Chapter 47                                                                                                                             �

At this moment, Zhou Mengchen was disappointed, and he didn't know what he was disappointed.

Li Yunzhen called the door, but saw a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old responding to the door.

Li Yunzhen said: "Young Master Liu, what is the situation of Ling Zu?"

The young man pretended to be happy on his face and said, "Miss Li," he said only these three words, and the rest was just a long sigh. Then he changed the topic and said, "Miss Li is here, my grandfather told me to go in directly. Please. Just this one?"

Li Yunzhen said: "He was brought by Ling Zu."

The young man hesitated for a moment and said, "Zhou Mengchen? Zhou Feixiong?"

Zhou Mengchen was slightly surprised when he heard this and immediately said, "The reputation is not worth mentioning."

This young man is only one or two years younger than Zhou Mengchen. When he saw Zhou Mengchen at this moment, he looked at him from top to bottom, from bottom to top, as if he wanted to see what was special about this person, and made his grandfather care so much, and then said, "Please."

Zhou Mengchen really wanted to ask who to visit, but the owner was not able to speak up and just followed him.

This courtyard is not big.

It was even very small, much smaller than the Zhou family's yard. Once you enter, after passing the patio, there was a row of houses, which was the owner's bedroom. Before Zhou Mengchen entered the house, he saw the medicine jars under the eaves and the smell of medicine that had not dissipated. On the ground, black medicine residues piled together and looked very wet.

It seems to have just changed.

But there are a few more.

This also indicates that the owner's condition is not very good.

Li Yunzhen lifted the bamboo curtain and entered, and Zhou Mengchen followed closely behind.

After entering, I smelled a smell. The smell was very strange, and it was mixed with the smell of medicine and fragrance.

The so-called fragrance is nothing else.

But the fragrance of books.

It is not that books really have fragrance, but that in order to prevent insect damage, the book collectors mixed with various insect damage spices in the book. The taste of this spice is called the fragrance of books.

The room is not big. There is a bed in the corner of the wall, and an old man is lying horizontally. In addition, there are dense bookshelfs, which seem to fill every corner. It can be seen that the owner here is a book lover.

Li Yunzhen came to the bed and whispered: "Grandpa Liu."

Zhou Mengchen also recognized this old man, and of course he asked him all kinds of questions. He hadn't seen him for only two months and had become much older. It seemed that time had an accelerated effect on him. He seemed to be sleeping, but he didn't seem to sleep. After hearing Li Yunzhen's shout, he trembled, opened his eyes, and said, "Are you here?"

Li Yunzhen said, "Zhou Mengchen is here too."

The old man is nothing but Mr. Liu. He glanced at Zhou Mengchen and said, "Since a guest is here, help me up."

There was an unstoppable tone in the words of Mr. Liu. The young man could only help him from the bed to the desk on the side with Li Yunzhen.

After the Old Shangshu Liu sat down, he asked, "Zhou Feixiong, I heard that you went to the countryside to study the questions I asked at the beginning? Is it right?"

Zhou Mengchen glanced at Li Yunzhen. Although he did nothing to hide from others, it was not kept secret. However, the old man was not close to Zhou Mengchen. I think it was Li Yunzhen who told him.

He felt a little uncomfortable with the old man's tone, and he felt that the elders were questioning him. But for Li Yunzhen's sake, he also felt that the old man was old. Respecting the elderly and loving the young has always been a traditional virtue. Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he still said respectfully: "Last time I heard the old man's words, I thought hard all night long, and couldn't figure out some questions. I just thought about it by thinking about it. Therefore, I went back to my hometown and tried it myself, and found out that what the old man said was exactly the good words."

Mr. Liu twisted his beard slightly and said, "What are your experiences? Let's listen?"

It sounds like a teacher asking a student.

However, Zhou Mengchen opened up and didn't care so much.

He had a lot of experience in Zhoujia Village. He had not said anything to anyone. He probably couldn't understand these words from Zhou Dazhuang, Cheng Dawei, and even the people in Zhoujia Village. The thinking of both sides was not on the same frequency. Perhaps the only one who could understand was his disciple, Cheng Dawei.

But Cheng Dawei is young after all, so he cannot give Zhou Mengchen too much effective feedback.

Zhou Mengchen originally wanted to visit Uncle Zhang, and the two discussed it carefully. Uncle Zhang must be very interested in this topic. Moreover, Uncle Zhang read a lot of books and had good knowledge and knowledge, so he would definitely give Zhou Mengchen a lot of inspiration. Now that I think, this old man is not bad.

After all, from the previous few words, we can see that this old man is also an expert. Perhaps he can give Zhou Mengchen a completely different thinking.

Zhou Mengchen sighed and said, "My biggest feeling in the countryside is that in fact, the most demand for high technology is not the most needed in the countryside, but to popularize the most ordinary water trucks."

When Mr. Liu heard the three words "high technology", he frowned slightly. He didn't understand very well, but he didn't ask in detail. Anyway, he could guess the meaning of these three words, which did not affect the conversation between the two.

Zhou Mengchen was inspired and didn't care much. He just thought that the person in front of him was an ordinary old man, at most an old man who made achievements in water conservancy. He continued without any psychological burden: "The ancestors opened gullies and irrigated them. It probably started with Shennong, and using water trucks and water drainage was a mature technology since the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, what I saw in Zhoujia Village was a mess of water conservancy, and there was no water truck or anything. They all depended on the heavens to harvest. It was really-----"

Zhou Mengchen shook his head gently.

Just as Zhou Mengchen said.

Although Zhou Mengchen spent most of his time in Zhoujia Village during this period, he also took time to see several villages around him. He found that Zhoujia Village was not an example.

These have no technical content, and it can even be said that many of the technologies that our ancestors wrote into books for thousands of years have not been applied.

Although these are places like Huguang, there are more floods and less droughts.

But it also shows a problem.

That is ancient science and technology, with a high upper limit. There are many technologies that modern people admire, but the lower limit is also very low. Most technologies have not been widely used and the technology spreads very slowly. Just like the stone mill that almost exists in every part of the country was a technology from the Northern Wei Dynasty. There has been no change in the past thousand years.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen’s actions in Zhoujia Village were not beyond this era.

More mature technologies are applied.

It taught the local people in Zhoujia Village how to build water trucks.

There are countless such water trucks in various places in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, many people will build them. Of course, Zhou Mengchen still made other contributions. He was to pay.

Many times, the reason why the situation in rural areas is so miserable is not because of the lack of technology, but because of the lack of money.

The money that Zhou Mengchen brought back to buy land was spent more than half. It was precisely because the head of the Zhou family opened the ancestral hall and spent a lot of effort to give each family a piece of 300 acres of dry land to Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen always thought that the science and technology he brought from later generations could solve all problems. But reality gave him a lot of blows. Some problems cannot be solved by technology and technology, but only money can solve them.

Old Shangshu Liu knew better about the following situation than Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen only saw it in Zhoujia Village. At that time, Mr. Liu was ordered to inspect the river engineering work in the face of danger. He could open more than a dozen canals and dredge more than 70 rivers in Shandong. He dared not say that he had walked all over Shandong, but he had carefully explored the eastern and western parts of Shandong and the Yellow River area along Henan.

Overall, the situation is more serious than what Zhou Mengchen saw.

This is also related to the ancient mode of production.

The land system in the Ming and Qing dynasties was always the tenant system, that is, the landlords did not directly manage the land, but instead lent the land to the tenants to cultivate. Under the intensive farming, the land that each farmed was limited. The simplest water conservancy project was not like Zhoujia Village.

What has changed is not a few acres of more than ten acres of land. At least one village, thousands of acres of tens of thousands of acres of land.

Such a project cannot be done by the cooperation of tenants.

The landlords do not have the motivation to do this, because few landlords can have thousands of acres or tens of thousands of acres of land. The so-called thousand-year-old land is eight hundred. Although every household is unwilling to sell land, the land changes are still very frequent based on long-term observation. Some scholars split their families and divide a complete piece of land into many small pieces. Some families are also promoted to the juren and expand their land. When no one in the family can inherit the achievements of the imperial examination, the land will be thrown to others.

It’s like the Zhou family was seriously ill and had to sell the land.

In addition, complex relationships in the land, such as the use rights and ownership rights of the land, etc., all these complex relationships hinder the construction of water conservancy.

This is why land reform is necessary. If land reform is not carried out, the land relations that have been related to hundreds of years have been written off. No matter what you do in rural areas, you may not be able to achieve one-tenth of the result with twice the effort. It is clear that what production relations are the reaction of productivity.

Zhou Mengchen told all the stories he had in Zhoujia Village, and there were also these sighs.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen is not a fool, so he naturally will not make any comments. The productivity of production relations is all in Zhou Mengchen's heart and does not make any comments.

After hearing this, Mr. Liu admired Zhou Mengchen a little more. However, he also adjusted the topic of the specific situation in rural areas. Instead, he talked about Zhou Mengchen's new inventions in water conservancy and said, "Tell me, you have improved the well drilling machine?"
Chapter completed!