At the end of last year, with the help of Wang Jinshi, his younger brother Wang Jinyu got married to a girl from a fishing family.
After you get married, it's time to start a career.
It's not a problem to always be the foreman under one's own hands.
This time Song Yang proposed to let Wang Jinyu take charge of agricultural machinery research and development, which was equivalent to becoming the department head.
Not to mention how many people there are in this department, but the level has gone up.
After the person was chosen, he immediately sent someone to find Wang Jinyu.
This guy is still relatively introverted and listened to the work assigned to him by Song Yang.
He just bowed respectfully to show that he would obey Song Yang's arrangements.
As for Song Yang asking him to express his opinion, he didn't say anything, he just said that he would do it with his heart.
I remember that Wang Jinshi wanted to say a few words for him.
Song Yang knew that this guy was not good at expressing himself, so he didn't embarrass him.
"Old Zhang, you also know Master Jinyu. From now on, you two will cooperate to build the steam agricultural machinery as soon as possible."
Song Yang smiled at Zhang Mi.
"Yes, yes! Prince, don't worry, I will do my best." Zhang Mi repeatedly promised to complete the task.
After chatting for a while, Song Yang looked for some drawings of agricultural machinery in the encyclopedia.
Then based on the drawing, a rough drawing was drawn.
He handed the drawings to Wang Jinyu and Zhang Mi and asked them to think in this direction.
Wang Jinyu doesn't know much about agricultural machinery, but Zhang Mi has been doing farm work all his life and can really see the benefits of these agricultural machinery at a glance.
"My lord, these things must be extremely effective!" Zhang Mi said with emotion.
"This is a general direction. I don't have any drawings on how to make things specifically. You have to explore them bit by bit."
"By the way, there's no need to rush this matter. As long as it can produce results in a year or two."
Finally, Song Yang made a final explanation.
In fact, Song Yang has already planned to develop an internal combustion engine.
Internal combustion engines are definitely more advanced than steam engines.
If an internal combustion engine can be developed within one or two years, the power problem of agricultural machinery will be greatly improved.
"Oh! It's busy! Another artillery, another steam engine, and an internal combustion engine!"
Song Yang shook his head and sighed.
There are just too many things.
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Song Yang But more things are not the end, the end is only more things.
Spring plowing begins in March.
Song Yang had to temporarily stop his work and lead the people to do spring plowing.
Fang Zhe still had to go down to the directly affiliated states to supervise the work, and the spring plowing in Jiangzhou temporarily fell to Song Yang.
Last year, Pei Lin helped. This year, Pei Lin went to De'an to be the county magistrate.
Only then did Song Yang realize how busy spring plowing was.
There are so many things to do, it's really overwhelming.
In this tireless busyness, I finally heard some good news.
The high-speed highway from Jiangzhou Fucheng to De'an was opened to traffic on the last day of March!
Chen Fu also means what he says.
If enough people are given, the construction period will skyrocket.
Song Yang took half a day out of his busy schedule and went to the cement expressway himself.
“Finally, it feels like running on the highway!”
"drive!"
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Without cars, we can only race horses, but horses gallop on flat roads and their speed is not slow.
Even with Song Yang's half-assed riding skills, he could run at a speed of thirty or forty kilometers per hour.
Fortunately, iron horseshoes were already available at this time, otherwise the horseshoes would have dried up after running on the cement road for several times.
"It would be great if we could find rubber trees." Song Yang sighed again.
This guy has been sighing lately, he has too many things to worry about and there is nothing he can do about it.
Rubber seems to be a very distant thing now.
The origin is in Brazil!
South America!
To cross the Pacific Ocean.
Of course, even if you go west and cross the Atlantic Ocean, it is still a very difficult road.
Even if there were steamships now and Song Yang had detailed maps, he would not dare to send people to explore that far away rashly.
Distance is indeed a chasm that is difficult to be happy with temporarily.
On the way back from De'an, Song Yang did not ride a horse, but changed to a carriage.
My riding skills are not good, and my hips will be worn out after just one trip...
"Old Yu. After finishing the spring plowing, let me go for a walk in the mountains to find something for me."
Song Yang sat on the carriage and said to Yu Ming, who was riding next to the carriage.
"What is the prince looking for?" Yu Ming asked curiously.
"A kind of tree whose resin has extremely strong toughness." Song Yang said casually.
He was just trying to find something that could replace rubber.
"Resin has extremely strong toughness? Pine?" Yu Ming asked doubtfully.
There is only this little information and it is completely impossible to find it.
"It's not a pine tree. I don't know what kind of tree it is." Song Yang shook his head.
After a long silence, he said: "Collect some more resin and bring it back, indicate the source, and experiment one by one! It's probably white, but don't let other colors go."
"Looking for a needle in a haystack is finally something to look forward to." Song Yang said with some emotion.
"Yes. I will send someone to look for him in a few days." Yu Ming nodded.
"Rubber...resin..." Song Yang muttered.
I flipped through the encyclopedia in my mind, but I couldn't find a substitute for rubber. Instead, I found records about plastic...
"If we can make plastic...does that mean we pollute the environment in advance?"
"Oh! Forget it! Let's look for it first, whatever you find counts!"
Song Yang sighed again.
Yu Ming felt that Song Yang was in a low mood and did not dare to speak a word along the way.
After returning to the military camp, he immediately issued an order for the scouts to go into the mountains to find resin.
When everyone heard that they were looking for resin, they were all very confused, because General Yu Ming didn't clearly explain what kind of resin he was looking for.
Just ask them to collect more resin from different trees and store them in separate categories.
Although the scouts did not understand, the military order was issued and must be carried out immediately.
So of course in the afternoon, a scout team of a hundred people marched into the forest.
The only purpose is to cut resin...
The standing Renaissance Army itself does not need to devote all of its resources to spring plowing.
The military camp must always have more than half of the Renaissance Army to guard Jiangzhou's security.
Therefore, sending out a hundred people will not affect spring plowing or defense.
Yu Ming was so anxious because Song Yang had been sighing all day recently.
I want to help the prince solve his problems as soon as possible.
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Spring plowing continued in an orderly manner, but Song Yang discovered some problems.
Last year, the cultivated area reached 600,000 acres.
Although the area is still the same this year, the problem is that many people plan to grow cotton!
"Find out the reason for me immediately!" Song Yang frowned.
Soon, the reason was found.
The output value of growing cotton is higher than that of grain.
When people grow cotton and sell cotton, the food stamps and meat stamps they get are at least 30% higher than the food stamps they get from directly growing grain!
This directly led many people to switch to cotton.
After Song Yang heard the news, he felt headache again.
If the people all went to grow cotton, there would be no one left to grow food.
When the food is gone, no matter how much cotton there is, it will be of no use.
In terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, although clothing comes first, food is the most important.
"Convene a meeting with officials from various ministries immediately!"
Song Yang thought of the seriousness of the problem and immediately ordered people to notify various departments to discuss solutions.