Wentang

Chapter 14

Seeing the plow used by his family, Yue Shan found that the pole on it, that is, the shaft, was actually straight.At this time, a debate that happened on the Internet when I was a keyboard warrior in my previous life came to my mind.

At that time, a group of well-fed and idle people were arguing whether Qu Yuanli originated from the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty.

One school believes that it originated in the Han Dynasty, but it was not popularized. There are relevant records in "Qi Min Yao Shu" during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

One school believes that it originated in the Tang Dynasty.They believed that once an artifact like Quyuanli was invented, it would quickly spread throughout the country, and it was unlikely that it would be buried until the Tang Dynasty.Moreover, the records of Qu Yuanli in Qimin Yaoshu are vague, so they should not be accurate.

The two factions say that the father is right and the wife is right, and they are fighting hard.At that time, Yue Shan belonged to the Han Dynasty faction. There was no reason, but he had no brains to like the big man who was "destroyed by strength alone".

The final result is that the centrists won. The concept of Quyuanli originated in the Han Dynasty, and it was fully formed in the Tang Dynasty after hundreds of years of improvement.

The Han Dynasty faction was very satisfied with this result, and the Tang Dynasty faction was not unacceptable, so a group of people who were full and had nothing to do continued to look for the next topic to continue the war.

If Mr. Yuan saw it, he would definitely regret researching hybrid rice.

This debate is really meaningless, but it is more useful to Yue Shan at this time than the method of making the atomic bomb.

Quyuanli, which is mature in this age, probably hasn't been researched yet, or if it has been researched, it hasn't been valued by others. If I make it and present it to the court...

The civilization of the Central Plains is a farming civilization, and all dynasties have attached great importance to farming.For the imperial court, Quyuanli was far more useful than a horseshoe, especially for literati.They won't sing about horseshoes, but they will definitely hold Qu Yuanli to the sky.

Moreover, Quyuanli seems to have higher technical content than horseshoes.

Thinking of this, Yue Shan became excited.No, Quyuanli must be built as soon as possible. Although I don't know when Quyuanli was formed in history, it is recorded that it was in the early Tang Dynasty.

What if someone has already built it?In case there are too many nights and dreams, I have to act quickly and take the credit for this.

As for the person who actually invented Quyuanli... Yue Shan can only say sorry.

The idea is good, but when I actually do it, I find that there are too many problems.

He did remember the structure diagram of Qu Yuanli, but he doesn't know how to carpentry.I can only ask someone to build it, but my family is too poor to even pay a penny, so I can't afford it.

But it doesn't bother him, he doesn't know how to carpentry, and there are people in the village who know how to do it.If you can't pay your wages, you can use fish to pay your wages.

To put it bluntly, Qu Yuanli is not difficult, a skilled carpenter can build it in half a day.Half a day's work can be exchanged for a big herring, and the worker can wake up with a smile from his dreams.

After work at night, Yue Shan found someone in the village who could do carpentry, and agreed with him to exchange a big herring for his working hours for a day.Sure enough, as he expected, the man agreed without thinking.

Yue Laosi and his wife didn't know why their son was going crazy, but they doted on their son to an unprincipled level, let alone now.Yue Shan just said don't worry about it, you will know in a few days, and they really don't ask.

Then the couple hugged the roll of cloth and laughed so hard that they couldn't see their teeth. This should be the first time in their life that they had so much new cloth.Yue Shanniang resisted all opinions and kept the cloth to make new clothes for the New Year.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that it is against all opinions, in fact, Yue Shan muttered a few words, neither Yue Lao Si nor Yue Shui'er had the right to speak.But Yue Shanniang, who always doted on her son, didn't listen to him this time and hid the cloth.

Yue Shan was also very helpless, so he could only continue to wear tattered clothes.

Early the next morning, there was another fish and meat meal. The carpenter also appeared at Yue Shan's house after Yue Laosi and his wife went to work.

The name of this carpenter is very distinctive, and it is likely to be a shielded word at the starting point, called Yanggou (gou) egg (dan).

Everyone has migrated from all over the world, naturally there is no way to judge seniority, and those with different surnames can only be based on age.Yue Shan should call him uncle.

Although Yang Goudan's name is not very good, he has no problems with his skills and comprehension skills, and he quickly understood what Yue Shan wanted to build.

Then he asked a question that left Yue Shan speechless: "Are you trying to build a plow? Why did you bend the shaft? Do you have a plowshare? You can't do without a plowshare."

Yue Shan was dumbfounded, he was too busy thinking about the structure of the Quyuanli, ignoring the problem of the plowshare.What can I do?
It was Yang Goudan who gave him the idea: "There is a blacksmith shop in Caotan Town, where they sell plowshares. You can exchange fish and blacksmiths for one."

After Yue Shan thanked Yang Goudan, he ran to the river to fetch the fish, and hurried to the blacksmith's shop to exchange three large grass carp for a plowshare.The blacksmith also gave him some iron buckles for fixing the plowshares.

Afterwards, the two commanded the other to do it, and it took a long time to finally build a Quyuanli.Yang Goudan's carpentry work is really good. He used mortise and tenon structures to solve many places that Yue Shan thought needed to be fixed with iron nails.

The entire curved shaft plow, except for the plowshare which is made of iron, is all wooden with mortise and tenon structure.

Yang Goudan sneered at Qu Yuanli, thinking that it must be more difficult to bend the shaft.Yue Shan didn't argue with him, and looked at the Quyuanli over and over again with eyes like looking at a treasure.

Strictly speaking, he is indeed a treasure, a farming treasure.It is also the treasure of his Yueshan family.

Afterwards, he asked Yang Goudan to carry Qu Yuanli, ready to go outside to test the actual effect.As soon as they walked to the entrance of the village, they ran into several horses head-on, and the two quickly moved aside.

"Woo." Unexpectedly, the visitor stopped in front of the two of them, and one of them asked politely, "Brother, is Sixing Ping here?"

"Yes, this is Sixingping." Yang Goudan replied nervously.

The man turned his head with joy and said to a man about 30 years old, "Ah Lang, we're here."

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and said softly to Yue Shan and the two: "Do you know where Yue Shan's family is?"

The Yueshan family?Yang Goudan and Yue Shan were stunned at the same time.The former thought the name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who was called Yueshan in the village.The latter is very strange about the identities of these people and why they are looking for themselves.

But Yue Shan's interpersonal relationship is very simple, he just guessed that these people must be Li Shimin or Changsun Wugou's people after a little thought.

Thinking of this, he took a step forward and said: "The boy is Yue Shan, how dare you ask where the nobleman came from?"

"You are Yue Shan?" The middle-aged man also showed a look of surprise, obviously he did not expect such a coincidence, just ask any passer-by to be the right one.

"It's the boy." Yue Shan replied.

The visitor looked up and down Yueshan several times in a very impolite manner.Yue Shan didn't show any displeasure, and kept looking at him with a smile on his face.

After a long time, the person who came came nodded noncommittally and asked, "Do you know why I came to look for you?"

"Your Majesty must have been entrusted by elder sister." Yue Shan thought for a while and replied.

"Oh?" The person who came showed a trace of surprise and asked, "How did you see it? Why isn't it the king?"

"The king of Qin has so many affairs to deal with, so he has no time to pay attention to me, a country boy, so I guess it's the eldest grandson sister." Yue Shan said.

"What you said is wrong... Even if what you said is right. Where are you going? Oh, this is your father?"

"No, this is Uncle Yang from my village. I just built a farming artifact, and now I am going to experiment outside the village. Would you like to go and have a look?"

(End of this chapter)