Who is not Cao Cao?

Chapter 43 Buy Land Buy Land Continue to Buy Land
He Yan asked Deng's mother whether weaving was serious.

It is because Deng Ai inspired him, especially the point that "the direction of force can be changed".

Don't underestimate this principle that everyone knows, it is one of the cornerstones of all human machinery.

As for machinery, there are basically only two types at present——

life and war.

And the life category is nothing more than basic necessities of life.

Among these four points, food and clothing are the most important.

Clothes are woven with hemp, wool, and silk, and the machine for weaving is a spinning wheel.

Today's spinning wheel is only a hand spinning wheel, and there is no pedal spinning wheel that is popular in later generations.

Compared with the hand spinning wheel, the most notable point of the pedal spinning wheel is that it can use machinery to transfer the force of the foot to the top, so as to save the upper body strength.

It is a simple machine, but it can greatly increase productivity and create more wealth. This is true wisdom!

Compared with improving technology, increasing labor intensity and prolonging working hours... are all crooked ways!
He Yan brought in a hand-operated spinning wheel and let Deng's mother operate it, while he himself lay under the spinning wheel to observe the working principle of the spinning wheel.

Compared with people today, He Yan not only "knows what it is", but also "knows why it is so". He quickly deconstructed all the mechanical principles of the spinning wheel.

However, in the process of deconstruction, He Yan also marveled at the wisdom of the ancients.

"Compared with later generations, the biggest difference is actually the change of power. There has not been a fundamental change in the mechanical principles, and even the ancient mechanical principles are more complicated than later generations!"

This is the so-called "black technology" in ancient times.

Because of the lack of power, they can only find ways to use more complex mechanical principles to amplify and change these forces.

Cleverness is cleverness, but not necessarily advanced.

For example, no matter how exquisite the design of the crossbow is, the driving force is still manpower, and no matter how far it is fired, it will not be farther than weapons activated by gunpowder or even chemical fuel.

"So... the science is also muscle flow in the end?"

No matter how exquisite your machine is, I can easily kill you with a single energy cannon...

Shaking his head and getting rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind, He Yan began to transform the spinning wheel in front of him with peace of mind.

In fact, if He Yan wanted to, he could make the most famous "Jenny Spinning Machine" at any time. As long as he could solve the "spring" driving the flying shuttle, the technology content of that thing was actually lower than that of a pedal spinning wheel.

But, but ah!

That thing is used to weave cotton yarn!

Cotton has not yet been popularized in China, so it is useless to get that thing out!
Nowadays, the biggest demand for clothing and textiles in China is cloth, and pedal looms are the most suitable!
Science is science and technology is technology.

Technology must take root in its suitable soil, otherwise there is a high probability of dystocia and premature death...

After the renovation of the pedal loom was completed, He Yan immediately invited Deng's mother to experience it.

When Deng's mother put her foot on the bottom pedal, the fresh feeling made her eyes widen: "Okay, so comfortable!"

For women who often weave, Mother Deng knew better than He Yan, the inventor, how the pedal loom would liberate women. She couldn't help opening her plump red lips, showing an expression of wonder.

"More than that!"

He Yan rubbed it next to Mother Deng's ear: "Didn't you mention the knowledge of "weaving" last time? I really figured it out in the past two days, do you want to try it?"

"Irregular!"

"Like a pedal loom, only use your feet to move!"

Deng's mother was obviously a little moved, but she seemed a little embarrassed: "Ai is still there."

"Good job!"

He Yan dragged Deng Ai out of the room, and casually gave him a few pennies of five baht: "Go out to play, it's best not to come back!"

Deng Ai:? ? ?
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The pedal loom was moved outside the city by He Yan, and mother Deng taught the women how to use it.

With this popularization, the output of cloth has also made considerable progress.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, cloth, like grain, could be used as currency!

In other words, they are not weaving, but printing money!
A large amount of cloth was collected by He Yan, and the women were paid accordingly, and then he asked Bian Bing to sell the cloth.

Selling, the collection is definitely not five baht.

With the continuous collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the future, the reputation of the five baht coins will definitely become lower and lower, and the purchasing power will gradually decline. At this time, collecting five baht coins is basically a brain-twitching thing.

So He Yan didn't want anything else, but simply bought land.

And this time He Yan's eyes are not only on Yingchuan County, but on the whole Yuzhou!

The wars in Yuzhou in the past few years have caused a large number of fields to be barren, which is also the basis for Cao Cao's "farming system" to be implemented.

What's more, He Yan wanted to exchange hard currency such as cloth for fields, and the business went very smoothly.

In addition, He Yan specially wrote a letter to Man Chong in Runan before buying the land, asking him to help find some land. For this small favor, Man Chong naturally agreed.

Man Chong, the prefect of Runan, did not do too well. Before that, he killed the aristocratic family too hard in Runan, causing too much land to be barren. On the eve of the Battle of Chibi, Yuzhou was still relocating people to farm. In history, Deng Ai was also brought to Yuzhou at this time), and now seeing He Yan himself sent to the door, he is naturally happy to keep his mouth shut.

After all, these fields are in the hands of the government, and the government has to find someone to cultivate them. It takes time and effort to work on these fields.

But as long as it is sold to He Yan, the government can throw the blame at will.

They don't care whether He Yan has cultivated or not, anyway, the final grain handed over to the government must not be less!Even He Yan is the adopted son of Cao Cao!
Man Chong is not worried about He Yan learning from those aristocratic families to avoid taxes, because the aristocratic families' tax evasion is to conceal their land property and population, and they are taking the high-level route, which is a trick that ordinary people have no chance to come into contact with.But every transaction of He Yan is recorded through formal channels of the government, and it is not so easy to avoid taxes.

Man Chong even kindly wrote back to He Yan, asking him to buy less land, otherwise it would be a serious crime to pay less food at that time!These purchased fields may be confiscated by the government!

To this, He Yan was unusually calm, and there was only one word in response——

"Buy! Buy with confidence! Buy boldly!"

After the Battle of Guandu ended, Yuan Shao died of illness, and the situation in the north stabilized, there would be no such good opportunity to buy land.

Weaving cloth, buying land, recruiting people, weaving cloth, buying land...

However, such a simple and rude disorderly expansion soon faced an important factor and had to stop——

"No raw materials?"

(End of this chapter)