My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 245 Continued Shock
In fact, Cao Lesheng just entered a farm tool store, but the farm tools inside were different from those usually used by Dazhou farmers.

Although Da Zhou's farm tools have entered the stage of using iron farm tools, they are a bit inferior compared to modern farm tools that have been optimized many times.

After Jiang Tangtang took over Lingnan, he established emerging departments such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Health.

In addition to managing seeds and other matters, the Ministry of Agriculture also has a department that specializes in developing agricultural tools.Jiang Tangtang put forward many opinions on the development of new agricultural tools.

These opinions are combined with the advantages of modern agricultural tools, such as sickles with longer handles and more convenience.There are also double-edged grass-cutting sickles and nine-tooth hollow hoe specially developed for land reclamation.

And the prices of these farm tools are very cheap.

After Cao Lesheng finally figured out what was being sold in the shop, he was shocked by the price. "How much do you think this sickle costs? It's only ten cents?"

Because the development of weapons requires constant contact with iron, Cao Lesheng would sometimes go to the iron shop before his hand was injured.In addition to self-defense weapons such as daggers, there are also farm tools for sale.

He is still very clear about the prices of farm tools.

An iron sickle costs at least thirty or forty coins.And the iron used in that sickle doesn't seem to be as much as the iron used in this sickle.Not as sharp and useful as this sickle.

Such good farm tools only cost ten cents. Are these Lingnan businessmen stupid?
The store owner saw his confusion and smiled: "Is this old man just coming to Lingnan from outside?"

Cao Lesheng asked: "How do you know that I just came from outside?"

"This is not simple. You can see it soon from your surprised look."

The shopkeeper said: "Which of us old Lingnan people doesn't know that this is a government subsidy? Mrs. Lu understands the difficulties of the common people, so she subsidizes it from her own pocket. Ten cents is not even enough to cover the cost!"

As the store owner spoke, he praised Jiang Tangtang again.When the people picking farm tools nearby heard this, they all chimed in and said good things about Jiang Tangtang.

Only then did Cao Lesheng know that the storytelling in the square was arranged by Jiang Tangtang so that everyone could relax after a hard day's work.

In addition to being able to listen and listen to books for free, ordinary people can also go to schools to learn knowledge for free.And this knowledge is not limited to reading, you can also learn weaving, brick-making skills and so on.

This made Cao Lesheng so shocked that his eyes almost fell out.

Can this be spread casually?Can those aristocratic families agree?You must know that many aristocratic families have become rich because they have mastered a certain skill and then passed it down from generation to generation.

As soon as he asked this question, he received a lot of blank looks.

"This is all our wife's idea. What does it have to do with those aristocratic families?"

"No, the methods taught by our wife are much more powerful than those from those aristocratic families. They all have to come to learn from our wife!"

"Our wife is a disciple of the Immortal, so the method must have been created by the Immortal, so it is naturally powerful."

……

After hearing a lot of praise about Jiang Tangtang, Cao Lesheng went to another shop, which was a study.

The study is just like other shops. There are many people inside. Some people's clothes suggest that they are not scholars, but the strange thing is that they are holding books and reading with gusto.

Cao Lesheng was curious and took the book to read.He found that this book was different from what he had read before. This book was in vernacular.And the content also made him wonder, what method of retting was written on it.

Is this a farming book?

The person reading just now was actually a farmer?
But thinking of the news he just heard, Jiang Tangtang opened many schools in Lingnan to teach the residents of Lingnan how to read.It doesn’t feel weird anymore.I guess these are the common people who took the time to go to school and learned how to read!

It's just that this man held the book and read it for a long time, reciting the words in his mouth.After reciting it, he put down the book and left. The shopkeeper of the study didn't even care.

Cao Lesheng couldn't help but be curious, and asked the shopkeeper of the study, "Shopkeeper, so many people just recited the contents of the book, didn't buy your shop's books, and just left. How can your study open for business? Is it possible? Your study is also subsidized by the government!"

"There is no subsidy! But compared to subsidies, we get something more important than money."

Jiang Tangtang led them to develop printing technology. Compared with the past when every book had to be copied by a scholar, the efficiency was much higher now.

Moreover, several large-scale paper mills have recently been opened in Lingnan, and the cost of paper has also been greatly reduced.

Not to mention, there are many books whose contents were originally taught by Madam, which is no more cost-effective than subsidizing money.Although his wife would have to pay a certain amount of copyright fees for every book sold, he still felt that he had taken advantage of it.

However, the shopkeeper would not tell outsiders casually. He just said: "We are responding to Madam's call to popularize agricultural knowledge and help people increase food production. Only by increasing food production can we vigorously develop the economy. Only if we all When life gets better, our study business will get better and better."

He looked at Cao Lesheng's dress and conversation, and then said: "Old sir, do you want to buy books? If you want to buy books, you have to go to the second floor. The books on the second floor are more profound. The books down here are all reference books."

"No rush, let me take a look first." Cao Lesheng was also a book lover and started wandering around the study.

He found that the books here were not only different in content from the books outside, but also had prices marked on the back of each book.It is very convenient for book buyers to understand at a glance.

The content of the books is also diverse. In addition to agricultural books that teach people about retting, identifying diseases of fruit trees, and growing three-season rice, there are also books on weaving and hookwork.

What surprised him even more was that he actually saw a book called "Analysis of Typical Cases of Blast Furnace Ironmaking Production".The writing was straightforward, but he still couldn't understand many of the contents.

But even if he couldn't understand it, it didn't stop him from loving the book.

Cao Lesheng decided to buy the book without even thinking about it.

He later discovered that books such as "Basic Arithmetic" and "Basics of Chemistry" in the study seemed to be helpful for him to understand "Analysis of Typical Cases of Blast Furnace Ironmaking Production".

So, he bought all the books related to it.

The books in Lingnan Study were not expensive, but he couldn’t help but buy them like this!When the final bill came, Cao Lesheng felt a little heartbroken!
Later, I was fortunate that the monthly salary from the weapons research and development institute was not low.

The shopkeeper of the study has long been used to customers like Cao Lesheng who buy a bunch of matching books because of one book.

I don’t know if these people finally understood it after buying it.

The shopkeeper thought to himself, and took out a book from the drawer, frowning and studying it.

While reading, I sighed that Madam is indeed a disciple of the gods. Look at the book she wrote. How can ordinary people understand it?

(End of this chapter)