Chapter 40 The Curved Plough and the Ox Nose Ring
Li Yuan personally sent Gao Buer home, and the two made an appointment to meet at Baqiao early the day after tomorrow before saying goodbye. Li Yuan will take the whole family to take the whole family to take up the post the day after tomorrow, and Gao Buer will prepare to return to Luoyang.
Zhiqin and Bosom Friend saw that Gao Buer was a little drunk, so they served him to wash his face, and Xiao Yu, who didn't know when he came over, said: "Brother-in-law, Li Yuan, how did you two meet?" ”
"You're embarrassed to ask, it's been a few days since you returned to the capital, and you said that you would introduce it to me, it's not reliable."
"Brother-in-law, you can't blame me, who knows that as soon as I come back and report to Your Majesty about the construction of Luoyang, Your Majesty will immediately issue an order to start implementing it, and at the same time, I am also preparing to expand several granaries in Luoyang, and the food in the capital is always not enough."
"With a population of 1 million, relying on grain from the south to the north alone, this is a big project, do you want to make a contribution?"
"Ask my brother-in-law for advice."
"The key to the grain problem is still the land problem, and there are many places that can be opened up in the Guanzhong Plain, and if more wasteland can be cleared, the self-sufficiency rate can reach 780 percent, so that the pressure on water transportation will be much less. Now I see that people still use direct ploughs to open up wasteland, most of them are still manpower, so the speed of land reclamation is too slow, in fact, it will be faster to improve the speed of land reclamation, that is, use the curved plow, give you drawings. ”
Xiao Yu looked like a treasure.
Gao Buer said: "At present, the grain yield per mu cannot go up, because the direct plough we use is too shallow, and the crops are not easy to take root. ”
"Brother-in-law is really talented, why can't I think of this method?"
Gao Buer glanced at him and said, "You go to the green building less, walk in the fields more, read more books, you can be so smart." ”
"That's a lot of trouble, if you have a problem, you can just go to your brother-in-law, haha."
"Fuck off."
Xiao Yu naturally wouldn't roll, rubbing his hands and smirking, completely immersed in this peerless achievement.
Gao Buer continued: "The current ploughing cattle are not on the nose ring, so it is difficult to control, this is the cow nose ring diagram, you go to build it, tomorrow bring a ploughing cow, with a craftsman, the ox nose ring to find me, I will tell you how to get it, so that no matter how strong the ox can honestly plow the field." Hurry up, and I'll go back to Luoyang the day after tomorrow. ”
"So a beef cow can also be turned into a ploughing cow, okay, okay, you rest brother-in-law first, I will let people make these two things overnight, and I will come to you tomorrow." The voiced man had disappeared outside the door.
The next day, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, Xiao Yu knocked on the door, Zhiqin welcomed him into the house, and he was heard shouting from afar: "Is my brother-in-law up?" ”
"Go back to the sixth master, not yet, the bosom friend has already gone to call the master, please sit down for a while."
After a while, Gao Buer walked out with sleepy eyes, and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't you know that I drank last night, and it disturbs people's dreams before dawn?" ”
Xiao Yu's face was tired but refreshed, obviously excited about this great achievement, she didn't sleep all night, and said with a smile: "I don't see that brother-in-law, you miss my sister, and you are anxious to return, for fear of delaying your trip, so I didn't sleep last night and finished the ox nose ring, but this quyuan plough has to wait." ”
"You didn't leak it."
"Brother-in-law, don't worry, the craftsmen used are all our own, and they are made in the manor outside my city."
"Okay, what about the craftsmen and ploughing cattle I asked you to prepare?"
"Knowing that brother-in-law you love cleanliness, and you are at the door if you don't come in?"
While talking, he saw Zhiqin and Zhiyin coming over with a basin, Gao Buer said to Xiao Yu: "Okay, you go and let people make a fire, fix the cow, and then call me when it's done, and I'll wash my face." ”
Xiao Yu immediately went out to arrange according to what Gao Fuji said.
After Gao Buer cleaned up, he came out to see Xiao Yu directing everyone to be busy, and there were many people around, Gao Buer asked the craftsman who came with Xiao Yu: "You know the cartilage in the middle of the cow's nostrils." ”
"Back to the master's words, the villain has been with the cow since he was a child, and he knows the habits of the cow in his heart."
"That's good, after a while the cow is fixed, you use pliers to hold the red-hot cow nose ring to put on the cow, although a little cruel, but it is indeed a very effective cattle control technique, I see that there are more cattle from the street grassland, but can not control the cultivated land, once this method is promoted, it is a great merit."
"Sir, please rest assured."
Xiao Yu said to Gao Buer: "Brother-in-law, it's okay." ”
Gao Fuji motioned for the craftsman to begin.
I only heard the sound of the cow shaking the sky, and the crowd moved forward, not knowing what to do with such a cruel tossing cow.
After the tea, the cow's wail was lowered, and Xiao Yu happily said to Gao Fuji: "Brother-in-law, it's done, how to get it next." ”
Gao Fuji approached, took the reins that had been prepared from the servant, and tied them to the bull's nose ring, and the surrounding crowd was full of discussions.
"What is this doing?"
"I heard it's cattle training."
"How can you train cattle so cruelly, there is blood everywhere, and it has been trained in two busy farming seasons in my hands."
Hearing the crowd talking, the corners of Gao Buer's mouth twitched, girl, is the yield per mu in your land very high? There are also two busy farming seasons to train, and by then people are starving to death.
When the frightened cow stabilized, Gao Buer let people untie the shackles on the cow and let everyone stay away, the cow saw that there was no restraint, and immediately lost his temper.
Xiao Yu saw that this method really worked, and immediately stepped forward to try it, and tamed the cow as soon as he got started, laughed and thanked Gao Fuji, and took the cow into the palace.
Before leaving, Gao Buji whispered to him that he should go and receive the reward, and don't tell him. Xiao Yu knew that he didn't like to be in the limelight, so he nodded in agreement.
After breakfast, Gao Buer wanted to continue to visit the capital again, but as soon as he walked to the door, he met the attendant who came to announce the decree, and said: "Your Majesty has a decree, and the Xuanqi person Gao Buer enters the palace." ”
Gao Buer was quite speechless, followed the inner servant into the palace, and saw Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, for the first time, and he didn't have any intention of making friends with this Yang Jian, after all, this product was a hard job, and he was afraid of the tigress Dugu Jialuo when he was alive, and he was put together by his good son Yang Guang on his deathbed, which is quite sympathetic.
Originally, Xiao Yu wanted to take all the credit on himself according to what Gao Buer said, but how could the two things he took out be invented by a child like him, Yang Jian asked again and again, and then did not explain the reason, not only was it useless but could be punished, so he pushed Gao Buer out.
Yang Jian is also very good buddy, Xuan Gao Fuji went to the palace to ask the purpose of Longyan Dayue, originally wanted to recruit Gao Fuji into Sinong Temple, but Gao Fuji traveled to the capital, couldn't bear to see the people starving, only to offer tools to the top, did not dare to take credit, but also to return home to get together with his wife, so he resolutely did not accept, and then the emperor gave him merit, named a viscount, and a bounty of 10,000 taels.
Xiao Yu was promoted to three levels in a row because of his dedication, and was awarded the title of General of the Left Prison Gate, and the official position under the third grade. Everyone was happy.
Soon, the ox nose ring and the Quyuan plough were under the auspices of Sinong Temple and implemented the world.