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There is a plain in the north of Chang'an City, hundreds of miles wide, and the people draw nests to dwell, and the well is fifty zhang deep. Bi Yuan, the original north and south dozens of miles, east and west two or three hundred miles, no mountains, rivers and lakes, the well is fifty zhang deep. The water depth of the well in the central part of Chengcheng County, Shaanxi Province ranges from 26 zhang to more than 30 zhang. Heyang County is located in the dry wall, and the depth of the well is as deep as thirty or forty zhang or even fifty or sixty zhang. The water wells in Wanquan County are 890 zhang deep, and the shallow ones are 50 or 60 zhang.

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On October 18, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting received his own assistance and hurried back to Shaanxi, accompanied by the 3,000 Jingbian troops led by Wu Zhengchun and Gao Xun.

Wang Pu also led his subordinates back to Datong Town, during which he stayed in Xuanfu Town, and the grain and grass were temporarily supplied by Xuanfu Town.

However, according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, these grains and grasses are only temporarily lent to Datong Town by Xuanfu Town, and they will be returned by Wei Jingming, the governor of Datong, afterwards, but Wang Pu did not care about these, and heroically paid two silver taels to buy grain and grass.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also stepped up the planning and development of the Anbei Prefecture, specific to the measures of each town, the goals that need to be achieved, especially in agriculture and animal husbandry, what canals and embankments to build, how many fields to reclaim, and so on.

Wen Fangliang, Zhong Xiancai, Gao Shiyin, and others also went out one after another to inspect their own jurisdictions, accompanied by a large number of officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, preparing to survey the wasteland to be reclaimed in various places in advance, and prepare for large-scale construction in the coming year.

Wang Dou prepares to implement the big farm plan in Monan. Not to mention the temporary military tun, the people, is the future of the business tun, the immigration tun, all kinds of equipment required are massive, especially the car, waterwheel, cylinder car and other tuntian equipment, can be said to be in short supply.

Of course, the use of these instruments requires abundant financial resources, such as the Jingbian Fort large waterwheel, although the daily irrigation capacity reaches 300 acres. However, the cost of a waterwheel is as high as more than 100 taels. Idlers can't afford to use it at all.

Even many keel waterwheels used by the people, although the daily water can be irrigated by ten to twenty acres, but the cost of a waterwheel also needs more than ten taels, and many ordinary people can't afford to build it. Generally, several households share a waterwheel. Country landlord gentry. There are often profits from renting out water wheels.

Wang Dou was in Xinzhuang back then, not to mention the waterwheel, and he needed animal power to pull it. The cost of all kinds of calculations to more than 20 taels of masonry deep wells can not be dug, a family of three, are by carrying water to irrigate the field, so at that time gave birth to the water carrying workers, specializing in helping people carry water, a load from a few to a dozen yuan, depending on the distance of the road.

There are also advanced agricultural tools such as coupling plough and cocoon car, especially cocoon car, which can complete ditching, sowing, soil covering and other affairs at the same time, and also ensure that the row spacing and plant spacing are consistent, and in terms of efficiency, it can also be planted at least one hectare a day, which is still the case of using cattle.

Such an advanced seeding machine was invented by Su Duwei Zhao Guo as early as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but it has been used scarcely in the Central Plains dynasties, why? It's too expensive! The cost is too high.

This is one of the reasons why ancient technology was difficult to promote.

Moreover, advanced equipment often brings unemployment to some people.

During the Industrial Revolution, there were often cases of workers destroying machines, whether they wanted to be productive or to make ends meet. It's a conundrum.

Orders for all kinds of watermill factories have soared, and the owners of various factories are desperately recruiting craftsmen, although most of the orders are placed by the military and officials of the metropolitan government, but there are also some businessmen who are ready to engage in business tun have a foresight and are ready to order large waterwheels, columbs and other things.

Even some of the gentry who had the financial resources and were ready to emigrate to the outside of Cyprus were also ready to buy these equipment.

The people who will immigrate in the future are all over the three towns of Xuanda, as well as Shanxi, and even all over Shaanxi, even if the latter people need fewer waterwheels, columbs and other things, but they add up a lot, and these people have made a lot of money by making waterwheels and large farm tools recently.

And in the foreseeable years, the demand for waterwheels and other things is endless, after all, the Duhufu excavates canals, builds water conservancy, etc., for the time being, it is still for the military tun, as well as the government and the people, and the people who relocate themselves still need to solve the water problem by themselves.

Even if their future fields are close to the river, but under the current drought, the water level of many rivers in Monan has dropped as well, and they need to use water trucks to bring the river water up.

Fields that are not close to the river need irrigation wells and water wheels.

Therefore, for a time, not only the well-digging and car-making personnel in Xuanfu Town, but also in other towns, these people were in short supply.

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Although the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is headquartered in the town, there are still some research institutes located in the suburbs, on the edge of farmland, and next to factories, so as to better carry out experiments and systems.

This is a courtyard, not far from the mountain col in the southwestern suburbs, and the hall is full of books, and even a newly collected "Illustrated Strange Objects", an intermediate researcher Wu Shihuan wears glasses and writes and draws on hard paper with a clam pencil.

The pattern on paper is a kind of machinery, a bit like a cocoon, but it is not, the original carpenter Wu Shihuan, has now entered the Ministry of Civil Affairs Science and Technology Department to hold important positions, and they also have a resounding title: researcher.

I heard that this name was set by the Marquis of Yongning himself.

Each of them has their own research tasks, Wu Shihuan was originally a carpenter plasterer, of course, the main research is the direction of machinery making and urban construction.

According to what Old Man Wu said, this is really a matter of honoring the ancestors, he is about to enter the ground, but he didn't expect that there will be a day when he will become an official and have a similar title of literati.

Unconsciously, Wu Shiyun has been in the Wang Dou system for many years, and his beard is completely gray, but he is still energetic and has endless energy.

He is also living a wealthy life now, when Wang Dou let the benefits to the people, some unimportant factories were subcontracted to the people, at that time Wu Shihuan and his children opened a waterwheel factory, now the waterwheel factory business is prosperous, become one of the famous factories in Xuanfu Town.

With no worries about food and clothing, and being in an important position, with a generous salary, Wu Shieun didn't have much other thoughts, just thinking about whether he could leave a name in history one day.

Just like Su Duwei Zhao Guo, he invented the cocoon car and became famous through the ages.

Over the years, he has also become more literate, and he decided to pass the cultural assessment at the end of the year and win the title of craftsman.

Now Xuanfu Town craftsmen gathered, there are many high-class craftsmen, but there is no one craftsman, Wu Shieun is old and strong, and decided to take the lead in becoming the first craftsman in Xuanfu Town.

Of course, if Lai Yuanlong and others are willing to assess, it will be easy for them to become craftsmen, after all, he was born as a scribe ambassador, but he obviously has no intention of entering the craftsman system, and only served in the Department of Military Science, with the title of senior researcher, and devoted himself to studying his own firearms.

Li Maosen's cultural level was a little worse, and Li Zhifen subconsciously thought that he was a gentry, so he didn't think about going to the craftsman exam.

At this time, this courtyard was shared by some researchers from the Department of Civil Sciences, each of whom was tinkering with something they were interested in. Adjacent to Wu Shiyun's compound is a middle-aged fat man named Long Kun, who is also an intermediate researcher, and he has been doing some earthworms all day long.

"No, no, although the wheat can be harvested, it is scattered all over the ground, and it increases the ...... of labor."

Wu Shihuan changed the pattern back and forth, and he was always dissatisfied.

What he wants to study is actually a kind of harvester, because Mo Nan is going to carry out large-scale development, and it is temporarily sparsely populated, there is no problem of machines and manual jobs, and it is necessary to produce more food in a short period of time, which has a strong demand for high-efficiency machinery.

According to Wu Shiyun's thoughts, there are fast sowing crops in the world, and naturally there are also fast harvesting machines, and what he is studying recently is this thing.

This matter has been set up in the Department of Civil Science and Technology, and a large amount of funds have been obtained, but the results have not been produced for a long time, which makes Wu Shieun anxious.

He put down his glasses, walked out of his office, and came to the courtyard in front of him, some assistants and craftsmen were busy working in front of several wooden machines, looking at these machines, Wu Shihuan frowned, and there were several problems at the moment.

First, after the wheat is cut, how to tidy it up and put it in baskets properly, otherwise it is better to operate it by hand if it is scattered all over the ground.

The second is the problem of efficiency, according to Wu Shiyun's estimate, after this thing is completed, but the harvesting speed is twice as fast as that of manual labor.

If this thing is only twice as fast as artificial, it will definitely be difficult to promote, and the columbus can be planted one hectare a day, but because of the high price, the people are unwilling to use it, not to mention this thing, the harvesting speed must be improved.

Just how to improve it?

With troubles, Wu Shiyun paced in the courtyard, and unconsciously paced to the nearby courtyard of Long Kun, the two of them were fine, and they would also visit the door, or chat and drink tea together.

When I arrived here, I saw Long Kun commanding his assistants, who were going to a damp and quiet place, constantly piling up cows, pigs, horses, chickens and other dung, as well as a large number of fruit peels and leaves, while muttering to himself, noting something in his notes.

“…… The earth dragon has a quiet habit and prefers humidity, and in winter, it is necessary to spread thick leaves and feces to avoid dying without food......"

He was so busy that he didn't notice Wu Shihuan coming in.

This fat middle-aged man contributed to the pasture chicken raising method, as well as the earthen tank hatching method, so that the animal husbandry of Xuanfu Town has greatly developed, a few years later, he has now become the main staff of the Civil Science Department, he is as rich as a net worth, because all the farms that use the grassland to raise chickens and ducks have to pay him a certain patent fee.

He is now studying the use of earthworms to feed chickens and ducks, because he found that the cost of raising earthworms is less, and the chickens and ducks fed are bigger and fatter, and the egg laying rate is much higher.

Moreover, earthworm feces can fatten the land, and medicine, also known as the earth dragon, can be used in medicine, which has the effects of clearing heat, suppressing convulsions, diuretic, and relieving asthma.

Therefore, in the past two years, he has been studying the matter of this earthworm, and after the establishment of the Civil Science Department, he has set up a special project for this purpose.

He muttered to himself, although Wu Shiyun came in, he was actually still worried about his own affairs, he looked at Long Kun in action, and he didn't seem to see it, but suddenly muttered: "What should I do if the wheat is scattered all over the ground when it is cut?" ”

Long Kun replied inadvertently: "Use the basket." ”

Wu Shiyun's eyes suddenly lit up: "That's right! ”

He hurriedly went out, Long Kun still continued to write down something in his notes, not realizing that Wu Shiyun came in and went out.

These people who are engaged in strange skills and tricks, in the environment of Xuanfu Town, all of them are full of fiery passion for work. (To be continued.) )