"Is that machine that is connected to harvest rice only on flat land?"

Zhu Yuanzhang drank two more sips of wine, always thinking about a combine harvester that could reach 500 people.

"Yes, terraced and scattered fields also need to be harvested by hand, and if the working area is small, it is not suitable for this equipment." The lieutenant nodded.

"How many lakes are flat in Dongting Lake?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the place where he had suffered in water fights.

"Your Majesty is right, Huguang is located, two lakes plain, rice can be planted twice a year, cotton can be planted...... It is not recommended to plant cotton, because the village has no time to ponder the cotton harvester, and the cotton is ripening one after another, and there is no special medicine to ripen it.

In the Lianghu Plain area, including some plains in Guangdong, it is easy to grow rice twice a year, and if you do it three times, the fertilizer will not keep up.

Using the ploughing and planting equipment of a steam engine to plant and harvest it when it is ripe requires less manpower.

In this way, we can take advantage of local resources to raise more pigs and poultry, and can cover the needs of the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Since livestock and poultry are raised, they need feed, and rice husks are not suitable for direct feeding, so some areas can be divided to adopt wheat and soybean rotation. ”

A little bit more about Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong, there are still people there! With a small population and heavy fields, Ningguofu cannot grow rice twice a year.

Changsha Mansion, Yuezhou Mansion, Changde Mansion, Baoqing Mansion and other places are no problem, the problem is that the people are tired! It's not the same level as the Chinese New Year's Eve tax.

"It is true that the people should be allowed to do more things, farming is the most tiring, watching the sky and eating. We've lost a lot of money for them, and now ......."

Zhu Yuanzhang understood the meaning of the long words, and the people could use the local wheat bran and soybean seedlings, and the soybean cakes after squeezing the oil to feed pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese.

Then the land endowment can be reduced, and a large amount of land is officially used for steam planting and harvesting.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to say that now we are not afraid of some of the original people there rebelling again, including where Guangdong is located, but he feels ashamed to say it.

Queen Ma spoke up beside her: "Where there is water to pass through the boat, in the future, our Ming army will be deployed quickly, and the same will be true for transporting things."

This year's army will come back, take a break, and send it to various places next year to help the people get rid of illiteracy, so that the people know what the Ming Dynasty looks like now. ”

"My sister is right." Zhu Yuanzhang said that this is what it means, we are not afraid of them making trouble, we are fast in mobilizing troops, and we have powerful weapons.

And depending on where the people are not very stable, the number of sergeants sent to get rid of illiteracy can be increased, and while teaching people literacy and arithmetic, they can be responsible for keeping the people safe.

……

With the return of the Northern Tour, it seems that the days have returned to the way they used to be.

Zhu Fan went to Jubiqi every day to work, and the people of Xiaqiu Village were busy building things with craftsmen.

Most of the army was resting and studying, and a small number took advantage of the fact that the Yellow River had not yet reached the dry season to drive steam engine ships to Hukou Waterfall again and again to get oil.

By the way, they brought explosives and tools to build roads there, and the paths were smoothed so that the ships could be unloaded and changed to land transportation to deliver things.

In the past, it was a matter of interest to have to carry the ship to land, so why not stop the ship upstream and downstream, and then unload the cargo back and forth and transport it by other means before loading the ship?

How is the cargo on board counted? Sold up and down Hukou Waterfall? That doesn't sell for a good price.

Therefore, it is better to spend money to hire people to help the bones and wood walk, and then the cost is naturally put into the sales price.

At present, it is an official problem, there is no value of goods, and it is necessary to quickly get the oil downstream from Yanchang County to Yingtianfu.

Some of them were also asked by Zhu Fan to be placed next to his palace, and he saved a little at a time, thinking that there would be a lot of them when he became a feudal lord in the future, and asked the people of Xiaqiu Village to help build the factory.

Some information about the fiefdom, Zhu Fan transmitted it through the steam engine ship, don't look at the fact that he has not yet become a fiefdom, he is already influencing the development of the fiefdom.

Zhu Biao is under pressure, and the things that this second brother has dealt with all day long are beyond the scope of the unsettled prince.

Normal princes should study in the main hall, go to the barracks to see, exercise, etc.

The second brother is in charge of several transactions, has to approve documents every day, and worries about the operation of Xi'an Mansion.

As for learning, what else do you need to learn? A prince who is full of desire to work for the welfare of the people of the fiefdom and lead the people to a good life has mastered a lot of knowledge related to the specific livelihood of the people.

So what else do you have to teach him? Love the people? Who has his love!

His love is concrete actions, including mobilizing the people there to mine coal, make honeycomb coal, smelt iron, build stoves, stove tubes, and kang in people's homes......

He even ordered people to go to the villages and wipe out the barn with cement while the weather was hot.

Now Xi'an is waiting for the soybean harvest, and the people have few things to do, so they generally cook dried vegetables at home and just do their jobs.

After harvesting the beans, winter wheat should be planted, and the weather will be cold before the winter wheat is ripe next year, which is not suitable for plastering cement to dry the grain field, so it will be made out first this year.

In addition, he sent people to Pingyang Mansion, where there was a salt pond, and the salt produced was bitter, and he asked people to operate it according to the beach drying method, so as to facilitate the use of salt by the people of his fiefdom.

The distance between the two places is close, and the easternmost place in Xi'an is Huayin County, where Yanchi is more than 200 miles away.

However, from the salt pond to the nearest river, fifty miles, fifty miles of land repair, when you reach the river, you will go down the river and run to Huayin.

The second brother meant to repair it quickly, and he paid for the road repair, including the newly added various pools for drying salt, and he also took care of it.

After hearing that the third brother and the fourth brother knew, they were so anxious that they shouted, the fourth brother's Beiping was better, his team had stayed for a long time in the past, and the third brother's Taiyuan Mansion now has nothing!

It seems that the third brother has been eating at the box restaurant every day recently, and he doesn't say anything else, and after eating, he goes back to the deli to study the problem of cooked food, and looks at the account by the way.

……

"His Royal Highness King Jin is well!" During the summer heat, the chief took the children of Xiaqiu Village to the second floor in front of the box restaurant.

One is that everyone has been too busy recently, take a break, and the other is Zhu Li's business.

When Zhu Li went to Xiaqiu Village, he didn't mention anything else, just took his younger brothers and sisters to play, and then went to the box restaurant to eat every day at normal times.

It's clear that he's waiting for someone, hurry up!

"Good to the chief!" Zhu Li smiled, and finally waited.

"What does Your Highness want to eat?" The lieutenant asked.

"Let's call someone back to get the cooked food and have a drink! Drink beer, ask for ice-cold, go to the second brother to get it. "Zhu Li doesn't eat a boxed lunch anymore and wants to drink.

"Here, third brother, I'm here." Zhu Fan arrived, and the people from Xiaqiu Village came, and he promised to know that it was too close.

"Second brother!" Zhu Li said hello, he is only fifteen years old this year, Zhu Fan is seventeen, and he began to worry about his fiefdom.

Historically, they were not like this, they didn't know anything at that time, they studied in the main hall all day long, waiting for the people to provide for them after they arrived in the fiefdom.

Now it is different, both of them know that the people have to live a good life, and the fief will be rich, especially in business.

Tian has no choice but to collect thirty taxes and one grain unless it is other official land or something.

It doesn't matter, as long as the people have more food in their hands and raise more livestock and poultry, they have to circulate everything.

(End of chapter)