Traveling through Great Qin: Father Qin Shihuang!

Hearing Zhao Che's question, everyone was stunned.

"Young master, I don't know much about the agricultural celestial phenomenon, why don't you ask someone from the Agricultural Tools Department?"

"Alright!"

Zhao Che nodded.

As the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, these people are originally researching ordnance, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect them to solve this problem, Zhao Che is just asking casually.

"Keep busy, my father and brother will go to the farm tools department!"

Zhao Che explained something casually, and then followed Ying Zheng and Fu Su to the Agricultural Tools Department.

Soon, a group of people came to the agricultural tools department in full swing, just in time to see them building a new type of sickle.

"For those who are free at the moment, put aside the matter at hand for a while, the young master and His Majesty have something to ask you!"

Gong Shuchou stepped forward and summoned the crowd.

"Everyone, these two days coincided with the autumn harvest of the Great Qin Dynasty. Waterlogging occurred in the three counties of Hedong, Taiyuan, Shangdang. As a result, the grain harvest of the heads of Guizhou was not timely, and the losses were very serious. I would like to ask you, is there any good way to solve this problem?"

Zhao Che didn't beat around the bush, and threw the question straight to the point.

When everyone heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then they frowned and became thoughtful.

"My lord, if we want to deal with the waterlogging, I'm afraid there is nothing we can do. After all, it is a natural disaster and beyond the reach of human beings. But if you ask how to grab food, we just have a way!"

"Oh? In what way?"

Fusu stepped forward and asked expectantly.

Even Ying Zheng cast a curious look.

"Bring something!"

The head of the Agricultural Tools Department waved, and the others quickly took out a batch of agricultural tools. The most eye-catching thing was a wheel-shaped thing, with a cage welded with steel on the outside, and a pair of daggers inside. Same blade.

"Your Majesty, this is a harvesting machine developed by us. Compared with the traditional sickle, the harvesting efficiency of this machine has been increased several times."

The Minister of Agricultural Tools enthusiastically introduced the harvesting machine to Ying Zheng and Fu Su, but Zhao Che was instantly stunned when he saw it.

Good guy, just a good guy!

The shape of this thing can be said to be made in the same mold as the combine harvester of Zhao Che's later generations. Although it looks a little rough, the basic operating principle is similar.

At this time, the head of the Agricultural Tools Department had already introduced the functions and operating principles of the harvester.

"However, Your Majesty, there is still a flaw in this harvester, that is, although the harvesting speed has increased, it is more laborious to use, and the harvest will not be very clean after harvesting, so it needs to be remodeled. OK."

"It doesn't matter, this is already very good. If this harvester is used earlier, the disaster situation in the three counties this year can be reduced by at least [-]%!"

Ying Zheng sighed, the disaster spread in the three counties was so fast that the leaders of Guizhou didn't even have a single piece of food that they took back, and the rest was soaked in water.

Even if they waited until after the disaster was over before harvesting, there was only a small amount of grain recovered, and it could not be stored, and it would become moldy after a while.

"This thing is good, I didn't expect you to give me a surprise!"

At this time, Zhao Che who was watching from the side finally stepped forward and said.

"Young Master, how do you think our harvester should be improved?"

Seeing Zhao Che coming out, the head of the Agricultural Tools Department quickly asked him what he thought.

"Actually, you have done a good job. This prototype has made a lot of changes in the original harvesting method, but I do have a way to improve here, and I will improve on your original basis. Can!"

"First of all, this harvester is too heavy, and it is obviously impossible to use it widely by manpower alone, so it must be driven by a machine. Then, in terms of functions, it can also continue to be added, such as threshing and separation directly after harvesting. Come and save the work later.”

"It's best to directly maximize this machine, increase the efficiency to the highest, and directly replace manual work with machinery. I just have an idea here!"

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Zhao Che waved his hand and said.

Daqin has taken the first step on the road of industrialization. Various steam industries have been popularized on a large scale. Now many factories in Daqin have replaced labor with machinery, resulting in a rapid increase in Daqin's productivity.

For Zhao Che, the age of steam is the first step, and the basis for the development of Daqin should be to explore the energy field first.

As early as five years ago, when the system rewarded Zhao Che with the blueprint of the steam engine, he was rewarded with a set of oil extraction equipment.

The large-scale exploitation and application of oil is a very important step taken in the energy field in human history.

The industrialization and modernization of Daqin has now reached the point where oil can be used.

"Young master, the mechanization you are talking about, do you want to build something similar to a steam train to drive the harvester to work?"

The head of the Agricultural Tools Department turned his mind very quickly, and when he heard Zhao Che's words, he immediately made a guess.

"It's true, but it's not entirely true!"

Zhao Che gave him an approving look. He was a little surprised by the research and progress of the Agricultural Tools Department. The head of the Agricultural Tools Department is indeed a talented person.

When Zhao Che mentioned using mechanized operations to increase the working efficiency of excavators, the Minister of Agricultural Tools showed no surprise on his face, and even shook his head slightly, which shows that he had already had such an idea before he proposed it. .

Steam power is not suitable for small and medium-sized industries. The main reason is that the application of steam power is different from that of petroleum.

There is a huge difference between the steam engine and the internal combustion engine, and there is also a big gap in the working form of the two.

The most critical reason is that the power source of the steam engine is obtained from an external boiler.

Therefore, compared with the internal combustion engine, the steam engine has an additional procedure of converting hot gas into mechanical kinetic energy through the steam medium.

Moreover, the steam engine is huge in size, poor in maneuverability, and extremely low in energy conversion efficiency.

The internal combustion engine directly combines the boiler of the steam engine with the cylinder, and uses the high pressure generated when the fuel burns and expands to push the piston to do work.

In this way, it not only greatly reduces the energy loss and saves the conversion step, but also makes the steam engine more mobile, and its application fields are naturally wider.