As a result, Lu Chengqi glanced at the rice paper handed over by Li Jie, and found that these were still a few drawings. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Compare the drawings drawn by Li Jie just now, you can recognize it at a glance, this is his own handwriting.

Li Jie is an all-rounder, and Lu Chengqi has known it for a long time. But after carefully looking at these drawings and then studying the fly-headed small block below, Lu Chengqi realized that this kind of abstract thing is actually a farm tool!

Lu Chengqi was shocked inexplicably, because these things were not things that he, a person who had never done farm work since he was a child, could understand. He raised his head in astonishment and asked, "Li Qing, are these farm tools?" ”

In fact, he just wanted to confirm it, because Li Jie only roughly mentioned what these farm tools were for, but Lu Chengqi didn't have this level of judgment! Whether it is practical or not remains to be verified.

Li Jie said affirmatively: "Your Majesty, the minister has been thinking about it for the past few days, and he has become the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, so he must show a convincing ability. The minister's painstaking work is these few farm tools. ”

Lu Chengqi smiled awkwardly: "Li Qing, I won't tell you that I can't understand these farm tools." However, Li Qing, you can tell me how to use these things. Well, let's take this kind of horse as an example, this is clearly a small boat, how can it be called a horse horse? ”

Li Jie said: "Your Majesty, this is used for rice transplanting, so it is called a seedling horse. At that time, the south had already appeared, but the minister had improved it slightly. ”

Then, Li Jie pointed to the drawings and explained the use of the seedling horse one by one. When planting rice, the seedlings can be used for transplanting and pulling seedlings. The shape of the horse is indeed like that of a small boat, with its head and tail cocked and its back like a tile. It can be used for one person to sit on the belly, and the operator sits on the back of the boat. In the case of rice planting, insert the seedlings placed on the bow of the boat into the field with your right hand, and gradually move the horse backwards with both feet. If the seedlings are pulled, the seedlings are plucked with both hands, tied into turns, and placed in the rear warehouse of the ship. Li Jie said and said, and made a demonstration with his own hands.

For the rice field, Lu Chengqi was a southerner before his rebirth, and he saw a lot, and he could see the significance of the rice horse. In a paddy field with water, it can indeed advance and retreat freely, which can improve efficiency and reduce labor intensity.

As Li Jie said, such seedlings have been used in Jingnan Road, Liangjiang South Road, Fujian Road, Liangzhejiang, Guangnan East Road, and Jinghu North Road, but the promotion is not enough. These places are all rice cultivation areas, that is, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places in later generations.

Lu Chengqi recognized such a seedling horse and said: "If I can increase grain production, I will definitely agree." It's just Li Qing, have you thought about how to promote it? ”

Li Jie was stunned, he just made the drawings excitedly, and he really didn't think about how to promote this problem. Lu Chengqi knew that this was the case, and Li Jie had not thought about how to make these extremely cautious farmers accept such new farm tools. Because the yield of crops in ancient times was not high, if the grain production was reduced due to the rash use of new agricultural tools, the peasant family would starve and freeze. When it comes to the lives of their families, farmers are not stupid, they also have to think twice.

Lu Chengqi had a draft in his heart, and when he saw that Li Jie's mouth grew and he couldn't answer, he sighed leisurely: "Li Qing, I know your fist heart." But sometimes, good intentions can be struck by lightning. I can trust you, but those farmers can't! If you want to promote it smoothly, you must make some achievements to convince farmers. Alright, I'll send an Overseer to fix this, and all you need to do is provide new farming tools. Anyway, I'm really interested in what these new farming tools are. ”

Li Jie's drawings, although they are intuitive after all, but without marking, Lu Chengqi is also confused and doesn't know what to do. Fortunately, Li Jie tried his best to explain, and Lu Chengqi understood a thing or two.

For example, the wheat samarium used to harvest wheat, and the large sickle with a long handle used to harvest wheat is combined with a dustpan with two movable long handles, which is called "wheat scythe" at this time. At the time of harvesting, stretch forward, use a flexible manipulator tied to the waist, move the samarium and the saxium, turn the distant wheat "samarium" down, turn it into the wheat, and then take back the wheat and hand it to the "wheat cage" with wheels behind. This kind of matching wheat harvester is several times more efficient than ordinary harvesting tools.

This wheat samarium has also been available for a long time, but it is the first time that it has been matched with wheat and wheat cages. Lu Chengqi listened with relish, Li Jie's agricultural tools improved on the original basis did also take into account regional differences, not only rice farm tools, but also wheat farm tools, which were relatively thoughtful.

In addition to this, there are more elaborate water mills. In the previous dynasty, hydraulic milling was already used on a large scale. After the establishment of Dashun, there are often large-scale mills in large households and temples, and they are for-profit. When farmers go to grind noodles, they need to pay a certain amount of money. Temples also often use such means to cooperate with the land owned by the temple to achieve the purpose of maintaining food and clothing.

The water mill improved by Li Jie on the original basis, by changing its shaft head device, can complete the three tasks of hulling, grinding and panning on the same machine, which is called the three things of the water wheel. According to the official history, such a thing will not be invented by Wang Zhen until more than two hundred years later. It's a pity that Li Jie wants to make some political achievements and mercilessly advances the time by more than 200 years, is this a bit cruel to Comrade Wang Zhen, who has not yet been born? Li Jie didn't know, and he didn't know either, great inventions are always built on the shoulders of predecessors. Wang Zhen didn't invent the three-water mill, but he could also invent other more advanced things!

Li Jie handed over four drawings, only the last one, Lu Chengqi could see it clearly. Because this thing, it's so famous, overturned. This is also Li Jie's renovation work, because the earliest overturned car was already available at the end of the Han Dynasty. This rollover is different from the previous hand-cranking, foot-stepping, or the use of animal power, but once again uses water power. So Li Jie also called it a hydraulic rollover. Lu Chengqi knows that this is a collection of watering, rice, and blowing wind is equal to a good thing!

In particular, the use of water power can be more than day and night, which is better than water conservancy tools such as treadmills. The wisdom of the ancients in adapting measures to local conditions and using natural power can be seen. It's just that in places where there is a shortage of water, such a hydraulic rollover still seems quite weak. If you want to irrigate, you still have to rely on rain or manpower to carry water for irrigation.

After listening to Li Jie's explanation, Lu Chengqi nodded and said: "Li Qing is really talented, ordinary people can improve one item, it can be regarded as immeasurable merit." Li Qing improved four at once, and in my opinion, all of them are feasible. Li Qing doesn't need to take care of the implementation. Naturally, I would send inspectors to the people to publicize it, but if it didn't work, I would let the farmers see it a few times. If it is easy to use, I believe that farmers also know the goods. If that doesn't work, the treasury still has money to spare, and it's okay to give away a few hundred for free. When I have to do it again, I will read out Li Qing's exploits and let the hundred officials see it, I definitely didn't see the wrong person! ”

Li Jie said honestly: "As long as Your Majesty knows that the minister is not a corpse vegetarian meal, it will be fine." He doesn't care what other people think......"

Lu Chengqi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "I don't believe what others say, but Li Qing says this, I believe it!" (To be continued.) )