Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 195 The Necessities of Women in Ming Dynasty

On the second day after returning from Li Zhen's house, Zhu Biao accompanied Lao Zhu to revise the memorabilia. When the father and son encountered problems, they raised their heads to discuss a few words, and then went about their own business.

Near noon, Zhu Biao picked up the teacup and found it was empty. After shouting for a long time, two court ladies ran over, but he didn't see any of the little eunuchs.

Old Zhu looked up at Zhu Biao, pointed to the two maids who went out, and said, "The two of them came from your mother's palace. Those guys were sent out by us."

"Father, where did they go?" Zhu Biao put down the memorandum he had revised in his hand, and looked at Lao Zhu in confusion: "Is there something wrong?"

What's the matter, the father sent Yu Yi and the others out, did something big happen?

Old Zhu nodded, stopped the ink brush in his hand and said, "The women and children of the heroes outside the city have no help digging the wasteland, so we sent them away and sent them a hundred shi of grain."

There is no shortage of food at present, and they were all harvested when Beiyuan was recovered, including those wealthy princes and nobles of Beiyuan.

The treasury starved the rats away before, but now it is slowly filling up. With the addition of food, cloth and taxes from all over the south of the Yangtze River, Lao Zhu's anxiety has been relieved.

"Boy, what methods can those agricultural officials in your hand come up with or labor-saving agricultural tools, the kind that women, children and the elderly can use."

Zhu Biao looked at Lao Zhu helplessly, and said, "The carpenter made it according to the drawings. It is not very labor-saving to use it in the vegetable garden in the palace."

Lao Zhu glared at him, got up and walked to his side: "Don't change the melody, go to the Institute of Science and Technology to have a look, improve it, and try it in the field then."

Zhu Biao had no choice but to put down the memorial in his hand, got up and left with a smile.

He has a lot of things to do, things like the mine and the saltworks have not yet been settled, and the group of women from the grassland needs to make arrangements for weaving, and now he has to make farm tools.

But my father arranged it, so I sent someone to do it.

Back in the East Palace, Zhu Biao asked He Qing to bring two carpenters to continue improving the previous farm tool.

Zhu Biao was still lying there changing the blueprints until the night was alluring, which was really too difficult for him.

After all, it is necessary to be familiar with the situation of farm tools in history before they can be improved and innovated.

Yu'er came in a few times with meals, and when she saw that her highness was busy, she withdrew quietly. In the end, it was Jin'er who was so impatient, and ran to kneel in front of Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao was taken aback, and later found out that she knelt down to beg him to eat.

Seeing Jin'er, Zhu Biao smiled, and just in time a helper came: "Jin'er, come here."

"Prince." Jin'er thought that Zhu Biao was about to eat.

Who knows that the next moment, Zhu Biao threw over a stack of things that He Qing and the others had sorted out, and ordered Jin'er: "Read!"

Looking at the picture and the densely packed characters, Jin Er pouted and began to read, all of which were related to various farming tools.

"Old ox... plow, shovel, adze, curved... shaft plow, bobbin cart... turn over the soil to open ditches and loosen the soil."

Zhu Biao has seen this one before. Lei Tong is six feet six inches high, which is about 1.4 meters today.

Star-shaped rakes for paddy fields, toothed harrows, projectile harrows, earth-digging rakes, field harrows for paddy fields, and toothless harrows woven with wicker.

"Jin'er, read the disc harrow to Gu, I didn't catch it clearly."

"Yes, grandpa." Jin'er smiled sweetly.

Then a clear and sweet voice rang in Zhu Biao's ear.

"The disc harrow mixes the fertilizers and pesticides on the surface with the surface soil. It is generally used after the crops are harvested..." Jin Er suddenly stopped and asked Zhu Biao: "Master, did you mention the fertilizer here before? The prince is really powerful."

Zhu Biao shook his head and said with a smile: "This was first proposed by Wang Zhen from the previous dynasty."

"Wang Zhen, Jin'er knows him."

The people of Yuan lived as nomads and had no interest in agricultural production.

After entering the Central Plains, under the influence of the Han people, they began to pay attention to agricultural production.Although the common people had more than enough food and clothing, farming technology has made great progress.

Farmers in the Yuan Dynasty had a hard time, tax wars, natural disasters and backward farming, the harvest was not very good, and they just wanted to fill their stomachs.

"But what does this have to do with Wang Zhen?" Jin'er was a little surprised.

"It is precisely because the common people can only stick to the rules and draw ladles according to gourds. As a county magistrate, Wang Zhen loves the people like a son, so he began to study farming.

The common people only knew that manure was usable, but Wang Zhen used dead weeds buried in the soil to make retting. The effect was very good, and the common people followed suit one after another. Wang Zhen called it fertilizer. "

The water conservancy irrigation tools such as the high-drum car, the water-turning dump car, and the water-turning high-cart invented by Wang Zhen are powered by water power.

The water hits the horizontal wheel under the vertical shaft, and the large gear on the horizontal wheel rotates at the same time, and the small gear on the horizontal wheel shaft is moved, so that the water is continuously scraped upward, which greatly saves manpower and animal power.

Wang Zhen has a water wheel and three things, using water as power to grind noodles, spring rice, and rice milling.

Books and manuscripts record those kapok slingshots, kapok cable cars, kapok spinning wheels...

He not only used the principles of levers, pulleys, and axles, but also used rope pulleys, cranks, and gears.

Zhu Biao was wondering if Wang Zhen was a time traveler.

The clay movable type of Biyi in the Northern Song Dynasty is not durable and is not easy to get ink.This guy Wang Zhen used hard wood to carve movable type, and put them into the "rotary typesetting tray" respectively.

There are about [-] commonly used characters, which is convenient and fast.

It took him 17 years to write agricultural books of 14 characters, not including the manuscripts obtained by Zhu Biao.

Also because Wang Zhen was interested in these things, he collected those things of Guo Shoujing himself, and the manuscripts also recorded a lot of content about river management.

Zhu Biao was very fortunate.

He Qing and other science and technology agricultural officials were recruited overnight to draw pictures and rebuild them, and asked the carpenter to build two agricultural tools for loosening soil, fertilizing, plowing, and weeding overnight.

Three days later, Fengtian Temple.

Baiguan looked at the strangely shaped farm tools with doubts in their eyes, and some officials even whispered.

The speech officer Zhou Qing was the leader among the speech officials. As soon as he opened his mouth to impeach, the other speech officials also began to follow. The most powerful one was Zhou Guanzheng, who cleaned up several civil servants in a few words.

"Let the prince tell us about the two farm tools of the Academy of Science and Technology." Old Zhu signaled Zhu Biao to start.

"Father, this is called Daming Agricultural Machinery. It can turn the soil and plow the field. These two places are pedals. After stepping, the big wooden gear and the small gear mesh together, driving the power to turn the soil.

Here, it only needs to be manually applied, and the uniform fertilizer in the thick bamboo tube will be accurately thrown on the seedlings.

Here are the plow tip, plow shaft, pressing shovel and plow bed, the front is the tillage rope, the curved yoke...the back is the shovel for weeding, as long as the pressing bar is adjusted, only the weeding can be done, and the broken grass will be turned into the soil to become fertilizer . "

Lao Zhu loves the land. He has an inexplicable desire for the land in his bones when his family had nowhere to bury him.

Seeing this, I laughed out loud.

Li Shanchang has followed Lao Zhu for so long, and seeing His Majesty is so happy today, he knows that it is the farm tool from the prince's Science and Technology Academy that makes him very satisfied.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty." Baiguan immediately congratulated.

"This is something that women, children and the elderly in Ming Dynasty must have, necessities." Old Zhu laughed.

After coming down to court, Chang Yuchun and Xu Da expressed their desire to visit the families of those heroes, there were many of their personal soldiers.

Old Zhu readily agreed and asked Zhu Biao to go and see it together. After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the court should also express it.

Zhu Biao smiled helplessly, now he is another avatar representing Lao Zhu.

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