Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 425 Steady Development
The industry is developed and the economy is strong. The most intuitive manifestation is that after the 30 troops arrive at the [-]-mu experimental field located in Lantian County and Wannian County, the imperial court can immediately equip them with thousands of cattle and over [-] horses. rake.

Sun Xiangfu made such a big scene, in fact, he wanted to gradually promote intensive farming to the whole country. These government soldiers, but the people from all over the Tang Dynasty, they also need to cultivate the fields at home when they are not fighting. Leaving them is tantamount to planting seeds for the local promotion of farming techniques. I believe that after seeing the harvest of the new planting method, they will no longer be satisfied with the previous harvest of one or two stones per mu.

One of the main reasons why Datang's soldiers are so powerful is that they have strict discipline. In the past, the lack of salt and meat in the army's meals was common, making their physical fitness even worse than that of neighboring countries. However, now they have obtained Huge improvement.

The food in the Longshouyuan training camp is very good. There are often chickens, ducks, fish, various eggs, and even pork and mutton. Not only is there enough oil and water, but the salt is also enough. The barracks had a mouthful of food, and they couldn't live a life after returning.

After several months of training since October last year, most of the government soldiers have grown pieces of tendon flesh, which is particularly powerful. They took off their heavy armor and carried a plow on their bodies. They all seem very relaxed. Perhaps, when the ecological environment is relatively good, after their food is abundant, their physical conditions will be relatively better!

For an army of 30, [-] mu of land is not much. However, it is Sun Xiangfu's teaching land. Just use plowing and raking to get an acre of land. Sun Xiangfu himself and experienced farmers from Xingfu Village who have adapted to the new farming methods will come to teach on-site. This link is actually not difficult to do. The soldiers of the government They all have the basics of farming. After reading it a few times, you can try to get started, and quickly master some essentials for controlling the depth of the plowshare and the fineness of the broken soil with nails and rakes.

The next day, what they were going to learn was fertilization, and Sun Xiangfu also explained to them how to drain the organic fertilizer. After getting enough organic fertilizer from the big fertilizer field outside Chang'an City, they plowed it for the previous day as required. The whole [-] mu of land has been applied with base fertilizer, but there is no rush to sow seeds, and let the land dry first.

On the third day, the whole surrounding area of ​​the field became lively. Officials from all over Guanzhong, the village head, Li Zheng, and tens of thousands of surrounding farmers came to the experimental field to study. Li Shimin also brought his courtiers We are here, and an agricultural teaching with a scale of tens of thousands of people started here.

Of the 30 mu of experimental field, 20 mu of it has been completed, and the remaining [-] mu. Sun Xiangfu asked the soldiers to divide it into two days and show it to the common people. They can even give the cattle and plows to those farmers who are confident. According to Sun Xiangfu's request, he gave a demonstration to many farmers. He personally carried a manure bucket full of organic fertilizer, and followed Sun Xiangfu to learn how to fertilize in a decent manner.

With the emperor personally demonstrating, local officials and ordinary people will be more impressed. Therefore, after three days, ordinary people can learn how to complete the field and fertilize, at least not badly. too much.

Sun Xiangfu has been telling them the amount of fertilizer to use, and also sent people to the fertilizer field to distribute it to them according to the amount, and let them explain the principles of scientific fertilization to them. Don't think that this thing is good, just spread it in the field vigorously. If it is too much, it may be counterproductive. , as long as it is spread evenly according to the prescribed amount.

On the seventh day, the imperial court no longer provided meals to all the people who came to watch and learn farming, and told them to go home quickly to reorganize the fields, go to the government's fertilizer field to pull fertilizer, and after fertilizing the reorganized fields, After drying for a few days, the imperial court will send people to the fields to teach them how to sow seeds. Moreover, the seeds are selected grains that the imperial court has prepared long ago.

This so-called selected grain is a medium-early-maturing spring wheat cultivated by Sun Xiangfu using the "three-year three-field system", after three years of targeted breeding, combined with some characteristics of Luoyang winter wheat and Shuozhou spring wheat , There may still be a slight gap in the yield of Yumai, the fine variety of later generations, but compared with the traditional wheat of this period, the plant height, ear setting rate, and grain fullness have all improved. To what extent can the specific yield be achieved? It's hard to say how to enjoy the blessing, it depends on the planting level of each family, as well as the unpredictable weather conditions.

The biggest feature of this variety is that its maturity period has been shortened by more than half a month. Although it has not reached the level that spring wheat can be harvested in more than three months, it can be harvested at the end of the first month and the beginning of February, and it can be harvested in the middle and late fifth. Yes, the grain produced is just enough to supply the army for the expedition.

With the current temperature in Guanzhong of around zero to three degrees, it is just enough for these wheat seeds to complete the stage of vernalization and cold storage. Combined with the fertility of the field, Sun Xiangfu has enough confidence in the wheat production in the experimental field, and the field will be allowed to dry. After he was done, he began to organize soldiers to sow seeds.

If the collective production encounters an upright character who does everything according to orders, the efficiency will increase a lot. One hundred thousand troops will spread out to sow 30 mu of land, with an average of three mu per person. In less than one morning, the whole sowing is completed.

Seeing the results of this labor, Sun Xiangfu asked Li Shimin to apply for an army with sowing experience to help the people in Guanzhong sow seeds, especially the fields of newly moved Goguryeo and ethnic minority people. After inspection, there is basically no problem in fertilizing the whole field. After that, the army will help them sow the seeds directly.

The whole Guanzhong entered a scene of busy farming, which lasted for more than half a month, except that Xingfu Village was still transplanting cotton and melons here and there, and teaching some related households to grow various vegetables in private fields. , The spring plowing in the entire Guanzhong was basically completed by mid-February.

By this time, the imperial court had also entered a critical moment of pre-war preparations. Li Shimin led the entire courtiers to work in Weinan to urge the production of military equipment.

The only exception is Du Zhenglun of the Ministry of Commerce. The state-owned enterprise plan he mentioned in the court was finally passed. He insisted on asking Li Shimin for the status of an imperial envoy and went to Shannan Road. Sun Xiangfu took the last batch of new ships built by the old shipyard All these ships were allocated to him. After these ships arrived in Jingzhou, they would be handed over to the warriors for distribution. There were more than a dozen waterway ships of [-] shi, eight large ships of [-] shi, and five super-large ships of [-] shi. There are some boatmen who teach how to operate the boats. After they have taught Lin Bao, Zhang Mu, and Zhang Yun how to operate these boats, they will return to Guanzhong again.

Along with the ship, there are also a large number of steel tools made in the smelting workshop. With these tools, the efficiency of the workers will be much higher whether it is building a dock or building a field.

After the first workshop of the smelting workshop began to operate at full capacity, the output was astonishing. One hundred thousand catties of steel material a day was enough to make thousands of weapons. As for those arrows that were poured into molds and pressed with a gravity bed, they could be formed directly. The gadgets are even faster. At the beginning of February, the production of new weapons and equipment for the more than 20 troops was basically completed. After the end of the month, all of them were produced for civilian use.

The production of steel in one workshop is three times higher than in the past in the whole country, which makes the smelting workshop a bit squeezed, and the forging part in the back, even if the forging workshop continues to increase the number of people, it still can't keep up. They will use The smelted steel materials produce some high-tech steel armor, makai, and axles. Hundreds of thousands of pieces are produced every day. Marin, who was appointed as the chief engineer, is afraid of the future. Too many of these things are made, and there will be a situation of squeezing and wasting.

Also worried about this is Wang Fu, the chief engineer of the wood factory. The wood factory he was in charge of started production almost at the same time as the smelter, and recruited 10 people in one go. These people knew nothing from the very beginning. With only hard work, a wooden part can be made quickly according to the requirements. The entire transformation process only took less than a month.

This is the advantage of standing on the technical shoulders of Shanyang Workshop. Everyone only makes one simple thing according to the standard, and it will be quick to get started. The final assembled things are all of the same standard. If there is damage, they need to be replaced. , It’s also simple. After adding the steel parts, ten thousand chariots can be completed in two months as long as the raw materials are enough.

As for the commonly used bow and arrow shafts, continuous crossbow arrow shafts, bed crossbow arrow shafts, etc., they are faster. Now the wood factory has produced dozens of lathes, and the workers only need to shake the handle constantly, and there will be straight and standard lathes. The arrow shafts are turned out by a lathe, and thousands of arrow shafts can be produced in an hour. After two months, millions of arrow shafts have been accumulated. After putting iron arrows and inserting feathers sent by the farm, the finished arrow Arrows, the response of the sergeants to the trial was very good, much smoother than the original hand-cut arrow branches of the Ministry of Industry, and there is nothing to say about the accuracy.

The new shipyard started operation as early as before the Shangyuan Festival, and the number of people has reached 12. Successively, many factories that can be opened as long as they have a house have also opened, such as breweries and various food factories. , Textile factories, garment factories, etc., which have been put into construction in advance, will open this year. Therefore, various job advertisements have made the layout of Datang Daily much thicker. The paper mill and printing factory in Xingfu Village , and had to quickly relocate to Weinan to recruit people to work on the Mada production line.

"Your Majesty, you have now seen the necessity of a waterway transfer company! Weinan, a huge manufacturing machine, will need a huge amount of raw materials to operate. These things have to be shipped and collected from many places and counties. At the same time, this kind of frequent communication is also needed to sell the shops produced in Weinan."

"So, are you here to ask me for money?"

"Uh, without money, there is no way to purchase the raw materials for making water ships, and there is no way to pay the workers in the shipyard. Naturally, the entire supply and sales chain in Weinan will be unsustainable."

In feudal society, Sun Xiangfu was the No. 1 person who dared to ask the emperor to collect debts. Moreover, what he asked for was not a little money. The value of the twenty or so ships that Du Zhenglun brought to Jingzhou was worth hundreds of thousands. The shipyard did it with advance funds. In the future, if they want to revitalize the entire Yangtze River Waterway Operation Company, even if they transfer ten times the number of ships there, it may not be enough. Sun Xiangfu's family cannot afford to fill such a big hole.

Fang Xuanling's family sent 20 guan, and Sun Xiangfu regarded it as part of his share capital. Li Shimin's 140% part, no matter what, had to get 40 million guan, and he added another 200 guan, a total of [-] million Wanguan can almost start the initial stage of operation, and the follow-up investment can be directly paid out of the profit. The profit is more, the production is fast, the profit is small, and the production is slow, until the entire water transportation demand is met.

"Well, there are too many investment projects in the inner government, and there is really no money now. I believe that you will be able to think of a way to solve this problem."

I knew early in the morning that Li Shimin's account was not so easy to collect, and he liked to use his status as a monarch to play tricks on himself. Fortunately, Sun Xiangfu at the smelting workshop thought of selling minerals to obtain ore. Otherwise, even the smelting workshop would not be able to operate. All industries will be stuck.

"Your Majesty, if our money is spent, someone will naturally earn our money. Now, only by finding a way to let those who earn our money spend it and let us earn it, can we maintain the situation. Those who only earn our money Those who don't spend money are those who hinder economic development, so, Your Majesty, the next operation of the minister may be a little big, and you must fully support it."

Who made the money they invested?In addition to various raw material suppliers, there are hundreds of thousands of workers in Weinan. From the beginning of last year to this year, each of them has earned at least a dozen wages. Speaking of it, at least there are millions of pennies. These workers are from the poor class, and they have saved all the money they have earned. If they are put on the market and circulated, they can actually leverage tens of millions of pennies.

(End of this chapter)