Seeing that Zhang Zheng's attitude was gentle, he did not have the domineering and sharp appearance after being promoted to the Lord.

Liu San didn't know how in his heart, but suddenly relaxed. The sense of restraint in my heart is gone, and my speech is much more casual.

He directly explained his intentions: "Uncle, it was the brothers who sent me to ask you, does the land around the factory still need to be cultivated this year?" "Today, because of last year's locust plague, the land around the printing plant has not been planted for the second season of millet planting.

So the land in Zhuangzi has been barren for half a year. Now most of the people in the village have entered the factory to work, and if they want to continue farming, they are afraid that they will not be able to transfer so many people.

In addition, these lands are now Zhang Zheng's fiefdoms, so Liu San will come to the mansion to ask Zhang Zheng.

When Zhang Zheng heard this, he didn't talk to him for the first time. Instead, he thought about it and asked, "What do the farmers say, do they want to farm or produce in the factory?" Liu San scratched his head and replied with some embarrassment: "Some people still want to produce in the factory, but there are also some brothers who think that farmers can't leave the land. Zhang Zheng bowed his head lightly when he heard this, this is human nature.

After all, farming is the main business in this era. It is the nature of farming people to dig in the land. But farming means that people have to be transferred from the factory, and the production of the factory will definitely be affected.

And since Liu San came to the mansion to ask for his own ideas, it means that the people who want to farm must still occupy the majority.

It's just that they're not too embarrassed to talk to themselves. This question really stumped Zhang Zheng. Zhang Zheng looked thoughtful, there are so many closed accounts for himself.

If you want to farm, you have to give up factory production. If you want to increase the production of the factory, you have to give up spring ploughing. Half of the people go to farm, and half of the people go to keep the plant running.

It will only cause the income of the factory to meet expectations, and the food grown is not enough to eat. What a dilemma.

Although Zhang Zheng knew that if he asked the farmers not to farm, they would also obey his orders.

But Zhang Zheng knows better that his strength alone will never be able to confront the people. Zhang Zheng pondered for a while, and asked Liu San: "Uncle Liu, I want to hear the truth, how many people want to go back to farming now, and how many people are willing to continue to work in the factory?" Liu San didn't dare to hide it, got up and replied: "Back to Uncle, almost most people still feel that there is food at home, and they don't panic. Zhang Zheng nodded, it seemed that everyone wanted to go back to farming.

It also reflects a problem from the side, that is, working in a factory does not bring them enough security.

After all, it is not as good as filling your own rice tank with grain. Fortunately, the textbooks needed by the Royal Academy have almost been printed, and Zhang Zheng immediately made a decision.

"Okay, since everyone wants to go back to farming, let's farm, except for the printing of newspapers, everything else in the factory has been stopped." Although he knew that this would cause him a lot of losses, Zhang Zheng still decided to obey the opinions of most people.

Money can be earned when it's gone, but people's hearts can't be scattered. Seeing Zhang Zheng's decision, Liu San showed a smile on his face, he also wanted to farm.

Spring ploughing can be carried out in one month, and spring ploughing is the most important thing of the year. Preparations for spring ploughing must begin now.

When Liu San got the accurate news, he didn't want to wait for a moment, got up and arched his hand to Zhang Zheng and said, "Uncle Yingming, then I'll go back and tell them now." Zhang Zheng saw Liu San's resolute appearance and said with a smile: "Don't worry! Stopped Liu San, Zhang Zheng called over the housekeeper Liu Er and instructed: "Liu Er, you and Liu Sanbo go together." Tell the farmers that this year's spring ploughing grain, tools, and cattle are all covered by our county's Bofu. Then I picked out a few leaders, divided the farmers into groups, and led them to meet me. Since you want to farm the land, let's plant a little more and plant all the surrounding land! ”

"Yes!" Liu Er and Liu San bowed down at the same time to receive the order. Then he exited the guest hall and walked in the direction of the factory.

The two walked out of the door, and Zhang Zheng immediately returned to the study. Since it has been decided to farm, a small fight will definitely not be possible.

If you want to plant, you can plant more! This large area along the Wei River is now its own fiefdom, and in previous years the farmers had cultivated less than a tenth of the area.

Let them make a little fuss by themselves, which is completely inconsistent with Zhang Zheng's expectations. So Zhang Zheng decided in an instant to gather people to do large-scale planting.

And if you want to plant on a large scale, you need to have large livestock and ploughs. There is no shortage of large cattle earls' mansions, but the plough used in the Tang Dynasty now is still the same straight plough as in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Not to mention the low efficiency of the straight plow, the depth of the plough is also very limited. It's simply a thankless example.

In the past, Zhang Zheng had no plans to farm, so he went with him. But now that he has decided to lead the farmers to grow grain on a large scale, it is time for the Quyuan plough to appear.

So when Zhang Zheng returned to the study, the first thing he did was to draw a drawing of Qu Yuan Plow. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Zheng put down the pen again, and after a while, the drawings of the waterwheel and the water mill also appeared in front of Zhang Zheng's eyes.

These three things were originally the starting capital prepared by Zhang Zheng for the Agricultural College. But now spring ploughing waits for no one, and Zhang Zheng has no choice but to let them come out in advance.

Quyuan plough is a thing that has no technical content in later generations. With the exception of some remote mountainous areas that are still in use, most of the plains have been replaced by large machinery.

But in Datang, it is a sacred object with epoch-making significance. The later Zhao Dynasty was able to feed more than twice the population of the Tang Dynasty with a quarter of the land area of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to the introduction of three-crop rice from Southeast Asia, the quyuan plough also played a very important role in it.

Take the straight plow as an example, a straight plow requires two large animals and one strong labor force to operate. The efficiency of ploughing the ground is far from achieving the effect that a strong laborer and two large animals should achieve.

What's more, in this era, not all families have large livestock, and more rely on manpower. However, the curved plough only needs an ox and a strong labor force to plough the land.

The efficiency is more than twice as high as that of the straight plow. With the drawings drawn, Zhang Zheng recruited the carpenters in the house to start making.

The drawings are simple, because the construction of the curved plough is also simple. It is nothing more than changing the straight and long wheels of the straight plough to curved and short wheels.

Then install a freely rotating plough plate at the head of the wheel. But it's this small change that not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also makes the plowshare easier to turn and turn.

The operation is suddenly flexible, which can greatly save manpower and livestock.