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Chapter 213 The Premise of Intensive Farming
As a result, Lu Chengqi glanced at the rice paper that Li Jie handed over, and found that it was just a few blueprints.Comparing the blueprint drawn by Li Jie just now, it can be recognized at a glance that it is drawn by him.

Li Jie is an all-rounder, Lu Chengqi already knew it.But after carefully reading these blueprints, and then studying the teeny lowercase letters below, Lu Chengqi realized that such abstract things are actually farm tools!

Lu Chengqi was inexplicably shocked, because these things were not things that he, who had never done farm work since childhood, could understand.He raised his head in astonishment and asked, "Li Qing, are these farm tools?"

In fact, he just wanted to confirm it, because Li Jie only briefly mentioned what these agricultural tools were used for, but Lu Chengqi didn't have this level of judgment!Whether it is practical or not remains to be verified.

Li Jie said affirmatively: "Your Majesty, I have been thinking about it for the past few days, and as a minister of the Ministry of Industry, I have to show convincing abilities. These farm tools are the work of my painstaking efforts."

Lu Chengqi smiled awkwardly and said: "Li Qing, I will tell you that I don't understand these farm tools. However, Li Qing, you can tell me how to use these things. Well, let's just take this seedling Well, it’s clearly a small boat, how can it be called Yangma?”

Li Jie said: "Your Majesty, this is used for transplanting rice seedlings, so it is called Yangma. At that time, the south had already appeared, but I just used it to improve it a little bit."

Then, Li Jie pointed to the drawings and explained the usage of Yangma one by one.When rice is grown, the seedlings can be used for transplanting and pulling out seedlings.The shape of Yangma is indeed like a small boat, with its head and tail turned up, and the back is like a tile.It can be used for one person to sit on the abdomen, and the operator sits on the back of the boat.If it is transplanting, use your right hand to insert the seedlings placed on the bow of the boat into the field, and then use your feet to move the rice horse back gradually; In the back warehouse.As Li Jie talked, he even made a demonstration with his own hands.

As for the paddy field, Lu Chengqi was a southerner before his rebirth, so he was not uncommon, and he could see the significance of Yangma.In paddy fields with water, it is indeed possible to advance and retreat freely, which can improve efficacy and reduce labor intensity.

As Li Jie said, this kind of Yangma has already been used in Jingxi South Road, Liangjiang South Road, Fujian Road, Liangzhe, Guangnan East Road, and Jinghu North Road, but the promotion is not enough.These places are all rice-growing areas, that is, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places in later generations.

Lu Chengqi recognized this kind of seedling, and said: "If it can increase food production, I will definitely agree. It's just Li Qing, have you thought about how to promote it?"

Li Jie was taken aback for a moment, he just made the blueprint excitedly, and he really didn't think about how to promote it.Lu Chengqi knew this was the case, and Li Jie never thought about how to make these extremely cautious farmers accept such new farm tools.Because the yield of crops in ancient times was not high, if new farm tools are used rashly, the grain production will be reduced, and the farmer's family will starve and suffer from cold.Farmers are not fools when it comes to things related to their wealth and life, they also have to think twice before acting.

Lu Chengqi had an idea in his mind. Seeing that Li Jie had grown his mouth and couldn't answer, he sighed leisurely: "Li Qing, I know how hard you are. But sometimes, good intentions will be struck by lightning. I can trust you, but those farmers can't! If you want to promote it smoothly, you must make some achievements before the farmers will be convinced. Well, I will send supervisors to solve this problem, you only need to provide new Farm tools will do. Let’s continue, I’m really interested in what these new farm tools are.”
Although Li Jie's drawing is intuitive after all, without marking, Lu Chengqi is still at a loss and doesn't know what to say.Fortunately, Li Jie tried his best to explain, and Lu Chengqi understood a thing or two.

For example, wheat samarium for harvesting wheat, and a scythe with a long handle for harvesting wheat, which is matched with a dustpan with two movable long handles, are called "Mai Chuo" at this time.When harvesting, stretch out forward, use a flexible manipulator tied to the waist, move the sarium and the stalks, put the distant wheat "sarium" down, turn it into the stalks, retract the stalks, and hand them to the back with wheels in the "wheat cage".This matching wheat harvester is several times more efficient than ordinary harvesting tools.

This Mai Samarium has also existed for a long time, but it is the first time that it is matched with Mai Chuo and Mai Long.Lu Chengqi listened with gusto. The agricultural tools Li Jie improved on the basis of the original did take into account the differences in regions. There are not only rice agricultural tools, but also wheat agricultural tools, which is quite thoughtful.

In addition, there are more sophisticated water mills.In the previous dynasties, hydraulic milling had been used on a large scale.After the establishment of Dashun, large households and temples often had large mills, and they were for profit.Farmers need to pay a certain amount of money when they go to grind flour.Temples also often use this method to match the land owned by the temple to achieve the purpose of maintaining food and clothing.

The water mill improved by Li Jie on the original basis, by changing its shaft head device, can complete the three tasks of husking, grinding and padding on the same machine, which are called the three things of the water wheel.According to the history of the genuine brand, such a thing would not be invented by Wang Zhen until more than 200 years later.It's a pity that Li Jie wanted to make some political achievements, and mercilessly advanced the time by more than 200 years. Isn't this a bit cruel to Comrade Wang Zhen who has not yet been born?Li Jie didn't know, and neither did he, that great inventions are always built on the shoulders of predecessors.Wang Zhen did not invent the three water mill, but he can also invent other more advanced things!
Li Jie handed over four blueprints, only the last one, which Lu Chengqi could understand clearly.Because this thing is so famous, overturned.This is also Li Jie's refurbished work, because the earliest overturned cars already existed at the end of Han Dynasty.This overturned car is different from the previous ones that are cranked by hand, stepped on by feet, or use animal power, but use water power again.So Li Jie also called it a hydraulic rollover.Lu Chengqi knew that this was a combination of watering, pounding rice, and blowing wind!
Especially with the use of water power, it can last day and night, which is better than water conservancy tools such as treadmills.The wisdom of the ancients in adapting to local conditions and using natural power can be seen.It's just that in places where water is scarce, such a hydraulic rollover still seems quite weak.If you want to irrigate, you still have to rely on the rain or manpower to carry water for irrigation.

After listening to Li Jie's explanation, Lu Chengqi nodded and said, "Li Qing is indeed a great talent. If an ordinary person can improve one thing, it is considered a boundless merit. Li Qing can improve four things at once, and in my opinion, all of them are good. Where it is feasible. Li Qing doesn’t need to take care of the implementation. I will naturally send supervisors to publicize it among the people. There is still money left in the national treasury, so it is okay to give away hundreds of them for free. I will read out Li Qing’s achievements and let the officials see, I am definitely not mistaken!”

Li Jie said honestly: "As long as Your Majesty knows that I am not a vegetarian in the corpse, that's fine. I don't care about other people's opinions..."

Lu Chengqi was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "I don't believe what other people say, but Li Qing said so, and I believe it!"

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