No one is good at something from the beginning.

As for Chinese society, it is actually a rather contradictory society.

The first is the idea of ​​officialdom. No matter when, no matter what you do, as long as you can become an official, this is definitely everyone's first choice.

Under the influence of official-oriented thinking, other industries are gradually declining or being suppressed.

Fortunately, at this time, hundreds of schools are still active on the stage of history and have not been completely suppressed.

This is luck, and the same is unfortunate.

After so many years of ups and downs, the current Baijia has basically reached the end of its rope.

Regardless of whether they are craftsmen or farmers, these are collectively called craftsmen.

No matter which dynasty, this is a group of people who are valued, but it is also a group of people who are not valued.

Why pay attention?

All the powerful people who are qualified to compete will try their best to control this group of people in their hands.

Likewise, they will do their best to suppress their social status so that they cannot get ahead.

Over time, after the evolution of time, another embarrassing situation gradually formed.

The most elite craftsmen in the empire were in the hands of the powerful.

Among folk craftsmen, it is passed down from son to son, not from son-in-law, from male to female.

Relying on a craft to support a family, gradually, they are either eliminated from the industry, or due to some unexpected factors, they disappear along with the history in the long river.

You can build a plow, you can build a weapon, you can build a strong and durable wooden cart.

For Wang Buxu, who has experienced the prosperity of later generations, these are old-fashioned technologies. Even if they are given away or given free teaching, no one may be willing to learn these things.

But now, it is the most advanced technology in the world.

Now the country has gradually stabilized, and the threat from the Huns has been initially lifted.

After several years of self-cultivation, there are more and more smiles on people's faces, and their expectations for the future have become stronger.

The population is also developing rapidly, and the number of new people added every year is increasing rapidly.

Wang Buxu also set a small goal for himself. In his lifetime, he hopes to achieve two small goals and try his best to work towards three small goals.

When everything began to stabilize, Wang Buxian also started to do some things he wanted to do.

"Wang Shangshu, what is that boy of yours doing?" Looking at Wang Ji who was still busy below, Zhang Buyi came to Wang Ling with pain in his balls.

Anyway, there are so many people watching. Besides, what is this exam called?

Okay, barely...

But Zhang Buyi really had no interest in reading anymore. It was boring and too boring.

"How could I know?" Wang Ling rolled his eyes speechlessly.

"You didn't give him any advice in private?" Zhang Buyi asked with a mean look on his face.

"Hmph! I can't afford to lose face like this!" Wang Ling snorted coldly, and then said: "Besides, this is your Majesty's personal question? Even if I want to help, I can't help!"

Wang Ling's words were actually an allusion to Zhang Buyi not to cause trouble.

The test questions were only known today. If Wang Ji knew the test questions in advance and made preparations, don't you mean that His Majesty leaked the test questions himself?

"It's so boring!" Zhang Buyi responded in a self-interested tone, then stood there and watched quietly with nothing to do.

In addition to seeing Wang Ji who was still busy, he also saw a loneliness...

An hour later...

Wang Ji stopped busy and left the work to the workshop, and then there was nothing left for him to do.

Although it stands to reason that he should do it himself, even if he doesn't do it himself? He still has to be there to guide how to do it.

But now I am taking the exam? I don’t have that opportunity? So I can only explain my requirements clearly word by word? And then let the workshop do it.

After asking about the reason, Wang Buxin couldn't help but feel a little curious.

He immediately ordered Wang Ji to be called in for questioning.

For engineering students? Drawing is a compulsory course.

It doesn't matter whether the drawing is standard or not, but you must be able to draw a rough outline so that people can see what it is at a glance, and then clearly mark the requirements and dimensions.

You can't draw a big iron rod without telling people it's a pole.

"What's the test question you chose?" Wang Ji looked a little nervous, but Wang Buxuan asked casually, so as not to frighten the children.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty...Student...The student chose a farm tool..." Wang Ji looked at Wang Buhung nervously.

Time was tight and the tasks were heavy, so he couldn't help thinking so much.

So I can only think of something that is fast and has a certain meaning.

As for whether it can be used, he doesn't know.

But there was no other way. In fact, from the moment he read the test questions, Wang Ji was ready to go back to the academy and sit in jail for another year.

It’s not that the students don’t work hard, it’s that the teachers are too cunning.

"Oh? Farm tools?" Wang Buxian was stunned for a moment. He was not disappointed with this answer, but if it was a surprise, it was actually not much.

How else can farm tools be developed?

It's basically over, and the workshop has begun to adjust the stress points of the new farm tools.

It is to make some changes to the shape of the straight plow so that the place where the livestock pulls is lower.

Wang Buxu had no intention of using his superpower anymore. It was already advanced enough anyway, and he also wanted to observe the research capabilities of this group of people, so he just went with the flow.

Besides plows, what other agricultural tools are there?

hoe?

Rake?

Or a sickle?

This guy isn't thinking about getting a reverse plow, is he?

But that thing is only useful for shallow plowing, planting vegetables, sowing seeds, etc. For plowing the ground, that depth is far from enough.

"Your Majesty, what the students are making is a farm tool used to level the ground." Wang Ji quickly explained.

Wang Ji didn't have any psychological pressure to announce his answers. After all, he was the only candidate.

The emperor has already asked you something, why are you still hiding it now?

That way, even his father could slap him to death without the emperor taking action.

Although I don’t know if my design will work, but the way it is now, I can only do it as a doctor, otherwise what else can I do?

So Wang Ji began to introduce it in detail.

"Students chose this question mainly because they didn't have enough time. The other reason is that they don't have a complete idea and it's impossible to make a choice within an hour. It may be a little troublesome to make it in one."

"The reason why I chose this is because the students had seen the farming methods of the people in the fields before, and found that after plowing the land, they often need to use a hoe, a rake, and a stone to level the soil before plowing.

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"And this work will also consume a lot of manpower and time. Generally speaking, the time required to level one acre of land is even longer than the time to plow one acre of land."

"When I was a child, my students also saw farm tools for flat land at home, but they found that they were never used. The adults said that those things were too heavy and it was too hard for people to pull them. Animals have the energy to pull them, so they might as well go there.

How many more acres of land should I turn over?"

"So when the students saw His Majesty's question, they thought of this question. If there was a farm tool that could be easily manipulated by one or two people to level the farmland, would it be possible to invest more manpower in plowing the land?

In this way, doesn’t it also improve the farming efficiency?”

Wang Buxu nodded.

That’s the truth!

If you want to increase efficiency dozens or hundreds of times at once, it is simply impossible unless you enter the mechanization era.

And what we call improving efficiency now is actually just digging out manpower bit by bit.

Under normal circumstances, one person can level one to one and a half acres of land at most in one day.

But after using tools, one person can level two or three acres in one day. Can't the extra day be used for other things?

And with so much land gathered together, even if you dig it with rocks, you can dig out almost an acre of land, right?

If a household cultivates one more acre, it can earn two dan per year.

Aren’t these millions of households an increase in income of millions of dan?

"Tell me about your design..." Wang Buxian was interested in Wang Ji's design, not just because it could improve efficiency.

But Wang Ji’s design is very practical.

In other words, whatever is needed at the moment, I will concentrate on attacking it.
To be continued...