jdhmnovel Chapter 937 This official will watch the show slowly~
Chapter 937 This official will watch the show slowly~
Zhu Biao's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
After the advent of combine harvesters, harvesting wheat and rice became much easier for farmers, as it was more efficient and faster than harvesting with sickles.
Correspondingly, this means that people can save several days during the autumn harvest.
Even if you don't rest these few days, but instead use the time to do other farm work, it will still be easier than bending over to harvest wheat and rice.
If rotary tillers could achieve the same effect...
But then Zhu Biao thought about it again and couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.
Just like when we were promoting harvesters.
At that time, the Central Secretariat, the Six Ministries, more than a dozen local provinces, more than a hundred prefectures, and thousands of counties were involved, along with almost all the iron mines, coal mines, iron smelting workshops, and post stations in the entire Ming Dynasty. Countless government offices and personnel were involved, and it took two or three years to gradually roll out the project.
The common people did benefit, but the already impoverished treasury of the Ming Dynasty was further burdened by this.
Now, the entire Ming Dynasty is desperately promoting water presses. From the cabinet to the ministries, to the provincial administration offices, plus local governments and many mines and workshops, everyone is focused on water presses. So where can we draw enough manpower and resources to develop rotary tillers?
Not to mention that rotary tillers also require a large number of oxen for plowing.
To put it bluntly, even if the Duke of Wei, the Duke of E, and the Duke of Cao risked their lives to snatch it, they still wouldn't succeed.
Even if you add up all the grasslands, corn, dwarfs, and even monkeys together, you still can't gather tens of millions of oxen for plowing.
Zhu Biao's head was getting more and more ache from thinking about it.
To develop rotary tillers, the problem of livestock must first be solved.
To solve the livestock problem, we must first vigorously promote livestock farms in various states and counties.
To establish livestock farms in various prefectures and counties, the national treasury needs to allocate funds, and a large number of veterinarians and veterinary drugs are also required.
Then, the problem returned to its starting point.
They lack both money and manpower.
Without solving these two problems, everything else is just empty talk.
Zhu Biao couldn't help but scratch the back of his head, and after a long pause, he finally managed to say, "I'll go find Prime Minister Li later and ask him to come up with a solution."
"If all else fails, I will write to the capital and ask my father for a solution."
Yang Shaofeng immediately felt much more at ease.
See? As long as I give Xiao Deng a headache, he'll find a way to mess with that old scoundrel Li Shanchang and that old man in the capital.
When the old scoundrel and the old tyrant are unhappy, they will find all sorts of ways to torment the civil and military officials in the court.
Then, I can stand on the dry bank of Liaodong and watch the show at my leisure.
Perfect closed loop, so comfortable~
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Just as Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao were figuring out how to give Li Shanchang a headache, Li Qi, the director of Liaoyang First Farm, was also figuring out how to get more manpower to the farm.
Damn it, the entire farm, spanning tens of thousands of hectares, is dotted with countless ponds of all sizes.
The first step in cultivating tens of thousands of hectares of farmland is to deal with these waterlogged areas and the twigs that are scattered throughout them.
To solve the problems of water bubbles and tower tops, we must first consider how to deal with the water in the water bubbles, and then consider how to fill them with soil to prevent water bubbles from forming again due to rain or snow.
The simplest way to solve both problems at the same time is to first dig a huge artificial lake.
If these two aspects are carried out simultaneously, then the issue of transporting excavated soil will also arise.
In other words, we need to allocate more manpower and resources to road repair.
If we rely solely on the thousand households that have migrated to the farm, plus a few hundred farm workers from the Korean side, it would probably take forever to finish.
Li Qi was gesturing on the ground with a small wooden stick, completely unaware of the arrival of Li Shanchang and the others.
Only after Li Qi threw away the small wooden stick, let out a long sigh, and stood up did Li Shanchang cough and say, "Qi'er."
Li Qi was startled. He first bowed to Li Shanchang and called him "Father." Then, his eyes lit up, and he paid his respects to Zhu Biao, Yang Shaofeng, and Hu Weiyong.
Li Shanchang looked at the circles and frames that Li Qi had drawn on the ground and couldn't help but ask, "What are these?"
Li Qi pointed to a curve and a circle at the end of the curve and said, "This curve is the Pu River. I plan to dig a large lake here."
"The lake was used to hold the water in the puddles, and the excavated soil was used to level and raise the puddles."
"In addition, I plan to build another sluice gate downstream of this lake."
During the rainy season, the sluice gates are opened to release water, and then closed to store water after the rainy season.
"First, it can be used to raise fish, and second, it can be used to prevent drought."
"With such a multi-pronged approach, as long as my brother-in-law's rotary tiller arrives soon, and the livestock and farm tools are also in place, we should be able to cultivate thousands of acres of fertile land this year."
"..."
Li Qi then pointed to another straight line and said, "This is a road that I plan to build, from the farm to the Liaoyang coal mine, using coal gangue from the mine to fill the road."
Upon hearing Li Qi's description of the painting, Li Shanchang immediately nodded in satisfaction.
Alright, the year I spent in Ningyang County wasn't wasted. At least this farm director is doing a decent job, and the plans he proposed are highly feasible. He's much better than that gentle and refined young master from before.
Although these are most likely just copying Ningyang County's homework.
But being able to understand what you've copied is also a skill.
Li Shanchang glanced directly at the Liaodong Provincial Governor, who couldn't even copy homework properly, and then looked at Li Qi and asked, "You just said that livestock and farm tools need to keep up. Don't you have enough livestock and farm tools now?"
Li Qi rolled his eyes quietly.
Look at what you're saying. The farm is desperately short of manpower, so how can it possibly have enough livestock and farm tools?
Li Qi glanced at Li Shanchang, then at Hu Weiyong, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Actually, it's barely enough, but the road and the lake have to be built by Liaoyang County."
"If the farm is allowed to both reclaim wasteland and build villages, and also to build roads and dig lakes, then the farm will definitely not have enough manpower, livestock, and farm tools."
"I just did the math. If we want to cultivate a thousand acres of fertile land before winter, we will need about 30,000 laborers, along with 30,000 sets of farm tools and 5,000 cattle and horses."
As soon as Li Qi finished speaking, Li Shanchang immediately turned his head and glared at Yang Shaofeng.
Listen to this sarcastic tone. Does it sound familiar, Yang Dianfeng?
And this habit of asking for the moon's attention, does it seem familiar to you, Yang the Madman?
Yang Shaofeng simply looked up at the sky.
The sky in Liaodong is so blue, the clouds are so white, the weather is so nice today...
As for Li Qi?
Li Qi was telling the truth.
No matter how powerful you, Prime Minister Li, can you really control what Li Qi says?
Besides, if you're unhappy, go ahead and hit him. I guarantee Li Qi won't dare retaliate.