Villager of Daming

Chapter 657: Cold Dew has an answer but not a question

"Hanhan, in that question book it says..." The director and Hanhan returned to the memorial hall and told Hanhan the contents of the question book.

Zhu Wentian sat there and looked at the design drawings of the hot air balloon: "Li Minruo would be good as a local official and would come up with good ideas. Being a minister should not be thinking about building a railway to Xiaqiu Village right now."

"Should it be repaired?" The manager picked up a pomegranate next to him, looked at the hand-cranked wall breaker on display, and chose to eat it with his mouth.

Zhu Wentian likes the taste of pomegranate, but doesn't like the seeds. If he eats them directly, his tongue will hurt.

People in the village needed to drink juice, so they came up with several juice-pressing equipment. The pomegranate cannot be pressed directly and needs to be rotated and cut.

"The minister must have an overall view. The main problem of our Ming Dynasty currently is the lack of basic industrial productivity.

According to Li Shangshu, if the rails are to be built immediately, the steel resources will inevitably be diverted to Xiaqiu Village.

Many people did not have handy tools at home, and the number of steam engines was obviously too few.

The imperial court's steel ships are being built, and new guns are being replaced. The previous flintlock guns plus the new guns are not enough to equip the army.

Only the firecrackers can be melted, the copper ones can get copper, the iron ones can make steel, and the rails are not needed for the time being. "

Zhu Wentian gave the reason: We lack everything and must focus. Ships and steam engines are the most important, and railways can be dispensed with.

Li Min from the Ministry of Industry only wanted to try an idea through the development of Xiaqiu Village, and did not consider the problem from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty.

The chief vomited out a dozen pomegranates and put them back: "Then let's not build the railway tracks for now and tell His Majesty to wait until we have more resources later."

"Yes, build a house first. The winter in Yingtianfu will not affect the construction. There is no frozen soil layer, and there are few continuous low temperatures. It will only be unable to support it when it snows in special weather."

After Zhu Wentian finished speaking, he continued to draw the drawings of the hot air balloon. The drawings were not one piece, but a set. They required materials science, structure science, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics...

It would be troublesome for him to design it by himself, but fortunately he has something ready to use.

"How high can a large Kongming Lantern take people to fly?" Li Chang wiped his hands.

"I don't know. It might be possible to fly to an altitude of several thousand feet, mainly due to people. The air in the sky is so thin that people can't breathe.

It was cold at the same time. When flying at a height of two thousand feet, it was almost the same as when He Lin was at his coldest.

It's actually useless, just to cheer people up.Flying into the sky and looking down is convenient for surveying and mapping.

Or it can be used to raise the lookout during a battle. The enemy is defending the city and we are attacking the city. The hot air balloon can drop explosive packets while flying from one side of the city to the other.

This kind of unpowered hot air balloon needs to see which way the wind is blowing. If you don't want to let it out, it is tied with a rope underneath. "

Zhu Wentian was talking and drawing. This is the simplest hot air balloon. It is not flying and cannot be equipped with a large power system.

The operator needs to learn first and become familiar with the air flow at high altitudes. The altimeter is easy to handle, which is the pressure gauge.

"You do it! I'll go look elsewhere." The director couldn't see the actual object and couldn't imagine how to use it, so he turned around and went out.

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"Is this all over?" On the cold dew solar term, Zhu Yuanzhang rode on his horse and looked around.

The soybeans have been harvested, and winter wheat has been planted. Rice and jute have also been harvested, and rapeseed and ramie are waiting to be planted.

Rapeseed is planted before the frost, and ramie is planted after the beginning of winter, which is half a month away. This does not need to be taken care of by anyone, as there are hired hands to take care of it.

The greenhouse vegetable base of Xiaqiu Village here has been expanded. They shoulder the important responsibility of breeding and raising seedlings, and at the same time provide people in other places with fresh vegetables in winter.Zhu Biao followed on horseback: "Father, mechanization is exactly what our Ming Dynasty needs. This winter will be easy."

"Next year, we will send things to Lianghu and Guangdong next year. There is a lack of fertilizer there, so we will first harvest two crops a year, save fertilizer for a year, then three crops a year, and then two crops a year."

Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to solve the food problem and wanted to try the five-year-old operation.

Plant rice and want to eat wheat, which is brought from the north.

"The land tax collected by the imperial court is mainly used to feed officials and the army. If the increased rice production in Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong is enough for Yingtian Mansion, there will be no need to transport rice from other places to Yingtian Mansion.

In the local government offices, officials and servants received their salaries as normal, while the rest were kept in warehouses to deal with disasters.

Disaster... uh... the people in Jiading Prefecture have gone back, and Liu Weiqian didn't write a question book this ten days.

Green cabbage should be planted there and harvested next year to make mustard to make up for the people's losses. After the harvest is over, they will continue to plant food crops. "

Speaking of disasters, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of places where floods occurred. The floods came and flooded a large area, but no houses were floating on the water.

The people demolished their houses early and transported them all to higher ground, including the poultry and livestock raised at home.

The court agreed that if there was no flood, compensation would be paid and the house would be rebuilt.

If there is a flood, no compensation will be given, but subsidies will be given to rebuild the house.

"Father, today is September [-]th, and this tenth day has only been four days. The inscription in the first tenth month said that people's houses have been built, a lot of silt has been piled up, and the land is being plowed and raked.

However, the common people have already obtained the seeds for seedling cultivation according to the teaching method, and will transplant them after the ground is raked.

Seedlings grow faster, which is better than direct seeding. Dead seeds are removed during the seedling raising process. "

Zhu Biao reminded his father that officials in other places did not need to send title books to the court every ten days, which would exhaust everyone to death.

Only when something happens or there is a disaster somewhere, will it be sent every ten days to report the situation in a timely manner so that the court can respond easily.

"Yes, it's only been four days. The rice fields in other places there are reserved for the people affected by the disaster and will not be sent to Yingtianfu.

It's a pity that it's difficult to send machinery and equipment there, otherwise it would be sent to the local area to help the people work.

The main reason is that there are few. They will be built and used in Xiaqiu Village first. If it is too late, they will be used next year.Yichang, what do you think? "

There was no sadness on Zhu Yuanzhang's face. Even though he said he couldn't help the local people, he was actually happy in his heart!
If the disaster is known in advance, no one will be swept away. The disaster will only mean building a bigger house and losing a crop of food and vegetables.

However, it gained people's support. After Sichuan was conquered, many people were panicked, fearing that they would be liquidated.

After this year's operations, the people understood that the Ming Dynasty did not care about the affairs of Zeng Xia Kingdom.

The head of the farm was looking at the vegetable field. Fertilization was deliberately added to the vegetable field. It didn't matter whether it was a waste or not.

When frost comes, top dressing can encourage the production of small fruits of some crops, such as cucumbers, eggplants, and cowpeas. Then, when frost comes, everything is gone and the garden is closed.

Who in the right mind would topdress at this time?Isn't that stupid?
Xiaqiu Village chased after them, and a bunch of small ones would come out. They would not grow after the frost. They would be picked out to make pickles. The small ones are more delicious than the big ones, especially after the frost.

When Zhu Yuanzhang asked, the head of the village replied naturally: "It's not a waste. Those fertilizers will still be useful next year. The cucumbers and eggplants we harvested this year are the best when used to make pickles with shrimp oil."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

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