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    Chapter 374 New Farm Tools

    Refugees from Hebei Province, as well as refugees from Youzhou and Jizhou, continued to enter Yingzhou, causing the population under Li Zhen's rule to continue to expand.

    In fact, before the arrival of these refugees, Yingzhou was sparsely populated, with a population of only tens of thousands. Adding in the people from the old areas of Goguryeo and Samhan, the population was less than a million.

    Among the many forces, Li Zhen¡¯s power is relatively small. However, after absorbing these refugees, Li Zhen¡¯s strength began to expand rapidly.

    Having a population is equivalent to having a source of soldiers and a productive labor force, which can develop the economy and accumulate more materials.

    Originally, the population under his rule was small, and the burden on the common people was heavy to feed 50,000 soldiers. Li Zhen even thought of disarmament and concentrate on developing economic strength first.

    But with the participation of these refugees, Li Zhen changed her mind.

    Judging from the rate at which these refugees are increasing, the population under their control will increase significantly in less than two years. The food produced by the newly added population will create economic value that can fully support an army of 50,000 people, and the lives of ordinary people will  Not only will it not decrease, it will actually increase.

    In this way, it will encourage more people to enter Yingzhou, enhance the strength of Yingzhou, form a good virtuous cycle, and lay a solid foundation for yourself to compete in the world.

    "Ding! If the host completes the task of becoming an expert in internal affairs, the system will reward the host with a blueprint of Mai Chuo, a blueprint of pushing a sickle, a blueprint of a rolling keel car, and a blueprint of a plow."

    Li Zhen frowned and said, "System, you are too pushy this time. What are these things?"

    "Host, these are agricultural tools that only appeared in the Song Dynasty. I give you their drawings. I am already a very conscientious system."

    "Fine."

    Li Zhen collected these drawings, and then asked a blacksmith to build a push sickle, a machete, a rollover keel cart, and a step plow according to the styles in the drawings.

    The blacksmith looked at the drawing of the push sickle and saw that the push sickle in the drawing had a 2-foot-long crossbar installed on the long forked handle at the top, small wheels at both ends, and a half-moon-shaped forward-facing wheel between the two wheels.  There is a sharp sickle, and a diagonal eyebrow staff is installed on the left and right sides of the crossbar.

    The blacksmith thought for a while and asked, "What kind of tool is this?"

    Li Zhen said: "This is called pushing sickle. It can gather the cut wheat and push it with great force. The cut wheat will fall to the ground in a row. The work effect is very good."

    "Good thing, I can make this." The blacksmith's eyes lit up.

    Li Zhen took the drawing of the plow and gave it to the blacksmith, and asked: "Can such a thing be made?"

    The blacksmith looked at the drawings and scratched his head, a little confused.

    Li Zhen explained patiently: "This is called a plow. It is shaped like a short sickle and has a very thick back. It is usually mounted on a small plow. The reeds and thorns are cut before the plow and then cultivated. Or it is mounted on the plow.  On the inward side of the shaft head, reeds are cut first, and then plowed. This kind of plow can replace the plowing ox, and the effect is half that of the plowing ox. "

    During the Tang Dynasty, there was a shortage of cattle, so the government ordered to protect cattle. Live cattle could not be slaughtered for meat. Even so, not many people could own cattle. Farming was very laborious, but with this kind of farming,  The plow can partially replace the role of the oxen, and can reclaim a large amount of wasteland without expending so much effort. The plow is definitely an artifact for reclaiming wasteland.

    The blacksmith had realized the importance of the plow and immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely make this plow."

    The principle of Mai Chuo and the plow is also very simple. It is not difficult to make them. The blacksmith already understood it after just one glance.

    But when he looked at the roll-over keel car, the blacksmith had a problem and didn't understand what it was used for.

    Li Zhen said: "This is called a roll-over keel cart, also called a treadmill. It is made of a series of movable wood placed in a wooden trough, with a horizontal axis attached to it. It can be turned by human power or oxen's power. It can also be used  The water-powered spinner rotates the articulated wooden planks in a chain, and the water from the ditches and rivers is guided into the fields along with the wooden planks. It raises water quickly, is easy to transport, and can be used anywhere."

    The blacksmith was overjoyed after seeing it and said: "I have been a blacksmith all my life, but I have never seen such good farm tools."

    Li Zhen said to the blacksmith: "As long as you can make it, I will reward you generously."

    "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will make these farm tools in the shortest possible time. They are so ingenious and ingenious!"

    Li Zhen couldn't help but feel happy, thinking that it seemed that the blacksmith could actually say such a thing. It seemed that he had some culture and should be able to make these farm tools.

    whenThe blacksmith took the drawings, carefully put them away, and left happily.

    Li Zhen just thought that in terms of agriculture, she could only think of so much for the time being. We will talk about the details later, but with these measures, I believe there should be a good harvest in agriculture.

    Agriculture is the foundation and can feed and house a large number of people. If agriculture is well done, society will be stable, but it is only stable. If you want to prosper and develop, you want to recruit more soldiers and build better weapons,  Just need money.

    And if you want to receive more money, you need economic prosperity, which depends on business.

    Yingzhou has always been a poor and backward place in the Tang Dynasty, but a few years ago, when Li Zhen was managing the Northeast, Yingzhou's economy had developed greatly.

    Yingzhou merchants sell horses, sheep and other materials from outside the customs to the interior, and in turn transport the materials from the interior to Yingzhou. This time, they can make huge profits, and relying on these profits, Yingzhou's economic development  Soon, the people's lives were good, and everyone was proud to do business. This made some scholars very dissatisfied, thinking that the atmosphere in Yingzhou was bad. Everyone did not want to read books by sages, but only thought about making profits.

    However, Li Zhen, the initiator of this matter, believed that focusing on agriculture and suppressing business was definitely a shortcoming of the feudal dynasty. Although merchants made profits, they promoted the circulation of goods. Merchants are definitely an important factor in the stability of a country and social development.  .

    However, due to the limitations of feudal society, the huge role of merchants in promoting social productivity was not recognized to a large extent, and the emphasis was placed on agriculture and business. In the end, the result was complacency and stagnation.

    Li Zhen calculated that in two thousand years of feudal society, only the Song Dynasty had a very good attitude towards businessmen. Because of this, the economy and science and technology of the Song Dynasty ushered in great development, and the people's lives were the most prosperous.

    It seems that in the Northern Song Dynasty, the GDP accounted for 80% of the world. The people really had enough food and clothing. The result of attaching importance to business was that businessmen invested a lot of money in technological innovation to earn greater profits.  With the explosion of science and technology in the Song Dynasty, if the Song Dynasty had not been destroyed by the Mongols, the capitalist economy might have arrived hundreds of years earlier (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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