Chapter 182: It's Time to Take the Final Step
If it was said that he didn't believe it because he didn't believe it before, then now Liu Che can't find any reason not to believe it anymore.
He didn't believe what Liu Ponu said, and he still didn't believe what Liu Ponu calculated.
But the tractor ran round and round in front of him, never stopping.
The five people on the tractor sat on it all the time, never stepping down even half a step.
According to this trend, it only takes an hour and a half to complete the standard march of the infantry.
If the whole army were equipped with such tractors, how far would they be able to march in a day?
Two hundred miles?
Or three hundred miles?
All soldiers can sit in the body behind the tractor, which ensures maximum physical savings during the march, and can be immediately put into battle with little repair on the battlefield.
This is the real speed of soldiers......
Perhaps the only thing that needs to be questioned is how long this thing will last without breaking?
But no matter what, Liu Ponu once again broke some of his cognitions, and also made Liu Che gradually realize that he seemed to be outdated?
This is an illusion, but under the huge gap, Liu Che still has to think seriously.
"This tractor is good, but there are places where iron is used everywhere, and the current production capacity can't keep up at all, so you have a big problem for me......" Liu Che looked at Liu Ponu meaningfully, and seemed to be thinking about the possibility of a certain decision in his mind.
"It's a shame that you've been the emperor for so many years, so this thing is stumped for you?" Liu Ponu was still lying lazily on the ground, a short sleep could not make him fully recover, although he was not very tired physically, but mentally tired was real.
Based on the current feeling, Liu Ponu feels that he can't slow down this momentum without ten days and half a month.
Although the steam machine reached a bottleneck, fortunately, it changed its strategy in time and came up with an emergency solution first.
Although the Stirling engine has all kinds of drawbacks, but the benefits are not without it, and if it is only used for ploughing land for civilian use, its efficiency is enough.
Moreover, the structure is simple, convenient for maintenance, and at the same time, it also saves raw materials to the greatest extent during manufacturing.
The main reason why Liu Ponu was able to get it out so quickly was because of the structure of a two-wheeled walk-behind tractor, which allowed him to save the research and design of the rudder, and at the same time solved the problem of different speed differences between the two wheels.
Next, Liu Ponu will focus on the improvement of the Stirling engine and the research of the steam engine, but he no longer has to go into it day and night to study as before.
"Raw materials are not enough, then find a way to increase the output of raw materials, now the biggest problem facing the mining area is the insufficient supply of coal for iron smelting, and the supply of coal is mainly due to a series of reasons such as long transportation distances, transportation difficulties and other reasons caused by the high cost."
"Let's build a batch of tractors to transport charcoal to the ironworks, won't the problem of insufficient charcoal be greatly alleviated? And after this batch of tractors is put into operation, the team that originally needed a hundred people to transport it now only needs twenty or thirty people, and the rest of the people can be put into mining to increase production? ”
"The same is true for iron mines, originally the young and strong were responsible for mining, and the women, children, and children were responsible for transporting them out, but now everyone is simply used for mining, and the transportation work is handed over to the tractor to be responsible, although the old and young women and children are not the main force of mining, but it is better than nothing, how can these people add up to a young and strong labor force in a day, right?"
"In this way, won't the raw material output of iron ore and coal come up? This is where the second step of the program can be carried out to further liberate agricultural labor and transform it into industrial labor. ”
"The first step is to make tractors from the increased production capacity, and then put them into the counties where the iron ore and coal mines are located.
"If you want to do it, you can do it all at once, and put it directly into a ......saturated state," Liu Ponu said seriously.
As long as the steps are planned and the correct development sequence is formulated, the result will be the same as the nesting doll, one by one, and there will be no problems with the connection, as smooth as milk.
Money?
Although money is omnipotent, in this era when imperial power is greater than heaven, money is the most useless thing.
In addition, Liu Ponu's plan for the next series of developments, the essence of which is to increase farming yields, is the top priority, although Liu Ponu's original intention is not only around farming.
But there is no doubt that the purpose of this stage is to ensure agricultural production, and everything else is incidental value.
Therefore, under this premise, the high agricultural output gives you an opportunity to make money to support your family as long as you are willing to work hard, and the people have no reason to stand up against it.
Unless the person has other intentions, but that's another story.
"Saturated?" Liu Che looked at Liu Ponu with a little puzzlement.
"That is, under the normal personnel ratio, there is no need to invest any additional manpower, and the cultivated land of the entire county can be turned over within the specified time."
"In this way, each family can liberate at least one young and strong labor force, so that they can completely leave cultivation and invest in other industries, and a county can at least transfer more than 10,000 young and strong people, which is basically enough for the time being." Liu Ponu said calmly.
With the lessons of history, Liu Ponu will not say how bold and prolific people are, and development is to come step by step, step by step.
Liu Ponu has no ability to make hybrid rice, and he is not able to make the yield of one mu of land reach the level of thousands of catties.
The only thing he can do is to make up for quality with quantity, so that the arable land will not be wasted.
Developing the population?
There was no need for this at all, Liu Ponu never mentioned any words about population development from beginning to end, and Liu Che did not mention it either.
Because all those who understand know very well in their hearts that the population does not need to be deliberately developed, as long as agriculture is done well, so that the people have endless food in their warehouses, they will give birth to themselves, and there is no need for you to urge them.
After all, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, after all, it is the wish of every old man to have more children, and having more children is also a manifestation of filial piety.
Needless to say when there are no conditions, now that there are conditions, what is there to worry about?
"The speed of this model may be a little slow in the first few years, maybe a year, maybe two or three years to complete the goal of two counties, but just like a snowball, as long as the goal of two counties is completed, the speed will be faster and faster, when the deployment of one county is completed, one county will be solved at one time in the next year, and two or even three counties will be solved in the next year!" Liu Ponu continued.
At the same time, Liu Ponu also began to gradually join some thinking routines of later generations.
I believe that after such a long period of brainwashing and blowing, Liu Che should have a certain degree of acceptance of this.
So he continued: "I plan to use fifteen years to complete this goal, and even a longer-term goal, dividing it into three five years, the first five years, let one county in each of the thirteen states in the world complete the goal of replacing human cultivation with tractors, the second five years, let five counties in each of the thirteen states complete, and the third five years, on the territory of the Han Dynasty, as long as the terrain allows, all the upgrades will be completed." ”
"Then have you ever wondered if the people can afford such a tractor?" Liu Che suddenly asked, although he had been persuaded by Liu Ponu's thinking, there was still a key problem that had not been solved.
"Buy? Why let them buy it? Liu Ponu smiled, it seems that this bad old man has misunderstood me a lot, where do you see that I am a person who sees money?
Although I, Liu Ponu, also like money, I only earn what I should earn, and I only earn money with conscience.
"All tractors are owned by the government, and the people don't need to pay for them, so let them pay for them to rent them when farming, and then negotiate a price that everyone can accept."
"I object to the prince leasing the new plough to the people because it will disrupt the market and not help the recovery of costs, but the tractor is different, and the people can't use it once a year when they buy it, right? What if it breaks? And if it is not used for a long time, the machine will rust, and when they want to use it in the next year, it will basically not be far from being scrapped, and this price is not something they can afford. ”
"But the government has it is different, on weekdays, these tractors are used for various transportation tasks, a year of farming is just one month, the tasks of this month are evenly spread to eleven months, and a little more work is done every month so that the mining area can support the normal production of this month, and then these tractors will be transferred out as to make extra money."
"And that's not all, in case of a sudden outbreak of war, these tractors can be immediately dispatched to transport supplies to the front line, and can even undertake the task of directly transporting soldiers to the front line, and the soldiers will even hit the enemy like lightning, and the battle will end when the enemy has not yet reacted...... "The more Liu Ponu said, the more excited he became, and it was not impossible to carry out a blitzkrieg in the Han Dynasty with a tractor.
If I put on a circle of planks and cover it with a layer of iron sheets, isn't it an armored car, and at the level of war in these years, won't my armored car still be crushed?
"Well, that's a good ......" Liu Che nodded with a smile on his face, and his heart was even more happy, just based on Liu Ponu's plan, he could judge that Liu Ponu would not be too bad in other aspects.
And this kid is so good at playing matryoshka dolls, many times if he doesn't say it, even Liu Che can't guess what this kid wants to do.
Quyuan plough must be sold, it can make money, and it can be accepted by the people, the most important thing is that it is useless for the government to keep it, it can be used for that month in a year, and it has to be maintained, it is a lot of money every year, the government is not willing to give it up, but the people are very willing.
The tractor can't be sold, because it doesn't necessarily stop for a day all year round in the hands of the government, and doing farm work is just a way to earn some extra money, and more importantly, it can be connected seamlessly.
It can even be said that the transport team raised on weekdays is a ready-made baggage team in wartime, and it can do the work without the need for the imperial court to recruit conscripts, and it can do it very well, and it may not even affect the normal work, at most it will affect some areas, and during the war, this loss is completely acceptable.
"You put forward the plan, then you will be fully responsible......" Liu Che was very relieved to hand over this matter to Liu Ponu to be responsible.
Of course, Liu Che also knew very well in his heart that he had given Liu Ponu the power to be in charge of things, so he should be given the corresponding power.
And now, it's time to address the last one......