Dress to be a celebrity

At this time, it was just before and after the cold dew, the sky was getting cooler, and the rainy summer and autumn had passed, the water level in the river was gradually decreasing, and there was a clamor of frogs in the mud on the bank.The farmland on both sides of the paddy field has been stained with gold, and the soil in the field has been dried out. Farmers are waving samarium knives and sickles to harvest new rice in clumps.

The harvested rice is piled up next to the drying yard beside the road, and some people have a rotary threshing machine on the drying yard.The cast iron wheel with nailed comb teeth rotates with the rhythm of the pedals. Some people hold the rice stalks and put the ears of rice on the wheel, and they are combed by the high-speed rotating iron teeth and thrown to the opposite side.

Song Shi lay at the window watching the rice flying around, sighed "tsk tsk" and said, "Look at this human-powered threshing machine we made, the work is not much worse than that of the electric motor, it is also quiet and environmentally friendly, and it is not prone to accidents. "

Although he has never invented anything and relies entirely on transporting, he often regards himself as a folk inventor, seeing these things as his own children, and they are good everywhere.Huan Ling also went up to see the scene of the farm's harvest, measured the distance from the road, and suggested: "Either you wait for me in the car, and I'll go down and ask the people what they think of Song Zhifu's policy of benefiting the people, come back Tell you?"

Song Shi also lay down for a long time this morning, and now his waist and legs are no longer sore, so he decided to go with him.

Huan Ling was still worried about his discomfort, so Song Shi directly raised his hand and pressed his lips: "You think too badly of me, and I can do a hundred sit-ups with my waist. Nothing."

It's just a bit of a muscle strain, and it's just right to move slowly.

He asked someone to stop the car, and Huan Ling jumped down first, moved the car stool for him, and then stretched out his hand to support him, making him land firmly on the ground, and the two walked to the side of the road together.

The accompanying white servants also wanted to follow, Song Shi waved his hand, and ordered: "You don't need to follow, those are farmers from Li Nong, and they are not gangsters, so they need so many guards."

In the past two years, due to the employment of factories, the vicinity of Hanzhong has undergone many population censuses, and all able-bodied men and women have been screened by him.Not to mention the flat and fertile river valleys, even the bandits and caravans hidden in the wild valleys of Tiantai Mountain and other places can't escape, and they are all working in various mining areas and factory areas.

In today's Hanzhong Mansion, it is no longer the time for them to worry about thieves when they just arrived here and stayed outside for a night.

They didn't bring any entourage, just the two of them supported each other, walked down the official road slowly, and walked towards the people who were watching the threshing.

This place is far away from the Qinjiatan where the experimental field is located, and the two of them usually don't stay here. The threshing guys don't recognize the two of them, they just think they are ordinary students who came out for an autumn outing.But the common people are naturally in awe of the scholars, so the owner of the drying yard poured coarse tea for them and asked where they were from.

Unlike the students in Hanzhong Mansion, the students in Hanzhong saw that these machines were no longer new, and they didn't specially go to the fields to watch them.They are definitely students from other places, and they came here to learn the art of enriching the people from the prefect of Hanzhong.

In the Song Dynasty, the leader of getting rich in Hanzhong Mansion and the role model for officials of all the mansions. He listened to people's praise with a smile from time to time. Huan Yushi was even more conscious of visiting the people's livelihood, and asked everyone: "Have you ever seen people from other mansions come to learn the art of enriching the people?" ? Do you feel that your family is well off?"

The old man who came to deliver the water smiled and said: "Naturally, you are rich. Don't you gentlemen see these millets? In previous years, this millet could not be harvested in an acre of field. When the rice is harvested, it must be threshed with a threshing bucket. At that time, the whole family will be required Let's fight together, rush to beat them down and dry them..."

At that time, I didn't even have time to drink water at home, so I didn't have the heart to greet guests.

Now rice planting is taught by elementary school gentlemen from Hanzhong University, and rice harvesting can be rented out with big samarium knives and extremely fast steel sickles, as well as this threshing machine - it doesn't move or shake, and it can be knocked down with a foot So a large handful of rice grains, is this still work?

Old, young, women and children can do these things, and adults don’t have to stay at home: work in the economic park of the prefect; bags; or sell some needles and thread, and do some small business in various villages and towns...

This year not only has food, but also saves some money.In winter, if it's this A's turn to serve corvee, he will go to work for Mr. Song to repair roads and water conservancy, and he is willing to do so.In the spring of next year, if we plant according to the arrangement of the elder of the government, it will definitely be another bumper harvest.

It's just that it's a little troublesome for Master Fu Zun to teach people how to farm. It's not like they used to plant seeds according to the seasons and work in the fields without worry.

Speaking of this trouble, quite a few people came to chime in: "In the past, we planted the fields according to the methods handed down from the old generation, but now Mr. Song has ordered people to build a weather station, and planted according to the temperature. The weather is hot and cold, watering...''

"After planting the field, you have to count the days. After planting, water a few inches of water, grow a few leaves and start to dry the field...forty...fifty when the ears are out... Anyway, it's just a few days to harvest rice, not early or not It's late. Where do you think there are farmers who count the days with the almanac and measure the level of the water with a ruler?"

"Fertilization is also applied according to the day, and the amount of different fertilizers used is different. Every time I apply it, I have to go to Hanzhong to learn about it, otherwise I dare not use this expensive chemical fertilizer. In the past, we have planted fields for decades. Where has it been so troublesome!"

A group of people were both happy and annoyed, complaining half-truths and half-truths, and some people listening to them echoed, some just laughed, and some scolded them: "In the past, how much food was harvested by relying on the sky, but now it is half as much." Son, if Mr. Song didn't teach you how to farm, where would you grow these grains?"

"The government's weather report doesn't want your money. It just asks you to remember the date and you can't remember it accurately. You still have the face to complain!"

These folks in the village became more and more intimate as they talked, even the sound of the machine threshing was overshadowed.Huan and Song were gentle scholars, and they couldn't get in their conversation—mainly because the volume was not enough—so they just listened and wrote down the problems they encountered in their daily farming.

Back in the car, Huan Ling couldn't help laughing: "Back when we were planting rice and wheat in the experimental field, how many people secretly asked and learned. Now let people learn according to Lijia's teaching, but those people If you think it's troublesome, it's not the time to treat your method as a fairy art."

It is understandable that he also knows that mathematics, physics and chemistry are good sciences, and he chose liberal arts when he was in school.

Song Shi made a sound of understanding: "When the grain tax is transferred to Beijing this year, and there is nothing to do in winter, we will hold a literacy class for adults and children in the village. No matter men, women, old or young, try to have at least one literate person in every family."

At least up to the first grade level of elementary school.

You don't need to learn any uncommon characters, as long as you can understand the notices posted in the mansion.

There are agricultural courses in the basic education textbooks of their college, but the content is relatively deep, and it must be difficult for ordinary farmers without basic knowledge to learn.In a few days, teachers will be asked to combine these modern agricultural knowledge and literacy, and compile a simplified version, similar to the literacy course of the Three Character Classic.

Although there are agricultural Mongolian books on the market today, the knowledge in them is naturally backward than what he translated. There are also such things as "rotten grass turns into a firefly", "an eagle turns into a dove", "a sparrow enters a big water and turns into a clam". It is better not to learn the legends of gods and monsters.

Song Zhifu is now harvesting abundantly year after year, rich and powerful, he dares to think about anything, and dares to tell his boss.Fortunately, the boss didn't think he was spending too much money, but he wanted to advise him: "We should also write in the textbooks how to read temperature, calculate wind force, distinguish rain clouds, etc., and teach these climate changes and crop growth in detail. relationship. Ordinary people don’t know the usefulness of it, and it’s hard to remember it.”

Yes, until the modern society 500 years later, agriculture often depends on the weather, so it is necessary to popularize some serious meteorological knowledge.When going to the test field, by the way, also look at the nearby weather stations to see if the records there are incomplete and accurate.

There is nothing to be seen in the temporary records, and if you insist on recording dozens or hundreds of years, it is the important information for future generations to arrange farming and predict disasters.

It is said that the best time to do something is ten years ago, but now he has worn it to more than 500 years ago. What is not the best time?

Thinking of this, he was immediately full of energy, and put many things that he hadn't been able to do because of lack of money and manpower before into the next three-year plan.Although Huan Ling didn't have the opportunity to go back to doing business 500 years ago, he seized the second best opportunity to do things——

Focus on the present moment, do whatever comes to mind immediately.

After returning to the city, he first went to the car dealership to order two large cans of stone grease for lubricating the axles, and took the oil fractionation technical literature from Song Shidui, while teaching himself and writing articles on world affairs, to help Song Shidui earn some Jinjiang balance.

They went to see the weather station a few days ago, and he happened to have some ideas. He wanted to write a few articles about the rituals of local officials praying for rain and offering sacrifices, and tried to see if Jinjiang.com would accept them.After all, he could see from Song Shi that the officials at that time had long since stopped doing it, and they didn't even believe in these ghosts and gods at all. The words that were handed down at that time were not as detailed as what he could write.

Not only did he write about the ritual of praying for rain in the local area, he also went to chat with his brother-in-law, King Zhou, and asked about the detailed process of praying for rain in the palace.

King Zhou was young, so he didn't know his intentions to make money by writing about his family affairs. He only thought that he was preparing for the drought early, so he told him the experience of participating in the ceremony in the past.How to arrange the altar, how to carry out the statues, how the Taoist rituals are done, what kind of incense candles and sacrifices are offered...

Huan Ling took the notes one by one, with a very serious expression on his face, as if he was about to ask for rain according to the law.

After Zhou Wang gave the experience, seeing that he was so serious, he couldn't help asking more: "I heard that Brother Song has put weather boxes in various places outside the city, which can report sunshine and rain, and measure cold and temperature. Is it possible that they can also measure the weather next year? Is there a drought?"

No, it is impossible to predict that there will be a drought next year.But it can be a sign that we can earn a sum of Jinjiang coins by virtue of this method of praying for rain in a drought, in exchange for the chemical secret method of refining oil.

He closed the notebook, bowed to the king of Zhou, filled with joy, and sincerely thanked: "It's not to prevent the famine, it's just that the officials are curious. Today, His Highness clarifies the confusion, and the officials have something in their hearts, and they need to experiment." Let's verify it in the room, and next year His Highness will see the results."

He drifted away under Zhou Wang's bewildered, surprised and adoring eyes, and wrote several short popular science articles based on this original material.He is now writing modern essays more and more smoothly, more and more in line with the format of the manuscript, and he only needs to type in the written essays in Song Dynasty, without much modification, which is very worry-free.

With the energy he saved, he made an extra-long mercury thermometer for Huan Ling, the kind that could measure to three hundred degrees—after all, the boiling point of mercury is 357 degrees Celsius, and the thermometer would explode if it was any higher.

But this temperature is enough for the time being.Because gasoline can be distilled from oil at 150 to 150 degrees, kerosene can be obtained at [-] degrees to [-] degrees, and diesel oil is above that...

These three have even exceeded their current needs.

Huan Ling took over the thermometer that entrusted Song Shi's full hopes and the future of Hanzhong Petroleum Industry, and took out the condenser tube and horn tube customized according to the experimental device diagram, together with experimental instruments such as flasks, beakers, and alcohol lamps, and carefully fixed them. Pour a few pieces of broken porcelain into the flask, and slowly inject a cup of oil.