I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 672, Guo Jia's Fantasy Journey
Guo Jia looked at the harvester with a look of horror and said, "You all have such powerful machines, why do you need dispatch workers!"

If there are thousands of such machines, it would be equivalent to all the young and strong labor force in the entire Crab Island, so why do they need to work!Just use these machines to harvest directly!

But Xi Zhong said with a smile: "Although this steam harvester is highly efficient, it is too easy to break. The original version couldn't even last for a stick of incense. The current version is better, but it is possible to use it for a day or two. It will break down. The most important thing is that no one knows when it will break down. Harvesting is a race against God for time. Machines are not necessarily! And people can do more than just harvesting.”

Guo Jia looked at the black-smoking harvester and said, "My little brother wants to see this harvester. Is it possible?"

Xi Zhong smiled and said: "It's not a secret, even if Feng Xiao wants to buy a machine like this, he can do it! Let alone read it!"

After talking, the two walked towards the machine. They didn't feel anything in the distance, but when the two got close to the harvester, they found that the momentum it started was shocking. The closer they got to the machine, the more they felt The horror of the machine, no wonder the people of Crab Island were frightened just now!

Guo Jia sighed: "If this machine appears in the battlefield, it will be a legendary god and demon. It is impossible for any army to resist the power of this machine!"

When Guo Jia saw the harvester, the first thing he thought of was not its efficiency in harvesting wheat, but its power on the battlefield. This is simply a chariot that can walk on its own. This thing is probably more powerful than artillery on the battlefield. Be strong!

Xi Zhong said with a smile: "Now that the war is over, there is no room for this machine to exert its power. Now it is used for farming, doesn't Feng Xiao think it is appropriate!"

Guo Jia thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Indeed, it is most suitable to turn a sword into a plow!"

As for the steam engine, Guo Jia has seen it many times in Dagan newspapers, and knows the many uses of the steam engine, but he has never seen a machine driven by a steam engine face to face, so he can better understand the role of this thing in changing the world.Their Crab Island also needs to have a steam engine, at least not too far behind!

Ever since he saw the harvester, Guo Jia wanted to go to Jidu, the heart of Dagan, to take a look. Even from the newspapers, he already knew that the prosperity of Jidu now surpassed that of Luoyang City back then, but he I still want to see the changes in Jidu these years with my own eyes!This is not something that can be explained clearly in the newspapers. He still has to see it with his own eyes to determine the strength of Daqian.

So he said to Xi Zhong: "When we came to Mayi to study abroad, we admired Lei Gong's ability very much. A poor small county in Mayi was built by him into a prosperous capital, and now the construction of Jidu has been completed. It has been 10 years, and Jia wants to see if Jidu is as prosperous as the newspapers say!"

Xi Zhong said: "Go and have a look, dare to keep it for my brother, as long as you see the prosperity of Jidu, you will no longer be nostalgic for the prosperity of the big man. It is the real destiny to replace the big man with a big cadre!"

Dagan doesn't need a guide to go out. After bidding farewell to Xizhong, Guo Jia embarked on the road to Jidu!
There are scenes of autumn harvest everywhere on this road. There are constant ox carts and horse-drawn carts on the road, and the carts are full of freshly harvested grain. The people are happily harvesting their own harvest for a year. Jia knows that this year is another bumper year for Dagan!

Apart from these, what Guo Jia saw along the way was contiguous land, elevated canals, and waterwheels erected like giants near the river, and water conservancy facilities spread all over the Dagan land. In the past, only a wealthy place like Mayi could see such a scene, but now even an ordinary small county like Anci County has such water conservancy facilities. Wealthy!"

At this time, an old man sitting in a carriage on the road shouted loudly: "Where did you come from, you are still so idle, don't you know how to help your family harvest food?"

Guo Jia was taken aback, then pointed at himself and said, "Master, are you calling me?"

"You're not the only one. It's a busy time for farming. Even the old man in power has to go to the fields to harvest grain. You are a young man, but you have nothing to do here. Did you avoid going to the fields on purpose?"

Then the uncle shook his head and said, "Young people nowadays really can't bear any hardship!"

Hearing this, Guo Jia smiled wryly and said, "Master, I am a student who came to study abroad, not your locals!"

"When the farming season is busy, you come out for a study tour, and you can tell which family's prodigal son you are from. Come, my uncle will teach you how to do farm work!" After finishing speaking, Guo Jia directly pulled into the carriage regardless of whether Guo Jia was willing or not.

Guo Jia smiled bitterly, but he didn't refuse. He also wanted to see the scene of Dagan Village!

The carriage brought wheat to a huge drying field. Guo Jia found that the drying field was as large as a camp of thousands of people, but what surprised Guo Jia the most was that the drying field was actually paved with cement. The price is high, in Crab Island it is three times more expensive than in Dagan, but in Dagan Guo Jia knows that it may be cheaper, but it is not so extravagant that it is used to lay a drying yard!
Guo Jia asked curiously: "Master, your village is too rich, you can actually use cement to make such a huge drying field!"

The uncle smiled and said: "The price of cement has dropped three times in the past few months. The village chief said that the government has invented a steam grinder, which has increased the efficiency of cement production several times. Our village collectively pooled money to buy some cement, sand and sand. Shi, spent 10 yuan to make this drying yard, let alone this cement drying yard is easy to use!"

Guo Jia was overwhelmed by the arrogance of the uncle. A village can make up 10 yuan at random. One can imagine how rich he is. He is not qualified to spend 10 yuan on Crab Island. Guo Jia is sad The ability to find out how to mobilize wealth is not even as good as that of an ordinary village chief!

"Uncle Zhao, why did you bring a stranger here?" A man with a hint of scholarly spirit came here and said!
Uncle Zhao said with a smile: "Village Chief, didn't you always say that there is not enough manpower for the autumn harvest? I am not looking for one for you now!"

Then he patted Guo Jia's body and said, "What a strong guy, he can carry wheat to grind!"

The scholar village chief asked doubtfully: "Brother, are you really here to work?"

He also saw Guo Jia's scholarly spirit, and he didn't look like someone who came out to do odd jobs.

Guo Jia could only smile wryly and said: "I was pulled here by this Uncle Zhao, in fact, I am a scholar studying abroad, and it is also possible to do odd jobs, but we have to agree on the price first, it can't be too low.

The head of Shusheng Village immediately said: "Although the work is a bit heavy, we can give 100 yuan a day, including food and lodging!"

Guo Jia also wanted to know about the situation in this village, so he nodded and agreed!
But Guo Jia immediately knew that the 100 yuan was really not easy to earn. People in this village really used him to carry wheat. The carriage was loaded into the carriage, and after a day of hard work, Guo Jia was almost exhausted. If it hadn't been for those who had been practicing literature and martial arts in Crab Island all these years, who had endured hardships, they would really not be able to bear such hard work!

But the food here is not even Guo Jia’s obliged to agree. The dinner food includes braised pork, dried salted fish, and white chicken. There are three meats in one meal, and there are sugar and salt. The standard of this food has caught up. Cao Cao in Crab Island, but here in Dagan is just a meal for ordinary people.

Guo Jia went to the village chief with his own food and asked, "Is your village so rich? During the day, that Uncle Zhao said that you had collected 10 yuan to build a cement drying yard, and you ate like this at night." It is rich, and the meals of the princes of the Han Dynasty were no more than this."

The head of the scholar village was surprised: "Xiongtai has such a wide range of knowledge, and he even knows what the food of the Han princes is like. Could it be that Xiongtai is a scholar who came to study in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Guo Jia nodded silently!

"No wonder, the land in the south of the Yangtze River has just been recovered. It is understandable that you are poorer! But it has been almost 10 years since we recovered Youzhou. The ten years you have accumulated are considered to be a small fortune. Over the years, each of our households can share With 100 mu of land, we have no shortage of grain, but the grain cannot be sold at a price. If there is no government that keeps collecting grain from us, the price of grain will drop to tens of dollars."

"With such a low price, even if we farmers have a lot of food, we can't make much money, and we have to spend money on everything in Datong, such as going to school for our children, buying cloth for our family, buying farm tools and other production tools. Building new houses, all this costs a lot of money."

"Food is worthless. We can only find ways to raise some chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, and then raise a few pigs in each family, and use these poultry and livestock to consume food. After all, the price of poultry is more cost-effective for us! What you eat now These chickens, ducks and fish are raised at home and don’t cost money. Now is the busy time of farming, so of course we have to eat better. The rest of the time, we only have this kind of food during the Chinese New Year. Usually we don’t eat so much. OK."

Even this is too exaggerated. Originally, Guo Jia did not believe that such an ordinary small village would be so rich that he could eat chicken, duck and fish. But when he went to rest in the village at night, he found that the local villages were made of bricks. The two-storey small building was built, and there are pig sheds, chicken coops and duck coops beside the small building. Faced with such facts, he has to admit that this village is so rich!

For the next few days, Guo Jia stayed in this small village, and soon became acquainted with the village chief. The village chief was named Fu Jianhua, a local scholar in Dagan, graduated from high school, and just passed the imperial examination this year.Then he was arranged to practice in this village.Familiar with the government affairs of the big cadres at the grassroots level, and will be transferred to Jingzhou after the spring of next year,

He thought that Guo Jia was a scholar who came from Jiangnan to take the imperial examination, and then he felt very sorry for Guo Jia's actions, because this year's imperial examination is being rolled out in a big way, and it can be taken in Yuzhou, so there is no need to go to Youzhou. It was too late for him to go to Youzhou, the imperial examination had been completed for three months.He didn't even know what Guo Jia had experienced along the way. He might have found out that the imperial examination had already been passed, so he simply came to Youzhou to study.

After Guo Jia knew that the village head was a scholar of the imperial examination, he was also shocked, especially this year Lei Gong recruited 1 officials. Way to live."

Where can these 1 people be placed? Isn’t it the three southern states newly occupied by Daqian? This is to completely replace the bureaucrats in the three states of Dahan!
But he also had to admit that through the village chief, he discovered that the scholars of the big man and the scholars of the big dry are completely two species.The village chief in front of him is full of vigor and vigor in doing things.

Although the official position is small, he can do things in a down-to-earth manner, which is not comparable to a big scholar. In Guo Jia's view, Fu Jianhua is fully capable of becoming the prefect!

In this way, Guo Jia worked hard for ten days to help the village complete the harvest, and then continued on the road with his own 1000 money!
At first he thought that this village was already rich enough, but soon Guo Jia discovered that the closer the village was to Jidu, the richer his village was. Later, he discovered that these villages even had large-scale breeding farms. There are hundreds of pigs and thousands of poultry, and these poultry and pigs are all used to supply Jidu.On the road, there are herds of cattle and sheep from time to time, which are sold in Jidu by desert herdsmen who bring their cattle and sheep.

Their cattle and sheep can't be sold at a price in the desert, but they can be sold at the highest price in Jidu, where there are millions of high-consumption people!From the chicken, duck, pig, sheep, cattle and other meat consumed by Guo Jia, he inferred that the wealth of Dagan was 10 times that of Luoyang City.

When approaching Jidu for 50 miles, the scene that surprised Guo Jia appeared again. A three-foot-wide cement road was under construction. Judging from the condition of this road, it obviously extended from Jidu to here!This road made Guo Jia unbelievable.

After the emergence of cement, with its low price (compared to glutinous rice adhesive), good performance and convenient materials, it quickly replaced glutinous rice and became the best adhesive in the world, and became the basis for building houses, city walls and docks in the Central Plains necessary materials for the facility.

But no matter how cheap the price is, Guo Jia can't imagine that someone would use cement to pave the road. This is not in the middle of the city but in the wild. This is not paving the road with cement, it is simply paving the road with money.

Guo Jia asked the construction workers about the price of the cement road, and it turned out that the cement road for one mile cost 40 yuan, and they had already spent 2000 million yuan to lay it here!Crab Island's annual financial income is only 50 miles.

What surprised Guo Jia even more was that Lei Gong planned to use such a high price of cement roads to link up the entire Dagan county!

(End of this chapter)