Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 137 Steam engine under development

The memorial that Li Tai asked Du Chuke to send was quickly sent to Sinong Temple, and then transferred to Dou Jing, Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Dou Jing, who was dealing with affairs in the Hall of Liangyi, looked at the memorial, and couldn't help showing a look of joy on her face. She looked at Fang Xuanling, who was still diligently handling government affairs, and said,
"Fang Pushe, Duxian Cheng of Gaoling wrote a letter saying that the wheat harvest will be bumper again. At most, it will reach three stones and three buckets per mu, and at least it will be two stones and nine buckets. The average harvest will exceed three stones per mu. What a bumper harvest!"

"It's really great!" Fang Xuanling's face also showed joy when he heard Dou Jing's words.

Fang Xuanling put down the pen, and couldn't help thinking:

"Last year, the highest was three stones and one bucket, and this year it was three stones and three buckets. This agricultural school does have its own uniqueness in planting.

More importantly, the time for wheat cultivation is from autumn to late spring and early summer. For the common people, there is more time for corvee labor.

Compared with corn, wheat does have more potential to be promoted. "

"When the sage comes, let the sage know about this matter!" Fang Xuanling said, "King Yue is a practical person after all!"

When Dou Jing heard Fang Xuanling's words, she couldn't help nodding her head. After last year's demonstration, this wheat has a value comparable to that of corn.

However, out of caution, Li Tai planted another year of wheat.

Now that the value of wheat has been thoroughly proved, further promotion of wheat has become a matter of course.

And if wheat is to be further promoted, agricultural officials from agricultural colleges have become an inevitable choice.

There is no way, except for them, the other court officials are at most just writing some poems to persuade farmers.

As for letting them teach planting techniques, don't expect too much. From top to bottom, there are several people who have picked up hoes and cultivated.

Most of the military generals came from powerful families, while most of the civil servants came from aristocratic families. This situation did not change even in the early Tang Dynasty.

Don't talk about others, let's just talk about Fang Xuanling himself. Although the Fang family is not a famous family, but since his seventh ancestral house, Chen Nanyan Taiwei, he has been an official all the way, and he has become the backbone of the gentry.

"When this autumn harvest is over, Chu Suiliang and the others will go to open a branch school first!" Fang Xuanling was determined again.

In the next few days, Li Tai started a busy harvest life, and Lu Cai led the students from the agricultural school to join in.

Among them, Chu Suiliang was the most excited. After staying here for a whole year, it was really a sore back.

Seeing the harvest of this golden wheat field now, I can't help but feel that this year's hard work seems to be worth it.

"I'll cut, I'll cut, I'll cut again!" Chu Suiliang cut back and forth with the plover in his hand, his eyes filled with strong evil spirit.

All the rows of wheat fell into the basket of the looter, which saved much effort compared with the sickle.

Piaozi is a large dustpan with a net bag, about 1.2 meters in diameter, and a sharp cutting knife is placed on the edge.

When using the plunder, hold the long pole with the left hand, and pull the handle of the direction rope with the right hand, so that the left and right hands control back and forth, and a large piece of wheat stalk can be cut off by one release and one pull, and then the wheat can be shaken out of the net bag with a strong shake That's it.

The greatest value of this thing is that you don’t need to bend over like a sickle to cut wheat.

Before the appearance of the mechanical wheat harvester, it was regarded as the most advanced wheat harvesting tool, and its harvesting efficiency was several times higher than that of the sickle.

At the same time, under Li Tai's strong request, Moke further developed the steam engine that can only be pounded in coal yards.

Soon, they developed a series of production steam machines, the first being the steam wheat sieving machine.

The function of these things is to borrow the power of steam, and then continuously flip the tool consisting of the upper and lower dustpans, and through the flipping, to screen wheat of suitable size.

In a way, this thing is tireless, just add water and coal to the pole.

However, this thing is still in the stage of experimental products, and Li Tai said that further research is needed to send it to thousands of households.

Because this thing consumes too much iron and coal, but the force generated can only be used to sieve wheat.

The labor cost is much less than this thing, and the investment ratio can only be said that whoever buys this thing is stupid.

Most importantly, after seven days of use, this thing is scrapped.

So there is no way, after this thing has been tested once, it can only be called back, and continue to find ways to reduce costs. The experimental model will be used for a year anyway.

Then when it came time to moisten the wheat, Mo Ling took out the steam engine for moistening the wheat.

After the wheat is dried and screened, the third process is wheat tempering, which is also an essential process before grinding.

Because the moisture content of wheat is an important factor affecting the quality of flour, in the process of wheat flour grinding, wheat moisture adjustment is a very important process in the flour milling process.

If the moisture content of the wheat is too low, the wheat cortex will be easily broken, and the fine bran will be mixed into the flour, which will reduce the pink color of the flour and deteriorate the quality.

Excessive moisture in wheat will reduce the fluidity of the finished product during the milling process, resulting in blockage of the sieving material flow and affecting normal milling. In addition, the endosperm on the bran is not easy to peel off and scrape clean.

This wheat moistening machine made by Moke looks like a big boiler with a big steamer.

Mo Ling directly used water vapor to quickly penetrate the wheat, and the wheat grains evaporated by the water vapor were sent to be ground.

The moisturizing effect is not bad, but this tool also has a big problem.

Because this thing requires the cooperation of multiple people, one for the coal stove, one for the wheat, and at least two people to transport the wheat. During this process, there have been some problems such as the wheat being steamed directly, and the moisture in the wheat is not enough.

But in the final analysis, this thing needs at least four people to operate it. In comparison, normal farmers only need to sprinkle some water on the wheat according to past experience, and they can complete the work of moistening the wheat. Compared with the two, it saves more than one or two points.

So there is no doubt that the wheat moistening machine developed by Moke was sent back by Li Tai for further research.

However, Mo Ling was not discouraged, and with the spirit of failure is success, he took out the steam grinder.

I have to say that this thing is much more mature than the previous two machines. After all, this thing has begun to be popular in mines.

After all, this thing can slowly knock coal ore into coal powder, and the mere wheat can naturally be knocked into slag!

The problem is that this thing is used in the mine because it directly uses the coal ore that is discarded in the mine, and the cost is almost nothing.

But if you want to smash wheat, you must consider the cost of coal.

Seeing the coal burning violently, the hammer hammered unhurriedly. Although he still persisted in his incomprehensible work, the fire consumed no one else except Li Tai!

This can be said to be the most mature production invention, but it was beaten back by Li Tai and continued to develop and improve.

As for using the steam engine to push the stone mill in the end, after the steam engine pushed for a while, the entire mechanical arm made of bamboo broke, Li Tai was dumbfounded, and Mo Ling couldn't help but cover his face. Lost it all.

In other words, after a year of hard work, the steam engine was used in the production plan, the wheat sieving machine failed, the wheat tempering machine failed, and the milling machine failed. As for the final grinding machine, it is still under development, so stay tuned.

Li Tai took a deep breath and showed a big smile.

But it doesn't matter, although the production of steam engines has almost completely collapsed, the future of this road is definitely bright.

Now it's just a little bit of twists and turns. I'd better continue to use water conservancy and livestock for now.

It's just that it is unrealistic to want to let the productivity develop by leaps and bounds.

But Li Tai came back to his senses, although his own steam engine production plan was still in the making.

However, after three years of precipitation, the Agricultural Institute has another bumper harvest. After all, it proves the role of the Agricultural Institute, and this is the most important thing.

Another point is that the time to release the food stamps is approaching, and I have to start recycling the food stamps.

Yes, the food stamps that Li Tai produced are more like a one-year interest-free bond, at most this bond can be traded.

But Li Tai set the time for the bills until August, telling the people that before August every year, they need to hold those bonds of wheat to exchange for grain, and of course they can also exchange for new grain stamps for the next year.

There is no way, the saving time for things like food is only three years, and this thing is used as a deposit, theoretically Li Tai can only save for three years.

Otherwise, if there is too much time, Li Tai will easily cause oversales.

If this thing is really currency, it will be oversold if it is oversold. At most, it will cause inflation. As long as it is well controlled, moderate inflation can not be digested by itself.

But in fact, the essence of this thing is bonds, which are directly linked to his own food, so Li Tai must deal with these bonds.

And I also gave two ways, one is to directly exchange for physical wheat, and the other is to continue to exchange for new year bonds at an equivalent value.

In this way, we can control the size of the bond and maintain the value of the bond.

At the same time, this time, because I have completed the unification of the coal industry, this time I will not only issue food stamps, but also charcoal stamps. Compared with grain, charcoal stamps themselves are more confident, which makes my credit currency more stable. up.

Just when Li Tai was flexing his muscles in Gaoling with this harvest, Li Shimin brought his ministers to Gaoling.

I have to say that compared with last year, the road in Gaoling has become more pioneering, and people's spirits are also higher.

The people are buying all kinds of things with food stamps, and people can see the well-being of the people here at a glance.

"Qingque managed Gaoling really well!" Li Shimin couldn't help sighing as he looked at the busy streets of Gaoling, "Even the East and West Markets in Chang'an may not be so lively during the daytime!"

"Holy... Li Erlang!" To be honest, Fang Xuanling was very opposed to Li Shimin's white dragon fish suit.

As for the accompanying ministers, apart from Fang Xuanling, there were also Changsun Wuji, bodyguard Li Junxian, and Xuanjia Army.

Fang Xuanling said that Wei Zheng should also be called, but Li Shimin said that if Wei Zheng was called, how could he understand the people's sentiments.

There was no other way, so Fang Xuanling was pulled over by Li Shimin.

Fang Xuanling understood that Li Shimin actually pulled him over because he hoped that he could pass the agricultural official system.

Because of Fang Xuanling's performance all the time, he had somewhat prejudice against Li Tai.

Among them are the reasons of Confucianism, Li Tai's own reasons, and Li Chengqian's reasons.

Unless Fang Xuanling was able to deal with business matters, but if certain policies were too biased towards Li Tai, Fang Xuanling would definitely stop him.

And Li Tai's agricultural official policy, to a certain extent, even increased Li Tai's foundation.

On this point, Li Shimin also understood that Li Tai had influenced Li Chengqian little by little, and even threatened him.

But Li Shimin is even more aware that Li Tai's internal affairs capabilities are too strong.

In the past three years, he worked steadily step by step, dealing with government affairs that even seemed to him a headache, to some extent, it was as if he had seen himself back then.

It's just that he is more invincible in military affairs, while Li Tai is amazing in internal affairs.

But no matter how you say it, Li Shimin still has a sense of inspiration and recognition for the internal affairs version of himself who works hard step by step and overcomes one problem after another.

Under such circumstances, Li Shimin also hoped that Fang Xuanling would not stop some of Li Tai's policies.

In the final analysis, Li Tai has not been involved in any military affairs so far, and he is only dealing with internal affairs.

As far as Li Shimin is concerned, as long as Li Tai doesn't touch the military, it doesn't matter what Li Tai does, and he pampers himself.

But even so, everyone was surprised by the prosperity of Gaoling when they came to Gaoling once during the harvest.

Whether it's people coming and going, or heavy traffic, even in Chang'an, it is rare to experience such a scene.

Because it was already noon, the few people found a rather elegant inn, where they finished their meal first.

"Are you open or staying at the hotel!" Xiao Er ran out very diligently.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Junxian, after all, as the emperor, he definitely didn't have any money with him.

Li Junxian took out a golden leaf and said to Xiaoer,

"For dinner, serve three tables of Gaoling's special wines and dishes, and any extra will be considered a tip for you!"

Of course, Li Shimin had one table with several civil officials, and two guards who protected them. After all, people have to eat.

"Okay, my lord, the good wine and food will be served soon!"

Xiao Er looked at this piece of golden leaf and knew that he had met a nobleman, so he agreed without saying a word, and immediately said,

"The masters have good vision. Our small shop is Ding Jie, the chief food officer of the Yue Palace, who is best at making noodles. I guarantee that you will be satisfied!"

Xiao Er boasted a few words, but his movements were also quite nimble, and he immediately notified the back kitchen to make preparations.

"Chief Food Officer Ding Jie?" Li Shimin was somewhat puzzled when he heard this, "Is this person famous?"

"In order to promote pasta made from wheat, the king of Yue asked the food official to collect and develop a hundred kinds of pasta recipes.

He compiled it into a book and became a cook's book, and was regarded as the teacher of pasta.

So basically the chefs who have learned from this book can be regarded as Ding Jie's apprentices. "

Changsun Wuji explained to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji unexpectedly and said, "Auxiliary machine, you know Qingque mansion very well!"

"Hmm!" Changsun Wuji said calmly and as a matter of course,
"He borrowed our family's money and grain to repair the Zhengbai Canal! If you don't pay close attention, what will you do if you borrow it from me!"

"Hahahahaha!" Li Shimin couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)