"Not bad."

Han Zhen praised it, and then changed his voice: "But it still needs to be improved, for example, the upper feed port can be made into a funnel shape with wooden boards, so that the speed of wheat falling will be more even." In addition, the lower part needs to be equipped with a discharge port to facilitate bagging. ”

"yes, I didn't think of that."

Carpenter Chen patted his head, and his expression was abrupt.

patted him on the shoulder, and in the envious eyes of the other two carpenters, Han Zhen smiled and said, "Let's go, follow me to get the reward." ”

"Thank you, village chief!"

Carpenter Chen smiled happily, and at the same time did not forget to glance at the other two.

Seeing his proud appearance, the two carpenters took a sip one after another.

Seeing this, Han Zhen comforted: "Don't be discouraged, you can think more about it on weekdays, and if you can make useful farm tools, you can also find me to receive the reward." In addition, one thresher and blower were not enough, three more were needed, and I bought them at the usual price of one. ”

Hearing this, the other two smiled.

According to this calculation, they can also get two pieces of money each.

……

The sun sets in the west.

The golden afterglow sprinkled down and gilded the three mountains with a golden coat.

After a tiring day, the villagers carried hoes and strolled on the ridges.

Standing under a big locust tree, the chief shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't go home yet, let's go to the grain field to gather, the village chief has something to say." ”

Hearing this, the villagers showed curiosity and walked towards the grain field in twos and threes.

Today, Han Zhen's prestige in Xiaowang Village has surpassed that of the chief.

In addition to being brave and unparalleled, it is also rumored in private that he has an immortal method that turns stones into gold.

In just one day, I earned thousands of dollars.

Soon, more than 600 people from the whole village gathered on the grain field.

"Let's be quiet, I'll talk about a few things."

As soon as Han Zhen spoke, the noise immediately disappeared, and the crowd was silent.

He didn't ink, and said straight to the point: "The first thing is that I bought five ploughing cattle and twenty donkeys, and these livestock can be leased to you and others for use, and the cost is two buckets of green fodder, and you are also responsible for the rations of the livestock during the lease period." If you want to lease at that time, you can find Zhu Zhengze to register. ”

The reason why these livestock were bought was to benefit the people and liberate the labor force.

The rent is almost none, which is equivalent to letting the villagers settle the rations for their livestock.

As soon as the words fell, the villagers suddenly showed joy and talked excitedly.

Han Zhen stood there quietly, giving them time to digest.

After a while, the crowd fell silent again, and the villagers stared at Han Zhen expectantly, waiting for him to announce what was next.

"The second thing is the thresher and the blower."

Han Zhen pointed to the two machines beside him, and then ordered, "Carpenter Chen, the three of you come up and demonstrate to everyone." ”

The next moment, the three of Carpenter Chen walked out of the crowd.

"That's a good thing, you see."

After Carpenter Chen deliberately made a joke, he grabbed the crank and began to turn.

Another carpenter picked up a stack of wheat stalks.

I could hear a crackling sound, and the ears of wheat on the stalks were knocked off by the bamboo strips on the rollers in the blink of an eye.

Wow!

An uproar erupted in the crowd.

In the past, if you wanted to get the ears off the stalks, you had to lay out the stalks, beat them with a flail, or drag them with a stone mill to roll them slowly.

Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is also difficult to take off.

The wheat that remains on the straw still needs to be beaten vigorously before it can fall off.

It often takes several days to thresh wheat from three acres of land.

If you're unlucky enough to have a rainy day, it's even more troublesome.

Now with this thing, I am afraid that it will take less than an hour to thresh all the wheat of three acres of land.

How could they not be surprised?

However, Carpenter Chen's performance is not over yet.

I saw him sweep all the threshed wheat on the ground into the dustpan, and then slowly pour it into the blower.

And the third person had already begun to shake the wind wheel.

As the wheat is poured into the feed inlet, all the mixed wheat stalks and broken leaves in the wheat are blown away, and clean wheat grains continue to flow out of the outlet.

There was another exclamation from the crowd.

At the end of the demonstration of the three Chen carpenters, Han Zhen's hands were pressed weakly, and after the crowd was quiet again, he said aloud: "The agricultural tools of the thresher are also rented out, and the rent is one pound of bran." ”

After a slight pause, Han Zhen continued: "The third thing is that at present, the lime kiln and salt factory are recruiting thirty people, with a monthly salary of three hundred yuan, and two meals in the morning and evening. Secondly, I plan to build a cottage on the hill in front of the village to block the officers and soldiers and bandits, and build the cottage to also manage food and pay wages, 20 wen a day for men and 10 wen for women. ”

Without waiting for the villagers to react, he raised his fourth finger: "The fourth thing, the conscription will start from now on!" ”

Conscription?

Hearing these two words, the villagers, who were still elated, changed their expressions and looked at him in disbelief.

Han Zhen was not surprised by their reaction, and said in a good time: "All men over the age of 16 and under the age of 40 can join the army, and after enlisting in the army, they will be provided with three dry meals a day, one meat every three days, a monthly salary of 500 yuan, and some benefits. ”

Three meals a day, or dry rice?

Meat every three days?

And 500 Wenlu?

For a moment, there was a commotion in the crowd.

Without him, the treatment is too good.

Many people thought about it in their hearts and found that joining the army was more cost-effective than farming.

In fact, Han Zhen opened all the basic conditions, because if you want to train an army with combat power, three dry meals a day and meat are necessary, otherwise you will not be able to maintain high-intensity training at all.

It can only be said that it is all set off by peers.

The treatment of soldiers in the early Northern Song Dynasty was not bad, taking the forbidden army as an example, the upper forbidden army paid a thousand wen per month, the middle forbidden army was 700 wen, and the inferior army was 500 wen.

In addition to monthly salaries, there are also a number of benefits, such as monthly food, spring and winter clothes, special money, snow and cold money, charcoal money, silver shoes money and so on.

Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty was a conscription system, and the whole family would be transferred to the military when one person joined the army, and at this time, an additional amount of money would be issued, which was the so-called resettlement fee, which was about 5-10 yuan.

When it came to the period of Renzong and Yingzong, it was not good.

Due to financial constraints, the treatment of military personnel has been reduced again and again.

Now that Huizong is in power, he has completely fallen to the bottom, not to mention the rotten Xiang army, even if it is the Western Army on Qinfeng Road, the soldiers can only eat seven points a day.

As for the salaries......

Only when the war is about to break out, will a symbolic one-month salary be paid to boost morale.

Doesn't the imperial court know that the low salary of soldiers will affect the combat effectiveness?

Of course, the officials of the court knew.

But the problem is, there is no money!

The prosperity of the city of Tokyo has given many people the illusion of great prosperity in the Great Song Dynasty.

But in fact, this is not the case, the annual tribute of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Western Xia and Liao States accounted for almost 20% of the annual tax revenue.

The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty was unable to popularize silver as a trading currency was because most of the silver in the country had to be paid tribute to the Western Xia and Liao states, and the rest of the silver was also collected by officials and wealthy merchants at home.

When Jingkang was ashamed, the golden man and lion opened his mouth and asked for 20 million taels of silver.

As a result, Song Huizong searched the entire city of Tokyo, and even the beggars were not spared, and he only scraped together 1.8 million taels of silver.

In May of this year, Song and Jin joined forces to attack Liao.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered Tong Guan to be the Xuanfu envoy, and the master of the Dao was the capital to govern, leading the 150,000 Western Army to the Northern Expedition.

As a result, the Liao army, which was killed by the Jin people and retreated, beat the Western army, the strongest combat force in the Northern Song Dynasty, to cry and cry for his mother, and lost his armor.

In desperation, Song Huizong had to send people to negotiate with the Jin people, wanting to spend money to buy back the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Fortunately, Wanyan Aguda was still trustworthy and agreed to sell the land of Yanyun Liuzhou, but the price was a lease fee of one million yuan a year.

For this million, the entire imperial court couldn't take it out, and it was barely enough to rely on the temporary collection of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Where did the money come from to improve the treatment of soldiers?