Iron Dynasty

Five days later, a set of sophisticated bull-powered overturners were built in the equipment department.

Pang Yukun was stunned when he looked at the overturned car in Xiao Ming's mouth. At this time, the overturned car driven by three gears of different sizes was pulled by a farming ox and continuously transported water from the Xiaoqing River to the shore.

And because the two cows were pulling, the crawler track Xiao Ming said was very wide, and the water tank on the crawler track was also very deep. It could lift a large amount of river water at one time, which was several times more effective than any waterwheel he had ever seen.

Pang Yukun was born in a scholarly family, and his ancestors were officials, but he was only a small official in the county, and he was not a noble family.

Since he was a child, he has studied poetry and books hard, followed the instructions of his ancestors, and took it as his duty to assist the Lord of Ming and stabilize the country.

It's just that he has been an official in Chang'an for ten years, and his expectations have gradually turned into disappointment.

Today, the officialdom of the Great Yu Kingdom is controlled by the clans and gentry. If the officials who have no backers do not depend on the prominent family, they will have no future. Even if they have the talents of the world, they will only be placed in dispensable positions.

Although the emperors of the past dynasties did not cut off officials, but today, the status of officials has not been as good as before. Although he has diligently raised hundreds of ills in the past ten years, he was either blocked by the courtiers or Xiao Wenxuan simply ignored it.

The alliance between courtiers and selfishness, and the weakening of the imperial power of the Great Yu Kingdom, made him gradually realize that the Great Yu Kingdom is rapidly declining under the parasite of the cancer of the clansmen and gentry.

In order to enjoy peace, under the increasingly fierce looting of the northern barbarians, there was a sound of tribute paying tribute in the courtroom, and the annual tribute was increased every year in exchange for a temporary peace.

But even so, the barbarians, apart from abiding by the agreement, did not aggressively attack the Great Yu Kingdom, but they still looted the border every year.

All these, coupled with the increasingly fierce battle between princes now, Pang Yukun seems to see that in the not too distant future, the Great Yu Kingdom will be torn apart like the former kingdoms of the past, and the flames will rise everywhere.

At that time, the powerful barbarians that had already risen would probably march south to destroy the ancient foundation of the Han people in iron hoofs and fire.

For this reason, five years ago, he disregarded the danger of his life and shouted at the court, trying to wake up the monarch and court officials who were intoxicated by the prosperity, but what he got was just an order to follow the vassal of the king of Qi.

After five years in Qingzhou, he thought that his heart was dead, and he was guarding a stubborn prince just waiting for Xie Guan to return to the field, but now, he suddenly felt that the flame of hope that had been extinguished in his heart seemed to be sparkling.

Even if you can't keep Da Yu, maybe you can keep this corner of Qingzhou.

Pang Yukun stared at Xiao Ming. He saw the change of King Qi in the past two months. If this King Qi really changed his temperament, he would really be a wise master. Thinking of this, he couldn't help nodding slightly, with the corners of his mouth twitching. A little smile.

Pang Changshi, you can be trusted now.

Xiao Ming turned his head and saw that Pang Yukun was looking at him with a smile. It felt like he was being stared at by an old glass, and he couldn't help feeling cold behind his back.

Pang Yukun came back to his senses and said with a smile: Your Highness is a great talent, and the lower officials have lost. If this kind of bull-power overturning is promoted in the fiefs, it will be extremely beneficial to the recovery of farming.

Aster and Luluo also followed in order to watch the novelty of the bull's power overturning.

The two were watching with relish when Luluo whispered to Shiwan, Sister, Pang Changshi seems to be laughing a lot more than before.

Aster rolled her eyes and said with a smile: This is a good thing, it's better than a sullen face all day long, can't you see it? Now Pang Changshi seems to be a lot more tolerant towards His Highness, and he is dedicated to assisting His Highness in handling the government affairs of the fief.

It seems so. Luluo shook her head, she really didn't understand Pang Yukun's change.

However, she was childlike, and she took Aster and looked around Niuli overturning the car again.

Pang Yukun returned to normal, Xiao Ming said: Next, the equipment department will focus on producing this kind of bull-powered rollover, and strive to provide this kind of rollover for every state and county, but the number of craftsmen in the equipment department is limited, which is a drawback.

Xiao Ming is talking about practical problems. He has a lot of technology in his hands, but there are too many restrictions on starting from scratch. Among them, the number of craftsmen is the most serious problem. If there is no automatic machine, if you want to expand the scale, you can only rely on the number of people to make up.

And this is his scarcest resource.

His Royal Highness, I have an idea. Now Your Highness relies too much on the craftsmen of his workshop, but His Highness should not forget the people on the land. Why not assign the construction of waterwheels to various states, counties, and even production teams, so that It won't take many days, there will be such waterwheels everywhere. Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming suddenly recalled that he had made a mistake now, that is, he took everything into account while ignoring the labor force of the common people.

He is now the top manager of the fief, and can organize the people to build the fief. Although he has established a production team, he has neglected an east-west work point.

However, Xiao Ming's work points at this time are different from modern work points. Modern work points are collective work points, and now everyone in the production team has their own farmland, and now it is a cooperative model.

He proposed that this work point is the remuneration for the people's extra labor, and this remuneration will be recorded in the production team, and these work points will be exchanged for food, cloth and other things at the end of each year.

Thinking of this, he and Pang Yukun talked about it.

In order to appease the people, he exempted the people from corvée for three years, but except during the busy farming season, the people were all idle. At this time, the work points system was introduced, which was equivalent to providing the people with an opportunity to earn extra money.

Participating in additional construction activities can get work points, so that he can make full use of the labor on the fief, and it is still cheap labor.

When the new management system of work points was proposed, Pang Yukun nodded frequently. The corvée was too rude, which was not conducive to the unity of the people. Now, the work points system proposed by Xiao Ming would certainly be welcomed by the people.

If the work-point system is implemented, the people will definitely be grateful to His Highness. Pang Yukun said.

I hope so. Now Xiao Ming's position is destined to need to grasp the people's hearts. Only by consolidating the people's hearts can he be a vassal king in the fief.

As for the money to pay for the work points, Xiao Ming never thought of looting it from the common people. From the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, he set a strategy of rejuvenating the country through commerce and industry.

Now the people on the fief only need to engage in agricultural production with peace of mind and cooperate with the fief infrastructure construction. Of course, the most important thing is to support him.

The strategy of delegating the Niuli rollover to the states and counties for construction, and letting the states and counties send people to come to study, was discussed, and the matter of popularizing the Niuli rollover was finally resolved smoothly.

However, Xiao Ming never misses any opportunity to make profits through technological monopoly. He deliberately designed this hydraulic overturn to be a bit more complicated.

This makes a critical component, the metal rolling bearing, required on every Niuli tipper.