The struggle of the reborn prince

Three days later is the day when the spirit is released. Two funeral processions are walking slowly. The paper money is like white moths flying in the sky. The sound of the suona is heartbreaking. Shocking, Zhao Tun walked in the middle holding the coffin and supporting the coffin.

"Who's home in Artemisia? There is no virtuous and foolish soul to gather souls. How can the ghost be urged, and human life must be hesitant..." Li Yannian's elegy is sad and desolate, and Zhao Tang sang along with it over and over again.

"Brother, let's go..."

"Let's go, brother..." Every time they passed a construction site, the strong men would lay down sacrifices and sacrifice along the way. The funeral procession had to stop again and again, and Zhao Tang would bow and salute with the mourners.

"Brother, the prince will personally see you off, you should close your eyes!" A middle-aged man shouted loudly.

"Brother, the lord has already arranged the funeral for your family, so don't worry!"

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Hearing the simple words of the villagers, Zhao Tun was both ashamed and moved. His fellow villagers left, and he just did what he should do. These villagers not only did not blame him, but were grateful to Dade. Satisfied···

Zhao Tuo kept sending the dead young men to the cemetery, and did not return to the mansion until the sun went down. "Zheng Lu, we built canals and paved roads to occupy the fields of the tenants. What do they say?" Zhao Tuo changed his clothes, washed up and found he asked.

"Second Lord, most people think that we built the canal and paved the road for their own benefit, and didn't say anything, only a few people were dissatisfied with it!" Now Zhao Tun has established authority in the mansion with both kindness and power, and no one dares to criticize him anymore. When a child looked at it, Zheng Lu looked at his face and replied cautiously.

"How did you do it?" Zhao Tong asked again with a blank expression.

"Second Lord, the land is our own. If I want to occupy it, I will occupy it. Besides, Lu Qu is next to his field, and everything will be cheap in the future. How dare they threaten us!" Zheng Lu replied.

"Hmph, you're being stupid. Although the land is ours, it's already rented out by others, so it's not all ours. Now that you've occupied other people's fields and affected their harvest, you're still threatening. Is there any reason in this world? "Tama Zhao patted the table and said.

"Second Master, we have already invested more than [-] guan in order to open roads and build canals. If we make compensation, we will spend a lot of money. I don't know how many years of rent it will take to recover the capital. Second Master, please think again! "Zheng Lu quickly explained.

"I know that you are loyal to the government and you are thinking of me. The money may be just a drop in the bucket for us, but for these tenants, it is the income of one mu of land a year, and they have to pay various taxes. The rest There are very few, and these lands can be said to be their fate!" Zhao Tong said, "You will make statistics tomorrow, whoever occupies the land and how much it occupies, and the rent will be reduced according to this year's harvest. Compensation should be made according to the price, don’t let people scold us behind our backs for being rich and unkind because of these things!”

"I understand now, I will follow the second master's orders immediately!" Zheng Lu bowed and said.

"Zheng Lu, you are temporarily acting as the chief manager. When considering things, don't just focus on the small profits in front of you. Now we have suffered some losses. If our fields are not planted, then no matter how much land there is, it will be a wasteland. We can’t collect a penny, and we can only develop if we retain people and let them be used by us sincerely!” Zhao Tang saw that Zheng Lu was a little unconvinced, and he was just perfunctory if he didn’t explain it clearly, or after that Do things negatively, have to say a few more words with him.

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The matter on the construction site was finally settled, and the two super killers were handed over to Huang Jingchen to watch over, while Jianxi and his uncle watched over from the wine shop. It will be two months until the wheat harvesting season, and he has to complete another "invention" of his own before then - the semi-automatic harvester.

Zhao Tong is currently researching a harvesting machine that uses animal power. This harvester is not only simple in structure and light to pull, but also most of the materials are wood. It uses livestock as the power source, and the operation speed is fast, the quality is high, and the maintenance is relatively relatively Simple, especially suitable for use in this day and age.

"This wheel should be like this? Why didn't I study it carefully at the time." Zhao Tang struggled to recall the thing he had seen in his previous life. It was a pile of rags he saw in the warehouse when he was growing up on the farm. , was the most advanced agricultural equipment introduced at the beginning of the farm, but it was already eliminated by more advanced mechanized equipment when it was his turn. This is also thanks to the hard work and simplicity of the previous field managers who have been persistent for many years. It is because of the tradition that they are not treated as tatters early, so that they have a relationship with Zhao Tun.

Regretting that there is nowhere to take the medicine, Zhao Tang can only rely on his knowledge of mechanics to try to restore the old animal harvester.There is no physical reference, no information to learn from, and what is even more exasperating is that there are two completely different measurement standards. Zhao Tong first drew the general appearance of the harvester on paper with his own memory, and then disassembled it one by one. Fortunately, he is familiar with the principles of modern machinery, at least he knows which large parts are needed, and finally dissects the large parts into more small parts.

"Damn it, this isn't imitation, it's pure redesign!" Zhao Tong looked at the pile of blueprints he had drawn on the table, and there were more waste papers scattered on the ground, and said to himself in tears, What is important about machinery is that the seams are tight and the various parts can be accurately linked. As long as there is a part that is not suitable, it has to be overthrown and restarted. Now he has stayed up for three days and nights and finally completed the preliminary design. Whether it can be used depends on the prototype. .

"Ah..." Zhao Tun yawned for a long time, his eyelids sticking together uncontrollably, "I'm still a child, I need enough sleep to grow taller, don't worry, I'll sleep first tomorrow Let's talk about it after experimenting, do you say that true knowledge comes from practice!" Zhao Tun couldn't stand Brother Zhou's calling, so he climbed into bed with all his clothes on, and went to play chess with him comforting himself.

Another seven days passed, and on a sunny morning, Zhao Tang came to the workshop in the mansion again, and ordered everyone to put together all the finished parts and assemble them according to his requirements. The structure of this thing is not complicated, and it will be a More than seven feet long, five feet wide, and four feet tall, a strange-looking thing appeared in front of everyone.

"Second master made a sedan chair?" Zhang Liujin whispered to Zhang Erbao, the foreman next to him.

"No, I think it's a car, you didn't see the wheels under it!" Zhang Erbao shook his head and said.

"Well, the boss is right. I have long thought that this is the carriage designed by the second master. You see, I have carved flowers around it!" Carpenter Qian Zhuang said with a smile.

"You don't know it at first glance. It's clearly a chariot. Isn't there a few discs on the front? They are all sharpened. They can cut off a horse's hoof by running on the battlefield!" the blacksmith said. Cao Shuangcheng pouted and said.

"Old Cao, you will die if you don't brag. If you use this to fight, where is that man hiding? Don't let the arrow shoot you into a hedgehog!" Zhang Liujin said like you are an idiot.

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Zhao Tang was not in the mood to listen to a few guys guessing nonsense. He checked all the parts of the harvester again. The reel, grain divider, cutter, conveyor belt, and transmission rod were all connected in place, but these craftsmen On the basis of his own design, he added his own creativity to make the harvester look even more nondescript. The wooden frame was not only painted, carved a few big peonies, but also painted the edges with gold powder; Zhang Liujin might feel that he He put in the least amount of effort, not only pressed a few delicate copper bells on the front of the car, but also decorated the wheels with copper pieces; Cao Shuangcheng was even better, he did the most work here, and every iron piece was polished by him to be shiny , shining, it looks like a mirror... Zhao Tong wiped his sweat, but luckily he didn't ask a few silversmiths and jade craftsmen to join in, otherwise he might have to add something.

"Stop arguing, you'll know what it is in a while, come here and push it a few steps!" After the inspection, the main components were all in their place, and Zhao Tian breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to several people.

"Okay, I said it's a car, why not push it away!" Zhang Erbao said and asked the guys to stand up, and pushed the harvester around the yard, after a while of creaking and rattling , After a while of running-in, the sound gradually became quieter. Zhao Tong lay on the frame and looked at the coordination of various parts. The operation was still normal, and the moving parts could be moved.

"Jianxi, you go to the stables and lead a horse to the garden, let's take this guy to the garden too!" The first test went well, Zhao Tang gained confidence, and immediately ordered the actual operation.

"Yes!" Jian Xi has been watching from the sidelines, but didn't step forward. Although he didn't know that what the prince made was a magic horse, he knew that it must be something that can make a lot of money, otherwise the prince would not work so hard. Woolen cloth!

A group of people carried their shoulders to the garden, and Zhao Tun took a look at it. After more than half a month, it was full of flowers, flowers, willows and green, and the spring was full of spring, but he didn't want to appreciate it. After walking half a circle, he saw a piece of "string red", Now it is about the same height as wheat, and it is planted in patches, so it is just right to use them for surgery.

"Second Master, what are you doing?" Seeing the prince being led by a horse and dragging a monster into the flowers, the old gardener Wang quit and stood in front of him and said.

"Uncle Wang, these flowers are not good-looking. I cut them off and you plant them again!" Zhao Tang smiled and pulled Old Wang away, patted his horse's buttocks and said.

Pharaoh, who began to stomp his feet and sighed in distress, opened his eyes wider and wider, and saw the monster enter the flower bushes. Wherever it passed, a row of three-foot-wide bouquets were cut off one after another, turned half a circle on the conveyor belt and fell to the ground, forming a A neat flower belt.

"Yeah! It's a success!" The harvester turned twice in the flowers, and then put down a large bouquet. Zhao Tuo checked that as long as the height of the cutter was readjusted, it could be applied to the harvesting of the wheat field.

"Second Master, you did this..." The craftsmen also understood, but they just didn't know what the name should be, so Zhang Erbao asked stammeringly.

"This is called a rice and wheat harvester!" Zhao Tong said with a proud grin, and the era of agricultural mechanization in the Song Dynasty kicked off by himself.