Three days later is the day of the spirit, the two funeral teams walked slowly, the paper money was like a white moth flying in the sky with the wind, the suona sound whimpered heartbreaking, the bereaved man walked left and right with the crying sound of the sky, Zhao Ta walked in the middle with the coffin.

"Who's in Artemisia? There is no virtuous or foolish soul to gather. The ghost uncle is urging him, and human life must be hesitant..." Li Yannian's elegy was sad and desolate, and Zhao Ta sang along with it over and over again.

"Big brother let's go..."

"Brother go well..." Every time they pass by a construction site, the strong men will put down sacrifices along the way, and the funeral procession has to stop again and again, and Zhao Ta will bow down with the mourners.

"Brother, the prince personally saw you off, you should close your eyes!" A middle-aged man shouted.

"Brother, the prince has already arranged the affairs of your family, you can go with confidence!"

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Zhao Ta heard the simple words of the villagers, which made him both ashamed and moved, his fellow villagers left, he just did what he should do, these villagers not only did not blame him, but were grateful to Dade, and their little favor satisfied them...

Zhao Ta kept sending the dead Zhuang Ding to the cemetery, and did not return to the mansion until the sun set, "Zheng Lu, we built canals and paved roads to occupy the tenants' fields, what do they say?" Zhao Ta changed his clothes, and after a simple wash, he came to him for questioning.

"Second master, most people think that we build canals and pave roads for their good, they didn't say anything, only a few people are dissatisfied with this!" Now that Zhao Ta is in the mansion, he has established his authority, and no one dares to treat him as a child, Zheng Lu looked at his face and replied carefully.

"How do you do that?" Zhao Tan asked again expressionlessly.

"Second master, the land is originally our own, I want to occupy it, and besides, the road and canal are next to the edge of his field, and everything will be cheap in the future, do they dare to blackmail us!" Zheng Lu replied.

"Hmph, do things stupidly, although the land is ours, but people have rented it, it is not all ours, and now they occupy other people's fields, affecting their harvest, you still make threats, is there such a reason in the world?" Zhao Tan patted the table and said.

"Second master, we have invested more than 100,000 yuan in order to open the road and repair the canal, if we compensate again, it will cost a lot of money, I don't know how many years of rent will be collected to recover the capital, please think twice about it!" Zheng Lu hurriedly explained.

"I know that you are loyal to the government, for my sake, a few dollars may be just a drop in the bucket for us, but for these tenants is the income of one acre of land a year, they also have to pay various taxes, and there is very little left, these lands can be said to be their lives!" Zhao Ta said, "You will do a good job of statistics tomorrow, whose land you occupy, how much you occupy, you must reduce the tenant rent according to this year's harvest, and the ruined seedlings will also be compensated according to the price, don't let people scold us for being rich and unkind because of these things!" ”

"The little one understands, and immediately do what the second master instructs!" Zheng Lu bowed and said.

"Zheng Lu, you are now acting as the chief steward for the time being, don't just look at the small profits in front of you, now we see that we have suffered some losses, if our fields are not planted, then no matter how much land there is, it is also a wasteland, and we can't collect a penny, only by keeping people and letting them really use it for us, we can develop!" Zhao Ta saw that Zheng Lu was a little unconvinced, and if he didn't understand, he was just perfunctory, or he was passive after that, so he had to say a few more words to him.

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The matter on the construction site was finally resolved, the two super killers were handed over to Huang Jingchen to watch, the winery was watched by Xi and his uncle, Zhao Ta finally made time again, busy with his other things, and the wheat harvest season was two months away, and he wanted to complete his other 'invention' before this - semi-automatic harvester.

Zhao Ta is now researching a kind of harvesting machinery that uses animal power, this harvester is not only simple in structure, light to pull, and most of the material is wooden, using livestock as a power source, fast operation speed, high quality, and relatively simple maintenance, especially suitable for use in this era.

"This wheel is supposed to look like this, right? Why didn't I study it properly? Zhao Ta bitterly recalled the thing he had seen in his previous life, which was a pile of rags he saw in the warehouse when he was the head of the farm, and it was the most advanced agricultural equipment introduced at that time when the farm was founded, but when it was his turn, it had already been eliminated by more advanced mechanized equipment, and it was thanks to the previous directors for many years of unremitting efforts to carry forward the hard and simple tradition of the army, so that they were not disposed of as rags early, so that they and Zhao Ta had a relationship. ,

regretting that there was nowhere to take the medicine, Zhao Ta could only rely on his own foundation to learn machinery to try to restore the old animal power harvester. There is no physical reference, no information to learn from, and there are two completely different measurement standards that are even more infuriating, Zhao Ta first drew the general appearance of the harvester on the paper with his memory, and then broke it down into several parts one by one, but fortunately he was familiar with the principles of modern machinery, so he knew which major parts were needed, and finally dissected the large parts into more small parts.

"Damn, this is an imitation, it's purely a redesign!" Zhao Ta looked at a bunch of drawings drawn by himself on the table, there were more waste papers scattered on the ground, and he wanted to cry without tears and said to himself, the machine is about tight fit, each component can be accurately linked, as long as there is a part that is not suitable, it will be overturned and restarted, he has now stayed up for three days and nights and finally completed the preliminary design, whether it can be used or not depends on the prototype to know Lu Dao.

"Ahh Zhao Ta let out a long yawn, and his eyelids were uncontrollably sticking to one piece, "I'm still a child, I need enough sleep to grow taller, no matter what, let's sleep first and try it tomorrow, let's talk about it, do you know what you know!" Zhao Ta couldn't stand Brother Zhou's call, so he climbed into bed and comforted himself to play chess with him.

Another seven days passed, and one sunny morning Zhao Ta came to the workshop in the house again, and instructed everyone to put all the parts that had been done together, and assemble them according to his requirements, the structure of this thing was not complicated, and soon a strange thing more than seven feet long, more than five feet wide, and more than four feet high appeared in front of everyone.

"The second master made a sedan chair, right?" Zhang Liujin whispered to Zhang Erbao, the foreman next to him.

"No, I think it's a car, don't you see the wheels underneath!" Zhang Erbao shook his head and said.

"Well, the boss is right, I have long thought that this is a carriage designed by the second master, and you see I have carved flowers around!" Carpenter Qian Zhuang said with a smile.

"I don't know you at first glance, this is clearly a chariot, or there are a few discs in front of it, they are all bladed, and you can cut off the horse's hooves when you run on the battlefield!" Blacksmith Cao Shuangcheng pouted and said.

"Lao Cao, if you don't brag, you'll die, use this to fight, where is that person hiding, don't let the arrow shoot into a hedgehog!" Zhang Liujin said with a picture of what an idiot you are.

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Zhao Ta didn't have the heart to listen to a few guys guessing there, he checked the various parts of the harvester again, the wheel of the harvest, the divider, the cutter, the conveyor belt, and the transmission rod were all connected to the place, but these craftsmen added their own ideas on the basis of their own design, making the harvester look more nondescript, not only painted on the wooden frame, carved a few large peonies, but also traced with gold dust; Zhang Liujin probably felt that he had contributed the least force, so he not only pressed a few delicate small copper bells on the front of the car, but also decorated the wheels with copper sheets; Cao Shuangcheng is even more unique, he has the most work here, and every piece of iron is polished by him, shining, and looks like a mirror... Zhao Ta wiped his sweat, fortunately he didn't call a few silversmiths and jade craftsmen to come in, otherwise he might have to add something.

"Don't make any noise, you'll know what this is later, come over and push it a few steps!" After the inspection, the main parts were all in the place where they should be, and Zhao Ta shouted to a few people with a sigh of relief.

"Okay, I said it's a car, or you can push it!" Zhang Erbao said and called the guys to stand in their respective positions, pushing the harvester in the yard and turning around, after a period of squeaky and rattling, the sound gradually became quieter after some running-in, Zhao Ta lay on the frame and watched the coordination of various components, the operation was normal, and the place that should be moved could be moved.

"See, you're going to the stable and leading a horse to the garden, let's get this guy to the garden too!" The initial test went well, and Zhao Ta gained confidence and immediately ordered the field operation.

"Yes!" Seeing Xi has been watching from the side, he didn't step forward, although he didn't know that the prince of Lu Dao made a thing of a god horse, but he knew that Lu Dao must be a thing that can make a lot of money, otherwise the prince would not work so hard!

A group of people carried and carried to the garden, Zhao Ta took a look, more than half a month has not come is already a piece of flowers and willow green, full of spring, but he has no intention of appreciating, walked half a circle to see a 'string of red', now it grows about the same height as wheat, and it is planted in patches, just take them to the knife.

"Second master, what are you doing here?" Seeing that the prince let the prince lead the horse and drag a monster into the flowers, the old king of the gardener stopped doing it and stopped in front and said.

"Uncle Wang, this flower is not beautiful, I cut them, you replant them!" Zhao Ta pulled away Lao Wang with a smile, patted the horse's buttocks and said.

Lao Wang, who began to stomp his feet and sigh in distress, opened his eyes wider and wider, and saw that the monster entered the flowers, and where he walked by, a three-foot-wide bouquet of flowers was cut off one after another, and it turned half a circle on the conveyor belt and fell to the ground, lined up into a neat flower belt.

"Yay! It's a success! After two turns of the harvester among the flowers, a large bouquet was put down, and Zhao checked that as long as the height of the cutter was readjusted, it could be applied to the harvesting of the wheat field.

"Second master, what are you doing..." The craftsmen also understood, but they didn't know what the name of the road should be, Zhang Erbao asked stumblingly.

"This is called a rice and wheat harvester!" Zhao Ta grinned proudly and said with a big smile that the era of agricultural mechanization in the Great Song Dynasty was kicked off by himself.