Mythical Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, establishment of empire

Chapter 418 Agricultural Industrialization

Following Liu Hua's order, the entire Qin Dynasty soon began to move. Rest? No rest!

Rest is reserved for the general public. As an official, you have to do a lot of work.

There is only one day at the end of each month for you to rest, and the rest of the time is for me to spin like a top.

Anyway, Liu Hua still has many plans in mind, but now there are only so many that he can implement.

Liu Hua is not the kind of guy who advocates commercial circulation and can solve everything.

After all, in my previous life, I had encountered a boss who kept making mistakes for me but refused to raise my salary, so I didn’t believe a word of the so-called business model that could solve most of the problems in the feudal era.

Therefore, Liu Hua adopts a more guiding and stand-by attitude towards business development. He does not suppress business, but he does not want to rely too much on it.

Liu Hua believes more in using agriculture as the basis and slowly promoting the secondary industry. At least this way there will be no major problems.

In such a society where there is no working class at all, only the peasant class and the slave class, Liu Hua doesn't think much about developing the tertiary industry. If he can develop the secondary industry by himself, Liu Hua feels that he is very remarkable.

In the first step of the secondary industry, some people talk about building a spinning jenny or carrying out technological reforms. Xinbiquge

In fact, for Liu Hua, the first step he wants to try is to industrialize agriculture and change agriculture from a small country with few farmers to a large-scale intensive management model.

This is why he needs the entire land of Zheng Guoqu to conduct experiments.

Because only land of this size can support intensive management, the cost of this model should be diluted as much as possible.

Otherwise, there are only a few acres of land. Instead of carrying out so-called intensive management, it is better to leave it to the farmers themselves to take care of it.

Intensive management of agriculture requires the investment of considerable resources. Almost every step of capital, technology, management level and labor force is far higher than the initial investment of a normal small-scale farmer economic model.

Only when the farmland is wide enough to further spread the production costs can it bring about high productivity, high efficiency and high profits.

The benefits brought by this model are difficult to imagine in the production model of an ordinary family of five with 100 acres of land in the late Qin Dynasty.

And not everyone can play this mode.

This requires the extraordinary organizational power of Fa Sui to work, which requires a complete machinery industry production system, sufficient accumulation of agricultural heritage, and land costs and labor costs that can only be reduced due to military disasters in a chaotic situation.

The most important thing is to have a thinking model that has at least a basic understanding of agricultural industrialization from the twentieth century.

In short, this step is not easy, and even Liu Hua is aware that his efforts this year may be in vain.

But such sacrifices are very necessary for Liu Hua.

Because if this planting model can succeed, then such a management model that reduces costs on a large scale will directly boost food production by a large step, reaching the highest level before the development of chemical fertilizers.

The most important thing is that this is a military camp. Except for part of the food in the military camp, which is reserved for each reserve's own use, it basically belongs to the country.

With such abundant food in hand, Liu Hua said that he had obtained the final answer to the problem at this time.

Zhang Liang was relieved that Liu Hua only chose to do it in Zheng Guoqu, and had no intention of pushing this operation to the entire Guanzhong at once. He also wanted to give Liu Hua a try and let Liu Hua do it on his own.

After all, Zhengguo Canal is indeed a very important grain-producing area in Guanzhong, but this does not mean that other places in Guanzhong do not produce grain except Zhengguo Canal.

Especially with the debauchery of the second generation of Qin, Zhao Gao's domineering power, coupled with the Qin army's consecutive defeats and the repeated visits of the rebel army, many acres of land have long been deserted. The first thing Zhang Liang has to do is to restore these acres. As for Zheng Guoqu, let Liu Hua do it first. If Liu Hua doesn't produce anything by then, then he can find an excuse to stop Liu Hua.

As for Dujiangyan, the grain produced in this area is basically only circulated in the Bashu area. If you really want to transport the grain from Bashu to Xianyang over the mountains and ridges, it will cost at least twenty dan to send one stone of grain.

Therefore, what Liu Hua meant was to ask the Bashu side to hand over as many silk fabrics as possible to offset the tax. To put it simply, it was a rent-based modulation.

As for the food, try to save it in the Hanzhong area as a reserve for the future bridge project between Guanzhong and Hanzhong.

Zhang Liang quite appreciated Liu Hua's proposal, because it could be considered as adapting measures to local conditions and further reducing the tax cost of the people in the Bashu area. It was also a good policy, so he began to issue notices to the officials in Bashu.

To be honest, after Liu Hua was in administration in Youzhou, he came to Qin for administration and found that Qin's administrative costs were very low.

Because of the efforts of several generations of Qin kings, obedience to laws and regulations is almost engraved in the DNA of the people of Qin.

As long as any law does not directly harm the interests of the people, the people will be very happy to cooperate.

At the same time, there are no intertwined aristocratic families in Great Qin. At most, there are some old and young people from the Qin State, but those people are quite well-behaved now.

Therefore, when various government decrees are issued, Liu Hua can clearly feel the feeling of being in charge of government and people.

One day when he was free, Liu Hua asked Ying Ziying to drive a carriage to Jiangzuo Shaofu.

Ying Ziying chatted with Wang Li for a whole night and became much better after coming out. Wang Li had also left Xianyang and headed towards Yunzhong.

As for whether Wang Li can give Ying Ziying a bargaining chip to survive in the future, no one except Wang Li knows.

But even so, Ying Ziying was not disappointed, but instead became more tenacious.

When Liu Hua asked him to do the driving job, he could accept it calmly, and his driving skills were pretty good.

The reason why Liu Hua brought Xun Xi to Jiangzuo Shaofu together is also very simple. If he can solve the organizational problem of Ling Chufa Sui through the military camp, and improve the mechanical production system, then only Jiangzuo Shaofu can solve this problem. question.

Although spring plowing has not yet begun, the soldiers in the military camp are taking advantage of this period to dredge the mud in the Zhengguo Canal as much as possible, so that when spring plowing comes next year, more fields can be irrigated with water. For most fields, water will be enough. Planting.

Now that Liu Hua came to Jiangzuo Shaofu, he wanted to know whether the Lecture Shaofu could provide complete scientific and technological support. If not, then he would come forward to guide and do his duty as a time traveler.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!" Ma Jun was startled when he saw Liu Hua arriving, and hurriedly came to greet him.

"Let's talk after we go in!" Liu Hua entered the young general's residence calmly.

"No!" Ma Jun replied: "Your Majesty, please come inside!"

Liu Hua and Ma Jun entered the Young Master General's Mansion, and when they got inside, they didn't see any bustling working environment.

Because the forging factory and the office of Shaofu are separated, the forging factory is outside Xianyang, and only the office will be placed in Xianyang because it has to connect various affairs of various departments.

Liu Hua hopes to let Ma Jun develop water-powered mills, curved shaft plows, leaky carts... and other production equipment to increase efficiency.

(End of this chapter)