Villager of Daming

Chapter 624: The fiefdom is helpless and has traces

"Can that connected rice-harvesting machine only be used on flat land?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took two more sips of wine, always thinking about a combine harvester that could hold 500 people.

"Yes, terraced fields and scattered small fields still need to be harvested manually. If the working area is small, it is not suitable to use this equipment." The head of the village nodded.

"How much flat land is there in the Dongting Lake?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the places where he had suffered losses in water battles.

"Your Majesty is right. In the Lianghu Plain where Huguang is located, you can grow rice twice a year. Cotton... It is not recommended to grow cotton because the village has no time to think about the cotton harvester. The cotton is maturing one after another, and there is no special medicine to accelerate the ripening.

In the Lianghu Plain area, including some plains in Guangdong, it is easy to plant rice twice a year. If you plant rice three times a year, the fertilizer will not be able to keep up.

Using steam engine plowing and planting equipment to plant seeds and then harvesting them when mature requires less manpower.

In this way, local resource advantages can be used to raise more pigs and poultry, which can cover the needs of the areas along the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Since livestock and poultry are raised, feed is needed. Rice husks are not suitable for feeding directly. Some areas can be separated for wheat and soybean rotation. "

Let me tell you a little bit about Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong. There are still people there!The population is small and the land tax is heavy. Ningguo Mansion cannot grow rice twice a year.

Changsha Prefecture, Yuezhou Prefecture, Changde Prefecture, Baoqing Prefecture and other places have no problem. The problem is that the people are tired!It’s not the level of [-]% tax for the whole year.

"It is true that the people should be allowed to do more other things. Farming is the most tiring and depends on the weather. We have done a lot for them, and now..."

Zhu Yuanzhang understood the meaning of Li Chang's words. The people could use local wheat bran, soybean seedlings, and oil-pressed soybean cakes to feed pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese.

Then the land tax could be reduced, and a large amount of land was officially used for steam-mechanized planting and harvesting.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to say that now we are not afraid that some of the original people there will rebel again, including in Guangdong, but he felt embarrassed to say it.

Queen Ma said from the side: "Wherever there is water that can pass ships, our Ming army will be deployed quickly in the future, and the same will be true for transporting things.

This year's troops will come back, take a break, and next year they will be sent to various places to help de-illiterate the people and let them know what the Ming Dynasty is like now. "

"My sister is right." Zhu Yuanzhang said that's all. We are not afraid of them causing trouble, we can mobilize troops quickly and our weapons are powerful.

And depending on where the people are not very stable, the number of sergeants sent to de-illiterate can be increased. While teaching people literacy and arithmetic, they are also responsible for protecting the safety of the people.

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With the return of the Northern Tour team, life seems to be back to what it used to be.

Zhu Xi goes to Jubiqi for work every day, and people from Xiaqiu Village and craftsmen are busy building things.

Most of the troops were resting and studying, while a small number took advantage of the fact that the Yellow River had not reached the dry season and drove steam boats to Hukou Falls to collect oil again and again.

By the way, I brought explosives and tools to build roads there and smoothed the paths to facilitate the unloading of ships and transportation of things by land.

In the past, it was a matter of interest to lift the ship to land. Why not park the ship upstream and downstream, and then unload the cargo back and forth and transport it by other means before loading it on the ship?

How is the cargo on board calculated?Sold just above and below Hukou Waterfall?It won't sell at a high price that way.

Therefore, I would rather spend money to hire people to help move the Gulu wood, and then the cost will naturally be included in the sales price.

It is an official issue at present, and there is no value of the goods. We must quickly get the oil flowing down the river from Yanchang County to Yingtian Mansion.

Some of them were also ordered by Zhu Fang to be placed next to his palace. He saved them, a little at a time, thinking that there would be a lot when the vassal came, and asked people from Xiaqiu Village to help build factories.

Some information about the fiefdom was conveyed by Zhu Ping via steam engines and ships. Even before he became a vassal, he was already affecting the development of the fiefdom.Zhu Biao was under pressure. The things that his second brother had to deal with all day were beyond the scope of the affairs of Prince Wei.

Normally, the prince should study in the main hall, visit the military camp, exercise, etc.

The second brother is in charge of several businesses, has to approve documents every day, and is also worried about the running of Xi'an Mansion.

As for learning, what else do you need to learn?A prince who is obsessed with the welfare of the people in his fiefdom and leading them to live a good life has already mastered a lot of knowledge related to specific people's livelihood.

What else do you need to teach him?Love the people?Who loves him more?

His love is a concrete action, including mobilizing people there to mine coal, make briquettes, smelt iron, build stoves, stove tubes, and fire pits in people's homes...

They even ordered people to go to each village and use cement to build drying areas for grain drying while the weather was hot.

Now the Xi'an government is waiting for the soybean harvest, and the people have few things to do. They usually cook vegetables at home, which is a good time to work.

After harvesting the beans, it’s time to plant winter wheat. It will be cold before the winter wheat matures next year, so it’s not suitable to plaster the drying field with cement, so we’ll plant it first this year.

He also sent people to Pingyang Mansion, where there were salt ponds, and the salt produced was bitter. He asked people to follow the beach drying method to make it easier for the people in his fief to use the salt.

The distance between the two places is close. The easternmost place of Xi'an Prefecture is Huayin County, and Yanchi is more than 200 miles away from there.

However, from the salt pond to the nearest river, it is fifty miles. The land road is repaired for fifty miles. When we reach the river, we go down the river to Huayin.

The second brother wanted to repair it quickly. He would pay for the road construction, and he would also take care of the new salt-drying ponds.

When I heard that the third and fourth brothers knew about it, they were so anxious that they screamed. The fourth brother's Peiping was better. His team stayed there for a long time, but the third brother's Taiyuan Prefecture now has nothing!
It seems that the third brother goes to the lunch box restaurant every day to eat without saying anything else. After eating, he goes back to the delicatessen to study the problem of cooked food and check the accounts.

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"His Royal Highness King Jin is well!" During the summer heat, the village chief took the children from Xiaqiu Village to the second floor in front of the box lunch shop.

One is that everyone is too busy recently and needs to take a rest, and the other is about Zhu Fan.

When Zhu Fan went to Xiaqiu Village, he didn't mention anything else. He just took his younger brothers and sisters to play, and then went to the box lunch restaurant to eat at normal times every day.

It's obvious that he's waiting for someone, come on!
"Good luck!" Zhu Fan smiled, finally waiting.

"What would you like to eat, Your Highness?" the chief asked.

"Let's ask people to go back to get cooked food and have a drink! Let's drink beer. If you want it cold, go to the second brother to get it." Zhu Fan stopped eating the box lunch and wanted to drink.

"Here we come, third brother, I'm here." Zhu Xi arrived, and the people from Xiaqiu Village came. He promised to know that they were too close.

"Second brother!" Zhu Fan greeted. He was only 15 years old this year. Zhu Xi was seventeen and began to worry about his fiefdom.

Historically, the two of them were not like this. At that time, they knew nothing and spent all day studying in the main hall, waiting to be supported by the people after they got to the fiefdom.

It's different now. Both of them know that the people must live a good life so that the fiefdom can have money, especially in business, where taxes can be collected.

The land has no choice but to collect grain with a tax rate of thirty to one, unless it is other official land or something.

It doesn't matter, as long as the people have a lot of food and raise a lot of livestock and poultry, everything has to be transferred.

(End of this chapter)