Chapter 44
In September of the third year of King Zheng of Qin, four old farmers in the Xianyang Farmers Association were awarded titles for their harvest of farmland under their jurisdiction.
A title, official doctor.
The rain stopped, it was the end of September, and it was approaching October.
If it were like that before, one in a year, there would have been no harvest in the fields today.
However, now there has been a change in farming rotation, one year has changed into two types, so the first harvest season has become June.
And the second cultivation was exactly October.
That is, after the rain stops, the ground is half dry and not dry.
During this period, although the crops were damaged in the fields once, they were better than the previous grains that had no harvest.
Moreover, most of the ones that are lost in the fields are immature soybeans.
Of course, this will have a certain impact on everyone's lives, but now the soybeans around Xianyang have gradually withdrawn from the staple food team and often exist as a dish.
In other words, even if the farming in this second season is completely damaged, it will not have a great impact on people's livelihood.
The Qin Wangzheng awarded the title at this time, and was interpreted by everyone as a comfort.
Such comfort has little practical significance, and the title of an official and a doctor is not of much value to the parties involved.
——The establishment of the peasant association system is itself a destruction of the old system.
The old system relied on a single-family lifestyle to influence people's lives.
People are often divided into separate small households and scattered, and have no ability to buy oxen horses, iron plows and other utensils. Only by gaining titles and more fields and food can they accumulate wealth and live a good life.
The entire existence of the Farmers Association is a subversion of the old way of life.
——It gathers people together, and shares the right to use the means of production, such as land, and gathers the strength of everyone to purchase cattle, iron tools, and hoard manure.
Concentrating efforts to do big things, and then the evolution of production tools has improved productivity.
As productivity improves, everyone gains more benefits and food.
Then, you can find that if you want to live a good life, you don’t have to rely on upgrading your title to gain more land.
What should be done is to increase the yield per mu of grain.
Therefore, the benefits of titles were destroyed with the disappearance of the old way of life.
A title that cannot bring benefits is even worse than a piece of bean cake!
No one takes it seriously anymore.
Ying Zheng also knew very well that no one would take this title seriously anymore.
So he did nothing later, but waited quietly.
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In October, Mozhewen's leg no longer hurts, but he did not return to Ju Zizhou immediately.
He perfected his nest car at home.
Well, the nest car.
This name was chosen by the Mozhe asked himself.
This thing was made by him during the rainy period when he was bored at home.
Prices have risen recently, but the salary inquired has not increased. He is a good person by nature and his legs hurt during the rainy period. He can't help but eat more to reward himself. So after eating more, the money in his hand is not enough to buy winter clothes.
And ask yourself that you should have a new piece of clothing this winter.
After learning about the recent market price, I found that the cloth outside is definitely not as good as the cloth you woven at home.
So he began weaving cloth.
Weaving is not difficult, but the difficulty is efficiency.
After two days of woven, I only weave a little more than four feet of cloth.
This little cloth is definitely not enough to make clothes.
So I had to do it.
There are not many things you can do when you try to ask yourself.
Coincidentally, he is capable of doing things like improving weaving efficiency.
So he did.
The nest car appeared.
The nest truck is a loom used to weave cloth.
Most of the cloths today are linen.
Although there are classifications of fine linen and coarse burlap, the weaving method is generally the same.
Most of the process depends on hand rubbing.
This way of labor is both tiring and inefficient.
I asked myself to try it for two days, but I couldn't stand it.
So he used the materials at hand to make the nest cart, making the process of weaving linen much simpler and more efficient.
Although the inquiry was not very high-spirited, this change from pure human to semi-human began from him.
If this one is just mentioned, many people will remember it for a lifetime.
This is also a qualification to leave a name in history.
After using the nest car to create enough fabric to make new clothes by yourself, I realized that this nest car was an opportunity.
So he took the nest cart to ask for a meeting with Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng cooperated very well and praised the advantages of this nest car, and also bought one himself.
Subsequently, the imitation of this nest car was hung out at the farmers' association.
Afterwards, the women of the Farmers' Association began to weave them together with nest carts.
The process is very fast, only about ten days.
The carpenters in the farmer association were exhausted, but when they saw the nest cart start, which was ten times and twenty times faster than before, they thought it was worth it.
Yes, it's all worth it!
After seeing all this, he quickly found Ju Zizhou and showed it to him.
Ju Zizhou was not very surprised when he heard about the invention of the nest car.
The only surprise was that this machine was actually from the old man Mozhewen.
According to Ju Zizhou's guess, such a machine would either come from the carpenters of the peasant association or appear in the hands of the young men in the orphanage.
Unfortunately, the carpenters of the Farmers Association were busy making contributions to the collective.
However, the children in the orphanage are only interested in how to increase the yield per mu.
They saw that the thing they made was very useful, so they gathered together and made some modifications to the nest car.
This modification allows the nest truck that could only spin two or three threads at the same time to spin five threads at the same time.
So productivity increased again.
It was at this time that the price of cloth rose.
At this time, it was October 11, the fourth year of King Zheng of Qin.
On this day, three big news appeared.
The first news is that I have been asked for a title.
The ink scholar asked to create a nest cart and improve productivity and was granted the title of marquis.
The second news is that the Queen of Qin is pregnant.
——Compared with the first news, the second news is obviously more attractive to people.
Because Ying Zheng ascended the throne at a young age, his heir actually did not exist because he had no son.
At this time, just in case, in order to maintain a smooth transfer of power in the worst case, everyone chose Ying Zheng's younger brother Cheng Chuang as the prince's brother, replaced the prince's identity and entered the Eastern Palace in order to prevent someone from inheriting the throne of the Qin King after Ying Zheng's sudden death.
Such a situation is actually not conducive to a King of Qin who is in the rising period.
Because the eldest brother of the Wang Dynasty and Ying Zheng are not very different in age, and their status in the legal system is relatively equal.
This means that Cheng Cang can completely assassinate Ying Zheng.
As long as Ying Zheng dies, the throne must be Cheng Jiao. Even if the assassination is leaked, others will have to patch Cheng Jiao to complete the smooth handover of power.
Chapter completed!