Chapter 540 Peasants from the Ming Dynasty can also go to the Qinhuai River to enjoy themselves (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiangjun

Chapter 540 Peasants from the Ming Dynasty can also go to the Qinhuai River to enjoy themselves (please subscribe!)

"Here, put on the plow!"

Yan Yuan drove the steam engine back, looked at the dumbfounded minister, smiled very happily, and then started to show off his skills again.

Soon, college students began dismantling parts of the harvester and attaching plows to the steam engine.

Yan Yuan once again drove the steam engine and walked around the fields, accompanying the steam engine in the fields.

Behind it, a spacious plow was dragged deep into the soil. As the machine moved, it easily turned out the thick soil!

Compared with using oxen and horses, the soil turned out is deeper and more tidy.

Chen Yonghua: "The artifact, the horses left over from farming in the future, can be used to open up new territories!"

Good guy, the Ming Empire had more war criminals per capita. The words of the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty made Zhu Kezang unable to help but reflect.

Is it time for the Ming Dynasty’s war machine to stop?

In fact, Zhu Kezang was overly worried. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty had always had relatively strong martial ethics.

After the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the status of military generals was higher than that of civilian officials. In order to prevent the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty vassal towns from happening again, they chose to use civil society to control military affairs.

Although the use of civilian officials to check and balance military officials was somewhat imitated by the Song Dynasty, its purpose was not to deliberately suppress military generals like the Song Dynasty, but to prevent military generals from having too much power.

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were also good at military affairs and had extremely excellent military capabilities. Compared with the civil servants of the Song Dynasty who were not good at military training, they were two extremes.

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were good soldiers, such as Tie Xuan, Wang Ji, Wang Yue, Luo Hengxin, Xiang Zhong, Han Yong and others, all of whom had great military exploits. So why were the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty so good at fighting?

Here we have to mention the Ming Dynasty’s training mechanism for civil servants.

Although civil servants in the Ming Dynasty entered official careers through the imperial examination, the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was not as rigid and rigid as imagined.

Students in each province can take an additional test of archery during the provincial examination. Those with excellent results can make separate records and their results will be "extra points".

And the schools in prefectures and counties also taught students martial arts. Therefore, among other things, the literati of the Ming Dynasty must have had a much higher value for martial arts than those of the Song Dynasty.

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers!"

"Yingtian Manufacturing Bureau has manufactured a steam harvester that can harvest a thousand acres of wheat fields in one day!"

The next morning, as the morning sun rose, a new day began, and the sound of newsboys rang out again in the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty.

The exaggerated title immediately attracted the attention of those who had been waiting for the newspaper buyers. Soon, a large number of newspaper buyers gathered around each newsboy, and newspapers appeared in the newspapers of young and old men in the imperial capital as quickly as possible.

On hand.

The progressive workers who got the newspaper naturally looked at the headline of the newspaper first, where six large characters were written: The Age of Steam Agriculture.

"The Age of Steam Agriculture?"

Everyone's minds are full of doubts, steam agriculture?

Workers know steam engines, so how come things from factories can also be used for farming!

Huangming Daily wrote this, it must be true!

Everyone's minds were filled with questions, and with such doubts, they read quickly.

The previous article of Huang Ming Daily used a short space to introduce the steam engine, but it was also worried that some people would not recognize this thing.

Steam engines were widely used in the Ming Dynasty, but they were limited to the train, mining, and forging lamp industries. It is normal for people in other industries not to recognize them.

Later, Huangming Daily talked about an extremely important application field of steam engines, which is the agricultural field.

"Such a small steam engine has the power of five or six oxen and horses?"

Some people looked at the data introduced in the newspaper and found it a little unbelievable. The emergence of steam engine harvesters also brought about thinking about how to calculate power. After Yan Yuan's suggestion, everyone also used the power of horses as a reference. Horsepower, horse became

Unit of force.

A steam harvester or cultivator is the power of five horses!

"And this steam harvester can harvest thousands of acres of wheat fields in one day?"

Some people looked at what was written in the newspaper in disbelief. Thousands of acres of wheat fields were harvested in one day. How fast is this?

A person who works hard for a year can only manage a dozen acres of farmland despite the sky. It would take hundreds of farmers to cultivate these thousands of acres of land.

Now you're telling me that I only need one machine?

Some senior farmers who did not know enough about steam engines wondered: "Why did Huang Ming Daily start bragging today!"

A restaurant cook also agreed: "You only need to burn firewood and coal. It can move without the need for oxen. So when we cook, do we have to worry about the stove walking away by itself?"

"Haha, yes, isn't steam just water vapor? It can also be used to harvest wheat, so why do farmers need to work so hard? Everyone just drinks water vapor."

Some people kept laughing and thought it was impossible.

There are also workers in the manufacturing industry who are trying their best to maintain the steam engine: "You are so ignorant. You don't understand the power of the steam engine at all. If you just go and take a train, you will know that the steam engine is the greatest invention of the Ming Dynasty!"

The textile industry also deeply agrees: "Didn't you find that there was no shortage of clothes in the Ming Dynasty? That's because there were steam engines to help with weaving!"

Sailors from the shipping industry also stood up: "The ships you usually ride on are powered by steam engines. If you can't put down your chopsticks, you're scolding me!"

With the full expansion of factories in various places, the number of workers in Ming Dynasty continued to increase, and the status of working in factories was almost as high as that of farming.

A farmer retorted: "I, Mr. Liu, don't have the money to take a train or a boat. I only know how to farm."

As a result, the fellow countryman next to him revealed his shortcomings: "Old Liu, you old bachelor, I know that all your money has been invested in the Qinhuai River."

At this moment, farmer Liu's face turned red.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the area around the Confucius Temple on both sides of the Qinhuai River was lined with brothels, with singing and dancing birds, and it was regarded as the largest "red light district" in China at that time. Wu Jingzi wrote in "The Scholars": "When the Qinhuai River reaches the moonlight

At that time, the deeper the night got, the more the boats came singing softly, which was sad, euphemistic and touching.

The girls living in the river houses on both sides wore light gauze clothes and had jasmine flowers on their hair. They all rolled up the Xiang curtains and leaned on the railings to listen quietly.

So when the light boat drum sounds, the curtains on both sides are rolled up and the windows are opened.

Ambergris burned in the river, ashes, and instant incense mist spurted out at the same time, blending with the moonlight lights in the river.

Looking at the Ruwen Immortal, the fairies from the Yao Palace, and the official prostitutes on the 16th floor, wearing new makeup and dazzling clothes.

Recruiting travelers from all over the world is like having cold food in the morning and Lantern Festival every night."

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has exempted agricultural taxes, farmers' income has gradually increased, and they have spare money. No wonder farmer Liu has money to go to the Qinhuai River to swim.

Amid the laughter of everyone, Old Liu tried his best to defend himself: "I, Old Liu, have always had this hobby in my life. Why are you making fun of me? Don't say you haven't been there!"

Well, the topic of this tall steam engine suddenly became which little fairy from the Qinhuai River has better skills and good looks.
Chapter completed!