I became emperor in the Tang Dynasty by relying on the palace fighting system

The first stop of the tour was Yudou Xuanzun’s manor outside Chang’an City.

Qingluan deliberately switched perspectives several times to show everyone the harvest scene of the manor from all angles.

Summer in the north is the time for wheat harvest. The golden wheat grows all over the mountains and the wheat fragrance spreads for miles.

Many farmers are operating simple wheat harvesters to carry out harvesting operations.

They work on the wheat harvester like they are riding a bicycle. The bamboo comb at the front end, which is like a rake, is inserted into the wheat and then rolled towards the rotating gear knife after being combed.

After the gear knife cuts the wheat, it falls toward the bamboo raft tracks due to inertia and is collected in a bamboo basket with wheels at the back.

It doesn't matter if some wheat slips through the net occasionally, because the children behind the car are watching closely. As soon as the wheat falls, they pick it up immediately and throw it into the bamboo basket with wheels beside them.

Next to the wheat field is a pedal-operated thresher. The women put their greasy braids on their heads, wrapped them with scarves, slightly tidied the wheat, and put it into the machine.

An old man nearby pedals like he is riding a bicycle, providing energy. The two rollers with comb teeth inside rotate rapidly, separating the wheat that passes through the gap between the rollers into grains.

The vibrating screen at the tail end of the machine can not only reduce shock, but also do preliminary impurity removal, and then pass it through the windmill after drying.

Qingluan was responsible for cutting shots during the live broadcast, while Li Zhao was responsible for explaining to the fans: "The metal parts of these machines are all made of steel made using the Sugang method."

"This kind of steel gears and blades are good, sharp and hard. With more grinding and a little castor oil, they can do the job well."

The barrage was full of exclamations.

[Yun who likes striped sea bass]: Oh, I didn’t expect that such a simple harvester could be made in ancient times.

[Post by Saibinghu]: Those women can also operate machines, that’s great.

Li Zhao looked at some women working in the fields and said, "This simple harvester was actually invented in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. It can even stack and can be pulled by horses."

"My machines are just made of wood and bamboo instead of steel and rubber, with steel balls in the bearings. They are barely usable."

"It's a pity that we can't harvest the fallen wheat."

The barrage was surprised.

【Your grandma, here I come】: Steel balls? Can steel balls be made in this era?

Li Zhao kept smiling: "Why not?"

She took the audience to visit a small workshop in the manor.

Outside the small workshop, there are several blast furnaces made of mud and stone bricks. Several men below are adding coal and pulling the bellows. The flame in the furnace has turned golden.

Li Zhao said: "I used the [Wenchaogong module] to draw the bellows blueprint, and used it with the Sugang method to produce steel better."

Inside the workshop, molten iron in the crucible was boiling and bubbling, and was picked up by workers and poured into another crucible insulated by a wooden barrel.

Qingluan switched the camera so that the audience could easily see the molten steel leaking out of the hole at the bottom of the crucible.

Qing Luan said crisply, "Just like making glass marbles, let the molten steel fall from the small hole in the crucible, cut it with a marble knife at a certain rate, solidify it, and make it into steel beans."

"When the steel beans fall into the middle of the threads of the two high-speed rotating marble hollow rollers under the crucible, they roll around and around until they fall into the water and are fished out, and they become round steel balls."

Li Zhao said: "If you want the steel balls to be harder, you have to quench them."

Li Zhao led a group of people and walked slowly to the other end of the workshop. When the workers nearby saw them, they all greeted them.

Li Zhao nodded, which was considered as his agreement.

Following her footsteps, the audience in the live broadcast room in the [Travel Live Broadcast Module] also visited the entire workshop.

Fans watched as workers fished the steel balls out of the water one by one, put them into bamboo baskets on carts, and sent them to be heated to more than 800 degrees.

The penultimate step is quenching. There are many women on this line, staring intently at the oil pan in front of them.

Under the oil pan, the honeycomb coal burns slowly, the hot oil in the pan boils, and the steel balls roll inside.

The task of these women is to watch the fire, maintain the oil temperature, and allow the steel balls to quickly cool to 60 degrees Celsius before fishing them out.

The barrage was surprised.

[Punish evil and commend the evildoers]: How do you tell the temperature?

[Danjin]: What is the quenching oil inside? There was no mineral quenching oil in the Tang Dynasty, right?

Qingluan switched the camera to focus on a device at the women's hands: "The heroine used mercury and the meter of the injection molding machine to make a mercury temperature display."

Mercury can measure a maximum of 500 degrees. Once the temperature inside drops, measuring 60 degrees will be no problem.

"One end of the temperature display is inserted through the small hole above the oil pan lid, and the quenching temperature and furnace exit time are confirmed by observing the temperature difference."

Li Zhao added: "There are many types of quenching oil, including mineral oil, synthetic oil, and vegetable oil."

"For economic convenience, rapeseed oil is used here."

"Finally, polish it and hit it twice with a hammer. The master will check the hardness and it will be fine if it is usable. Under the conditions in ancient times, the requirements cannot be too high."

The barrage indicated understanding.

[Yu]: So smart!

[Xu Wan who likes tigers]: Adapting to local conditions and producing steel is amazing!

Li Zhao said with a smile to the head farmer who was in charge of the workshop beside him: "How will the waste rapeseed oil be disposed of?"

The Minister of Agriculture was a female official. She smiled and said, "I will follow the order of the Star Lord of the Li Dynasty and change the oil every once in a while."

"Because the oil used in iron smelting cannot be eaten, it is added with lye ash to make various soaps, which are regarded as rewards for workers and farmers."

Li Zhao nodded and smiled with satisfaction: "Very good."

She turned around and visited other small workshops in the manor, where slaves, as well as some young girls and boys, were working.

Apart from physical work, the rest of the light work is done by women who lead the elderly and children, and the supervisors are often managers promoted from among them.

The most typical one is the needlework workshop, where the shuttle on the loom keeps going back and forth and the women workers move very quickly, and soon a piece of cloth gradually takes shape.

The chief agricultural officer smiled and said, "Thanks to Li Chaoxingjun's method, the contract responsibility system and the work point system are very useful."

"In addition to weaving cloth, the women's workshop also pays taxes to all the women in the village. If they weave more cloth, they will get extra work points. They will be rewarded every three months. Everyone is very active!"

Li Zhao smiled: "Yeah."

Someone asked again in the barrage.

[Give a bad name]: In the past, it was a small peasant economy, and women were concentrated here to work. What would they do after they gave birth?

Qing Luan: "Wait a moment."

Li Zhao turned around and went to the yard beside the workshop. There was constant laughter and joy inside. When he went in, he saw a group of half-grown children and elderly people playing with their children.

The female workers only need to look up and out the window to find their babies.

If the child is hungry, the daughter can take over the job. She can feed the child and take a rest at the same time.

The audience in the barrage nodded one after another.

[Shi Qian Gai]: Ah, this trick is amazing.

Qingluan: "If it rains and the weather gets cold, I will add more braziers as appropriate to prevent the elderly and children from getting sick from the cold."

"This is an assembly line. The spinning and weaving are very fast. The female workers work from eight in the morning to two or three in the afternoon at most, and then they can go home."

Then, Li Zhao returned to the fields and began to introduce the manor system.

"Some of the women who harvested the land were widows and concubines. According to Tang law, they were given 30 mu of land."

"Some are daughters of military households whose fathers and brothers died early. Emperor Wu specially showed favor and made laws to allow them to inherit their fathers and brothers' land and marry a man back home."

"Under the witness of the village head and the Great Saint Wahuang, they can follow the Mosuo matriarchal system and marry men from neighboring villages to continue their family name."

Li Zhao manipulated the Li Dynasty and gathered these women near the capital to form a primary matriarchal manor.

"With three-wheeled curved plows, three-wheeled curved harrows and wheat harvesters, they can grow crops, harvest wheat and occupy the means of production without relying on men."

Li Zhao also said: "I am preparing to build a new code of ethics and rites to replace the three cardinal guides and five constant virtues of feudal society."

"Ah, let's get off topic. Let's talk about the present."

After touring the farm, Li Zhao found a big tree to provide shade. After giving everyone a seat, they listened to the director of agriculture report the farm's account book for the first half of the year.

The Minister of Agriculture was familiar with all the questions and could answer them fluently.

Finally, Li Zhao asked the female official of the Ministry of Agriculture beside him:

"How many people were there in the village last year? How many people have been added in the first half of this year? How many people have aged? How many boys and girls have been born?"

Why are you asking these questions?

Because Li Zhao needs to confirm some things.