The 'Buzzing ......' steam engine was struggling to generate electricity, and the entire Shijiu Lake, including the people on the opposite bank, were running over to wait for a feast.

Everyone looked at the electric light, and then looked at the two tireless big guys in the distance, who always harvested soybeans, and there was a dreamlike feeling.

"Tomorrow, I will assemble the machine for plowing and help everyone plow the field where the soybeans have been harvested and prepare to plant winter wheat."

Zhu Yuanzhang was happy when he saw the surprised looks of the people.

The Ming Dynasty lacks population, and many lands are barren and uncultivated, and the more barren it is, the more people are willing to plant, and the more land is not planted, the worse it is.

Especially if there is no one in the surrounding area, then no one runs to live in the house that he built himself.

Now that there are good machines, it is possible to send troops over, and there is no need for a large number of people anyway.

"The people of our two villages can be regarded as able to take a break." Huang Lichang is also happy, who wants to bend down and cut bean seedlings with a sickle?

Soybean seedlings are harder to cut than wheat and rice, and they are harvested from morning to night on the first day, and they wake up sore the next day, and they have to go to the field to continue cutting even if they grit their teeth.

If you plant beans on 20 acres of land, you have to cut them for a month, and two acres a day is the best time to calculate.

Obviously, a month is not good, and if the wheat planting is delayed, then the elderly, daughters-in-law, and children in the family will have to go into battle.

Okay now, wait for two devices on this side, and one device on the other side to help.

Three big guys, you can cut out 500 acres in a day, let's see where it is not good to use a machine to cut, and take a sickle to solve it together.

"Your Majesty, let's leave the manpower and assemble two more! Use the parts, instead of putting the parts, it is better to call everyone. ”

Li Chang calculated, there is still a lot of land, when planting soybeans, the people here are rich, willing to give up the seeds, it is estimated that this year waiting for the harvest, may have to hire people.

This large-scale planting, without equipment, can really not move, can exhaust people to death.

"Your village is also going to harvest soybeans, do you want our people to take a sickle to collect it for you? Ah! This war was fought by natural and man-made disasters, and people were lost and the land was wasted. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned Xiaqiu Village, where there are still large areas of soybean planting! The soybeans there will be used as seeds to other places, and the yield will be high.

"There is a smelting place in Xiaqiu Village, and we have many craftsmen, so we use small steam engines to make some equipment in the place, and there are many of them, and the efficiency is just as high. Therefore, we should cherish the time when we are not fighting, look at where there is instability, and try to provide food and clothing. ”

There is a way to do it, as long as there are craftsmen and materials, other problems are not a problem.

At the same time, he followed up with the war, which had been fought for seventeen years.

Moreover, before the war, there were many natural disasters, the Yellow River was broken, the drought in arid places, the water in places where water, and the corruption of officials, finally some people could not bear it.

In this process, a lot of land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the annexation is serious.

After a series of wars, all kinds of armies ran around, and when they passed through the villages and county towns, they made sure that there were people with unclean hands.

It is impossible for the people who do not participate to live well, and when the winter wheat is about to be harvested in the summer, the army passes by all the way, and they are worried that there is no food to eat, so they easily harvest the wheat in the field.

If the army that came was a month late and saw that the wheat had been harvested, it would be better, and instead of harvesting it yourself, go knock on the door and call the fellow.

In such a situation, the people are unwilling to farm, they can't eat it themselves, and they are affected in vain to build seeds, so let's just join the army to fight!

Then, when the forces of all parties are formed, they begin to issue their own currencies and stabilize the rear, and then the people can be considered stable.

Then these forces fought again, and one of them won, and the people of the other places were finished.

It is the fifth half-year of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, so count it six! Civilians are struggling to heal the scars of war.

The governor means that now that the imperial court has more food, it can give some to the poor places, and how to send it requires some wisdom.

It is obviously not possible to give people directly, and the people cannot get used to getting something for nothing, so they can be commended, or let the people do a little bit of the work that the people themselves have to do, provide them with food, and then give them extra food as wages.

For example, there is a river in front of a village, and the bridge on the river is in disrepair, and the people have long wanted to repair it.

At this time, food, tools, and materials were given to the people, and the people were required to work.

When the people look at it, they say? Build bridges for your own village? And then give yourself food, and finally food? Great, there's still a road, and we want to build it......

In this way, it is convenient for the people to travel, the food has increased, and if someone asks them to rebel, they will definitely not agree, seeing that the days are coming, and there is a way to live in the rebellion?

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The local people did not know how heavy the topic of their majesty was talking to the governor of Xiaqiu Village, and they sang and danced around the campfire.

This bonfire is all ordered by the soybean seedlings they cut themselves, the soybean seedlings are easy to burn, and the feeding of the livestock is not bad, and the machine cannot collect the fire, and it is broken.

At night, it's all fish, steamed, burned, stewed, fried, fried, grilled......

Zhu Li also ate squirrel fish, which Zhu Wentian made for him.

"It's better to be in Jiangnan! It's not cold, but if it's changed to the Northland, it's cold in many places now, and if you can't stay outside at night for another month, you can freeze to death. ”

Zhu Fan had just finished eating a fried fish steak wrapped in bread crumbs and commented on the climate in the south and north.

Now where Shijiu Lake is located, it's still hot at night! Don't look at the soybeans are all withered and yellow, and when they enter the harvest, they are not cold.

Zhu Biao took a sip of wine: "This year, the herdsmen in the north should be easy to survive the winter, we have a lot of things left, and in the summer and autumn, there is no shortage of salt, and it can even be supplied to other places." ”

"They were able to go into the bunker in winter, and when the cattle were mostly there, they set up huts outside, and there was water around the fort and they planted grain.

When the time comes, we'll send a team over and deliver something to them, such as candles and skin care products, and cotton cloth, they don't grow cotton.

What else? Soap and soap? The Four Treasures of the Study? Yes, medicinal herbs, medicinal herbs for typhoid fever and wind cold, they also always have a bad stomach, and they may sneeze and have a fever.

Plus tea, both fermented and non-fermented are sent to them, and green tea is also good to drink. ”

Zhu Fan thought about what to provide for the herdsmen in the north, and he stayed there last year, sharing the weal and woe with the herdsmen.

Today he is back, the herders still have to spend the cold winter, he always feels that everyone is 'friends', he has a lot of things here, and he lacks nothing.

Then it should be sent to the herdsmen, and maybe they will have to go over in the future, for example, accompany the third brother to see the fiefdom, and go north by the way.

Zhu Biao listened to what the second brother said, and also thought about it, adding: "Canned fruits, dried fruits, preserved fruits, especially rock sugar alone in bamboo tubes and oil paper, I think they love to eat, and they drink milk all day long, which is not sweet enough." ”

(End of chapter)