In Shang Fang's mansion, Liu Chang, surrounded by a group of craftsmen, was carefully dismantling and assembling a pile of textile machine parts.
Liu Chang finally understood why the textile machine he made was so easily damaged.
To put it simply, Liu Changtai pursued efficiency and took great steps. He made it based on the textile machine in his memory. However, the textile machine of the future will not use a mortise and tenon mechanism, but will use nails and various adhesives.
The mixture can be used at maximum power without being damaged, but now this structure...
Now that we understand the key, we can solve it by reducing the vibration or changing to another structure.
As for farm tools, Liu Chang really had to learn it from scratch. He searched over and over in his memory and couldn't find any knowledge about farming. There was something like a tractor, but he couldn't make it!
Fortunately, Shang Fang is a perfect organization. Because of Xiao He's orders, no one in the entire Shang Fang dared to disobey Liu Chang's orders. Liu Chang said whatever he said was true. He first found some plows, ploughs, shovels, and hoes.
Double-toothed hoe, sickle, etc.
Shang Fang even invited several old farmers to personally demonstrate to the young master how to use these farm tools on the outskirts of Chang'an.
What makes Liu Chang feel helpless is that there is basically no room for improvement in those simple farm tools. To improve, unless it is in terms of materials, there are already iron farm tools, but because there is not much iron, because wood, iron
They are made of wood, even bone, copper and are used in a mixture. Use whatever is available and never be picky.
In Liu Chang's view, the only possible improvement seems to be the plow.
During these days, he had been looking at the practicality of the plow in the fields, stroking his chin, thinking about how to improve it.
It is easy to copy it, but it is not easy to think about it yourself. Even if it is a simple thing, it is definitely more difficult to think about it yourself than copying something more complicated.
When the new textile machine with reduced efficiency and improved stability was sent to Xiao He, the prime minister was very happy.
They immediately began to prepare to use the prince's method to send the design drawings to various places, let the locals manufacture a large number of machines, and then recruit refugees to solve the problems of the refugees.
Liu Ying, who was about to praise his younger brother, was even more happy when he learned that his younger brother had recently been thinking of ways to improve farm tools. When Liu Chang returned to the palace, he held Liu Chang's hand tightly and wouldn't let go.
"Eldest brother... My father and mother are not in Chang'an now. I am not seeking any credit. I just want to let my father know that I can cure the country. If you can make a new machine,
I will definitely make them in large quantities so that my father can see that none of his children are incompetent."
It can be seen that Liu Ying is indeed very excited. During these days, he has done a lot of things within his authority.
He is trying to truly become a useful prince, rather than a prince who talks empty words about benevolence, justice and morality.
He met with almost all the ministers in the court meeting and asked these ministers to put forward their own suggestions. The ministers were also a little helpless. Facing the prince's request, they more or less gave some suggestions in their own fields.
The prince rewarded these people for their suggestions, and collected these suggestions, and then let the people around him discuss it to see if those suggestions could be implemented.
He was trying to show off his abilities, and Liu Chang's idea also made him very happy. If Liu Chang really had a way to make a machine that could increase grain production, he would be able to do more things.
Liu Chang had been running to the farmland all day long. He was dirty and did not look like a prince. On weekdays in Tianlu Pavilion, he looked gray and gray, which was in sharp contrast to the princes around him.
"Look at you, you are like a mud monkey and you don't even know how to wash your face... Be careful when the queen comes back and beat you!"
Ruyi said with a smile.
Liu Chang didn't care, and raised his head proudly. The dirt seemed to be his medal. He said loudly: "I am covered in mud, but I am doing things for the people of the world. If you are so clean, what contribution can you make?"
"
Ruyi was about to say something when Gai Gong suddenly slapped the case.
"Young master, if someone is coming, just look at it with your eyes. If you say something, act on it, don't lose it. If you say it, do it, but don't take it. This is why words are the symbols of the heart; color is the heart.
It is the beauty of the flower; the spirit is the floating state of the heart. There is a word but not a line, which is a false accusation in the stomach. Therefore, it is said that the head of the temple, the action is determined. The tree is cut down, and the person is killed. There is no punishment and no name, born in heaven and earth, and it has not been completed yet... This
What does the sentence mean?”
Ruyi's eyes widened and she stammered in explanation: "If...if you want to entrust someone with a heavy responsibility...can you say it again?"
"You can't do this! How dare you accuse your brother? Copy the Shi Tai Sutra for me sixty times!"
Ruyi lowered his head and whispered yes.
Liu Chang grinned and winked in front of Ruyi, feeling very happy.
When the class was over, Gai Gong stopped Liu Chang.
He slowly wiped off the dirt on Liu Chang's face and hands with his sleeves, wiping them clean.
"I know what you want to do, and you've done a good job. If anyone in the palace dares to ridicule you, just tell me, and I'll take care of it for you!"
"Hey hey hey, okay!"
Liu Chang continued to wander around the cultivated land. Although he knew nothing about cultivated land, his basic hands-on skills were still there. He soon realized that since the textile machine could improve efficiency through multiple spindles, why couldn't the plow use multiple spindles?
What about increasing efficiency?
It's easier said than done. If only a few more shareholdings are added, the plow will become quite heavy and more laborious. Not only will the efficiency not be increased, but it will be reduced. Liu Chang observed the plow again and again, and he finally discovered that,
You can use the lever principle to change the straight shaft into a curved shaft, and change the long shaft into a short shaft!
In addition, think of a way to add more hoe to this thing! Install a curved scarifying hoop behind the plow frame! Install another scarifying shovel at the lower end of the hoop! Install a scarifying hoe in front! No! Two of them
!!
When Liu Chang drew a design and handed it over to Shang Fang's people.
These people were shocked, this is a plow? Did you hang all the farm tools on the plow? How many oxen would it take to pull this thing!!
Although Gongzi Chang's design was outrageous, it still gave the craftsmen some inspiration, such as combining different farm tools, including changes to straight shafts, etc. The craftsmen began to design quietly behind the scenes. Gongzi Chang had everything.
Okay, but he is a little too bold, wants everything, and always pursues maximum efficiency...
Hearing that the craftsmen had started making it, Liu Chang was of course very happy and even ate a lot more.
On this day, Liu Chang was again in the farmland watching the craftsmen experimenting with different farm tools. Near evening, he followed Luan Bu back to the palace.
Just as he was about to enter the palace, someone suddenly shouted: "Liu Chang!!"
Liu Chang was stunned for a moment, then turned around, only to see two half-year-old boys looking at him with arrogance.
"You are just Liu Chang, right?"
The two people slowly approached. The soldier at the door looked at them briefly, then turned his head knowingly.
"It's me, who are you?"
"My name is husband! This is my brother from the city!"
"You're the one who bullied our sister while we were away?"
The two of them looked at Liu Chang maliciously, with unruly expressions on their faces.
"Huh? Who is your sister?"
"Fan Qing!"
"Oh...that brother who complained?"
"Hmph! If you are sensible, go and apologize to our sister! Otherwise, we brothers will not let you go!"
Liu Chang rolled up his sleeves with a smile and asked: "By the way, I want to ask you something... You don't like to complain like your sister?"
"What are you talking about! We are all upright men! How can we complain to the adults! Why do you ask this?"
.......
"Wow...."
"Mom, we didn't do anything, but he came up and beat us...I can't see anything..."
Mr. and Mrs. Fan, who had a blue nose and swollen eyes, cried and told their mother about Liu Chang's atrocities.
The people from Fanshi on the side were also wiping their tears and crying loudly.
Lu Yu had a cold face as she listened to the two guys crying here, "Two people can't beat one who is younger than you... and you still have the nerve to cry to me? Your father's face has been humiliated by both of you.
It’s over!!”
"If your father were here, he would hang you from the rafters and beat you!"
"Still crying?!"
After hearing Lu Yu's words, Fan and his wife covered their mouths and sobbed silently, not daring to make a sound again.
"If you're beaten, then beat me back next time! You are the sons of Marquis Wuyang, don't come crying in front of me again!"
Mr. and Mrs. Fan and Fan Shiren left their mother's place. Fan Shiren's eyes widened and he asked: "Brother, my sister was bullied, and my mother went to reason with her personally... We were beaten, why did my mother still scold us?
?”
"Hiss... It's okay, it's okay. Don't tell anyone about this today... We can't beat him, so let's call Shengzhi, Yafu, and Jian to help us! The five of us can't afford to fight back.