In the fields of the farm, Emperor Hongzhi drove a steam harvester back and forth among the wheat fields, and the wheat fields were harvested quickly.
"What a good thing~"
"With such a machine, one person can easily harvest hundreds or thousands of acres of land without any problem."
Emperor Hongzhi lamented the power of the machine.
I harvested wheat by myself in the morning. I had a sickle and bent over. After working for an hour or two, I might as well have driven the machine back and forth between the wheat fields several times. Even the wheat had been threshed out and put into bags.
The power of the machine greatly improves the work efficiency. The key is to sit inside the steam harvester and control the machine without feeling tired at all.
"Your Majesty, it's time for lunch~"
Xiao Jing looked at the watch on his wrist. It was 12 o'clock. He looked at the cement road again and saw that Emperor Hongzhi's lunch had been prepared.
"Hmm~"
Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly and looked at the ten acres of wheat field he was responsible for. It was almost harvested and he could just finish it casually in the afternoon.
After stopping the harvester, Emperor Hongzhi came to the cement road and looked at the wheat fields of his ministers.
Those who harvested with harvesters have basically harvested almost everything. As for those who harvested with sickles, even the fastest ones only harvested a small corner. Some lazy ministers even just harvested a small corner.
A start, and then just sit there and think about life.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the wheat fields where Xu Heng, the imperial concubine, and Li Renjie, the Imperial Academy scholar, and others had harvested a little bit, and some of them had already gone to the concrete road to sit on the old man's chair and eat.
Raisin, enjoying the pastoral scenery leisurely.
"Hmph~ That doesn't make sense~"
When Emperor Hongzhi saw it, he immediately became angry and walked over with anger.
"Xu Aiqing, Li Aiqing, you two are having a lot of fun."
Emperor Hongzhi walked over, and Xu Heng and Li Renjie immediately straightened their clothes and stood respectfully.
Looking at the wheat field that the two men harvested, they only harvested a small piece in one morning. It can be seen that most of the time, they were resting and being lazy.
"Your Majesty, I am just taking a short rest."
Xu Heng and Li Renjie looked at each other and replied quickly.
"Take a break?"
"How can you harvest wheat when you two harvested it in one morning?"
"I remember that you have repeatedly said before the court that people must not be lazy and unworkable, but must be diligent. But are these two beloved ministers so diligent?"
Emperor Hongzhi frowned, pointed at the wheat field in front of him and said.
"Your Majesty, I am old and my hands and feet are not good enough. It is normal for the harvest to be slower."
Xu Heng was older and said confidently.
"You are a bit older and a bit confused."
"I can't even tell right from wrong, tell me, is this machine invented by Xinxue a Kit Kat?"
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the embarrassed Xu Heng. His beard and hair were all white. As a good emperor who cared about his ministers, Emperor Hongzhi decided to spare him this time. As long as he changed his mind, he would arrange for a steam harvester to finish harvesting for him.
Here comes the wheat.
"Your Majesty, this machine is a wonderful yin skill. All the new learning is inferior and third-rate. Only what I teach as a Confucian is the right way, the true way to govern the country and secure the country. I ask your majesty to strictly prohibit the new learning."
I never thought that this Xu Heng was also very hard-headed, and he actually criticized the new learning in a serious manner, without seeing the good side of the new learning at all, and still insisted on his own opinions.
"Your Majesty, what Mr. Xu said is true. What is taught in the new school is all vulgar stuff. If it is spread widely, it will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people. All kinds of strange and clever sexual tricks will only make people not want to make progress, cheat and act slippery.
Being lazy and disinclined to work is detrimental to the country and the people."
Li Renjie on the side is also very tough.
"Okay, very good~"
"Since you have said so, I have nothing to say."
"You two must remember what you said. People must not be sneaky or sneaky, nor should they be lazy and unworkable."
"After you two have harvested these ten acres of wheat, dried it and ground it into flour, you two can go back anytime."
Emperor Hongzhi immediately laughed. These two people are really mean-spirited, smelly and hard. The most important thing is that their eyes are white.
They simply cannot see the efficiency of the steam harvester, or even if they see it, they will oppose it because the land in their respective homes is uncultivated. They oppose the new learning and the emerging capitalism.
I want everything to go back to how it was before.
Back to an era when farmers were tightly bound to the land, farming land and paying rent for generations, and all they had to do was be noble scholars. Back to such an era.
After saying such a sentence, Emperor Hongzhi left angrily and no longer cared about the life and death of these people. He shouted every day to be hardworking and not to be lazy and lazy. I would like to see how hardworking you can be.
Soon, as Emperor Hongzhi began to eat, the officials and officials responsible for everyone's meals also began to distribute meals to the ministers who had been working all morning.
After eating, there was no rest. After all, farmers race against time during the autumn harvest.
Emperor Hongzhi once again drove the steam harvester to harvest wheat. He quickly finished harvesting his ten acres of wheat fields, and then carried bags after bags to the cement road, and four-wheeled carriages arrived one by one.
Sun-drying is done here on the farm.
Those who use steam harvesters basically complete their tasks very quickly. They transport a cart of wheat to the farm. The next work is much easier. They dry it in the drying field of the farm and wait for it later.
Just use a steam mill to grind it into flour.
While the wheat was drying, Liu Jin and Zhang Mao mentioned that everyone was having fun at the farm again, having farmhouse barbecues and so on.
Go to the farm to pick vegetables, catch chickens, ducks, geese, etc., and then cook and have barbecues on the farm. It is also a rare time for the monarch and his ministers to relax and have fun.
On the wheat field side, as more and more ministers used steam harvesters to complete their tasks, they left the wheat field and went to the farm to participate in farmhouse activities.
In the entire wheat field, there were only those sour and rotten scholars who opposed the new learning. Some sour and rotten scholars saw that there was an idle steam harvester and wanted to use it, but the people ordered by Liu Jin ruthlessly drove the steam harvester away.
, not for these people to use.
"It's too much to bully others, it's too much to bully others~"
"Why can they use harvesters, but we can't use harvesters?"
One minister threw away the sickle in his hand angrily and went straight to Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin.
"Your Majesty, why can everyone use this harvester, but we can't?"
"Don't you all keep saying that the things invented by this new school are all fancy tricks that will make people sneaky and slippery, making them lazy and unworkable?"
"I think that since you are all hard-working people and you are so disgusted with new learning, you also think that this harvester is useless and can cause harm to people."
"So I ordered you not to use the harvester. After all, you are all hard-working people and you can harvest the wheat with your own hands."
Emperor Hongzhi looked at these ministers and suddenly wanted to laugh.
"Your Majesty, this new learning is not completely useless. It still has merits. We are also blind and have not seen the advantages of the new learning. This harvester can greatly help farmers harvest wheat. This is a good thing and should be worth it.
affim."
A smart minister suddenly understood what Emperor Hongzhi meant. He was deliberately targeting himself and others. Everyone else could use the harvester, but he could not use the harvester. This was not intended to target him and others, but also
What?
As the saying goes, a good man never suffers immediate losses, so some ministers quickly turned around and affirmed some of the newly learned things.
"Yes, yes~"
"New learning still has merit. Various machines have greatly reduced the hard work and improved the efficiency of labor. This is worthy of recognition. We just feel that if this machine is too powerful,
People will be idle and have nothing to do.”
"Yes, yes~"
Others quickly followed suit.
"Haha, since you all think these machines are useful, let's use a harvester to harvest wheat. Feel the convenience of the harvester, compare it with using a sickle to harvest wheat, and then think about it carefully."
"Carefully feel the hard work of farmers and understand the hardships of ordinary people. Don't stand at the top of a temple and talk about your family, country and world, but you don't even understand some of the most basic things."
Emperor Hongzhi nodded with satisfaction after listening to the words of these ministers.
"Yes, yes~"
"I really don't understand the hardships of farmers, nor the convenience of these machines."
"I must reflect on this."
Each of these ministers nodded quickly, and then, as if relieved, they hurriedly learned to drive the harvester to harvest their own wheat.
Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, the day passed, and the sun was about to set.
Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin, Zhang Mao, Liu Jian and others who had a lot of fun at the farm also came to the wheat field for a walk and looked at the wheat field in front of them.
It was still golden in the morning, but now, with the use of a large number of harvesters, the entire wheat field has basically been harvested, and only the two wheat fields that Xu Heng and Li Renjie were responsible for are still there.
The ministers came to the wheat field of the two men. After one day, they had only harvested a very small piece of the ten-acre wheat field.
As for Xu Heng and Li Renjie, they were sitting on the cement road next to them, staring at the wheat fields in front of them in a daze. They didn't seem to move for the entire afternoon, and the harvested wheat was not tied up.
"Master Xu, Master Li, you must not be too lazy to work hard. You must hurry up. You have only harvested ten acres of wheat. How can you harvest it so little? It will take you only the year of the monkey and the horse and the moon to finish it?"
Looking at the two of them, Liu Jin couldn't help but laugh.