Husband and wife are hot on the kang

Therefore, everything about the Hou Mansion and Yu Liangji are not hidden.

Because he knows that there is no impenetrable wall in this world. It is better to be open than to cover up. Anyway, what he does is beneficial to the country and the people. His Majesty the Emperor must not have a bad vision to a certain extent, just like him. Those who engage in agriculture are awkward.

"Did you talk to anyone?" Shi Hongda went to his study at the front to get the mansion newspaper. This mansion newspaper is usually delivered to the mansion. The court's movements are much more detailed than the previous newspaper. After all, the newspaper is for the public. The Dibao is only for officials.

It’s not a good thing that Hou’s Mansion is big. Everything follows the regulations. It’s still a huge place according to the smallest regulations. He has to run a long way to get something. This thing is for the officials to see. Most people are not sticky.

Then the people from the House of Internal Affairs, in name, are only servants of the Hou's House, so they can't touch the mansion to report, so Shi Hongda or Yu Liangji can only go there by themselves.

Yu Liangji was serious at the time, so Shi Hongda had no choice but to take a trip by himself. Yu Liangji would only read the newspaper as a newspaper at night. He just read it from the front, and if there was nothing serious, he would put it away as a bedtime reading In the end, Butler He came and said that Yu Liangji had a little sequelae.

Shi Hongda was so scared that he hurried back.

As a result, I went to the place and looked around, and I seemed to be much more energetic, writing and drawing non-stop, and muttering in my mouth!

They didn't know they came late, Shi Hongda looked at Yu Liangji, and thought that she had some kind of invention. When she drew the manual thresher, she was in a very professional posture, as well as the columbine cart and the three-share plow.

He couldn't understand the drawn Dongxi, but he heard that people from the Ministry of Industry saw it as a treasure, so Shi Hongda felt that Yu Liangji was never free, and his paintings must be suitable.

"Let everyone go out, and I will guard him. Anyone who comes will be invited to the living room for tea temporarily, and there is no need to report." Shi Hongda arranged things in an instant.

"Yes!" Butler He hurried to make arrangements, and asked everyone to be careful when walking, not to make loud noises, not to discuss loudly, and not to throw pots and bowls.

The whole Hou Mansion was quiet in an instant, it was too quiet, Shi Hongda took the report and sat beside him, watching the news of the court while guarding Yu Liangji.

Yu Liangji was remembering something, he didn't pay attention at all!

He was thinking of harvesters.

The harvester was first invented by an American, Cyrus McCormick.

The premise of inventing this thing at that time was the lack of labor force!

Because this Cyrus McCormick had a bad temper, the family moved and found an open and free place, occupying a large area of ​​land and fertile fields, resulting in grains, fruits, wood, and stones. While bringing a lot of income to the McCormick family, it also caused a serious shortage of labor in the family!

This person invented the harvester, which was originally used to harvest millet, rice, wheat, etc., in order to save energy.

A harvester is an integrated machine for harvesting crops.

Harvesting and threshing are completed at one time, and the grain is concentrated in the storage bin, and then the grain is transported to the transport vehicle through the conveyor belt.

It can also be manually harvested, and the seedlings of rice, wheat and other crops are laid in the field, and then picked up and threshed with grain harvesting machinery.

Crop harvesting machinery for harvesting grains and stalks of cereal crops such as rice and wheat.

Including harvesters, windrowers, balers, grain combines, and grain threshers.

Grain harvesting machinery is developed on the basis of various harvesting and threshing tools.

Yu Liangji doesn't have a conveyor belt or an engine now, so he can't do everything that the harvester can do, but he can do simple ones first!

McCormick grew up on rolling farms. As early as his childhood, his father had worked for many years on his farm to invent a harvester and sketched it out.

The original harvester was driven by two horses and equipped with a cutting knife driven by a ground wheel, pulling out the seedlings and wheeling the ear-collecting platform.

It can not only cut the wheat, but also automatically organize the cut wheat and stack them neatly on the workbench behind. The harvesting speed is three times faster than that of manual labor.

This kind of ancient thing was used as a compulsory item in textbooks and exams at that time. The instructors asked them to draw and make pictures at that time, but they were all ready-made at that time, and now he had to start making parts again.

And this part is not made of wood, it has to be made of iron.

Thinking that Blacksmith Shao's house still had a big belly woman, so he couldn't make a sound, Yu Liangji suddenly froze, there was no place to forge iron!

The one in the county seat seems a little far away, and he needs to keep an eye on it all the time.

"Why are you in a daze?" After reading the mansion newspaper, Shi Hongda looked at Yu Liangji and found that he was in a daze. He hugged his waist and looked down at the various blueprints on the table, but he didn't understand.

All I saw was the design drawings of various circles with gears all over the paper.

"I don't have a way to strike iron." Yu Liangji pouted, extremely aggrieved.

It simply cannot be done without iron casting.Didn't he waste so much time in vain?

"The blacksmith shop in the county town belongs to us." Shi Hongda reminded him: "That's how the Sanhua plow was built back then, have you forgotten?"

"I need to look at the type, and also need to break in, assemble and try it out, but I can't do without it." Yu Liangji sniffed: "It's a waste of work!"

"It's not in vain, tomorrow, tomorrow I will solve the problem for you." Shi Hongda bowed his head and kissed him funny: "Don't be depressed, go out for a walk, you have stayed in the house all afternoon."

"Yeah." Yu Liangji rubbed his face to wake himself up.

Shi Hongda took him out for a walk for a while, found two early-ripe melons and gnawed on them, finally showing a smile on his face.

Xiao Huaixing came back during dinner, Yu Liangji went to take care of the child, Shi Hongda called someone over, and gave him such and such instructions.

The next morning, Yu Liangji was tossing the fruit trees in the No. [-] experimental shed, and the orchard behind. He also visited from time to time, and asked someone to spray a lot of Bordeaux liquid, and agreed to spray rocks next month. sulfur compound.

Today, the interval between these two kinds of pesticides is best to be half a month later, and they cannot be used together.

And Shi Hongda woke up from a nap at noon, and smiled and dragged him to a place.

That place is in a remote place near the orchard in the backyard. It was useless at first, only the ground was repaired, and it was a little more open. Usually, people rarely leave. Now a crucible has been set up to burn the molten iron. There are two masters and six disciples, tinkling, clanging, clanging.

"This?" Yu Liangji's eyes were straight at that time.

"It's not bad to have a blacksmith workshop at home. You can make whatever you want, and you don't have to worry about leaking the blueprints. You don't need to spend extra money." Shi Hongda pointed to the eight people and said: "The family is also in the house, two The master’s monthly payment is higher, five taels of silver, and three taels of silver for apprentices, and they are the same as the people in the mansion during festivals.”

At this time, everyone saw Yu Liangji. Although they had never seen Marquis Qingfeng, but if they could stand side by side with Shi Hongda, there was only Marquis left in the family, and each of them clasped their fists to salute, which was quite military-like: "See Pass the Marquis!"

"Okay, hello everyone!" Yu Liangji laughed so hard that he couldn't see his teeth.

After greeting people, he turned around and asked Shi Hongda: "These people...?"

People who have no reason will not enter the Hou's Mansion. Those who enter the Hou's Mansion are basically either the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or they are really slaves.

To be honest, the slave status in this time and space is not a good person. When Song Taizu wanted to cancel the slave status, he was opposed by others, so he had to make a detour, and the slave status was re-established, and the original ones disappeared.

In the future, unless they were originally slaves, the rest are basically families who have made mistakes.

This is also one of the reasons why it is very rare to find a suitable slave who cannot be redeemed for a lifetime.

Now eight of them came here all of a sudden, and they were all skilled people. Yu Liangji was afraid that Shi Hongda would force Liang to be his slave!

"What are you thinking about!" Shi Hong patted his head lightly, dumbfounded: "These two masters went to the county to invite them. They were originally from our own family. It is better to come to the Hou's mansion. Here is better than the county seat The blacksmith's shop is much safer."

Yu Liangji laughed: "How do I know!"

Shi Hongda pointed to the newly built blacksmithing workshop, "This is just a prototype, you can arrange it however you want. It's in your own home anyway, and you don't have to be afraid of robbing Blacksmith Shao's business. After all, their children will grow up for a few years." Yes, it is estimated that the stove will not be able to be turned on for a while, anyone in the village who wants to make something in the future, come to our house, and save a lot of repair fees!"

Even if the child of Shao Tiejiang's family gave birth safely, the child must be at least eight years old to not lose his soul. It is really not good for the child to be rattled all day long.

I heard that Shao Tiejiang also closed the furnace when the child was young, otherwise he would not have no money to buy medicine for his wife and went to the mountains to collect ginseng.

"That's good, that, stuffing..." This thing is not easy to get, and it's not a nice word for a Hou's mansion to have nothing to do with iron.

"I have already applied for it. You can get some for my [-] subordinates to repair weapons every year, and I will apply for you again, which is enough." After having [-]-smelted steel as a weapon, the imperial court actually didn't care much about iron. , because without such good coal, no good steel can be smelted. The key is that people are afraid that someone will hurt the people with weapons, so this is strictly controlled.

Shi Hongda explained to Yu Liangji: "The folks only have briquettes, and the imperial court has high-quality lump coal." Yu Liangji nodded: "I understand. "

Without high-purity steel, no matter how powerful iron is, it is useless. People use muskets on the battlefield, and steelmaking is not something that can be practiced in any small workshop, and it requires a lot of high-quality coal!

The imperial court does not control iron but he controls coal!

Without high-temperature refining, any iron can't match steel!

And this will make people tossed before crossing, guns and artillery are available, and swords are a thing of the past, but they are things that hurt people and need attention.

"Then you can talk to them about the blueprints in these two days, but you are not allowed to move forward. It's too hot, and they just rest in the morning and evening to avoid heatstroke!" Shi Hongda strictly demanded: "It's a hot day. They are still guarding the blacksmithing stove, even if it is ventilated here, it will be hot!"

Yu Liangji blushed: "Do you think I'm Zhou Papier? On such a hot day, you are forced to guard the iron stove? We just beat a dozen every morning and night, and usually have to carve the mold!"

In this way, the Hou Mansion had eight more blacksmiths, two master masters and six apprentices.

It is a great convenience for the villagers, whoever needs it can go to the Hou Mansion to find a blacksmith workshop, and pay according to the market price.

At first, Yu Liangji was embarrassed to accept it: "This is when I use it more..."

"That won't work!" The old village chief said, "You hired the person, and you paid a monthly fee. We just wanted to make it easier, and we have to go a long way to the county seat. How close is it to come here!"

Stick to the money!

Yu Liangji couldn't stop it, but Shi Hongda thought it was good!

So just like that, the blacksmithing workshop in Hou's mansion became shared by Shibalipu, and Blacksmith Shao gave Yu Liangji some gifts because of this.

"I stole your business!" Yu Liangji didn't know why.

"No, no!" Blacksmith Shao is now in good spirits on happy occasions. "I was planning to find someone to take over the blacksmith shop. I don't need money now, and I have a grandson, so I should take a break!"