Guo Jia looked at the harvester with a horrified look on his face and said, "You all have such a powerful machine, so why do you need dispatch workers?"
If there were thousands of such machines, wouldn't it be equivalent to the entire young labor force of the entire Crab Island? What kind of work would they have to do? Just use these machines to harvest!
But Xi Zhong said with a smile: "Although this steam harvester is highly efficient, it breaks down too easily. The original version couldn't even last a stick of incense for a while. Now this version is better, but it can be used for a day or two."
It will break down. The most important thing is that no one knows when it will break down. Harvesting is a time-consuming competition with God. If it is so unreliable, it is better to use human power. At least one person will harvest rice without any problems, and this
That’s not necessarily the case with machines! And people can do more than just harvest.”
Guo Jia looked at the black smoke-emitting harvester and said, "I want to see this harvester. Is it possible?"
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "This is not a secret. Even if Fengxiao wants to buy a machine like this, he can do it! Not to mention seeing it!"
After saying that, the two of them walked towards the machine. They didn't notice anything from a distance, but when they got closer to the harvester, they found that it started with earth-shaking momentum. The closer they got to the machine, the more they felt that it was...
The terror of the machine, no wonder the people of Crab Island were frightened just now!
Guo Jia sighed: "If this machine appears on the battlefield, it will be a legendary god and demon. There is no way any army can resist the power of this machine!"
The first thing Guo Jia thought of when he saw the harvester was not its efficiency in harvesting wheat, but its power on the battlefield. This is simply a tank that can walk automatically. This thing is probably more powerful than artillery on the battlefield.
Be strong!
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "Now that the war is over, there is no room for this machine to exert its power. Now it is used for farming. Don't Fengxiao think this is just right!"
Guo Jia thought for a while, nodded and said: "Indeed, it is most suitable to forge swords into plowshares!"
Guo Jia had read about steam engines many times in Daqian newspapers and knew the many uses of steam engines, but he had never seen a machine driven by a steam engine face to face, so he could better understand the role of this thing in changing the world. They Crab Island
There must also be a steam engine, at least not too far behind Daqian!
Ever since he saw the harvester, Guo Jia wanted to go to Jidu, the heart of Daqian. Even from the newspaper, he already knew that the prosperity of Jidu now has exceeded that of Luoyang City back then, but he
He still wanted to see with his own eyes the changes in Jidu over the years! This couldn't be explained clearly in the newspapers. He still had to see it with his own eyes to determine how powerful Da Gan was.
So he said to Xi Zhong: "When we came to Mayi for a study tour, we admired Lei Gong's ability very much. He built a poor small county in Mayi into a prosperous capital, and now Daqian has built Jidu.
It has been 10 years, and Jia wants to see if Jiji is as prosperous as the newspapers say!"
Xi Zhong said: "Go and see, brother, I dare to keep it. As long as you see the prosperity of Jidu, you will no longer miss the prosperity of Dahan. It is your true destiny that Daqian will replace Dahan!"
Da Qian doesn’t need a guide when he goes out. After Guo Jia said goodbye to the opera lovers, he set off on the road to Jidu!
There are scenes of autumn harvest everywhere along the road. Oxen carts and horse carts are constantly on the road. Each cart is pulling the newly harvested grain. The people are happily harvesting their harvest for the year. From the smiles on the people's faces, Guo Guo Jia knew that Daqian would have another good harvest this year!
In addition to these, what Guo Jia saw along the way were contiguous stretches of land, elevated water canals, and waterwheels standing like giants near the rivers. Water conservancy facilities were spread all over the Daqian land. He sighed inadvertently: " In the past, only wealthy places like Mayi could see such a scene, but now even ordinary small counties like Anci County have such water conservancy facilities. Jiazhen doesn’t know whether it’s Brother Zhicai who has strong political ability or Daqian Tai. So rich!"
At this time, an old man sitting on a carriage on the road shouted loudly: "Where do you come from, how can you be so idle and help your family harvest grain?"
Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, then pointed at himself and said, "Uncle, are you calling me?"
"You're not the only one here. It's a busy farming period. Even the old people in power have to go to the fields to harvest food. You are a young man, but you are here with nothing to do. Are you deliberately avoiding the work in the fields?"
Then the uncle shook his head and said: "Young people today really can't bear any hardship!"
Hearing this, Guo Jia smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle, I am a student here to study, not a local of yours!"
"When the farming season is busy, you go out on a study tour. You can tell by the looks of it which family you are the prodigal son of. Come here, I will teach you how to do farm work!" After saying this, Guo Jia directly pulled into the carriage regardless of whether he wanted to or not.
Guo Jia smiled bitterly, but he did not refuse. He also wanted to see the scenery of Daqian countryside!
The horse-drawn carriage brought wheat to a huge drying ground. Guo Jia found that this drying ground was the size of a camp with thousands of people. But what surprised Guo Jia most was that this drying ground was actually paved with cement. The cement The price is high. The food in Crab Island is three times more expensive than that in Daqian. Guo Jia knows that it may be a little cheaper in Daqian, but it is not so luxurious that it can be used to build a drying area!
Guo Jia asked curiously: "Uncle, your village is so rich that you can actually build such a huge drying yard out of cement!"
The uncle smiled and said: "The price of cement has dropped three times in the past few months. The village chief said that the government had made some kind of steam grinder, which increased the efficiency of cement production several times. Our village collectively pooled money to buy some cement and sand. Shi, you spent 100,000 yuan to build this drying yard, and you can’t even tell me that this cement drying yard is easy to use!”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Guo Jiadu was shocked by the grandpa's arrogance. A village can just scrape together 100,000 yuan. You can imagine how wealthy Daqian is. However, he was not even qualified to spend 100,000 yuan on Crab Island. Guo Jia sadly discovered that his ability to mobilize wealth was not even as good as that of an ordinary village chief!
"Uncle Zhao, what are you doing bringing a stranger here?" said a man who came here with a hint of scholarly air!
Uncle Zhao smiled and said: "Village Chief, didn't you always say that there is a shortage of manpower for the autumn harvest? I'm going to find one for you now!"
Then he patted Guo Jia's body and said: "What a strong young man, he can definitely carry wheat for grinding!"
The scholar village chief asked suspiciously: "Brother, are you really here to work?"
He also saw some of Guo Jia's scholarly spirit, and he didn't look like someone who came out to do odd jobs.
Guo Jia could only smile bitterly and said: "I was brought here by this uncle Zhao. In fact, I am a scholar studying abroad, and I can do odd jobs, but we have to agree on the price first, and it cannot be too low.
The scholar village chief immediately said: "Although the work is a bit heavy, we can give you 100 yuan a day, including food and accommodation!"
Guo Jia also wanted to know about the situation in this village, so he nodded in agreement!
But Guo Jia immediately knew that this 100 money was really not easy to make. People in this village really used him to carry wheat. He carried the dried wheat to the waterwheel house, where it was ground into wheat flour, and then the wheat flour was loaded onto a cart.
The car was loaded onto the carriage. After a day of hard work, Guo Jia was almost exhausted. If he hadn't been practicing martial arts on Crab Island for these years, he would not have been able to bear such hard work!
But even Guo Jia had to take care of the food here. The food for dinner included braised pork, dried salted fish, and boiled chicken. There were actually three meat dishes in one meal, and there was also sugar and salt. The standard of the food had already caught up.
Cao Cao lived on Crab Island, but here in Daqian it was just food for ordinary people.
Guo Jia brought his own food to the village chief and asked: "Is your village so rich? During the day, Uncle Zhao said that you collected 100,000 yuan to build a cement drying ground, and you even ate like this at night.
It is rich, and the food of the princes of the Han Dynasty was nothing more than this."
The scholar village chief was surprised: "Brother has such a broad knowledge, and he actually knows what the food eaten by the Han princes is like. Could it be that he is a scholar who studied in the south of the Yangtze River?"
Guo Jia nodded silently!
"No wonder, the land of Jiangnan has just been recovered. It is understandable that you are poorer! But it has been almost 10 years since we recovered Youzhou. The ten years we have accumulated can be considered a small fortune. Over the years, each of our households can share it.
When we reach 100 acres of land, we have no shortage of food, but the food cannot be sold at a high price. If the government hadn't kept taking the food from our hands, the price of food would have dropped to tens of dollars."
"With such low prices, no matter how much grain we farmers have, we can't make much money. And everything we do in Da requires money, including schooling for our children, buying cloth for our families, farm tools and other production tools.
Building new houses costs a lot of money."
"Food is not valuable, so we can only find ways to raise some chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, and then each family raises a few pigs, and use these poultry and livestock to consume food. After all, the higher the poultry price is, the more cost-effective it is for us! What you are eating now
These chickens, ducks and fish are all raised at home and cost nothing. Now is the busy farming season, so of course we have to eat better. The rest of the time, only during the Chinese New Year, we only have such food. Normally we don’t eat like this.
OK."
Even this is too exaggerated. Guo Jia originally didn't believe that such an ordinary small village could be so rich that he could eat chicken, duck, fish and meat freely. But when he went to the village to rest at night, he found that the local villages were made of bricks. He made a double-story building, and there was a pig shed, a chicken coop, a duck house and other buildings next to the building. Faced with this fact, he had to admit that this village was so wealthy!
In the next few days, Guo Jia stayed in this small village and quickly became familiar with the village chief. The village chief's name was Fu Jianhua. He was a local scholar in Daqian. He graduated from high school and just passed the imperial examination this year. Then I was arranged to do an internship in this village. I am familiar with the grassroots government affairs. I will be transferred to Jingzhou after the spring of next year.
He thought that Guo Jia was a scholar who came from the south of the Yangtze River to take the imperial examination, and then felt very sorry for Guo Jia's behavior, because this year the imperial examination was fully rolled out in Daqian, and it could also be taken in Yuzhou. There was no need to go to Youzhou, and It was too late when he ran to Youzhou. The imperial examination had already been completed three months ago. He didn't even know what Guo Jia had gone through along the way. He might have discovered that the imperial examination had been completed on the way, so he simply came here Come to Youzhou for a study tour.
After Guo Jia found out that the village chief was a scholar who passed the imperial examination, he was also shocked, especially since Lei Gong recruited 10,000 officials this year. Guo Jia even smiled bitterly and said: "Lei Gong really doesn't give anything to the scholars of the Han Dynasty. A way to survive."
Where can these ten thousand people be placed? It’s not just the three southern states newly occupied by Daqian. Daqian is trying to completely replace the bureaucrats in the three states of Han Dynasty!
But he also had to admit that through this village chief, he discovered that the scholars of Han Dynasty and the scholars of Daqian were completely different species. The village chief in front of him was full of vitality and vigor in doing things.
Although his official position is small, he can do things in a down-to-earth manner, which cannot be compared with the scholars of the Han Dynasty. In Guo Jia's opinion, Fu Jianhua is fully capable of becoming a prefect!
In this way, Guo Jia worked hard for ten days to help the village complete the harvest, and then continued on the road with his 1,000 money!
Originally he thought that this village was already wealthy enough, but soon Guo Jia discovered that the closer to the village in Jidu, the richer his village became. He later discovered that these villages even had large-scale breeding farms, and one village raised There are hundreds of pigs and thousands of poultry, and these poultry and pigs are used to supply Jidu. Cattle and sheep appear on the road from time to time. These are desert herders who bring their cattle and sheep to Jidu. Selling.
Their cattle and sheep cannot be sold at a high price in the desert, but they can be sold at the highest price in Jidu, where there are millions of high-end consumers! And Guo Jia gets a lot of money from the chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, cattle and other meats he consumes. It is speculated that the wealth of Daqian is 10 times greater than that of Luoyang City.
When approaching 50 miles from Jidu, a scene that surprised Guo Jia appeared again. A three-foot-wide cement road was under construction. Judging from the condition of the road, it obviously extended from Jidu to here! This road Guo Jia couldn't believe it.
After the emergence of cement, with its low price (compared to glutinous rice adhesive), good performance and convenient materials, it quickly replaced glutinous rice as the best adhesive in the world, and became the basis for building houses, city walls, docks, etc. Materials necessary for the facility.
But no matter how low the price was, Guo Jia couldn't imagine that anyone would use cement to pave the road. This was not in a city but in the wild. It was not paving the road with cement, it was simply paving the road with money.
Guo Jia asked the construction workers about the price of the cement road. Sure enough, one mile of cement road costs 400,000 yuan. They have already spent 20 million yuan to lay it here! Crab Island's annual financial income is only these 50 miles of road.
What surprised Guo Jia even more was that Lei Gong planned to use such high-priced cement roads to connect all Daqian counties!