Short video spoiler history: The beginning of modern warfare

Chapter 34 Quyuanli

When Zhang Qian received the summons, his scalp went numb. Life outside the Great Wall was not even for dogs.
However, the sky curtain mentioned that allicin is the life-saving medicine of the Champion Marquis. Considering Your Majesty's love for the Champion Marquis, it seems that you will have to risk your life and make another trip this time.

During the Zhenguan period, Chang'an City.

Li Shimin was somewhat surprised and puzzled. Historical records did not record what disease Marquis Guanjun had or what symptoms he had when he became ill. How did later generations determine that allicin could save lives?
"Could it be what later generations call theft... ahem, records unearthed during archaeological excavations?" Fang Xuanling guessed with a strange look on his face.

"I'm afraid so." No one else could come up with any other reasonable explanation.

The extraction of allicin was still being played on the sky screen, but everyone listened to it over and over again two or three times. The comments did not mention what diseases allicin could treat or what conditions it could cause. They only learned from a few words that penicillin could be used when injured. So, could allicin be a substitute for penicillin?

One comment said that if he had invented penicillin, World War II would have been fought in his yard, proving the drug's extraordinary effectiveness.

Li Shimin fought countless battles in his life and was well aware of the casualties on the battlefield. There were actually not many people who died in a single charge on the battlefield. Most of them died due to lack of medical care and food after being injured, or because of the high fever caused by the injury that worsened their condition. If penicillin can effectively treat this situation, it can really be called a life-saving miracle drug.

Unfortunately, Tianmu did not mention the preparation of penicillin. According to him, the preparation of penicillin is complicated and requires luck. Then allicin is indeed a good substitute without side effects.

Li Shimin summoned the imperial physician, but adhering to the rigorous medical practice philosophy, the imperial physician gritted his teeth and did not give a clear answer. Li Shimin was somewhat helpless and ordered him to pay more attention.

There is a time gap of more than 1000 years between the Tang Dynasty and later times, and the situations were very different. Many things that were taken for granted in later times were not so easy to understand at that time.

The sky changed again, and it was on the hillside of a big mountain, surrounded by thick fog. On the path leading up the mountain, there was a group of pedestrians wearing yellow clothes and yellow hats, and a woman's voice was panting and complaining.

[Boss, I want to quit the guild. Is it reasonable for the six major sects to besiege Guangmingding? #Guangmingding#Clouds and mists linger]

[Is it Gu Long or Jin Yong? Have you ever been to Guangmingding? Huh? ]

[Is it reasonable to write about the six major sects besieging Guangmingding? Huh? ]

[Ah, I am exhausted after walking and climbing up, do I still have the energy to fight?]

[Also, the Ming Cult lives in such a high place. It's obvious that they have a mentality of escaping from the world.]

[No matter how bad he is, he can't be that bad, right? Why do you want to come and beat him up? ]

[Oh my god]

During the Zhenguan period, the city of Chang'an was filled with spring and sunlight shone in through the windowsills.

The woman in the sky took a breath with every three steps and chattered while panting, which made all the Yanyans and Cuicui laugh.

Gan Tang covered his mouth and chuckled. He looked at the sky. The mountain was steep and rugged, and the wind was very strong on the top. What were such a large group of people going there for? Were they going to explore the mysteries like the ancients?

But that's not the case. The mountain road here is rugged, but the ground is obviously paved with stone slabs.

The so-called siege of Guangmingding by the six major sects must be a fictional story created in later novels.

"Think about the Huashan Sect. They had to go down the mountain first and then walk to Guangmingding. They had to climb up and get beaten. Then they had to walk back by themselves. And then they had to climb Huashan again."

"There wasn't much hatred at first, but I got angrier and angrier as I walked along [狗头]"

"Let me tell you, this Bright Summit is not the one that the six major sects went to. The Bright Summit that the six major sects besieged was in the Western Regions at that time."

"Six Major Sects: All Are Here..."

"The six major sects climbed to the top of the mountain: Is there any water? Mingjiao: Mineral water is 20 yuan a bottle. The six major sects: Go to hell!!!"

In front of the Taiji Hall, Li Shimin looked at the opened map, which marked the locations of the sects and Guangmingding, and couldn't help but sigh at the resilience of the six major sects.

Among them, Guangmingding is roughly located in the Kunlun Mountains in southern Xinjiang, the Emei Sect is in Mount Emei in Sichuan, the Kongtong Sect is in Ningxia, the Wudang Sect is in Mount Wudang in Hubei, the Shaolin Sect is in Mount Song in Henan, the Huashan Sect is in Mount Hua in Shaanxi, the Kunlun Sect is in Mount Kunlun in Qinghai, the Butterfly Valley is in Anhui, the Longmen Escort Agency is in Zhejiang, and the Lingshe Island is isolated overseas.

"What a huge vengeance this must be!" Cheng Yaojin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. According to the location on the map, the six major sects traveled thousands of miles to besiege Guangmingding. There were heavy mountains along the way and the army didn't dare to do this. There was no way to go.

Others who practice martial arts have light skills and can fly.

"Because you don't have inner strength. If you have inner strength and lightness skills, it will be easy to come up."

"The Bright Summit you see is the one in Huangshan, right? You should go to Kunlun Mountain, that's the territory of the Ming Cult."

"Only after going to Mount Huashan did I realize that the Huashan Sword Contest was a home-field advantage. Those who could climb up there and compete in the sword contest were considered lucky if they could swing a sword."

The sky flickered again, and the scene changed.

[In the long farming era, the curved plow has always played an irreplaceable role. The curved plow first appeared in Jiangdong in the late Tang Dynasty and was also called Jiangdong plow.]

[Speaking of the curved plow, we have to start with its ancestor, the leisi]

[The primitive agricultural tool, the lei, was used to poke holes for sowing seeds. The lei was equivalent to a sharpened wooden stick, and the hoe was used to turn over and dig the soil.]

[In order to overcome their respective shortcomings and complement each other's strengths, people tied the hoe to the end of the plow, which was called the lei shi, and this is the ancestor of the curved plow.]

[The function of the Leisi is similar to digging the soil, but it has a problem, that is, it cannot move forward and continuously turn the soil.]

The video on the sky screen follows up with the text, first showing the most primitive plow and hoe, and then combining them. It can be seen that the plow and hoe do have the function of turning over and digging the soil.

Jiangling City in Nanjun in the late Han Dynasty.

"This is the evolution process of the plow and hoe!" Liu Bei said in surprise. Although there seemed to be only a few words on the screen, the origin and function of the plow and hoe were clearly explained.

He had used farm tools such as the plow, but had never thought about why it was designed that way.

It can be seen that the origins of the plow and the hoe were indeed two completely unrelated farm tools. Since the hoe required a wooden stick, it was combined with the rake.

This situation may have continued for a long time, and later someone wanted to make a tool that could continuously dig and loosen the soil, so they tied a wooden stick in the middle of the plow, with one person in front responsible for pulling it, and one person in the back responsible for operating the plow.

After that, human labor was freed and oxen were used to pull the plow, which is now the straight-beam plow.

Zhuge Liang's eyes sparkled and many thoughts flashed through his mind. The straight-beam plow was quite inconvenient to use, and two oxen were needed to pull the plow together when plowing the land.

Is the curved-beam plow an improvement on the straight-beam plow?

This is indeed the case. The two people in the sky imitated the original person walking forward with the plow, so the plow had the function of continuously turning the soil. This was the prototype of the plow.

[With the advancement of bronze iron smelting technology, people replaced the hoe with an iron one, which greatly improved the efficiency of excavation]

[Later, the plow arm was added, and the soil valve that was turned up became larger and larger. The horizontally tied straight circle would prevent the soil from turning over.]

[People changed the straight shaft into a curved shaft, which would not affect the turning of the earthenware scoop while keeping the pulling force point moving downward.]

[By the Tang Dynasty, the Quyuan pear had fully matured and taken shape, and was still used in rural areas until before my country’s reform and opening up.]

"Quick, draw it!" Pang Tong also heard a different feeling. Tianmu now showed the curved plow and marked each component.

Without his instructions, many painters had already started to imitate. Their families all had some fields, and now they heard that the curved plow might be more conducive to plowing the land than the straight plow, so even some of them would carefully draw the shape of the curved plow.

The curved plow is not much more complicated than the straight plow and can be roughly replicated at a glance.

[The curved plow consists of 11 parts in total, we will focus on the plowshare and plowboard]

[The plow blade is triangular in shape and installed at the end of the plow bottom. When plowing the land, it is inserted into the soil and moves forward in a parallel state. Its function is to cut the soil and cut off the roots of weeds at the same time.]

[The plow wall is elliptical and inclined and stands upright at the rear end of the plow blade, closely connected to the plow blade to form a discontinuous curved surface]

[As the plow moves, the soil cut by the plow blade is resisted by the land in front of it, so it rises and turns over along the curved surface of the plow wall and falls upside down on the ground.]

[This achieved the purpose of loosening the soil and cutting weeds. The curved plow has been used in China for more than a thousand years.]

[It was not until the reform and opening up that it reluctantly withdrew from the stage of history and remained in people’s memories]

"Hoo, hoo, hoo!" The painter blew a few times to dry the ink, and handed the drawing to Pang Tong with satisfaction, and Pang Tong handed it to Liu Bei.

So everyone came over and thought, this thing isn't complicated, why didn't they think of it?

Most of the people here have farming experience, so they can analyze the general changes at a glance at the sky screen.

The straight shaft was changed to a curved shaft, and a plowshare was added, but everything else is similar.

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but recall the time when he was farming in Nanyang. It seemed that the plow was easily pulled into the air by the ox, so he had to plow slowly.

Liu Bei couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he thought about the huge reduction in grain production due to his failure to improve the straight-beam plow.

"Looking at the display on the sky screen, it seems that one person and one ox can complete the farming work with the curved plow," Ma Liang said excitedly.

Although he was the son of a wealthy family in Xiangyang, he was not a know-nothing playboy.

Today's straight-beam plow requires at least one person and two oxen to plow the land. If a curved-beam plow only requires one person and one oxen, then the farming efficiency would at least double.

Another benefit of doubling farming efficiency is that farmland that is usually uncultivated can be taken care of, and there may even be enough energy to reclaim some wasteland.

"That would be great!" Liu Bei said happily. If there were enough curved plows and oxen for farming, the grain output in Jingzhou might double in a few years.

You should know that Jingzhou is known as the Eight Counties, but in fact, except for Nanyang County, Nan County, and Jiangxia County, which are relatively prosperous, the southern counties are all sparsely populated and full of miasma. If these places can be developed...
Nanyang County was stolen by Cao Cao, and Jiangxia County is now in the hands of Jiangdong. Although Liu Bei is the lord of the entire Jingzhou, some of the land he obtained is sparsely populated and wild, and naturally no one will cultivate the wasteland.

"Order the craftsmen to urgently build three or five curved plows according to this design, and we will go to verify them together after the work on the skylight is completed." Liu Bei gave the order in a hurry and the matter was passed on.

If we really want to improve farming efficiency, we have to roll it out across the entire territory.

In Ye City in the north, Cao Cao also ordered people to urgently build a curved plow.

"The curved plow has not been improved for thousands of years since the Tang Dynasty until the later reform and opening up. This shows that the technology has become quite mature and the farming efficiency has reached its peak." Xun Yu analyzed factually. He was in charge of internal affairs and food supply, so he was naturally happy to see the improvement of farming tools.

"What Wen said makes sense. If it is really so useful, we should promote its use with all our strength. If there is surplus manpower, we should encourage people to reclaim wasteland!" Cao Cao praised and secretly made plans in his mind.

Jianye.

Countless Jiangdong people straightened their chests when they heard this. We in Jiangdong invented this!
This is called Jiangdong Li! Jiang! Dong! Li!
Sun Quan also knew that this was a good thing, so he ordered people to speed up its production and promote it throughout the territory after it was completed.

That's a good bargain for Cao thief!
Sun Quan thought bitterly that the three parties were now maintaining a tenuous balance. Cao Cao sent an envoy last month to make peace and want to unite. Cao Cao would destroy Yizhou and Sun Quan would destroy Jingzhou.

Sun Quan refused without a second thought. The Jiangdong forces were not monolithic, the local noble families were short-sighted, and the military force he could mobilize was extremely limited.

If Cao Cao's words were followed, after he swallowed up Yizhou, his sphere of influence would include Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Yizhou, Central Plains and other places. By then, with a million soldiers under his command, the small Jiangdong would be unable to contend with him.

During the Yuanshou period, Liu Che was also overjoyed.

This is a good thing for hundreds of years, representing advanced farming technology.

So he ordered people to create it as soon as possible, and if it was effective, to promote it.

"I just read a time-travel novel and learned that the protagonist invented the curved plow in the Qin State."

"I always thought that the curved plow was invented by Qu Yuan [covering face]"

"How can it be said that it has left the stage of history? The southern hills are not suitable for machinery. Why are they still using this thing?"

"Now everyone uses gasoline, and one person carries it all [covers face]"

"The curved plow was mature in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no change in the next few thousand years."

Xianyang Palace of Qin State.

Ying Zheng didn't care about what later generations said about time-travel novels, as long as the stuff was good.

According to many of the technologies mentioned by Tianmu, the Qin State was also changing. It was obvious that it already had things like fine salt, soap, paper and printing, and fertilizers.

You should know that paper was originally just a product of silk workshops, but the paper made by the methods mentioned in later generations was more practical.

Daqin, paper, fine salt.

If the fertilizers and curved plows were effective and there was enough food, he would be confident that he could destroy even the Huns.

As for Fusu, he was released after his fall, but given his weak character, he was probably not capable of shouldering such a heavy responsibility.

It just so happened that high-yield crops had not yet been found, so he was sent to look for high-yield crops.
Tang Chang'an City.

Li Shimin was sincerely happy. Although the curved plow might have been eliminated by later generations, technology is relative, and the curved plow is still of great use to the Tang Dynasty today.

Tianmu said that the curved-beam plow was first formed in the Jiangdong region in the late Tang Dynasty. It is likely that the prototype of the curved-beam plow already existed at that time. The power of the people should not be underestimated.

"Duan Lun"

"I am here"

"Hurry up and order the craftsmen to build a curved plow and test its farming efficiency!"

"As ordered!"

Li Shimin handed over the matters and looked up at the sky, God bless our Tang Dynasty!

"You and I have no destiny, it's all thanks to three college students"

(End of this chapter)