Princess of the auxiliary country

Chapter 147; Busy

"Hahaha, good."

"I respect you, you have made great contributions."

With this thing, Emperor Zhaowu has almost seen this year's bumper harvest.

In the twenty years since the founding of the Yu Dynasty, the most troublesome thing for him was the population problem, and why this problem gave him a headache was naturally the problem of cultivated land.

The population is insufficient and a lot of land cannot be cultivated. Although the population has recovered a lot after twenty years, there are still large amounts of wasteland that cannot be cultivated every year.

It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that the population is not enough. After all, arable land requires manpower.

Now that we have this curved shaft plow, we can greatly improve efficiency and reduce manpower. Doesn't that mean we can cultivate a lot more land?

These are real grains. Even if there is too much cultivated land to take care of, there will be more or less harvests in the fall.

"Your Majesty, this credit does not belong to me."

"This drawing about the Quyuan plow was made by my daughter Zhaode. I just borrowed the craftsmen from the Ministry of Works to make it."

Hearing this, Emperor Zhaowu was startled and said in astonishment, "Did Zhaode do it again?"

Why say again? After all, Princess Zhaode has come up with many new things that benefit the country and the people in the past year or so.

Huo Jingzhi smiled and nodded, then without hiding it, he directly told Huo Junyao that he planned to exchange the drawing for pig iron.

"Your Majesty also knows that my daughter owns a lot of land, and the plow requires iron, and the family has insufficient inventory, so we have to do this."

As his words fell, Emperor Zhaowu's originally happy mood sank slightly.

As an emperor, he could understand people's hearts best, so how could he not see the intention of Huo Junyao's move.

I felt helpless and regretful, yes, I regretted it.

He really shouldn't have continued to care about the prince and hurt her heart again and again.

If he had been fair at the beginning, things wouldn't have turned out like this.

Nowadays, it is useless to talk more. In some relationships, once a problem occurs, it will be very difficult to make up for it.

Especially since this matter also concerns the prince. Although he regrets that he was not fair in the first place, he knows very well that even if time goes back, there is a high probability that he will still be more or less partial to the prince.

After all, this is the prince, and it represents too many things. Even if he knows that it is wrong, he still has to do it.

"That's right. How much pig iron does she need?"

"Not much, just five or six thousand catties."

Hearing this, Emperor Zhaowu nodded and said, "I agreed and will ask Gao Fu to mobilize them later."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I take my leave."

After Huo Jingzhi retired, Emperor Zhaowu looked at the empty imperial study room with a sense of sadness.

"How did things end up like this?"

After getting the pig iron, Huo Jingzhi also thoughtfully sent many blacksmiths and carpenters to Huo Junyao.

Huo Junyao was not polite and made arrangements that day.

She has a household of five hundred people. Calculated as one per household, it would cost five hundred. Moreover, it is not only needed by Xiaohuangzhuang under her own name, but also under the names of Princess Ningyang and Duke Ji Guo, but they are all still needed. There is a lot of farmland. You can’t just do it yourself, right? You can't lose this good thing to your own family, right?

So we need to get more. Although not every household has one, we still need to get enough, right?

In the next period of time, Huo Junyao became busy again.

Similarly, the Ministry of Industry was also busy. The emergence of Quyuanli was a major event for farmers in the Yu Dynasty.

For this reason, Emperor Zhaowu also specially selected a day to publicly verify Qu Yuanli outside the capital.

The farmers who saw this thing were overjoyed. It was not far away from spring plowing. Emperor Zhaowu directly ordered the Ministry of Industry. Craftsmen from the yamen in various places began to work hard to build the Quyuan plow and strive to put it into use during this spring plowing.

The efficiency of the operation of the state machine is quite terrifying. Although it is not said that it will be fully rolled out immediately, as long as the first batch comes out, even if spring plowing begins, it can be followed one after another.

How can it be used in [-] to [-]% of places across the country.

If the area is [-]% to [-]%, the efficiency of the arable land will increase a lot, and there will be no less things that can be planted.

As time passed, it was the spring plowing season, and Huo Junyao was already ready.

Five hundred households worked together, and her little land was secured without much effort.

According to her plan, after spring plowing, brick kilns, workshops, etc. will be built, and the manpower allocation has already been arranged.

As soon as the spring plowing was over, the five hundred households got into action again.

The enthusiasm is very high. After all, I get paid every day, and it doesn't delay the work in the fields, so why not do it.

Just after the brick kiln has been fired and the firing has begun, the big pit at the papermaking workshop has also been prepared. The next step is to prepare bamboo, wood, bark, straw, etc. for soaking.

She also assigned a brick kiln to burn lime, which is an important step in papermaking.

Once everything is done, it's just a matter of softening the material in those big bath pits.

In a blink of an eye, it's summer. In the past few months, Xiaohuangzhuang has been busy almost every day.

The bricks and other items that were first fired were all used in Xiaohuangzhuang. The houses of the [-] households were all relatively poor-quality adobe houses. Huo Junyao directly allocated the bricks to Xiaohuangzhuang first.

Although it is not said that every household has a brick yard, there is still no big problem in getting a yard that is a mixture of bricks, tiles, and adobe.

In addition to these, the walls surrounding Xiaohuangzhuang are also made of bricks and adobe.

Almost the entire Xiaohuangzhuang is surrounded. The growth of corn in Xiaohuangzhuang is also very gratifying. The corn cobs are as thick as a half-year-old child's arm, but these farmers who are planting corn for the first time see it. It’s so novel.

At first, they all tasted this corn and knew it was a good thing, but after all, they had never seen how it grew. Now that they saw it, they realized that the princess was not bragging. The yield per mu of this thing was indeed amazing.

Five hundred households have completely come to trust Huo Junyao, the young princess.

Of course, as the corn grew, Huo Junyao also issued an order that no one could tell anyone about it without her permission. For this reason, she did a lot to scare these people.

Moreover, of the two hundred people originally, Huo Junyao also directly assigned one hundred people to come to Xiaohuangzhuang as guards.

Make sure as much as possible not to leak it out for the time being.

Because of this series of actions, even though Xiaohuangzhuang is not far from the capital, not many people know that there are new crops here.

She didn't intend to hide it forever, after all, this thing couldn't be hidden.

But at least she didn't plan to leak it until she was fully mature. This was something she planned to use to build momentum.

(End of this chapter)