve his goal.

"Mr. Wang, please continue."

"If the reclamation is completed, the next is to sow seeds, the main process is ditching, planting, recovering soil, here in Jinzhou, are simple human sowing, but Wang has seen in ancient books, there is a tool called cocoon, the Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Huan's "Political Commentary" said, its law three plows a total of one ox, one person will be it, the next seed to pull the cocoon, all take the preparation. It is said that the seed is one hectare, and so far the three auxiliaries still rely on its benefits. ”

Seeder, Xie Hong remembered another term, there is also this kind of thing in later generations, which seems to be similar to a tractor.

"This is a pattern copied by Wang, you can refer to one or two." As he spoke, Wang Shouren took out a piece of paper from the scroll and handed it over.

"I see." Xie Hong took it and looked at it, and felt that some memories in his mind began to revive.

He has never eaten pork, but he has always seen pigs run, and he has actually seen the general appearance of these agricultural machinery, but the internal structure and specific functions are relatively vague. Now that he has obtained all kinds of information summarized by Wang Shouren, those vague memories and materials gradually merge and converge into images in his mind.

"Mr. Wang, what about water conservancy?" In later generations, agriculture, forestry and water are usually taken out together to say, Xie Hong is a little strange, Wang Shouren actually didn't put water conservancy in front of him and said, doesn't he think water conservancy is the most important?

"If it is in the Central Plains, if the water conservancy can be renovated, the grain output in various places will rise sharply, and the famine will not be so frequent. Wang Shouren gave an answer that surprised Xie Hong.

"Isn't that right? I'm in the palace to see ...... Oh, I heard that every year, there are reports from all over the country asking for appropriations from the imperial court, or withholding taxes to build water conservancy? Could it be ......" Halfway through the words, Xie Hong also had some understanding, and the questions behind him couldn't be asked any longer.

"As Master Xie thought, although the newspapers in various places are continuous, most of them are just false stories, and some of them are even too lazy to do superficial work, otherwise, even if natural disasters are frequent, if there is a perfect water conservancy project, it will not be like this." Wang Shouren's face was a little gloomy, and his tone was also painful, he sighed and said:

"In all dynasties, when the country was founded, the people were often quite wealthy, although there were reasons for the sharp decline in the population from chaos to governance, it was not because of political clarity. Taking water conservancy as an example, when the dynasty was founded, there were many repairs to water conservancy in various places, and there were few disasters and famines in various places. ”

Xie Hong was silent, the water conservancy matter belongs to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry is known for its oil and water in the six ministries, and he can also understand the doorway in this, making profits from the project money, ancient and modern, and there is still a bit of supervision mechanism in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, who would interfere? In the end, it was the people who suffered.

"Master Xie, do you already have an idea?" Because Xie Hong's question hit the nail on the head, Wang Shouren was led off the topic, and after a little sigh, he immediately sensed that the other party had been listening quietly, but then he suddenly asked...... That probably means that the other person already has an idea.

"I did have some ideas." Xie Hong nodded.

At this time, the agricultural tools are far less efficient than the agricultural equipment of later generations, but the truth is the same, for example, sowing, whether it is manpower or machinery, the three steps of ditching, planting, and soil restoration will not change, and the machinery can sow several rows of seeds at the same time, and manpower can only come one by one.

Rakes, plowshares, these things, in later generations, Xie Hong has also seen, but he doesn't know what these things are for, now after listening to Wang Shouren's detailed explanation, there are various patterns, Xie Hong's thinking has expanded.

For example, the common scene on TV, behind the tractor dragged a bunch of parallel steel rings, with nail teeth on them, in fact, it is a more efficient rake, and there is probably a coulter in front, after cutting through the land, the soil is immediately loosened and leveled, and all the reclamation processes are solved in one stop.

Without an engine, the tractor Xie Hong can't do it, but the tractor provides power, which can be replaced by something else, one cow is not enough for two, otherwise three heads and four heads, plus some labor-saving devices, there will always be a way.

The latter things are not difficult for Xie Hong's smelting workshop, as long as they are designed, they will soon be able to enter the testing and practical stage, and even if there are difficulties, they are concentrated in large-scale production, which involves the manpower of craftsmen, the scale of the workshop and the application of raw materials.

Those are all human factors, the draft and plan Xie Hong have already been done, there are no obstacles, what he has to do now is to turn the things in his mind into design drawings.

Xie Hong was still thinking when he answered, so he was a little absent-minded, and his tone was also light. However, Wang Shouren did not feel neglected at all, he was really taken aback by Xie Hong.

The research of the two of them has been going on for a few days, and Wang Shouren has also seen the arrangements that Xie Hong secretly carried out before, knowing that the other party is not only making layouts and making plans during this time, but also planning ports and various workshops, and also paying attention to shipbuilding matters, and finally caring about the design of new agricultural tools.

If any of these tasks are taken out alone, I am afraid that it will be very busy, but Xie Hong has done it all by himself.

It's nothing just to take it over, and the most amazing thing is that after only a few days of research, he actually has an idea for the design of new farm tools! You must know that although all dynasties will become decaying in the later period, when the country was founded, it was very concerned about agriculture and mulberry.

In the thousands of years of history of China, how many talented people are very concerned about farm tools, and a lot of new farm tools have been studied, but if you want to achieve the kind of purpose that Xie Hong said, that is to say, to develop Liaodong on a large scale within one or two years, it will not meet the requirements at all.

As a result, in such a short period of time, and at the same time distracted from such a thing, Xie Hong actually had an idea, no, it is likely that he has already begun to conceive a specific idea, how can this not be surprising?

Wang Shouren was very sure that just a few days ago, Xie Hong was still a complete layman in the agricultural field, so it couldn't be that he cheated in advance or something.

There is only one truth, that is, Xie Hong has a concept of various farm tools and farm work through his own description, and then he has an idea.

But this truth is scary enough, Wang Shouren thinks that his intelligence is not inferior to others, but seeing such a fact, he is also a little at a loss. When he was young, he once had an ideal, that is, to pursue the Great Dao, the kind of unique Great Dao between heaven and earth, as long as he pursued this kind of Dao, he could pass through all the laws and solve everything in the world.

Now, he has understood that this ideal is a bit illusory, so he began to be pragmatic, and vaguely had a belief, but that belief was also broken by Xie Hong's words, that is, the unity of knowledge and action, and he still had some resentment for this.

Therefore, seeing Xie Hong's performance, Wang Shouren was extremely surprised in his heart, and even recalled the dream of his youth, could it be that this Xie Hong in front of him is the person who has mastered that kind of avenue?

He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Brother Xie Xian, dare to ask, what is the way of things you have learned?" I would like to ask for details. ”

(To be continued)