The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 197 The fun is about to begin!

The second room of Wei's family was killed by gangsters. The news did not spread to Li's Village so quickly. Today's Li's Village is more leisurely than before, because Li An ordered that today's Li's Village take a day off with pay.

Li Duoduo and Wei Wangning met last night. The relationship between the two was still very good, because Li Duoduo knew that Wei Wangning was Wei Wangcheng's biological sister, and Li Duoduo and Wei Wangcheng were good friends.

So Li An asked Li Duoduo to call Wei Wangning "Mother", and Li Duoduo also shouted happily when she heard someone calling her "Mother". To be honest, Wei Wangning was still shy at first, but Wei Wangning soon felt relieved. After knowing that Li Duoduo had never had a mother since childhood, Wei Wangning may have felt the same way and treated Li Duoduo even better.

At night, Li Duoduo and Wei Wangning hugged each other and slept together. They were really intimate to the extreme.

When Li An got up early the next morning, he was going to run two laps in the square to exercise. However, when Li An was speechless, Liu Xiatian walked in early with bad news.

"Mr. Lang, we're in trouble now." Liu Xiatian looked at Li An with some pain.

"What's wrong?" To be honest, this was the first time that Li An saw Liu Xiatian looking so sad, as if he had lost something important, which made Li An a little surprised.

"Just now a government official from Chang'an County told me that there will be heavy rain in ten days." Liu Xiatian's eyes turned red.

"Uh!" Li An was speechless: "Isn't this normal? It rained heavily some time ago. Uncle Liu, what's wrong with the heavy rain?"

"Mr. Lang, have you forgotten your thousand acres of grain?" Liu Xiatian said to Li An: "The thousand acres of wheat given to you by Prince Consort Cheng will take another seven days to mature, but we can't do it within three days." If we can’t finish harvesting all the wheat, there will be heavy rain in three days, which means that the unfinished wheat will rot in the ground.”

"Uh!" Li An finally understood why Liu Xiatian was so sad at this time. After all, for farmers, wheat is everything to them. No wonder Liu Xiatian was so sad.

"Can't you harvest a thousand acres in three days?" Li An looked at Liu Xiatian and thought for a while and smiled: "Well, Uncle Liu, don't worry, I will draw you a drawing, and you can find someone to make the tools in the drawing. With the help of such tools, a thousand acres of wheat fields can be harvested in one day.”

"Ah, there is such a sharp weapon." Liu Xiatian was shocked.

Li An laughed and nodded: "What a sharp weapon this is, it's just a simple gadget."

Thousands of years of wisdom is no joke. You must know that the court is also having a headache at this time. The heavy rain came too quickly and the people were unable to complete the harvest. In this matter, Li Shimin has already placed a merit list and awarded him with a title. , but no one accepted the list, but in Li An's eyes, this matter that caused headaches to the entire Tang Dynasty was nothing at all.

At this time, the harvesting of wheat in Datang could not be carried out quickly, mainly because the harvesting tools were too poor. At this time, Datang's harvesting tools were similar to our current sickles. As long as there was no heavy rain, there was no problem in harvesting and drying at the same time. Slow down, just slow down, no big deal.

But if heavy rain is coming, it will be troublesome to use a sickle to harvest. Wheat or other rice will become moldy and inedible after just a few soaks. It is very delicate and must be harvested before the heavy rain and put into the barn. .

But at this time, the Tang Dynasty did not have tools for quick harvesting. Because of this, there was a saying in ancient agriculture: "Look to the sky to eat. If God is good to me, I will have enough to eat. If God does something wrong, the farmers will be in trouble." .

Fortunately, Li An came from a thousand years later, and he had a tool that could quickly harvest wheat. This wheat-cutting artifact was called a plunder, and it can still be seen in places such as Shanxi and Henan today.

Experts have studied the Lurzi and found that it can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. However, it was really popularized on a large scale in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Before agricultural mechanization was popularized in my country, the Lurzi has always been one of the main labor tools for harvesting wheat. .In fact, the plunder is an improvement on the sickle. Its harvesting efficiency is 5 times that of the sickle. If one person can cut one acre of land with one sickle, then one person can easily harvest ten acres with one plunder.

From the appearance, the sweeper is a large dustpan with a net bag, about 1.2 meters in diameter, and a sharp cutter is placed on the edge.When using the plunder, hold the long pole in your left hand and pull the handle of the direction rope with your right hand. Just control it back and forth with your left and right hands. You can cut off a large piece of wheat stalk by putting it in and pulling it, and then shake it hard to remove the wheat from the net bag. Just flip it out.

Not only is the efficiency of using a plunderer high, but the biggest advantage is that you don’t have to bend down, and you won’t have back pain if you harvest continuously for one or two hours. Therefore, not only men can use plunderers to harvest, but some strong lesbians can also use plunderers flexibly. son.

It is worth mentioning that in the 60s and [-]s, there were many MaiKe in Shanxi and Henan. They were laborers who harvested wheat for others, and the harvesting tools they used were plunderers. It was not until the harvester appeared that MaiKe gradually withdrew. The stage of history.

However, it was not just Mai Ke who was eliminated, but also the looters they relied on for survival.With the emergence of harvesters, agricultural mechanization is also developing rapidly. Even if the efficiency of the harvester is high, it cannot be compared with the harvester. Therefore, almost all flat fields are operated by harvesters, only those uneven small fields and mountainous areas. Only then did I use Plunder.

Now Li An happened to draw Luozi, and then handed it over directly to Liu Xiatian. As long as Luozi was there, a thousand acres of wheat field was nothing, and this Luozi also caused a lot of trouble.

Didn't I just say that in order to solve the problem of the approaching heavy rain, Li Shimin issued an order to recruit talents and reward them with titles. This news was widely spread among the people in Chang'an. There were also people in Lijia Village who knew about it, and one of them was named Hou Qi.

This Hou Qi was the one who went to Chang'an to transport lard with Liu Nan. He was able to join Lijiacun because Hou Qi knew how to read and he could follow Liu Nan to keep accounts. Later Hou Qi not only joined Lijiacun, He was also transferred to Liu Xiatian's side to help Liu Xiatian run errands.

Liu Xiatian had a lot of things to do in a day. After Li An gave Liu Xiatian the drawing of Luozi, Liu Xiatian immediately returned to his office, shouted to Hou Qi, and handed the drawing to Hou Qi, asking Hou Qi to find it immediately. People make it.

At first, Hou Qi didn't know what the drawings were. Since it was Liu Xiatian's order, he followed it. Soon Hou Qi found the craftsmen in the village, and it took him less than an hour to give Luo Zi to him. After the Liaozi was made, Hou Qi immediately took the Liaozi to find Liu Xiatian.

Following Liu Xiatian, he took Luozi and Hou Qi to find a wheat field and tried Luozi. He found that Luozi was indeed very useful as Li An said, so Hou Qi told the craftsmen to immediately go all out to make Luozi, at least Make a hundred of them.

After Hou Qi conveyed the order, he went to Liu Xiatian to ask for leave. He was going back to his home in Chang'an to stay for a while, saying that his parents were sick. He is suspected.

But what Liu Xiatian didn't know was that Hou Qi had the idea of ​​grabbing Luo Zi in his own hands, but Hou Qi's idea was very dangerous, because there were too many people from Li Shimin in Lijia Village.

Just after Li An's plover was made, in the afternoon of the same day, Li Shimin got a pair of plunder, and tested it in his own field, it was light and easy to use.

Then the Ministry of Industry was ordered to secretly produce it, and then promote it after the production was completed. The only trouble was that no one in Lijia Village would present the loot. If no one presented the loot, the imperial court would launch a large-scale mass production. Production, then a smart person like Li An would definitely suspect that he has his own spies around him.

Li Shimin didn't want Li An to know that he had his own spies by his side, so he made it secretly first, and then prepared to ask Li Zhi to go to Li An to tell him about the court's need for quick harvesting tools. At this time, Li An The loot will definitely be presented, so that it will not be too late to popularize it on a large scale.

But what Li Shimin didn't expect was that he got an unexpected result that night. Someone said that he invented the plunder invented by his son. Hehe. This is interesting.

(End of this chapter)