Chapter 38: Autumn Grain Harvest
Song dynasty.
Zhao Zhen had the same idea as many civil officials, although they thought that this machine was useful, but it was not very useful.
In their opinion, what the entire Great Song Dynasty lacks is not people, and it can be harvested without machines.
The doctrine of Confucianism is the great road and the way to govern the country.
Moreover, the country's civil power cannot be used up yet, and it is useless to study such things.
If you have time to study this, it is better to read more of the Four Books and Five Classics, so that you can be admitted to the imperial examination and govern the people in the future.
Of course, there are also officials who feel that the machines on the canopy are of great use, at least when the Yellow River is flooding, they can be well managed and helped, or help other national projects.
Of course, they will not go against the mainstream consciousness of the country, saying that they also like such machines.
At the same time, Shen Kuo, who was writing "Dream Creek Notes", looked at the excavator that appeared in the sky, and he was shocked.
At this time, he was living in seclusion in Mengxi Garden, concentrating all his energy on the book he was writing now.
Compared with other literati in the Song Dynasty, who liked to drink and write poems, he liked this miscellaneous knowledge more and knew their usefulness better.
And these things are the wisdom of the ancients, but the imperial courts of the past dynasties did not attach importance to it, and he can only collect and sort them out among the people, hoping to pass them on.
However, his behavior is often not understood, and it is also incompatible with many literati.
Now seeing the machine in the sky, he felt that this behavior was worth it.
It turns out that this kind of wisdom can not only change lives, but also change the world.
Ming dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the machine on the canopy, and the first thing he thought of was whether he could use this thing to dig up the land and reclaim more fertile land.
Based on his life experience, he understands that people live on food.
No matter how useful the things on the canopy are, what is the use if they still make the common people hungry.
In the face of hunger, no matter how good the management system is, it is not as good as a full meal.
For example, if he had a full meal, he would not have gone down the road of rebelling against the imperial court.
If Da Ming really had such a machine and could reclaim the land, then he believed that the barren land since the Yuan Dynasty could be quickly reclaimed and planted with grains.
Even if it is raw land, the yield of what is grown is lower than that of cooked soil, and it can feed many people.
Secondly, he thought about the military and engineering uses of this thing.
If he had possessed such a thing a long time ago, it would not have been so difficult to march and fight, and this Central Plains land would have been pacified by him long ago.
Moreover, this machine can also assist in the construction of the Great Wall to defend against foreigners, so that the Han will no longer become two-legged beasts.
Late Ming Dynasty.
Song Yingxing, who was taking the entrance examination, saw the excavator on the canopy and watched it stupidly.
Compared with the literati at this time, he liked Zhang Zai's Guan Xue since he was a child, and he was very interested in astronomy, acoustics, agriculture and craft manufacturing, and he was also familiar with Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".
But these did not help him in the imperial examination, and even wasted his time.
The video played in the canopy this time made him forget that he was taking the exam, and he just watched it stupidly, so he could only hurriedly hand in the paper when the exam was about to end.
He understands that he is afraid that he will not be able to take the test in the future, after all, the money in his family can no longer support him to gain fame.
And he is also older, and it is time to give up the idea of the title of the gold list.
But he was not willing to give up what he was interested in, and he was ready to go back and compile all the miscellaneous books he had collected, and he wanted to compile the wisdom of the ancients into a book.
He believed that if this wisdom was used properly, they could also make the machines on the canopy, and at that time they could also help humans to work like they did on the canopy.
[Countdown to the corn harvest, the corn province of Henan opens the sickle to harvest #Harvest season #Corn harvester]
In the picture, there are golden-colored dealers one after another, and there is no end in sight.
The camera cuts closer, and the corn that is already full of grains enters the shot.
Seeing this picture, many people were puzzled, what kind of crop is this, and it has grown so huge.
At the same time, they could only sigh when they looked at the chestnuts, millet, millet and mushrooms in their fields.
The difference in production between the two is so great that even if they don't know the exact amount of production on the canopy, they can estimate the difference.
At this time, they are very eager to have such crops themselves, so that they can have enough to eat.
The overcollected food can also be sold, and you can buy some snacks and nodding ropes for your children.
If they were a little more diligent, they believed that even if they were the academy in front of them, they might have that extra money at that time.
It's just that they don't have such crops, and they can only hope that the canopy will provide them with some seeds, even a little bit.
But the canopy didn't react, even if they took the canopy as if it was God.
Qin Dynasty.
Qin Shi Huang looked at the crops that suddenly appeared on the canopy and was very surprised.
Although Tianmu said before, there will be a crop called sweet potato in the Ming Dynasty, which can feed 100 million people.
But Qin Shi Huang didn't fully believe it, after all, in his cognition, the crops with the highest yield per mu were at most more than 200 catties of grain, and it was impossible to have more.
Not to mention feeding 100 million people, it is difficult to feed more than 10 million people in the entire Qin Dynasty.
But when he saw the corn in the canopy today, he believed.
Although he didn't know how big the territory called Daming and Daqing was, just looking at the size of the crop on the canopy, he believed what he said earlier.
Qin Shi Huang sighed for a long time before he came back to his senses from the canopy.
Seeing that Qin Shi Huang came back to his senses, Zhao Gao, who had been beside him for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the yield of crops on the canopy has been estimated, and it is as high as more than 1,000 catties. ”
"How much?" Qin Shi Huang asked in surprise.
Can he not be surprised? Although he knew that the yield would be amazing, he still didn't expect that it would be five times the current crop yield, and with so much production, how many more people would be able to be raised.
If such crops appeared in his Qin Dynasty, then what Huns were afraid of?
At the same time, I also want to know the yield of sweet potatoes and where to get such a crop.
Han dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, looked at the plump corn cob on the canopy, and reacted the same as Qin Shi Huang.
Such crops are simply auspicious, and if there are such crops, how many people will be able to feed! In this way, he did not have so many worries about attacking the Xiongnu.
It's just that such crops have not been found in Dahan.
At this time, he thought of Zhang Qian.
This person who went to the Western Regions not long after he succeeded to the throne, now more than ten years have passed, and I don't know if he is still alive.
What will he bring with him when he returns?
(End of chapter)