After keeping Dong Xiaowan by his side, Shen Shuren did not have any difficulties for strong people. Anyway, he has no shortage of women, and the girls around him can ask for it if they want, so there is nothing to say.

In the last ten days before the township exam, he still focused on riding and shooting every day, and his life was not happy.

However, Dong Xiaowan's statement that "he is willing to serve him by writing and arithmetic first, weaving and embroidery" inspired Shen Shuren.

Let him realize that there is nothing to do at the moment, and he can arrange some idle chess for farming and climbing science and technology first, and arrange some resources in advance for being a magistrate in the future.

People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries.

Thieves are rampant, in the final analysis, too many people are unable to eat and wear, everything that can improve productivity, can be speeded up as soon as possible.

And although the Shen family is rich, the speed of promotion that Shen Shuren hopes for is definitely unimaginable to his father Shen Tingyang. Therefore, the money prepared for him by the family may not be enough in the future. It is also necessary to climb technology to get some private room by yourself.

Today's Shen Shuren has basically figured out the scale of his family. The wealth of the Shen family is nothing more than two or three million taels, less than one-tenth of the Zheng family next door.

Anyone who has done business knows that most of the family property is fixed assets. For example, the Shen family's more than 100 large sea ships cost an average of thousands of taels each, so the boats alone accounted for thirty percent of the family property.

If the other manor and field workshops are removed, the liquid cash will not exceed 500,000 taels at most. This year, in order to pilot the transformation of Caoyun to the sea, my father himself had to leave a considerable part of the funds to be used up and down and advanced. It would be very good to be able to allocate 100,000 taels to Shen Shuren to buy official operations and subsidize his tenure.

Before Shen Shuren entered the national prison, although Yang Sichang greeted him, he still had to give the money, and it cost more than 2,000 taels of silver - this money was not collected by Yang Sichang, nor was it received by Wu Weiye, but was clearly marked by the imperial court.

As for the money needed to buy an official in the future, Shen Shuren also inquired, and the prisoner donated an official, even if it was an official with no real power, it would cost about four thousand taels. Because of factors such as the large inflow of silver and rising prices, the officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty were still relatively expensive.

If you want the deputy county level to hold real power, then it will start at least five or six thousand taels.

At the county or even the vice-government level, according to the size of the power, there are tens of thousands of taels.

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Shen Shuren was a liberal arts student in his previous life, and he was not good at steelmaking, cannon making, and glass.

However, he knows the truth that a gentleman is not a weapon, as long as he learns to find talents, attaches importance to talents, and the specific research and development work can be handed over to the people below, as long as he controls the general direction.

Therefore, after riding and shooting every day, when he returned to his house in the afternoon, he couldn't move and took out two or three hours to make plans in the study, and listed the farming projects that were relatively urgent and suitable for the layout at the moment.

Shen Shuren's first thought was to develop a little military technology such as steelmaking and making new gunpowder, after all, this thing has the fastest effect. But after pondering for two days, it was put on hold for the time being.

Conducting these studies in Nanjing is too much of a movement, and the identity of the prisoner is not suitable for recruiting talents. It is better to wait for the future to have a base, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and then it is better to climb military science and technology.

What's more, he has already set a small goal, and the first thing he will have to deal with after becoming a magistrate in the future is only the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, and these thieves are not good at weapons, and they don't need much ammunition to deal with them.

If you don't engage in the military industry, what you can do now is the science and technology of the people's daily food and clothing, these thresholds are relatively low, and the Shen family's own resources can be used as much as possible.

After Shen Shuren sorted it out, the first stage set the goal in two general directions: the layout and introduction of various high-yield species, and the improvement of textile labor efficiency.

The former is the easiest to think of, the end of the Ming Dynasty was the outbreak period of the introduction of crops from the Americas, but unfortunately the Ming Dynasty in history failed to quickly popularize and fully enjoy this dividend, but was picked up by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

It has been seventy or eighty years since corn was introduced to the Central Plains, and potatoes have been introduced for nearly twenty years. However, other perishable American vegetables, such as tomatoes, are not yet available in China, but peppers are available, mainly because peppers are easy to dry and seabed.

However, even if there are already grain crops in the Americas in the Central Plains, it is beneficial to continue to introduce preferred varieties and cross-breed to increase yields.

In addition, Shen Shuren is familiar with history and knows that at this point in the late Ming Dynasty, there are still many animal species worth introducing.

For example, the pigs of the Ming Dynasty were generally black-haired pigs. Although black pork was more expensive, fragrant and tasty in later generations, its growth rate and meat production efficiency were obviously inferior to those of British white pigs.

Even the 17th-century European and American white pigs have not undergone scientific breeding, but it is certainly helpful to introduce breeds, crossbreed them, provide more genetic diversity, and select the best of the best.

The same applies to chicken breeds. On the earth at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although there were no white-feathered chickens with extremely high meat production efficiency, some natural genetic sources of white-feathered chickens must have existed.

Historically, in the 1800s, the British developed a particularly fatty and fast-growing breed of chicken breast based on Indian cockfighting.

Although Shen Shuren doesn't know where to find these varieties, as long as he is in the right direction and focuses on the introduction of particularly fatty chicken breasts like KFC original chicken nuggets in later generations, he can always find them. In order for chickens to produce meat efficiently, the only way out must be that the chicken breasts are fattened, and other parts can no longer be developed.

As for the Chinese who don't like to eat chicken breast and think that it is too dry and too dry, this is not something that should be considered in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, so that more people can live is the first goal, and taste can be sacrificed.

In addition to pigs, chickens and ducks, there are also some species of fish that can be improved. Shen Shuren thought about it for a while, and the varieties of large fatty fish steaks and meats that were eaten in later generations and had no bones, as long as they were not raised by the Ming Dynasty today, they had to try their best to introduce them.

Whether it is dragon fish and saba fish in Southeast Asia, tilapia in Africa, or Qingjiang fish in the Americas. Regardless of whether the meat is good or not, as long as it is in line with the fast growth of meat and no ecological hazards, we must try our best to introduce it.

And in this field, the space that can be operated is also the largest. Because transporting freshwater fish across continents was something that previous navigators would hardly have considered. It is too expensive to keep the live fish alive alive and change fresh water frequently on a sea boat.

Only Shen Shuren understands the great value of the introduction of species, even if he spares no expense at the beginning, as long as he is planted, the subsequent geometric progression will be reproductive, and it will definitely be profitable.

After a round of listing, grains, vegetables, pigs, chickens, ducks and fish are all in the list of efforts to be introduced, but he did not consider cattle and sheep.

Cattle are used for farming in Daming, and eating meat is too wasteful. The price of sheep is high, much more expensive than pork, and sheep is no longer considered civilian food at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so it is impossible to introduce it.

What's more, cattle and sheep are the strengths of the northern grassland herdsmen, and Shen Shuren is also afraid that he will spend his energy on the improvement of cattle and sheep too early, in case it spreads, the tartars will be cheaper first, and then it will not be worth it.

On the one hand, he found Zheng Sen and discussed with the Zheng family, asking them to find a way to find overseas species that meet these conditions, and once they found it, the Shen family was willing to pay a lot of money to buy it, or the two sides would develop it together and share its benefits.

On the other hand, Shen Shuren also pondered that he could get a few new sea-going ships at home, and he could even ask the Zheng family or Hongmao Yangyi to buy them, and then hire some sailors from the Zheng family to be pilots, with the Shen family's own manpower, and go out for trade expeditions.

If this road is set back for half a year, it will be impossible for the Shen family to go through. Because since the early years of Chongzhen, the maritime trade territory of the Ming Dynasty has been clearly divided, the north of the Yangtze River estuary belongs to the Shen family, and the south of the Yangtze River estuary belongs to the Zheng family.

But now, Zheng Sen has been persuaded by Shen Shuren and sent to Nanjing as a hostage. Under the combination of grace and power, he asked the Zheng family to allow a small number of Shen family's sea ships to explore the south, and Zheng Zhilong did not dare to refuse. It's a big deal that the Shen family also gives some flag silver, so that Zheng Zhilong can get by on face.

Counting the voyage, even if everything goes well, it will take at least half a year to go back to India to find new species, at least more than a year to Africa, and two or three years to Europe and the United States.

After Shen Shuren made a plan, he wrote a letter to his father to buy a new ship and transfer sailors, and discussed with Zheng Sen on the other hand.

Zheng Sen is also a hot-blooded teenager now, knowing that this kind of thing is beneficial to the country and the people, so he tried his best to borrow family resources to help Shen Shuren get it together.

Anyway, the Zheng family is not at a loss, and they can reproduce themselves after they get their hands on the new species.

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The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now.

Some things are slow to work, but they will never come to fruition without starting.

After arranging the introduction of species, there is nothing to be done for the time being in agriculture. With the rest of this time, Shen Shuren turned his attention back to the handicraft industry.

Steelmaking and artillery can't be made, so start from the field with the most abundant resources and talents at hand.

Shen Shuren has no one else available at hand, just a Dong Xiaowan, who was born in Kaixiuzhuang, and is idle, so Shen Shuren has set his sights on the textile industry.

During the Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the climate was a little colder than normal, and the textiles of the poor people were definitely not enough to wear, and there was no overcapacity. If we can improve production efficiency and free up labor, we can get more people to fight and farm.

Of course, Shen Shuren will no longer let Dong Xiaowan ponder those high-end Suzhou embroidery, and the progress of luxury technology is worthless to the troubled times. In order to improve the textile industry, we must also start with the clothing fabrics of ordinary poor people such as Songjiang cotton.

Shen Shuren asked people to bring samples of various fabrics sold at home, as well as existing looms, to observe the production process and finished products every day. In just a few days, he also found a lot of problems.

The cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty is generally relatively narrow, the normal cotton cloth is only one foot eight inches wide, and there is a kind of cotton cloth called "three shuttle cloth" in Songjiang, which can only reach four feet wide, but it takes a very cumbersome loom to weave it, and a female worker can not do it.

A piece of cotton cloth one foot eight inches wide and five zhang long costs two pieces of silver.

The area of the four-foot-wide three-shuttle cloth is about 2.3 times that of ordinary cloth, but the price can reach 6 coins of silver, that is, three times that of ordinary cloth, which shows that the extra 0.7 times the premium is to pay for the extra width of the cloth.

When making clothes and quilts with wider cloth, there will be fewer cutting and sewing processes, less scrap and high utilization.

After seeing this situation, Shen Shuren inevitably asked Dong Xiaowan to think of a way to learn from him every day to see if he could improve the machine.

After all, Shen Shuren also found tailors to make clothes and saw fabrics in the 21st century in the 21st century. In later generations, there was no limit to the width of textiles, and it was okay to weave a roll of cloth a few meters wide.

According to the history books, it was the 1730s that Britain was the first to appear in the "flying shuttle", which solved the problem that the width of the cloth was restricted by the length of the manual shuttle.

As long as the cloth is widened, the weavers can multiply the textile products that can be produced under the same frequency of shuttle and warp labor, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

Shen Shuren roughly arranged the idea of inventing the "flying shuttle", and he himself became the shopkeeper and let Dong Xiaowan figure it out on his own.

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After explaining all the tasks of farming and climbing science and technology, the ten days passed quickly.

Chongzhen's 12-year township test also passed in the busyness of Shen Shuren. It wasn't until the day when the results were posted on the list that Shen Shu remembered this and accompanied Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu, and Guizhuang to see the list.

Zhang Huangyan should have been Chongzhen for fifteen years in history, but perhaps after befriending Shen Shuren, Shen Shuren provided him with a lot of new ideas, so that Zhang Huangyan's answering style and political attitude were more in line with this year's admission tendency.

All in all, Zhang Huangyan made a mistake, and he really did it three years in advance.

Guizhuang's knowledge is not bad, and it is not as shocking as Gu Yanwu, everything is in the usual exam.

And Gu Yanwu fell off the list as in history, and after falling off the list, Gu Yanwu was still very indignant, feeling that today's eight-strand style was too rigid, and complained to Shen Shuren that he would never take the test again in the future.

Shen Shuren was secretly happy that Gu Yanwu didn't take the test, so he just pulled him to be his staff.

As for his cousin Zhang Huangyan, if he passed the exam, he can also find a way to buy Zhang Huangyan an official, go to Shi Kefa to get an errand first, and help Shen Shuren establish a foothold in Anhui first, as a base for fighting thieves in the future.

"Congratulations to my cousin in high school, Brother Gu, don't be discouraged, the exam is over, let's go to the Qinhuai River to drink for a few days to relax. In today's troubled times, no matter whether you are in the middle or not, you have the opportunity to serve the country and save the people. ”

Shen Shuren pondered while comforting Gu Yanwu, who was not on the list.

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PS: Because of some trivial farming plots that are slow to work, I stuffed them into a running account. Quickly pass it. Readers who read historical texts, basically, have read science and technology farming dozens or hundreds of times, and I will definitely be suspected of irrigating and taking information to make up the numbers if I write too much. So just write a layout thinking logic, and skip everything else.