The memorial sent by Li Tai asked Du Chuke to be delivered to Sinong Temple soon and then transferred to Dou Jing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Dou Jing, who was handling affairs in Liangyi Hall, looked at the memorial, and couldn't help but show a look of joy on her face. She looked at Fang Xuanling, who was still working hard to handle government affairs beside her,
"Fang Pushe, Gaoling County Magistrate wrote a letter to the wheat harvest again, with a maximum height of three stones per mu, and at least two stones per mu, with an average harvest of more than three stones per mu, and a great harvest!"
"It's really great!" Fang Xuanling's face also showed joy when he heard Dou Jing's words.
Fang Xuanling put down his pen and couldn't help thinking:
"Last year, three stones and one dou, and this year, three stones and three dou. This agricultural institution is indeed unique in planting.
More importantly, the time for wheat cultivation is from autumn to late spring and early summer, and for the people, there is also more time for labor service.
Compared to corn, wheat does have more potential to promote.”
"When the saint comes, please inform the saint!" Fang Xuanling said, "The King of Yue is a practical person!"
When Dou Jing heard Fang Xuanling's words, he couldn't help but nodded repeatedly. After last year's argument, this wheat has a value that is comparable to corn.
However, out of caution, Li Tai planted wheat for another year.
Now that the value of wheat has been completely proved, it has become natural to further promote wheat.
If wheat is to be further promoted, then the agricultural officials who came from the agricultural institution will become the inevitable choice.
There is no way. Apart from them, other imperial officials persuaded farmers to persuade them at most just to write some poems to encourage them.
As for asking them to teach planting techniques, don’t expect too much. From top to bottom, there are a few who have picked up hoes and cultivated them.
Most military generals came out of powerful people, while most civil officials came from aristocratic families. This situation did not change even in the early Tang Dynasty.
If others don’t say it, just talk about Fang Xuanling himself. Although the Fang family is not a famous family, he started from the seventh-generation ancestor Fang Chen Nanyan Taiwei, and he has been an official all the way, and he has definitely become the backbone of the gentry.
"When the autumn harvest is over, Chu Suiliang and the others will go to open a branch school first!" Fang Xuanling's heart was firm again.
In the following days, Li Tai began a busy harvest life, and Lu Cai led the students of the Agricultural College to join in.
The most exciting thing among them is Chu Suiliang. After staying here for a whole year, it really hurts his waist and back.
Now that I see this golden wheat field harvesting, I can’t help but feel that the hard work this year seems to be worth it.
"I'll cut, I'll cut, I'll cut again!" Chu Suiliang's swepts were cut back and forth, and his eyes were filled with a strong evil spirit.
Rows of wheat all fell into the basket of swepts, which was much more labor-saving than sickle.
The swept is a large dustpan with a net bag, with a diameter of about 1.2 meters, and then a sharp cutting knife is placed at the edge.
When using swabs, hold the long pole in your left hand and hold the handle of the direction rope with your right hand. Then control it back and forth with your left and right hands. You can cut a large piece of wheat pole by putting it and pulling it out of the net bag with force.
Just do it.
The greatest value of this thing is that you don’t need to bend down like a sickle to cut wheat.
Before the emergence of mechanical wheat cutting machines, it was considered the most advanced wheat cutting tool, and the efficiency of wheat cutting was several times higher than that of sickle.
At the same time, at Li Tai's strong request, Mo Ke further developed a steam engine that could only pound coal in the coal yard.
Soon, they developed a series of production steam engines, the first of which was the steam sieve machine.
The function of these things is to borrow the power of steam, and then continuously flip the tool composed of two dustpans on the upper and lower sides. By flipping, select wheat of appropriate size.
To a certain extent, this thing is tireless and just need to add water and coal to the extreme.
However, this thing is still in the stage of experimental subjects. If you want to send it to thousands of households, Li Tai said that further research is needed.
Because this thing consumes too much iron or coal, the force generated can only be used to screen wheat.
The labor cost is much less than this thing, and the investment can only be said to be foolish whoever buys this thing.
The most important thing is that after seven days of use, this thing is scrapped.
So there is no way. After experimenting with this thing once, I can only get it back and continue to find ways to compress the cost. The experimental model will have to be used for a year.
Then when it came to Runmai's link, Mo Ling took out Runmai's steam engine.
The third process after the wheat is dried and screened is to moisten wheat, which is also a necessary process before grinding.
Because the moisture content of wheat is an important factor affecting the quality of flour, in the grinding and making of wheat flour, wheat moisture regulation is a very important process in the flour making process.
If the moisture content of wheat is too low, the wheat cortex will easily break, and fine bran crumbs will be mixed into the flour, causing the flour to be pink and the quality will be reduced.
If the moisture content of wheat is too high, the liquidity of the products in the powdering process will decrease, causing blockage of the screening flow and affecting normal powder making. In addition, the endosperm on the bran is not easy to peel and scrape clean.
This wheat-burning machine developed by Mo Science looks like a large boiler and a large steamer.
The ink directly uses water vapor to quickly penetrate the wheat, and the wheat grains that have been steamed by water vapor are sent to grind.
The wheat-moistening effect is pretty good, but this tool also has big problems.
Because this thing requires multiple people to cooperate, one is a coal stove and the other is a wheat pipe, and at least two people need to be equipped to transport wheat. During this period, there have been problems such as wheat being steamed directly, wheat is not moisture enough, etc.
But in the final analysis, this thing requires at least four people to operate. In comparison, normal farmers can complete the wheat moistening work by sprinkling some water on these wheat based on past experience. Compared with the two, it is more than just a little bit or two.
So there is no doubt that the Runmai machine developed by Moji was beaten back by Li Tai, and further research is needed.
However, Mo Ling was not discouraged at all. With the spirit of failure being a success, he took out the steam crusher.
I have to say that this thing is much more mature than the previous two machines, after all, this thing has begun to become popular in mines.
After all, this thing can slowly knock coal ore into coal powder, and wheat can naturally knock into slag!
The problem is that this thing is used in mines because it is directly used for coal ore that is discarded in the mines, and the cost is almost none.
But if you want to mash wheat, you will inevitably need to consider the cost of coal.
Seeing the coal burning violently, the hammer head was hammering slowly. Although he still insisted on the unsolvable work, the fire was not affordable except Li Tai!
This can be said to be the most mature production invention, but it was beaten back by Li Tai and continued to research and development and improvement.
As for the end of using the steam engine to push the stone mill, after the steam engine pushed for a while, the entire bamboo robot arm was broken, which made Li Tai stunned, and Mo Ling couldn't help but cover her face.
Lost all.
In other words, after a year of hard work, the steam engine is applied to the production plan. The wheat screening machine fails, the wheat moistening machine fails, and the crusher fails. As for the final grinder, it is still under development. Please stay tuned.
Li Tai took a deep breath and showed a big smile.
But it doesn't matter. Although steam engine production has almost completely failed, the future of this road is definitely bright.
It's just a little twists and turns now, so I'll continue to use water conservancy and livestock.
It is just that it is unrealistic to make productivity leapfrog development.
However, Li Tai came back to his senses. Although his steam engine production plan was still brewing.
But after three years of precipitation, agricultural institutions have harvested again, which proves the role of agricultural institutions, and this is the most important thing.
Another point is that the time to release the food coupons is almost up, and I am going to start recycling the food coupons.
Yes, the food coupons Li Tai made were more like a one-year interest-free bond, which could be traded at most.
Li Tai set the time for this note until August and told the people that before August every year, he needed to exchange the bonds of wheat for food, and of course he could also exchange for new food coupons for the next year.
There is no way, the saving time for something like grain is only three years. As a deposit, Li Tai can only save for three years.
Otherwise, if there is too much time, Li Tai will easily cause over-sales.
If this thing is really a currency, it will be over-sale, which will at most cause inflation. As long as it is well controlled, moderate inflation will not be digested by itself.
But in fact, the essence of this thing is bonds, which are directly linked to his own grain, so Li Tai must handle these bonds well.
And I also gave two ways, one was to exchange it directly for physical wheat, and the other was to continue to exchange it for new year bonds in equivalent order.
In this way, you control the size of the bond and maintain the value of the bond.
At the same time, because I have completed the unification of the coal industry this time, I not only issued grain coupons, but also issued charcoal invoices. Even compared to grain, I have more confidence in charcoal invoices, which makes my reputation and currency more stable
It's right.
Just as Li Tai was showing off his strength in Gaoling with this harvest, Li Shimin brought the ministers to Gaoling.
I have to say that compared to last year, Gaoling's road has become more pioneering and people's spirit has become more energetic.
The people are buying all kinds of things with food coupons, which can make people see the health of the people here at a glance.
"Qingque has indeed managed this Gaoling to flourish!" Li Shimin looked at the traffic on Gaoling's streets and couldn't help but sigh, "Even if the East and West cities in Chang'an are not necessarily so lively during the day!"
"Saint...Li Erlang!" To be honest, Fang Xuanling was very opposed to Li Shimin's white dragon fish suit.
As for the ministers accompanying him, in addition to Fang Xuanling, there were Changsun Wuji, bodyguard Li Junxian, and Xuanjia Army.
Fang Xuanling said that Wei Zheng should be called, but Li Shimin said that after Wei Zheng called him, how could he understand the people's sentiment?
There was no choice, so Fang Xuanling was pulled over by Li Shimin.
Fang Xuanling understood that in fact, Li Shimin brought himself over to him just because he hoped that he could pass the agricultural official system.
Because Fang Xuanling's performance has always been a bit prejudiced about Li Tai.
Among them are the reasons for Confucianism, Li Tai's own, and Li Chengqian's reasons.
But unless Fang Xuanling can do business in business, if certain policies are too biased towards Li Tai, Fang Xuanling will definitely come forward to stop them.
The agricultural official policy proposed by Li Tai, to some extent, even if Li Tai's foundation was added.
On this point, Li Shimin also understood that Li Tai had an impact on Li Chengqian bit by bit.
But Li Shimin knew even more that Li Tai was fighting for his internal affairs too strongly.
In the past three years, I have worked hard step by step, dealing with government affairs that even I seem to be very troublesome, and to some extent it seems that I have seen myself.
However, he is more of an invincible military force, while Li Tai is amazing in his internal affairs.
But no matter what, Li Shimin is still very involved and highly recognized by the internal affairs version of himself, working hard step by step and solving one problem after another.
Under such circumstances, Li Shimin also hopes that Fang Xuanling will not stop Li Tai's certain policies.
After all, Li Tai has not involved any military affairs so far, and he is just dealing with internal affairs.
As for Li Shimin, as long as Li Shi does not touch military affairs, what will happen if Li Tai does and indulges himself?
But even so, when we came to Gaoling during the harvest, everyone was surprised by the prosperity of Gaoling.
Whether it is people coming and going or traffic, even Chang'an rarely experiences such a scene.
Because it was already noon, a few of them found an inn that looked quite elegant, and they finished their meal here.
"Are you guys running or staying in a hotel?" The waiter ran out diligently.
Li Shimin glanced at Li Junxian. After all, he was the emperor and he definitely didn't bring any money.
Li Junxian took out a golden leaf and said to the waiter,
"Eat a meal, serve three tables of Gaoling's specialty wine and dishes. If you get extra, you will be rewarded with it!"
Of course, Li Shimin and several civil servants had one table, and the guards who protected them had two tables. After all, people had to eat.
"Okay, Mr. Lang, good wine and good food are served right away!"
The waiter looked at the golden leaf and knew that he had met a noble person. Without saying a word, he agreed and immediately said,
"You guys have a good eye. Our shop is Ding Jie, the food chief of the Prince of Yue Mansion. His best skills are noodles making, which is to ensure that you are satisfied!"
The waiter bragged for a few words, but his movements were quite quick, so he immediately notified the kitchen to prepare.
"Ding Jie, the chief of food?" Li Shimin was a little confused when he heard this, "This person is very famous?"
"In order to promote wheat-made pasta, the King of Yue asked the food officer to collect and develop a hundred ways to make pasta.
He sorted it into a book, became a kitchen book, and was regarded as a pasta teacher.
So basically the kitchen that I have learned with this book can be regarded as Ding Jie's apprentice." Changsun Wuji explained to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji unexpectedly and said, "Fuji, you know Qingque Mansion very well!"
"Yeah!" Changsun Wuji said calmly and naturally,
"He borrowed our family's money and grain to repair Zheng Baiqu! If you don't keep an eye on it, what should you do if you borrow it from me!"
"Hahahahaha!" Li Shimin couldn't help laughing when he heard this.