Chapter 57: Qu Yuan Plow
This week is coming to an end again, and the results of this book are really speechless. Tenderness, though, will try to write it down. I hope you can support it more, collect, recommend, click, reward, and evaluate, no one is missing!
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After beating the servants inside the village, Li Anran did not make too many changes in specific matters. The most important thing is to let Zhao Er take his mother-in-law from the county seat, take care of his own diet, and by the way, also bring the dogs who live in Zhao's family, and save the family of three from worrying about living in two places day and night.
In addition, it is to clarify the hygiene in the village, the work requirements and responsibilities of each "functional department", and set the rules of rewards and punishments. The rules are simple but very strict, if you do well, you will be rewarded a lot, but if you don't do it well, you will be punished harshly.
Li Anran's idea is very simple, he has the ability to travel back and forth between two time and space, and money is not a problem at all. However, if there is a reward, it will promote greed and dissatisfaction, and the "big stick" alone will damage its own foundation, or the method of holding a "carrot" in one hand and a "big stick" in the other is the most applicable.
After getting rid of the people in the courtyard, Li Anran was not idle, he sat directly in the front hall, and asked the newly successful housekeeper Wang to call the bankers who already belonged to him in batches according to their age and personal prestige, or cheer for homely things, or ask some needs and ideas. It's a pity that the ancients attached great importance to the dignity and inferiority of status, and almost no one dared to say anything.
For such a situation, Li Anran is not surprised. Anyway, the current batch of dealers is only the first batch of people to start their own planning, and there will not be much to do, let alone any core content. It's a good thing to be so honest, as long as you're yourself
All you need is obedient enough subordinates, and those who are too assertive are not a good thing.
After communicating with these farmers, at the suggestion of the Wang Guanjia, Li Anran picked ten more satisfactory houses and divided the seeds he brought.
Although these seeds do not have sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, which can make the agriculture of Datang time and space develop by leaps and bounds, they have a lot of vegetables with good yields. For example, the first wolf peach that was first misunderstood as poisonous is the brightly colored, sweet and sour tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants, pumpkins and other varieties.
The reason for doing this is out of selfishness, wanting to solve the problem of the lack of food varieties in ancient times, so as to satisfy his appetite. Second, I also want to see if these seeds that have passed through time and space travel can be planted, and at the same time, I want to see if these seeds will change like myself and the properly raised chicken after time and space travel.
In addition to these two main reasons, the last thing is to use these vegetables that have not yet appeared in the country in the Tang Dynasty time and space, as well as the follow-up greenhouse techniques to create a "auspicious rui" that is enough to make His Majesty the Tang Emperor happy. Even if Li Anran's various mysterious deeds have attracted enough attention, otherwise many things would not have gone so smoothly, but this kind of "auspiciousness" that benefits the country and the people will always be too little.
Li Anran also knows very well that these vegetable varieties he brought have either not appeared in the Tang Dynasty or new varieties that have been improved in later generations. The planting methods of these varieties are not clear to people in this era, so I deliberately wrote down the planting methods and precautions that I had searched for in advance. It's just that after writing several planting instructions, I regret not bringing the printer with me.
Thinking of the printer, Li Anran thought of his four treasures shop in Lantian County. Although it has not yet reopened, it is bound to reopen when the staff is fully filled. At that time, I can also order some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and related books and commodities from modern time and space to sell.
After writing down the planting methods and precautions, considering that the literacy rate of the ancient people was really low, Li Anran asked Steward Wang to bind the things he had written into a book, and then invited the two literate tents in the village yard to teach them one by one according to the previous plan that each household was responsible for planting one variety.
It's just that Li Anran was a little surprised that when he met with these dealers separately, he didn't know who had spread the story of his previous tiger killing feat. As a result, not only the farmers who suffered from the tiger at home were grateful to Dade, but even those who were not harmed by the tiger were also grateful. Although this kind of emotion did not make the whole villa unified, it at least made the first step to take over the villa very steady, and at the same time it had a certain prestige and fame.
As the saying goes, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.
For the selected ten households, Li Anran gave a certain amount of compensation while assigning the planting task. Every laborer will be paid a very good salary every day compared to the current year. In addition, this kind of thing is usually busy and tired at the beginning, and after the things grow, there are some things left to take care of and maintain. The mother-in-law, the elderly, and the little ones in the family can take over the care of their own fields even if they can't help. Moreover, it is summer again, and the farming side is not very busy in the first place, and no one will be stupid enough to disagree with the extra income.
After finalizing the matter of vegetable planting, Li Anran asked Steward Wang to find a few cottages in the villa that knew how to work as a carpenter. Because the fields in Zhuangzi are basically in a state of use, even if some of them are not used, they are all in a state of fallow. In ancient times, there were no chemical fertilizers in later generations, and even the use of natural fertilizers was limited, and in order to maintain the fertility of the land, it was generally cultivated for a year and then fallow for a year. If you want to grow these vegetables you brought, you naturally have to find another place.
Fortunately, in addition to the 6,000 acres of fields, Zhuangzi, which has been renamed Xiaoyao Mountain Villa, actually includes a lot of wasteland and mountain forests. But reclaiming wasteland was not an easy task for the peasants of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in order to make this work more smooth and fast, and at the same time to further enhance his own importance, Li Anran took out a big killer in the field of ancient agriculture, Quyuan plow.
Compared with the ancient plough, there are several major improvements. First of all, the straight wheel, the long wheel is changed to the curved wheel, the short wheel, and the plow disc that can rotate freely is installed at the head of the wheel, so that not only the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, but also is convenient for turning and turning, the operation is flexible, and the manpower and animal power are saved. This thing first appeared in the Dongjiang area in the late Tang Dynasty, and it can be said that the appearance of this plough is a milestone in the maturity of China's farming tools.
In fact, with the technology of modern time and space, Quyuan Plough has long been eliminated. If you really want to speed up the development of agriculture in the villa, Li Anran can bring some light agricultural machinery from modern time and space. Anyway, almost all of these agricultural machinery are powered by diesel, and they don't have to worry about power generation, power transformation, power storage and maintenance like household appliances. However, it is no problem for these agricultural machinery to be used by themselves, but it is obviously not suitable if they can be promoted.
Not to mention how much value the material "steel" of these agricultural machinery is in the eyes of the ancients, once it is promoted, even if it can make a lot of money in diesel, but this kind of large-scale leap in development is bound to touch some sensitive issues, and at the same time, it will be quite troublesome in terms of maintenance. The most important thing is that it is not good for yourself at all.
The structure of the Quyuan plough is not complicated, and before this crossing, Li Anran made enough preparations and specially bought some tape measures as a tool for unifying weights and measures. In this way, the curved plough can naturally achieve the size of the unity, once some parts are damaged, it can also play a great role in replacement and maintenance.
After teaching these farmers who know how to carpenter how to use a tape measure, and carefully explaining the structure of the curved plow, Li Anran did not forget to ask these farmers not to be afraid of failure, and to do it several times until they succeed. And, in order to boost morale, a reward of ten yuan was also specially promised, and whoever can make the first Quyuan plow will get this money.
(There's been some Kavin lately, and this chapter is too dry.) Because gentleness is the first time to write a historical theme, there must be a lot of shortcomings, so, I hope you can forgive me, and give a lot of support, thank you. )