Chapter 202 New harvester, sugar factory, greenhouse cultivation

In fact, when Huang Laifu opened a newspaper, he didn't know that there would be so many problems, and he was not sure about the occurrence and resolution of the matter. It was not until later that Huang Laifu learned the cause and effect in the newspaper.

Not only was the impeachment of Huang Laifu by the Shanxi Inspector Censor to be useless, but the Wuzhaibao Newspaper was also preserved. Although this report was sent to the Ministry of Justice every year to supervise, it was a routine matter. In short, this unprecedented newspaper was born.

Emperor Wanli's favor to Huang Laifu made many people angry, and the matter was a hot topic. Huang Laifu attracted the attention of literati and his attention was introduced to Jiangnan. After reading the influence of Wuzhaibao Newspaper, many people also became interested in opening newspapers. The people who originally opened the Minbao Newspaper also became interested in their own thoughts. In the past, the imperial court had strict control over their newspapers, so they had to reprint and sell the contents of the newspapers, and were prohibited from writing news and comments on their own. However, Huang Laifu could do those tricks, why couldn't they do it? Many people began to secretly make some newspaper tricks.

Although Li Xunzhang of Shanxi was disappointed with his impeachment result, he was not discouraged. He continued to collect evidence of Huang Laifu's crimes and worked diligently. He impeached him every month and sent him to the capital. However, without exception, every impeachment disappeared like a mud bull.

Regarding this result, Huang Laifu just thanked Emperor Wanli. He knew that his greatest backer was the emperor, so he even vigorously ordered the newspaper to sing praises to the emperor. There was also Shi Xing, the Minister of War. Huang Laifu knew that he had been talking to him and also ordered people to send a large number of generous gifts. Of course, this gift was given relatively hidden.

In the midst of chaos, the autumn harvest in various parts of Shanxi Town has begun.

Nowadays, Wuzhai Fort, not only the prosperous castle city, but also the common red-tiled houses in the suburbs, and the wide and clean cement roads connecting various places, living conditions are getting better and better. Wuzhai Fort has long become the richest man in northwest Shanxi, and their lives have become the object of envy in all places. Wuzhai Fort’s military households have always had no worries to find their wives. Although Wuzhai Fort is mainly agricultural, it has not been over-cultivated and only maintained a 400,000 mu of land. Under Huang Laifu’s strict order, the greening of the territory has been maintained very well. The mountains are closed and cut, only burning coal is allowed, and grazing is also very planned. There is almost no scene of the yellow sand of the military forts elsewhere. The green trees are swaying, which is quite like the scene of the Jiangnan area being under the storm.

It is another autumn harvest. For autumn harvesting, every day of harvesting, you can avoid losing one day less. Farms in Wuzhaibao are flat and the farmland is wide, so horse push harvesters are commonly used. In a wave of wheat, horse push harvesters rush into the farmland, and horses push the harvester parts forward. The wheat rods are constantly cut off by the cutting disc blade rotating close to the ground and land in the carriage.

It is fast and convenient, with spectacular scenery, which attracts the envy of onlookers from time to time. Every autumn, not to mention that the locals in Wuzhaibao like to go to the farmland to watch this kind of scenery, many outsiders come to Wuzhaibao to see this kind of diorama. Huang Laifu also intends to launch an autumn harvest tour in Wuzhaibao.

The current Wuzhaibao Civil Service Bureau has manufactured a large number of horse-push harvesters, which can be widely used in all farms of Wuzhaibao. It is also used in some relatively flat farms such as Bajiao Fort and Laoying Fort. There are also some merchants who buy horse-push harvesters from Wuzhaibao due to the large land and fewer garrisons.

Unfortunately, in addition to these places, some military forts and counties around Wuzhai Fort, although many people came to watch with great interest in Wuzhai Fort’s horse-push harvester, if they were asked to buy it, they would still shake their heads. It was too expensive and unpaid. They would rather let their tenants be busy in the farmland until late at night than buy one. The small farmers have too serious thoughts!

Huang Laifu was still satisfied with the working efficiency of the Wuzhaibao horse-push harvester, but he was not satisfied yet. He continued to work hard and prepared to launch a newer horse-push harvester. Huang Laifu was about to name Wuzhaibao horse-push harvester No. 2.

This new type of machine was developed by Father Bell of the British reference materials in 1826. It used two horses to pull it, grab the wheat with a rotating blade device called a wooden tumbling wheel, and a pair of toothed blades cut the wheat. The wheat cut from the roots was thrown from the wing wheel to the tilted canvas and tied a bundle on it, which was agile.

During these times, the Wuzhaibao Civil Service Bureau has been studying this new type of thing based on Huang Laifu's orders and ideas.

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Wuzhai Fort is busy with autumn harvest, and the same is true for Ningwu Pass. In the more than two years since Huang Laifu arrived in Ningwu Pass, the local changes have been obvious. The town has become clean and tidy, and business is becoming more and more prosperous. Due to the development of the local coal and timber industry, and the construction of the cement road from Ningwu Pass to Wuzhai Fort, the roads are easier to walk, and merchants from all over the country are becoming more and more frequent. Local military households are also prone to finding a way to make a living. Compared with two years ago, life is like a dream.

As long as you are willing to work, you will have no problem with eating and clothing now. The eyes of the people are sharp in all this. Although I have heard a lot of rumors and some scholars say that Huang Junmen is like this, most ordinary people or military households do not agree with it. Huang Junmen allows themselves to eat and wear and clothing to support their families, so everyone thinks he is a good person. Other people’s statements cannot change their stubborn concepts.

In addition, the Wuzhaibao Newspaper has set up a branch in Ningwu Pass. Every day, under the brainwashing bombardment of Wuzhaibao Newspaper, everyone's concept has become even deeper as they listen to the storyteller's praise of Huang Laifu in the teahouse and restaurant. Like Wuzhaibao, a wave of worship of Huang Laifu also emerged in Ningwu Pass.

At the beginning of this year, Huang Laifu and Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei discussed the development of Shanxi Town, and the first thing they implemented was Ningwu Dao. Since the Assessment Department was headed by Liu Tang Shengbingbei, it was related to his political achievements, Liu Bingbei also worked very hard.

From the beginning of the year to the present, with the strong assistance of the Wuzhaibao Grain Bureau, a large number of wastelands on both sides of the Huihe River and Fen River in Ningwudao have been reclaimed, and many water conservancy channels have been built. After the autumn harvest, some of the fields have begun to be harvested.

During these times, with the strong assistance of Wuzhaibao Agricultural Technology Bureau and Animal Husbandry Bureau, Ningwudao also established the Agricultural and Structure Bureau, opened some model animal farms, and also compiled some popular textbooks such as "A Brief Introduction to Silkworms", "A Brief Introduction to Farming", and "Sheep Teaching" to provide help to farmers in various parts of the Tao. It was very popular. Seeing all this, Liu Bingbei naturally smiled, which were all his achievements. He decided to accelerate the pace of development starting next year.

The autumn harvest has also begun in Bajiao Fort. There are 200,000 mu of arable land and multiple farms. After several years of development, there are also a lot of harvests. Each mu of land can produce one to two stones.

As for the autumn harvest atmosphere in Shenchi Fort not far from them, the atmosphere of autumn harvest is not very warm. Although Shenchi Fort has many suitable agricultural areas in the entire area, due to the cold climate, it is not suitable for cultivation. Only in the narrow and long plain areas along the banks of the Zhujiachuan River, some households are cultivating grain crops such as buckwheat. Everyone is not very enthusiastic about working, and whether it is military or civilians, they are still willing to work in various workshops and mines of Shenchi Fort.

There are Shenchibao Coal Mine and Shenchibao Iron Factory in Shenchibao. In addition, the cement factory, lime factory, brick and tile factory, etc. of Wuzhaibao are now moved to Shenchibao. Therefore, the light industrial processing industry of Shenchibao is very developed. The fort city is full of coal and iron tools, as well as cement lime clubs, brick and tile clubs, etc. Come and go, there are ox carts and horses that transport coal and iron. In addition, the cement road from Shenchibao to Wuzhaibao has been opened. The road is easy to walk, and there are more carts and horses to transport goods.

After the autumn, there were more and more merchants coming and going to operate coal, iron, bricks and tiles. The idle laborers after the autumn harvest also kept coming to Shenchi Castle from various forts, hoping to find an opportunity to work. At this time, the coal, iron, bricks and tiles industry was of course not a high-tech. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can find a job.

Every day, people swaying on the streets of Shenchi Castle are all dirty people, and alleys are flying all over the streets and alleys. There is a feeling of grayness around Shenchi Castle, which is the price of developing industry. Of course, except for Huang Laifu, no one can understand the environmental pollution problem at present, and only think that Shenchi Castle is becoming more and more prosperous. When Huang Laifu ordered Wuzhai Castle Cement Factory and others to move to Shenchi Castle, many people did not understand.

Shenchi Fort is now called the industrial center of northwestern Shanxi by Huang Laifu. Every day, Wuzhai Fort and other places require a large amount of coal and iron, as well as cement bricks and tiles. With the daily paving of cement roads and the use of cement, it has penetrated into the hearts of many people, which has led to a prosperous market for Shenchi Fort. There are more and more processing stores such as mining, metallurgy, iron, coal, cement, and blue bricks. Many Shenchi Fort soldiers were rushed to work by Huang Laifu's third brother-in-law Tian Dafu, and there are also workers from all over the world who flocked to the crowd, which has led to the prosperity of Shenchi Fort's crowd.

Shenchi Fort is already considered an iron center in northwest Shanxi. Every day, in addition to a large amount of iron materials being transported to Wuzhai Fort and other places, there are also a large number of iron nails, hammers, knives, axes, and kitchen knives being made every day. In addition to the shops that are operated all year round, during the slack season every year, there are also a large number of handmade workshops operating at home and in nearby military fort counties.

Many dental vendors find that providing raw materials and tools to some home handicraft workshops is both convenient and profitable. For example, processing nails. Due to the increasing demand for nails in recent years, some iron tools that produce nails distribute a pile of iron bars to nail makers, who process them at home, and then transport them back for sale. Every year, many tons of iron materials are used to process iron nails in the Shenchibao area.

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After the autumn harvest, the weather was getting colder day by day, and Wuzhaibao was still not quiet. In addition to the tutors from each farm, the factories were working hard at full speed, squeezing oil, making sugar, and processing woolen. After several years of cultivation and research, the sugar content of Wuzhaibao beets has become higher and higher. Soon after autumn, the first high-sugar beet sugar factory in the Ming Dynasty was established in Wuzhaibao. The white and crystal sugar cubes also brought white silver.

In October, the weather in Wuzhaibao became colder, and at this time, the orchards in Wuzhaibao also began to harvest. At the same time, there was also a joy, and the results of the greenhouse cultivation of Wuzhaibao were produced.

Since the beginning of the 19th year of Wanli, when Wuzhaibao opened a large vegetable garden, Huang Laifu ordered Wuzhaibao Vegetable Bureau and Wuzhaibao Agricultural Technology Bureau to conduct research on greenhouse cultivation of vegetables, fruits and melons. Speaking of which, about the cultivation of vegetables, flowers and fruits in greenhouses, it has existed since the Western Han Dynasty. The rich people at that time could enjoy "Marbler Warm Chives". During the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han, they planted onions, leeks, vegetable ru, etc. in the Daguan Garden in Chang'an City. In order to allow these vegetables to grow normally in winter, a roof was built and fired day and night to increase the indoor temperature. Various wind barriers, yang beds, warm cellars, and hotbeds that came from the Han and Tang Dynasties were still used in many places in later generations.

Greenhouse cultivation in the Ming Dynasty was also very developed. Peony, new melons and other products were launched on New Year's Day, greatly enriching people's lives. However, most of them were concentrated near the capital, and the cost was also very expensive, and only the rich could afford it. After several years of research and hiring relevant experienced old farmers from the capital, the Wuzhaibao greenhouse cultivation finally achieved results. Moreover, Huang Laifu made a big deal, and the greenhouse cultivation area was wide, so the price was not too high after the market was launched. In the future, ordinary military, civilian and businessmen in Wuzhaibao could also eat fresh cabbage, spinach, celery, cucumber, loofah, water spinach, green onions and other vegetables.

Not only that, there are new achievements in Wuzhaibao greenhouse cultivation, which is the success of flower and fruit cultivation...

"Please keep the flowers for your wife, don't break them if you accidentally."

In December, the weather was very cold. Han Bing, director of the Wuzhaibao Fruit Tree Bureau, smiled. While instructing the gardener beside him, he said to Gu Yunniang with a smile: "Madam, do you have to choose some other flowers?"

At this time, Gu Yunniang took Qu Xiuhe and some maids, standing in a hall outside Wuzhaibao. This hall was very strange. It was a house made of paper with ditches inside, full of hot water, and accompanied by some cows, horses, urination, sulfur, and other substances.

Standing in the hall, all kinds of flowers bloomed in full bloom, warm and scattered with the cold wind outside, like two worlds. This is the Wuzhaibao greenhouse flower cultivation base, where all kinds of flowers are cultivated, with blooming flowers and brilliant glory. When the flower cultivation was successful, it was also blew by the Wuzhaibao Newspaper as a miracle of "coming fortune and connecting with immortals", which attracted widespread attention inside and outside the castle. Many people also came to watch the excitement or purchase it novelly. In fact, this flower cultivation method is just a flower garden technique, which appeared in the Song Dynasty, and later Tang Huawu in Zhongshan Park, Beijing. However, it is rare to cultivate in Wuzhaibao, and it is impossible to blow it up.

Gu Yunniang had an excited expression on her face. Looking at this and that, she felt that everything was good. The maid next to her was holding some bright peonies and hibiscus flowers in her hands. Like her, everyone's face was red and full of excitement. It was so strange that peonies could be seen in winter.

After a while, Gu Yunniang said to Qu Xiuhe next to her: "My sister, do you think you have to choose more flowers so that your husband will like it?"

The servants informed that Huang Laifu would return to Wuzhaibao to inspect tomorrow and would stay in Wuzhaibao for a few days. From Gu Yunniang, everyone would be happy. In the past two years, Huang Laifu has been mostly in Ningwu Pass, and it is rare to go back to Wuzhaibao. In addition to the deadly official holiday system of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yunniang, Qu Xiuhe and others were together with Huang Laifu. Gu Yunniang had already planned to move to Ningwu Pass to avoid loving each other.

When Huang Laifu returns to Wuzhai Fort tomorrow, Gu Yunniang is happy, and wants to dress himself or his mansion more beautifully, so that Huang Laifu is in a happy mood when he comes back. Thinking of the successful cultivation of Wuzhai Fort flowers, he comes with Qu Xiuhe to pick them together.

Qu Xiuhe said: "Sister, pick some more Clivia, my husband should like it!"
Chapter completed!