Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 540 The Farmers of the Ming Dynasty Can Go to the Qinhuai River to Be Cool (Please Subscribe!)
"Come on, change to the plow for plowing the field!"

Yan Yuan turned on the steam engine, looked at the dumbfounded minister, smiled happily, and then began to show off his skills.

Soon, college students were taking parts of the harvester apart and fitting the steam engine with plows for plowing.

Yan Yuan drove the steam engine around the field again, and walked around the field with the steam engine.

Behind it, the spacious plow machine is dragged deep into the soil, and with the movement of the machine, the thick soil is turned out very easily!
Compared with using cows and horses, the dug out soil is deeper and more neat.

Chen Yonghua: "An artifact, the horses left over from farming in the future can be used to expand the territory!"

Good guy, there are war criminals per capita in the Ming Empire, and the words of the Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty made Zhu Kezang reflect.

Shouldn't Ming's war machine stop for a while?

In fact, Zhu Kezang worried too much, the military virtues of Ming Dynasty civil servants have always been relatively abundant.

After the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan in the early Ming Dynasty, military generals had a higher status than civil servants. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty's vassal towns, they chose to use literature to control military affairs.

Using civil officials to check and balance military officials, although it has some meaning of imitating the Song Dynasty, its purpose is not to deliberately suppress and lower generals as in the Song Dynasty, but to prevent military commanders from being too powerful.

And the civilian officials of the Ming Dynasty were also good at military affairs, and their military capabilities were extremely good. Compared with the civil officials of the Song Dynasty, they were not good at military affairs, which can be regarded as two extremes.

Civil officials of the Ming Dynasty who were good at soldiers, such as Tie Xuan, Wang Ji, Wang Yue, Luo Hengxin, Xiang Zhong, Han Yong, etc., all made great military exploits, so why were the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty so good at fighting?

Here we have to mention the Ming Dynasty's training mechanism for civil servants.

Although civil servants in the Ming Dynasty entered their careers through the imperial examination, it is not that the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was not as rigid and rigid as imagined.

Students from various provinces can take an additional test of archery during the township examination. If they have excellent results, they can make a separate booklet and "add points" to their scores.

And Fuzhou county schools also teach students martial arts, so Ming Dynasty literati, among other things, must have a much higher value of martial arts than Song Dynasty.

"Sell the newspaper! Sell the newspaper!"

"Yingtian Manufacturing Bureau has manufactured a steam engine harvester, which can harvest thousands of acres of wheat fields in a day!"

The next morning, with the sunrise of the morning sun, a new day began, and the voices of newsboys sounded again in the streets and alleys of the Imperial Capital of Ming Dynasty.

The exaggerated headlines immediately attracted the attention of newspaper buyers who had been waiting for a long time, and soon, a large number of newspaper buyers gathered around each newsboy, and newspaper after newspaper appeared in the fastest speed among the young and old in the imperial capital. hand.

The progressive workers who got the newspapers naturally looked at the headlines of the newspapers first, and there were six large characters written on it, the age of steam agriculture.

"The era of steam agriculture?"

Everyone's mind is full of doubts, steam agriculture?

Workers like steam engines know each other well, so the things from the factory can be used for farming!
Huang Ming Daily wrote so, it must be true!
Everyone's minds were full of doubts, and with such doubts, they quickly read on.

Huangming Daily used a very short space to introduce the steam engine in the previous article, and I was also worried that some people would not recognize this thing.

Steam engines were widely used in Daming, but they were also limited to the train, mining, and forging lamp industries. It is normal for people in other industries not to know them.

Later, Huangming Daily talked about an extremely important field of application of steam engines, that is, agriculture.

"Such a small steam engine has the power of five or six horses?"

Some people looked at the data introduced in the newspaper and found it unbelievable. The appearance of the steam engine harvester also brought thinking about how to calculate power. After Yan Yuan’s suggestion, everyone also used the power of horses as a reference. Horsepower and horsepower became unit of strength.

A steam harvester or cultivator is five horses!
"And this steam harvester can harvest thousands of acres of wheat fields in a day?"

Someone looked at the content written in the newspaper in disbelief, harvesting thousands of acres of wheat fields in a day, how fast is this?

If one person works hard for a year, he can only manage a dozen acres of land. It takes hundreds of farmers to cultivate a thousand acres of land.

Now you tell me that only one machine is needed?
Some senior farmers who did not have a deep understanding of steam engines wondered: "Why did the Huangming Daily start bragging today!"

A cook in a restaurant also agreed: "We only need to burn firewood or coal, and we can walk without oxen. So when we cook, do we have to worry about the stove going away by itself?"

"Haha, yes, isn't steam just water vapor, and it can also be used to harvest wheat, so why do farmers need to work hard? Everyone drinks water vapor."

Some people kept laughing, thinking that this was impossible.

There are also workers in the manufacturing industry who are trying their best to maintain the steam engine: "You are really ignorant, you don't understand the power of the steam engine at all, if you have nothing to do and take a train, you will know that the steam engine is the greatest invention of Ming Dynasty!"

The textile industry also deeply agrees: "Didn't you find that there is no shortage of clothes in Daming? That's because there are steam engines to help weaving!"

The sailors in the shipping industry also stood up: "The ships you usually take are driven by steam engines. If you can't put down your chopsticks, you can scold your mother!"

With the full expansion of factories everywhere, the number of workers in Daming continued to surge, and the status of working in factories was almost as high as that of farming.

A farmer retorted: "My old Liu has no money to take the train or ship, and I only know how to farm."

But his fellow villagers next to him revealed the truth: "Old Liu, you old bachelor, I know that all your money has been invested by the Qinhuai River."

This time, farmer Lao Liu blushed directly.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many brothels around the Confucius Temple on both sides of the Qinhuai River, and it was considered the largest "red light district" in China at that time.Wu Jingzi wrote in "Scholars Outside History": "When the Qinhuai River is full of moonlight, the darker the night, there will be the boats singing softly, desolate, euphemistic, and soul-stirring.

The girls living in the houses on both sides of the river wore light gauze clothes and jasmine flowers on their hair.Roll up the Xiang curtain together and lean on the railing to listen quietly.

So the drums of the lightship sounded, and the curtains on both sides opened.

The ambergris burnt in the river channel, Shen and Suxiang mist sprayed out together, and merged with the moonlight lights in the river.

Looking at the fairy, the fairy of the Yao Palace.There are also the official prostitutes on the sixteenth floor, with new makeup and dazzling clothes.

To attract tourists from all over the world, it is really cold food every day and Lantern Festival every night. "

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has exempted the agricultural tax, and the income of the farmers has gradually increased, so they have spare money. No wonder the farmer Lao Liu has the money to go to the Qinhuai River to enjoy himself.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, Lao Liu tried his best to defend himself: "My Lao Liu has such a hobby all his life, why are you making fun of me, don't say you haven't been there!"

Well, the topic of this tall steam engine suddenly became which little fairy in Qinhuai River has good skills and good looks.

(End of this chapter)