Husband and wife are hot on the kang

It turned out that Tiejiang Shao's family was very hardworking, and his son had also passed the examination as a scholar, and his daughter had also appointed the son of Lao Ni's family, so he was short of an appointment.

In addition, Shibalipu has really made a lot of money in the past few years, and he forged iron again. After his family built a house, he thought about entrusting the iron shop to pay, but there was no one in the village to pick it up!

Because blacksmithing is too tiring, everyone usually has to farm, look after vegetable sheds, grow fruit trees, etc., a lot of work.

Originally, winter is the slack season for farming, but in winter they still have to cook vegetables in a shed to sell tomatoes, milk and strawberries.The newly built houses are made of bricks and tiles, and the whole Shibalipu is in perfect order.

Also, each family has dug wells, and in order to connect them, there are also small secret roads connecting them. It was Shi Hongda's attention!

Say it just in case.

This little secret way is known to my family, and this house is passed on to future generations, so I won’t be able to use it in this life, who knows if I can use it in the next life!

The days are getting better, Blacksmith Shao is also getting old, and his leg will be uncomfortable when it is cloudy and rainy. Liu Quansen has said in the past two years that he is not allowed to work too hard, for fear that he will leave hidden dangers when he gets old. Outbursts are bad.

"So I thought, close the blacksmith's shop, but there are rules in the village. A village without a blacksmith's shop cannot be a village..." The Mongolian Dynasty stipulated that there must be a village doctor, a grocery store and a blacksmith's shop to form a village. This is the most basic structure. Well, there used to be cloth shops, garment shops, and schools in Zhangjia Village, and now Shibalipu also has them.

"Alright, you don't have to be busy anymore." Yu Liangji nodded.

From then on, the blacksmith shop in Shibalipu was changed to the place next to the Hou's Mansion, and a large shop was built, and the one in the Hou's Mansion was demolished and moved outside, and the families of the two masters also moved. In the past, Shibalipu added two more families.

The old village head cheerfully went to the county town to report the population, and half annoyed, he told people that the spring banquet in his village was going to be eaten until the first month!

Butchering pig rice has to be eaten in advance, which makes others envious.

Who doesn't know the name of Shibalipu!

It used to be such a poor and remote village, but now it has become famous far and wide, and it is impossible for ordinary people in the village to settle down. I heard that their down payment, Boss Jiang, wanted to settle in Shibalipu, but it was not completed!

Shibalipu changed blacksmiths. It was not a big deal, and no one paid attention to it. Yu Liangji was drawing blueprints all day long, thinking about how to get a harvester.

This thing is a delicate job. Discuss it with two master blacksmiths. He can only give advice, but in fact it needs others to do it.

One of the two blacksmiths was named Guo Datong, and the other was Wang Fengchang. They had six apprentices, all surnamed Guo. The master adopted and grew up, and learned the skill of blacksmithing from him, and Master Wang is the younger brother of Master Guo, so he is half of the family.

These people came to settle in Shibalipu, and imperceptibly, Shibalipu grew a population again.

But Yu Liangji didn't care about these, he gave the drawings and watched them forge the iron.However, the progress of the heat has not been obvious in recent days.

Yu Liangji was not in a hurry either, he knew there was no need to rush this matter.

While researching the harvester, while looking at his own fruit trees, he inquired about the situation of potato species outside.

The potato seeds that everyone bought back last year have all been put into the ground this year, and seedlings have grown.

Especially in Juntian, according to Yu Liangji's words, the distance is very far, so that the potatoes have room to grow, and because of the high yield of potatoes, they are more diligent in planting. As long as the weather is favorable, there will be a bumper harvest.

In the blink of an eye, it was July because the weather was too hot, so Yu Liangji simply stopped working on blacksmithing, and only studied his blueprints. For the time being, he used iron, and only used small wood to make a model. I don't understand.

"You can understand it if you look at it this way." Yu Liangji pulled the small model and walked forward, and the spiral knives behind him flashed past in unison.

"This?" Shi Hongda understood a little bit, but after all, this thing is much ahead of its time. You must know that the earliest horse-drawn harvester was a horse-drawn disc harvester that appeared in England in [-].

It was not until [-] that the harvesting device was added to the ground.

In [-], the prototype of modern cutting machine using reciprocating cutter and pulling wheel appeared.The cutter is driven by multiple horses and driven by the rotation of the ground wheels.

He has added everything that can be added, which is really too far ahead.Shi Hongda was stunned as to whether he understood or not!

Yu Liangji had no choice but to make a miniature model imitating the field. He planted leeks, and then made a slightly larger harvester model. Pianzi cut off a slice of leeks!

Shi Hongda's glasses immediately widened, and he gasped!

"This thing is so sharp!" The tone of his speech changed!

"Well, this is just a temporary prototype. You can try it out after you have a general direction and change it. This year our family planted a lot of millet. It would be very tiring to harvest it by hand. If you want to use it, you can pull it by horse. Harvesting, as long as manual binding is enough." Yu Liangji happily showed off the medium model for a long time.

Shi Hongda didn't expect that Yu Liangji got such a sharp farm tool for the millet he planted in his own field!

"Okay, your stuff is really powerful, you can keep this small model first, give me the big one, I will write a secret book later, and send it to Jingzhong together with this thing!" Shi Hongda said with a wry smile: " The sooner this thing is reduced, Your Majesty, the better!"

"Why?" Yu Liangji didn't know how to feel sad yet.

"This is very useful. There are a lot of corn and sorghum in the north, which may not be very useful, but there are also a lot of millet and rice, especially in the south, where grain is harvested twice a year and rice is harvested three times a year. With it, there is no fear of lack of manpower. Already!" Shi Hongda saw a bright future for this thing at a glance.

"That's right, it was made to save manpower and material resources, but the daily harvest is more than the purpose!" Yu Liangji began to think: "If there are two or three such big knives, how much is our land? It can be collected in one day."

You don't need to cut the millet one by one with a small sickle, and you don't know how much faster you are when you want to lose weight!

Shi Hongda thought for a while: "Okay, I will report it as you said!"

Yu Liangji looked up inexplicably: "What did I say to the report? What did I say to me?"

"You don't need to know, this is fine." Shi Hongda patted his head, and let him do it himself.The man didn't put much thought into it.

Yu Liangji continued to play with his harvester, which is a powerful agricultural tool!

I didn't expect it, I thought of it, and he made it out a long time ago!

But it’s not too late to figure it out now, their era is equivalent to the early Qing Dynasty in his era,

It was many years earlier, and with the achievements of the predecessors, the century-old shame is gone, and the national power is getting stronger day by day.

In mid-July, the weather was extremely hot and the apricots were ripe!

Making licorice apricots has always been a repertoire of Shibalipu. Although there are many people outside who make licorice apricots, they are not the same as Shibalipu, and they are said to be the most authentic ones in Shibalipu.

There were also apricots ripening in Hou's mansion, so Yu Liangji directed his staff to make a lot of licorice apricots, and kept many in the shade of the cellar.

On the other hand, Shi Hongda was writing hard in his study, but Yu Liangji didn't give the design drawings, only a medium model, because Yu Liangji said, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

He doesn't have any blueprints for his superiors. When the final blueprints are finalized, he will send them to his superiors. This time he sent a model, so he can give it a try.

He even compiled the reason why Yu Liangji designed this thing, after finishing writing.Sent directly to the EMS office for delivery.

The things were quickly sent to the imperial palace in the capital.

His Majesty the Emperor didn't know why at first, but after reading Shi Hongda's memorial, he found a leek and tried it. He was so shocked beyond words!

"Your Majesty, this thing is simply, simply, simply!" Minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was beside him at the time, said three "simple" in surprise, and was so shocked that he didn't know what to say!

His slightly dark face flushed with excitement!

As a result, His Majesty the Emperor looked at the memorial Shi Hongda gave him again, and finally simply gave it to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "Look at it, Qingfenghou is really real, I don't even know what to say about him!"

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry also took it over to take a look, okay?

What Shi Hongda told his superiors was very interesting: All the land in Hou Qingfeng's house and Shibalipu has been planted with millet this year. Hou Qingfeng was afraid that there would be insufficient manpower during the autumn harvest, and everyone would be tired, so he thought about such a thing at home. , Said to save labor!

In the beginning, it was used to cut grains, but later the thinking spread out, and it was changed again and again, and finally changed to this look!

It is said that there is still a lot of room for improvement. There are many drawings, so they will not be sent. When he is done, he will send the drawings and finished products to Jingli.

"This Marquis Qingfeng is a practical man!" The Minister of the Ministry of Industry was very optimistic about Yu Liangji's invention.

His Majesty the Emperor shook his head and chuckled: "The thinking of this genius is different from that of mortals. I can't understand it. What does he think? If it were a different person, I'm afraid this thing has already benefited me, but this matter needs to be solved." It wasn't Shi Hongda who saw the prison, he didn't know who to report credit for. The person who was arranged in the House of Internal Affairs of the Hou's Mansion also went back twice, saying that Lord Hou was a bit unreasonable, but he loved the village he was born in so much that he even loved the potato seeds. It was given to his own village first, and then he was exiled, this Lord Qingfeng is an honest man."

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry is very optimistic about Yu Liangji: "It is good that he is worthy of his title. What the court lacks is honest people. If there are those who need to intrigue with others, let the people with seven apertures and exquisite hearts do it!"

Anyway, there is no shortage of cunning and treacherous people in the imperial court, but what is lacking is honest people who do practical things.

And only honest people can rest assured.

His Majesty the Emperor thought so too, if Marquis Qingfeng had been greedy for merit, he would not have granted him the title of Marquis at that time.

So he asked someone to call back to Shi Hongda and act cheaply.

Shi Hongda was at ease. From the very beginning, Shi Hongda happened to have his eye on Yu Liangji. Later, a series of events proved that Shi Hongda's vision was good. Look, he just took a fancy to a talent at a glance!

After Shi Hongda answered the letter, he finally felt relieved, and found someone to get some iron materials back to Yu Liangji. It was too hot in summer, and the school was on summer vacation. Flying the waves to cool off the summer heat, Yu Liangji was afraid that they would be thirsty after playing and couldn't help drinking dirty water, so he missed a large pot of sour plum soup and put it in the well to cool it down for them to drink.

The sour plum soup was sweet and sour and cool, the children liked it very much, even the two gentlemen thought it was very good.

The two gentlemen from Jingzhong wrote a letter, saying that everything is fine. There were two days of acclimatization in the early stage, but now it is safe. They also described the situation in Jingzhong. , After they pass the Jinshi examination, they will ask to go back to Shibalipu, and ask Yu Liangji to leave them a place and so on.

Yu Liangji couldn't help crying after watching it. The two of them saw the prosperity of the capital, but they were still thinking about Shibalipu. It can be seen that they were determined to come back, so let the housekeeper pay more attention. When autumn comes, find two good friends. There are two courtyards in the housing field, which are better built.

"Is there someone who wants to settle down?" For no reason, the Hou's mansion wanted to build a house, and it had to be built in Shibalipu, and the housekeeper always had to ask.

"It's for the two families. Let's cover it first. It will be too late to cover it when they come back." Yu Liangji chuckled, took the letter and put it in the box.